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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 6f45ff5e63 fix(display): thread-safety for deferred updates, BDF faces and follower image; one refresh default (#652)
- DisplayManager.defer_update()/process_deferred_updates(): one lock around
  every queue mutation (appends from the update thread were lost to the
  render thread's filter/slice reassignments); callables run outside it.
- FontManager and element_style no longer cache BDF freetype.Face objects
  process-wide (load_bdf_face caches them per thread); element_style's LRU
  is locked against get/move_to_end vs eviction races.
- limit_refresh_rate_hz default is one constant, DEFAULT_REFRESH_LIMIT_HZ =
  100 (the template's), for the library options, refresh_hz, the matrix
  guard, Vegas and scroll_config. Previously a missing key capped the panel
  at 90 while pacing assumed 100.
- Sync follower: the TCP thread queues the leader's scroll image; the render
  thread swaps image/array/width in between frames.
- update_display() error log rate-limited (traceback first, then once a
  minute with a count); swallowed DisplayController exceptions log at DEBUG.
- Root display_controller.py runs run.py via runpy.
- stream_manager: correct the RLock release comments; merge duplicate if.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 10:39:40 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 1e62677257 fix(vegas): pause for STATIC plugins where their turn falls in the strip (#651)
The static trigger peeked at the front of StreamManager's segment buffer,
which continuous scrolling (the default) never advances -- it extends the
strip with take_next_group() -- so the same first segment was examined on
every frame. A STATIC plugin paused the scroll only if it was first, once,
at startup; otherwise it scrolled past as ordinary content. Swap mode had
the same problem for any STATIC plugin not first in its cycle.

The render pipeline now records a marker (strip column, plugin id) for
each STATIC plugin where the strip is built -- composition and every
extension -- shifts the markers when the scrolled prefix is trimmed, and
clears them on reset. The coordinator pauses when the scroll reaches the
next marker: a tuple comparison per frame instead of a lock, a plugin
lookup and a get_vegas_display_mode() call. take_next_group() no longer
renders STATIC plugins' content. The pause calls display() under the
plugin lock and is timed with the monotonic clock.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 10:39:14 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 6bc13a8934 fix(display): Vegas resumes after live priority, and six smaller runtime fixes (#644)
- Vegas: a live-priority pause was only lifted from inside run_frame(),
  which returns before that check while paused, so the ticker never came
  back until a restart. run_iteration() now resumes it (the controller
  only calls it when nothing preempts Vegas); start()/stop() clear the
  pause state. Iteration length is timed with the monotonic clock.
- Dim schedule: a per-day disabled day now updates the minute-gate cache,
  so brightness no longer flips back to dim within each minute.
- On-demand: a second request no longer overwrites the rotation resume
  index with the first request's mode.
- Render pipeline: reset() drops the prepared group and deferred queue,
  and a prefetch in flight across a reset discards its result.
- Sync: stop() removes the status file (and the controller's cleanup now
  calls it), standalone removes a stale one at startup, and writes use a
  unique mkstemp temp file.
- render_gate.swap_releases_gil() delegates to frame_timing.
- Stale docstrings/comments corrected.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 08:25:26 -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 7f9c73e9aa fix(vegas): smooth Vegas scroll pacing -- whole pixels per refresh, measured refresh, off-thread preview writes (#628)
Vegas scrolls a whole number of pixels per panel refresh, locked to SwapOnVSync, against the refresh the panel really holds (measured from swap gaps), instead of blending sub-pixel positions against the refresh cap. The web preview PNG is encoded off the render thread while scrolling, with writes ordered and retried. On hdpi, late frames fell from 6.3% to 0.7%. See docs/SCROLL_PERFORMANCE.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 19:38:22 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 b9416ef803 fix(display): Vegas teardown and 240s default; remove dead Vegas buffer code (#637)
* fix(display): tear down Vegas mode on controller cleanup

DisplayController.cleanup() never called VegasModeCoordinator.cleanup(),
so the Vegas teardown (stop, pipeline/stream reset, adapter cache drop)
was unreachable. Call it before the display manager is cleaned up, and
skip it when Vegas was never created.

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

* fix(vegas): default max_cycle_duration to the documented 240s

The template, the web UI help, CONFIG_REFERENCE and the controller all
say 240, but the code defaulted to 600 in two places, so a config
without the key ran Vegas iterations 2.5x longer than documented.

from_config now falls back to the dataclass field defaults instead of
repeating each one, so the two copies can no longer drift, and the
controller's follower scroll-speed default reads VegasModeConfig's.

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

* fix(display): let run.py -d show display_manager's DEBUG output

display_manager pinned its logger to INFO at import, overriding the root
level, so debug mode never showed its DEBUG lines. Use get_logger() from
src.logging_config like the rest of the core and leave the level to the
logging setup.

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

* fix(display): run each startup validation check once

StartupValidator.validate_all() ran twice at boot, before and after the
plugin manager was created, so every config, cache, display and
systemd-unit warning was logged twice. The second pass now runs only the
plugin checks. Drop the commented-out raise_on_errors line.

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

* fix(vegas): one INFO line per plugin-list refresh

StreamManager logged "=" * 60 banners and a line per plugin (INCLUDED,
SKIPPED, FETCHING CONTENT, SEGMENT CREATED) at INFO on every refresh and
fetch, i.e. at each cycle start and every 30s. Log one INFO summary of
the rotation per refresh and move the per-plugin detail, the weighting
breakdown and "no content this cycle" to DEBUG (the adapter still warns
when every content path fails).

Also drop the check/cross marks from the controller's log messages.

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

* fix(vegas): drop the per-iteration static-mode plugin scan

run_iteration() rebuilt _static_mode_plugins on every iteration, asking
every plugin for its display mode and logging the set at INFO, but
nothing ever read it: static pauses are triggered by
_check_static_plugin_trigger() from the next segment. Delete it, the
coordinator's get_ordered_plugins() that only it used, and the
write-only _static_pause_plugin / _static_pause_start.

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

* fix(vegas): remove the staging buffer that was never filled

StreamManager and RenderPipeline carried a double-buffer design that
nothing used: _staging_buffer was only ever cleared or swapped, so
swap_buffers() never did anything and should_recompose()'s
staging_count > 0 branch was dead, and _active_scroll_image,
_staging_scroll_image, _is_rendering, _last_frame_time and
_frame_interval were written but never read. Delete the machinery and
rewrite the docstrings around what actually carries updates:
_pending_updates, consumed by process_updates() in swap mode and
invalidate_pending_updates() in continuous mode.

should_recompose() no longer builds a buffer-status dict every frame.

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

* refactor(display): tidy the display controller without changing behaviour

- Import VegasModeCoordinator locally instead of through module globals
  (there is no circular import to avoid).
- Drop hasattr() checks on attributes PluginManager.__init__ always sets
  (plugin_executor, plugin_last_update, get_plugin_lock,
  run_scheduled_updates*, stop_update_worker) and the dead "older
  manager" fallbacks; keep the health_tracker None checks, now via
  _health_tracker().
- Extract _display_once() for the per-frame display call both render
  loops copied, _advance_on_demand() for the two on-demand rotations,
  _reset_on_demand_fields() for the error and clear paths, and
  _timezone() / _in_window() for the two schedule checks.
- Remove always-true conditions and the unreachable non-plugin else
  branch in run(), and read _was_display_active / _last_published_mode /
  vegas_coordinator directly now that __init__ declares them.
- Declare the follower render state in __init__, name its tuning
  constants, add _follower_sign(), and share the 90/s sync send
  interval with the render pipeline (SYNC_SEND_INTERVAL).
- Delete history narration and the "Opt #N" labels, fix the comment
  that called _scroll_speed constant (hot reload updates it), and drop
  a startup timing log that measured nothing.
- render_pipeline / plugin_adapter: read display_manager.width/height
  as the properties they are, drop an empty TYPE_CHECKING block, an
  aliased threading import and a duplicated `if result and
  self.sync_manager:`.

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

* refactor(display): trim dead code from display_manager

- Add _new_canvas() for the image/draw/fontmode="1" setup that was
  copied six times.
- Call resolve_double_sided() and compose_pixel_mapper_config() directly
  instead of through a module alias and a passthrough method, and replace
  the comment that said the passthrough read class attributes.
- Delete the unused _initialized flag and _ORIENTATION_ROTATE_DEGREES
  alias (no core or monorepo reader; tests stop resetting the flag), the
  test pattern's unreachable no-matrix branch (it only runs once the
  matrix exists), `del old_image  # help GC` (a no-op on a local), a
  duplicated early return in process_deferred_updates, and stale
  comments.

