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ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 cd5a4e2251 fix(display): apply on-demand, brightness and schedule changes mid-screen (#618)
* fix(display): apply on-demand, brightness and schedule changes mid-screen

The main loop read the on-demand mailbox, the on/off schedule and the
brightness target once per pass -- once per screen. A dwell can be a minute
and a Vegas iteration runs for max_cycle_duration (240s), so on a Pi an
on-demand request posted at 10:54:27 was activated at 10:57:24, and two
brightness saves 12s apart inside one 30s screen never reached the panel.
During Vegas nothing read the mailbox at all: _check_vegas_interrupt only
checked on_demand_active, which only the main-loop read sets.

_service_pending_changes does the main loop's on-demand poll, expiry,
schedule and brightness steps, throttled to PENDING_CHANGES_INTERVAL (the
existing 0.25s mailbox floor), on the display thread. It runs from the Vegas
interrupt checker, the high-FPS and once-a-second render loops (replacing
their direct on-demand poll) and _sleep_with_plugin_updates; between passes
it costs one monotonic compare. A brightness change re-pushes the current
frame, since the panel only shows it from the next push.

Callers act on what it leaves behind: Vegas yields on an on-demand start or
the display being scheduled off (and the main loop then blanks instead of
rendering a screen), the render loops break on a schedule-off as they
already did on a mode change, and the dwell sleep returns early on an
on-demand start/stop or a schedule flip -- so the 60s scheduled-off sleep
now wakes for an on-demand request. The main loop no longer rotates after
a dwell that ended that way, which advanced a new on-demand session past
the mode that was asked for.

A brightness set_brightness() refuses is not retried until the target
changes, so the 4Hz pass doesn't log the same failure (fallback mode)
four times a second.

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

* test(display): a screen scheduled off midway stops rendering

Covers the schedule-off break added to the high-FPS and once-a-second
render loops: with the display scheduled off halfway through a 120s screen,
neither loop renders for more than one redraw plus one service interval
past the boundary.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 12:58:39 -04:00
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