Follow-up to the cache/backoff loop fix (aa23cf0): make a device that can't
self-install visible to operators, and fix the signature-verify bug that kept the
whole #139 fix from engaging on the actual Fire OS target.
Dashboard surface (Phase 2):
- devices gains ota_status / ota_target_version / ota_attempts / ota_updated_at
via the idempotent ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN migration (non-destructive,
default-backfilled, idempotent on re-run).
- The device reports ota_status (OtaThrottle.statusFor -> none | pending |
manual_update_required) in device_info; the server persists it on register
(the reconnect backstop). devices d.* already surfaces it to the dashboard.
- Dashboard shows a non-blocking amber badge when manual_update_required
("Update available (vX) - install failed N times, manual update required");
i18n key in en.js (non-en inherits via the en fallback). Server suite +1 test.
Event-driven status (Option B):
- New device:ota-status WS message, emitted on STATE TRANSITIONS only
(enter-backoff -> manual_update_required, clear -> none), so the badge updates
promptly without waiting for a reconnect and without per-poll/heartbeat chatter.
Server handler persists the same fields; an unknown/forged device_id is a safe
no-op. The register-path persist stays as the reconnect backstop.
Signature-verify fix (the critical piece):
verifyApkSignature read the downloaded APK's signer via
getPackageArchiveInfo(GET_SIGNING_CERTIFICATES).signingInfo, but that field is
null for ARCHIVE files on API 28/29 (populated only from API 30). On Fire OS 8
(Android 9 / API 28) - the actual deployment target - this returned 0 certs from
a correctly-signed APK, so every OTA was refused as "tampered," the cache was
deleted, and the full APK re-downloaded every check cycle. This was the real
cause of the #139 re-download loop, NOT a silent-install failure: the cache and
backoff added in this branch sit behind this verify gate and never engaged on
the target.
Fix: below API 30, read the archive's signer via the legacy GET_SIGNATURES +
.signatures (its v1/JAR cert, which IS populated on 28/29). Keep
GET_SIGNING_CERTIFICATES + signingInfo for API >= 30 and for the installed-app
read (which works on 28+). The archive's signer is still extracted and compared
to the installed app's signer; a mismatch or zero-cert APK is still rejected.
This reads the cert correctly on old APIs - it does not weaken verification.
Verified on emulators:
- API 28: verify now passes for a legit APK (was: 0 certs, refused). Full backoff
then engages - 8.5MB pulled once, cache-hit on retries, backoff after 3,
manual_update_required emitted once; clears on successful update.
- API 28 negative: a re-signed (different-key) APK is still refused on cert
MISMATCH - no hole opened.
- API 30: unchanged path still passes (no regression).
- server suite 173/173, OtaThrottleTest 7/7.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Option A: tile-on-tile (same section) reorders; tile-on-section / cross-
section stays group-assign (existing behavior untouched). Ordering is
cosmetic (dashboard only — nothing the device/player reads).
Backend:
- Migration: devices.sort_order column (idempotent ALTER; default 0).
- GET /api/devices ordering: sort_order ASC, created_at ASC (was created_at).
- POST /api/devices/reorder — ordered id array -> transactional
UPDATE sort_order=index, scoped WHERE workspace_id = caller's workspace
(forged cross-workspace ids are no-ops). Write-gated (viewer read-only).
Mirrors the playlist items reorder.
Frontend (the collision):
- Card-level dragover/drop: reorder ONLY when target is another card in the
SAME section; otherwise no-op so the event bubbles to the section's
group-assign handler. stopPropagation on the same-section drop prevents
the section handler also firing. Drop indicator (inset box-shadow).
Native HTML5 DnD; no library.
Validated (headless Chrome, synthetic DnD + a section-level drop spy):
- SAME-section reorder: section drop suppressed (sectionDrops=0), POST
/devices/reorder fires, NO group call, sort_order persists in DB.
- CROSS-section: section drop fires (sectionDrops=1), POST /groups/:id/
devices fires and membership actually changes — group-assign unbroken.
- The 0-vs-1 contrast proves stopPropagation disambiguates the shared gesture.
- 149 server tests green; migration applies clean on the prod-copy DB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wall editor: replaces the small grid with a Figma-style pan/zoom canvas. Each
display is a rectangle that can be dragged/resized to match its physical
arrangement; a separate semi-transparent player rect overlays the screens and
defines what content plays where. Drag empty space to pan, wheel to zoom,
"Center" button auto-fits content. Per-rect numeric x/y/w/h panel; arrow keys
nudge by 1px (10px with shift). Negative coordinates supported for screens
offset above/left of the origin. Coords rounded to integers on save.
Wall rendering: each device receives screen_rect + player_rect, maps the
player into its viewport with vw/vh and object-fit:fill so vertical position
of every source pixel is identical across devices that share viewport height.