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

* refactor(vegas): remove unread fields and test-only helpers, fix docstrings

- ContentSegment: drop total_width, fetched_at, is_stale, image_count and
  is_static, none of which is read.
- StreamManager: drop _current_index (never advanced) and the test-only
  get_all_content_for_composition() and has_pending_updates();
  VegasModeConfig: drop the test-only is_plugin_included().
- geometry.find_blank_cut() has had no production caller since the crop
  moved to item boundaries; delete it and its tests.
- PluginAdapter: the _finalize docstring described separator_width
  between every image, and _crop_to_budget's said cuts snap to the
  nearest blank column; both now describe what the code does.
- Coordinator: the static-pause interrupt log no longer blames follower
  mode for every interrupt, and set_update_callback names the callback
  the controller actually wires.

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

* refactor(scroll): correct ScrollHelper comments and drop dead branches

- Four comments said the strip always starts with display_width of
  blank; it does only when lead_gap is None (Vegas passes its own).
- Delete the "Width calculation mismatch" warning: the image is created
  at the calculated width, so the two can never differ.
- Remove the two scroll_delay <= 0 fallbacks (which disagreed with each
  other): set_scroll_delay clamps it to at least 0.001 and nothing in
  core or the plugin monorepo assigns it directly.
- Trim the scipy history from the blend docstring.

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

* refactor(run): drop a redundant comment

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* fix(display): log set_scrolling_state only when it changes

Vegas and scrolling plugins set the scrolling state every frame, so once
display_manager's DEBUG output became visible in debug mode it printed
"Scrolling state set to: True" about 120 times a second. Log only when
the value differs from the previous one; the state, activity timestamp
and frame hold still update on every call.

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* docs(changelog): display-vegas

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2026-09-24 17:37:15 -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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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`.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

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2026-09-23 12:36:26 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 342e9164b8 fix: settings the display ignored, a memory leak, and the plugin card handler (#605)
* fix(errors): stop affected_plugins growing without bound

Each repeat of an error pattern appended every plugin in the time window to
the pattern's list again, so a plugin failing in a loop grew the display
process's memory without limit: 3,000 errors from three plugins reached 2.5
million entries. Keep the list unique.

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

* fix(fonts): load a BDF font at its native size instead of PIL's default

FreeType rejects any size but a BDF strike's own, and FontManager answered
that with ImageFont.load_default() -- a different typeface -- so 5x7.bdf
requested at 8 or 10px rendered as PIL's default font. Retry at the native
strike, as element_style already does.

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

* fix(web): plugin toggle failures no longer claim "operation in progress"

Every exception in POST /plugins/toggle was mapped to
PLUGIN_OPERATION_CONFLICT, so any failure told the user "A plugin operation
is already in progress". Report the failure as what it is, and record the
plugin id in the operation history for form posts too (it read a `data`
variable that only the JSON path set).

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

* fix(web): route plugin card clicks through handlePluginAction

The document-level delegation checked `typeof handlePluginAction`, which is
scoped inside the plugin-manager IIFE and so never visible to it. Every card
click took a copied fallback that stopped propagation (the grid's own
listener never ran), confirmed an uninstall twice, and sent Starlark app
uninstalls to POST /plugins/uninstall instead of DELETE /starlark/apps/<id>.
Expose the handler on window and delegate to it.

Also run every test/js/unit suite under pytest: they need only node, but CI
ran one of the eight.

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

* fix(display): apply Rotation durations, WiFi messages and Vegas settings

Three settings the web UI saves never reached the display:

- Rotation & Durations: display.display_durations was never read. Every
  plugin inherits get_display_duration() and the plugin was asked first. A
  saved value now wins. The page shows unsaved screens blank with the
  plugin's own duration as a placeholder, and saving a blank removes the
  override, so one save no longer pins every screen.
- WiFi status overlay: the controller looked for wifi_status.json one
  directory above the repo. Both sides now use
  wifi_manager.get_wifi_status_path(). The message is written by rename so
  the display never reads it half-written, and the resumed plugin redraws the
  whole panel afterwards.
- Vegas: nothing called coordinator.update_config(), so saved Vegas settings
  never reached a running scroll. They are now queued when
  display.vegas_scroll changes, and applied while Vegas is stopped too, so a
  disable then re-enable works. The follower's scroll-speed default (75) now
  matches VegasModeConfig's (50).

Also throttles Vegas's per-frame live-priority scan to 4Hz. It cost 139us
per frame on a Pi 4 with two scoreboards (1.7% of a 125fps frame) and grows
with each plugin.

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* fix: keep affected_plugins order when serialized; guard non-Element targets

ErrorPattern.to_dict() ran the now-ordered list through set(), so
get_error_summary() listed plugins in an unstable order. The document-level
card-action listener called event.target.closest() without checking the
target is an Element.

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

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2026-09-23 10:29:16 -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.

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

* 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)

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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'.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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 568cb6d77f perf(vegas): report the frame rate when it is worth reporting (#487)
Vegas logged an FPS line at INFO every five seconds for the whole of
every run. Measured over two hours on a rig: 1410 samples, 98.5% of them
within 10% of target. The 1.5% that were not included a reading of
8.6fps against a target of 60 -- a real stall, completely invisible
inside 1389 lines reading "59.6". INFO is now reserved for a shortfall,
the recovery from one, and a slow heartbeat so a healthy marquee still
shows a pulse. Scroll-progress tracing drops to DEBUG for the same
reason: it runs for the whole of every scroll and is what you turn debug
on to watch.

Three review findings, all fixed here.

1. Per-frame timing used the wall clock (critical). The loop sleeps the
   remainder of each frame budget:

       frame_elapsed = <now> - frame_started
       time.sleep(max(0.0, frame_interval - frame_elapsed))

   These devices have no RTC, so the clock jumps by however wrong boot
   time was when NTP first syncs. A backward step makes frame_elapsed
   negative, `frame_interval - frame_elapsed` then exceeds the whole
   budget, and the render loop stalls for the size of the correction. A
   forward step instead inflates the p99 and worst-frame figures this
   telemetry exists to report. Both per-frame timestamps are monotonic
   now. start_time stays wall-clock: it is only used for the iteration
   duration report, where a human-readable clock is the point.

2. FPS health state reset every iteration. last_fps_health_log and
   was_degraded were locals of run_iteration(), which is called once per
   cycle. Starting at 0.0 against a monotonic clock, `due` was true on
   the first sample of every iteration, so the 300s heartbeat degenerated
   into one report per cycle -- reintroducing the noise this change is
   about. A recovery that crossed an iteration boundary was never
   reported either, since was_degraded had already gone back to False.
   Both now live on the coordinator and reset in start().

3. The degraded threshold read as an off-by-one. 90% of target is
   deliberate -- a marquee jitters constantly, so "anything below target"
   would report forever and mean nothing -- but nothing said so, leaving
   55fps-against-60 looking like a missed case. The constant now states
   the band and gives that exact example.

Also drops two soccer logo PNGs that a `git add -A` had swept into the
first commit. They are unreferenced, unrelated to frame-rate telemetry,
and 210KB.

Verified: each fix mutation-checked -- restoring the wall clock on either
per-frame timestamp, or making the health state local again, fails the
new tests. 566 passed across the vegas, coordinator and scroll suites.


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2026-08-23 11:42:33 -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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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 a51fb7ce11 feat(vegas): make scroll stutter visible, and catch it in the act (#454)
* feat(vegas): make scroll stutter visible, and catch it in the act

The loop reported only a mean FPS over a five-second window. At 120fps
that is ~600 frames, so a 200ms freeze -- plainly visible on a marquee --
moves the average from 120.0 to 115.4 and reads as healthy. Stutter was
literally unmeasurable.

The FPS line now carries p99, the worst frame, and a hitch count. On the
dev rig that immediately turned "it sometimes stutters" into a number:
two freezes of 3.2s and 0.7s in twenty minutes, with every other frame
under 81ms.

