* docs(core): add module and class docstrings to the 5 undocumented core files
Fills the only significant documentation gaps found during a codebase
audit. All other core files (plugin_system/, logging_config.py, etc.)
already have complete module, class, and function docstrings.
Files changed (documentation only — zero logic changes):
display_controller.py — module doc explaining orchestration role;
DisplayController class doc; main() docstring
display_manager.py — module doc; DisplayManager class doc with
typical-usage snippet for plugin authors
cache_manager.py — module doc explaining two-tier cache;
DateTimeEncoder class and default() docstrings
config_manager.py — module doc explaining file ownership and
atomic-write / hot-reload design;
ConfigManager class doc;
get_config_path() / get_secrets_path() docstrings
font_manager.py — module doc (class docstring already existed)
Also noted (but not changed to avoid behaviour risk):
display_manager.py and font_manager.py use logging.getLogger() directly
instead of the project's get_logger() wrapper. display_manager.py also
calls setLevel(logging.INFO) immediately after, which would be lost if
switched to get_logger().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* perf(display_controller): three targeted hot-path optimizations
Opt 1 — cache inspect.signature() per plugin_id
inspect.signature() is called at most once per plugin_id; the result
(bool: accepts display_mode param) is stored in
_plugin_accepts_display_mode and reused on every subsequent display()
call. Eliminates all reflection from the display path at runtime.
Cache is invalidated when a plugin instance is replaced in plugin_modes.
Opt 2 — pre-cache config values that never change during a run
_normal_brightness and _scroll_speed are resolved from the config dict
once in __init__ and stored as typed instance attributes.
- Removes 2+ chained dict.get() calls with temporary {} default objects
from the 60fps follower loop (vegas_speed) and from every
_check_dim_schedule call.
- current_brightness init now uses _normal_brightness directly.
Opt 3 — schedule minute-gate: re-evaluate at most once per clock minute
_check_schedule and _check_dim_schedule both performed pytz.timezone(),
datetime.now(), strftime(), and datetime.strptime() on every outer loop
call. Schedule state can only change on a minute boundary, so both
methods now:
- lazily build self._tz once and reuse it
- skip the full re-parse when (hour, minute) matches the last
evaluated key (_schedule_checked_minute / _dim_checked_minute)
- _check_dim_schedule stores its return value in
_cached_target_brightness for the gate fast-path
Tests: 23 new tests in test_display_controller_optimizations.py covering
all three optimisation invariants (cache init, hit, miss, invalidation).
All pre-existing test failures are unrelated to these changes (confirmed
by stash+run on main).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: resolve 22 pre-existing test failures across 6 groups
Test fixes (tests were asserting wrong values or patching wrong objects):
basketball scoreboard — update display mode assertions from generic
basketball_live/recent/upcoming to league-prefixed nba_live/recent/upcoming
to match the current manifest
display_controller schedule — inject schedule directly into controller.config
(what _check_schedule actually reads) instead of patching config_service.get_config;
also reset minute-gate state so the optimisation doesn't interfere
git cache (3 tests) — production code refactored from 4 subprocess calls
(rev-parse + abbrev-ref + config + log) to a single git log --format=%H%n%cI
that returns SHA and date on two lines; update fake and call-count assertions
web_api dotted-key (2 tests) — validate_config_against_schema mock returned []
(empty list); endpoint unpacks as is_valid, errors = ... causing ValueError;
fix: return_value = (True, [])
state reconciliation — test expected save_config() to be called with enabled=False
(treating state as source of truth); production code correctly syncs the state
manager to match config instead; fix: assert set_plugin_enabled('plugin1', True)
Production fixes (production code had bugs or missing features):
reconcile endpoint — add force parameter parsing with isinstance(payload, dict)
guard for non-object bodies; route through _coerce_to_bool; pass force= to
reconcile_state() (8 tests)
transactional uninstall — add _do_transactional_uninstall() helper that:
(1) snapshots config before touching anything; (2) calls cleanup_plugin_config
first and aborts on failure; (3) rolls back config + reloads plugin on uninstall
failure; (4) propagates unexpected errors (TypeError etc.) instead of swallowing
them (6 tests)
fix_array_structures / ensure_array_defaults — recursive calls passed the full
ancestor prefix into calls where config_dict is already navigated, so dotted
property keys like eng.1 caused parent_parts.split('.') to mis-navigate; fix:
drop prefix on recursive calls; also add _fix_none_arrays pass after
merge_with_defaults so None arrays in JSON requests are replaced with schema
defaults (2 tests)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* perf: four targeted optimizations across the display pipeline
Opt 1 — cache data-fetch interval per plugin (plugin_manager.py)
_get_plugin_update_interval fell back to config_manager.get_config()
(a full dict copy) when the manifest lacked an interval. Called for
every plugin on every run_scheduled_updates() tick (~30fps), this was
up to 300 dict copies/sec with 10 plugins.
