Merge main into feat/plugin-composer, and fix three review findings

The branch was 57 commits behind and conflicting. I had put the rebase
aside earlier as needing the author's eyes, on the grounds that the PR is
+5091 lines -- but that was the wrong measure. The actual conflict was a
single hunk in app.css, where this branch adds .md\:inline and main added
.md\:block and .md\:w-auto at the same place. All three are kept.

Merging rather than rebasing: the branch is public and 57 commits behind,
so a rebase would rewrite shared history for a force-push.

Three findings fixed on top:

A missing `text` or `format` was a 500. `p` is a copy of the raw element
and the defaults were applied to the locals t1/fmt1 only, so an element
omitting either key left it absent, manager.py.j2 rendered
`{{ el.text | tojson }}` over a jinja2.Undefined, and tojson raised
TypeError -- which no handler catches:

    text without 'text':    TypeError: Object of type Undefined is not
                            JSON serializable
    clock without 'format': same

Both keys are now set explicitly. Verified: removing either assignment
fails 4 of the new tests.

E741 on my own injection-test file: two `for i, l in enumerate(...)`
loops, which ruff rejects and would fail a lint-gated build. Renamed.
Ruff now clean on all three files this PR touches.

Not done: registering composer_bp. This PR's own description gates it --
"Not yet wired up ... tracking as a follow-up", with an unchecked box for
"Register composer_bp in app.py before merging or exposing this route" --
so it is a deliberate decision, not an oversight. Confirmed the blueprint
appears in no register_blueprint call outside this branch's tests, which
also means the code-injection fixed earlier in this PR was never
reachable in a deployed instance. Worth fixing before the route is
exposed; not worth exposing the route to satisfy a review comment.

Verified on the merged tree: 3850 passed, 1 failed, 60 skipped. The
failure is test_install_lowmem's tmpfs assumption, which is fixed in #492
and not yet on main. The static audit now passes 3/3 -- the twelve
classes it flagged before were defined on main all along and only looked
missing because this branch was behind.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

docs/CONFIG_REFERENCE.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tooling against it.
 | `web_display_autostart` | bool, `true` | Whether the web interface service starts with the system | `scripts/utils/start_web_conditionally.py` |
 | `timezone` | string, `"America/New_York"` | IANA timezone for schedules and displays | `ConfigManager.get_timezone()` |
 | `target_fps` | int, `100` | Frame-rate ceiling for plugin rendering | `src/plugin_system/base_plugin.py`, `src/common/sports_scroll.py` |
-| `location` | object | `city` / `state` / `country`, offered to plugins that need a location (weather, etc.) | plugins via merged config |
+| `location` | object | `city` / `state` / `country`. Supplies the **default** for a plugin's own `location_city` / `location_state` / `location_country` setting, so weather, radar and friends follow this device without being configured twice. A value saved on the plugin itself still overrides it. | `SchemaManager.apply_device_location()`, then plugins via merged config |
 
 ## `schedule` — display on/off hours
 

src/base_classes/sports/modes.py

@@ -145,8 +145,7 @@ class SportsUpcoming(SportsCore):
                     if (game['home_abbr'] in self.favorite_teams or 
                         game['away_abbr'] in self.favorite_teams):
                         favorite_games_found += 1
-                    if self.show_odds:
-                        self._fetch_odds(game)
+                    # Odds are NOT fetched here -- see after selection below.
 
             # Enhanced logging for debugging
             self.logger.info(f"Found {all_upcoming_games} total upcoming games in data")
@@ -190,6 +189,20 @@ class SportsUpcoming(SportsCore):
                 # Limit to the specified number of upcoming games
                 team_games = team_games[:self.upcoming_games_to_show]
 
+            # Odds are fetched here, for the games that survived selection,
+            # rather than in the loop that collects them. That loop walks every
+            # upcoming game in the schedule window, and for a college league
+            # the window is enormous -- a live rig logged 946 upcoming games in
+            # one cycle and displayed 1 of them. The comment up there claimed
+            # odds were fetched "only for games that will be displayed", but
+            # the only narrowing it applied was show_favorite_teams_only, which
+            # is not the default; in the usual case nothing narrowed it at all
+            # and every game cost a separate ESPN request on a Pi that is also
+            # driving the panel.
+            if self.show_odds:
+                for game in team_games:
+                    self._fetch_odds(game)
+
             # Log changes or periodically
             should_log = (
                  current_time - self.last_log_time >= self.log_interval or

src/common/scroll_helper.py

@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ class ScrollHelper:
             elapsed_time = current_time - (self.scroll_start_time or current_time)
             # The image already includes display_width padding, so we only need total_scroll_width
             required_total_distance = self.total_scroll_width
-            self.logger.info(
+            self.logger.debug(
                 "Scroll progress: elapsed=%.2fs, target=%.2fs, total_scrolled=%.0f/%d px (%.1f%%)",
                 elapsed_time,
                 self.calculated_duration,

src/logging_config.py

@@ -130,7 +130,12 @@ def setup_logging(
     # Console handler (always add)
     console_handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
     console_handler.setLevel(level)
-    console_handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+    # Under systemd, tag each line so the journal records the real severity
+    # rather than filing everything as informational. The file handler below
+    # keeps the plain formatter: the prefix is meaningful to journald and noise
+    # anywhere else.
+    console_handler.setFormatter(
+        JournalPriorityFormatter(formatter) if _under_systemd() else formatter)
     root_logger.addHandler(console_handler)
     
     # File handler (if specified)
@@ -145,6 +150,84 @@ def setup_logging(
             sys.stderr.write(f"Warning: Could not set up file logging to {log_file}: {e}\n")
 
 
+#: syslog priorities, which is what systemd parses from a "<N>" prefix on
+#: stdout. Mapped from Python's levels.
+_SYSLOG_PRIORITY = {
+    logging.CRITICAL: 2,   # LOG_CRIT
+    logging.ERROR: 3,      # LOG_ERR
+    logging.WARNING: 4,    # LOG_WARNING
+    logging.INFO: 6,       # LOG_INFO
+    logging.DEBUG: 7,      # LOG_DEBUG
+}
+
+
+class JournalPriorityFormatter(logging.Formatter):
+    """Wraps a formatter, prefixing each line with its syslog priority.
+
+    Under systemd everything this process writes to stdout lands in the journal
+    as PRIORITY=6, whatever the Python level was. Measured on a live rig: 55
+    ERROR lines and 13 WARNING lines in a day, every one of them recorded as
+    informational, so `journalctl -p err -u ledmatrix` returned nothing at all
+    while errors were being logged. Anyone triaging has to grep the message
+    text instead, which is both slower and wrong -- a search for "oom" matches
+    the radar logging "zoom=9".
+
+    systemd reads a leading "<N>" on each line and uses it as the priority
+    (sd-daemon(3)), so this needs no extra dependency. Multi-line records get
+    the prefix on every line, since the journal splits them and an unprefixed
+    continuation would fall back to the default.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, inner: logging.Formatter):
+        super().__init__()
+        self._inner = inner
+
+    @property
+    def inner(self) -> logging.Formatter:
+        """The formatter doing the actual work.
+
+        Whether journald tagging is applied depends on JOURNAL_STREAM, so it is
+        on under systemd and off in a terminal -- and anything asserting which
+        formatter setup_logging() selected would otherwise get a different
+        answer in CI than on a developer's machine. Exposing the inner one lets
+        those checks stay about format_type, which is what they mean.
+        """
+        return self._inner
+
+    def format(self, record: logging.LogRecord) -> str:
+        text = self._inner.format(record)
+        prefix = f"<{_SYSLOG_PRIORITY.get(record.levelno, 6)}>"
+        return "\n".join(prefix + line for line in text.split("\n"))
+
+
+def _under_systemd() -> bool:
+    """True when stdout really is the journal.
+
+    systemd sets JOURNAL_STREAM to "dev:ino" for services whose output it
+    captures. Presence alone is not enough to act on: the variable is
+    inherited by child processes and survives redirection, so a subprocess
+    whose stdout is a pipe or a file still sees it and would emit the "<N>"
+    priority prefixes as literal noise into that output. systemd's own
+    guidance is to fstat the descriptor and compare st_dev/st_ino, which is
+    what distinguishes "the journal is somewhere in my ancestry" from "my
+    stdout is the journal".
+    """
+    declared = os.environ.get("JOURNAL_STREAM")
+    if not declared:
+        return False
+    try:
+        dev_text, ino_text = declared.split(":", 1)
+        declared_ids = (int(dev_text), int(ino_text))
+    except (ValueError, AttributeError):
+        return False
+    try:
+        stat_result = os.fstat(sys.stdout.fileno())
+    except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):
+        # No usable stdout: captured by pytest, detached, or already closed.
+        return False
+    return (stat_result.st_dev, stat_result.st_ino) == declared_ids
+
+
 class PluginLoggerAdapter(logging.LoggerAdapter):
     """LoggerAdapter that stamps every record with its plugin_id.
 

src/plugin_system/plugin_health.py

@@ -178,10 +178,20 @@ class PluginHealthTracker:
             )
         return self._health_state[plugin_id]
     
+    # Fields the circuit breaker is rebuilt from after a restart. Everything
+    # else in a health record is reporting, read only for display.
+    _DURABLE_FIELDS = ('consecutive_failures', 'circuit_state',
+                       'circuit_opened_time', 'half_open_start_time')
+
+    def _durable(self, state: Dict[str, Any]) -> tuple:
+        """The part of a health record whose loss would change behaviour."""
+        return tuple(state.get(field) for field in self._DURABLE_FIELDS)
+
     def record_success(self, plugin_id: str) -> None:
         """Record a successful plugin execution."""
         state = self.get_health_state(plugin_id)
         current_time = time.time()
+        durable_before = self._durable(state)
 
         # Reset consecutive failures
         state['consecutive_failures'] = 0
@@ -199,7 +209,18 @@ class PluginHealthTracker:
             state['circuit_state'] = CircuitState.CLOSED.value
             state['circuit_opened_time'] = None
 
-        self._save_health_state(plugin_id, state)
+        # A healthy plugin reports success every cycle, and in that steady state
+        # the only fields changed above are a counter and a timestamp that
+        # nothing reads back after a restart. Persisting them anyway rewrites a
+        # small file per plugin per cycle: on a rig running 24 plugins, a
+        # five-minute sample measured 22 rewrites, about 4.4 a minute or 6,300 a
+        # day. Those land on an SD card, where the cost is an erase-block cycle
+        # rather than the 400 bytes involved, and where wear is what eventually
+        # kills the card.
+        # In-memory state is still updated every time, so the health API and web
+        # UI show exactly what they did before; only the write is skipped.
+        if self._durable(state) != durable_before:
+            self._save_health_state(plugin_id, state)
 
     def record_failure(self, plugin_id: str, error: Optional[Exception] = None) -> None:
         """Record a failed plugin execution."""

src/plugin_system/plugin_manager.py

@@ -71,11 +71,15 @@ class PluginManager:
         self.plugin_loader = PluginLoader(logger=self.logger)
         self.plugin_executor = PluginExecutor(default_timeout=30.0, logger=self.logger)
         self.state_manager = PluginStateManager(logger=self.logger)
-        self.schema_manager = SchemaManager(plugins_dir=self.plugins_dir, logger=self.logger)
+        self.schema_manager = SchemaManager(plugins_dir=self.plugins_dir, logger=self.logger,
+                                           config_manager=self.config_manager)
         
         # Lock protecting plugin_manifests and plugin_directories from
         # concurrent mutation (background reconciliation) and reads (requests).
         self._discovery_lock = threading.RLock()
+        #: Directories already reported as unloadable, so the warning is
+        #: emitted once rather than on every discovery scan.
+        self._skip_reported: set = set()
 
         # Lock protecting plugin_last_update from concurrent mutation/iteration.
         # It's written from run_scheduled_updates()/update_all_plugins() (main
@@ -195,18 +199,59 @@ class PluginManager:
                     continue
 
                 manifest_path = item / "manifest.json"
-                if manifest_path.exists():
-                    try:
-                        with open(manifest_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
-                            manifest = json.load(f)
-                            plugin_id = manifest.get('id')
-                            if plugin_id:
-                                plugin_ids.append(plugin_id)
-                                new_manifests[plugin_id] = manifest
-                                new_directories[plugin_id] = item
-                    except (json.JSONDecodeError, PermissionError, OSError) as e:
-                        self.logger.warning("Error reading manifest from %s: %s", manifest_path, e, exc_info=True)
-                        continue
+                if not manifest_path.exists():
+                    # Once per directory per process. Discovery runs on every
+                    # web UI page load and every config reconcile, so warning
+                    # unconditionally would put a line in the journal each
+                    # time someone opened a page -- the same log-volume
+                    # problem this is meant to help diagnose.
+                    # A directory here that carries no manifest is not a
+                    # plugin. Said once, because the alternative is a plugin
+                    # that is enabled in config, enabled in plugin state,
+                    # present on disk, and simply absent from the running
+                    # process with nothing anywhere to say why. Working that
+                    # out afterwards means reading cache-file mtimes.
+                    if item.name not in self._skip_reported:
+                        self._skip_reported.add(item.name)
+                        self.logger.warning(
+                            "Skipping %s: no manifest.json, so it cannot be "
+                            "loaded as a plugin", item.name)
+                    continue
+                try:
+                    with open(manifest_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+                        manifest = json.load(f)
+                except (json.JSONDecodeError, PermissionError, OSError) as e:
+                    self.logger.warning("Error reading manifest from %s: %s", manifest_path, e, exc_info=True)
+                    continue
+
+                # json.load accepts any JSON value, so a manifest holding
+                # null, [] or "text" parses and then raises AttributeError on
+                # .get(). Nothing here catches that -- the outer handler takes
+                # OSError/PermissionError only -- so a single malformed
+                # manifest aborted the whole scan and every other plugin on
+                # disk, however healthy, silently failed to register.
+                if not isinstance(manifest, dict):
+                    if item.name not in self._skip_reported:
+                        self._skip_reported.add(item.name)
+                        self.logger.warning(
+                            "Skipping %s: its manifest.json is %s, not a JSON "
+                            "object", item.name, type(manifest).__name__)
+                    continue
+
+                plugin_id = manifest.get('id')
+                if not plugin_id:
+                    # Parsed but unusable. This was the quietest path of all:
+                    # the manifest is read successfully and then dropped.
+                    if item.name not in self._skip_reported:
+                        self._skip_reported.add(item.name)
+                        self.logger.warning(
+                            "Skipping %s: its manifest.json has no \"id\", so "
+                            "there is nothing to register it under", item.name)
+                    continue
+
+                plugin_ids.append(plugin_id)
+                new_manifests[plugin_id] = manifest
+                new_directories[plugin_id] = item
         except (OSError, PermissionError) as e:
             self.logger.error("Error scanning directory %s: %s", directory, e, exc_info=True)
 

src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import time
 import logging
 import threading
 from typing import Dict, Optional, Any, Callable
-from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field, fields
 
 try:
     import psutil
@@ -49,6 +49,20 @@ class ResourceMetrics:
             self.total_execution_time = self.total_execution_time / self.call_count
 
 
+#: How often a plugin's metrics are written to the cache, in seconds.
+#:
+#: Persisting on every call meant a small file rewritten roughly nine times a
+#: minute per plugin. On a rig with fourteen active plugins that was ~126
+#: writes a minute for metrics alone, and since each ~350-byte file costs a
+#: 4KB block plus an ext4 journal entry, it dominated the device's write
+#: volume -- on an SD card, which wears out.
+#:
+#: The in-memory copy stays authoritative and exact; only the cross-process
+#: snapshot the web UI reads is delayed, and telemetry up to half a minute old
+#: is still a fair description of a long-running plugin.
+_METRICS_PERSIST_INTERVAL = 30.0
+
+
 class PluginResourceMonitor:
     """
     Monitors resource usage for plugins.
@@ -75,6 +89,10 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
         # Resource metrics per plugin
         self._metrics: Dict[str, ResourceMetrics] = {}
         self._limits: Dict[str, ResourceLimits] = {}
+        # When each plugin's metrics last reached the cache. Metrics change on
+        # every call, so they cannot be de-duplicated the way health state can;
+        # they are rate-limited instead. See _METRICS_PERSIST_INTERVAL.
+        self._metrics_persisted_at: Dict[str, float] = {}
 
         # Thread-local storage for execution tracking
         self._local = threading.local()
@@ -102,6 +120,66 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
                 "psutil not available - resource monitoring will be limited to execution time only"
             )
     
+    def _metrics_from_cache(self, plugin_id: str, cached: Any) -> "ResourceMetrics":
+        """Build metrics from a cached record, ignoring anything unrecognised.
+
+        ResourceMetrics(**cached) raises TypeError on a single unexpected key,
+        and that exception escapes into plugin_manager, which reports it as
+        "plugin <id> operation failed". Every plugin fails, and the plugin
+        system never finishes initialising.
+
+        Seen on a live rig: every plugin failing with
+
+            ResourceMetrics.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument
+            'consecutive_failures'
+
+        which is a plugin_health field, not a metrics one. How a health-shaped
+        record came to sit under a plugin_metrics key on that machine is not
+        established -- a restored backup that mixed two machines' caches is the
+        likeliest explanation -- but the loader should not be brittle enough for
+        it to matter. plugin_health already repairs its records field by field
+        rather than trusting whatever is on disk; this does the same.
+
+        Unknown keys are dropped and named once, so a genuine schema change is
+        visible in the log instead of silently discarded.
+        """
+        if not isinstance(cached, dict):
+            self.logger.warning(
+                "Ignoring cached metrics for %s: expected a mapping, got %s",
+                plugin_id, type(cached).__name__)
+            return ResourceMetrics()
+
+        known = {f.name for f in fields(ResourceMetrics)}
+        unknown = sorted(set(cached) - known)
+        if unknown:
+            self.logger.warning(
+                "Dropping unrecognised field(s) from cached metrics for %s: %s",
+                plugin_id, ", ".join(unknown))
+        # A dataclass does not enforce its annotations, so
+        # ResourceMetrics(call_count="not a number") builds happily and only
+        # blows up later, deep inside monitor_call ("can only concatenate str
+        # (not \"int\") to str"). Coerce here, where there is still a cache
+        # key to name in the warning.
+        declared = {f.name: f.type for f in fields(ResourceMetrics)}
+        usable = {}
+        for key, value in cached.items():
+            if key not in known:
+                continue
+            try:
+                usable[key] = int(value) if declared[key] in ('int', int) else float(value)
+            except (TypeError, ValueError):
+                self.logger.warning(
+                    "Cached metrics for %s have a bad %s (%r); starting fresh",
+                    plugin_id, key, value)
+                return ResourceMetrics()
+        try:
+            return ResourceMetrics(**usable)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError) as e:
+            self.logger.warning(
+                "Cached metrics for %s unusable (%s); starting fresh",
+                plugin_id, e)
+            return ResourceMetrics()
+
     def _get_metrics_key(self, plugin_id: str) -> str:
         """Get cache key for plugin metrics."""
         return f"plugin_metrics:{plugin_id}"
@@ -126,7 +204,7 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
                     cache_key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=0 if force_reload else None
                 )
                 if cached:
-                    metrics = ResourceMetrics(**cached)
+                    metrics = self._metrics_from_cache(plugin_id, cached)
                 else:
                     metrics = ResourceMetrics()
                 self._metrics[plugin_id] = metrics
@@ -232,18 +310,8 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
                     # CPU is harder to measure per-call, so we track it separately
                     metrics.cpu_percent = self._get_process_cpu_percent()
                 
-                # Persist metrics
-                cache_key = self._get_metrics_key(plugin_id)
-                self.cache_manager.set(cache_key, {
-                    'memory_mb': metrics.memory_mb,
-                    'cpu_percent': metrics.cpu_percent,
-                    'execution_time': metrics.execution_time,
-                    'call_count': metrics.call_count,
-                    'total_execution_time': metrics.total_execution_time,
-                    'max_execution_time': metrics.max_execution_time,
-                    'min_execution_time': metrics.min_execution_time if metrics.min_execution_time != float('inf') else 0.0,
-                    'last_update_time': metrics.last_update_time
-                })
+                # Persist metrics, at most once per interval per plugin.
+                self._persist_metrics(plugin_id, metrics)
             
             # Check limits
             if limits:
@@ -363,6 +431,44 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
             summaries[plugin_id] = self.get_metrics_summary(plugin_id)
         return summaries
     