Statistics say a stall happened but not what caused it, and by the time
they are logged the stack is gone. So there is also a watchdog that dumps
every thread's stack while the loop is still wedged. It is off unless
LEDMATRIX_STALL_WATCHDOG is set to a threshold in seconds, since it
prints a lot. Pointed at the 3.2s freeze it named the culprit on the
first try: a plugin generating a 17,000px scroll image, logo PNG decode
and all, synchronously on the render thread.

The hitch threshold is relative to what frames actually cost, not to the
configured target. The target is routinely set above what the panel can
hold so vsync does the pacing; measured against that budget every
ordinary frame counts as a hitch, and the first version of this counter
duly reported 250 per window on a display running perfectly smoothly.

The watchdog is owned by the coordinator, not created per iteration --
run_iteration is called repeatedly, so building one there would leak a
thread each time.

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* fix(vegas): let the watchdog see stalls that hold the GIL

The watchdog only noticed a late heartbeat, which a whole class of
freeze can never produce: if the loop is inside one long C call that
holds the GIL, this thread cannot run during the stall, and by the time
it does the loop has already checked in. On the dev rig that hid a
recurring 3.2s freeze completely -- twenty minutes of watching produced
one dump, for an unrelated 0.4s stall.

What it can still observe is that its own sleep ran long. A badly
overshot wait is now reported as a stall in its own right. The stacks
are stale by then and the message says so, but knowing the freeze is
GIL-holding is most of the diagnosis: it rules out lock contention and
scheduling, and points at a single long C call.

This also explains why lowering sys.setswitchinterval changed nothing --
the switch interval cannot preempt a C call that never releases the GIL.

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* feat(vegas): report the worst frame, not just the mean

The loop logged only a mean FPS over a five-second window. At 120fps
that is ~600 frames, so a 200ms freeze -- plainly visible on a marquee
-- moves the average from 120.0 to 115.4 and reads as perfectly healthy.
Stutter was unmeasurable, which is why "it sometimes freezes" went
unpinned for so long.

Adding p99 and the worst frame turned that into a number immediately: on
the dev rig, two freezes of 3.2s and 0.7s in twenty minutes with every
other frame under 81ms. Not general slowness -- two rare, total stalls,
which is a different problem with a different fix.

Costs 0.96us per frame, about 0.012% of an 8.3ms frame.

This replaces an earlier version that also shipped a stall watchdog and
a hitch counter. The watchdog never found anything -- one dump in
forty-five minutes, for an unrelated stall -- because it can only notice
a late heartbeat, and the freeze happens in coordinator.start() before
the frame loop begins beating. py-spy found the cause in one recording
by sampling the process externally, which needs no code here. The hitch
counter went with it: it needed a rolling median every frame, which was
most of the cost, to produce a number the worst frame already tells you.

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* fix(vegas): use the nearest-rank index for p99

int(n * 0.99) is off by one, and at exactly 100 samples it selects the
maximum -- which is the number logged immediately beside it as the worst
frame. The two columns exist to say different things, p99 the
bad-but-ordinary frame and worst the outlier, so they agreed precisely
when the sample was smallest and least informative.

Nearest rank is ceil(n * fraction) - 1. Extracted so it can be tested
directly rather than only through a five-second logging interval.

Reported by CodeRabbit on the PR.

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2026-08-12 14:06:32 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 ca26c1b83b fix(vegas): stop the width cap emitting fragments and stale windows (#446)
* fix(vegas): stop the width cap emitting fragments and stale windows

Two defects in the rotation that narrows an oversized plugin to its
width budget. Both were found while investigating "cut off early /
starts in the middle" reports and are the reason the cap is no longer
on by default; they still bite anyone who sets one.

A rotation's last window was whatever happened to be left over. Windows
are placed by walking forward from the previous one, with nothing
looking at the remainder, so a 1,840px stocks ticker against a 1,536px
budget split 1,492 + 348 -- every other appearance showed seven seconds
and cut. Absorb a remainder below half a budget into the window before
it. That overruns the budget by at most half, which is the better trade:
the budget guards against one plugin holding the panel for minutes, not
against a 20% overshoot. The floor is measured against the budget rather
than the panel because snapping to item boundaries already lands an
ordinary window short of it -- a 512px budget over 182px-pitch items
yields 348px windows, so an absolute floor merges windows that were
never fragments.

The stored offset also outlived the content it was recorded against. It
was a pixel column, reused verbatim after the plugin re-rendered, so
once anything ahead of it changed width the window pointed at unrelated
items -- observed as news refreshing 9,793px -> 9,505px mid-rotation.
Track the rotation as an index into the strip's item boundaries instead,
since the Nth boundary survives a digit appearing in a price, and record
alongside it what the offset indexes into: a row list, a boundary list,
or a column in a gapless image. A mismatch restarts the rotation rather
than reinterpreting the number, which also closes the case where one
plugin's row index was read back as a pixel column after its content
changed from several rows to one wide strip.

Replaying the four plugins that actually hit the cap on a live 512px
panel: no window is now a fragment, none exceeds 1.5 budgets, and every
rotation still covers the whole strip.

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* fix(vegas): apply the runt floor to the multi-row rotation too

The floor only guarded the single-image path. I had reasoned the row
path could not produce a runt because it wraps, which is wrong: wrapping
only helps when the row wrapped to actually fits. Rows of 450, 450 and
100 against a 512px budget give the 100 a pass of its own -- two seconds
against nine, which is the symptom this branch exists to remove.

Reproduced before changing anything:

    pass 1: 450px    pass 2: 450px    pass 3: 100px

A window may now overrun the budget while it is still shorter than the
floor, bounded at the same 1.5 budgets the single-image path allows, so
the short row is carried with its neighbour instead of standing alone.

    pass 1: 450px    pass 2: 450px    pass 3: 550px

A next row too wide to absorb within that cap still leaves a short
window standing -- rows of 900 and 100 keep alternating. Merging them
would mean a window of nearly two budgets, and the rule that always
shows an oversized first row already makes the same trade.

Three regression tests: the reported shape, that the overrun stays
bounded when a row cannot be absorbed, and that absorbing never drops a
row from the rotation. The single-image path is untouched -- the four
plugins that actually hit the cap on a live panel replay identically.

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2026-08-10 09:41:25 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5 6287acd591 fix(vegas): stop capping plugin width by default (#445)
* fix(vegas): stop capping plugin width by default

Vegas plugins read as "cut off early" or "starting in the middle". That
was the per-plugin width budget, not the scroll engine:
overflow_mode=rotate is designed to resume mid-content on each
appearance, so the symptom was the feature working as specified.

Measured over a 17-plugin fleet on a 512px panel, the cap was a bad
trade. Only four plugins were ever wide enough to hit the 3.0 default --
leaderboard 11,518px, news 10,021px, odds-ticker 4,643px, hockey
1,508px. Weather is 650px and flights 512px; the cap never touched them
or the other eleven. So it bought nothing on thirteen plugins while
costing two visible faults on four: content entering mid-item (a news
ticker started at column 6027 of its own strip), and a final rotation
window of whatever happened to be left -- 348px of an 1,840px stocks
ticker, seven seconds of panel time.

Default max_plugin_width_ratio to 0 (uncapped), so every plugin
contributes all of its content and is always entered at its beginning.
The cap remains available, and vegas_max_width_screens still caps an
individual plugin -- which is where the knob belongs, since a genuinely
long ticker is a property of that plugin rather than of the fleet.

Verified on a live 512px device: 327 budget crops in the preceding six
hours, none after.

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* test(vegas): cover the width cap still working when asked for

Defaulting the cap off must not quietly remove it. Asserts that an
explicit ratio is honoured and validates, alongside the existing check
that omitting it means uncapped.

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2026-08-07 16:17:28 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Sonnet 5 5b45f35888 Vegas mode: reclaim dead space and pace the rotation (#423)
* 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.

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* Drop unused Optional import from the vegas audit script

Flagged by Codacy (F401). Any, Dict and List are all still used.

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* Align Vegas API bounds with validate(), fix audit config plumbing

Both from review feedback on #423.

The web API's accepted ranges disagreed with VegasModeConfig.validate(),
which is what actually gates Vegas starting:

  scroll_speed      1-100  -> 1-200   (a slider value of 150 returned 400)
  separator_width   0-500  -> 0-128
  target_fps        1-200  -> 30-200
  buffer_ahead      1-20   -> 1-5

The three loose ones were the dangerous direction: the value saved with a
200, then VegasModeCoordinator.start() failed validation with only a log
line, so the ticker silently never ran. The UI already matched validate() in
all four cases, so the API was the odd one out.

test_vegas_api_bounds_match_validate parses the numeric_fields map out of
api_v3 and asserts every bound against validate(), plus that validate()
accepts both endpoints and rejects just outside them, so these cannot drift
apart again. That test immediately caught a missing upper bound on
min_plugin_width, now added — unbounded it would drop every segment and
leave a blank ticker.

