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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5 0d50efec45 Map the Frame controllers' buttons; make gaze clicks correctable
The Frame controllers aren't input devices on the host, so the pointer
helper reads them with SteamVR input (vrbuttons.h, actions/), one action
set per button, and sends presses to the relay, which does the mapped
action like for a mouse button. Only mapped buttons are taken, at an
overlay-global priority (SteamVR's experimental "Enable global input from
overlays"), and only outside games unless In games is on. Frametop Input
Settings gets a Controllers page to map them.

Gaze mode: a left press while the gaze has the pointer isn't sent at
once. The pointer stops, you drag it onto what you meant with the button
held, and the release clicks there; a press held still for
POINTER_GAZE_HOLD (0.5 s) becomes a real press, for drags. The dot shows
only while the mouse moves it (POINTER_GAZE_SHOW), while a press is held,
and as a pulse per click. Outside games the pointer stays on while gaze
mode is on. ft-gazed takes a third of each lesson's offset instead of all
of it: in the first live test one 6 degree lesson moved everything and put
the next target 7 degrees off. Frametop Input Settings gets a Gaze page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 16:26:24 -06:00

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#!/usr/bin/python3
"""ft-gazed: the gaze service. The headset's eye tracking, corrected, for the pointer.
Runs ft-gaze (in the dev container), and for every eye tracker sample (90 Hz):
1. drops blinks: both eyes' openness under half its running median (each eye its own).
With the default source, mmap set 1, that's all: set 1 is SteamVR's combined gaze,
which keeps going when the tracker loses one eye (its two directions stay together).
Set 2's combined direction is the mean of the eyes' own, so with one eye lost it's
off by half of whatever that eye reads (9 to 14 degrees apart were seen): with set 2,
samples with an eye under its floor, or the angle between the eyes jumping more than
1.5 degrees from its median, are dropped too;
2. smooths it with a fixation lock (the running mean of the current fixation, 1 degree);
3. corrects it: the calibration from ft-gazeprobe (calibration.json, reloaded when the
probe changes it) plus what the pointer's corrections have taught since (LiveCorrection,
saved in pointer-lessons.json);
4. sends it to the pointer helper: "gz <yaw> <pitch> <raw yaw> <raw pitch>", head-relative
degrees (yaw +left, pitch +up). The helper uses it only in gaze mode.
Lessons come back from the helper: when you nudge the gaze-placed pointer with the mouse and
click, it sends "lesson <raw yaw> <raw pitch> <true yaw> <true pitch>": where the raw gaze
was when the mouse took over, and where the pointer was when you clicked (you were looking
there). The gap is the tracker's error there, and it's learned, unless it's more than
LESSON_MAX degrees past the correction (then it wasn't a nudge onto what you looked at).
SteamVR's eye tracking log is followed for the headset going on (its eye model starts over,
and the error moves): lessons from before count less then, so the first few after it
relearn the offset.
Nothing here writes to SteamVR, its eye tracker, or its files: ft-gaze reads the eye
tracker's shared memory read-only.
Control socket: abstract unix datagram "@ft_gazed":
lesson <rhy> <rhp> <thy> <thp> from the pointer helper (see above)
status reply: one JSON object
forget drop what the lessons taught (the calibration stays)
reload read calibration.json again
Options: --source action|mmap1|mmap2 (default mmap1; set 2 was a little quieter in the probe,
but loses the pointer whenever the tracker loses an eye), -v (a status line every
5 s on stderr), --to NAME (send the gaze to the abstract socket @NAME instead of the pointer
helper; for testing: a helper without gaze mode forwards what it doesn't know to its driver).