+    def _persist_metrics(self, plugin_id: str, metrics: ResourceMetrics,
+                         force: bool = False) -> None:
+        """Write a plugin's metrics to the cache, at most once per interval.
+
+        Caller must hold ``self._lock``.
+        """
+        # Monotonic, not wall clock: these devices have no RTC, so the clock
+        # jumps by however far off boot-time was the moment NTP first syncs.
+        # A forward jump would allow an early write, a backward one would
+        # stall the snapshot well past the interval.
+        #
+        # The sentinel for "never written" is None, not 0.0. monotonic() is
+        # time since boot on Linux, and systemd starts this service *at* boot,
+        # so `now - 0.0 < 30` was true for the first half-minute of every
+        # single run -- the throttle swallowed the very first snapshot, which
+        # is the one that matters most after a restart.
+        now = time.monotonic()
+        last_written = self._metrics_persisted_at.get(plugin_id)
+        if (not force and last_written is not None
+                and now - last_written < _METRICS_PERSIST_INTERVAL):
+            return
+        cache_key = self._get_metrics_key(plugin_id)
+        self.cache_manager.set(cache_key, {
+            'memory_mb': metrics.memory_mb,
+            'cpu_percent': metrics.cpu_percent,
+            'execution_time': metrics.execution_time,
+            'call_count': metrics.call_count,
+            'total_execution_time': metrics.total_execution_time,
+            'max_execution_time': metrics.max_execution_time,
+            'min_execution_time': (metrics.min_execution_time
+                                   if metrics.min_execution_time != float('inf')
+                                   else 0.0),
+            'last_update_time': metrics.last_update_time,
+        })
+        # Only after the write lands. Marking it first would mean a failed
+        # set() bought the next interval's silence without leaving a snapshot.
+        self._metrics_persisted_at[plugin_id] = now
+
     def reset_metrics(self, plugin_id: str) -> None:
         """Reset metrics for a plugin."""
         with self._lock:
@@ -370,4 +476,7 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
                 self._metrics[plugin_id] = ResourceMetrics()
                 cache_key = self._get_metrics_key(plugin_id)
                 self.cache_manager.delete(cache_key)
+                # Let the next call persist immediately rather than leaving the
+                # deleted key absent for the rest of the interval.
+                self._metrics_persisted_at.pop(plugin_id, None)
 

src/plugin_system/schema_manager.py

@@ -26,7 +26,25 @@ class SchemaManager:
     - Cache invalidation on plugin changes
     """
     
-    def __init__(self, plugins_dir: Optional[Path] = None, project_root: Optional[Path] = None, logger: Optional[logging.Logger] = None):
+    # Plugin config keys that mean "where this device is". A plugin declaring
+    # any of these in its schema gets the device-wide ``location`` block from
+    # config.json as the *default* for that field, instead of whatever city the
+    # plugin author happened to ship. A value the user set on the plugin itself
+    # always wins -- this only ever replaces the schema default, so an explicit
+    # per-plugin location is still honoured.
+    #
+    # Only these fully-namespaced keys are substituted. A bare ``state`` or
+    # ``city`` key is deliberately left alone: plugins use those for unrelated
+    # things (ledmatrix-elections' ``state`` is a two-letter code, not a place
+    # name), and silently rewriting them would break those plugins.
+    DEVICE_LOCATION_KEYS: Dict[str, str] = {
+        'location_city': 'city',
+        'location_state': 'state',
+        'location_country': 'country',
+    }
+
+    def __init__(self, plugins_dir: Optional[Path] = None, project_root: Optional[Path] = None,
+                 logger: Optional[logging.Logger] = None, config_manager: Optional[Any] = None):
         """
         Initialize the Schema Manager.
         
@@ -34,10 +52,14 @@ class SchemaManager:
             plugins_dir: Base plugins directory path
             project_root: Project root directory path
             logger: Optional logger instance
+            config_manager: Optional config manager, used to resolve the
+                device-wide ``location`` that seeds plugin location defaults.
+                Omitting it simply leaves schema defaults untouched.
         """
         self.logger = logger or logging.getLogger(__name__)
         self.plugins_dir = plugins_dir
         self.project_root = project_root or Path.cwd()
+        self.config_manager = config_manager
         
         # Schema cache: plugin_id -> schema dict
         self._schema_cache: Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]] = {}
@@ -212,10 +234,70 @@ class SchemaManager:
         
         return defaults
     
+    def get_device_location(self) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
+        """
+        Return the device-wide ``location`` block from config.json, or None.
+
+        This is the City/State/Country the user sets once under General
+        settings. Returns None when there is no config manager wired, the
+        config can't be read, or no location has been configured.
+        """
+        if self.config_manager is None:
+            return None
+        try:
+            config = self.config_manager.load_config()
+        except Exception as e:
+            # A config that can't be read must never stop defaults being
+            # generated -- the plugin's own schema defaults still apply.
+            self.logger.debug(f"Could not read device location from config: {e}")
+            return None
+        if not isinstance(config, dict):
+            return None
+        location = config.get('location')
+        return location if isinstance(location, dict) else None
+
+    def apply_device_location(self, defaults: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        """
+        Replace location-shaped schema defaults with the device's own location.
+
+        Without this, a plugin that ships ``"location_city": "Dallas"`` as its
+        schema default silently reports Dallas weather (and centres its radar
+        there) for every user who never opened that plugin's config form --
+        even though they set their real city under General settings. The
+        substituted value is still only a *default*: ``merge_with_defaults``
+        lets any per-plugin value the user saved win over it.
+
+        Mutates and returns ``defaults`` for convenience.
+        """
+        if not defaults:
+            return defaults
+        if not any(key in defaults for key in self.DEVICE_LOCATION_KEYS):
+            return defaults
+
+        location = self.get_device_location()
+        if not location:
+            return defaults
+
+        for key, field in self.DEVICE_LOCATION_KEYS.items():
+            if key not in defaults:
+                continue
+            value = location.get(field)
+            # Only a non-empty string is a real answer; a blank or missing
+            # field means "not configured", which leaves the schema default.
+            if isinstance(value, str) and value.strip():
+                defaults[key] = value.strip()
+
+        return defaults
+
     def generate_default_config(self, plugin_id: str, use_cache: bool = True) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         """
         Generate default configuration for a plugin from its schema.
         
+        Location fields (see ``DEVICE_LOCATION_KEYS``) default to the device's
+        configured location rather than the plugin author's. That substitution
+        is applied on the way out rather than being cached, so changing the
+        device location takes effect without invalidating the defaults cache.
+        
         Args:
             plugin_id: Plugin identifier
             use_cache: If True, return cached defaults if available
@@ -225,7 +307,7 @@ class SchemaManager:
         """
         # Check cache first
         if use_cache and plugin_id in self._defaults_cache:
-            return self._defaults_cache[plugin_id].copy()
+            return self.apply_device_location(self._defaults_cache[plugin_id].copy())
         
         schema = self.load_schema(plugin_id, use_cache=use_cache)
         if not schema:
@@ -249,10 +331,11 @@ class SchemaManager:
         if 'live_priority' not in defaults:
             defaults['live_priority'] = schema.get('properties', {}).get('live_priority', {}).get('default', False)
         
-        # Cache the defaults
+        # Cache the defaults *before* the device location is layered on, so a
+        # later change to the device location is picked up by the next call.
         self._defaults_cache[plugin_id] = defaults.copy()
         
-        return defaults
+        return self.apply_device_location(defaults)
     
     def validate_config_against_schema(self, config: Dict[str, Any], schema: Dict[str, Any], 
                                       plugin_id: Optional[str] = None) -> Tuple[bool, List[str]]:

src/vegas_mode/plugin_adapter.py

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         # into unrelated headlines once the strip refreshed to 9,505px.
         self._offset_shapes: dict = {}
 
-        logger.info(
+        logger.debug(
             "PluginAdapter initialized: display=%dx%d",
             self.display_width, self.display_height
         )
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         Returns:
             List of PIL Images representing plugin content, or None if no content
         """
-        logger.info(
+        logger.debug(
             "[%s] Getting content (class=%s)",
             plugin_id, plugin.__class__.__name__
         )
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         cached = self._get_cached(plugin_id)
         if cached is not None:
             total_width = sum(img.width for img in cached)
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Using cached content: %d images, %dpx total",
                 plugin_id, len(cached), total_width
             )
@@ -126,46 +126,46 @@ class PluginAdapter:
 
         # Try native Vegas content method first
         has_native = hasattr(plugin, 'get_vegas_content')
-        logger.info("[%s] Has get_vegas_content: %s", plugin_id, has_native)
+        logger.debug("[%s] Has get_vegas_content: %s", plugin_id, has_native)
         if has_native:
             content = self._get_native_content(plugin, plugin_id, offscreen_only)
             if content:
                 total_width = sum(img.width for img in content)
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Native content SUCCESS: %d images, %dpx total",
                     plugin_id, len(content), total_width
                 )
                 return self._finalize(content, plugin_id, 'native', plugin)
-            logger.info("[%s] Native content returned None", plugin_id)
+            logger.debug("[%s] Native content returned None", plugin_id)
 
         # Try to get scroll_helper's cached image (for scrolling plugins like stocks/odds)
         has_scroll_helper = hasattr(plugin, 'scroll_helper')
-        logger.info("[%s] Has scroll_helper: %s", plugin_id, has_scroll_helper)
+        logger.debug("[%s] Has scroll_helper: %s", plugin_id, has_scroll_helper)
         content = self._get_scroll_helper_content(plugin, plugin_id, offscreen_only)
         if content:
             total_width = sum(img.width for img in content)
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] ScrollHelper content SUCCESS: %d images, %dpx total",
                 plugin_id, len(content), total_width
             )
             return self._finalize(content, plugin_id, 'scroll_helper', plugin)
         if has_scroll_helper:
-            logger.info("[%s] ScrollHelper content returned None", plugin_id)
+            logger.debug("[%s] ScrollHelper content returned None", plugin_id)
 
         if offscreen_only:
             # Display capture needs the shared canvas; leave it to the caller.
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Needs display capture, deferring to the render thread",
                 plugin_id
             )
             return None
 
         # Fall back to display capture
-        logger.info("[%s] Trying fallback display capture...", plugin_id)
+        logger.debug("[%s] Trying fallback display capture...", plugin_id)
         content = self._capture_display_content(plugin, plugin_id)
         if content:
             total_width = sum(img.width for img in content)
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Fallback capture SUCCESS: %d images, %dpx total",
                 plugin_id, len(content), total_width
             )
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             kept.append(result.image)
 
         if not kept:
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] All %d image(s) from %s were blank — contributing nothing",
                 plugin_id, len(images), source
             )
@@ -235,14 +235,14 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         trimmed_width = sum(img.width for img in kept)
 
         if trimmed_width < self.config.min_plugin_width:
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Trimmed content %dpx is below min_plugin_width %dpx — skipping",
                 plugin_id, trimmed_width, self.config.min_plugin_width
             )
             return None
 
         if trimmed_width != original_width or dropped_blank:
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Trimmed %s content: %dpx -> %dpx (%.0f%% reclaimed), "
                 "%d image(s) kept, %d blank dropped",
                 plugin_id, source, original_width, trimmed_width,
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         """
         if self._offset_shapes.get(plugin_id) != shape:
             if plugin_id in self._item_offsets:
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Content is %s now, was %s — restarting the rotation "
                     "rather than resuming at a position that no longer means "
                     "anything", plugin_id, shape,
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             consumed += 1
 
         if mode == 'truncate':
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Width budget %dpx: showing the first %d of %d row(s) "
                 "(%dpx incl. gaps); the rest are not shown (overflow=truncate)",
                 plugin_id, budget, len(selected), len(images), used
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         else:
             self._record_offset(
                 plugin_id, (start + consumed) % len(images), shape)
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Width budget %dpx: showing %d of %d row(s) (%dpx incl. gaps) "
                 "from offset %d; remainder deferred to a later cycle",
                 plugin_id, budget, len(selected), len(images), used, start
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             if mode != 'truncate':
                 self._record_offset(
                     plugin_id, 0 if end >= img.width else end, shape)
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Width budget %dpx: cropped continuous %dpx image to "
                 "[%d:%d] (no item gaps of %dpx+ to align to)%s",
                 plugin_id, budget, img.width, offset, end, min_run,
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             self._record_offset(
                 plugin_id, 0 if end >= img.width else end_index, shape)
 
-        logger.info(
+        logger.debug(
             "[%s] Width budget %dpx: cropped single %dpx image to [%d:%d] "
             "(%dpx) at item boundaries %d-%d of %d, %s",
             plugin_id, budget, img.width, start, end, end - start,
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             List of images or None
         """
         try:
-            logger.info("[%s] Native: calling get_vegas_content()", plugin_id)
+            logger.debug("[%s] Native: calling get_vegas_content()", plugin_id)
 
             # Tell the plugin how much width the ticker wants it to use, and
             # narrow the canvas for the duration of the call. A plugin that
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             # be explicit can read get_vegas_render_width().
             render_width = self.resolve_render_width(plugin, plugin_id)
             if render_width != self.display_width:
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Native: requesting %dpx instead of %dpx",
                     plugin_id, render_width, self.display_width
                 )
@@ -735,19 +735,19 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                 plugin._vegas_render_width = None
 
             if result is None:
-                logger.info("[%s] Native: get_vegas_content() returned None", plugin_id)
+                logger.debug("[%s] Native: get_vegas_content() returned None", plugin_id)
                 return None
 
             # Normalize to list
             if isinstance(result, Image.Image):
                 images = [result]
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Native: got single Image %dx%d",
                     plugin_id, result.width, result.height
                 )
             elif isinstance(result, (list, tuple)):
                 images = list(result)
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Native: got %d items in list/tuple",
                     plugin_id, len(images)
                 )
@@ -768,14 +768,14 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                     )
                     continue
 
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Native: item[%d] is %dx%d, mode=%s",
                     plugin_id, i, img.width, img.height, img.mode
                 )
 
                 # Ensure correct height
                 if img.height != self.display_height:
-                    logger.info(
+                    logger.debug(
                         "[%s] Native: resizing item[%d]: %dx%d -> %dx%d",
                         plugin_id, i, img.width, img.height,
                         img.width, self.display_height
@@ -793,13 +793,13 @@ class PluginAdapter:
 
             if valid_images:
                 total_width = sum(img.width for img in valid_images)
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Native: SUCCESS - %d images, %dpx total width",
                     plugin_id, len(valid_images), total_width
                 )
                 return valid_images
 
-            logger.info("[%s] Native: no valid images after validation", plugin_id)
+            logger.debug("[%s] Native: no valid images after validation", plugin_id)
             return None
 
         except (AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError, OSError) as e:
@@ -833,20 +833,20 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                 logger.debug("[%s] No scroll_helper attribute", plugin_id)
                 return None
 
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Found scroll_helper: %s",
                 plugin_id, type(scroll_helper).__name__
             )
 
             cached_image = getattr(scroll_helper, 'cached_image', None)
             if cached_image is None:
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] scroll_helper.cached_image is None, triggering content generation",
                     plugin_id
                 )
                 if offscreen_only:
                     # Generating it calls display(), which needs the canvas.
-                    logger.info(
+                    logger.debug(
                         "[%s] scroll_helper cache empty; deferring generation "
                         "to the render thread", plugin_id
                     )
@@ -859,13 +859,13 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                     return None
 
             if not isinstance(cached_image, Image.Image):
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] scroll_helper.cached_image is not an Image: %s",
                     plugin_id, type(cached_image).__name__
                 )
                 return None
 
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] scroll_helper.cached_image found: %dx%d, mode=%s",
                 plugin_id, cached_image.width, cached_image.height, cached_image.mode
             )
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
 
             # Ensure correct height
             if img.height != self.display_height:
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Resizing scroll_helper content: %dx%d -> %dx%d",
                     plugin_id, img.width, img.height,
                     img.width, self.display_height
@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             if img.mode != 'RGB':
                 img = img.convert('RGB')
 
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] ScrollHelper content ready: %dx%d",
                 plugin_id, img.width, img.height
             )
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             with self._capture():
                 # Method 1: Try _create_scrolling_display (stocks pattern)
                 if hasattr(plugin, '_create_scrolling_display'):
-                    logger.info(
+                    logger.debug(
                         "[%s] Triggering via _create_scrolling_display()",
                         plugin_id
                     )
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                         plugin._create_scrolling_display()
                         cached_image = getattr(scroll_helper, 'cached_image', None)
                         if cached_image is not None and isinstance(cached_image, Image.Image):
-                            logger.info(
+                            logger.debug(
                                 "[%s] _create_scrolling_display() SUCCESS: %dx%d",
                                 plugin_id, cached_image.width, cached_image.height
                             )
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
 
                 # Method 2: Try display(force_clear=True) which typically builds scroll content
                 if hasattr(plugin, 'display'):
-                    logger.info(
+                    logger.debug(
                         "[%s] Triggering via display(force_clear=True)",
                         plugin_id
                     )
@@ -1031,12 +1031,12 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                         plugin.display(force_clear=True)
                         cached_image = getattr(scroll_helper, 'cached_image', None)
                         if cached_image is not None and isinstance(cached_image, Image.Image):
-                            logger.info(
+                            logger.debug(
                                 "[%s] display(force_clear=True) SUCCESS: %dx%d",
                                 plugin_id, cached_image.width, cached_image.height
                             )
                             return cached_image
-                        logger.info(
+                        logger.debug(
                             "[%s] display(force_clear=True) did not populate cached_image",
                             plugin_id
                         )
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                             "[%s] display(force_clear=True) failed", plugin_id
                         )
 
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Could not trigger scroll content generation",
                 plugin_id
             )
@@ -1077,15 +1077,15 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         try:
             # Save current display state
             original_image = self.display_manager.image.copy()
-            logger.info("[%s] Fallback: saved original display state", plugin_id)
+            logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: saved original display state", plugin_id)
 
             # Ensure plugin has fresh data before capturing
             has_update_data = hasattr(plugin, 'update_data')
-            logger.info("[%s] Fallback: has update_data=%s", plugin_id, has_update_data)
+            logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: has update_data=%s", plugin_id, has_update_data)
             if has_update_data:
                 try:
                     plugin.update_data()
-                    logger.info("[%s] Fallback: update_data() called", plugin_id)
+                    logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: update_data() called", plugin_id)
                 except (AttributeError, RuntimeError, OSError):
                     logger.exception("[%s] Fallback: update_data() failed", plugin_id)
 
@@ -1097,41 +1097,41 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             # arrangement rather than one that has to be cropped afterwards.
             render_width = self.resolve_render_width(plugin, plugin_id)
             if render_width != self.display_width:
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Fallback: rendering at %dpx instead of %dpx",
                     plugin_id, render_width, self.display_width
                 )
 
             with self._capture(), self._render_at(render_width):
                 self.display_manager.clear()
-                logger.info("[%s] Fallback: display cleared, calling display()", plugin_id)
+                logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: display cleared, calling display()", plugin_id)
 
                 # First try without force_clear (some plugins behave better this way)
                 try:
                     plugin.display()
-                    logger.info("[%s] Fallback: display() called successfully", plugin_id)
+                    logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: display() called successfully", plugin_id)
                 except TypeError:
                     # Plugin may require force_clear argument
-                    logger.info("[%s] Fallback: display() failed, trying with force_clear=True", plugin_id)
+                    logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: display() failed, trying with force_clear=True", plugin_id)
                     plugin.display(force_clear=True)
 
                 # Capture the result
                 captured = self.display_manager.image.copy()
 
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Fallback: captured frame %dx%d, mode=%s",
                 plugin_id, captured.width, captured.height, captured.mode
             )
 
             # Check if captured image has content (not all black)
             is_blank, bright_ratio = self._is_blank_image(captured, return_ratio=True)
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Fallback: brightness check - %.3f%% bright pixels (threshold=0.5%%)",
                 plugin_id, bright_ratio * 100
             )
 
             if is_blank:
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Fallback: first capture blank, retrying with force_clear",
                     plugin_id
                 )
@@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                     captured = self.display_manager.image.copy()
 
                 is_blank, bright_ratio = self._is_blank_image(captured, return_ratio=True)
-                logger.info(
+                logger.debug(
                     "[%s] Fallback: retry brightness - %.3f%% bright pixels",
                     plugin_id, bright_ratio * 100
                 )
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             if captured.mode != 'RGB':
                 captured = captured.convert('RGB')
 
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "[%s] Fallback: SUCCESS - captured %dx%d",
                 plugin_id, captured.width, captured.height
             )

src/web_interface/secret_helpers.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Provides functions for identifying, masking, separating, and filtering
 secret fields in plugin configurations based on JSON Schema x-secret markers.
 """
 
