Generate five artwork slots, refresh VR shortcuts and managed collections, and retain a signal-aware launcher around setsid so stopping the wrapper cleans its container. Cover installation, artwork and launch cleanup offline; record the Steam client startup blocker for device verification.
Co-Authored-By: GPT-6 Astra <noreply@openai.com>
Review round 11: the cleanup's check and pkill now hold a lock that Show
takes to count itself in, so a new viewer can't start between them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Frame Control can now manage more than one Steam Frame, and reach each at any
of several addresses (LAN IPs per network, its .local name, Tailscale). A
connector in the server tries them all at once, picks the best one that
answers, follows ssh -v through each stage (network, finding, SSH, identity,
login) and streams that to the page. The header shows it live; a new Devices
tab (key 5) manages headsets, addresses and network names.
- ui/frame_devices.py: registry in devices.json, imported from the managed
~/.ssh/config blocks; per-headset host key pinning; config block updates.
- ui/frame_network.py: gateway IP+MAC fingerprint, Wi-Fi name, Tailscale.
- ui/frame_link.py: the connector, Test now, Tailscale/mDNS discovery, API.
- server.py: ensure_master delegates to the connector; /api/connection,
/api/connection/events (SSE), /api/devices.
- Electron: headset switcher and Devices item in the Frame menu.
- frame_connect.py --alias; FRAME_CONTROL_DATA_DIR / FRAME_CONTROL_SSH_DIR
keep tests off real data.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review round 10: a Show replacing its own stream could have its new viewer
ended by the cleanup; a viewer reset left the delayed relay pending.
Verified: the relay delivers what's queued, then closes the agent side.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Chromium on the Frame outlived its last viewer window (verified: 11
processes left after a run). Once nothing is shown, Stop ends it, unless
Show was pressed again meanwhile; its profile is Frame Control's own.
- Relay --delay: if the agent side fails, close the viewer side too
(review round 9).
- Docs: the final scroll run captured 57 fps; don't blame ScreenCaptureKit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The keyboard and trackpad no longer fetch KDE Connect from Valve's package
repository on the Frame. The desktop apps and the iPhone app's Frame bundle
carry Valve's arm64 build of kdeconnect 24.02.2-1 and the five libraries it
links (kcontacts, kpeople, modemmanager-qt, pulseaudio-qt, libfakekey),
pinned by SHA-256 in frame/kdeconnect/packages.json and downloaded at build
time from the kdeconnect-frame-24.02.2-1 release, which also holds Valve's
complete source package for each.
On first use the computer copies them over its SSH connection (the iPhone
bundle already has them on the Frame); the agent checks each SHA-256,
unpacks them and stamps which build it is, so later starts copy nothing.
No internet on the Frame, 3.6 MB instead of 8 MB, 18 MB unpacked instead of
82 MB (ModemManager and friends were packaging-only dependencies).
GPL/LGPL compliance: frame/kdeconnect/NOTICE.md names each exact version,
licence and source; per-project licence texts in frame/kdeconnect/LICENSES;
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md; an About and licences dialog in the app.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verify pinned JAR/CMS signatures, v2 index hashes and APK downloads; support signed v1 fallback and persist TOFU identities. Reuse the catalogue reducer and document repository publishing with offline and live verification evidence.
Co-Authored-By: GPT-6 Astra <noreply@openai.com>
Borrow expansion-file and save-management features with offline verification. Keep SideQuest page-only under its current access terms; document research, integration limits and device acceptance gaps.
Co-Authored-By: GPT-6 Astra <noreply@openai.com>
Third review follow-up (PackageParser.buildClassName). Confirmed the
targetActivity resource id 0x01010202 in Open Saber Plus's manifest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings in #4, #5, #8 (fbl100's verified Remmina/VNC mirror), APK
alternatives and the website. docs/streaming.md: Mac in the headset stays
the recommendation (now verified on the Frame); Remmina keeps #8's verified
evidence as the whole-screen fallback. docs/mac-in-headset.md cites #8's
lag finding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Survey publisher consent and access limits; add cached sources, recorded fixtures and local APK proof.
Co-Authored-By: GPT-6 Astra <noreply@openai.com>
- Per-frame timing on the Mac's clock (capture, encode, network, decode,
draw), viewer clock sync and reports, input echo, /stats and a HUD.
- scripts/macview-bench.py: repeatable runs on the real Frame, a shaping
relay (no sudo), interleaved A/B between agent settings; results in
bench/results/.
