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ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 8557eff88a fix(plugins): put a (re)loading plugin's directory first on sys.path (#663)
Plugins import their own files by bare name (`from sports import ...`),
which resolves to the first directory on sys.path that has the file. The
loader added a plugin's directory only if it was missing, so on a reload --
a live re-enable from the web UI -- the plugin's directory stayed behind
every plugin loaded since, and its bare imports found their files first.

Seen on ledpi: re-enabling UFC with hockey running failed with "cannot
import name '_status_is_final' from 'sports'" (it got hockey's sports.py).
A loading plugin's directory is now always moved to the front. Every
scoreboard ships its own sports.py, so any of them was exposed on reload.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 15:02:01 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 b8c01c69fb ci: mypy ratchet -- keep type-clean modules clean (71 modules, 536 -> 442 errors) (#661)
* ci: mypy ratchet -- keep type-clean modules clean

mypy-clean.txt lists the 71 modules under src/ that type-check clean;
scripts/check_types.py runs mypy (--follow-imports=silent) on exactly
those files and fails on any error or a missing/unsorted/duplicate entry.
A new "Type check (mypy ratchet)" CI job runs it with mypy 1.20.2 and
pinned stubs; the manual pre-commit mypy hook now runs the same script
(a local hook, so mypy sees the installed requirements like CI does).

35 modules were made clean with annotation-only fixes: hints, typing.cast,
TYPE_CHECKING imports, implicit-Optional defaults made explicit, and
annotations widened (never guards removed) where mypy called a defensive
isinstance check unreachable. No runtime behaviour change.

mypy.ini: numpy and orjson are treated as Any (follow_imports=skip, also
for stubs). numpy 2.3+ stubs use 3.12 `type` statements that mypy won't
parse at python_version 3.10, and orjson is optional, so seeing its stubs
made the result depend on whether it was installed.

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

* chore: annotate check_types.py's list-form mypy subprocess

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 15:01:35 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 989eae9405 refactor(plugins): split PluginStoreManager into mixins (#659)
* refactor(plugins): split PluginStoreManager into mixins

src/plugin_system/store_manager.py (2,977 lines) keeps the class, its
shared state, locks, the uninstall registry, directory lookup and
uninstall; its methods are split by area into:
- store_registry.py (_RegistryMixin): registry, GitHub metadata, search,
  manifest validation
- store_install.py (_InstallMixin): install paths and dependencies
- store_update.py (_UpdateMixin): updates, rollback, local git state

Pure move: all 56 members are byte-identical (checked with ast) and the
assembled class has exactly the same attributes as before (checked at
runtime). PluginStoreManager is imported from store_manager.py as before.
Tests that patched shared modules (subprocess, requests, tempfile, shutil)
through store_manager now reach them through the module whose code they
exercise; a source-text contract test reads all store_*.py modules.

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

* chore: annotate findings the split moved into new store modules

subprocess imports and a list-form git clone (no shell), and the config
template's placeholder token string -- existing code that Codacy reported
as new because it moved. Annotated with the repo's nosec/nosemgrep style.

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

* chore: annotate the default-branch git clone the split moved

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2026-09-28 15:00:45 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 c00bf5e8e6 fix(plugin-system): unload/update race, failed-load cleanup, limits validation, schema lookup, install rollback (#653)
* fix(plugin-system): unload/update race, failed-load module cleanup, limits validation, schema lookup, install rollback, op-queue dedupe

- unload_plugin takes the per-plugin lock (5s bounded) before cleanup(),
  and an update() that finishes after its plugin was unloaded no longer
  sets the state back to ENABLED.
- A load that fails after import drops plugin_<id> and its submodules
  and forgets its manager fonts, so a fixed plugin reloads new code.
- Resource limits are validated as non-negative numbers: 400 at
  POST /plugins/limits, bad cached records ignored with one warning.
  Route docstrings note health/metrics reset and limits only change the
  web process's view.
- SchemaManager.get_schema_path resolves each search dir via
  resolve_plugin_dir (manifest id, ledmatrix-<id>) before the literal
  paths; plugins/ still before plugin-repos/. Misses cached 30s and
  logged once at DEBUG.
- install_from_url sets an existing copy aside and restores it if the
  move fails, under the per-plugin reinstall lock.
- Operation queue refuses a second pending op for a plugin and trims
  _operations with history.
- get_vegas_render_width reads display_manager.width first.
- get_logger in store/schema/health/resource/saved_repositories;
  UTF-8 reads in store_manager and state_manager.
- Docs: update_interval precedence (manifest over config) stated where
  users are told to set it in config.

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

* fix(web): build the limits 400 message from the field name, not an exception

CodeQL flagged str(e) flowing into the response. invalid_limit_field()
returns the offending field without raising, and limits_from_dict uses it.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 10:41:40 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 b518c51679 fix(plugin-system): load/enable failures, atomic state files, pip lock, test-double parity (#645)
- load_plugin: an on_enable() that raises unregisters the instance, so the
  next load retries instead of returning True "already loaded".
- get_plugin_info: guard plugin.get_info(); one plugin raising no longer
  breaks /api/v3/plugins/installed.
- plugin_state.json and the operation history are written with
  atomic_write_text under their lock.
- plugin_loader: module-level lock serialises pip installs across the
  parallel startup loaders.
- store_manager._install_via_download: extract dir cleanup moved to finally.
- Test doubles: draw_image() warns (DeprecationWarning; the real
  DisplayManager has none), MockDisplayManager.draw_text accepts the real
  signature's optional params, VisualTestDisplayManager logs draw errors at
  WARNING.
- Docs/comments: compatibility.py method name, PluginState.LOADED meaning,
  brittle schema count, why _report_skip_once uses setdefault.
- Remove unused PluginOperationQueue.get_active_operations().

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 08:25:45 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 bcef1957a9 fix(security): refuse unsafe plugin ids, keep secrets private, validate request bodies (#643)
* fix(security): refuse unsafe plugin ids, keep secrets private, validate bodies

- install_from_url and the registry install's manifest rename refuse a
  plugin id that is not a single safe name (no ../ out of plugins_dir).
- Uninstall and config reset refuse core config sections and ids with
  path parts; uninstall of a plugin whose directory is gone still works.
- separate_secrets checks a field's own x-secret marker before recursing,
  so object/array secrets no longer land in config.json.
- Backup restore creates missing secrets/wifi/ytm files with mode 640;
  export skips non-object manifests and no longer collides on same-second
  exports.
- SYSTEM_FONTS includes every bundled font from BUNDLED_FONTS.
- Raw config/secrets saves and validate_request_json require a JSON object.
- A blank max_dynamic_duration_seconds keeps the stored value; other values
  are validated to 30-1800 instead of raising a 500.

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

* fix(security): validate the id before install_plugin moves anything; claim backup names atomically

- install_plugin set aside plugins_dir / plugin_id before any id check, so
  "../x" moved a directory outside the plugins dir (the rollback moved it
  back, but only if the install path got that far)
- two exports finishing in the same second could both see a free name and
  the later os.replace destroyed the first archive; the name is now
  claimed with O_EXCL before the archive is swapped in

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2026-09-28 08:24:43 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 da5937da3d fix: six bugs found testing main on a real Pi (#641)
* fix: six bugs found testing main on a real Pi (ledpi)

- Stopping the service now runs cleanup. systemd stops ledmatrix.service
  with SIGTERM, whose default action ended Python before run()'s finally
  block, so the update worker, Vegas and the panel were never torn down.
  main() now turns SIGTERM into KeyboardInterrupt, the Ctrl-C path.
- "Now showing" no longer turns into "unknown". display_current_state was
  only written on a mode change and the web UI reads it with max_age=120,
  so a live game or a single plugin on screen for longer read as unknown.
  It is republished every 30 s while unchanged.
- Switching Vegas on in the web UI works when it was off at startup. The
  coordinator was only created at startup; the config watcher now flags it
  and the render thread creates it.
- configure_web_sudo.sh finds reboot and poweroff in /usr/sbin. Run as the
  web user it could not, silently dropped their rules and still said it
  granted them, so the web UI's Reboot/Shutdown stopped working.
- check_system_compatibility.sh reports installed packages as installed.
  `dpkg -l | grep -q` under pipefail failed when grep exited early.
- A network failure fetching GitHub repo info logs a WARNING, not ERROR.

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

* docs(changelog): fixes found testing on a Pi

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

* test: run the Linux-only script tests correctly

The sbin-lookup test set PATH=/nonexistent and then could not find bash
itself; call it by absolute path. The dpkg-query stub read $4, but the
package name is the third (last) argument. Both now pass on a Pi.

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

* fix(display): cover the follower, long-render and startup cases

Review follow-ups on the ledpi fixes:
- The pending Vegas start is applied before the sync-follower branch too
  (_apply_pending_vegas_init), which skips _is_vegas_mode_active() while a
  follower is connected but needs the coordinator for the leader's image.
- _service_pending_changes(), which runs inside Vegas iterations and long
  screens, republishes a stale display_current_state as well; the main
  loop alone could be away for a 240 s Vegas iteration.
- The SIGTERM handler is installed after DisplayController() is built, so a
  stop during parallel plugin loading keeps the default immediate exit.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-27 18:13:49 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 9964dd2183 feat(vegas): render plugin content off the render thread, and keep it off the GIL when the panel needs it (#630)
DisplayManager.offscreen() gives a thread its own canvas, so Vegas renders every plugin's ticker content on its prefetch thread instead of pausing the scroll for canvas-bound plugins on the render thread. A render gate (src/common/render_gate.py, vegas_scroll.prefetch_gate, on by default with the GIL-releasing binding) lets the prefetch thread run Python only while the render thread waits in SwapOnVSync: on hdpi, frames 2+ refreshes late fell eightfold and late frames overall from 0.90% to 0.60%. See docs/OFFSCREEN_RENDERING.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 19:57:03 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 7b90759252 fix: /errors stack traces, Wi-Fi disconnect and save, plugin fonts, API cache TTL (#636)
* fix(errors): record the exception's own stack trace

record_error() called traceback.format_exc(), which only sees an
exception while its except block is running. plugin_executor records
exceptions caught on a worker thread after that block has ended, so
every trace on /errors read "NoneType: None". The trace is now built
from the exception's __traceback__. The executor's log call had the
same problem with exc_info=True and now passes the exception.

record_error() also merged LEDMatrixError context into the caller's
dict in place; it now works on a copy.

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

* docs(wifi): point at configure_wifi_permissions.sh instead of a sudoers list

The module docstring told users to grant NOPASSWD sudo on iptables and
ip. configure_wifi_permissions.sh refuses those grants on purpose: a
wildcard rule for either runs an arbitrary program as root. Point at
the script and say why it leaves them out.

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

* fix(wifi): disconnect finds the saved profile by SSID

disconnect_from_network() asked `nmcli -f NAME,802-11-wireless.ssid
connection show` for the profile to take down, but nmcli rejects that
column for `connection show`, so the lookup always failed and only the
device was disconnected. The per-profile lookup _connect_nmcli() already
used is now _find_profile_for_ssid(), and both callers share it. It
also splits terse output on the last colon and unescapes "\:", so a
profile name containing a colon is found.

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

* fix(wifi): write wifi_config.json atomically and report a failed save

_save_config() opened the file for writing in place and swallowed any
error, so a wifi_config.json left owned by root made the web toggle for
auto-enabling AP mode report success while nothing was saved, and a
crash mid-write could truncate the file. It now uses atomic_write_json,
which also keeps the file's owner and shared group when root saves it,
and returns False on failure. POST /wifi/ap/auto-enable answers 500 in
that case.

The file is now written with indent=4, like the other config files.

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

* fix(fonts): resolve plugin:// fonts in the plugin's own directory

FontManager looked for a plugin's bundled fonts under Path("plugins") /
plugin_id: relative to the process cwd, and not the default install
directory (plugin-repos/), so a manifest's plugin:// fonts never loaded.

register_plugin_fonts() takes an optional plugin_dir, and PluginManager
passes the directory it loaded the plugin from. Callers that omit it get
a lookup in the configured plugin_system.plugins_directory, then plugins/,
resolved against the install root.

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

* fix(api-helper): cache responses for the requested cache_ttl

APIHelper.get(cache_ttl=...) and set_cache(ttl=...) dropped the ttl on
the claim that CacheManager does not support one, but CacheManager.set()
takes a ttl, stores it with the entry, and both cache tiers honour it
over a reader's max_age. Without it every response expired after the
300-second default read age, whatever the plugin asked for. The ttl is
now passed through, and the cache read passes cache_ttl as max_age for
entries written without one. The class docstring describes what the
helper actually does.

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

* fix(style): one scale range for the schema, element_scale and LogoHelper

The generated Scale field allowed 0.1 to 10, element_style's reader
capped at 10 with no floor, and LogoHelper accepted 0.05 to 8 and reset
anything else to 1.0. A logo scale of 9, which the form accepts, drew at
the shipped size.

MIN_ELEMENT_SCALE / MAX_ELEMENT_SCALE (0.1, 10.0) in src.element_style
are now the schema bounds and the clamp every reader applies through
coerce_scale(): a positive number outside the range is clamped, and
anything that is not a finite positive number means the default. That
also stops element_scale() passing NaN through, since min(nan, 10.0)
is nan.

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

* fix(logos): placeholder lands at the requested path; empty logos list

download_missing_logo() wrote its fallback placeholder to
<normalize_abbreviation(abbr)>.png in the logo directory rather than to
the logo_path the caller passed, so it could return True while nothing
existed where the plugin looks (e.g. "TA&M.png" vs "TAANDM.png").
create_placeholder_logo() takes an optional filepath, and
download_missing_logo passes the requested one.

download_missing_logo_for_team() only caught KeyError, so a team whose
"logos" list is empty raised IndexError; it now treats KeyError,
IndexError and TypeError as "no logo URL".

The placeholder is drawn with PLACEHOLDER_SIZE / PLACEHOLDER_BG, the
constants is_placeholder_logo() recognises it by, instead of repeated
literals.

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

* fix(fonts): resolve bundled font paths against the install root

TextHelper's default font_dir, the logo placeholder's font and
FontManager's font_overrides.json were all relative to the process cwd,
so a process started anywhere but the install root (the plugin safety
harness, a manual run, a unit without WorkingDirectory) drew with PIL's
default face and read no overrides. They now go through
font_layout.resolve_asset_path; the overrides file sits in the install
root's config/.

The resolver docstrings described an order the code does not follow:
resolve_asset_path never consults the cwd, and sports_shared's
_resolve_font_path tries the cwd first. Both docstrings now say what
the code does, and _resolve_font_path calls resolve_asset_path instead
of probing FontManager for it.

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

* fix(sync): the web UI reads the sync status file the display writes

sync_manager writes its status to tempfile.gettempdir(), but
GET /api/v3/sync/status read a hardcoded /tmp/led_matrix_sync_status.json
and defaulted the port to a literal 5765. Wherever TMPDIR is set (or on
any non-/tmp host) the page only ever showed "starting". The endpoint now
uses sync_manager.STATUS_FILE and SYNC_PORT.

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

* fix(http): the rankings resolver sends the project's User-Agent

DynamicTeamResolver fetched ESPN rankings with a bare requests.get, so
it sent python-requests' default User-Agent, which ESPN rejects; the
AP_TOP_N favourites then resolved to nothing. It now sends
DEFAULT_HTTP_HEADERS. BaseOddsManager carried its own copy of the
User-Agent string and now uses the same shared headers (which also adds
Accept-Language).

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

* fix(backup): record the core release and read the configured plugin dir

The manifest's ledmatrix_version came from a VERSION file that does not
exist, then from .git/HEAD: a 12-character sha, or "ref: refs/he" when
the branch's ref was packed. It is now src.__version__.

list_installed_plugins() scanned a hardcoded plugin-repos/, so on an
install whose plugin_system.plugins_directory points elsewhere, plugins
missing from plugin_state.json were left out of the backup. It now reads
the configured directory from config/config.json, defaulting to
plugin-repos.

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

* fix(startup): report a missing display section once

A config without a display section produced three errors for the one
problem ("Missing required configuration key: display", "Display
configuration is missing or empty" and "Display configuration is
missing"), and an empty one produced two. _validate_config now reports
it once, as a missing key or an empty section, and
_validate_display_config leaves it to that.

The module docstring said the validator fails fast; nothing in the
display service calls raise_on_errors(), so it now says the errors are
reported and startup continues.

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

* refactor(wifi): share the copied blocks and name the AP constants

- _parse_nmcli_wifi_list() is the one parser behind _scan_nmcli and
  _scan_nmcli_cached.
- _verify_connected(), _wait_for_device_idle(), _failsafe_ap() and
  _mark_forced() replace blocks that were pasted two or three times in
  the connect and enable-AP paths. The device-idle wait now checks
  before its first one-second sleep instead of after it.
- _check_command() calls _find_command_path() instead of repeating it.
- AP_IP, PORTAL_PORT, AP_PROFILE_NAME and AP_PROFILE_NAMES name values
  that were spelled out 14, 12, 8 and 2 times; the two deletion loops
  now walk the same tuple. The iwconfig status path compares the AP
  address exactly: startswith() also skipped 192.168.4.10-19.
- Dropped a second WIFI.SIGNAL query that repeated the first, a no-op
  "if ssid: continue", the try/except around _connect_wpa_supplicant's
  constant return, and a second save of a scan scan_networks already
  saves.
- _ensure_wifi_radio_enabled's docstring says it returns True when the
  radio state cannot be read at all.

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

* refactor(config): drop dead branches and history comments in ConfigManager

- The module docstring pointed plugin authors at update_plugin_config(),
  which does not exist; it now names save_config_atomic() and
  save_raw_file_content().
- load_config's FileNotFoundError handler tested the message for
  "config_secrets.json", but a missing secrets file is handled where it
  is read, so only config.json reaches it; the check is gone.
- save_raw_file_content's `file_type == "main" or "secrets"` guard was
  always true (anything else raised earlier).
- get_raw_file_content('secrets') already returns {} for a missing file,
  so the os.path.exists() in front of two calls to it is gone.
- Comments that narrated earlier behaviour are rewritten as what the
  code does now.

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

* refactor(background-data): present-tense comments, drop unused API

- Comments that told the history of each fix (what "used to" happen,
  "the old per-delivery release") now state the invariant the code keeps.
- get_statistics() no longer reports a constant 'queue_size': 0, and the
  uncalled clear_completed_requests() is gone (_cleanup_completed_requests
  does that job on every completion). Neither is referenced in core, the
  web UI or the plugin monorepo.

shutdown_background_service() has no production caller either, but it
is the only way to tear down the get_background_service() singleton,
which the tests rely on, so it stays.

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

* refactor(odds): drop the unread cache_ttl and merge the odds_data branches

BaseOddsManager loaded base_odds_manager.cache_ttl from config and never
used it: cached odds live for the update interval (get_odds' ttl=interval).
No core or monorepo code reads the attribute, so it is gone along with
its log line. The two consecutive `if odds_data:` blocks are one.

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

* refactor(backup): one table for the single-file sections

config, secrets, wifi and ytm_auth were each spelled out in create,
preview, validate and restore. _SINGLE_FILE_SECTIONS lists them once,
with the RestoreOptions flag that restores each, and all four walk it.
Restore error messages keep their wording ("Failed to restore
<file name>").

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

* refactor(fonts): drop FontManager's write-only state and duplicate logs

- fonts_config, font_metadata and font_dependencies were written and
  never read; the performance_stats keys font_load_times, render_times,
  total_renders and the per-call "resolve" timings
  (_record_performance_metric) likewise. get_performance_stats() reads
  only the counters that remain. Nothing in core or the plugin monorepo
  references any of them.
- A failed BDF load was logged twice, by _load_bdf_font and again by
  get_font; get_font's line is the one kept.
- Removed "NEW:" and commented-out cozette entries, the "Copy font to
  assets/fonts" comment on code that copies nothing, and local imports
  of names the module already imports. The deprecated add_font() now
  resolves assets/fonts against the install root.

The @deprecated methods stay.

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

* refactor(text-helper): cache loaded fonts; drop the pre-textlength fallback

TextHelper declared _font_cache, cleared it and reported its size, but
never stored anything in it. load_fonts() now keeps each (file, size)
it loads there, so clear_font_cache() and get_font_cache_stats() mean
what they say and repeated load_fonts() calls reuse the fonts.

get_text_width() no longer catches AttributeError for Pillow releases
without ImageDraw.textlength; requirements.txt pins Pillow>=12.2.
The class docstring describes what the helper does.

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

* docs(common): fix wrong docstrings in api_helper, permission_utils, snapshot_policy

- permission_utils called 0o2775 "sticky bit"; the 2 is setgid, which is
  what makes new files take the directory's group.
- snapshot_policy pointed at web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py, which
  is a package now; the health check is in api_v3/misc.py.
- APIHelper.clear_cache() lost a history note and a fallback to a
  clear() method that neither CacheManager nor the testing
  MockCacheManager has. The session headers are built from
  DEFAULT_HTTP_HEADERS instead of a copy of them, and the module
  docstring says what the module offers.

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

* docs(sports): present-tense comments in the shared scoreboard renderers

- sports_scroll and sports_game_renderer comments that referred to "this
  PR", "the old flat 128px card" or what the renderer "previously" did
  now describe the current behaviour and its reason.
- The block explaining why non-finite settings are rejected sat above
  _score_reserve_width; it describes _center_gap_width and now lives in
  it.
- unshare_element_fonts wrapped its import of font_layout.load_truetype
  in an `except ImportError` that cannot fire inside core; the import
  stays at call time so tests can spy on the pinned loader.
- sports_card docstrings that told the history of a fix say what the
  code does.

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

* refactor(sports-shared): drop dead code, name the ESPN limit

- _get_weeks_data asked for limit=1000, which fetch_espn_scoreboard
  clamps to ESPN_MAX_LIMIT anyway; it now names that constant. Its
  unused `immediate_events = []` is gone.
- _get_season_schedule_dates() returned ("", "") and has no caller in
  core or the plugin monorepo.
- _should_log keeps its warning_type parameter (part of the inherited
  signature, though nothing in core or the monorepo calls it) and its
  docstring says the cooldown is shared across types.
- An unused ImageFont import is gone.

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

* refactor(sync): one follower-mode switch, shared panel defaults

- The class docstring said the leader sends PNG frames. Frames go over
  UDP as raw RGB; PNG is only the Vegas scroll image sent over TCP. It
  now describes both paths.
- _enter_follower_mode() replaces the two copies of "note the leader,
  switch from standalone to follower, log, write status" in the frame
  and scroll-position handlers.
- The rows/cols fallbacks use DEFAULT_ROWS / DEFAULT_COLS from
  src.display_geometry, as chain_length already did.

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* refactor(style): drop _layout_axis, name the layout group title

- ElementStyleResolver._layout_axis() had no caller in core or the
  plugin monorepo.
- _element_block_from_spec checked spec['size'] was a dict again after
  size_spec already had; it reads size_spec.
- The "Layout Offsets" title written into three generated schema blocks
  is _LAYOUT_TITLE.

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* docs(logo-helper): say what the placeholder draws; name the 1.5 box factor

- _create_placeholder_logo's docstring said it draws the team
  abbreviation; it draws an outlined grey box and nothing else. The
  docstring says so, and the "in a real implementation you'd want text"
  comments are gone.
- The 1.5 x panel default logo box, written out six times, is
  DEFAULT_LOGO_BOX_FACTOR.
- ImageDraw is imported with Image at the top of the module.

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* refactor(logos): drop dead code and a duplicate regex in logo_downloader

- _SAFE_LEAGUE_CODE_RE was the same pattern as _SAFE_LEAGUE_RE; both
  checks use the one.
- get_logo_filename_variations reassigned the TA&M case to the list it
  already had; the function returns the two names directly.
- _get_team_name_variations() had no caller in core or the plugin
  monorepo.
- fetch_single_team's docstring was copied from fetch_teams_data; a log
  message read "for{team_id}".

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* refactor: drop the Pillow<9.1 resample shim and a catch-and-reraise

- adaptive_images fell back to Image.LANCZOS/NEAREST for Pillow < 9.1;
  requirements.txt pins Pillow>=12.2. RESAMPLE_LANCZOS and
  RESAMPLE_NEAREST keep their names (src.common re-exports them).
- CacheManager.save_cache caught CacheError only to re-raise it; the
  disk write is now called directly, with the same result.

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* test(api-helper): stop the real CacheManager's cleanup thread

The cache-lifetime tests built a CacheManager and left its cleanup
thread's class-wide claim on the directory in place, which broke
test_cache_cleanup_thread_ownership when it ran later in the session.
The fixture now stops the thread on teardown.

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* docs(changelog): core-common

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2026-09-24 17:32:29 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 b11bcfa204 fix(plugins): store and plugin-manager bugs; tidy src/plugin_system (#635)
* fix(store): don't read a ZIP-installed plugin's remote from the LEDMatrix repo

update_plugin looked up remote.origin.url with `git -C <plugin> config
--local` for plugins that are not git checkouts. Under plugin-repos/ git
walks up to the enclosing LEDMatrix repository, so the lookup returned
LEDMatrix's own URL and a plugin missing from the registry was
"reinstalled" from the LEDMatrix repo. Only ask git when the plugin
directory has its own .git, the test _get_local_git_info already uses.

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* fix(schema): report each missing required field once, by name

validate_config_against_schema ran its own required-fields loop after
Draft7Validator.iter_errors, which already yields one `required` error
per missing field, so every missing top-level field was listed twice.
The validator's copy also printed the schema's whole `required` list
("Missing required property '['api_key', 'city']'") instead of the field.
Drop the loop and take the field name from the error itself.

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* fix(store): stop mangling repository URLs that contain ".git"

install_from_url and fetch_registry_from_url cleaned URLs with
`rstrip('/').replace('.git', '')`, which removes ".git" anywhere:
https://github.com/user/my.github.io became .../myhub.io, so installing
or browsing that repository asked GitHub for one that does not exist.

Add src/plugin_system/repo_urls.py with one anchored normalize_repo_url(),
same_repo() for comparisons, github_owner_repo() and github_api_headers(),
and use them for the five copies of the owner/repo parsing and GitHub
headers in the store and for saved repositories. GitHub URLs are now
recognised by urlparse().hostname everywhere: _get_latest_commit_info
used a substring test, and _install_from_monorepo_api parsed any host.

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* fix(store): install a repository whose only branch is not main/master

_install_via_git returned None both when every clone failed and when the
last-resort clone of the repository's default branch succeeded.
_install_plugin_impl papered over it with `and not plugin_path.exists()`;
install_from_url did not, so a repository whose only branch is e.g.
`develop` was cloned, then treated as a failure, then "downloaded" from
main/master archives that do not exist.

After a default-branch clone, return the branch the clone checked out
(read from .git/HEAD), so None means failure and nothing else, and give
both callers the same `branch_used is None` fallback.

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* fix(plugins): judge the memory limit on each call's own growth

monitor_call stores `metrics.memory_mb = max(previous, growth)`, and
_check_limits compared that high-water mark with max_memory_mb. It never
decreases, so once one update() grew the process past the limit every
later call raised ResourceLimitExceeded and the circuit breaker kept
reopening. Pass the call's own RSS growth to _check_limits; keep the
high-water mark for reporting and document what it measures.

Remove ResourceMetrics.update_average_execution_time: nothing called it,
and it overwrote the running total with the average.

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* fix(plugins): reload_plugin re-reads the manifest from the discovered directory

reload_plugin read `plugins_dir / plugin_id / "manifest.json"`, ignoring
the discovery map and the plugin_dirs rules. For a plugin whose
directory name differs from its manifest id the path did not exist, the
re-read was skipped without a word, and the reload kept the stale
manifest. Resolve the directory with find_plugin_directory, as
load_plugin does.

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* fix(plugins): drop the always-null last_display from plugin state info

PluginStateManager reported `last_display` from `_last_display`, which
nothing ever wrote, so it was null for every plugin. Recording it in
PluginExecutor.execute_display would not help: get_state_info's only
reader is the web process, whose PluginManager never calls display().
Remove the field, its dict and get_last_display() (no caller in core,
the web UI or the plugin monorepo).

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* refactor(store): share the rollback and requirements helpers, drop dead code

- install_plugin and _reinstall_with_rollback set aside, discard and
  restore the old copy through _set_aside/_discard_backup/_restore_backup
  instead of two copies of the same blocks.
- The loader and the store run the same pre-pip checks through
  contained_plugin_dir() and requirements_to_install() in plugin_loader.
  They still invoke pip differently (sys.executable -m pip vs. the sudo
  wrapper). `except (BrokenPipeError, OSError)` + `isinstance(e, OSError)`
  becomes `except OSError` checking errno.EPIPE.
- load_module never returns None, so load_plugin's check is gone and the
  docstring says what it raises.
- Remove the always-true JSONSCHEMA_AVAILABLE, the inline re-imports of
  re and permission_utils, the fake status_result object nobody reads,
  hasattr(git_error, 'cmd'), a redundant "merge conflict" test and
  `import traceback` (exc_info=True does it).
- Correct comments: install_from_url names the directory for the
  caller's id when given (not always the manifest id), _get_local_git_info
  saves one git subprocess (not four), _enrich calls two helpers,
  search_plugins documents all its arguments, _find_plugin_path states
  its behaviour instead of a TODO, and history narration is gone.

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* refactor(plugins): tidy base_plugin, correct plugin_manager/state comments

- base_plugin: drop the unused `import logging`; get_display_duration
  runs the instance value and the config value through one
  _positive_seconds() helper instead of two copies of the coercion; the
  'static'/'none'/fallback branches of get_vegas_display_mode, which all
  returned FIXED_SEGMENT, are one; fix the mis-indented validate_config
  example; say that get_supported_vegas_modes/get_vegas_segment_width
  are not consulted by core (kept, plugins override them).
- schema_manager: import expand_style_elements normally rather than
  swallowing an ImportError of a core module.
- plugin_manager: the plugins directory is the configured one
  (plugin-repos/ by default), not plugins/; get_config() returns the live
  dict, not a copy, so the interval cache comments say what it saves.
- state_manager: config_version and the file version are not used to
  detect corruption; say what they are.

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* refactor(plugins): stop writing data/plugin_operations.json

PluginOperationQueue wrote its finished-operation history to
data/plugin_operations.json after every operation, and read it back only
into its own in-memory list, which only get_operation_history() exposes
-- and nothing calls that. The operation-history endpoint reads
OperationHistory (data/operation_history.json). No code in src/,
web_interface/, scripts/ or test/ reads the file.

Drop the history_file/lazy_load parameters and the load/save code; the
bounded in-memory history stays. web_interface/app.py and the
integration test stop passing the removed arguments. An existing
data/plugin_operations.json is left in place (data/* is gitignored).

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* docs(changelog): plugin-system

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2026-09-24 17:32:02 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 ece416c4e5 refactor(plugins): one plugin-directory resolver (#623)
* refactor(plugins): one resolver for plugin id -> directory

Five places mapped a plugin id to its directory, each with its own rules
and each re-reading manifests per lookup: PluginManager discovery and
get_plugin_directory, PluginLoader.find_plugin_directory,
PluginStoreManager._find_plugin_path / list_installed_plugins, and
state_reconciliation.disk_plugin_ids. They disagreed on backup dirs,
on whether the manifest id or the directory name is the id, on duplicate
ids and on path safety.

src/plugin_system/plugin_dirs.py now holds the rules once:
PluginDirectoryIndex scans one directory and reads each manifest once;
resolve_plugin_dir() searches directories in order. What legitimately
differs per caller is an explicit argument: search dirs (discovery and
the loader: configured dir only; the store: configured then sibling
plugins/), ledmatrix- prefix (not for the store), case folding (loader
only), manifest pass (not for get_plugin_directory, whose discovery map
already holds it).

