diff --git a/frontend/src/views/settings/DashboardDefaultsList.vue b/frontend/src/views/settings/DashboardDefaultsList.vue
index c63fd865..f84f3d80 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/settings/DashboardDefaultsList.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/settings/DashboardDefaultsList.vue
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@
                 <option v-for="r in roleOptions" :key="r.value" :value="r.value">{{ r.label }}</option>
               </select>
             </div>
-            <div class="form-group" v-if="form.displayrole === 'dashboard'">
+            <div class="form-group" v-if="form.displayrole === 'Dashboard'">
               <label for="businessunitid">Location *</label>
               <select id="businessunitid" v-model="form.businessunitid" class="form-control"
-                      :required="form.displayrole === 'dashboard'">
+                      :required="form.displayrole === 'Dashboard'">
                 <option value="">Select location...</option>
                 <option v-for="bu in businessUnits" :key="bu.businessunitid" :value="bu.businessunitid">
                   {{ bu.businessunit }}
@@ -127,13 +127,33 @@ import { useToast } from '../../composables/toast'
 import { apiError } from '../../utils/apiError'
 const toast = useToast()
 
+// Values are the kiosk's own vocabulary - the literal contents of
+// C:\Enrollment\display-type.txt - so what is picked here is what a display
+// reports. Must stay in step with DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS in
+// shopdb/core/models/dashboarddefault.py.
 const roleOptions = [
-  { value: 'dashboard', label: 'Shopfloor Dashboard' },
-  { value: 'lobby', label: 'Lobby Slideshow' },
-  { value: 'partskiosk', label: '3D Parts Kiosk' },
+  { value: 'Dashboard', label: 'Shopfloor Dashboard' },
+  { value: 'Lobby', label: 'Lobby Slideshow' },
+  { value: '3DPrintRoom', label: '3D Print Room Kiosk' },
 ]
+// Rows written before the vocabularies merged still carry the old spelling, so
+// match case-insensitively and fall back to the retired name.
+const legacyRoleLabels = { partskiosk: '3D Print Room Kiosk' }
+const legacyRoleValues = { partskiosk: '3DPrintRoom' }
+// Canonical value for any stored spelling. Without this, opening a row saved
+// before the merge puts a value in the select that matches no option, and the
+// dropdown renders blank as if the row had no role.
+function canonicalRole(value) {
+  const wanted = (value || '').toLowerCase()
+  return roleOptions.find(r => r.value.toLowerCase() === wanted)?.value
+    || legacyRoleValues[wanted]
+    || 'Dashboard'
+}
 function roleLabel(value) {
-  return roleOptions.find(r => r.value === value)?.label || value
+  const wanted = (value || '').toLowerCase()
+  return roleOptions.find(r => r.value.toLowerCase() === wanted)?.label
+    || legacyRoleLabels[wanted]
+    || value
 }
 
 const items = ref([])
@@ -149,7 +169,7 @@ const error = ref('')
 const showDeleteModal = ref(false)
 const toDelete = ref(null)
 
-const form = ref({ fqdn: '', ipaddress: '', displayrole: 'dashboard', businessunitid: '', description: '' })
+const form = ref({ fqdn: '', ipaddress: '', displayrole: 'Dashboard', businessunitid: '', description: '' })
 
 onMounted(async () => {
   try {
@@ -184,10 +204,10 @@ function openModal(item = null) {
   form.value = item ? {
     fqdn: item.fqdn || '',
     ipaddress: item.ipaddress || '',
-    displayrole: item.displayrole || 'dashboard',
+    displayrole: canonicalRole(item.displayrole),
     businessunitid: item.businessunitid || '',
     description: item.description || ''
-  } : { fqdn: '', ipaddress: '', displayrole: 'dashboard', businessunitid: '', description: '' }
+  } : { fqdn: '', ipaddress: '', displayrole: 'Dashboard', businessunitid: '', description: '' }
   error.value = ''
   showModal.value = true
 }
diff --git a/migrations/env.py b/migrations/env.py
index 0b4049eb..7b15020a 100644
--- a/migrations/env.py
+++ b/migrations/env.py
@@ -147,6 +147,21 @@ def run_migrations_online():
         with context.begin_transaction():
             context.run_migrations()
 
+        # COMMIT THE RUN. SQLAlchemy 2.0 connections do not autocommit, and on
+        # MySQL alembic reports "non-transactional DDL" so begin_transaction()
+        # above is a no-op - nothing here commits on its own.
+        #
+        # It looked like it worked because MySQL implicitly commits on DDL: each
+        # ALTER/CREATE flushed everything queued before it, including the
+        # PREVIOUS migration's version stamp. The LAST migration of every run
+        # has no DDL after it, so its stamp was rolled back at close. The column
+        # changes survived (already committed by their own DDL) while
+        # alembic_version stayed one revision behind, so `flask db upgrade`
+        # exited 0 having silently re-run the final migration, and re-ran it
+        # again on the next deploy. A migration that is not idempotent would
+        # apply twice.
+        connection.commit()
+
 
