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ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 05deb1ee7d feat(install): support Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm (Python 3.11) alongside Trixie (3.13) (#689)
The installer and scripts/check_system_compatibility.sh share one set of OS rules (scripts/install/lib_os.sh): Bookworm (Debian 12, Python 3.11) and Trixie (Debian 13, Python 3.13) are supported, python3 older than 3.11 stops the install before anything changes, and dhcpcd gets a warning with directions. setcap targets /usr/bin/python3, the apt fallback honours the requirement floors, and the desktop check no longer misreads under pipefail. CI runs the unit and plugin-safety suites on 3.11 and 3.13 (tooling jobs on 3.13); mypy targets 3.11.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 13:35:13 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 f841fa36b6 feat(install): updates refresh systemd units; new installs run the newest release (#729)
Updates that move HEAD now install changed systemd units through a root-owned helper (/usr/local/sbin/ledmatrix-refresh-units, two literal sudo lines), with a backup restored on rollback; a refresh that fails part-way puts the old units back. Devices without the new sudo rule keep updating and are told to re-run the installer once. The one-shot installer now checks out the newest vX.Y.Z release (LEDMATRIX_CHANNEL=beta keeps main) and never moves an existing checkout backwards.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 13:09:53 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 515248b34e feat(ipc): control socket stage 3 - a state stream replaces polled cache keys (#735)
Adds state.get / state.subscribe to the display's control socket (StateHub in src/ipc/server.py). The web interface holds one subscription per process (web_interface/display_state.py) and reads current-status, on-demand status, plugin runtime and /health's display_loop from it, falling back to the cache keys and heartbeat file. While the socket serves readers, display_current_state and plugin_runtime_snapshot are written less often (about 1.5 instead of 5 cache writes a minute for 15 s screens).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 12:56:47 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 6bf7c3fa51 perf(layout): id-keyed fit_image cache entries no longer pin the source (#732)
LayoutContext.fit_image keyed images without a cache_key by id() and held
a strong reference to the source so the id could not be recycled. A
plugin following the documented one-liner -- draw_image(Image.open(path),
box) each frame -- never hit that cache and kept the last 64 sources
alive: ~64MB for 500x500 RGBA team logos (median size under
assets/sports), up to ~600MB for the largest.

The entry now holds a weak reference whose callback drops it when the
source is freed, and a hit re-checks that the referent is the same
image. Sources that cannot be weak-referenced are still pinned. Keyed
entries (the only kind any plugin on ledmatrix-plugins main uses today:
football-scoreboard's logo fit) are unchanged.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 12:11:27 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 76ad71d1c5 fix(frame-timing): keep the GC monitor quiet at interpreter shutdown (#734)
A collection during interpreter shutdown called GcMonitor after the
module's `time` global was torn down, printing "Exception ignored while
calling GC callback ... 'NoneType' object has no attribute
'perf_counter'" at the end of service and test runs.

- GcMonitor binds its clock and sys.is_finalizing at construction and
  does nothing once the interpreter is finalizing.
- install_gc_monitor() unregisters it with atexit; new
  uninstall_gc_monitor().
- DisplayManager.cleanup() (reached from SIGTERM via run()'s finally)
  unregisters it alongside the frame recorder.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 11:51:06 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 a5ec645d25 refactor(display): run() stage 2 - an Arbiter decides the scheduled-off blank, follower and WiFi notice, no behaviour change (#733)
run() stage 2: a pure Arbiter.decide() (src/display_arbiter.py) chooses scheduled-off, follower and WiFi notices; everything else takes the existing path. Golden traces byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 22:30:52 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 084697346b feat(fetch): one ESPN scoreboard cache key and a max-age response cache (fetch service stage 2) (#728)
Fetch service stage 2: one ESPN scoreboard cache key shared across the sports base classes (legacy keys still read), and a max-age response cache in the fetch service.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 18:15:28 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 a7b3f33952 feat(web): Rotation, Operation History, Config Editor and Backup & Restore become ES-module pages (stage 2) (#727)
Rotation, Operation History, Config Editor and Backup & Restore become ES-module pages (stage 2): no inline scripts or onclick in the four partials, delegated data-action listeners, reads cancelled on swap-out, old globals kept as deprecated aliases through window.LEDMatrix, and four new DOM suites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 18:02:03 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 c14002edc3 fix(status): runtime status agrees with the heartbeat; current-status republishes on wake (#726)
The runtime status snapshot now agrees with the display heartbeat, and current-status is republished when the display wakes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 17:47:02 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 8136a2d525 fix(ipc): a plugin reload no longer freezes the panel during Vegas (#723)
A plugin.reload no longer freezes the panel during Vegas: the old instance is torn down and the new one loaded off the render thread (frame gap 3017 ms -> 9 ms in the ledpi reproduction). A failed or timed-out teardown stops the reload with a restart hint instead of loading over stale modules or tearing down an instance still in use.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 13:42:23 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 5aa7a63127 feat(timing): time garbage-collection pauses in the frame stats (#722)
A GcMonitor in src/common/frame_timing.py, installed once per process from gc.callbacks by the display manager (and render_bench), counts collections and seconds per generation, the longest, and those of 20 ms or more. A long one tags the next presented frame 'gc' in record(), so frame_soak shows its late rate under 'after work'; the stats file gains an additive 'gc' block printed as a 'Garbage collection' line; and a Render stall dump says when a long collection ran inside the stall. Diagnostic only: nothing tunes, freezes or disables the collector.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 21:29:08 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 85be4bf25d fix(display): end the scroll before the schedule-off blank and WiFi notice (#721)
The schedule-off blank and the WiFi notice are drawn by the display controller, not dispatched to a plugin, so #716's handover never reached them. Drawn while the last scroll's state was still set, the blank went out with the ticker's lagging rows on a scan-compensated panel and stayed up for its 60 s dwell, and the notice's redraws (which #712 now shows over a running scroller or Vegas) were timed as 0.5-1 s freezes and logged as a mid-scroll Render stall. The controller now calls set_scrolling_state(False) before drawing either; a scroller that resumes sets the state again on its next frame.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 20:46:01 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 0e78e06eb9 perf(sports): reuse an unchanged scroll strip at the start of a turn (#719)
A scoreboard in scroll mode no longer redraws every card at the start of a recent/upcoming turn whose games have not changed (~1.4 s for seven football cards at 192x48 on a Pi 4, with the render thread waiting). SportsScrollDisplayManager keeps one display per slate (game type + leagues; up to 4 per game type, at most 6 MB per plugin of strips not on screen) and rewinds the strip it built last time when its games, rankings, config, panel size and date are unchanged and it is under 10 minutes old. First turns, changed slates, live strips and empty turns are drawn as before; get_scroll_display() still answers with the strip on screen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 20:39:44 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 746dcfcadb feat(ipc): control socket stage 2 - wake the render thread, brightness.set, plugin.reload (#720)
Control socket stage 2: the render thread wakes for queued commands (static screens ~1 ms, Vegas within one frame), brightness.set, and plugin.reload after a store update, with mailbox/restart fallbacks. Rig checks listed in the PR body are still to run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 20:37:54 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 f72d69c2b0 perf(display): skip preview work nobody reads (lazy checksum, 1 Hz snapshot writer) (#717)
Mid-scroll, update_display() no longer checksums every frame: it asks is_currently_scrolling() once per frame and reuses the answer, hashes only when dirty tracking can skip a static frame, and the preview snapshot asks its policy first and hashes only when a write or touch could follow (decide() is monotone, pinned by a property test). With the preview open the snapshot is written at most once a second (VIEWER_INTERVAL 1.0 s, was 0.2 s; the SSE stream re-read it once a second, so four encodes in five went unread); the stream now polls its mtime every 0.25 s (VIEWER_POLL_INTERVAL), so the preview stays about as fresh. The PNG is written at compress_level=1. --preview soaks are not comparable across this change.

Merged with #716: _scan_segments takes the frame's one scrolling answer and #716's static-handover pass-through, as soaked on ledpi (A B B A, 20 min each: main 0.118% / 0.113% late, with #716 and this 0.107% / 0.104%).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 20:27:20 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 1ecf3aba03 fix(display): narrow the WiFi status before reading expires_at (#715)
Narrow the WiFi status before reading expires_at (mypy Optional index; behaviour unchanged).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 20:24:11 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 f5793e2134 perf(common): rasterize outlined text once instead of nine times (#718)
New draw_text_outlined(draw, xy, text, font, fill, outline_color=(0, 0, 0), offsets=OUTLINE_SQUARE) in src/common/text_helper.py, with OUTLINE_SQUARE and OUTLINE_CROSS. It rasterizes the string once and stamps the mask at each outline offset instead of one draw.text per offset: the same pixels as the nine-draw loop (an equivalence sweep across the bundled fonts, image and font modes, colours and positions pins it, on Windows and Linux), about 8x faster per outlined string. Fractional coordinates, multiline text, fonts other than a plain FreeTypeFont, other image modes and a replaced draw.text take the old loop. SportsCoreSharedMixin._draw_text_with_outline and TextHelper.draw_text_with_outline draw through it; the scoreboards' own game_renderer loops adopt it in a ledmatrix-plugins change after a core release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 20:19:30 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 34be83d595 fix(display): end the scroll state at scroller-to-static handovers (#716)
A static plugin screen that follows a scroller no longer starts with the ticker's lagging rows on scan-compensated panels, and the 1 Hz loop's second frame is no longer recorded as a ~1 s mid-scroll freeze / Render stall. The display controller calls DisplayManager.end_scroll_for_static_screen() before a static screen's first display() (clears the scan history; _scan_segments passes its frames through in one swap) and set_scrolling_state(False) after it; the scroller's hold stays until then, so late-frame counts are unchanged. A screen's first frame is tagged 'handover': gaps of 250 ms or more before it go to the additive handover_freezes (frame_soak prints 'Handover gaps'), not freezes. The display thread is named display-<plugin id>. The WiFi notice and the schedule-off blank are not covered yet (docs list them as a follow-up).

ledpi A B B A soak (20 min each, --preview): main 0.118% / 0.113% late with 6 / 3 freezes; with this and #717 0.107% / 0.104% late, 0 freezes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 20:13:57 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 41db488c73 fix(display): schedule windows end at the end time; on-demand ending in off hours blanks at once (#714)
Schedule and dim windows are half-open [start, end): on from the start time, off at exactly the end time, whatever second the check runs. An on-demand session that ends in scheduled-off hours (expiry or stop) clears the once-a-minute schedule gate, so the panel blanks within about a second. Golden: schedule; two test_display_pending_changes.py tests now say end_time 23:00.