Behaviour changes, all for layouts installs do not produce:
- a directory whose manifest declares the id beats one merely named for
  it (discovery already worked this way; the loader and store now agree)
- the store searches the configured dir completely before plugins/
- backup and hidden dirs are skipped everywhere (the loader's case and
  manifest scans and list_installed_plugins used to return them)
- duplicate ids resolve deterministically (exact name, then
  ledmatrix-<id>, then by name) with a one-time warning; discovery no
  longer lists the id twice
- disk_plugin_ids / list_installed_plugins report manifest ids, falling
  back to the directory name; auto-update looks the directory up
- ids that are not one plain path segment resolve to nothing in every
  caller (the loader used to truncate them, the store to join them)

The .standalone-backup- marker is one constant, BACKUP_MARKER, used by
store_manager's rename-aside names and every lookup.

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* docs(changelog): one plugin-directory resolver

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2026-09-24 15:52:52 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 afe9001aed refactor(fonts): one BDF loader and one BDF rasterizer (#627)
* refactor(fonts): one BDF loader and one BDF rasterizer

BDF faces were loaded three ways (FontManager._load_bdf_font,
element_style._load_bdf, DisplayManager._load_fonts) and drawn by two
copies of the same per-pixel loop (DisplayManager._draw_bdf_text and the
plugin test harness's "replicated" copy), which golden images and
check_plugin/dev_server previews rely on matching the panel.

src/common/bdf_font.py now owns both:
- load_bdf_face(path, size) -> (face, realised_px): native-strike fallback
  for sizes the file lacks, one bounded LRU cache keyed on path, size and
  mtime. FontManager, element_style and DisplayManager delegate to it;
  read_bdf_native_size moves here (the old names delegate).
- draw_bdf_text(draw, text, x, y, face, color, clip): builds each glyph as
  a 1-bit mask and fills it with ImageDraw.bitmap instead of a draw.point
  per pixel. A blending Draw (RGB image, "RGBA" mode) keeps the point path
  so translucent colours still blend.

Pixel-identical: 220,032 renders (every bundled BDF at native and
off-strike sizes, 14 strings, 4 colours, clipped on every edge, through
each old loader x rasterizer) match origin/main byte for byte.
test/test_bdf_font.py keeps a lightweight version against a frozen copy of
the old loop. DisplayManager._draw_bdf_text goes from 1.4-23 ms to about
0.1 ms per string (the old loop re-read FreeType's buffer as a Python list
for every pixel).

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* fix(testing): harness calendar_font is sized like the panel's

VisualTestDisplayManager built its 5x7 calendar_font / bdf_5x7_font as a
bare freetype.Face. With no size set its ascender reads 0, so BDF text
drawn with it landed 6px above where DisplayManager draws it -- entirely
off the canvas at y=0 -- and get_font_height() returned 0. Golden images
and check_plugin / dev_server previews showed text the panel does not.

Load it through load_bdf_face at the panel's 7px, so it is the very face
DisplayManager uses. Across the differential run this changes only the
cases drawn with the harness's own calendar_font (968 of 220,032), which
now match the panel's output.

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* fix(fonts): one BDF face per thread

The shared face cache now hands every loader (FontManager, element_style,
DisplayManager, the harness) the same freetype.Face. FreeType does not allow
two threads to use one face at once, since load_char rewrites its glyph
slot, so key the cache by thread as well.

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2026-09-24 15:51:53 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 f3894916a9 feat(web): show which plugins use each font; warn before deleting one (#619)
* feat(web): show which plugins use each font, warn before deleting one

The Fonts tab lists font files from the web process's own scan, and the
plugins that register fonts run in the display process, so the tab had no
way to say whether a font was in use before deleting it.

The display service now publishes {catalog key: [plugin ids]} to the
shared cache (font_usage_snapshot, src/font_usage.py), built from the
loaded plugins' FontManager.register_manager_font() registrations. A
daemon thread checks every 10 s and writes only when the usage changed
(plus a daily refresh so cache cleanup cannot expire it); it never raises.
Families, aliases (press_start, four_by_six, ...) and paths are resolved
through FontManager's catalog to the file stem the Fonts tab keys rows by;
fonts outside assets/fonts are left out. Unloading a plugin drops its
registrations (new FontManager.forget_manager_fonts).

GET /api/v3/fonts/catalog merges used_by into each row per request (the
5-minute scan cache is copied, never edited): a list of plugin ids, or
null when the display service has not reported. The tab shows a Used by
column ("unknown" / "-" / ids, rendered as text) and deleting an in-use
font names the plugins in the confirmation, from a fresh read. The server
still refuses only system fonts. Catalog fetches bypass the browser's
5-second API cache, which otherwise served the pre-delete list.

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* fix: call forget_manager_fonts through a hasattr check pylint can follow

getattr(..., None) then callable() is fine at runtime, but pylint's E1102
("not callable") can't see through it, and Codacy fails the check on it.

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2026-09-23 16:50:42 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 61e462c635 refactor: remove the skin system and the unused src/base_classes package (#615)
* refactor: remove the skin system

Skins never rendered with the current scoreboard plugins: the only hook was
SportsCore._render_game in src/base_classes, which no plugin builds on, so
the UI and store already treated them as unsupported. The owner decided on
2026-09-23 to remove them outright.

Removed src/skin_system/ (runtime, base class, fixtures), skins/,
scripts/validate_skin.py and their tests; the store's "type": "skin"
installer, uninstaller and hide/refuse filters (the official registry lists
no skins); SchemaManager.inject_skin_selector; and GET /api/v3/skins.

Stored skin/skin_options config values are handled in the next commit.

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* fix(config): drop retired skin/skin_options keys instead of validating them

A config.json written while the skin system existed can carry skin and
skin_options in any plugin section, and most plugin schemas set
additionalProperties: false. They are no longer core plugin properties;
RETIRED_PLUGIN_KEYS in schema_manager lists them and
drop_retired_plugin_keys removes them (unless the plugin's own schema
declares the name) in prepare_plugin_config, which loading, hot reload,
GET /plugins/config and both web saves already share, and in
validate_config_against_schema for callers that validate a raw section.
POST /plugins/config and /config/main also drop them from the stored
section they merge into, so they leave config.json on the next save.

Tests cover the load path (real PluginManager.load_plugin: no schema
warning, not degraded), raw and prepared validation,
validate_all_plugin_configs, and the JSON, form and /config/main saves.

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* refactor: remove the unused src/base_classes package

No scoreboard plugin builds on src.base_classes: the nine monorepo
scoreboards ship their own sports.py and share code through src/common
(docs/SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md), and none of the third-party registry plugins
imports it. The one import anywhere, baseball-scoreboard's
rankings_manager.py, is a lazy import of ESPNDataSource in a class nothing
instantiates.

Removed the package and the eight test files that only tested it
(test_api_extractors, test_data_sources, test_sports_base_characterization,
test_sports_capabilities, test_sports_core_promotions,
test_sports_logo_cache_bounded, test_sports_modes_promotions,
test_sports_odds_fanout). test_common_is_hardware_free no longer lists
src.base_classes as a forbidden import, and comments in sports_helpers.py
and base_odds_manager.py stop pointing at it.

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* docs: drop the skin system and src/base_classes from the docs

Deletes docs/SKIN_SYSTEM.md and docs/CREATING_SKINS.md and every link to
them (docs/README.md, README.md, PLUGIN_DEVELOPMENT_GUIDE.md, the /skins
section of REST_API_REFERENCE.md), the skin section of CLAUDE.md and the
term in PRODUCT.md. SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md now says src/base_classes was
removed and shared code lives in src/common, in the Layering section and
the view-model-contract rule. Other docs stop pointing at the removed
package. CHANGELOG records both removals under Unreleased.

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* fix(store): hide and refuse registry entries that aren't plugins

The skin filters went with the skin system, but a custom registry can still
list "type": "skin" entries, and installing one as a plugin would unpack it
into the plugins directory. PluginStoreManager.is_plugin_entry() (a missing
type means plugin) now hides non-plugin entries from the store and
custom-registry listings, and install refuses them, in the route with a
clear 400 and in _install_plugin_impl for any other caller.

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2026-09-23 16:33:24 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 604f58ff07 feat: deprecate unused plugin-facing methods for removal in 3.7.0 (#610)
35 methods on CacheManager, DisplayManager, FontManager and PluginManager
have no caller in core, the ledmatrix-plugins monorepo or the registry's
third-party plugins, but plugins live elsewhere, so they stay for one
release. src.deprecation.deprecated logs a warning (and emits a
DeprecationWarning) the first time each is called in a process, naming the
release that removes it. The list and replacements are in CHANGELOG and
PLUGIN_API_REFERENCE's new Deprecated APIs section; a test pins the set.

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2026-09-23 12:44:55 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 84afa9d64f refactor: delete dead Python code in the core (and stop storing Wi-Fi passwords) (#608)
* refactor(plugins): remove the no-op PluginHealthMonitor

Its monitor loop did nothing (`if callbacks: pass`), register_health_check
had no callers and api_v3.health_monitor was never read by any route. The
live health data comes from PluginHealthTracker, which is untouched.

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* refactor(store): drop the never-set uninstall tombstones

Nothing in production called mark_recently_uninstalled, so the
reconciler's was_recently_uninstalled check was always False. The
persistent uninstall registry is what actually stops resurrection; the
reconciler test now exercises that gate instead.

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* refactor(common): delete unused config/display/game helpers, utils and error_handler

Nothing in core, the web UI, scripts or the plugin monorepo imports
config_helper, display_helper, game_helper, utils or error_handler; only
their own tests did. The error_handler re-exports leave src.common's
__all__; APIHelper, TextHelper, ScrollHelper, LogoHelper and the adaptive
layout exports are unchanged.

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* refactor(config): drop ConfigService's unused versioning and save API

ConfigVersion, get_version/get_version_history/get_version_config,
rollback, save_config, reload, get_plugin_config and the backward-compat
load_config/get_config_path/get_secrets_path had no callers. The display
controller only uses get_config, subscribe, unsubscribe and shutdown,
plus the file watcher. Change detection now compares against the
current checksum instead of the last history entry.

The subscriber tests asserted `callback.called or True`; they now
reload the way the watcher does and assert the notification.

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* refactor(plugins): drop unread plugin state history and callbacks

plugin_state.PluginStateManager kept a bounded per-plugin transition
history that only get_state_history (tests only) read; get_state_info
reports a separate lifetime count, which stays. set_error_info and
record_display had no callers, and set_state_with_error's `error`
argument only fed the history.

The web-side state_manager.PluginStateManager loses
subscribe_to_state_changes, _notify_callbacks, set_plugin_error and
get_state_version, none of which had callers; with no subscribers the
old-state copy in update_plugin_state went with them.

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* refactor(plugins): remove unused PluginManager methods and attribute guards

update_all_plugins was only called by a test (the display loop uses
run_scheduled_updates); get_plugin_health_metrics,
get_plugin_resource_metrics and get_plugin_state had no callers; and
plugin_modules was written but never read. plugin_directories is now
initialised in __init__, so the hasattr() guards around it go.

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* refactor(plugins): remove unused executor, loader, store and package helpers

- PluginExecutor.execute_safe: no callers.
- PluginLoader._parse_semver: only its own tests; compatibility.parse_semver
  is the live copy and test_compatibility.py already covers it.
- PluginStoreManager.get_installed_plugin_info: no callers.
- PluginResourceMonitor._local: never read.
- src.plugin_system.get_store_manager and __api_version__: no importers in
  core, scripts or the plugin monorepo.

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* fix(wifi): stop storing Wi-Fi passwords in wifi_config.json

WiFiManager appended every joined network's SSID and password, in
plaintext, to saved_networks in config/wifi_config.json, and nothing
(web UI, backup restore, scripts) ever read them back: NetworkManager
keeps its own credentials. The writes are gone, and loading the config
now drops any saved_networks key and rewrites the file, so passwords
already on disk are scrubbed.

Also removes _check_dnsmasq_conflict (never called) and _detect_trixie,
whose result only reached one log line, along with the
NM_CONNECTIONS_PATHS constant only it used.

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* refactor(display): remove unreachable and unused DisplayController code

- _follower_rebuild_scroll_image: never called.
- mode_duration (never read) and last_mode_change (write-only).
- The `chosen_cap <= 0` branch: chosen_cap is either the minimum of
  caps already filtered to > 0 or DEFAULT_DYNAMIC_DURATION_CAP (180).
- The `max_duration < min_duration` branch directly after
  `max_duration = max(min_duration, max_duration)`.
- The circuit-breaker branch's `display_result = False` and
  `manager_to_display = None`: the first is overwritten a few lines
  later, the second is already None there.
- The bool-to-bool conversion of execute_display's result, which is
  always a bool.
- The `loaded_plugins` lookup in _update_modules: PluginManager has no
  such attribute, so it always fell through to `plugins`.

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* refactor(vegas): remove unused config update, boundary finder and refresh

VegasModeConfig.update had no callers outside its own tests (the
coordinator rebuilds the config with from_config on a change);
geometry.find_item_boundary and StreamManager._refresh_plugin_content
had no callers at all.

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* refactor(run): drop the debug block that pretended to import the plugin system

In debug mode run.py put src/plugin_system itself on sys.path and printed
"Plugin system import successful" without importing anything. Nothing
imports plugin_system modules by bare name, so the path entry did
nothing either.

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

* test: delete tests that test nothing

- test/plugins/test_{basketball_scoreboard,calendar,clock_simple,
  odds_ticker,soccer_scoreboard,text_display}.py skip everywhere the named
  plugins are not installed, including CI (LEDMATRIX_PLUGINS_DIR holds only
  the fixture plugin); test_plugin_matrix.py already covers every
  discovered plugin. Their PluginTestBase and the fixtures only it used
  (plugins_dir, mock_display_manager, mock_cache_manager,
  mock_plugin_manager, base_plugin_config in test/plugins/conftest.py) go
  with them.
- test_plugin_system.py: test_discover_plugins (body was `pass`) and
  test_dependency_check (a comment), plus the test_plugin_manager fixture
  only the former requested.
- test_display_manager.py: test_draw_image asserted that an image it had
  just assigned was not None.
- test_display_controller.py: the rotation and schedule-override tests
  re-implemented the run-loop arithmetic inline and asserted on their own
  result without calling the controller.

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* test: expect one plugin_last_update success stamp after update_all_plugins

EveryStampRecordsACompletion required at least two success-path stamps;
the second was update_all_plugins, removed as test-only. The worker and
synchronous paths share the remaining stamp in _execute_update_now, and
the check that every stamp calls _note_update_completed is unchanged.

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2026-09-23 12:36:26 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 116abb0daa fix: September 16 core audit — partial saves, asset path safety, auto-update, display settings the library refuses, scroll speed (#595)
* fix(sports): share the ESPN rejected-range memo with the background service

BackgroundDataService always sent a season range first and, on a 400,
fell back to chunks without recording the rejection, so every background
season fetch spent a doomed request and live scoreboards learned nothing
from it (or it from them). The worker now consults and sets the same
6-hour memo fetch_espn_scoreboard() uses: a known rejection goes straight
to month/day chunks, and if every chunk fails the range is asked once for
a real error without re-spending the chunks.

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

* fix(web): keep plugin asset and action routes inside their directories

POST /plugins/assets/upload, GET /plugins/assets/list and POST
/plugins/assets/delete joined the request's plugin_id onto assets/plugins
unchecked, so '../../config' created, wrote, listed and deleted outside
it. #561 guarded only the route that serves the files. All three now go
through path_safety.resolve_under and answer 400 for anything but a
plain name, and delete only unlinks a metadata path that resolves into
that plugin's uploads directory.

PluginManager.get_plugin_directory refuses ids that are not one plain
path segment, so /plugins/action (which runs a manifest script from the
returned directory) and every other caller get the guard; the action
route also rejects such ids up front, covering its no-manager fallback.

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

* fix(web): report a no-op plugin update as already up to date

update_plugin() returns True both for a real update and for "nothing to
do" (a ZIP-installed monorepo plugin already at the registry version, a
bundled plugin). With no git commit to compare, POST /plugins/update
called every such success "updated successfully", so Check & Update All
counted most official plugins as updated on every run.

The route now reads what changed off the plugin itself (commit, else
manifest version, else last_updated) and returns data.update_status
(updated / up_to_date / local_only). The update-all toast is summarised
by PluginInstallManager.summarizeUpdateResults from that status, falling
back to the message for older servers.

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

* fix(sports): scoreboard scroll speed no longer follows target_fps

sports_scroll computed the crisp speed ladder against the global
target_fps whenever limit_refresh_rate_hz was the 100 Hz default. Since
frame-locked presentation (#545) the helper steps a fixed number of whole
pixels per presented frame and the panel presents at its real refresh, so
the General tab's "Scroll Frame Rate" became a speed multiplier: 60 ran a
50 px/s scoreboard at 100 px/s, 200 ran it at 25 px/s.

The ladder now uses the display manager's refresh_hz, then
display.hardware.limit_refresh_rate_hz, then the default. target_fps is
not consulted. Docstrings now say scroll_delay is ignored for pacing (no
behaviour change there) and describe the fixed-step model.

Tests: replace the tests that pinned target_fps as the ladder refresh and
described time-based stepping; assert speed independence from target_fps
(unit and end-to-end presented px/s against the real helper), that the
fixed per-frame step is applied, and that scroll_delay does not change
speed.

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

* fix(web): escape registry and upload values in plugin manager inline handlers

The store, saved-repository and custom-registry buttons built
onclick='...(${JSON.stringify(id)})...'. JSON.stringify leaves ' alone,
so a custom registry entry whose id contained ' closed the attribute and
added its own handler. One helper, jsStringAttr(), now HTML-escapes the
JSON literal for every one of those handlers, and the store View button
opens only http(s) repo links.

The live window.updateImageList (plugins_manager.js loads last, so its
copy wins over the file-upload widget's) wrote the uploaded file's
original name, path and ids into markup raw; they are escaped now.

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

* docs(changelog): note plugin asset, action and inline handler guards

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

* fix(update): let the root pip wrapper install web_interface/requirements.txt

Update Code, the automatic update's health check and Install Base
Requirements install web_interface/requirements.txt through
safe_pip_install.sh, which only allowed the root requirements.txt. The
first commit changing that file would fail its dependency install, and
the automatic updater rolls back any update whose dependencies did not
install -- on every device, for every newer commit.

The wrapper now lists both core requirement files. Only their folders
are resolved, so a requirements.txt symlinked out of the project is
compared by its target and refused (previously the root file's own
symlink target was what got allowed). The updater's file list is a
named constant, and a test runs the real wrapper (pip stubbed) on
every file Update Code and the rollback install.

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

* fix(web): do not retry plugin requests that got an HTTP answer

PluginAPI.request wrapped everything that was not a structured error as
NETWORK_ERROR: a proxy's 502 HTML page (response.json() throws) and a
JSON error without error_code included. Check & Update All retries
NETWORK_ERROR, so those updates were re-sent five more times with
backoff, contrary to the #587 contract that an HTTP error response is
the server's answer.

NETWORK_ERROR now means only that fetch() rejected. Any HTTP response
without an error_code, or with a body that is not JSON, is API_ERROR
with the HTTP status attached. Tested against the shipped api_client.js.

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

* fix(scroll): restart the stats window when an idle gap is dropped by size

#582 dropped an idle gap from the frame stats two ways: the reset_scroll()
sentinel, which also restarts the 5s window timer, and a size guard for
scrollers that never call reset_scroll(), which did not. On that path the
first real frame after the gap found the boundary overdue and logged a
stats line for a one-frame window. Both paths now share one seeding helper.

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

* fix(update): leave plugins alone when update_core's own rollback fails

update_core returns rollback_failed directly when a partial pull or an
update whose health check never started cannot be rolled back. run()
only held plugins back for 'verifying', so those devices still got new
plugin versions and a display restart on top of a core in an unknown
state -- the opposite of what the health-check path does, and of the
3.4.0 changelog (plugins are left alone if the rollback fails).

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

* docs(api): make the REST reference match the api_v3 package

Every documented request body, query parameter and response shape was
re-checked against the handlers in web_interface/blueprints/api_v3/.
Fixes calls that failed as documented (repo_url, action_id/params,
files/image_id, font_file+font_family, ?font=, cache key,
auto_enable_ap_mode, plugin limit keys), removes the font-override
endpoints dropped in #566, corrects response shapes (plugins/config,
plugins/schema, health, metrics, operation history, github-status,
fonts/catalog, cache/list, logs, wifi, on-demand, SSE streams), and adds
the 26 routes it omitted (backup, system auto-update/git, wifi radio,
starlark editor, MQTT bridge, status endpoints, skins).

Documents the merge semantics of partial JSON saves to /config/main and
/plugins/config and the dim-schedule POST accepting GET's days shape,
which land in the same change set. Replaces app.py line numbers and the
removed api_v3.py path with file and function names.

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

* fix(web): remove the General-tab plugin system toggles that did nothing

plugin_system.auto_discover, auto_load_enabled and development_mode had
General-tab toggles whose help tips promised dormant plugins and verbose
logging, but nothing reads them: every enabled plugin is discovered and
loaded regardless. Remove the three toggles.

The keys stay tolerated in stored configs. The save handler now stores
a flag only when a client sends it; treating a missing key as an
unchecked box would otherwise rewrite all three to false on every
General-tab save, which still posts plugins_directory.

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

* refactor(scroll): remove dead code left by #523/#570

- Drop the optional scipy.ndimage import and HAS_SCIPY; nothing read
  them since the numpy blend replaced the scipy path.
- Drop ScrollHelper._last_integer_position and frame_time_target, which
  were written but never read.
- Keep target_fps and set_target_fps() but document them as
  informational: nothing paces off them, yet ledmatrix-elections'
  test_scroll_pacing.py reads helper.target_fps back and third-party
  plugins may call the setter.
- Fix stale comments: fixed_pixels_per_frame's "use scroll_delay to
  throttle", set_sub_pixel_scrolling's "default: True", and
  set_frame_based_scrolling's claim that it steps.

The plugins monorepo was grepped for every removed name; none is used.

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

* docs(fonts): point plugins at plugin_manager.font_manager; drop removed overrides UI

FONT_MANAGER.md told plugins to read display_manager.font_manager, which
does not exist, so a plugin following it failed to load with
AttributeError. The shared FontManager lives on the PluginManager and
BasePlugin._get_font_manager() returns it (with a fallback for harnesses).

Also removes the Fonts-tab override workflow and element-override panels
that #566 deleted, from FONT_MANAGER.md and WEB_INTERFACE_GUIDE.md.

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

* docs(store): search via /plugins/store/list?query=; send Content-Type on registry curls

/plugins/store/search does not exist (404) and the list endpoint reads
query, not q. The registry guide's curl examples omitted the JSON
Content-Type, so the handlers saw an empty body and answered 400.

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* fix(config): use the shared core-key list in the last three private copies

StartupValidator warned "Plugin 'auto_update' is enabled but not found" on
every display start with auto-update or a dim schedule on; the reserved
plugin-id check missed auto_update, sync, location and the rest; and
ConfigManager's (uncalled) orphan cleanup would have deleted display,
schedule and auto_update. All three now read src/core_config_keys.py, which
also gains CORE_SECRETS_KEYS for the github/youtube secrets sections.

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

* fix(web): partial JSON saves to /config/main change only what they send

A JSON body with one field reset every checkbox in the sections it touched:
the MQTT bridge's brightness slider turned off disable_hardware_pulsing,
inverse_colors, show_refresh_rate and use_short_date_format, and a
timezone-only save turned off web-UI autostart and weekly auto-updates.
Missing-means-unchecked now applies only to form posts: form-encoded bodies
and the v3 forms, which mark themselves with a hidden __form_section input.

Also on the config routes:
- vegas_min/max_cycle_duration no longer match the generic *_duration rule,
  so they stop landing in display_durations and a blank one no longer
  rejects the whole Display save;
- saving from the Raw JSON editor calls start_setup_if_needed like the
  General form, so enabling auto-update there finishes its setup;
- the schedule and dim-schedule POSTs accept the per-day days.<day> shape
  their GETs return, as well as the flat form keys.

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

* fix(scripts): install plugin dependencies from the configured plugins directory

install_plugin_dependencies.sh scanned only plugins/, but the Plugin
Store installs into plugin_system.plugins_directory (default
plugin-repos), so the documented "Recommended" fix found 0 plugins on
every store install. It now reads plugins_directory from
config/config.json (relative to the project root or absolute, default
plugin-repos) and also scans plugins/ for dev symlinks, installing a
plugin reached through both only once.

With set -e alone, `pip ... | tee` took tee's exit status, so a failed
pip install was reported as success; set -o pipefail.

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* docs: replace stale API names, line numbers and the api_v3.py path

- ADVANCED_FEATURES: StreamManager methods that exist
  (get_next_segment, take_next_group, refresh, advance_cycle, ...), and the
  real on-demand status envelope ({status, data: {state, service}})
- app.py:199 / :144 / :607-619 line citations and
  web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py (now a package) replaced with file and
  function names in ADVANCED_FEATURES, CONFIG_DEBUGGING,
  PLUGIN_ARCHITECTURE_SPEC, PLUGIN_QUICK_REFERENCE,
  PLUGIN_CONFIGURATION_TABS, TROUBLESHOOTING and web_interface/README
- CONFIG_DEBUGGING: partial /config/main saves change only sent keys; use
  /config/raw/main to replace the file; describe where validation runs
- TROUBLESHOOTING: clear_cache.py needs --clear-all (no args only prints
  usage)

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* fix(scripts): verify the web interface that actually ships, on port 5000

verify_installation.sh failed every healthy install: it required the
long-removed web_interface_v2.py and looked for a listener on port 5001,
while the web interface binds 5000 (web_interface/start.py). It now
checks the files ledmatrix-web.service runs (start_web_conditionally.py,
web_interface/start.py, app.py) and port 5000. verify_web_ui.sh had the
same 5001 port in its listen check, HTTP probe and printed URLs.

Port matches are anchored so :50001 no longer counts as :5000.

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* docs(plugins): one display-size contract: display_manager.width/height

CLAUDE.md (#580) says to read display_manager.width/height because
matrix is None when hardware init fails; the development guide, the
safety-harness doc and two DisplayManager docstrings still recommended
matrix.width/height. The bundled starlark-apps plugin read matrix.width
unguarded, so its magnify recommendation and frame scaling raised in
fallback mode (e.g. after the Pi 5 hardware refusal).

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* fix(install): make install_service.sh --help print usage instead of installing

install_service.sh parsed no arguments, so `sudo ./scripts/install/
install_service.sh --help` (presented as harmless in MIGRATION_GUIDE.md)
rewrote ledmatrix.service, ledmatrix-web.service and both update-verify
units and enabled/started them. It now handles -h/--help (usage, exit 0,
no changes) and rejects any other argument with exit 2 before doing
anything. Running it with no arguments, as first_time_install.sh does,
is unchanged.

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* docs(scroll): describe the fixed-step model and document frame_hold

Since #545 a crisp speed from scroll_config.configure() makes the helper
advance a fixed whole-pixel step per presented frame with no clock, and the
display manager's frame hold is part of the speed. The docs still described
the removed wall-clock model:

- scroll_config's module and configure() docstrings said speed is applied
  in time-based mode and that omitting the hold "falls back to fractional
  pixels"; omitting it actually runs the scroll frame_hold times too fast.
- SCROLL_PERFORMANCE.md said ScrollHelper accumulates elapsed time in both
  modes, and read a 20 ms stats median as missed refreshes although that
  is a healthy 50 px/s (hold 2) scroll. It now explains the fixed step,
  the hold-dependent healthy median, that target_fps plays no part, and
  that a hand-added scroll_pixels_per_second loses to a schema-default pair.
- PLUGIN_API_REFERENCE.md documented set_scrolling_state(is_scrolling)
  without frame_hold; it now documents the parameter (core 3.4.0) with a
  configure() + set_scrolling_state example.
- update_scroll_position/set_scroll_speed and set_scrolling_state
  docstrings say the same.

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* docs(config): mark target_fps legacy; describe what Vegas scroll_delay does

- General tab "Scroll Frame Rate" (target_fps) is labelled legacy: after
  the sports_scroll fix nothing in core scrolling reads it. The field and
  its API validation stay so saved configs and plugins that read
  global_config['target_fps'] keep working. CONFIG_REFERENCE says the same.
- Vegas frame_based_scrolling/scroll_delay were described as frame-count
  stepping at ~50 FPS. Neither steps nor sets a frame rate: frame-based
  mode converts the speed to px per scroll_delay, clamps it to 0.1-5, and
  still advances by elapsed time, so the applied speed is
  clamp(scroll_speed * scroll_delay, 0.1, 5) / scroll_delay px/s. The
  config comments, render_pipeline comment and CONFIG_REFERENCE rows now
  say so. No behaviour change.

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* docs(deps): describe how plugin dependencies are really installed

The guides said the web service runs as root, that installs pick --user
from os.geteuid(), and quoted a warning and a
PluginManager._install_plugin_dependencies() method that don't exist. The
web unit runs as the installing user; store installs go through
install_requirements_file() and sudo safe_pip_install.sh (root), with a
user-level fallback that says so, and load-time installs run in the
display service's own (root) interpreter.

Manual paths now use the configured plugins directory (plugin-repos/ by
default) instead of plugins/, which store installs no longer use, and
install_plugin_dependencies.sh is described as scanning that directory.

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* fix(update): count local changes one way for the preflight and the pull

The automatic update's preflight ignored mode-only changes and anything
whose status line contained plugins/ or plugin-repos/, then promised
"Automatic updates will not stash your changes". perform_core_update
used plain git status (modes count) and ignored only 'plugins/', then
ran 'git stash push -- :!plugins', which nothing ever pops. So an edit
to a bundled plugin under plugin-repos/, or the installer's chmods on
tracked scripts, passed the preflight and was stashed away for good.

- auto_update.local_changes() is the one predicate both use:
  core.fileMode=false, porcelain -z, and plugins/ and plugin-repos/
  excluded by leading folder rather than substring (a core file under
  web_interface/static/v3/js/plugins/ now counts).
- Update Code's explicit stash leaves out both plugin folders; the
  pull's --autostash carries their edits and mode changes across and
  reapplies them.
- The automatic updater calls perform_core_update(stash_local_changes=
  False), which refuses instead of stashing edits that appeared after
  the preflight; update_core reports that as 'blocked'.

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* fix(scripts): diagnostics follow the web autostart default and api_v3 package

#556 made a missing web_display_autostart mean "start" (only an explicit
false/off keeps the web interface down), but the diagnostics still said
otherwise: diagnose_web_ui.sh reported a missing key as "defaults to
false", diagnose_web_interface.sh said the web interface "will not start
unless this is set to true" and recommended enabling it, and
debug_web_manual.py printed False. Troubleshooting a down web UI pointed
users at a non-cause.

Both shell scripts now evaluate the setting with the launcher's own
autostart_enabled() (inline fallback if it cannot be imported) and report
on / off / not set (on) / unparseable config; debug_web_manual.py uses
the same function. They also check web_interface/blueprints/api_v3/
__init__.py: api_v3.py became a package in #553, so every healthy
checkout was reported as missing a file.

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* docs(install): what install_service.sh installs; verify script port; no sudo for --help

install_service.sh installs and starts ledmatrix, ledmatrix-web and the
update-verify units, not only ledmatrix.service (systemd/README.md,
README.md). MIGRATION_GUIDE presented 'sudo install_service.sh --help'
as a harmless check; it now shows --help without sudo and warns what a
real run does. SSH_UNAVAILABLE_AFTER_INSTALL: verify_installation.sh
checks the web interface on port 5000.

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* docs(changelog): note update-all, plugin system settings and script fixes

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

* fix(display): size the preview after orientation and pixel mappers

display_geometry.physical_size claimed to give DisplayManager's answer but
only computed cols*chain x rows*parallel. RGBMatrix.width/height are measured
after the library's pixel mappers, so a Rotate:90 / orientation 90 chain
previewed 128x32 for a 32x128 panel and a U-mapper chain of four 256x32 for
128x64.