 if context.is_offline_mode():
     run_migrations_offline()
diff --git a/migrations/versions/7d32_displayrole_kiosk_vocabulary.py b/migrations/versions/7d32_displayrole_kiosk_vocabulary.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d9c2bae8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migrations/versions/7d32_displayrole_kiosk_vocabulary.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+"""Move dashboarddefaults.displayrole onto the kiosk's own role vocabulary
+
+Core named the roles dashboard / lobby / partskiosk. The kiosks name them
+Dashboard / Lobby / 3DPrintRoom - the literal values a person types into
+C:\\Enrollment\\display-type.txt, which the GE-Enforce dispatcher reads to pick
+a target. Two vocabularies meant a display could report a role core could not
+store, and core could store 'partskiosk', a value no kiosk would ever match.
+
+The machine's own file wins, so the stored values move to it. 'partskiosk'
+becomes '3DPrintRoom'; the other two are a case change only. Anything else is
+left alone - an unrecognised value is somebody's data, not ours to guess at.
+
+Idempotent and reversible: matching is case-insensitive, so a re-run is a no-op
+rather than a second rewrite, and downgrade puts the old spellings back.
+
+Revision ID: 7d32_displayrole_kiosk_vocabulary
+Revises: 7d31_dashboarddefault_fqdn
+Create Date: 2026-08-13
+"""
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+
+
+revision = '7d32_displayrole_kiosk_vocabulary'
+down_revision = '7d31_dashboarddefault_fqdn'
+branch_labels = None
+depends_on = None
+
+
+# old spelling -> new spelling
+FORWARD = {
+    'dashboard': 'Dashboard',
+    'lobby': 'Lobby',
+    'partskiosk': '3DPrintRoom',
+}
+BACKWARD = {new: old for old, new in FORWARD.items()}
+
+
+def _rewrite(mapping, newdefault):
+    connection = op.get_bind()
+    inspector = sa.inspect(connection)
+    if 'dashboarddefaults' not in inspector.get_table_names():
+        return
+    columns = {col['name'] for col in inspector.get_columns('dashboarddefaults')}
+    if 'displayrole' not in columns:
+        return
+
+    for source, target in mapping.items():
+        connection.execute(
+            sa.text('UPDATE dashboarddefaults SET displayrole = :target'
+                    ' WHERE LOWER(displayrole) = :source'),
+            {'target': target, 'source': source.lower()})
+
+    # 7d28 created the column with server_default='dashboard'; keep the default
+    # spelled the same way as the values.
+    op.alter_column('dashboarddefaults', 'displayrole',
+                    existing_type=sa.String(length=20),
+                    existing_nullable=False,
+                    server_default=newdefault)
+
+
+def upgrade():
+    _rewrite(FORWARD, 'Dashboard')
+
+
+def downgrade():
+    _rewrite(BACKWARD, 'dashboard')
diff --git a/plugins/geenforce/api/routes.py b/plugins/geenforce/api/routes.py
index 20f846fe..90317ec3 100644
--- a/plugins/geenforce/api/routes.py
+++ b/plugins/geenforce/api/routes.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Two audiences:
 import ipaddress
 import os
 import time
-from datetime import datetime
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from functools import wraps
 
 from flask import Blueprint, request, Response, send_file, current_app, g
@@ -1061,6 +1061,29 @@ def _attach_backup_state(facts, hostnames):
                 if revision.lastseenat else None)
 
 
+def _report_stale_cutoff():
+    """(cutoff datetime, threshold minutes) for 'this PC has gone quiet'.
+
+    A report is a record of one cycle, not a heartbeat with an expiry: nothing
+    ages it. So a PC that stops reporting keeps the status of its last good
+    cycle and reads as healthy while it is unplugged. Comparing receivedat - the
+    SERVER's clock, not anything the client asserts - against a threshold is
+    what turns silence into a visible state.
+
+    Returns (None, 0) when the check is disabled, so callers skip it entirely.
+    """
+    from shopdb.api import Setting
+    try:
+        minutes = int(Setting.get('geenforce_reportstaleminutes', 30) or 0)
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+        minutes = 30
+    if minutes <= 0:
+        return None, 0
+    # Same clock helper that WROTE receivedat (naive UTC), so the two cannot
+    # drift into comparing an aware datetime against a naive one.
+    return service._utcnow() - timedelta(minutes=minutes), minutes
+
+
 @geenforce_bp.route('/reports', methods=['GET'])
 @jwt_required()
 @require_permission('geenforce.manage')
@@ -1084,6 +1107,7 @@ def list_reports():
     facts = _asset_facts({report.hostname for report in reports
                           if report.hostname})
 
