Drop the last legacy widget-system and shared-token auth scaffolding

Server: migration 41 drops the pre-widget-system Frame columns
(mode/album_id/current_asset_id/queue/calendar_*/whiteboard_*, etc)
docs/widgets.md flagged as the deliberately-deferred Phase 6 cleanup,
with a raw-SQL backfill safety net for any frame that still somehow
lacks a Widget. Also drops legacy_token_enabled and the shared
MANAGEMENT_TOKEN fallback it gated in require_device/require_browser --
the per-frame manage_token/device_token flow (and the /m/ page) fully
supersede it now; MANAGEMENT_TOKEN's only remaining role is the
optional pre-setup claim gate. Confirmed with the maintainer that the
deployed frame is already off the shared token before removing the
server-side fallback.

Firmware: the captive portal's "Access Token" field and its NVS/
build_url plumbing only ever mattered for pointing new firmware at an
old pre-multi-frame server -- gone along with the server-side fallback
it fed. Version bump to publish the change.

.claude/skills/build-firmware/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: build-firmware
+description: Compile the espresso_frame ESP32-C6 firmware (firmware/) for both board variants without Docker -- a native, non-container ESP-IDF v6.0 install. Use when asked to build the firmware, verify a firmware/main/*.c change actually compiles, or check both the devkit and xiao board targets.
+---
+
+Compiles `firmware/` (ESP-IDF, targeting ESP32-C6) locally, without
+Docker -- CI's `firmware-build-check.yml`/`firmware-release-build.yml`
+build inside the `espressif/idf:release-v6.0` container image, but
+**this sandbox cannot run containers at all**: `docker.io` installs and
+`dockerd` starts fine even as root, but the sandbox strips
+`cap_sys_admin` (and blocks the bare `unshare` syscall) from the
+capability set regardless of uid, which container image-layer
+extraction and namespace setup both require. Confirmed by hand:
+`docker run hello-world` fails to extract even the tiny hello-world
+layer ("failed to extract layer... operation not permitted" with the
+overlayfs snapshotter; "unshare: operation not permitted" even with
+the vfs storage driver instead). This is a hard restriction of the
+sandbox itself, not a permissions/setup problem -- don't spend time
+re-trying `--privileged`-equivalent flags or alternate storage drivers,
+none of it routes around a missing `cap_sys_admin`.
+
+The workaround: skip containers entirely and install ESP-IDF the same
+way a developer would set it up on their own machine (`git clone` +
+ESP-IDF's own `install.sh`) -- that path needs nothing this sandbox
+disallows, just normal file/process operations.
+
+## Setup (once per fresh container)
+
+```bash
+bash .claude/skills/build-firmware/setup.sh
+```
+
+Installs (via real `apt-get` -- this container actually has root and a
+working package manager, unlike run-server's Chromium bootstrap which
+had neither):
+- OS build deps: `python3`/`venv`/`pip`, `cmake`, `ninja-build`,
+  `flex`/`bison`/`gperf`, `build-essential`, `libusb-1.0-0`.
+- ESP-IDF itself: a shallow, single-branch, recursive-submodule clone
+  of `release/v6.0` (~700MB) into `~/.espressif-idf/esp-idf` -- matches
+  the IDF version CI's Docker image pins. Only clones once; re-running
+  `setup.sh` never touches an existing checkout.
+- The esp32c6 toolchain + Python venv, via ESP-IDF's own
+  `./install.sh esp32c6` -- scoped to just this project's one target
+  (see `firmware/README.md`'s board table), not every chip ESP-IDF
+  supports, to keep the download/disk footprint down. `install.sh` is
+  already idempotent on its own, so `setup.sh` always calls it rather
+  than duplicating that check -- a re-run costs a few seconds once
+  everything's cached.
