fix(web): a store install asks for a restart by the id it installed as

POST /plugins/install decides restart_required from whether config.json
already enables the plugin: the display loads a plugin when its enabled
flag changes, so one already enabled (a reinstall, or a config carried
over) keeps running the copy it loaded until a restart. The route read
that flag under the registry id. Weather, Music, Stocks and Leaderboard
install under the id their manifests declare (weather ->
ledmatrix-weather), which is the config section's id, so reinstalling an
enabled one never reported that a restart was needed.

Both the queued and the direct path now look up the installed id once
(#746's _installed_plugin_id) and use it for the plugin_id they answer
with and for the enabled check.

Tests: test/test_api_v3_install_restart_installed_id.py, through the
Flask test client, both paths.

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

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -19,78 +19,6 @@ accepts both, but the store flags the old spelling as deprecated
 
 ## Unreleased
 
-## 3.8.1
-
-Smooth scrolling at the slower speeds, and the fixes and performance work
-since 3.8.0. Highlights: the default 50 px/s and every other held-frame speed
-now scroll cleanly (below), Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm is supported alongside
-Trixie, updates refresh the systemd units, the display control socket gains
-stages 2 and 3, the shared fetch service lands (stages 1 and 2), and a run of
-web UI and Plugin Manager fixes. The new modules are core-internal and set no
-`ledmatrix_min_version` floor.
-
-### Scroll speed
-
-These two entries were the reason for this release: on 3.8.0 a slow scroll
-either stepped or showed a half-pixel tear across the middle of the panel,
-so only speeds of one pixel per refresh looked right.
-
-- The Vegas Scroll Speed slider now says what the panel will do with the speed
-  it is on, and offers the nearest smooth ones to click. Only speeds that advance
-  a whole number of pixels per refresh look smooth, and which those are depends
-  on the panel (`GET /api/v3/config/scroll-speed-advice`, built on
-  `scroll_config.speed_advice()`; it uses the refresh the display measured, not
-  the `limit_refresh_rate_hz` cap). The slider steps by 1 px/s instead of 5.
-- The default 50 px/s no longer snaps to a stepped 48 px/s (2 px every 5
-  refreshes, 24 fps) on a 120 Hz panel: `solve_crisp()` now prefers 60 or 40 px/s,
-  which move one pixel at a time. 100 Hz panels are unaffected. (#710)
-- A held-frame scroll (one pixel every two or more refreshes, such as 50 or
-  60 px/s on a 100-120 Hz panel) no longer shows a half-pixel step across the
-  middle of the panel. Scan-order compensation ran only at one frame per
-  refresh; a held frame is now presented as a sequence of swaps
-  (`scan_order.refresh_plan()`), so the half of the panel that scans later
-  steps one refresh after the rest. It is skipped when a blit takes more than
-  half a refresh, since the second blit has to land before the next vsync.
-  (#711)
-
-### Fixed
-
-- The web preview and `/api/v3/display/current` no longer stay black for a
-  whole screen that draws its card once and then holds it. The snapshot is
-  written from `update_display()` at most once per write interval, so a frame
-  pushed inside that interval was skipped and left for the next
-  `update_display()` -- which such a screen never makes. Soccer's
-  recent/upcoming cards skip redundant redraws, and the first one after an
-  on-demand start lands a few milliseconds after the start's clear wrote a
-  black frame: on ledpi the preview showed 0 lit pixels for the whole 15 s
-  while the panel showed the card. `DisplayManager` now remembers a skipped
-  changed frame, and the render loop writes it (`write_owed_snapshot()`)
-  once the interval has passed. The cadence is unchanged, and nothing extra
-  runs when no frame is owed.
-
-### ESPN date-range fetches: fewer requests, fewer at once
-
-A soccer board (8 leagues, ESPN rejecting `dates=` ranges) logged ~90
-`NameResolutionError` lines and an `update() timed out` at every start on a
-Pi: each league's fortnight-either-side window was 29 day requests, fetched
-by several managers at once, ~40 in flight. Measured against live ESPN with
-soccer-scoreboard 2.39.2, alternating runs: **~450 requests per start, peak
-~45 in flight, ~75 DNS lookups -> 46 requests, peak 13, ~30 lookups**.
-
-- `fetch_espn_date_chunks()` asks for a window's partial edge month whole
-  when the window covers `ESPN_MONTH_COVER_MIN_DAYS` (7) or more of its days,
-  and trims the answer to the window's days by each event's US Eastern start
-  date -- the day ESPN's `dates=YYYYMMDD` means (417 of 417 live soccer
-  events matched). A 29-day window spanning two months is 2 requests instead
-  of 29. Short windows (a live poll's 1-2 days) stay day by day. A trimmed
-  month that comes back at the 500-event cap re-asks only the window's days.
-  An event with no readable date is kept. New: `espn_request_chunks()`.
-- Chunk requests share one process-wide cap of `ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS` (6) in
-  flight, across every window being fetched, instead of six per window.
-- A new process starts as if a range had just been rejected, so it no longer
-  spends one doomed 400 per window at every start (eleven at once from a
-  soccer board); the range is still retried `RANGE_RETRY_SECONDS` in.
-
 ### Cheap per-frame and per-fetch savings
 
 - `BaseOddsManager.get_odds()` no longer pretty-prints every odds response
@@ -577,54 +505,6 @@ policies are unchanged.
   stored `ttl` was stretched the same way. A memory hit is now also checked against
   the record's own timestamp, and a stale one falls through to disk, which
   returns a newer write if there is one.
-- An on-demand request that names a `*_live` mode now shows that mode. On
-  ledpi, `{"plugin_id": "football-scoreboard", "mode": "ncaa_fb_live"}` with
-  15 college games on answered 200 and showed `nfl_recent`. The session's
-  mode list kept a live mode only when the plugin's `has_live_content()`
-  said so. That method answers the live-priority question, and the sports
-  plugins answer it for favourite teams only. A mode the request names
-  (not one resolved from a bare plugin id) now leads the session, with the
-  plugin's other modes after it. If it has nothing to draw, the session
-  moves on to the next of those modes, like any empty on-demand mode. The
-  name is saved with the session (`named_mode` in
-  `display_on_demand_config`), so a restart resumes on it.
-- A restart during an on-demand session whose plugin then fails to load no
-  longer leaves a session with no modes. On ledpi, `clock-simple` failed
-  config validation after a crash. The display logged `No valid display
-  modes found for on-demand plugin 'clock-simple' after restoration` and
-  kept reporting the session as active until its first pass ended it as
-  `idle`. The cached request stayed behind for the next restart. The session
-  now ends at startup with status `error` and error `restore-failed`, which
-  `/display/on-demand/status` reports, and the cached request is dropped. The
-  same applies when the plugin system itself fails to start.
-- `POST /api/v3/config/schedule` and `/config/dim-schedule` accept a
-  disabled per-day schedule with every day off. That is the shape
-  `config.template.json` ships, so posting back what GET returned on a fresh
-  install answered 400 "At least one day must be enabled". An enabled per-day
-  schedule still needs a day on. A day that is off now keeps the times it
-  was posted with (the schedule picker sends them). Before, saving dropped
-  them, so turning the day back on showed the defaults.
-- `POST /api/v3/config/main` answers `restart_required: true` only when the
-  save changed a setting the running display does not apply by itself.
-  Brightness (`brightness.set` and the config watcher), the per-mode
-  durations and plugin sections are applied live. A brightness-only save,
-  such as the MQTT bridge's slider, or a save that changed nothing, no longer
-  shows the restart banner. Hardware, rotation order, timezone and every
-  other setting still ask for the restart.
-- `GET /api/v3/health` reports `degraded` when the display service is
-  stopped. Before, only the sub-checks changed, and the overall status stayed
-  `healthy` for as long as the last preview frame was under 60 s old.
-  `checks.display_loop.status` is now `stopped` when three things agree:
-  systemd says the service is not active, the control socket does not
-  answer, and there is no live heartbeat. Where the platform has no socket
-  (Windows) or it is switched off, nothing changes.
-- `GET /api/v3/display/current-status` no longer reports the stopped
-  display's last state (`is_display_active: true`) from the cache for up to
-  120 s. When the control socket does not answer and the render loop's
-  heartbeat is absent, stale, or from a process that is gone (#726's rules),
-  the answer is unknown, with every field `null`. A display that still beats
-  without a socket, Windows and a socket switched off read the cache as
-  before. New `web_interface.display_state.display_gone()`.
 - The garbage-collection timer (`GcMonitor`, above) no longer prints
   `Exception ignored while calling GC callback ... 'NoneType' object has no
   attribute 'perf_counter'` when the display service or a test run exits.
@@ -1005,6 +885,25 @@ policies are unchanged.
   a runtime publisher that stops still goes `stale`, and a subscription that
   goes quiet still falls back to the cache. The cache path's 120 s rule is
   unchanged.
+- A plugin that pauses the Vegas scroll gets its pause when its display
+  duration is not a plain number. Several plugins (clock-simple, calendar,
+  countdown) return `display_duration` as it is in config.json, so a value
+  saved as `"20"` or `null` (the raw config editor, a hand edit) reached the
+  pause as a string or None; comparing it with the clock raised, and the
+  plugin flashed up and the scroll went straight on, at every one of its
+  turns. `inf` held the pause until something interrupted it, and 0, a
+  negative number or NaN ended it at once. The pause now reads the duration
+  as the rotation does (`finite_seconds()` in `base_plugin`): a numeric
+  string counts, anything else that is not a finite number (or a
+  `get_display_duration()` that raises) pauses for 30 s, and a number at or
+  below zero for 15 s, with one warning per plugin.
+- Reinstalling Weather, Music, Stocks or Leaderboard from the Plugin Store
+  while it is enabled asks for a display restart, as reinstalling any other
+  enabled plugin does. `POST /api/v3/plugins/install` looked for the
+  plugin's `enabled` flag under the store id (`weather`), but its config
+  section is under the id its manifest declares (`ledmatrix-weather`), so
+  `restart_required` was always false and the display kept running the
+  copy it had loaded. The check now uses the installed id.
 
 ### Scrolling
 
@@ -1182,6 +1081,18 @@ guard the import, since the loader's version check is advisory).
   processes, or turns the socket off with `off`. A non-root dev run uses a
   private per-user path under the temp directory.
 
+### Scroll speed
+
+- The Vegas Scroll Speed slider now says what the panel will do with the speed
+  it is on, and offers the nearest smooth ones to click. Only speeds that advance
+  a whole number of pixels per refresh look smooth, and which those are depends
+  on the panel (`GET /api/v3/config/scroll-speed-advice`, built on
+  `scroll_config.speed_advice()`; it uses the refresh the display measured, not
+  the `limit_refresh_rate_hz` cap). The slider steps by 1 px/s instead of 5.
+- The default 50 px/s no longer snaps to a stepped 48 px/s (2 px every 5
+  refreshes, 24 fps) on a 120 Hz panel: `solve_crisp()` now prefers 60 or 40 px/s,
+  which move one pixel at a time. 100 Hz panels are unaffected.
+
 ### Update channels
 
 - Devices no longer pick up every merge to `main`. A new setting,

docs/REST_API_REFERENCE.md

@@ -159,16 +159,14 @@ there an unchecked checkbox — which the browser omits — is saved as
 }
 ```
 
-`restart_required` is true when the save changed a setting that takes
-effect when the display restarts: display hardware, rotation order,
-timezone, general settings and the rest. The web UI shows its restart banner
-on the flag. It is false when the save changed only what the running display
-applies by itself, or nothing: `brightness`, the per-mode durations
-(`duration__<mode>`, `display.display_durations`) and plugin sections, which
-reach the running plugin live, like `POST /plugins/config`.
+`restart_required` is always true here: display hardware, rotation,
+durations and general settings take effect when the display restarts, and
+the web UI shows its restart banner on the flag. (Plugin sections saved
+through this route reach the running plugin live, like
+`POST /plugins/config`.)
 
-A saved `brightness` reaches the panel without a restart. The route also
-sends it to the running display over the control
+A saved `brightness` is the exception: it reaches the panel without a
+restart. The route also sends it to the running display over the control
 socket (`brightness.set`), which puts it on the panel at once, and the
 response adds `"brightness_transport": "socket"`. Otherwise it is
 `"config"`, with `brightness_socket_error` giving the reason, and the
@@ -248,10 +246,7 @@ Replace the schedule configuration.
 ```
 
 A day whose `<day>_enabled` key is absent counts as enabled, with default
-times `07:00`-`23:00`. An enabled schedule needs at least one day enabled; a
-disabled one (`"enabled": false`) may have every day off, as
-`config.template.json` ships it. A day that is off keeps the times sent for
-it, when they are valid `HH:MM`.
+times `07:00`-`23:00`. At least one day must be enabled.
 