+    stalecutoff, stalafter = _report_stale_cutoff()
     latest_cache = {}
     data = []
     for report in reports:
@@ -1092,6 +1116,9 @@ def list_reports():
             latest_cache[key] = _current_published_version(*key)
         latest = latest_cache[key]
         known = facts.get((report.hostname or '').lower(), {})
+        isstale = (stalecutoff is not None
+                   and (report.receivedat is None
+                        or report.receivedat < stalecutoff))
         data.append({
             'reportid': report.reportid,
             'hostname': report.hostname,
@@ -1118,7 +1145,14 @@ def list_reports():
             'receivedlatest': (latest is not None
                                and report.appliedversion == latest),
             'enforcerversion': report.enforcerversion,
+            # 'status' is what the PC said about its LAST cycle and is left
+            # exactly as reported. 'isstale' is the server's own judgement that
+            # no cycle has been heard from in too long - a PC switched off after
+            # a clean run reports 'ok' forever, so the two are different facts
+            # and the table shows both.
             'status': report.status,
+            'isstale': isstale,
+            'staleafterminutes': stalafter,
             'installed': report.installedcount,
             'skipped': report.skippedcount,
             'failed': report.failedcount,
diff --git a/plugins/geenforce/frontend/views/EnforcementReports.vue b/plugins/geenforce/frontend/views/EnforcementReports.vue
index 93d1d0dd..9b4cc46e 100644
--- a/plugins/geenforce/frontend/views/EnforcementReports.vue
+++ b/plugins/geenforce/frontend/views/EnforcementReports.vue
@@ -88,7 +88,14 @@
                 </span>
               </td>
               <td class="muted">{{ report.appliedversion ?? '-' }} / {{ report.latestversion ?? '-' }}</td>
-              <td><span class="badge" :class="statusClass(report.status)">{{ report.status }}</span></td>
+              <!-- A PC that stops reporting keeps the status of its last good
+                   cycle, so silence has to outrank it: 'stale' shows instead,
+                   with what it last reported kept in the tooltip. -->
+              <td>
+                <span v-if="report.isstale" class="badge badge-warning"
+                      :title="staleTitle(report)">stale</span>
+                <span v-else class="badge" :class="statusClass(report.status)">{{ report.status }}</span>
+              </td>
               <td>{{ report.installed }}</td>
               <td class="muted">{{ report.skipped }}</td>
               <td :class="{ 'fail-count': report.failed }">{{ report.failed }}</td>
@@ -183,6 +190,12 @@ async function openDetail(reportid) {
 function statusClass(status) {
   return { ok: 'badge-success', selfhealed: 'badge-info', failed: 'badge-danger' }[status] || ''
 }
+
+function staleTitle(report) {
+  const last = report.receivedat ? formatDate(report.receivedat) : 'never'
+  return `No report for over ${report.staleafterminutes} minutes.`
+    + ` Last heard ${last}, reporting "${report.status}".`
+}
 function actionClass(action) {
   return { installed: 'badge-info', skipped: 'badge-success', failed: 'badge-danger',
     filtered: '' }[action] || ''
diff --git a/plugins/geenforce/manifest.json b/plugins/geenforce/manifest.json
index 35e50bf9..956e5648 100644
--- a/plugins/geenforce/manifest.json
+++ b/plugins/geenforce/manifest.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   "description": "GE-Enforce manifest store. Owns imaging PC-type scopes and their install manifests (apps, scripts, files, registry, version gates) as shopdb data, served to the GE-Enforce client as JSON. Requires GE-Enforce lib >= 2.6 on target PCs (the _CmmVersion gate).",
   "author": "ShopDB Team",
   "dependencies": [],
-  "core_version": ">=0.7.0,<1.0.0",
+  "core_version": ">=0.18.0,<1.0.0",
   "api_prefix": "/api/geenforce",
   "default_enabled": false,
   "provides": {
diff --git a/plugins/geenforce/plugin.py b/plugins/geenforce/plugin.py
index f35cf84f..1768805b 100644
--- a/plugins/geenforce/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/geenforce/plugin.py
@@ -141,6 +141,26 @@ class GeEnforcePlugin(BasePlugin):
             },
         ]
 
+    def get_settings_defaults(self) -> List[Dict]:
+        """How long a PC may go quiet before the fleet table calls it stale."""
+        return [
+            {
+                'key': 'geenforce_reportstaleminutes',
+                'value': '30',
+                'valuetype': 'integer',
+                'category': 'geenforce',
+                'description': 'Minutes without an enforcement report before a '
+                               'PC is shown as stale. A report records how the '
+                               'LAST cycle went, so a PC that stops reporting '
+                               'keeps whatever status it last sent - it reads '
+                               'as healthy while it is switched off. Set to 0 '
+                               'to disable the check.',
+                # Server-side only: nothing on a PC reads this, so it stays off
+                # the public settings surface.
+                'public': False,
+            },
+        ]
+
     def init_app(self, app: Flask, db_instance) -> None:
         logger.info(f"GE-Enforce plugin initialized (v{self.meta.version})")
 
diff --git a/plugins/geenforce/seed_display_scope.py b/plugins/geenforce/seed_display_scope.py
index a65bf5af..6223e519 100644
--- a/plugins/geenforce/seed_display_scope.py
+++ b/plugins/geenforce/seed_display_scope.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ running replace_scope_draft is an idempotent draft rebuild.
 import hashlib
 import os
 
