Editing a layout notified nothing at all — no push to the displays using it — so a zone change
waited for the next heartbeat refresh at best. Combined with the Android rebuild being keyed on the
layout ID (which does not change when you edit a layout in place), that is why adding a fourth zone
took a force-stop to appear. The player-side fix makes the rebuild happen; this makes it prompt.
Renaming: duplicating a template produces "<template> (Copy)" and there was nowhere to change it.
The server has always accepted a name on PUT /layouts/:id; no UI ever sent one. The only name field
in the editor belongs to the selected ZONE, which is easy to mistake for the layout's own — zones
could always be renamed, layouts never could. The heading is now an input and its value rides along
with the Save the user already presses.
Verified on an Android 12 emulator, app left running throughout:
3-zone layout assigned -> "Multi-zone layout with 3 zones (was=null)"
4th zone added in place -> "Multi-zone layout with 4 zones (layout=a96c39ab, was=a96c39ab)"
The ids match, so the old id-only condition would have skipped the rebuild entirely. Applied ~1s
after the PUT, with no restart and no force-stop.
Also verified the background-audio fix on the same device: 1 started audio player with the video in
the foreground, 0 once another app was brought to the front. (First attempt was invalid — HOME
re-shows this player because it is the default launcher, so it never backgrounds.)
859 server tests green.
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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.
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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.
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