+
+Takes a few minutes on a cold run (mostly `install.sh`'s own pip/tool
+downloads), well under a minute on a re-run. Needs real root (`apt-get
+install`) -- if this container ever runs as non-root, this setup
+doesn't apply as-is (would need the same non-root apt-download +
+`dpkg-deb -x` extraction dance `run-server`'s `setup.sh` uses for
+Chromium).
+
+Disk: budget ~4GB free before starting (esp-idf checkout + toolchain +
+Python env land around 3.4GB in `~/.espressif`, plus the ~700MB
+checkout itself). Confirmed working with as little as ~7GB free.
+
+## Build
+
+```bash
+bash .claude/skills/build-firmware/build.sh            # devkit (default)
+bash .claude/skills/build-firmware/build.sh xiao
+bash .claude/skills/build-firmware/build.sh both        # both variants
+```
+
+Each board gets its own build directory and generated sdkconfig (see
+`firmware/build_for_board.sh`'s own comment) -- building one never
+disturbs the other. `build.sh` auto-runs `set-target esp32c6` the very
+first time a board is built (no generated sdkconfig yet); later builds
+skip straight to `idf.py build`. Extra arguments pass straight through
+to `idf.py`, e.g.:
+
+```bash
+bash .claude/skills/build-firmware/build.sh xiao flash -p /dev/ttyUSB0
+```
+
+`flash`/`monitor` need an actual attached device and serial port --
+this sandbox has neither, so those only work when this skill runs
+somewhere hardware is actually plugged in (a real dev machine, or a
+differently-configured environment with device passthrough).
+
+A clean build of one board takes ~30s once the target's already been
+configured (~1,000 build steps total split across both boards, most of
+it ESP-IDF's own components -- this project's own `firmware/main/*.c`
+and `firmware/components/*` sources are a small fraction of that and
+compile in a few seconds). Output lands at
+`firmware/build/espresso_frame.bin` (devkit) or
+`firmware/build_xiao/espresso_frame.bin` (xiao) -- both paths are
+gitignored (`firmware/.gitignore`... actually the repo root
+`.gitignore`'s "ESP-IDF firmware build output" section), so nothing
+here needs cleaning up before a commit.
+
+## Verified
+
+Both board variants (`devkit` set-target esp32c6 + build, `xiao`
+set-target esp32c6 + build) built successfully end-to-end using this
+exact setup.sh/build.sh pair, producing real
+`espresso_frame.bin` images with normal free-space margins (41%/36%
+of their respective app partitions) and no errors -- only one
+pre-existing, unrelated warning (`battery.c`'s unused `TAG` when that
+file's logging is compiled out). This is a real compile check, not
+just a syntax read -- if a future change breaks the build, this skill
+will actually catch it.
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+- **`docker: ... unshare: operation not permitted` / `failed to
+  extract layer ... operation not permitted`**: expected in this
+  sandbox, see the top of this file. Don't debug it further -- use this
+  skill's native install instead.
+- **`ESP-IDF not found at ... -- run setup.sh first`**: `build.sh`'s
+  own check for a missing `$IDF_DIR/export.sh` -- run `setup.sh` (see
+  above) before the first build.
+- **`idf.py: command not found` if you try to run it directly**: same
+  gotcha `firmware/build_for_board.sh` already documents -- `idf.py` is
+  normally a shell *function* from ESP-IDF's `export.sh`, not on PATH
+  as a real executable, so it isn't inherited into a script's own
+  subshell even after sourcing `export.sh` in your interactive shell
+  first. Use `build.sh` (or `build_for_board.sh`, which calls
+  `python "$IDF_PATH/tools/idf.py"` directly) instead of typing
+  `idf.py` in a fresh script/subshell.
+- **Disk pressure during `install.sh`**: this environment runs close to
+  full (single-digit GB free is normal, not a sign of a leak) --
+  `df -h /` before running `setup.sh` if a build mysteriously fails
+  partway with a "no space left on device"-shaped error.