-from shopdb.api import db
+from shopdb.api import db, DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS
 
 from . import service
 
@@ -47,17 +47,18 @@ RELAUNCH_WINDOW_JSON = (
 
 # Data-driven display-type -> kiosk target map. The value of
 # C:\Enrollment\display-type.txt selects the row; the target is a route the
-# kiosk browser opens against the local kiosk base URL. Edit here to retarget a
-# subtype. Keys are matched case-insensitively by the dispatcher.
+# kiosk browser opens against the local kiosk base URL. Keys are matched
+# case-insensitively by the dispatcher.
+#
+# NOT a copy any more: this IS core's DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS, read through the
+# contract surface. It used to be a second map with the same routes under
+# different names, which is how a display could report a role core could not
+# store. Retarget a subtype in shopdb/core/models/dashboarddefault.py.
 #
 # TODO-confirm: 3DPrintRoom points at the printedparts /parts-kiosk route as a
 # PLACEHOLDER. Confirm the real 3D-print-room kiosk target with the floor team
 # before this scope is published to production displays.
-DISPLAY_TYPE_TARGETS = {
-    'Dashboard': '/shopfloor',
-    'Lobby': '/tv',
-    '3DPrintRoom': '/parts-kiosk',
-}
+DISPLAY_TYPE_TARGETS = DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS
 
 DISPATCHER_FILENAME = 'Invoke-DisplayKioskDispatch.ps1'
 
diff --git a/plugins/geenforce/service.py b/plugins/geenforce/service.py
index bacf7672..ad160365 100644
--- a/plugins/geenforce/service.py
+++ b/plugins/geenforce/service.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from datetime import datetime, timezone
 from flask import current_app
 from sqlalchemy import func
 
-from shopdb.api import db, Application
+from shopdb.api import db, Application, normalize_display_role
 
 from .models import (
     ManifestScope, ManifestPublishedVersion, ManifestEnforcementReport,
@@ -49,6 +49,25 @@ class LibVersionTooOldError(Exception):
             'if you are certain those PCs must not receive this scope.')
 
 
+def _canonical_subtype(value):
+    """Store a reported subtype under core's role vocabulary where it names one.
+
+    A display reports the literal contents of C:\\Enrollment\\display-type.txt,
+    hand-edited on the machine, so casing drifts freely. Normalising on the way
+    in means the fleet table reads one vocabulary rather than whatever each
+    kiosk happened to be typed as.
+
+    A value that names NO known role is kept VERBATIM, not dropped: an unknown
+    subtype is a kiosk with a typo or a role nobody told the server about, and
+    both are things you want to see in the table rather than have silently
+    blanked. Non-display scopes report no subtype at all and land as None.
+    """
+    text = (value or '').strip()
+    if not text:
+        return None
+    return normalize_display_role(text) or text
+
+
 def _utcnow():
     return datetime.now(timezone.utc).replace(tzinfo=None)
 
@@ -263,7 +282,7 @@ def record_enforcement_report(payload):
         phase=phase,
         appliedversion=payload.get('appliedversion'),
         enforcerversion=payload.get('enforcerversion'),
-        subtype=(payload.get('subtype') or None),
+        subtype=_canonical_subtype(payload.get('subtype')),
         installedcount=installed,
         skippedcount=int(counts.get('skipped', 0)),
         failedcount=failed,
diff --git a/shopdb/__init__.py b/shopdb/__init__.py
index ead6e8e0..5e6d6cc4 100644
--- a/shopdb/__init__.py
+++ b/shopdb/__init__.py
@@ -42,7 +42,13 @@ from .plugins import plugin_manager
 # first-time write under the declared category, and lets a plugin mark a key
 # readable without auth for pages that run logged out. Additive optional hook,
 # minor bump.
-__contract_version__ = '0.17.0'
+# 0.18.0: added DISPLAY_ROLES, DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS and normalize_display_role
+# beside DashboardDefault (which 0.17.0 imported but never listed in __all__).
+# The role vocabulary is now the kiosk's own - Dashboard / Lobby / 3DPrintRoom,
+# the literal values of C:\Enrollment\display-type.txt - so a plugin holding its
+# own copy of that map (geenforce did) can read core's instead of drifting from
+# it. Additive names on the import surface, minor bump.
+__contract_version__ = '0.18.0'
 
 # Product release version (see ADR-007). The product version and the
 # plugin-contract version above are distinct series with independent
diff --git a/shopdb/api/__init__.py b/shopdb/api/__init__.py
index 20459f67..a4df2770 100644
--- a/shopdb/api/__init__.py
+++ b/shopdb/api/__init__.py
@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ from shopdb.core.models import (
 # Display-role mapping (which kiosk shows which surface). On the surface
 # because a plugin reporting on displays has no other way to name what a
 # display IS - the role lives in core, not in any plugin.
-from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import DashboardDefault
+from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import (
+    DashboardDefault,
+    DISPLAY_ROLES,
+    DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS,
+    normalize_display_role,
+)
 
