Reported as "rotation doesn't work correctly". It is a geometry bug, not a
rendering one, which is why it reads as mysterious.
#playerContainer is pinned `inset: 0`. Rotation set width:100vh, height:100vw and
rotate(90deg) — leaving the box in the TOP-LEFT corner and spinning it about its
own centre rather than the viewport's. On a 1920x1080 panel the content landed at
x -420..1500, y 420..1500 against a viewport of 0..1920, 0..1080: correctly
rotated, wrongly placed, cropped on two edges.
Tizen already did this correctly — top/left 50% plus translate(-50%,-50%) — and
Android does the equivalent with translationX/Y of (w-h)/2. The web player was
the odd one out, and BrightSign inherited it on top of its own hardware-plane
problem.
The rule now lives in server/lib/orientation-style.js, served to the player from
its single source, with the arithmetic pinned by tests that compute where the
rotated box actually lands on 16:9 and 5:4 panels. Three things those tests hold
that are easy to get wrong: the translate must come BEFORE the rotate (transforms
apply right-to-left, so reversing them rotates the correction too), 180 must NOT
swap dimensions (the box already fits; swapping letterboxes it), and landscape
must clear EVERY property the rotated state set (a half-reset leaves the
container stuck at 100vh wide, so rotation appears to persist after switching
back).
1074 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
Muting was implemented three times and agreed nowhere. A YouTube item is a
cross-origin iframe, so `el.muted` reaches nothing; only the IFrame API can
touch it. Both browser-family players got this wrong, in opposite directions:
web playerVars.mute was `userHasInteracted ? 0 : 1` — autoplay policy and
NOTHING else. An item an operator muted in the admin console played
WITH SOUND, a wall follower blared alongside its leader, and the
real-time device:mute-changed toggle only ever touched `<video>`.
onReady then unmuted unconditionally, and the click-to-unmute overlay
appeared on deliberately-muted items and undid the operator's setting.
tizen the embed URL hardcoded `mute=1`, so YouTube there was PERMANENTLY
silent: the per-item flag was never read and nothing could unmute it.
device:mute-changed did nothing at all, because it dereferenced a
<video> that is null for a YouTube item.
Android was already correct and is unchanged — it is the reference here.
The rule now lives once, in server/lib/media-mute.js, served to the web player
from its single source the same way schedule-eval.js is, and mirrored in Tizen
(which ships inside the .wgt and cannot import it). The ORDER is the substance:
a wall follower is always silent (one wall, one audio source) > autoplay policy,
which is a hard constraint rather than a preference because unmuted playback
without a gesture is refused outright and costs the VIDEO > a live operator
toggle, who is looking at the screen > the item's stored flag.
shouldOfferUnmute() exists so the prompt only appears when a gesture is the ONLY
thing in the way. Prompting on a muted item trains viewers to click a button
that undoes an operator's decision.
Tizen gains enablejsapi + a postMessage bridge so a live toggle flips the embed
without reloading it — reloading would restart the video from zero every time
someone touched the control.
11 new tests pinning each precedence step separately; 1055 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
Two gaps that both end the same way — a panel nobody can fix without a van.
OFFLINE. Content bytes were never persistently cached. The service worker
skipped /uploads/content/ and leaned on the browser's HTTP cache, which is
reasonable on a desktop and is not a documented-persistent store here:
BrightSign guarantees survival across reboots for IndexedDB, localStorage and
SQLite, and their own answer for offline video is to cache the bytes explicitly.
A panel could come back from a power cut with its playlist intact — that lives in
localStorage — and no media to play it with.
The reason content was skipped is real, and player-cache-policy.js is what makes
intercepting it safe. Seeking video issues range requests, and naive caching is
worse than none: storing a 206 as the whole file means every later full request
gets a fragment, and answering a range request with a 200 makes some media stacks
fail outright. So only complete 200s are stored, and ranges are served by slicing
the stored body into a correct 206. The content cache survives shell
re-versioning, or every deploy would re-download the playlist over a link that may
be exactly what is broken.
SELF-UPDATE. The package can replace autorun.brs, so a truncated file is a dark
panel with no app underneath. The safety is the ordering: download to .part,
verify sha256 AND size, then delete the .done marker, rename, reboot. Marker
first is not stylistic — leaving it makes the next boot skip the archive and the
update silently never happens. A failed extract parks the zip as .bad instead of
retrying every boot, which would be a loop indistinguishable from a hardware
fault. sha256 because that is what roMessageDigest can compute; a checksum the
player cannot verify is an unverifiable package.
The decision lives on the server and is unit-tested, and the host only executes
it — re-implementing the version comparison in BrightScript would put the
prerelease trap somewhere untestable. That trap is honoured directly: a player on
1.9.29-rc1 is running something semver-OLDER than 1.9.29, so an opted-in player
HOLDS a prerelease of its own core rather than being pulled off the build it was
given to test. Narrowly — a newer core still lands, so opting in never means
never updating again.
Both loop conditions are closed by construction. The manifest and the download
come from one buffer hashed once, so a checksum cannot describe bytes we are not
serving. And the version is stamped into autorun.brs at build time by both
builders, so the script reports the version it actually is — otherwise the player
applies the update, still reports the old version, and is offered the same
package forever.
Failure always degrades to "keep running the old version": an unreachable
manifest, a missing checksum, a failed verification, a full attempt counter and
an unbuildable package all resolve to skip.
998 tests pass (was 954).
st-sync.js wraps SyncManager, the native protocol. Three properties drove the
shape of it. It repeats the sync broadcast at 1Hz so a player powered on late
still joins, which means acting on every repeat would reload the video once a
second forever — on screen that reads as a stutter, not as a sync fault, so the
id dedupe is mandatory rather than an optimisation. The leader starts from its
OWN broadcast rather than at announce() time, or it runs ahead of the group by
the width of the network. And attachVideo refuses an element with no
setSyncParams instead of half-syncing it.
offline.html is the local fallback the host falls back to after three failed
loads. It names the server, keeps probing with capped backoff so a site full of
panels cannot storm a server that is coming back, and asks the HOST to restart
the player when it answers — never navigating itself, for the same reason the
player never reloads itself here.
The resolver now models multicast reach. All-BrightSign groups spread across
subnets no longer get native sync: each subnet would sync neatly within itself
while drifting from the others, and the dashboard would show a healthy group
throughout. The IP comparison is a heuristic so it is used in one direction
only — differing networks are evidence against, matching ones are never proof
for, and unknown addresses block nothing.
st-sync.js is served from its single source like the bridge, and the SD card
deliberately carries neither: the player pulls both from the server so a stale
copy on a card can never skew from the player using it.
948 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
The bridge and the host existed but nothing loaded them. Now the player does.
restartPlayer() replaces every location.reload() call site. On BrightSign a
page-initiated reload does not reliably bring the roHtmlWidget back, so the page
asks the host to rebuild it and only falls back to reload() when no host is
there to take the request. That covers the deploy path, the operator refresh,
the service-worker activation and the manual reset.
Identity now round-trips through the registry, which outlives localStorage on
this platform: getConfig() adopts a registry identity when local storage comes
back empty, instead of re-pairing and spawning a second row for a panel that is
already provisioned. The operator reset clears the registry too — otherwise it
would clear localStorage, get the same identity straight back on the next boot,
and reset nothing.
