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ChuckandClaude Opus 5 5137e86d16 feat(tools): MQTT bridge and Pixlet editor, ported onto the api_v3 split (#554)
* feat(tools): manage the MQTT bridge and Pixlet editor from the Tools tab

PR #544's change, ported onto the api_v3 package split (#553). Identical
behaviour; only the placement of the new code differs.

The original added 508 lines to web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py, which #553
deletes, so every hunk of it would conflict irreconcilably. Ported by AST:
26 new top-level items sorted to where the split puts each kind --

  __init__.py   2 imports, 11 constants, 7 helpers
  starlark.py   4 routes  (/starlark/editor/{apps,status,start,stop})
  misc.py       2 routes  (/integrations/mqtt-bridge{,/config})

Everything outside api_v3.py -- the Tools partial, the installer scripts, the
JS tests -- applied unchanged.

Routes: 111 from the split plus these 6 = 117, and the url-map snapshot is
regenerated to match, which is exactly what test_api_v3_url_map.py is designed
to make you do when routes are added.

Full Python suite: 4,278 passed, 68 skipped, 0 failed. The JS tests this PR
ships could not be run here -- node is not installed on this machine -- so
test/js/dom/test_tools_sections.js is unverified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014RRtqXDCnvnY6EQwhT5CV9

* fix(starlark): don't crash the pixlet editor's start/stop routes, and honor an operator-set PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST

The AST-based port of #544 onto the api_v3 package split dropped `time`
from starlark.py's import list. start_pixlet_editor() and
stop_pixlet_editor() both call time.time()/time.sleep() directly, so
every start (NameError building `state['started_at']`) and every stop
that has to wait out the EXIT trap crashed with a 500. No test caught
it because the route's own tests mock subprocess.Popen but never
actually invoked it before now.

Also carries over #544's later fix that this port branched before:
env['PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST'] = '0.0.0.0' unconditionally overrode an
operator who had already pinned PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST to loopback,
forcing the unauthenticated `pixlet serve` process onto the LAN
regardless (CodeQL CWE-1188). Switched to env.setdefault(...), same as
api_v3.starlark.py's siblings already do for _pkg-owned names.

Both fixes route the shared _pkg.time reference the rest of the
package's route modules already use for anything a test might need to
patch, rather than a bare `import time` local to this file.

Ported the existing regression test from #544
(TestPixletEditorHostDefaultsButDoesNotOverride) onto this branch's
module layout (web_interface.blueprints.api_v3.starlark instead of the
old monolithic api_v3 module), which is what caught the NameError.

Full suite: 4330 passed, 62 skipped, 2 failed -- identical on this
branch and on origin/main (missing tzdata package breaks two
timezone-alias tests in test_onboarding_checklist.py, unrelated to
this change).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(api-v3): clear the six lint errors this rebase introduced

All six were introduced by rebasing this branch onto the merged blueprint
split, not by the split itself. Confirmed by diffing pyflakes output against
main with line numbers normalised -- everything else it reports is present on
main too and is the package's deliberate re-export pattern.

starlark.py used _STARLARK_APPS_DIR three times without importing it (F821).
The rebase resolved an import-list conflict as a union of both sides, and that
symbol was on neither side of the conflict hunk, so it was silently lost. It is
defined in __init__.py and is now imported like its neighbours. This was the
only one of the six that would fail at runtime rather than merely lint.

__init__.py imported contextlib twice (F811): the cherry-pick added one next to
the existing import. Removed the duplicate; the original at line 19 is used.

__init__.py imported signal purely to re-export it to starlark.py, so pyflakes
saw it as unused (F401). signal is stdlib and does not need routing through the
blueprint package, so starlark.py imports it directly and __init__.py no longer
does. contextlib stays re-exported because this module genuinely uses it.

_read_mqtt_bridge_config()'s local `config` shadowed the `config` submodule
this module imports at the bottom for its route side effects (F811). Renamed to
`settings`, with a comment saying why, since the name is otherwise the obvious
one to reach for.