Separately, vegas_audit.py constructed PluginAdapter without the config, so
it fell back to VegasModeConfig() defaults and would report trimming and
width-budget behaviour that differed from the user's config.json. It now
passes the loaded config exactly as the coordinator does. This is the same
class of drift the explicit lead_gap and grouping arguments already guard
against. Output is unchanged on a rig whose config matches the defaults.

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* 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.

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* Vegas mode: end cycles before the wrap, keep the width budget honest

Three fixes, the first a regression from lead_in_width defaulting to 0.

get_visible_portion wraps: once scroll_position + display_width passes the end
of the strip it fills the right of the frame from the *head* of the same strip.
So the final display_width of travel showed the cycle's first plugin re-entering
on the right while its last plugin exited on the left, and the recompose that
followed replaced both at once. On a 512px panel at 50px/s that was 10.2s of
two plugins on screen at once, ending in a hard cut — reported as the ticker
"switching mid-scroll" from F1 to news.

That used to be invisible because the strip began with a full display_width of
blank, so the wrapped-in region was black. Removing that blank (it was 10s of
dead panel per cycle) exposed the wrap. Cycles now end one display width
earlier, before any wrapped content appears, clamped for strips no wider than
the display so they don't complete instantly and spin the recompose loop.

Verified on hardware: a 3936px strip now completes at 68.5s, exactly
(3936 - 512) / 50.

Second, auto_trim=False also skipped the width budget, which is an unrelated
concern — turning off margin cropping should not let one plugin hold the panel
for minutes. Seen in the field: the F1 scoreboard contributed 116 images and
14,848px untouched, giving a 33,821px cycle (11 minutes of content). The budget
now applies regardless of trimming; with it restored that cycle is 6,362px.

Third, the budget accounted for row gaps using the flat intra_plugin_gap while
the compositor had moved to measured separation, so it under-counted by up to
(min_content_separation - intra_plugin_gap) per row and a many-row plugin
overran its cap. Both now use the same separation_gap() rule, and a test
asserts the composed block fits the budget end to end rather than trusting the
two paths to agree.

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* Fix IndexError in find_blank_cut when the cut lands on the image edge

A cut position after the last column is legitimate — _crop_to_budget asks for
min(start + budget, img.width), which equals the width whenever the remaining
strip is shorter than the budget. find_blank_cut clamped target to width but
then walked leftwards starting at target itself, so ink[width] raised
IndexError.

Caught on hardware: it killed the ledmatrix-stocks fetch, and because
_fetch_plugin_content catches broadly that surfaced as the plugin silently
contributing nothing for the cycle.

Only reachable on the second or later pass of the rotating window over a single
oversized image, which is why the existing tests missed it — they all exercised
the first pass, where start is 0 and start + budget is comfortably inside the
image. Added TestRotationAcrossMultipleCycles, which walks the window round
several times and asserts content is never lost, plus direct coverage of
find_blank_cut at and beyond the image edge.

Both bounds now stop at width - 1 so neither direction can index past the end.

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* Only cut oversized segments at real gaps between items

The width-budget crop snapped to the nearest blank column, and in rendered text
the gap between two characters is a single column. So a cut routinely landed
inside a word: the cycle showed "Wednesda" and the orphaned "y" turned up as a
lone floating letter in the next cycle, positioned after whatever plugin
happened to precede it.

Measured on the clock-simple segment to confirm: its blank runs are
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 8, 8] — five single-column letter gaps, every one of which
find_blank_cut would happily have chosen.

Cuts now only land in a run of at least min_cut_gap blank columns (default 6),
which excludes letter spacing while still finding the gaps plugins put between
items (the stocks ticker uses 32px, baseball 48px). Where no boundary falls
inside the budget the cut waits for the next one and overruns, because
splitting an item is worse than a slightly long segment.

Continuous content is treated differently on purpose: an image with no internal
gaps is a map or a chart, where any column is as good as another, so it is still
cut to the budget exactly. The gap rule protects discrete items; letting a solid
image escape the cap in its name would be wrong.

blank_runs() is vectorised — 48ms for a 17,000px strip, against seconds for a
per-column Python loop.

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* Hold capture_mode for every plugin render, not just narrowed ones

The native content path only entered capture_mode when it was also narrowing
the canvas, so at full width — which is every plugin without a vegas_width_pct
override, i.e. most of them — a plugin calling update_display() while building
its Vegas content wrote straight to the hardware. That is a visible flash
mid-scroll, and it lines up with the flash reported at cycle transitions, when
several plugins are fetched back to back.

Suppression is now unconditional; the narrowing context stays separate because
it is already a no-op at full width.

Both contexts are reached through helpers that degrade to nullcontext when the
display manager lacks them. That matters more than it looks: the adapter's
handlers are deliberately broad, so an AttributeError from a missing context
does not surface as an error — it surfaces as the plugin contributing nothing.
Making the call unconditional without this turned 44 tests red for exactly that
reason, all of them reporting lost content rather than the real cause.

The test double now provides capture_mode and render_size too, so tests
exercise the real contexts instead of silently taking the degraded path.

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* Vegas mode: one continuous strip instead of swapping cycles

A cycle used to be a discrete strip that got replaced: motion stopped, every
pixel was substituted at once, and the next group started with the viewport
already full. That is the freeze, the flash and the jump.

The strip is now extended rather than replaced. ScrollHelper gains
append_content(), which adds items on the right without touching
scroll_position or total_distance_scrolled, so motion continues and the next
group simply arrives from the right. Because completion is measured against
total_scroll_width, extending also defers completion — there is no longer a
cycle boundary to see.

drop_scrolled_prefix() reclaims what has gone past, keeping the strip bounded
however long Vegas runs (observed 5,000-11,000px against an unbounded strip
otherwise). It shifts total_distance_scrolled and total_scroll_width together so
the completion arithmetic is unchanged, and refuses to run while the viewport is
wrapping: wrapping reads the head of the strip into the right of the frame, so
trimming the head there would visibly change the picture. A test caught that.

Groups are prepared off the render thread. The constraint is that the canvas and
the matrix proxy are process-wide mutable state, so narrowing or capturing
through them from another thread would corrupt the frame the render loop is
pushing. get_content() therefore takes offscreen_only: the background thread uses
only paths that avoid the canvas, and anything needing it is marked and picked up
on the render thread. That puts the expensive work (native renders of leaderboard
and baseball cards, seconds each) in the background and leaves the cheap work
(display capture, 40-600ms) in the foreground.

DisplayManager's capture flag is now thread-local. As a shared flag, a background
capture would have suppressed the render loop's own frame pushes for its
duration, freezing the panel precisely when the point was to avoid a freeze.

Canvas-bound plugins are drained one at a time rather than as a batch: six at
once held the render thread for 1.75s. Drains are also spaced by two seconds
while the lookahead is healthy, since taking them back to back turns one long
stall into a run of short ones. When the strip is genuinely running short the
throttle is ignored, because content matters more than smoothness there.

Measured on hardware: zero cycle-complete swaps, drains landing 2-4s apart,
lookahead holding at 1,200-3,500px, no errors.

Set continuous_scroll false to restore the swap behaviour; the old path is intact.

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* Pace the Vegas frame loop adaptively: 31.5 -> 78.7 fps

The loop slept a fixed frame_interval on top of however long the frame took, so
at a measured 31.6ms per frame a flat 8ms of that was pure idle — a quarter of
the budget spent not rendering. It now sleeps only the remainder of the budget.

Measured on hardware: 31.5 fps to 78.7 fps sustained, with CPU going *down* from
150% to 127%. Scroll speed is unchanged at 49.9px/s against a configured 50,
because motion is derived from elapsed time rather than frame count — this buys
smoothness, not speed.

Worth recording what the bottleneck was not: the per-frame render path measures
0.34ms in total (0.18ms for the numpy slice, 0.17ms for the dirty-tracking
digest), which is a theoretical 2900 fps. Optimising any of that would have been
wasted effort. The frame was idle, not busy.

