The Mac view's tunnel is its own ssh, so it now takes the headset's route (and its
pinned identity, which also checks the USB-C address), and closes when the app
switches headset. The MCP adapter's private server (FRAME_PRIVATE_SSH=1) skips the
one-server lock and can't add, remove or switch headsets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
HTTPServer.server_bind calls socket.getfqdn, which stalled past the MCP
backend's 10-second startup window on GitHub's macOS runners.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two servers each connected, reconnected and edited the headsets on their own,
and several review findings were ways one could move the other's install to a
different headset. A lock file in the data folder now refuses a second server
with a plain message; FRAME_CONTROL_DATA_DIR still gives a separate one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ssh's %C hashes only address, user and port, so two headsets reached at one
address shared a ControlMaster and one's commands could run on the other: the
ControlPath now names the headset. Another Frame Control server choosing a
different headset no longer moves this one's commands mid-install.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A command that fails after a switch doesn't make the connector drop the new
headset's connection.
- On first import, the app keeps using the `frame` headset even when Set Up
Connection put another block above it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Retry now (while connected) and Forget identity wait for running installs.
- Terminal windows get the headset's address by name, so a link-local IPv6
zone never has to pass through Windows' console.
- Renaming the headset in use shows at once in the header.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A headset set up while a bare alias is in use doesn't take over by itself;
a login change from ~/.ssh/config waits for running installs.
- Saving a headset writes only the login fields that changed, and only if the
block still holds the old ones.
- SSH, SFTP, power and remote desktop open with the same headset and address
as every other command, and refuse when there's no address.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The headset a change is meant for is checked and the work counted in one
step, so a switch can't slip in between (uploads too).
- A sideloaded title read on one headset can't be installed on another; open
confirmations close on a switch.
- The only headset can't be removed while its ssh alias stays behind.
- Answers about the previous headset are dropped without touching panels; the
catalogue's Installed tags are rebuilt for the new headset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A switch publishes the new headset at once, so the page clears the old one's
panels and the lists behind them (games, store, Android apps, screenshots).
- The page names the headset its changes are for (X-Frame-Device); the server
refuses one meant for a headset it has switched away from (409).
- A rejected address edit changes nothing.
- Test now goes to the IPv4 address that answered, like the connection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A switch clears every headset-specific list and its buttons at once.
- SSH goes to the IPv4 address that answered the probe, not the name again.
- A rejected headset edit changes nothing.
- The SteamOS/Lepton builds recorded in reports are read again per headset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Switching headsets is serialized with the start of any install; background
work counts as running from before its thread starts. use() reroutes every
command at once and makes ensure() wait for the new headset.
- A new user or port reroutes commands even if the attempt then fails.
- ~/.ssh/config edits take a lock file shared with Set Up Connection
(frame_connect.py and connect.sh, which now also writes atomically).
- A finished attempt no longer writes its older settings over a change Set
Up Connection made meanwhile.
- Pin edits are locked and swapped atomically.
- A bare alias behind ProxyJump/ProxyCommand is left to ssh to reach.
- The page drops answers about the previous headset after a switch; the
header switcher takes clicks in the macOS title bar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- No switching headsets (or changing the active one's user/port, or removing
it) while installs run: they read the ssh settings step by step.
- Switching reroutes every command to the new headset at once, even if it
never answers.
- ~/.ssh/config edits are serialized, use unique temp files, and back off if
another program wrote the file meanwhile.
- stop() ends a handshake in progress and joins the connector.
- Pinned keys are written unhashed (HashKnownHosts=no); hashed ones are still
found and forgotten via ssh-keygen.
- Set Up Connection changing a headset's user or port updates the registry.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
- Links to localhost need FRAME_CONTROL_LOCAL_LINKS=1: otherwise any website's
link could make the app fetch from services on this computer.
- Title staging folders (unzipped titles) carry the server's PID and are swept
on the next start like download folders, so quitting mid-install doesn't leave
gigabytes behind.