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Builds (or flashes/monitors, if a serial port is actually attached)
+# the espresso_frame firmware for one board variant, via the project's
+# own firmware/build_for_board.sh -- this script just sources the
+# ESP-IDF environment first and auto-runs `set-target esp32c6` on a
+# board's very first build (a fresh clone has no generated sdkconfig
+# yet, same reasoning as CI's own build steps -- see firmware/README.md's
+# "Building for the Seeed XIAO ESP32-C6" section).
+#
+# Usage:
+#   build.sh                        # build devkit (default)
+#   build.sh devkit
+#   build.sh xiao
+#   build.sh both                   # build both board variants
+#   build.sh xiao flash -p /dev/ttyUSB0   # only meaningful with real hardware attached
+set -euo pipefail
+
+script_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+firmware_dir="$(git -C "$script_dir" rev-parse --show-toplevel)/firmware"
+
+IDF_DIR="$HOME/.espressif-idf/esp-idf"
+if [ ! -f "$IDF_DIR/export.sh" ]; then
+  echo "ESP-IDF not found at $IDF_DIR -- run setup.sh first" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+# export.sh is chatty and assumes an interactive shell prompt in spots;
+# redirect its own stdout, not ours, so build.sh's actual output (and a
+# real failure's stderr) stays visible.
+source "$IDF_DIR/export.sh" > /dev/null
+
+cd "$firmware_dir"
+
+build_one() {
+  local board="$1"
+  shift
+  local sdkconfig
+  case "$board" in
+    devkit) sdkconfig="sdkconfig" ;;
+    xiao) sdkconfig="sdkconfig.xiao_local" ;;
+    *) echo "Unknown board '$board' -- expected 'devkit' or 'xiao'" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+  esac
+
+  if [ ! -f "$sdkconfig" ]; then
+    echo "==> $board: no generated sdkconfig yet, setting target esp32c6"
+    ./build_for_board.sh "$board" set-target esp32c6
+  fi
+
+  local args=("$@")
+  if [ ${#args[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+    args=(build)
+  fi
+  ./build_for_board.sh "$board" "${args[@]}"
+}
+
+board="${1:-devkit}"
+shift || true
+
+if [ "$board" = "both" ]; then
+  build_one devkit "$@"
+  build_one xiao "$@"
+else
+  build_one "$board" "$@"
+fi

.claude/skills/build-firmware/setup.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# One-time (idempotent) environment bootstrap for compiling the
+# espresso_frame firmware (firmware/) without Docker -- see this
+# skill's SKILL.md for why not Docker, even though that's what CI uses.
+# Re-run any time; every step is safe/fast to repeat once already done.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+IDF_ROOT="$HOME/.espressif-idf"
+IDF_DIR="$IDF_ROOT/esp-idf"
+# Matches the espressif/idf:release-v6.0 image CI's
+# firmware-build-check.yml/firmware-release-build.yml use -- keep this
+# in sync with those workflow files if the project's pinned IDF version
+# ever changes.
+IDF_BRANCH="release/v6.0"
+
+# 1. OS packages ESP-IDF's own install.sh needs (python3 + venv/pip,
+# cmake, ninja, a C toolchain for the odd host-side code generator, git
+# for the clone below, flex/bison/gperf for mbedtls/etc.'s generated
+# parsers, libusb for esptool's USB/JTAG bits even though this skill
+# doesn't flash real hardware). Installed via apt with real root --
+# unlike run-server's Chromium bootstrap, this container actually has
+# root and a working apt, so no non-root extraction dance is needed
+# here.
+PKGS="git python3 python3-venv python3-pip cmake ninja-build ccache libusb-1.0-0 wget flex bison gperf build-essential"
+missing=()
+for pkg in $PKGS; do
+  dpkg -s "$pkg" >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing+=("$pkg")
+done
+if [ ${#missing[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+  echo "installing OS packages: ${missing[*]}"
+  apt-get update
+  DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y "${missing[@]}"
+fi
+
+# 2. ESP-IDF checkout -- shallow, single branch, recursive submodules
+# also shallow (~700MB total, vs. several GB for a full clone). Only
+# clones once; re-running this script never re-clones or resets it, so
+# any local changes you made for debugging survive a re-run.