Verified: pyflakes now reports nothing on this branch that main does not, the
package imports, all nine route modules load, and 117 routes register, matching
the pinned URL-map snapshot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(api-v3): reject MQTT bridge bodies the endpoint cannot apply

Two CodeRabbit findings on the bridge settings endpoint, both of which returned
200 while doing something other than what the caller asked.

`request.get_json(silent=True) or {}` turned a missing or unparseable body --
and the JSON literals null, [] and false -- into an empty dict, which then
satisfied the isinstance(data, dict) guard on the very next line. The guard was
there to reject exactly those bodies. Dropping the `or {}` lets None fail it.

The same `or {}` on /errors/clear is left alone: its docstring documents the
body as optional, so an absent body legitimately means "use the defaults". The
difference is that saving settings has nothing sensible to do with no body.

`if data.get('clear_password'):` accepted any truthy value, and the string
"false" is truthy in Python -- so a client echoing the field back as a string
wiped a password it meant to keep. Now coerced through the package's existing
_coerce_to_bool, which already maps 'true'/'on'/'1'/'yes' and nothing else.

test_mqtt_bridge_config_endpoint.py covers both: five unusable body shapes plus
a missing body, and clear_password across truthy and falsy spellings. Verified
against the unfixed code -- reverting the body guard fails 5, reverting the
coercion fails 3.

Not changed here: CodeRabbit also asks this endpoint to reject MQTT credentials
when TLS is off (CWE-319). That is a policy decision about the feature rather
than a defect -- unencrypted MQTT on a trusted LAN is common and often
deliberate -- so it is raised on the PR for a maintainer call instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: work through the remaining review findings on the editor and bridge

allow_insecure_mqtt (CWE-319, requested): a password with TLS disabled crosses
the network in cleartext. Refused now rather than merely warned about -- but
refused, not forbidden, because unencrypted MQTT on a trusted LAN is a normal
deliberate setup. allow_insecure_mqtt is the explicit acknowledgement, defaults
false, and is coerced like the other booleans so the string "false" cannot
switch the guard off.

starlark.py:796 -- the supported service runs Flask threaded, so two start
requests could each see running=False, each launch an editor, and the second
state write replace the first PID, orphaning a process that holds the display
down with nothing recording it. The check-launch-write sequence now takes a
module-level lock.

starlark.py:848 -- if the state write failed the route returned success with an
editor running and no PID recorded: status and stop both reported no session
while the display stayed down until the timeout expired. It now terminates the
process group and returns an error.

starlark.py:890 -- SIGKILL gives the script's EXIT trap no chance to run, so
nothing hands the display back, yet the response said "the display is
restarting". After an escalation the display is now restarted explicitly, and a
failure to do so returns an error naming the manual step instead of a success.

pixlet_config_editor.sh:184 -- find_pixlet supports Darwin but macOS ships no
timeout(1); GNU coreutils installs it as gtimeout. Resolved up front so the
failure lands before the display is stopped rather than after.

pixlet_config_editor.sh:154 -- wildcard, loopback and an explicit interface
address are three cases, not two. Collapsing the last two printed a URL saying
"localhost" whenever PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST named a LAN address.

tools.html:1254 -- escHtml does not encode single quotes, and the app id was
interpolated into an inline onclick="startPixletEditor('...')", so a directory
containing an apostrophe could break out of the JS string and run script. The
handler binds with addEventListener and reads the id from dataset, where it is
only ever parsed as an HTML attribute.

Tests: test_mqtt_bridge_config_endpoint.py grows to 23 cases covering the opt-in
in both directions. The tools DOM suite gains three guards asserting the edit
buttons carry no inline onclick and pass the id via dataset -- those need jsdom
and did not run here, so CI verifies them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(api-v3): log the traceback on the editor state-write failure

The 848 fix answers 500 when the session state cannot be written, and logged
that at error level -- but without exc_info, so the traceback never reached the
log. test_web_error_detail.py guards exactly this: a handler returning 5xx must
write an error-level record *with* the traceback and return the sanitized
detail, because checking that merely something was logged is too weak.