Registration reports platform 'brightsign' rather than "Chrome 120", which is
what sync-backend.js resolves native-vs-ours from, plus model, OS, serial and
which output this widget paints.
Dual output needed a collision fix: autorun.brs gives the second HDMI output its
own widget, and both widgets share an origin, a registry and one SD
storage_path. Un-namespaced, output 2 would read output 1's config, install salt
and device id and the two would collapse into a single device row. Storage keys
and registry keys are now suffixed per output; screen 1 keeps the bare names so
nothing existing moves.
The bridge is served from its single source so the copy the player loads can
never skew from the one on the SD card next to autorun.brs, and it is served to
every player rather than gated on a user agent — a panel reporting an unexpected
UA would otherwise silently lose restart-instead-of-reload.
Two test harnesses extract player functions and run them in an isolated scope,
so they now supply SCREEN_SUFFIX; one gained a case proving two outputs of one
player get distinct identities. 927 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
1.9.26's opt-in was passive: it stopped a sideloaded build being reverted, but there was still one
APK slot and latest_version was the server's own VERSION, so a beta had to be installed by hand on
every display. This makes it a real channel.
- apk-cache tracks two slots. ScreenTinker-beta.apk is optional and reaches only displays with
ota_beta = 1.
- A beta must DECLARE its version in a sidecar ScreenTinker-beta.apk.version. The server cannot
infer it — stable's version is the server's own constant because the two ship together, and
reading it from the APK means parsing binary AndroidManifest.xml on the request path. If the
sidecar is missing or unparseable the channel does not activate at all and opted-in displays keep
getting stable. Failing closed matters: advertising a version that does not match the bytes served
is the OTA-loop condition this fleet has been bitten by before.
- The check and the download resolve the channel identically and fall back to stable identically, so
apk_size always describes the bytes actually delivered. No APK change was needed — the client
already fetches whatever download_url it is handed, so displays in the field can be moved between
channels from the dashboard today.
Switching back needed care. Stable is semver-OLDER than the beta it replaces, so the ordinary
"never offer a downgrade" rule stranded the display and unticking the box would have been another
silent no-op. The first attempt returned any non-opted-in display running a pre-release — which
broke a #144 test, correctly: that would have dragged every existing pre-release tester back to
stable the moment their server upgraded, the exact harm the opt-in exists to prevent. So the return
now requires evidence we actually served that display the beta channel (devices.ota_channel_served,
written once on change, not per check). A tester ahead of the server on their own build is left
alone exactly as before.
Documented in the README, including the constraint that makes the switch-back physically possible:
beta builds must carry a versionCode no higher than the stable they branch from, because Android
refuses to install a lower one. Equal numbers install in both directions.
Verified end to end against a live server with two real signed APKs: stable serves 1.9.26, beta
serves 1.9.27-rc1, an unknown channel falls back to stable, removing the version file deactivates
the channel, and the full opt-in -> serve -> switch-back lifecycle produces offer / up-to-date /
channel-return in order. 859 server tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
Handing someone a test build was a trap. A prerelease sorts BELOW its own release — 1.9.25-fix234d
is semver-older than 1.9.25 — so a sideloaded display asked "anything newer?", was correctly told
yes, and updated itself straight back off the build we had asked someone to test. Same versionCode,
so Android installed it without complaint. Silent, and within minutes.
That is what happened on #234: the reporter installed the fix, tested for an evening, and reported
nothing had changed. They were right. Their tablet was running the old code again by then, and I had
told them it was fixed without ever checking what the device reported.
Adds a per-display opt-in (devices.ota_beta, default 0, checkbox next to the OTA toggle). When set,
the display keeps a prerelease of the CURRENT core instead of being pulled back to its release.
Deliberately narrow in one direction and deliberately wide in the other:
- Narrow: it only holds a prerelease of the core already installed. A plain release, a -patchN
build, an upgrade to a newer core, and a display ahead of the server all behave exactly as before,
and the flag defaults off so a fleet that never sets it is unaffected.
- Wide: an opted-in display is exempted from the superseded-prerelease guard. That guard would
otherwise pin a tester on an old test build permanently — an older-core prerelease is never
offered anything, so they would have to notice and sideload their way out. Writing the test is
what surfaced that; opting in must never mean never updating again.
9 tests covering both directions, including that shipping a newer release pulls a beta display back
onto the release line. 845 server tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
A player stands down from self-updating when another device owner manages the panel,
on the assumption that the MDM distributes packages instead. That assumption does not
always hold: an operator may run an MDM for policy alone and still want ScreenTinker's
OTA to own the player. Until now there was no way to say so — the stand-down was a
client-side decision with no operator input.
OTA_ALLOW_MANAGED_DEVICES=1 makes the server advertise `allow_managed: true` in
/api/update/check, and players skip the stand-down. Default off: the safe behaviour
stays the default, and only an explicit opt-in changes it.
Absence is not consent. The client parses the field with a false default, so a newer
player against an older server that has never heard of it still stands down; and the
server always emits the key, so a player can tell "the operator said no" from "this
server has no opinion". Config parsing is strict for the same reason — only 1/true
enable it, and anything else, including a plausible typo like "ture" or "yes", lands
on the safe side rather than riding JavaScript truthiness.
This deliberately does NOT grant silent install. Off device-owner, and without
DELEGATION_PACKAGE_INSTALLATION delegated by the MDM, Android still raises a confirm
dialog somebody has to accept, so the override alone will not fix a fleet whose
installs are failing at that dialog — delegating the scope is the real fix there. The
README says so at the point of use, because reaching for this flag is the natural
mistake.
Only reachable because the stand-down now runs after the version check rather than
before it; it needs the server's answer in hand to consult.
The auth limiters are app.use middleware that return 429 before the handler
that writes activity_log, so a rejection left no trace anywhere — the limit
suppressed the record of itself. Four production IPs sit at exactly ten logins
a minute and there was no way to tell whether that is one attacker or an office
whose staff share an egress address, which is the difference between the
limiter working and the limiter locking out customers.
The rejection count does not answer that. The number of distinct accounts per
IP does: one account hammered is the limiter doing its job, several accounts
each denied a few times is a shared egress. Both are now recorded, and a
platform-admin-only endpoint reads the tally back.
Identifiers are salted-hashed with a per-process salt and only ever counted, so
this cannot accumulate into a roster of a customer's addresses. Memory is
bounded per key and overall, and says when a count was capped rather than
silently undercounting.
Behaviour is unchanged: same status, same body, and the recording is wrapped so
telemetry can never break the limiter. A test asserts ten through then 429 with
the identical response shape, since a diagnostic that alters what it measures
is worse than none.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
Until now the only ways back into an account were an admin setting your password for you
or shell access to run scripts/reset-admin.js. A self-hosted operator who forgot their
password had no path at all, and the admin-reset route explicitly refuses to reset a
platform admin's password — so a single-admin instance was unrecoverable without a shell.
The per-account login lockout added recently makes that sharper: a user who forgets their
password will hit the lockout and see the same generic error, with no way out.
Two unauthenticated endpoints (they must be — the user cannot log in):
POST /api/auth/forgot-password { email } -> always the same 200
POST /api/auth/reset-password { token, password } -> 200 / 400
The properties that matter, each covered by a test:
- NO ENUMERATION. The request endpoint answers identically — same status, same body —
for a real address, an unknown one, an SSO identity with no local password, and a
malformed string. The frontend shows the same confirmation even on a network error,
so the client cannot leak what the server refused to.
