Equipment tags were stuck at Bad_WaitingForInitialData on the deployed driver: the equipment poll, fixed-tree loop, probe and recycle shared one FOCAS/2 socket with no serialization, and the steady-state read had no timeout — concurrent reads collided and a stalled read hung forever, never overwriting the node's initial-data seed.
- SynchronizedFocasClient: per-device SemaphoreSlim gate + per-call timeout around every wire op (Connect/Probe gated, not double-bounded); wired in EnsureConnectedAsync. ReadAsync/WriteAsync map a per-call timeout to BadCommunicationError instead of rethrowing.
- FlexibleStringConverter on FOCAS config Series: the AdminUI persists the enum as a number ("series":6); accept number-or-string instead of throwing -> stub.
- FocasHostAddress.TryParse tolerates a scheme-less {ip}[:{port}] (AdminUI hostAddress form); canonical focas:// unchanged, malformed schemes still rejected.
247 FOCAS tests green; each fix has a regression test. Live-validated on wonder-app-vd03 (tags read Good).
Joseph Doherty
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