The server now records exactly what was last sent to the device on
every device-facing render (/frame/image, /frame/advance, /frame/back,
and the global hold actions), persisted as Frame.last_displayed_image/
_at and served back via GET /api/frames/{id}/now-displaying. The
header thumbnail is split into that frozen "now displaying" snapshot
and the existing live "up next" re-render, with an arrow between them
-- so editing a layout shows the change immediately on the right while
the left stays exactly what's actually on the panel until the device's
next real wake.
Clicking the small preview thumbnail now opens an enlarged version in
a dialog (fresh render, same as the old click-to-refresh), closable
via the X button or a backdrop click -- mirroring #widget-dialog's
existing pattern.
Small header thumbnail showing exactly what the frame is currently
displaying -- same widget compositor /frame/image uses, handed back as
a plain PNG (image_pipeline.render_panel/render_placeholder gain an
as_png option) instead of packed native-panel bytes. New session-authed
GET /api/frames/{id}/preview exposes it; click-to-refresh plus a slow
60s poll on the frame header so it doesn't hammer Immich/calendar
sources just for a header thumbnail.
Replaces the Photos/Calendar/Whiteboard tabs with a single Layout page
(now the frame's landing route) where each widget gets a gear icon
opening a dialog scoped to that specific widget's own settings. This
was the missing piece for genuinely independent same-type widgets --
"the Calendar tab" never made sense once a frame could hold more than
one calendar widget with different settings.
Data layer: FrameCalendar re-keyed from frame_id to widget_id, so each
calendar widget has its own independent included-calendars set. The
rekey runs as an unconditional post-startup step (like the existing
widget backfill), not a numbered migration -- it depends on calendar
widgets already existing, which themselves come from that same
backfill step, not from schema migration. Registering it as a numbered
migration would have run it first during a real upgrade, silently
dropping every row; caught by a new test that exercises the raw-SQL
upgrade path instead of the fresh-install create_all() shortcut every
other migration test takes.
API layer: every endpoint that used to assume "the frame's widget of
this type" (photo queue/thumbnail/preview, calendar select/color/
tasks/weather, whiteboard source/browse/preview) moved into
api_widgets.py under /api/frames/{id}/widgets/{widget_id}/..., with a
new require_widget_view/control dependency pair mirroring the existing
frame-level ones. Device status (battery/last-seen/firmware) got its
own frame-level /status endpoint, split out of the old photo-specific
/queue it used to piggyback on -- fixes the status bar going silently
blank on any frame without a photo widget.
UI layer: each widget type's existing settings markup/JS was ported
into a dialog partial + an explicit init/close function pair (the
content is now fetched and injected on demand, not loaded at page load
time). window.FRAME_API is repointed to the open dialog's widget-scoped
API base for its duration and restored on close; a separate
window.FRAME_BASE_API stays stable for the always-present header/
status-bar scripts.
Caught during manual browser testing: the consolidated config-save
endpoint initially expected a JSON body while the copied-over dialog JS
posts form-urlencoded data (the old convention) -- fixed to match, with
new HTTP-level test coverage that would have caught it immediately.
device.py's mode-keyed dispatch is replaced by a real compositor:
load a frame's widgets, compute pixel rects via app/grid.py, render
each through its widget module, and composite with render_panel.
Physical NEXT/BACK buttons now execute each frame's assigned
FrameButtonAction rows instead of one hardcoded per-mode action.
api_frames.py, manage.py, and common.py's build_manage_content are
repointed to read/write the frame's widget config rows instead of
the old Frame columns, and every settings page (Photos/Calendar/
Whiteboard tabs) now pre-fills its form from the same widget config
the write endpoints actually save to -- previously the read and
write sides would have silently diverged. The old mode selector and
photo-inlay checkbox are removed along with their now-inert wiring;
arbitrary widget placement subsumes what the fixed inlay split did.
Ships together with Phase 1 (per-type render/action modules) since
splitting the read/write cutover across deploys would have left
settings changes with no visible effect.
New third mode alongside photos/calendar: fetches a .whiteboard file
over plain WebDAV (Basic auth -- generic, not Nextcloud-specific) and
renders it via a small Node.js sidecar using Excalidraw's own real
export code (@excalidraw/utils + @resvg/resvg-js, no headless browser),
since a .whiteboard file turns out to be Excalidraw scene JSON, not an
image. The sidecar runs as a second process inside this same container
(Dockerfile installs Node, start.sh backgrounds it before exec'ing
uvicorn) rather than a separate docker-compose service -- lightweight,
stateless, reachable only at 127.0.0.1 from the Python process, nothing
worth independently scaling.
The rendered PNG is treated exactly like a photo from there on --
composed/quantized through the existing image_pipeline (letterboxed,
never cropped) rather than a second parallel rendering pipeline.
WebDAV credentials support the common "it's actually the same Nextcloud
account as my CalDAV" case (an explicit opt-in checkbox, not silently
inferred) while still working with any WebDAV server generically.
Frame-level source (URL + owning account) follows the same owner-
controls-their-own-data permission split as calendar sources and the
week view's task list: only the account owner can point a frame at it,
anyone linked can clear it.
Honest limitation: this environment has no Node.js/npm, so
render-service/ is written carefully against each library's documented
API (verified via the npm registry, including transitive dependency
licenses after the CalDAV/AGPL surprise earlier this session) but has
never actually been executed. First real docker build is the first
true test -- see render-service/README.md.
Frame name (pencil-icon inline edit) and the Photos/Calendar mode
selector now live in the page header, shared across all four per-frame
pages instead of being buried in the Configuration form -- so renaming
a frame or flipping its mode no longer requires navigating to a
specific tab first.
Calendar settings move out of a conditionally-hidden card on the
Configuration tab into their own dedicated tab (new /frames/{id}/
calendar route), visually greyed out when the frame is in Photos mode
but still fully usable so calendar settings can be configured ahead of
switching modes. Also wires the week-start setting into the UI for the
first time (the column/backend support landed earlier but had no
control anywhere).
tfaour
Thomas Faour