- NO MFA BYPASS. Completing a reset does NOT issue a session; the user signs in
afterwards, so a TOTP-enabled account still clears its second factor. Returning a token
here would turn "read one email" into a full session without the second factor.
- SINGLE USE, SHORT LIVED. 32 random bytes, stored only as a SHA-256 hash (same
discipline as email verification, recovery codes and API tokens), 1h TTL, and the
redeeming UPDATE is conditioned on the hash still being present so concurrent
redemptions cannot both win.
- LOCAL ACCOUNTS ONLY. SSO identities have no local password; no token is minted.
- IT ACTUALLY UNBLOCKS YOU. A completed reset clears the per-account login lockout and
must_change_password, otherwise someone who locked themselves out would reset and still
be locked out.
Rate limited: 5/min on the request (it sends mail to a caller-supplied address), 10/min
on the redeem. If no email transport is configured the response is unchanged — no oracle —
but the server logs loudly, because the user will otherwise wait for mail that cannot
arrive and the generic response cannot tell them.
Frontend: a "Forgot your password?" link on the sign-in card, a request card, and a
new-password card. app.js had to learn #/reset-password explicitly — the auth guard
rewrites any unauthenticated hash to #/login, which would have discarded the one-time
token in the emailed link and made it silently do nothing.
Migration adds users.password_reset_hash / password_reset_expires: additive, nullable,
idempotent; a code-only rollback leaves two dead columns.
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A screen that was still connected and still displaying its pairing code could not be
paired. Reloading the player produced the same code, and the on-screen instruction
("restart the display to get a new code") could not help.
devices.created_at is written once, at first registration, and the row is never recreated:
a player persists its device_id and its pairing code in local storage and re-registers
with them forever. Expiry was measured from created_at, so 15 minutes after first boot the
row became permanently unclaimable while the device kept heartbeating — and a restart
reused the stored identity and reproduced the same code, so there was no way out.
Observed in production: an unclaimed web player, still online and heartbeating, whose row
was created 4 days 20 hours earlier and had been unpairable for all but its first 15
minutes. Prod is carrying several such rows; alpha has some 13 days old.
Key expiry on last_heartbeat instead, falling back to created_at for a row that has never
checked in. That answers the question the operator actually has — is this screen still
there showing me this code? — while keeping the property the expiry exists for: a device
that has genuinely gone away still expires.
Trade-off, taken deliberately: a code stays claimable while its screen is connected rather
than for a fixed 15 minutes. That is what the product implies, since the code is on the
screen the whole time, and guessing is bounded by lib/pair-lockout (5 failures per IP per
15 min) and the 5/min route limit rather than by this TTL.
SERVER-ONLY. The player's device:registered handler reads only device_id and device_token
and has no way to display a server-issued code, so reissuing one would have left fielded
players showing a stale code — strictly worse. This fix needs no player update and
un-strands every already-affected device in the field on deploy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The on-device settings PIN (devices.settings_pin, minted at pairing) and the pairing code
assigned to imported devices both came from
`Math.floor(100000 + Math.random() * 900000)`.
Math.random is not a CSPRNG. V8 implements it as xorshift128+, whose internal state is
recoverable from a handful of consecutive outputs, and every call in a process draws from
that one shared stream. Both values are also observable by ordinary users — settings_pin
is returned in device API responses today — so a user who collects a few outputs could
predict the values minted around them, including for other tenants.
lib/numeric-code.sixDigitCode() uses crypto.randomInt, which is CSPRNG-backed and
rejection-samples so the distribution stays uniform. Range is 100000..999999 inclusive,
identical to the old expression, so codes are still exactly six digits with no leading
zero — the on-device keypad and pairing UI are unchanged.
Deliberately NOT converted, because neither gates access: the image-generation seed in
lib/image-gen.js, and the anti-burn-in pixel jitter inside generated widget HTML.
Also unchanged: the settings_pin backfill in db/database.js, which uses SQLite's random()
— that is ChaCha20 seeded from OS entropy, not a weak PRNG.
This is the generator half of the finding only. The separate half — that settings_pin is
returned to every workspace member, including read-only roles — is a response-shape change
and waits on the consumer enumeration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GET /api/devices/:id/screenshot returns a live picture of what a screen is showing, but
it was still authorized pre-tenancy: `device.user_id !== user.id`, with a role bypass
listing 'admin'/'superadmin'. Three consequences, all now covered by tests:
- `device.user_id &&` SHORT-CIRCUITED. A device with no user_id — never paired, or its
owner deleted — skipped the ownership test entirely, so any authenticated account on the
instance could read it. An unpaired panel displays its pairing code on screen, so that
image is also a route to claiming the device (AUTH-10, out of scope here but connected).
- 'platform_admin' was absent from the bypass list. #14 renamed 'superadmin' to
'platform_admin', so an actual platform admin fell through to the ownership test and was
denied unless they happened to own the row.
- Workspace members other than the owner were denied a device they administer through
every other endpoint.
Now uses accessContext() against the device's workspace — the same helper routes/devices.js
uses — which covers direct membership, org-level access and platform staff in one call. A
device with no workspace is denied outright rather than defaulting open.
Deliberately unchanged: the ?token= query-parameter mechanism on this route, which is a
separate finding with its own blast radius.
No response shape change: still 200 / 401 / 403 / 404 with the same bodies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Uploaded files are served from the SAME ORIGIN as the dashboard, so how a browser
interprets them is a security boundary. Two things decided that interpretation, and
both were caller-controlled: the stored extension came from
`path.extname(originalname)`, and the only type check read `file.mimetype` — a request
header. A caller could therefore choose to have their bytes served as an active
document from the app origin.
Two independent invariants now hold the boundary:
1. INGEST — lib/upload-sniff.js sniffs magic bytes after multer writes a neutral
`.part` file (diskStorage names the file before any bytes exist, so the sniff cannot
happen there), maps the result through a hardcoded mime->extension allowlist, renames
accordingly, and stores the sniffed mime. Unsupported bytes are refused with a 400.
2. SERVING — upload responses carry `Content-Security-Policy: sandbox`, so if a response
is ever treated as a document it lands in an opaque origin with scripts disabled.
Anything outside the inline-safe extension set is additionally forced to download.
This holds regardless of how a file reached disk, so a future gap in (1) is contained
rather than exploitable.
Applied at every instance of the pattern, not just the first: lib/content-ingest.js,
the /replace route, the four content-serving paths across server.js and routes/content.js
(the latter pair currently shadowed by mount order, which is not a guarantee), and the
ZIP-import path in routes/status.js, which took its extension from the archive entry.
SVG stays accepted and stays inline: white-label logos are SVG, and octet-stream +
nosniff makes <img> fail. Scripts in an SVG never run in an image context, and the
sandbox CSP covers the one case where they would — a direct navigation. SVG is also no
longer handed to sharp, which removes the librsvg path where the open libvips CVEs live.
Existing rows are untouched — no migration. The four upload fixtures in agency.test.js
uploaded `Buffer.from('x')` declared as image/png; that is the exact "declared type is a
lie" case this closes, so the fixtures now use real PNG bytes. No assertion changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six places verified a session JWT inline instead of going through requireAuth,
each repeating a slightly different subset of its checks. Introduce
resolveSessionUser() in middleware/auth.js as the single definition of "this
token is a usable session, and here is whose it is", and route all of them
through it: the three /api/status token routes, the screenshot route, the
content-reference gate, and the /dashboard socket handshake. requireAuth is now
a thin wrapper over the same helper, so the two cannot drift.