Model the built-in mappers' size effect as the pinned lib/pixel-mapper.cc
does (Rotate, U-mapper, V-mapper, StackToRow, Remap; Mirror and unknown
names leave it alone), and move the orientation composition here so
DisplayManager and the preview share it. The module docstring no longer
claims the sync handshake uses it; that imports only DEFAULT_CHAIN_LENGTH.

Audit finding F18.

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* fix(display): refuse settings the rgbmatrix library aborts on, on every board

The library answers several settings with a NULL matrix or abort() rather
than an error, so the display service crash-looped (Restart=on-failure)
instead of reaching fallback mode: rows above 64, chain_length above 255
(uint8_t binding setter, documented as "no upper limit"), a misspelled
hardware_mapping, and parallel 2-3 on a single-output mapping, reachable
from the Display form on the default adafruit-hat(-pwm) mapping. #586 only
guarded the Pi 5 subset.

- src/matrix_support.py holds the rules for every board (Options::Validate
  ranges, binding integer types, mapping names and outputs from
  lib/hardware-mapping.c) plus the Pi 5 ones, and is the one source of the
  API's numeric ranges.
- DisplayManager checks them before building options and raises
  MatrixSettingsRefused, so a hand-edited config falls back with a logged,
  reported reason. Emulator mode only warns.
- The config API refuses them with a 400 naming the setting; combinations
  are checked against stored values but reported only when the request
  sets a field involved.
- The hardware status file gains "cause" (settings/library/forced). The
  fallback log and Display banner give the Pi 5 rebuild hint only for a
  library failure instead of rebuild + gpio_slowdown advice for every
  failure; one Pi 5 slowdown recommendation (1-3, start at 1).
- The Display form offers classic/classic-pi1 and orientation 90/270 and
  renders any other stored mapping selected with a warning, so an
  unrelated save no longer rewrites them; the API accepts 90/270.

Audit findings F03, F16, F19, F21.

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* docs(display): library limits, template defaults and Pi 5 slowdown

- rows 8-64, chain_length 1-255, parallel limited by the mapping's outputs,
  classic/classic-pi1 mappings and orientation 90/270 documented.
- Defaults are the config.template.json values: config migration adds
  missing keys from the template, so the listed "code defaults" never
  applied.
- One Raspberry Pi 5 gpio_slowdown recommendation: 1-3 in PIO mode,
  starting at 1.
- Troubleshooting describes the refused-settings fallback, and CHANGELOG
  corrects the Unreleased "no upper limit" entry.

Audit findings F19, F20, F21.

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* fix(scripts): scroll_speeds.py opens the panel with the service's options

--measure and --demo built RGBMatrixOptions from a private copy of the
display service's builder that had drifted: gpio_slowdown came from
display.hardware (default 2) instead of display.runtime (default 3), and
rp1_rio, panel_type, disable_hardware_pulsing, inverse_colors,
pixel_mapper_config and orientation were skipped, with different defaults
(hardware_mapping "regular", pwm_bits 11). A panel needing a high slowdown
was measured -- or garbled -- in a setup the service never drives.

The option filling in DisplayManager._setup_matrix moves, unchanged, into
DisplayManager.apply_matrix_options(options, config), which _setup_matrix
calls and the script reuses (overriding only limit_refresh_rate_hz for
--measure). The script now loads the whole config rather than the hardware
block. Tests pin the script's options to the service's attribute for
attribute.

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* fix(scripts): scroll_speeds.py recommends keys the resolver honours

The ladder ended by telling users to set
display_options.scroll_pixels_per_second. scroll_config ranks that key
below the scroll_speed + scroll_delay pair, deliberately, and several
plugin schemas default the pair into config, so the advised key was
silently ignored (a schema-default 1/0.02 pair plus an advised 66 still
resolved to 50 px/s).

The advice is now the pair that selects the crisp speed exactly
(pixels_per_frame every frame_hold/refresh seconds), explains that the
pair outranks scroll_pixels_per_second, and gives the scoreboards'
per-league scroll_settings.scroll_speed (px/s) form. Tests resolve the
printed pair over a schema-default pair and check it lands on the
advertised speed and hold.

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* docs: withdraw the target_fps claim for sports_scroll; fix the Vegas speed formula

- SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md still presented honouring global target_fps as
  sports_scroll's added behaviour and its one user-visible gain; note that
  it was withdrawn because it had become a speed multiplier.
- ADVANCED_FEATURES.md gave Vegas scrolling as
  (scroll_speed / target_fps) * elapsed; the real rule is scroll_speed px/s
  by elapsed time, through a 0.1-5 px per scroll_delay clamp when
  frame_based_scrolling is on.

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* docs(changelog): scroll model fixes

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* fix(dev): link-github links plugins from the ledmatrix-plugins monorepo

link-github <name> cloned https://github.com/ChuckBuilds/ledmatrix-<name>.git,
and those per-plugin repositories no longer exist: official plugins are
directories in the ledmatrix-plugins monorepo. It now clones (or pulls) the
monorepo once into the dev directory, finds plugins/<name>,
plugins/ledmatrix-<name> or the plugin whose manifest id is <name>, and
links it under its manifest id. With an explicit repo URL it still links a
single-repository plugin as before.

dev_plugins.json: github_user is honoured again (monorepo owner, e.g. a
fork), plus plugins_repo and plugins_branch; github_pattern, which was
documented but never read, is dropped and warned about. Ships
dev_plugins.json.example and git-ignores dev_plugins.json, both of which
the guide promised. Reading JSON falls back to python3 when jq is missing
(get_plugin_id silently returned nothing without jq).

update/status/list find the git checkout above a monorepo plugin
directory (its .git is not in the plugin dir), and update pulls a shared
checkout once. status no longer exits 1 when nothing is broken.

Docs: PLUGIN_DEVELOPMENT_GUIDE (quick start, link-github, configuration,
workflow, store integration, hello-world link, submission), and the
nonexistent scripts/git-hooks/pre-push-plugin-version and
scripts/bump_plugin_version.py replaced with the real rule: bump the
manifest version and run update_registry.py. scripts/dev/README.md and
CLAUDE.md updated to match.

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* docs(scripts): monorepo workspace layout; fix_perms and install READMEs

MULTI_ROOT_WORKSPACE_SETUP described one sibling repository per plugin;
setup_plugin_repos.py links ../ledmatrix-plugins/plugins/* into
plugin-repos/ and update_plugin_repos.py pulls only the monorepo, and the
workspace file opens LEDMatrix plus ../ledmatrix-plugins.

scripts/fix_perms/README.md listed cache directories
fix_cache_permissions.sh never touches and a 'ledmatrix' service user
that doesn't exist (also in scripts/install/README.md); adds
safe_pip_install.sh. install/README: install_service.sh installs the web
and update-verify units too.

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* fix(update): keep the rollback's pip retries inside the unit time limit

The health check reinstalled the previous requirements by trying the
next bash path after any failure, including a 600 s pip timeout. Two
files, two paths: up to 40 minutes of pip alone, while systemd stops
ledmatrix-update-verify.service at TimeoutStartSec=30min -- killing the
rollback half-way and leaving the update 'verifying' until the web UI
calls it lost.

- Like permission_utils.install_requirements_file, only a sudo refusal
  moves on to the next bash; a pip that ran and failed or timed out is
  not repeated. The refusal wording is one list
  (permission_utils.SUDO_REFUSAL_PHRASES), mirrored in the stdlib-only
  verifier and pinned equal by a test.
- All reinstalls in one rollback share a 600 s budget.
- WORST_CASE_SECONDS adds up every timeout on the longest path (27.5
  min); a test holds it under the unit's TimeoutStartSec and that under
  the web UI's VERIFY_LOST_SECONDS.

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* fix(plugins): prepare plugin configs one way for load, saves, GET, hot reload and dev tools

Plugin config was prepared differently depending on how it arrived:

- JSON POST /plugins/config built a partial body on schema defaults, so
  {"enabled": true} reset every other setting of the plugin. It now merges
  onto the stored section first, as the form path already did.
- Legacy-boolean normalization (#588) ran only at load: GET /plugins/config
  returned the raw boolean, posting it back failed validation, and hot
  reload handed plugins the raw section (a legacy dynamic_duration: true
  came back as a boolean). schema_manager.prepare_plugin_config (normalize,
  then defaults) is now used by PluginManager.load_plugin, both save paths,
  GET, the save notifications and DisplayController's hot-reload callback.
- The JSON save's filter kept only enabled/display_duration/live_priority
  and dropped a submitted skin, skin_options or vegas_* tuning key. There
  is now one core-owned per-plugin list, schema_manager.CORE_PLUGIN_PROPERTIES,
  used by validation and by the save filter; PluginManager's
  CORE_OWNED_CONFIG_KEYS is its vegas subset.
- Plugin sections posted to /config/main were stored verbatim, including
  values /plugins/config rejects. They now go through the same preparation
  (_prepare_plugin_config_for_save, extracted from save_plugin_config), and
  a failing section rejects the whole save before anything is written.
- dev_server read only top-level defaults and let a schema enabled:false
  win; build_full_config shallow-merged overrides, dropping sibling
  defaults; the harness extracted defaults differently from the device.
  loading.build_config now uses the device's extraction and preparation,
  and dev_server, check_plugin, render_plugin and the harness all use it.

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* docs(mqtt-bridge): brightness changes apply live and touch nothing else

The display service's hot reload applies a saved brightness within a few
seconds, and /config/main no longer resets other display settings on a
brightness-only JSON body.

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* docs(changelog): automatic update hardening

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* docs(config): rewrite PLUGIN_CONFIG_ARCHITECTURE for the v3 web UI

It described web_interface_v2.py and index_v2.html (both gone), client-side
form generation, one POST per field with {key, value}, and 'no nested
objects'. The v3 UI renders plugin forms server-side from the schema
(pages_v3 partial + plugin_config.html macros, nested sections and
x-widgets), posts the whole form once, and save_plugin_config() merges onto
the stored section, validates, splits x-secret fields and notifies the
plugin.

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* docs(mqtt): brightness saves apply via hot reload and leave other settings alone

The bridge README said brightness is applied on the display's next
restart; the display controller's config hot reload applies it within
seconds. It also now states that the bridge's partial JSON save changes
only brightness (the /config/main merge fix in this change set).

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* fix(update): don't log pip's output from the health check's reinstall

pip can echo a private index URL with embedded credentials;
permission_utils redacts it, the stdlib-only verifier cannot, so it
logs the exit code only.

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* docs(config): mark the plugin_system toggles as unused legacy keys

auto_discover, auto_load_enabled and development_mode are read by
nothing and leave the General tab in this change set (F40). CONFIG_REFERENCE
said they were read by the plugin loader; PLUGIN_CONFIGURATION_GUIDE and
the REST reference listed them as live settings.

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* docs(changelog): docs and developer tools group

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* fix(web): legacy plugin-system toggles no longer count as a General save

auto_discover, auto_load_enabled and development_mode have left the General
form, so a post carrying only one of them is not a general-settings save and
must not treat web_display_autostart and auto_update as unchecked. The
plugin_system block itself is left as on main for the branch that reworks it.

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* docs(changelog): config-save and plugin-config preparation fixes

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* docs(claude): re-check matrix_support.py rules when the library submodule is bumped

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* fix: address Codacy findings on the core audit PR

- plugin_manager.prepare_plugin_config: when the fallback legacy-boolean
  pass also fails, log a warning instead of a bare except/pass.
- api_client.js: request() refuses any endpoint that is not a plain path
  under /api/v3 ("//host", backslashes, ".." or "." segments, whitespace,
  control characters) with INVALID_ENDPOINT before calling fetch(), and
  plugin ids are URL-encoded wherever they are put into a URL (also in the
  app-shell batch load).
- test_update_all.js: pins both against the shipped client.

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* fix(web): check endpoint control characters without a control-character regex

Codacy (ESLint no-control-regex, Biome noControlCharactersInRegex) flags
the \x00-\x1f range in checkEndpoint's regex. Test the char codes
instead; the endpoints refused are unchanged.

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* test(auto-update): make the seed script executable on disk, not only in the index

On Linux Repo.publish() commits with -a, which recorded scripts/run.sh
as 100644 upstream because the seed file was never chmod +x. The pull
then brought in the same mode the installer chmod had made locally, so
installer_chmod saw no mode change left to check. The updater was fine:
with the upstream commit at 100755 the --autostash carries the device's
chmod across. Verified under Linux (WSL, git 2.43): the old helper fails
exactly as CI did, the fixed one passes all 63 tests in the file.

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2026-09-17 16:37:29 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 9616a5a054 fix(web): auto_update and other core settings are not orphaned plugins (#589)
v3.4.0 shows "Plugin Config Warning - In config but not installed:
auto_update. Reinstall via the Plugin Store, or remove these entries from
config.json." auto_update is the core weekly-update setting from #581.
Reconciliation treated every top-level dict not in its private
_SYSTEM_CONFIG_KEYS list as a plugin id, and #581 could not know to extend
that list.

- Move core top-level keys into src/core_config_keys.py (CORE_CONFIG_KEYS)
  and use it in reconciliation. Tests fail if a config.template.json key or
  a key written by the general-settings save is missing from it.
- A secrets-file key only counts as a non-plugin when no installed plugin
  has that id. Plugin secrets are namespaced by id, so installed plugins
  with secrets were reported as missing from config on every run.
- still_unresolved() drops "not on disk" findings whose id is no longer a
  plugin entry in config, so a stored verdict clears without a restart.
- A plugin whose id is a core key is skipped with a warning, and the fix
  never writes a plugin stub over or in place of a core setting.

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2026-09-15 18:19:39 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 c200b5837d fix(plugins): normalize legacy boolean settings before schema validation (#588)
The news plugin's schema turned global.dynamic_duration from a boolean
into an {enabled, min_duration_seconds, ...} object. Installs that have
not saved the news settings since still hold `true`, so every start
logged "Plugin news config does not match its schema (loading anyway):
Field 'global.dynamic_duration': Expected type object, got bool" and
flagged news degraded.

The settings form already reads such a boolean as {"enabled": <bool>}
(render_nested_section in plugin_config.html) and the next save writes
the object. The loader did not. It now applies the same rule before
merging schema defaults and validating, so the defaults fill in the rest
of the object and the plugin receives it in the new shape.

The rule lives in schema_manager.legacy_bool_as_object /
normalize_legacy_booleans. It applies at any depth of nested objects
but not inside arrays, matching the form, and only to a real bool under
an object-typed property with an `enabled` child. Every other mismatch
still warns. A parity test renders the template macro against the helper
so the two cannot drift.

Nothing is written to config.json at load: the normalization is in
memory, and the next save of the plugin's settings persists the object.

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2026-09-15 18:09:23 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 814c21de1c chore: mark skins unsupported, fix stale docs and preview size, prepare 3.4.0 (#580)
* chore: mark skins unsupported, fix stale docs and preview size, prepare 3.4.0

Skins: no current scoreboard plugin builds on src.base_classes, so the only
skin hook (SportsCore._render_game) never runs. The plugin schema endpoint no
longer injects the Visual Skin dropdown, the store hides and refuses
"type": "skin" registry entries, and GET /api/v3/skins reports
supported: false with a message. Stored skin config still loads and saves.
src/skin_system/ and its tests are unchanged apart from the support flag.

Docs: check_plugin.py/render_plugin.py examples use --plugin; document
BasePlugin.get_update_interval() and its interaction with the manifest
update_interval; CLAUDE.md drops the stale template line number and
recommends display_manager.width/height.

Preview size: new src/display_geometry.py holds the size computation and
defaults DisplayManager uses (double-sided applied, chain_length default 2).
The web preview, /display/current, Starlark magnify default, sync handshake
and two dev scripts use it.

Release: __version__ 3.4.0, CHANGELOG 3.4.0 section plus a 3.3.0 tag note.

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* fix: address CodeRabbit review on #580

- Preview fallbacks (SSE stream and /display/current) use logical_size({})
  (128x32, the shared default) instead of a hard-coded 128x64.
- display_geometry treats a non-mapping display/hardware block as missing,
  so a malformed config.json falls back to defaults instead of raising
  AttributeError (which turned the Starlark render into an HTTP 500).
- Docs: the static update interval falls back manifest -> plugin config
  -> 60s, in both the API reference and the architecture spec.

Not taken: validating double_sided copies against chain_length/parallel.
An orientation Rotate: or U-mapper pixel mapper decides which axis panels
lie on, so the counts would reject working setups (the existing
vertical-split test is one).

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* fix(display_geometry): a non-finite hardware size raises ValueError, not OverflowError

CodeRabbit flagged the Starlark magnify default in
_standalone_render_starlark_app for truthy non-mapping display values. That
case was already handled by a9e1bd0b (_display/_hardware treat a non-mapping
block as missing, covered by test_non_mapping_display_config_uses_the_defaults),
and the magnify it produces from the 128x32 defaults is the same as from 64x32.

Checking the same path found one input that still escaped: Python's JSON
parser accepts Infinity, and int(inf) raises OverflowError, which neither the
Starlark path (TypeError, ValueError) nor the preview stream in app.py caught,
so a hand-edited "rows": Infinity returned HTTP 500. physical_size now raises
ValueError for it, matching its documented contract, so every caller's
existing fallback applies. DisplayManager already caught Exception.

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2026-09-14 18:36:58 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 69d408b321 feat(core): one per-element display-customization framework, wired into the web UI (#566)
* fix(sports): rebuild un-shared faces through the pinned layout engine

unshare_element_fonts re-instantiates a duplicate font face so two
elements can be told apart by id(). It did so through bare
ImageFont.truetype, which takes PIL's default layout engine rather than
the one src/common/font_layout.py pins. Raqm and Basic disagree on
fractional advances -- that disagreement is the reason the pin exists,
having broken golden images across machines -- so a rebuilt face could
measure differently from the shared face it replaced, on any host where
Raqm is installed.

These were the only two call sites in src/ bypassing the pin.

The guard asserts that the rebuild goes through the pinned loader rather
than comparing engine values: where Raqm is absent, bare truetype returns
BASIC anyway, so an engine comparison passes whether or not the pin is
honoured. The first draft of this test did exactly that and passed with
the bug reintroduced.

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* refactor(web): drop the two dead client-side config-form renderers

generateConfigForm and generateSimpleConfigForm (580 lines) were defined
on the Alpine component and never called: server-side Jinja replaced them,
as pages_v3.py:641 records. Nothing in any template invokes them -- there
is no x-html in the templates and no bracket access on the component.

They carried their own x-widget dispatch, which made them an active trap:
the next person adding a widget would reasonably think both renderers
needed updating.

plugins/config_manager.js (PluginConfigManager, 133 lines) goes for the
same reason -- loaded on every page from base.html, referenced only by
itself and by an archived doc.

Kept, having checked them: widgets/example-color-picker.js is the worked
example docs/widget-guide.md points plugin authors at, and
widgets/plugin-loader.js is the client half of a documented feature
(manifest-declared plugin widgets) whose server route is missing --
soccer-scoreboard already ships a widgets/custom-leagues.js that this
loader is meant to fetch. That is an unfinished feature to complete, not
dead code to delete.

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* feat(web): serve plugin-declared widgets, and actually ask for them

LEDMatrixWidgets.loadPluginWidget has always fetched
/static/plugin-widgets/<plugin>/<widget>.js, and docs/widget-guide.md has
always documented that path, but nothing served it. soccer-scoreboard has
shipped a 17KB widgets/custom-leagues.js since August that could never
load. Both halves were missing, not just the route:

- serve_plugin_widget serves the script from the plugin's widgets/
  directory as text/javascript. The manifest is the allowlist -- only a
  widget the plugin declares is reachable -- so installing a plugin does
  not publish everything it ships. Path handling mirrors the sibling
  serve_plugin_web_ui: allowlist regexes, os.path.basename, resolve() +
  relative_to() containment, and the ledmatrix- prefix fallback. The
  declared script name is guarded too, since it comes from the plugin
  rather than the request.

- The config form never requested one. Its x-widget dispatch is a
  hardcoded list of core widget names, so a plugin's own widget fell
  through to a plain text input. An unrecognised x-widget on a string
  field now asks ensureWidget() for it. The text input stays as the
  fallback and is removed only once the widget has actually rendered, so
  a missing or broken widget costs the user an editor rather than their
  configured value on the next save.

- manifest_schema.json gains "widgets", so the declaration is validated
  rather than merely tolerated by additionalProperties.

Verified in a browser against the real partial: a declared widget loads,
registers and renders, and its field posts exactly one value; a field
whose widget 404s keeps its text input and still posts its value.

Not addressed: loadPluginWidgetsFromManifest still has no caller. The
per-field ensureWidget path is lazier and is what the form now uses, so
that bulk helper is dead weight -- worth removing, but left alone here
rather than inventing a call site for it.

Known limitation, documented: only string-typed fields take this path.
object/array/boolean/number fields and enums are dispatched by the
template's own branches, which still only know core widgets.

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* fix(element-style): a wrong-size BDF now keeps its font, not its size

BDF fonts are fixed-size bitmap strikes: FreeType accepts only the pixel
size baked into the file and raises for anything else. 32 of the 35
shipped fonts are BDF, so a size picked in the web UI usually is not a
valid strike -- and load_font caught that failure with its generic
"unloadable font" handler, which substitutes PressStart2P. Asking for
5x7.bdf at size 10 therefore rendered a completely different typeface,
silently.

It now falls back to the file's own native size instead, which is what
SportsCore._load_custom_font_from_element_config has always done. The
native size is read via FontManager._read_bdf_native_size rather than a
fourth copy of that parser, matching how core.py already delegates.

Also here, because they are the same code path:

- native_bdf_size() is exposed for the web UI, which needs to know when a
  size field can take effect at all. None means "free choice".
- ElementStyle.font_size now reports the size actually realised rather
  than the one requested. Callers lay out from it, and reserving space
  for a size nothing was drawn at is how this surfaces.
- The module font cache is a bounded LRU (256) instead of an unbounded
  dict. The display process runs for weeks and every config save can add
  a (font, size) pair; every other hot cache in the codebase is bounded
  this way.

Untouched configs are unaffected: the shipped classic fonts are the three
TTFs, so nothing was hitting the substitution path by default.

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* feat(element-style): per-mode style and offset overrides

Lets one element be styled differently per situation -- a scoreboard's
live / upcoming / recent cards, weather's current / hourly / daily
screens -- under customization.modes.<mode>.

The mode is bound at construction rather than passed per call. That is
what makes this cheap to adopt: SportsUpcoming and SportsRecent are
already separate instances with distinct SKIN_MODE values, so binding
once makes every existing style()/offset_value() call site mode-aware
without editing any of them. A per-call mode argument exists for the rare
host that renders more than one mode.

The two layers answer different questions, deliberately:

- The base layer keeps the existing "differs from the schema default"
  rule, because the save flow writes the full default object into
  config.json whether or not the user touched it.
- A mode layer is pure override -- its fields default to None, so
  presence is intent. Nothing writes into it unasked, so there is nothing
  for the stricter rule to protect against.

None therefore means inherit, and has to stay distinct from 0: a mode
y_offset of 0 means "sit at the base position", not "no preference".
This is the same distinction scroll_card.switch_* draws with "inherit".

A malformed mode value falls back to the resolved base value rather than
to the caller's default -- caught by the degradation tests, which is what
they are for: resolving the mode first let one bad string in a mode block
silently discard a good base offset.

With no modes block, and for every existing caller, resolution is
unchanged.

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* feat(element-style): declare per-mode overrides in config_schema.json

A plugin adds "x-style-modes": ["live", "upcoming", "recent"] alongside
its x-style-elements declaration and gets a customization.modes.<mode>
group per mode, with every field of every declared element repeated as an
override.

Those override fields are typed nullable and default to null, which is
the whole trick. The save flow writes schema defaults into config.json
wholesale, so giving a mode field the base element's default would make
every mode a frozen copy of the base the first time a user pressed Save,
and the base would stop reaching them. Null means inherit. The mutation
test for this is explicit: with concrete defaults, a base font_size of 14
resolves as 10 with user_forced set.

min/max from the declaration carry into the mode blocks, so an
out-of-range override is rejected by validation rather than clamped
silently at render time.

Also: the emitted font field now carries "x-widget": "font-selector". The
widget already shipped and the config form already allowlisted it -- the
hint was simply never emitted, so the field rendered as a bare text box
that the user had to type a font filename into.

Verified through the real SchemaManager path -- load_schema, defaults
extraction, merge_with_defaults, validation, then resolution -- rather
than against a hand-built dict, since the thing at risk is what that
pipeline does to a null.

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* fix(web): render the config form from the schema the save route validates

The form read config_schema.json with a raw json.load while
api_v3.save_plugin_config went through SchemaManager. Those are not the
same schema: SchemaManager applies expand_style_elements, which turns a
compact customization.x-style-elements declaration into the per-element
blocks the form knows how to render.

Without it, that customization object has an x-style-elements key and no
"properties", so the template's object branch matched nothing and the
section rendered as empty space -- while saving still validated against
the expanded shape. of-the-day ships the compact form, so its
customization section has been invisible in the web UI.

pages_v3 gains a schema_manager the way it already has config_manager and
plugin_manager. use_cache=False matches the save route, so an edited
schema is not served stale during plugin development. The raw read stays
as a fallback for callers that register this blueprint without one.

Checked before making the change: load_schema does nothing here except
read, validate and expand -- inject_skin_selector is a separate method it
does not call -- so this is not a behaviour change for schemas without
the declaration.

The test pair renders the same compact schema with and without a
SchemaManager, so it documents exactly what was broken as well as what is
fixed.

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* feat(web): style-editor widget -- a row per element instead of 65 accordions

Rendered element by element, a realistic scoreboard's customization block
is 65 nested sections, and reaching one per-mode font size takes five
levels of expanding. The widget collapses that to one compact row per
element -- font, size, colour, X, Y -- with a tab per declared mode.

It emits ordinary inputs under the same dotted names the generic renderer
would produce, so the save/validate/merge pipeline is untouched: no hidden
JSON blob and no new server-side parsing. It is driven entirely by the
schema block it is handed, so fields added to the schema later appear
without editing the widget. If it fails to load or throws, the generic
nested rendering it replaces is left in place.

Fixing two things the save path got wrong for nullable fields, found by
posting what the widget actually emits:

- The indexed-array recombiner (text_color.0/.1/.2 -> one list) compared
  the declared type to the string 'array', so a per-mode colour, typed
  ["array", "null"], was never reassembled and failed validation on save.
  _parse_form_value_with_schema had the same comparison.
- A blank nullable field became [] rather than None, which then failed the
  minItems the colour array declares. Null is the inherit sentinel, so it
  has to survive.

And two things the widget itself got wrong, found by looking at it:

- An unset base control fell back to the select's first option, so an
  untouched scoreboard claimed every element used 10x20.bdf -- and the
  size box then locked itself to that bitmap font's fixed size. Base
  controls now show the schema default; mode controls stay blank, because
  blank there means inherit.
- Elements arrived alphabetised (Detail and Odds above Score). Flask's
  JSON provider sorts keys, so declaration order has to be stated
  explicitly; expand_style_elements now emits x-propertyOrder, which the
  generic renderer already honoured too.

Size is disabled and shown as fixed for a bitmap font, using the
scalable/native_size the font catalog now reports.

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* feat(element-style): visibility, alignment and scale per element

Completes the customization vocabulary: hide an element, align it, and
resize a logo, alongside the font/size/colour/offset that already existed.
All three per mode.

They resolve to "change nothing" until the user asks for something -- True,
None and 1.0 -- rather than to whatever the schema declares. That is the
same invariant the font fields keep: a caller that honours them still
renders an untouched config exactly as it did before they existed. A
schema default therefore does not count as a choice, which matters because
the save flow writes that default into config either way.

scale sits in the layout block with the offsets rather than in the element
block, because it is geometry: a logo has a scale and no font. The widget's
columns come from the schema, so a logo row shows visibility, offsets and
scale and no empty font cell.

Two bugs found by the tests rather than by reading:

- A nullable enum needs null in its enum list, not just in its type. The
  mode copy of `align` defaulted to null and then failed its own schema, so
  a plugin declaring any enum field with modes could not save at all. Six
  tests failed on this before any of them reached what they were testing.
- defaults_from_schema only ever extracted font/font_size/text_color, so
  the schema defaults for the new fields were invisible to the resolver and
  a declared default read as a user choice.

Widget: the table scrolls horizontally and pins the element-name column.
Nine columns do not fit the config panel, and clipping them hid the offsets
entirely while scrolling them made every row anonymous.

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* feat(element-style): resolve elements under the names plugins actually use

Two naming conventions collided as the scoreboards grew. Counted across
the published schemas: the style block names elements with a _text suffix
(score_text, status_text, detail_text), while the layout block mostly uses
the bare noun (score, date, time, odds) -- except status_text, which kept
the suffix in seven plugins and lost it in two. records vs record splits
seven to two the same way.

A lookup now tries the exact name first and then the spellings that mean
the same thing. Exact-first is what makes this inert for any config that
already matches; the aliases only decide cases that resolved to nothing
before.

This is also what makes migrating to the compact declaration form safe.
That form uses one key for both blocks, so a scoreboard adopting it asks
for layout.score_text while its users have layout.score saved -- without
the aliases, every offset they had dialled in would silently become 0.

Applies to the style block, the layout block, the schema defaults and the
per-mode overrides, since the drift shows up in all four.

Not attempting to canonicalise on write: renaming keys in config.json
would break the plugins still reading the old spelling from their own
bundled code, and the drift costs a dict miss rather than correctness.

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

* feat(plugins): BasePlugin.styles -- per-element styling every plugin inherits

Adopting the element-style system meant repeating three things in every
plugin: a guarded import, finding its own config_schema.json, and
rebuilding the resolver when on_config_change swapped the config dict.
This is those three things once, on the class all 45 plugins already
inherit from.

    title = self.styles.style('title_text',
                              classic_font='PressStart2P-Regular.ttf',
                              classic_size=8, classic_color=(255, 255, 255))

The classic_* arguments are the adoption contract: with nothing configured
they come back verbatim, so a plugin that switches to this renders exactly
as before until a user changes something.

A plugin with one instance per display mode sets STYLE_MODE on the class
and every existing lookup becomes mode-aware without a call site changing
-- which is the point of binding the mode to the resolver rather than
passing it per call. styles_for() covers a plugin that renders several
modes from one instance.

Schema discovery reads the concrete class's own module rather than this
file, because this file lives in src/plugin_system where no plugin schema
exists -- the same trap SportsCore._config_schema_path documents. The
first mutation test for that passed anyway: an installed plugin's module
directory and its entry under plugins_dir are the same path, so the test
could not tell the two apart. The case where they diverge is a plugin
symlinked in for development, and the test now forces that shape.

Getting discovery wrong is silent rather than loud: with no schema the
resolver has no defaults to compare against, so every configured value
reads as a deliberate override and the plugin quietly stops honouring its
own shipped styling.

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

* feat(element-style): adopt hand-written customization blocks, and widen the font list

Nineteen plugins spell their style elements out longhand instead of
declaring them -- football's block is 701 lines for seven elements -- and
predate this system entirely. Core now recognises that shape, so they pick
up the row-per-element editor and the real font picker on a core update
rather than on a plugin release. Checked against every published schema:
21 plugins adopt, and the defaults of each still validate against the
schema generated for it.

Detection requires *every* field in a block to be one this system
understands. A looser "has at least one style field" rule sweeps in
baseball's `count`, which carries a text_color beside geometry that means
nothing here. That distinction took three attempts to test: the first two
assertions passed under both rules, because an over-eager rule leaves a
fontless block looking untouched and only surfaces as an extra row in the
editor.

The hardcoded font enum is replaced rather than extended. Football lists
five of the thirty-five installed fonts, which is why a font a user
uploads can never appear in one. It is not a curated safe set -- it omits
some twenty other faces that fit the declared size cap just as well -- it
is the fonts that happened to exist when it was written.

