From b7df54e4f365fa787d47fd9f3a210dbc192537d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gmer4Lfe <gmer4lfe@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:03:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Resume the dashboard chat from its own profile

It reopened whatever was touched last anywhere, so the card could land in a
Scheduler troubleshooting thread with no picker to get back.
---
 Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php | 13 ++++++++++++-
 Plugin/unraid/pages/monitor.php   |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php
index 8023899..755aef9 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php
@@ -2045,7 +2045,18 @@ vv_ai_profiles_script();
         // Do not clobber a conversation the operator has already started. The list arrives after
         // construction, so by the time it lands they may have typed and sent something.
         if (messages.length || busy) return;
-        const last = d.chats.slice().sort((a, b) => (b.updated || 0) - (a.updated || 0))[0];
+
+        // A placement whose profile never moves should not resume a thread from one that does.
+        // The store is shared on purpose — a conversation started on the dashboard is the one you
+        // carry on in the tab — but reopening restores the saved profile too, so the Monitor
+        // card would quietly turn into whatever the Scheduler was last troubleshooting. Filtered
+        // where the page says its profile is fixed; unfiltered on the AI tab, where moving
+        // between profiles is the point and the newest thread is genuinely the one you left.
+        const want = o.resumeProfile || '';
+        const pool = want ? d.chats.filter(c => (c.profile || 'chat') === want) : d.chats;
+        if (!pool.length) return;
+
+        const last = pool.slice().sort((a, b) => (b.updated || 0) - (a.updated || 0))[0];
         if (last) loadChat(last.id);
       }).catch(() => {});
     }
diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/pages/monitor.php b/Plugin/unraid/pages/monitor.php
index b83d661..871661c 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/pages/monitor.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/pages/monitor.php
@@ -2851,6 +2851,11 @@ if (document.getElementById('vv-mon-ai-chat')) {
   const vvMonChat = VvAiChat({
     prefix:  'vv-mon-ai',
     profile: 'chat',
+    // This card is General Chat and stays General Chat — there is no picker on it. Without this
+    // it resumed whatever was most recently touched anywhere, so opening the dashboard could land
+    // it in the middle of a Scheduler troubleshooting thread, retitled and rescoped, on a card
+    // with no obvious way back.
+    resumeProfile: 'chat',
     empty:   'Ask anything. Questions about this installation are handed to the Varaverk '
            + 'assistant automatically.',
     onChats: id => { if (vvMonChatList) vvMonChatList.setActive(id); },