Also:
- Give the pre-TOTP token a distinct audience so it is redeemable only through
verifyMfaPendingToken (POST /api/auth/totp/verify). verifyToken refuses any
token carrying an audience, so a token minted for one purpose cannot be
redeemed on another path.
- The dashboard socket handshake now takes userId/userRole from the live users
row rather than from the token claim, so role changes take effect on the next
connection instead of riding the token's remaining lifetime.
- Add test/session-token-resolution.test.js covering all six surfaces,
including the socket handshake.
Every call site keeps the status code and error body it returned before.
Net query cost: the content-reference gate and the socket handshake each gain
one users-by-id lookup (the same one requireAuth already does per request); the
other four are unchanged or replace an equivalent lookup.
In-flight pre-TOTP tokens are invalidated by the audience change; they live 5
minutes, so the window is a re-login at worst.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add Device modal now shows the server URL and full Smart TV player URL
- Smart TV note changed from bare /player to full URL (dynamic via JS)
- /download/apk error page now includes a download link to GitHub Releases
- i18n keys added in en + es, old smart_tv_note removed
Three features from this session, full server suite green (535/535).
TOTP 2FA (#100) — backend shipped without a UI; add it:
- Login: mfa_required -> 6-digit challenge (recovery codes accepted) -> /totp/verify.
- Settings > Account: enable (QR + confirm -> recovery codes once), regenerate,
disable; SSO accounts see "managed by your identity provider".
- /totp/setup returns a server-rendered qr_data_url (bundled qrcode dep). keyuri
folds the request Host into the issuer so multi-instance accounts are
distinguishable in the authenticator app.
Email verification on signup — hosted HARD-block / self-host SOFT-nudge:
- email_verified column; existing users asked on first login (SSO + platform
admins grandfathered); single-use 24h tokens (SHA-256 hashed).
- Gate engages only when email is configured (never locks out a no-mail instance).
GET /verify-email + POST /resend-verification (generic, no account enumeration).
- Client: "confirm your email" flow + resend, verified/error toasts, self-host
banner; onAuthSuccess refuses a tokenless response (defensive).
Tizen SSSP URL-Launcher install — Fusion-style one-URL native install:
- Server hosts /tizen/sssp_config.xml (dynamic <size>, always matches the served
.wgt) + /tizen/ScreenTinker.wgt + a human landing. lib/wgt-cache.js resolves the
signed .wgt (/data mount wins, mirroring the APK).
- build-wgt.sh also emits a static sssp_config.xml for CDN hosting.
- Retail panels require a Samsung Partner cert; dev-mode is SDB self-signed only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Compositor panel-ring board scroll (smooth on Blink+Gecko, no blank-on-refresh), a per-device frame-rate diagnostic widget + dashboard card, and web/Android/Tizen device-id passthrough to widget render URLs.
Follow-up to #195. The CORP fix there landed on routes/content.js `/:id/file`, but that
handler is SHADOWED: server.js registers a public `app.get('/api/content/:id/file')`
(and `/thumbnail`) BEFORE the auth-gated content router, and that public route (gated by
playlist/widget reference) is what actually serves widget logo/background images. So the
header never changed on the wire — origin still returned CORP: same-origin and the player's
sandboxed (opaque-origin) widget iframe kept getting NS_ERROR_DOM_CORP_FAILED / 0 bytes.
Set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * + Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: cross-origin on the real
public routes in server.js: /file, /thumbnail (local), and the remote-thumbnail proxy.
Revert the now-dead content.js edit so the fix lives only where the bytes are served.
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* feat(widgets): add directory-search widget
An interactive, walk-up search view of an existing directory-board. It
references a source board by id (no data copy), so a venue can run the
scrolling board on a main screen and a search view on a tablet, letting
people find an entry instantly.
Server (routes/widgets.js):
- register 'directory-search' + renderDirectorySearch(): resolves the source
board, inlines its categories as one \u003c-guarded JSON blob, renders all
text via textContent (XSS-safe), live case-insensitive filter over
identifier/name/subtitle (debounced), grouped results, available styling,
optional touch on-screen QWERTY keyboard that drives the same filter path.
- missing / non-directory-board source -> friendly full-page fallback, not a 500.
- live-sync while open is out of scope; left a // TODO for a poll hook.
Frontend editor (views/widgets.js): type + magnifier icon, source-board
dropdown (from loaded widgets, filtered to directory-board), title, logo
(reuses the board's picker), placeholder text, theme, on-screen-keyboard toggle;
getConfigFromForm case. i18n: widget.dirsearch.* + type keys in en/es/it/de/pt/fr.
docs: openapi widget_type enum. Tests: server/test/directory-search.test.js.
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* feat(widgets): live-sync for directory-search (poll source board, no reload)
Reflect directory-board edits on an open directory-search page without a reload.
- New public GET /api/widgets/:id/data.json returns { categories } for a
directory-board (404 for missing/wrong-type so the page keeps last-good data
on a transient miss). CORS-open (ACAO:*) + no-store so a null-origin sandboxed
widget iframe can read it; exposes only data already public via /render.
Exempted from CSP + auth in server.js alongside /render.
- directory-search page inlines its source_widget_id and polls the board's
data.json every 30s via a relative URL (works behind a proxy/base path and
from a null-origin iframe). Only rebuilds + rerenders when the data actually
changed, so a mid-search view isn't disturbed; skips while document.hidden;
keeps last-good data on any fetch error. Flatten logic factored into
buildFlat() and reused by the poll.
Tests: data.json feed (categories, CORS header, 404s) + poll wiring in
directory-search.test.js (13/13). Verified live in a browser (page.clock
fast-forward): editing the board updates the search page with no reload.
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* fix(android): let player WebViews take touch focus for interactive widgets
directory-search is served through the existing generic widget path
(loadUrl <server>/api/widgets/:id/render), so it already renders on Android
with JS + DOM storage + mixed-content enabled, same-origin (so its live-sync
fetch of the source board's data.json works), and no touch blocking.
Add isFocusable/isFocusableInTouchMode to the shared WebView config so the
search field reliably takes a tap/cursor inside the kiosk lock-task WebView.
Harmless for passive widgets (board/YouTube have no focusable inputs); the
widget's own on-screen keyboard still drives the filter when the system IME
is suppressed. Verified with :app:compileDebugKotlin.
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Adds a pluggable email transport so self-hosters without Azure/M365 can send
mail through any standard SMTP server (Postfix, Gmail, Mailgun, SendGrid, corp
relay). Graph stays the default; behavior is byte-for-byte unchanged when
EMAIL_TRANSPORT is unset or "graph".
- config: EMAIL_TRANSPORT ("graph"|"smtp", default graph) + SMTP_HOST/PORT/
SECURE/USER/PASSWORD/FROM.
- services/email.js: branch by transport behind the SAME public sendEmail()/
isConfigured() surface. SMTP via nodemailer (lazy-required, like MSAL).
