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ScreenTinker	4a4b9e343a	brightsign: stage our own ffprobe/ffmpeg into /tmp so media tools work ... The server logged "[MEDIA] ffmpeg, ffprobe not found on PATH — video thumbnails and durations are DISABLED" on every boot of a player-hosted server. It now says "found — video thumbnails enabled", because the binaries are shipped gzipped, unpacked into /tmp at startup and put on PATH before server.js is required (its probe looks them up by name with execFile, so PATH is the whole mechanism). /tmp is not laziness, it is the only option, and the alternatives were measured on an XT245 rather than assumed: /storage/ssd bsexfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,... <- exec => EACCES /storage/flash ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,... <- same /storage/tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,... <- same /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime <- the one that permits exec We run as uid=994(nodejs), so `mount -o remount,exec` answers "permission denied (are you root?)" on both volumes, and there is no setuid path to it: BrightSign points mount at busybox.nosuid, and their busybox.suid carries login/passwd/vlock and no mount applet. A symlink does not help either — noexec is a property of the filesystem holding the inode, not of the path used to reach it, so a link in /tmp pointing at flash still fails EACCES. Copying is what moves the inode onto a filesystem that permits execution. The binaries are ours and deliberately link nothing of BrightSign's. The OS does ship the whole ffmpeg 5.1 stack (libavformat/libavcodec/... backing GStreamer) and a stock Debian ffprobe against those libs starts, prints its banner, and then SIGSEGVs the moment it opens a file — their Yocto build is patched for hardware decode. So these are cross-built FFmpeg 7.1.1, --disable-gpl (LGPL 2.1+), fully static, --enable-small. ffprobe carries no decoders at all (durations and geometry come from the container) which is why it is 1.8MB against ffmpeg's 4.9MB; ~6.7MB of tmpfs on a box with 2.8GB free, ~3.2MB gzipped at rest. Verified on XT245 URD3C6000823: unpack 19ms, ffprobe -version 9ms, format=duration 3.533333 against a 3.533333s clip, stream 320x240 h264. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014kfhrUPit5MCqxeTQyqr56	2026-08-18 20:12:26 -05:00
ScreenTinker	a87bd7d875	brightsign: say what the 8182 status listener is for on screen ... "status listener on 127.0.0.1:8182" told an operator a port was open and nothing about why, next to a server that advertises 8181 - it reads like a stray listener. It now says it feeds the diagnostics screen while the app is downloading, starting or down, and that nothing off-device can reach it. The port is interpolated through currentPort() rather than captured: server.env is read after this module is evaluated, so a captured value would print the 3001 default instead of the port actually serving. Verified on the device - the line renders ":8181". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014kfhrUPit5MCqxeTQyqr56	2026-08-18 17:42:34 -05:00
screentinker	0b063cd415	Make the on-device server opt-in, and stop the status port answering the LAN (#291) ... A fleet gets one package, and exactly one box per site should host the server. Defaulting to on would mean every player that ever received this package started listening on 8181, and the mistake would stay invisible until two of them fought over the same displays. st-config.json on the storage root, {"server": 1}, switches it on. Absent, unreadable, unparseable, or anything other than an affirmative value leaves it off - there is no reading of a broken config file that should end with a device deciding to host a server. It sits at the root rather than in data/ because that is where an operator drops it over the DWS, and autozip never writes it, so a re-provision cannot silently flip a site either way. The package ships st-config.example.json, never st-config.json, for the same reason. With the server off, NOTHING listens: roNodeJs is never created, so there is no 8181 and no 8182. The page is told through its URL rather than discovering it, because "nothing is answering" would otherwise render as a fault and send someone looking for a server that was never meant to exist. It now has a fourth state that says so and offers the one line of JSON that changes it. Separately: the status listener was bound to every interface, so anything on the customer's LAN could read the install log, disk usage, the device's own address and a tail of the server's console - that last one carries whatever the server printed most recently. Its only consumer is a page on the same device. Now 127.0.0.1 only, confirmed against /proc/net/tcp rather than by probing, after a first attempt at verifying it fell back to loopback and reported that as the LAN result. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014kfhrUPit5MCqxeTQyqr56 Co-authored-by: Dan Walters <dan.walters@bytetinker.net> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-18 16:32:37 -05:00
