screentinker/server/player
ScreenTinker 0a888910dc Stop claiming offline cache on a runtime that refuses to run a service worker
Found on alpha after deploying rc4, by comparing what a device advertised
against what it actually requested.

A real BrightSign XT245 has navigator.serviceWorker, passes an
`'serviceWorker' in navigator` check, and then never even fetches sw.js — its
widget runtime refuses the registration. It was declaring offline.cache to the
fleet while unable to cache a single byte, which is precisely the lie the
capability model exists to prevent. The claim is now made on a worker that is
actually IN CONTROL, and a refused registration sets a flag so the negative
sticks on a runtime where it will never succeed.

That failure previously went to console.warn, on a display nobody has a console
for, so a panel that could cache nothing looked identical to one that could. It
now reports app_error/sw_unavailable — as an allow-listed event type, since an
unknown one is dropped by the server and would have been just as invisible.

The cost is that the first load under-reports, before the worker claims the
page. That is the right direction to be wrong in, and it self-corrects: the next
register sends the true set.

Also corrects docs/player-parity.md, which claimed BrightSign simply inherits
the web player's service worker. The failing unit runs BSN's Supervisor rather
than our brightsign/autorun.brs, and Supervisor's widget has no storage_path —
the setting our own host script does configure and the precondition for a widget
having persistent storage. So this is likely a widget config issue rather than a
platform limit, but it is UNVERIFIED on hardware and the doc now says so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uaeo9MvzKoyXuN6ZsbhtkL
2026-08-05 19:34:52 -05:00
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debug-overlay.js Add player debug overlay and server-side error telemetry sink 2026-05-15 15:20:42 -05:00
index.html Stop claiming offline cache on a runtime that refuses to run a service worker 2026-08-05 19:34:52 -05:00
sw.js Stop claiming offline cache on a runtime that refuses to run a service worker 2026-08-05 19:34:52 -05:00