 # Response + pagination helpers for plugin API blueprints
 from shopdb.utils.responses import (
@@ -259,6 +264,12 @@ __all__ = [
     'OperatingSystem',
     'AssetRelationship',
     'RelationshipType',
+    # Display roles. The role vocabulary is the kiosk's own, so a plugin that
+    # reads a reported display type resolves it the same way core does.
+    'DashboardDefault',
+    'DISPLAY_ROLES',
+    'DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS',
+    'normalize_display_role',
     # Response + pagination helpers
     'success_response',
     'error_response',
diff --git a/shopdb/core/api/dashboarddefaults.py b/shopdb/core/api/dashboarddefaults.py
index 740f1852..e8ee5f4e 100644
--- a/shopdb/core/api/dashboarddefaults.py
+++ b/shopdb/core/api/dashboarddefaults.py
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ from flask_jwt_extended import jwt_required
 
 from shopdb.extensions import db
 from shopdb.core.models import DashboardDefault, BusinessUnit, AuditLog
-from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import DISPLAY_ROLES, DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS
+from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import (
+    DISPLAY_ROLES, DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS, normalize_display_role)
 from shopdb.utils.responses import success_response, error_response, ErrorCodes
 from shopdb.utils.authz import require_role
 
@@ -117,17 +118,19 @@ def create_default():
     data = request.get_json() or {}
     fqdn = (data.get('fqdn') or '').strip().lower() or None
     ipaddress = (data.get('ipaddress') or '').strip() or None
-    role = (data.get('displayrole') or 'dashboard').strip()
+    # Accept any casing and the retired spellings, store the canonical one, so a
+    # caller matching the kiosk's own file is never turned away over a capital.
+    role = normalize_display_role(data.get('displayrole') or 'Dashboard')
     businessunitid = data.get('businessunitid')
 
     if not fqdn and not ipaddress:
         return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
                               'fqdn or ipaddress is required')
-    if role not in DISPLAY_ROLES:
+    if not role:
         return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
                               f'displayrole must be one of {", ".join(DISPLAY_ROLES)}')
-    # Only the dashboard role needs a business unit (location).
-    if role == 'dashboard':
+    # Only the Dashboard role needs a business unit (location).
+    if role == 'Dashboard':
         if not businessunitid:
             return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
                                   'a location is required for the dashboard role')
@@ -167,8 +170,8 @@ def update_default(default_id):
 
     data = request.get_json() or {}
     if 'displayrole' in data:
-        role = (data.get('displayrole') or '').strip()
-        if role not in DISPLAY_ROLES:
+        role = normalize_display_role(data.get('displayrole'))
+        if not role:
             return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
                                   f'displayrole must be one of {", ".join(DISPLAY_ROLES)}')
         default.displayrole = role
@@ -187,8 +190,8 @@ def update_default(default_id):
     if not default.fqdn and not default.ipaddress:
         return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
                               'fqdn or ipaddress is required')
-    # Non-dashboard roles carry no location; dashboard needs one.
-    if default.displayrole != 'dashboard':
+    # Non-Dashboard roles carry no location; Dashboard needs one.
+    if normalize_display_role(default.displayrole) != 'Dashboard':
         default.businessunitid = None
     elif not default.businessunitid:
         return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
diff --git a/shopdb/core/models/dashboarddefault.py b/shopdb/core/models/dashboarddefault.py
index c6a07389..711f9aa9 100644
--- a/shopdb/core/models/dashboarddefault.py
+++ b/shopdb/core/models/dashboarddefault.py
@@ -9,15 +9,46 @@ lookups the kiosks call at launch.
 from shopdb.extensions import db
 from .base import BaseModel
 
-# Display role -> the frontend kiosk path it maps to. Kept here so the API and
-# any consumer resolve a role to a URL the same way.
+# Display role -> the frontend kiosk path it maps to. THE one place a role is
+# named, and the reason the names look like this: these are the literal values a
+# person types into C:\Enrollment\display-type.txt on the kiosk itself, which the
+# GE-Enforce dispatcher reads to pick a target. Two vocabularies used to exist -
+# core said 'partskiosk' where the kiosk said '3DPrintRoom' - so a display could
+# report a role core could not store and core could store a role no kiosk would
+# ever match. The machine's own file wins, because that is what a person edits.
 DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS = {
-    'dashboard': '/shopfloor',
-    'lobby': '/tv',
-    'partskiosk': '/parts-kiosk',
+    'Dashboard': '/shopfloor',
+    'Lobby': '/tv',
+    '3DPrintRoom': '/parts-kiosk',
 }
 DISPLAY_ROLES = tuple(DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS.keys())
 