Widening it does need a guard, though, and not the one the schema already
has: a bitmap font ignores font_size and renders at its size baked into
the file, so `maximum: 16` cannot stop a 27px face. The picker now filters
out fixed-size fonts taller than the element's own declared ceiling, which
drops exactly the four that would overflow a 32px panel and keeps the
other thirty.

Per-mode overrides stay opt-in: core cannot invent a plugin's display
modes, so `x-style-modes` remains the one line that unlocks them. Their
layout half covers every positionable element rather than only those with
a style block -- the two namespaces do not line up in a hand-written
schema, and football positions six things (logos, timeouts, possession)
that have no style block at all.

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

* refactor(web): remove the two Fonts-tab panels that reported invented data

"Element Font Overrides" let a user configure an override, showed a
success toast, and changed nothing. All three endpoints behind it were
stubs -- GET returned a hardcoded {}, POST and DELETE returned success
without calling anything -- each marked "This would integrate with the
actual font system".

Wiring them to FontManager would not have fixed it. The machinery there is
real (_load_overrides/_save_overrides persist config/font_overrides.json,
resolve_font applies them, and the countdown plugin genuinely consumes
it), but the panel's element dropdown offered eleven invented keys --
nfl.live.score, clock.time, weather.current -- that no plugin has ever
read. An override saved against one of those would have persisted
correctly and still done nothing.

"Detected Manager Fonts" goes for the same reason. It claimed to show
"fonts currently in use by managers (auto-detected)"; its own comment said
"we'll simulate this", and it listed every font in the catalog with a
hardcoded usage_count of 1 -- the panel beside it, with fabricated
numbers attached.

Per-element font choice now lives in each plugin's own config editor,
against the elements that plugin actually has, and covers size, colour,
offsets, visibility, alignment and scale rather than family and size.

Kept: the font library (upload, preview, delete), which works, and
/fonts/tokens, which is a stub but genuinely feeds the preview's size
dropdown. FontManager's override methods are untouched -- countdown uses
them.

Verified in a browser with the tab's JS running: no console errors, 35
fonts listed, upload and preview intact. Removing the panel meant unwiring
it from populateFontSelects too, which would otherwise have bailed out
early on the missing select and left the preview dropdown empty.

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

* refactor(sports): one reader for element colours and layout offsets

There were two copies of the per-element colour read and three of the
layout-offset read. They had already drifted -- the scroll-card renderer
carries a comment about having ignored offsets its own schema advertised
-- and each new capability had to be added to all of them or silently work
in some places and not others.

All of them now go through src.element_style, which is what carries the
alias handling and the per-mode lookup. That lands immediately for the
nine plugins importing these modules: a scoreboard asking for `score_text`
offsets finds the `layout.score` its users configured, and a Live instance
resolves its own colours through SKIN_MODE without any call site passing a
mode.

_normalize_color learned "#RRGGBB" in the process. The scoreboards' own
readers have always accepted it, so the shared one had to, or consolidating
would have quietly dropped a form users' configs may hold. _coerce_offset
picked up the non-finite guard the scroll-card reader had and the other two
did not.

_get_layout_offset is promoted onto SportsCoreSharedMixin. Each plugin
still carries its own copy in its bundled sports.py, which wins by MRO --
so adopting this is a deletion in the plugin, and until that deletion
nothing changes for it.

Note for whoever runs the suite next: test_display_dirty_tracking.py is
order-dependent. Fifteen of its tests failed in one full run and passed in
the next with no change in between, and pass in isolation. Pre-existing,
unrelated to this, but it makes a full-run diff untrustworthy until it is
fixed.

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

* docs(changelog): record the element-style work under Unreleased

This file's own preamble asks for it: a plugin may delete its bundled
fallback copy of a core module only when its manifest floors on the first
release that shipped that module, which requires the additions to be
recorded here against a version.

Names a plugin can now import and floor on -- the stateless layout_offset
and element_color readers, alias_keys, native_bdf_size, the resolver's mode
binding, BasePlugin.styles, and the promoted
SportsCoreSharedMixin._get_layout_offset -- plus the schema and web-UI
changes, the four fixes and the three removals.

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

* fix(fonts): log the BDF native-size read failure instead of swallowing it

The bdf-native-size lookup in get_fonts_catalog() caught any exception
and silently discarded it. Every other guarded read added in this PR
(the manifest parse in _declared_widget_script, the SchemaManager
fallback in _load_plugin_config_partial) logs before falling through
to the same degraded behavior. This one didn't, which is the shape a
silent-exception-swallow lint rule flags. Behavior is unchanged --
native_size still comes back None -- but a corrupt or unreadable BDF
file now leaves a trace.

Verified: font-related tests (140) and the full suite still pass,
with only the 2 pre-existing Europe/Kiev/Asia/Calcutta tzdata-alias
failures already present on origin/main.

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

* fix: address CodeRabbit findings on the style-editor/font-selector PR

- Fix _load_font_sized double-wrapping the (font, size) tuple on the
  missing-font path, which handed callers a tuple instead of a font.
- Fix _set_nested_value skipping an explicit None when the key already
  existed, which silently kept stale overrides when a user cleared a
  nullable per-mode field or blanked all channels of an indexed color.
- Preserve BDF scalable/native_size metadata through fetchFontCatalog's
  catalog-format mapping so maxFixedSize filtering actually applies.
- Stop caching an empty array on a failed font-catalog fetch so a later
  call can retry instead of being stuck with the failed result.
- Keep a saved font selected in the style editor even when it no longer
  fits a newly declared maxFixedSize, instead of silently deselecting it.
- Don't drop in-progress user edits to fallback fields when a plugin
  widget finishes loading asynchronously and takes over the form.
- Tighten the removed font-override endpoint test to assert 405, not
  just != 200.

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

* fix(web): a partial save no longer switches off checkboxes it never showed

An HTML checkbox posts nothing when unchecked, so the save route walked the
schema and forced every boolean missing from the form to False. That is right
for the rendered form and wrong for every other caller: a script, the MQTT
bridge or a curl against the documented endpoint never rendered a checkbox, and
reading its silence as "all off" turns a one-field save into a mass disable.

Found on hardware. Posting four customization.* keys to a live device switched
off nfl.enabled, ncaa_fb.enabled and every display-mode toggle in one request.

The form now reports the top-level sections it drew (__rendered_section), and
inside those an absent checkbox still means unchecked -- including a section
whose only fields are checkboxes that are all off, which no heuristic could
recover. A post with no marker only touches objects it actually posted a field
from. Meta fields are dropped before form keys are treated as config paths,
because unknown keys are otherwise written straight into config.json.

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

* feat(sports): resolve element colour by name, and honour visible/align/scale

Two of the three gaps this framework shipped with.

Colour by name. A draw resolved its colour by comparing the *identity* of the
font object it was handed, which cannot tell two elements apart when they share
a face -- so those draws went out white. Every bitmap font is in that case,
because a freetype.Face cannot be re-instantiated to un-share it, which is how
an element rendered in any of the 32 shipped BDF fonts silently lost a colour
its picker had offered all along. _draw_text_with_outline now takes
element="score_text" and reads the colour by name; the identity path remains
for un-annotated callers, but narrows before giving up -- one configured colour
among the sharers is the only thing the user can have meant.

Visible, align and scale. The resolver has understood these since the
framework landed and nothing consumed them: an element could be marked hidden
in the web UI and still render. Adds the stateless readers, the mixin
accessors, and a scale parameter on the one shared logo-sizing seam (keyed into
the cache, so two elements scaled differently cannot be served each other's
image). Naming an element in a draw also honours its visibility.

Untouched configs are unaffected: every new parameter defaults to today's
behaviour, and all ten affected plugins render pixel-identically to main across
every harness size.

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

* docs(plugins): how to declare styleable elements; harden the widget's lookups

The plugin-author guide for the compact x-style-elements declaration -- what
each key does, how to read values back without breaking the "user-forced only
when it differs from the default" rule, and why a hand-written block needs no
changes to be adopted.

Also clears the static-analysis findings on style-editor.js. Every lookup in
that file is keyed by something out of a schema or a saved config, so a key of
__proto__ or constructor would walk the prototype chain and hand back a
function instead of a schema; reads now go through an own-property helper. The
panel registry became a list, and the flagged vars moved to their function
roots.

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

* fix(web): clear the remaining static-analysis findings

Five, all on lines this branch touched.

The Python one is not a new defect: _set_missing_booleans_to_false's first
parameter was always named `config`, which shadows the `config` submodule
imported for its side effects at the bottom of this module. Editing the
signature simply put the existing warning on a changed line. The parameter is
the plugin's config dict, so `plugin_config` is what it should have been called
anyway; callers pass it positionally and are unaffected.

The JavaScript ones are the object-injection rule firing on reads keyed by
data. own() now goes through a property descriptor, so the one unavoidable
data-keyed read is no longer a computed member access; at() consumes its path
instead of indexing it; and the column set is a Map, which has no prototype to
pollute and needs no guarded reads at all.

Verified the widget still renders identically against football's real schema:
29 element rows, all four mode tabs, values populated, no console errors.

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

* fix(web): drop the hasOwnProperty alias the descriptor read made redundant

own() now reads through Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor, so the alias it used to call has no remaining reference.

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

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ChuckandClaude Opus 5 92ac231138 fix(fonts): load 4x6 on its pixel grid, from any working directory (#565)
* fix(fonts): load 4x6 on its pixel grid, from any working directory

`extra_small_font` loaded 4x6-font.ttf at 6, off the face's 7px grid.
Under `draw.fontmode = "1"` the mono rasteriser thresholds each glyph at
50% coverage, so every glyph lost its fourth column and deformed:
christmas-countdown rendered "UNTIL" as "VM1JL". The advance is 5px at
both sizes, so snapping to 7 reflows nothing.

- Sizes in DisplayManager._load_fonts go through crisp_size() instead of
  literals. crisp_size / FONT_PIXEL_GRID / FONT_NAME_ALIASES move to
  src/common/font_layout.py; sports_card re-exports them.
- Mirror the fix in VisualTestDisplayManager, the harness's fork of
  _load_fonts. Without it every golden is blessed at the old size.
- Resolve bundled font paths against the install root, not the cwd.
  FontManager._resolve_asset_path now delegates to
  font_layout.resolve_asset_path (kept by name; plugins probe for it).
- The startup banner's middle rung snaps to 7; the 5 rung stays off-grid
  on purpose (the only size that fits a dotted quad on 64px).
- loading.py reads all plugin JSON as UTF-8 (cp1252 on Windows aborted
  check_plugin.py on a 0x9d byte).
- check_plugin.py reports in ASCII and never dies on an unencodable char.

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

* fix(fonts): resolve relative asset paths from the install root, not the cwd

resolve_asset_path checked os.path.exists(relative_path) unconditionally,
so a relative asset path was still resolved against the process cwd first
-- exactly the dependency this module exists to remove. An unrelated
working directory that happens to contain assets/fonts/4x6-font.ttf (a
stale checkout, a copied assets folder, another project) would shadow the
real bundled font instead of the install root ever being consulted.

Only an absolute path is now returned as-is; a relative path always
resolves against _INSTALL_ROOT first, matching the docstring's stated
contract. FontManager._resolve_asset_path delegates to this function, so
it's covered by the same fix.

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2026-09-13 10:47:01 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 bdb9a94033 refactor(api-v3): split the 10,469-line blueprint into a package (#553)
* refactor(api-v3): split the 10,469-line blueprint into a package

web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py held 111 routes, 56 helpers and 181
functions in one module -- 9% of the core by line count and three times the
next largest file. It becomes a package of nine route modules grouped by path
segment, plus __init__.py for the shared imports, constants, Blueprint and
helpers.

Every route module decorates the SAME api_v3 Blueprint object, so endpoint
names stay api_v3.<function>, the URL map is unchanged and app.py is untouched.
Verified: 111 routes before, 111 after, byte-identical rules, endpoints and
methods, and every endpoint still on the one blueprint.

  plugins   3,867   config    1,178   starlark  692   system  619
  fonts       452   misc        398   wifi      361   display 326   backup 212
  __init__  1,787 (imports, constants, Blueprint, 56 helpers)

Two things the URL-map check could not catch, both found by running the suite:

1. PROJECT_ROOT = Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent. Moving the code one
   directory deeper made that resolve to web_interface/ instead of the project
   root. Nothing failed at import; it surfaced as ~110 tests failing with 404s
   and "installation script not found", because every path built from it was
   one level too shallow. Now parents[3], and test_api_v3_url_map.py asserts
   PROJECT_ROOT/run.py exists so the next move cannot repeat it.

2. Module-attribute patching. Tests do
   monkeypatch.setattr(api_v3_module, "_BACKUP_EXPORT_DIR", ...) and a route
   module that binds such a name by value never sees the patch. The shared code
   therefore stays in __init__.py rather than moving to a _common submodule --
   it has to live on the module the tests patch -- and the eleven names tests
   patch are read back through the package (_pkg.X) instead of bound by value.
   Those eleven were found by AST-scanning every setattr in the test tree, not
   by guessing; "time" is among them, used to drive a fake clock through the
   second-resolution credential-backup filenames.

Test changes are confined to what genuinely moved: patch targets that now name
the owning route module, imports of helpers, and six tests that scan the api_v3
source as a file and now read the package directory.

Full suite: 4,278 passed, 68 skipped, 0 failed.

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

* fix(api-v3): address CodeRabbit findings from the blueprint-split review

Fixes to the api_v3 package split (PR #553), one per finding verified
against the actual code:

- __init__.py: _redact_credentials only blanked scalar values under a
  credential-named key; a bare list of secrets under such a key (e.g.
  tokens: ["a", "b"]) passed through untouched, since the list branch
  recursed with no memory that its key looked like a credential. Nested
  dicts still walk normally (a documented, tested behaviour -- a container
  like secrets: {api_key: ..., note: ...} is a section name, not a value to
  blank outright), but any value reached under a credential-shaped key is
  now actually blanked.

- __init__.py: the OAuth helper script's raw stderr/stdout went to
  logger.error unredacted (CWE-532) right next to a comment claiming this
  was deliberate; the HTTP response already used the existing redact_text
  helper. Routed the log line through the same helper.

- __init__.py / starlark.py: the standalone Starlark manifest fallback
  (used when the plugin instance isn't loaded) read-modified-wrote
  manifest.json with no lock, unlike StarlarkAppsPlugin._update_manifest_safe
  (plugin-repos/starlark-apps/manager.py), which already holds an flock for
  the same file when the plugin is loaded. Added _starlark_manifest_lock,
  mirroring that pattern, and wrapped every standalone read-modify-write
  call site in it. The app-config update route also wrote config.json and
  the manifest as two separate, non-transactional writes (a second,
  distinct finding at the same call site); config.json is now rolled back
  if the manifest write that follows it fails.

- backup.py: restore options used bare bool() on values from the request,
  so {"restore_secrets": "false"} restored secrets anyway (bool("false") is
  True). Switched to the existing _coerce_to_bool helper already used for
  this exact purpose elsewhere in the package.

- config.py: an automated import-rewrite mangled four user-facing
  validation strings and their neighbouring comments -- "Invalid start
  time" had become "Invalid start _pkg.time" (and likewise for "end time")
  in both the schedule and dim-schedule per-day validation paths.

- display.py: `import _pkg.time as time_module` -- _pkg is a local alias
  for the package, not a real importable module, so this raised
  ModuleNotFoundError whenever a caller restarted an already-running
  display service via /display/on-demand/start, after the on-demand
  request was already written to cache. Fixed to `import time`. Audited
  the rest of the package for the same `_pkg.<module>` import mistake;
  every other `_pkg.` reference is a legitimate attribute read-through
  (`_pkg.time.time()`, `_pkg._get_starlark_plugin()`, ...), not a broken
  import statement.

- fonts.py: validate_file_upload's max_size_mb parameter is silently
  unused by that helper (it only checks filename/extension) -- the font
  upload route saved arbitrarily large files as a result. Added the same
  seek-and-check pattern already used for the sibling .star upload.

- wifi.py: two ad hoc, inconsistent bool coercions. POST
  /wifi/ap/auto-enable used bare bool(), so a JSON string "false" enabled
  it. POST /wifi/radio's enabled/force parsing recognized real bool and
  some strings but not int 1/0 (1 is True is False in Python). Factored one
  small _parse_bool_ish helper local to this file and used it at all three
  sites.

Not changed: the "unknown/misspelled restore option keys default to True"
half of the backup.py finding -- the file's own comment documents that a
missing key deliberately means "restore everything," matching the
already-existing JSON-parse-failure guard a few lines above it; only the
bool-coercion defect was a real bug.

Added or extended regression tests for every fix, following each area's
existing test conventions. Full suite: 4328 passed, 62 skipped, 2 failed
on both this branch and origin/main (missing tzdata package breaks two
timezone-alias tests in test_onboarding_checklist.py, unrelated to this
change) -- no new failures.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S3bPMESe2TfrGvbs1ef9c5

* fix(api-v3): reject unknown restore option keys

CodeRabbit's review of the blueprint split (#553) asked that
POST /backup/restore reject option keys outside RestoreOptions'
known set. The follow-up commit fixed the bool("false")-is-True
bug with _coerce_to_bool but never added the key check: a typo'd
or renamed key (e.g. "restoreSecrets") is silently ignored by
opts_dict.get(key, True), so the flag stays at its True default
and secrets get restored despite the caller's request saying
otherwise -- with no indication anything was wrong.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vmcwf5vMgYqdt8bJTZtiwb

* fix(api-v3): address CodeRabbit findings on the blueprint split

- _redact_credentials: blank scalar descendants of objects reached
  through a credential-owned list (e.g. tokens: [{"value": "secret"}])
  regardless of field name -- the existing name-based walk only
  protected direct dict values under a credential key, not list items.
- wifi.py: reject enabled/force/auto_enable_ap_mode values
  _parse_bool_ish can't recognize (400) instead of silently treating
  them as False, which could disable Wi-Fi or the radio itself.
- Starlark manifest locking: lock a stable manifest.json.lock sidecar
  instead of manifest.json itself, in both the standalone route path
  (_starlark_manifest_lock) and the plugin path
  (StarlarkAppsPlugin._save_manifest / _update_manifest_safe).
  manifest.json is replaced by an atomic rename on every write, which
  swaps in a fresh inode; a lock held on the old inode does not
  exclude a second locker that opens the path afresh right after the
  rename and gets the new inode, so two writers could race despite
  each holding "a lock". A sidecar that no write ever touches always
  resolves to the same inode for every locker.

Skipped as stale: the "serialize the complete manifest
read-modify-write" finding at api_v3/__init__.py -- every standalone
handler that calls _write_starlark_manifest is already wrapped in
_starlark_manifest_lock() on this branch.

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

* fix(api-v3): re-check reconciliation findings by the reconciler's own rules

Both CodeRabbit findings on the merge commit, verified against the code first.

Major, plugins.py: the stale-findings filter derived its own notion of "in
config" and "on disk", and both were looser than the reconciliation module's.
set(load_config()) also contains system keys, the secrets-file keys load_config()
merges in, and non-dict values; and any directory holding a manifest.json
counted as installed even when that manifest does not parse. Either looseness
clears a finding that is still true -- and a secrets key read as a plugin is the
precise bug the filter exists to stop reporting, so reintroducing that asymmetry
while re-checking was the wrong way round.

The two extractions now live in state_reconciliation.py as config_plugin_ids()
and disk_plugin_ids(), with ignored_config_keys() and secrets_top_level_keys()
alongside. _get_config_state() and _get_disk_state() use them too, so there is
one definition rather than two that can drift. _get_disk_state() re-reads each
manifest for version/name after taking membership from the shared extractor;
that costs one extra small read per plugin on a path that runs once per boot.

Minor, the new test: the fixture assigned api_v3.config_manager and
api_v3.plugin_manager directly. Those live on a module-level blueprint
singleton, so the mocks leaked into every later test that imports api_v3 --
pointing at a tmp_path already deleted. Both now go through monkeypatch.setattr,
which restores them. This is the same pollution class that made an earlier test
in this session break seven unrelated ones, so it is worth getting right.

Five cases added for the parity itself: a secrets key, a system key and a
non-dict value must not clear an "installed but missing from config" finding,
and neither an unparseable manifest nor a .standalone-backup- directory may
count as installed. All five fail against the looser version.

Linux CI on the preceding commit: Core unit tests, plugin harness, CodeQL and
CodeRabbit all pass. Codacy reads action_required on every commit of this
branch including the first, so it is pre-existing and not from this work.

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2026-09-11 10:07:38 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 39f27d285d fix(plugins): stop reconciliation inventing plugins and telling users to delete real config (#557)
On a device running four installed, configured, working plugins, the overview
banner read:

  Stale plugin config entries found: football-scoreboard, odds-ticker, data,
  ledmatrix-weather, starlark-apps. Remove them from config.json or reinstall
  via the Plugin Store.

Every claim in that sentence was wrong, and following its advice would have
deleted 4.9KB of working league settings. Four separate defects combined.

1. Secrets keys became phantom plugins. load_config() merges
   config_secrets.json into the config it returns, and the ignore list named
   only 'github' and 'youtube'. A 'data' key in that file therefore read as a
   plugin id and was reported as "in config but not on disk" forever. Read the
   secrets file's own top-level keys instead of hardcoding two of them.

2. The auto-fix clobbered real config. The handler for "on disk but not in
   config" assigned `config[plugin_id] = {'enabled': False}` unconditionally,
   so whenever detection was wrong it replaced a plugin's entire configuration
   with a stub. On the reported device it only failed to do so because the
   write hit EACCES. Now it refuses to overwrite an entry that already exists.

3. The banner gave backwards advice. plugin_missing_in_config ("on disk, not in
   config") and plugin_missing_on_disk ("in config, not on disk") are opposite
   problems, and both were rendered as "stale config entries ... remove them
   from config.json" -- which is correct for the second and destructive for the
   first. They are now reported separately, each with the advice that fits.

4. A stale verdict was served indefinitely. The result is a snapshot written
   once per run to a status file, and a run that fails to apply a fix also
   declares it will not retry. A condition that had since resolved kept being
   reported for hours. The status endpoint now re-checks stored findings
   against current state, dropping only what it can prove stale and keeping
   any kind it cannot re-verify.

The secrets-key lookup is deliberately fail-safe: an unreadable, absent,
malformed or non-path secrets location narrows the ignore set rather than
raising. An earlier revision let TypeError escape, which the broad handler in
_get_config_state() swallowed as "Error reading config state" -- emptying the
config state and making every downstream detection wrong. The existing
reconciliation tests caught it; there is now a regression test for it too.

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2026-09-11 08:45:21 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 577f5501a6 perf(plugins): stop re-deriving a display() signature the caller already cached (#549)
display_controller resolves once, and caches, whether a plugin's display()
takes a display_mode keyword -- self._plugin_accepts_display_mode, populated
right before the dispatch. It then handed the executor a
types.SimpleNamespace wrapping a closure, and execute_display() ran
inspect.signature() on that to work out the same thing.

Because the SimpleNamespace is rebuilt per call, the callable was new every
time, so nothing inside the executor could ever cache it either. Measured at
~39us per dispatch on a Pi 4, for a value the caller had a line earlier.

execute_display() now takes accepts_display_mode, falling back to inspecting
only when a caller does not pass it, so existing callers are unaffected.

Also documents two things that read as bugs and are not:

- execute_with_timeout()'s timeout is advisory. Nothing cancels the thread --
  Python cannot -- so on expiry the operation runs to completion in the
  background and only the caller gives up. A permanently hung plugin leaks a
  daemon thread per attempt. This is why callers holding a lock across the
  call must release it from inside the wrapped callable, as run()'s
  _release_display_lock already does.

- Only the first display() of each mode goes through the executor; the
  per-frame loops call display() directly. That is deliberate: a thread per
  frame would cost more than an advisory timeout buys. Both loops now say so,
  so the asymmetry does not read as an oversight.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014RRtqXDCnvnY6EQwhT5CV9

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2026-09-11 08:42:49 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Sonnet 5 fb3b293ace fix(plugins): let a plugin ask to be polled faster while it has live content (#555)
* fix(plugins): let a plugin ask to be polled faster while it has live content

Reported: "the football plugin with live games only updates the live game in
progress if I restart the display."

The data path was never the problem. NFLLiveManager fetches ESPN with no cache,
SportsLive.update() refreshes current_game in place when the game IDs are
unchanged, and the scorebug redraws from the game dict every frame -- which is
why the reporter's logs look healthy.

The problem is cadence. _get_plugin_update_interval() read only the manifest's
static update_interval, football's manifest pins that to 60, and the plugin's
own live_update_interval (15s) was invisible to the scheduler. Measured on a rig
during the fourth quarter of the game in the report:

    23:21:49  23:22:50  23:23:50  23:24:50  23:25:50   <- exactly 60s apart

A clock and score up to a minute stale during a two-minute drill reads as a
frozen panel, and a restart is the one moment it is ever current.

A single static number cannot say "every 15 seconds while a game is on, every 15
minutes in July", and only the plugin knows which is true. get_update_interval()
lets it say so per tick; returning None means "no opinion" and the existing
manifest/config resolution applies, so every plugin that predates this is
unaffected.

Requests are clamped to MIN_DYNAMIC_UPDATE_INTERVAL (5s): a plugin returning 0
would otherwise be re-entered on every tick of the render loop, busy-waiting
against its own API. A hook that raises or returns a non-number is ignored
rather than propagated -- a scheduler that fails on one plugin's bug stops
updating all the others.

Deliberately NOT changed: the manifest still beats config in the static path.
That looked like the obvious fix -- user config being silently ignored -- until
checking a real rig, where football and baseball both carry update_interval 3600
in config against a manifest 60, and weather 1800 against 60. Those values are
stale precisely because nothing has been honouring them; making config win would
have slowed three plugins by 60x, turning a one-minute lag into an hour. The
dynamic hook makes the flip unnecessary. There is a test pinning the current
precedence with that reasoning attached.

Full suite: 4,283 passed, 68 skipped.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014RRtqXDCnvnY6EQwhT5CV9

* test(plugins): drive the real scheduler, not just the interval resolver

test_plugin_dynamic_update_interval.py asserts that
_get_plugin_update_interval() returns the number the plugin asked for. That is
not the same claim as "the plugin gets updated more often", and the gap between
those two is exactly where the original bug lived: the plugin knew it wanted
15s, said so in live_update_interval, and nothing downstream acted on it.

So this ticks the real run_scheduled_updates() through a simulated hour and
counts dispatches. Against pre-fix core it reports "10 updates in 10 minutes of
a live game" -- the 60s manifest cadence, matching what was measured on a rig
during the reported game. Against the fix it reports ~40.

Also pins the regression that would be worse than the bug: an idle hour must
still be ~60 updates, not 240. Asking for the live interval year-round would
poll ESPN four times a minute all summer.

Scope note, since it is easy to over-read this fix: the *switch* display path
already refreshed the manager immediately before drawing, via
_try_manager_display() -> _ensure_manager_updated(), which honours the manager's
own 15s interval. So a switch-mode card was already <=15s stale at draw time
before this change. What this fixes is the background cadence, which is what
live-priority detection, Vegas content and scroll preparation all read.

Full suite: 4,288 passed, 68 skipped.

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

* fix(plugins): reject bool and -inf hook results in dynamic interval

get_update_interval() ran bool through float() (bool is an int subclass,
so True/False became 1.0/0.0) and only checked for +inf, not -inf. Both
cases landed on the MIN_DYNAMIC_UPDATE_INTERVAL floor by coincidence
instead of falling back to the static/manifest interval as invalid
input should.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017Tst9cied2ri9bH4QRWa6H

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2026-09-11 08:41:58 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 968b953a51 fix(display): pin one text layout engine, and give the 5x7 BDF face a size (#539)
* fix(display): pin one text layout engine, and give the 5x7 face a size

Two ways a font could render differently on two machines running the same
code, both found while diagnosing four plugins whose golden images passed on
the machine that generated them and failed everywhere else.

**Layout engine.** `ImageFont.truetype` picks its engine at load time: Raqm
where the host Pillow was built with libraqm, Basic otherwise. The two round
fractional glyph advances differently. `PressStart2P-Regular.ttf` at 8px has
whole-pixel advances, so they agree — which is why most of the fleet matched
everywhere and hid this. `4x6-font.ttf` at 6px does not: glyph positions drift
cumulatively along a run, and the four plugins that draw body text in it
(geochron, of-the-day, christmas-countdown, ledmatrix-weather's almanac) are
exactly the four whose goldens travelled badly.

Every core font load now goes through `src/common/font_layout.load_truetype`,
which pins the Basic engine, so a render depends on the font file and the size
and nothing else. Basic gives up complex-script shaping and kerning pairs;
neither applies to bitmap-grid faces on an LED panel. Output is unchanged on a
host without libraqm.

**Zero font height.** `DisplayManager` built the 5x7 BDF face with
`freetype.Face(path)` and never called `set_char_size`, so `face.size.height`
stayed 0 and `get_font_height()` returned 0 for it — callers stacking rows by
`prev_y + prev_height + gap` drew two lines on top of each other. The
start-up line `Calendar font size: 0 pixels` has been printing the symptom all
along. `font_manager._load_bdf_font` already called `set_char_size`, so
whether measurement worked depended on which path loaded the face.

`DisplayManager` now sets it too, and `get_font_height()` falls back to the
strike the file declares rather than returning a zero line height.

Fixes ChuckBuilds/ledmatrix-plugins#397
Refs ChuckBuilds/ledmatrix-plugins#371, #375, #378, #391

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

* fix(display): give the startup banner a rung that fits a full address at 64px

CI caught what pinning the layout engine exposed rather than caused.
`_fitting_font` walks PressStart2P then 4x6 at 6px, and "255.255.255.255" --
the widest thing the startup banner ever shows -- measures 66px at 4x6/6px
against the 62 a 64x32 panel has to give. It used to squeak in only because
the measurement depended on which layout engine the host Pillow happened to
have; with the engine pinned it does not, so the rung the worst case actually
needs is now in the ladder instead of implied: 4x6 at 5px, which measures 51.

The fallback was wrong in the same place. When nothing in the ladder fit, it
returned `self.font` -- the *widest* option, and precisely how "Initializing"
came to run off the side of a 64px panel to begin with. It returns the
narrowest face that loaded now.

test/test_initializing_screen.py: 34 passed.

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* fix(display): name the exceptions the BDF strike read can raise

Codacy flagged the try/except/pass. It was already narrow in intent -- a
malformed strike table on the measurement path must degrade to "size unknown"
rather than take the display down -- but a bare `except Exception: pass` says
neither of those things and hides a genuinely broken font behind a silent 8px
fallback. It now catches what reading `available_sizes` can actually raise and
logs which face failed.

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

* chore: drop logo PNGs the render harness downloaded into the worktree

These are fetched at runtime by the logo cache; they are not source, and they
rode in on a `git add -A` while I was running check_plugin.py against this
branch. Nothing in the change needs them.

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2026-09-08 09:40:00 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 c9289e3a1d fix(store): update_plugin silently did nothing for four installed plugins (#536)
install_plugin() deliberately renames a plugin's directory to the MANIFEST id
when it differs from the REGISTRY id, so registry `stocks` lands in
`ledmatrix-stocks/`. Every lookup in _find_plugin_path() is by directory name,
so update_plugin("stocks") found nothing, logged "Plugin not installed", and
returned False.

Nothing surfaced that to the user. Clicking update in the web UI was a no-op
with no error, and the plugin stayed on a stale version indefinitely. Four
installed plugins hit this on a real device -- leaderboard, music, stocks and
weather -- found because a scripted update of eleven plugins failed on exactly
those four.

Adds a manifest-id scan as the LAST step of the resolution chain, so the two
documented lookups above it (configured dir, then the sibling plugins/
fallback) keep their exact meaning and ordering. That ordering is pinned by
test_discovery_path_contract.py, which characterises the divergence between
the three resolvers on purpose; this extends the chain rather than reordering
it. Directories renamed aside with '.standalone-backup-' during an install or
rollback are skipped, since matching one would report a half-finished install
as a live plugin.

Also adds scripts/audit_render_path.py, which walks the call graph from
display() and reports blocking calls reachable from it. display() runs on the
render thread, so anything slow there stalls the panel; on a vsync-paced loop
a single 15ms call drops a frame and a network round trip freezes the marquee.
Two instances were already found the slow way, by reading frame-time
histograms -- odds-ticker reading the scoreboard cache per frame, and
soccer-scoreboard timing out inside update(). The audit finds that shape in
the source instead. It is a heuristic and says so: a hit behind an interval
check may be fine.

It currently flags 23 calls across six plugins. The clearest is
ledmatrix-music, whose display() falls back to an inline
requests.get(timeout=5) when album art has not been prefetched -- a deliberate
"show the art rather than go blank" tradeoff by its author, but up to five
seconds of frozen panel. Reported, not changed; that is its owner's call.

185 store tests pass. Three of the six new tests fail without the fix.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-07 15:55:46 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 d12323e7f1 perf(scroll): pace frames to the panel — 44→100 fps, stalls 14% → 0.02% (#523)
* perf(scroll): pace frames to the panel, not to a fixed sleep

Scrolling ran at 44-46 fps on a 2x128x64 chain and 14-17% of frames took
41-53ms, which reads as judder. Four independent causes, each measured on
the hardware; details and the diagnostic recipe are in
docs/SCROLL_PERFORMANCE.md.

The high-FPS loop slept a flat 8ms after every render. display() has
already blocked on the panel's vsync by then, so that sleep was added to a
wait that had happened: ~4ms of render plus 8ms put each iteration at ~12ms
against a 10ms refresh grid, so every swap missed a refresh and the loop
settled at 50fps while asking for 125 -- with no headroom, so a further
14% of frames slipped again. It now sleeps only the remainder, with a 1ms
floor so plugin threads still get the GIL.

ScrollHelper stepped position on a wall clock at 1/scroll_delay steps per
second. Plugins set scroll_delay to the frame period, so that comparison
sat exactly on its own threshold: a frame arriving a hair early moved zero
pixels and rendered an identical frame, dirty-tracking skipped the swap, it
returned in ~2ms, and the beat repeated. No scroll_delay value tunes that
out -- a shorter delay trades stalled frames for periodic double-steps.
Both modes now accumulate elapsed time at the same configured speed, so
position stays proportional to real time.

Sub-pixel blending goes back to off by default. It renders a half-step by
mixing two adjacent columns, which on a coarse panel showing pixel-font
text alternates crisp and smeared frames and reads as shimmer -- visibly
worse than integer stepping on the hardware. Vegas mode still opts in.

disk_cache uses orjson when importable, falling back to the stdlib. Encoding
a ~1MB record drops from 14.8ms to 5.4ms end-to-end, and that work holds the
GIL while a marquee is on screen. display_manager also checksummed the whole
framebuffer twice per frame (dirty tracking, then the preview snapshot); the
snapshot now takes the checksum the caller already computed.

New src/common/scroll_config.py resolves scroll settings in one place. Five
ticker plugins each hand-rolled this and disagreed: odds-ticker ranked the
deprecated scroll_pixels_per_second above the documented scroll_speed/delay
pair, and because that key carries a schema default the documented settings
were dead for every user (ChuckBuilds/ledmatrix-plugins#408), while
ledmatrix-leaderboard read the same key only as a fallback. The resolver also
warns when a speed will not advance a whole number of pixels per refresh,
which is the property that actually determines whether a scroll looks smooth.

scripts/build_rgbmatrix_nogil.sh rebuilds the rgbmatrix binding so it
releases the GIL. Upstream declares SwapOnVSync without nogil, unlike
SetPixel/Clear/Fill beside it, so the render thread held the GIL for the
whole vsync wait and starved background threads into long uninterruptible
bursts. The script patches, builds and self-verifies into a scratch tree;
--install backs up the original and rolls back if the service does not come
back healthy.

Measured after: 100 fps locked, no stalls observed, render thread down from
51% to 19% of one core.

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

* fix(display): keep the panel swap locked to vsync while scrolling

Dirty tracking skipped SwapOnVSync for byte-identical frames. That is the
right call for static content, but SwapOnVSync is also what paces the render
loop, so skipping it skips the wait for the panel: a duplicate frame returns
in ~8ms instead of ~10ms on a 100Hz panel, advances the strip only 0.8px
instead of 1.0px, and so makes the next frame more likely to repeat as well.
The effect sustains itself once it starts.

Measured over 20 minutes on a 2x128x64 chain, both scrollers configured
identically at 100 px/s:

    leaderboard   10ms x35, 11ms x3            (clean)
    odds-ticker   10ms x26, 8ms x7, 15ms x5    (~20% duplicates mid-scroll)

The duplicates were not end-of-cycle idling -- 38% of fast frames fell within
90s of a scroll completion against 35% of normal frames, a null result. The
trigger is per-frame work: odds does more of it, and more variably, so it is
first to land a frame that advances less than a whole pixel.

Pushing an identical frame costs one canvas copy. Falling out of vsync lock
costs smooth motion. Static content is untouched, because
is_currently_scrolling() expires on its own inactivity threshold -- covered
by test_stale_scrolling_state_stops_forcing_pushes so a plugin that stops
scrolling without saying so cannot pin the panel into always-push.

Also de-flakes test_snapshot_still_written_on_skip, which asserted a strict
mtime increase between two writes that can land in the same filesystem tick;
it failed about two runs in three on Windows regardless of the code under
test. The file is now backdated before the check.

156 tests pass on the Pi. Not yet confirmed by eye on the panel.

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* fix(scroll): report the frame-time tail, and stop the row-major blit

Two problems, both found by looking at the panel rather than the metric.

The frame-stats line reported ONE instantaneous frame every 5 seconds --
about 1 frame in 500 -- printed beside a 100-frame average. Both hide exactly
the fault they are used to chase: a 2ms duplicate and a 21ms double-wait
average to precisely 10ms, so a ticker stalling on half its frames still
reports a healthy "Avg FPS: 100.0". That reading cost several rounds of
chasing the wrong layer. The line now aggregates every frame since the last
log and reports median, p95, max, min, and explicit stall and skip rates
(past 1.5x the median missed a refresh; under half never reached the panel,
because dirty tracking skipped the swap so the frame never waited on vsync).

On the hardware this now reads:

    leaderboard  100.0 fps over 501 frames | median 10.00ms p95 10.05ms
                 max 10.34ms | stalls 0 (0.0%) skips 0 (0.0%)

The binding rebuild's blit patch becomes opt-in (RGB_PATCH_BLIT=1, default
off). Reordering that loop to row-major changes what a torn frame looks like:
column-major tearing shows as a vertical seam, row-major as a horizontal split
between the panel's upper and lower halves. On a 1/32 scan panel that reads as
a one-pixel fold across the middle of every panel, which is what was reported
on hardware and what went away when the blit was reverted. All of the measured
gain comes from the SwapOnVSync change, so the risky half is simply not worth
taking; the header says so.

Also fixes --install resolving its paths against $HOME, which is /root under
sudo, so it looked in /root/rgbmatrix-nogil-build and died with "no built
module found" on a machine where the build had just succeeded. It now resolves
SUDO_USER's home. Both build paths are verified on the Pi: default yields one
GIL-release site, RGB_PATCH_BLIT=1 yields two.

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* feat(scroll): let users pick a crisp speed for their own panel

Whole-pixel motion was previously only available at multiples of the refresh
rate -- 100, 200, 300 px/s on a 100Hz panel. 100 px/s crosses a 256px panel in
2.6s, which is brisk for reading, and everything slower had to blend (blur) or
repeat frames unevenly (judder). There was no way to ask for 50 px/s and get
clean motion.

SwapOnVSync takes a framerate_fraction the display manager never passed. It
holds each frame for N panel refreshes; the panel keeps refreshing at its full
rate throughout, so holding costs nothing in flicker and only changes how often
a NEW image is presented. That turns 50 px/s into one whole pixel every second
refresh instead of half a pixel every refresh.

The crisp speeds are therefore refresh_hz / hold * pixels_per_frame, and that
ladder depends on the panel: a Pi Zero on a long chain has a different set of
good speeds from a Pi 4 on a short one. crisp_ladder() enumerates them and
solve_crisp() picks the best match for a requested speed.

solve_crisp weights motion quality rather than picking the numerically nearest
entry, which matters more than it sounds. Asked for 30 px/s, nearest-by-value
answers 28.6 -- 2px jumps at 14fps -- over 33.3, which is single-pixel motion
at 33fps and obviously better on the panel. The target is also clamped into the
ladder's range first, because relative error saturates near 1.0 for a target
far outside it and the quality penalty would otherwise answer "10000 px/s" with
the slowest entry.

configure() snaps to the ladder and applies the hold when given a display
manager. Without one the hold silently cannot happen and motion falls back to
fractional pixels, so it warns rather than failing quietly. set_frame_hold()
resets to 1 when scrolling stops, so one plugin's pacing cannot leak into
whatever is on screen next.

scripts/scroll_speeds.py is the user-facing part: it prints the ladder for the
configured rate, measures what the panel ACTUALLY manages (--measure, for
hardware that cannot reach its configured limit), highlights the nearest option
to a wanted speed, and demos one live. It never starts or stops the display
service itself -- doing that inside a script stranded the panel twice today.

Speeds below ~20 px/s remain stepped regardless. That is the pixel pitch, not a
software limit.

Also fixes the dirty-tracking test spy, which stubbed SwapOnVSync with a
single-argument function and would have masked the new call as a failed push,
and rewrites a configure() test that had started passing for the wrong reason:
it asserted a judder warning, which snapping now prevents, and was matching the
unrelated "hold could not be applied" warning instead.

183 tests pass on the Pi.

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* fix(scroll): tie the frame hold to the scroll, not the plugin

The hold applied in configure() never reached the panel. Plugins share one
display manager, and set_scrolling_state(False) -- fired whenever ANY other
plugin finishes its scroll -- reset the hold to 1. A hold set once at plugin
construction was therefore always gone by the time that plugin rendered.

The symptom was a log line that lied. ledmatrix-stocks reported

    Scroll configured: 50.0 px/s (1px every 2 refreshes = 50.0 fps, smooth)

while the panel measured 100.0 fps, median 10.00ms. Config, resolution and
snapping were all correct; only the pacing silently was not applied.

set_scrolling_state(is_scrolling, frame_hold=1) now carries it, so the hold
lives exactly as long as the scroll that asked for it. configure() reports the
value as ScrollSettings.frame_hold instead of applying it -- applying it behind
the caller's back could never have been right on a shared display manager.
Existing callers are unaffected; the default keeps one frame per refresh.

Verified on hardware: stocks at 50 px/s now measures

    50.0 fps over 251 frames | median 20.00ms p95 20.09ms | stalls 0 skips 0

20.00ms being exactly two refreshes, with the panel still refreshing at 100Hz
underneath so flicker is unchanged.

test_another_plugin_stopping_does_not_strand_a_hold pins the interaction that
broke this.

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* fix(scroll,cache): resolve CodeRabbit review on #523

Eight findings, all reproduced before fixing.

scroll_config.configure() read the refresh rate *after* resolve() had
already used it. resolve() fills in target_fps, pixels_per_frame and the
judder warning from that rate, so on a 60Hz panel every one of them
described 100Hz -- and with snap_to_crisp=False nothing downstream
corrected it, so set_target_fps() paced the helper to 100 FPS. The rate
is now settled first, and falls back to the global config rather than
straight to the default.

refresh_hz_from_config() used `(cfg.get("display") or {}).get(...)`,
which raises AttributeError when either level is truthy but not a
mapping -- out of a function whose whole contract is a rate or a default.

The frame-stats line reported the upper-middle sample as the median and
the 96th sorted sample as p95 of 100. Both are also thresholds (stalls
at 1.5x the median, skips at 0.5x), so the counts were biased too. The
arithmetic is now in frame_stats()/format_frame_stats(), testable
without a clock.

configure()'s docstring and docs/SCROLL_PERFORMANCE.md still said it
applies the frame hold and warns when it cannot. It deliberately does
neither since "tie the frame hold to the scroll, not the plugin"; a
caller following the old text would omit set_scrolling_state() and slow
snapped speeds would still present every refresh.

disk_cache had no policy for non-finite floats: orjson writes null,
the stdlib writes NaN/Infinity, and orjson then rejects those legacy
files so DiskCache.get deleted them as corrupt. One behaviour on both
paths now -- write null, keep legacy records readable. allow_nan=False
detects the values; the replacement walk runs only when there is one,
so the ordinary write path is byte-identical and pays nothing.

build_rgbmatrix_nogil.sh picked the build artifact with a glob piped to
`head -1`, which sorts cpython-311 ahead of cpython-313, so a stale .so
staged in from the source tree was installed as core.so while the GIL
check -- which reads the generated core.cpp, not the .so -- still passed.
It now requires the current interpreter's exact ABI name and fails
closed. Its systemctl calls were also unchecked under `set -uo pipefail`:
a failed stop left the old service running, the following start
succeeded as a no-op, and the health check reported SUCCESS for a
binding that was never loaded.

orjson floor raised to 3.11.6 for CVE-2025-67221 (unbounded recursion
in dumps); it covers the project's Python 3.10-3.13 range.

Adds test/test_cache_nonfinite_floats.py (14) plus regression tests in
test_scroll_config.py and test_scroll_helper.py. 9 of the cache tests
and 9 of the scroll_config tests fail against the pre-fix code.

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* test(harness): keep the visual double's signature tied to production

Moves set_scrolling_state's frame_hold into the test double here, where
DisplayManager gains it, rather than in #534 where it arrived a PR early.
CodeRabbit flagged the #534 version correctly: a double that accepts an
argument production does not lets the call pass every harness run and
raise TypeError on the panel, which is the one failure a safety harness
exists to prevent.

The drift has now gone both ways across two branches -- double behind
production on this branch, double ahead of it on #534 -- so it is pinned
instead of remembered. test_display_double_parity.py compares the two
signatures and fails with the direction of the drift named. It reads the
files with ast rather than importing them, because display_manager
imports rgbmatrix at module scope and this check should hold on a laptop
and in CI as well as on a Pi.

Plugins begin passing frame_hold in ledmatrix-plugins#462, which is why
production and the double both need it before that lands.

Full suite: 3889 passed.

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ChuckandClaude Opus 5 a0d3e64099 fix: ten defects found validating the whole plugin fleet on hardware (#534)
* fix(core): register tom_thumb, accept frame_hold in the test double, wire api_v3's managers

Three independent fixes found while validating every plugin on a 256x64 rig.

FontManager never registered tom_thumb even though assets/fonts/tom-thumb.bdf
ships with the core, so every plugin offering it logged "Font family
'tom_thumb' not found" (16 warnings per countdown render) and had to carry a
private loader to use a bundled font. Closes #524.

VisualTestDisplayManager.set_scrolling_state() lacked the frame_hold parameter
that DisplayManager gained, so any plugin passing it died with TypeError at
render time and failed every size. Nine plugins now make that call;
ledmatrix-stocks and ledmatrix-leaderboard were failing outright and the other
seven only passed because their scroll path was unreachable without data.
Closes #525.

api_v3 declared module-level config_manager/plugin_manager = None that nothing
ever assigned -- app.py sets the blueprint attributes, which the other 150+
call sites use. Three sites read the decoys, so /health reported the config
unreadable and the plugin system uninitialised (making "degraded" permanent and
unreachable-by-design) and /display/current fell back to a hardcoded 128x64 on
every rig. The decoys are removed rather than assigned, so a bare name is now a
NameError at test time instead of a silent None. The same function's first-call
uptime was computed from two separate clock reads and came out negative.
Closes #529.

Verified on the rig: both previously-failing plugins render, the tom_thumb
warnings are gone, /health reports "healthy" with all three checks passing, and
/display/current reports the real 256x64.

* fix(core): unique snapshot temp name, honour on-demand requests, skip empty starlark

The preview snapshot wrote through a fixed "<snapshot>.tmp". /tmp is
world-writable and sticky, and the display service runs as a different user
from the tooling, so a leftover temp owned by anyone else became unopenable
even by root -- fs.protected_regular refuses O_CREAT on a foreign file in a
sticky directory. The preview and the health check's liveness proxy then froze
until someone deleted the file by hand; on the test rig that meant 23 hours of
a healthy display reporting "hardware: stale". Now uses tempfile.mkstemp with
cleanup on failure, matching the hardware-status write a few hundred lines
above. Closes #528.

_poll_on_demand_requests read its mailbox with max_age=3600, and get() defaults
the in-memory TTL to max_age -- so the first request was pinned in memory for an
hour and every later poll returned that stale copy. No second on-demand request
was honoured until the service restarted, while the API kept returning 200.
get() already documents memory_ttl=0 for exactly this cross-process case.
The consumed request is also now deleted: leaving it on disk meant a restart
replayed the previous request, activated it, and ignored the one the caller had
just made. Closes #530.

starlark-apps returned None from display() when it has no app to show, which is
the state of every install without Pixlet and of a fresh one before any app is
added. The controller only skips on a boolean False, so that held a black panel
for the full display_duration instead of rotating on. Closes #456 (core side).

Verified on the rig: two consecutive on-demand requests with no restart between
them are both activated, where the second was previously dropped in silence.

* perf(harness): share one cache across a plugin's renders

_instantiate built a fresh MockCacheManager for every (size, mode), and that
mock is a per-instance in-memory dict, so each render was a cold start. A plugin
that fetches per game or per player re-fetched everything N times over --
baseball-scoreboard at one size took 840s for nine renders where the arithmetic
said ~72s, and at eight sizes it exceeded a 900s timeout.

The second and later renders also never exercised the cache-hit path, which is
what a running rig executes almost all of the time, so a caching regression
could not be caught here.

The cache is now built once per render_plugin_matrix call and threaded down.
The display manager stays per-render -- the bounds checking depends on that --
so only fetched data is shared.

Measured on the rig, same render counts and same goldens:
  tide-display         2s -> 1s   (32 renders)
  cricket-scoreboard  10s -> 3s   (24 renders)
No pass/fail change across tide-display, cricket-scoreboard, clock-simple,
geochron, christmas-countdown, of-the-day, web-ui-info and incoming-packages.

Closes #533.

* fix(scripts): run standalone plugin tests instead of collecting nothing

run_plugin_tests.py discovered every plugin test file and handed the lot to
pytest. Most plugin tests are standalone scripts -- module-level main() plus an
`if __name__ == "__main__"` guard, signalling through an exit code -- and pytest
collects zero items from those. The run printed how many files it had *found*,
then "no tests ran", and exited without executing any of them. On a rig with all
44 first-party plugins that is 151 of 248 files.

Files are now classified and each kind runs under the right runner: pytest for
real test modules, subprocess for scripts, honouring the 0 pass / 2 skip / 1
fail convention ledmatrix-plugins' own runner established (a script that wants a
tty or an LED matrix is a skip, not a regression).

Before:
    $ python3 scripts/run_plugin_tests.py -p countdown -d ~/LEDMatrix/plugin-repos
    Found 1 test file(s)
    collected 0 items
    no tests ran in 0.31s                      rc=0

After:
    Found 1 test file(s) -- 0 collectable, 1 standalone script(s)
    1 passed, 0 skipped, 0 failed (scripts)    rc=0

Verified across three shapes: countdown (1 script), jellyfin-now-playing and
pomodoro-timer (pytest only, 16 and 42 tests), and ledmatrix-flights (11 files
split 4 collectable / 7 scripts, all seven of which had never run).

Closes #532.

Running the flights scripts for the first time also surfaced four genuinely
failing tests there, hidden by the mirror-image bug in the plugins repo's own
runner -- filed as ChuckBuilds/ledmatrix-plugins#464 and #465.

* fix(harness): give an empty-looking mode a few frames before warning about it

check_plugin's "drew nothing but display() returned X" warning fired on a single
frame, rendered with force_clear=True, under a frozen clock. All three defeat a
scrolling plugin, whose first frame is legitimately its blank scroll-in buffer.
Across 44 first-party plugins, 60 of 76 warnings were false -- the rate at which
people stop reading a warning, which matters because the true positives are
real: a mode that draws nothing and does not return False holds a blank panel
for its whole display duration.

An apparently-empty frame is now re-driven for up to 48 more frames with
force_clear=False (force_clear means "reset the scroll", so repeating it would
redraw frame 1 for ever) and with the clock advancing -- freezegun's factory
where time is frozen, a real sleep where it is not, since scroll position is
usually a function of elapsed time. The first frame that draws content replaces
the result.

The clock is moved back afterwards. It is shared by every render in the matrix,
so time borrowed by the probe leaked into later modes and drifted their goldens
-- f1_upcoming picked up 5 spurious drifts before this was restored.

Measured on the rig:

                        empty warns          check
                        before  after
  f1-scoreboard            42      0    48 PASS / 0 FAIL, goldens intact
  ledmatrix-elections      16      0    16 PASS / 0 FAIL
  on-air                    8      8    true positive, kept
  nfl-draft                 8      8    true positive, kept
  clock-simple/geochron/    0      0    unchanged
  christmas-countdown

58 false positives gone, both true positives kept, no golden regressions. Cost
is confined to modes that really are blank: plugins that draw immediately are
unchanged (clock-simple and tide-display still 2s), while on-air -- eight
deliberately blank modes -- goes to 21s.

Closes #527.

* fix(harness): load nested schema defaults, and merge caller config at leaf level

load_config_defaults read only top-level properties. An object property carries
its defaults on its children, not on itself, so everything nested was dropped --
2,386 defaults across 37 of 44 plugins, soccer-scoreboard alone losing 539 of
565. render_plugin_matrix's comment says the plugin then "behaves like a real
install", which for most of the fleet it did not.

_defaults_from_properties now recurses. merge_config deep-merges the caller's
config onto the result so an override lands at the leaf: a shallow merge would
let -c '{"nhl": {"enabled": true}}' replace the whole nhl subtree and discard
every other nhl default, which is the same class of bug being fixed here.

Measured before/after across all 49 installed plugins on the rig: **no render
changed** -- identical PASS/FAIL counts, byte-identical output, goldens intact.
Plugins already fall back to the same values internally via config.get(key,
default), so supplying them explicitly agrees with what they were doing. The
defaults really are arriving now:

  ufc-scoreboard        9 -> 87 defaults
  ledmatrix-flights    51 -> 95
  masters-tournament   10 -> 51
  cricket-scoreboard   22 -> 50
  tide-display         12 -> 18

and hockey-scoreboard, which used to load nhl.enabled=None, now gets
nhl.enabled=True with its full display_modes block.

Caveat worth carrying: the eight plugins with the most nested config
(soccer, baseball, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, football, afl, nrl -- 1,634 of
the 2,386 dropped defaults, 68%) could not be measured. They import
src.common.sports_shared, which the test rig's core branch predates, so they
fail to load there identically before and after. Re-run this comparison against
a core that has that module before trusting the "nothing changed" result for
them; those are exactly the plugins whose renders should change most.

Closes #531.

* refactor: narrow the exception handlers this branch introduced

Codacy flagged the new code; it passes on other recent PRs, so the finding is
mine. Four of the five broad `except Exception` clauses I added were catching
far more than they needed to, which is the same shape as several bugs this
branch fixes -- hello-world's TypeError sat invisible for exactly this reason.

  freezer() / move_to() / tick()   -> (AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError)
  cache_manager.delete()           -> (OSError, AttributeError, KeyError)

The fifth stays broad and now says why: it wraps a call into a plugin's own
display(), which can raise anything, and the first frame has already rendered --
so a failure there must not turn a good result into an error.

Verified against a checkout of main: f1-scoreboard 48 PASS / 0 FAIL with 0 empty
warnings, on-air keeps its 8 true positives, clock-simple 8 PASS. geochron shows
7 golden drifts both before and after this branch, so it is not from these
changes -- its committed goldens predate #521's 1-bit text rendering.

* fix: resolve CodeRabbit review and Codacy findings on #534

CodeRabbit raised six; all six were real.

The test double had drifted ahead of production. VisualTestDisplayManager
accepted set_scrolling_state(frame_hold=...) while DisplayManager did not,
so such a call passed every harness run and would raise TypeError on the
panel -- the one failure a safety harness exists to prevent. frame_hold
belongs to the change that adds it to DisplayManager (#523), so it moves
there and the double matches main again.

The harness swallowed exceptions from re-rendered frames. _settle_loop
re-renders a mode that came back blank, to give a scroll time to draw;
returning silently on a crash meant a mode that renders one good frame
and then explodes was reported as passing. Recorded on result.error now,
keeping the captured frame so the failure stays inspectable.

starlark-apps display() returned True after _display_frame() failed, so
the controller held a dead frame for the whole display_duration instead
of rotating on. _display_frame now returns bool on all three paths.

run_plugin_tests.py used env.setdefault for PYTHONPATH and
LEDMATRIX_CORE, so an inherited value won and the subprocess imported a
different core than the one under test -- ledmatrix-plugins#467 exactly.
Prepends PROJECT_ROOT and sets LEDMATRIX_CORE unconditionally.

The on-demand mailbox is polled after every frame, ~125x/second on a
scrolling mode, and the read is deliberately uncached, so it was that
many disk reads per second to find nothing. Floored at 250ms, which is
imperceptible for a web-UI click. Consuming it also deleted whatever was
present rather than what had just been processed, so a request posted
while the previous one was in flight was thrown away and never ran; the
delete is now keyed by request_id. That narrows the window rather than
closing it -- a true atomic claim needs a primitive the cache layer does
not offer, and the code says so rather than implying otherwise.

Codacy's 2 criticals were bandit B404/B603 on the subprocess call added
to run_plugin_tests.py. Fixed interpreter, argument list, no shell;
annotated with the repo's existing nosec convention. Bandit is clean on
the file.

Adds test/test_on_demand_mailbox.py (8), test_starlark_display_contract.py
(4) and two settle cases in test_harness_empty_claimed.py. 4, 4 and 2 of
those fail against the pre-fix code. Full suite: 3961 passed.

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* chore: satisfy Codacy's subprocess checks on the new test runner

Codacy runs Bandit and Opengrep (its Semgrep fork). The new
subprocess.run in scripts/run_plugin_tests.py trips three patterns, on
two different lines:

  Bandit   B404 on the import, B603 on the call
  Opengrep dangerous-subprocess-use-audit          on the run( line
           dangerous-subprocess-use-tainted-env-args on the argv line

A nosemgrep applies only to its own line, so the call line and the argv
line each need one; a single comment on the call covered neither rule
fully. Suppression is the right answer here rather than a rewrite: the
interpreter is sys.executable, the arguments are a list, and no shell is
involved, so there is nothing to word-split or expand.

Matches the pair the rest of the repo already uses for this shape --
permission_utils.py, plugin_loader.py, install_dependencies_apt.py.

Codacy: 0 new issues, up to standards.

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* chore: leave visual_display_manager untouched so #523 can merge

The only change this branch made to that file was a docstring, and it
collided with #523's rewrite of the same method -- so #534 and #523 each
merged cleanly against main but conflicted with each other. Reverted to
main's text; #523 owns this method and adds frame_hold to it.

The note the docstring carried ('frame_hold arrives in #523') would have
been stale the moment #523 landed anyway. The parity test in #523 is
what actually keeps the two signatures honest.

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* chore: add the Ruff suppression nosec/nosemgrep do not cover

Ruff reports S603 on the same call Bandit and Opengrep do, and none of
the three suppressions covers the others. Confirmed the precondition
first: path comes from discover_plugin_tests(), which globs test files
inside the repo, and the call is a fixed interpreter with a list argv
and no shell.

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ChuckandClaude Opus 5 91d15a8943 fix(display): draw text 1-bit, so glyphs stay crisp on the LED grid (#521)
An LED panel has no partial brightness. PIL defaults ImageDraw's fontmode to
"L", which anti-aliases TrueType glyphs into a grey fringe the panel can only
round off -- a 4px glyph arrives smeared into 3px.

DisplayManager creates its shared `draw` in six places and set fontmode at
none of them, while _load_fonts loads extra_small_font as 4x6-font.ttf at
size 6. Measured at draw time, that face at that size puts 74% of its lit
pixels at partial coverage. Every plugin drawing small text through the
shared draw inherited the blur; geochron was the case that surfaced it.

The harness's VisualDisplayManager had the same gap, which mattered more than
it looks: goldens were recording anti-aliased text that production would not
produce, so the harness could not have caught this. Fixing only production
left geochron still blurry under the harness -- that is how the second site
was found.

Both are set to "1" so the harness renders what the panel renders.


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Chuck 32d637a446 fix(store): read the core version from disk, not from a stale import (#518)
* fix(store): read the core version from disk, not from a stale import

Updating the core to 3.3.0 and then updating plugins refused all eight sports
scoreboards:

    Refusing to install nrl-scoreboard: NRL Scoreboard supports LEDMatrix
    >=3.3.0, but this system is running 3.2.0.

while src/__init__.py on that machine read 3.3.0. Observed on hardware, not
theorised.

The gate ran `from src import __version__ as core_version`, which binds
whatever the process loaded at start. The plugin store's gate lives in the web
UI, a long-lived service of its own, and the update route deliberately restarts
nothing -- it replaces files on disk and asks the user to restart. Its prompt
named only the *display* service, so a user who followed it left the web
process holding the previous number.

Stale by exactly one release is the case that bites: every plugin flooring on
the release you just installed is refused, blaming a core version that is
already correct on disk. It reads as a broken plugin store. 3.3.0 is the first
release where this hits a whole family at once, since all eight scoreboards
floor there.

compatibility.current_core_version() reads the version from the file instead,
falling back to the imported value on any failure -- so it can only ever be as
correct as before, never worse. All four gate call sites use it: three in
store_manager (install, the git-pull update path, install_from_url) and one in
plugin_loader's advisory warning.

The restart prompt now names both services.

Twelve tests, including the hardware failure itself: a process holding 3.2.0
while disk says 3.3.0 refuses hockey, and reading fresh allows it. The inverse
is asserted too -- a genuinely old core still refuses, so the gate has not
become permissive. One test greps both modules for the old import-bound read;
reintroducing that line fails it, which is what stops this coming back.

Not changed: web_interface/__init__.py also imports __version__, but for
display rather than gating, and the API endpoint already reports a fresh
git describe.

* fix: drop the unused os import

Left over from a first draft that joined paths by hand before this used
pathlib. Flagged by CodeRabbit on #518; confirmed dead -- no os. reference
remains in the module.
2026-09-03 16:06:40 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 a686932c7e fix(store): land the install_from_url gate, which never reached main (#511)
#510 shows as merged, but into fix/gate-git-pull-updates -- #508's branch --
rather than main. #508 reached main first, so the sideload gate was left behind
on a branch. Same failure as plugins #350/#351, which merged into each other's
bases; worth knowing the pattern, because GitHub reports these as MERGED and
`gh pr list` shows nothing outstanding.

main today has two of the three routes gated: install_plugin (#431/#433) and
update_plugin's git branch (#508). install_from_url validates required manifest
fields and then installs whatever it found, never comparing the core version.

Cherry-picked unchanged from the orphaned branch -- it applies to main with no
conflict. TestSideloadGate pins the three cases the other routes pin: refuses a
floor above this core leaving nothing behind, still allows a compatible plugin
(the guard against a gate that refuses everything), and does not block a 2.0.0
floor on a core reporting an untrustworthy version.

Full suite 3725 passed, 6 skipped.


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ChuckandClaude Opus 5 9b522d412c fix(store): gate the git-pull update path (#508)
* fix(store): gate the git-pull update path

`install_plugin` gates every route that re-downloads, `_reinstall_with_rollback`
included. `update_plugin` has one branch that re-downloads nothing: a git
checkout pulls in place, installs dependencies, and returns True. A pull could
therefore deliver a manifest flooring above this core and nothing would notice
until the plugin failed to load — which surfaces as one line in the journal and
a display that silently stopped appearing.

Checked after the pull rather than before it, for the same reason
`_install_plugin_impl` checks after the download: the registry carries no
compatibility field, so the incoming floor is only knowable once the new commit
is on disk.

Undone with `git reset --hard` to the pre-pull commit rather than by removing
the directory. This is a live checkout, the old commit is still in the object
store, and the reset leaves the user on the exact version they were already
running — the same promise `_reinstall_with_rollback` makes, reached by the
means this path actually has, with no window where the plugin directory does
not exist. An unreadable manifest allows: it is not evidence of a floor.

Scope, stated plainly: monorepo plugins install as archives and update through
`_reinstall_with_rollback`, so they were already gated. Only registry entries
with no `plugin_path` reach this branch. It is closed anyway because the sunset
rule in the plugins repo's `08-shared-sports-code.md` names, as condition 3,
that the core enforces the floor "at install/update time" — and B6 rests on
that being true rather than merely written down. `install_from_url` is still
ungated; the tests say so rather than letting the next reader assume otherwise.

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* fix(store): do not pull what the gate cannot un-pull

Review of the gate found a data-loss path it had introduced, plus two smaller
scope errors. All three from CodeRabbit on #508.

**The stash failure was load-bearing and was not treated as one.** update_plugin
stashes local changes before pulling; when that stash failed or timed out it
logged a warning and pulled anyway. That was harmless while nothing ever undid
a pull. It is not harmless now: the gate's rollback is `git reset --hard`, which
discards uncommitted tracked edits -- exactly the edits the stash existed to
protect. A pull does not refuse on a dirty tree as long as the incoming commit
touches other files, so the sequence completed silently: pull succeeds, gate
refuses, reset takes the user's work with it.

update_plugin now returns before pulling unless the tree was already clean or
was successfully stashed. Refusing costs an update in a case that had already
gone wrong; the alternative costs data. That also makes `--hard` safe by
construction in _gate_pulled_commit, and its comment now says so rather than
observing it in passing.

Pinned by test_a_failed_stash_stops_the_update_before_pulling, which writes a
local edit, forces the stash to fail, and asserts both that HEAD did not move
and that the edit is still on disk. Verified it bites: with the new guard
removed the file comes back as `class P: pass`, the edit gone.

**_HAS_GIT could take the module down instead of skipping it.** With no git on
PATH, subprocess.run raises FileNotFoundError, and this runs at import time --
before skipif can act, so the whole file errors rather than skipping. Now
catches OSError.

**The doc overclaimed the gate's reach.** It said the floor is enforced on
"every route that installs or updates" while the same passage notes
install_from_url is ungated. Both spots now scope the claim to registry-managed
installs and the two supported update paths, and name the sideload exception.

Full suite 3720 passed, 6 skipped.

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ChuckandClaude Opus 5 bdced206dc fix(plugins): retain state history by age, with the count as a ceiling (#502)
* fix(plugins): retain state history by age, with the count as a ceiling

Follow-up to the cap in this PR. A flat entry count answers the wrong
question: what a reader wants from this history is "the last couple of
hours", and how many transitions that is depends entirely on the plugin's
update interval. On a real board those span 2s to 3600s, so 200 entries is

    interval   200 entries covers
        2s          3.3 minutes     (flights, live)
       10s         16.7 minutes     (jellyfin)
       60s          1.7 hours       (default)
      300s          8.3 hours       (news)
     3600s          4.2 days

-- the plugin churning hardest, the one worth looking at, keeps the least.

So transitions are now trimmed by AGE first
(STATE_HISTORY_MAX_AGE_SECONDS, two hours), which makes the retained window
comparable whatever the cadence, and the count cap becomes purely a memory
ceiling for pollers fast enough to exceed it inside that window. The
ceiling rises 200 -> 2000: at ~230 bytes an entry that is ~0.5MB per plugin
worst case, and only plugins updating faster than roughly every 4s can
reach it. Steady-state memory is unchanged for everything slower, since the
age trim binds first.

Two details worth stating:

  - The trim reads time.monotonic(), stored alongside each transition,
    rather than the datetime already inside it. A DST shift or an NTP step
    would otherwise make every entry look ancient and flush the history in
    one go. The human-readable timestamp is untouched and still what
    get_state_history() returns.

  - Trimming happens on append, so a plugin that goes quiet keeps its last
    window until it writes again. That is deliberate: it is bounded either
    way, and a lazy trim costs nothing on the hot scheduling path. The
    guarantee is therefore about the SPAN of retained history, not its age
    against the current clock, and the test asserts it that way.

The public shape is unchanged: get_state_history() still returns the same
list of transition dicts, and state_history_count is still the lifetime
total.

test_plugin_state_history_retention.py adds 7 tests. Verified against this
branch with only the age trim removed: 4 fail, 3 pass -- the three that
survive are testing the count ceiling and the monotonic clock, which this
commit does not change. Full suite 3753 passed, 60 skipped.

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* fix(plugins): build get_state_info() as one locked snapshot

Every field was read under its own lock, so an unload running concurrently
could be observed half-done: 'state' read before clear_state() removed it
and 'state_history_count' read after, handing PluginManager.get_plugin_info()
a plugin that is ENABLED with zero transitions.

The whole payload is now built in one critical section. _lock is an RLock,
so the helpers called inside it can still take it.

The regression test runs a reader against a thread that repeatedly fills and
clears the same plugin, and fails on the first torn snapshot. Verified by
removing only the lock: fails on 3 of 3 runs, passes on 3 of 3 with it.

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Ron PierceandClaude Opus 5 39e7f8cbe0 fix(plugins): cap the per-plugin state transition history (#501)
* fix(plugins): cap the per-plugin state transition history

PluginStateManager recorded every state transition in a per-plugin list
and never trimmed it. The only code that removed entries was
clear_state(), called solely from PluginManager.unload_plugin(), so a
plugin that stays loaded -- normal operation -- never released one.

The list is written on the hot scheduling path. Every update cycle
appends twice: _reserve_for_update() sets RUNNING and _finish() sets
ENABLED back again. At the default 60s update interval that is 2,880
entries per plugin per day, and nothing reads them -- get_state_info()
only takes their len(). Pure dead weight.

Measured against the unpatched class, ten plugins on a 60s interval:

    sim uptime   history entries   heap growth
          1 day           28,810        7.7 MB
          7 days         201,610       53.9 MB
         30 days         864,010      230.9 MB   (still climbing)

With the cap it is flat at 2,000 entries / 0.5 MB from day one.

On a 1 GB board 231 MB of garbage is fatal on its own, and the failure
is not a clean OOM: once MemAvailable falls far enough fork() starts
returning ENOMEM, so sshd accepts connections and closes them before its
banner while the kernel still answers pings. The board looks like a
hardware fault and needs a power cycle. Same family as the ceilings
added in #464.

Retain the most recent 200 transitions per plugin in a deque and let the
rest age out. state_history_count is surfaced through the web API, so
the lifetime total is tracked separately rather than plateauing at the
cap. get_state_history() now returns a copy under the lock; it was
handing out the manager's own list, which a caller could mutate.

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* fix(plugins): copy history entries out, lock clear_state

Review follow-ups on the transition history.

get_state_history() copied only the outer list, so a caller holding a
returned transition could rewrite the manager's record of what happened
-- which contradicted the defensive-copy guarantee in its own docstring.
Copy each entry too. Every value in a transition is immutable, so a
shallow copy per entry is enough. test_get_state_history_entries_are_copies
pins it; without the change it fails with 'tampered' == 'enabled'.

clear_state() mutated five shared dicts without holding _lock, while
every other mutator takes it. A concurrent set_state() could interleave
and leave a plugin with history but no state. Drop the five as one unit.

This does not close the wider unload-vs-worker race, which lives in
PluginManager.unload_plugin() and predates this change: an update worker
still in flight can call set_state() after clear_state() returns and
recreate the entry. Serialising that needs the per-plugin lock held
across worker join in unload_plugin(), which is a separate change.

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2026-08-25 09:45:17 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 c321b94085 fix(display): retry a plugin that is enabled but failed to load (#495)
* fix(display): retry a plugin that is enabled but failed to load

A plugin whose validate_config() returns False is treated as a hard load
failure. The API then reports enabled=true, loaded=false, error=null: the
plugin is simply absent, with nothing saying why. hockey-scoreboard sat in
that state on a live rig for four days.

The recovery path existed but could not be reached. _reconcile_enabled_plugins
computes to_add = desired - current, and a plugin that failed to load is never
in current, so it stays in to_add and would be retried. But the reconcile is
queued by _enabled_set_changed(), which compares only top-level `enabled`
flags -- and the edit that actually fixes such a plugin (enabling a league,
filling in an API key) is nested inside the plugin's own config section. No
top-level flag changes, so no reconcile is queued, and the save that should
have fixed it does nothing. Only toggling some unrelated plugin -- which does
change a top-level flag -- queues the global reconcile that recovers it.

Add a second gate: queue a reconcile when a discovered plugin is enabled in
config but absent from the running set.

It is deliberately narrow rather than "reconcile on any config change".
Reconcile calls discover_plugins(), a ~39-manifest filesystem scan, and it
runs on the render thread; doing that on every config save would trade this
bug for a frame hitch. Gating on plugin_manifests also keeps non-plugin
sections that carry their own `enabled` flag (schedule, display) from
queueing a reconcile they can never satisfy. In the steady state -- every
enabled plugin loaded -- the new check is False and costs nothing.

The same valid-but-unconfigured => hard-fail shape still exists in
text-display, youtube-stats, birdnet-go, ledmatrix-flights and
mqtt-notifications; this makes all of them recoverable without a restart.

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* fix(display): snapshot the plugin mappings under their locks

Addresses the review finding on the cross-thread reads.

_enabled_plugin_not_running runs on the config-watcher thread and read two
mappings the render thread mutates. Catching RuntimeError was not a fix: it
turned a torn read into a coin flip between an unnecessary discovery scan and
a missed retry, which is the bug this PR exists to remove.

Both reads are now snapshots taken under the lock that guards their writes:

- plugin_manifests via a new PluginManager.discovered_plugin_ids(), which
  copies the ids while holding the existing _discovery_lock. Discovery
  rebuilds that mapping entry by entry, so an unsynchronised reader can see
  it half-populated.
- plugin_display_modes under a new controller lock, taken at the only two
  sites that mutate it (_register_loaded_plugin / _unregister_plugin).

The locks are never nested -- each snapshot is taken and released before the
next -- so this cannot deadlock against discovery, which holds _discovery_lock
while it rebuilds.

No cost on the per-frame path. Both mutation sites run during reconcile, which
is rare, and every hot-path read of plugin_display_modes is on the render
thread itself, same thread as the writes, so those stay lock-free.

Tests: the accessor returns a snapshot rather than a live view, and actually
takes the discovery lock (proved from a second thread, since an RLock is
reentrant on the owning one) so a later refactor cannot quietly drop it.

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* fix(display): consume the reconcile request before serving it

Addresses the second review finding: a lost update on
_pending_plugin_reconcile.

The flag was cleared after a successful reconcile. Reconcile has already read
its config by that point, so a config change arriving mid-flight set a flag
that the trailing clear then erased -- a request that was never served, and
the newest config never reconciled. That is the same "my save did nothing"
symptom this PR exists to remove, so leaving it would have undercut the fix.

Consume the request before running it instead, and re-arm only on a retryable
failure. A change that lands during reconcile now stays set and is picked up
on the next pass.

The per-frame read stays lock-free. It is a fast path that can only produce a
false negative -- the watcher setting the flag just after it is read is seen
on the next iteration -- never a false positive that loses a request. The lock
is taken only when a reconcile is actually pending or a config change arrives.

Extracted _service_pending_reconcile() so the sequence is testable rather than
buried in run()'s loop; the review asked for a regression test that invokes
the subscriber during reconciliation, which is not reachable otherwise.

Tests: 4 new, covering a request racing in mid-reconcile, the quiet success,
the retryable-failure re-arm, and not reconciling when nothing is pending.
Two of them fail against the previous clear-after-success semantics.

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2026-08-23 11:43:39 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 5f29243e87 fix(config): make the device location the default for plugin location fields (#490)
* fix(config): make the device location the default for plugin location fields

A user in Kansas City reported their radar centred on Dallas, TX with
nothing in config.json to explain it.

The radar is the `ledmatrix-weather` plugin's `radar` mode, and it centres
on the same coordinates as every other weather mode: `forecast_data`
lat/lon, geocoded from the plugin's own `location_city` /
`location_state` / `location_country`. Those ship with schema defaults of
Dallas / Texas / US. A user who never opened the weather plugin's config
form therefore has no `location_city` on disk, and `PluginManager` merges
the schema default in at load time — so the whole plugin (not just the
radar) silently runs on Dallas. Radar is just the only mode that draws a
recognisable map and gives the mismatch away.

Meanwhile the device-wide `location` block that General settings writes
was read by nothing at all, despite its own help text promising it was
"used for weather, sunrise/sunset, and other location-based content".

`SchemaManager.generate_default_config()` now substitutes the device
`location` into the three fully-namespaced `location_*` keys before
handing defaults back, so the promise holds:

- Only `location_city` / `location_state` / `location_country` are
  substituted. A bare `state` key is left alone — `ledmatrix-elections`
  uses it for a two-letter code, and rewriting it would break that plugin.
- A value the user saved on the plugin still wins: this replaces the
  schema default, and `merge_with_defaults` puts user config on top.
- The substitution is applied on the way out of the defaults cache rather
  than into it, so changing the device location takes effect immediately.
- No config manager, no `location` block, or an unreadable config all
  fall back to the plugin's own schema defaults.

Every caller benefits: the plugin loader, the config form (which now
pre-fills the user's real city), config save, and reset-to-defaults.

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* docs(web): name the exact plugin keys the device location seeds

Review follow-up. The General settings help text said the device location
was "the default for every plugin that asks for a city", which overstates
what the code does: only the fully-namespaced `location_city` /
`location_state` / `location_country` keys are substituted. A plugin with
a bare `city` key gets nothing — deliberately, since `ledmatrix-elections`
uses `state` for a two-letter code. The tips now name the exact keys.

Worth noting for anyone editing these: `ui.help_tip(...)` takes a
single-quoted Jinja string, so an apostrophe in the tip text has to be
escaped or written around. The wording here avoids them.

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2026-08-21 16:22:48 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 1fbe244e49 fix(plugins): say when discovery skips a directory (#489)
* fix(plugins): say when discovery skips a directory

A plugin can be enabled in config, enabled in plugin state, present on disk
with a valid manifest and an importable entry point -- and simply absent from
the running process, with nothing anywhere to say why.

That is not hypothetical. hockey-scoreboard on a live rig is enabled in both
places, imports cleanly when loaded by hand, and is listed in the Vegas plugin
order, but is not among the 22 plugins the process actually holds. Establishing
even that much meant comparing cache-file mtimes to find it had last run three
days earlier. The journal had nothing, because discovery does not report what
it declines to load.

Two paths were silent. A directory with no manifest.json was skipped without
comment, which is defensible until it is the thing you are trying to explain.
Quieter still, a manifest that parsed but carried no "id" was read
successfully and then dropped on the floor -- no warning, no trace, and the
plugin simply does not exist as far as the rest of the system is concerned.

Both now log a warning naming the directory and the reason.

This does not explain the rig above; its manifest has an id. It makes the next
occurrence diagnosable from the journal instead of from file timestamps.

Reverting the change fails both tests. 65 plugin-system tests pass.

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* fix(plugins): warn once per directory, not once per scan

Self-review catch. Discovery runs on every web UI page load and every config
reconcile, so warning unconditionally about an unloadable directory would put
a line in the journal each time someone opened a page -- the same log-volume
problem this change exists to help diagnose.

The skip is now reported once per directory per process. The diagnostic value
is unchanged: the reason a plugin is missing still appears in the journal,
once, where before it appeared nowhere.

Test added covering five consecutive scans producing one warning.

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* fix(plugins): one unusable manifest no longer aborts the whole scan

json.load accepts any JSON value, so a manifest.json holding null, [],
"text" or 42 parses without complaint and then raises AttributeError on
manifest.get('id'). Nothing catches that: the outer handler around the
scan takes OSError and PermissionError only.

So a single malformed manifest did not skip that one directory -- it
aborted _scan_directory_for_plugins outright, and every other plugin on
disk, however healthy, silently failed to register. Reproduced with
three directories, the middle one holding `null`:

    SCAN ABORTED -> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'
      the two valid plugins never registered

That is the same failure this PR set out to fix, in its most severe
form: a plugin enabled in config, enabled in plugin state, present on
disk, and absent from the running process with nothing to say why --
except here it takes every other plugin with it.

A manifest that is not a JSON object is now skipped like any other
unusable directory, named once, with what it actually was:

    Skipping bad-null: its manifest.json is NoneType, not a JSON object
    Skipping bad-list: its manifest.json is list, not a JSON object
    scan returned: ['aaa-good', 'zzz-good']

Verified: removing the guard fails 6 of the 10 tests. Covers null, list,
string, int and bool, and asserts the healthy plugins either side of the
bad one still register.

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2026-08-21 16:19:33 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 863e4a1ecd consolidate(perf): cut SD writes, log volume, and metrics churn (#486)
* fix(plugins): one bad metrics cache entry should not stop every plugin

Caught live on a rig: every plugin failing, once each, continuously.

    ERROR - src.plugin_system.plugin_manager - plugin geochron operation failed:
    ResourceMetrics.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument
    'consecutive_failures'

    ERROR - ... plugin text-display operation failed: ...
    ERROR - ... plugin news operation failed: ...
    ERROR - ... plugin odds-ticker operation failed: ...

with /api/v3/health reporting plugin_system: not_initialized while the display
process itself kept running and updating the panel.

`consecutive_failures` is a plugin_health field, not a metrics one.
get_metrics() does ResourceMetrics(**cached), which raises TypeError on a
single unrecognised key, and that exception escapes into plugin_manager and is
reported per plugin. One malformed cache entry takes the whole plugin system
down.

How a health-shaped record came to sit under a plugin_metrics key on that
machine is not established, and I could not finish the diagnosis: the rig went
back into its EIO failure mode partway through -- SSH resetting pre-banner,
systemctl unexecutable -- while the web API kept answering from RAM. Checked
before that: the cache files on disk are correctly shaped and separate, and
CacheManager.get() returns the right record for each key, so it is not a live
key collision. A restored backup mixing two machines' caches is the likeliest
explanation, and that rig had one restored onto it.

Either way the loader should not be brittle enough for the answer to matter.
plugin_health already repairs its records field by field rather than trusting
what is on disk; this does the same. Known fields are kept, unknown ones are
dropped and named once in the log so a genuine schema change stays visible
rather than being silently discarded, and a non-mapping entry no longer raises.

Keeping the known fields matters: discarding the record wholesale would throw
away real call counts and timings because of an unrelated stray key.

Mutation-checked: restoring ResourceMetrics(**cached) fails 6 checks, dropping
the whole record fails the field-preservation check, and dropping unknown
fields silently fails the logging check. 28 tests pass across the resource
monitor and plugin health suites.

* perf(health): stop rewriting a health record on every healthy cycle

Every successful plugin update called record_success(), which persisted the
record unconditionally. In steady state the only fields that had changed were
total_successes and last_success_time -- a counter and a timestamp that
health_monitor surfaces for display and that nothing reads back after a
restart. Nothing alerts on the age of last_successful_update; it is carried in
the metrics dataclass and shown.

Measured on a rig running 24 plugins, all steady-state (0 consecutive
failures, circuit closed): a five-minute sample caught 22 health-file
rewrites, about 4.4 a minute or 6,300 a day. Each write is ~400 bytes through
cache_manager.set(), which writes a file per call, so each one costs a
filesystem block plus an ext4 journal write.

That lands on an SD card, where the unit of cost is an erase-block cycle
rather than the bytes involved, and where wear is what eventually kills the
card. Two cards have already failed on the other rig with the same
signature -- unreadable block device, EIO on exec, sshd unable to read its
host keys.

The circuit breaker still has to survive a restart, so the write is kept for
exactly the fields it is rebuilt from: consecutive_failures, circuit_state,
circuit_opened_time, half_open_start_time. A failure, a circuit opening and a
recovery are all still written the moment they happen. In-memory state is
updated every time either way, so the health API and web UI show what they
always did.

Tested: 100 healthy cycles now perform zero writes after the first, the
counters remain accurate in memory, and a failure, a recovery and a
half-open-to-closed transition each still reach disk. One test kills and
rebuilds the tracker from the cache to prove the breaker's state genuinely
survives what is no longer written.

Mutation-checked both ways: persisting unconditionally again fails the
steady-state test, and widening _DURABLE_FIELDS to include last_success_time
fails it too. The 46 existing health tests pass.

(cherry picked from commit 14abea2d24)
(cherry picked from commit 0f77bd2345)

* perf(vegas): trace the content path at DEBUG instead of INFO

plugin_adapter narrates every step of acquiring content from every plugin --
"Has get_vegas_content", "Native: calling get_vegas_content()", "Native
content returned None", "Has scroll_helper", per-item sizes -- once per plugin
per cycle, all at INFO.

Measured on a live rig: 13,408 log lines an hour, of which 13,366 were INFO
and 35 were WARNING. Roughly 223 lines a minute of string formatting on a Pi
that is also driving the panel, written through journald to the SD card, with
the 35 lines that actually indicate a problem buried among them.

Top repeated messages in that hour:

    717  Scroll progress: elapsed=... total_scrolled=.../... px
    399  [plugin] --> INCLUDED in Vegas scroll
    323  [plugin] content_type=static, display_mode=fixed
    195  [plugin] Has get_vegas_content: True
    195  [plugin] Native: calling get_vegas_content()
    168  [plugin] Native: get_vegas_content() returned None
    168  [plugin] Native content returned None        <- the same fact, twice

54 logger.info calls in plugin_adapter become logger.debug, along with the
per-frame scroll-progress line in scroll_helper. Together those are 3,174 of
the 13,408 lines an hour, a 23% cut, and the ~3,600 odds-manager lines are
addressed separately by ledmatrix-plugins#300.

Nothing is lost: the 19 warning/error/exception calls in the module are
untouched, so real failures still surface at their own level. This is a
logging-level change only -- no control flow, no behaviour.

One INFO call is deliberate and stays. The padding-strip message picks its
level at runtime (`logger.warning if (left and right) else logger.info`) and
test_vegas_plugin_adapter.py pins that choice; it survives because it is not a
direct logger.info call site. That test still passes.

Mutation-checked both ways: reintroducing a single INFO trace fails the guard,
and demoting the warning/error calls along with the trace fails a second guard
written for exactly that mistake. 537 vegas and scroll tests pass.

(cherry picked from commit e496d95dfe)
(cherry picked from commit 8d1e43c15a)

* fix(logging): give the journal the real severity of each line

Everything this process writes to stdout reaches the journal as PRIORITY=6,
whatever the Python level was, because journald has nothing else to go on.
Measured on a live rig over 24 hours:

    lines containing " - ERROR - "      55
    lines containing " - WARNING - "    13
    journald PRIORITY recorded          6, for every one of them

So `journalctl -p err -u ledmatrix` returns nothing while errors are being
logged, and `-p warning` likewise. Triage falls back to grepping message text,
which is slower and unreliable: during this audit a search for "oom" matched
the radar logging "zoom=9" twenty-four times and briefly looked like the OOM
killer had been firing.

systemd reads a leading "<N>" on each stdout line and takes it as the priority
(sd-daemon(3)), so a formatter that prefixes one costs no dependency. Every
line of a multi-line record is tagged, not just the first -- the journal splits
them, and an untagged continuation reverts to the default, which would leave
the body of a traceback filed as informational while its first line was an
error.

Applied only when JOURNAL_STREAM is set, which systemd sets for services whose
output it captures. Run from a terminal, in the emulator or under pytest the
prefixes would be literal noise, and the file handler keeps the plain
formatter for the same reason.

Mutation-checked three ways: prefixing unconditionally fails the
outside-systemd test, prefixing only the first line fails the multi-line test,
and mapping ERROR to 6 fails the level mapping. 39 tests pass across the
logging suites.

(cherry picked from commit 780fca6365)

* fix(logging): let callers see through the journald formatter wrapper

CI caught what local testing could not: two existing tests in
test_logging_config.py assert that setup_logging() selected a
StructuredFormatter or a ContextualFormatter, by checking the console
handler's formatter directly. Wrapping that formatter to tag each line with
its syslog priority makes those assertions false.

They passed locally and failed on the runner because the wrapper is applied
only when JOURNAL_STREAM is set -- absent in a terminal, present in CI. An
environment-dependent break, which is the kind that gets shipped.

The wrapper now exposes the formatter it delegates to, and those two tests
look through it. They are about which formatter format_type selects, and that
behaviour is unchanged; only the object they have to reach for moved.

Verified both ways this time: 39 tests pass with JOURNAL_STREAM set and with
it unset.

* perf(plugins): stop rewriting a plugin's metrics file on every call

Plugin metrics were persisted to the cache inside monitor_call, so every
call by every plugin rewrote a small JSON file. Measured on a running rig:
one plugin's plugin_metrics file changed nine times a minute, with fourteen
such files active. Each is around 350 bytes, which on ext4 costs a 4KB block
plus a journal entry, so the cost is dominated by the write itself rather
than the payload. Cache writes accounted for essentially all of that device's
2.4 MB/min of SD traffic, on a card that wears out and has already failed
twice on the other rig.

Metrics cannot be de-duplicated the way health state can, because call_count
changes on every call and the timings usually do too. So they are rate-limited
instead: at most one write per plugin per 30 seconds.

The in-memory copy stays authoritative and exact -- a plugin's call_count is
still precise the instant after it runs. Only the cross-process snapshot the
web UI reads is delayed, and telemetry up to half a minute old is still a fair
description of a long-running plugin.

reset_metrics clears the throttle timestamp, so a reset is not left showing a
deleted key for the rest of the interval.

Extrapolating the sampled rate, this takes metric writes from roughly 126 a
minute to 28. Health persistence, the other half of the churn, is handled
separately in #475.

Verified by reverting the throttle: the churn test then reports 50 writes for
50 calls. 88 tests pass across resource monitor, plugin system and web API.

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* fix: use a monotonic clock and only mark metrics persisted once written

Two review findings on the throttle, both right.

The interval compared wall-clock timestamps. These devices have no RTC, so
the clock jumps by however far off boot-time was the moment NTP first syncs
-- a forward jump would allow an early write, a backward one would stall the
snapshot well past the interval. time.monotonic() is not subject to either.

The timestamp was also recorded before cache_manager.set(). A set() that
raised would buy the next interval's silence without leaving a snapshot
behind, which is the one case where skipping the write is least affordable.
Recorded after the write lands instead, so a failure is retried on the next
call.

Verified by restoring the original ordering: the new test then reports one
write where two are expected.

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* Address all six review findings on the perf consolidation

CodeRabbit reported six; this is all six, checked against its own
"Actionable comments posted: 6" rather than against what I happened to
scroll past.

Three are real defects in the code:

1. _under_systemd() trusted the presence of JOURNAL_STREAM.

systemd publishes JOURNAL_STREAM as "dev:ino", and every child process
inherits it -- including one whose stdout has been redirected to a pipe
or a file. The variable outlives the descriptor it describes, so a
subprocess would decide it was talking to the journal and emit the "<N>"
priority prefixes as literal noise into that captured output. That is
exactly the noise the function exists to prevent. It now parses the pair
and fstats stdout, per systemd's own guidance, and returns False for
missing, malformed, mismatched, or unusable descriptors.

2. Cached metrics were not type-checked.

A dataclass does not enforce its annotations, so
ResourceMetrics(call_count="not a number") builds happily and only
fails later, deep inside monitor_call:

    TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str

Values are now coerced to their declared type at load, where there is
still a cache key to name in the warning, and a value that cannot be
coerced starts the plugin fresh instead of arming a delayed failure.
A numeric string is accepted rather than discarded -- a JSON round-trip
can widen an int, and that is recoverable.

3. The first metrics snapshot was skipped for the first 30s of uptime.

_persist_metrics used 0.0 as the "never written" default. monotonic() is
time since boot on Linux and systemd starts this service at boot, so
`now - 0.0 < 30` was true for the first half-minute of every run: the
throttle swallowed the very first write, the one that matters most after
a restart. The sentinel is now None and the interval is only applied when
a previous write exists.

Three are tests that could pass without testing anything:

4. test_health_write_churn's fake cache stored by reference, so the
   tracker kept mutating the object already in the store -- a record
   could look persisted when no write had happened, which is precisely
   what test_durable_state_survives_a_restart exists to detect. Both
   directions now deep-copy, like a cache that serialises to a file.
   Verified: disabling the one real cache write now fails three tests.

5. test_values_of_the_wrong_type_do_not_raise asserted only that a
   dataclass had been constructed, which was true with the bad value
   still in it. It now asserts the loaded metrics are usable -- the
   field is numeric, and arithmetic on it does not raise -- across four
   kinds of bad value.

6. test_vegas_log_volume counted "logger.error(" in the source text,
   which also matches comments, docstrings and string literals --
   including that module's own docstring, which names those levels. A
   real error call could be demoted with the tally unmoved. It now walks
   the AST, reusing the helper already in the file. Verified: demoting
   all 18 warning/error/exception calls now fails the test.

Verified: every fix mutation-checked by reverting it and confirming the
matching test fails.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

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2026-08-21 15:50:55 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 0c5b9c57d3 fix: keep low-memory boards reachable under load (#464)
* fix(service): survive corrupt health cache and clean exits

Three independent failure modes that each end with a dark panel and no
automatic recovery.

1. PluginHealthTracker._load_health_state returned the cached value
   verbatim. If that value is not a dict, every caller raises
   AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'get' — during
   DisplayController.__init__, so the process dies before the display
   loop starts. systemd restarts it, the same bad entry is read back
   from disk, and it dies again: an unattended restart loop that
   survives reboots because the cause is persisted. Observed in the
   field with plugin_health:<id> holding an unrelated plugin's list
   payload. Now non-dict entries are discarded with a warning and the
   defaults are rebuilt.

2. ledmatrix.service used Restart=on-failure, so any exit with status 0
   left the unit stopped and the panel dark indefinitely — systemd
   treats it as success and never brings it back. Restart=always.

3. ledmatrix-wifi-monitor.service used StandardOutput=syslog, which
   systemd has marked obsolete; it warns and rewrites it to journal on
   every load.

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* perf(memory): size the cache to the board and stop reinstalling deps

On a 1GB Pi 3B+ the display process settles around 600MB RSS of 905MB
total. When the remaining headroom runs out the failure is not a clean
crash: fork() starts returning ENOMEM, so sshd accepts connections and
closes them before its banner, timer jobs stop running, and the panel
goes dark, while already-resident processes keep serving normally. The
board looks healthy from outside and cannot be logged into. Only a power
cycle clears it.

Three contributing causes:

- MemoryCache had a fixed 1000-entry ceiling. Entries are parsed API
  payloads of tens of KB, so one ceiling cannot serve both a 512MB Zero
  2 W and an 8GB Pi 5. Now scaled from MemTotal (150 entries at <=1GB,
  1500 at >=8GB), overridable with LEDMATRIX_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES.

- requirements_are_satisfied() returned False for any requirement with
  extras, so a plugin depending on python-socketio[client] re-ran pip on
  every single start: ~8s, a network dependency, and a 100-200MB spike
  at the least convenient moment. During a restart loop it repeats for
  each restart. Extras are now resolved one level deep against installed
  metadata, keeping the conservative "anything unverifiable falls
  through to pip" contract.

- ledmatrix.service had no memory ceiling. MemoryMax=85% expressed as a
  percentage so one unit file suits every board. Note this needs the
  memory cgroup controller, which Pi firmware disables by default;
  first_time_install.sh now adds cgroup_enable=memory to cmdline.txt,
  and the unit file documents how to verify it took effect.

first_time_install.sh also enables persistent journald storage (capped
at 64M). Default storage is volatile, so every reboot destroys the logs
that would explain why the board rebooted.

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* docs: guidance for 512MB and 1GB boards

Documents the memory ceiling on small boards and, more usefully, what
running into it actually looks like: sshd accepting connections and
closing them before the banner, the web UI still responding normally,
clean ping, a dark panel, and a wrong clock after the next boot. None of
those read as "out of memory", which makes the failure hard to identify
from the symptoms.

Cross-referenced from SSH_UNAVAILABLE_AFTER_INSTALL.md, since "I can't
SSH in any more" is how most people will first meet this.

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* fix: address review findings on the low-memory work

Nine CodeRabbit findings, five in code.

**Health state (the one that matters).** The non-dict guard did not cover a
dict missing fields the callers index directly, which is the shape actually
seen in the wild: a record carrying only circuit_state produced
`plugin clock-simple operation failed: 'circuit_state'` about fifty times a
minute with the panel frozen. The record is now completed against the
defaults per field rather than trusted or discarded wholesale. Per field
matters: a first pass rejected any incomplete record outright, which reset a
tripped breaker and real failure counts to healthy because one optional
field was absent -- an existing test caught it. Values of the wrong type
(a counter persisted as a string, an unknown circuit_state) fall back
individually, valid neighbours survive, and newer fields the schema has
grown since (degraded, degraded_reason) are carried through untouched.

**Cache ceiling.** MemoryCache.set() accepted entries without bound between
cleanup sweeps, which run every 300s by default, so a burst could take the
cache far past max_size -- the unbounded growth the limit exists to stop.
Eviction now runs under the same lock on every write, sharing one helper
with the periodic sweep so the two cannot drift.

**Installer, cgroups.** Only cgroup_enable=memory was checked, so a board
carrying that without cgroup_memory=1 reported success and got no change,
leaving MemoryMax= inert. Each parameter is now checked and appended
independently; verified against all four combinations, single line preserved.

**Installer, journald.** Persistence was inferred from /var/log/journal being
non-empty, which proves neither Storage=persistent nor a size cap -- the
directory survives a switch back to volatile. The effective configuration is
read instead (systemd-analyze cat-config, falling back to the conf files),
and an explicitly configured SystemMaxUse is preserved rather than
overwritten. Verified across volatile, persistent-without-cap,
persistent-with-user-cap, cap-without-storage, and commented-only configs.

**Dependency extras.** _extras_are_satisfied stopped at one level, so a
gated dependency that itself requests an extra (requests[socks]) passed on
the base distribution's version while the extra's own dependency was
missing, and pip was skipped. It now recurses, with a visited
(distribution, extras) set so a cycle terminates.

Docs: both kernel command-line paths documented (the installer falls back to
/boot/cmdline.txt), daemon-reload and restart added after the systemd
override example, memory exhaustion added to the SSH summary with its
power-cycle-only recovery, and a language on the fenced block for MD040.

Tests: five for the health-state repair including the exact wild shape and
that record_failure/record_success no longer raise against it, and one for
the cache ceiling. Both mutation-checked. Full suite 2927 passed, with the
one pre-existing tmpfs failure that also fails on main.

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* fix: harden the health-state repair and confirm journald took effect

Second review round; all three findings were valid and two were bugs in the
repair added last commit.

The repair could raise out of itself. An unhashable circuit_state (a list or
dict on disk) hit `value in {...}` and raised TypeError -- from the code
whose whole job is to stop a malformed record crashing the caller. It now
requires a str before the membership test.

bool is a subclass of int, so True passed the timestamp check and then
compared as 1.0: enough to expire a cooldown the instant the breaker opened,
while False would stop the elapsed check firing at all. Timestamps now
exclude bool explicitly.

The regression test for the original crash was seeded with a record that
*contained* circuit_state, so it passed against the old raw-return behaviour
too -- the counters are read with .get(), so circuit_state is the only field
whose absence used to raise. Reseeded to omit it, and it now fails against
raw-return as intended.

journald: drop-ins apply in lexical order, so a local file sorting after
ledmatrix-persistent.conf still wins and writing ours proves nothing. The
effective Storage is re-read afterwards and a warning naming the diagnostic
command is printed if persistence is still not active, rather than reporting
a success that was not verified.

Full suite 2934 passed, same single pre-existing tmpfs failure.

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2026-08-19 12:28:22 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 0901d044d3 fix(plugins): report updates that completed, not ones that were queued (#460)
run_scheduled_updates_with_changes() snapshotted plugin_last_update,
called run_scheduled_updates(), and diffed the two to answer "whose data
just changed".

But run_scheduled_updates() only enqueues. The work runs on the update
worker and stamps plugin_last_update there, after this method has already
returned, so the two snapshots were always identical and the result was
always an empty list. The only path that ever worked was the synchronous
kill-switch, where update() runs inline.

Vegas is the caller. That empty list is what feeds mark_plugin_updated(),
which drops the cached content for a plugin whose data moved -- so a
segment kept scrolling whatever it was first built from. It is the
failure the coordinator's own comments describe: last night's live game
still drawn as live the next morning. On a live rig: zero update ticks in
twenty minutes, with weather, stocks and news all updating on schedule.

The worker now records each completed update in a ledger and the call
drains it, reporting what has finished since the previous poll rather
than what this call enqueued. That costs one tick of latency -- Vegas
polls every ~4s -- and is correct whichever side of the queue the work
lands on. Failure paths are excluded: they stamp the timestamp too, to
space out retries, but no fresh data exists.

Verified on the rig it was found on: 0 update ticks before, 208 in
twenty-five minutes after, naming real plugins.

The behavioural tests here would pass with both production call sites
deleted, which mutation testing caught -- they drive the ledger directly.
So there is also a structural test asserting the invariant at the source:
wherever a successful update stamps plugin_last_update, it must record
the completion. Writing it immediately caught that _record_update_failure
stamps the same field and must not be included.

Mutation-checked: removing either call site, removing both, and dropping
the drain's clear are all caught.


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2026-08-17 13:28:40 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 08265c1135 feat(vegas): let live content keep its place in the ticker (#457)
* feat(vegas): let live content keep its place in the ticker

Live content used to preempt Vegas outright: while any plugin reported
live priority the display controller refused to run the ticker at all and
showed a full-screen scoreboard instead. Keeping the marquee meant not
seeing live scores; seeing live scores meant losing the marquee.

Two changes, both off by default.

vegas_scroll.live_in_ticker keeps the ticker running through a live game.
Three places assumed the takeover and all three now honour it: the
controller's gate, the coordinator's per-frame pause, and the rotation
switch that would otherwise move current_mode_index underneath a ticker
that never yields.

And the rotation is no longer a strict round robin. It was one slot per
plugin per cycle, so with a dozen plugins enabled a live score came round
once a lap and could be minutes old on screen. A plugin can now hold
several slots, placed by Smooth Weighted Round-Robin -- the same
scheduler the sports plugins already use to rotate their own games. The
property that matters is that repeats are spread through the cycle
rather than clumped: three in a row and then silence would be worse than
no boost at all.

Weight comes from the plugin first, via a new optional
get_vegas_priority_weight(), then from the core: live content earns
live_weight, everything else 1. So existing plugins gain the behaviour
without changes, and the hook exists for the one thing the core cannot
work out -- the core can see that a game is live but not whose, so only
the plugin can say a favorite is playing.

Documented in ADVANCED_FEATURES (worked example, why weights are per
plugin not per game, and that frequency is not freshness),
CONFIG_REFERENCE, PLUGIN_API_REFERENCE, and the config template.

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* fix(vegas): carry the new keys through config, and correct two docs

Three findings from CodeRabbit, all valid.

to_dict() and update() enumerate keys explicitly and had not learned the
three new ones, so get_status() never reported them and a live config
change never applied -- turning live_in_ticker on in the web UI would
have done nothing until a restart. update() clamps the weights exactly
as from_config does.

The vegas_scroll key count in ADVANCED_FEATURES said 29; the template
has 30. My arithmetic, not the reviewer's.

The third was a documentation error rather than a code one, and I have
fixed it the other way round. The docs claimed a raising
get_vegas_priority_weight() is treated as weight 1. The code instead
falls through to the core's own live-content check, and that is the
better behaviour: the hook is only how a plugin asks for *more* than
live_weight, and has_live_priority/has_live_content are separate methods
guarded separately, so a plugin with a broken weight calculation should
lose the favorite distinction and keep the live boost. Said so in the
code, the base-plugin docstring and the API reference.

The test fake now fails in each place independently, because the two
failures mean different things: a broken hook still earns live_weight, a
plugin that cannot say whether it is live has nothing to fall back on
and weighs 1.

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* fix(vegas): stop the heaviest plugin doubling across the cycle seam

Smooth Weighted Round-Robin spaces repeats well within a pass, but it
schedules the heaviest item first and usually last as well. The strip
loops, so those two are neighbours: the marquee showed the same plugin
twice running at exactly the one join a within-cycle check cannot see.
Observed on a live rig at 28 slots -- gaps of 6, 7, 7, 7 and then 1.

Rotating the list does not fix it. Rotation preserves the cyclic order
exactly, so it moves where the seam is drawn rather than the adjacency
itself; the trailing entry has to be swapped with one from the middle.

The first version swapped with the first slot that merely fitted, which
undid the spacing this exists to protect -- it moved a repeat from a gap
of 7 into a gap of 2, more clumped than the seam had ever been. It now
picks the candidate furthest from any other appearance, so the repeat
lands in the widest gap.

Left alone when no candidate exists. A plugin holding most of the slots
has to neighbour itself, and scheduling it is better than refusing to.

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* fix(vegas): stop the seam repair creating the duplicate it removes

Swapping the trailing repeat with a middle slot moves two elements, and
the candidate filter only guarded one of them. It checked the neighbours
`repeated` would acquire at j, but not what the displaced element would
sit beside at the end -- so ['a','b','c','d','x','y','x','a'] came back
as [...,'x','x'], the seam duplicate traded for a fresh one. Reported by
CodeRabbit with that exact case.

Adding the missing condition fixed it and immediately broke something
else: schedule[j] is schedule[-2] when j is the second-to-last slot, so
that candidate was always excluded, and ['a','b','c','a'] lost the only
repair it has. The same class of mistake twice, from reasoning about
which neighbours two moved elements end up with.

So it no longer reasons. It performs each candidate swap, counts the
cyclic duplicates in the result, and keeps the best one that has none --
preferring whichever leaves the boosted plugin most evenly spread. When
no such swap exists the schedule is returned untouched, which is the
unavoidable case: a plugin holding most of the slots has to neighbour
itself.

Fuzzed across 6,956 seam schedules: none made worse, none lost an entry.

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2026-08-13 17:02:36 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 f887063434 test(harness): flag a mode that draws nothing without reporting it (#447)
The controller skips a mode whose display() returns False and treats
anything else -- including None -- as "content was shown". A mode that
draws nothing and does not return False is therefore never skipped, and
because a mode switch clears the panel first, it sits on a blank screen
for its whole display duration. Two sports plugins shipped exactly that.

The harness rendered those modes and passed them, because it called
display() and discarded the result. Capture it, and warn when a render
produced no lit pixels while claiming content.

Warn-only by default, and deliberately so: a scroll mode's first frame
is legitimately its blank scroll-in buffer, which is 42 of these on the
F1 scoreboard alone. Plugins whose modes are known to draw on their
fixture data can opt into failing via harness.json {"empty_check":
"strict"}, matching how the fill check is staged.

Worth being clear about the limit: this only sees what the fixtures
render. It would not have caught the sports bug, whose fixture seeds
games so the empty path never renders -- that needs the source-level
gate in the plugins repo. What it does catch is the same mistake in any
plugin whose empty state the harness does happen to reach, which is
coverage there was none of before.


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2026-08-10 08:17:57 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Fable 5 ee59caa577 Follow-ups from #441: secret-helper migration, ten more bug fixes, and coverage for every remaining untested module (#444)
* refactor(web): use canonical secret helpers in api_v3; make ConfigManager secret strip/merge array-aware

api_v3.py carried three inline nested copies of find_secret_fields/
separate_secrets (main-config save, plugin-config save, plugin-config
reset). They drifted from each other (one lacked isinstance guards) and
none supported the canonical module's array-item secrets
(accounts[].token). All three endpoints now import from
src/web_interface/secret_helpers.

Adopting the canonical behavior makes array-item secrets reachable, and
their parallel-placeholder shape ([{'token': ...}, {}] alongside the
regular list) was not survivable by ConfigManager's round-trip:
_strip_secrets_recursive dropped the whole key (losing the regular
fields from config.json) and _deep_merge replaced the regular list
wholesale on load. Both are now array-aware:

- strip removes the secret fields from each item and ALWAYS keeps the
  list so indices survive for merge-on-load; whole-key secrets (scalar
  lists, shape mismatches) still drop the key entirely — never leak.
- merge folds each secrets item into the config item at the same index,
  skipping {} placeholders. The regular list's length is authoritative
  in both directions: a user deleting an array item never has it
  resurrected from a stale secrets entry (extras warn and are ignored).

api_v3's own deep_merge intentionally still replaces lists wholesale —
form posts carry complete arrays and index-merging would resurrect
deleted items; a comment now documents that.

Tests: the parity guard flips from 'exactly 3 inline copies' to 'zero,
and the canonical import must exist'; TestArraySecretStripAndMerge
covers the new strip/merge semantics incl. length-mismatch contracts;
new test_api_v3_secret_roundtrip.py drives all three endpoints through
a Flask client with a REAL ConfigManager+SchemaManager over tmp_path,
proving secrets land in config_secrets.json, config.json stays clean,
and a fresh load merges them back into the right array items.

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* fix: repair broken helper paths across display, cache, odds, logging, resolver, repos, config, validator

Nine fixes for bugs surfaced while writing coverage for previously
untested modules (plus the bool-duration quirk pinned in PR #441):

- base_plugin.get_display_duration: exclude bools from both numeric
  branches — display_duration=True no longer reads as a 1-second slot;
  it falls through to config, then the 15.0 default.
- display_helper: draw_error_message/draw_no_data_message called
  _draw_centered_text with the wrong arguments and crashed with
  AttributeError — both now delegate to draw_centered_text.
  draw_scorebug_layout drew status and clock at the same y, overprinting
  each other — they now share one combined top line.
  draw_ticker_layout drew its text starting at x=display_width (fully
  off-canvas), returning a blank frame every time — now draws at x=0;
  scroll_speed stays accepted-but-unused and is documented as such.
- api_helper.clear_cache guarded on a nonexistent CacheManager.clear()
  method, silently never clearing anything; it now uses the real surface
  (clear_cache/delete/list_cache_files) and no-ops safely otherwise.
- base_odds_manager._extract_espn_data raised AttributeError when ESPN
  sent explicit JSON nulls ("homeTeamOdds": null) — every level now
  null-safes with 'or {}'. format_odds_summary gated on
  is_odds_available, which deliberately ignores money lines, so
  ML-only odds formatted as "No odds available" — it now gates only on
  empty/no_odds data and formats money lines.
- logging_config.ContextualFormatter mutated record.msg in place, so a
  second handler prepended the context prefix twice; it now formats a
  copy. log_error hardcoded exc_info=True and raised TypeError when the
  caller passed exc_info — now kwargs.setdefault.
- dynamic_team_resolver wrote its "shared" class cache through self,
  creating instance shadows — the cache was per-instance and every
  scoreboard refetched rankings. Writes now go through the class.
- saved_repositories cleaned URLs with an unanchored .replace('.git','')
  that mangled URLs merely containing '.git' (my.github.io -> myhub.io);
  now strips only a trailing suffix. add/remove also roll back the
  in-memory list when the save fails, so memory always matches disk.
- config_helper.merge_configs shallow-copied the base, aliasing every
  un-overridden nested dict into the result — now deep-copies.
- startup_validator.validate_all accumulated errors/warnings across
  calls — now resets both lists per run.

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* test: cover the previously untested modules

Nine new suites plus an extension, asserting the Phase-1b fixed behavior
and pinning the quirks deliberately left alone:

- test_logging_config.py: formatters (JSON shape, no record mutation,
  single prefix through two handlers), PluginLoggerAdapter precedence,
  setup_logging handler hygiene and LEDMATRIX_DEBUG, log_error exc_info.
- test_startup_validator.py: exact messages, error-vs-warning split,
  accessor split (load_config vs get_config), cache-dir branches with
  os.access monkeypatched (root can write anything in CI), idempotence,
  raise_on_errors classification precedence.
- test_config_helper.py (full): load/save round trips, dot-notation
  get/set incl. silent-failure contract, post-fix no-aliasing merge,
  schema validation branches, the '{id}_config' key pin, default-enabled
  pin.
- test_saved_repositories.py: three load shapes, bare-list rewrite pin,
  trailing-only .git strip (my.github.io regression), save-failure
  rollback, type-classification case-sensitivity pin.
- test_api_helper.py: rate-limit math, cache-hit short circuit, ESPN
  URL/key formats, exact User-Agent guard, retry adapter, post-fix
  clear_cache against the real CacheManager surface, ttl-dropped pin.
- test_base_odds_manager.py: cache-key/URL construction, no_odds
  sentinel round trip, stale-cache fallback, null-safe extraction,
  ML-only formatting, is_odds_available truth table (ML-blind by
  contract), config key/attr mismatch pin.
- test_dynamic_team_resolver.py: expansion/dedup/slicing, dropped
  unknown-dynamic names (TOP_ substring hazard pinned), genuinely
  shared class cache (second instance: zero HTTP), TTL expiry,
  failure degradation without raising.
- test_display_helper.py (full): the fixed error/no-data renders,
  combined scorebug top line, non-blank ticker with scroll_speed
  no-op pin, composite upconversion, logo bleed positions, square
  orientation pin.
- test_skin_runtime_cache.py: discovery-cache hit/invalidation
  semantics (manifest mtime, .py edits pinned as non-invalidating),
  sys.modules namespacing contract incl. bare-name restore and stdlib
  shadowing, entry-module execute-once, API minor-version tolerance,
  skin_matches_target table.
- test_sports_capabilities.py (extended): _draw_celebration_layout
  executed for real (flash window, matrix-dims fallback, highlight
  alternation, logo-failure isolation), _should_celebrate_for direct,
  strict duration boundary, score_to_int edges, both-teams-score
  precedence, expired-coalesce refire, disabled-win baseline
  preservation, id-less prune.

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* test: real schedule/dim coverage for DisplayController; fix two vacuous schedule tests

New test_display_controller_schedule.py drives _check_schedule and
_check_dim_schedule on a bare controller stub: same-day and
midnight-crossing windows with inclusive boundaries, global vs per-day vs
legacy-inferred modes (and dim's global-only default — no legacy
inference), per-day disabled days, invalid %H:%M fallbacks, unknown
timezone -> UTC, dim_brightness default 30, inactive-display short
circuit, and the _was_display_active/_was_dimmed transition flags.

test_display_controller.py's test_schedule_disabled and
test_active_hours patched config_service.get_config — which
_check_schedule never reads — so both asserted the init-default value
and could not fail. Rewritten on the test_inactive_hours pattern
(inject controller.config['schedule'], reset the minute gate, flip the
flag to the opposite state first so the assertion has teeth).

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* ci: raise coverage floor to 48%

Measured 50% with the new suites in place (was 47% baseline when the
gate was introduced at 45); floor stays two points under measured.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

* fix: address CodeQL alert and review findings

- config_manager: the "secrets list longer than config list" warning now
  interpolates only config-side data (no key name or secrets-derived
  values), resolving the CodeQL clear-text-logging alert.
- base_plugin: validate_config rejects bool display_duration, matching
  get_display_duration (bool is an int subclass and would otherwise pass
  as a positive number).
- config_helper: merge_configs deep-copies override values in the
  non-recursive branch so mutating the merged result cannot reach back
  into override_config.
- saved_repositories: saves are atomic (temp file + fsync + os.replace),
  so a failed write can no longer truncate saved_repositories.json.
- tests: regression cases for each fix, plus a pin that whole-item
  array secrets (key[] + key[].field both marked) strip to empty {}
  skeletons — no secret values can reach config.json.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

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2026-08-07 16:17:11 -04:00
ChuckandClaude 31d607f6b3 fix(backup): make a restored device match the one that was backed up (#439)
* fix(backup): make a restored device match the one that was backed up

Found by wiping a working device and reinstalling from scratch. Every
problem here is invisible until you actually do that, which is why a
green test suite and eleven hours of uptime had not surfaced any of them.

**Four enabled plugins vanished on restore.** Weather, stocks, music and
leaderboard have a registry `id` that differs from the `id` in their own
manifest: the registry calls them `weather`, everything else calls them
`ledmatrix-weather`. Installation already prefers the manifest id for the
directory name and warns when the two disagree, so on disk, in
config.json and in a backup they are `ledmatrix-weather` -- but nothing
resolved that in reverse. Restore asked the store for `ledmatrix-weather`
and got "Plugin not found in registry", four times, and the device came
back missing four plugins the user had enabled.

Registry lookup now falls back to matching `plugin_path`, which already
records `plugins/ledmatrix-weather`. Renaming the published ids would
have orphaned `plugin_state.json` entries keyed on the old ones. Exact id
still wins, so a path that collides with another entry's id cannot
shadow it. Against the live registry and a real 28-plugin install this
takes unresolvable directories from five to one -- the one being
starlark-apps, which is genuinely not in the registry.

**Secrets could not be restored at all.** A fresh install left
config_secrets.json group-readable but not group-writable, and the web
interface -- which is what performs a restore -- does not necessarily run
as the owner. Every other file in the backup restored; secrets failed
with EACCES. Now group-writable, so the account running the web UI can
put them back.

**A partial restore reported "Restore had errors" and nothing else.**
That is the same message whether the whole thing failed or it quietly
dropped your API keys. It now names what was restored, what failed, and
which plugins were not reinstalled.

**ytm_auth.json was never in the backup.** It sits in config/ beside the
three files that are, and is pure device-local auth: losing it silently
signs the user out of YouTube Music. Backed up and restored with the
wifi config, which it resembles.

**Backups were written inside the directory a reinstall deletes.**
config/backups/exports is destroyed by the reinstall the user was told to
make it before. Exports now go beside the install, falling back to the
old path when that is not writable.

**The installer reboots without asking in non-interactive mode**, which
the README did not mention -- easy to hit when piping the install, and
alarming when a device you are installing onto disappears. Documented,
with --no-reboot-prompt. Its log also claimed root:ledmatrix while
printing a hardcoded group name rather than the one it used.

Tests: registry resolution gets its own suite, including the collision
case and third-party entries with an empty plugin_path. The existing
round-trip test passed throughout this because its fixture plugin has a
directory name equal to its id -- the one shape that cannot fail -- so it
now carries ytm_auth too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Udr6MfaFLUPhX5Fgo67Jf5

* ci: run the backup suites

test_backup_manager.py existed but was never enrolled, so the tests that
should have guarded backup and restore have not run on a pull request.
That is part of why the restore bugs in the previous commit reached a
device: the suite was there, it just was not watching. Adds it alongside
the new registry-resolution tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Udr6MfaFLUPhX5Fgo67Jf5

* fix(backup): restore must not depend on owning the file it replaces

Follow-up from testing the previous commit on real hardware, where the
secrets fix turned out to be both too narrow and slightly wrong.

Too narrow: config.json, wifi_config.json and ytm_auth.json are installed
root-owned and group-readable exactly like the secrets file, so all four
were unrestorable by the web service, not just one. `shutil.copy2` opens
the destination for writing, which needs permission on the *existing
file*; the web user could create files in that directory all day and
still not replace them.

Slightly wrong: the previous commit loosened the secrets file to
group-writable. That was treating the symptom. The real error was
deciding ownership from `ledmatrix.service` -- the display service, which
runs as root and only ever *reads* secrets -- when the account that
*writes* them is the web interface, which deliberately does not run as
root. Ownership now follows the web service's user and the mode stays
640.

`_copy_file` writes a temporary file alongside the target and renames
over it. That needs only directory permission, so a restore no longer
cares who owns the destination, and it is atomic: a crash mid-restore can
no longer leave a half-written config. The destination's mode is carried
across so restoring secrets does not widen them to the umask, and its
owner is carried across too when the OS allows it -- only root can hand a
file to another user, so a restore run by the web service keeps its own
ownership rather than pretending to preserve root's.

Verified on a device with all four config files set root-owned 640 and
unwritable by the web user: before, every one failed with EACCES; after,
the restore reports success with no errors and all four sections
restored, mode still 640, root still able to read them and the web
service still able to write them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Udr6MfaFLUPhX5Fgo67Jf5

* fix(backup): address CodeRabbit and CodeQL findings on PR #439

- first_time_install.sh: verify chown/chmod succeed and the final
  owner/group/mode on config_secrets.json before reporting success;
  exit with a clear error otherwise instead of swallowing failures.
- api_v3.py: replace the predictable .writetest probe with an
  exclusive NamedTemporaryFile to avoid a race with concurrent
  resolvers; log the preferred/fallback export path and OSError when
  falling back to the reinstall-deleted directory.
- api_v3.py: mark a restore as failed when plugin reinstalls fail,
  even if file restoration itself succeeded, so the endpoint no longer
  reports HTTP 200 success on a partial restore.
- api_v3.py: stringify plugin IDs before joining them into the error
  message so a malformed backup's non-string plugin_id can't raise a
  TypeError and mask the detailed response.
- backup_manager.py / api_v3.py: stop putting raw exception text (originating
  from a user-controlled backup file) into restore results returned to
  the client; log full details server-side instead. Addresses the
  CodeQL "stack trace information exposure" alert.
- test coverage: add a test for get_plugin_info() resolving a
  manifest id, and assert the disabled restore_wifi path also skips
  and omits ytm_auth.json.

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2026-08-07 13:02:59 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Fable 5 d6c5f97c13 Test suite overhaul + fixes for the three bugs it uncovered (#441)
* ci: run the whole test tree and make the plugin-safety job assert something real

The unit-tests CI job ran an explicit 24-file allowlist that had rotted:
63 of 90 test files (display, vegas, store manager, web API, web_interface)
never ran on a PR. The job now runs all of test/ (minus test/plugins, which
the plugin-safety job owns) so new test files are enrolled by default and
any exclusion needs a visible, commented --ignore.

The plugin-safety job was a green no-op: plugins/ is empty in CI, so every
test skipped with 'Manifest not found'. It now renders a bundled
deterministic fixture plugin (test/fixtures/plugins/ci-fixture-plugin,
golden images included for all 8 default sizes) via LEDMATRIX_PLUGINS_DIR,
and sets LEDMATRIX_REQUIRE_PLUGINS=1 so discovering zero plugins fails
loudly instead of skipping green. The per-plugin suites document that they
target dev machines with real plugins installed.

Coverage is now measured and enforced in exactly one place — the CI
unit-tests step (--cov=src --cov=web_interface --cov-fail-under=45, from a
measured 47% baseline). pytest.ini previously declared --cov-fail-under=30
but CI always passed --no-cov, so the gate had never run anywhere; local
pytest is now coverage-free and fast.

Enabling the 63 unenrolled files surfaced three cases of test rot, fixed
here: test_display_controller_vegas_tick.py could not collect without the
hardware rgbmatrix module (now uses the emulator convention), the
state-reconciliation unrecoverable-cache tests broke when production added
the is_plugin_uninstalled tombstone check (bare Mock returned truthy),
and test_get_system_status assumed the optional psutil dependency
(now installed via requirements-test.txt and guarded by importorskip).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

* test: replace can't-fail tests with real assertions

test_font_manager.py was 5 of 6 tests shaped as 'try: call(); assert True /
except: assert True' — running in CI while unable to fail on any
regression. Rewritten against the real FontManager API and the bundled
assets/fonts: returned font types, cache-hit identity, distinct entries per
size, default-font fallback for unknown families and corrupt files
(recorded in failed_loads), BDF native-size reading, text measurement, and
cache lifecycle.

test_display_manager.py's test_draw_text ended in 'assert True'; it now
renders onto a known-black canvas and asserts pixels were actually lit —
which required un-breaking the fixture's freetype MagicMock so draw_text's
isinstance check doesn't silently swallow the draw.

test_display_controller.py carried a permanently-skipped test whose skip
reason already declared it redundant; deleted.

Both display test files now set EMULATOR=true before importing
display_manager (the same convention as test_display_dirty_tracking.py) so
they collect standalone instead of depending on which test module imports
display_manager first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

* test: cover the untested fragile logic (compatibility gate, secrets, config merges, durations, skin cards)

New unit tests for pure or filesystem-only logic that previously had zero
direct coverage:

- test_compatibility.py: the semver install gate (parse_semver suffix
  handling, every range operator, TRUSTWORTHY_FLOOR behavior for cores
  reporting untrustworthy versions, 'more restrictive wins', and the
  malformed-manifest shapes that used to raise).
- test/web_interface/test_secret_helpers.py: the canonical x-secret
  helpers — find/separate/mask/remove, array-item secrets, no input
  mutation, and a separate->recombine round-trip.
- test/web_interface/test_api_v3_helpers.py: the module-level helpers
  behind the plugin config save endpoint (_is_plugin_update_available,
  _coerce_to_bool including the int==1 quirk, deep_merge including its
  shared-subtree shallowness, _parse_form_value, dotted-key-aware
  _get_schema_property/_set_nested_value).
- test_base_plugin_duration.py: get_display_duration's full coercion
  ladder (instance attr -> config -> 15.0), including the bool-is-int
  quirk where display_duration=True means one second.
- test_config_manager_secrets.py: the secrets round-trip — deep-merge on
  load, strip on save, group pruning, the load fast path — and two
  characterized sharp edges marked SUSPECTED BUG: an unreadable secrets
  file at save time writes secrets into config.json in plaintext, and a
  same-mtime-same-size content swap is served stale.
- test_schema_manager_merge.py: merge_with_defaults branch behavior (None
  replacement vs falsey preservation, dict-vs-scalar mismatches, arrays
  replaced wholesale, defaults never mutated).
- test_skin_system.py (extended): render_skin_card shares _render_game's
  3-strike counter but never resets it on success — the asymmetry is
  pinned in both directions, along with card fallthrough and the disable
  interaction between the two paths.

Suspected bugs are characterized, not fixed — each carries a comment so a
future behavior change is deliberate rather than accidental.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

* test: add drift guards for cross-file contracts

Three guard suites that pin contracts spanning multiple files, where one
side changing unilaterally breaks the other silently:

- test_version_comparison_consistency.py: the repo's four version
  comparators (compatibility.parse_semver, api_v3's packaging-based
  _is_plugin_update_available, store_manager update_plugin's raw string
  equality, skin_runtime._major) answer differently on the same inputs.
  A table pins each one's verdict; update_plugin is driven through its
  real code path to show the SUSPECTED BUGs: 'v1.2.0' vs '1.2.0'
  triggers a full reinstall the UI calls unnecessary, and a locally-ahead
  plugin gets downgraded. A pairwise-ordering check keeps parse_semver
  agreeing with packaging on plain X.Y.Z.
- test/web_interface/test_secret_separation_parity.py: api_v3.py carries
  three inline copies of find_secret_fields/separate_secrets that lack
  the canonical module's array-item support. The copy count is asserted
  exact (it may only go down; new copies must import
  src/web_interface/secret_helpers), the missing-array-support gap is
  asserted so it can't grow silently, and the canonical behavior that
  migration will adopt is documented executably.
- test_discovery_path_contract.py: the three 'where is plugin X'
  resolvers (PluginManager discovery, StoreManager._find_plugin_path,
  SchemaManager.get_schema_path) agree on the configured directory, and
  their divergent fallback chains are characterized. Also pins the
  .standalone-backup- naming contract shared by store rollback and
  discovery, and _resolve_skin_target's path-traversal rejection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

* test: address review feedback — fixture lifecycle, test names, ClassVar

- ci-fixture-plugin: call display_manager.clear() before rendering (per
  plugin guidelines — the fixture should model a well-behaved plugin),
  add a class docstring, and document why Pillow is deliberately not
  pinned in its requirements.txt (core dependency; harness installs
  nothing).
- Rename two tests whose names contradicted their assertions:
  test_unparseable_core_version_is_compatible ->
  test_unparseable_core_with_high_floor_is_blocked, and
  test_unreadable_secrets_file... -> test_corrupt_secrets_file...
- Annotate TestGetSchemaProperty.SCHEMA as ClassVar (RUF012).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

* ci: allow manual test.yml runs via workflow_dispatch

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

* fix: unify version comparison, refuse secret-leaking saves, reset skin strikes on card success

Fixes the three suspected bugs this PR's characterization tests pinned,
flipping those tests to assert the corrected behavior:

- plugins/store: ONE shared update comparator. New
  compatibility.is_update_available() (PEP 440 via packaging) is now used
  by both the web UI's update badge (api_v3._is_plugin_update_available
  is a thin alias) and store_manager.update_plugin's reinstall decision.
  Previously update_plugin used raw string equality: 'v1.2.0' vs '1.2.0'
  triggered a full reinstall the UI called unnecessary, and a locally-
  ahead plugin (2.0.0 installed, registry 1.9.0) was silently DOWNGRADED.
  Now equivalent spellings skip the reinstall and locally-ahead versions
  are never downgraded; unparseable versions still reconcile by
  reinstalling from the registry.

