Vault Health Check Passes
The Dataview health note loads clean against the new backend. Vault migration is confirmed stable and the REST API work can start.
The one remaining verification item for Phase 1B is done. The Dataview health note — the canary I use to confirm the vault is reading and indexing correctly against CouchDB on the GMKtec — loads without errors.
That note queries across several folders and renders a table of recent entries. If the backend is misconfigured, sync is broken, or the plugin can’t resolve the index, it either throws inline errors or returns an empty result set. It returned neither. The vault is healthy on the new machine.
- Dataview health note verified against GMKtec CouchDB backend
No config files changed during this step. The verification was read-only: open the note, confirm the output, move on. The backend work that made this possible — migrating CouchDB from the M1 to the GMKtec and confirming 24h stability — is what the previous post covered.
What this unblocks
With the vault confirmed stable, I can wire up the Obsidian REST API without risk of building on a shaky backend. Next up: store the API key in n8n’s credential store, run a test curl from the GMKtec against the REST API endpoint on the Mac, and add a wake assertion to the n8n workflow so the Mac is guaranteed awake before any API call fires.