 **Response**:
 ```json
@@ -348,11 +343,7 @@ control socket ([IPC_CONTROL_SOCKET.md](IPC_CONTROL_SOCKET.md)), and `cache`
 when it came from the `display_current_state` cache key (no socket: the
 display is stopped or older, or this is Windows). A display whose render
 loop has not refreshed its state for 120 seconds is reported with every
-field `null`, either way. So is a stopped display: when the socket does not
-answer and the render loop's heartbeat
-(`/run/ledmatrix/display-heartbeat.json`) is absent, stale or from a process
-that is gone, the cache's last entry is not used. A display still beating
-without a socket, Windows, or a socket switched off reads the cache.
+field `null`, either way.
 
 ### List Display Modes
 
@@ -2290,11 +2281,7 @@ display snapshot. `data.status` is `healthy` or `degraded`, with
 (with `heartbeat_age_seconds`), `stalled` (no heartbeat for 60s: the panel is
 frozen even if the service is active; the status turns `degraded`), or
 `not_reported` when the display writes none (not started yet, the dev server,
-Windows), which does not affect the status, or `stopped` (with `source:
-"service"`) when the display service is not active, the control socket does
-not answer and there is no live heartbeat; the status then turns
-`degraded`. A platform with no control socket (Windows) or a socket switched
-off never reports `stopped`. Its `source` is `socket` when the
+Windows), which does not affect the status. Its `source` is `socket` when the
 age came from the display's state stream over the control socket (measured
 in memory by the display) and `heartbeat_file` when it came from
 `/run/ledmatrix/display-heartbeat.json`.
@@ -2357,9 +2344,8 @@ Replace the dim schedule. `dim_brightness` is 0-100 (default 30). In
 `per-day` mode the days can be sent either as the `days` object that GET
 returns, or as the web form's flat fields (`monday_enabled`,
 `monday_start`, `monday_end`, ...). A day that is not sent counts as
-enabled with default times `20:00`-`07:00`. As for the schedule above, an
-enabled dim schedule needs at least one day enabled and a disabled one may
-have every day off.
+enabled with default times `20:00`-`07:00`; at least one day must be
+enabled.
 
 ---
 

docs/RUN_LOOP_REDESIGN.md

@@ -181,14 +181,13 @@ that the harness patches in today.
   - dynamic duration (cycle complete, plugin cap, global cap)
   - live priority taking over and handing back; live round-robin
   - on-demand start/stop/expiry; pinned on-demand; a session resumed after
-    a restart, and one that cannot resume (its plugin did not load); a
-    request naming a live mode the plugin's live check would drop
+    a restart
   - schedule off and dim, with an on-demand override during downtime
   - WiFi notice; sync follower
   - Vegas, with and without `live_in_ticker`
 - Each trace row is `[start, mode, duration, exit_reason, frames,
   force_clear]`. The exit reason is the event that decided what came next.
-- All 18 tests run in under a second. The goldens were generated from
+- All 16 tests run in under a second. The goldens were generated from
   main's `run()` before any code moved.
 - Vegas uses `FakeVegas`, which implements only the contract the controller
   depends on: `run_iteration()` returns True after its duration and False

src/__init__.py

@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ LEDMatrix Display System
 Core source package for the LED Matrix Display project.
 """
 
-__version__ = "3.8.1"
+__version__ = "3.8.0"
 

src/common/README.md

@@ -109,11 +109,8 @@ and the plugin test harness all use it. Most plugins get BDF text through
 [`espn_dates.py`](espn_dates.py). ESPN's site API rejects `dates=` ranges
 and truncates results when `limit` is above 500. `fetch_espn_scoreboard()`
 splits a range into month and day requests ESPN accepts and merges the
-results; `espn_date_chunks()`, `espn_request_chunks()`,
-`fetch_espn_date_chunks()`, `clamp_espn_limit()` and
-`merge_scoreboard_payloads()` are the pieces. A window's partial edge months
-are asked whole and trimmed to its days (US Eastern), and chunk requests share
-one process-wide cap of `ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS` in flight.
+results; `espn_date_chunks()`, `fetch_espn_date_chunks()`,
+`clamp_espn_limit()` and `merge_scoreboard_payloads()` are the pieces.
 Every request goes through [`fetch_service`](#fetch_service), the chunks
 counted against the plugin that asked. Scoreboard plugins also bundle a copy
 for older cores.

src/common/espn_dates.py

@@ -26,30 +26,10 @@ A month can hold more than 500 events (college baseball's March does), and
 ESPN answers that with exactly ``limit`` events and no hint that more exist. A
 month chunk that comes back full is therefore re-asked day by day.
 
-A window's *partial* edge months are asked for whole, too, once the window
-covers ``ESPN_MONTH_COVER_MIN_DAYS`` or more of their days, and the answer is
-trimmed back to the window's days. A scoreboard's default fortnight either side
-of today (29 days, two partial months) was 29 day requests per league; it is
-now 2. Trimming needs ESPN's "game day", which is the event's start in US
-Eastern time -- checked against the live API on 2026-10-03: 417 of 417 soccer
-events across five leagues and three months (one of them spanning the end of
-daylight saving) came back from exactly the day query their Eastern date
-names. A short window (a live poll's one or two days) stays day by day, so it
-never downloads a whole month to read a day of it.
-
-Chunk requests share one process-wide budget of ``ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS`` in
-flight, however many windows are being fetched at once. Each window used to get
-its own six, so a scoreboard starting eight leagues -- each with a recent and
-an upcoming manager -- had ~40 requests in flight, every one beyond a session's
-pool a new connection and a new DNS lookup. On a Pi whose resolver could not
-keep up, that was ~90 ``NameResolutionError`` lines within a minute of every
-start.
-
 Once a range has been rejected, later ranges skip straight to chunks for
 ``RANGE_RETRY_SECONDS`` instead of spending a doomed request first -- live
 scoreboards ask every 30 seconds. After that the range is tried again, so the
-workaround retires itself if ESPN reverts. A process starts inside that
-period, as if a range had just been rejected.
+workaround retires itself if ESPN reverts.
 
 ONE CACHE KEY PER SCOREBOARD
 ----------------------------
@@ -75,7 +55,7 @@ import re
 import threading
 import time
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
-from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta, tzinfo
+from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta
 from functools import partial
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple, cast
 
@@ -120,57 +100,16 @@ RANGE_RETRY_SECONDS = 6 * 60 * 60
 # pool_maxsize of 10 so the shared Session never has to discard connections.
 ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS = 6
 
-#: An edge month the window covers at least this many days of is asked for
-#: whole and trimmed, instead of one request per day (see module docstring).
-#: Below it the days are cheaper than the month: a whole month is two to
-#: three times the bytes of the half of it a fortnight window holds.
-ESPN_MONTH_COVER_MIN_DAYS = 7
-
-# Every chunk request in the process holds one of these while it is in flight
-# -- the cap is per process, not per window (see module docstring).
-_chunk_slots = threading.BoundedSemaphore(ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS)
-
-
-def _eastern_zone() -> Optional[tzinfo]:
-    """US Eastern, the zone ESPN's ``dates=YYYYMMDD`` means, or None when
-    this Python has no time zone data (no edge month is trimmed then)."""
-    zone: Optional[tzinfo] = None
-    try:
-        from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
-        zone = ZoneInfo("America/New_York")
-    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 - no zoneinfo module or no tz database
-        zone = None
-    if zone is not None:
-        return zone
-    try:
-        import pytz
-        return cast(tzinfo, pytz.timezone("America/New_York"))
-    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001
-        return None
-
-
-_EASTERN = _eastern_zone()
-
-# What _fetch_one_chunk returns for a month that came back at the cap.
-_CAPPED: Any = object()
-
 _range_lock = threading.Lock()
-# A process starts out assuming ranges are still rejected, as they have been
-# since 2026-09-15, and tries one again RANGE_RETRY_SECONDS in. Starting
-# from "unknown" cost one doomed range request per window at every start --
-# eleven 400s at once from a soccer board, each fetching before any had
-# answered -- to learn what every start learns.
-_ranges_rejected_until = time.monotonic() + RANGE_RETRY_SECONDS
+_ranges_rejected_until = 0.0
 
 __all__ = [
     "ESPN_MAX_LIMIT",
     "ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS",
-    "ESPN_MONTH_COVER_MIN_DAYS",
     "RANGE_RETRY_SECONDS",
     "clamp_espn_limit",
     "parse_espn_date_range",
     "espn_date_chunks",
-    "espn_request_chunks",
     "merge_scoreboard_payloads",
     "fetch_espn_date_chunks",
     "fetch_espn_scoreboard",
@@ -281,79 +220,6 @@ def espn_date_chunks(start: date, end: date) -> List[str]:
     return chunks
 
 
-def espn_request_chunks(
-    start: date,
-    end: date,
-    month_cover_min_days: Optional[int] = None,
-) -> List[Tuple[str, Optional[Tuple[date, date]]]]:
-    """The requests that fetch ``[start, end]``, as ``(dates, trim)`` pairs.
-
-    :func:`espn_date_chunks`, except that a partial edge month with
-    ``month_cover_min_days`` (default ``ESPN_MONTH_COVER_MIN_DAYS``) or more
-    of its days in the window becomes one ``YYYYMM`` request whose ``trim``
-    is the first and last of those days: its events that start outside them
-    (US Eastern) are dropped. ``trim`` is None for every other request.
-    Without time zone data nothing can be trimmed, so the edge days stay day
-    requests.
-    """
-    if month_cover_min_days is None:
-        month_cover_min_days = ESPN_MONTH_COVER_MIN_DAYS
-    planned: List[Tuple[str, Optional[Tuple[date, date]]]] = []
-    run: List[str] = []
-
-    def flush() -> None:
-        if (_EASTERN is not None and month_cover_min_days > 0
-                and len(run) >= month_cover_min_days):
-            planned.append((run[0][:6], (_parse_day(run[0]), _parse_day(run[-1]))))
-        else:
-            planned.extend((day, None) for day in run)
-        run.clear()
-
-    for chunk in espn_date_chunks(start, end):
-        if run and (len(chunk) != 8 or chunk[:6] != run[0][:6]):
-            flush()
-        if len(chunk) == 8:
-            run.append(chunk)
-        else:
-            planned.append((chunk, None))
-    flush()
-    return planned
-
-
-def _parse_day(text: str) -> date:
-    return date(int(text[:4]), int(text[4:6]), int(text[6:8]))
-
-
-def _eastern_day(stamp: Any) -> Optional[date]:
-    """The US Eastern date of an ESPN event ``date`` ("2026-10-10T11:30Z"),
-    or None when it cannot be read."""
-    if not isinstance(stamp, str) or _EASTERN is None:
-        return None
-    try:
-        moment = datetime.fromisoformat(stamp.strip().replace("Z", "+00:00"))
-    except ValueError:
-        return None
-    if moment.tzinfo is None:
-        return None
-    return moment.astimezone(_EASTERN).date()
-
-
-def _trim_to_days(payload: Any, first: date, last: date) -> Any:
-    """Drop the events of a month payload that start outside ``[first, last]``
-    (US Eastern). An event whose date cannot be read is kept: its day query
-    might well have returned it, and a game is never dropped on a guess.
-    """
-    if not isinstance(payload, dict) or not isinstance(payload.get("events"), list):
-        return payload
-    kept = []
-    for event in payload["events"]:
-        day = _eastern_day(event.get("date")) if isinstance(event, dict) else None
-        if day is None or first <= day <= last:
-            kept.append(event)
-    payload["events"] = kept
-    return payload
-
-
 def merge_scoreboard_payloads(payloads: List[Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     """Fold chunk responses into one scoreboard payload.
 
@@ -384,54 +250,37 @@ def merge_scoreboard_payloads(payloads: List[Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
 def _fetch_one_chunk(
     session, url: str, params: Dict[str, Any], headers, timeout, logger, chunk: str,
     cache_max_age: Optional[float] = None,
-    trims: Optional[Dict[str, Tuple[date, date]]] = None,
-) -> Any:
+) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
     """GET a single ``dates=`` chunk, or None when it failed.
 
     One bad chunk must not sink the rest of the season, so every error is
     logged and swallowed here rather than raised to the gather below.
-
-    A month that comes back at the cap is truncated: it returns ``_CAPPED``,
-    its payload dropped here before it is ever held beside the others. A
-    month in ``trims`` loses its events outside the days given there.
-
-    The request holds one of the process-wide ``_chunk_slots`` while it runs.
     """
     try:
-        with _chunk_slots:
-            response = fetch_get(
-                session,
-                url,
-                params=dict(params, dates=chunk, limit=ESPN_MAX_LIMIT),
-                headers=headers,
-                timeout=timeout,
-                **_memo_kwargs(cache_max_age),
-            )
-            response.raise_for_status()
-            payload = response_json(response)
+        response = fetch_get(
+            session,
+            url,
+            params=dict(params, dates=chunk, limit=ESPN_MAX_LIMIT),
+            headers=headers,
+            timeout=timeout,
+            **_memo_kwargs(cache_max_age),
+        )
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        return cast(Optional[Dict[str, Any]], response_json(response))
     except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 - see docstring
         if logger:
             logger.warning("ESPN chunk %s failed, skipping it: %s", chunk, exc)
         return None
-    if len(chunk) == 6 and isinstance(payload, dict):
-        if len(payload.get("events") or []) >= ESPN_MAX_LIMIT:
-            return _CAPPED
-        trim = (trims or {}).get(chunk)
-        if trim is not None:
-            payload = _trim_to_days(payload, *trim)
-    return payload
 
 
 def _fetch_chunks(
     session, url: str, params: Dict[str, Any], headers, timeout, logger,
     chunks: List[str], cache_max_age: Optional[float] = None,
-    trims: Optional[Dict[str, Tuple[date, date]]] = None,
-) -> List[Any]:
+) -> List[Optional[Dict[str, Any]]]:
     """Fetch every chunk, returning payloads positionally aligned with ``chunks``.
 
     Requests go out ``ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS`` at a time because a cold season is
-    over a hundred of them -- and no more than that across every window the
-    process is fetching, which ``_fetch_one_chunk``'s slot enforces. The order they come back in is not significant --
+    over a hundred of them. The order they come back in is not significant --
     callers keep ``chunks`` order from the returned list -- but it does mean
     the session is shared across threads, which is why this only ever issues
     GETs and never touches session state.
@@ -444,7 +293,7 @@ def _fetch_chunks(
         return []
     fetch = partial(
         _fetch_one_chunk, session, url, params, headers, timeout, logger,
-        cache_max_age=cache_max_age, trims=trims,
+        cache_max_age=cache_max_age,
     )
     if len(chunks) == 1:
         return [fetch(chunks[0])]
@@ -491,9 +340,7 @@ def fetch_espn_date_chunks(
     if span is None:
         return None
 
-    planned = espn_request_chunks(*span)
-    chunks = [chunk for chunk, _ in planned]
-    trims = {chunk: trim for chunk, trim in planned if trim is not None}
+    chunks = espn_date_chunks(*span)
     if logger:
         logger.debug(
             "Fetching ESPN date range %s as %d month/day chunks",
@@ -502,31 +349,32 @@ def fetch_espn_date_chunks(
 
     results = _fetch_chunks(
         session, url, params, headers, timeout, logger, chunks, cache_max_age,
-        trims,
     )
     attempted = len(chunks)
 
-    # A month that came back at the cap is truncated; its days (only the
-    # window's, for a trimmed edge month) replace it in place, so merged
-    # events stay in chunk order however the requests raced. Its payload was
-    # already dropped in the worker: a capped college-baseball month is ~2MB