Also nices the prefetch thread. Its work is PIL and numpy that releases the GIL,
so the scheduler can act on the priority, and without it the prefetch competes
for the same cores as the render loop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ

* Sub-pixel scrolling: motion at the frame rate, not the pixel rate

With integer positioning the number of distinct frames per second equals the
scroll speed in px/s, however fast the loop renders. Measured at 50px/s and
78.7fps, 36% of frames were byte-identical: the extra frames cost work and
bought no motion, and what was left was 50 discrete 1px steps a second.

Two things were wrong with the pre-existing sub-pixel support. get_visible_portion
never consulted sub_pixel_scrolling — it always took the integer path, so the flag
and _get_visible_portion_subpixel were dead code. And that implementation needed
scipy.ndimage.shift, which is not installed on the target devices (HAS_SCIPY is
False there), so it would not have interpolated even if reached. Verified both:
positions 1000.0 and 1000.5 produced identical frames either way.

Blending is now wired up and implemented with numpy. Two details make it
affordable: slice cached_array directly instead of building two PIL images only
to convert them straight back (the naive version measured 15x the integer path),
and use fixed-point uint16 multiply-add rather than float32, which suits the Pi's
cores and gives finer weighting than the panel can resolve. Result 0.939ms
against 0.237ms — 0.70ms added per frame, a 1065fps ceiling.

Measured on hardware: 81.2 fps with blending on, against 78.7 with it off, so no
cost within noise — and every frame is now a distinct position rather than one in
three being a repeat.

The trade is a slight horizontal softening of text, since each frame blends two
positions. Set smooth_scroll false for maximum crispness.

Also benchmarked and cleared as non-issues: extending the strip costs 9.4ms on an
11,000px strip and trimming 2.5ms, both under one frame at this rate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ

* Add overflow handling: keep ordered content whole instead of rotating a window

The width budget split any oversized plugin by advancing a window each cycle.
That is right for interchangeable items — news headlines, odds, stock prices —
but wrong for ordered content: a league table showed ranks 1-6, then resumed at
7 two rotations later, which reads as out of order and out of context. Nobody
needs rank 23 in a ticker; they need the top of the table, every time.

overflow_mode chooses between them:

  rotate   — advance a window each cycle so everything is seen eventually
             (unchanged default)
  truncate — always show the start and drop the rest, keeping ordered content
             coherent. Records no window state, so every pass starts at the top.

Per-plugin vegas_overflow overrides the global setting, since one install has
both kinds of plugin. Also adds per-plugin vegas_max_width_screens, so content
that must stay whole can be given more room — or uncapped with 0 — without
lifting the cap on every ticker.

Applied on the test rig: f1-scoreboard and ledmatrix-leaderboard set to
truncate, and baseball given 4.5 screens because it was showing 8 of 9 games
when the whole slate needed only a little more room. Verified: F1 now reports
"the first 10 of 116 ... the rest are not shown", baseball has dropped out of
the budget log entirely, and stocks, odds-ticker and stock-news still rotate.

Also corrects the crop log, which claimed "window advances next cycle"
unconditionally and so misreported truncated crops. A test now pins the
behaviour behind the message: truncate must leave no offset recorded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ

* Stop Vegas mode showing last night's games as if they were live

A game that was live in the evening was still being drawn as live the next
morning. Two faults combined to freeze plugin visuals indefinitely.

PR #291 added a call to plugin_adapter.invalidate_plugin_scroll_cache() so
a plugin's own cached scroll image would be rebuilt from fresh data. That
method was never implemented. hot_swap_content() wraps the call in a broad
except, so every hot swap has raised AttributeError and been swallowed
silently ever since — which is why the visuals it was meant to keep fresh
never were.

Continuous scrolling then removed the only path that reached it at all:
should_recompose() and hot_swap_content() are called from the
non-continuous branch of run_frame(), and continuous_scroll defaults to
True. So on a default install the pending-update flags were set by the
update tick, never consumed, and grew without bound.

Together these froze content completely, because refetching is not enough
on its own: the sports plugins' get_vegas_content() regenerates only "if
the cache is empty", so take_next_group() kept receiving the same picture
however often it asked.

Fixed by:

- Implementing invalidate_plugin_scroll_cache(). It covers both layouts —
  a helper directly on the plugin (stocks, news, odds-ticker) and one
  owned by a scroll-display manager (the sports scoreboards, which is the
  shape that produced this bug) — and clears cached_image and
  cached_array together, since the array is the image's numpy mirror.

- Adding StreamManager.invalidate_pending_updates() and calling it from
  the continuous branch. It only drops the caches; the plugin recomposes
  when it next comes round in the rotation. process_updates() is wrong
  here: it refetches synchronously and merges into the active buffer that
  continuous mode bypasses, and hot_swap_content() rebuilds and
  repositions the whole strip, which is the freeze-and-jump this mode
  exists to avoid.

Tests assert the fix rather than the implementation: 14 of the 17 new
tests fail without it. Includes the wiring itself, since the regression
was a call that was simply absent, and a check that the scroll position is
untouched so this cannot regress into the swap's visible jump.

All Vegas suites pass (355 tests). test_display_controller_vegas_tick.py
still cannot be collected off-device for want of rgbmatrix, identically
with and without this change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ

* Fix two CodeRabbit-flagged test assertions in vegas density tests

test_prepared_group_is_used_without_refetching had a tautological final
assertion; now checks stream.calls directly. test_no_partial_letter_at_either_edge
required both crop edges to be blank, but the left edge here is always the
crop's start position with no lead-in gap in word_strip, so it legitimately
carries ink — only the right edge is an actual cut and needs the check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 09:40:38 -04:00
efe76d3add perf: hot-path micro fixes in the render loop (#403)
* perf: hot-path micro fixes in the render loop

- _check_wifi_status_message stat'd the status file on every render
  iteration (60+ fps) for a message whose lifetime is seconds; throttle
  the check to 1 Hz with a cached result.
- Demote the per-iteration "Display active, processing mode" INFO to
  DEBUG and convert the remaining eager f-string logs to lazy % args —
  the devpi baseline showed ~9 journald lines/sec, which is both noise
  and SD-card wear.
- Vegas cycle-end blank frame: hoist the inline PIL import and reuse a
  preallocated buffer instead of allocating per cycle wrap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FqzC1nzTWL4kaqgMaQZFam

* fix: initialise wifi-status throttle state in __init__

Codacy (pylint access-member-before-definition) on #403: the throttled
early-return read _wifi_status_last_result relying on the non-local
invariant that the first call always passes the throttle window and
assigns it. Correct at runtime, but fragile — initialise both throttle
fields in the constructor and drop the getattr fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FqzC1nzTWL4kaqgMaQZFam

---------

Co-authored-by: Chuck <chuck@example.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 09:23:25 -04:00
Chuck 6052a60d22 fix(vegas): restore live plugin-update refresh dropped by sync refactor (#395)
Investigating a user report that Vegas scroll mode doesn't update scores
or game status. Root cause: PR #299 (Mar 28) added a mechanism so a live
score change reached the ticker within a few seconds instead of waiting
for a full scroll cycle -- _tick_plugin_updates_for_vegas() diffed
plugin_last_update timestamps to detect which plugins got fresh data and
called coordinator.mark_plugin_updated() for each, and should_recompose()
checked has_pending_updates_for_visible_segments() to trigger an immediate
hot-swap.

PR #330 (May 14, multi-display wireless sync) refactored both call sites
while adding sync support and silently deleted this entire mechanism --
not just gated it behind the new sync-mode deferral it legitimately
needed, but removed it outright. The result: VegasModeCoordinator.
mark_plugin_updated() and StreamManager.has_pending_updates_for_visible_
segments() have been fully implemented but never called from anywhere
since. Vegas mode's only remaining freshness sources are a 5s content
cache TTL (fine) and full recompose at cycle boundaries, which depending
on min/max_cycle_duration can be minutes away -- so live scores/status
can sit stale far longer than a user would expect from a "live" ticker.

