feat(ipc)!: remove the cache-key mailboxes (control socket stage 5)

The control socket is now the only way the web interface sends the display a
command. The display stops reading display_on_demand_request and
plugin_error_clear_request, and the web interface stops writing them.

- Display: no mailbox poll (MailboxWatch, the 1 s / 0.25 s cadence,
  _consume_on_demand_request, the deprecation log) and no persisted
  display_on_demand_processed_id guard; the error publisher reads no clear
  request. CacheManager.file_signature and MailboxWatch are removed.
- A write to either retired key is dropped by CacheManager.save_cache and
  logged once per writer, naming the plugin from the call stack (or the
  request's plugin_id), with the API to move to.
- Web: on-demand start with no display listening starts the service (when
  start_service) and sends the request again once the socket answers (45 s,
  10 s for a running service without a socket yet); every other failure is
  a 503 (400 for invalid_args). Stop answers 503 when no display listens,
  unless stop_service. errors/clear answers 503 with a reason-specific
  message instead of writing a request; clear_pending is always false.
  src.ipc.client.should_fall_back is replaced by display_not_listening.
- Kept: display_current_state, display_on_demand_state,
  plugin_runtime_snapshot and the heartbeat (read whenever the socket cannot
  answer), and display_on_demand_config (the display's resume record).

Tests: mailbox-only tests removed (test_on_demand_mailbox.py, the mailbox
cadence, file_signature and MailboxWatch tests); tests that injected
requests through the mailbox now use the socket queue or a plugin's
in-process request. The run-loop harness sends on-demand requests over its
fake control socket, so four golden traces change: on-demand starts and
stops land at the request instant instead of the next 0.25 s mailbox look
(one frame fewer on the screen they end), and in vegas.json within one
frame instead of 263 ms, which shifts the later 1 s-throttled WiFi-notice
check by under a second.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Chuck
2026-10-05 09:32:22 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
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@@ -522,42 +522,52 @@ Returns the request id once queued, or `None` as above.
These methods are new after core 3.8.0 (see `CHANGELOG.md`). Before them,
plugins wrote the `display_on_demand_request` cache key (the "mailbox")
themselves. The display reads it only once a second while the control
socket is up, and it will be removed in a future release (see
[IPC_CONTROL_SOCKET.md](IPC_CONTROL_SOCKET.md), stage 5). A plugin that
must keep working on older cores checks for the method, and writes the
mailbox only when the method is missing or answers `None`:
themselves. **The mailbox is gone** (see
[IPC_CONTROL_SOCKET.md](IPC_CONTROL_SOCKET.md), stage 5): the display no
longer reads it, and a write to it is dropped with a warning in the log,
once per plugin:
```
Ignored a write to the retired 'display_on_demand_request' cache key by plugin 'my-plugin': ...
```
A plugin that only needs to run on cores with these methods calls them and
treats `None` as "no display took it":
```python
def _show_alert(self):
if self.request_on_demand(mode="my_alert", duration=15) is None:
self.logger.info("No display to show the alert on")
```
A plugin that must also work on cores before them can keep the mailbox
write as its fallback, guarded by `hasattr`: on those cores the display
still reads it, and on a current core the write is only dropped and logged
(when the method is missing it never runs at all). Raise
`ledmatrix_min_version` to the release that added the methods once you no
longer need it.
```python
import time, uuid
def _show_alert(self):
if hasattr(self, "request_on_demand") and self.request_on_demand(
mode="my_alert", duration=15):
if hasattr(self, "request_on_demand"):
self.request_on_demand(mode="my_alert", duration=15)
return
# Older core, or no display in this process: the mailbox, as before.
# A core older than request_on_demand(): the mailbox it still reads.
self.cache_manager.set("display_on_demand_request", {
"request_id": str(uuid.uuid4()), "action": "start",
"plugin_id": self.plugin_id, "mode": "my_alert",
"duration": 15, "pinned": False, "timestamp": time.time(),
})
def _release(self):
if hasattr(self, "end_on_demand") and self.end_on_demand():
return
self.cache_manager.set("display_on_demand_request", {
"request_id": str(uuid.uuid4()), "action": "stop",
"plugin_id": self.plugin_id, "timestamp": time.time(),
})
```
Keep `ledmatrix_min_version` where it is: the fallback is what keeps the
plugin working on older cores. A mailbox stop ends any on-demand session,
whoever started it; `end_on_demand()` ends only the plugin's own.
`end_on_demand()` ends only the plugin's own session; a stop written to the
mailbox on an older core ends any session, whoever started it.
Both methods answer a request id only when the plugin manager returned a
string, so a test that gives the plugin a `MagicMock()` plugin manager gets
`None` and exercises the mailbox path. To test the new path, set
`None`. To test the path where the display takes the request, set
`plugin_manager.request_on_demand.return_value = "some-id"`.
> The full source for `BasePlugin` lives in