-    # of parsed JSON, and holding four of them through ~120 day requests added
-    # ~25MB to the peak -- more than the concurrency itself. Low-memory boards
-    # (docs/LOW_MEMORY_BOARDS.md) have under 200MB of headroom.
+    # A month that came back at the cap is truncated; its days replace it in
+    # place, so merged events stay in chunk order however the requests raced.
     slots: List[Any] = results
     capped: Dict[int, List[str]] = {}
     for index, chunk in enumerate(chunks):
-        if slots[index] is not _CAPPED:
+        payload = slots[index]
+        if payload is None or len(chunk) != 6:
             continue
-        if logger:
-            logger.info(
-                "ESPN month %s hit the %d-event cap; re-asking it day by day",
-                chunk, ESPN_MAX_LIMIT,
-            )
-        trim = trims.get(chunk)
-        capped[index] = (_days_of_month(chunk) if trim is None
-                         else espn_date_chunks(*trim))
-        slots[index] = None
+        events = payload.get("events") if isinstance(payload, dict) else None
+        if len(events or []) >= ESPN_MAX_LIMIT:
+            if logger:
+                logger.info(
+                    "ESPN month %s hit the %d-event cap; re-asking it day by day",
+                    chunk, ESPN_MAX_LIMIT,
+                )
+            capped[index] = _days_of_month(chunk)
+            # Drop the truncated month now rather than after its days arrive:
+            # a capped college-baseball month is ~2MB of parsed JSON, and
+            # holding four of them through ~120 day requests added ~25MB to
+            # the peak -- more than the concurrency itself. Low-memory boards
+            # (docs/LOW_MEMORY_BOARDS.md) have under 200MB of headroom.
+            slots[index] = None
+    payload = events = None
 
     if capped:
         days = [day for index in sorted(capped) for day in capped[index]]

src/display_controller.py

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import os
 import inspect
 import signal
 import json
-import math
 import threading
 import types
 from collections import deque
@@ -57,6 +56,7 @@ from src.ipc.contract import (
     PluginReloadResult,
 )
 from src.ipc.server import ControlServer, QueuedCommand, StateHub, start_control_server
+from src.plugin_system.base_plugin import finite_seconds
 from src.vegas_mode.render_pipeline import SYNC_SEND_INTERVAL
 
 # Get logger with consistent configuration
@@ -90,19 +90,6 @@ _MIN_INITIAL_UPDATE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 2.0
 DEFAULT_DYNAMIC_DURATION_CAP = 180.0
 
 
-def _finite_seconds(value: Any) -> Optional[float]:
-    """``value`` as seconds when it is a finite number or a numeric string,
-    else None. A bool is not a number here, though it is an int: True would
-    read as a one-second screen."""
-    if isinstance(value, bool):
-        return None
-    try:
-        seconds = float(value)
-    except (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError):
-        return None
-    return seconds if math.isfinite(seconds) else None
-
-
 class _PluginReloadJob:
     """A ``plugin.reload`` whose slow half runs off the render thread.
 
@@ -368,10 +355,6 @@ class DisplayController:
         self.on_demand_last_error: Optional[str] = None
         self.on_demand_last_event: Optional[str] = None
         self.on_demand_schedule_override = False
-        # The mode the request named, when it named one (not a mode resolved
-        # from a bare plugin id). Shown even when the plugin's live checks
-        # would leave it out of the session (_on_demand_modes_for_plugin).
-        self._on_demand_named_mode: Optional[str] = None
         # Plugins that are disabled in config and loaded only because an
         # on-demand request named them. The main loop unloads each one once
         # on-demand has moved off it (_release_on_demand_plugins).
@@ -565,17 +548,6 @@ class DisplayController:
         except Exception:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
             logger.exception("Plugin system initialization failed")
             self.plugin_manager = None
-            # A restored session has no plugin to resume on. It may have been
-            # read already (on_demand_active) or not yet, if initialization
-            # failed before the restore ran; either way, end it visibly.
-            try:
-                cached_session = self.cache_manager.get('display_on_demand_config',
-                                                        max_age=3600)
-            except Exception:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
-                cached_session = None
-            if self.on_demand_active or cached_session:
-                self.cache_manager.clear_cache('display_on_demand_config')
-                self._set_on_demand_error('restore-failed')
             # Its state machine no longer describes what runs; let the last
             # snapshot go stale (readers then say unknown) rather than keep
             # refreshing it.
@@ -1230,13 +1202,6 @@ class DisplayController:
                 note = getattr(self.plugin_manager, 'note_display_duration', None)
                 if note is not None and plugin_id:
                     note(plugin_id, time.monotonic() - started)
-                # A screen that drew once and holds makes no more
-                # update_display() calls, so a frame the preview throttle
-                # skipped would otherwise never reach the snapshot.
-                write_owed = getattr(getattr(self, 'display_manager', None),
-                                     'write_owed_snapshot', None)
-                if write_owed is not None:
-                    write_owed()
 
     def _health_tracker(self):
         """The plugin circuit breaker, or None when it is not enabled."""
@@ -1414,7 +1379,7 @@ class DisplayController:
         except Exception as err:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
             problem = f"get_display_duration() raised {type(err).__name__}: {err}"
         else:
-            seconds = _finite_seconds(value)
+            seconds = finite_seconds(value)
             if seconds is not None:
                 return seconds
             problem = f"display duration {value!r} is not a number"
@@ -1687,7 +1652,6 @@ class DisplayController:
         self.on_demand_expires_at = None
         self.on_demand_pinned = False
         self.on_demand_schedule_override = False
-        self._on_demand_named_mode = None
         # While the session ran, _evaluate_schedule may have forced
         # is_display_active on over a scheduled-off answer. Drop the minute
         # gate so the next _check_schedule recomputes it; otherwise the panel
@@ -1854,7 +1818,6 @@ class DisplayController:
         self.on_demand_pinned = on_demand_config.get('pinned', False)
         self.on_demand_requested_at = on_demand_config.get('requested_at')
         self.on_demand_expires_at = on_demand_config.get('expires_at')
-        self._on_demand_named_mode = on_demand_config.get('named_mode')
         self.on_demand_status = 'active'
         self.on_demand_schedule_override = True
         logger.info("On-demand mode detected during initialization: resuming on plugin '%s'; "
@@ -2341,25 +2304,13 @@ class DisplayController:
                 return modes[0]
         return plugin_id
 
-    def _on_demand_modes_for_plugin(self, plugin_id: str,
-                                    named_mode: Optional[str] = None) -> List[str]:
+    def _on_demand_modes_for_plugin(self, plugin_id: str) -> List[str]:
         """Every loaded display mode belonging to `plugin_id`, in rotation order.
 
         Live modes that actually have content lead, then the rest, then live
         modes with nothing to show -- so an on-demand request for a sports
         plugin opens on a game in progress rather than an empty live screen.
         Returns an empty list when the plugin has no loaded modes.
-
-        `named_mode` is a mode the request asked for by name. It is always
-        in the list, first when the checks below would have dropped it.
-        Those checks ask has_live_content(), which is the live-priority
-        question -- "should this plugin take the panel from the rotation?"
-        -- and the sports plugins answer it for favourite teams only. Asking
-        for ncaa_fb_live with fifteen games on and no favourite playing got
-        a 200 and nfl_recent on the panel. The plugin's display() is what
-        knows whether the mode has anything to draw; when it has not, the
-        session moves to the plugin's next mode like any empty on-demand
-        mode.
         """
         plugin_modes = self.plugin_display_modes.get(plugin_id, [])
         if not plugin_modes:
@@ -2400,15 +2351,6 @@ class DisplayController:
             # Only live modes available but no content - use them anyway
             ordered_modes = live_modes
 
-        if named_mode and named_mode in available_plugin_modes:
-            # The named mode leads whether or not the live check kept it: a
-            # second live mode with content is already in the list, but behind
-            # the first, so the session would rotate away before reaching it.
-            if named_mode not in ordered_modes:
-                logger.info("On-demand: showing %s as requested; plugin '%s' reports no "
-                            "live-priority content for it", named_mode, plugin_id)
-            ordered_modes = [named_mode] + [m for m in ordered_modes if m != named_mode]
-
         return ordered_modes
 
     def _apply_on_demand_pin(self, ordered_modes: List[str], resolved_mode: Optional[str],
@@ -2437,20 +2379,10 @@ class DisplayController:
 
         plugin_id = self.on_demand_plugin_id
 
-        ordered_modes = self._on_demand_modes_for_plugin(plugin_id, self._on_demand_named_mode)
+        ordered_modes = self._on_demand_modes_for_plugin(plugin_id)
         if not ordered_modes:
-            # The plugin did not load this time (seen on a rig: its config
-            # failed validation after the crash that caused the restart), so
-            # there is nothing to resume. Leaving the session active with no
-            # modes published it as active for a plugin that was not running
-            # until the first pass ended it as an ordinary 'idle', and kept
-            # the cached request for the next restart to trip over. End it
-            # as a failure the status endpoint reports, and drop the cache.
-            logger.error("On-demand session for plugin '%s' cannot resume after the "
-                         "restart: the plugin has no loaded display modes (did it "
-                         "fail to load?); ending it", plugin_id)
-            self.cache_manager.clear_cache('display_on_demand_config')
-            self._set_on_demand_error('restore-failed')
+            logger.warning("No valid display modes found for on-demand plugin '%s' after restoration", plugin_id)
+            self.on_demand_modes = []
             return
 
         # A restart must not silently un-pin: the pin is part of the request
@@ -2651,10 +2583,7 @@ class DisplayController:
         if resolved_mode in self.available_modes:
             self.current_mode_index = self.available_modes.index(resolved_mode)
 
-        # Named: the request gave this mode itself, rather than a plugin id
-        # (or a mode the plugin doesn't have) that resolved to a default.
-        named_mode = resolved_mode if mode == resolved_mode else None
-        ordered_modes = self._on_demand_modes_for_plugin(resolved_plugin_id, named_mode)
+        ordered_modes = self._on_demand_modes_for_plugin(resolved_plugin_id)
         if not ordered_modes:
             logger.error("No valid display modes found for plugin '%s'", resolved_plugin_id)
             self._set_on_demand_error("no-modes")
@@ -2671,7 +2600,6 @@ class DisplayController:
         self.on_demand_requested_at = now
         self.on_demand_expires_at = (now + duration) if duration else None
         self.on_demand_pinned = pinned
-        self._on_demand_named_mode = named_mode
         self.on_demand_status = 'active'
         self.on_demand_last_error = None
         self.on_demand_last_event = 'started'
@@ -2700,7 +2628,6 @@ class DisplayController:
             'mode': resolved_mode,
             'duration': duration,
             'pinned': pinned,
-            'named_mode': named_mode,
             'requested_at': now,
             'expires_at': self.on_demand_expires_at
         }

src/display_manager.py

@@ -317,11 +317,6 @@ class DisplayManager:
         # is handed to the writer; this only once it has been saved, so an
         # mtime touch never vouches for a frame still waiting to be written.
         self._saved_snapshot_digest: Optional[int] = None
-        # A changed frame reached _write_snapshot_if_due() inside the write
-        # interval and was skipped. Nothing writes it unless update_display()
-        # runs again, and a screen that draws once and holds never calls it
-        # again -- see write_owed_snapshot().
-        self._snapshot_owed = False
         self._snapshot_dir_prepared = False
         # Background writer used mid-scroll; see _write_snapshot_if_due.
         self._snapshot_cond = threading.Condition()
@@ -1793,10 +1788,9 @@ class DisplayManager:
 
             if frame_checksum is not None:
                 digest = frame_checksum
-                frame_changed = digest != self._last_snapshot_digest
                 action = snapshot_policy.decide(
                     now, self._last_snapshot_ts, self._last_snapshot_touch_ts,
-                    viewer_fresh, frame_changed)
+                    viewer_fresh, digest != self._last_snapshot_digest)
             else:
                 # Ask as if the frame had changed before paying to find out.
                 # decide() is monotone in frame_changed -- a SKIP for a
@@ -1808,36 +1802,22 @@ class DisplayManager:
                     now, self._last_snapshot_ts, self._last_snapshot_touch_ts,
                     viewer_fresh, True)
                 if action is snapshot_policy.SnapshotAction.SKIP:
-                    # Not hashed, so not known to be unchanged: owed until a
-                    # later look finds it written or unchanged.
-                    self._snapshot_owed = True
                     return
                 digest = zlib.adler32(self.image.tobytes())
-                frame_changed = digest != self._last_snapshot_digest
-                if not frame_changed:
+                if digest == self._last_snapshot_digest:
                     # Unchanged after all: the decision an unchanged frame gets.
                     action = snapshot_policy.decide(
                         now, self._last_snapshot_ts,
                         self._last_snapshot_touch_ts, viewer_fresh, False)
             if action is snapshot_policy.SnapshotAction.SKIP:
-                # A changed frame inside the write interval stays owed: the
-                # next update_display() would write it, but a static screen
-                # may not make one -- write_owed_snapshot() covers that.
-                self._snapshot_owed = frame_changed
                 return
             if (action is snapshot_policy.SnapshotAction.TOUCH
                     and self._saved_snapshot_digest == digest):
                 # mtime bump only: keeps the health check (snapshot age)
                 # green without paying for a PNG encode of an unchanged frame
-                # (this frame is already on disk, so nothing is owed).
-                self._snapshot_owed = False
                 os.utime(self._snapshot_path, None)
                 self._last_snapshot_touch_ts = now
                 return
-            # Owed until the write below succeeds: if it raises, the frame
-            # stays owed and write_owed_snapshot() retries it, rather than a
-            # held screen leaving the preview stale after one failed write.
-            self._snapshot_owed = True
             # (A TOUCH for a frame that isn't on disk yet -- still queued, or
             # its write failed -- is written instead: touching would make the
             # older file on disk look current.)
@@ -1862,39 +1842,9 @@ class DisplayManager:
             self._last_snapshot_ts = now
             self._last_snapshot_touch_ts = now
             self._last_snapshot_digest = digest
-            self._snapshot_owed = False
         except Exception as e:
             self._log_snapshot_failure(e)
 
-    def write_owed_snapshot(self) -> None:
-        """Write a frame the snapshot throttle skipped, once it is due.
-
