Run Note: 2026-05-04

Summary

Full watch run completed with artifacts in /Users/sean/Coding/steam-hardware-watch/runs/2026-05-04.
The strongest change is official Valve store metadata movement on launch day: Steam Controller and Steam Hardware events both moved at 2026-05-04T18:27Z.
Official appdetails and packagedetails still confirm Steam Controller package 1558609, USD $99.00, and release date May 4, 2026.
No new price or exact release-date signal was found for Steam Machine or Steam Frame.
New SteamVR depot and SteamOS mirror helpers produced their first baseline reports. Treat their comparison entries as new-source coverage, not product movement.

Komodo API access was blocked. The comparison report's Komodo section removals are false deltas caused by missing current Komodo reports.
Visual asset handling fell back to the known asset set: 141 discovered, 141 retrieved, 0 blocked.

SteamDB helper remained blocked by challenge pages for the controller app, app history, unboxing app, and unboxing package.
No fresh SteamDB metadata should be inferred from this run.

Fresh SteamTracking checkout still contains the known ibex_internal, ibex_external, PairDongleTritonConnected, PairDongleTritonDocked, and ShouldTritonPairInOobe pairing surface.
The same Triton/Ibex pairing API names now appear in Random/SteamApkStrings.txt, broadening the client-surface evidence to the Steam Android APK string dump.
No new price, package, or exact release-date signal appeared in SteamTracking.

SteamVR app 250820 news metadata was saved.
SteamDB's SteamVR depot page was blocked by a challenge page, so no fresh depot manifest/build comparison was collected.
No local SteamVR install/depot snapshot was available, so this run did not inspect changed SteamVR JS/resources/drivers directly.

Public SteamOS mirror metadata was reachable.
Default holo/jupiter package database extraction produced 758 package rows and no errors.
No direct Fremont, Deckard, Roy, Steam Frame, Steam Machine, ARM/Snapdragon, or new product-specific top-level repo namespace appeared in the default pass.
Notable hits remained Deck/Jupiter-adjacent: foxnet, foxnetstatsd, linux-firmware-neptune-*, and plasma-remotecontrollers.

Official Valve store pages were reachable.
Steam Controller appdetails still show hardware type, package 1558609, USD $99.00, and release date May 4, 2026.
Steam Controller packagedetails still show final price 9900 cents USD and release date May 4, 2026.
Steam Controller event metadata moved from 2026-05-01T23:18:58Z to 2026-05-04T18:27:52Z.
Steam Hardware root event metadata moved from 2026-05-01T22:43:47Z to 2026-05-04T18:27:56Z.
The event announcement body text hash did not change, so this looks like metadata/json movement rather than a clear public copy change.
Steam Machine and Steam Frame still do not expose comparable price or exact availability.

Price: unchanged. Controller confirmed at $99.00; Machine and Frame unknown.
Release date: unchanged. Controller confirmed for May 4, 2026; Machine and Frame remain broad 2026.
Same-time launch: unchanged. Current evidence still favors a Controller-first launch.

Use browser-style SteamDB access if fresh SteamDB app/package state is important.
Download SteamVR beta depot snapshots or set STEAMVR_SCAN_DIRS to a local SteamVR install/depot snapshot to inspect actual changed content.
Recheck Komodo with a browser fallback if Machine/Frame product state is important.
Monitor Valve store APIs and /hardware/... pages for Machine/Frame package, price, or exact timing.