Two independent multi-zone bugs, plus operator-facing warnings, i18n, and
regression tests guarding the data contracts.
Bug 1 — per-item mute was a no-op end to end:
- GET /api/devices/:id dropped the `muted` column from its assignments SELECT,
so the dashboard toggle never reflected state (the muted=false case in
particular). Column restored to the device payload.
- Android player now honours the per-item mute flag for YouTube (initial state
+ live via the IFrame JS API).
Bug 2 — items whose zone_id belongs to a different layout were silently dropped:
- Player fallback (web + Android): an orphaned zone_id is recovered into the
largest zone instead of vanishing, with telemetry.
- server/lib/zone-validate.js is the single source of truth for the orphan rule
(zone not in the device's active layout); used by the device payload
(per-item `orphan` flag + `active_layout_zones`) and the device list
(`orphan_count`).
- Assign-time hardening: a stale zone_id (not in the device's active layout) is
cleared to null on POST/PUT rather than persisted as a new orphan.
- scripts/find-orphan-zone-items.js: read-only sweep for existing orphans.
Dashboard warnings (operator-facing, never on the live player):
- Per-item badge + reassign affordance, device-list glance, preview banner.
- Graceful degradation: the zone selector falls back to /api/layouts/:id so it
can't vanish on a stale payload.
i18n: orphan-zone strings added to en/es/fr/de/pt/it (hi falls back by design;
count strings interpolate through tn()).
Tests: server/test/device-zone-contract.test.js adds 5 regression tests for the
data contracts above (muted true/false round-trip, active_layout_zones, orphan
flag + count, orphan-clears-on-reassign, assign-time clearing). 172/172 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Saving a layout grew its zone count on every server restart. Root cause: the
editor saved zones with a per-zone delete-then-POST loop, and POST /zones minted
a NEW uuid for every zone - so each save replaced the seeded ids (z-sh-1, ...)
with fresh uuids. schema.sql re-seeds template zones via INSERT OR IGNORE on every
boot, so the next restart re-added the now-missing canonical zone alongside the
renamed copy -> a 2-zone template became 4, 6, ... (worse for self-hosters who
rebuild often).
Fix:
- PUT /api/layouts/:id now accepts a zones[] and replaces them atomically in one
transaction, REUSING each zone's id when supplied. The editor sends the full
set in a single call, so the layout ends up with exactly those zones and ids
stay stable (also fixes fit_mode not persisting, and stops device->zone
assignments being orphaned by id churn).
- One-time dedupe migration removes positional-duplicate template zones, keeping
the canonical 'z-...' seeded id so the re-seed stays an idempotent no-op.
Verified: 2 atomic saves keep count + ids stable with fit updated; dedupe restores
a polluted 4-zone split template to its 2 canonical zones. Suite 56/56.
Multi-zone videos/images were cropped: every template zone inherited fit_mode
'cover' (fill+crop) and the layout editor had no control to change it, so a
landscape video in a tall split zone showed only a center strip. The player
already honors fit_mode (web object-fit, Android scaleType) - the gap was the UI
and the default. Add a per-zone Fit selector (Contain/Cover/Stretch) to the layout
editor, and make 'contain' (show the whole frame) the default for new zones, the
schema column, and the save fallbacks. Existing built-in templates are migrated
separately.
ScreenTinker - open source digital signage management software.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