- Adaptive controller: ack-based send gate with jitter-aware slack, AIMD
bitrate that knows when a stream is app-limited, fps then size tiers.
On a 50->3->50 Mbit/s step, scroll p95 went from 4.7 s to 72 ms; no cost
on a clean link.
- Separate mode: real AppKit event loop (HiDPI and NSScreen now work),
cropped capture for fixed-size windows, windows kept on their display,
graceful quit restores windows; stop/start races fixed.
- Encoder timeline clamp (no oversized frame after a pause).
- Frame Control shows each live stream's fps, delay, bitrate and tier.
Reviewed by GPT-6 Astra xhigh (read-only), 7 rounds; findings fixed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second review follow-up: with several activities (e.g. a splash activity ahead
of the game), the alias fallback now prefers the real activity named by the
alias's android:targetActivity. Reads targetActivity by resource id, updates
the error text and docs/vr-apks.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review follow-up. inspect() now returns 'repairable' and the filters it can
patch: the real activity's VR MAIN filter, or, when LAUNCHER/VR sits only on an
<activity-alias>, any real MAIN filter with a category to copy. install() and
patch() repair on 'repairable' instead of 'vr_activity', so a flat Godot 4
export is fixed and a VR category only on the alias no longer aborts install.
Tests cover both shapes, an already-launchable activity with an alias, and an
end-to-end patch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a maintainer's Mac the compatibility-database key is in the Keychain, so a
test that reached install reporting published fake reports. Every test module
now imports tests/sandbox.py first, which points app data at a throwaway
directory (new FRAME_CONTROL_DATA_DIR), turns telemetry off and sends the
database nowhere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lepton's apk-info-extractor ignores <activity-alias>, and Godot 4 exports put
LAUNCHER only on an alias (com.godot.game.GodotAppLauncher). Open Saber Plus
0.7.67 installed but Lepton exited with 'APP_ACTIVITY is empty'. Count only
real activities as launchable and patch the activity's VR intent filter.
Verified on the Frame: Open Saber Plus launches and renders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Analytics go to the maintainer's PostHog US project 343535, tagged
$lib = frame-control. Every event carries $ip 0.0.0.0, since PostHog
stores the sender's address otherwise (checked live), including events
queued by earlier versions.
- Report a problem sends a private problem_report event to PostHog instead
of a public GitHub issue, with its own random id so a contact address
can't be linked to analytics. The dialog asks how to reach the person and
shows a reference. Maintainers read reports on the PostHog dashboard or
with `python3 ui/frame_report.py inbox`.
- Community sync pages by timestamp in UTC: PostHog refuses OFFSET for
personal API keys.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
patch() turns corrupt-manifest struct/index errors into FrameError; a missing
layer build says so; the signing key falls back to a rename where hard links
aren't supported and explains how to recover from a bad cached key; the layer
nulls an instance it can't destroy and logs xrLocateSpaces once.
Not changed: the 1.1 Meta profile names match xr.xml's promoted names
(meta/touch_pro_controller, meta/touch_plus_controller), and grip_surface is
palm_ext renamed, so the rewrite stays (now commented).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Home → Keyboard and trackpad, in every version of Frame Control (Mac,
Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad) with nothing to install on the device in
your hand. On a phone: a trackpad (drag, tap, two-finger scroll and
right-click) and a field that types on the Frame. On a computer: click
the pad to pass the mouse and keyboard through; Esc to stop.
First-party route: ui/frame_input_agent.py runs on the Frame and talks
KDE Connect's LAN protocol (v7) to kdeconnectd as if it were a phone.
KDE Connect isn't on the image, but Valve's package repository has it;
the agent fetches it and four libraries into ~ (no root, survives
updates), starts it, pairs by itself (accepting over D-Bus), and stops
it again when the last device disconnects. Each device has its own
identity; a stuck KDE Connect is restarted once.
Verified against the real Frame (SteamOS 0.4.1): first-time install,
pairing, pointer moves from the Mac's server and the iPhone app
(Simulator), Mac and iPhone at once, two installs at once, a frozen
daemon replaced, and the daemon stopping when the app quits.
Reviewed by GPT-6 Astra (xhigh) over seven rounds; all findings fixed
except per-event delivery acknowledgement (documented known limit).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Flatpak installs record their outcome inside main's background job; failed
jobs are diagnostics too. The Privacy panel lives on the Tools page (#privacy
opens it), tab analytics use the four page names, and "Test it now?" reads the
install job's result.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Anonymous PostHog analytics (ui/frame_telemetry.py): usage on by default
after a first-run notice; compatibility results and error details opt-in,
offered together by the notice's "Share more to help fix problems" button.
