- Plugged into the Mac, the Frame is a USB network device ("Steam Frame",
usb0 at ~0.9 ms). The tunnel uses it when the Frame's usb0 answers,
with the usual host key; otherwise the normal path. Interleaved runs:
content p50 7 vs 10 ms, click to drawn 17 vs 27 ms, scroll p95 23 vs
31-37 ms. FRAME_MACVIEW_USB=0 turns it off; the card says "over USB-C".
- Bench: --usb, and the route is recorded per run.
- Docs: Steam's own streaming (no SteamVR host on macOS; Remote Play pairs
but streams games, not windows; test blocked); the Frame's USB network;
the 2026-09-28 health-check boot-loop recurrence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.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>
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>
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>
Review round 8 (GPT-6 Astra xhigh): --delay paused upstream reads, so busy
streams saw 30-60 ms instead of 30. Verified locally: 60-62 ms round trip
with 30 ms each way under load. No saved result used --delay.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.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>
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>
- Gradient buttons showed a dark sliver on the right: the background shorthand reset
background-origin, so the gradient repeated under the transparent border.
- Phone header: keep the brand on one line and drop the GitHub button under 480px.
- Hero pill: put the platform list on its own line on phones instead of orphaning one item.
- Privacy page: plain sections instead of open accordions whose x looked like a close button.
- Same header (GitHub button) and footer links on every page; legend spacing on the form.
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>
- Rate limiting fails open on KV errors instead of dropping feedback
- Break owner/repo#1, GH-1 and github.com references in user text
- Time the form with the browser's monotonic clock, not wall-clock
- Serialize lgtm approvals and rebase before pushing
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>
- site/: landing page, /feedback/ and /privacy/ on Cloudflare Pages
(frame-control.pages.dev). POST /api/feedback validates the form and opens
a labelled issue with a fine-grained token; honeypot, minimum fill time and
KV rate limits keep spam out. Ko-fi donate buttons appear once the page
name is set in site/public/js/site.js.
- .github: the issue and PR gate from badlogic/pi-mono. New contributors'
issues and PRs are auto-closed; a maintainer replying lgtmi/lgtm approves
them via APPROVED_CONTRIBUTORS. Issue templates and CONTRIBUTING.md.
- CI runs the website tests; README points feedback at the form.
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>
macOS leaves the pointer out of the Screen Sharing framebuffer, and neither Remmina showcursor setting brings it back. A Hammerspoon ring around the pointer is a real window, so it gets mirrored.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without scale-to-fit a Retina Mac shows 1:1 as a zoomed-in corner. macOS offers Apple auth ahead of plain VNC auth, so Remmina asks for the Mac account login.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A thumbnail under the screenshot opens the 66-second trailer, which is attached to the 'trailer' release.
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>
The share sheet only offers Save Image when the app declares
NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription; without it screenshots couldn't be saved to
Photos. docs/iphone.md now lists what was verified against the Frame (Bonjour
discovery, waiting and reconnecting, upload, share sheet, install links,
opening Steam Link) and the two permission prompts iOS shows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The menci/archlinuxarm base failed `pacman -Syu` on GitHub's arm64 runner.
Valve's Holo Core aarch64 preview is the base the Frame's SteamOS is built on,
the iPhone app's frame-container already uses it, and its repos carry every
package the fake needs. A failed image build now reruns with the full log.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tabs UI (#4) runs Flatpak installs as server.start_job jobs, so a failed
install answers 200 with a job id and reports the error on /api/job. The test
now waits for the job instead of expecting an immediate 502.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On the Frame, compat_log.txt has binary bytes in it, so plain grep only said
"binary file matches" and the x86-64 launch check missed Steam's "is not
installed" line. The fake now writes that line to a compat_log.txt that starts
with a NUL, and the end-to-end test finds it the way the smoke test does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A launch that needs the program running kept looking after Steam's
"started" line, rather than failing on it before the process showed up.
Cleanup reads steamos-delete's log, which reports a failed sync but exits
0, and runs it twice to check Steam no longer lists our titles; until then
they stay tracked and the cleanup step fails.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Headset smoke test: drop the paired key from authorized_keys with a
same-mode copy swapped in, so a failed write can't truncate it; check the
throwaway key with no ssh_config or agent; clean up idempotently (tracked
and leftover titles, their json files, Steam's shortcuts via steamos-delete,
and ~/devkit-utils if it wasn't there before), with a failed cleanup a
failed step; count a launch only with fresh evidence (the process, Steam's
log, or the known missing-runtime line), matching with [d]evkit-game so
pgrep doesn't find its own shell. The test programs sleep 10 s.
Fake Frame: log a launch before its reaper can look for it. e2e: kill a
pairing client's process group when a test ends; accept an aarch64 program
running under QEMU on x86 hosts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
tests/fakeframe: a container that stands in for the Frame (Arch Linux, or
Arch Linux ARM on arm64) with sshd, rsync, Valve's steamos-devkit-service
and hooks (vendored unmodified), a fake Steam client for the devkit pipe and
the DevTools port (the app's JavaScript runs in Node against stand-in
SteamClient/appStore objects), stubs for steam, wpctl, flatpak, podman,
Lepton and friends, battery and thermal files under /sys, and fault
switches (fakeframe-ctl): pairing mode, approve/deny/timeout, Steam not
running, headset asleep, sshd off, disk full, runtimes missing. A second
container is the computer running Frame Control.
tests/e2e: 29 tests driving the real ui/server.py, frame_connect.py and
frame_titles.py against it; skipped unless FRAME_E2E=1. scripts/e2e.sh
builds, runs and tears down; CI runs it on ubuntu-24.04-arm.
tests/smoke + scripts/frame-smoke.sh: the core cases against a real Frame,
recorded with its BUILD_ID, cleaning up after itself; --pair to pair a
throwaway key. docs/testing.md describes the layers.
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>
- docs/recovery-and-images.md: where Valve's Frame images are (not linked from
the SteamOS download page), file names, sizes and our checksums, the GPT
layout with exact start sectors, what's in rootfs-A (btrfs, SteamOS 0.3.0
build 20260922.5152327, users, sudo and sshd config), extracting it, running
it without the headset, and Valve/Collabora's Holo Core aarch64 preview.
- how-the-frame-works.md: correct the recovery image file names; add verified
facts on the SSH server, tools on the image (no adb), Lepton instances as
podman containers, going off the network when asleep, and the battery
reading at full charge.
- ssh.md: pairing from an iPhone and why devkit RSA pairing doesn't fit it.
- open-questions.md, README.md and the steam-frame skill point to the new pages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
tests/frame-container/frame-image.sh extracts rootfs-A from Valve's Frame
recovery image (steamdeck-images.steamos.cloud/recovery), mounts it read-only
with a throwaway writable layer and starts the image's own sshd, so the iPhone
app can pair with and run its server on the real SteamOS for Frame userland.
Verified: password pairing then key login in the image's sshd log, the power
password check through the image's sudo, status reading SteamOS 0.3.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