-        The preview snapshot is only ever written from update_display(), and
-        at most once per write interval (snapshot_policy). A frame pushed
-        inside that interval is skipped, and is written by the next
-        update_display() that comes after it -- but a screen that draws its
-        card once and then holds it makes no further call. Its frame was on
-        the panel and never in the preview: soccer's recent/upcoming cards
-        skip redundant redraws, and the first one after an on-demand start
-        (pushed a few milliseconds after the controller's clear) left
-        /api/v3/display/current and the web preview black for the whole
-        screen while the panel showed the card.
-
-        The render loop calls this after each frame. Cheap when nothing is
-        owed (one attribute read); otherwise the usual policy decides, so
-        the write still waits out the interval and an unchanged frame is
-        never re-encoded.
-        """
-        if not self._snapshot_owed:
-            return
-        try:
-            if self._writes_suppressed():
-                return
-            with self._update_lock:
-                self._write_snapshot_if_due()
-        except Exception as e:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
-            self._log_snapshot_failure(e)
-
     def _log_snapshot_failure(self, error: Exception) -> None:
         # Snapshot failures must never break display — but they must not
         # be silent either: the snapshot's mtime is the web UI's display

src/plugin_system/base_plugin.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Stability: Stable - maintains backward compatibility
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from enum import Enum
 from typing import Dict, Any, Optional, List
+import math
 import os
 import sys
 from src.deprecation import deprecated, warn_deprecated
@@ -240,6 +241,26 @@ def resolve_vegas_participation(plugin: Any, plugin_id: Optional[str] = None) ->
     return legacy_vegas_participation(plugin)
 
 
+def finite_seconds(value: Any) -> Optional[float]:
+    """``value`` as seconds when it is a finite number or a numeric string,
+    else None. A bool is not a number here, though it is an int: True would
+    read as a one-second screen.
+
+    How the core reads a plugin's get_display_duration() -- the rotation
+    (DisplayController._get_display_duration) and the Vegas static pause --
+    which several plugins answer straight from config.json, so a value saved
+    as "20" or null arrives as a string or None. A number at or below zero is
+    returned as it is; each caller has its own rule for that.
+    """
+    if isinstance(value, bool):
+        return None
+    try:
+        seconds = float(value)
+    except (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError):
+        return None
+    return seconds if math.isfinite(seconds) else None
+
+
 class BasePlugin(ABC):
     """
     Base class that all plugins must inherit from.

src/vegas_mode/coordinator.py

@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ import math
 import sys
 import time
 import threading
-from typing import Optional, Dict, Any, List, Callable, TYPE_CHECKING
+from typing import Optional, Dict, Any, FrozenSet, List, Callable, TYPE_CHECKING
 
 from src import display_watchdog
 from src.common import render_gate
+from src.plugin_system.base_plugin import finite_seconds
 from src.vegas_mode.config import VegasModeConfig
 from src.vegas_mode.elements import LiveEpochs
 from src.vegas_mode.plugin_adapter import PluginAdapter
@@ -53,6 +54,14 @@ _FPS_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL = 300.0
 #: every plugin. Game state doesn't change within a quarter second.
 _LIVE_PRIORITY_CHECK_INTERVAL = 0.25
 
+#: Seconds a static pause shows a plugin whose display duration can't be
+#: used, as long as the rotation shows it: 30 when get_display_duration()
+#: raises or answers something that is not a number
+#: (DisplayController._get_display_duration), 15 when it answers a number at
+#: or below zero (DisplayController._resolve_durations).
+_UNREADABLE_DURATION = 30.0
+_NOT_POSITIVE_DURATION = 15.0
+
 
 def _percentile(ordered: List[float], fraction: float) -> float:
     """Nearest-rank percentile of an already-sorted list.
@@ -92,6 +101,9 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
     _live_reason: Optional[str] = None
     # Set only while Vegas has changed the GIL switch interval; read with getattr.
     _saved_switch_interval: Optional[float]
+    #: Plugins already warned about a display duration the pause can't use,
+    #: so a bad setting logs once, not at every turn. Replaced, not mutated.
+    _duration_warned: FrozenSet[str] = frozenset()
 
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -1010,7 +1022,7 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
             # Wait for the plugin's display duration. Monotonic, like the
             # iteration clock: an NTP step on an RTC-less Pi would otherwise
             # end the pause at once or stretch it by the correction.
-            duration = plugin.get_display_duration()
+            duration = self._static_pause_duration(plugin)
             start = time.monotonic()
 
             while time.monotonic() - start < duration:
@@ -1046,6 +1058,42 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
 
         return True
 
+    def _static_pause_duration(self, plugin: 'BasePlugin') -> float:
+        """Seconds a static pause shows ``plugin``: its display duration,
+        read the way the rotation reads it.
+
+        Several plugins return their display_duration setting straight from
+        config.json, so one saved as "20" or null came back as a string or
+        None; comparing it with the clock raised, and the pause's broad
+        except ended the pause at every one of the plugin's turns. inf
+        paused until something interrupted it, and NaN, False, 0 or a
+        negative number ended the pause at once. A numeric string counts
+        (finite_seconds); anything else, or a raise, gets
+        _UNREADABLE_DURATION, and a number at or below zero
+        _NOT_POSITIVE_DURATION, logged once per plugin.
+        """
+        try:
+            value = plugin.get_display_duration()
+        except Exception as err:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
+            problem = f"get_display_duration() raised {type(err).__name__}: {err}"
+            seconds = _UNREADABLE_DURATION
+        else:
+            seconds = finite_seconds(value)
+            if seconds is not None and seconds > 0:
+                return seconds
+            if seconds is None:
+                problem = f"display duration {value!r} is not a number"
+                seconds = _UNREADABLE_DURATION
+            else:
+                problem = f"display duration {value!r} is not above zero"
+                seconds = _NOT_POSITIVE_DURATION
+        plugin_id = plugin.plugin_id
+        if plugin_id not in self._duration_warned:
+            self._duration_warned = self._duration_warned | {plugin_id}
+            logger.warning("[%s] %s; its static pause lasts %.0fs (logged once)",
+                           plugin_id, problem, seconds)
+        return seconds
+
     def _end_static_pause(self) -> None:
         """End static pause and restore scroll state."""
         should_resume_scrolling = False

test/_run_loop_harness.py

@@ -724,14 +724,11 @@ class RunLoopHarness:
         self.clock.at(t, post)
 
     def restore_on_demand(self, plugin_id: str, mode: Optional[str] = None,
-                          duration: Optional[float] = None, pinned: bool = False,
-                          named_mode: Optional[str] = None):
+                          duration: Optional[float] = None, pinned: bool = False):
         """Start with an on-demand session resumed from the cache, as after
         a restart: the state _select_startup_plugins restores, then
-        _populate_on_demand_modes_from_plugin, as __init__ calls it. A
-        session that cannot resume is logged as ``on-demand-error``."""
+        _populate_on_demand_modes_from_plugin, as __init__ calls it."""
         dc = self.controller
-        dc._on_demand_named_mode = named_mode
         dc.on_demand_active = True
         dc.on_demand_plugin_id = plugin_id
         dc.on_demand_mode = mode
@@ -742,8 +739,6 @@ class RunLoopHarness:
         dc.on_demand_status = 'active'
         dc.on_demand_schedule_override = True
         dc._populate_on_demand_modes_from_plugin()
-        if dc.on_demand_status == 'error':
-            self.log("on-demand-error", dc.on_demand_last_error)
 
     def wifi_message(self, t: float, message: str, duration: float = 5):
         def write():

test/fixtures/run_loop_golden/on_demand_named_live.json

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "screens": [
-    [0.0, "clock", 5.0, "on-demand-start", 6, false],
-    [5.0, "sports_live", 15.0, "duration", 15, true],
-    [20.0, "sports_recent", 15.0, "duration", 15, true],
-    [35.0, "sports_upcoming", 5.0, "on-demand-requested-stop", 6, true],
-    [40.0, "clock", 20.0, "duration", 20, true],
-    [60.0, "sports_live", 15.0, "display-false", 11, true],
-    [75.0, "sports_recent", 15.0, "duration", 15, true],
-    [90.0, "sports_upcoming", 10.0, "on-demand-start", 11, true],
-    [100.0, "sports_live", 0.0, "empty", 1, true],
-    [100.0, "sports_recent", 15.0, "duration", 15, true],
-    [115.0, "sports_upcoming", 15.0, "duration", 15, true],
-    [130.0, "sports_live", 0.0, "empty", 1, true],
-    [130.0, "sports_recent", 10.0, "on-demand-requested-stop", 11, true],
-    [140.0, "sports_upcoming", 15.0, "duration", 15, true],
-    [155.0, "clock", 5.0, "horizon", 5, true]
-  ],
-  "events": [
-    [5.0, "request", "start:n1"],
-    [5.0, "on-demand-start", "sports"],
-    [40.0, "request", "stop:n2"],
-    [40.0, "on-demand-requested-stop"],
-    [100.0, "request", "start:n3"],
-    [100.0, "on-demand-start", "sports"],
-    [140.0, "request", "stop:n4"],
-    [140.0, "on-demand-requested-stop"]
-  ]
-}

test/fixtures/run_loop_golden/on_demand_restore_failed.json

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "screens": [
-    [0.0, "clock", 20.0, "duration", 20, false],
-    [20.0, "weather", 20.0, "duration", 20, true],
-    [40.0, "clock", 20.0, "horizon", 20, true]
-  ],
-  "events": [
-    [0.0, "on-demand-error", "restore-failed"]
-  ]
-}

test/test_api_v3_install_restart_installed_id.py

@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+"""POST /plugins/install asks for a restart by the id the plugin installed as.
+
+A store install needs a display restart when config.json already enables the
+plugin (a reinstall, or a config carried over): the display loads a plugin
+when its ``enabled`` flag changes, and this flag did not. The route read the
+flag under the registry id it was given. An aliased entry installs under
+another id -- ``weather`` installs a directory whose manifest declares
+``ledmatrix-weather``, and its config section is ``ledmatrix-weather`` -- so
+reinstalling an enabled Weather never reported that a restart was needed,
+and the display kept running the old copy.
+"""
+
+import json
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+import pytest
+
+from test._api_v3_test_helpers import api_v3_client, api_v3_module  # noqa: F401
+
+INSTALL = "/api/v3/plugins/install"
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def store(api_v3_module, tmp_path):
+    """The store installs registry entry ``weather`` as ``installed_id``."""
+    manager = api_v3_module.api_v3.plugin_store_manager
+    manager.install_plugin.return_value = True
+    manager.get_registry_info.return_value = None
+    manager._find_plugin_path.return_value = None
+
+    def installs_as(installed_id):
+        path = tmp_path / installed_id
+        path.mkdir()
+        (path / "manifest.json").write_text(json.dumps({"id": installed_id}),
+                                            encoding="utf-8")
+        manager._find_plugin_path.side_effect = (
+            lambda pid: path if pid == "weather" else None)
+
+    manager.installs_as = installs_as
+    return manager
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def config(api_v3_module):
+    """config.json with an ``enabled`` flag for each plugin id given."""
+    def sections(enabled):
+        api_v3_module.api_v3.config_manager.load_config.return_value = {
+            plugin_id: {"enabled": flag} for plugin_id, flag in enabled.items()}
+    return sections
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def queued(api_v3_module):
+    queue = MagicMock()
+
+    def enqueue(operation_type, plugin_id, operation_callback=None):
+        queue.callback_result = operation_callback(MagicMock())
+        return "op-1"
+
+    queue.enqueue_operation.side_effect = enqueue
+    api_v3_module.api_v3.operation_queue = queue
+    return queue
+
+
+def _direct(client):
+    return client.post(INSTALL, json={"plugin_id": "weather"}).get_json()
+
+
+def _queued(client, queue):
+    client.post(INSTALL, json={"plugin_id": "weather"})
+    return queue.callback_result
+
+
+class TestDirectInstall:
+    def test_an_aliased_install_enabled_under_its_installed_id_asks_for_a_restart(
+            self, api_v3_client, store, config):
+        store.installs_as("ledmatrix-weather")
+        config({"ledmatrix-weather": True})
+        body = _direct(api_v3_client)
+        assert body["status"] == "success"
+        assert body["restart_required"] is True
+        assert body["restart_message"]
+
+    def test_an_enabled_section_under_the_registry_id_alone_does_not(
+            self, api_v3_client, store, config):
+        """The display knows the plugin as ledmatrix-weather; nothing runs
+        under a section called weather."""
+        store.installs_as("ledmatrix-weather")
+        config({"weather": True})
+        assert _direct(api_v3_client)["restart_required"] is False
+
+    def test_an_aliased_install_that_is_not_enabled_needs_no_restart(
+            self, api_v3_client, store, config):
+        store.installs_as("ledmatrix-weather")
+        config({"ledmatrix-weather": False})
+        assert _direct(api_v3_client)["restart_required"] is False
+
+    def test_an_install_under_its_own_id_is_unchanged(self, api_v3_client, store, config):
+        store.installs_as("weather")
+        config({"weather": True})
+        assert _direct(api_v3_client)["restart_required"] is True
+
+    def test_an_install_that_cannot_be_found_uses_the_requested_id(
+            self, api_v3_client, store, config):
+        config({"weather": True})
+        assert _direct(api_v3_client)["restart_required"] is True
+
+
+class TestQueuedInstall:
+    def test_an_aliased_install_enabled_under_its_installed_id_asks_for_a_restart(
+            self, api_v3_client, store, config, queued):
+        store.installs_as("ledmatrix-weather")
+        config({"ledmatrix-weather": True})
+        result = _queued(api_v3_client, queued)
+        assert result["success"] is True
+        assert result["restart_required"] is True
+        assert result["restart_message"]
+
+    def test_an_enabled_section_under_the_registry_id_alone_does_not(
+            self, api_v3_client, store, config, queued):
+        store.installs_as("ledmatrix-weather")
+        config({"weather": True})
+        assert _queued(api_v3_client, queued)["restart_required"] is False

test/test_api_v3_status_accuracy.py

@@ -1,326 +0,0 @@
-"""Four web answers that disagreed with the rig they describe (found on ledpi).
-
-1. POST /config/schedule refused the schedule GET returns on a fresh install
-   (config.template.json: per-day, every day off, schedule disabled) with
-   "At least one day must be enabled", as did /config/dim-schedule. A
-   disabled schedule needs no enabled day.
-2. A brightness-only POST /config/main answered ``restart_required: true``,
-   though the display applies brightness live (brightness.set over the
-   socket, and the config watcher). The flag now says whether anything
-   changed that the running display does not pick up by itself.
-3. /health stayed "healthy" with the display service stopped: only the
-   sub-checks changed. Service inactive, no socket and no live heartbeat
-   is now ``display_loop: stopped`` and "degraded".
-4. /display/current-status kept answering ``is_display_active: true`` from
-   the cache for up to 120 s after the display stopped. With no socket and
-   no live heartbeat it is now unknown.
-"""
-
-import copy
-import json
-import os
-import sys
-import time
-from pathlib import Path
-from unittest.mock import patch
-