+if [ ! -d "$IDF_DIR/.git" ]; then
+  echo "cloning esp-idf $IDF_BRANCH into $IDF_DIR ..."
+  mkdir -p "$IDF_ROOT"
+  git clone --branch "$IDF_BRANCH" --depth 1 --shallow-submodules --recursive \
+    https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf.git "$IDF_DIR"
+else
+  echo "esp-idf already cloned at $IDF_DIR"
+fi
+
+# 3. Toolchain + Python virtualenv, scoped to esp32c6 only -- this
+# project's one target (see firmware/README.md's board table). Scoping
+# avoids downloading toolchains for every chip ESP-IDF supports, which
+# matters given this container's disk headroom. install.sh is already
+# idempotent on its own (checks what's present and skips it), so this
+# always calls it rather than trying to duplicate that check here --
+# a re-run only costs a few seconds once everything's cached.
+echo "running esp-idf install.sh esp32c6 (fast if already installed) ..."
+(cd "$IDF_DIR" && ./install.sh esp32c6)
+
+echo "setup complete -> $IDF_DIR/export.sh (build.sh sources this for you)"

.claude/skills/make-widget/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: make-widget
+description: Scaffold a new widget type for the espresso_frame server (the ~14-file checklist a widget type touches -- config table, grid footprint, render module, registry, migration, config-save + endpoints, dialog template + JS, script tag, WIDGET_LABELS, docs, saved-layout config allowlist, tests). Use when asked to add a new widget type to a frame's panel (e.g. "add a text widget", "add an RSS widget", "add a weather-only widget").
+---
+
+Adding a widget type is a very consistent, repeated pattern in this
+codebase (`photos`/`calendar`/`whiteboard`/`tasks`/`static`) -- see
+`docs/widgets.md` for the system's actual data model/rendering/dialog
+architecture (read that first if you haven't). This skill is the
+checklist of every file that pattern touches, so nothing gets silently
+dropped (the static-image widget shipped without a `docs/widgets.md`
+update; this skill exists so that doesn't keep happening).
+
+**For a complete worked example touching every item below**, `git show
+35e80c6 --stat` (the static-image widget's commit) in this repo.
+
+All paths below are relative to `server/`.
+
+## Before writing any code: shape decisions
+
+Answer these first -- they determine which existing widget type is the
+closest template to copy from:
+
+- **Live upstream to poll, or self-contained/user-authored?** Calendar/
+  whiteboard/tasks fetch from somewhere external on a throttle
+  (`checked_at` + `get_or_refresh_*` in `routers/common.py`). Photos'
+  queue and the static image widget don't -- their content is set once
+  via the dialog (an upload, a pick) and just sits there until changed.
+  A text widget is almost certainly this second shape.
+- **Single source, or multi-source merge?** Calendar/tasks merge
+  several *people's* data (`FrameCalendar`/`FrameTaskList`, owner-adds/
+  anyone-mutes). Only reach for that shape if the new type genuinely
+  needs to combine several linked users' own data -- most new widget
+  types are single-owner/single-config and don't need it.
+- **Any button actions**, or is `ACTIONS = {}` correct (nothing to
+  advance/back/force)? Tasks and static image are both `{}`.
+- **Minimum sane grid footprint** -- how small can this widget be
+  before its content is illegible/pointless?
+
+Pick your template accordingly:
+
+| New widget shape | Copy from |
+|---|---|
+| Self-contained, user-authored/uploaded, no fetch, no actions | `app/widgets/static_image.py` |
+| Single external source, throttled fetch, one "check_now" action | `app/widgets/whiteboard.py` |
+| Multi-source merge, owner-adds/anyone-mutes permissions | `app/widgets/tasks.py` (simpler) or `calendar.py` (also has size-tier rendering) |
+| Stateful queue/rotation with advance/back | `app/widgets/photos.py` |
+
+## The checklist
+
+1. **`app/models.py`** -- new `<Type>WidgetConfig` table, `widget_id`
+   `Mapped[int]` primary key `ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE")`,
+   plus whatever fields the type needs. Add it to the `WIDGET_CONFIG_MODELS`
+   dict at the bottom of the file.