Caught by Core unit tests on the previous commit, not locally: the guard parses
every module under web_interface/blueprints/api_v3 as one source, so it only
fires once the whole package is read together.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-11 11:32:12 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 e23f1f45d3 feat(starlark,on-demand): the third-party fixes worth taking, plus a Home Assistant MQTT bridge (#538)
* feat(starlark,on-demand): the third-party fixes worth taking, plus an MQTT bridge

Analysis of ant456/ledmatrix-fixes-repo, a third-party collection of
patches and services built while running this project on Starlark apps
under MQTT control. Its patches are whole-file copies taken against an
older tree, so applying them as written would revert #523's frame
pacing, #534's display() bool returns and the GitHub token masking in
plugins_manager.js. Three of its claimed fixes are already in main, and
its api_v3 Starlark routes are #535's. What follows is the rest --
verified against current code, and reimplemented where the patch's
approach did not hold up.

**On-demand display.** `pinned` reached the controller from the API, was
stored on it and republished in the status payload, but never narrowed
the rotation -- a pinned request still cycled every mode its plugin
owns. Right for a sports plugin, whose modes are views of one subject;
wrong for a plugin whose modes are unrelated, which is every Starlark
app. Now honoured, and it survives a restart.

Restarting while on-demand was active loaded *only* the on-demand
plugin, so normal rotation had nothing to return to for the life of the
process -- and a restart mid-session is routine, since that is how an
update is applied. The panel came back cycling one plugin's modes with
no way out but clearing the cache by hand. Every enabled plugin loads
now; on-demand still resumes on its saved mode.

Stop requests are exempt from the duplicate guards on purpose, so that a
second click stops a mode a race left running -- which means consuming
the mailbox is the only thing that ends one. It was never consumed, so
the same stop was re-read and re-processed on every poll, forever. Both
paths now share one compare-before-delete helper.

**Starlark rendering.** `extract_schema` parsed the source with a regex,
which can only see option lists written out literally: an app whose
dropdown is filled from a live API call inside `get_schema()` came back
empty, and the config form offered nothing to pick. Now runs `pixlet
schema`, which executes the app, and falls back to the parser when
Pixlet is absent, too old for the subcommand, or the app fails to run.
The third-party patch replaced the parser outright and hardcoded
/usr/local/bin/pixlet; this keeps the fallback and the binary search.

A `|` in a config value was dropped by a shell-metacharacter filter,
though the command is a list with no shell involved -- and apps do use
it as a separator inside one value. The key went missing silently and
the app rendered its own "not configured" screen with nothing to say
why. And a 0-byte render was reported as success: Pixlet exits 0 and
writes nothing when an app has no content, which read downstream as a
working app drawing a black panel.

**Starlark display.** `display()` ignored the mode it was called with,
so a specific app could not be addressed. It now accepts `display_mode`
-- which is the whole mechanism, since the controller inspects the
signature before passing it. Found while there: `_select_next_app` ran
only while `current_app` was unset, so with several apps installed the
first was picked once and shown forever while the rest were rendered on
schedule and never displayed. And `enable_scrolling` was missing, so
multi-frame apps were called once per rotation slot and never advanced
past frame one.

**GET /api/v3/display/modes.** Every mode that can be requested
on-demand, with the plugin that owns it. Nothing exposed this, so
anything driving the display from outside the web UI read each plugin's
manifest.json off disk and reimplemented PluginManager's fallbacks. It
also triggers discovery, which is otherwise lazy and normally happens
because a person opened the dashboard.

**integrations/mqtt_bridge.** Home Assistant control over MQTT
Discovery: a mode select, a stop button, power, brightness. Rewritten
against the API rather than the filesystem, so it needs no read access
to config.json and cannot drift from the web UI. paho-mqtt 2.x
VERSION2, TLS, an availability topic that is also the last will, and
secrets from the environment.

