fix(vegas): a display duration that is not a number no longer cancels a static pause

The Vegas static pause compared plugin.get_display_duration() with the
clock. clock-simple, calendar and countdown return their display_duration
setting straight from config.json, so a value saved as "20" or null
reached that comparison as a string or None. The TypeError went to the
pause's broad except, which ended the pause: the plugin flashed up and
the scroll went straight on, at every one of its turns. inf held the
pause until something interrupted it, and NaN, False, 0 or a negative
number ended it at once.

The pause now reads the duration the way the rotation has since #739,
with the same helper, then the rotation's fallbacks: 30 s for anything
that is not a number or a get_display_duration() that raises, 15 s for a
number at or below zero. Logged once per plugin. test_vegas_static_mode.py's
pauses used 0 to mean "no wait"; they now use 0.01.

The helper moves from display_controller (_finite_seconds) to base_plugin
(finite_seconds), unchanged: the coordinator cannot import from
display_controller, which imports src.vegas_mode at module level, and a
new src module would turn ledmatrix-plugins' min-core table check red
until it was listed. base_plugin is already loaded whenever either one is.

Tests: test/test_vegas_static_pause_duration.py, on a fake clock,
including TestSameAsTheRotation, which runs every value through both the
pause and the rotation's _get_display_duration/_resolve_durations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -885,6 +885,18 @@ policies are unchanged.
   a runtime publisher that stops still goes `stale`, and a subscription that
   goes quiet still falls back to the cache. The cache path's 120 s rule is
   unchanged.
+- A plugin that pauses the Vegas scroll gets its pause when its display
+  duration is not a plain number. Several plugins (clock-simple, calendar,
+  countdown) return `display_duration` as it is in config.json, so a value
+  saved as `"20"` or `null` (the raw config editor, a hand edit) reached the
+  pause as a string or None; comparing it with the clock raised, and the
+  plugin flashed up and the scroll went straight on, at every one of its
+  turns. `inf` held the pause until something interrupted it, and 0, a
+  negative number or NaN ended it at once. The pause now reads the duration
+  as the rotation does (`finite_seconds()` in `base_plugin`): a numeric
+  string counts, anything else that is not a finite number (or a
+  `get_display_duration()` that raises) pauses for 30 s, and a number at or
+  below zero for 15 s, with one warning per plugin.
 
 ### Scrolling
 

src/display_controller.py

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import os
 import inspect
 import signal
 import json
-import math
 import threading
 import types
 from collections import deque
@@ -57,6 +56,7 @@ from src.ipc.contract import (
     PluginReloadResult,
 )
 from src.ipc.server import ControlServer, QueuedCommand, StateHub, start_control_server
+from src.plugin_system.base_plugin import finite_seconds
 from src.vegas_mode.render_pipeline import SYNC_SEND_INTERVAL
 
 # Get logger with consistent configuration
@@ -90,19 +90,6 @@ _MIN_INITIAL_UPDATE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 2.0
 DEFAULT_DYNAMIC_DURATION_CAP = 180.0
 
 
-def _finite_seconds(value: Any) -> Optional[float]:
-    """``value`` as seconds when it is a finite number or a numeric string,
-    else None. A bool is not a number here, though it is an int: True would
-    read as a one-second screen."""
-    if isinstance(value, bool):
-        return None
-    try:
-        seconds = float(value)
-    except (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError):
-        return None
-    return seconds if math.isfinite(seconds) else None
-
-
 class _PluginReloadJob:
     """A ``plugin.reload`` whose slow half runs off the render thread.
 
@@ -1392,7 +1379,7 @@ class DisplayController:
         except Exception as err:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
             problem = f"get_display_duration() raised {type(err).__name__}: {err}"
         else:
-            seconds = _finite_seconds(value)
+            seconds = finite_seconds(value)
             if seconds is not None:
                 return seconds
             problem = f"display duration {value!r} is not a number"

src/plugin_system/base_plugin.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Stability: Stable - maintains backward compatibility
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from enum import Enum
 from typing import Dict, Any, Optional, List
+import math
 import os
 import sys
 from src.deprecation import deprecated, warn_deprecated
@@ -240,6 +241,26 @@ def resolve_vegas_participation(plugin: Any, plugin_id: Optional[str] = None) ->
     return legacy_vegas_participation(plugin)
 