-from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Set, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Dict, Set, Tuple
 
 
 def find_secret_fields(properties: Dict[str, Any], prefix: str = '') -> Set[str]:
@@ -202,89 +202,11 @@ def remove_empty_secrets(secrets: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
             nested = remove_empty_secrets(v)
             if nested:
                 result[k] = nested
-        elif isinstance(v, list):
-            # Lists used to fall through to the scalar branch below and be
-            # kept verbatim, blanks and all. Because lists merge by
-            # *replacement*, saving any unrelated setting then wrote
-            # [{"token": ""}, ...] straight over the stored list and
-            # destroyed every credential in it.
-            pruned = _prune_secret_list(v)
-            if pruned is not None:
-                result[k] = pruned
         elif v is not None and not (isinstance(v, str) and v.strip() == ''):
             result[k] = v
     return result
 
 
-def _prune_secret_list(items: list) -> Optional[list]:
-    """Strip blanks from inside a list of secrets, preserving every index.
-
-    The rest of the system treats a secrets list as *parallel* to the regular
-    one -- ``sec[i]`` holds the secret fields of item ``i``, and ``{}`` means
-    "item i has none" (see ConfigManager._strip_secrets_recursive). So an
-    emptied dict item stays ``{}``: putting ``None`` there makes that list stop
-    looking parallel, and the stripper then drops the whole key from the main
-    config, taking the non-secret fields with it.
-
-    A blank *scalar* becomes ``None``, meaning "no update at this index" --
-    :func:`merge_secrets` substitutes whatever is stored there. Returns
-    ``None`` when nothing in the list carries a real value, so the caller drops
-    the key and leaves the stored list untouched.
-    """
-    pruned: list = []
-    has_real_value = False
-    for item in items:
-        if isinstance(item, dict):
-            kept = remove_empty_secrets(item)
-            pruned.append(kept)
-            has_real_value = has_real_value or bool(kept)
-        elif isinstance(item, list):
-            sub = _prune_secret_list(item)
-            pruned.append(sub if sub is not None else [])
-            has_real_value = has_real_value or sub is not None
-        elif item is not None and not (isinstance(item, str) and item.strip() == ''):
-            pruned.append(item)
-            has_real_value = True
-        else:
-            pruned.append(None)
-    return pruned if has_real_value else None
-
-
-def merge_secrets(stored: Any, incoming: Any) -> Any:
-    """Merge submitted secrets over stored ones, element-wise inside lists.
-
-    ``deep_merge`` replaces a list wholesale. For secrets that is destructive:
-    an incoming list that carries a real value for one entry and ``None`` for
-    the rest would drop the stored credentials of every other entry. Here a
-    list merges by index, and ``None`` means "keep what is stored".
-
-    Entries are matched by *position*, which is what the config form gives us
-    -- there is no schema-declared identity to key on, and it is the same
-    contract ConfigManager._strip_secrets_recursive already relies on. The
-    incoming list's length wins, so deleting an item deletes its secrets;
-    an item the client left blank keeps whatever is stored at that index.
-    """
-    if isinstance(stored, dict) and isinstance(incoming, dict):
-        merged = dict(stored)
-        for key, value in incoming.items():
-            merged[key] = (merge_secrets(stored[key], value)
-                           if key in stored else value)
-        return merged
-    if isinstance(stored, list) and isinstance(incoming, list):
-        # The incoming list sets the length -- the regular config's list is
-        # authoritative about how many items exist, and this one runs parallel
-        # to it. Removing an entry must therefore remove its secrets too.
-        merged_list = []
-        for index, item in enumerate(incoming):
-            stored_item = stored[index] if index < len(stored) else None
-            merged_list.append(stored_item if item is None
-                               else merge_secrets(stored_item, item))
-        return merged_list
-    if incoming is None:
-        return stored
-    return incoming
-
-
 def strip_masked_values(secrets: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     """Remove values a client echoed back rather than changed.
 

test/test_composer_code_injection.py

@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+"""The composer generates Python that the plugin loader imports and executes.
+
+/api/install writes the generated manager.py into plugins_dir and the loader
+imports it, so anything the payload can splice into that source runs on the
+device. The ast.parse check in _generate_plugin_files rejects only *invalid*
+syntax -- an injected `import os` is perfectly valid and passed it.
+
+Two ways in, both confirmed against the code before it was fixed:
+
+  metadata.name = a name containing a triple-quote, a newline, then
+                  `import os; PWNED = os.getuid()`, then another triple-quote
+      -> closes the module docstring; the rest became module-level statements
+         (spelled out rather than shown literally -- writing the payload into
+         this docstring closes *this* file's docstring, which is the bug)
+
+  element x     = '0 or __import__("os").system("id")'
+      -> f-string interpolated it verbatim: x=0 or __import__("os").system("id")
+"""
+import ast
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+
+from web_interface.blueprints import composer as C  # noqa: E402
+
+BASE_META = {"id": "test-plugin", "name": "Clock", "author": "a",
+             "version": "1.0.0", "description": "d"}
+
+#: Values that terminate a Python expression and start a new statement.
+EXPR_PAYLOADS = [
+    '0 or __import__("os").system("id")',
+    '0);import os;os.system("id");(',
+    '__import__("subprocess").run(["id"])',
+    "0 if False else exec('x=1')",
+    "1e999", "nan", "0x41", "0__0",
+]
+
+#: Values that close a string literal in the generated source.
+LITERAL_PAYLOADS = [
+    'Clock"""\nimport os; PWNED = os.getuid()\n"""',
+    "Clock'''\nimport os\n'''",
+    'Clock" + __import__("os").system("id") + "',
+    "Clock\\", "Clock\nimport os",
+]
+
+
+def _payload(**over):
+    p = {"metadata": dict(BASE_META), "elements": [], "config_vars": []}
+    p["metadata"].update(over.pop("metadata", {}))
+    p.update(over)
+    return p
+
+
+def _generated(payload):
+    return C._generate_plugin_files(payload)["manager.py"]
+
+
+def _module_level_code(src):
+    """Statements at module level that are not the docstring/imports/classes."""
+    tree = ast.parse(src)
+    out = []
+    for node in tree.body:
+        if isinstance(node, (ast.ClassDef, ast.FunctionDef, ast.ImportFrom)):
+            continue
+        if isinstance(node, ast.Expr) and isinstance(node.value, ast.Constant):
+            continue  # the docstring
+        out.append(ast.unparse(node))
+    return out
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("payload", LITERAL_PAYLOADS)
+def test_a_name_that_breaks_out_of_a_literal_is_refused(payload):
+    with pytest.raises(C.ComposerInputError):
+        _generated(_payload(metadata={"name": payload}))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("evil", EXPR_PAYLOADS)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("field", ["x", "y", "x0", "y0", "x1", "y1", "lineWidth"])
+def test_a_non_numeric_geometry_value_cannot_reach_the_source(evil, field):
+    el = {"type": "line", "id": "l1", "x0": 0, "y0": 0, "x1": 10, "y1": 10,
+          "anchor_x": "right", "anchor_y": "bottom"}
+    el[field] = evil
+    src = _generated(_payload(elements=[el]))
+    assert "__import__" not in src, f"{field}={evil!r} reached the generated source"
+    assert "os.system" not in src
+    assert not _module_level_code(src), \
+        f"{field}={evil!r} produced module-level statements: {_module_level_code(src)}"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("evil", EXPR_PAYLOADS)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("channel", ["r", "g", "b"])
+def test_a_non_numeric_colour_channel_cannot_reach_the_source(evil, channel):
+    el = {"type": "text", "id": "t1", "x": 0, "y": 0, "text": "hi",
+          "font": "press_start", "r": 255, "g": 255, "b": 255}
+    el[channel] = evil
+    src = _generated(_payload(elements=[el]))
+    assert "__import__" not in src and "os.system" not in src
+    assert not _module_level_code(src)
+
+
+def test_colour_channels_are_clamped_to_a_byte():
+    el = {"type": "text", "id": "t1", "x": 0, "y": 0, "text": "hi",
+          "font": "press_start", "r": 99999, "g": -5, "b": 128}
+    src = _generated(_payload(elements=[el]))
+    assert "(255, 0, 128)" in src, "channels were not clamped to 0-255"
+
+
+def test_the_generated_module_still_has_no_top_level_statements():
+    """The clean case: a normal payload produces only imports and a class."""
+    el = {"type": "text", "id": "t1", "x": 4, "y": 4, "text": "hi",
+          "font": "press_start", "r": 1, "g": 2, "b": 3}
+    src = _generated(_payload(elements=[el]))
+    assert not _module_level_code(src)
+    assert "(1, 2, 3)" in src
+
+
+# --- config variable keys ---------------------------------------------------
+
+def _with_key(key):
+    return {"metadata": dict(BASE_META), "elements": [],
+            "dataModel": {"configVars": [{"key": key, "type": "string",
+                                          "default": "x", "label": "L"}]}}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("key", ["class", "def", "import", "None", "True",
+                                 "lambda", "pass", "match", "case"])
+def test_a_keyword_config_key_is_named_in_the_error(key):
+    """ast.parse already rejected these, but as an unhelpful line number.
+
+    "Generated code has a syntax error: invalid syntax (line 17)" tells the
+    user nothing about which field to fix.
+    """
+    with pytest.raises(C.ComposerInputError) as exc:
+        _generated(_with_key(key))
+    assert key in str(exc.value) and "keyword" in str(exc.value).lower()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("key", ["config", "logger", "display_manager",
+                                 "cache_manager", "plugin_id", "enabled",
+                                 "self", "update", "display"])
+def test_a_reserved_attribute_config_key_is_refused(key):
+    """These generate *valid* Python that silently clobbers plugin state.
+
+    The worst is `config`: the assignment lands right after super().__init__(),
+    so `self.config = config.get("config", "x")` replaces the plugin's config
+    dict with a string and every later self.config.get(...) fails at runtime.
+    """
+    with pytest.raises(C.ComposerInputError) as exc:
+        _generated(_with_key(key))
+    assert key in str(exc.value) and "reserved" in str(exc.value).lower()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("key", ["brightness", "my_var", "_private", "x1",
+                                 "update_interval_seconds"])
+def test_ordinary_config_keys_are_still_accepted(key):
+    src = _generated(_with_key(key))
+    assert f"self.{key} = config.get(" in src
+
+
+def test_the_generated_config_assignment_does_not_precede_super_init():
+    """Guards the reasoning behind the reserved list, not just the list."""
+    src = _generated(_with_key("brightness"))
+    body = src.splitlines()
+    super_at = next(i for i, line in enumerate(body) if "super().__init__(" in line)
+    assign_at = next(i for i, line in enumerate(body)
+                     if "self.brightness = config.get(" in line)
+    assert assign_at > super_at, (
+        "config vars are assigned before super().__init__(); the reserved-name "
+        "list assumes they land after it")
+
+
+# --- optional keys ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("el_type,missing", [
+    ("text", "text"), ("text", "text2"), ("clock", "format"),
+])
+def test_an_element_missing_an_optional_key_does_not_500(el_type, missing):
+    """`p` is a copy of the raw element, so an absent key stays absent.
+
+    The defaults were applied to locals only, so manager.py.j2 rendered
+    `{{ el.text | tojson }}` over a jinja2.Undefined and tojson raised
+    TypeError -- which no handler catches, making a missing key a 500 rather
+    than a validation error or a sensible default.
+    """
+    el = {"type": el_type, "id": "e1", "x": 0, "y": 0, "font": "press_start"}
+    src = _generated(_payload(elements=[el]))
+    ast.parse(src)          # must still be valid Python
+    assert "Undefined" not in src
+
+
+def test_a_clock_without_a_format_uses_the_documented_default():
+    el = {"type": "clock", "id": "c1", "x": 0, "y": 0, "font": "press_start"}
+    src = _generated(_payload(elements=[el]))
+    assert '"%H:%M"' in src, "the %H:%M default did not reach the generated source"

test/test_composer_path_containment.py

@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+"""A composer plugin id must never resolve outside the plugins directory.
+
+CodeQL reported sixteen high-severity py/path-injection alerts against
+web_interface/blueprints/composer.py: a request-supplied plugin_id reaching
+Path(plugins_dir) / plugin_id, which is then created, written to, deleted
+(shutil.rmtree) and read back.
+
+The id was already validated by an anchored regex, so every traversal payload
+was in fact rejected. What was missing was the guarantee living *with* the path
+building rather than in a regex several hundred lines away -- loosen that regex
+later and the traversal opens silently, with nothing at the filesystem boundary
+to catch it. _plugin_dir() closes that, and is the form static analysis can see.
+"""
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+import pytest
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+
+from web_interface.blueprints import composer as C  # noqa: E402
+
+#: Anything that has ever been used to climb out of a directory.
+TRAVERSAL = [
+    "../../etc/passwd", "..", ".", "a/../../etc", "good/../../..",
+    "/etc/passwd", "//etc/passwd", "a\\..\\..", "a%2f..%2f..",
+    "....//....//etc", "a/./../../etc", "~", "~root",
+    "plugin/../../../../../../etc/shadow",
+]
+
+#: Rejected for shape, not traversal -- but rejected all the same.
+MALFORMED = ["", "A-upper", "1-leading-digit", "-leading-dash", "has_underscore",
+             "has space", "has.dot", "a" * 64, "plugin\n", "plugin\n../../etc",
+             "\n", "plug\x00in"]
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def plugins_dir(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    base = tmp_path / "plugin-repos"
+    base.mkdir()
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C.composer_bp, "plugins_dir", str(base), raising=False)
+    return base
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("payload", TRAVERSAL)
+def test_traversal_payloads_are_refused(plugins_dir, payload):
+    assert C._plugin_dir(payload) is None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("payload", MALFORMED)
+def test_malformed_ids_are_refused(plugins_dir, payload):
+    assert C._plugin_dir(payload) is None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("payload", ["a", "my-plugin", "x9", "a" * 63])
+def test_valid_ids_resolve_inside_the_base(plugins_dir, payload):
+    resolved = C._plugin_dir(payload)
+    assert resolved is not None, f"{payload!r} was rejected but is valid"
+    assert resolved.parent == plugins_dir.resolve(), (
+        f"{payload!r} resolved to {resolved}, outside {plugins_dir}")
+
+
+def test_no_payload_can_escape_even_if_the_regex_is_loosened(plugins_dir, monkeypatch):
+    """The containment check must stand on its own.
+
+    This is the whole point of resolving at the filesystem boundary: if the id
+    pattern is ever relaxed, traversal must still be impossible. Replace the
+    regex with one that permits slashes and dots, then re-run the payloads.
+    """
+    import re
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C, "_PLUGIN_ID_RE", re.compile(r"\A[\w./\\~-]+\Z"))
+    import os
+    escaped = []
+    base = os.path.realpath(str(plugins_dir))
+    for payload in TRAVERSAL:
+        resolved = C._plugin_dir(payload)
+        if resolved is None:
+            continue
+        real = os.path.realpath(str(resolved))
+        if real != base and os.path.commonpath([base, real]) != base:
+            escaped.append((payload, real))
+    assert not escaped, f"these escaped the base with a loosened regex: {escaped}"
+
+
+def test_a_sibling_directory_with_a_shared_prefix_is_not_inside(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """commonpath, not startswith.
+
+    "/x/plugins-evil" starts with "/x/plugins" but is a different directory, so
+    a prefix test would accept it.
+    """
+    base = tmp_path / "plugins"
+    base.mkdir()
+    (tmp_path / "plugins-evil").mkdir()
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C.composer_bp, "plugins_dir", str(base), raising=False)
+    import re
+    # Neutralise the two layers in front so this exercises the containment
+    # check itself; otherwise secure_filename rejects the payload first and a
+    # startswith regression would go unnoticed here.
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C, "_PLUGIN_ID_RE", re.compile(r"\A[\w./\\~-]+\Z"))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C, "secure_filename", lambda v: v)
+    assert C._plugin_dir("../plugins-evil") is None
+
+
+def test_containment_still_holds_if_the_sanitiser_is_defeated(plugins_dir, monkeypatch):
+    """Each layer is tested on its own, not just the stack.
+
+    secure_filename's equality guard rejects every traversal payload before the
+    containment check sees it, so removing containment does not fail the other
+    tests -- which would make it look load-bearing when it is not. Neutralise
+    the regex *and* the sanitiser, and the realpath/commonpath check must still
+    refuse everything on its own.
+    """
+    import re
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C, "_PLUGIN_ID_RE", re.compile(r"\A[\w./\\~-]+\Z"))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C, "secure_filename", lambda v: v)
+    import os
+    base = os.path.realpath(str(plugins_dir))
+    escaped = []
+    for payload in TRAVERSAL:
+        resolved = C._plugin_dir(payload)
+        if resolved is None:
+            continue
+        real = os.path.realpath(str(resolved))
+        # Inside the base is fine -- "...." and "~" are ordinary directory
+        # names on Linux, so they are not escapes. What must never happen is
+        # landing outside the base, or on the base itself: install() rmtrees
+        # its target, so the plugins root resolving to a "plugin" would wipe
+        # every installed plugin.
+        if real == base or os.path.commonpath([base, real]) != base:
+            escaped.append((payload, real))
+    assert not escaped, f"containment alone let these through: {escaped}"
+
+
+def test_secure_filename_never_rewrites_an_accepted_id(plugins_dir):
+    """The sanitiser must be a no-op on everything the regex accepts.
+
+    If secure_filename ever altered an accepted id, _plugin_dir would resolve
+    to a *different* plugin's directory than the caller asked for -- a silent
+    redirect, which is worse than a refusal. The guard turns that into a
+    refusal; this proves the guard never has to fire in practice.
+    """
+    import random
+    from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
+    random.seed(1)
+    alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-"
+    altered = []
+    for _ in range(2000):
+        n = random.randint(1, 63)
+        cand = random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") + "".join(
+            random.choice(alphabet) for _ in range(n - 1))
+        if C._PLUGIN_ID_RE.match(cand) and secure_filename(cand) != cand:
+            altered.append((cand, secure_filename(cand)))
+    assert not altered, f"secure_filename rewrote accepted ids: {altered[:5]}"
+
+
+def test_a_trailing_newline_is_not_a_valid_id():
+    r"""Python's `$` also matches before a trailing newline, so the original
+    `^...$` accepted "myplugin\n" and would have created a directory whose
+    name ends in one. \Z does not."""
+    assert C._PLUGIN_ID_RE.match("myplugin") is not None
+    assert C._PLUGIN_ID_RE.match("myplugin\n") is None
+
+
+# --- font serving -----------------------------------------------------------
+
+FONT_TRAVERSAL = [
+    "../../../etc/passwd", "../config/config.json", "..%2f..%2fetc%2fpasswd",
+    "PressStart2P-Regular.ttf/../../../etc/passwd", "/etc/passwd", "",
+    "PressStart2P-Regular.TTF",          # case differs -> not the allowlisted name
+    "PressStart2P-Regular.ttf ",         # trailing space
+]
+
+
+def test_serve_font_refuses_a_file_that_exists_but_is_not_allowlisted(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    """The allowlist must be what refuses it, not a missing file.
+
+    Asserting 404 on traversal payloads proves nothing here: Flask's router
+    will not match a path segment containing '/', and everything else 404s
+    simply because no such file exists. Put a real, readable file next to the
+    fonts and confirm it is still refused -- that is the allowlist working.
+    """
+    fonts = tmp_path / "assets" / "fonts"
+    fonts.mkdir(parents=True)
+    (fonts / "id_rsa.ttf").write_bytes(b"PRIVATE KEY")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C.composer_bp, "project_root", str(tmp_path), raising=False)
+    app = __import__("flask").Flask(__name__)
+    app.register_blueprint(C.composer_bp)
+    with app.test_client() as client:
+        resp = client.get("/api/fonts/id_rsa.ttf")
+    assert resp.status_code == 404, (
+        "a readable non-allowlisted file was served; the allowlist is not gating")
+    assert b"PRIVATE KEY" not in resp.data
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("payload", FONT_TRAVERSAL)
+def test_serve_font_refuses_anything_not_allowlisted(payload, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    """The name reaching the filesystem must come from the allowlist constant.
+
+    _ALLOWED_FONTS gates this endpoint, so nothing here was ever exploitable.
+    Building the path from the matched constant rather than the request value
+    is what makes that provable -- and it is why CodeQL reported two
+    high-severity py/path-injection alerts on an endpoint that was already
+    safe.
+    """
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C.composer_bp, "project_root", str(tmp_path), raising=False)
+    app = C.composer_bp.name and __import__("flask").Flask(__name__)
+    app.register_blueprint(C.composer_bp)
+    with app.test_client() as client:
+        resp = client.get(f"/api/fonts/{payload}")
+    assert resp.status_code in (404, 405, 308), (
+        f"{payload!r} was not refused (status {resp.status_code})")
+
+
+def test_serve_font_still_serves_each_allowlisted_font(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    fonts = tmp_path / "assets" / "fonts"
+    fonts.mkdir(parents=True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(C.composer_bp, "project_root", str(tmp_path), raising=False)
+    app = __import__("flask").Flask(__name__)
+    app.register_blueprint(C.composer_bp)
+    for name in C._ALLOWED_FONTS:
+        (fonts / name).write_bytes(b"\x00\x01ttf")
+        with app.test_client() as client:
+            resp = client.get(f"/api/fonts/{name}")
+        assert resp.status_code == 200, f"{name} should be served, got {resp.status_code}"