"""
import argparse
import json
import os
import selectors
import signal
import socket
import statistics
import subprocess
import sys
import time
from collections import deque
from pathlib import Path
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
from gazecal import DEFAULT_MODEL, MODELS, STATE, Correction, Fixation, LiveCorrection, SteamEyeLog # noqa: E402
REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
HELPER = REPO / "gaze" / "build" / "ft-gaze"
ME = "\0ft_gazed"
POINTER = "\0ft_pointer_helper"
CALIBRATION = STATE / "calibration.json"
LESSONS = STATE / "pointer-lessons.json"
LESSON_LOG = STATE / "pointer-lessons.jsonl"
LESSON_MAX = 8.0 # degrees past the correction
RETRY = 3.0 # seconds before starting ft-gaze again
class PointerLessons(LiveCorrection):
"""LiveCorrection, with the offset held back: one lesson moves the whole correction by a
third of what it measured, not all of it (two alike, half; three, three fifths). In the
probe, clicks came thick and fast on a stale calibration, where the error was mostly one
offset. Here lessons are few and the calibration is often fresh: in the first live test a
6 degree lesson shifted everything 6 degrees, and the next target, 10 degrees away and
1.4 off before, was 7.1 off (3.6 with this). Near the lesson, the kernel still takes up
most of it (5.1 of the 6 degrees)."""
RIDGE = [2.0] + LiveCorrection.RIDGE[1:]
def log(msg):
print(f"ft-gazed: {msg}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
class Service:
def __init__(self, source, verbose, to=POINTER):
self.source, self.verbose, self.to = source, verbose, to
STATE.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
self.base = Correction()
self.mode = DEFAULT_MODEL
self.cal_mtime = None
self.live = PointerLessons()
self.dirty = False
self.load_calibration()
self.load_lessons()
self.steam = SteamEyeLog()
self.steam.poll()
self.live.wear_time = self.steam.worn()
self.live.refit(self.base, self.mode)
self.fix = Fixation(radius=1.0)
self.opens = (deque(maxlen=90), deque(maxlen=90)) # left, right
self.vergence = deque(maxlen=90)
self.counts = {"samples": 0, "sent": 0, "blinks": 0, "one_eye": 0, "dropped": 0, "lessons_taken": 0, "refused": 0}
self.last_sample = 0.0
self.last = None
self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_DGRAM | socket.SOCK_CLOEXEC | socket.SOCK_NONBLOCK)
self.sock.bind(ME)
self.out = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_DGRAM | socket.SOCK_CLOEXEC | socket.SOCK_NONBLOCK)
self.sel = selectors.DefaultSelector()
self.sel.register(self.sock, selectors.EVENT_READ, "control")
self.proc = None
self.buf = b""
self.restart_at = 0.0
self.running = True
# --- Calibration and lessons ---
def load_calibration(self):
try:
mtime = CALIBRATION.stat().st_mtime
d = json.loads(CALIBRATION.read_text())
except (OSError, ValueError):
return
self.cal_mtime = mtime
if self.source in d:
self.base.from_json(d[self.source])
mode = d.get("_meta", {}).get("model")
self.mode = mode if mode in MODELS else DEFAULT_MODEL
log(f"calibration: {self.mode}, {self.base.samples} samples")
def load_lessons(self):
try:
d = json.loads(LESSONS.read_text())
if d.get("source") == self.source:
self.live.samples = d.get("samples", [])[-PointerLessons.KEEP:]
except (OSError, ValueError):
pass
log(f"{len(self.live.samples)} lessons")
def save_lessons(self):
tmp = LESSONS.with_suffix(".tmp")
tmp.write_text(json.dumps({"source": self.source, "samples": self.live.samples}))
tmp.replace(LESSONS)
self.dirty = False
def correction(self, hy, hp):
by, bp = self.base.get(hy, hp, self.mode)
ly, lp = self.live.get(hy, hp)
return by + ly, bp + lp
def lesson(self, rhy, rhp, thy, thp):
dy, dp = thy - rhy, thp - rhp # the whole error there
cy, cp = self.correction(rhy, rhp)
left = ((dy - cy) ** 2 + (dp - cp) ** 2) ** 0.5
rec = {"time": time.time(), "source": self.source, "model": self.mode, "raw": [rhy, rhp],
"true": [thy, thp], "correction": [cy, cp], "lesson_deg": left, "wear": self.steam.worn()}
if left > LESSON_MAX:
rec["refused"] = f"more than {LESSON_MAX} deg past the correction"
self.counts["refused"] += 1
else:
self.live.add({"time": rec["time"], "hy": rhy, "hp": rhp, "dy": dy, "dp": dp, "wy": 1.0, "wp": 1.0,
"how": "pointer"}, self.base, self.mode)
self.counts["lessons_taken"] += 1
self.dirty = True
try:
with open(LESSON_LOG, "a") as f:
f.write(json.dumps(rec) + "\n")
except OSError as e:
log(f"lesson log: {e}")
return rec
# --- ft-gaze ---
def start_helper(self):
if not HELPER.exists():
log(f"ft-gaze isn't built: run {REPO}/gaze/build.sh")
self.restart_at = time.monotonic() + 30
return
env = dict(os.environ)
env["XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"] = f"/run/user/{os.getuid()}" # podman needs the real one
subprocess.run([str(REPO / "scripts" / "container-up.sh")], env=env, check=False)
distrobox = Path.home() / ".local" / "bin" / "distrobox"
