- iPhone build fails if the bundle can't be made, instead of shipping a
stale archive with an empty version.
- A different build that another device is using right now is left running
and replaced once nobody is, rather than stopped under them.
- If what's installed changed after the server looked, the agent asks for
the packages (need-packages) and the server copies them and starts again.
- The installed-build check sends bytes, so Windows' CRLF can't break it.
- Starting again while a stopped start is still copying launches anew;
concurrent copies use their own temporary names.
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The app finds the Frame by itself (Valve's _steamos-devkit._tcp Bonjour
service, else the saved address or frame.local on port 22), so setup is two
numbered steps: wake your Frame (Looking… / Found ✓, and after a few seconds
exactly what to check), then the Developer Mode password and Connect. Manual
address and key options sit under Other ways to connect.
A paired Frame that doesn't answer is almost always asleep: instead of an
error, Waiting for your Frame says how to wake it and connects as soon as its
SSH port answers (checked every 3 s; 4 s after the stand-in came back).
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An iPhone can't run Python or ssh, but the Frame can. The app (ios/, SwiftUI)
connects with its own SSH key (Citadel), copies the server and helpers to
~/.cache/frame-control/<version> on the Frame once per version, starts
ui/server.py there with FRAME_LOCAL=1 on the Frame's 127.0.0.1, and shows the
page through an SSH tunnel. The server exits when the phone disconnects.
Server: FRAME_LOCAL=1 puts ui/local-bin on PATH, whose ssh stand-in runs each
`ssh frame COMMAND` locally (and serves as rsync's transport), so desktop and
phone share one code path. Android display goes through podman exec there, as
the Frame has no adb. FRAME_UI_KEY replaces the fixed X-Frame-UI value with a
per-session key. Power actions take the Developer Mode password via sudo -S.
--port 0 now prints the port it took.
Page: a bottom tab bar and safe areas on phones, Play buttons visible on touch
screens, saving through the share sheet, SSH/SFTP/Steam Link/remote desktop
opening in their iOS apps, and a password dialog for power.
App: pairing with the Developer Mode password once (never stored) or with a
key the user adds; host key pinned on first use; plain-language connection
errors with quiet retries; frame-control://install links; alerts and confirms.
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