Shared across both transports: the "[ScreenTinker] " subject prefix (unless
rawSubject), the GRAPH_DEV_RESTRICT_TO allow-list, html-from-text derivation,
and the never-throws contract (failures log + return sent:false). SMTP_SECURE
true=implicit TLS(465)/false=STARTTLS(587). Auth optional (unauthenticated
relay ok); SMTP_USER without SMTP_PASSWORD is flagged. SMTP_FROM parses
"Name <addr>". New emailConfigStatus() for startup diagnostics.
- server.js: startup logs the transport and a LOUD error when the selected
transport is partially configured (some fields set, others missing) or when
EMAIL_TRANSPORT is invalid (falls back to graph). A fully-unset transport
stays a silent stdout fallback (unchanged dev behavior).
- nodemailer ^6.9.16 added as a production dep (bundled in the Docker image).
- .env.example + README: SMTP config section, Gmail example, transport table.
- test/email-transport.test.js: 15 tests — transport selection, config
validation (missing/partial/invalid), SMTP message building (from/prefix/
fromName override/text alt), sendEmail routing (mocked nodemailer), rawSubject,
dev-restrict on smtp, and the smtp_error never-throws path.
462/462 server tests pass. Boot verified for all four states (configured,
misconfigured, invalid, default).
Closes#173
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express.static runs with index:false, so a bare /integrations/ fell through to the
SPA catch-all and rendered the dashboard login instead of the integrations hub — the
top-nav "Integrations" link, the canonical, and the sitemap entry all dead-ended at
login. Add an explicit route (like /agency, /sitemap.xml): /integrations/ -> the hub's
index.html, and /integrations -> 301 /integrations/. Spoke pages are real .html files
already served by static. Folded into a re-cut of v1.9.6.
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* feat(dashboard): version indicator + GHCR update check with admin panel
- Add server/lib/ghcr-check.js: GHCR tag poller (36h cache, semver filter)
- Extend /api/version with latest_version and update_available
- Add POST /api/admin/check-update (force GHCR poll)
- Add POST /api/admin/trigger-update (Docker compose or manual instructions)
- Sidebar footer: version label + amber badge when update available
- Admin > System: version comparison card with Check/Update buttons
- 14 new tests (10 unit + 4 integration), 68/68 passing
Closes#163
* fix(dashboard): gate trigger-update to platform-admin + add GHCR fetch timeout
Review follow-up on #165 (the two blockers):
- trigger-update runs `docker compose up -d` on the HOST via docker.sock
(root-equivalent) but was behind requireAdmin, i.e. reachable by any
workspace-level admin. On a multi-tenant host that's a customer, not the infra
operator. Gate it with requirePlatformAdmin (DOCKER_UPDATE_ENABLED still gates
it further). check-update stays requireAdmin — it's a read-only GHCR poll.
- ghcr-check.checkNow had no fetch timeout. Node's global fetch has no default
timeout, so a hung GHCR connection never settled — leaving `inFlight` set
forever (the finally never ran), which wedged the background poller AND hung
any awaited checkNow (/api/admin/check-update). Add a 10s AbortController
timeout on both requests so the try/catch/finally always fire.
All 405 server tests pass.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lets an operator (or an MDM) own updates instead of the app self-installing, which
on managed panels shows a self-install confirm dialog over customer content
(#155). Three layered controls:
- GLOBAL (server): config.otaEnabled from OTA_ENABLED (default on). When off,
/api/update/check returns update_available:false, reason:ota_disabled_global —
the whole instance stops offering updates.
- PER-DEVICE (server + dashboard): new devices.ota_enabled column (default 1). When
0, that device is never offered an update (reason:ota_disabled_device). A
"Self-update (OTA)" toggle in the device settings flips it via PUT /api/devices/:id.
- AUTO-DETECT (Android): UpdateChecker stands down entirely when a foreign device
owner (an MDM/DPC) manages the panel — detected via getActiveAdmins() + not being
device owner ourselves. Pure client-side, errs safe, needs no server change.
The two server gates are enforced server-side so they cover EVERY client version,
not just ones with the client-side stand-down. When OTA is off the device still
reports its version (dashboard sees state); the MDM/operator owns the actual update.
For an MDM-managed fleet (e.g. Pivot/MAXHUB), turn OTA off and let the MDM push the
APK — the install-dialog race disappears from every angle.
Tests: +2 (per-device gate + a real OTA_ENABLED=false server for the global gate);
full server suite 393 pass; Android compiles.
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- Remove stray brace that broke compilation (MainActivity line 985)
- Server generates unique 6-digit PIN per device during pairing
- PIN stored in encrypted SharedPreferences (ServerConfig.settingsPin)
- Fallback: generate random PIN locally if server doesn't send one
- Include settings_pin in device:paired on pair + reconnect
- DB migration: settings_pin column on devices table
- Hint changed from hardcoded 0000 to generic 'PIN' string
* fix(preview): replace srcdoc with server-side preview sessions to bypass CSP
Widget previews (clock, weather, etc.) were rendered via iframe.srcdoc,
which inherits the dashboard CSP script-src 'self'. This blocked the inline
scripts widgets need (setInterval for clock, fetch for weather), causing
previews to show blank/static content.
Replace srcdoc with ephemeral server-side preview sessions:
- POST /api/widgets/preview-session — stores rendered HTML (Map, 5min TTL)
- GET /api/widgets/preview-session/:id — serves the HTML via iframe src,
bypassing CSP like the device render endpoint already does
The old /api/widgets/preview endpoint is unchanged for backward compat.
* fix(preview): add rate limiter for /preview-session route
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The dashboard CSP (script-src 'self') blocked Cloudflare's Web Analytics beacon. Add the two exact
entries the beacon needs (both required — script-only loads but silently can't report):
- script-src: https://static.cloudflareinsights.com (beacon script loads)
- connect-src: https://cloudflareinsights.com (beacon POSTs analytics back)
Exact domains, no wildcards. connect-src already had 'wss:'/'ws:' (socket.io) + 'https:' — those stay,
so the dashboard socket is unaffected; the explicit CF domain documents intent and survives any future
tightening of the broad 'https:'.
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Disable wal_autocheckpoint on the main connection; run PASSIVE checkpoints from a
worker_threads worker with its OWN better-sqlite3 handle, escalating to TRUNCATE on a
size high-water or PASSIVE-starvation. Removes the synchronous fsync-heavy checkpoint
from the event loop. Config: walCheckpointIntervalMs/HighWaterMB/StarvationRuns.
Local only — no bump/tag.
Field-safe SERVER net. A device opening duplicate/rapid sockets (the APK duplicate-socket bug,
separate track) currently churns through evictions during the reconnect-throttle's 30s
post-restart WARM-UP (only the hard ceiling 20 applies then, so an 8-in-9s burst passes
undamped and each new socket evicts the prior). This makes the server absorb it: a thrashing
PAIRED device converges to ONE stable connection and stays online.
- lib/session-settle.js (decision only; bounded, swept): shouldHold(deviceId, incumbentAlive)
— true only when a socket was accepted for this device within SESSION_SETTLE_WINDOW_MS
(config, default 2500ms) AND the incumbent is alive. Warm-up-independent.
- deviceSocket register gate (just before evictPriorSocket): if a LIVE incumbent exists and
we're inside the window, SOFT-REFUSE the new socket (device:throttled reason=session_settle
+ disconnect) and keep the incumbent; else accept + evict + (re)arm the window.