screentinker	326da8a730	Show the player on the player, and the diagnostics when something is wrong (#290) ... The box is now both server and player, so its screen has to be one or the other at any moment. Three states, and the transitions are the point: installing / down / failed diagnostics, so the fault is visible up, but no account yet diagnostics plus the address to create one up, and an account exists the player, full screen A fresh install has nothing to play and nobody to play it for, so it stays on the configuration screen until someone has signed up. Hiding that address would leave the device unsetuppable: it has no keyboard. ⚠️ THE PLAYER IS AN IFRAME LAYER, NOT A NAVIGATION. Setting location.href would replace the document and take the poller with it - and that poller is the only thing able to notice the server failing later. As a layer, the diagnostics are one style change away from being back on screen, which is exactly what should happen when a server that has been playing for weeks throws at 3am. A test asserts location.href is never assigned, so this cannot be quietly simplified back. Whether an account exists is asked by the wrapper, not the page: /api/auth/config is public, but the page is loaded from file:// - origin "null" - and the server sets no CORS headers on its own API, while this process is already talking to it. The answer is three-valued. null means the probe has not replied yet and is deliberately NOT treated as false: guessing would flip a fresh box to an empty player and take the sign-up address off the screen while someone was reading it. Verified against a real server rather than by inspection - install, sign up, watch it flip: BEFORE signup : needsSetup=null -> diagnostics POST /api/auth/register -> HTTP 201 AFTER signup : needsSetup=false -> player Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014kfhrUPit5MCqxeTQyqr56 Co-authored-by: Dan Walters <dan.walters@bytetinker.net> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-18 16:23:23 -05:00
screentinker	9a1a82a100	Run the ScreenTinker server on the player it serves (#288) ... * Make a BrightSign say what it is running, and what it is plugged into A panel on a wall could not answer three questions an operator asks first: which version am I, which page am I running, and which screen is that. All three had answers already travelling over the socket; nothing was reading them. VERSION. device_info.app_version was the literal '1.1.0-web' for every web player, BrightSign included — the same string as PLAYER_VERSION, which already travels separately as client_version. So the column carried no information at all: a panel provisioned this morning and one running a year-old host reported identically. app_version is now the ON-DEVICE host package, the artifact OTA replaces and the only one here that can be stale, and PLAYER_VERSION is stamped at serve time from VERSION rather than being a constant nobody bumped for the whole 1.x line. No '-web' suffix: client_version is only compared for equality today, but X.Y.Z-web is a semver PRERELEASE that sorts BELOW X.Y.Z, and this project has been bitten by exactly that before. The host version arrives asynchronously and can land after the page registers, so register sends what it has and the heartbeat corrects the record — which also catches the version changing under a live page, which is what a self-update is. THE CARD SHOWED FOR NOBODY. The Info tab's version card sat inside the block gated on android_version && !startsWith('Web/'). A BrightSign registers as "Web/<ua>", so the panel that most needed a version never displayed one. THE PAD THAT COULD NOT BE CLICKED. System View was gated on tier === 2. tier is an Android device-owner concept, NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, written only by the APK — so a BrightSign or Tizen panel sat at 0 forever and rendered HOME, BACK, POWER, the D-pad and OK permanently pointer-events:none, for keys those players genuinely handle. Greying an Android gate over a working control is the "button that cannot work" the capability system exists to prevent, inverted. Only Recents (KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH) and Settings are truly Android-only; those are now the only things hidden. THE PACKAGE POINTED AT THE WRONG SERVER. autorun.zip carried the committed default, so a player self-updating from alpha or a self-hosted box was handed a config pointing at screentinker.com — which surfaces as a pairing bug, miles from the packaging code that caused it. It is now stamped with the URL it was fetched from. The bytes therefore vary per origin, so the cache is keyed by origin and BOTH routes derive it identically: the manifest checksum and the served bytes must come from one buffer or every player downloads, fails verification and retries forever. EDID. getEdidIdentity() answers seven questions and cannot answer any others — manufacturer, EDID version, physical size, gamma and the mode lists exist only in the raw block, which getEdid() returns as 2048 bytes. The player ships those on the register (identity, not a reading: it changes when someone swaps the