 
+def finite_seconds(value: Any) -> Optional[float]:
+    """``value`` as seconds when it is a finite number or a numeric string,
+    else None. A bool is not a number here, though it is an int: True would
+    read as a one-second screen.
+
+    How the core reads a plugin's get_display_duration() -- the rotation
+    (DisplayController._get_display_duration) and the Vegas static pause --
+    which several plugins answer straight from config.json, so a value saved
+    as "20" or null arrives as a string or None. A number at or below zero is
+    returned as it is; each caller has its own rule for that.
+    """
+    if isinstance(value, bool):
+        return None
+    try:
+        seconds = float(value)
+    except (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError):
+        return None
+    return seconds if math.isfinite(seconds) else None
+
+
 class BasePlugin(ABC):
     """
     Base class that all plugins must inherit from.

src/vegas_mode/coordinator.py

@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ import math
 import sys
 import time
 import threading
-from typing import Optional, Dict, Any, List, Callable, TYPE_CHECKING
+from typing import Optional, Dict, Any, FrozenSet, List, Callable, TYPE_CHECKING
 
 from src import display_watchdog
 from src.common import render_gate
+from src.plugin_system.base_plugin import finite_seconds
 from src.vegas_mode.config import VegasModeConfig
 from src.vegas_mode.elements import LiveEpochs
 from src.vegas_mode.plugin_adapter import PluginAdapter
@@ -53,6 +54,14 @@ _FPS_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL = 300.0
 #: every plugin. Game state doesn't change within a quarter second.
 _LIVE_PRIORITY_CHECK_INTERVAL = 0.25
 
+#: Seconds a static pause shows a plugin whose display duration can't be
+#: used, as long as the rotation shows it: 30 when get_display_duration()
+#: raises or answers something that is not a number
+#: (DisplayController._get_display_duration), 15 when it answers a number at
+#: or below zero (DisplayController._resolve_durations).
+_UNREADABLE_DURATION = 30.0
+_NOT_POSITIVE_DURATION = 15.0
+
 
 def _percentile(ordered: List[float], fraction: float) -> float:
     """Nearest-rank percentile of an already-sorted list.
@@ -92,6 +101,9 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
     _live_reason: Optional[str] = None
     # Set only while Vegas has changed the GIL switch interval; read with getattr.
     _saved_switch_interval: Optional[float]
+    #: Plugins already warned about a display duration the pause can't use,
+    #: so a bad setting logs once, not at every turn. Replaced, not mutated.
+    _duration_warned: FrozenSet[str] = frozenset()
 
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -1010,7 +1022,7 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
             # Wait for the plugin's display duration. Monotonic, like the
             # iteration clock: an NTP step on an RTC-less Pi would otherwise
             # end the pause at once or stretch it by the correction.
-            duration = plugin.get_display_duration()
+            duration = self._static_pause_duration(plugin)
             start = time.monotonic()
 
             while time.monotonic() - start < duration:
@@ -1046,6 +1058,42 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
 
         return True
 
+    def _static_pause_duration(self, plugin: 'BasePlugin') -> float:
+        """Seconds a static pause shows ``plugin``: its display duration,
+        read the way the rotation reads it.
+
+        Several plugins return their display_duration setting straight from
+        config.json, so one saved as "20" or null came back as a string or
+        None; comparing it with the clock raised, and the pause's broad
+        except ended the pause at every one of the plugin's turns. inf
+        paused until something interrupted it, and NaN, False, 0 or a
+        negative number ended the pause at once. A numeric string counts
+        (finite_seconds); anything else, or a raise, gets
+        _UNREADABLE_DURATION, and a number at or below zero
+        _NOT_POSITIVE_DURATION, logged once per plugin.
+        """
+        try:
+            value = plugin.get_display_duration()
+        except Exception as err:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
+            problem = f"get_display_duration() raised {type(err).__name__}: {err}"
+            seconds = _UNREADABLE_DURATION
+        else:
+            seconds = finite_seconds(value)
+            if seconds is not None and seconds > 0:
+                return seconds
+            if seconds is None:
+                problem = f"display duration {value!r} is not a number"
+                seconds = _UNREADABLE_DURATION
+            else:
+                problem = f"display duration {value!r} is not above zero"
+                seconds = _NOT_POSITIVE_DURATION
+        plugin_id = plugin.plugin_id
+        if plugin_id not in self._duration_warned:
+            self._duration_warned = self._duration_warned | {plugin_id}
+            logger.warning("[%s] %s; its static pause lasts %.0fs (logged once)",
+                           plugin_id, problem, seconds)
+        return seconds
+
     def _end_static_pause(self) -> None:
         """End static pause and restore scroll state."""
         should_resume_scrolling = False