test/test_health_write_churn.py

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+"""A healthy plugin must not rewrite its health record every cycle.
+
+Every successful plugin update called record_success(), which persisted the
+record unconditionally. In steady state the only fields that had changed were
+total_successes and last_success_time -- a counter and a timestamp that
+health_monitor reads for display and that nothing reads back after a restart.
+
+Measured on a rig running 24 plugins: about 17 health-file rewrites a minute,
+roughly 25,000 a day. Each is ~400 bytes, but they land on an SD card where
+the unit of cost is an erase-block cycle, not the byte count, and where wear is
+what eventually kills the card.
+
+The circuit breaker still needs its own state to survive a restart, so the
+write is kept for exactly the fields it is rebuilt from -- and a failure, a
+circuit opening, or a recovery must still be written the moment it happens.
+"""
+import time
+
+import copy
+
+import pytest
+
+from src.plugin_system.plugin_health import PluginHealthTracker, CircuitState
+
+
+class _Cache:
+    """Counts writes; serves back whatever was last written.
+
+    Both directions deep-copy, so this behaves like a real cache that
+    serialises through a file. Storing by reference let the tracker keep
+    mutating the object already in the store, so a record could appear to
+    have been persisted when no write ever happened -- which is precisely
+    what test_durable_state_survives_a_restart is supposed to detect.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.store = {}
+        self.writes = 0
+
+    def set(self, key, data, ttl=None, **kwargs):
+        self.writes += 1
+        self.store[key] = copy.deepcopy(data)
+
+    def get(self, key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=None, **kwargs):
+        return copy.deepcopy(self.store.get(key))
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def tracker():
+    cache = _Cache()
+    t = PluginHealthTracker(cache_manager=cache)
+    return t, cache
+
+
+def test_steady_state_success_stops_writing(tracker):
+    """The regression: 100 healthy cycles used to be 100 SD writes."""
+    t, cache = tracker
+    t.record_success("weather")
+    first = cache.writes
+    for _ in range(100):
+        t.record_success("weather")
+    assert cache.writes == first, (
+        f"{cache.writes - first} redundant writes across 100 healthy cycles"
+    )
+
+
+def test_the_counters_are_still_accurate_in_memory(tracker):
+    """Skipping the write must not skip the bookkeeping."""
+    t, _ = tracker
+    for _ in range(10):
+        t.record_success("weather")
+    state = t.get_health_state("weather")
+    assert state["total_successes"] == 10
+    assert state["last_success_time"] is not None
+    assert state["last_success_time"] <= time.time()
+
+
+def test_a_failure_is_written_immediately(tracker):
+    t, cache = tracker
+    t.record_success("weather")
+    before = cache.writes
+    t.record_failure("weather", RuntimeError("boom"))
+    assert cache.writes > before, "a failure must reach disk"
+
+
+def test_recovery_after_failure_is_written(tracker):
+    """consecutive_failures returning to 0 is durable state changing."""
+    t, cache = tracker
+    t.record_failure("weather", RuntimeError("boom"))
+    before = cache.writes
+    t.record_success("weather")
+    assert cache.writes > before, "recovery must reach disk"
+    assert t.get_health_state("weather")["consecutive_failures"] == 0
+
+
+def test_a_closing_circuit_is_written(tracker):
+    """Success in half-open closes the circuit -- that must survive a restart."""
+    t, cache = tracker
+    state = t.get_health_state("weather")
+    state["circuit_state"] = CircuitState.HALF_OPEN.value
+    state["half_open_start_time"] = time.time()
+    before = cache.writes
+    t.record_success("weather")
+    assert cache.writes > before, "a circuit transition must reach disk"
+    assert t.get_health_state("weather")["circuit_state"] == CircuitState.CLOSED.value
+
+
+def test_durable_state_survives_a_restart(tracker):
+    """What is skipped must genuinely not matter to the breaker."""
+    t, cache = tracker
+    for _ in range(3):
+        t.record_failure("weather", RuntimeError("boom"))
+    for _ in range(50):
+        t.record_success("weather")
+
+    revived = PluginHealthTracker(cache_manager=cache)
+    state = revived.get_health_state("weather")
+    assert state["consecutive_failures"] == 0
+    assert state["circuit_state"] == CircuitState.CLOSED.value

test/test_journald_log_priority.py

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+"""Log lines must reach the journal with their real severity.
+
+Everything this process writes to stdout lands in the journal as PRIORITY=6,
+whatever the Python level was, because journald has no other signal. Measured
+on a live rig over 24 hours: 55 lines containing " - ERROR - " and 13
+containing " - WARNING - ", every one of them recorded as informational. So
+
+    journalctl -p err -u ledmatrix
+
+returned nothing while errors were being logged, and anyone triaging has to
+grep the message text instead. That is slower and it is wrong: a search for
+"oom" also matches the radar logging "zoom=9", which is exactly the false
+positive it produced during this audit.
+
+systemd reads a leading "<N>" on each stdout line and uses it as the priority
+(sd-daemon(3)), so this needs no extra dependency -- and it must only be
+applied when systemd is actually reading, or the prefixes become literal noise
+in a terminal, the emulator, and test output.
+"""
+import logging
+import os
+import sys
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+import pytest
+
+from src.logging_config import JournalPriorityFormatter, _SYSLOG_PRIORITY, _under_systemd
+
+
+class _Plain(logging.Formatter):
+    def format(self, record):
+        return record.getMessage()
+
+
+def _record(level, msg="hello"):
+    return logging.LogRecord("t", level, "f.py", 1, msg, None, None)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("level,expected", [
+    (logging.CRITICAL, 2),
+    (logging.ERROR, 3),
+    (logging.WARNING, 4),
+    (logging.INFO, 6),
+    (logging.DEBUG, 7),
+])
+def test_each_level_maps_to_its_syslog_priority(level, expected):
+    out = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain()).format(_record(level))
+    assert out.startswith(f"<{expected}>"), out
+    assert _SYSLOG_PRIORITY[level] == expected
+
+
+def test_error_and_info_are_distinguishable():
+    """The whole point: journalctl -p err must be able to tell them apart."""
+    fmt = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain())
+    assert fmt.format(_record(logging.ERROR))[:3] != fmt.format(_record(logging.INFO))[:3]
+
+
+def test_every_line_of_a_multiline_record_is_tagged():
+    """The journal splits them, and an untagged continuation loses its level.
+
+    A traceback is the case that matters -- it is the most important thing in
+    the log and the longest.
+    """
+    out = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain()).format(
+        _record(logging.ERROR, "Traceback:\nline one\nline two"))
+    lines = out.split("\n")
+    assert len(lines) == 3
+    assert all(line.startswith("<3>") for line in lines), lines
+
+
+def test_the_message_survives_intact():
+    out = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain()).format(_record(logging.WARNING, "disk full"))
+    assert out == "<4>disk full"
+
+
+def test_an_unknown_level_falls_back_to_info():
+    out = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain()).format(_record(25))
+    assert out.startswith("<6>")
+
+
+def _stdout_ids():
+    """The dev:ino systemd would publish for this process's stdout."""
+    st = os.fstat(sys.stdout.fileno())
+    return f"{st.st_dev}:{st.st_ino}"
+
+
+def test_prefixing_is_off_outside_systemd():
+    """Otherwise a terminal run, the emulator and pytest all show `<6>`."""
+    with patch.dict(os.environ, {}, clear=True):
+        assert not _under_systemd()
+    with patch.dict(os.environ, {"JOURNAL_STREAM": _stdout_ids()}):
+        assert _under_systemd()
+
+
+def test_an_inherited_journal_stream_does_not_count():
+    """The variable outlives the descriptor it describes.
+
+    systemd sets JOURNAL_STREAM for the service, and every child inherits it
+    -- including one whose stdout has been redirected to a pipe or a file.
+    Trusting the variable alone put literal "<6>" prefixes into that captured
+    output. Only a descriptor whose dev:ino actually matches is the journal.
+    """
+    with patch.dict(os.environ, {"JOURNAL_STREAM": "8:12345"}):
+        assert not _under_systemd(), \
+            "a stale inherited JOURNAL_STREAM was treated as the journal"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("value", ["", "not-a-pair", "8", "8:", ":12345",
+                                   "eight:12345", "8:12345:9"])
+def test_a_malformed_journal_stream_is_not_the_journal(value):
+    with patch.dict(os.environ, {"JOURNAL_STREAM": value}):
+        assert not _under_systemd()
+
+
+def test_a_closed_stdout_is_not_the_journal():
+    """os.fstat raises rather than answers; that must not propagate."""
+    with patch.dict(os.environ, {"JOURNAL_STREAM": "8:12345"}), \
+            patch("src.logging_config.sys.stdout") as fake_stdout:
+        fake_stdout.fileno.side_effect = ValueError("I/O operation on closed file")
+        assert not _under_systemd()
+
+
+def test_setup_uses_the_wrapper_only_under_systemd():
+    from src.logging_config import setup_logging
+
+    for env, expect_wrapped in (({}, False),
+                                ({"JOURNAL_STREAM": _stdout_ids()}, True)):
+        with patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=True):
+            setup_logging()
+            handlers = [h for h in logging.getLogger().handlers
+                        if isinstance(h, logging.StreamHandler)]
+            assert handlers, "no stream handler installed"
+            wrapped = any(isinstance(h.formatter, JournalPriorityFormatter)
+                          for h in handlers)
+            assert wrapped is expect_wrapped, (
+                f"JOURNAL_STREAM={env}: wrapped={wrapped}, expected {expect_wrapped}")
+    logging.getLogger().handlers.clear()

test/test_logging_config.py

@@ -183,15 +183,27 @@ class TestSetupLogging:
         setup_logging()
         assert len(logging.getLogger().handlers) == 1
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _selected_formatter():
+        """The formatter setup_logging() chose, past any journald wrapper.
+
+        Under systemd the console handler's formatter is wrapped so each line
+        carries its syslog priority. That wrapper is applied only when
+        JOURNAL_STREAM is set, which is true in CI and false in a terminal, so
+        asserting on the handler's formatter directly passes locally and fails
+        on the runner. These tests are about which formatter format_type
+        selects, so they look through the wrapper.
+        """
+        formatter = logging.getLogger().handlers[0].formatter
+        return getattr(formatter, "inner", formatter)
+
     def test_json_format_selects_structured_formatter(self):
         setup_logging(format_type="json")
-        assert isinstance(
-            logging.getLogger().handlers[0].formatter, StructuredFormatter)
+        assert isinstance(self._selected_formatter(), StructuredFormatter)
 
     def test_readable_format_selects_contextual_formatter(self):
         setup_logging(format_type="readable")
-        assert isinstance(
-            logging.getLogger().handlers[0].formatter, ContextualFormatter)
+        assert isinstance(self._selected_formatter(), ContextualFormatter)
 
     def test_log_file_adds_file_handler(self, tmp_path):
         log_file = tmp_path / "test.log"

test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+"""A malformed metrics cache entry must not take every plugin down with it.
+
+`ResourceMetrics(**cached)` raises TypeError on a single unexpected key, and
+that exception escapes into plugin_manager, which reports it per plugin as
+"plugin <id> operation failed". Every plugin fails and the plugin system never
+finishes initialising -- the health endpoint reports
+`plugin_system: not_initialized` while the display itself keeps running.
+
+Seen on a live rig, once per plugin, continuously:
+
+    ERROR - src.plugin_system.plugin_manager - plugin geochron operation failed:
+    ResourceMetrics.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument
+    'consecutive_failures'
+
+`consecutive_failures` belongs to plugin_health, not to metrics. How a
+health-shaped record came to sit under a plugin_metrics key on that machine is
+not established -- a restored backup that mixed two machines' caches is the
+likeliest explanation, and the same rig had one restored onto it -- but a
+loader that turns one bad cache entry into a total outage is the part worth
+fixing. plugin_health already repairs its own records field by field rather
+than trusting what is on disk.
+"""
+import logging
+from dataclasses import fields
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+import pytest
+
+from src.plugin_system.resource_monitor import PluginResourceMonitor, ResourceMetrics
+
+
+class _Cache:
+    def __init__(self, payload=None):
+        self.payload = payload
+
+    def get(self, key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=None, **kwargs):
+        return self.payload
+
+    def set(self, key, data, ttl=None, **kwargs):
+        pass
+
+
+def _monitor(payload):
+    m = PluginResourceMonitor(cache_manager=_Cache(payload))
+    m.logger = logging.getLogger("test")
+    return m
+
+
+#: What the rig actually had under the metrics key.
+HEALTH_SHAPED = {
+    "consecutive_failures": 0, "circuit_state": "closed",
+    "circuit_opened_time": None, "half_open_start_time": None,
+    "last_error": None, "last_failure_time": None,
+    "last_success_time": 1_700_000_000.0, "total_failures": 0,
+    "total_successes": 42,
+}
+
+
+def test_a_health_record_under_the_metrics_key_does_not_raise():
+    """The exact failure: it must degrade, not take the plugin system down."""
+    monitor = _monitor(HEALTH_SHAPED)
+    metrics = monitor.get_metrics(" plugin-a".strip())
+    assert isinstance(metrics, ResourceMetrics)
+
+
+def test_recognised_fields_in_a_mixed_record_are_kept():
+    """Dropping the record wholesale would lose real history unnecessarily."""
+    mixed = dict(HEALTH_SHAPED, call_count=7, memory_mb=12.5)
+    metrics = _monitor(mixed).get_metrics("plugin-b")
+    assert metrics.call_count == 7
+    assert metrics.memory_mb == 12.5
+
+
+def test_a_clean_record_still_loads_unchanged():
+    clean = {f.name: 3 for f in fields(ResourceMetrics)}
+    metrics = _monitor(clean).get_metrics("plugin-c")
+    for name in (f.name for f in fields(ResourceMetrics)):
+        assert getattr(metrics, name) == 3
+
+
+def test_unknown_fields_are_named_in_the_log(caplog):
+    """Silently discarding them would hide a real schema change."""
+    with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING):
+        _monitor(HEALTH_SHAPED).get_metrics("plugin-d")
+    # getMessage(), not .message: the latter is only populated once a handler
+    # formats the record, so the obvious spelling silently never matches.
+    assert any("consecutive_failures" in r.getMessage() for r in caplog.records), \
+        caplog.text
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("payload", ["a string", 42, ["a", "list"]])
+def test_a_non_mapping_cache_entry_does_not_raise(payload):
+    metrics = _monitor(payload).get_metrics("plugin-e")
+    assert isinstance(metrics, ResourceMetrics)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("bad", [
+    {"call_count": "not a number"},
+    {"memory_mb": None},
+    {"execution_time": {"nested": "junk"}},
+    {"min_execution_time": ["a", "list"]},
+])
+def test_values_of_the_wrong_type_fall_back_to_usable_defaults(bad):
+    """isinstance() alone was not enough.
+
+    A dataclass does not enforce its annotations, so the bad value was simply
+    stored and the old assertion passed -- then monitor_call() raised
+    "can only concatenate str (not \"int\") to str" on the next call. The
+    metrics must come back *usable*, not merely constructed.
+    """
+    monitor = _monitor(bad)
+    metrics = monitor.get_metrics("plugin-f")
+    assert isinstance(metrics, ResourceMetrics)
+
+    field_name = next(iter(bad))
+    assert isinstance(getattr(metrics, field_name), (int, float)), \
+        f"{field_name} came back as {getattr(metrics, field_name)!r}"
+
+    # The real proof: arithmetic on the loaded metrics must not explode.
+    metrics.call_count += 1
+    metrics.total_execution_time += 0.5
+    metrics.update_average_execution_time()
+
+
+def test_a_numeric_string_is_accepted_rather_than_discarded():
+    """JSON round-trips can widen an int to a string; that is recoverable."""
+    metrics = _monitor({"call_count": "7"}).get_metrics("plugin-g")
+    assert metrics.call_count == 7

test/test_plugin_discovery_reports_skips.py

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Discovery must say when it skips a directory.
+
+A plugin can be enabled in config, enabled in plugin state, present on disk
+with a valid entry point -- and simply absent from the running process, with
+nothing in the journal to say why. Working that out afterwards meant comparing
+cache-file mtimes to find when it had last run.
+
+Two paths were silent. A directory with no manifest.json was ignored, and --
+quieter still -- a manifest that parsed but carried no "id" was read
+successfully and then dropped on the floor.
+"""
+import json
+import logging
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+import pytest
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+
+from src.plugin_system.plugin_manager import PluginManager  # noqa: E402
+
+
+def _manager(tmp_path):
+    pm = PluginManager.__new__(PluginManager)
+    pm.plugins_dir = tmp_path
+    pm.logger = logging.getLogger("test.discovery")
+    pm.plugin_manifests = {}
+    pm.plugin_directories = {}
+    pm._discovery_lock = __import__("threading").RLock()
+    pm._skip_reported = set()
+    pm.schema_manager = MagicMock()
+    return pm
+
+
+def test_a_directory_without_a_manifest_is_reported(tmp_path, caplog):
+    (tmp_path / "not-a-plugin").mkdir()
+    pm = _manager(tmp_path)
+    with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger="test.discovery"):
+        pm._scan_directory_for_plugins(tmp_path)
+    joined = " ".join(r.message for r in caplog.records)
+    assert "not-a-plugin" in joined and "manifest" in joined, (
+        f"skip was silent; log said: {joined!r}")
+
+
+def test_a_manifest_without_an_id_is_reported(tmp_path, caplog):
+    d = tmp_path / "idless"
+    d.mkdir()
+    (d / "manifest.json").write_text(json.dumps({"name": "No Id", "version": "1.0.0"}))
+    pm = _manager(tmp_path)
+    with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger="test.discovery"):
+        pm._scan_directory_for_plugins(tmp_path)
+    joined = " ".join(r.message for r in caplog.records)
+    assert "idless" in joined and "id" in joined, (
+        f"a parsed-but-unusable manifest vanished silently; log said: {joined!r}")
+
+
+def test_a_good_plugin_still_registers(tmp_path, caplog):
+    d = tmp_path / "real-plugin"
+    d.mkdir()
+    (d / "manifest.json").write_text(json.dumps(
+        {"id": "real-plugin", "name": "Real", "version": "1.0.0"}))
+    pm = _manager(tmp_path)
+    pm._scan_directory_for_plugins(tmp_path)
+    assert "real-plugin" in pm.plugin_manifests, "a valid plugin was not registered"
+
+
+def test_the_warning_does_not_repeat_on_every_scan(tmp_path, caplog):
+    """Discovery runs on every web UI page load and every config reconcile.
+
+    Warning unconditionally would put a line in the journal each time someone
+    opened a page -- the same log-volume problem this is meant to help
+    diagnose.
+    """
+    (tmp_path / "not-a-plugin").mkdir()
+    pm = _manager(tmp_path)
+    with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger="test.discovery"):
+        for _ in range(5):
+            pm._scan_directory_for_plugins(tmp_path)
+    hits = [r for r in caplog.records if "not-a-plugin" in r.message]
+    assert len(hits) == 1, f"warned {len(hits)} times across 5 scans"
+
+
+def _plugin(tmp_path, name, body):
+    d = tmp_path / name
+    d.mkdir()
+    (d / "manifest.json").write_text(json.dumps(body))
+    return d
+
+
+VALID = {"name": "V", "version": "1.0.0", "class_name": "X", "display_modes": ["m"]}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("body", [None, [1, 2], "not an object", 42, True])
+def test_a_manifest_that_is_not_an_object_is_skipped_not_fatal(tmp_path, caplog, body):
+    """json.load accepts any JSON value, not just objects.
+
+    manifest.get('id') then raised AttributeError, which nothing here caught --
+    the outer handler takes OSError/PermissionError only. A single malformed
+    manifest aborted the entire scan, so every other plugin on disk, however
+    healthy, silently failed to register.
+    """
+    _plugin(tmp_path, "aaa-good", dict(VALID, id="aaa-good"))
+    _plugin(tmp_path, "mmm-bad", body)
+    _plugin(tmp_path, "zzz-good", dict(VALID, id="zzz-good"))
+
+    pm = _manager(tmp_path)
+    with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger="test.discovery"):
+        found = pm._scan_directory_for_plugins(tmp_path)
+
+    assert sorted(found) == ["aaa-good", "zzz-good"], (
+        "one unusable manifest took the healthy plugins down with it")
+    joined = " ".join(r.message for r in caplog.records)
+    assert "mmm-bad" in joined, f"the skip was silent; log said: {joined!r}"
+
+
+def test_the_bad_manifest_is_named_with_what_it_actually_was(tmp_path, caplog):
+    _plugin(tmp_path, "listy", [1, 2])
+    pm = _manager(tmp_path)
+    with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger="test.discovery"):
+        pm._scan_directory_for_plugins(tmp_path)
+    joined = " ".join(r.message for r in caplog.records)
+    assert "listy" in joined and "list" in joined, (
+        f"the warning does not say what the manifest was: {joined!r}")