Merged with #712 and #713: with all three in, docs/RUN_LOOP_REDESIGN.md's 'may be wrong' list is empty, so that section now records that all six items are fixed and by which PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 16:10:04 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 77e0ea91ae fix(display): live games take over within a second, and straight from Vegas (#713)
A game that goes live takes over within about a second (_check_live_takeover in the frame loops and the dwell sleep, throttled to 1 s, never during on-demand, scheduled-off, live_in_ticker or an already-live screen); an interrupted Vegas iteration switches straight to the game; has_live_content() is asked once per plugin per scan. Goldens: live_priority, vegas.

Merged with #712: after an interrupted Vegas iteration the WiFi-notice check runs before the live switch (WiFi outranks live). Adds test/test_run_loop_wifi_and_live.py, pinning that a notice and a game arriving during the same screen (1 Hz, 125 Hz, Vegas) show the notice first, then the game, and neither while scheduled off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 15:59:14 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 6c6394a1a7 fix(display): a WiFi notice preempts the current screen and Vegas yields to it (#712)
A WiFi notice preempts the current screen within about a second (frame loops, post-loop check, make-up dwell), and an interrupted Vegas iteration that yielded for a notice ends the pass so the notice shows next. Goldens: wifi_notice, vegas. First of three run-loop fixes (#712, #713, #714), pre-tested together.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 15:51:00 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 4be53d048b feat(fetch): shared fetch service, stage 1 (pooling, merging, host budgets, counters) (#702)
Core's own HTTP fetch paths (APIHelper, fetch_espn_scoreboard and its date chunks, BackgroundDataService, BaseOddsManager.get_odds) go through one service in src/common/fetch_service.py: shared connection pools per retry policy, merged identical in-flight GETs, per-host token-bucket budgets (fetch_service.rate_limits), and per-plugin request counters published to GET /api/v3/plugins/fetch-stats. Return values, exceptions, cache keys, TTLs and retry policies are unchanged. Core-internal in this release; plugins should not import it directly yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 15:38:11 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 9edeb6da14 fix(display): a raising display() counts as a circuit-breaker failure (#707)
The first-frame dispatch (_dispatch_first_frame) now asks PluginExecutor.execute_display() to re-raise (raise_errors=True) and records a raise inside the executor as a breaker failure, with the original exception as last_error, instead of a success. The screen is still an empty pass and rotation is unchanged; a hung display() is still recorded once, as a hang. The run-loop golden trace plugin_error.json is regenerated (crashy now records health failures and is skipped by the breaker), and behaviour 7 is dropped from docs/RUN_LOOP_REDESIGN.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 14:51:38 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 a21650e746 refactor(display): run() stage 1 - golden traces and extracted helpers, no behaviour change (#704)
Adds golden trace tests for DisplayController.run() (test/test_run_loop_golden.py on a fake clock with fake plugins, 15 scenarios, fixtures in test/fixtures/run_loop_golden/) and moves twelve blocks of run() into named helpers (_dispatch_first_frame, _resolve_durations, _resolve_active_mode, _needs_high_fps, _advance_after_screen and others) with the traces identical before and after. docs/RUN_LOOP_REDESIGN.md describes the target structure. Hardware-checked on hdpi: Vegas late-frame rate unchanged in an ABBA A/B.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 14:41:43 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Sonnet 5.5 eb8128a981 feat(display): cancel the half-panel scan offset on slower, held-frame scrolls (#711)
Scan-order compensation only ran at one frame per refresh, so a crisp scroll
like 60 px/s on a 120 Hz panel (1px every 2 refreshes) showed a half-pixel
step across the middle of the panel. A held frame is now presented as a
sequence of swaps (scan_order.refresh_plan): the lagging half shows the
previous frame for its first refresh and the new one for the rest, so it
steps one refresh after the rest. Skipped when a blit takes over half a
refresh, since the second blit has to land before the next vsync.

Soaked on ledpi (60 px/s, 120 Hz): 0.16% late frames, as before the change.

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 14:32:24 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Sonnet 5.5 16b566e14f feat(scroll): show which scroll speeds are smooth on this panel (#710)
* feat(scroll): show which scroll speeds are smooth on this panel

The Vegas Scroll Speed slider now says what the panel will do with the
chosen speed and offers the nearest smooth ones to click. Backed by
scroll_config.speed_advice() and GET /api/v3/config/scroll-speed-advice,
which uses the refresh the display measured rather than the cap.

Also stops the default 50 px/s snapping to a stepped 48 px/s (2px every 5
refreshes, 24fps) on a 120Hz panel: the low-fps penalty in solve_crisp()
now loses to 60 or 40 px/s. 100Hz panels are unchanged.

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

* fix(scroll): hint threw before its timer variables existed; count 25-30fps as stepped

The Vegas speed hint called refreshScrollSpeedHint() before the let
declarations it uses, so it never rendered (found on ledpi). And the
solver's low-fps penalty stopped at 25fps, which let a measured 125.7Hz
panel keep a 25.1fps 2px-every-5-refreshes scroll.

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

* test: add the scroll-speed-advice route to the /api/v3 URL map snapshot

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 14:15:22 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 4ddc3a3620 chore: prepare the 3.8.0 release (#709)
* chore(deprecation): remove the 35 APIs deprecated for 3.8.0

The usage scan (docs/DEPRECATIONS_3.8.md, regenerated 2026-10-01 and
committed here) finds no call or override of any of them in the 46
monorepo plugins or the 8 third-party plugins plugins.json lists; the
only core callers were other deprecated methods removed alongside.

- CacheManager: 13 methods, plus the private helpers only
  has_data_changed used (_has_*_changed, _is_market_open).
- DisplayManager: 7 methods, plus WEATHER_COLORS and the private
  _draw_sun/_cloud/_rain/_snow/_storm helpers only the icon methods used.
- FontManager: 14 methods, plus size_tokens, _save_overrides and
  _clear_plugin_font_cache. font_overrides and _load_overrides stay:
  resolve_font() still applies config/font_overrides.json.
  performance_stats stays: get_font() keeps it and tests read it.
- PluginManager.get_enabled_plugins.

test_deprecation.py pins only the two 3.9.0 markers now; the scanner
tests run against a stand-in core instead of the real markers. The
memory-tier tests read stats through log_memory_cache_stats() and the
component, and the test of the removed _clear_plugin_font_cache goes.
Docs drop the removed methods' reference entries; the Deprecated APIs
table becomes "Removed in 3.8.0". CHANGELOG gains a Removed section.

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

* chore(deprecation): drop the test harness's copies of the removed icon methods

VisualTestDisplayManager still drew weather icons that DisplayManager no
longer has, so a plugin's visual tests could pass on calls that raise
AttributeError on the real display. Its draw_sun/draw_cloud/draw_rain/
draw_snow/draw_weather_icon/draw_text_with_icons, WEATHER_COLORS and the
private helpers go, with the tests that exercised them. The CHANGELOG's
Deprecations entries no longer say nothing is removed.

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

* chore: prepare the 3.8.0 release

Bumps src.__version__ to 3.8.0 and turns Unreleased into ## 3.8.0, with a
summary and a New modules list (vegas_elements, testing.vegas, sports_vegas;
display_watchdog, plugin_catalog, plugin_runtime) for plugins flooring on
3.8.0. Adds the CHANGELOG line #701's second commit lacked (blocks laid out
off the render thread).

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

* chore: 3.8.0 also ships what landed on main since the prep

#703, #705, #706 and #693 merged after this branch was cut; their CHANGELOG
entries now sit under 3.8.0. The summary and New modules list name them
(sports consolidation stage 4's four modules, src/ipc, field_model), stage
4's section says to floor on 3.8.0, and src/common/README.md marks its four
modules 3.8.0 instead of Unreleased.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
v3.8.0
2026-10-01 11:07:02 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 2601cb4cbb chore(deprecation): remove the 35 APIs deprecated for 3.8.0 (#708)
* chore(deprecation): remove the 35 APIs deprecated for 3.8.0

The usage scan (docs/DEPRECATIONS_3.8.md, regenerated 2026-10-01 and
committed here) finds no call or override of any of them in the 46
monorepo plugins or the 8 third-party plugins plugins.json lists; the
only core callers were other deprecated methods removed alongside.