Random id, no person profiles or GeoIP, scrubbed text, an offline outbox,
and "Show what's been sent" in the new Privacy panel. Inert without a
project key, from a source checkout, or with DO_NOT_TRACK=1.
- APK installs now record install_failed when the APK itself won't install,
and offer a 20-second test after installing. Opted-in reports reach the
shared database through PostHog and `frame_compat_db.py sync`.
- The desktop app updates itself from published releases (app/updater.js):
update.json from releases/latest/download, SHA-256 checked, no downgrades;
macOS bundle swap, Windows NSIS, Linux AppImage, otherwise the release page.
scripts/publish-release.sh publishes a tested draft with its manifest.
- Report a problem (header button, Privacy panel, Help menu) files a GitHub
issue through the website's feedback API, with a previewed, scrubbed
diagnostics snapshot; activity and logs only when asked for.
Reviewed by GPT-6 Astra (xhigh, read-only) three times; all findings fixed.
Docs: docs/privacy.md, docs/releasing.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Main now runs Android installs as background jobs and maps SSH failures to
one offline message. Alternative-version installs go through the same job,
the alternatives dialog waits on it with runJob, and send_error_json keeps
the apk blocker that opens the dialog.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
VR apps with an arm64 OpenXR loader get frame/openxr-compat's layer unless
--no-xr-compat; the app bundle ships the layer. Verified on the Frame: Wolvic's
Quest build gets through OpenXR start-up, Open Brush still reaches FOCUSED.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
One malformed or unreachable repo no longer hides the others; skip bad
index entries; a refreshed raw index outdates its reduced copy; style the
dialog like the others; validate package ids with PKG_RE.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reducing an index no longer deletes apk-catalog/data/index-v2.json, which
the catalogue build reads. Drop the measurement log from docs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Frame Control can now show any Mac window, or a whole screen, as its own
SteamVR panel on the Steam Frame (Tools -> Mac in the headset, macOS only).
Place it with the SteamVR dashboard; the laser clicks and scrolls, and the
Mac's own keyboard types.
- mac/frame-mac-view (Swift, no dependencies): ScreenCaptureKit capture per
window or display, VideoToolbox H.264 with low-latency rate control (JPEG
fallback), a loopback HTTP/WebSocket server, CGEvent/AX input playback,
and a display-awake assertion while anyone watches.
- ui/frame_macview.py: starts the agent, runs an ssh -R tunnel with a
supervisor that reopens it on the same port, and launches a Chromium app
window per stream on gamescope's :0, tagged with STEAM_GAME for its own panel.
- Frame Control's key never leaves the Mac: viewers get single-use,
per-source tickets and reconnect keys that Stop revokes.
- ui/mac-view.html: WebCodecs decode, keyframe recovery, pointer/wheel/keys back.
- Bundled in the Mac app build; tests/test_macview.py builds and drives the
agent on macOS.
Verified on the Frame (build 20260925.6191901) with the test pattern: panel
in about 1.5 s, about 60 fps, Mac-to-window about 11-17 ms, tunnel recovery
in 4 s. Laser input and real window capture still need a person in the headset.
Also commits the other thread's first-party rule (steam-frame skill) and
the first-party options table in docs/streaming.md.
Reviewed by GPT-6 Astra (xhigh, read-only) over six rounds; all findings fixed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Header, content, tab bar, status strip, drawer and toasts add the notch,
Dynamic Island, rounded-corner and home-indicator insets on every side
(zero on desktops). Phones on their side use the bottom tab bar layout.
- The phone tab bar hides while a text field has focus, instead of riding
on the keyboard.
- DEBUG hook FRAME_TEST_LANDSCAPE for checking this in the Simulator.