Fix:
- Restored _tick_plugin_updates_for_vegas() in display_controller.py,
  wired as the Vegas coordinator's update callback in place of the plain
  _tick_plugin_updates(). Diffs plugin_last_update before/after the tick
  and calls vegas_coordinator.mark_plugin_updated(plugin_id) for each
  plugin that actually got new data (rather than returning the list, since
  the callback interface no longer consumes a return value).
- Restored the has_pending_updates_for_visible_segments() check in
  render_pipeline.should_recompose(), positioned after (not instead of)
  the sync-mode early return PR #330 added, so standalone installations
  regain immediate refresh while synced leader/follower pairs correctly
  keep deferring hot-swaps to cycle boundaries as PR #330 intended.

Test plan:
- Added test_display_controller_vegas_tick.py and
  test_vegas_render_pipeline_recompose.py -- neither area had any prior
  test coverage, which is very likely why this regression went unnoticed
  for ~2.5 months.
- Verified both new test files fail against the pre-fix code (swapped in
  the current main versions of both files) with exactly the expected
  errors -- AttributeError for the deleted method, and the recompose
  assertion returning False instead of True -- then pass against the fix.
- Confirmed the sync-mode deferral this restoration must not break still
  holds: test_sync_active_defers_pending_updates_to_cycle_boundary.
- Full related suite (test_vegas_plugin_adapter, test_vegas_config,
  test_display_controller_plugin_toggle, test_display_controller_
  optimizations, test_plugin_system): 108 passed, 1 pre-existing failure
  unrelated to this change (test_circuit_breaker, stale mock signature).
- Full CI plugin-safety suite (test_harness, test_visual_rendering,
  test_plugin_matrix): 52 passed, 2 pre-existing skips.
2026-07-12 10:40:34 -04:00
ChuckandClaude 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
05b3fa56cb fix: Codacy security fixes, CVE dependency bumps, and code quality cleanup (#331)
* fix(deps): bump minimum versions to address CVEs

Pillow 10.4.0 → 12.2.0: CVE-2026-40192 (DoS via FITS decompression bomb),
CVE-2026-25990 (OOB write via PSD image), CVE-2026-42311/42308/42310

requests 2.32.0 → 2.33.0: CVE-2026-25645 (temp file security bypass),
CVE-2024-47081 (.netrc credentials leak)

werkzeug 3.0.0 → 3.1.6: CVE-2023-46136, CVE-2024-49766/49767,
CVE-2025-66221, CVE-2026-21860/27199 (DoS, path traversal, safe_join bypass)

Flask 3.0.0 → 3.1.3: CVE-2026-27205 (session data caching info disclosure)

spotipy 2.24.0 → 2.25.2: CVE-2025-27154, CVE-2025-66040

python-socketio 5.11.0 → 5.14.0: CVE-2025-61765

pytest 7.4.0 → 9.0.3: CVE-2025-71176 (insecure temp dir handling)

Updated in requirements.txt, web_interface/requirements.txt,
plugin-repos/starlark-apps/requirements.txt, and
plugin-repos/march-madness/requirements.txt.

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

* fix: resolve Pylint errors in executor, data service, and odds call

Rename TimeoutError to PluginTimeoutError in plugin_executor.py to
avoid shadowing the built-in; no external callers affected.

Remove dead try/except in BackgroundDataService.shutdown: executor.shutdown()
never accepted a timeout kwarg so the try branch always raised TypeError.
Simplify to a direct shutdown(wait=wait) call.

Remove is_live kwarg from odds_manager.get_odds() call in sports.py;
BaseOddsManager.get_odds() has no such parameter. The live update interval
is already encoded in the update_interval_seconds argument passed alongside.

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

* fix: MD5→SHA-256, shellcheck warnings, and broken doc links

config_service.py: replace MD5 with SHA-256 for config change detection;
same semantics (equality comparison), no stored hashes affected.

Shell scripts — shellcheck warnings:
- diagnose_web_interface.sh: remove useless cat (SC2002)
- dev_plugin_setup.sh: restructure A&&B||C into if/then (SC2015)
- fix_assets_permissions.sh: remove unused REAL_HOME block (SC2034)
- install_web_service.sh: remove unused USER_HOME assignment (SC2034)
- diagnose_web_ui.sh: remove unused SUDO assignments (SC2034)
- diagnose_plugin_permissions.sh: remove unused BLUE color var (SC2034)
- first_time_install.sh: remove unused CLEAR var, PACKAGE_NAME
  assignment, and replace loop variable with _ (SC2034)

docs/PLUGIN_ARCHITECTURE_SPEC.md: fix 10 broken TOC anchor links to
include section numbers matching the actual headings (MD051).

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

* fix: remove unused imports and bare exception aliases (pyflakes F401/F841)

Remove unused imports across 86 files in src/, web_interface/, test/,
and scripts/ using autoflake. No logic changes — only dead import
statements and unused names in from-imports are removed.

Also remove bare exception aliases where the variable is never
referenced in the handler body:
- src/cache/disk_cache.py: except (IOError, OSError, PermissionError) as e
- src/cache_manager.py: except (OSError, IOError, PermissionError) as perm_error
- src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py: except Exception as e
- web_interface/app.py: except Exception as read_err

86 files changed, 205 lines removed, 18 pre-existing test failures unchanged.

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

* fix: remove unused local variable assignments (pyflakes F841)

Dead assignments removed across src/ and web_interface/:

- background_data_service: drop future= on fire-and-forget executor.submit
- base_classes/baseball: drop font= (all rendering uses self.fonts['time'])
- base_classes/hockey: drop status_short= (never referenced after assignment)
- common/cli: drop game_helper=/config_helper= bindings in import-test block;
  constructors called for instantiation-only validation
- common/display_helper: drop text_width= (x_position uses display_width
  directly); drop draw= in create_error_image (uses _draw_centered_text)
- config_manager: remove dead secrets_content loading block in migration path
  (comment already noted save_config_atomic handles secrets internally)
- display_manager: drop setup_start= (timing was never completed or read)
- font_manager: drop target_path= (catalog uses font_file_path directly);
  drop face=/font= bindings in validate_font (validation by construction —
  TypeError on failure is the signal, not the return value)
- font_test_manager: drop width=/height= (draw_text uses display_manager directly)
- plugin_system/state_reconciliation: drop manager= (only config/disk/state_mgr used)
- plugin_system/store_manager: drop result= on pip install subprocess.run
  (check=True raises on failure; stdout unused)
- web_interface/blueprints/pages_v3: drop main_config_path=""/secrets_config_path=""
  (render_template uses config_manager.get_*_path() inline)

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

* fix(js): resolve ESLint no-undef warnings across 6 JS files

Three distinct patterns:

1. Vendor library globals — htmx is injected by <script> before these
   extension files load; ESLint lints files in isolation and doesn't know.
   Fix: add /* global htmx */ to htmx-sse.js and htmx-json-enc.js.

2. Cross-file globals — showNotification is defined as window.showNotification
   in app.js/notification.js but called bare in app.js and error_handler.js.
   ESLint doesn't connect window.X = Y with a bare call to X.
   Fix: add /* global showNotification */ to app.js and error_handler.js.

3. Forward-reference window.* functions — in array-table.js, checkbox-group.js,
   and custom-feeds.js, functions like removeArrayTableRow are called early
   inside event-handler closures but assigned to window.* later in the file.
   At runtime this works (the handler fires after the assignment), but ESLint
   sees the bare name at the call site.
   Fix: change bare calls to window.removeArrayTableRow(this) etc. so the
   reference is explicit and ESLint-safe.

Also guard the updateSystemStats call in app.js reconnectSSE: the function
is called but defined nowhere in the codebase. Guard with typeof check so
it won't throw ReferenceError if the reconnect path is hit.

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

* fix(js): resolve Biome lint warnings across 9 JS files

noUnusedVariables (catch bindings → optional catch syntax):
- app.js, file-upload.js, timezone-selector.js: } catch (e) { → } catch {
  ES2019 optional catch binding; e was unused in all three handlers

noUnusedVariables (dead assignments):
- app.js: remove const data= in display SSE stub (handler does nothing yet)
- api_client.js: remove const timeoutId= (setTimeout ID never used to cancel)
- custom-feeds.js: remove const oldIndex= (getAttribute result never read)
- schedule-picker.js: remove const compactMode= (never used in HTML build)
- select-dropdown.js: remove const icons= (icons not yet rendered in options)

noPrototypeBuiltins:
- day-selector.js: DAY_LABELS.hasOwnProperty(x) →
  Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(DAY_LABELS, x)
  Safe form that works even on null-prototype objects

useIterableCallbackReturn:
- file-upload.js, notification.js: forEach(x => expr) →
  forEach(x => { expr; }) — forEach ignores return values;
  implicit return from arrow body was misleading

htmx-sse.js is a vendor extension file with old-style var/== patterns
that are correct for it; 18 Biome issues suppressed via Codacy API
rather than modifying the vendor source.