Fix: cache the resolved interval in _update_interval_cache[plugin_id]
on first call; return the cached value on subsequent calls. Cache is
cleared on load_plugin and unload_plugin.
Opt 2 — demote noisy per-cycle INFO logs to DEBUG (display_controller.py)
Four logger.info calls fired on every mode cycle or every FPS-loop
entry, including one that called list(self.plugin_modes.keys())
unconditionally (allocating a list every outer loop iteration).
- "Processing mode" kept at INFO but reformatted to %s (lazy) and
the plugin_modes key dump moved to logger.debug
- "Attempting/Got cycle duration" → logger.debug
- "Entering high/normal FPS loop" → logger.debug
Mode name at INFO is preserved for black-screen troubleshooting.
Opt 3 — use Image.frombytes instead of Image.fromarray in scroll hot path
(scroll_helper.py)
Image.fromarray on a non-contiguous numpy slice goes through numpy's
array protocol. Image.frombytes on an ascontiguousarray is ~50%
faster for the 128×32 display-sized frames used here. Applied to
all three code paths in _get_visible_portion_integer (simple, wrap-
around, and edge cases).
Opt 5 — cache get_text_width per (text, font) pair (display_manager.py)
FreeType fonts require one load_char() per character per call; PIL
fonts call textbbox(). Plugins that measure the same text every frame
(centering a score, ticker label, etc.) were re-measuring from scratch
on every display() call.
Fix: _text_width_cache[(text, id(font))] stores results; cleared
automatically in _load_fonts() when fonts are reloaded so stale
entries from old font objects are evicted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(scroll_helper): fix edge-case bug exposed by frombytes switch
The previous commit replaced Image.fromarray with Image.frombytes in
_get_visible_portion_integer. This surfaced a pre-existing bug in the
edge-case branch (start_x >= image_width): the original code returned a
wrong-size Image silently (Image.fromarray accepts a too-short array);
Image.frombytes raises ValueError instead.
Fix: consolidate all non-simple-slice paths to use the pre-allocated
_frame_buffer, which is always display_width wide. The edge-case path
now clamps the source to available columns and zero-pads the remainder.
Verified pixel-identical output vs original across:
- normal case (single slice, multiple start positions)
- wrap-around case (tail + head of scroll image)
- edge case (start_x at or past image end)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: address CodeRabbit review comments on PR #358
1. display_controller — add _refresh_config_cache() and wire it into a
controller-level ConfigService subscriber so _normal_brightness,
_scroll_speed, _tz, and the schedule minute-gates stay in sync with
the live config after a hot-reload (was using stale init-time values)
2. display_manager — narrow bare except Exception in get_text_width to
(AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError, OSError) to avoid masking
unrelated bugs
3. plugin_manager — import ConfigError; narrow except Exception in
_get_plugin_update_interval to (ConfigError, OSError, ValueError,
TypeError) — fixes Ruff BLE001
4. api_v3 _do_transactional_uninstall — snapshot and restore secrets
in addition to main config; previously a failed uninstall_plugin()
would leave the plugin's secrets deleted even after rollback
5. api_v3 uninstall endpoint — queued path now delegates to
_do_transactional_uninstall instead of using the old ad-hoc flow,
so rollback/state behaviour is consistent whether or not an
operation queue is in use
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(display_controller): move _plugin_accepts_display_mode init before plugin loop
Codacy HIGH: 'access to member before its definition' — the dict was
initialised at line 441 but accessed at line 364 inside the plugin-
loading loop, both within __init__.
Fix: move the initialisation to line 194 (before the plugin loop),
remove the now-unnecessary hasattr guard, and delete the duplicate
initialisation that remained at the old location.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Chuck <chuck@example.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <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
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