screen) and the SERVER parses them. That split is the point: a new field becomes a server deploy instead of a bridge update behind a 4h CDN plus an OTA for the host. Verified against real hardware — an XT245 with a CX101 decodes to RTK / 0x1010 / serial 1 / 2020w26 / 22x13cm, preferred 1920x1200@62, matching the player's own DWS field for field. The odd-looking 62 is right: 168.5MHz over 2200 x 1245 is 61.5Hz, and rounding it to a nicer 60 would contradict the panel. Also corrects two comments that had outgrown their reasoning: the BrightSign capability baseline still explained its exclusions with "a canvas cannot read the video plane", which native capture made obsolete, and player-parity.md claimed the bridge is "always current" when a zone-wide Cloudflare Browser Cache TTL had been rewriting its no-cache to max-age=14400 for months. Every new guard is mutation-tested — the fix was reverted in the source and each test confirmed to fail. 1676 -> 1714 tests, all green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014kfhrUPit5MCqxeTQyqr56 * Run the ScreenTinker server on the player it serves A BrightSign XT245 now downloads, installs and runs the server itself, with the display showing what it is doing until it is up. WHY IT NEEDED A NEW SHAPE BrightSignOS cannot open a large autorun.zip. The 73MB build failed at boot with "ZipArchive error at line 91", and the OS renamed it autorun.zip_invalid - which is how a device that had already unpacked once came back up with no autorun at all. The identical package cut to 32KB and five files boots fine; paths (182 chars) and depth (8) are unremarkable, so the limit is in the boot-time reader, not the archive. BrightSign's own notes acknowledge package size as a problem and point at webpack; that route needs the dynamic requires in scripts/ removed first, so instead autorun.zip carries only what starts the process and the payload arrives over HTTP into a Node that has no such limit. The payload can also be updated without re-provisioning the device. WHY roNodeJs AND NOT THE WIDGET The first version ran the server inside an roHtmlWidget with nodejs_enabled. That is a Node context inside an Electron renderer, and it is not Node. Four separate boot failures came out of it, each invisible to a local test because a local test runs on real Node: - shebangs are not stripped, so any `#!/usr/bin/env node` file dies with "Failed to construct 'ContextifyScript': Invalid or unexpected token". Note it names no token - "#" is not one. An ESM file compiled as CJS says "Unexpected token 'export'" instead, which is how the two are told apart. - require() of an ESM-only package is unsupported, which plain Node 24 handles. uuid 14 is ESM-only and 21 files import it. - setInterval is the DOM's and returns a NUMBER, so setInterval(...).unref() throws. Two call sites were unguarded; sixteen more were written defensively and had been silently not unreffing. - worker_threads cannot create a thread at all. BrightSign's dev-cookbook is explicit: roNodeJs "for long running processes like ... running a web server", roHtmlWidget "for browser-based apps". Their cra-template examples do exactly this - server in roNodeJs, widget pointed at localhost. It also fixes the lifecycle problem that was the original argument against a server on this hardware: in a widget the server dies with the page, taking an open SQLite WAL with it. The shims for the first three are kept in the packager for now rather than removed in the same change that moves the container, so that if something breaks it is the move and not four simultaneous removals. CHANGES THAT ARE NOT BRIGHTSIGN-SPECIFIC db/database.js, routes/status.js fs.copyFileSync does not merely copy bytes: it fchmods the destination to match the source. exFAT has no permission bits, so the pre-migration snapshot failed with EPERM and the failure path called process.exit(1) - which inside a widget also killed the page, leaving a black screen and no diagnostic. The guard was right; the copy was wrong. lib/fsutil.js copies without touching mode. db/wal-checkpointer.js the module already degraded correctly when its worker died or could not be respawned, but the FIRST spawn was not wrapped, so a host that cannot make threads lost the whole server rather than falling back to inline autocheckpoint. db/sqlite-compat.js a better-sqlite3 facade over node:sqlite. With it the bundle contains no native code at all, which is what lets an x86_64 laptop build a package for an aarch64 player. 1719/1719 tests pass on Node 24 through this shim. The packager refuses to build if a source file is untracked (git ls-files decides what ships, and lib/fsutil.js reached a player without shipping alongside the code that required it), if any .node binary is present, if a shebang survives, or if a database, upload, cert or .env is staged - the first build of this package swept up a real 33MB database and 105MB of uploads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014kfhrUPit5MCqxeTQyqr56 --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Dan Walters <dan.walters@bytetinker.net>	2026-08-18 15:16:09 -05:00