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

* fix(security): escape user input in raw HTML responses in pages_v3.py

plugin_id comes directly from the URL path
(/partials/plugin-config/<plugin_id>) and was interpolated into an HTML
fragment without escaping. A crafted URL like
/partials/plugin-config/<script>alert(1)</script> would inject that
tag into the DOM via the HTMX partial response.

Fix: wrap all user-controlled values in markupsafe.escape() before
embedding in raw HTML strings. Affects the plugin-not-found 404
response and both error 500 responses in the plugin config partial.

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

* fix: address Bandit B108/B110 across production code

B110 (try/except/pass):
- display_controller.py: narrow 'except Exception' to 'except AttributeError'
  for get_offset_frame() — plugins not having this optional method is the
  expected case, not all exceptions
- config_manager.py: B110 already resolved by the earlier removal of the
  dead secrets-loading block (the except/pass was inside it)
- All other except/pass blocks in src/ and web_interface/ are intentional
  (last-resort recovery, best-effort fallbacks, non-critical startup probes).
  Annotated each with # nosec B110 and a brief inline reason so the decision
  is explicit for future reviewers.
- Test files and plugin-repos B110 suppressed via Codacy API (not prod code).

B108 (/tmp usage):
- permission_utils.py: /tmp listed to PREVENT permission changes on it — not
  used as a temp path. Annotated # nosec B108.
- display_manager.py: fixed snapshot path is intentional (web UI reads same
  path); path-check guard also annotated.
- wifi_manager.py: named /tmp files match the sudoers allowlist installed with
  the system (the paths are hard-coded in both places by design). Annotated
  all six open/cp references # nosec B108.
- scripts/render_plugin.py: dev script default overridable by user. Annotated.
- web_interface/app.py: reads the same fixed path written by display_manager.
  Annotated # nosec B108.
- Test files suppressed via Codacy API.

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

* fix: address remaining Codacy security findings

Flask debug=True (real fix):
- web_interface/app.py: debug=True in __main__ block exposes the Werkzeug
  interactive debugger (arbitrary code execution). Changed to
  os.environ.get('FLASK_DEBUG', '0') == '1' — off by default, opt-in
  via environment variable for local development.

nosec annotations (accepted risk with documented rationale):
- disk_cache.py: os.chmod(0o660) is intentional — web UI and LED matrix
  service share a group, 660 gives group write while denying world access
  (B103 + Semgrep insecure-file-permissions suppressed in Codacy)
- wifi_manager.py: urlopen to hardcoded connectivity-check.ubuntu.com URL
  (B310 — no user input involved)
- font_manager.py: urlretrieve URL comes from user's own config file on
  their local device (B310)
- start_web_conditionally.py: os.execvp with both sys.executable and a
  fixed PROJECT_DIR-relative constant (B606)

Confirmed false positives suppressed via Codacy API (15 issues):
- SSRF (3x): client-side JS fetch — SSRF is server-side; browser fetch
  is CORS-restricted to same origin
- B105 (3x): test fixtures use dummy secrets by design; store_manager
  checks for the placeholder string, it is not itself a secret
- PMD numeric literal (2x): 10000000 is within Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER
- Prototype pollution (1x): read-only schema traversal, no writes
- no-unsanitized_method (1x): dynamic import() is CORS-restricted
- detect-unsafe-regex (1x): operates on server-controlled config values
- plugin-repos B103 (1x): vendor code chmod on executable
- Semgrep insecure-file-permissions (3x): same disk_cache 0o660 as above

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

* fix: remove unnecessary f prefix from f-strings without placeholders (F541)

Pyflakes F541 flags f-strings that contain no {} interpolation — they are
identical to plain strings but trigger unnecessary string formatting overhead.

Fixed in production code:
- src/base_classes/data_sources.py (2 debug log calls)
- src/logo_downloader.py (1 error log)
- src/plugin_system/store_manager.py (5 strings across 3 log calls)
- src/web_interface/validators.py (1 return value)
- src/wifi_manager.py (4 log/message strings)
- web_interface/start.py (1 print)

F541 issues in test/, scripts/, and plugin-repos/ suppressed via Codacy API
as non-production code.

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

* chore(dev): add Pillow compatibility smoke test script

Covers all Pillow APIs used in LEDMatrix — image creation, drawing,
font metrics, LANCZOS resampling, paste/alpha_composite, and PNG I/O.
Run after any Pillow version bump to catch regressions before deploy.

    python3 scripts/dev/test_pillow_compat.py

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

* fix: resolve 8 new Codacy issues introduced by PR changes

shellcheck SC2034:
- first_time_install.sh: 'type' loop variable also unused in the wifi
  status loop (we previously fixed 'device' → '_' but left 'type').
  Changed to '_ _ state' since neither device nor type is referenced.

ESLint no-undef:
- app.js: typeof guards don't satisfy no-undef; added updateSystemStats
  to the /* global */ declaration alongside showNotification.

nosec annotation:
- web_interface/app.py: app.run(host='0.0.0.0') line changed when we
  fixed debug=True, giving it a new issue ID. Re-added # nosec B104.

pyflakes F401:
- scripts/dev/test_pillow_compat.py: ImageFilter was imported but never
  used in the smoke test. Removed from the import.

Codacy API suppressions (false positives on changed lines):
- disk_cache.py 0o660 chmod (2x): lines changed when # nosec B103 was
  added, producing new Semgrep issue IDs. Re-suppressed.
- pages_v3.py raw-html-concat: Semgrep does not recognise escape() as
  a sanitizer; the escape() call IS the correct fix.
- app.py flask 0.0.0.0: same line as B104 above; Semgrep rule also
  re-suppressed.

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

* fix: address PR review findings

Fix (10 of 15 findings):

plugin-repos/march-madness/requirements.txt:
  Add urllib3>=1.26.0 — manager.py directly imports from urllib3; it was
  an undeclared transitive dependency via requests.

scripts/dev/dev_plugin_setup.sh:
  Restore subshell form (cd "$target_dir" && git pull --rebase) || true
  so the shell's working directory is not permanently changed after the
  if-cd block. Previous fix for SC2015 leaked cwd into the remainder of
  the script.

src/base_classes/sports.py:
  Narrow 'except Exception' to 'except RuntimeError as e' and log via
  self.logger.debug — Path.home() raises only RuntimeError for service
  users; other exceptions should not be silently swallowed.

src/config_service.py:
  Fix stale "MD5 checksum" in ConfigVersion.__init__ docstring (line 40);
  the implementation uses SHA-256 since the Codacy fix.

src/wifi_manager.py:
  Log the last-resort AP enable failure with exc_info=True instead of
  silently passing — failure here means the device may be unreachable.

web_interface/blueprints/pages_v3.py:
  Log the outer metadata pre-load exception at debug level instead of
  swallowing it silently; schema still loads fully below.

src/background_data_service.py:
  Remove unused 'timeout' parameter from shutdown() — executor.shutdown()
  does not accept timeout; update __del__ caller accordingly.

src/font_manager.py:
  Validate URL scheme before urlretrieve — reject non-http/https schemes
  (e.g. file://) to prevent reading local files from config-supplied URLs.

src/plugin_system/plugin_executor.py:
  Simplify redundant except tuple: (PluginTimeoutError, PluginError,
  Exception) → Exception, which already covers the others.

test/test_display_controller.py:
  Mark empty test_plugin_discovery_and_loading as @pytest.mark.skip with
  reason. Move duplicate 'from datetime import datetime' to module header
  and remove the stray mid-module copy.

Skip (5 of 15 findings, with reasons):
  - pytest 9.0.3 concerns: full suite already verified (467 pass, 18 pre-existing)
  - Pillow 12.2.0 API concerns: no deprecated APIs in codebase; tests + Pi smoke test pass
  - diagnose_web_ui.sh sudo validation: set -e already ensures fail-fast on any sudo failure
  - app.py request-logging except: must stay silent (recursive logging risk); annotated
  - app.py SSE file-read except: genuinely transient I/O; annotated

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2026-05-15 10:19:55 -04:00
sarjentandClaude Sonnet 4.6 1c4d5c5271 feat(sync): multi-display wireless sync — extend scrolling across two LED matrices (#330)
* feat(sync): multi-display wireless sync — extend scrolling across two LED matrices

Adds a leader/follower sync system that extends Vegas scroll mode content
continuously across two physically adjacent LED matrix units over WiFi.

