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On a wide panel Vegas mode spent much of its time showing black. At 50px/s on a 512px display, one display width of blank is 10.2 seconds, which makes several long-standing behaviours expensive: - ScrollHelper prepended a full display width of black as an "initial gap", charged once per cycle — 10.2s of black at the start of every rotation. - Plugins without get_vegas_content() are captured off a full-display canvas, so their blank margins entered the ticker too. Measured: of-the-day drew 35px of "No Data" on a 512px canvas (92% blank), youtube-stats 142px of content with 185px of black either side. Only the scroll_helper path had any trimming. - Cycle transitions deliberately pushed a blank frame and then recomposed synchronously: 84ms at best, 4.8s at worst, every millisecond of it black. - buffer_ahead doubled as the cycle size, so a 21-plugin install showed 3 plugins per cycle and took ~7 cycles to come around. - separator_width was applied between every image rather than at plugin boundaries, so a per-row ticker like the F1 scoreboard (116 images, which it renders 4px apart internally) got a 32px chasm between each row — and the width budget didn't count those gaps, so the plugin quietly occupied far more of the panel than intended. Changes: - src/vegas_mode/geometry.py: numpy column-ink primitives shared by the trimmer and the audit tool, so the number reported is the number acted on. A Python per-column loop over a 17,000px strip is far too slow for the render path. - PluginAdapter trims every content path, not just scroll_helper. Only outer edges are cropped: interior blank columns are the plugin's own layout (logo left, score right) and closing them would corrupt the design. A plugin on a non-black background is inherently unaffected. - ScrollHelper.create_scrolling_image takes an explicit lead_gap, still defaulting to display_width so the many standalone-ticker callers are unchanged. Vegas passes lead_in_width (default 0). - Cycle end holds the last rendered frame instead of blanking, turning the recompose into a brief freeze rather than the panel switching off. - plugins_per_cycle (default 6) is split from buffer_ahead, which goes back to being only a prefetch low-water mark. - max_plugin_width_ratio (default 3x display width) caps one plugin's share of a cycle. Overflow is deferred, not discarded: a rotation offset advances each fetch so later rows appear on subsequent cycles. Single oversized images are cropped at a blank column so the cut misses glyphs. - Composition groups images by plugin: rows are joined by intra_plugin_gap (default 8) and separator_width applies only between plugins. The width budget now counts those gaps. - Plugin data updates no longer run on the Vegas render path. All new settings are user-configurable in Display -> Vegas Scroll, including min/max cycle duration and dynamic duration, which previously existed in code but were reachable only by hand-editing config.json. Measured with scripts/dev/vegas_audit.py on a 512x64 panel: mean ink coverage 42.7% -> 69.4% fully blank 5.9% -> 0% reads as empty 13.6% -> 0% worst blank stretch 4.8s -> 0s full rotation 414s -> 123s plugins per cycle 3 -> 6 Note the metric choice: a "fully blank" scan (>=95% black viewport) reported only 0.4% and badly understated the problem, because two full-width segments with mid-canvas content never fully blank the viewport — they hold it at ~28%. window_coverage_stats grades every viewport position by how much ink it carries, which is what tracks perceived dead time. Known remaining: cycle transitions still freeze ~3.5s while the next cycle is fetched. Fixing that needs background prefetch, which is deferred because the fallback-capture path mutates the shared display_manager.image and racing it against the render loop risks torn frames. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ
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
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