+# Retired spellings -> canonical. 'partskiosk' is what core called the 3D print
+# room before the vocabularies were merged; rows and API callers still carry it.
+LEGACY_DISPLAY_ROLES = {
+    'partskiosk': '3DPrintRoom',
+}
+
+
+def normalize_display_role(value):
+    """Canonical role for any spelling, or None if it names no role.
+
+    Case-insensitive on purpose. The authoritative value is one line of a text
+    file edited by hand on the kiosk, so 'lobby', 'Lobby' and 'LOBBY' all arrive
+    in practice; the dispatcher already matches its own map case-insensitively
+    (-ieq) and this keeps the server agreeing with it. Retired spellings map
+    forward. Returns None rather than guessing, so an unrecognised value can be
+    stored verbatim and SEEN rather than silently rewritten to a wrong role.
+    """
+    text = (value or '').strip()
+    if not text:
+        return None
+    lowered = text.lower()
+    for role in DISPLAY_ROLES:
+        if role.lower() == lowered:
+            return role
+    return LEGACY_DISPLAY_ROLES.get(lowered)
+
 # GE device naming: a PC's DNS name is 'F' + its BIOS serial under the device
 # domain, e.g. FABC1234.device.geaerospace.net. The domain is a setting so other
 # sites can point elsewhere; the collector already reports the serial, so the
@@ -52,8 +83,8 @@ class DashboardDefault(BaseModel):
     # not depend on innodb_large_prefix; FQDNs (F<serial>.<domain>) fit easily.
     fqdn = db.Column(db.String(191), unique=True, nullable=True, index=True)
     ipaddress = db.Column(db.String(50), unique=True, nullable=True)
-    # Which display the mapping drives. Only the dashboard role uses businessunitid.
-    displayrole = db.Column(db.String(20), nullable=False, default='dashboard')
+    # Which display the mapping drives. Only the Dashboard role uses businessunitid.
+    displayrole = db.Column(db.String(20), nullable=False, default='Dashboard')
     businessunitid = db.Column(
         db.Integer,
         db.ForeignKey('businessunits.businessunitid'),
@@ -65,7 +96,9 @@ class DashboardDefault(BaseModel):
 
     @property
     def displaypath(self):
-        return DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS.get(self.displayrole)
+        # Resolve through the normalizer so a legacy or oddly-cased stored value
+        # still finds its path instead of silently returning None.
+        return DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS.get(normalize_display_role(self.displayrole))
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return f"<DashboardDefault {self.fqdn or self.ipaddress} -> {self.displayrole}>"
diff --git a/tests/test_core/test_dashboarddefaults.py b/tests/test_core/test_dashboarddefaults.py
index 6accf1b9..3a62db89 100644
--- a/tests/test_core/test_dashboarddefaults.py
+++ b/tests/test_core/test_dashboarddefaults.py
@@ -100,7 +100,11 @@ def test_non_admin_cannot_update_or_delete(client, db, auth_headers,
 
 
 def test_lobby_role_needs_no_businessunit_and_resolves_path(client, db, auth_headers):
-    """A lobby-role mapping needs no business unit; display-role returns its path."""
+    """A Lobby mapping needs no business unit; display-role returns its path.
+
+    Posts the RETIRED lowercase spelling on purpose: an existing caller must not
+    start failing over a capital, and what comes back is the canonical name.
+    """
     created = client.post('/api/dashboarddefaults', json={
         'ipaddress': '10.20.30.99', 'displayrole': 'lobby',
         'description': 'Front lobby TV',
@@ -110,17 +114,19 @@ def test_lobby_role_needs_no_businessunit_and_resolves_path(client, db, auth_hea
 
     resolved = client.get('/api/dashboarddefaults/display-role?ipaddress=10.20.30.99')
     data = resolved.get_json()['data']
-    assert data['role'] == 'lobby'
+    assert data['role'] == 'Lobby'
     assert data['path'] == '/tv'
     assert data['businessunitid'] is None
 
 
-def test_partskiosk_role_resolves_path(client, db, auth_headers):
+def test_retired_partskiosk_spelling_maps_to_3dprintroom(client, db, auth_headers):
+    # 'partskiosk' was core's name for the room the kiosks call '3DPrintRoom'.
+    # It still posts, and stores as the name the kiosk itself would report.
     client.post('/api/dashboarddefaults', json={
         'ipaddress': '10.20.30.77', 'displayrole': 'partskiosk',
     }, headers=auth_headers)
     data = client.get('/api/dashboarddefaults/display-role?ipaddress=10.20.30.77').get_json()['data']
-    assert data['role'] == 'partskiosk'
+    assert data['role'] == '3DPrintRoom'
     assert data['path'] == '/parts-kiosk'
 
 
@@ -143,7 +149,7 @@ def test_fqdn_mapping_create_and_resolve(client, db, auth_headers):
     # resolve by FQDN (case-insensitive)
     r = client.get('/api/dashboarddefaults/display-role?fqdn=fabc123.device.geaerospace.net')
     body = r.get_json()['data']
-    assert body['role'] == 'lobby'
+    assert body['role'] == 'Lobby'
     assert body['path'] == '/tv'
 