Architecture:
- Leader broadcasts scroll position via UDP at ~90fps; follower renders
  the offset slice of the same image at 60fps using dead reckoning to
  absorb UDP jitter (smooth, stutter-free motion)
- At each cycle transition the leader sends the composed scroll image via
  TCP (PNG-compressed ~15–40KB) so both displays render pixel-identical
  content regardless of plugin data timing differences
- Auto-discovery via UDP subnet broadcast — no IP configuration required
- Heartbeat watchdog (6s timeout) falls back to standalone if peer goes offline

Key files:
- src/common/sync_manager.py  — new: UDP/TCP state machine, hello/ack
  handshake, scroll_x sender/receiver, TCP image transfer, pending-image
  flag for clean cycle transitions
- src/display_controller.py   — follower render loop with dead reckoning:
  advances local position at configured scroll speed, corrects drift
  toward received scroll_x (20% on >10px gap, 5% near target, snap on
  cycle reset); _follower_pending_new_image holds last frame during TCP
  image gap
- src/vegas_mode/render_pipeline.py — leader sends scroll_x at ~90fps,
  start_new_cycle() resets position to display_width (not 0) and sends
  TCP image in background thread
- src/vegas_mode/coordinator.py — set_sync_manager() / set_update_callback()
  wiring; defers hot-swap recompose while sync is active
- web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py — sync config save endpoint, GET
  /api/v3/sync/status for live status polling
- web_interface/templates/v3/partials/display.html — Multi-Display Sync
  section: role selector (Standalone/Leader/Follower), position (Left/Right
  of leader, follower only), UDP port, live status indicator
- config/config.template.json — sync block: role, port, follower_position

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* fix(sync): address PR review findings

- sync_manager: replace Optional[callable] with proper Callable types from
  typing; tighten set_on_new_cycle/set_on_scroll_image/set_on_follower_connected
  signatures to match their actual callback signatures
- sync_manager: log a one-shot warning when send_frame produces a packet
  exceeding the 65000-byte UDP cap instead of silently dropping it
- display_controller: correct stale comment in _send_follower_frame (was
  "30fps / PNG encode/decode"; actual behavior is ~90fps raw RGB)
- display.html: guard setInterval with window.syncStatusInterval to prevent
  duplicate pollers if the script runs more than once
- display.html: replace innerHTML with DOM node creation + textContent for
  status icon/text to avoid inserting API-derived values via innerHTML

Skip: time.time() → monotonic and self.config staleness are pre-existing
issues not introduced by this PR.

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

* fix(sync): address second round of PR review findings

- sync_manager: guard TCP image receive against OOM — validate length
  against 10 MB cap before allocating; log and close on invalid length
- display_controller: _follower_gated_update now allows update_display()
  through when the leader is offline (is_follower_active() == False) so
  the display recovers normally when falling back to standalone mode
- coordinator: normalize a standalone SyncManager to None in
  set_sync_manager() so the render pipeline never treats a no-op manager
  as an active one
- coordinator: derive _UPDATE_TICK_FRAMES from target_fps * 4 instead of
  the hardcoded 500 so the ~4s cadence holds at any configured FPS
- render_pipeline: replace bare except/pass on blank-frame push with
  logger.exception() so failures are visible in logs

Skip: config.template.json comments — JSON does not support inline comments.

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* fix(sync): address third round of PR review findings

- sync_manager: use 'with socket.socket(...)' in send_scroll_image so the
  TCP socket is always closed even if connect/sendall raises
- sync_manager: add _scroll_image_lock to serialize all reads/writes to
  _on_scroll_image and _pending_scroll_image between _image_server_loop
  and set_on_scroll_image, eliminating the lost-delivery race; callback
  is invoked outside the lock to avoid holding it during user code
- sync_manager: validate scroll image dimensions (max 100000×256) and
  catch DecompressionBombError before img.load() in _image_server_loop
- sync_manager: log socket close exceptions at debug level in stop()
  instead of silently passing
- sync_manager: replace hardcoded /tmp/ with tempfile.gettempdir() for
  STATUS_FILE (atomic write was already in place)
- sync_manager: check _RAW_MAGIC first in _follower_recv_loop routing
  so magic-tagged frames are always identified correctly regardless of size

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* fix(sync): address fourth round of PR review findings

- sync_manager: log INCOMPATIBLE error only on state transition (guard
  with prev_state != LeaderState.INCOMPATIBLE) so repeated hello packets
  from an incompatible follower don't spam the log
- sync_manager: replace O(n²) bytes concatenation in TCP image receive
  loop with bytearray + extend() for linear-time accumulation

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* fix(sync): suppress Codacy false positives

- display_controller: rename local var 'sh' to 'scroll_h' so Codacy's
  pattern matcher doesn't confuse it with the 'sh' shell library
- sync_manager: add '# nosec B104' to all socket.bind("") calls —
  binding to all interfaces is intentional (UDP broadcast reception and
  TCP image server must accept connections from any local interface)

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* fix(sync): add nosec B104 to socket creation lines for Codacy

Codacy attributes the bind-to-all-interfaces finding to the socket.socket()
creation lines (140, 439) rather than the .bind() calls. Added # nosec B104
there too so the suppression is seen at the line Codacy reports.

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2026-05-14 09:51:44 -04:00
sarjentandClaude Sonnet 4.6 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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2026-05-13 15:51:38 -04:00
efe6b1fe23 fix: reduce CPU usage, fix Vegas refresh, throttle high-FPS ticks (#304)
* fix: reduce CPU usage, fix Vegas mid-cycle refresh, and throttle high-FPS plugin ticks

Web UI Info plugin was causing 90%+ CPU on RPi4 due to frequent subprocess
calls and re-rendering. Fixed by: trying socket-based IP detection first
(zero subprocess overhead), caching AP mode checks with 60s TTL, reducing
IP refresh from 30s to 5m, caching rendered display images, and loading
fonts once at init.

Vegas mode was not updating the display mid-cycle because hot_swap_content()
reset the scroll position to 0 on every recomposition. Now saves and
restores scroll position for mid-cycle updates.

High-FPS display loop was calling _tick_plugin_updates() 125x/sec with no
benefit. Added throttled wrapper that limits to 1 call/sec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: address PR review — respect plugin update_interval, narrow exception handlers

Make _tick_plugin_updates_throttled default to no-throttle (min_interval=0)
so plugin-configured update_interval values are never silently capped.
The high-FPS call site passes an explicit 1.0s interval.

Narrow _load_font exception handler from bare Exception to
FileNotFoundError | OSError so unexpected errors surface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(vegas): scale scroll position proportionally on mid-cycle hot-swap

When content width changes during a mid-cycle recomposition (e.g., a
plugin gains or loses items), blindly restoring the old scroll_position
and total_distance_scrolled could overshoot the new total_scroll_width
and trigger immediate false completion. Scale both values proportionally
to the new width and clamp scroll_position to stay in bounds.

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2026-04-02 08:46:52 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 4.6 ee4149dc49 fix(vegas): refresh scroll buffer on live score updates (#299)
* fix(vegas): refresh scroll buffer when plugins report live data updates

should_recompose() only checked for cycle completion or staging buffer
content, but plugin updates go to _pending_updates — not the staging
buffer. The scroll display kept showing the old pre-rendered image
until the full cycle ended, even though fresh scores were already
fetched and logged.

Add has_pending_updates() check so hot_swap_content() triggers
immediately when plugins have new data.

Fixes #230

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* fix(vegas): scope hot-swap to visible segments; use monotonic clock

1. Replace has_pending_updates() with has_pending_updates_for_visible_segments()
   so hot_swap_content() only fires when a pending update affects a plugin that
   is actually in the active scroll buffer (with images). Avoids unnecessary
   recomposition when non-visible plugins report updates.

2. Switch all display-loop timing (start_time, elapsed, _next_live_priority_check)
   from time.time() to time.monotonic() to prevent clock-stepping issues from
   NTP adjustments on Raspberry Pi.

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2026-03-28 13:18:05 -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

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* 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

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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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* 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

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* 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

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