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saphid--frame-control/compat-db
saphidandClaude Opus 5.5 60571dbfac Prepare Frame Control 0.2.0 for public testing
- Without the maintainer's key, Android compatibility reports stay on the
  Mac and the UI says so; the shared database is never contacted.
- Remove personal infrastructure details from scripts and docs: the Drive
  folder and gog wrapper now come from the environment, and the Chromium
  build host is required instead of defaulted.
- Add an MIT license, tester instructions in the README, and bump to 0.2.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-26 07:37:37 +10:00
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compat-db: Frame Control's compatibility database

A private Lakebed capsule holding compatibility reports for Android apps on the Steam Frame. For now only the maintainer's copy of Frame Control has the key to read or write it. Everyone else's reports stay on their own Mac (see shared() in ui/frame_compat_db.py).

  • Live: https://frame-compat.lakebed.app (deploy dep_dDmcsosVSiFirpW6, claimed, so it doesn't expire). The browser page only says it's private.
  • Access: GET /v1/reports?since=<createdAt> and POST /v1/reports with {"reports": [...]}. Both need the x-frame-control-key header. There are no Lakebed queries or mutations, so nothing else can reach the rows.
  • Key: FRAME_CONTROL_KEY in .env.lakebed.server (git-ignored, synced on deploy) and in the Mac's login Keychain (service frame-control-compat-db, account app-key), where ui/frame_compat_db.py reads it.
  • Duplicates: each report carries a clientId, and a report already stored is skipped, so retries and restores are safe to repeat.
  • Free-plan limits: 1 MiB of data and 16,384 rows per deploy, 1,000 writes a day. A report is about 300 bytes, so roughly 3,000 reports fit.

Backups

scripts/compat-db-backup.sh exports every report through the app key and keeps dated copies in ~/Library/Application Support/Frame Control/compat-db/backups (newest 60). When the data has changed, it also uploads them with gog to the Google Drive folder named by DRIVE_FOLDER_ID (set it in the LaunchAgent's EnvironmentVariables). A LaunchAgent runs it daily at 03:40 and logs to ~/Library/Logs/frame-compat-backup.log. If an export has fewer reports than the last good backup (backups/.last-good), it's kept as refused-*.json, nothing is uploaded, and every later run refuses too until you rerun with --accept-shrink.

Reports that can't be sent (unreadable outbox lines, or ones the server rejects, which it lists by clientId) are never dropped: they move to ~/Library/Application Support/Frame Control/compat-db/compat-outbox.jsonl.rejected, with the reason.

Restore (to this deploy or a new one):

python3 ui/frame_compat_db.py import BACKUP.json   # duplicates are skipped
python3 ui/frame_compat_db.py count

npx lakebed db export dep_dDmcsosVSiFirpW6 --out full.json is a second, owner-only export path through the Lakebed CLI.

Change and deploy

cd compat-db
npx lakebed dev --port 3917                 # local; data resets on restart
npx lakebed deploy                          # updates frame-compat.lakebed.app

To rotate the key: generate a new one, update the Keychain item and .env.lakebed.server, then deploy.