#535 restored the thirteen routes, so the store stopped answering 404 -- and still would not load. Confirmed against a running device before anything was changed: /repository/browse answers 200 with 1000 apps in 27s, so the routes are fine. Two things underneath them are not. **The store never used the token the user configured.** The three repository routes read `github_token` off config.json. Nothing writes that key -- it is not in config.template.json, no setting offers it, and it appears nowhere else in the codebase. The configured token goes to config_secrets.json as `github.api_token`, which PluginStoreManager loads and every other GitHub caller uses. So the store could never be authenticated: 60 requests/hour, on the same per-IP budget 48 installed plugins spend on update checks, while the 5000 the user had already configured sat unused. On the device, /plugins/store/github-status reported authenticated with a limit of 5000 at the same moment /starlark/repository/browse reported 60, with 18 left. The store going blank was that 60 running out. **Every failure looked identical.** list_all_apps_cached turned any listing failure -- rate limit, DNS, timeout, non-200 -- into an empty app list, and the route sent that out as `status: success`, so a rate limit and an empty repository drew the same blank grid with no error anywhere. It now returns the reason, the route answers 502 with it, and a failure is no longer cached as an empty repository for two hours. The guard for a bad response was itself a crash: _make_request catches `(json.JSONDecodeError, ValueError)` but `json` was never imported, so evaluating the tuple raises NameError and the guard written for exactly this case never ran. Reachable whenever something on the path answers with HTML -- a captive portal, a proxy page, a DNS-hijacking router. Seventeen handlers answered 5xx with no detail at all. test_no_api_v3_handler_discards_its_exception is meant to prevent that across api_v3, but it matched one exact message string, and all thirteen Starlark routes wrote their own wording. The guard now keys on the shape that matters: if it returns 5xx, it says why. The 15 pre-existing non-Starlark functions are listed as a set that may shrink, never grow. **The listing was capped at 1000 and did not say so.** The contents API truncates a directory silently; tronbyt/apps has 1075 app directories, so the store showed a truncated repository and looked complete doing it. Now listed via the git trees API, which reports `truncated`, with the contents API kept as a fallback. Not addressed: the 27-second cold load -- 1075 manifests fetched five at a time behind skeleton placeholders -- which is probably the largest part of what "does not load" feels like, and wants its own change. 25 new tests. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LED Matrix Web Interface V3
Modern, production web interface for controlling the LED Matrix display.
Overview
This directory contains the active V3 web interface with the following features:
- Real-time display preview via Server-Sent Events (SSE)
- Plugin management and configuration
- System monitoring and logs
- Modern, responsive UI
- RESTful API
Directory Structure
web_interface/
├── app.py # Main Flask application
├── start.py # Startup script
├── run.sh # Shell runner script
├── requirements.txt # Python dependencies
├── blueprints/ # Flask blueprints
│ ├── api_v3.py # API endpoints
│ └── pages_v3.py # Page routes
├── templates/ # HTML templates
│ └── v3/
│ ├── base.html
│ ├── index.html
│ └── partials/
└── static/ # CSS/JS assets
└── v3/
├── app.css
├── app.js
├── manifest.json # PWA manifest
├── plugins_manager.js
├── icons/ # PWA / touch icons
├── js/ # Alpine, htmx, app shell, widgets, utils
└── vendor/ # codemirror, fontawesome
Running the Web Interface
Standalone (Development)
From the project root:
python3 web_interface/start.py
Or using the shell script:
./web_interface/run.sh
As a Service (Production)
The web interface can run as a systemd service that starts automatically based on the web_display_autostart configuration setting:
sudo systemctl start ledmatrix-web
sudo systemctl enable ledmatrix-web # Start on boot
Accessing the Interface
Once running, access the web interface at:
- Local: http://localhost:5000
- Network: http://:5000
Configuration
The web interface reads configuration from:
config/config.json- Main configurationconfig/config_secrets.json- API keys and secrets
API Documentation
The V3 API is mounted at /api/v3/ (app.py:144). For the complete
list and request/response formats, see
docs/REST_API_REFERENCE.md. Quick
reference for the most common endpoints:
Configuration
GET /api/v3/config/main- Get main configurationPOST /api/v3/config/main- Save main configurationGET /api/v3/config/secrets- Get secrets configurationPOST /api/v3/config/raw/main- Save raw main config (Config Editor)POST /api/v3/config/raw/secrets- Save raw secrets
Display & System Control
GET /api/v3/system/status- System statusPOST /api/v3/system/action- Control display (action body:start_display,stop_display,restart_display_service,restart_web_service,git_pull,reboot_system,shutdown_system,enable_autostart,disable_autostart)GET /api/v3/display/current- Current display frameGET /api/v3/display/on-demand/status- On-demand statusPOST /api/v3/display/on-demand/start- Trigger on-demand displayPOST /api/v3/display/on-demand/stop- Clear on-demand
Plugins
GET /api/v3/plugins/installed- List installed pluginsGET /api/v3/plugins/config?plugin_id=<id>- Get plugin configPOST /api/v3/plugins/config- Update plugin configurationGET /api/v3/plugins/schema?plugin_id=<id>- Get plugin schemaPOST /api/v3/plugins/toggle- Enable/disable pluginPOST /api/v3/plugins/install- Install from registryPOST /api/v3/plugins/install-from-url- Install from GitHub URLPOST /api/v3/plugins/uninstall- Uninstall pluginPOST /api/v3/plugins/update- Update plugin
Plugin Store
GET /api/v3/plugins/store/list- List available registry pluginsGET /api/v3/plugins/store/github-status- GitHub authentication statusPOST /api/v3/plugins/store/refresh- Refresh registry from GitHub
Real-time Streams (SSE)
SSE stream endpoints are defined directly on the Flask app
(app.py:607-619 — includes the CSRF exemption and rate-limit hookup
alongside the three route definitions), not on the api_v3 blueprint:
GET /api/v3/stream/stats- System statistics streamGET /api/v3/stream/display- Display preview streamGET /api/v3/stream/logs- Service logs stream
Development
When making changes to the web interface:
- Edit files in this directory
- Test changes by running
python3 web_interface/start.py - Restart the service if running:
sudo systemctl restart ledmatrix-web
Notes
- Templates and static files use the
v3/prefix to allow for future versions - The interface uses Flask blueprints for modular organization
- SSE streams provide real-time updates without polling