Leader emits wall:sync at 4Hz with sent_at timestamp; followers apply
latency-adjusted target and use playbackRate ±3% for sub-300ms drift,
hard-seek for >300ms. Followers stay muted; leader unmutes via gesture with
AudioContext priming and pause+play retry to bypass Firefox autoplay.
"Tap to enable audio" overlay as a final fallback.
Reconnect handling: server re-evaluates leader on device:register so the
top-left tile reclaims leadership when it returns. Followers emit
wall:sync-request on entering wall mode (incl. reconnect) so they snap to
position immediately instead of drifting until the next periodic tick.
Group dissolve: removing a device from its last group clears its playlist
to mirror wall-leave semantics. Leaving a group with playlists on remaining
groups inherits the next group's playlist.
Dashboard: walls render as their own card section (hidden the device cards
they contain). Multi-select checkboxes on cards + "Create Video Wall" toolbar
action that creates the wall, removes devices from groups, and opens the
editor. dashboard:wall-changed broadcast triggers live re-render. Per-card
playback progress bar driven by play_start events forwarded from devices.
Security: PUT /walls/:id/devices verifies caller owns each device (or has
team-owner access via the widgets pattern), preventing cross-tenant device
takeover. wall:sync and wall:sync-request validate that the sending device
is a member of the named wall; relay re-stamps device_id with currentDeviceId
so clients can't spoof or shadow-exclude peers.
Schema: video_walls += player_x/y/width/height, playlist_id;
video_wall_devices += canvas_x/y/width/height. All idempotent migrations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Session 1 of 2 of the i18n rollout.
- Split i18n module into per-language files under frontend/js/i18n/ so a
translator can edit one language without touching the others.
- Add Portuguese (pt) and seed Hindi (hi). Hindi is intentionally a skeleton
-- 0 keys, full English fallback -- because we have an active Indian user
and would rather ship "no Hindi" than ship machine-quality Hindi that
could read as unprofessional or get formality/gender register wrong.
- 183 keys, 100% parity across en/es/fr/de/pt; native review still
recommended before publicizing as "fully supported".
- Add t(key, vars) variable substitution and tn(keyBase, n, vars) plural
helper for _one/_other key pairs.
- setLanguage() now triggers a CustomEvent + HashChangeEvent so the
existing hash router naturally re-renders the current view, plus a
subscriber pattern for nav labels rendered once outside the router.
- Wire t() into 3 high-traffic views end-to-end: dashboard, login,
content-library. Sidebar nav labels in app.js update on language change.
- The remaining 16 views still ship with hardcoded English; they will be
wired in session 2. The t() lookup is robust against unwired views, so
the dashboard works in 5 languages while clicking into e.g. Schedule
still shows English. No regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Device cards are now draggable. Group sections accept drops to add
membership (mirroring the Manage modal — same confirmation if the
device is already in another group). The Ungrouped section also
accepts drops to remove the device from every group it's in.
The existing Manage modal still works for bulk add/remove and for
finding devices not currently visible. Click-to-open on a card still
works; drag is only triggered on actual mouse movement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Server-side: when a device reconnects on a fresh socket while the old
TCP zombie is still around, the old socket's eventual disconnect handler
flipped the device offline and removed the new heartbeat entry. Now we
proactively evict any prior socket on register and ignore disconnects
from sockets that are no longer the registered one for that device_id.
Frontend: dedupe devices by id from the API response and only render
each device in the first group it belongs to (multi-group membership
is still tracked for the Manage modal).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 4 group scheduling: schema migration adds group_id to schedules with
CHECK constraint, scheduler evaluates group+device schedules with priority,
group deletion converts schedules to per-device copies. Dashboard gets
playlist assignment dropdown and current playlist label on group headers.
Player persists audio unlock state in localStorage so version reloads
don't lose audio on unattended displays.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add requireGroupOwnership middleware to all group endpoints
- Whitelist allowed command types (screen_on/off, launch, update, reboot, shutdown)
- Validate color format as #RRGGBB
- Escape all user-controlled strings (device/group names, emails) in dashboard HTML
- Restrict trust proxy to first hop only (prevents IP spoofing + rate limit bypass)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Dashboard now organizes devices by group with colored section headers
- Group command endpoint (POST /groups/:id/command) sends to all members
- Manage modal with multi-group confirmation prompt
- Destructive commands (reboot/shutdown) require confirmation
- Ungrouped devices shown separately at bottom
- trust proxy + X-Forwarded-For for real client IPs behind Nginx
- Hide Android-only telemetry (battery/storage/RAM/CPU/WiFi) for web players
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ScreenTinker - open source digital signage management software.
MIT License, all features included, no license gates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