test/test_resource_monitor.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Focus areas:
 import time
 
 import pytest
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 
 from src.plugin_system.resource_monitor import (
     PluginResourceMonitor,
@@ -127,3 +127,87 @@ class TestForceReload:
         fresh = mon.get_metrics_summary("p", force_reload=True)
         assert fresh["call_count"] == 7
         assert any(c.kwargs.get("memory_ttl") == 0 for c in cache.get.call_args_list)
+
+
+class TestMetricsPersistenceChurn:
+    """Metrics are telemetry; writing them on every call wore the SD card.
+
+    Each write is a ~350-byte file, which on ext4 costs a 4KB block plus a
+    journal entry. At roughly nine calls a minute per plugin across fourteen
+    plugins it dominated the device's write volume.
+    """
+
+    def test_the_first_snapshot_is_written_even_seconds_after_boot(self):
+        """The throttle must key off "have we written?", not process uptime.
+
+        time.monotonic() is time since boot on Linux, and systemd starts this
+        service at boot. With 0.0 as the missing-timestamp default,
+        `now - 0.0 < 30` was true for the first half-minute of every run, so
+        the very first metrics write -- the one that matters most after a
+        restart -- was silently skipped.
+        """
+        import src.plugin_system.resource_monitor as rm
+        cache = _cache()
+        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
+        # 12 seconds after boot: inside the interval, but nothing written yet.
+        with patch.object(rm.time, "monotonic", return_value=12.0):
+            mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
+        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
+                  if "plugin_metrics:" in str(c)]
+        assert writes, \
+            "the first snapshot was dropped because the process was young"
+
+    def test_repeated_calls_persist_once_per_interval(self):
+        cache = _cache()
+        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
+        for _ in range(50):
+            mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
+        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
+                  if c.args and str(c.args[0]).startswith("plugin_metrics:")]
+        assert len(writes) == 1, (
+            f"50 calls produced {len(writes)} metric writes; expected 1")
+
+    def test_the_interval_elapsing_allows_the_next_write(self, monkeypatch):
+        import src.plugin_system.resource_monitor as rm
+        cache = _cache()
+        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
+        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
+        # pretend the interval has passed
+        mon._metrics_persisted_at["p"] -= rm._METRICS_PERSIST_INTERVAL + 1
+        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
+        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
+                  if c.args and str(c.args[0]).startswith("plugin_metrics:")]
+        assert len(writes) == 2
+
+    def test_in_memory_metrics_stay_exact_while_writes_are_skipped(self):
+        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(_cache(), enable_monitoring=False)
+        for _ in range(20):
+            mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
+        assert mon.get_metrics("p").call_count == 20
+
+    def test_reset_lets_the_next_call_persist_immediately(self):
+        cache = _cache()
+        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
+        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
+        mon.reset_metrics("p")
+        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
+        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
+                  if c.args and str(c.args[0]).startswith("plugin_metrics:")]
+        assert len(writes) == 2, "reset should clear the throttle timestamp"
+
+    def test_a_failed_write_does_not_buy_the_next_interval_of_silence(self):
+        """A set() that raises must not count as having persisted.
+
+        Marking the timestamp before the write would leave no snapshot in the
+        cache and still suppress the next 30 seconds of attempts.
+        """
+        cache = _cache()
+        cache.set.side_effect = [OSError("disk full"), None]
+        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
+        with pytest.raises(OSError):
+            mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
+        # the very next call must try again rather than skip the interval
+        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
+        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
+                  if c.args and str(c.args[0]).startswith("plugin_metrics:")]
+        assert len(writes) == 2, "a failed write should be retried, not skipped"

test/test_schema_manager_device_location.py

@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+"""
+Tests for the device-location default: a plugin that ships a location field in
+its schema must default to the device's configured City/State/Country, not to
+whatever place the plugin author hard-coded.
+
+The bug this pins: ledmatrix-weather ships ``"location_city": "Dallas"`` as a
+schema default, so a user who set Kansas City under General settings but never
+opened the weather plugin's own config form got Dallas weather — and a radar
+centred on Dallas — with nothing in config.json to explain it.
+"""
+
+import json
+
+import pytest
+
+from src.plugin_system.schema_manager import SchemaManager
+
+
+class FakeConfigManager:
+    """Minimal stand-in exposing the load_config() SchemaManager relies on."""
+
+    def __init__(self, config):
+        self.config = config
+        self.load_count = 0
+
+    def load_config(self):
+        self.load_count += 1
+        return self.config
+
+
+class ExplodingConfigManager:
+    def load_config(self):
+        raise OSError("config.json is unreadable")
+
+
+WEATHER_SCHEMA = {
+    "type": "object",
+    "properties": {
+        "location_city": {"type": "string", "default": "Dallas"},
+        "location_state": {"type": "string", "default": "Texas"},
+        "location_country": {"type": "string", "default": "US"},
+        "units": {"type": "string", "default": "imperial"},
+    },
+}
+
+
+def write_plugin(plugins_dir, plugin_id, schema):
+    plugin_dir = plugins_dir / plugin_id
+    plugin_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    (plugin_dir / "config_schema.json").write_text(json.dumps(schema))
+    return plugin_dir
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def plugins_dir(tmp_path):
+    d = tmp_path / "plugin-repos"
+    d.mkdir()
+    return d
+
+
+def make_sm(plugins_dir, tmp_path, location):
+    config = {} if location is None else {"location": location}
+    cm = FakeConfigManager(config)
+    sm = SchemaManager(plugins_dir=plugins_dir, project_root=tmp_path,
+                       config_manager=cm)
+    return sm, cm
+
+
+class TestDeviceLocationDefaults:
+    def test_device_location_replaces_plugin_default(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "ledmatrix-weather", WEATHER_SCHEMA)
+        sm, _ = make_sm(plugins_dir, tmp_path,
+                        {"city": "Kansas City", "state": "Missouri", "country": "US"})
+
+        defaults = sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")
+
+        assert defaults["location_city"] == "Kansas City"
+        assert defaults["location_state"] == "Missouri"
+        assert defaults["location_country"] == "US"
+        # Non-location defaults are untouched.
+        assert defaults["units"] == "imperial"
+
+    def test_user_set_plugin_value_still_wins(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "ledmatrix-weather", WEATHER_SCHEMA)
+        sm, _ = make_sm(plugins_dir, tmp_path,
+                        {"city": "Kansas City", "state": "Missouri", "country": "US"})
+
+        defaults = sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")
+        merged = sm.merge_with_defaults({"location_city": "Denver"}, defaults)
+
+        assert merged["location_city"] == "Denver"
+        # Fields the user did not override still follow the device.
+        assert merged["location_state"] == "Missouri"
+
+    def test_blank_and_missing_device_fields_leave_schema_default(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "ledmatrix-weather", WEATHER_SCHEMA)
+        sm, _ = make_sm(plugins_dir, tmp_path, {"city": "Kansas City", "state": "   "})
+
+        defaults = sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")
+
+        assert defaults["location_city"] == "Kansas City"
+        assert defaults["location_state"] == "Texas"    # blank -> not configured
+        assert defaults["location_country"] == "US"     # absent -> schema default
+
+    def test_no_device_location_configured_is_a_no_op(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "ledmatrix-weather", WEATHER_SCHEMA)
+        sm, _ = make_sm(plugins_dir, tmp_path, None)
+
+        defaults = sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")
+
+        assert defaults["location_city"] == "Dallas"
+
+    def test_no_config_manager_is_a_no_op(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "ledmatrix-weather", WEATHER_SCHEMA)
+        sm = SchemaManager(plugins_dir=plugins_dir, project_root=tmp_path)
+
+        assert sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")["location_city"] == "Dallas"
+
+    def test_unreadable_config_falls_back_to_schema_defaults(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "ledmatrix-weather", WEATHER_SCHEMA)
+        sm = SchemaManager(plugins_dir=plugins_dir, project_root=tmp_path,
+                           config_manager=ExplodingConfigManager())
+
+        assert sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")["location_city"] == "Dallas"
+
+
+class TestScopedToNamespacedKeys:
+    def test_bare_state_key_is_not_rewritten(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        """ledmatrix-elections' ``state`` is a two-letter code, not a place name."""
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "ledmatrix-elections", {
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {
+                "state": {"type": "string", "default": "CA"},
+                "city": {"type": "string", "default": "Springfield"},
+            },
+        })
+        sm, _ = make_sm(plugins_dir, tmp_path,
+                        {"city": "Kansas City", "state": "Missouri", "country": "US"})
+
+        defaults = sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-elections")
+
+        assert defaults["state"] == "CA"
+        assert defaults["city"] == "Springfield"
+
+    def test_plugin_without_location_fields_never_reads_config(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "clock-simple", {
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {"format": {"type": "string", "default": "12h"}},
+        })
+        sm, cm = make_sm(plugins_dir, tmp_path, {"city": "Kansas City"})
+
+        defaults = sm.generate_default_config("clock-simple")
+
+        assert defaults["format"] == "12h"
+        assert cm.load_count == 0
+
+
+class TestCachingStaysFresh:
+    def test_location_change_is_picked_up_through_the_defaults_cache(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "ledmatrix-weather", WEATHER_SCHEMA)
+        sm, cm = make_sm(plugins_dir, tmp_path, {"city": "Kansas City"})
+
+        assert sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")["location_city"] == "Kansas City"
+
+        cm.config["location"]["city"] = "Omaha"
+
+        # Second call is served from the defaults cache, but must not serve a
+        # stale location.
+        assert sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")["location_city"] == "Omaha"
+
+    def test_cached_defaults_are_not_mutated_by_the_overlay(self, plugins_dir, tmp_path):
+        write_plugin(plugins_dir, "ledmatrix-weather", WEATHER_SCHEMA)
+        sm, cm = make_sm(plugins_dir, tmp_path, {"city": "Kansas City"})
+
+        sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")
+        assert sm._defaults_cache["ledmatrix-weather"]["location_city"] == "Dallas"
+
+        cm.config.pop("location")
+        assert sm.generate_default_config("ledmatrix-weather")["location_city"] == "Dallas"

test/test_sports_odds_fanout.py

@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+"""Odds must be fetched for the games shown, not every game in the window.
+
+SportsUpcoming.update() collected every upcoming game in the schedule window
+and called _fetch_odds() on each one *inside* that collection loop, narrowing
+to upcoming_games_to_show only afterwards. The comment there said odds were
+fetched "only for games that will be displayed", but the sole narrowing it
+applied was show_favorite_teams_only, which is not the default -- so in the
+usual configuration nothing narrowed it at all.
+
+Measured on a live rig: a college league produced 946 upcoming games in one
+cycle and displayed 1 of them. The same shape on the football plugin produced
+a burst of 467 sequential ESPN requests that ran for 35s and blew that
+plugin's 30s update budget, and it repeats every time the 1h odds TTL expires.
+
+SportsLive is deliberately different: it walks the raw event list because it
+has to find which games are live, but only fetches odds for a game that has
+already passed the is_live/is_halftime test, so the fan-out is bounded by how
+many games are actually in progress.
+"""
+import ast
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+MODES = (Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+         / "src" / "base_classes" / "sports" / "modes.py")
+TREE = ast.parse(MODES.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+
+
+def _fetch_sites():
+    """(class name, method name, lineno) for every self._fetch_odds(...) call."""
+    calls = [n.lineno for n in ast.walk(TREE)
+             if isinstance(n, ast.Call) and isinstance(n.func, ast.Attribute)
+             and n.func.attr == "_fetch_odds"]
+    sites = []
+    for cls in [n for n in ast.walk(TREE) if isinstance(n, ast.ClassDef)]:
+        for fn in [n for n in cls.body if isinstance(n, ast.FunctionDef)]:
+            for lineno in calls:
+                if fn.lineno <= lineno <= (fn.end_lineno or fn.lineno):
+                    sites.append((cls.name, fn.name, lineno))
+    assert len(sites) == len(calls), "a _fetch_odds call sits outside any method"
+    return sites
+
+
+def _innermost_loop_iterable(lineno):
+    best = None
+    for node in ast.walk(TREE):
+        if isinstance(node, ast.For) and \
+                node.lineno <= lineno <= (node.end_lineno or node.lineno):
+            if best is None or node.lineno > best.lineno:
+                best = node
+    return None if best is None else ast.unparse(best.iter)
+
+
+def _spans(body, lineno):
+    """True when `lineno` falls inside this list of statements."""
+    return any(n.lineno <= lineno <= (n.end_lineno or n.lineno) for n in body)
+
+
+def _parents(tree):
+    table = {}
+    for node in ast.walk(tree):
+        for child in ast.iter_child_nodes(node):
+            table[child] = node
+    return table
+
+
+PARENTS = _parents(TREE)
+
+
+def _mentions_positively(test, names):
+    """True when `test` references every name, none of them under a `not`.
+
+    Structural, not textual. Matching the unparsed source would accept
+    `not (details["is_live"] or details["is_halftime"])` -- which selects
+    exactly the non-live games this guard exists to exclude -- because the
+    names still appear in the text.
+    """
+    found = set()
+    for node in ast.walk(test):
+        if not (isinstance(node, ast.Constant) and node.value in names):
+            continue
+        negated = False
+        cursor = node
+        while cursor is not test and cursor in PARENTS:
+            cursor = PARENTS[cursor]
+            if isinstance(cursor, ast.UnaryOp) and isinstance(cursor.op, ast.Not):
+                negated = True
+                break
+        if not negated:
+            found.add(node.value)
+    return found >= set(names)
+
+
+def _guarded_by_positive(lineno, names):
+    """True when some enclosing `if` runs this line only if `names` hold.
+
+    Only the TRUE branch counts: an `if` whose `else` contains the call would
+    otherwise look like a guard while doing the opposite.
+    """
+    for node in ast.walk(TREE):
+        if isinstance(node, ast.If) and _spans(node.body, lineno) \
+                and _mentions_positively(node.test, names):
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
+def test_every_fetch_site_is_accounted_for():
+    """A new call site must be classified deliberately, not inherited silently."""
+    found = {(cls, fn) for cls, fn, _ in _fetch_sites()}
+    assert found == {("SportsUpcoming", "update"), ("SportsLive", "update")}, (
+        f"unexpected _fetch_odds call sites: {sorted(found)}. Each one is a "
+        "sequential ESPN request per game -- classify it here on purpose.")
+
+
+def test_upcoming_fetches_only_the_selected_games():
+    for cls, _fn, lineno in _fetch_sites():
+        if cls != "SportsUpcoming":
+            continue
+        iterable = _innermost_loop_iterable(lineno)
+        assert iterable == "team_games", (
+            f"SportsUpcoming._fetch_odds at line {lineno} iterates over "
+            f"{iterable!r}. It must run over team_games -- already narrowed to "
+            "upcoming_games_to_show -- not over every event in the schedule "
+            "window. Each item costs one sequential ESPN request.")
+
+
+def test_live_only_fetches_for_games_actually_in_progress():
+    for cls, _fn, lineno in _fetch_sites():
+        if cls != "SportsLive":
+            continue
+        assert _guarded_by_positive(lineno, {"is_live", "is_halftime"}), (
+            f"SportsLive._fetch_odds at line {lineno} does not sit in the true "
+            "branch of a test requiring the game to be in progress. Without "
+            "that, it fans out across the whole event list -- one sequential "
+            "ESPN request per game.")

test/test_vegas_log_volume.py

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+"""The Vegas content path must trace at DEBUG, not INFO.
+
+plugin_adapter narrates every step of acquiring content from every plugin --
+"Has get_vegas_content", "Native: calling get_vegas_content()", "Native content
+returned None", "Has scroll_helper", the per-item sizes -- and it does that for
+each plugin on each cycle.
+
+Measured on a live rig: 13,408 log lines an hour, of which 13,366 were INFO and
+35 were WARNING. plugin_adapter alone produced 2,457 of them. That is ~223
+lines a minute of string formatting on a Pi that is also driving the panel, all
+of it written through journald to the SD card, and it buries the 35 lines that
+actually indicate a problem.
+
+Nothing is lost by moving it to DEBUG: the 19 warning/error/exception calls in
+the module are untouched, so real failures still surface at their own level.
+
+One INFO call is deliberate and stays -- the padding-strip message chooses its
+level at runtime (`logger.warning if (left and right) else logger.info`) and
+test_vegas_plugin_adapter.py pins it.
+"""
+import ast
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+ADAPTER = (Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "src" / "vegas_mode"
+           / "plugin_adapter.py")
+
+
+def _logger_calls(path, *levels):
+    """Direct logger.<level>(...) call sites in a module."""
+    tree = ast.parse(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    found = []
+    for node in ast.walk(tree):
+        if (isinstance(node, ast.Call)
+                and isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
+                and node.func.attr in levels
+                and getattr(node.func.value, "id", None) == "logger"):
+            found.append(node.lineno)
+    return found
+
+
+def _info_calls(path):
+    """Direct logger.info(...) call sites in a module."""
+    return _logger_calls(path, "info")
+
+
+def test_the_content_path_does_not_trace_at_info():
+    calls = _info_calls(ADAPTER)
+    assert not calls, (
+        "plugin_adapter should trace at DEBUG; found logger.info at lines "
+        f"{calls}. This path runs per plugin per cycle and its output goes to "
+        "the SD card via journald."
+    )
+
+
+def test_real_failures_still_have_a_level_of_their_own():
+    """Demoting the trace must not have swept up the error reporting.
+
+    Counted from the AST rather than with source.count(): the text form also
+    matches comments, docstrings and string literals -- including this
+    module's own docstring, which names these levels -- so a real
+    logger.error() could be demoted while the tally stayed put.
+    """
+    loud = _logger_calls(ADAPTER, "warning", "error", "exception")
+    assert len(loud) >= 15, \
+        f"only {len(loud)} warning/error/exception calls remain: {loud}"
+
+
+def test_the_deliberate_runtime_chosen_level_survives():
+    """The padding-strip message picks its level at runtime; leave it alone."""
+    source = ADAPTER.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    assert "logger.warning if (left and right) else logger.info" in source

test/web_interface/test_api_v3_secret_roundtrip.py

@@ -229,44 +229,6 @@ class TestSavePluginConfig:
             "REAL-KEY-0123456789", "an unrelated edit destroyed the API key"
         assert env.fresh_load()[PLUGIN_ID]["city"] == "Dallas"
 
