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.
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Every change now takes a lock file shared across processes and starts from
what's on disk; reads pick up a newer file.
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- While the connector is taking a queued reconnect off its list, the old
connection no longer counts as live, so no install starts on it.
- Importing a block without a Port takes the port ssh would really use
(ssh -F <config> -G), e.g. one a later Host * sets.
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- An upload's answer arriving after a switch opens nothing; the APK
alternatives dialog installs on the headset the APK was checked for.
- A handshake that goes silent (e.g. a jump host's forward hanging) moves on
to the next address.
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- Behind a jump host, a forward it couldn't open moves on to the next address;
only a refused key stops (judged by ssh's words, not the step).
- Add a headset suggests an alias no Host in ~/.ssh/config already uses.
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- A jump host's own "Authenticated to" line no longer counts as the headset's,
and a master that logs in but doesn't start lets the next address be tried.
- Devices tab changes refresh through the ordered list load, so a late answer
can't undo a newer selection.
- A probe's time out starts after the name lookup: macOS can take 5 s to look
up a .local name (found on the real Frame once its USB link went away).
- An attempt's ending is published from a method, not a return in finally.
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- A switch the server refuses no longer drops answers the page is waiting for
(an install's job id): only an actual change of headset does.
- Test now goes through a jump host when the alias uses one.
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- A set-up headset whose alias goes through a jump host (ProxyJump or
ProxyCommand in ~/.ssh/config) is reached through it, address by address,
still pinned per headset.
- A refused switch puts the header's switcher back on the headset in use.
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.
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- Terminals, power and a reconnect's probes use the route commands have now
(a pinned bare-alias destination, a login change still deferred).
- Saving port 22 keeps an explicit Port line where there was one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A bare alias's route is pinned to where ~/.ssh/config sent it when it was
routed (HostName, Port, User), so editing that file can't move an install.
- Renaming during an install is allowed: only a real user or port change waits.
- The Devices tab follows a network change even while the headset is offline.
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.
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- Every command to a set-up headset checks its pinned key
(StrictHostKeyChecking=yes, whatever ~/.ssh/config says); only the
connector's first handshake may save one.
- A reconnect during an install keeps the whole route it started with, also
when a bare alias is set up meanwhile.
- Removing the headset FRAME_ALIAS named doesn't bring it back as a bare alias.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A reconnect while an install runs keeps the login it started with; a new
one from ~/.ssh/config applies after.
- Frame > Open SSH goes through the server, so it uses the same headset and
address as the app and refuses when there's none.
- A bare frame alias in use when a headset is set up stays selectable.
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- 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.
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- Removing or moving the active headset's address waits for running installs,
like switching.
- A volume change still waiting to be sent goes to the headset whose slider
it was, and a switch cancels it.
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- A title waiting its turn to be read stays with the headset it was dropped
on, and is dropped if the app switches meanwhile.
- Probes still finishing from an earlier attempt can't overwrite the rows of
a newer one.
- The FRAME_ALIAS the server started with stays on the list after switching
away, so it can be picked again.
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- A batch of dropped files stays with the headset it was dropped on, and
stops if the app switches.
- Removing or moving the address in use reroutes at once; a headset with no
addresses reaches nothing rather than whatever ~/.ssh/config says.
- A late answer to an older device-list request is ignored.
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- Removing every headset leaves none in use (commands fail at once) instead of
falling back to the `frame` alias.
- ssh goes to the IP that answered for IPv6 too, with a link-local address's
interface (verified: frame.local over fe80::…%en9 on the real Frame).
- Find results only show in the panel of the headset they were for.
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- 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>
- 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>
- 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>
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>
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>
- 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.
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