- docs/streaming.md: iPhone mirroring (UxPlay, broadcast extension) and
keyboard/mouse input (uinput needs no sudo on the Frame, verified).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On the Frame, Steam refused to register titles whose id had a hyphen
(fc-smoke-exe) with "missing/invalid arguments", and registered the same
program as FCSmokeProbe (headset smoke test, 2026-09-27, BUILD_ID
20260922.6101926). Valve's client only allows ^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_.]+$.
title_id now makes ids of letters, digits and _, not starting with a
digit, 2 to 64 long; new installs are checked against that, while titles
already on the Frame are still listed, launched and removed. Steam's error
text is trimmed before it's quoted, and the "install it again with Steam
running" hint only follows a Steam-not-running error.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Valve publishes no Steam Frame OS image, so tests/frame-container builds the
Frame's SSH surface on Valve and Collabora's Holo Core aarch64 base: a
steamos user with a password and sudo, OpenSSH with keys and passwords,
Python, and a systemctl that only records requests.
Against it from the Simulator: password pairing, the host-key pin, the power
password check. Found and fixed: a changed host key or a refused login said
"Can't reach the Frame" and retried forever; they now say "Pair with the
Frame again" and offer that. The server's key rejection now says the header
may be wrong, not only missing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Pairing saves nothing if it was cancelled while adding the key.
- The ssh stand-in runs under bash: dash refuses job control without a
terminal, which cost stdin and the process group.
- A server that stops while the tunnel opens fails the attempt (and retries)
instead of leaving it half-connected.
- The health probe answers within its deadline even when a dead link keeps
the probe itself waiting.
- A cached version is deleted only if no server runs from it (servers now run
by absolute path) and it's two weeks unused.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Cancelling (Change headset, Forget) invalidates the attempt in flight; a
connection only becomes the app's once every step finished for it.
- A server that stops while the tunnel opens is noticed (exit callbacks are
synchronised and replayed), and the app isn't left showing a dead page.
- The port is read only once the digits are complete, and range-checked.
- Other versions in ~/.cache/frame-control stay unless untouched for 14 days,
so a second phone or iPad isn't cut off.
- The key is appended on its own line even if authorized_keys lacks a final
newline.
- The app checks every 20 s, and on returning to the foreground, that the SSH
session still answers, and reconnects if not.
- The ssh stand-in runs the command as its own process group and passes a
TERM on to all of it, so a live-video ffmpeg stops with its stream.
- Touch screens show the library's Play buttons (the rule now follows the
base one); the failure screen only says it's retrying when it is; the page
says the app reconnects rather than naming a desktop menu.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The page was one 6,800px scroll with nine nav links (hidden below 1150px).
It is now four tabs, Home, Games, Android and Tools, switched with 1-4; old
section links still land on the right tab.
When the Frame can't be reached, the server turns ssh's connection errors into
one plain message (503, offline: true), the page shows a single banner with
Retry and Set Up Connection, retries every 8 s, and reloads every panel when
the Frame answers. Panels say "Waiting for the Frame" instead of raw ssh text.
Flatpak and Android catalogue installs run as background jobs the page polls,
so a slow install no longer holds a request for up to 15 minutes or reports a
false failure; the bottom bar counts running installs.
Files can be dropped anywhere in the window, as the README already said.
Recent reports show the newest five, with Show all. Android display explains
an empty or failed read. A topped-up headset on a charger reads as not
charging rather than "still draining, using 0.0 W".
Fixes a race where the catalogue and reports loads wrote the compat-db
mirror's .tmp file at once and one failed with a 500.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
shutdown() from another thread doesn't wake a blocked recv on Windows, so
quitting mid-download waited out the 4 s deadline there (CI's Windows
server tests). Close the handle as well, detached first so the worker's own
close can't hit a reused handle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A Refresh in flight could leave the shared list stale when the dialog
opened. The drop now fetches the list itself and hands it to the dialog.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Only stored and deflated entries are read: Python 3.9's bzip2 and lzma
readers inflate without bound before trimming.
- loadTitles drops a response that a newer request has overtaken, so the
install dialog's replace warning uses the fresh list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- APK reader: read members with a bounded read, since ZipFile.read inflates
a member fully before trimming it to a forged declared size; the reference
walk counts every entry it examines, dead ends and cycles included.
- Titles: a path that exists under the root wins over stripping the archive
prefix; the prefix is taken before a linked folder is staged elsewhere
(another drive on Windows); the install dialog loads a fresh title list
first and says so if it couldn't check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- APK reader: cap AndroidManifest.xml, resources.arsc and icon sizes before
inflating them (APKs can come from install links), and follow resource
references without cycles and with a result budget.
- Sideloading: reserve devkit-steam (SteamOS's sideloaded-client trampoline);
the install dialog warns when a name replaces an installed title; a
manifest's exe may name the program as it is in the archive, above the
folder the installer steps into.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