+2. **`app/grid.py`** -- add an entry to `MIN_FOOTPRINT`.
+3. **`app/widgets/<type>.py`** -- new module exposing:
+   - `render(db, frame, widget, target_w, target_h, is_normal_wake=True) -> Image.Image`
+     -- RGB, exactly `target_w x target_h`, **never raises** for a
+     foreseeable failure (missing config, fetch error) -- fall back to
+     `._shared.placeholder_image(target_w, target_h, [lines])` instead.
+   - `ACTIONS: dict[str, Callable[[Session, Frame, Widget], None]]`
+   - `ACTION_LABELS: dict[str, str]`
+4. **`app/widgets/__init__.py`** -- import the new module, add it to
+   `WIDGET_TYPES`.
+5. **`app/migration.py`** -- new `_migration_N`. A brand-new table with
+   no legacy data to carry forward is just
+   `Base.metadata.create_all(bind=conn)` (see `_migration_20`) -- it
+   only creates the one new table, existing ones are untouched. Register
+   `(N, _migration_N)` as the new last entry in `MIGRATIONS`.
+6. **`app/routers/api_widgets.py`**:
+   - Add any new `Form(...)` fields to `api_widget_config_save`'s
+     signature, and a new `elif widget.widget_type == "<type>":` branch
+     inside its body. Reuse an existing field name (e.g. `display_mode`)
+     where the semantics genuinely match -- fields are namespaced by
+     which widget type actually reads them, not by name collision, so
+     this is safe (see the comment above `display_mode` in that
+     function).
+   - Add type-specific endpoints as needed (upload/source-select/etc.).
+     Use `require_widget_control` for widget-wide settings a dialog Save
+     button changes; use `require_widget_view` (not control) for the
+     owner-adds/anyone-mutes multi-source pattern, matching
+     `api_widget_calendar_select`/`api_widget_task_list_select`.
+   - Add a `GET .../preview/<type>` endpoint mirroring the others --
+     `render_preview_png` (the full palette/dither pipeline) for
+     image-like content, or a dedicated `render_<type>_preview_png` in a
+     rendering module for text/graphics content (see
+     `calendar_render.render_tasks_preview_png`).
+7. **`app/routers/frame_pages.py`** -- import the new config model, add
+   an `if widget.widget_type == "<type>":` branch in `widget_dialog()`
+   returning `templates.TemplateResponse("_widget_dialog_<type>.html", {...})`.
+8. **`app/templates/_widget_dialog_<type>.html`** -- the dialog
+   fragment: settings card(s) + `<img class="preview-img"
+   id="<type>-preview">` + a refresh button, using the existing
+   `.card`/`.card-title`/`.sub`/`.checkbox-row` classes from
+   `theme.css` rather than inventing new ones.
+9. **`app/static/widget_dialog_<type>.js`** -- an `init<Type>Dialog()`/
+   `close<Type>Dialog()` pair (not a page-load script -- see any
+   existing `widget_dialog_*.js`'s header comment for the contract).
+   `window.fetch` already CSRF-injects (see `common.js`), so POSTs don't
+   need a manual header. **Never build user-supplied text into the DOM
+   via `innerHTML` string interpolation** -- use `textContent`/
+   `createElement` (a filename, a task summary, anything another linked
+   user's account could have set is a stored-XSS vector otherwise).
+10. **`app/templates/frame_layout.html`** -- add
+    `<script src="/static/widget_dialog_<type>.js"></script>` next to
+    the other widget dialog scripts.