-import pytest
-
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent.parent))
-
-from test._api_v3_test_helpers import api_v3_client, api_v3_module  # noqa: F401,E402
-
-from src import display_watchdog  # noqa: E402
-from src.ipc import client as control_client  # noqa: E402
-from web_interface import display_state  # noqa: E402
-
-REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
-TEMPLATE = json.loads((REPO / 'config' / 'config.template.json').read_text(encoding='utf-8'))
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def store(api_v3_module, monkeypatch):
-    state = {'config': {}, 'saves': 0}
-    api_v3_module.api_v3.config_manager.load_config.side_effect = \
-        lambda *a, **k: copy.deepcopy(state['config'])
-
-    def fake_save(_manager, config, **_kwargs):
-        state['config'] = copy.deepcopy(config)
-        state['saves'] += 1
-        return True, ''
-
-    monkeypatch.setattr(api_v3_module, '_save_config_atomic', fake_save)
-    return state
-
-
-# --- 1. schedules ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-SCHEDULE_ROUTES = [('/api/v3/config/schedule', 'schedule'),
-                   ('/api/v3/config/dim-schedule', 'dim_schedule')]
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('route,section', SCHEDULE_ROUTES)
-def test_the_templates_disabled_per_day_schedule_saves_back(api_v3_client, store,
-                                                            route, section):
-    stored = copy.deepcopy(TEMPLATE[section])
-    stored['mode'] = 'per-day'
-    assert stored['enabled'] is False
-    assert not any(day['enabled'] for day in stored['days'].values())
-    store['config'] = {section: copy.deepcopy(stored)}
-
-    read = api_v3_client.get(route).get_json()['data']
-    resp = api_v3_client.post(route, json=read)
-
-    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.get_json()
-    saved = store['config'][section]
-    assert saved['enabled'] is False and saved['mode'] == 'per-day'
-    # The disabled days keep their times: switching one on finds them.
-    assert saved['days'] == stored['days']
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('route,section', SCHEDULE_ROUTES)
-def test_an_enabled_per_day_schedule_still_needs_a_day(api_v3_client, store, route, section):
-    body = copy.deepcopy(TEMPLATE[section])
-    body.update(enabled=True, mode='per-day')
-    resp = api_v3_client.post(route, json=body)
-    assert resp.status_code == 400
-    assert 'At least one day must be enabled' in resp.get_json()['message']
-    assert store['saves'] == 0
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('route', [r for r, _ in SCHEDULE_ROUTES])
-def test_the_pickers_form_post_with_every_day_off_saves(api_v3_client, store, route):
-    """What schedule-picker.js posts: flat hidden inputs, booleans as strings,
-    times for every day."""
-    body = {'enabled': 'false', 'mode': 'per_day', 'start_time': '07:00', 'end_time': '23:00'}
-    for day in ('monday', 'tuesday', 'wednesday', 'thursday', 'friday', 'saturday', 'sunday'):
-        body.update({f'{day}_enabled': 'false', f'{day}_start': '06:30', f'{day}_end': '22:15'})
-    resp = api_v3_client.post(route, json=body)
-    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.get_json()
-
-
-def test_an_invalid_time_on_a_disabled_day_is_dropped_not_refused(api_v3_client, store):
-    body = {'enabled': False, 'mode': 'per-day',
-            'days': {'monday': {'enabled': False, 'start_time': 'soon', 'end_time': '22:00'}}}
-    resp = api_v3_client.post('/api/v3/config/schedule', json=body)
-    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.get_json()
-    assert store['config']['schedule']['days']['monday'] == {'enabled': False,
-                                                             'end_time': '22:00'}
-
-
-# --- 2. restart_required on /config/main ------------------------------------------
-
-STORED_MAIN = {
-    'timezone': 'America/Chicago',
-    'display': {
-        'hardware': {'rows': 32, 'cols': 64, 'chain_length': 2, 'brightness': 90,
-                     'disable_hardware_pulsing': False, 'inverse_colors': False,
-                     'show_refresh_rate': False},
-        'runtime': {'gpio_slowdown': 4},
-        'display_durations': {'clock': 15},
-        'use_short_date_format': False,
-    },
-}
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def main_store(store):
-    store['config'] = copy.deepcopy(STORED_MAIN)
-    return store
-
-
-def _save_main(client, body):
-    with patch('web_interface.blueprints.api_v3.control_client.brightness_set',
-               side_effect=control_client.ControlError('no_socket', 'x')):
-        resp = client.post('/api/v3/config/main', data=json.dumps(body),
-                           content_type='application/json')
-    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.get_json()
-    return resp.get_json()
-
-
-def test_a_brightness_only_save_needs_no_restart(api_v3_client, main_store):
-    body = _save_main(api_v3_client, {'brightness': 40})
-    assert main_store['config']['display']['hardware']['brightness'] == 40
-    assert body['restart_required'] is False
-
-
-def test_a_brightness_save_on_a_config_without_a_display_section(api_v3_client, store):
-    """The route creates display.hardware and display.runtime on the way;
-    empty sections are not a change."""
-    store['config'] = {}
-    assert _save_main(api_v3_client, {'brightness': 40})['restart_required'] is False
-
-
-def test_the_display_form_with_only_brightness_changed_needs_no_restart(api_v3_client,
-                                                                       main_store):
-    hw = STORED_MAIN['display']['hardware']
-    body = {'__form_section': 'display', 'rows': 32, 'cols': 64, 'chain_length': 2,
-            'brightness': 55, 'gpio_slowdown': 4}
-    body.update({k: 'on' for k in ('disable_hardware_pulsing', 'inverse_colors',
-                                   'show_refresh_rate') if hw[k]})
-    assert _save_main(api_v3_client, body)['restart_required'] is False
-
-
-def test_a_mode_duration_needs_no_restart(api_v3_client, main_store):
-    body = _save_main(api_v3_client, {'duration__clock': 40})
-    assert main_store['config']['display']['display_durations']['clock'] == 40
-    assert body['restart_required'] is False
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('change', [{'rows': 64}, {'brightness': 40, 'chain_length': 3},
-                                    {'gpio_slowdown': 2}, {'timezone': 'UTC'}])
-def test_a_setting_the_display_reads_at_startup_still_needs_one(api_v3_client, main_store,
-                                                                change):
-    assert _save_main(api_v3_client, change)['restart_required'] is True
-
-
-def test_restart_needed_compares_leaves():
-    from web_interface.blueprints.api_v3.config import restart_needed
-    before = {'display': {'hardware': {'brightness': 90, 'rows': 32}}}
-    assert not restart_needed(before, copy.deepcopy(before))
-    assert not restart_needed(before, {'display': {'hardware': {'brightness': 10, 'rows': 32},
-                                                   'runtime': {}}})
-    assert restart_needed(before, {'display': {'hardware': {'brightness': 90}}})  # removed
-    assert not restart_needed({}, {'clock': {'enabled': True}}, live_paths=[('clock',)])
-    assert restart_needed({}, {'clockwork': {'enabled': True}}, live_paths=[('clock',)])
-
-
-# --- 3 and 4. a stopped display -----------------------------------------------------
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def no_display(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
-    """A Pi whose display service has stopped: the socket is expected here
-    but does not answer, and systemd took the heartbeat's directory away."""
-    monkeypatch.setattr(display_state, 'socket_supported', lambda: True)
-    monkeypatch.setattr(display_state, 'client_socket_paths', lambda: [str(tmp_path / 'gone')])
-    monkeypatch.setattr(display_state, 'read_state', lambda: None)
-    path = tmp_path / 'display-heartbeat.json'
-    monkeypatch.setattr(display_watchdog, 'HEARTBEAT_PATH', str(path))
-
-    def beat(age, pid=None):
-        path.write_text(json.dumps({'pid': os.getpid() if pid is None else pid,
-                                    'mono': time.monotonic() - age,
-                                    'wall': time.time() - age}))
-    return beat
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def service(monkeypatch):
-    status = {'active': False, 'returncode': 3, 'stdout': 'inactive', 'stderr': ''}
-    monkeypatch.setattr('web_interface.blueprints.api_v3.misc._get_display_service_status',
-                        lambda: dict(status))
-    return status
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def fresh_preview(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
-    """The preview frame the display left behind, under 60 s old: on its own
-    it kept the hardware check "connected"."""
-    from web_interface import display_preview
-    snapshot = tmp_path / 'preview.png'
-    snapshot.write_bytes(b'png')
-    monkeypatch.setattr(display_preview, 'SNAPSHOT_PATH', str(snapshot))
-
-
-def _health(client):
-    resp = client.get('/api/v3/health')
-    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.get_json()
-    return resp.get_json()['data']
-
-
-class TestHealth:
-    def test_a_stopped_display_service_is_degraded(self, api_v3_client, no_display, service,
-                                                   fresh_preview):
-        data = _health(api_v3_client)
-        assert data['services']['display_service']['status'] == 'inactive'
-        assert data['checks']['display_loop']['status'] == 'stopped'
-        assert data['status'] == 'degraded'
-
-    def test_a_service_still_starting_is_not(self, api_v3_client, no_display, service,
-                                             fresh_preview):
-        """Active, before its socket and first heartbeat: not stopped."""
-        service.update(active=True, stdout='active', returncode=0)
-        data = _health(api_v3_client)
-        assert data['checks']['display_loop']['status'] == 'not_reported'
-        assert data['status'] == 'healthy'
-
-    def test_a_display_run_by_hand_is_not_stopped(self, api_v3_client, no_display, service,
-                                                  fresh_preview):
-        """The service is off but a display process beats (sudo python3 run.py)."""
-        no_display(age=2)
-        data = _health(api_v3_client)
-        assert data['checks']['display_loop']['status'] == 'running'
-        assert data['status'] == 'healthy'
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize('platform', ['no_unix_sockets', 'socket_off'])
-    def test_without_a_socket_to_expect_nothing_changes(self, api_v3_client, no_display,
-                                                        service, fresh_preview, monkeypatch,
-                                                        platform):
-        """Windows and the dev server (no systemd unit), or the socket
-        deliberately off: no heartbeat is no signal, as before."""
-        if platform == 'no_unix_sockets':
-            monkeypatch.setattr(display_state, 'socket_supported', lambda: False)
-        else:
-            monkeypatch.setattr(display_state, 'client_socket_paths', lambda: [])
-        service.update(returncode=-1, stdout='', stderr='systemctl not found')
-        data = _health(api_v3_client)
-        assert data['checks']['display_loop']['status'] == 'not_reported'
-        assert data['status'] == 'healthy'
-
-    def test_the_status_only_answer_says_degraded(self, api_v3_client, no_display, service,
-                                                  fresh_preview, monkeypatch):
-        monkeypatch.setattr('web_interface.blueprints.api_v3.misc.request_is_authenticated',
-                            lambda: False)
-        resp = api_v3_client.get('/api/v3/health')
-        assert resp.get_json()['data'] == {'status': 'degraded'}
-
-
-class TestCurrentStatus:
-    CACHED = {'mode': 'clock', 'plugin_id': 'clock', 'is_display_active': True,
-              'on_demand_active': False, 'last_updated': None}
-
-    @pytest.fixture
-    def cached(self, api_v3_module):
-        entry = dict(self.CACHED, last_updated=time.time() - 30)
-        cache = api_v3_module.api_v3.cache_manager
-        cache.get.side_effect = lambda key, *a, **kw: (
-            dict(entry) if key == 'display_current_state' else None)
-        return entry
-
-    def _status(self, client):
-        resp = client.get('/api/v3/display/current-status')
-        assert resp.status_code == 200
-        return resp.get_json()['data']
-
-    def test_a_stopped_display_is_not_reported_active(self, api_v3_client, no_display, cached):
-        data = self._status(api_v3_client)
-        assert not data.get('is_display_active')
-        assert data['mode'] is None and data['last_updated'] is None
-        assert data['source'] == 'cache'
-
-    def test_a_stale_heartbeat_is_not_active_either(self, api_v3_client, no_display, cached):
-        no_display(age=display_watchdog.HEARTBEAT_STALE_SECONDS + 5)
-        assert self._status(api_v3_client)['mode'] is None
-
-    @pytest.mark.skipif(os.name != 'posix', reason='process_exists answers only on POSIX')
-    def test_a_heartbeat_from_a_dead_process_is_not_active(self, api_v3_client, no_display,
-                                                           cached):
-        no_display(age=1, pid=2 ** 22 + 12345)
-        assert self._status(api_v3_client)['mode'] is None
-
-    def test_a_live_heartbeat_without_a_socket_reads_the_cache(self, api_v3_client,
-                                                               no_display, cached):
-        """An older display with no socket, still running."""
-        no_display(age=2)
-        data = self._status(api_v3_client)
-        assert data['mode'] == 'clock' and data['is_display_active'] is True
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize('platform', ['no_unix_sockets', 'socket_off'])
-    def test_without_a_socket_to_expect_the_cache_answers(self, api_v3_client, no_display,
-                                                          cached, monkeypatch, platform):
-        if platform == 'no_unix_sockets':
-            monkeypatch.setattr(display_state, 'socket_supported', lambda: False)
-        else:
-            monkeypatch.setattr(display_state, 'client_socket_paths', lambda: [])
-        data = self._status(api_v3_client)
-        assert data['mode'] == 'clock' and data['is_display_active'] is True

test/test_espn_dates.py

@@ -489,171 +489,3 @@ class TestConcurrency:
 
         assert live["peak"] <= espn_dates.ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS
         assert live["peak"] > 1, "chunks should actually overlap"
-
-
-class TestEdgeMonths:
-    """A window's partial edge months are asked whole and trimmed.
-
-    The default scoreboard window -- a fortnight either side of today -- spans
-    two partial months, so it used to cost 29 day requests per league. ESPN's
-    ``dates=YYYYMMDD`` means a US Eastern day (verified against the live API
-    on 2026-10-03, 417 of 417 soccer events), so a month answer trimmed to
-    the window's Eastern days is what the day requests returned.
-    """
-
-    def test_a_fortnight_either_side_is_two_requests(self):
-        planned = espn_dates.espn_request_chunks(date(2026, 9, 20), date(2026, 10, 18))
-        assert planned == [
-            ("202609", (date(2026, 9, 20), date(2026, 9, 30))),
-            ("202610", (date(2026, 10, 1), date(2026, 10, 18))),
-        ]
-
-    def test_a_live_polls_two_days_stay_two_days(self):
-        planned = espn_dates.espn_request_chunks(date(2026, 10, 2), date(2026, 10, 3))
-        assert planned == [("20261002", None), ("20261003", None)]
-
-    def test_the_threshold_is_inclusive(self):
-        n = espn_dates.ESPN_MONTH_COVER_MIN_DAYS
-        short = espn_dates.espn_request_chunks(date(2026, 10, 1), date(2026, 10, n - 1))
-        assert [chunk for chunk, _ in short] == [
-            "202610%02d" % day for day in range(1, n)]
-        enough = espn_dates.espn_request_chunks(date(2026, 10, 1), date(2026, 10, n))
-        assert enough == [("202610", (date(2026, 10, 1), date(2026, 10, n)))]
-
-    def test_whole_months_and_short_edges_are_unchanged(self):
-        planned = espn_dates.espn_request_chunks(date(2026, 8, 30), date(2026, 10, 2))
-        assert planned == [
-            ("20260830", None), ("20260831", None), ("202609", None),
-            ("20261001", None), ("20261002", None),
-        ]
-