 
@@ -164,3 +170,63 @@ def test_invalid_role_rejected(client, db, auth_headers):
 def test_unmapped_ip_display_role_null(client, db):
     data = client.get('/api/dashboarddefaults/display-role?ipaddress=9.9.9.9').get_json()['data']
     assert data['role'] is None and data['path'] is None
+
+
+# --- role vocabulary -------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# The role names are not ours to choose: they are the literal values a person
+# types into C:\Enrollment\display-type.txt on the kiosk, which the GE-Enforce
+# dispatcher reads. These tests exist because core and the kiosks each used to
+# hold their own map, and a display could report a role core could not store.
+
+def test_display_roles_are_the_kiosk_vocabulary():
+    from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS
+    assert DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS == {
+        'Dashboard': '/shopfloor',
+        'Lobby': '/tv',
+        '3DPrintRoom': '/parts-kiosk',
+    }
+
+
+def test_geenforce_display_targets_are_core_roles():
+    """The display scope must not carry a second copy of the map."""
+    from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS
+    from plugins.geenforce.seed_display_scope import DISPLAY_TYPE_TARGETS
+    assert DISPLAY_TYPE_TARGETS is DISPLAY_ROLE_PATHS
+
+
+def test_normalize_display_role_accepts_any_casing():
+    from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import normalize_display_role
+    for value in ('Lobby', 'lobby', 'LOBBY', '  Lobby  '):
+        assert normalize_display_role(value) == 'Lobby'
+    assert normalize_display_role('3dprintroom') == '3DPrintRoom'
+    assert normalize_display_role('DASHBOARD') == 'Dashboard'
+
+
+def test_normalize_display_role_maps_retired_spelling():
+    from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import normalize_display_role
+    assert normalize_display_role('partskiosk') == '3DPrintRoom'
+    assert normalize_display_role('PartsKiosk') == '3DPrintRoom'
+
+
+def test_normalize_display_role_refuses_to_guess():
+    from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import normalize_display_role
+    for value in (None, '', '   ', 'bogus', '3d', 'lobbyy'):
+        assert normalize_display_role(value) is None
+
+
+def test_mixed_case_role_stores_canonically(client, db, auth_headers):
+    resp = client.post('/api/dashboarddefaults', json={
+        'ipaddress': '10.20.30.31', 'displayrole': 'LOBBY',
+    }, headers=auth_headers)
+    assert resp.status_code == 201, resp.get_json()
+    assert resp.get_json()['data']['displayrole'] == 'Lobby'
+
+
+def test_legacy_stored_value_still_resolves_a_path(db):
+    """A row written before the merge keeps working without being rewritten."""
+    from shopdb.core.models.dashboarddefault import DashboardDefault
+    row = DashboardDefault(ipaddress='10.20.30.32', displayrole='partskiosk')
+    db.session.add(row)
+    db.session.flush()
+    assert row.displaypath == '/parts-kiosk'
diff --git a/tests/test_plugins/test_geenforce_publish_gate.py b/tests/test_plugins/test_geenforce_publish_gate.py
index 1b76c6dd..0cf02ec1 100644
--- a/tests/test_plugins/test_geenforce_publish_gate.py
+++ b/tests/test_plugins/test_geenforce_publish_gate.py
@@ -227,3 +227,39 @@ def test_report_without_a_subtype_stores_none(db):
     stored = ManifestEnforcementReport.query.filter_by(
         hostname='WJPC77', iscurrent=True).one()
     assert stored.subtype is None
+
+
+def test_reported_subtype_is_normalised_to_the_role_vocabulary(db):
+    """display-type.txt is hand-edited, so its casing drifts across the fleet.
+
+    Normalising on the way in keeps the fleet table reading one vocabulary
+    instead of whatever each kiosk happened to be typed as.
+    """
+    from plugins.geenforce.service import record_enforcement_report
+
+    for index, reported in enumerate(('lobby', 'LOBBY', '  Lobby  ')):
+        host = f'WJKIOSKCASE{index}'
+        record_enforcement_report({'hostname': host,
+                                   'scopename': 'gea-shopfloor-display',
+                                   'subtype': reported, 'counts': {}})
+        db.session.flush()
+        stored = ManifestEnforcementReport.query.filter_by(
+            hostname=host, iscurrent=True).one()
+        assert stored.subtype == 'Lobby', reported
+
+
+def test_reported_subtype_keeps_an_unknown_value_verbatim(db):
+    """An unrecognised subtype is a typo on a kiosk or a role nobody declared.
+
+    Both are worth SEEING in the fleet table, so the value is stored as sent
+    rather than blanked or guessed at.
+    """
+    from plugins.geenforce.service import record_enforcement_report
+
+    record_enforcement_report({'hostname': 'WJKIOSKODD', 'scopename': 'gea-shopfloor-display',
+                               'subtype': 'Lobbby', 'counts': {}})
+    db.session.flush()
+