+11. **`app/static/frame_layout.js`** -- add the type to both
+    `DIALOG_INIT` and `DIALOG_CLOSE`.
+12. **`app/static/common.js`** -- add a `WIDGET_LABELS` entry (the
+    human label shown in the add-widget button, the widget box, and the
+    button-assignment picker in `frame_config.js`).
+13. **`docs/widgets.md`** -- update every place that enumerates widget
+    types: the intro sentence, the `widget_type` column-value list, the
+    `MIN_FOOTPRINT` prose line, the `app/widgets/` module list. This is
+    the project's own "start here" doc per `CLAUDE.md` -- don't ship a
+    widget without it staying accurate.
+14. **`app/routers/api_layouts.py`** -- add a `"<type>": (...)` entry to
+    `LAYOUT_CONFIG_FIELDS` listing the config columns that are an
+    authored *setting* (as opposed to runtime/cache state like a fetch
+    cache or queue position, which a saved layout deliberately leaves
+    out -- see the dict's own comment). Skipping this doesn't error or
+    warn anywhere: the widget just silently saves/applies with an empty
+    `{}` config forever, resetting to defaults on every layout apply or
+    hold-to-cycle. This actually shipped missing for the weather widget
+    -- caught only because a user noticed layout-cycling kept resetting
+    its city/mode.
+
+## Tests (`server/tests/`)
+
+- `test_widgets_<type>.py` -- unit-level `render()` tests, no HTTP:
+  correct size/mode with no config, with config, at
+  `grid.MIN_FOOTPRINT`'s smallest box, `ACTIONS == {}` if passive.
+  Mirror `test_widgets_static.py` (self-contained) or
+  `test_widgets_tasks.py` (fetch-backed, monkeypatches the fetch call).
+- `test_widget_config_and_queue_endpoints.py` -- add a
+  `_add_<type>_widget` helper plus an HTTP-level
+  `test_config_save_updates_a_<type>_widget` test, and tests for any new
+  endpoints (upload/select/preview: 400 before configured, 200 after,
+  400 for the wrong widget type via `_require_widget_type`).
+- `test_migrations.py` -- add the new table to
+  `test_expected_columns_exist_on_current_schema`'s spot-check
+  (`inspector.get_table_names()` or `inspector.get_columns(...)`).
+- Owner-adds/anyone-mutes multi-source table? Add cases to
+  `test_permission_boundaries.py` following its existing
+  calendar-select/task-list-select pattern (owner can add, non-owner
+  can mute but not add, 404 for an unrelated widget id, 400 for the
+  wrong widget type).
+- Any pure-logic helper module (decoding, parsing -- like
+  `app/image_upload.py`) gets its own `test_<module>.py`: no HTTP, no
+  DB, just the function.
+- `test_saved_layouts.py` -- a `test_save_and_apply_round_trip_<type>_settings`
+  test: set every field the new `LAYOUT_CONFIG_FIELDS` entry lists,
+  save a layout, assert the `SavedLayoutWidget.config` snapshot has them
+  all, delete the frame's widgets, apply the layout back, assert the
+  new widget's config matches -- and that any runtime/cache field
+  (`checked_at`, a fetch cache, a queue) was *not* carried over. See
+  `test_save_and_apply_round_trip_weather_settings` for the pattern.
+
+Run the full suite before calling it done:
+
+```bash
+cd server && .venv/bin/pytest -q
+```
+
+Comfortably under 30s for the whole suite (~200+ tests) -- there's no
+reason to skip this or run a subset.
+
+## Browser verification (required, not optional)
+
+Per `CLAUDE.md`, reading the JS is not enough -- this project has
+shipped UI bugs (mobile viewport CSS collapse, a dialog's status message
+landing behind its own backdrop, a JSON/form body mismatch) that only
+showed up live. Use the `run-server` skill:
+
+- Clear existing widgets and add one of the new type
+  (`POST /api/frames/1/widgets`), resize it (`PATCH`), open its dialog
+  (`click .widget-box-settings`), exercise its actual settings/upload
+  flow through the real UI controls (not just a raw `fetch` in `eval` --
+  that only proves the endpoint works, not that the button is wired to
+  it), and check `console-errors` for anything beyond the expected
+  favicon 404.