-    def test_without_time_zone_data_edges_stay_days(self, monkeypatch):
-        monkeypatch.setattr(espn_dates, "_EASTERN", None)
-        planned = espn_dates.espn_request_chunks(date(2026, 9, 20), date(2026, 10, 18))
-        assert len(planned) == 29
-        assert all(trim is None for _, trim in planned)
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("start,end", [
-        (date(2026, 9, 20), date(2026, 10, 18)),
-        (date(2026, 1, 25), date(2026, 3, 3)),
-        (date(2026, 12, 20), date(2027, 1, 9)),
-        (date(2026, 10, 5), date(2026, 10, 9)),
-    ])
-    def test_the_planned_requests_still_cover_every_day_exactly_once(self, start, end):
-        covered = []
-        for chunk, trim in espn_dates.espn_request_chunks(start, end):
-            if trim is None:
-                covered.extend(days_covered_by([chunk]))
-            else:
-                assert chunk == trim[0].strftime("%Y%m") == trim[1].strftime("%Y%m")
-                covered.extend(trim[0] + timedelta(days=offset)
-                               for offset in range((trim[1] - trim[0]).days + 1))
-        expected = [start + timedelta(days=offset) for offset in range((end - start).days + 1)]
-        assert covered == expected
-
-    def test_a_trimmed_month_keeps_only_the_windows_eastern_days(self):
-        september = [
-            # 03:30Z on the 20th is still the 19th in New York: outside.
-            {"id": "before", "date": "2026-09-20T03:30Z"},
-            {"id": "first", "date": "2026-09-20T14:00Z"},
-            {"id": "late", "date": "2026-09-30T23:30Z"},
-        ]
-        october = [
-            {"id": "oct1", "date": "2026-10-01T19:00Z"},
-            # 03:30Z on the 19th is the evening of the 18th in New York: inside.
-            {"id": "last", "date": "2026-10-19T03:30Z"},
-            {"id": "after", "date": "2026-10-19T14:00Z"},
-            {"id": "undated"},
-        ]
-        session = FakeSession({"202609": september, "202610": october})
-
-        data = fetch_espn_date_chunks(session, URL, params={"dates": "20260920-20261018"})
-
-        assert sorted(call["dates"] for call in session.calls) == ["202609", "202610"]
-        # An event with no readable date is kept, never dropped on a guess.
-        assert [e["id"] for e in data["events"]] == ["first", "late", "oct1", "last", "undated"]
-
-    def test_eastern_standard_time_is_honoured_after_the_clocks_change(self):
-        # 2026-11-01 ends daylight saving: Eastern is UTC-5 from then on.
-        november = [
-            {"id": "out", "date": "2026-11-15T04:30Z"},  # Nov 14, 23:30 EST
-            {"id": "in", "date": "2026-11-15T05:30Z"},   # Nov 15, 00:30 EST
-        ]
-        session = FakeSession({"202611": november})
-        data = fetch_espn_date_chunks(session, URL, params={"dates": "20261115-20261121"})
-        assert [e["id"] for e in data["events"]] == ["in"]
-
-    def test_a_capped_edge_month_re_asks_only_the_windows_days(self):
-        full = [{"id": "cap%d" % i, "date": "2026-10-05T18:00Z"} for i in range(ESPN_MAX_LIMIT)]
-        by_chunk = {"202610": full}
-        by_chunk.update({"202610%02d" % day: [{"id": "o%02d" % day}] for day in range(1, 32)})
-        session = FakeSession(by_chunk)
-
-        data = fetch_espn_date_chunks(session, URL, params={"dates": "20261001-20261010"})
-
-        sent = [call["dates"] for call in session.calls]
-        assert sent[0] == "202610"
-        assert sorted(sent[1:]) == ["202610%02d" % day for day in range(1, 11)]
-        assert [e["id"] for e in data["events"]] == ["o%02d" % day for day in range(1, 11)]
-
-
-class TestProcessWideChunkCap:
-    """The chunk cap holds across windows, not per window.
-
-    A soccer board starting eight leagues fetches sixteen windows at once.
-    With a pool of ``ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS`` each, ~40 requests were in flight
-    and every one past a session's pool opened a connection -- and a DNS
-    lookup. On ledpi that was ~90 NameResolutionErrors per start.
-    """
-
-    def test_concurrent_windows_share_one_budget(self):
-        live = {"now": 0, "peak": 0}
-        guard = threading.Lock()
-
-        class CountingSession(FakeSession):
-            def get(self, url, params=None, headers=None, timeout=None):
-                with guard:
-                    live["now"] += 1
-                    live["peak"] = max(live["peak"], live["now"])
-                try:
-                    time.sleep(0.01)
-                    return super().get(url, params=params, headers=headers, timeout=timeout)
-                finally:
-                    with guard:
-                        live["now"] -= 1
-
-        sessions = [CountingSession() for _ in range(6)]
-        # Six leagues, so the fetch service cannot merge them into one, on a
-        # host with no token bucket: earlier tests may have spent ESPN's
-        # burst, and a bucket paced at 20/s would serialise these by itself.
-        threads = [
-            threading.Thread(target=fetch_espn_date_chunks,
-                             args=(session, "https://scores.example.test/league%d" % index),
-                             kwargs={"params": {"dates": "20260101-20261231"}})
-            for index, session in enumerate(sessions)
-        ]
-        for thread in threads:
-            thread.start()
-        for thread in threads:
-            thread.join(timeout=30)
-
-        assert all(len(session.calls) == 12 for session in sessions)
-        assert live["peak"] <= espn_dates.ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS
-        assert live["peak"] > 1, "chunks should still overlap"
-
-
-def test_a_fresh_process_skips_the_doomed_range_request():
-    """Every start used to spend one 400 per window learning that ranges are
-    still rejected -- eleven at once from a soccer board. A new process now
-    starts inside the retry period instead."""
-    import subprocess
-    import sys
-    from pathlib import Path
-
-    out = subprocess.run(
-        [sys.executable, "-c",
-         "import src.common.espn_dates as e; print(e._ranges_known_rejected())"],
-        cwd=str(Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]),
-        capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=60,
-    )
-    assert out.stdout.strip() == "True", out.stderr

test/test_fetch_service.py

@@ -670,14 +670,14 @@ class TestCallerIdentity:
         assert _counters(global_service, plugin="football-scoreboard")["requests"] == 1
 
     def test_espn_chunks_on_worker_threads_count_against_the_caller(self, global_service):
-        from src.common.espn_dates import espn_request_chunks, fetch_espn_date_chunks, parse_espn_date_range
+        from src.common.espn_dates import espn_date_chunks, fetch_espn_date_chunks, parse_espn_date_range
 
         session = FakeSession(lambda url, kw: make_response(body=b'{"events": []}', url=url))
         dates = "20260801-20261015"
         with plugin_scope("baseball-scoreboard"):
             fetch_espn_date_chunks(session, "https://site.api.espn.com/s/scoreboard",
                                    params={"dates": dates})
-        chunks = len(espn_request_chunks(*parse_espn_date_range(dates)))
+        chunks = len(espn_date_chunks(*parse_espn_date_range(dates)))
         assert chunks > 1
         assert len(session.calls) == chunks
         assert _counters(global_service, plugin="baseball-scoreboard")["requests"] == chunks

test/test_on_demand_live_and_restore.py

@@ -1,162 +0,0 @@
-"""Two on-demand edges seen on a rig.
-
-  * A request naming a ``*_live`` mode got HTTP 200 and a different mode on
-    the panel. The session's mode list kept live modes only when the plugin's
-    has_live_content() said so, and that is the live-priority question,
-    which the sports plugins answer for favourite teams only: fifteen college
-    games on, no favourite playing, and ``ncaa_fb_live`` became
-    ``nfl_recent``.
-  * A restart during a session whose plugin then failed to load (its config
-    no longer validated) logged "No valid display modes found ... after
-    restoration" and left the session active with no modes: published as
-    active for a plugin that was not running, with its cached request kept
-    for the next restart.
-"""
-
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock
-
-import pytest
-
-SPORTS_MODES = ['nfl_live', 'nfl_recent', 'nfl_upcoming',
-                'ncaa_fb_live', 'ncaa_fb_recent', 'ncaa_fb_upcoming']
-
-
-def _sports_plugin(has_live_content=False):
-    plugin = MagicMock(spec=['display', 'has_live_content', 'has_live_priority',
-                             'get_live_modes'])
-    plugin.has_live_content.return_value = has_live_content
-    plugin.has_live_priority.return_value = True
-    plugin.get_live_modes.return_value = []
-    return plugin
-
-
-def _register(controller, plugin_id, modes, plugin):
-    controller.plugin_display_modes[plugin_id] = list(modes)
-    for mode in modes:
-        controller.plugin_modes[mode] = plugin
-        controller.mode_to_plugin_id[mode] = plugin_id
-        if mode not in controller.available_modes:
-            controller.available_modes.append(mode)
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def football(test_display_controller):
-    c = test_display_controller
-    _register(c, 'football-scoreboard', SPORTS_MODES, _sports_plugin())
-    return c
-
-
-class TestANamedLiveModeIsShown:
-
-    def test_it_is_the_first_screen(self, football):
-        football._activate_on_demand({'plugin_id': 'football-scoreboard',
-                                      'mode': 'ncaa_fb_live'})
-        assert football.on_demand_active
-        assert football.current_display_mode == 'ncaa_fb_live'
-        assert football.on_demand_mode == 'ncaa_fb_live'
-
-    def test_the_plugins_other_modes_follow_it(self, football):
-        football._activate_on_demand({'plugin_id': 'football-scoreboard',
-                                      'mode': 'ncaa_fb_live'})
-        assert football.on_demand_modes[0] == 'ncaa_fb_live'
-        assert set(football.on_demand_modes[1:]) == {
-            'nfl_recent', 'nfl_upcoming', 'ncaa_fb_recent', 'ncaa_fb_upcoming'}
-
-    def test_pinned_holds_it(self, football):
-        football._activate_on_demand({'plugin_id': 'football-scoreboard',
-                                      'mode': 'ncaa_fb_live', 'pinned': True})
-        assert football.on_demand_modes == ['ncaa_fb_live']
-
-    def test_a_bare_plugin_request_still_skips_quiet_live_modes(self, football):
-        """Only a mode asked for by name is kept: a plugin-only request
-        resolves to the plugin's first mode (nfl_live), and opening on an
-        empty live screen there is what the ordering exists to avoid."""
-        football._activate_on_demand({'plugin_id': 'football-scoreboard'})
-        assert not any(m.endswith('_live') for m in football.on_demand_modes)
-
-    def test_a_named_second_live_mode_with_content_leads(self, test_display_controller):
-        """With live content both live modes are kept, nfl_live first; a
-        request naming ncaa_fb_live must still open on it, not rotate away."""
-        c = test_display_controller
-        _register(c, 'football-scoreboard', SPORTS_MODES, _sports_plugin(has_live_content=True))
-        c._activate_on_demand({'plugin_id': 'football-scoreboard', 'mode': 'ncaa_fb_live'})
-        assert c.on_demand_modes[0] == 'ncaa_fb_live'
-        assert c.on_demand_modes.count('ncaa_fb_live') == 1
-        assert 'nfl_live' in c.on_demand_modes[1:]
-
-    def test_the_named_mode_survives_a_restart(self, football):
-        football._activate_on_demand({'plugin_id': 'football-scoreboard',
-                                      'mode': 'ncaa_fb_live'})
-        saved = football.cache_manager.set.call_args_list[-1]
-        assert saved.args[0] == 'display_on_demand_config'
-        config = saved.args[1]
-        assert config['named_mode'] == 'ncaa_fb_live'
-
-        football._reset_on_demand_fields()
-        football._select_startup_plugins(['football-scoreboard'], config)
-        football._populate_on_demand_modes_from_plugin()
-        assert football.on_demand_modes[football.on_demand_mode_index] == 'ncaa_fb_live'
-
-
-class TestARestoreWithNothingToResume:
-
-    @pytest.fixture
-    def restored(self, test_display_controller):
-        c = test_display_controller
-        c.config['clock-simple'] = {'enabled': True}
-        c._select_startup_plugins(['clock-simple'],
-                                  {'plugin_id': 'clock-simple', 'mode': 'clock-simple'})
-        assert c.on_demand_active
-        # The plugin's load then fails: nothing is registered for it.
-        c.cache_manager.clear_cache.reset_mock()
-        c._populate_on_demand_modes_from_plugin()
-        return c
-
-    def test_the_session_ends(self, restored):
-        assert not restored.on_demand_active
-        assert restored.on_demand_plugin_id is None
-        assert not restored.on_demand_schedule_override
-
-    def test_it_is_reported_as_an_error(self, restored):
-        assert restored.on_demand_status == 'error'
-        assert restored.on_demand_last_error == 'restore-failed'
-        # The last on-demand state write, not the last write of any key: the
-        # font-usage publisher thread writes its own key at its own pace.
-        published = [c for c in restored.cache_manager.set.call_args_list
-                     if c.args and c.args[0] == 'display_on_demand_state'][-1]
-        assert published.args[1]['status'] == 'error'
-        assert published.args[1]['error'] == 'restore-failed'
-
-    def test_the_cached_request_is_dropped(self, restored):
-        restored.cache_manager.clear_cache.assert_any_call('display_on_demand_config')
-
-
-def test_a_plugin_system_failure_ends_a_cached_session_not_yet_restored(
-        mock_config_manager, mock_display_manager, mock_cache_manager,
-        test_config_with_plugins, emulator_mode):
-    """Initialization can fail before the cached session is read, with
-    on_demand_active still False: the session must still end, visibly."""
-    from unittest.mock import patch
-    from src.display_controller import DisplayController
-
-    mock_config_manager.get_config.return_value = test_config_with_plugins
-    mock_config_manager.load_config.return_value = test_config_with_plugins
-    mock_cache_manager._memory_cache['display_on_demand_config'] = {
-        'plugin_id': 'clock-simple', 'mode': 'clock-simple'}
-    with patch('src.display_controller.ConfigManager', return_value=mock_config_manager), \
-         patch('src.display_controller.DisplayManager', return_value=mock_display_manager), \
-         patch('src.display_controller.CacheManager', return_value=mock_cache_manager), \
-         patch('src.display_controller.FontManager'), \
-         patch('src.plugin_system.PluginManager', side_effect=RuntimeError("boom")):
-        controller = DisplayController()
-        try:
-            assert controller.plugin_manager is None
-            assert not controller.on_demand_active
-            assert controller.on_demand_status == 'error'
-            assert controller.on_demand_last_error == 'restore-failed'
-            mock_cache_manager.clear_cache.assert_any_call('display_on_demand_config')
-        finally:
-            try:
-                controller.cleanup()
-            except Exception:
-                pass

test/test_run_loop_golden.py

@@ -133,32 +133,6 @@ def scenario_on_demand_restored(h: RunLoopHarness):
     h.restore_on_demand("sports", mode="sports_upcoming", duration=40)
 
 
-def scenario_on_demand_named_live(h: RunLoopHarness):
-    # Games are on until t=70, but none involves a favourite, so
-    # has_live_content() (the live-priority answer) stays False throughout.
-    # A request naming sports_live still opens on it (it opened on
-    # sports_recent); asked for again after the games end, it has nothing to
-    # draw and the session moves on to the plugin's next mode.
-    h.add_plugin(FakePlugin("clock", ["clock"], duration=20))
-    h.add_plugin(FakePlugin(
-        "sports", ["sports_live", "sports_recent", "sports_upcoming"], duration=15,
-        live_priority=True,
-        content=lambda t, mode: mode != "sports_live" or t < 70))
-    h.on_demand_request(5, "n1", plugin_id="sports", mode="sports_live")
-    h.on_demand_request(40, "n2", action="stop")
-    h.on_demand_request(100, "n3", plugin_id="sports", mode="sports_live")
-    h.on_demand_request(140, "n4", action="stop")
-
-
-def scenario_on_demand_restore_failed(h: RunLoopHarness):
-    # A restart during a session whose plugin then fails to load: the
-    # session ends as an error before the first screen, and the rotation
