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>
Stop always calls systemctl and treats exit 5 (unit already collected)
as done, so there is no is-active/stop race. Cleanup never masks the
copy error, the play ssh timeout covers the remote worst case, and
tests cover stop exit codes and systemd-run stderr reporting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Stop is a no-op when the collected player unit is already gone
(raw systemctl stop exits 5 on the Frame; verified 2026-09-29).
- Surface systemd-run stderr when the player can't start.
- Keep the copy error if the cleanup ssh also fails; reject upload
names that the play path can never accept.
- Allow 60 s for play (ffprobe 30 s + systemd-run 15 s remote).
- Docs: four-hour cap is unconditional; no delete action yet; fix a
garbled timing sentence.
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>
Any unexpected error while launching clears the launch and reports it, so
the pad can always be started again; the temporary stderr file is made
inside the handled path and a failure reading it is tolerated.
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>
discard() swallows OSError as well as Failure, so a launch that fails and
can't remove its copy still reports the error and can be started again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The agent holds its copy from its first status line on and tidies it up
however it ends. Before that (a launch error, or stopped before the agent
ran) the server removes the copy itself. discard() only ever removes
incoming copies, never the iPhone bundle's own. The retry race test waits
for both contenders' decisions instead of sleeping.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A start turned off while copying removes the copy instead of starting an
agent that would be killed before it could tidy up.
- A local read error while copying removes the partial copy too.
- The retry race test holds the new start until the retry has decided, so
it fails every time without the fix (checked 3/3), not by luck.
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>
- Each start keeps its copy (holding a lock on it) until it ends, however
it ends, then removes it; a restart can still unpack it.
- The server removes a partial copy when copying fails.
- Other copies are removed only when unlocked and over an hour old.
- Tests: a start racing the need-packages retry (one agent, not two), a
restart that must unpack its copy, a held copy surviving the sweep.
Both regression tests fail without their fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The need-packages retry only runs if no start() has taken over, so two
agents can't end up running for one session.
- Each copy goes to its own incoming folder; the agent removes its own once
connected (and any a cancelled start left over an hour ago), so a stopped
start can't delete files another is copying or still needs.
- A missing package folder means need-packages, not an error.
- Tests keep fake agents running, so they check ready and which agent owns
the session, plus a bounded retry and the tidy rule.
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>
- 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.
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>
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>
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>
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>