# ft-gaze quits when its stdin closes: the one thing distrobox passes on.
self.proc = subprocess.Popen([str(distrobox), "enter", "dev", "--", str(HELPER), "--watch-stdin"], env=env,
stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
start_new_session=True)
os.set_blocking(self.proc.stdout.fileno(), False)
os.set_blocking(self.proc.stderr.fileno(), False)
self.sel.register(self.proc.stdout, selectors.EVENT_READ, "stdout")
self.sel.register(self.proc.stderr, selectors.EVENT_READ, "stderr")
self.buf = b""
log("ft-gaze started")
def stop_helper(self):
if not self.proc:
return
for f in (self.proc.stdout, self.proc.stderr):
try:
self.sel.unregister(f)
except (KeyError, ValueError):
pass
if self.proc.stdin and not self.proc.stdin.closed:
self.proc.stdin.close()
try:
self.proc.wait(timeout=2)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
try:
os.killpg(self.proc.pid, signal.SIGTERM)
except ProcessLookupError:
pass
self.proc = None
def read_stdout(self):
try:
data = os.read(self.proc.stdout.fileno(), 65536)
except BlockingIOError:
return
if not data:
log(f"ft-gaze stopped (exit {self.proc.poll()}); again in {RETRY:.0f} s")
self.stop_helper()
self.restart_at = time.monotonic() + RETRY
return
self.buf += data
*lines, self.buf = self.buf.split(b"\n")
for line in lines:
try:
self.on_sample(json.loads(line))
except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError) as e:
log(f"bad sample: {e}")
def read_stderr(self):
try:
data = os.read(self.proc.stderr.fileno(), 65536)
except BlockingIOError:
return
for line in data.decode("utf-8", "replace").splitlines():
if line.strip():
log(line)
def on_sample(self, s):
src = s["src"].get(self.source) or {}
if "hy" not in src:
return
self.counts["samples"] += 1
self.last_sample = time.monotonic()
m1 = s["src"].get("mmap1") or {}
o = m1.get("open")
lr = src.get("lr", m1.get("lr"))
# Blinks and lost eyes, judged against the last second (see steady_samples: relative,
# because the lids come down looking down, and the vergence depends on distance).
# An eye's floor comes from its good readings, so a lost eye doesn't drag it to 0.
low = [False, False]
if o and len(o) == 2:
for k in (0, 1):
hist = self.opens[k]
good = [v for v in hist if v >= 0.12]
floor = max(0.12, 0.5 * statistics.median(good)) if len(good) >= 30 else 0.12
low[k] = o[k] < floor
hist.append(o[k])
if all(low):
self.counts["blinks"] += 1
return
if any(low):
self.counts["one_eye"] += 1
if self.source == "mmap2":
jump = (lr is not None and len(self.vergence) >= 30
and abs(lr - statistics.median(self.vergence)) > 1.5)
if lr is not None and not any(low):
self.vergence.append(lr)
if any(low) or jump:
self.counts["dropped"] += 1
return
# The fixation lock works in degrees here (1 degree per "pixel").
fy, fp = self.fix(src["hy"], src["hp"], s["t"], 1.0)
cy, cp = self.correction(fy, fp)
self.last = (fy + cy, fp + cp, fy, fp)
try:
self.out.sendto(f"gz {fy + cy:.3f} {fp + cp:.3f} {fy:.3f} {fp:.3f}".encode(), self.to)
self.counts["sent"] += 1
except OSError:
pass # the pointer helper isn't running
# --- Control ---
def on_control(self):
while True:
try:
data, addr = self.sock.recvfrom(512)
except BlockingIOError:
return
words = data.decode("utf-8", "replace").split()
reply = None
if words[:1] == ["lesson"] and len(words) == 5:
try:
rec = self.lesson(*map(float, words[1:]))
reply = "refused" if "refused" in rec else f"ok {rec['lesson_deg']:.2f}"
log(f"lesson {rec['lesson_deg']:.2f} deg at {rec['raw'][0]:+.1f},{rec['raw'][1]:+.1f}"
+ (f": {rec['refused']}" if "refused" in rec else ""))
except ValueError:
reply = "error bad lesson"
elif words[:1] == ["status"]:
reply = json.dumps(self.status())
elif words[:1] == ["forget"]:
self.live = PointerLessons()
self.live.wear_time = self.steam.worn()
self.save_lessons()
reply = "ok"
elif words[:1] == ["reload"]:
self.load_calibration()
self.live.refit(self.base, self.mode)
reply = "ok"
else:
reply = "error unknown command"
if reply and addr:
try:
self.sock.sendto(reply.encode(), addr)
except OSError:
pass
def status(self):
ly, lp = self.live.offset()
return {"source": self.source, "model": self.mode, "calibration_samples": self.base.samples,
"lessons": len(self.live.samples), "lesson_offset": [round(ly, 3), round(lp, 3)],
"ft_gaze": self.proc is not None, "sample_age_s": round(time.monotonic() - self.last_sample, 2)
if self.last_sample else None, "headset_on": self.steam.wearing(), "headset_on_since": self.steam.worn(),
"last": [round(v, 2) for v in self.last] if self.last else None, **self.counts}
def periodic(self):
if self.steam.poll() or self.steam.worn() != self.live.wear_time:
if self.steam.worn() != self.live.wear_time:
log("headset on again: older lessons count less until new ones come in")
self.live.wear_time = self.steam.worn()
self.live.refit(self.base, self.mode)
try:
mtime = CALIBRATION.stat().st_mtime
except OSError:
mtime = None
if mtime != self.cal_mtime:
self.load_calibration()
self.live.refit(self.base, self.mode)
if self.dirty:
self.save_lessons()
def run(self):
next_periodic = time.monotonic()
next_verbose = time.monotonic() + 5
while self.running:
now = time.monotonic()
if not self.proc and now >= self.restart_at:
self.start_helper()
for key, _ in self.sel.select(timeout=0.5):
if key.data == "control":
self.on_control()
elif key.data == "stdout" and self.proc:
self.read_stdout()
elif key.data == "stderr" and self.proc:
self.read_stderr()
if now >= next_periodic:
self.periodic()
next_periodic = now + 1.0
if self.verbose and now >= next_verbose:
log(json.dumps(self.status()))
next_verbose = now + 5
self.stop_helper()
if self.dirty:
self.save_lessons()
def main():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="The gaze service: corrected eye tracking for the pointer")
ap.add_argument("--source", choices=["action", "mmap1", "mmap2"], default="mmap1")
ap.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
ap.add_argument("--to", default="ft_pointer_helper", help="abstract socket to send the gaze to")
args = ap.parse_args()
try:
service = Service(args.source, args.verbose, "\0" + args.to)
except OSError as e:
log(f"can't bind @ft_gazed (already running?): {e}")
sys.exit(1)
def stop(*_):
service.running = False
signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, stop)
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, stop)
service.run()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()