- CacheManager: 13 methods, plus the private helpers only
  has_data_changed used (_has_*_changed, _is_market_open).
- DisplayManager: 7 methods, plus WEATHER_COLORS and the private
  _draw_sun/_cloud/_rain/_snow/_storm helpers only the icon methods used.
- FontManager: 14 methods, plus size_tokens, _save_overrides and
  _clear_plugin_font_cache. font_overrides and _load_overrides stay:
  resolve_font() still applies config/font_overrides.json.
  performance_stats stays: get_font() keeps it and tests read it.
- PluginManager.get_enabled_plugins.

test_deprecation.py pins only the two 3.9.0 markers now; the scanner
tests run against a stand-in core instead of the real markers. The
memory-tier tests read stats through log_memory_cache_stats() and the
component, and the test of the removed _clear_plugin_font_cache goes.
Docs drop the removed methods' reference entries; the Deprecated APIs
table becomes "Removed in 3.8.0". CHANGELOG gains a Removed section.

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

* chore(deprecation): drop the test harness's copies of the removed icon methods

VisualTestDisplayManager still drew weather icons that DisplayManager no
longer has, so a plugin's visual tests could pass on calls that raise
AttributeError on the real display. Its draw_sun/draw_cloud/draw_rain/
draw_snow/draw_weather_icon/draw_text_with_icons, WEATHER_COLORS and the
private helpers go, with the tests that exercised them. The CHANGELOG's
Deprecations entries no longer say nothing is removed.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 10:45:28 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 695ff92009 feat(ipc): display control socket, stage 1 - on-demand with acks (#706)
The display serves a control socket (/run/ledmatrix/control.sock) carrying versioned JSON commands, one per line, each answered. Stage 1 covers on-demand start, stop and status; commands are queued on the socket thread and applied on the render thread through the mailbox's own handler, and the web interface falls back to the file mailbox when the socket is unavailable. Protocol and security model: docs/IPC_CONTROL_SOCKET.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 10:33:02 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 74696d2108 fix(display): routine rotation log lines are DEBUG (30% fewer journal lines) (#693)
"Processing mode", "display() returned False" and "No content to display" repeated what "Switching to mode" already logs on every rotation; they are now DEBUG. On ledpi this cut the display's journal lines by about 30%; the measured SD-write saving is small (within noise).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 10:21:22 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 3ad0438e75 feat(common): sports consolidation stage 4 -- the identical sweep (plugin host, live scroll, display rules, font path) (#705)
Moves the code every scoreboard plugin carries identically into core: src.common.sports_plugin_host, sports_live_scroll, sports_display_rules and sports_font_path, with unit tests and a parity test against the ledmatrix-plugins copies (LEDMATRIX_PLUGINS).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 10:10:22 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 c6701ac00d feat(web): ES-module page lifecycle and one schema field model (stage 1) (#703)
Adds a native ES-module layer to the web UI (core/boot, registry, api, facade; window.LEDMatrix as the one global), a page lifecycle that the Cache tab is converted to as the reference, text/javascript serving and revalidation for unversioned module requests, and src/plugin_system/field_model.py with a parity test against the render_field macro. Also: the cache page toggles its grey 'Not configured' style instead of only adding it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 10:00:26 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 795834811f perf(scroll): extend and trim the Vegas strip in place (#701)
* perf(timing): say which render-thread work a late frame followed

The soak already says how often a moving frame reached the panel late, but
not what the render thread was doing just before it. Vegas does two kinds of
work there between frames -- building its strip (compose, extend) and, with
live elements, patching changed pixels into it -- and deciding whether either
is affordable needs their own numbers.

- FrameTimingRecorder.note_op(kind, nbytes) tags the next presented frame.
  Totals gain op_frames, late_op_frames, op_freezes and op_bytes per kind;
  aggregate() still takes frames without ops. The file schema is unchanged.
- Vegas tags compose and every strip extension (with the bytes it copied).
- frame_soak prints an "after work" table: frames, late %, freezes and MB
  moved per kind, only when something tagged its work.
- render_bench gains --strip-screens (Vegas-sized strips), --patch-bytes /
  --patch-every / --patch-where (in-place column writes, as a live element
  update does) and --extend-every-screens / --extend-width (append + trim on
  a fixed cadence that holds the strip's width).

No runtime behaviour changes: this is the measurement gate for live Vegas
elements.

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

* docs(changelog): note the frame-op attribution and bench modes

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

* perf(scroll): build the strip's PIL image only when something reads it

Every Vegas strip extension rebuilt ScrollHelper.cached_image from
cached_array in full, twice (append, then trim), on the render thread:
Image.fromarray is 1.7ms for an 8,000px strip and 3.8ms for 20,000px on a
Pi 4 (measured on ledpi), about two thirds of an extension's render-thread
cost. Nothing on the frame path reads the image's pixels; every frame is cut
from the array.

cached_image is now a property. append_content and drop_scrolled_prefix
defer it; the first read builds it from the array it started with and keeps
it only if the strip has not changed meanwhile, so a sync push racing an
extension cannot leave a stale image cached. Assigning cached_image stores
exactly what was assigned, as before. has_strip() says whether there is a
strip without building its image; the helper's frame path, Vegas and the
adapter's scroll-cache invalidation use it. The strip is also no longer held
in memory twice.

In Vegas the image is now built only by a multi-display sync push.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements -- a plugin API for content that changes while it scrolls

Vegas bakes each plugin's pictures into one strip, so a card already on its
way across the panel keeps what it showed when it was drawn. This adds the
API and bookkeeping for content that can be updated in place; the worker
that redraws and swaps it follows separately. No shipped plugin implements
the hook yet, so nothing changes for users.

Plugin API (core 3.8.0), all no-ops by default:
- BasePlugin.get_vegas_elements() -> [VegasElement(key, image, version,
  live, refresh_hz)]: named, fixed-width pieces of Vegas content.
- BasePlugin.redraw_vegas_element(key, width, height, at): a lock-free
  redraw for content that changes with time.
- BasePlugin.notify_vegas_data_changed(): data that lands outside update().
- src/plugin_system/vegas_elements.py (VegasElement, re-exported from
  base_plugin).

Core:
- PluginAdapter asks a plugin that implements the hook for elements on the
  background fetch only (under its lock, on its own canvas); every other
  path keeps get_vegas_content(). Live elements are pinned (padded with
  content_padding, never trimmed), tagged with their key, digest and data
  epoch in Image.info so the existing cache and group plumbing carry them
  unchanged, and untagged if a width budget crops them.
- RenderPipeline records where each live element lands (ElementRecord), in
  absolute strip columns a trim does not move; the block-start arithmetic
  is shared with the STATIC markers.
- PluginManager update listeners (add/remove_update_listener,
  notify_data_changed): told the moment update() completes, not at the
  next ~4s Vegas poll. The coordinator uses one to move each plugin's data
  epoch on.
- vegas_scroll.live_refresh (kill switch), live_max_hz, live_min_interval,
  live_lead_screens; per-plugin core-owned vegas_live. Live elements are
  off under multi-display sync, in swap mode and with offscreen_prefetch off.
- scripts/check_plugin.py checks the element contract
  (src/plugin_system/testing/vegas.py); test/fixtures/plugins/vegas-live-stub
  is a working example.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements update in place while they scroll

One background worker (src/vegas_mode/live_worker.py) redraws a plugin's
live elements when its data epoch moves on (update listener) or on their
refresh_hz, nearest the screen first, and hands changed pixels lock-free to
the render thread, which copies them into the strip between frames
(RenderPipeline.apply_live_patches, ScrollHelper.patch_columns): at most
four patches or two screens of bytes a frame, no drawing or locks there.
The worker takes over group prefetch once a live element is placed, runs
inside the render gate, and is supervised. Update tick 1s while live
elements exist. Web UI switch for live_refresh. OFFSCREEN_RENDERING.md
describes what was built and why SegmentStrip was not needed.

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

* feat(sports): live Vegas cards for the scoreboards (shared layer)

One live element per game, drawn only when what the card shows changes, so
a score changes on a card already crossing the panel. The shared part, so
each scoreboard adopts it in a few lines:

- src/common/sports_vegas.py: game_key, game_fingerprint (the whole game
  dict, frozen: no drawn field can be missed), dedupe_games, VegasCardCache,
  StickyOdds (odds a live poll left out stay drawn), finished_games /
  with_finished_games (a game that just went final keeps its card, after its
  league's live games; one a heuristic only judged over keeps its live
  state, so a tied end of regulation never shows FINAL early).
- SportsScrollDisplay.make_vegas_renderer() is the override point;
  build_vegas_elements() and SportsScrollDisplayManager
  .get_vegas_elements_for() do the rest. A card's version includes its
  teams' ranks, which the renderer draws from the rankings cache.
- SportsLiveSharedMixin._record_finished_game() / finished_games_snapshot():
  held for FINISHED_GAME_TTL after it leaves the live list.

A sport that does not implement make_vegas_renderer keeps its ordinary Vegas
content, so no scoreboard changes until it opts in.

scripts/render_plugin.py --vegas renders a plugin's Vegas block as the
ticker lays it out, and --timeline stacks it at successive moments as
the ticker would update it in place; the join is now
render_pipeline.join_plugin_rows().