test/test_vegas_static_mode.py

@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ class TestCoordinatorStaticPause:
     def _plugin(self):
         plugin = MagicMock()
         plugin.plugin_id = 'clock'
-        plugin.get_display_duration.return_value = 0
+        # A moment: zero would pause 15 s, as the rotation shows it.
+        plugin.get_display_duration.return_value = 0.01
         return plugin
 
     def test_trigger_comes_from_the_pipeline(self):

test/test_vegas_static_pause_duration.py

@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+"""A Vegas static pause lasts as long as the rotation shows the plugin.
+
+The pause asked the plugin for get_display_duration() and compared the
+answer with the clock. Several plugins (clock-simple, calendar, countdown)
+return their display_duration setting as it is in config.json, so one saved
+as "20" or null -- the raw config editor, a hand edit -- reached that
+comparison as a string or None. The TypeError went to the pause's broad
+except, which ended the pause: the plugin flashed up and the scroll went on,
+at every one of its turns. inf paused until something interrupted it, and
+NaN, False, 0 or a negative number ended the pause at once.
+
+The pause now reads the answer the way the rotation does since #739, with
+the same helper (base_plugin.finite_seconds): a numeric string counts;
+anything else that is not a finite number, or a raise, gets the rotation's
+30 s; a number at or below zero gets its 15 s.
+"""
+
+import logging
+import os
+import threading
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+os.environ.setdefault("EMULATOR", "true")
+
+import pytest
+
+from src.vegas_mode import coordinator
+
+NOT_NUMBERS = [None, '', 'twenty', True, False, float('nan'), float('inf'),
+               'inf', '1e400', [20], {'seconds': 20}]
+NOT_ABOVE_ZERO = [0, -5, '-5', '0']
+NUMBERS = [('20', 20.0), (' 7.5 ', 7.5), (12, 12.0), (12.5, 12.5)]
+
+
+class FakeClock:
+    """time.monotonic/time.sleep for the pause loop: sleeping moves the clock."""
+
+    #: A pause still going after this long never ends (inf did that).
+    LIMIT = 3600.0
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.now = 0.0
+
+    def monotonic(self):
+        return self.now
+
+    def sleep(self, seconds):
+        self.now += seconds
+        if self.now > self.LIMIT:
+            raise RuntimeError("the static pause never ended")
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def clock(monkeypatch):
+    fake = FakeClock()
+    monkeypatch.setattr(coordinator, 'time', fake)
+    return fake
+
+
+def _plugin(duration, plugin_id='clock-simple'):
+    plugin = MagicMock()
+    plugin.plugin_id = plugin_id
+    plugin.get_display_duration.return_value = duration
+    return plugin
+
+
+def _coord(*plugins):
+    coord = coordinator.VegasModeCoordinator.__new__(coordinator.VegasModeCoordinator)
+    coord.render_pipeline = MagicMock()
+    coord.render_pipeline.get_scroll_position.return_value = 0
+    coord.display_manager = MagicMock()
+    locks = {plugin.plugin_id: threading.Lock() for plugin in plugins}
+    coord.plugin_manager = SimpleNamespace(get_plugin_lock=locks.__getitem__)
+    coord._state_lock = threading.Lock()
+    coord._static_pause_active = False
+    coord._saved_scroll_position = None
+    coord._should_stop = False
+    coord._live_priority_active = False
+    coord._live_priority_check = None
+    coord._interrupt_check = None
+    coord.stats = {'static_pauses': 0}
+    return coord
+
+
+def _pause(coord, plugin, clock):
+    """One static pause: (whether it completed, how long it lasted)."""
+    start = clock.now
+    completed = coord._handle_static_pause(plugin)
+    return completed, clock.now - start
+
+
+class TestPauseLength:
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value, seconds', NUMBERS)
+    def test_numbers_and_numeric_strings_are_used(self, clock, value, seconds):
+        plugin = _plugin(value)
+        completed, lasted = _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is True
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(seconds, abs=0.15)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value', NOT_NUMBERS, ids=repr)
+    def test_anything_but_a_finite_number_pauses_for_30s(self, clock, value):
+        plugin = _plugin(value)
+        completed, lasted = _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is True