+    stored = ManifestEnforcementReport.query.filter_by(
+        hostname='WJKIOSKODD', iscurrent=True).one()
+    assert stored.subtype == 'Lobbby'
diff --git a/tests/test_plugins/test_geenforce_reporting.py b/tests/test_plugins/test_geenforce_reporting.py
index 0e322b5d..db0da614 100644
--- a/tests/test_plugins/test_geenforce_reporting.py
+++ b/tests/test_plugins/test_geenforce_reporting.py
@@ -185,3 +185,103 @@ def test_report_missing_hostname_rejected(client, db, app, auth_headers):
     resp = client.post('/api/geenforce/report', json={'scopename': 'x'},
                        headers={'X-API-Key': secret})
     assert resp.status_code == 400
+
+
+# -- going quiet ------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# A report records how one cycle went; nothing ages it. A PC switched off after
+# a clean run therefore kept 'ok' indefinitely and read as healthy - which is
+# how a machine offline for over a day still showed 'ok'.
+
+def _age_report(db, hostname, minutes):
+    """Push a stored report's server-side receivedat back in time."""
+    from datetime import timedelta
+    from plugins.geenforce.models import ManifestEnforcementReport
+    from plugins.geenforce.service import _utcnow
+    (ManifestEnforcementReport.query
+     .filter_by(hostname=hostname, iscurrent=True)
+     .update({'receivedat': _utcnow() - timedelta(minutes=minutes)}))
+    db.session.commit()
+
+
+def _post_clean_report(client, secret, hostname):
+    return client.post('/api/geenforce/report', json={
+        'hostname': hostname, 'scopename': 'gea-shopfloor-cmm',
+        'appliedversion': 1, 'enforcerversion': '2.6',
+        'counts': {'installed': 1, 'skipped': 0, 'failed': 0, 'filtered': 0},
+        'results': [{'name': 'Alpha', 'action': 'installed'}],
+    }, headers={'X-API-Key': secret})
+
+
+def test_a_pc_reporting_now_is_not_stale(client, db, app, auth_headers):
+    _seed_and_publish(app)
+    secret = _token(client, auth_headers, ['geenforce.report'])
+    _post_clean_report(client, secret, 'WJCMM01')
+
+    row = client.get('/api/geenforce/reports',
+                     headers=auth_headers).get_json()['data'][0]
+    assert row['status'] == 'ok'
+    assert row['isstale'] is False
+    assert row['staleafterminutes'] == 30
+
+
+def test_a_pc_that_stopped_reporting_goes_stale(client, db, app, auth_headers):
+    _seed_and_publish(app)
+    secret = _token(client, auth_headers, ['geenforce.report'])
+    _post_clean_report(client, secret, 'WJCMM01')
+    _age_report(db, 'WJCMM01', minutes=60 * 26)  # offline over a day
+
+    row = client.get('/api/geenforce/reports',
+                     headers=auth_headers).get_json()['data'][0]
+    assert row['isstale'] is True
+    # The REPORTED status is left alone - it is still a true record of the last
+    # cycle, and the UI shows it in the tooltip behind the stale badge.
+    assert row['status'] == 'ok'
+
+
+def test_stale_boundary_is_the_configured_threshold(client, db, app, auth_headers):
+    _seed_and_publish(app)
+    secret = _token(client, auth_headers, ['geenforce.report'])
+    _post_clean_report(client, secret, 'WJCMM01')
+
+    _age_report(db, 'WJCMM01', minutes=29)
+    row = client.get('/api/geenforce/reports',
+                     headers=auth_headers).get_json()['data'][0]
+    assert row['isstale'] is False, 'inside the window is not stale'
+
+    _age_report(db, 'WJCMM01', minutes=31)
+    row = client.get('/api/geenforce/reports',
+                     headers=auth_headers).get_json()['data'][0]
+    assert row['isstale'] is True, 'past the window is stale'
+
+
+def test_stale_threshold_is_a_setting(client, db, app, auth_headers):
+    from shopdb.api import Setting
+    _seed_and_publish(app)
+    secret = _token(client, auth_headers, ['geenforce.report'])
+    _post_clean_report(client, secret, 'WJCMM01')
+    _age_report(db, 'WJCMM01', minutes=45)
+
+    Setting.set('geenforce_reportstaleminutes', '120', valuetype='integer',
+                category='geenforce')
+    db.session.commit()
+    row = client.get('/api/geenforce/reports',
+                     headers=auth_headers).get_json()['data'][0]
+    assert row['isstale'] is False
+    assert row['staleafterminutes'] == 120
+
+
+def test_zero_disables_the_stale_check(client, db, app, auth_headers):
+    from shopdb.api import Setting
+    _seed_and_publish(app)
+    secret = _token(client, auth_headers, ['geenforce.report'])
+    _post_clean_report(client, secret, 'WJCMM01')
+    _age_report(db, 'WJCMM01', minutes=60 * 24 * 7)
+
+    Setting.set('geenforce_reportstaleminutes', '0', valuetype='integer',
+                category='geenforce')
+    db.session.commit()
+    row = client.get('/api/geenforce/reports',
+                     headers=auth_headers).get_json()['data'][0]
+    assert row['isstale'] is False
+    assert row['staleafterminutes'] == 0