screentinker/server
ScreenTinker 8fd6eb75d5 BrightSign: cache content for offline, and let the package update itself
Two gaps that both end the same way — a panel nobody can fix without a van.

OFFLINE. Content bytes were never persistently cached. The service worker
skipped /uploads/content/ and leaned on the browser's HTTP cache, which is
reasonable on a desktop and is not a documented-persistent store here:
BrightSign guarantees survival across reboots for IndexedDB, localStorage and
SQLite, and their own answer for offline video is to cache the bytes explicitly.
A panel could come back from a power cut with its playlist intact — that lives in
localStorage — and no media to play it with.

The reason content was skipped is real, and player-cache-policy.js is what makes
intercepting it safe. Seeking video issues range requests, and naive caching is
worse than none: storing a 206 as the whole file means every later full request
gets a fragment, and answering a range request with a 200 makes some media stacks
fail outright. So only complete 200s are stored, and ranges are served by slicing
the stored body into a correct 206. The content cache survives shell
re-versioning, or every deploy would re-download the playlist over a link that may
be exactly what is broken.

SELF-UPDATE. The package can replace autorun.brs, so a truncated file is a dark
panel with no app underneath. The safety is the ordering: download to .part,
verify sha256 AND size, then delete the .done marker, rename, reboot. Marker
first is not stylistic — leaving it makes the next boot skip the archive and the
update silently never happens. A failed extract parks the zip as .bad instead of
retrying every boot, which would be a loop indistinguishable from a hardware
fault. sha256 because that is what roMessageDigest can compute; a checksum the
player cannot verify is an unverifiable package.

The decision lives on the server and is unit-tested, and the host only executes
it — re-implementing the version comparison in BrightScript would put the
prerelease trap somewhere untestable. That trap is honoured directly: a player on
1.9.29-rc1 is running something semver-OLDER than 1.9.29, so an opted-in player
HOLDS a prerelease of its own core rather than being pulled off the build it was
given to test. Narrowly — a newer core still lands, so opting in never means
never updating again.

Both loop conditions are closed by construction. The manifest and the download
come from one buffer hashed once, so a checksum cannot describe bytes we are not
serving. And the version is stamped into autorun.brs at build time by both
builders, so the script reports the version it actually is — otherwise the player
applies the update, still reports the old version, and is offered the same
package forever.

Failure always degrades to "keep running the old version": an unreachable
manifest, a missing checksum, a failed verification, a full attempt counter and
an unbuildable package all resolve to skip.

998 tests pass (was 954).
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config fix(logging): gate CF-Connecting-IP on a Cloudflare peer, not any trusted proxy 2026-07-26 10:23:04 -05:00
db Keep a workspace on schedules that outlive their device group 2026-07-30 20:53:21 -05:00
lib BrightSign: cache content for offline, and let the package update itself 2026-08-05 10:09:00 -05:00
middleware Merge branch 'fix/recovery-grants' into release/auth-campaign 2026-07-26 16:22:59 -05:00
player BrightSign: cache content for offline, and let the package update itself 2026-08-05 10:09:00 -05:00
routes Make a content-only schedule actually put that content on the screen 2026-07-30 22:26:58 -05:00
scripts fix(content+android): rotation-aware media — portrait upright on dashboard AND player (#170) (#172) 2026-07-12 22:05:11 -05:00
services Make a recurring schedule respect its start and end dates 2026-07-30 22:22:59 -05:00
test BrightSign: cache content for offline, and let the package update itself 2026-08-05 10:09:00 -05:00
ws Stamp the authenticated device on relayed playback progress 2026-07-30 22:41:06 -05:00
.gitignore feat(email): Microsoft Graph send + alert spam protection + preferences UI 2026-05-12 18:16:40 -05:00
config.js Add an operator override for self-update on MDM-managed panels 2026-07-28 23:07:30 -05:00
package-lock.json chore(release): v1.9.29-rc2 2026-08-05 00:06:20 -05:00
package.json chore(release): v1.9.29-rc2 2026-08-05 00:06:20 -05:00
server.js BrightSign: cache content for offline, and let the package update itself 2026-08-05 10:09:00 -05:00
smoke-ui.js Keep the smoke test out of npm test, and update the lockfile 2026-07-28 20:34:34 -05:00
version.js chore(version): single-source VERSION, env-configurable data paths, bump tooling 2026-06-10 12:56:03 -05:00