Live Smoke Testing Against Real UniFi Hardware

scripts/live_smoke.py is the manifest-driven live hardware test harness. It validates API contracts that mock-based CI (unit tests, golden fixtures) structurally cannot catch — auth token expiry, payload normalization, API version mismatches, and hardware-specific field assumptions. Live smoke runs caught multiple critical bugs before merge. Run live smoke before every major merge that touches API-facing code.

Prerequisites

Before any live run, ensure: