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ChuckBuildsandClaude 616d21c6d3 Vegas mode: render plugins narrower, space rows by measured separation
Trimming reclaims blank margins but cannot compact a layout that genuinely
spans the display — a five-column forecast, a progress bar drawn at 100%
width, a stat block with the panel's whole width between its elements. Those
need the plugin to make different layout decisions, which means telling it the
screen is narrower while it renders.

DisplayManager.render_size() presents a smaller logical canvas for the
duration of a Vegas content fetch, reusing the same _LogicalMatrix
indirection double-sided mode already relies on so plugins see a consistent
size from every accessor. Plugins that size themselves from matrix.width need
no changes at all; one that wants to be explicit can read the new
BasePlugin.get_vegas_render_width().

Width is a percentage so a single setting travels across panel sizes:
vegas_scroll.render_width_pct globally, or vegas_width_pct in an individual
plugin's config. Measured on a 512x64 panel with real data:

  ledmatrix-weather   1536px -> 576px   (forecast becomes narrow cards)
  youtube-stats        353px -> 199px   (2% blank left, so genuinely compact)
  geochron             453px -> 153px   (ink density rises to 100%)
  ledmatrix-flights    950px -> 740px

The youtube-stats figure is the clearest evidence the layout itself changed
rather than being cropped: at full width the content had to be trimmed from
512px to 353px, whereas at 40% it arrives with almost no blank to reclaim.

Row spacing is now measured rather than added. A flat gap gets it wrong in
both directions at once — content drawn flush to its own edges ends up nearly
touching (reported for recent sports scores, which sat 8px apart), while
content already carrying wide margins gets pushed even further out.
separation_gap() measures the blank each pair already has and adds only the
shortfall, up to min_content_separation (default 24). intra_plugin_gap stays
as a floor applied regardless.

Two tests shipped in the previous commit encoded the old flat-gap arithmetic
and are updated to the measured semantics, including one renamed to reflect
that zero intra_plugin_gap alone no longer butts rows together.

Also fixes a real bug found while testing: the harness display manager had no
render_size(), and because the adapter catches broadly that surfaced as "no
content" rather than an error, silently dropping five plugins. Added the
context to VisualTestDisplayManager for parity, and _render_at() now degrades
to a no-op on any display manager lacking it, so a third-party or older
harness loses the narrowing rather than the content.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ
2026-07-29 09:01:28 -04:00
ChuckBuildsandClaude 8d57a748a7 Vegas mode: reclaim dead space and pace the rotation
On a wide panel Vegas mode spent much of its time showing black. At 50px/s
on a 512px display, one display width of blank is 10.2 seconds, which makes
several long-standing behaviours expensive:

- ScrollHelper prepended a full display width of black as an "initial gap",
  charged once per cycle — 10.2s of black at the start of every rotation.
- Plugins without get_vegas_content() are captured off a full-display canvas,
  so their blank margins entered the ticker too. Measured: of-the-day drew
  35px of "No Data" on a 512px canvas (92% blank), youtube-stats 142px of
  content with 185px of black either side. Only the scroll_helper path had
  any trimming.
- Cycle transitions deliberately pushed a blank frame and then recomposed
  synchronously: 84ms at best, 4.8s at worst, every millisecond of it black.
- buffer_ahead doubled as the cycle size, so a 21-plugin install showed 3
  plugins per cycle and took ~7 cycles to come around.
- separator_width was applied between every image rather than at plugin
  boundaries, so a per-row ticker like the F1 scoreboard (116 images, which
  it renders 4px apart internally) got a 32px chasm between each row — and
  the width budget didn't count those gaps, so the plugin quietly occupied
  far more of the panel than intended.

Changes:

- src/vegas_mode/geometry.py: numpy column-ink primitives shared by the
  trimmer and the audit tool, so the number reported is the number acted on.
  A Python per-column loop over a 17,000px strip is far too slow for the
  render path.
- PluginAdapter trims every content path, not just scroll_helper. Only outer
  edges are cropped: interior blank columns are the plugin's own layout
  (logo left, score right) and closing them would corrupt the design. A
  plugin on a non-black background is inherently unaffected.
- ScrollHelper.create_scrolling_image takes an explicit lead_gap, still
  defaulting to display_width so the many standalone-ticker callers are
  unchanged. Vegas passes lead_in_width (default 0).
- Cycle end holds the last rendered frame instead of blanking, turning the
  recompose into a brief freeze rather than the panel switching off.
- plugins_per_cycle (default 6) is split from buffer_ahead, which goes back
  to being only a prefetch low-water mark.
- max_plugin_width_ratio (default 3x display width) caps one plugin's share
  of a cycle. Overflow is deferred, not discarded: a rotation offset advances
  each fetch so later rows appear on subsequent cycles. Single oversized
  images are cropped at a blank column so the cut misses glyphs.
- Composition groups images by plugin: rows are joined by intra_plugin_gap
  (default 8) and separator_width applies only between plugins. The width
  budget now counts those gaps.
- Plugin data updates no longer run on the Vegas render path.

All new settings are user-configurable in Display -> Vegas Scroll, including
min/max cycle duration and dynamic duration, which previously existed in code
but were reachable only by hand-editing config.json.

Measured with scripts/dev/vegas_audit.py on a 512x64 panel:

  mean ink coverage    42.7% -> 69.4%
  fully blank           5.9% -> 0%
  reads as empty        13.6% -> 0%
  worst blank stretch    4.8s -> 0s
  full rotation          414s -> 123s
  plugins per cycle         3 -> 6

Note the metric choice: a "fully blank" scan (>=95% black viewport) reported
only 0.4% and badly understated the problem, because two full-width segments
with mid-canvas content never fully blank the viewport — they hold it at ~28%.
window_coverage_stats grades every viewport position by how much ink it
carries, which is what tracks perceived dead time.

Known remaining: cycle transitions still freeze ~3.5s while the next cycle is
fetched. Fixing that needs background prefetch, which is deferred because the
fallback-capture path mutates the shared display_manager.image and racing it
against the render loop risks torn frames.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ
2026-07-28 20:18:51 -04:00
7a9d01342a Fix inconsistent Vegas scroll transition gaps caused by plugin-baked padding (#384)
* Strip plugin-baked scroll padding when capturing content for Vegas mode

Plugins that build their own ticker image via ScrollHelper.create_scrolling_image()
(or that manually pad both ends for a clean standalone loop) carry a solid-black
margin up to display_width wide on one or both edges. Vegas mode already adds its
own configurable gap around every item, so leaving that margin in place stacked an
extra, uncontrolled blank stretch on top of separator_width for whichever plugin
took the ScrollHelper-capture path — producing inconsistent transition gaps between
modules compared to plugins that provide content natively via get_vegas_content().

_get_scroll_helper_content() now detects and crops any such margin before handing
the image to the Vegas render pipeline, so every plugin's gap is governed solely by
vegas_scroll.separator_width regardless of which capture path produced its content.

* Address CodeRabbit nitpick: warn on double-edge padding crop, add unit tests

Logging a double-edge match at warning level (vs. info for a single edge)
makes it easy to spot an unexpected crop in the field, since two edges
matching at once is a much stronger signal of genuine baked-in padding than
one edge coinciding with real all-black content.

Also adds test/test_vegas_plugin_adapter.py covering _strip_scroll_padding's
branch logic: leading-only, trailing-only, both-edges, no-match, degenerate
all-black, missing/undersized display_width, and the info-vs-warning log level.

* Add type hints and docstring to test _solid helper (CodeRabbit nitpick)

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-08 09:43:13 -04:00
dbb53da31d fix(vegas): eliminate plugin re-appearance at scroll cycle boundaries (#327)
* fix(vegas): eliminate plugin re-appearance at scroll cycle boundaries

The Vegas scroll image is wider than the display. scroll_helper marks a
cycle complete only after total_distance_scrolled >= total_scroll_width +
display_width, meaning it keeps scrolling for an extra display_width of
pixels after all content has exited left. During that extra travel the
scroll_position wraps back to ~0 and the first plugin re-enters from the
right - visible for ~2-3 seconds as a plugin partially displaying before
the next one starts.

render_pipeline.render_frame(): end the cycle the moment
total_distance_scrolled >= total_scroll_width (the natural wrap point),
before any second-pass content becomes visible. Push a blank frame
immediately on detection so hardware never shows a frozen content
snapshot while start_new_cycle() recomposes (~100 ms).

display_manager.py: add capture_mode() context manager. When active,
update_display() and the canvas clear in clear() skip the hardware
write, preventing plugins that call update_display() internally from
flashing on the matrix during off-screen content capture inside
start_new_cycle().

plugin_adapter.py: wrap all plugin.display() calls in
_capture_display_content() and _trigger_scroll_content_generation()
with capture_mode() so the fallback capture path never produces
hardware output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): tighten exception handling in clear() and blank-frame push

display_manager.clear(): replace bare except/pass on the three hardware
Clear() calls with (RuntimeError, OSError) and a logger.error() so
failures are visible in logs rather than silently swallowed.  Still
non-fatal — the PIL image buffer is already black before these calls,
so the next update_display() will push clean content regardless.

render_pipeline.render_frame(): replace broad except/pass in the
blank-frame push with (ImportError, ValueError, TypeError, MemoryError)
and a logger.error() that includes display dimensions for context.
update_display() already handles its own hardware errors internally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): catch OSError and RuntimeError in blank-frame push

Image.new() can raise OSError in some PIL environments and hardware
libraries may surface RuntimeError on I/O failures.  Add both to the
exception tuple alongside the existing ImportError/ValueError/TypeError/
MemoryError so no boundary failure escapes the local handler.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-13 15:51:38 -04:00
8391832c90 fix(vegas): keep plugin data and visuals fresh during Vegas scroll mode (#291)
* fix(vegas): keep plugin data and visuals fresh during Vegas scroll mode

Plugins using ESPN APIs and other data sources were not updating during
Vegas mode because the render loop blocked for 60-600s per iteration,
starving the scheduled update tick. This adds a non-blocking background
thread that runs plugin updates every ~1s during Vegas mode, bridges
update notifications to the stream manager, and clears stale scroll
caches so all three content paths (native, scroll_helper, fallback)
reflect fresh data.

- Add background update tick thread in Vegas coordinator (non-blocking)
- Add _tick_plugin_updates_for_vegas() bridge in display controller
- Fix fallback capture to call update() instead of only update_data()
- Clear scroll_helper.cached_image on update for scroll-based plugins
- Drain background thread on Vegas stop/exit to prevent races

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): address review findings in update pipeline

- Extract _drive_background_updates() helper and call it from both the
  render loop and the static-pause wait loop so plugin data stays fresh
  during static pauses (was skipped by the early `continue`)
- Remove synchronous plugin.update() from the fallback capture path;
  the background update tick already handles API refreshes so the
  content-fetch thread should only call lightweight update_data()
- Use scroll_helper.clear_cache() instead of just clearing cached_image
  so cached_array, total_scroll_width and scroll_position are also reset

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Chuck <chuck@example.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-21 13:42:27 -04:00
7524747e44 Feature/vegas scroll mode (#215)
* feat(display): add Vegas-style continuous scroll mode

Implement an opt-in Vegas ticker mode that composes all enabled plugin
content into a single continuous horizontal scroll. Includes a modular
package (src/vegas_mode/) with double-buffered streaming, 125 FPS
render pipeline using the existing ScrollHelper, live priority
interruption support, and a web UI for configuration with drag-drop
plugin ordering.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(vegas): add three-mode display system (SCROLL, FIXED_SEGMENT, STATIC)

Adds a flexible display mode system for Vegas scroll mode that allows
plugins to control how their content appears in the continuous scroll:

- SCROLL: Content scrolls continuously (multi-item plugins like sports)
- FIXED_SEGMENT: Fixed block that scrolls by (clock, weather)
- STATIC: Scroll pauses, plugin displays, then resumes (alerts)

Changes:
- Add VegasDisplayMode enum to base_plugin.py with backward-compatible
  mapping from legacy get_vegas_content_type()
- Add static pause handling to coordinator with scroll position save/restore
- Add mode-aware content composition to stream_manager
- Add vegas_mode info to /api/v3/plugins/installed endpoint
- Add mode indicators to Vegas settings UI
- Add comprehensive plugin developer documentation

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas,widgets): address validation, thread safety, and XSS issues

Vegas mode fixes:
- config.py: align validation limits with UI (scroll_speed max 200, separator_width max 128)
- coordinator.py: fix race condition by properly initializing _pending_config
- plugin_adapter.py: remove unused import
- render_pipeline.py: preserve deque type in reset() method
- stream_manager.py: fix lock handling and swap_buffers to truly swap

API fixes:
- api_v3.py: normalize boolean checkbox values, validate numeric fields, ensure JSON arrays

Widget fixes:
- day-selector.js: remove escapeHtml from JSON.stringify to prevent corruption
- password-input.js: use deterministic color class mapping for Tailwind JIT
- radio-group.js: replace inline onchange with addEventListener to prevent XSS
- select-dropdown.js: guard global registry access
- slider.js: add escapeAttr for attributes, fix null dereference in setValue

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): improve exception handling and static pause state management

coordinator.py:
- _check_live_priority: use logger.exception for full traceback
- _end_static_pause: guard scroll resume on interruption (stop/live priority)
- _update_static_mode_plugins: log errors instead of silently swallowing

render_pipeline.py:
- compose_scroll_content: use specific exceptions and logger.exception
- render_frame: use specific exceptions and logger.exception
- hot_swap_content: use specific exceptions and logger.exception

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): add interrupt mechanism and improve config/exception handling

- Add interrupt checker callback to Vegas coordinator for responsive
  handling of on-demand requests and wifi status during Vegas mode
- Fix config.py update() to include dynamic duration fields
- Fix is_plugin_included() consistency with get_ordered_plugins()
- Update _apply_pending_config to propagate config to StreamManager
- Change _fetch_plugin_content to use logger.exception for traceback
- Replace bare except in _refresh_plugin_list with specific exceptions
- Add aria-label accessibility to Vegas toggle checkbox
- Fix XSS vulnerability in plugin metadata rendering with escapeHtml

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): improve logging, validation, lock handling, and config updates

- display_controller.py: use logger.exception for Vegas errors with traceback
- base_plugin.py: validate vegas_panel_count as positive integer with warning
- coordinator.py: fix _apply_pending_config to avoid losing concurrent updates
  by clearing _pending_config while holding lock
- plugin_adapter.py: remove broad catch-all, use narrower exception types
  (AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError, OSError, RuntimeError) and
  logger.exception for traceback preservation
- api_v3.py: only update vegas_config['enabled'] when key is present in data
  to prevent incorrect disabling when checkbox is omitted

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): improve cycle advancement, logging, and accessibility

- Add advance_cycle() method to StreamManager for clearing buffer between cycles
- Call advance_cycle() in RenderPipeline.start_new_cycle() for fresh content
- Use logger.exception() for interrupt check and static pause errors (full tracebacks)
- Add id="vegas_scroll_label" to h3 for aria-labelledby reference
- Call updatePluginConfig() after rendering plugin list for proper initialization

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): add thread-safety, preserve updates, and improve logging

- display_controller.py: Use logger.exception() for Vegas import errors
- plugin_adapter.py: Add thread-safe cache lock, remove unused exception binding
- stream_manager.py: In-place merge in process_updates() preserves non-updated plugins
- api_v3.py: Change vegas_scroll_enabled default from False to True

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): add debug logging and narrow exception types

- stream_manager.py: Log when get_vegas_display_mode() is unavailable
- stream_manager.py: Narrow exception type from Exception to (AttributeError, TypeError)
- api_v3.py: Log exceptions when reading Vegas display metadata with plugin context

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): fix method call and improve exception logging

- Fix _check_vegas_interrupt() calling nonexistent _check_wifi_status(),
  now correctly calls _check_wifi_status_message()
- Update _refresh_plugin_list() exception handler to use logger.exception()
  with plugin_id and class name for remote debugging

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(web): replace complex toggle with standard checkbox for Vegas mode

The Tailwind pseudo-element toggle (after:content-[''], etc.) wasn't
rendering because these classes weren't in the CSS bundle. Replaced
with a simple checkbox that matches other form controls in the template.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* debug(vegas): add detailed logging to _refresh_plugin_list

Track why plugins aren't being found for Vegas scroll:
- Log count of loaded plugins
- Log enabled status for each plugin
- Log content_type and display_mode checks
- Log when plugin_manager lacks loaded_plugins

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): use correct attribute name for plugin manager

StreamManager and VegasModeCoordinator were checking for
plugin_manager.loaded_plugins but PluginManager stores active
plugins in plugin_manager.plugins. This caused Vegas scroll
to find zero plugins despite plugins being available.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): convert scroll_speed from px/sec to px/frame correctly

The config scroll_speed is in pixels per second, but ScrollHelper
in frame_based_scrolling mode interprets it as pixels per frame.
Previously this caused the speed to be clamped to max 5.0 regardless
of the configured value.

Now properly converts: pixels_per_frame = scroll_speed * scroll_delay

With defaults (50 px/s, 0.02s delay), this gives 1 px/frame = 50 px/s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(vegas): add FPS logging every 5 seconds

Logs actual FPS vs target FPS to help diagnose performance issues.
Shows frame count in each 5-second interval.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): improve plugin content capture reliability

- Call update_data() before capture to ensure fresh plugin data
- Try display() without force_clear first, fallback if TypeError
- Retry capture with force_clear=True if first attempt is blank
- Use histogram-based blank detection instead of point sampling
  (more reliable for content positioned anywhere in frame)

This should help capture content from plugins that don't implement
get_vegas_content() natively.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): handle callable width/height on display_manager

DisplayManager.width and .height may be methods or properties depending
on the implementation. Use callable() check to call them if needed,
ensuring display_width and display_height are always integers.

Fixes potential TypeError when width/height are methods.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): use logger.exception for display mode errors

Replace logger.error with logger.exception to capture full stack trace
when get_vegas_display_mode() fails on a plugin.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): protect plugin list updates with buffer lock

Move assignment of _ordered_plugins and index resets under _buffer_lock
to prevent race conditions with _prefetch_content() which reads these
variables under the same lock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): catch all exceptions in get_vegas_display_mode

Broaden exception handling from AttributeError/TypeError to Exception
so any plugin error in get_vegas_display_mode() doesn't abort the
entire plugin list refresh. The loop continues with the default
FIXED_SEGMENT mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): refresh stream manager when config updates

After updating stream_manager.config, force a refresh to pick up changes
to plugin_order, excluded_plugins, and buffer_ahead settings. Also use
logger.exception to capture full stack traces on config update errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* debug(vegas): add detailed logging for blank image detection

* feat(vegas): extract full scroll content from plugins using ScrollHelper

Plugins like ledmatrix-stocks and odds-ticker use ScrollHelper with a
cached_image that contains their full scrolling content. Instead of
falling back to single-frame capture, now check for scroll_helper.cached_image
first to get the complete scrolling content for Vegas mode.

* debug(vegas): add comprehensive INFO-level logging for plugin content flow

- Log each plugin being processed with class name
- Log which content methods are tried (native, scroll_helper, fallback)
- Log success/failure of each method with image dimensions
- Log brightness check results for blank image detection
- Add visual separators in logs for easier debugging
- Log plugin list refresh with enabled/excluded status

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(vegas): trigger scroll content generation when cache is empty

When a plugin has a scroll_helper but its cached_image is not yet
populated, try to trigger content generation by:
1. Calling _create_scrolling_display() if available (stocks pattern)
2. Calling display(force_clear=True) as a fallback

This allows plugins like stocks to provide their full scroll content
even when Vegas mode starts before the plugin has run its normal
display cycle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: improve exception handling in plugin_adapter scroll content retrieval

Replace broad except Exception handlers with narrow exception types
(AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError, OSError) and use logger.exception
instead of logger.warning/info to capture full stack traces for better
diagnosability.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: narrow exception handling in coordinator and plugin_adapter

- coordinator.py: Replace broad Exception catch around get_vegas_display_mode()
  with (AttributeError, TypeError) and use logger.exception for stack traces
- plugin_adapter.py: Narrow update_data() exception handler to
  (AttributeError, RuntimeError, OSError) and use logger.exception

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: improve Vegas mode robustness and API validation

- display_controller: Guard against None plugin_manager in Vegas init
- coordinator: Restore scrolling state in resume() to match pause()
- api_v3: Validate Vegas numeric fields with range checks and 400 errors

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Chuck <chuck@example.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-01-29 10:23:56 -05:00