Gaze: idle while the gaze isn't used

The gaze service ran ft-gaze and our own eye tracker all the time: with gaze mode off, ft-eyes
still took about 60% of a core, and ft-eyegrab, ft-gaze and ft-gazed 3 to 4% each. Now ft-gaze
and our tracker run only while gaze mode is on and someone wears the headset, while a check or
the calibration is open or asked for, or under a "wake" lease, which the Gaze page of Frametop
Input Settings renews while it's open. 30 s after the last use they stop, and the frame grabber
idles with our tracker.

- The pointer helper answers "gaze ? headset" with worn|away (SteamVR's activity level for the
  headset); an older helper answers it as before, and the service then goes by gaze mode alone.
- A quick check, calibration, or fit check asked for while idle wakes the tracker and opens once
  it sends; the automatic calibration waits quietly while it starts.
- Status has "awake" and "idle" (why), and the Gaze page shows it.
- gaze/test/idle-test.py runs the service with a fake helper and ft-gaze, offline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-10-03 08:32:49 -06:00
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//
// Commands (datagrams on @ft_pointer_helper): show, hide, recenter, move <dyaw> <dpitch>,
// follow on|off|toggle (head follow, until the next restart or a change to POINTER_FOLLOW),
// gaze on|off|toggle|? (gaze mode, likewise with POINTER_GAZE; ? only asks), gz ... (the gaze, from ft-gazed),
// gaze on|off|toggle|? (gaze mode, likewise with POINTER_GAZE; ? only asks, and "? headset" adds
// worn|away to the reply), gz ... (the gaze, from ft-gazed),
// reload (re-read the settings below), debug (toggle a twice-a-second state log),
// overlays (replies with the overlay list as JSON, see OverlayList),
// vrbind/vrglobal/vrstatus (Frame controller buttons, see vrbuttons.h),
@@ -1387,7 +1388,12 @@ int main() {
std::printf("gaze mode %s\n", gazeOn ? "on" : "off");
std::fflush(stdout);
}
reply(gazeOn ? "ok on" : "ok off");
// "gaze ? headset" (the gaze service, which idles while nobody wears the headset)
// also says whether someone does.
if (std::strstr(arg, "headset"))
reply(gazeOn ? (headsetOff ? "ok on away" : "ok on worn") : (headsetOff ? "ok off away" : "ok off worn"));
else
reply(gazeOn ? "ok on" : "ok off");
continue;
}
const bool mouseInput = std::strncmp(buf, "move", 4) == 0 || std::strncmp(buf, "btn", 3) == 0 ||