The web player handles four of the ~20 fleet commands, because a browser tab
genuinely cannot do more. A BrightSign can, and was inheriting the browser's
limits for no reason.
screen_on/screen_off now send CEC Image View On (0x0D) / Standby (0x36) so the
display actually sleeps. The overlay only painted the screen black: the panel
stayed lit, drawing power and at risk of burn-in. Best effort by design — some
displays ignore broadcast CEC and need direct addressing — so displayPower()
returns false when unavailable and the overlay is applied either way, meaning
something visible always happens.
reboot was silently ignored: the dashboard button did nothing on a web player.
It now goes through the host to RebootSystem, and still logs a clear "not
supported" off-platform rather than failing quietly.
set_volume applies to whatever is playing AND is re-applied on every subsequent
'play' event, caught in the capture phase because media events do not bubble.
Media elements are created per item across fullscreen, zone and preload paths,
so setting volume once would otherwise last only until the playlist advanced.
Wall followers stay silent throughout — that is deliberate, not an oversight.
A dual-output player addresses HDMI-N for the screen it actually paints, so
output 2 sleeps its own display rather than output 1's.
954 pass.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
The bridge stored device_id in the registry and the display still came back as a
NEW device on the next boot. The id is not an identity on its own: the server
authenticates a claim to an existing display with the token, so an id presented
without one reads as a brand-new player and gets a fresh row.
device_token now sits alongside device_id in the registry, getConfig adopts both,
and clearIdentity forgets both — a stale token must not outlive the identity it
belongs to.
Found on an XT245, not in a test, which is why the three new cases name the
symptom rather than the mechanism. 951 pass.
Also worth recording from the same session: the duplicate rows had a second
cause. The widget's storage_path was pointing nowhere useful, so localStorage
had no persistent home and the per-install fingerprint salt was regenerated on
every boot. With storage_path set correctly the cache directory now exists on
the player and the fingerprint is stable, which is what stopped the churn; the
registry identity is the belt to that pair of braces.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
Reviewed autorun.brs and st-bridge.js line-by-line against the real examples
instead of the prose docs. Five defects, three of which would have been silent.
The registry API is asynchronous and section-oriented: read(section, key)
returns a Promise and writes take an object, write(section, {k: v}). The bridge
treated both as synchronous, so deviceId() returned a Promise object — truthy
and non-empty — and a panel would have registered as "[object Promise]" while
its real row sat unclaimed. It now prefetches into a cache behind onReady(), and
connect() waits for that before registering.
brightsign_js_objects_enabled: true is required alongside nodejs_enabled for
require("@brightsign/*"). Without it the bridge degrades to no-ops and the
player loses identity and restart delegation — which would have read as
"BrightSign doesn't work" rather than as one missing flag.
storage_path is a directory name, not a volume, and storage_quota is a string;
the local fallback URL needs its volume (file:/SD:/offline.html). Added
security_params and hwz_default to match the examples.
SyncManager does not work unless networking/ptp_domain is "0", which needs a
reboot to apply. Done only when this player is configured for native sync, and
read-before-write so it reboots once rather than on every boot.
Confirmed correct as written: messageport, the roHtmlWidgetEvent loop, and
RebootSystem(). The notes also state a widget URL may be an externally hosted
page with the same JS API access — the favourable answer to the question the
original probe was built to ask.
Bridge tests now model the async section-oriented registry, so a synchronous
stand-in can never hide this class of bug again. 931 pass.
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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