- LIVENESS SAFEGUARD (load-bearing): only hold when the incumbent socket is actually in the
/device namespace — a dead/half-open incumbent is replaced, NEVER stranding the device (max
hold is the 2.5s window from the incumbent's accept, then any new socket is accepted).
- Soft refusal, NEVER a quarantine (reuses patch1's paired-safe philosophy); single-session
enforcement intact for a legitimate move; unpaired/abusive flapping still caught by the
existing limiters. O(1), no loop impact.
Tests (liveness first-class): live incumbent holds + DEAD incumbent replaced (not stranded);
storm of 6 sockets converges to ONE, stays online, not quarantined (during warm-up); single-
session move past the window replaces cleanly; unit decision + bounded sweep. The
evicted-socket-rearm test shrinks its settle window so it still exercises the eviction path.
Suite 336/336.
Item 2: when the heartbeat checker marks a device offline it now also disconnects any socket
it still holds for it, so DB-offline can't diverge from socket-state into a silent half-open
(defensive — the live-socket guard already defers genuinely-live sockets).
Item 3: tighten half-open detection WITHOUT reintroducing the TV-WebKit decode-load risk the
30s pong-timeout was chosen for — lower only pingInterval 30s->15s (probe more often), KEEP
pingTimeout at 30s. Detection = interval+timeout = 45s (was 60s), and the client inherits
these via the handshake so BOTH ends detect a dead peer ~25% sooner. (Deliberately did NOT
drop pingTimeout to ~20s: MAXHUB is a video-playing TV-class device and the code comment
warns tighter timeouts cause spurious drops under decode load.)
Item 4: SO_KEEPALIVE on every accepted connection (lib/tcp-keepalive.js) so a half-open TCP
can't persist indefinitely at the OS layer, independent of the app ping.
Tests: server closes a non-ponging peer within ~pingInterval+pingTimeout while a ponging peer
survives; a device whose transport dies ends offline with its connection torn down; keepalive
applied to each accepted connection (and never breaks setup on error). Suite 328/328.
ROOT CAUSE (hypothesis A, pre-existing — NOT a beta7 regression; server/player/index.html
is untouched since v1.9.2-beta6): handlePlaylistUpdate's "Playlist unchanged" branch blindly
returned. The media re-attach (renderContent) lives ONLY in the content-changed branch, so
if the <video> surface was lost (element detached from the DOM while still decoding — video
gone, audio still playing) a no-new-content refresh never re-attached it. New-content
refreshes were fine because they re-render.
FIX (make the refresh idempotent for the media surface, no flicker on the healthy path):
- server/lib/player-media-health.js (new, UMD + unit-testable, mirrors schedule-eval.js):
needsReattach(state) — re-attach ONLY when playback should be happening but the current
item's surface is actually lost (video null / detached / ended / errored; non-video: no
mounted surface). A healthy attached+live video returns false, so a routine poll stays a
no-op (no re-render, no flicker). Served at /player/player-media-health.js from the single
source; loaded by the player.
- index.html no-change branch: extract the current item's DOM facts and, iff
PlayerMediaHealth.needsReattach, call playCurrentItem() to re-render the current item.
Wrapped so the health check can never break a refresh.
- teardownCurrentMedia: also release currentVideoEl even when it was DETACHED from the
container — a detached-but-playing <video> keeps emitting audio and the container-scoped
querySelectorAll can't find it. This kills the "ghost audio" on re-attach.
- sw.js cache bumped v9 -> v10 so players pick up the new index.html + module.
Tests: test/player-media-health.test.js (6) exercises the branch selection — healthy video
-> no re-attach; detached/null/ended/errored -> re-attach; idle -> never; non-video by
surface presence. Inline player JS syntax-checked; module served + referenced verified on a
booted server. Suite 316/316.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Least-privilege way to read GET /api/billing/usage without requiring platform admin.
Additive + isolated: reuses the existing api_tokens scope system (the off-ladder 'agency'
scope is the precedent) and does NOT touch the shared role/permission checks other
endpoints rely on.
- New off-ladder scope 'billing:read' (routes/tokens.js SCOPES). Like 'agency' it is NOT
on the read<write<full ladder, so tokenScopeGate rejects a billing token on every
PUBLIC_ROUTER and JWT-only routers reject any st_ token -> the scope grants billing-read
and NOTHING else.
- DUAL-PATH gate requireBillingRead (middleware/apiToken.js), written as an EXPLICIT OR:
authorize if (billing:read token) OR (platform-admin session). Admins keep read access
but are NOT required to; the token path doesn't lock out admins or vice versa. Billing
route now mounted with bearerAuth (token OR JWT front door) + requireBillingRead (was
requireAuth + requirePlatformAdmin).
- MINTING is platform-admin only (stricter than read/write/full/agency, which any
workspace member may mint) since a billing:read token grants GLOBAL billing-read. Note:
no finer "owner" tier exists here (#14 collapsed superadmin->platform_admin), so
PLATFORM_ROLES is the top level required.
Tests (5, test/billing-authz.test.js): dual-path positive (token AND admin session both
200) + negative (user 403 / anon 401); scope isolation (billing token 403 on /api/devices,
401 on /api/admin; read token 200 on devices but 403 on billing); minting owner-only
(user + ordinary-admin 403, platform-admin 201); revocation -> 401. Existing token
firewall/partition suite (api.test.js) + billing-endpoint tests unchanged & green. Reused
the exact SHA-256 token-verification path (no bcrypt/new mechanism). Suite 306/306.
NOTE: spec described bcrypt + JSON `scopes` + an analytics:read precedent; this codebase
actually uses SHA-256 + a single `scope` TEXT column + 'agency' as the off-ladder
precedent. Implemented faithfully to the real system.
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Implements the ByteTinker-Bold distribution-agreement billing math and surfaces it on a
standalone admin-only route. No UI (the API figure is the deliverable). Server-side only.
Contract math (lib/billing.js, config-driven; defaults ARE the agreement):
- ASD (per device/day) = min(1.0, online_seconds / (hours*3600)) # 28800 default
- BillableScreens (per month) = round-half-up( Sum ASD / days_in_month )
- Flat tier (not marginal): 1-499 $1.50 / 500-999 $1.25 / 1000+ $1.00; cost = screens*rate.
Single global rate card for now (per-tenant is a future concern; noted in code).
Data foundation:
- New durable rollup device_usage_daily(device_id, day 'YYYY-MM-DD', online_seconds),
index on day. status_log (3d) / telemetry (24h) can't back a billing month.
- Accumulated INCREMENTALLY off the heartbeat tick from the live connection map (same
source as devices_connected) - never reconstructed from logs. Each tick credits every
connected device's today-row (min(86400, +elapsed)), chunked + transactional (non-blocking);
per-tick credit capped (accrualCapSeconds) as a stall/restart guard.
- Retention ~400d, pruned via chunked-prune (pruneUsageDaily in runMaintenance).
API: GET /api/billing/usage?month=YYYY-MM (default current), requirePlatformAdmin, mounted
SEPARATELY from /api/status (billing is revenue data + a heavier aggregate; must not touch
the hot status path). Reads the rollup only. MTD figure averages over COMPLETED days only
(today shown in `daily` but excluded until it completes); is_final + billable_screens_final
appear once the month completes.