-    # runs normally from the top.
-    h.add_plugin(FakePlugin("clock", ["clock"], duration=20))
-    h.add_plugin(FakePlugin("weather", ["weather"], duration=20))
-    h.restore_on_demand("gone", mode="gone", duration=40)
-
-
 def scenario_schedule(h: RunLoopHarness):
     # The clock starts at 22:59:30. Off from 23:01 until 23:05 (the window
     # spans midnight); dimmed from 23:00 until 23:01.
@@ -220,8 +194,6 @@ SCENARIOS = {
     "on_demand": (scenario_on_demand, 240),
     "on_demand_pinned": (scenario_on_demand_pinned, 160),
     "on_demand_restored": (scenario_on_demand_restored, 100),
-    "on_demand_named_live": (scenario_on_demand_named_live, 160),
-    "on_demand_restore_failed": (scenario_on_demand_restore_failed, 60),
     "schedule": (scenario_schedule, 400),
     "wifi_notice": (scenario_wifi_notice, 150),
     "follower": (scenario_follower, 80),

test/test_snapshot_owed_frame.py

@@ -1,183 +0,0 @@
-"""A frame the preview throttle skipped still reaches the snapshot.
-
-The preview snapshot (/api/v3/display/current, the web UI's live preview) is
-only written from update_display(), at most once per write interval. A screen
-that draws its card once and then holds it -- soccer's recent/upcoming cards
-skip redundant redraws -- pushes exactly one frame. When that push lands inside
-the interval, e.g. a few milliseconds after the on-demand start's clear wrote a
-black frame, the throttle skips it and nothing ever writes it: on ledpi the
-preview stayed black for soccer's whole 15 s screen while the panel showed the
-card, and the next screen "rendered immediately".
-
-Runs the real DisplayManager on the emulator, like test_display_dirty_tracking.
-"""
-
-import os
-import sys
-import types
-
-os.environ["EMULATOR"] = "true"
-
-import pytest
-from PIL import Image
-
-sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
-def dm(tmp_path_factory):
-    from src.display_manager import DisplayManager
-    DisplayManager._instance = None
-    manager = DisplayManager({
-        "display": {
-            "hardware": {"rows": 32, "cols": 64, "chain_length": 2,
-                         "parallel": 1, "brightness": 90},
-            "runtime": {"gpio_slowdown": 0},
-        },
-    }, suppress_test_pattern=True)
-    manager._snapshot_path = str(
-        tmp_path_factory.mktemp("owed_snapshot") / "led_matrix_preview.png")
-    yield manager
-    DisplayManager._instance = None
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def viewer(dm, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
-    """A preview is open (1 s write interval); fresh snapshot bookkeeping."""
-    monkeypatch.setattr(dm, "_viewer_is_fresh", lambda now: True)
-    dm._viewer_was_fresh = True
-    dm._snapshot_path = str(tmp_path / "snap.png")
-    dm._last_snapshot_ts = 0.0
-    dm._last_snapshot_touch_ts = 0.0
-    dm._last_snapshot_digest = None
-    dm._saved_snapshot_digest = None
-    dm._snapshot_owed = False
-    dm.set_scrolling_state(False)
-    return dm
-
-
-def _lit(path):
-    with Image.open(path) as img:
-        return sum(1 for p in img.convert("RGB").getdata() if max(p) > 20)
-
-
-def _age_last_write(dm, seconds=2.0):
-    """As if `seconds` had passed since the last snapshot write."""
-    dm._last_snapshot_ts -= seconds
-    dm._last_snapshot_touch_ts -= seconds
-
-
-def _clear_then_draw_card(dm):
-    """The on-demand start's clear, then the card a few ms later."""
-    dm.clear()
-    dm.update_display()                       # black frame: written
-    assert _lit(dm._snapshot_path) == 0
-    dm.draw.rectangle([4, 4, 40, 20], fill=(255, 255, 0))
-    dm.update_display()                       # the card: inside the interval
-
-
-def _controller(dm):
-    from src import display_controller as dc_module
-    controller = dc_module.DisplayController.__new__(dc_module.DisplayController)
-    controller.plugin_manager = None
-    controller.display_manager = dm
-    return controller
-
-
-class _HoldingPlugin:
-    """Already showing its card: display() returns True and draws nothing."""
-
-    plugin_id = "holding"
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        self.calls = 0
-
-    def display(self, display_mode=None, force_clear=False):
-        self.calls += 1
-        return True
-
-
-def test_a_held_card_reaches_the_preview_on_the_next_frame(viewer):
-    dm = viewer
-    _clear_then_draw_card(dm)
-    assert _lit(dm._snapshot_path) == 0       # the throttle skipped the card
-
-    controller = _controller(dm)
-    plugin = _HoldingPlugin()
-    _age_last_write(dm)
-    # The render loop's next frame: the plugin draws nothing and makes no
-    # update_display() call, as soccer's switch cards do.
-    assert controller._display_once(plugin, "soccer_eng.1_recent", True) is True
-    assert plugin.calls == 1
-    assert _lit(dm._snapshot_path) > 0
-
-
-def test_the_owed_write_still_waits_out_the_interval(viewer, monkeypatch):
-    dm = viewer
-    _clear_then_draw_card(dm)
-    saves = []
-    monkeypatch.setattr(dm, "_save_snapshot", lambda image: saves.append(image))
-    dm.write_owed_snapshot()                  # still inside the interval
-    assert saves == []
-    _age_last_write(dm)
-    dm.write_owed_snapshot()
-    assert len(saves) == 1
-    # Written: nothing is owed, so later frames do no work and the unchanged
-    # frame is not encoded again.
-    assert dm._snapshot_owed is False
-    _age_last_write(dm)
-    dm.write_owed_snapshot()
-    assert len(saves) == 1
-
-
-def test_a_failed_owed_write_stays_owed_and_is_retried(viewer, monkeypatch):
-    dm = viewer
-    _clear_then_draw_card(dm)
-    _age_last_write(dm)
-    attempts = []
-
-    def failing_save(image):
-        attempts.append(image)
-        raise OSError("disk full")
-
-    monkeypatch.setattr(dm, "_save_snapshot", failing_save)
-    dm.write_owed_snapshot()                  # the write fails
-    assert len(attempts) == 1
-    assert dm._snapshot_owed is True          # still owed: a held screen
-    saves = []                                # makes no update_display()
-    monkeypatch.setattr(dm, "_save_snapshot", lambda image: saves.append(image))
-    dm.write_owed_snapshot()                  # retried on the next frame
-    assert len(saves) == 1
-    assert dm._snapshot_owed is False
-
-
-def test_nothing_owed_after_a_frame_that_was_written(viewer, monkeypatch):
-    dm = viewer
-    dm.draw.rectangle([0, 0, 8, 8], fill=(0, 255, 0))
-    dm.update_display()                       # due: written at once
-    assert dm._snapshot_owed is False
-    calls = []
-    monkeypatch.setattr(dm, "_write_snapshot_if_due",
-                        lambda *a, **k: calls.append(a))
-    dm.write_owed_snapshot()
-    assert calls == []
-
-
-def test_an_unchanged_frame_inside_the_interval_is_not_owed(viewer):
-    dm = viewer
-    dm.draw.rectangle([0, 0, 8, 8], fill=(0, 0, 255))
-    dm.update_display()
-    dm.update_display()                       # same frame, inside the interval
-    assert dm._snapshot_owed is False
-
-
-def test_a_controller_without_the_hook_still_draws():
-    """Controllers built without a display manager (tests) are unaffected."""
-    from src import display_controller as dc_module
-    controller = dc_module.DisplayController.__new__(dc_module.DisplayController)
-    controller.plugin_manager = None
-    plugin = _HoldingPlugin()
-    assert controller._display_once(plugin, "x", True) is True
-    controller.display_manager = types.SimpleNamespace()
-    assert controller._display_once(plugin, "x", True) is True
-    assert plugin.calls == 2

test/test_state_stream_readers.py

@@ -612,12 +612,6 @@ class TestEndToEnd:
         cached['display_current_state'] = {'mode': 'from-cache', 'last_updated': 1}
         path = str(tmp_path / 'control.sock')
         monkeypatch.setenv(c.SOCKET_PATH_ENV, path)
-        # The display is this process, and its render loop is beating: the
-        # cache is then still its answer once the socket goes.
-        heartbeat = tmp_path / 'display-heartbeat.json'
-        heartbeat.write_text(json.dumps({'pid': os.getpid(), 'mono': time.monotonic(),
-                                         'wall': time.time()}))
-        monkeypatch.setattr(display_watchdog, 'HEARTBEAT_PATH', str(heartbeat))
         hub = _hub_with_everything()
         server = ControlServer(path, state_hub=hub, keepalive=0.2)
         assert server.start()
@@ -644,8 +638,3 @@ class TestEndToEnd:
                 break
             time.sleep(0.05)
         assert (data['mode'], data['source']) == ('from-cache', 'cache')
-        # Stopped: systemd takes the heartbeat's directory with it, and the
-        # cache's last answer is no longer anyone's.
-        heartbeat.unlink()
-        data = _data(client, '/api/v3/display/current-status')
-        assert (data['mode'], data['source']) == (None, 'cache')

test/test_vegas_static_mode.py

@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ class TestCoordinatorStaticPause:
     def _plugin(self):
         plugin = MagicMock()
         plugin.plugin_id = 'clock'
-        plugin.get_display_duration.return_value = 0
+        # A moment: zero would pause 15 s, as the rotation shows it.
+        plugin.get_display_duration.return_value = 0.01
         return plugin
 
     def test_trigger_comes_from_the_pipeline(self):

test/test_vegas_static_pause_duration.py

@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+"""A Vegas static pause lasts as long as the rotation shows the plugin.
+
+The pause asked the plugin for get_display_duration() and compared the
+answer with the clock. Several plugins (clock-simple, calendar, countdown)
+return their display_duration setting as it is in config.json, so one saved
+as "20" or null -- the raw config editor, a hand edit -- reached that
+comparison as a string or None. The TypeError went to the pause's broad
+except, which ended the pause: the plugin flashed up and the scroll went on,
+at every one of its turns. inf paused until something interrupted it, and
+NaN, False, 0 or a negative number ended the pause at once.
+
+The pause now reads the answer the way the rotation does since #739, with
+the same helper (base_plugin.finite_seconds): a numeric string counts;
+anything else that is not a finite number, or a raise, gets the rotation's
+30 s; a number at or below zero gets its 15 s.
+"""
+
+import logging
+import os
+import threading
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+os.environ.setdefault("EMULATOR", "true")
+
+import pytest
+
+from src.vegas_mode import coordinator
+
+NOT_NUMBERS = [None, '', 'twenty', True, False, float('nan'), float('inf'),
+               'inf', '1e400', [20], {'seconds': 20}]
+NOT_ABOVE_ZERO = [0, -5, '-5', '0']
+NUMBERS = [('20', 20.0), (' 7.5 ', 7.5), (12, 12.0), (12.5, 12.5)]
+
+
+class FakeClock:
+    """time.monotonic/time.sleep for the pause loop: sleeping moves the clock."""
+
+    #: A pause still going after this long never ends (inf did that).
+    LIMIT = 3600.0
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.now = 0.0
+
+    def monotonic(self):
+        return self.now
+
+    def sleep(self, seconds):
+        self.now += seconds
+        if self.now > self.LIMIT:
+            raise RuntimeError("the static pause never ended")
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def clock(monkeypatch):
+    fake = FakeClock()
+    monkeypatch.setattr(coordinator, 'time', fake)
+    return fake
+
+
+def _plugin(duration, plugin_id='clock-simple'):
+    plugin = MagicMock()
+    plugin.plugin_id = plugin_id
+    plugin.get_display_duration.return_value = duration
+    return plugin
+
+
+def _coord(*plugins):
+    coord = coordinator.VegasModeCoordinator.__new__(coordinator.VegasModeCoordinator)
+    coord.render_pipeline = MagicMock()
+    coord.render_pipeline.get_scroll_position.return_value = 0
+    coord.display_manager = MagicMock()
+    locks = {plugin.plugin_id: threading.Lock() for plugin in plugins}
+    coord.plugin_manager = SimpleNamespace(get_plugin_lock=locks.__getitem__)
+    coord._state_lock = threading.Lock()
+    coord._static_pause_active = False
+    coord._saved_scroll_position = None
+    coord._should_stop = False
+    coord._live_priority_active = False
+    coord._live_priority_check = None
+    coord._interrupt_check = None
+    coord.stats = {'static_pauses': 0}
+    return coord
+
+
+def _pause(coord, plugin, clock):
+    """One static pause: (whether it completed, how long it lasted)."""
+    start = clock.now
+    completed = coord._handle_static_pause(plugin)
+    return completed, clock.now - start
+
+
+class TestPauseLength:
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value, seconds', NUMBERS)
+    def test_numbers_and_numeric_strings_are_used(self, clock, value, seconds):
+        plugin = _plugin(value)
+        completed, lasted = _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is True
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(seconds, abs=0.15)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value', NOT_NUMBERS, ids=repr)
+    def test_anything_but_a_finite_number_pauses_for_30s(self, clock, value):
+        plugin = _plugin(value)
+        completed, lasted = _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is True
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(30.0, abs=0.15)
+        plugin.display.assert_called_once_with(force_clear=True)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value', NOT_ABOVE_ZERO, ids=repr)
+    def test_a_number_not_above_zero_pauses_for_15s(self, clock, value):
+        plugin = _plugin(value)
+        completed, lasted = _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is True
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(15.0, abs=0.15)
+
+    def test_a_raising_get_display_duration_pauses_for_30s(self, clock):
+        plugin = _plugin(None)
+        plugin.get_display_duration.side_effect = KeyError('display_duration')
+        completed, lasted = _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is True
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(30.0, abs=0.15)
+
+    def test_a_good_value_after_a_bad_one_is_used(self, clock):
+        plugin = _plugin(None)
+        coord = _coord(plugin)
+        assert _pause(coord, plugin, clock)[1] == pytest.approx(30.0, abs=0.15)
+        plugin.get_display_duration.return_value = 45
+        assert _pause(coord, plugin, clock)[1] == pytest.approx(45.0, abs=0.15)
+
+    def test_the_pause_can_still_be_interrupted(self, clock):
+        plugin = _plugin('twenty')
+        coord = _coord(plugin)
+        coord._interrupt_check = lambda: clock.now >= 5
+        completed, lasted = _pause(coord, plugin, clock)
+        assert completed is False
+        assert lasted == pytest.approx(5.0, abs=0.15)
+
+
+class TestWarning:
+    def test_logged_once_per_plugin(self, clock, caplog):
+        clock_plugin = _plugin('twenty')
+        calendar = _plugin(None, plugin_id='calendar')
+        coord = _coord(clock_plugin, calendar)
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger='src.vegas_mode.coordinator'):
+            for _ in range(3):
+                for plugin in (clock_plugin, calendar):
+                    coord._handle_static_pause(plugin)
+        warnings = [r.getMessage() for r in caplog.records
+                    if 'display duration' in r.getMessage()]
+        assert len(warnings) == 2
+        assert any('clock-simple' in m and "'twenty'" in m for m in warnings)
+        assert any('calendar' in m and 'None' in m for m in warnings)
+
+
+class TestFiniteSeconds:
+    """The shared rule: what counts as a number of seconds."""
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value, seconds', NUMBERS + [(0, 0.0), ('-5', -5.0)])
+    def test_numbers_and_numeric_strings(self, value, seconds):
+        from src.plugin_system.base_plugin import finite_seconds
+        result = finite_seconds(value)
+        assert result == seconds and isinstance(result, float)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value', NOT_NUMBERS + [pytest.param(10 ** 400, id='10**400')],
+                             ids=repr)
+    def test_anything_else_is_none(self, value):
+        from src.plugin_system.base_plugin import finite_seconds
+        assert finite_seconds(value) is None
+
+
+def _rotation_seconds(plugin):
+    """How long the rotation shows ``plugin`` (no dynamic duration, no
+    Rotation & Durations override): the two calls run() makes for a screen.
+    """
+    from src.display_controller import DisplayController
+    dc = object.__new__(DisplayController)
+    dc.config = {}
+    dc.plugin_modes = {'mode': plugin}