-    def test_an_unrelated_edit_does_not_erase_array_item_secrets(self, env):
-        """The scalar api_key case above, but for a list of credentials.
-
-        remove_empty_secrets recursed into dicts only, so a list went into
-        deep_merge untouched -- and lists merge by *replacement*. Saving any
-        unrelated field posted [{"token": ""}, ...] straight over the stored
-        array and destroyed every token in it at once.
-        """
-        assert self._save(env, {"accounts": [
-            {"name": "a", "token": "REAL-A"},
-            {"name": "b", "token": "REAL-B"},
-        ], "city": "Austin"}).status_code == 200
-
-        # the user changes the city; both masked tokens ride along blank
-        assert self._save(env, {"accounts": [
-            {"name": "a", "token": ""},
-            {"name": "b", "token": ""},
-        ], "city": "Dallas"}).status_code == 200
-
-        merged = env.fresh_load()[PLUGIN_ID]
-        assert [a.get("token") for a in merged["accounts"]] == \
-            ["REAL-A", "REAL-B"], "an unrelated edit destroyed the array secrets"
-        assert [a["name"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["a", "b"]
-        assert merged["city"] == "Dallas"
-
-    def test_one_array_secret_can_be_changed_without_losing_the_rest(self, env):
-        assert self._save(env, {"accounts": [
-            {"name": "a", "token": "REAL-A"},
-            {"name": "b", "token": "REAL-B"},
-        ]}).status_code == 200
-        assert self._save(env, {"accounts": [
-            {"name": "a", "token": ""},
-            {"name": "b", "token": "NEW-B"},
-        ]}).status_code == 200
-
-        merged = env.fresh_load()[PLUGIN_ID]
-        assert [a.get("token") for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["REAL-A", "NEW-B"]
-
     def test_a_secret_can_still_be_changed(self, env):
         """Dropping blanks must not stop a real new value from being saved."""
         self._save(env, {"api_key": "first-key"})

test/web_interface/test_config_logging_omits_secrets.py

@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-"""The validation logging ran before separate_secrets, so it logged credentials.
-
-api_v3's plugin-config save logged `Full config: {plugin_config}` at INFO and
-`Config that failed: {plugin_config}` at ERROR. Both run *before*
-separate_secrets(), so plugin_config still held the values the user just typed
-into the form -- API keys and tokens went to the journal in clear text.
-"""
-import re
-from pathlib import Path
-
-import pytest
-
-SOURCE = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
-          / "web_interface" / "blueprints" / "api_v3.py")
-
-#: Objects that still hold submitted secret values at the point these log
-#: calls run. Interpolating one whole into a log message leaks credentials.
-UNREDACTED = ("plugin_config", "secrets_config", "current_secrets")
-
-
-def _logging_lines():
-    for number, line in enumerate(SOURCE.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines(), 1):
-        stripped = line.strip()
-        if stripped.startswith("#"):
-            continue
-        if re.match(r"logger\.(debug|info|warning|error|critical|exception)\(", stripped):
-            yield number, stripped
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", UNREDACTED)
-def test_no_log_call_interpolates_a_whole_secret_bearing_object(name):
-    # {name} or {name['k']} leaks; {list(name.keys())} and {len(name)} do not.
-    bare = re.compile(r"\{" + re.escape(name) + r"(\[[^\]]*\])*\}")
-    offenders = [f"{n}: {text}" for n, text in _logging_lines() if bare.search(text)]
-    assert not offenders, (
-        f"{name} still holds submitted secrets where these log calls run:\n  "
-        + "\n  ".join(offenders))
-
-
-def test_the_guard_would_notice_a_reintroduced_leak():
-    """Pin the detector itself, so a rewrite cannot silently stop matching."""
-    bare = re.compile(r"\{" + re.escape("plugin_config") + r"(\[[^\]]*\])*\}")
-    assert bare.search('logger.info(f"Full config: {plugin_config}")')
-    assert bare.search("logger.error(f\"{plugin_config['api_key']}\")")
-    assert not bare.search('logger.info(f"{list(plugin_config.keys())}")')

test/web_interface/test_secret_helpers.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ from src.web_interface.secret_helpers import (
     separate_secrets,
     mask_secret_fields,
     mask_all_secret_values,
-    merge_secrets,
     remove_empty_secrets,
 )
 
@@ -240,67 +239,3 @@ class TestRemoveEmptySecrets:
     def test_keeps_falsey_non_string_values(self):
         # 0 and False are neither None nor blank strings — they are kept.
         assert remove_empty_secrets({"a": 0, "b": False}) == {"a": 0, "b": False}
-
-
-class TestArrayItemSecrets:
-    """Lists merge by replacement, so a blanked array wipes stored credentials.
-
-    remove_empty_secrets recursed into dicts but let a list through untouched,
-    so [{"token": ""}] went straight into deep_merge and overwrote the stored
-    list. Saving any unrelated setting destroyed every token in the array.
-    """
-
-    STORED = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": "REAL-A"},
-                           {"name": "b", "token": "REAL-B"}]}
-
-    def test_an_unrelated_save_keeps_every_stored_token(self):
-        posted = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": ""},
-                               {"name": "b", "token": ""}]}
-        merged = merge_secrets(self.STORED, remove_empty_secrets(posted))
-        assert [a["token"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["REAL-A", "REAL-B"]
-
-    def test_editing_one_entry_leaves_the_others_alone(self):
-        posted = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": ""},
-                               {"name": "b", "token": "NEW-B"}]}
-        merged = merge_secrets(self.STORED, remove_empty_secrets(posted))
-        assert [a["token"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["REAL-A", "NEW-B"]
-
-    def test_a_new_entry_is_appended(self):
-        posted = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": ""},
-                               {"name": "b", "token": ""},
-                               {"name": "c", "token": "NEW-C"}]}
-        merged = merge_secrets(self.STORED, remove_empty_secrets(posted))
-        assert [a["token"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == \
-            ["REAL-A", "REAL-B", "NEW-C"]
-
-    def test_a_list_of_bare_strings_merges_by_index(self):
-        merged = merge_secrets({"keys": ["K1", "K2", "K3"]},
-                               remove_empty_secrets({"keys": ["", "K2-NEW", ""]}))
-        assert merged["keys"] == ["K1", "K2-NEW", "K3"]
-
-    def test_an_all_blank_list_is_dropped_entirely(self):
-        posted = {"accounts": [{"token": ""}, {"token": ""}]}
-        assert "accounts" not in remove_empty_secrets(posted)
-
-    def test_plain_dict_secrets_are_unaffected(self):
-        merged = merge_secrets({"api_key": "OLD", "other": "keep"},
-                               remove_empty_secrets({"api_key": "", "other": "changed"}))
-        assert merged == {"api_key": "OLD", "other": "changed"}
-
-    def test_a_removed_entry_takes_its_secret_with_it(self):
-        """The regular config's list is authoritative about how many items
-        exist, and the secrets list runs parallel to it -- see
-        ConfigManager._strip_secrets_recursive. So a shorter incoming list
-        must shorten the stored secrets too, or the two fall out of step."""
-        posted = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": "NEW-A"}]}
-        merged = merge_secrets(self.STORED, remove_empty_secrets(posted))
-        assert [a["token"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["NEW-A"]
-
-    def test_an_emptied_item_stays_a_dict_not_none(self):
-        """None there stops the list looking parallel, and
-        _strip_secrets_recursive then drops the whole key from the main
-        config -- deleting the item's non-secret fields as well."""
-        pruned = remove_empty_secrets(
-            {"accounts": [{"token": "real"}, {"token": ""}]})
-        assert pruned["accounts"] == [{"token": "real"}, {}]
-        assert None not in pruned["accounts"]

web_interface/app.py

@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ saved_repositories_manager = SavedRepositoriesManager()
 schema_manager = SchemaManager(
     plugins_dir=plugins_dir,
     project_root=project_root,
-    logger=None
+    logger=None,
+    config_manager=config_manager
 )
 
 # Initialize operation queue for plugin operations

web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py

@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 from src.web_interface.api_helpers import success_response, error_response, validate_request_json
 from src.web_interface.errors import ErrorCode
 from src.web_interface.secret_helpers import (find_secret_fields, mask_all_secret_values,
-                                              merge_secrets, remove_empty_secrets,
-                                              separate_secrets,
+                                              remove_empty_secrets, separate_secrets,
                                               strip_masked_values)
 from src.web_interface.error_handler import describe_exception, redact_text
 from src.plugin_system.operation_types import OperationType
@@ -1297,10 +1296,7 @@ def save_main_config():
                 if secrets_config:
                     if plugin_id not in current_secrets:
                         current_secrets[plugin_id] = {}
-                    # Lists merge by replacement, so deep_merge here wrote a
-                    # blanked array straight over the stored credentials.
-                    current_secrets[plugin_id] = merge_secrets(
-                        current_secrets[plugin_id], secrets_config)
+                    current_secrets[plugin_id] = deep_merge(current_secrets[plugin_id], secrets_config)
                     # Save secrets file
                     api_v3.config_manager.save_raw_file_content('secrets', current_secrets)
 
@@ -5679,10 +5675,8 @@ def save_plugin_config():
         if schema:
             # Log what we're validating for debugging
             logger.info(f"Validating config for {plugin_id}")
-            # Only the shape. plugin_config still holds the submitted secret
-            # values at this point -- separate_secrets does not run until
-            # below -- so logging it wrote live credentials to the journal.
             logger.info(f"Config keys being validated: {list(plugin_config.keys())}")
+            logger.info(f"Full config: {plugin_config}")
 
             # Get enhanced schema keys (including injected core properties)
             # We need to create an enhanced schema to get the actual allowed keys
@@ -5705,8 +5699,7 @@ def save_plugin_config():
                 # Log validation errors for debugging
                 logger.error(f"Config validation failed for {plugin_id}")
                 logger.error(f"Validation errors: {validation_errors}")
-                # Keys only, for the same reason as above.
-                logger.error(f"Config keys that failed: {list(plugin_config.keys())}")
+                logger.error(f"Config that failed: {plugin_config}")
                 logger.error(f"Schema properties: {list(enhanced_schema.get('properties', {}).keys())}")
 
                 # Also print to console for immediate visibility
@@ -5757,9 +5750,7 @@ def save_plugin_config():
         if secrets_config:
             if plugin_id not in current_secrets:
                 current_secrets[plugin_id] = {}
-            # See above -- secrets lists must merge element-wise.
-            current_secrets[plugin_id] = merge_secrets(
-                current_secrets[plugin_id], secrets_config)
+            current_secrets[plugin_id] = deep_merge(current_secrets[plugin_id], secrets_config)
             # Save secrets file
             try:
                 api_v3.config_manager.save_raw_file_content('secrets', current_secrets)

web_interface/static/v3/app.css

@@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ a, button, input, select, textarea {
     .md\:hidden { display: none; }
     .md\:block { display: block; }
     .md\:w-auto { width: auto; }
+    /* composer.html labels its toolbar buttons `hidden md:inline`, so without
+       this the label is hidden at every width and the buttons stay icon-only. */
+    .md\:inline { display: inline; }
 }
 
 @media (min-width: 1024px) {

web_interface/static/v3/app.js

@@ -126,17 +126,7 @@ window.showRestartPending = function(message) {
     } catch { /* private browsing */ }
     const banner = document.getElementById('restart-pending-banner');
     const text = document.getElementById('restart-pending-text');
-    if (text) {
-        // Without the else-branch a config save inherited whatever wording the
-        // previous update left in the DOM: showRestartPending() clears the
-        // stored text but used to leave the element itself alone. The default
-        // is read back from the server-rendered copy rather than duplicated
-        // here, so the template stays the one place that owns the string.
-        if (text.dataset.defaultText === undefined) {
-            text.dataset.defaultText = text.textContent.trim();
-        }
-        text.textContent = message || text.dataset.defaultText;
-    }
+    if (text && message) text.textContent = message;
     if (banner) banner.style.display = 'block';
 };
 