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(30.0, abs=0.15)
+        plugin.display.assert_called_once_with(force_clear=True)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value', NOT_ABOVE_ZERO, ids=repr)
+    def test_a_number_not_above_zero_pauses_for_15s(self, clock, value):
+        plugin = _plugin(value)
+        completed, lasted = _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is True
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(15.0, abs=0.15)
+
+    def test_a_raising_get_display_duration_pauses_for_30s(self, clock):
+        plugin = _plugin(None)
+        plugin.get_display_duration.side_effect = KeyError('display_duration')
+        completed, lasted = _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is True
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(30.0, abs=0.15)
+
+    def test_a_good_value_after_a_bad_one_is_used(self, clock):
+        plugin = _plugin(None)
+        coord = _coord(plugin)
+        assert _pause(coord, plugin, clock)[1] == pytest.approx(30.0, abs=0.15)
+        plugin.get_display_duration.return_value = 45
+        assert _pause(coord, plugin, clock)[1] == pytest.approx(45.0, abs=0.15)
+
+    def test_the_pause_can_still_be_interrupted(self, clock):
+        plugin = _plugin('twenty')
+        coord = _coord(plugin)
+        coord._interrupt_check = lambda: clock.now >= 5
+        completed, lasted = _pause(coord, plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is False
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(5.0, abs=0.15)
+
+
+class TestWarning:
+    def test_logged_once_per_plugin(self, clock, caplog):
+        clock_plugin = _plugin('twenty')
+        calendar = _plugin(None, plugin_id='calendar')
+        coord = _coord(clock_plugin, calendar)
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger='src.vegas_mode.coordinator'):
+            for _ in range(3):
+                for plugin in (clock_plugin, calendar):
+                    coord._handle_static_pause(plugin)
+        warnings = [r.getMessage() for r in caplog.records
+                    if 'display duration' in r.getMessage()]
+        assert len(warnings) == 2
+        assert any('clock-simple' in m and "'twenty'" in m for m in warnings)
+        assert any('calendar' in m and 'None' in m for m in warnings)
+
+
+class TestFiniteSeconds:
+    """The shared rule: what counts as a number of seconds."""
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value, seconds', NUMBERS + [(0, 0.0), ('-5', -5.0)])
+    def test_numbers_and_numeric_strings(self, value, seconds):
+        from src.plugin_system.base_plugin import finite_seconds
+        result = finite_seconds(value)
+        assert result == seconds and isinstance(result, float)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value', NOT_NUMBERS + [pytest.param(10 ** 400, id='10**400')],
+                             ids=repr)
+    def test_anything_else_is_none(self, value):
+        from src.plugin_system.base_plugin import finite_seconds
+        assert finite_seconds(value) is None
+
+
+def _rotation_seconds(plugin):
+    """How long the rotation shows ``plugin`` (no dynamic duration, no
+    Rotation & Durations override): the two calls run() makes for a screen.
+    """
+    from src.display_controller import DisplayController
+    dc = object.__new__(DisplayController)
+    dc.config = {}
+    dc.plugin_modes = {'mode': plugin}
+    return dc._resolve_durations(plugin, 'mode', dc._get_display_duration('mode'), False)[1]
+
+
+class TestSameAsTheRotation:
+    """The pause and the rotation share finite_seconds; this pins their
+    fallbacks (30 s, 15 s) to each other too."""
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value', [value for value, _ in NUMBERS]
+                             + NOT_NUMBERS + NOT_ABOVE_ZERO, ids=repr)
+    def test_the_pause_lasts_as_long_as_the_rotation_shows_it(self, clock, value):
+        plugin = _plugin(value)
+        expected = _rotation_seconds(plugin)
+        assert _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)[1] == pytest.approx(expected, abs=0.15)
+
+    def test_a_raise_too(self, clock):
+        plugin = _plugin(None)
+        plugin.get_display_duration.side_effect = KeyError('display_duration')
+        expected = _rotation_seconds(plugin)
+        assert _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)[1] == pytest.approx(expected, abs=0.15)