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

* feat(vegas): keep live games in the ticker by default

display.vegas_scroll.live_in_ticker now defaults to true: through a live
game the marquee keeps running and the live scoreboard takes extra turns in
it -- its cards updating in place while they scroll -- instead of the ticker
giving way to the full-screen scoreboard.

The new default would reach nobody on its own: every existing config holds
an explicit false copied from the template (there was no control for it),
and the template merge only adds missing keys. ConfigManager therefore turns
a stored false on once, with a backup, and records live_in_ticker_migrated
so a false chosen afterwards stays. The marker is never in the template.

A "Keep live games in the ticker" checkbox under Vegas mode sets it. Tests
that pin the full-screen takeover now say live_in_ticker=false.

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

* feat(dev): preview a plugin's Vegas strip in the dev server

The dev server's View selector gains "Vegas strip (live elements)" and
"Vegas strip (plain Vegas content)": the plugin's block of the Vegas ticker,
laid out by the ticker's own code (render_vegas_strip, as render_plugin.py
--vegas uses), with its live elements listed. /api/render takes
"vegas": "live" | "plain"; the display view is unchanged.

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

* perf(scroll): extend and trim the Vegas strip in place

Every strip extension rebuilt the whole strip (np.concatenate: 2-2.6 ms for
a 10-14k px strip at 512x64 on a Pi 4) and every trim copied what was left
(1.2-1.8 ms), on the render thread. With ~4 ms of slack per refresh, every
extension frame on hdpi missed its refresh (5/5 in each soak run).

The strip now lives in a buffer with spare room; cached_array is a view of
its live columns. An append writes only the new columns (~0.2 ms), a trim
only moves the view's start, and the one full copy happens when the buffer
is reallocated (STRIP_SPARE_FACTOR 3: about once every two strip-lengths
scrolled). A cached_array set from outside -- the multi-display follower's
read-only one, create_scrolling_image's -- is never written through, and a
new strip lets the old buffer go. last_copy_bytes says what was copied, and
the Vegas frame-timing attribution reports that instead of the whole strip.

test_scroll_helper_in_place.py: the buffer is reused and only new columns
copied, trims copy nothing, reallocation when the room runs out, outside
arrays untouched, and random appends/trims/patches/scrolling checked frame
by frame against the old copying strip (mutation-checked).

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

* refactor(sports): a default _determine_game_type on SportsScrollDisplay

render_vegas_card looked the method up with getattr and a None default, which
static analysis (Codacy) reports as calling something that may not be
callable. The base class now has the default -- the card type from the game's
state -- and the plugins that define their own override it as before.

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

* refactor(scroll): no assert in _extended_strip

An assert vanishes under python -O (Codacy); a real check says the same.

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

* fix: review follow-ups on the shared live-card layer

- The reused Vegas renderer always gets the current rankings, empty
  included, so ranks cleared since are not kept drawn.
- render_plugin.py: --timeline refuses --no-live (a timeline shows live
  elements changing), --timeline/--no-live need --vegas, and the Vegas
  paths create the output's directory like the display path does.

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

* perf(vegas): lay a group's blocks out before the extension, off the render thread

#701 cut the strip copy, but the frame after an extension was still late:
the render thread also joined each plugin's rows (separation_gap measures
every pair) and pasted the blocks into an addition image, ~37 ms on hdpi
(Pi 4, 512x64) against ~3.75 ms of slack.

The thread that fetched the group now does that as each member arrives:
RenderPipeline.prepare_group_member joins the rows and turns the block into
pixels (the prefetch thread and the live worker, under the render gate).
extend_scroll_content takes those blocks, and ScrollHelper.append_content
writes items -- images or RGB arrays -- straight into the strip's spare room,
blanking only the gaps. A member that was not prepared (an inline fetch) is
joined at the extension as before; the strip is identical either way.

On hdpi the extension's render-thread work goes from 37.5 ms to 3.2 ms p50
in place (6.9 ms when the buffer is reallocated). The helper's per-append
INFO line, a duplicate of the pipeline's, is now DEBUG.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 09:48:47 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 dfd67c7c8b feat(dev): preview a plugin's Vegas strip in the dev server (#700)
* perf(timing): say which render-thread work a late frame followed

The soak already says how often a moving frame reached the panel late, but
not what the render thread was doing just before it. Vegas does two kinds of
work there between frames -- building its strip (compose, extend) and, with
live elements, patching changed pixels into it -- and deciding whether either
is affordable needs their own numbers.

- FrameTimingRecorder.note_op(kind, nbytes) tags the next presented frame.
  Totals gain op_frames, late_op_frames, op_freezes and op_bytes per kind;
  aggregate() still takes frames without ops. The file schema is unchanged.
- Vegas tags compose and every strip extension (with the bytes it copied).
- frame_soak prints an "after work" table: frames, late %, freezes and MB
  moved per kind, only when something tagged its work.
- render_bench gains --strip-screens (Vegas-sized strips), --patch-bytes /
  --patch-every / --patch-where (in-place column writes, as a live element
  update does) and --extend-every-screens / --extend-width (append + trim on
  a fixed cadence that holds the strip's width).

No runtime behaviour changes: this is the measurement gate for live Vegas
elements.

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

* docs(changelog): note the frame-op attribution and bench modes

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

* perf(scroll): build the strip's PIL image only when something reads it

Every Vegas strip extension rebuilt ScrollHelper.cached_image from
cached_array in full, twice (append, then trim), on the render thread:
Image.fromarray is 1.7ms for an 8,000px strip and 3.8ms for 20,000px on a
Pi 4 (measured on ledpi), about two thirds of an extension's render-thread
cost. Nothing on the frame path reads the image's pixels; every frame is cut
from the array.

cached_image is now a property. append_content and drop_scrolled_prefix
defer it; the first read builds it from the array it started with and keeps
it only if the strip has not changed meanwhile, so a sync push racing an
extension cannot leave a stale image cached. Assigning cached_image stores
exactly what was assigned, as before. has_strip() says whether there is a
strip without building its image; the helper's frame path, Vegas and the
adapter's scroll-cache invalidation use it. The strip is also no longer held
in memory twice.

In Vegas the image is now built only by a multi-display sync push.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements -- a plugin API for content that changes while it scrolls

Vegas bakes each plugin's pictures into one strip, so a card already on its
way across the panel keeps what it showed when it was drawn. This adds the
API and bookkeeping for content that can be updated in place; the worker
that redraws and swaps it follows separately. No shipped plugin implements
the hook yet, so nothing changes for users.

Plugin API (core 3.8.0), all no-ops by default:
- BasePlugin.get_vegas_elements() -> [VegasElement(key, image, version,
  live, refresh_hz)]: named, fixed-width pieces of Vegas content.
- BasePlugin.redraw_vegas_element(key, width, height, at): a lock-free
  redraw for content that changes with time.
- BasePlugin.notify_vegas_data_changed(): data that lands outside update().
- src/plugin_system/vegas_elements.py (VegasElement, re-exported from
  base_plugin).

Core:
- PluginAdapter asks a plugin that implements the hook for elements on the
  background fetch only (under its lock, on its own canvas); every other
  path keeps get_vegas_content(). Live elements are pinned (padded with
  content_padding, never trimmed), tagged with their key, digest and data
  epoch in Image.info so the existing cache and group plumbing carry them
  unchanged, and untagged if a width budget crops them.
- RenderPipeline records where each live element lands (ElementRecord), in
  absolute strip columns a trim does not move; the block-start arithmetic
  is shared with the STATIC markers.
- PluginManager update listeners (add/remove_update_listener,
  notify_data_changed): told the moment update() completes, not at the
  next ~4s Vegas poll. The coordinator uses one to move each plugin's data
  epoch on.
- vegas_scroll.live_refresh (kill switch), live_max_hz, live_min_interval,
  live_lead_screens; per-plugin core-owned vegas_live. Live elements are
  off under multi-display sync, in swap mode and with offscreen_prefetch off.
- scripts/check_plugin.py checks the element contract
  (src/plugin_system/testing/vegas.py); test/fixtures/plugins/vegas-live-stub
  is a working example.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements update in place while they scroll

One background worker (src/vegas_mode/live_worker.py) redraws a plugin's
live elements when its data epoch moves on (update listener) or on their
refresh_hz, nearest the screen first, and hands changed pixels lock-free to
the render thread, which copies them into the strip between frames
(RenderPipeline.apply_live_patches, ScrollHelper.patch_columns): at most
four patches or two screens of bytes a frame, no drawing or locks there.
The worker takes over group prefetch once a live element is placed, runs
inside the render gate, and is supervised. Update tick 1s while live
elements exist. Web UI switch for live_refresh. OFFSCREEN_RENDERING.md
describes what was built and why SegmentStrip was not needed.