- An install from a link refreshes Sideloaded titles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Combines the three feature branches on bundle-deps. Conflicts in server.py,
index.html, preload.js, README and test_server.py keep both sides. The
web-install downloader now uses urllib's default HTTPS context, so the
bundled CA list from 770f26c applies to it on Windows too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dropping a game's .zip, folder or .exe on Send to Frame now adds it to the
headset's Steam library through Valve's SteamOS Devkit title path, with the
runtime picked from the program's header: Windows PE -> Proton Experimental
(steam_play=1), aarch64 ELF -> SteamLinuxRuntime_4-arm64, x86-64 ELF ->
SteamLinuxRuntime_4 (through FEX). Other architectures are refused.
- frame/devkit-utils: Valve's devkit-utils vendored unmodified (MIT,
steamos-devkit v0.20260925.1), synced to ~/devkit-utils by stamp, bundled in
the app and compiled in CI.
- ui/frame_titles.py: inspect (safe unzip, ELF/PE classification, launch
target ranking), install(path, name=None, exe=None, runtime=None,
progress=None), list, launch, remove, plus a CLI.
- ui/server.py: /api/titles (inspect/install/discard/launch/remove),
/api/titles/job progress, and an upload mode 'title'.
- ui/index.html: confirm dialog (name, launch target, runtime), install
progress, and a Sideloaded titles list with Launch and Remove. The app's
preload passes a dropped folder's path.
- tests and docs/sideloading.md. Device-side behaviour is inferred from
Valve's source; the headset was offline, so none of it has been checked on
a Frame yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A site can link to frame-control://install?manifest=URL (or ?url=URL) to
install a title with Frame Control. Manifests use FrameDrop's format, so
framedrop.install/v1 is accepted as well as frame-control.install/v1.
- app/install-link.js parses links; main.js registers the scheme (plus
electron-builder protocols for Info.plist and the .desktop file), takes
links from open-url, second-instance argv and the first argv, and holds
them until the page asks for them through preload's onInstallLink.
- ui/frame_webinstall.py checks the URLs (HTTPS only; localhost over http
only when the link itself is local; no userinfo; every address public,
rechecked on redirects and pinned for the connection), reads the
manifest, downloads with a size cap and sha256 check, and dispatch()
sends .apk to frame_android and .zip/.exe to frame_titles when present.
- server.py adds /api/webinstall/check, start, job and cancel behind the
existing Host and X-Frame-UI guards; a start needs a one-time id from
check. Downloads stop on cancel and on shutdown, and leftovers from a
killed server are swept by PID.
- index.html asks before anything downloads (name, source host, file,
type, size, whether a sha256 was given) and shows progress.
- docs/web-install.md, docs/install.html (landing page, unpublished).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The bundled Python only trusts roots already in the Windows certificate
store, which Windows fills lazily, so on a new install Steam store
search, F-Droid downloads and the compat DB failed with
CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED. fetch-deps.js now also bundles curl's pinned
copy of Mozilla's CA list, and the server adds it to the default HTTPS
context on top of the system certificates (before any urlopen, since
urllib keeps the context it first builds).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Child processes never inherit the server's stdin. Under the app it's the pipe
held open for --exit-on-eof, and Windows' ssh.exe waited on it forever, so
captures, the screenshot list and Android apps timed out.
- frame_connect's key check accepts a first-seen host key (as the copy step
does), so an already-authorized key doesn't trigger a password prompt.
Verified on Windows 11, Ubuntu and macOS against a Steam Frame: status,
headset and desktop captures, live video, library, Android apps, screenshots
and upload.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Run the server with -X utf8: the bundled Windows Python ignores PYTHON* variables.
- Quote every argument in Windows terminal commands, so cmd metacharacters are literal.
- frame_connect: accept HOST:PORT, validate input, retry the config swap while
Windows' ssh.exe holds ~/.ssh/config locked, and don't apply 0o700 on Windows.
- Never use rsync on Windows; unbounded stream queue; validate FRAME_ALIAS;
more Linux terminals; bundle the window icon; docs and wording fixes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