+- Check the full composited panel preview
+  (`#frame-preview-thumb` on `/frames/{id}/config`) actually shows the
+  new widget's content -- not just its own dialog's `preview/<type>`
+  image, which only proves the render function works in isolation.
+- Screenshot **both** desktop (`viewport 1280 900`) and mobile
+  (the driver's default) widths -- the layout genuinely forks at the
+  860px breakpoint in `theme.css`.
+
+## Commit
+
+One commit for the whole widget (models + migration + render + router +
+UI + tests + docs) -- this project's convention is one feature per
+commit, not split by layer. No `Co-Authored-By: Claude` trailer (see
+root `CLAUDE.md`).

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+# Generated by setup.sh -- bakes in this host's /tmp paths, not portable.
+env.sh

.claude/skills/run-server/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: run-server
+description: Build, run, and drive the espresso_frame FastAPI server (server/) -- start it against a scratch DB, browser-test its UI, run its pytest suite. Use when asked to start the server, take a screenshot of a frame page, click through the web UI, or verify a server/UI change actually works.
+---
+
+The espresso_frame server is a FastAPI app (`app.main:app`) with a
+server-rendered Jinja UI. For agent/automated use it's driven by a
+Playwright REPL at `.claude/skills/run-server/driver.py`, run under
+tmux -- `chromium-cli` isn't available in this container, so this
+driver replaces it (same command vocabulary: nav/wait-for/click/fill/
+screenshot/eval/console-errors).
+
+This container ships with **no Python, Node, Docker, or browser, and
+no sudo**. `setup.sh` bootstraps everything non-root; it's the bulk of
+what makes this skill non-obvious. Run it once per fresh container.
+
+Commands below (`setup.sh`, `start-server.sh`, `stop-server.sh`,
+`env.sh`, `driver.py`) are invoked from the **repo root** via their
+`.claude/skills/run-server/` path -- the scripts `cd` into `server/`
+themselves. Anything under `.venv/` (the venv itself, `pytest`,
+`uvicorn`) lives inside `server/`, so those commands need `server/`
+prefixed or `cd server` first.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+None to install manually -- `setup.sh` does it all without root, using
+only `curl`/`apt-get download`/`dpkg-deb -x` (never `apt-get install`,
+which needs root). It downloads ~450MB total (Python, Chromium, tmux,
+shared libs) on first run.
+
+```bash
+bash .claude/skills/run-server/setup.sh
+```
+
+Re-running is safe and fast -- every step checks whether it already
+happened (venv exists? chromium downloaded? libs extracted? tmux
+present?) before doing any work.
+
+This creates:
+- `.venv/` -- Python 3.12 + `requirements.txt` + `playwright`, via `uv`
+  (a static Rust binary that fetches its own Python -- no compiler
+  needed, install via `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`)
+- `~/.cache/ms-playwright/` -- Chromium (full `chrome` + headless-shell)
+- `/tmp/run-server-chromium-deps/` -- Chromium's + tmux's shared libs
+  and fonts, extracted (not installed) from `.deb` files
+- `.claude/skills/run-server/env.sh` -- the `PATH`/`LD_LIBRARY_PATH`/
+  `FONTCONFIG_PATH`/`RUN_SERVER_CHROME_BIN` exports the driver needs
+  (gitignored -- host-specific `/tmp` paths, regenerated by setup.sh)
+
+## Run (agent path)
+
+**1. Start the server** against a scratch DB (never the real
+deployment's data -- see `CLAUDE.md`):
+
+```bash
+bash .claude/skills/run-server/start-server.sh
+# -> server PID <pid> up on http://127.0.0.1:8420 (log: /tmp/run-server-scratch/server.log)
+```
+
+Optional args: `start-server.sh [scratch-dir] [port]` (defaults
+`/tmp/run-server-scratch` / `8420`).