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

* feat(sports): live Vegas cards for the scoreboards (shared layer)

One live element per game, drawn only when what the card shows changes, so
a score changes on a card already crossing the panel. The shared part, so
each scoreboard adopts it in a few lines:

- src/common/sports_vegas.py: game_key, game_fingerprint (the whole game
  dict, frozen: no drawn field can be missed), dedupe_games, VegasCardCache,
  StickyOdds (odds a live poll left out stay drawn), finished_games /
  with_finished_games (a game that just went final keeps its card, after its
  league's live games; one a heuristic only judged over keeps its live
  state, so a tied end of regulation never shows FINAL early).
- SportsScrollDisplay.make_vegas_renderer() is the override point;
  build_vegas_elements() and SportsScrollDisplayManager
  .get_vegas_elements_for() do the rest. A card's version includes its
  teams' ranks, which the renderer draws from the rankings cache.
- SportsLiveSharedMixin._record_finished_game() / finished_games_snapshot():
  held for FINISHED_GAME_TTL after it leaves the live list.

A sport that does not implement make_vegas_renderer keeps its ordinary Vegas
content, so no scoreboard changes until it opts in.

scripts/render_plugin.py --vegas renders a plugin's Vegas block as the
ticker lays it out, and --timeline stacks it at successive moments as
the ticker would update it in place; the join is now
render_pipeline.join_plugin_rows().

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

* feat(vegas): keep live games in the ticker by default

display.vegas_scroll.live_in_ticker now defaults to true: through a live
game the marquee keeps running and the live scoreboard takes extra turns in
it -- its cards updating in place while they scroll -- instead of the ticker
giving way to the full-screen scoreboard.

The new default would reach nobody on its own: every existing config holds
an explicit false copied from the template (there was no control for it),
and the template merge only adds missing keys. ConfigManager therefore turns
a stored false on once, with a backup, and records live_in_ticker_migrated
so a false chosen afterwards stays. The marker is never in the template.

A "Keep live games in the ticker" checkbox under Vegas mode sets it. Tests
that pin the full-screen takeover now say live_in_ticker=false.

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

* feat(dev): preview a plugin's Vegas strip in the dev server

The dev server's View selector gains "Vegas strip (live elements)" and
"Vegas strip (plain Vegas content)": the plugin's block of the Vegas ticker,
laid out by the ticker's own code (render_vegas_strip, as render_plugin.py
--vegas uses), with its live elements listed. /api/render takes
"vegas": "live" | "plain"; the display view is unchanged.

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

* refactor(sports): a default _determine_game_type on SportsScrollDisplay

render_vegas_card looked the method up with getattr and a None default, which
static analysis (Codacy) reports as calling something that may not be
callable. The base class now has the default -- the card type from the game's
state -- and the plugins that define their own override it as before.

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

* fix: review follow-ups on the shared live-card layer

- The reused Vegas renderer always gets the current rankings, empty
  included, so ranks cleared since are not kept drawn.
- render_plugin.py: --timeline refuses --no-live (a timeline shows live
  elements changing), --timeline/--no-live need --vegas, and the Vegas
  paths create the output's directory like the display path does.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 08:37:15 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 7f06cc9c3b feat(vegas): keep live games in the ticker by default (#699)
* perf(timing): say which render-thread work a late frame followed

The soak already says how often a moving frame reached the panel late, but
not what the render thread was doing just before it. Vegas does two kinds of
work there between frames -- building its strip (compose, extend) and, with
live elements, patching changed pixels into it -- and deciding whether either
is affordable needs their own numbers.

- FrameTimingRecorder.note_op(kind, nbytes) tags the next presented frame.
  Totals gain op_frames, late_op_frames, op_freezes and op_bytes per kind;
  aggregate() still takes frames without ops. The file schema is unchanged.
- Vegas tags compose and every strip extension (with the bytes it copied).
- frame_soak prints an "after work" table: frames, late %, freezes and MB
  moved per kind, only when something tagged its work.
- render_bench gains --strip-screens (Vegas-sized strips), --patch-bytes /
  --patch-every / --patch-where (in-place column writes, as a live element
  update does) and --extend-every-screens / --extend-width (append + trim on
  a fixed cadence that holds the strip's width).

No runtime behaviour changes: this is the measurement gate for live Vegas
elements.

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

* docs(changelog): note the frame-op attribution and bench modes

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

* perf(scroll): build the strip's PIL image only when something reads it

Every Vegas strip extension rebuilt ScrollHelper.cached_image from
cached_array in full, twice (append, then trim), on the render thread:
Image.fromarray is 1.7ms for an 8,000px strip and 3.8ms for 20,000px on a
Pi 4 (measured on ledpi), about two thirds of an extension's render-thread
cost. Nothing on the frame path reads the image's pixels; every frame is cut
from the array.

cached_image is now a property. append_content and drop_scrolled_prefix
defer it; the first read builds it from the array it started with and keeps
it only if the strip has not changed meanwhile, so a sync push racing an
extension cannot leave a stale image cached. Assigning cached_image stores
exactly what was assigned, as before. has_strip() says whether there is a
strip without building its image; the helper's frame path, Vegas and the
adapter's scroll-cache invalidation use it. The strip is also no longer held
in memory twice.

In Vegas the image is now built only by a multi-display sync push.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements -- a plugin API for content that changes while it scrolls

Vegas bakes each plugin's pictures into one strip, so a card already on its
way across the panel keeps what it showed when it was drawn. This adds the
API and bookkeeping for content that can be updated in place; the worker
that redraws and swaps it follows separately. No shipped plugin implements
the hook yet, so nothing changes for users.

Plugin API (core 3.8.0), all no-ops by default:
- BasePlugin.get_vegas_elements() -> [VegasElement(key, image, version,
  live, refresh_hz)]: named, fixed-width pieces of Vegas content.
- BasePlugin.redraw_vegas_element(key, width, height, at): a lock-free
  redraw for content that changes with time.
- BasePlugin.notify_vegas_data_changed(): data that lands outside update().
- src/plugin_system/vegas_elements.py (VegasElement, re-exported from
  base_plugin).

Core:
- PluginAdapter asks a plugin that implements the hook for elements on the
  background fetch only (under its lock, on its own canvas); every other
  path keeps get_vegas_content(). Live elements are pinned (padded with
  content_padding, never trimmed), tagged with their key, digest and data
  epoch in Image.info so the existing cache and group plumbing carry them
  unchanged, and untagged if a width budget crops them.
- RenderPipeline records where each live element lands (ElementRecord), in
  absolute strip columns a trim does not move; the block-start arithmetic
  is shared with the STATIC markers.
- PluginManager update listeners (add/remove_update_listener,
  notify_data_changed): told the moment update() completes, not at the
  next ~4s Vegas poll. The coordinator uses one to move each plugin's data
  epoch on.
- vegas_scroll.live_refresh (kill switch), live_max_hz, live_min_interval,
  live_lead_screens; per-plugin core-owned vegas_live. Live elements are
  off under multi-display sync, in swap mode and with offscreen_prefetch off.
- scripts/check_plugin.py checks the element contract
  (src/plugin_system/testing/vegas.py); test/fixtures/plugins/vegas-live-stub
  is a working example.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements update in place while they scroll

One background worker (src/vegas_mode/live_worker.py) redraws a plugin's
live elements when its data epoch moves on (update listener) or on their
refresh_hz, nearest the screen first, and hands changed pixels lock-free to
the render thread, which copies them into the strip between frames
(RenderPipeline.apply_live_patches, ScrollHelper.patch_columns): at most
four patches or two screens of bytes a frame, no drawing or locks there.
The worker takes over group prefetch once a live element is placed, runs
inside the render gate, and is supervised. Update tick 1s while live
elements exist. Web UI switch for live_refresh. OFFSCREEN_RENDERING.md
describes what was built and why SegmentStrip was not needed.

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

* feat(sports): live Vegas cards for the scoreboards (shared layer)

One live element per game, drawn only when what the card shows changes, so
a score changes on a card already crossing the panel. The shared part, so
each scoreboard adopts it in a few lines:

- src/common/sports_vegas.py: game_key, game_fingerprint (the whole game
  dict, frozen: no drawn field can be missed), dedupe_games, VegasCardCache,
  StickyOdds (odds a live poll left out stay drawn), finished_games /
  with_finished_games (a game that just went final keeps its card, after its
  league's live games; one a heuristic only judged over keeps its live
  state, so a tied end of regulation never shows FINAL early).
- SportsScrollDisplay.make_vegas_renderer() is the override point;
  build_vegas_elements() and SportsScrollDisplayManager
  .get_vegas_elements_for() do the rest. A card's version includes its
  teams' ranks, which the renderer draws from the rankings cache.
- SportsLiveSharedMixin._record_finished_game() / finished_games_snapshot():
  held for FINISHED_GAME_TTL after it leaves the live list.

A sport that does not implement make_vegas_renderer keeps its ordinary Vegas
content, so no scoreboard changes until it opts in.

scripts/render_plugin.py --vegas renders a plugin's Vegas block as the
ticker lays it out, and --timeline stacks it at successive moments as
the ticker would update it in place; the join is now
render_pipeline.join_plugin_rows().

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

* feat(vegas): keep live games in the ticker by default

display.vegas_scroll.live_in_ticker now defaults to true: through a live
game the marquee keeps running and the live scoreboard takes extra turns in
it -- its cards updating in place while they scroll -- instead of the ticker
giving way to the full-screen scoreboard.

The new default would reach nobody on its own: every existing config holds
an explicit false copied from the template (there was no control for it),
and the template merge only adds missing keys. ConfigManager therefore turns
a stored false on once, with a backup, and records live_in_ticker_migrated
so a false chosen afterwards stays. The marker is never in the template.