web_interface/static/v3/js/composer/composer-canvas.js

@@ -0,0 +1,791 @@
+/**
+ * ComposerCanvas — stateless LED matrix canvas renderer.
+ *
+ * Coordinate system: LED pixels (integers). All drawing multiplies by SCALE.
+ * PIL draw.text(x,y) is top-left; canvas fillText(x,y) is baseline.
+ *   → Canvas text cy = (actualY + fontSizePx) * SCALE
+ *
+ * Anchors: element x/y are offsets from their anchor point:
+ *   xAnchor=null/'left'  → x is fixed offset from left
+ *   xAnchor='center'     → x is offset from width/2
+ *   xAnchor='right'      → x is offset inward from right edge
+ *   yAnchor follows the same pattern with 'top'/'middle'/'bottom'
+ *
+ * Breakpoints: elements with minWidth > currentMatrixW are rendered at 25% opacity.
+ *
+ * Resize handles: drawn on selected rectangles; 8 handles (corners + edge mids).
+ */
+window.ComposerCanvas = (() => {
+  'use strict';
+
+  let _canvas = null;
+  let _ctx = null;
+  let _showGrid = true;
+
+  //: Element types the canvas draws resize handles for. Exported because the
+  //: editor has to gate its resize and hover behaviour on exactly this list --
+  //: the two had drifted, so handles appeared on five shapes that could not
+  //: actually be resized.
+  const RESIZABLE_TYPES = ['rectangle', 'rounded_rectangle', 'ellipse', 'arc',
+                           'gauge', 'sparkline'];
+
+  const DISPLAY_PRESETS = [
+    { label: '64×32',   w: 64,  h: 32 },
+    { label: '128×32',  w: 128, h: 32 },
+    { label: '128×64',  w: 128, h: 64 },
+    { label: '256×32',  w: 256, h: 32 },
+    { label: '256×64',  w: 256, h: 64 },
+  ];
+
+  const FONT_MAP = {
+    press_start:   { family: "'PressStart2P', monospace", sizePx: 8,  charW: 8 },
+    four_by_six:   { family: 'monospace',                sizePx: 6,  charW: 4 },
+    five_by_seven: { family: 'monospace',                sizePx: 7,  charW: 5 },
+  };
+
+  const ELEMENT_DEFAULTS = {
+    text: {
+      text: 'Hello', font: 'press_start',
+      r: 255, g: 255, b: 255,
+      text2: '', lineSpacing: 2, textAlign: 'left',
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    dynamic_text: {
+      binding: { source: 'config', key: '', format: null },
+      font: 'press_start', textAlign: 'left',
+      r: 255, g: 200, b: 100,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    clock: {
+      format: '%H:%M', font: 'press_start',
+      r: 100, g: 255, b: 100,
+      format2: '', lineSpacing: 2, textAlign: 'left',
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    rectangle: {
+      width: 20, height: 8,
+      fillR: 0, fillG: 0, fillB: 128, hasFill: true,
+      outR: 255, outG: 255, outB: 255, hasOutline: true,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    ellipse: {
+      width: 24, height: 12,
+      fillR: 0, fillG: 100, fillB: 200, hasFill: true,
+      outR: 100, outG: 180, outB: 255, hasOutline: true,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    arc: {
+      width: 24, height: 24,
+      startAngle: 0, endAngle: 270, lineWidth: 2,
+      r: 255, g: 200, b: 0,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    pixel: {
+      r: 255, g: 255, b: 255,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    rounded_rectangle: {
+      width: 24, height: 10, borderRadius: 3,
+      fillR: 0, fillG: 80, fillB: 180, hasFill: true,
+      outR: 120, outG: 180, outB: 255, hasOutline: true,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    line: {
+      x0: 0, y0: 16, x1: 63, y1: 16,
+      r: 180, g: 180, b: 180, lineWidth: 1,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    divider: {
+      orientation: 'horizontal', y: 16, x: 64,
+      r: 100, g: 100, b: 100,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    progress_bar: {
+      barWidth: 60, barHeight: 6,
+      binding: { source: 'config', key: '', format: null },
+      r: 80, g: 200, b: 80,
+      bgR: 30, bgG: 30, bgB: 30, hasBg: true,
+      outR: 100, outG: 100, outB: 100, hasOutline: true,
+      previewPct: 65,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    countdown: {
+      binding: { source: 'config', key: '', format: null },
+      countdownFormat: 'dh',
+      font: 'four_by_six', textAlign: 'left',
+      r: 255, g: 180, b: 0,
+      previewText: '42d 3h',
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    marquee: {
+      text: 'Scrolling text', font: 'press_start',
+      r: 255, g: 255, b: 255,
+      scrollSpeed: 1, gap: 16, direction: 'left',
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    section: {
+      label: 'Section',
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    pips: {
+      count: 5, filled: 3, pipSize: 4, pipSpacing: 2,
+      r: 255, g: 200, b: 0,
+      emptyR: 50, emptyG: 50, emptyB: 50, showEmpty: true,
+      binding: { source: 'config', key: '', format: null },
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    sparkline: {
+      width: 40, height: 12,
+      barCount: 8, barSpacing: 1,
+      r: 80, g: 200, b: 120,
+      bgR: 30, bgG: 30, bgB: 30, hasBg: false,
+      binding: { source: 'config', key: '', format: null },
+      previewData: '0.3,0.6,0.4,0.8,0.5,0.9,0.7,0.85',
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+    gauge: {
+      width: 32, height: 32,
+      startAngle: 135, endAngle: 45, lineWidth: 3,
+      binding: { source: 'config', key: '', format: null },
+      r: 80, g: 220, b: 80,
+      trackR: 40, trackG: 40, trackB: 40, hasTrack: true,
+      showLabel: true, font: 'four_by_six', labelR: 200, labelG: 200, labelB: 200,
+      previewPct: 65,
+      xAnchor: null, yAnchor: null, minWidth: 0, locked: false, blink: false, visible: true,
+    },
+  };
+
+  // ── Anchor resolution ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  function resolveAnchor(val, anchor, dim) {
+    if (!anchor || anchor === 'left' || anchor === 'top') return val;
+    if (anchor === 'center' || anchor === 'middle') return Math.floor(dim / 2) + val;
+    if (anchor === 'right' || anchor === 'bottom') return dim - val;
+    return val;
+  }
+
+  function computeActualPos(el, matrixW, matrixH) {
+    const ax = resolveAnchor(el.x ?? el.x0 ?? 0, el.xAnchor, matrixW);
+    const ay = resolveAnchor(el.y ?? el.y0 ?? 0, el.yAnchor, matrixH);
+    return { x: ax, y: ay };
+  }
+
+  // ── Bounding box (LED pixel space) ──────────────────────────────────
+  function getBoundingBox(el, matrixW, matrixH) {
+    const { x: ax, y: ay } = computeActualPos(el, matrixW, matrixH);
+    const finfo = FONT_MAP[el.font] || FONT_MAP.press_start;
+
+    switch (el.type) {
+      case 'text': {
+        const t1 = el.text || '', t2 = el.text2 || '';
+        const w = Math.max(t1.length, t2.length) * finfo.charW;
+        const h = t2 ? finfo.sizePx * 2 + (el.lineSpacing ?? 2) : finfo.sizePx;
+        const bx = el.textAlign === 'center' ? ax - w / 2 : el.textAlign === 'right' ? ax - w : ax;
+        return { x: bx, y: ay, w, h };
+      }
+      case 'dynamic_text': {
+        const key = el.binding?.key || '?';
+        const w = (`{${key}}`).length * finfo.charW;
+        const bx = el.textAlign === 'center' ? ax - w / 2 : el.textAlign === 'right' ? ax - w : ax;
+        return { x: bx, y: ay, w, h: finfo.sizePx };
+      }
+      case 'clock': {
+        const t1 = el.format || '%H:%M', t2 = el.format2 || '';
+        const w = Math.max(t1.length, t2.length) * finfo.charW;
+        const h = t2 ? finfo.sizePx * 2 + (el.lineSpacing ?? 2) : finfo.sizePx;
+        const bx = el.textAlign === 'center' ? ax - w / 2 : el.textAlign === 'right' ? ax - w : ax;
+        return { x: bx, y: ay, w, h };
+      }
+      case 'countdown': {
+        const pt = el.previewText || '--d --h';
+        const w = pt.length * finfo.charW;
+        const bx = el.textAlign === 'center' ? ax - w / 2 : el.textAlign === 'right' ? ax - w : ax;
+        return { x: bx, y: ay, w, h: finfo.sizePx };
+      }
+      case 'rectangle':
+      case 'rounded_rectangle':
+      case 'ellipse':
+      case 'arc':
+        return { x: ax, y: ay, w: el.width, h: el.height };
+      case 'pixel':
+        return { x: ax, y: ay, w: 1, h: 1 };
+      case 'line':
+        return {
+          x: Math.min(el.x0, el.x1), y: Math.min(el.y0, el.y1),
+          w: Math.max(1, Math.abs(el.x1 - el.x0)),
+          h: Math.max(1, Math.abs(el.y1 - el.y0)),
+        };
+      case 'divider':
+        return el.orientation === 'horizontal'
+          ? { x: 0,  y: ay, w: matrixW, h: 1 }
+          : { x: ax, y: 0,  w: 1,       h: matrixH };
+      case 'progress_bar':
+        return { x: ax, y: ay, w: el.barWidth ?? 60, h: el.barHeight ?? 6 };
+      case 'marquee': {
+        const mfinfo = FONT_MAP[el.font] || FONT_MAP.press_start;
+        return { x: 0, y: ay, w: matrixW, h: mfinfo.sizePx };
+      }
+      case 'gauge':
+        return { x: ax, y: ay, w: el.width ?? 32, h: el.height ?? 32 };
+      case 'sparkline':
+        return { x: ax, y: ay, w: el.width ?? 40, h: el.height ?? 12 };
+      case 'pips': {
+        const pc = el.count ?? 5, ps = el.pipSize ?? 4, pg = el.pipSpacing ?? 2;
+        return { x: ax, y: ay, w: pc * ps + (pc - 1) * pg, h: ps };
+      }
+      case 'section': {
+        // Was 0x0, so the element was unselectable except through the 3px
+        // hit-test padding and drew nothing at all -- a user adding one from
+        // the palette saw an empty canvas.
+        // Same font resolution as the draw case below, or the box will not
+        // match the glyphs: getBoundingBox's shared `finfo` falls back to
+        // press_start, and a section has no font of its own.
+        const sinfo = FONT_MAP[el.font] || FONT_MAP.four_by_six;
+        const label = el.label || 'Section';
+        return { x: ax, y: ay, w: label.length * sinfo.charW, h: sinfo.sizePx };
+      }
+      default:
+        return { x: ax, y: ay, w: 4, h: 4 };
+    }
+  }
+
+  // ── Resize handle support ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+  // Returns 8 handle points for a rectangle in LED pixel space
+  function _getRectHandles(el, matrixW, matrixH) {
+    const { x: ax, y: ay } = computeActualPos(el, matrixW, matrixH);
+    const w = el.width, h = el.height;
+    const cx = ax + w / 2, cy = ay + h / 2;
+    return {
+      nw: { x: ax,      y: ay      },
+      n:  { x: cx,      y: ay      },
+      ne: { x: ax + w,  y: ay      },
+      w:  { x: ax,      y: cy      },
+      e:  { x: ax + w,  y: cy      },
+      sw: { x: ax,      y: ay + h  },
+      s:  { x: cx,      y: ay + h  },
+      se: { x: ax + w,  y: ay + h  },
+    };
+  }
+
+  // Returns the handle direction under LED-space point (lx, ly), or null
+  function getResizeHandle(el, lx, ly, matrixW, matrixH) {
+    if (!RESIZABLE_TYPES.includes(el.type)) return null;
+    const handles = _getRectHandles(el, matrixW, matrixH);
+    const PAD = 4;
+    for (const [dir, pt] of Object.entries(handles)) {
+      if (Math.abs(lx - pt.x) <= PAD && Math.abs(ly - pt.y) <= PAD) return dir;
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  const _HANDLE_CURSORS = {
+    nw: 'nw-resize', n: 'n-resize', ne: 'ne-resize',
+    w: 'w-resize', e: 'e-resize',
+    sw: 'sw-resize', s: 's-resize', se: 'se-resize',
+  };
+  function getCursorForHandle(handle) {
+    return _HANDLE_CURSORS[handle] || 'crosshair';
+  }
+
+  // ── Hit test ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  function hitTest(el, lx, ly, matrixW, matrixH) {
+    const PAD = 3;
+    const bb = getBoundingBox(el, matrixW, matrixH);
+    return (
+      lx >= bb.x - PAD && lx <= bb.x + bb.w + PAD &&
+      ly >= bb.y - PAD && ly <= bb.y + bb.h + PAD
+    );
+  }
+
+  // ── Draw a single element ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+  function _drawElement(ctx, el, SCALE, matrixW, matrixH, opts = {}) {
+    const s = SCALE;
+    const { x: ax, y: ay } = computeActualPos(el, matrixW, matrixH);
+    const belowBreakpoint = el.minWidth > 0 && matrixW < el.minWidth;
+    const hidden = el.visible === false;
+
+    ctx.save();
+    if (hidden) ctx.globalAlpha = 0.12;
+    else if (belowBreakpoint) ctx.globalAlpha = 0.25;
+
+    // Blink animation: when blinkOff, fully hide blinking elements
+    if (el.blink) {
+      if (opts.blinkOff) { ctx.restore(); return; }
+      ctx.globalAlpha *= 0.55;
+    }
+
+    // Helper: compute draw X for text alignment
+    const _textX = (text, finfo) => {
+      const tw = text.length * finfo.charW * s;
+      if (el.textAlign === 'center') return ax * s - tw / 2;
+      if (el.textAlign === 'right')  return ax * s - tw;
+      return ax * s;
+    };
+
+    try {
+      switch (el.type) {
+        case 'section': {
+          // A design-time label: it marks a region for the author and is not
+          // emitted into the generated plugin. There was no case here at all,
+          // so adding "Section Label" from the palette drew nothing and left
+          // the user with an apparently broken control.
+          const sfinfo = FONT_MAP[el.font] || FONT_MAP.four_by_six;
+          ctx.font = `${sfinfo.sizePx * s}px ${sfinfo.family}`;
+          ctx.fillStyle = `rgba(${el.r ?? 120},${el.g ?? 120},${el.b ?? 120},0.85)`;
+          ctx.textBaseline = 'top';
+          ctx.fillText(el.label || 'Section', ax * s, ay * s);
+          break;
+        }
+        case 'text':
+        case 'dynamic_text':
+        case 'clock': {
+          const finfo = FONT_MAP[el.font] || FONT_MAP.press_start;
+          const key = el.binding?.key || '?';
+          const pv = opts.previewValues?.[key];
+          // Substitute {variable} tokens in text using previewValues
+          const _subVars = str => (str || '').replace(/\{(\w+)\}/g, (_, k) => {
+            const v = opts.previewValues?.[k];
+            return v !== undefined && v !== '' ? String(v) : `{${k}}`;
+          });
+          const displayText =
+            el.type === 'text'    ? _subVars(el.text || '')
+            : el.type === 'clock' ? (el.format || '%H:%M')
+            : (pv !== undefined && pv !== '' ? String(pv) : `{${key}}`);
+          ctx.font = `${finfo.sizePx * s}px ${finfo.family}`;
+          ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+          ctx.fillText(displayText, _textX(displayText, finfo), (ay + finfo.sizePx) * s);
+          // Second line (text and clock)
+          if (el.type === 'text' && el.text2) {
+            const t2 = _subVars(el.text2);
+            const y2 = ay + finfo.sizePx + (el.lineSpacing ?? 2);
+            ctx.fillText(t2, _textX(t2, finfo), (y2 + finfo.sizePx) * s);
+          }
+          if (el.type === 'clock' && el.format2) {
+            const y2 = ay + finfo.sizePx + (el.lineSpacing ?? 2);
+            ctx.fillText(el.format2, _textX(el.format2, finfo), (y2 + finfo.sizePx) * s);
+          }
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'countdown': {
+          const finfo = FONT_MAP[el.font] || FONT_MAP.press_start;
+          const t = el.previewText || '--d --h';
+          ctx.font = `${finfo.sizePx * s}px ${finfo.family}`;
+          ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+          ctx.fillText(t, _textX(t, finfo), (ay + finfo.sizePx) * s);
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'rectangle': {
+          const rx = ax * s, ry = ay * s;
+          const rw = el.width * s, rh = el.height * s;
+          if (el.hasFill) {
+            ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.fillR},${el.fillG},${el.fillB})`;
+            ctx.fillRect(rx, ry, rw, rh);
+          }
+          if (el.hasOutline) {
+            ctx.strokeStyle = `rgb(${el.outR},${el.outG},${el.outB})`;
+            ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+            ctx.strokeRect(rx, ry, rw, rh);
+          }
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'ellipse': {
+          const cx = (ax + el.width / 2) * s;
+          const cy = (ay + el.height / 2) * s;
+          const rx = (el.width / 2) * s;
+          const ry = (el.height / 2) * s;
+          ctx.beginPath();
+          ctx.ellipse(cx, cy, rx, ry, 0, 0, Math.PI * 2);
+          if (el.hasFill) {
+            ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.fillR},${el.fillG},${el.fillB})`;
+            ctx.fill();
+          }
+          if (el.hasOutline) {
+            ctx.strokeStyle = `rgb(${el.outR},${el.outG},${el.outB})`;
+            ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+            ctx.stroke();
+          }
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'arc': {
+          const cx = (ax + el.width / 2) * s;
+          const cy = (ay + el.height / 2) * s;
+          const rx = (el.width / 2) * s;
+          const ry = (el.height / 2) * s;
+          // PIL: 0°=right, clockwise. Canvas: same with anticlockwise=false
+          const startRad = (el.startAngle ?? 0) * Math.PI / 180;
+          const endRad = (el.endAngle ?? 270) * Math.PI / 180;
+          ctx.beginPath();
+          ctx.ellipse(cx, cy, rx, ry, 0, startRad, endRad, false);
+          ctx.strokeStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+          ctx.lineWidth = Math.max(1, el.lineWidth || 2);
+          ctx.stroke();
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'pixel': {
+          ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+          ctx.fillRect(ax * s, ay * s, s, s);
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'rounded_rectangle': {
+          const rx = ax * s, ry = ay * s;
+          const rw = el.width * s, rh = el.height * s;
+          const rad = Math.min((el.borderRadius ?? 3) * s, rw / 2, rh / 2);
+          ctx.beginPath();
+          ctx.roundRect(rx, ry, rw, rh, rad);
+          if (el.hasFill) {
+            ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.fillR},${el.fillG},${el.fillB})`;
+            ctx.fill();
+          }
+          if (el.hasOutline) {
+            ctx.strokeStyle = `rgb(${el.outR},${el.outG},${el.outB})`;
+            ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+            ctx.stroke();
+          }
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'line': {
+          ctx.strokeStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+          ctx.lineWidth = Math.max(1, el.lineWidth || 1);
+          ctx.beginPath();
+          ctx.moveTo(el.x0 * s, el.y0 * s);
+          ctx.lineTo(el.x1 * s, el.y1 * s);
+          ctx.stroke();
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'divider': {
+          const isH = (el.orientation || 'horizontal') === 'horizontal';
+          ctx.strokeStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+          ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+          ctx.beginPath();
+          if (isH) {
+            ctx.moveTo(0, ay * s + 0.5);
+            ctx.lineTo(_canvas.width, ay * s + 0.5);
+          } else {
+            ctx.moveTo(ax * s + 0.5, 0);
+            ctx.lineTo(ax * s + 0.5, _canvas.height);
+          }
+          ctx.stroke();
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'pips': {
+          const pipCount = Math.max(1, el.count ?? 5);
+          const pvPips = opts.previewValues?.[el.binding?.key];
+          const filledN = pvPips !== undefined
+            ? Math.max(0, Math.min(pipCount, Math.round(parseFloat(pvPips) || 0)))
+            : Math.max(0, Math.min(pipCount, el.filled ?? 3));
+          const ps = Math.max(1, el.pipSize ?? 4);
+          const pg = Math.max(0, el.pipSpacing ?? 2);
+          for (let i = 0; i < pipCount; i++) {
+            const isFilled = i < filledN;
+            if (!isFilled && !el.showEmpty) continue;
+            ctx.fillStyle = isFilled
+              ? `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`
+              : `rgb(${el.emptyR ?? 50},${el.emptyG ?? 50},${el.emptyB ?? 50})`;
+            ctx.fillRect((ax + i * (ps + pg)) * s, ay * s, ps * s, ps * s);
+          }
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'sparkline': {
+          const slW = el.width ?? 40, slH = el.height ?? 12;
+          const count = Math.max(1, el.barCount ?? 8);
+          const spacing = el.barSpacing ?? 1;
+          const barW = Math.max(1, Math.floor((slW - spacing * (count - 1)) / count));
+          const rawVals = (el.previewData || '').split(',')
+            .map(v => parseFloat(v.trim())).filter(n => !isNaN(n));
+          while (rawVals.length < count) rawVals.push(0);
+          const maxV = Math.max(...rawVals.slice(0, count), 0.001);
+          const rx = ax * s, ry = ay * s;
+          if (el.hasBg) {
+            ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.bgR ?? 30},${el.bgG ?? 30},${el.bgB ?? 30})`;
+            ctx.fillRect(rx, ry, slW * s, slH * s);
+          }
+          ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+          for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+            const norm = Math.max(0, Math.min(1, rawVals[i] / maxV));
+            const barH = Math.max(1, Math.round(slH * norm));
+            const bx = rx + (barW + spacing) * i * s;
+            const by = ry + (slH - barH) * s;
+            ctx.fillRect(bx, by, barW * s, barH * s);
+          }
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'gauge': {
+          const gw = (el.width ?? 32), gh = (el.height ?? 32);
+          const cx = (ax + gw / 2) * s, cy = (ay + gh / 2) * s;
+          const rx = (gw / 2) * s, ry = (gh / 2) * s;
+          const lw = Math.max(1, (el.lineWidth ?? 3));
+          // rx/ry are canvas pixels ((gw/2)*s) but lw is LED pixels, so
+          // insetting by lw/2 under-corrected by the scale factor while the
+          // stroke was drawn at lw*s -- the arc spilled outside the element's
+          // reported bounding box at any SCALE > 1, and the preview stopped
+          // matching the generated PIL output.
+          const lwPx = lw * s;
+          const startDeg = el.startAngle ?? 135;
+          const endDeg   = el.endAngle   ?? 45;
+          // Arc sweep: from startDeg clockwise to endDeg (PIL convention)
+          const totalSweep = ((endDeg - startDeg) + 360) % 360 || 360;
+          const pvGauge = opts.previewValues?.[el.binding?.key];
+          const pct = pvGauge !== undefined
+            ? Math.max(0, Math.min(100, parseFloat(pvGauge) || 0)) / 100
+            : Math.max(0, Math.min(100, el.previewPct ?? 65)) / 100;
+          const fillSweep = totalSweep * pct;
+          const toRad = deg => (deg - 90) * Math.PI / 180; // canvas 0=top, PIL 0=right → offset -90
+
+          // Track arc
+          if (el.hasTrack !== false) {
+            ctx.beginPath();
+            ctx.ellipse(cx, cy, rx - lwPx / 2, ry - lwPx / 2, 0, toRad(startDeg), toRad(startDeg + totalSweep), false);
+            ctx.strokeStyle = `rgb(${el.trackR ?? 40},${el.trackG ?? 40},${el.trackB ?? 40})`;
+            ctx.lineWidth = lwPx;
+            ctx.stroke();
+          }
+          // Fill arc
+          if (pct > 0) {
+            ctx.beginPath();
+            ctx.ellipse(cx, cy, rx - lwPx / 2, ry - lwPx / 2, 0, toRad(startDeg), toRad(startDeg + fillSweep), false);
+            ctx.strokeStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+            ctx.lineWidth = lwPx;
+            ctx.stroke();
+          }
+          // Centre label
+          if (el.showLabel) {
+            const gfinfo = FONT_MAP[el.font || 'four_by_six'] || FONT_MAP.four_by_six;
+            const labelText = Math.round(pct * 100) + '%';
+            ctx.font = `${gfinfo.sizePx * s}px ${gfinfo.family}`;
+            ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.labelR ?? 200},${el.labelG ?? 200},${el.labelB ?? 200})`;
+            const ltw = ctx.measureText(labelText).width;
+            ctx.fillText(labelText, cx - ltw / 2, cy + (gfinfo.sizePx * s) / 2);
+          }
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'marquee': {
+          const finfo = FONT_MAP[el.font] || FONT_MAP.press_start;
+          const text = el.text || 'Scrolling text';
+          const tw = text.length * finfo.charW * s;
+          const gap = (el.gap ?? 16) * s;
+          const totalW = tw + gap;
+          const tick = opts.animTick ?? 0;
+          const speed = (el.scrollSpeed ?? 1) * 2;
+          const scrolled = (tick * speed) % totalW;
+          // left: text enters from right; right: text enters from left
+          const startX = el.direction === 'right'
+            ? scrolled - tw
+            : matrixW * s - scrolled;
+          ctx.font = `${finfo.sizePx * s}px ${finfo.family}`;
+          ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+          // Clip to canvas width so text doesn't bleed outside
+          ctx.save();
+          ctx.beginPath();
+          ctx.rect(0, ay * s - 1, matrixW * s, (finfo.sizePx + 2) * s);
+          ctx.clip();
+          for (let i = -1; i <= 2; i++) {
+            ctx.fillText(text, startX + i * totalW, (ay + finfo.sizePx) * s);
+          }
+          ctx.restore();
+          break;
+        }
+
+        case 'progress_bar': {
+          const bw = el.barWidth ?? 60, bh = el.barHeight ?? 6;
+          const pvPb = opts.previewValues?.[el.binding?.key];
+          const pct = pvPb !== undefined
+            ? Math.max(0, Math.min(100, parseFloat(pvPb) || 0)) / 100
+            : Math.max(0, Math.min(100, el.previewPct ?? 65)) / 100;
+          const rx = ax * s, ry = ay * s;
+          if (el.hasBg) {
+            ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.bgR ?? 30},${el.bgG ?? 30},${el.bgB ?? 30})`;
+            ctx.fillRect(rx, ry, bw * s, bh * s);
+          }
+          const fillW = Math.max(0, Math.round(bw * pct));
+          if (fillW > 0) {
+            ctx.fillStyle = `rgb(${el.r},${el.g},${el.b})`;
+            ctx.fillRect(rx, ry, fillW * s, bh * s);
+          }
+          if (el.hasOutline) {
+            ctx.strokeStyle = `rgb(${el.outR ?? 100},${el.outG ?? 100},${el.outB ?? 100})`;
+            ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+            ctx.strokeRect(rx, ry, bw * s, bh * s);
+          }
+          break;
+        }
+      }
+
+      if (belowBreakpoint) {
+        ctx.globalAlpha = 0.6;
+        const bb = getBoundingBox(el, matrixW, matrixH);
+        ctx.font = `${Math.max(8, s * 2)}px monospace`;
+        ctx.fillStyle = '#facc15';
+        ctx.fillText(`≥${el.minWidth}px`, bb.x * s, (bb.y + 4) * s);
+      }
+    } finally {
+      ctx.restore();
+    }
+  }
+
+  // ── Selection indicator ──────────────────────────────────────────────
+  function _drawSelection(ctx, el, SCALE, matrixW, matrixH) {
+    const bb = getBoundingBox(el, matrixW, matrixH);
+    const PAD = 2, s = SCALE;
+    const rx = bb.x * s - PAD, ry = bb.y * s - PAD;
+    const rw = bb.w * s + PAD * 2, rh = bb.h * s + PAD * 2;
+
+    ctx.save();
+    ctx.strokeStyle = '#3b82f6';
+    ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+    ctx.setLineDash([3, 2]);
+    ctx.strokeRect(rx, ry, rw, rh);
+    ctx.setLineDash([]);
+
+    if (el.xAnchor || el.yAnchor) {
+      ctx.font = `${Math.max(7, s)}px sans-serif`;
+      ctx.fillStyle = '#a78bfa';
+      const anchorText = [
+        el.xAnchor ? `x:${el.xAnchor[0]}` : '',
+        el.yAnchor ? `y:${el.yAnchor[0]}` : '',
+      ].filter(Boolean).join(' ');
+      if (anchorText) ctx.fillText(anchorText, rx + 1, ry - 2);
+    }
+
+    // Resize handles: on rect, rounded rect, ellipse
+    if (RESIZABLE_TYPES.includes(el.type)) {
+      const handles = _getRectHandles(el, matrixW, matrixH);
+      const HS = 5;
+      ctx.fillStyle = 'white';
+      ctx.strokeStyle = '#2563eb';
+      ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+      for (const pt of Object.values(handles)) {
+        const hx = pt.x * s - HS / 2;
+        const hy = pt.y * s - HS / 2;
+        ctx.fillRect(hx, hy, HS, HS);
+        ctx.strokeRect(hx, hy, HS, HS);
+      }
+    } else {
+      // Corner dots for non-rectangle elements
+      ctx.fillStyle = '#3b82f6';
+      const HS = 4;
+      for (const [hx, hy] of [
+        [rx - HS / 2, ry - HS / 2], [rx + rw - HS / 2, ry - HS / 2],
+        [rx - HS / 2, ry + rh - HS / 2], [rx + rw - HS / 2, ry + rh - HS / 2],
+      ]) ctx.fillRect(hx, hy, HS, HS);
+    }
+
+    ctx.restore();
+  }
+
+  // ── Dimension tooltip while dragging ─────────────────────────────────
+  function drawDragTooltip(ctx, el, SCALE, matrixW, matrixH) {
+    const bb = getBoundingBox(el, matrixW, matrixH);
+    const label = el.type === 'rectangle'
+      ? `${el.width}×${el.height}`
+      : `${bb.x},${bb.y}`;
+    const s = SCALE;
+    ctx.save();
+    ctx.font = `${Math.max(9, s * 1.5)}px monospace`;
+    const tw = ctx.measureText(label).width;
+    const tx = bb.x * s, ty = (bb.y - 2) * s;
+    ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(0,0,0,0.7)';
+    ctx.fillRect(tx - 2, ty - 10, tw + 4, 12);
+    ctx.fillStyle = 'white';
+    ctx.fillText(label, tx, ty);
+    ctx.restore();
+  }
+
+  // ── Public API ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+  function init(canvasEl) {
+    _canvas = canvasEl;
+    _ctx = canvasEl.getContext('2d');
+  }
+
+  function setGrid(show) { _showGrid = show; }
+
+  function updateCanvasSize(matrixW, matrixH, SCALE) {
+    if (!_canvas) return;
+    _canvas.width = matrixW * SCALE;
+    _canvas.height = matrixH * SCALE;
+  }
+
+  function render(elements, selectedId, matrixW, matrixH, SCALE, opts = {}) {
+    if (!_ctx) return;
+    const cW = matrixW * SCALE, cH = matrixH * SCALE;
+
+    const bg = opts.bgColor;
+    _ctx.fillStyle = bg ? `rgb(${bg.r},${bg.g},${bg.b})` : '#000';
+    _ctx.fillRect(0, 0, cW, cH);
+
+    if (_showGrid) {
+      _ctx.strokeStyle = 'rgba(255,255,255,0.07)';
+      _ctx.lineWidth = 0.5;
+      for (let x = SCALE; x < cW; x += SCALE) {
+        _ctx.beginPath(); _ctx.moveTo(x, 0); _ctx.lineTo(x, cH); _ctx.stroke();
+      }
+      for (let y = SCALE; y < cH; y += SCALE) {
+        _ctx.beginPath(); _ctx.moveTo(0, y); _ctx.lineTo(cW, y); _ctx.stroke();
+      }
+    }
+
+    for (const el of elements) _drawElement(_ctx, el, SCALE, matrixW, matrixH, opts);
+
+    if (opts.showRuler) {
+      _ctx.save();
+      _ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(255,255,255,0.08)';
+      _ctx.fillRect(0, 0, cW, SCALE);             // top strip
+      _ctx.fillRect(0, 0, SCALE, cH);             // left strip
+      _ctx.strokeStyle = 'rgba(255,255,255,0.5)';
+      _ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(255,255,255,0.6)';
+      _ctx.font = `${Math.max(5, SCALE - 1)}px monospace`;
+      const step = SCALE >= 4 ? 8 : 16;
+      for (let px = 0; px <= matrixW; px += step) {
+        const cx = px * SCALE;
+        const major = px % 32 === 0;
+        _ctx.lineWidth = 0.5;
+        _ctx.beginPath(); _ctx.moveTo(cx, 0); _ctx.lineTo(cx, major ? SCALE : SCALE * 0.5); _ctx.stroke();
+        if (major && px > 0 && px < matrixW - 4) _ctx.fillText(String(px), cx + 1, SCALE - 1);
+      }
+      for (let py = 0; py <= matrixH; py += step) {
+        const cy = py * SCALE;
+        const major = py % 32 === 0;
+        _ctx.beginPath(); _ctx.moveTo(0, cy); _ctx.lineTo(major ? SCALE : SCALE * 0.5, cy); _ctx.stroke();
+        if (major && py > 0 && py < matrixH - 4) _ctx.fillText(String(py), 1, cy + SCALE - 1);
+      }
+      _ctx.restore();
+    }
+
+    if (opts.showGuides) {
+      _ctx.save();
+      _ctx.strokeStyle = 'rgba(255,60,60,0.45)';
+      _ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+      _ctx.setLineDash([4, 3]);
+      const mx = Math.floor(cW / 2) + 0.5;
+      const my = Math.floor(cH / 2) + 0.5;
+      _ctx.beginPath(); _ctx.moveTo(mx, 0); _ctx.lineTo(mx, cH); _ctx.stroke();
+      _ctx.beginPath(); _ctx.moveTo(0, my); _ctx.lineTo(cW, my); _ctx.stroke();
+      _ctx.setLineDash([]);
+      _ctx.restore();
+    }
+
+    const sel = selectedId != null ? elements.find(e => e.id === selectedId) : null;
+    if (sel) {
+      _drawSelection(_ctx, sel, SCALE, matrixW, matrixH);
+      if (opts.showTooltip) drawDragTooltip(_ctx, sel, SCALE, matrixW, matrixH);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    init, render, setGrid, updateCanvasSize,
+    hitTest, getBoundingBox, computeActualPos, resolveAnchor,
+    getResizeHandle, getCursorForHandle,
+    ELEMENT_DEFAULTS, FONT_MAP, DISPLAY_PRESETS, RESIZABLE_TYPES,
+  };
+})();