+    return dc._resolve_durations(plugin, 'mode', dc._get_display_duration('mode'), False)[1]
+
+
+class TestSameAsTheRotation:
+    """The pause and the rotation share finite_seconds; this pins their
+    fallbacks (30 s, 15 s) to each other too."""
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value', [value for value, _ in NUMBERS]
+                             + NOT_NUMBERS + NOT_ABOVE_ZERO, ids=repr)
+    def test_the_pause_lasts_as_long_as_the_rotation_shows_it(self, clock, value):
+        plugin = _plugin(value)
+        expected = _rotation_seconds(plugin)
+        assert _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)[1] == pytest.approx(expected, abs=0.15)
+
+    def test_a_raise_too(self, clock):
+        plugin = _plugin(None)
+        plugin.get_display_duration.side_effect = KeyError('display_duration')
+        expected = _rotation_seconds(plugin)
+        assert _pause(_coord(plugin), plugin, clock)[1] == pytest.approx(expected, abs=0.15)

test/web_interface/test_web_process_runs_no_plugin_code.py

@@ -221,9 +221,7 @@ class TestTheWebProcessNeverRunsAPlugin:
     def test_saving_its_section_through_the_main_config(self, web):
         body = web.post("/api/v3/config/main", {PLUGIN_ID: {"message": "via main"}})
         assert web.stored()["message"] == "via main"
-        # The display's config watcher hands the section to the running
-        # plugin (on_config_change), as for /plugins/config: no restart.
-        assert body["restart_required"] is False
+        assert body["restart_required"] is True
         assert web.ran() == []
 
     def test_resetting_its_config(self, web):

web_interface/blueprints/api_v3/config.py

@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ from src.pi5_matrix_support import is_raspberry_pi_5
 from web_interface.cache import invalidate_cache
 from web_interface.auth import SECTION as _WEB_AUTH_SECTION, strip_auth_section
 import web_interface.blueprints.api_v3 as _pkg
-import copy
-from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, Tuple
 
 # Read through the module rather than bound by value: tests patch these
 # as module attributes, and a value binding would not see the patch.
@@ -35,50 +33,6 @@ FORM_SECTION_FIELD = '__form_section'
 GENERAL_FIELDS = ('timezone', 'city', 'state', 'country', 'web_display_autostart',
                   'plugins_directory', 'auto_update_enabled', 'auto_update_channel')
 
-#: Settings in config.json the running display applies without a restart,
-#: as key paths (a path covers everything under it). Brightness goes over the
-#: control socket (brightness.set) and the config watcher's refresh
-#: (DisplayController._refresh_config_cache); the per-mode durations are read
-#: from the live config each time a mode starts (_get_display_duration).
-#: Plugin sections are live as well (each plugin's on_config_change), and
-#: save_main_config adds the ones a request saves.
-LIVE_CONFIG_PATHS: Tuple[Tuple[str, ...], ...] = (
-    ('display', 'hardware', 'brightness'),
-    ('display', 'display_durations'),
-)
-
-
-_MISSING = object()
-
-
-def _config_leaves(config: Any, prefix: Tuple[str, ...] = ()) -> Dict[Tuple[str, ...], Any]:
-    """Every non-dict value in ``config``, by key path. An empty dict has none,
-    so a section created empty on the way to a field is not a change."""
-    if not isinstance(config, dict):
-        return {prefix: config}
-    leaves: Dict[Tuple[str, ...], Any] = {}
-    for key, value in config.items():
-        leaves.update(_config_leaves(value, prefix + (str(key),)))
-    return leaves
-
-
-def restart_needed(before: Dict[str, Any], after: Dict[str, Any],
-                   live_paths: Iterable[Tuple[str, ...]] = LIVE_CONFIG_PATHS) -> bool:
-    """Does going from config ``before`` to ``after`` need a display restart?
-
-    True when anything changed outside ``live_paths``. A save that changes
-    only live settings, or nothing at all, does not.
-    """
-    live = tuple(live_paths)
-    old, new = _config_leaves(before), _config_leaves(after)
-    for path in set(old) | set(new):
-        if old.get(path, _MISSING) == new.get(path, _MISSING):
-            continue
-        if not any(path[:len(prefix)] == prefix for prefix in live):
-            return True
-    return False
-
-
 #: Top-level fields save_main_config stores somewhere of its own (location,
 #: plugin_system, ...), never as a config key of the same name.
 _MAPPED_TOP_LEVEL_FIELDS = GENERAL_FIELDS + (
@@ -118,22 +72,6 @@ def _day_setting(data, day, flat_key, nested_key):
     return False, None
 
 
-def _disabled_day_times(data, day, start_key, end_key):
-    """The times posted for a day that is off, the valid ones.
-
-    Nothing reads them while the day is off, but the schedule picker posts
-    them and GET returns them, so keeping them means turning the day back on
-    finds what was there. An invalid one is dropped rather than refused, for
-    the same reason.
-    """
-    times = {}
-    for field, key in (('start_time', start_key), ('end_time', end_key)):
-        value = _day_setting(data, day, key, field)[1]
-        if value and _validate_time_format(value)[0]:
-            times[field] = value
-    return times
-
-
 @api_v3.route('/config/main', methods=['GET'])
 def get_main_config():
     """Get main configuration, with credentials redacted."""
@@ -319,16 +257,11 @@ def save_schedule_config():
 
                     day_config['start_time'] = start_time
                     day_config['end_time'] = end_time
-                else:
-                    day_config.update(_disabled_day_times(data, day, start_key, end_key))
 
                 schedule_config['days'][day] = day_config
 
-            # An enabled per-day schedule needs a day to be on. A disabled
-            # one does not: every day off with the schedule off is what
-            # config.template.json ships, so refusing it meant a fresh
-            # install could not post back the schedule GET returned.
-            if enabled_days_count == 0 and enabled_value:
+            # Validate that at least one day is enabled in per-day mode
+            if enabled_days_count == 0:
                 return error_response(
                     ErrorCode.VALIDATION_ERROR,
                     "At least one day must be enabled in per-day schedule mode",
@@ -532,13 +465,11 @@ def save_dim_schedule_config():
 
                     day_config['start_time'] = start_time
                     day_config['end_time'] = end_time
-                else:
-                    day_config.update(_disabled_day_times(data, day, start_key, end_key))
 
                 dim_schedule_config['days'][day] = day_config
 
-            # As for the on/off schedule: only an enabled one needs a day on.
-            if enabled_days_count == 0 and enabled_value:
+            # Validate that at least one day is enabled in per-day mode
+            if enabled_days_count == 0:
                 return error_response(
                     ErrorCode.VALIDATION_ERROR,
                     "At least one day must be enabled in per-day dim schedule mode",
@@ -626,8 +557,6 @@ def save_main_config():
 
         # Merge with existing config (similar to original implementation)
         current_config = api_v3.config_manager.load_config()
-        # What was stored, to tell which settings this save changed.
-        stored_config = copy.deepcopy(current_config)
         was_auto_update_enabled = bool((current_config.get('auto_update') or {}).get('enabled'))
 
         is_general_update = any(k in data for k in GENERAL_FIELDS)
@@ -1265,15 +1194,13 @@ def save_main_config():
                 message = f'{message}. {note}'
         except Exception:
             logger.warning("Automatic update setup could not be started", exc_info=True)
-        # Display hardware, rotation order and general settings take effect
-        # after a display restart; the UI shows its restart banner on this
-        # flag. Brightness, mode durations and plugin settings are applied by
-        # the running display (LIVE_CONFIG_PATHS), so a save that changed
-        # only those -- or nothing -- does not ask for one.
-        live_paths = LIVE_CONFIG_PATHS + tuple((plugin_id,) for plugin_id in plugin_keys_to_remove)
-        extra = {'restart_required': restart_needed(stored_config, current_config, live_paths)}
-        # Over the control socket a saved brightness lands at once, instead
-        # of when the config watcher next looks (up to ~2 s).
+        # Display hardware, rotation/durations and general settings take
+        # effect after a display restart; the UI shows its restart banner on
+        # this flag.
+        extra = {'restart_required': True}
+        # Brightness is the exception: the display applies a saved one
+        # without a restart. Over the control socket it lands at once,
+        # instead of when the config watcher next looks (up to ~2 s).
         if 'brightness' in data:
             saved = (current_config.get('display', {}).get('hardware', {}) or {}).get('brightness')
             if isinstance(saved, int) and not isinstance(saved, bool):

web_interface/blueprints/api_v3/display.py

@@ -386,22 +386,15 @@ def get_current_display_status():
     Read from the display's state stream over the control socket when it is
     available (``source: "socket"``). Otherwise from what the display
     publishes to the shared cache (display_controller._publish_current_mode_state)
-    when the active mode changes (``source: "cache"``). Unknown (every field
-    None) when the socket and the heartbeat both say the display is gone
-    (display_state.display_gone).
+    when the active mode changes (``source: "cache"``).
     """
-    snapshot = display_state.read_state()
-    state = display_state.current_status(snapshot)
+    state = display_state.current_status(display_state.read_state())
     source = 'socket'
     if state is None:
         source = 'cache'
-        # A stopped display leaves its last answer in the cache, where it
-        # read as on (is_display_active: true) for the 120 s max_age. With
-        # no socket and no live heartbeat there is no display behind it.
-        if not display_state.display_gone(snapshot):
-            cache = _cache_manager()
-            # memory_ttl=0: written by the display service; see get_on_demand_status.
-            state = cache.get('display_current_state', max_age=120, memory_ttl=0)
+        cache = _cache_manager()
+        # memory_ttl=0: written by the display service; see get_on_demand_status.
+        state = cache.get('display_current_state', max_age=120, memory_ttl=0)
     if state is None:
         state = {
             'mode': None,

web_interface/blueprints/api_v3/misc.py

@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ def get_health():
         # the only signal, as it always was.
         # The display reports the same beat's age over the control socket's
         # state stream, measured in memory; the file is the fallback.
-        snapshot = None
         try:
             snapshot = display_state.read_state()
             if snapshot is not None:
@@ -133,26 +132,6 @@ def get_health():
                 'error': 'see logs for details'
             }
 
-        # A stopped display service. The heartbeat's absence alone says
-        # nothing (the dev server, the emulator and Windows write none), so
-        # the overall status stayed "healthy" with the display down until the
-        # last preview frame it left aged past 60 s (hardware: stale). Together
-        # the three signals are definite: systemd says the service is not
-        # active, the control socket does not answer, and there is no live
-        # heartbeat (display_state.display_gone, which is never true where
-        # the platform has no socket or it is switched off).
-        try:
-            if (not display_service_status.get('active')
-                    and display_state.display_gone(snapshot)):
-                health_status['checks']['display_loop'] = {
-                    'status': 'stopped',
-                    'note': 'The display service is not running',
-                    'source': 'service',
-                }
-        except Exception:
-            logger.warning("Health check could not tell whether the display is stopped",
-                           exc_info=True)
-
         # Check hardware connectivity (if display manager available)
         try:
             snapshot_path = display_preview.SNAPSHOT_PATH

web_interface/blueprints/api_v3/plugin_store.py

@@ -530,11 +530,13 @@ def install_plugin():
                     )
 
                 branch_msg = f" (branch: {branch})" if branch else ""
-                # plugin_id: the id to enable it by (see _installed_plugin_id).
+                # plugin_id: the id to enable it by, and the id its config
+                # section is under (see _installed_plugin_id).
+                installed_id = _installed_plugin_id(plugin_id)
                 return {'success': True,
                         'message': f'Plugin {plugin_id} installed successfully{branch_msg}',
-                        'plugin_id': _installed_plugin_id(plugin_id),
-                        **_store_restart_fields('install', _plugin_enabled_in_config(plugin_id))}
+                        'plugin_id': installed_id,
+                        **_store_restart_fields('install', _plugin_enabled_in_config(installed_id))}
             else:
                 error_msg = f'Failed to install plugin {plugin_id}'
                 if branch:
@@ -588,10 +590,11 @@ def install_plugin():
                 )
 
             branch_msg = f" (branch: {branch})" if branch else ""
+            installed_id = _installed_plugin_id(plugin_id)
             return success_response(
                 message=f'Plugin installed successfully{branch_msg}',
-                extra={'plugin_id': _installed_plugin_id(plugin_id),
-                       **_store_restart_fields('install', _plugin_enabled_in_config(plugin_id))})
+                extra={'plugin_id': installed_id,
+                       **_store_restart_fields('install', _plugin_enabled_in_config(installed_id))})
         else:
             error_msg = f'Failed to install plugin {plugin_id}'
             if branch:

web_interface/display_state.py

@@ -133,39 +133,6 @@ def on_demand_state(snapshot: Optional[Dict[str, Any]],
     return state
 
 
-def display_gone(snapshot: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]) -> bool:
-    """Is there positively no display behind a fallback to the cache?
-
-    True only when the socket should be there (this platform has one and it
-    is not switched off) but gave no ``snapshot``, and the render loop's
-    heartbeat file says nothing is running either: it is absent (systemd
-    removes its directory when the service stops), stale, or written by a
-    process that no longer exists -- #726's rules for the runtime snapshot.
-    Then what the display last left in the cache is a dead process's answer.
-
-    False whenever the answer is in doubt: a snapshot came in, the socket is
-    off or unsupported (Windows, the test suite, a deliberate ``off``), or a
-    live heartbeat says the display is running without a socket (an older
-    display). Those read the cache exactly as before.
-    """
-    if snapshot is not None:
-        return False
-    if not socket_supported() or not client_socket_paths():
-        return False
-    from src import display_watchdog
-    from src.plugin_system.plugin_runtime import process_exists
-    heartbeat = display_watchdog.read_heartbeat(display_watchdog.HEARTBEAT_PATH)
-    if heartbeat is None:
-        return True
-    age = display_watchdog.heartbeat_age(heartbeat)
-    if age is None or age >= display_watchdog.HEARTBEAT_STALE_SECONDS:
-        return True
-    pid = heartbeat.get('pid')
-    if isinstance(pid, int) and not isinstance(pid, bool) and process_exists(pid) is False:
-        return True
-    return False
-
-
 def loop_heartbeat_age(snapshot: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]) -> Optional[float]:
     """The render loop's heartbeat age now; None when the display has no
     beat to report yet (or there is no snapshot)."""
@@ -174,5 +141,5 @@ def loop_heartbeat_age(snapshot: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]) -> Optional[float]:
     return control_client.snapshot_loop_age(snapshot)
 
 
-__all__ = ['current_status', 'display_gone', 'loop_heartbeat_age', 'on_demand_state',
-           'read_state', 'stop_subscription']
+__all__ = ['current_status', 'loop_heartbeat_age', 'on_demand_state', 'read_state',
+           'stop_subscription']