A "Keep live games in the ticker" checkbox under Vegas mode sets it. Tests
that pin the full-screen takeover now say live_in_ticker=false.

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

* refactor(sports): a default _determine_game_type on SportsScrollDisplay

render_vegas_card looked the method up with getattr and a None default, which
static analysis (Codacy) reports as calling something that may not be
callable. The base class now has the default -- the card type from the game's
state -- and the plugins that define their own override it as before.

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

* fix: review follow-ups on the shared live-card layer

- The reused Vegas renderer always gets the current rankings, empty
  included, so ranks cleared since are not kept drawn.
- render_plugin.py: --timeline refuses --no-live (a timeline shows live
  elements changing), --timeline/--no-live need --vegas, and the Vegas
  paths create the output's directory like the display path does.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 08:27:16 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 a12be7c3c5 feat(sports): live Vegas cards for the scoreboards (shared layer) (#698)
* perf(timing): say which render-thread work a late frame followed

The soak already says how often a moving frame reached the panel late, but
not what the render thread was doing just before it. Vegas does two kinds of
work there between frames -- building its strip (compose, extend) and, with
live elements, patching changed pixels into it -- and deciding whether either
is affordable needs their own numbers.

- FrameTimingRecorder.note_op(kind, nbytes) tags the next presented frame.
  Totals gain op_frames, late_op_frames, op_freezes and op_bytes per kind;
  aggregate() still takes frames without ops. The file schema is unchanged.
- Vegas tags compose and every strip extension (with the bytes it copied).
- frame_soak prints an "after work" table: frames, late %, freezes and MB
  moved per kind, only when something tagged its work.
- render_bench gains --strip-screens (Vegas-sized strips), --patch-bytes /
  --patch-every / --patch-where (in-place column writes, as a live element
  update does) and --extend-every-screens / --extend-width (append + trim on
  a fixed cadence that holds the strip's width).

No runtime behaviour changes: this is the measurement gate for live Vegas
elements.

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

* docs(changelog): note the frame-op attribution and bench modes

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

* perf(scroll): build the strip's PIL image only when something reads it

Every Vegas strip extension rebuilt ScrollHelper.cached_image from
cached_array in full, twice (append, then trim), on the render thread:
Image.fromarray is 1.7ms for an 8,000px strip and 3.8ms for 20,000px on a
Pi 4 (measured on ledpi), about two thirds of an extension's render-thread
cost. Nothing on the frame path reads the image's pixels; every frame is cut
from the array.

cached_image is now a property. append_content and drop_scrolled_prefix
defer it; the first read builds it from the array it started with and keeps
it only if the strip has not changed meanwhile, so a sync push racing an
extension cannot leave a stale image cached. Assigning cached_image stores
exactly what was assigned, as before. has_strip() says whether there is a
strip without building its image; the helper's frame path, Vegas and the
adapter's scroll-cache invalidation use it. The strip is also no longer held
in memory twice.

In Vegas the image is now built only by a multi-display sync push.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements -- a plugin API for content that changes while it scrolls

Vegas bakes each plugin's pictures into one strip, so a card already on its
way across the panel keeps what it showed when it was drawn. This adds the
API and bookkeeping for content that can be updated in place; the worker
that redraws and swaps it follows separately. No shipped plugin implements
the hook yet, so nothing changes for users.

Plugin API (core 3.8.0), all no-ops by default:
- BasePlugin.get_vegas_elements() -> [VegasElement(key, image, version,
  live, refresh_hz)]: named, fixed-width pieces of Vegas content.
- BasePlugin.redraw_vegas_element(key, width, height, at): a lock-free
  redraw for content that changes with time.
- BasePlugin.notify_vegas_data_changed(): data that lands outside update().
- src/plugin_system/vegas_elements.py (VegasElement, re-exported from
  base_plugin).

Core:
- PluginAdapter asks a plugin that implements the hook for elements on the
  background fetch only (under its lock, on its own canvas); every other
  path keeps get_vegas_content(). Live elements are pinned (padded with
  content_padding, never trimmed), tagged with their key, digest and data
  epoch in Image.info so the existing cache and group plumbing carry them
  unchanged, and untagged if a width budget crops them.
- RenderPipeline records where each live element lands (ElementRecord), in
  absolute strip columns a trim does not move; the block-start arithmetic
  is shared with the STATIC markers.
- PluginManager update listeners (add/remove_update_listener,
  notify_data_changed): told the moment update() completes, not at the
  next ~4s Vegas poll. The coordinator uses one to move each plugin's data
  epoch on.
- vegas_scroll.live_refresh (kill switch), live_max_hz, live_min_interval,
  live_lead_screens; per-plugin core-owned vegas_live. Live elements are
  off under multi-display sync, in swap mode and with offscreen_prefetch off.
- scripts/check_plugin.py checks the element contract
  (src/plugin_system/testing/vegas.py); test/fixtures/plugins/vegas-live-stub
  is a working example.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements update in place while they scroll

One background worker (src/vegas_mode/live_worker.py) redraws a plugin's
live elements when its data epoch moves on (update listener) or on their
refresh_hz, nearest the screen first, and hands changed pixels lock-free to
the render thread, which copies them into the strip between frames
(RenderPipeline.apply_live_patches, ScrollHelper.patch_columns): at most
four patches or two screens of bytes a frame, no drawing or locks there.
The worker takes over group prefetch once a live element is placed, runs
inside the render gate, and is supervised. Update tick 1s while live
elements exist. Web UI switch for live_refresh. OFFSCREEN_RENDERING.md
describes what was built and why SegmentStrip was not needed.

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

* feat(sports): live Vegas cards for the scoreboards (shared layer)

One live element per game, drawn only when what the card shows changes, so
a score changes on a card already crossing the panel. The shared part, so
each scoreboard adopts it in a few lines:

- src/common/sports_vegas.py: game_key, game_fingerprint (the whole game
  dict, frozen: no drawn field can be missed), dedupe_games, VegasCardCache,
  StickyOdds (odds a live poll left out stay drawn), finished_games /
  with_finished_games (a game that just went final keeps its card, after its
  league's live games; one a heuristic only judged over keeps its live
  state, so a tied end of regulation never shows FINAL early).
- SportsScrollDisplay.make_vegas_renderer() is the override point;
  build_vegas_elements() and SportsScrollDisplayManager
  .get_vegas_elements_for() do the rest. A card's version includes its
  teams' ranks, which the renderer draws from the rankings cache.
- SportsLiveSharedMixin._record_finished_game() / finished_games_snapshot():
  held for FINISHED_GAME_TTL after it leaves the live list.

A sport that does not implement make_vegas_renderer keeps its ordinary Vegas
content, so no scoreboard changes until it opts in.

scripts/render_plugin.py --vegas renders a plugin's Vegas block as the
ticker lays it out, and --timeline stacks it at successive moments as
the ticker would update it in place; the join is now
render_pipeline.join_plugin_rows().

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

* refactor(sports): a default _determine_game_type on SportsScrollDisplay

render_vegas_card looked the method up with getattr and a None default, which
static analysis (Codacy) reports as calling something that may not be
callable. The base class now has the default -- the card type from the game's
state -- and the plugins that define their own override it as before.

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

* fix: review follow-ups on the shared live-card layer

- The reused Vegas renderer always gets the current rankings, empty
  included, so ranks cleared since are not kept drawn.
- render_plugin.py: --timeline refuses --no-live (a timeline shows live
  elements changing), --timeline/--no-live need --vegas, and the Vegas
  paths create the output's directory like the display path does.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 21:32:07 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 f4bda50710 feat(vegas): live elements update in place while they scroll (#697)
* perf(timing): say which render-thread work a late frame followed

The soak already says how often a moving frame reached the panel late, but
not what the render thread was doing just before it. Vegas does two kinds of
work there between frames -- building its strip (compose, extend) and, with
live elements, patching changed pixels into it -- and deciding whether either
is affordable needs their own numbers.

- FrameTimingRecorder.note_op(kind, nbytes) tags the next presented frame.
  Totals gain op_frames, late_op_frames, op_freezes and op_bytes per kind;
  aggregate() still takes frames without ops. The file schema is unchanged.
- Vegas tags compose and every strip extension (with the bytes it copied).
- frame_soak prints an "after work" table: frames, late %, freezes and MB
  moved per kind, only when something tagged its work.
- render_bench gains --strip-screens (Vegas-sized strips), --patch-bytes /
  --patch-every / --patch-where (in-place column writes, as a live element
  update does) and --extend-every-screens / --extend-width (append + trim on
  a fixed cadence that holds the strip's width).

No runtime behaviour changes: this is the measurement gate for live Vegas
elements.

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

* docs(changelog): note the frame-op attribution and bench modes

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

* perf(scroll): build the strip's PIL image only when something reads it

Every Vegas strip extension rebuilt ScrollHelper.cached_image from
cached_array in full, twice (append, then trim), on the render thread:
Image.fromarray is 1.7ms for an 8,000px strip and 3.8ms for 20,000px on a
Pi 4 (measured on ledpi), about two thirds of an extension's render-thread
cost. Nothing on the frame path reads the image's pixels; every frame is cut
from the array.

cached_image is now a property. append_content and drop_scrolled_prefix
defer it; the first read builds it from the array it started with and keeps
it only if the strip has not changed meanwhile, so a sync push racing an
extension cannot leave a stale image cached. Assigning cached_image stores
exactly what was assigned, as before. has_strip() says whether there is a
strip without building its image; the helper's frame path, Vegas and the
adapter's scroll-cache invalidation use it. The strip is also no longer held
in memory twice.