web_interface/templates/v3/composer/manager.py.j2

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+"""
+{{ plugin_name }} — LEDMatrix Plugin
+Generated by LEDMatrix Plugin Composer on {{ generated_date }}
+
+Extension points:
+  update()              → add HTTP/MQTT data-fetching logic here
+  _get_display_values() → map fetched data to display strings
+  display()             → add new elements or adapt layout per display size
+"""
+from src.plugin_system.base_plugin import BasePlugin
+{% if has_clock or has_countdown %}
+from datetime import datetime
+{% endif %}
+{% if has_blink %}
+import time
+{% endif %}
+{% if has_text_template %}
+from collections import defaultdict
+{% endif %}
+
+
+class {{ class_name }}(BasePlugin):
+
+    def __init__(self, plugin_id, config, display_manager, cache_manager, plugin_manager):
+        super().__init__(plugin_id, config, display_manager, cache_manager, plugin_manager)
+{% for var in config_vars %}
+        self.{{ var.key }} = config.get({{ var.key | tojson }}, {{ var.default | tojson }})
+{% endfor %}
+        # Live data cache — populated by update(); always {} in static layouts
+        self._data = {}
+
+    def update(self):
+        """Fetch and refresh display data.
+
+        For dynamic plugins: fetch from APIs/MQTT here and store in self._data.
+        _get_display_values() will read self._data to produce display strings.
+        """
+        # --- Data sources (add fetch logic here for dynamic plugins) ---
+        pass
+
+    def _get_display_values(self):
+        """Map config variables and live data to display-ready strings.
+
+        This is the single extension point for v2 data sources:
+        add self._data lookups here once update() populates them.
+        """
+        return {
+{% for var in config_vars %}
+            {{ var.key | tojson }}: str(self.{{ var.key }}),
+{% endfor %}
+        }
+
+    def display(self, force_clear=False):
+        try:
+{% if has_text_template %}
+            values = defaultdict(str, self._get_display_values())
+{% else %}
+            values = self._get_display_values()
+{% endif %}
+
+            if force_clear:
+                self.display_manager.clear()
+
+            width = self.display_manager.width
+            height = self.display_manager.height
+{% if bg_color %}
+
+            self.display_manager.draw.rectangle([0, 0, width, height], fill={{ bg_color }})
+{% endif %}
+
+            # ── Elements (rendered bottom to top) ──────────────────────────
+{% for el in elements %}
+{% set p = "                " if el.min_width > 0 else "            " %}
+{% set pi = (p + "    ") if el.blink else p %}
+{% if el.min_width > 0 %}
+            if width >= {{ el.min_width }}:  # breakpoint: {{ el.min_width }}px+ displays only
+{% endif %}
+{% if el.blink %}
+{{ p }}if int(time.time() * 2) % 2:
+{% endif %}
+
+{% if el.type == 'text' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw_text(
+{% if el.text_is_template %}
+{{ pi }}    {{ el.text | tojson }}.format_map(values),
+{% else %}
+{{ pi }}    {{ el.text | tojson }},
+{% endif %}
+{{ pi }}    x={{ el.x_expr }}, y={{ el.y_expr }},
+{{ pi }}    color={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    font=self.display_manager.{{ el.font_attr }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% if el.text2 %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw_text(
+{% if el.text_is_template %}
+{{ pi }}    {{ el.text2 | tojson }}.format_map(values),
+{% else %}
+{{ pi }}    {{ el.text2 | tojson }},
+{% endif %}
+{{ pi }}    x={{ el.x2_expr }}, y={{ el.y2_expr }},
+{{ pi }}    color={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    font=self.display_manager.{{ el.font_attr }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% endif %}
+{% elif el.type == 'dynamic_text' %}
+{% if el.binding_source == 'config' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw_text(
+{{ pi }}    values.get({{ el.binding_key | tojson }}, ''),
+{{ pi }}    x={{ el.x_expr }}, y={{ el.y_expr }},
+{{ pi }}    color={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    font=self.display_manager.{{ el.font_attr }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% endif %}
+{% elif el.type == 'clock' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw_text(
+{{ pi }}    datetime.now().strftime({{ el.format | tojson }}),
+{{ pi }}    x={{ el.x_expr }}, y={{ el.y_expr }},
+{{ pi }}    color={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    font=self.display_manager.{{ el.font_attr }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% if el.format2 %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw_text(
+{{ pi }}    datetime.now().strftime({{ el.format2 | tojson }}),
+{{ pi }}    x={{ el.x2_expr }}, y={{ el.y2_expr }},
+{{ pi }}    color={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    font=self.display_manager.{{ el.font_attr }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% endif %}
+{% elif el.type == 'countdown' %}
+{{ pi }}_cd_target = float(values.get({{ el.binding_key | tojson }}, 0) or 0)
+{{ pi }}_cd_secs = max(0.0, _cd_target - datetime.now().timestamp())
+{% if el.countdown_format == 'dhms' %}
+{{ pi }}_cd_d, _cd_rem = divmod(int(_cd_secs), 86400)
+{{ pi }}_cd_h, _cd_rem = divmod(_cd_rem, 3600)
+{{ pi }}_cd_m, _cd_s = divmod(_cd_rem, 60)
+{{ pi }}_cd_str = f'{_cd_d}d {_cd_h:02d}:{_cd_m:02d}:{_cd_s:02d}'
+{% elif el.countdown_format == 'hms' %}
+{{ pi }}_cd_h, _cd_rem = divmod(int(_cd_secs), 3600)
+{{ pi }}_cd_m, _cd_s = divmod(_cd_rem, 60)
+{{ pi }}_cd_str = f'{_cd_h}h {_cd_m:02d}:{_cd_s:02d}'
+{% elif el.countdown_format == 'dhm' %}
+{{ pi }}_cd_d, _cd_rem = divmod(int(_cd_secs), 86400)
+{{ pi }}_cd_h, _cd_m = divmod(_cd_rem // 60, 60)
+{{ pi }}_cd_str = f'{_cd_d}d {_cd_h:02d}h {_cd_m:02d}m'
+{% else %}
+{{ pi }}_cd_d, _cd_rem = divmod(int(_cd_secs), 86400)
+{{ pi }}_cd_h = _cd_rem // 3600
+{{ pi }}_cd_str = f'{_cd_d}d {_cd_h}h'
+{% endif %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw_text(
+{{ pi }}    _cd_str,
+{{ pi }}    x={{ el.x_expr }}, y={{ el.y_expr }},
+{{ pi }}    color={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    font=self.display_manager.{{ el.font_attr }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% elif el.type == 'rectangle' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw.rectangle(
+{{ pi }}    [{{ el.x_expr }}, {{ el.y_expr }}, {{ el.x2_expr }}, {{ el.y2_expr }}],
+{{ pi }}    fill={{ el.fill_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    outline={{ el.outline_tuple }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% elif el.type == 'arc' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw.arc(
+{{ pi }}    [{{ el.x_expr }}, {{ el.y_expr }}, {{ el.x2_expr }}, {{ el.y2_expr }}],
+{{ pi }}    start={{ el.start_angle }}, end={{ el.end_angle }},
+{{ pi }}    fill={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    width={{ el.line_width }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% elif el.type == 'ellipse' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw.ellipse(
+{{ pi }}    [{{ el.x_expr }}, {{ el.y_expr }}, {{ el.x2_expr }}, {{ el.y2_expr }}],
+{{ pi }}    fill={{ el.fill_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    outline={{ el.outline_tuple }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% elif el.type == 'pixel' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw.point(
+{{ pi }}    [{{ el.x_expr }}, {{ el.y_expr }}],
+{{ pi }}    fill={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% elif el.type == 'rounded_rectangle' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw.rounded_rectangle(
+{{ pi }}    [{{ el.x_expr }}, {{ el.y_expr }}, {{ el.x2_expr }}, {{ el.y2_expr }}],
+{{ pi }}    radius={{ el.border_radius }},
+{{ pi }}    fill={{ el.fill_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    outline={{ el.outline_tuple }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% elif el.type in ('line', 'divider') %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw.line(
+{{ pi }}    [{{ el.x0_expr }}, {{ el.y0_expr }}, {{ el.x1_expr }}, {{ el.y1_expr }}],
+{{ pi }}    fill={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    width={{ el.line_width }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% elif el.type == 'pips' %}
+{{ pi }}_pip_filled = max(0, min({{ el.pip_count }}, int(float(values.get({{ el.binding_key | tojson }}, 0) or 0))))
+{{ pi }}for _pip_i in range({{ el.pip_count }}):
+{{ pi }}    _pip_x = ({{ el.x_expr }}) + _pip_i * ({{ el.pip_size }} + {{ el.pip_spacing }})
+{{ pi }}    _pip_color = {{ el.fill_tuple }} if _pip_i < _pip_filled else {{ el.empty_tuple }}
+{% if not el.show_empty %}
+{{ pi }}    if _pip_i >= _pip_filled:
+{{ pi }}        continue
+{% endif %}
+{{ pi }}    self.display_manager.draw.rectangle(
+{{ pi }}        [_pip_x, {{ el.y_expr }}, _pip_x + {{ el.pip_size }} - 1, ({{ el.y_expr }}) + {{ el.pip_size }} - 1],
+{{ pi }}        fill=_pip_color,
+{{ pi }}    )
+{% elif el.type == 'sparkline' %}
+{{ pi }}_sl_raw = str(values.get({{ el.binding_key | tojson }}, '') or '')
+{{ pi }}_sl_vals = [float(v.strip()) for v in _sl_raw.split(',') if v.strip()][:{{ el.bar_count }}]
+{{ pi }}_sl_vals += [0.0] * max(0, {{ el.bar_count }} - len(_sl_vals))
+{{ pi }}_sl_max = max(_sl_vals) if any(_sl_vals) else 1.0
+{{ pi }}_sl_bw = max(1, ({{ el.bar_width_px }} - {{ el.bar_spacing }} * ({{ el.bar_count }} - 1)) // {{ el.bar_count }})
+{% if el.bg_tuple != 'None' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw.rectangle(
+{{ pi }}    [{{ el.x_expr }}, {{ el.y_expr }}, ({{ el.x_expr }}) + {{ el.bar_width_px }}, ({{ el.y_expr }}) + {{ el.bar_height_px }}],
+{{ pi }}    fill={{ el.bg_tuple }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% endif %}
+{{ pi }}for _sl_i, _sl_v in enumerate(_sl_vals):
+{{ pi }}    _sl_norm = max(0.0, min(1.0, _sl_v / (_sl_max or 1)))
+{{ pi }}    _sl_bh = max(1, round({{ el.bar_height_px }} * _sl_norm))
+{{ pi }}    _sl_bx = ({{ el.x_expr }}) + (_sl_bw + {{ el.bar_spacing }}) * _sl_i
+{{ pi }}    _sl_by = ({{ el.y_expr }}) + {{ el.bar_height_px }} - _sl_bh
+{{ pi }}    self.display_manager.draw.rectangle(
+{{ pi }}        [_sl_bx, _sl_by, _sl_bx + _sl_bw - 1, _sl_by + _sl_bh - 1],
+{{ pi }}        fill={{ el.fill_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    )
+{% elif el.type == 'gauge' %}
+{{ pi }}_gv = max(0.0, min(100.0, float(values.get({{ el.binding_key | tojson }}, 0) or 0)))
+{{ pi }}_g_total = (({{ el.end_angle }} - {{ el.start_angle }}) % 360) or 360
+{{ pi }}_g_sweep = _g_total * _gv / 100.0
+{% if el.track_tuple != 'None' %}
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw.arc(
+{{ pi }}    [{{ el.x_expr }}, {{ el.y_expr }}, {{ el.x2_expr }}, {{ el.y2_expr }}],
+{{ pi }}    start={{ el.start_angle }}, end={{ el.start_angle }} + _g_total,
+{{ pi }}    fill={{ el.track_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    width={{ el.line_width }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% endif %}
+{{ pi }}if _g_sweep > 0:
+{{ pi }}    self.display_manager.draw.arc(
+{{ pi }}        [{{ el.x_expr }}, {{ el.y_expr }}, {{ el.x2_expr }}, {{ el.y2_expr }}],
+{{ pi }}        start={{ el.start_angle }}, end={{ el.start_angle }} + _g_sweep,
+{{ pi }}        fill={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}        width={{ el.line_width }},
+{{ pi }}    )
+{% if el.show_label %}
+{{ pi }}_g_cx = ({{ el.x_expr }}) + ({{ el.x2_expr }} - ({{ el.x_expr }})) // 2
+{{ pi }}_g_cy = ({{ el.y_expr }}) + ({{ el.y2_expr }} - ({{ el.y_expr }})) // 2
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw_text(
+{{ pi }}    f'{int(_gv)}%',
+{{ pi }}    x=_g_cx, y=_g_cy,
+{{ pi }}    color={{ el.label_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    font=self.display_manager.{{ el.font_attr }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% endif %}
+{% elif el.type == 'marquee' %}
+{{ pi }}_{{ el.data_key }}_text = {{ el.text | tojson }}
+{{ pi }}_{{ el.data_key }}_tw = len(_{{ el.data_key }}_text) * {{ el.char_w }}
+{{ pi }}_{{ el.data_key }}_x = int(self._data.get({{ el.data_key | tojson }}, width))
+{% if el.direction == 'right' %}
+{{ pi }}_{{ el.data_key }}_x += {{ el.scroll_speed }}
+{{ pi }}if _{{ el.data_key }}_x > width:
+{{ pi }}    _{{ el.data_key }}_x = -(_{{ el.data_key }}_tw + {{ el.gap }})
+{% else %}
+{{ pi }}_{{ el.data_key }}_x -= {{ el.scroll_speed }}
+{{ pi }}if _{{ el.data_key }}_x < -(_{{ el.data_key }}_tw + {{ el.gap }}):
+{{ pi }}    _{{ el.data_key }}_x = width
+{% endif %}
+{{ pi }}self._data[{{ el.data_key | tojson }}] = _{{ el.data_key }}_x
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw_text(
+{{ pi }}    _{{ el.data_key }}_text,
+{{ pi }}    x=_{{ el.data_key }}_x, y={{ el.y_expr }},
+{{ pi }}    color={{ el.rgb_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    font=self.display_manager.{{ el.font_attr }},
+{{ pi }})
+{% elif el.type == 'progress_bar' %}
+{{ pi }}_pb_x = {{ el.x_expr }}
+{{ pi }}_pb_y = {{ el.y_expr }}
+{{ pi }}_pb_pct = max(0.0, min(100.0, float(values.get({{ el.binding_key | tojson }}, 0) or 0))) / 100.0
+{{ pi }}_pb_fill_w = int({{ el.bar_width }} * _pb_pct)
+{{ pi }}self.display_manager.draw.rectangle(
+{{ pi }}    [_pb_x, _pb_y, _pb_x + {{ el.bar_width }}, _pb_y + {{ el.bar_height }}],
+{{ pi }}    fill={{ el.bg_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    outline={{ el.outline_tuple }},
+{{ pi }})
+{{ pi }}if _pb_fill_w > 0:
+{{ pi }}    self.display_manager.draw.rectangle(
+{{ pi }}        [_pb_x, _pb_y, _pb_x + _pb_fill_w, _pb_y + {{ el.bar_height }}],
+{{ pi }}        fill={{ el.fill_tuple }},
+{{ pi }}    )
+{% endif %}
+{% endfor %}
+            # ── End elements ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+            self.display_manager.update_display()
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            self.logger.error('Display error: %s', e, exc_info=True)

web_interface/templates/v3/partials/general.html

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
         <!-- Location Information -->
         <div class="grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-3 2xl:grid-cols-3 gap-4">
             <div class="form-group" id="setting-general-city" data-setting-key="location.city">
-                <label for="city" class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700">City{{ ui.help_tip('City used for weather, sunrise/sunset, and other location-based content.\nExample: Dallas.', 'City') }}</label>
+                <label for="city" class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700">City{{ ui.help_tip('City used for weather, sunrise/sunset, radar, and other location-based content.\nExample: Kansas City.\nUsed as the default for the location_city setting on plugins that have one; a value saved on the plugin itself overrides it.', 'City') }}</label>
                 <input type="text"
                        id="city"
                        name="city"
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
             </div>
 
             <div class="form-group" id="setting-general-state" data-setting-key="location.state">
-                <label for="state" class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700">State{{ ui.help_tip('State or region for your location.\nExample: Texas. Improves location-lookup accuracy.', 'State') }}</label>
+                <label for="state" class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700">State{{ ui.help_tip('State or region for your location.\nExample: Missouri. Improves location-lookup accuracy.\nUsed as the default for the location_state setting on plugins that have one.', 'State') }}</label>
                 <input type="text"
                        id="state"
                        name="state"
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
             </div>
 
             <div class="form-group" id="setting-general-country" data-setting-key="location.country">
-                <label for="country" class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700">Country{{ ui.help_tip('Country code or name for your location.\nExample: US. Used with City and State for weather and geolocation.', 'Country') }}</label>
+                <label for="country" class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700">Country{{ ui.help_tip('Country code or name for your location.\nExample: US. Used with City and State for weather, radar, and geolocation.\nUsed as the default for the location_country setting on plugins that have one.', 'Country') }}</label>
                 <input type="text"
                        id="country"
                        name="country"