**Two opt-in extras.** A DNS single-request unit, for glibc's parallel
A/AAAA lookup stalling ~5s per name on routers that answer only the A
query -- which makes any plugin calling an external API slow and
Starlark apps, which have a render timeout, fail outright. And a Pixlet
config editor: a script you run and Ctrl+C rather than the third-party
version's always-on unauthenticated Flask service, since it stops the
display for the length of a session. Neither is installed by default.

Long Starlark app names now wrap instead of overflowing their card.

115 new tests across 5 files. Also unblocked
test_starlark_display_contract.py, which was silently skipping wherever
fcntl is absent. Whole suite: no new failures against main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(mqtt_bridge): the five issues Codacy flagged on this branch

All in the new bridge, all real:

  * requests floor was 2.31.0, which carries CVE-2024-35195,
    CVE-2024-47081 and CVE-2026-25645. Raised to >=2.33.0,<3.0.0, which
    is what the project's own requirements.txt already pins.
  * `import time` was never used.
  * `"mqtt_password": None` in DEFAULTS read as a hardcoded credential.
    It is the "no password configured" default; marked nosec B105, the
    convention used elsewhere in the repo.

Also dropped an unused `build_app` from the display-modes test imports.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: the review findings on this PR

Nine of CodeRabbit's ten, plus the CodeQL alert. The tenth is wrong and
is answered below.

**One bad config section blanked the whole mode list.**
`/display/modes` read `full_config.get(plugin_id, {}).get('enabled')`,
so a non-dict under a plugin id -- a shape DisplayController already
guards, so it happens -- raised AttributeError mid-loop and answered 500
with no modes at all. Every MQTT bridge entity is built from that list.
Now skipped with a warning.

**The DNS scripts reported success they had not earned.** Three separate
paths: `resolvconf -u` failing was swallowed by `|| true`; the
systemd-resolved branch exited 0 without applying anything, so the
oneshot unit recorded success while the workaround was inactive; and the
installer's `|| echo` turned a failed start into "installation
complete." with exit 0. All three now fail loudly. `single-request` is a
glibc resolv.conf option with no resolved.conf equivalent, so on those
hosts the honest answer is that it cannot be applied.

A NetworkManager-generated resolv.conf is regenerated on connection
changes, not only at boot, and the unit is oneshot with RemainAfterExit
-- so the option can vanish mid-boot with nothing to put it back. Now
detected and stated plainly rather than implied to be permanent.

**`Before=` does not order a manual restart.** It only orders units
already in the same transaction, so `systemctl restart ledmatrix` could
bypass the fix. install_dns_fix.sh now writes a ledmatrix.service
drop-in with Wants= and After=. Wants=, not Requires=: a DNS workaround
failing should not stop the display.

**The Pixlet editor's `--lan` is gone.** `pixlet serve` has no
authentication, and a printed warning is not access control. Loopback
only, with the SSH port-forward in the header where the flag used to be
documented -- SSH does the authenticating and nothing is left listening.

**The MQTT example config now defaults to TLS** on 8883. The installer
copies it verbatim, and without TLS the broker password and every
command cross the network in cleartext. A plaintext broker is still
supported and documented, and the bridge warns once at startup when a
password is configured without TLS.

**Not taken: "the upstream Pixlet CLI has no `schema` subcommand."**
Upstream tidbyt/pixlet has none, but `scripts/download_pixlet.sh`
installs `tronbyt/pixlet`, whose `cmd/schema.go` is
`schema [PATH]` -> JSON on stdout, built on
`runtime.NewAppletFromPath`, so it does execute `get_schema()`. That is
exactly what extract_schema_via_pixlet calls. A binary without the
subcommand exits non-zero and falls back to the source parser, which is
already covered by a test.

**CodeQL stack-trace exposure: not taken either.** I removed `details`
first and that broke
test_web_error_detail.py::test_no_api_v3_handler_discards_its_exception,
which enforces `describe_exception` across all ~75 handlers -- written
because a device with failing storage answered "see logs for details"
from the log viewer itself. describe_exception redacts credentials; the
trade-off is the project's and is already made. Restored, with the
reasoning in a comment.

11 new tests. Whole suite: no new failures against main, 4127 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-08 08:34:52 -04:00