In Vegas the image is now built only by a multi-display sync push.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements -- a plugin API for content that changes while it scrolls

Vegas bakes each plugin's pictures into one strip, so a card already on its
way across the panel keeps what it showed when it was drawn. This adds the
API and bookkeeping for content that can be updated in place; the worker
that redraws and swaps it follows separately. No shipped plugin implements
the hook yet, so nothing changes for users.

Plugin API (core 3.8.0), all no-ops by default:
- BasePlugin.get_vegas_elements() -> [VegasElement(key, image, version,
  live, refresh_hz)]: named, fixed-width pieces of Vegas content.
- BasePlugin.redraw_vegas_element(key, width, height, at): a lock-free
  redraw for content that changes with time.
- BasePlugin.notify_vegas_data_changed(): data that lands outside update().
- src/plugin_system/vegas_elements.py (VegasElement, re-exported from
  base_plugin).

Core:
- PluginAdapter asks a plugin that implements the hook for elements on the
  background fetch only (under its lock, on its own canvas); every other
  path keeps get_vegas_content(). Live elements are pinned (padded with
  content_padding, never trimmed), tagged with their key, digest and data
  epoch in Image.info so the existing cache and group plumbing carry them
  unchanged, and untagged if a width budget crops them.
- RenderPipeline records where each live element lands (ElementRecord), in
  absolute strip columns a trim does not move; the block-start arithmetic
  is shared with the STATIC markers.
- PluginManager update listeners (add/remove_update_listener,
  notify_data_changed): told the moment update() completes, not at the
  next ~4s Vegas poll. The coordinator uses one to move each plugin's data
  epoch on.
- vegas_scroll.live_refresh (kill switch), live_max_hz, live_min_interval,
  live_lead_screens; per-plugin core-owned vegas_live. Live elements are
  off under multi-display sync, in swap mode and with offscreen_prefetch off.
- scripts/check_plugin.py checks the element contract
  (src/plugin_system/testing/vegas.py); test/fixtures/plugins/vegas-live-stub
  is a working example.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements update in place while they scroll

One background worker (src/vegas_mode/live_worker.py) redraws a plugin's
live elements when its data epoch moves on (update listener) or on their
refresh_hz, nearest the screen first, and hands changed pixels lock-free to
the render thread, which copies them into the strip between frames
(RenderPipeline.apply_live_patches, ScrollHelper.patch_columns): at most
four patches or two screens of bytes a frame, no drawing or locks there.
The worker takes over group prefetch once a live element is placed, runs
inside the render gate, and is supervised. Update tick 1s while live
elements exist. Web UI switch for live_refresh. OFFSCREEN_RENDERING.md
describes what was built and why SegmentStrip was not needed.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 21:07:31 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 56947298d6 a plugin API for content that changes while it scrolls (#696)
* perf(timing): say which render-thread work a late frame followed

The soak already says how often a moving frame reached the panel late, but
not what the render thread was doing just before it. Vegas does two kinds of
work there between frames -- building its strip (compose, extend) and, with
live elements, patching changed pixels into it -- and deciding whether either
is affordable needs their own numbers.

- FrameTimingRecorder.note_op(kind, nbytes) tags the next presented frame.
  Totals gain op_frames, late_op_frames, op_freezes and op_bytes per kind;
  aggregate() still takes frames without ops. The file schema is unchanged.
- Vegas tags compose and every strip extension (with the bytes it copied).
- frame_soak prints an "after work" table: frames, late %, freezes and MB
  moved per kind, only when something tagged its work.
- render_bench gains --strip-screens (Vegas-sized strips), --patch-bytes /
  --patch-every / --patch-where (in-place column writes, as a live element
  update does) and --extend-every-screens / --extend-width (append + trim on
  a fixed cadence that holds the strip's width).

No runtime behaviour changes: this is the measurement gate for live Vegas
elements.

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

* docs(changelog): note the frame-op attribution and bench modes

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

* perf(scroll): build the strip's PIL image only when something reads it

Every Vegas strip extension rebuilt ScrollHelper.cached_image from
cached_array in full, twice (append, then trim), on the render thread:
Image.fromarray is 1.7ms for an 8,000px strip and 3.8ms for 20,000px on a
Pi 4 (measured on ledpi), about two thirds of an extension's render-thread
cost. Nothing on the frame path reads the image's pixels; every frame is cut
from the array.

cached_image is now a property. append_content and drop_scrolled_prefix
defer it; the first read builds it from the array it started with and keeps
it only if the strip has not changed meanwhile, so a sync push racing an
extension cannot leave a stale image cached. Assigning cached_image stores
exactly what was assigned, as before. has_strip() says whether there is a
strip without building its image; the helper's frame path, Vegas and the
adapter's scroll-cache invalidation use it. The strip is also no longer held
in memory twice.

In Vegas the image is now built only by a multi-display sync push.

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

* feat(vegas): live elements -- a plugin API for content that changes while it scrolls

Vegas bakes each plugin's pictures into one strip, so a card already on its
way across the panel keeps what it showed when it was drawn. This adds the
API and bookkeeping for content that can be updated in place; the worker
that redraws and swaps it follows separately. No shipped plugin implements
the hook yet, so nothing changes for users.

Plugin API (core 3.8.0), all no-ops by default:
- BasePlugin.get_vegas_elements() -> [VegasElement(key, image, version,
  live, refresh_hz)]: named, fixed-width pieces of Vegas content.
- BasePlugin.redraw_vegas_element(key, width, height, at): a lock-free
  redraw for content that changes with time.
- BasePlugin.notify_vegas_data_changed(): data that lands outside update().
- src/plugin_system/vegas_elements.py (VegasElement, re-exported from
  base_plugin).

Core:
- PluginAdapter asks a plugin that implements the hook for elements on the
  background fetch only (under its lock, on its own canvas); every other
  path keeps get_vegas_content(). Live elements are pinned (padded with
  content_padding, never trimmed), tagged with their key, digest and data
  epoch in Image.info so the existing cache and group plumbing carry them
  unchanged, and untagged if a width budget crops them.
- RenderPipeline records where each live element lands (ElementRecord), in
  absolute strip columns a trim does not move; the block-start arithmetic
  is shared with the STATIC markers.
- PluginManager update listeners (add/remove_update_listener,
  notify_data_changed): told the moment update() completes, not at the
  next ~4s Vegas poll. The coordinator uses one to move each plugin's data
  epoch on.
- vegas_scroll.live_refresh (kill switch), live_max_hz, live_min_interval,
  live_lead_screens; per-plugin core-owned vegas_live. Live elements are
  off under multi-display sync, in swap mode and with offscreen_prefetch off.
- scripts/check_plugin.py checks the element contract
  (src/plugin_system/testing/vegas.py); test/fixtures/plugins/vegas-live-stub
  is a working example.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 20:59:16 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 596809acc3 perf(scroll): build the strip's PIL image only when something reads it (#695)
* perf(timing): say which render-thread work a late frame followed

The soak already says how often a moving frame reached the panel late, but
not what the render thread was doing just before it. Vegas does two kinds of
work there between frames -- building its strip (compose, extend) and, with
live elements, patching changed pixels into it -- and deciding whether either
is affordable needs their own numbers.

- FrameTimingRecorder.note_op(kind, nbytes) tags the next presented frame.
  Totals gain op_frames, late_op_frames, op_freezes and op_bytes per kind;
  aggregate() still takes frames without ops. The file schema is unchanged.
- Vegas tags compose and every strip extension (with the bytes it copied).
- frame_soak prints an "after work" table: frames, late %, freezes and MB
  moved per kind, only when something tagged its work.
- render_bench gains --strip-screens (Vegas-sized strips), --patch-bytes /
  --patch-every / --patch-where (in-place column writes, as a live element
  update does) and --extend-every-screens / --extend-width (append + trim on
  a fixed cadence that holds the strip's width).

No runtime behaviour changes: this is the measurement gate for live Vegas
elements.

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

* docs(changelog): note the frame-op attribution and bench modes

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

* perf(scroll): build the strip's PIL image only when something reads it

Every Vegas strip extension rebuilt ScrollHelper.cached_image from
cached_array in full, twice (append, then trim), on the render thread:
Image.fromarray is 1.7ms for an 8,000px strip and 3.8ms for 20,000px on a
Pi 4 (measured on ledpi), about two thirds of an extension's render-thread
cost. Nothing on the frame path reads the image's pixels; every frame is cut
from the array.

cached_image is now a property. append_content and drop_scrolled_prefix
defer it; the first read builds it from the array it started with and keeps
it only if the strip has not changed meanwhile, so a sync push racing an
extension cannot leave a stale image cached. Assigning cached_image stores
exactly what was assigned, as before. has_strip() says whether there is a
strip without building its image; the helper's frame path, Vegas and the
adapter's scroll-cache invalidation use it. The strip is also no longer held
in memory twice.