Tests (12): ASD math; billable round-half-up; flat tier/cost boundaries; accumulator
(accrues by interval, caps at 86400/day, disconnected doesn't accrue); report MTD-excludes-
today + final-month is_final; retention prune; endpoint authz (admin 200 / non-admin 403 /
anon 401) + billing absent from /api/status. Suite 301/301. First-full-month caveat +
formula in docs/billing.md.
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Expose the new internal states so we can SEE the limiters biting during the alpha soak
instead of grepping logs. /api/status now carries debug: {
flap: {buckets, quarantined},
ota_download: {inFlight, servedThisWindow, shedThisWindow, windowCount},
maintenance: {deleted, ms, at, running}, // last status-log prune
log_coalescer_buffer,
}. Aggregate counts only (no device ids/secrets), cheap in-memory reads. stats()
added to flap-limiter + ota-download-guard (singleton prod state), getMaintenanceStats
from database. Asserted in the booted /api/status test.
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Don't let telemetry/logging cook the loop under a storm.
- lib/log-coalescer.js: dedup+count high-frequency lines, flush ONE summarized line per
key per window ("[loop-lag] band=critical (x47 in 30s)"). Bounded buffer (auto-flush
at MAX_KEYS). Applied to the loop-lag "still loaded" line (band CHANGES stay immediate),
the per-request OTA check line, and "Device reconnected".
- loop-lag: event_loop_lag rows are BUFFERED and batch-inserted on a flush interval
(was a synchronous INSERT per sample); the buffer is bounded (drop-oldest). Its
retention prune now rides the Item-A chunkedDelete so this table can never repeat the
status_log bloat-then-freeze. /api/status still reads in-memory current (real-time
band unaffected).
- Bounded the previously un-evicted per-device Maps: content-ack limiter gets an idle
sweep (started in server.js); status-log-writer.lastWritten is capped (drop-oldest;
it only suppresses a redundant consecutive row, so eviction is safe).
Tests: N identical lines -> one counted line; single line verbatim; coalescer buffer
bounded under a distinct-key flood; content-ack Map swept of idle buckets.
loop-lag-integration updated for the batched-insert cadence. Suite 266/266.
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The fleet SNATs to one IP, so nothing on the OTA path may key on IP.
- /api/update/check: EARLY-RETURN before any filesystem call when the breaker won't
offer (rate-backoff / up-to-date / phantom / client-newer). A looping client that
gets rate-backoff now does ZERO fs — the flood can't become a statSync flood.
- lib/apk-cache.js: resolve APK path/size/mtime once at boot + refresh on an interval;
the check/download endpoints read cached metadata (get() does no fs, proven by test).
- lib/ota-download-guard.js + /download/apk: GLOBAL concurrency + rate caps + critical-
band shed (503 Retry-After), NEVER per-IP. Replaces the per-IP-per-10min log throttle
(which hid the flood under SNAT) with a per-window served/shed aggregate so a download
flood is VISIBLE. Bounded single rolling-state object; in-flight released on finish/close.
- Breaker unchanged; no IP limiting or device_id requirement added (legacy field clients
send no device_id on OTA checks — must keep working).
Tests: apk-cache get() = 0 statSync over 1000 reads; download guard sheds past global
concurrency + per-window rate + critical band; admit() has no IP parameter. Suite 259/259.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The #142 burst throttle (5/10s) misses a device flapping every 3-5s (~2-3/10s) — yet
each cycle is an expensive register+build+acks and one status_log row (the spiral
trigger). Now that Item A ends the restart loop that used to wipe in-memory throttle
state every ~40s, an in-memory sustained limiter can finally bite.
- lib/device-identity.js: SNAT-safe identity resolution — device_id -> fingerprint
(map via device_fingerprints -> device_id, else raw fp) -> device_token -> ONE bounded
global anon bucket. NEVER IP (the fleet SNATs to 10.10.10.1). An unidentifiable client
is still bucketed (collectively) so an anon flood is capped, never unthrottled.
- lib/flap-limiter.js: per-identity connect-frequency over a long window
(CONNECT_RATE_WINDOW_MS=5min, CONNECT_RATE_MAX=20; anon bucket cap 60). Over the rate
-> refuse + disconnect (cheap). Bounded by an idle sweep (anon bucket never swept).
Optional auto-quarantine: a device_id-resolved hard flapper -> blocked=1.
- Wired at the device:register gate BEFORE fingerprint tracking/throttle/DB/build,
skipping same-socket playlist refreshes. Sweep started in server.js.
Tests: 4s-flapper refused after the window max; 60s-normal never; two device_ids
independent (never IP); device_id-less bucketed by fingerprint; neither id nor
fingerprint capped via global anon; idle sweep preserves the anon bucket. Suite 254/254.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second head of the OTA-loop root cause (#144), on the connection/heartbeat
layer: unbounded device-driven work with no circuit-breaker. Symptoms in Bold
prod — devices shown OFFLINE in CMS while online+playing, loop-lag simmer
(p99 300-1145ms), device_status_log grown to 1.1M rows.
False-offline (two causes, both fixed):
- evicted-socket re-arm race: evictPriorSocket runs before registerConnection,
so the evicted old socket's disconnect armed a fresh offline timer for a
just-reconnected device. Tag evicted socket ids and bail in the disconnect
handler (ws/deviceSocket.js).
- heartbeat checker false-positive: a device with a live socket in /device is
UP even if its in-memory lastHeartbeat is stale under lag; skip it instead of
marking offline (services/heartbeat.js).
Storm containment:
- batched/coalescing device_status_log writer (lib/status-log-writer.js): net
state per device per flush, breaking the storm->bloat->slow-write->lag loop.
- newest-N-per-device row-count cap in the global sweep (db/database.js): hard
bound regardless of churn; trims the existing 1.1M backlog on the first sweep.
Per-device prune unified to statusLogRetentionDays (was hardcoded 7d).
- reconnect-throttle idle-bucket sweep (lib/reconnect-throttle.js): the #142
throttle already existed; added the memory-bound sweep it lacked (wired in
server.js). No second breaker.
- cosmetic: cap the OTA breaker level counter (lib/ota-breaker.js).
- best-effort status-log flush on the crash path (server.js).
Tests: load harness (test/reconnect-storm-load.test.js) proves breaker engage,
clean offline-clear, no-throttle-on-normal-reconnect, batched writes, bounded
loop-lag; cause-1 re-arm race proven with teeth (test/evicted-socket-rearm.test.js).
Both mutation-checked (fail without their fix). Full suite 240/240.
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/api/update/check offered the update whenever client !== latest (raw string
inequality, not semver) with no backoff. A device that can't APPLY the update
(broken OTA client 1.7.12, signing/Fire OS) keeps reporting the same version and is
told update_available=true on every poll; a fast poll loop saturates the event loop
(prod loop-lag 49s). All requests share one NAT IP, so IP-keying is useless.
server-only breaker (lib/ota-breaker.js), two independent axes:
- RATE breaker (primary, immediate): a key checking >THRESHOLD (3) times within
WINDOW (60s) is looping -> throttle update_available with exponential backoff
(30s->2m->8m->cap 30m). Healthy devices poll ~12 min and never approach this, so
rollout/stragglers are inherently safe -- NO grace-for-flood timer; slow == safe.
- PHANTOM guard (immediate): unrecognized version, or a prerelease of an OLDER core
(superseded old-minor beta e.g. 1.9.1-beta4), gets no-offer on the first check. A
RECENT real older version (beta3 vs latest beta4; stable 1.7.12) stays offerable.
