perf(display): snapshot mirror — viewer gating, digest skip, keepalive (#404)

The display service PNG-encoded its frame to /tmp/led_matrix_preview.png
at 5 fps, 24/7 — identical frames, no viewers, per-call imports and a
chmod every write. On the devpi baseline the display service idles at
~92% CPU; this was one of its biggest fixed costs.

- New pure policy (src/common/snapshot_policy.py, unit-tested off-Pi):
  WRITE changed frames at full rate only while a viewer is watching,
  at a 30s idle cadence otherwise; NEVER re-encode unchanged frames —
  bump mtime (os.utime) every 20s instead, keeping the health check's
  snapshot-age liveness proxy (60s threshold in api_v3) green. Cross-
  referencing comments guard the two constants.
- Viewer detection: the web SSE display broadcaster (which only runs
  while browsers are subscribed) touches /tmp/led_matrix_preview_viewer
  each loop; the display service stats it at most 1/s. On viewer
  arrival the write clock resets so the first frame lands within ~1s.
- Hoisted the per-call pathlib/permission_utils imports; directory
  permissions ensured once instead of every frame.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FqzC1nzTWL4kaqgMaQZFam

Co-authored-by: Chuck <chuck@example.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

web_interface/app.py

@@ -608,9 +608,23 @@ def display_preview_generator():
     import base64
     from PIL import Image
     import io
-    
+
     snapshot_path = "/tmp/led_matrix_preview.png"  # nosec B108 - fixed path matches display_manager; only read here
+    # Viewer marker: this generator only runs while the broadcaster has
+    # subscribers (it exits with no clients), so touching the marker each
+    # loop tells the DISPLAY service a browser is actually watching — it
+    # only pays for full-rate PNG snapshot encodes while this stays fresh
+    # (see src/common/snapshot_policy.py).
+    viewer_marker_path = "/tmp/led_matrix_preview_viewer"  # nosec B108 - fixed path matches display_manager
     last_modified = None
+
+    def _touch_viewer_marker():
+        try:
+            with open(viewer_marker_path, 'a'):
+                pass
+            os.utime(viewer_marker_path, None)
+        except OSError:
+            pass  # display side treats a missing marker as "no viewer"
     
     # Get display dimensions from config
     try:
@@ -627,6 +641,7 @@ def display_preview_generator():
     
     while True:
         try:
+            _touch_viewer_marker()
             # Check if snapshot file exists and has been modified
             if os.path.exists(snapshot_path):
                 current_modified = os.path.getmtime(snapshot_path)