In Vegas the image is now built only by a multi-display sync push.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 20:50:34 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 77862b631b perf(timing): say which render-thread work a late frame followed (#694)
* perf(timing): say which render-thread work a late frame followed

The soak already says how often a moving frame reached the panel late, but
not what the render thread was doing just before it. Vegas does two kinds of
work there between frames -- building its strip (compose, extend) and, with
live elements, patching changed pixels into it -- and deciding whether either
is affordable needs their own numbers.

- FrameTimingRecorder.note_op(kind, nbytes) tags the next presented frame.
  Totals gain op_frames, late_op_frames, op_freezes and op_bytes per kind;
  aggregate() still takes frames without ops. The file schema is unchanged.
- Vegas tags compose and every strip extension (with the bytes it copied).
- frame_soak prints an "after work" table: frames, late %, freezes and MB
  moved per kind, only when something tagged its work.
- render_bench gains --strip-screens (Vegas-sized strips), --patch-bytes /
  --patch-every / --patch-where (in-place column writes, as a live element
  update does) and --extend-every-screens / --extend-width (append + trim on
  a fixed cadence that holds the strip's width).

No runtime behaviour changes: this is the measurement gate for live Vegas
elements.

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

* docs(changelog): note the frame-op attribution and bench modes

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 20:40:39 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 7804ea8f69 feat(update): stable/beta update channel; stable follows release tags (#684)
Adds auto_update.channel: stable follows the newest vX.Y.Z release tag
(detached HEAD; pre-releases and other tags ignored), beta follows main as
before. Nothing ever moves a device backwards: a checkout newer than the
newest release keeps following main (or stays put when detached) until a
release contains its commit. Legacy configs migrate to stable when they
reach a release. Update Code, the weekly updater's preflight, and the
verifier's rollback (back to old_ref: branch or detached release) all
honour the channel. General tab Update Channel select, GET/POST
/api/v3/system/update-channel, release-aware Overview banner and Tools git
panel. New installs default to stable.

Rig fix (ledpi): /system/check-update reports update_available: false when
the channel's action is none (a detached HEAD newer than the newest
release), matching Update Code; the Tools panel no longer calls every
detached HEAD "a release".

Merged with main through #687 (heartbeat verifier, #683 login, #688
plugin_catalog, #685 Tailwind build).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 15:35:26 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 64c7289593 feat(display): systemd watchdog and heartbeat for a frozen render loop (#687)
If the render loop gets stuck inside a plugin's display(), ledmatrix.service
stays active and the panel stays frozen. This adds a way to detect that.

- src/display_watchdog.py (standard library only) sends sd_notify over
  $NOTIFY_SOCKET and writes /run/ledmatrix/display-heartbeat.json. Only the
  render thread counts: beats from other threads are ignored.
- ledmatrix.service: WatchdogSec=120, NotifyAccess=main,
  RuntimeDirectory=ledmatrix (0755), RestartSteps=4 and
  RestartMaxDelaySec=2min. It stays Type=simple. run.py widens the watchdog
  to 15 min for start-up, and load_plugin() does the same on the render
  thread. The loop arms after its first frame.
- /api/v3/health adds checks.display_loop: running, stalled (no heartbeat
  for over 60s, which makes the status degraded) or not_reported. With web
  login on, a caller who is not logged in still gets only healthy/degraded,
  and a stall degrades that answer.
- The update verifier requires a fresh heartbeat from the restarted display
  when the display it replaced was writing one. A frozen panel is rolled
  back.
- Existing installs get the systemd watchdog only after install_service.sh
  is re-run. The heartbeat works right away.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 11:15:31 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 b09434a418 refactor(plugins): the display publishes plugin runtime state; retire plugin_state.json (#690)
Stage 2 of the web plugin catalog, after #688.

- The display publishes a plugin runtime snapshot (plugin_runtime.py) to
  the shared cache: per plugin loaded, lifecycle state, a short redacted
  error summary, the version it loaded and when, plus published_at /
  stale_after / running. Written on change (throttled to 10 s; the
  RUNNING/ENABLED flip of an ordinary update is not a change) and once a
  minute otherwise; cleanup() publishes running: false.
- The web reads it back and restores loaded / state / error_info in
  /api/v3/plugins/installed (plus loaded_version, loaded_at and
  data.runtime). Only a live snapshot counts; stale, stopped or missing
  answers null and says which.
- data/plugin_state.json is retired: every reader and writer moved to
  config + disk (desired) or the snapshot (observed). Nothing in it was
  non-derivable, so nothing is migrated and an existing file is left
  unread. The web-side PluginStateManager (state_manager.py) is removed;
  the display's plugin_state.PluginStateManager is the only state machine.
- StateReconciliation compares config + disk with the snapshot, reporting
  enabled-but-not-loaded and older-version-loaded as no_action findings.
- Backups list installed manifests with enabled from config.json.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 10:48:14 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 7ab6fb1aff refactor(web): read plugins through a PluginCatalog; only the display runs them (#688)
The web process built its own PluginManager and loaded plugins into itself:
store installs and updates loaded or reloaded a web-side copy, and config
saves and enable/disable called on_config_change, on_enable and on_disable
on it. None of that reached the panel, and /plugins/installed reported
runtime state from those copies.

- Add PluginCatalog (src/plugin_system/plugin_catalog.py): manifests,
  directories, display modes, installed version, schema and config reads,
  with no way to run a plugin. app.py and both blueprints use it; the
  plugin_manager blueprint attribute is gone.
- Remove every lifecycle call from the web routes. Config changes already
  reach the display through ConfigService (on_config_change) and the
  enabled-set reconcile.
- Health and metrics readers move to api_v3.health_tracker /
  resource_monitor. /plugins/installed reports loaded/state/error_info as
  null (the display does not publish them) and enabled by the display's
  rule.
- Store install, update and uninstall answer restart_required when the
  running display will not pick the change up by itself
  (display_restart_required). The restart banner follows the flag via
  window.noteRestartRequired instead of the /config/main URL heuristic;
  /config/main now sends restart_required: true.
- The one remaining in-process import of plugin code (Starlark helper
  modules, oauth_flow action scripts) goes through
  _import_plugin_code_in_web_process() until a web-entry contract.
- /plugins/installed reports vegas_participation (from #682) from the
  user's setting or the manifest, with vegas_participation_source; when
  only the plugin's code decides it, null with source 'runtime', since the
  web process no longer has plugin instances to ask.
- Check & Update All keeps its restart flags when the final list refresh
  fails, and asks for a restart when an enabled plugin's first request got
  no answer and the re-sent one found it up to date.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 10:39:44 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 ba6eccb489 build(web): generate the UI's Tailwind CSS with the pinned standalone CLI (#685)
Replaces the hand-written Tailwind subset in app.css with a real, purged
Tailwind build: scripts/build_css.py runs the pinned, SHA-256-checked
standalone Tailwind CLI (no Node), the generated tailwind.css and
plugin-frame.css are committed, and CI fails when they are stale. The Pi
never builds anything. The login page (#683) now links tailwind.css too,
and the load-order test covers every template that links app.css.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 09:38:16 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 5ea0d511dc feat(store): read ledmatrix_min_version, aliases and commit from the registry (#686)
The store reads three optional registry fields: ledmatrix_min_version
(an incompatible install/update is refused before any download, with a
"Needs LEDMatrix X+" card badge), aliases (update/uninstall/reinstall by
registry id find a plugin installed under its manifest id, with registry
proof only), and commit (shown and linked on the store card). An older
plugins.json behaves as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 09:31:16 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 1c928b2033 feat(vegas): one declared participation per plugin (scroll | pause | exclude) (#682)
A plugin takes part in Vegas mode in one declared way: 'scroll', 'pause'
or 'exclude', resolved from the user's vegas_participation setting, the
manifest field, then the legacy hooks, so no plugin changes behaviour.
The stream manager decides inclusion and pauses through it; the installed
plugins API and the Vegas plugin-order list report it. Deprecates
get_supported_vegas_modes, get_vegas_segment_width and vegas_panel_count
for removal in 3.9.0, and regenerates docs/DEPRECATIONS_3.8.md to include
them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 09:30:37 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 b2df0fda1b docs(sports): record the ufc round-break verify outcome (refuted) (#692)
ESPN sends the break between rounds as STATUS_END_OF_ROUND with
displayClock "-", not "0:00", so the shared game-over rule never
drops a five-round fight at the round 4 break. Verified against
recorded payloads in ChuckBuilds/ledmatrix-plugins#580, which pins it.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 09:20:30 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 15c61def67 fix(web): make the SSE streams' 200/min rate limit actually apply (#691)
app.py called limiter.limit("200 per minute")(stream_x) after the routes
were registered and discarded the result. flask-limiter 3.x enforces a
decorated limit in the wrapper limit() returns, and marks the original
function so the before_request middleware skips it, so the streams had
no limit at all -- not even the 1000/min default. Register the wrapper
as the view instead.

The new test (skipped without flask-limiter) reconnects to each stream
201 times and expects the last to get a 429; it fails on the old code.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 09:12:23 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 c8a0ddcf7b chore(deprecation): retarget the 35 deprecations to 3.8.0 and add a usage scan (#681)
Moves the 35 @deprecated markers from 3.7.0 (already shipped with them in
place) to 3.8.0, and adds scripts/plugin_api_usage.py plus the generated
docs/DEPRECATIONS_3.8.md: who still calls or overrides each deprecated
method across core, the monorepo and third-party plugins. Removes nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 09:11:36 -04:00