- Never offers a downgrade (client >= latest -> no offer).
KEYING (#144 option 3): keyed on device_id when present, else reported version.
- server.js:581 accepts + logs ?device_id=, passes it to the breaker.
- UpdateChecker.kt:122 appends &device_id=<config.deviceId> (existing registered id;
omitted until provisioned). One-line client change.
beta4+ clients get precise per-device throttling; stuck legacy clients sending only
?version= are caught by the version-keyed + rate + phantom logic. Response gains
additive `reason` + `retry_after_seconds` (old clients ignore).
BOUNDED STATE: a periodic sweep (startSweep, wired in server.js) evicts buckets idle
> IDLE_RESET_MS so the keyed Map can't grow unbounded (churned device_ids); not
reset-on-access only.
SCOPE (deliberate): this targets the FAST flood + phantoms. The slow #144 drip
(stable 1.7.12 polling ~every 12 min, ~20/hr) stays below >3/60s and is NOT
throttled -- catching it needs #144 option-3 "skip-this-version after N cycles",
which is intentionally NOT in this build.
NOTE: carries a CLIENT/APK change -> versionCode must increment at the beta4 bump and
the release keystore is required for the APK. The device_id path only helps devices
that can install beta4+; the stuck legacy fleet is covered by the version-keyed path.
Tests: unit (lib/ota-breaker, injected time) a-f + comparator + escalation + sweep +
slow-drip-scope; HTTP integration (real endpoint, device_id passthrough). Full suite
green serial AND parallel (234). OTA-only delta -- reconnect/reclaim/shed/content-ack/
block untouched.
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Continuously samples event-loop delay via perf_hooks.monitorEventLoopDelay()
(C++-backed histogram; cheap). Each window persists mean/p50/p99/max to a new
event_loop_lag table and recomputes a coarse load band (normal/elevated/critical)
from the window p99. Standalone value: current lag is exposed on /api/status and
band changes are logged, so site lag is diagnosable independent of throttling.
The band feeds the #142 reconnect throttle (next commit) but ships first as its
own subsystem.
- event_loop_lag is bounded from day one: indexed on sampled_at + scheduled prune
(LAG_TELEMETRY_RETENTION_DAYS, small default) modeled on the play_logs prune.
Deliberately NOT another unbounded-growth table.
- Band transitions are asymmetric: jump up immediately (tighten fast), release one
level at a time after N calm samples below a deadband (release slow, no flap).
Pure nextBand() function, unit-tested deterministically.
- config: LAG_SAMPLE_INTERVAL_MS, LAG_RESOLUTION_MS, LAG_TELEMETRY_RETENTION_DAYS,
LAG_PRUNE_INTERVAL_MS, LAG_ELEVATED_MS, LAG_CRITICAL_MS, LAG_RELEASE_SAMPLES.
- tests: band-transition unit tests; integration proves sampling persists, stays
bounded under the prune, and surfaces on /api/status.
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Devices that download an OTA APK but cannot silently install it (Fire TV: no
device-owner path) re-downloaded the full APK every check cycle indefinitely -
install never completes, version never advances, next check re-triggers.
Client (UpdateChecker.kt, ServerConfig.kt, OtaThrottle.kt):
- Reuse a cached, signature-verified APK instead of re-downloading every cycle;
delete leftover invalid files; keep the verified APK on disk as the
manual-install artifact.
- Persisted per-version attempt budget (EncryptedSharedPreferences) so it
survives the Fire OS app restarts that drive the loop. An attempt is counted
only when an install is launched - a download/verify failure does not consume
the budget, so a transient network problem cannot park a healthy device in
backoff. After 3 failed installs, back off to one retry per 24h.
- Clear OTA state and caches when a check returns update_available=false while
state is pending (app relaunched as the new version).
- Report OTA status to the dashboard via device:log (tag ota) on state
transitions only (enter-backoff, clear) to avoid flooding the channel.
- Extract throttle decision logic into a pure OtaThrottle object (no Android
deps) with JUnit coverage (OtaThrottleTest) for the state transitions.
Server (server.js):
- Reword /download/apk log from "OTA update in progress" to "APK served" and
rate-limit to once per IP / 10 min so a looping device cannot flood the log.
Note: client-cooperative fix - prevents the loop in cohorts running this APK.
Currently-stuck beta4 devices still require a one-time manual update.
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* fix(server): proxy remote YouTube thumbnails instead of ENOENT on a local path
YouTube content stores thumbnail_path as a REMOTE URL
(https://img.youtube.com/vi/<id>/hqdefault.jpg), but the thumbnail-serving route
path.resolve'd it into contentDir -> a local file that never existed -> ENOENT logged
a few times a minute (the tester-log spam). Recreating content didn't help (new rows
store the same remote URL).
- GET /api/content/:id/thumbnail now proxies a remote http(s) thumbnail_path
server-side (same-origin, so dashboard CSP img-src is unaffected) via a non-throwing
helper: upstream 404 -> 404, other failure/timeout -> 502, image/* only (modest SSRF
hardening; the URL is server-set at ingest). Local thumbnails keep the sendFile path;
the playlist/widget/workspace access gating is unchanged for both branches.
- routes/widgets.js inlineUserContent skips the disk read for a remote thumbnail and
leaves the /api/content/:id/thumbnail reference in place (the proxy serves it).
- routes/content.js ingest unchanged; a comment notes the future download-at-ingest +
backfill option for CDN independence.
- New test/thumbnail-proxy.test.js: local sendFile still works; a remote thumbnail is
proxied (mock upstream, no local read, no ENOENT); upstream 404 -> clean 404. Full
server suite 164/164.
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* fix(server): boot banner shows the real version, not a hardcoded v1.2.0
The startup ASCII banner printed "ScreenTinker Server v1.2.0". Use the already-imported
VERSION (require('./version'), the single source of truth that reads the root VERSION
file) in a fixed-width field (VERSION.padEnd(22).slice(0, 22) — the same padEnd
discipline the port line uses) so the fixed-width box border stays aligned for any
version length. No other behavior changes.
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A FK constraint violation crashed the whole process on 1.9.1-beta2 with a
bare "FOREIGN KEY constraint failed" and NO stack — so it couldn't be root-
caused. better-sqlite3 is synchronous, so such a throw inside a socket.io
handler (no local try/catch) propagates to uncaughtException, and with no
handler Node exits traceless.
Add a small top-of-server.js net that logs the FULL err.stack (file:line of
the offending write) + timestamp, best-effort closes the DB (WAL flush), then
exits(1) so systemd restarts fresh. NOT catch-and-continue — after an uncaught
throw the process state is undefined, so we never keep serving. This is the
investigation tool the root-cause fix is blocked on, plus the fleet-wide-crash
net #114 asked for.
Verified (not assumed):
- A synthetic synchronous FK throw inside a real socket.io handler IS caught by
uncaughtException, logs the full stack incl. the throwing file:line, exits 1.
- Non-over-reach: a FK throw in an Express route -> Express handles it (500), a
throw in a local try/catch -> caught (200); the global net does NOT fire and
the process stays alive. Last resort, not a catch-all.
- 149 server tests green; server boots clean (net doesn't trip on startup).
The root-cause FK fix is SEPARATE and waits on the stack trace this produces.
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