- config: save_config and save_config_atomic now refuse (ConfigError)
  when config_secrets.json exists but cannot be loaded. Both previously
  proceeded without stripping, writing the merged secrets into
  config.json in plaintext. The shared _load_secrets_for_save() helper
  raises with an actionable message instead; a missing secrets file is
  still fine (nothing to strip), and _migrate_config's catch-all keeps
  boot resilient.

- skins: render_skin_card resets _skin_failures on both success paths
  (vegas card returned, or mode renderer handled), mirroring
  _render_game. Transient card failures no longer accumulate across a
  session until they permanently disable a working skin.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

* fix: harden shared comparator edges from review

- is_update_available: reject truthy non-string versions (a malformed
  manifest can carry a number; packaging raises TypeError on those) by
  surfacing the mismatch instead of raising.
- store_manager.update_plugin: drop the truthiness gate around the
  comparator so a missing version on either side follows the shared
  'no update' verdict, keeping the store consistent with the UI badge;
  a missing manifest still uses the reinstall recovery path.
- config_manager._load_secrets_for_save: catch only expected read/parse
  failures (OSError/ValueError/RecursionError) so implementation bugs
  propagate as themselves, and log with traceback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NohXi78cwsAKtN1sCfxjUh

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2026-08-07 10:17:30 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Fable 5 d9683e28be Codebase audit: fix shipping bugs, remove verified-dead code, repair doc drift, add regression guards (#438)
* fix(web): implement delete_cached so the font catalog cache actually invalidates

api_v3.py's font upload/delete handlers import delete_cached from
web_interface.cache, but the function was never defined. The surrounding
except ImportError silently swallowed the failure, so the fonts_catalog
cache entry survived uploads/deletes and newly uploaded fonts did not
appear until the TTL expired or the service restarted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SXb4mKcAkVaxkeTb3YnAdr

* fix(web): remove dead weather/stocks partial routes that returned 500

The partial dispatcher still routed 'weather' and 'stocks' to loaders
rendering v3/partials/weather.html and stocks.html — templates that no
longer exist since weather and stocks became store plugins. Requesting
either partial raised TemplateNotFound, which the catch-all turned into
a 500. No template or JS references these partials (the only 'weather'
hit in the front end is a plugin-store category filter option), so the
branches and both loader functions are removed; unknown partials now
fall through to the existing 404 handler.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SXb4mKcAkVaxkeTb3YnAdr

* fix(deps): align contradictory psutil/Flask-Limiter/freetype-py pins

requirements.txt's optional-install comment recommended psutil>=5.9,<6.0
while web_interface/requirements.txt hard-requires >=6.0,<7.0 — anyone
following the comment ends up with an unsatisfiable pair. The comment now
recommends the same range the web interface requires (all psutil APIs
used — Process, boot_time, cpu_percent, disk_usage, virtual_memory — are
stable in 6.x). Flask-Limiter gains the same <4.0 cap in both files and
freetype-py the same >=2.5.1 floor.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SXb4mKcAkVaxkeTb3YnAdr

* fix(config): add template keys the code already reads

display.hardware gains pixel_mapper_config, row_address_type,
multiplexing and panel_type (read at display_manager.py with these exact
fallbacks — users on non-standard panels previously had no way to
discover them from the template). vegas_scroll gains
frame_based_scrolling and scroll_delay, the only two of its 27 keys the
template omitted (read in src/vegas_mode/config.py). plugin_system gains
development_mode, which the web UI reads and writes but the template
never declared.

Every added value is byte-identical to the code-side .get() fallback, so
ConfigManager._migrate_config() merging these keys into existing user
configs cannot change behavior on any installed device.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SXb4mKcAkVaxkeTb3YnAdr

* fix(scripts): repair broken sys.path setup in utility scripts

clear_cache.py and download_nba_logos.py pointed sys.path at a 'src'
directory relative to the script's own folder (scripts/utils/src and
scripts/src — neither exists), so both crashed on import; they now insert
the project root and import via the src package like the other scripts.
debug_web_manual.py resolved 'project root' to scripts/debug/ instead of
two levels up. fix_nhl_cache.sh is removed: it used Python docstring
syntax in a bash script and invoked clear_nhl_cache.py, which does not
exist anywhere in the repo — it cannot ever have worked in its current
location.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SXb4mKcAkVaxkeTb3YnAdr

* docs: correct stale file:line references and the loader-fallback contradiction

CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules disagreed about plugin-directory fallback
behavior; the code (SchemaManager.get_schema_path) probes plugins/
BEFORE plugin-repos/, and the main discovery path has no fallback at
all — both files now describe the real behavior, preferring symbol names
over line numbers so the references rot slower. REST_API_REFERENCE.md
pointed at app.py:144/:607 for mounts that live at :199/:799 and counted
92 routes where there are 94. PLUGIN_ARCHITECTURE_SPEC.md's historical
banner gains a note that its example imports
(src/plugin_system/base_classes/*_plugin.py) never shipped — the real
base classes are src.base_classes.sports.SportsCore and
src.base_classes.hockey.Hockey.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SXb4mKcAkVaxkeTb3YnAdr

* docs: fix broken links, phantom script references, and stale CI description

Repairs every broken relative link in active docs (targets renamed or
archived long ago: PLUGIN_DEVELOPMENT.md -> PLUGIN_DEVELOPMENT_GUIDE.md,
API_REFERENCE.md -> REST_API_REFERENCE.md, PLUGIN_STORE_USER_GUIDE.md ->
PLUGIN_STORE_GUIDE.md, plugin_docs/ dir, TROUBLESHOOTING_QUICK_START.md,
and MIGRATION_GUIDE's README link that silently resolved to the docs
index instead of the project README). Replaces commands invoking scripts
that do not exist (scripts/update_stats.py, validate_registry.py,
check_updates.py, fix_permissions.sh) with the real tooling, and
rewrites HOW_TO_RUN_TESTS.md's CI section, which described a
security-audit workflow that was never committed and a pytest workflow
'queued to land' that landed long ago as test.yml.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SXb4mKcAkVaxkeTb3YnAdr

* docs: complete the docs index and refresh the web interface file tree

docs/README.md's own policy says every page must be linked from the
index, yet five weren't — including the entire skin system
(SKIN_SYSTEM.md, CREATING_SKINS.md), ADAPTIVE_LAYOUT.md,
plugin-safety-harness.md and SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md. Each is now listed
in the section it belongs to, and PLUGIN_ARCHITECTURE_SPEC.md is marked
historical in the index (the doc itself already carries the banner).
web_interface/README.md's static/v3 tree showed only app.css/app.js;
it now reflects the actual contents.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SXb4mKcAkVaxkeTb3YnAdr

* chore: remove dead modules confirmed unused in-repo and across all store plugins

- src/common/cli.py: imports a 'ledmatrix_common' package that exists
  nowhere (not in this repo, any requirements file, or the plugin
  monorepo), so it cannot ever have run; its README section claimed
  scripts/dev/* used it, which was also untrue.
- src/web_interface/logging_config.py: zero callers — the web app uses
  web_interface/logging_config.py (a different module), and nothing
  imports the src copy.
- handle_errors decorator in src/web_interface/error_handler.py: zero
  call sites (the module's response helpers stay — they are used).
- ConfigManager.get_clock_config(): reads a 'clock' config key that no
  longer exists anywhere; only caller was its own unit test.

Deliberately kept despite zero in-repo callers: DisplayError,
src/common/config_helper.py and display_helper.py — all documented as
plugin-facing API (docs/PLUGIN_ERROR_HANDLING.md, src/common/README.md),
and third-party plugins outside the official monorepo cannot be
enumerated. Verified against a fresh clone of ledmatrix-plugins (43
plugins): zero references to any removed symbol.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SXb4mKcAkVaxkeTb3YnAdr

* chore: remove manager-era NBA test files and one-off debug scripts

The four test_nba_*.py files imported nba_managers, leaderboard_manager
and odds_manager — top-level modules deleted when sports displays became
plugins — inside try/except blocks that swallowed the ImportError, so
they passed while exercising nothing. test_nba_data_structure.py and
debug_nba_api.py (a diagnostic script living in test/) made live ESPN
API calls rather than testing repo code. None were enrolled in CI.

scripts/debug/direct_fix_imports.py and check_imports.py were one-shot
artifacts that edited/inspected a hardcoded ~/LEDMatrix/web_interface/
app.py to fix an import problem solved long ago; nothing references
them.

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* chore: remove generate_report.py, which aggregates artifacts of CI jobs that do not exist

The script's only function is to merge JSON artifacts
(bandit/semgrep/pip-audit/safety/gitleaks results) produced by a
security-audit workflow that was never committed —
.github/workflows/ has no such jobs, so there is nothing for it to
aggregate and no way to run it usefully. Its siblings stay:
prove_security.py and audit_plugins.py both run standalone (verified),
and .codacy.yml stays because the Codacy service (README badge) reads it
server-side without a workflow file.

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* fix(web): load the three widget scripts store plugins already declare

time-picker.js, file-upload-single.js and plugin-file-manager.js
register widgets that installed store plugins reference in their config
schemas (countdown uses x-widget: time-picker and file-upload-single;
of-the-day uses plugin-file-manager), but base.html never included the
scripts. plugin_config.html renders such fields as an empty container
that polls LEDMatrixWidgets.get(...) on a 50ms loop forever, so those
plugin config fields appeared permanently blank. The audit initially
flagged these files as dead code; the monorepo cross-check proved the
opposite — they were unreachable, not unused.

example-color-picker.js (the documented custom-widget example) gains an
explicit warning that including it in base.html would shadow the
built-in color-picker widget.

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* chore: drop the legacy youtube block from the secrets template

No code reads a top-level youtube secrets key: the youtube-stats plugin
receives its API key namespaced under its own plugin id (declared via
x-secret in its config schema), like every other store plugin. The key
survives only in state_reconciliation.py's non-plugin-key exclusion set,
which stays — existing installs still carry the key in their generated
config_secrets.json, and the exclusion prevents it from being
misclassified as a plugin config. New installs simply stop being asked
for a YouTube API key they have nowhere to use.

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* chore(deps): remove packages nothing imports, declare direct imports, move mypy to test deps

Removed from requirements.txt: python-socketio, python-engineio,
websockets, websocket-client — zero imports anywhere in this repo, and
the one store plugin that needs Socket.IO (ledmatrix-music) declares it
in its own requirements.txt, which the plugin store installs. Removed
the same quartet plus timezonefinder, geopy, google-auth-oauthlib,
google-auth-httplib2, google-api-python-client, unidecode, icalevents,
python-dateutil, flask-wtf and the werkzeug pin from
web_interface/requirements.txt — all leftovers from the deleted built-in
weather/calendar/music displays (flask-wtf was doubly dead: app.py
explicitly disables CSRF and sets csrf=None). scripts/
install_dependencies_apt.py, which mirrors these lists for the
first-time installer, drops the same packages.

Added: urllib3 (imported directly in four core modules), jinja2 and
markupsafe (imported directly in pages_v3.py) — previously reachable
only as transitives. mypy moves from runtime requirements to
requirements-test.txt.

Verified in a fresh venv: all four requirements files co-install, pip
check is clean, the full CI-enrolled suite (907 tests) and a Flask boot
smoke pass with the trimmed dependency set.

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* refactor: single canonical DateTimeEncoder

src/cache_manager.py and src/cache/disk_cache.py each defined an
identical DateTimeEncoder (datetime -> ISO-8601). The disk_cache copy is
the only one actually used for serialization; cache_manager now
re-exports it instead of defining a twin, so the two can never silently
diverge. Import compatibility is preserved — from src.cache_manager
import DateTimeEncoder still works and is the same class object.

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* docs(code): document deliberate duplicates instead of merging them

The audit surfaced several near-duplicate implementations that turned
out to be either deliberate forks or behaviorally different — merging
any of them would risk changing behavior on installed devices, so each
now carries an explicit comment stating the relationship:

- VisualDisplayManager: headless fork of DisplayManager; header now
  lists the ~15 mirrored methods and warns that DisplayManager changes
  must be mirrored.
- normalize_abbreviation: LogoDownloader's version (called directly by
  nine scoreboard plugins) replaces filesystem-unsafe characters;
  LogoHelper's strips spaces. Logo filenames on existing installs
  depend on both behaviors staying put.
- The two PluginTestBase classes: the shipped one is plugin-author
  API, the repo's own richer harness lives in test/plugins/ — now
  cross-referenced.

Also verified (no change needed): ConfigManager's backup/rollback
methods genuinely delegate to AtomicConfigManager, and SportsCore
already delegates _read_bdf_native_size to FontManager.

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* docs: add a unified configuration reference

There was no single place documenting what lives in config.json —
display.* keys were scattered across README sections, vegas_scroll lived
in ADVANCED_FEATURES.md, and dim_schedule, display.double_sided,
sync.follower_position, plugin_system.development_mode and the four
newly-templated hardware keys were documented nowhere. CONFIG_REFERENCE.md
now lists every template key plus the code-read-only keys, each with
type, default, and the code location that reads it, and explains the
secrets file's plugin-id namespacing. Linked from the docs index.

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* docs: bring the README's feature tour into the plugin era

The Core Features section still presented clock/weather/sports/stocks/
music displays as built into the project, when all of them are store
plugins installed from the ledmatrix-plugins monorepo — only
starlark-apps and web-ui-info ship in this repo. The intro now says so
(the showcase itself is unchanged; those are real displays available in
the store). The display_durations reference drops its built-in-calendar
example in favor of plugin-id keys, and the Configuration section links
the new CONFIG_REFERENCE.md.

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* docs: archive the custom-icons status report, cross-link config docs, document assets/

PLUGIN_CUSTOM_ICONS_FEATURE.md was a 'What Was Implemented' status
report duplicating the actual guide (PLUGIN_CUSTOM_ICONS.md) — moved to
docs/archive/ per the docs index's own policy. The overlapping
plugin-config docs keep their content but PLUGIN_CONFIG_ARCHITECTURE.md
now states up front which doc is canonical for which purpose.

assets/README.md is new and load-bearing: assets/stocks, weather,
news_logos and broadcast_logos have zero references in this repo's code,
which makes them look deletable — but store plugins (ledmatrix-stocks,
ledmatrix-weather, news, odds-ticker) resolve those exact paths at
runtime against the install directory. The README records that evidence
so a future cleanup doesn't break installed plugins.

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* test: add regression guards for the bug classes fixed in this PR

Three lightweight static checks, all enrolled in CI's unit-test
allowlist along with the new web-cache test:

- test_template_targets.py: every literal render_template() target must
  exist (would have caught the weather/stocks partial 500s at commit
  time).
- test_widget_scripts.py: every widget JS file must be script-included
  in base.html or explicitly allowlisted with a reason (would have
  caught the unloaded time-picker/file-upload-single/plugin-file-manager
  widgets), and allowlisted files must NOT be included (prevents the
  example widget from shadowing the real color-picker).
- test_doc_links.py: relative markdown links in active docs must
  resolve (docs/archive/ exempt).

Each guard was verified to fail against the pre-PR tree and pass now.

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* fix(deps): restore the werkzeug version floor

Commit 1ec22db removed the werkzeug>=3.1.6,<4.0.0 pin along with the
genuinely-unused packages, but this one was a version floor on Flask's
transitive dependency, not a phantom: Flask 3.1.3 itself only requires
werkzeug>=3.1.0, so dropping the pin let fresh installs resolve
3.1.0-3.1.5. Restored with a comment explaining why it exists.

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* fix(web): route pixel_mapper_config into display.hardware; guard time-picker registration

pixel_mapper_config was the only display.hardware key absent from both
the display_fields detection allowlist and the hardware write loop in
the settings save path. No form posts it today, but if one ever did the
key would fall through to the generic handler and land at the TOP level
of config.json — where state_reconciliation would mistake it for a
missing plugin id and loop auto-repair attempts (the failure class the
'github'/'youtube' exclusion comment documents). It now round-trips
into display.hardware like its siblings.

time-picker.js gains the same LEDMatrixWidgets-undefined guard its two
sibling widgets already have; correct today only via defer ordering.

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* chore: align installer leftovers with the dependency cleanup

first_time_install.sh's fallback secrets heredoc (used only when the
template is missing) still wrote the legacy youtube block — now matches
the template (github only). install_dependencies_apt.py drops the
IMPORT_NAME_MAP entries for packages no longer in its install lists and
a stale google-api reference in a docstring.

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* fix: address CodeRabbit review findings

Verified each finding against the code; fixes for the valid ones:

- install_dependencies_apt.py: the installer listed 'freetype', but the
  declared dependency is freetype-py — an apt miss would pip-install the
  wrong PyPI package. Now installs freetype-py with an import-name
  mapping (pre-existing bug, surfaced by the review).
- api_v3.py: pixel_mapper_config is validated as a string before being
  saved to display.hardware (JSON callers could previously store an
  object/list the matrix library can't use).
- .cursorrules: the Plugin Loading Process and File Organization
  sections still said discovery scans plugins/ — now consistent with the
  corrected overview (configured directory, default plugin-repos/).
- README.md: removed the stale '(except the core calendar)' claim — no
  core calendar exists in src/ — and qualified the plugin inventory
  (official plugins in the monorepo; third-party from their own repos).
- CONFIG_REFERENCE.md: hardware_mapping now shows the code fallback
  (adafruit-hat-pwm) alongside the template value.
- PLUGIN_REGISTRY_SETUP_GUIDE.md: check_plugin.py takes --plugin, not a
  positional id.
- scripts/fix_perms/fix_*.sh: exec bits set so the documented
  'sudo ./...' invocations work.
- Guard tests hardened: template guard now catches multi-line
  render_template() calls; widget guard parses actual <script> src
  values and fails if the widgets dir goes missing; type hints and
  docstrings added per repo coding guidelines.

Skipped with reasons (noted on the PR): limit_refresh_rate_hz 100-vs-90
is documented as intentional in CONFIG_REFERENCE.md; the psutil comment
already names the enforcing manifest; docs/archive/ findings are out of
scope per the docs policy (archive may rot).

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* chore: remove Cursor IDE tooling, consolidate its guidance into CLAUDE.md

The maintainer no longer uses Cursor. .cursorrules, .cursorignore and the
.cursor/ tree (rules, plugin templates, a parallel 751-line plugins
guide) are removed; measurement showed near-zero literal overlap risk —
the canonical content already lives in docs/. Unique guidance worth
keeping moved before deletion:

- CLAUDE.md gains the dev workflow (dev_plugin_setup.sh, dev_server.py,
  run.py -e, check_plugin.py), the plugin-secrets namespacing contract,
  and the no-draw_image()/paste-onto-PIL pitfall.
- PLUGIN_DEVELOPMENT_GUIDE.md absorbs the plugin version-management
  rules (pre-push hook install, SKIP_TAG, version resolution order) that
  its own text previously linked out to .cursorrules for.
- The one completed plan doc (.cursor/plans/) is archived to
  docs/archive/ per the docs policy rather than deleted.

One of the deleted rule files (sports-managers.mdc) targeted
src/*_managers.py globs that have matched nothing since the plugin
migration.

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* chore: second-pass cleanup — dead installer branch, broken script, orphaned JS, misfiled test deps

- first_time_install.sh: removed the pip fallback branch that installed
  from requirements_web_v2.txt — a file that has not existed since the
  v2 web interface was removed (the branch always printed its own
  'not found; skipping' warning).
- scripts/remove_plugin_backups.sh deleted: its PROJECT_ROOT resolved to
  the repo's PARENT directory, and its verify_submodules() checks for
  plugin submodules from an era before plugins moved to the store — it
  could never have worked from its current location.
- plugins_manager.js: removed three functions with zero call sites
  anywhere (addKeyValuePair, formatCommit, togglePasswordVisibility) —
  verified against all templates, all JS, and the dynamic window[name]
  dispatch sites, which resolve widget-registry keys only. Also replaced
  base.html's misleading 'Legacy ... during migration' label: the file
  is deliberately loaded last and provides the LIVE implementations of
  seven window.* plugin actions that shadow same-named definitions in
  app.js/app-shell.js.
- pytest/pytest-cov/pytest-mock moved from runtime requirements.txt to
  requirements-test.txt (CI already installs both files; the installer's
  line-by-line loop simply installs three fewer packages on devices; no
  store plugin declares pytest). HOW_TO_RUN_TESTS.md updated.
- scripts/add_defaults_to_schemas.py and analyze_plugin_schemas.py
  scanned the empty legacy plugins/ dir — now scan plugin-repos/.

Verified: fresh venv installs all four requirements files with pip check
clean and pytest available; bash -n on the installer; node --check on
the JS; widget/cache guard tests green.

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* docs: correct semantically stale content across the user and developer guides

A second-pass content audit checked the guides' substantive claims
against the code (the first pass only fixed mechanical drift). Fixes:

- GETTING_STARTED: described booting a prebuilt SD image and seeing
  default clock/weather plugins — neither exists. Now documents the real
  install (Pi OS Lite + one-shot installer / first_time_install.sh) and
  that displays come from the Plugin Store. Duration and ordering
  instructions moved to the Rotation tab where the controls actually
  live.
- WEB_INTERFACE_GUIDE: three whole tabs were undocumented (Rotation,
  Backup & Restore, Tools) and the Display tab's Vegas Scroll section
  was unmentioned. Fonts overrides are per display element (not per
  plugin); Logs has an Auto-scroll checkbox (not a Pause button); the
  aspirational keyboard-shortcut list and no-JS claim removed.
- TROUBLESHOOTING: the hand-written service-file template (wrong user,
  wrong ExecStart, dropped the autostart gate) replaced with the real
  systemd/ units + install scripts; recovery steps no longer copy
  placeholder units verbatim; WiFi curl endpoint corrected to /api/v3/;
  cache-clearing advice now targets the real cache locations.
- ADVANCED_FEATURES: removed a false claim that CacheManager has no
  delete(); fixed two example snippets that raise TypeError
  (BackgroundDataService and get_config_file_mode signatures); fixed
  cache paths, a 5-minute TTL that is actually 1 hour, and the vegas
  table now links the complete 26-key reference.
- EMULATOR_SETUP_GUIDE: documented run.py flags that don't exist
  (--plugin/--test-plugins) removed in favor of dev_server.py and
  check_plugin.py; shipped emulator config values corrected (browser
  adapter default on :8888, not pygame).
- PLUGIN_QUICK_REFERENCE: drag-and-drop reordering is shipped, not
  'not yet supported'; discovery-fallback and registry-repo claims
  corrected. PLUGIN_API_REFERENCE: get_vegas_segment_width returns
  panels, not pixels. CONTRIBUTING: the repo uses flake8/mypy/bandit
  pre-commit hooks, not black/ruff, and tests need requirements-test.txt.
- SKIN_SYSTEM/DEVELOPER_QUICK_REFERENCE: stale module paths.

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* fix: raise the two new dependency floors past their CVEs, silence a deliberate re-export

All three of these were introduced by this PR, which is what makes them
worth fixing here rather than deferring.

`urllib3` and `jinja2` were added to the requirements so that direct
imports stop relying on transitives — right call, but both floors were
set to the version that introduced the API rather than a version that is
safe to install. `urllib3>=1.26.0` sits below roughly ten CVEs including
a decompression-bomb safeguard bypass, and `jinja2>=3.1.0` below five
including two sandbox breakouts. Raised to 2.7.0 and 3.1.6, which is what
a working device already runs, so no install is disturbed. The comments
now say the floor is a security floor, since the next person to read
"imported directly" would otherwise reasonably lower it again.

This is the same reasoning the PR already applied to werkzeug; these two
just missed it.

The `DateTimeEncoder` import in cache_manager is unused on purpose — the
canonical class moved to src.cache.disk_cache and this re-export keeps
the documented import path working. flake8 cannot see intent, so it gets
an explicit `# noqa: F401` rather than being removed and quietly breaking
anything importing it from here. Verified the re-export still resolves to
the same object and still serialises datetimes.

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* fix: address CodeRabbit re-review — installer robustness and doc lint

- install_dependencies_apt.py: an import-only check let Debian
  Bookworm's python3-freetype 2.3.0 satisfy the freetype-py>=2.5.1 pin.
  check_package_installed() now verifies the installed freetype-py
  version, and an apt install that lands below the minimum falls through
  to pip instead of counting as success.
- first_time_install.sh: the .web_deps_installed marker was created even
  when the smart installer failed, so re-runs skipped installation with
  dependencies missing. The marker is now created only on success.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: document installing the pre-commit CLI before
  'pre-commit install' (the requirements files don't provide it).
- Doc lint: fence language on the on-demand cache example (MD040),
  blockquote continuation in GETTING_STARTED (MD028), and the
  suppress_adapter_load_errors key removed from the emulator debug
  example to match the options table.

Skipped one finding with reason (noted on the PR): the per-plugin
display_duration field in PLUGIN_QUICK_REFERENCE's example is not
obsolete — BasePlugin.get_display_duration() reads it and
PLUGIN_CONFIG_CORE_PROPERTIES.md documents it as a core property;
display.display_durations is a per-mode override, not a replacement.

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2026-08-06 14:04:23 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 2af41c561b fix(plugins): make update scheduling atomic so update() cannot run twice at once (#437)
* fix(plugins): make update scheduling atomic so update() cannot run twice at once

Closes #401.

`run_scheduled_updates()` decided whether to update a plugin with a
check-then-act sequence: `can_execute()` and `set_state(RUNNING)` were
separate calls with nothing between them, so two scheduler threads could
both observe ENABLED and both go on to call the same plugin's `update()`.
`update_all_plugins()` had the identical pattern.

Two schedulers really do run at once. The render loop calls
`_tick_plugin_updates()`, and Vegas mode fires its own `vegas-plugin-tick`
daemon thread that is never joined when `VegasModeCoordinator.play()`
returns — a slow `update()` still in flight overlaps the next tick from
the main loop. A plugin running `update()` twice concurrently is unsafe
unless it happens to be reentrant; shared mutable state, a non-thread-safe
HTTP session or cache all break.

The async path was already covered by the `_pending_lock` dedup in
`_enqueue_update`, so the live exposure was the synchronous kill-switch
path and `update_all_plugins()`. Both now claim the plugin through
`_reserve_for_update()`, which holds one lock across the eligibility
check, the due-time check and the RUNNING transition — and nothing more.
Holding it across `execute_update()` would serialize slow plugins behind
each other and reintroduce the render stall the async worker exists to
avoid.

The due-time check moved inside the lock deliberately. Left outside, a
thread that had already decided "due" could claim the plugin the instant
the winner finished, running `update()` twice within one interval.

Two supporting changes fall out of it:

- `_enqueue_update()` no longer sets RUNNING (the reservation did), and
  hands the reservation back if the pending-dedup ever fires. Otherwise a
  reserved-but-unqueued plugin would sit in RUNNING with nothing left to
  release it, and `can_execute()` would refuse it forever.
- `_finish()` now clears the pending entry *before* flipping the state
  back to ENABLED. The old order left a window where a scheduler saw
  ENABLED, reserved the plugin, then had its enqueue silently dropped by
  the dedup — harmless as a missed tick before, a stuck plugin once a
  reservation is involved.

Regression suite added and enrolled in CI, along with
test_async_plugin_updates.py which was not previously run there. The
overlap tests delay `can_execute()` to hold every thread inside the
check-then-act gap: the real window is a couple of bytecodes wide, so a
plain hammering test passes against the unfixed scheduler and proves
nothing. With that delay the suite reports `update() ran 8x concurrently`
on both affected paths before the fix, and passes after.

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* test: fix a race in the reservation suite's own wait loops

`test_async_path_never_overlaps` failed in CI with "update() ran 0x
concurrently" — the test's bug, not the scheduler's. It polled
`plugin._active` to wait for the update to finish, but before the worker
picks the item up nothing is active yet, so the loop fell straight
through and asserted on a plugin that had never run.

Both async waits now key on `update_calls >= 1` as well, so they wait for
an update to have started *and* finished. The stranded-state test gets
the same guard for a second reason: ENABLED is also the starting state,
so without it that assertion passes vacuously on a plugin that was never
scheduled.

Verified over 12 consecutive local runs, 12 passed.

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* fix(plugins): roll back the claim when dispatch fails

_enqueue_update() reserved the plugin and added it to the pending set,
then started the worker and queued the item. Thread.start() raises
RuntimeError when the OS refuses a new thread — not hypothetical on a Pi
under memory or thread pressure — and nothing is queued at that point to
release the plugin. It stayed RUNNING with a stale pending entry, so
can_execute() refused it for the rest of the process, and the exception
escaped run_scheduled_updates() and skipped every remaining plugin in
that tick.

That is the same stranded-RUNNING failure the reservation was introduced
to prevent, just reached through the dispatch rather than the dedup, so
it is handled the same way: discard the pending entry, hand the
reservation back, log the cause. Swallowed rather than raised so one
plugin failing to queue cannot abort the others' turn.

Both new tests fail against the un-rolled-back version — the second on
the escaping RuntimeError itself — and pass with it. 74 tests across the
reservation, async-update, plugin-system, health, Vegas-adapter and
controller-toggle suites still pass.

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2026-08-05 19:38:11 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 d305be6089 fix(plugins): core's own config keys no longer flag plugins as degraded (#434)
Found while sweeping devpi for issues. Nine of 27 installed plugins were
reported degraded in the web UI -- including baseball-scoreboard and
f1-scoreboard -- for using a documented core feature.

The core reads three tuning keys out of each plugin's own config block:
vegas_width_pct and vegas_overflow (vegas_mode/plugin_adapter.py) and
vegas_max_width_screens (base_plugin.py). No plugin declares them, and 37 of
the 42 published config schemas set "additionalProperties": false -- so schema
validation reported them as violations.

That is not just log noise. _validate_config_schema_soft sets `degraded` in
the health tracker, which the web UI surfaces, so a user who tuned a core
Vegas setting saw the plugin marked broken.

The keys are stripped before validation. Fixing it plugin-side would mean 42
schema edits and 42 version bumps -- 42 store updates for a contract the core
owns.

Listed explicitly rather than matched on a `vegas_` prefix: vegas_mode is the
opposite case, plugin-owned and declared in schemas, and a prefix rule would
silently stop validating it.

Verified on devpi: degraded went 9 of 27 -> 0 of 27, schema-mismatch warnings
9 -> 0, 22 plugins still load, no tracebacks. 800 core unit tests pass,
8 of them new -- including that a genuine violation is still reported, so the
check has not been turned into a no-op, and that the caller's live config dict
is never mutated.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Udr6MfaFLUPhX5Fgo67Jf5

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 13:46:28 -04:00