Devices: fixes from review round 3

- Attempts carry a generation: one overtaken by a switch, a removal or a login
  change routes nothing back to the old headset and can't report connected.
- Removing the active headset or changing its user/port reroutes at once,
  before anything that can fail.
- One known_hosts file per headset (~/.ssh/frame-control-hosts/<id>):
  forgetting one headset's key can't drop another's, whoever else writes.
- learn() checks, under the config lock, that the block is still what the
  attempt started from before writing to it.
- A switch stops live video and drops captures from the previous headset.
- A probe shares its time between the addresses a name resolves to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ work for each one.
- **Nothing to migrate by hand.** On first start, the app imports every
`# >>> steam-frame (ALIAS) >>>` block in `~/.ssh/config` as a headset, with
the block's HostName as its first address. It also copies the host key your
`known_hosts` already trusts for that address into the app's own
`~/.ssh/frame-control_known_hosts`, so nobody is asked to trust it again.
`known_hosts` already trusts for that address into the headset's own
known_hosts file, `~/.ssh/frame-control-hosts/<id>`, so nobody is asked to trust it again.
- **Add a headset** runs Set Up Connection (`scripts/connect.sh` on macOS,
`ui/frame_connect.py --alias NAME` elsewhere) in a terminal with a new alias.
When it writes its block, the app picks the headset up by itself. If Set Up
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ work for each one.
at the top of its list.
- **Use this headset** (or the switcher in the header, or the app's
**Frame → Headset** menu) moves the whole app to another headset; every panel
reloads from it.
reloads from it. From that moment no command goes to the previous headset, even
if the new one never answers. It waits while an install is running, since an
install reads the SSH settings step by step.
- **Remove** forgets a headset. Its `~/.ssh/config` block stays unless you tick
the box; either way it isn't imported again unless Set Up Connection changes it.
- A plain `FRAME_ALIAS` that Set Up Connection never configured still works: the
@@ -106,15 +108,18 @@ headset makes the connector start again.
Once connected, every `ssh`, `scp` and `rsync` the app runs gets
`-o HostName=<address> -o HostKeyAlias=frame-control-<id>
-o UserKnownHostsFile=~/.ssh/frame-control_known_hosts -o User=… -o Port=…`. The
-o UserKnownHostsFile=~/.ssh/frame-control-hosts/<id> -o HashKnownHosts=no -o User=… -o Port=…`. The
alias's block in `~/.ssh/config` is also updated to the last address that
worked (and to the user and port you set), so Terminal's `ssh frame` and the
scripts follow.
scripts follow. Edits to `~/.ssh/config` take a lock file
(`~/.ssh/config.frame-control.lock`) that Set Up Connection takes too, and never
write over a change someone else made since the app last read the file.
**Host keys are pinned per headset, not per address.** Your own `known_hosts`
is keyed by address, so a different device answering at a remembered IP (a DHCP
lease that moved) would look like a new host there. The app keys its own
known_hosts by headset instead: a different device answering at one of its
lease that moved) would look like a new host there. The app keeps one known_hosts
file per headset instead, so saving or forgetting one headset's key never touches
another's: a different device answering at one of its
addresses is refused, and the pill says so. A headset's first connection trusts
the key it shows, as Set Up Connection does. After reinstalling SteamOS the
headset has a new key; **Forget identity** on the Devices tab lets the next