+
+**2. Drive it**, wrapped in tmux so you can send one command at a time
+and read the response before sending the next. `tmux` itself was
+extracted the same non-root way as Chromium's libs (see Prerequisites)
+and needs `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` set in *this* shell too, not just inside
+the pane -- source `env.sh` before the first `tmux` call:
+
+```bash
+source .claude/skills/run-server/env.sh
+tmux new-session -d -s runserver -x 200 -y 50
+tmux send-keys -t runserver \
+  'source .claude/skills/run-server/env.sh && server/.venv/bin/python .claude/skills/run-server/driver.py' Enter
+timeout 20 bash -c 'until tmux capture-pane -t runserver -p | grep -q "driver>"; do sleep 0.3; done'
+
+# Every fresh scratch DB starts with no users -- bootstrap-admin
+# completes first-run /setup and logs in (see Commands table):
+tmux send-keys -t runserver 'bootstrap-admin' Enter
+timeout 15 bash -c 'until tmux capture-pane -t runserver -p | grep -q "bootstrapped admin"; do sleep 0.3; done'
+
+tmux send-keys -t runserver 'nav /frames/1/config' Enter
+tmux send-keys -t runserver 'wait-for #frame-preview-thumb' Enter
+tmux send-keys -t runserver 'screenshot before' Enter
+tmux capture-pane -t runserver -p
+```
+
+Poll for a specific marker between `send-keys` and `capture-pane`
+(`driver>`, `bootstrapped admin`, `screenshot:`, ...) rather than a
+fixed `sleep` -- it's faster and fails loudly instead of capturing a
+half-rendered screen. Give each poll its own `timeout` (~15-20s); don't
+chain many polling loops inside one shell invocation -- see Gotchas.
+
+Screenshots land in `/tmp/run-server-shots/` (override:
+`SCREENSHOT_DIR`). **Actually look at them** -- a blank or error-page
+screenshot is a failure to launch, not success.
+
+**Test every UI change at both a desktop and a mobile viewport.** The
+driver defaults to a desktop size (1280x900); switch with `viewport`.
+The app's mobile breakpoint is 860px (`theme.css`) -- below that the
+sidebar goes off-canvas behind a hamburger (`.mobile-bar`). A page that
+looks right at 1280px can still overflow, overlap the mobile bar, or
+mis-center a `<dialog>` at phone widths -- screenshot both:
+
+```bash
+tmux send-keys -t runserver 'viewport 1280 900' Enter   # desktop (also the default)
+tmux send-keys -t runserver 'screenshot desktop-x' Enter
+tmux send-keys -t runserver 'viewport 390 844' Enter     # iPhone-ish mobile width
+tmux send-keys -t runserver 'screenshot mobile-x' Enter
+```
+
+### Driver commands
+
+| command | what it does |
+|---|---|
+| `nav <path-or-url>` | navigate (relative paths resolve against `http://127.0.0.1:8420`, override with `RUN_SERVER_BASE_URL`) |
+| `wait-for <selector>` | wait up to 10s for a selector (plain CSS -- see Gotchas for attribute selectors) |
+| `click <selector>` | click an element |
+| `fill <selector> <value>` | fill an input |
+| `press <key>` | keyboard press (e.g. `Enter`) |
+| `screenshot [name]` | → `/tmp/run-server-shots/<name>.png` |
+| `eval <js>` | evaluate JS in the page, prints JSON |
+| `console-errors` | prints all captured console/page errors as a JSON array |
+| `viewport [w] [h]` | resize the viewport, default `390 844` -- use `1280 900` for desktop (see Gotchas re: real touch input) |
+| `is-open <dialog-selector>` | prints `true`/`false` for a `<dialog>` element's `.open` -- use this instead of `wait-for sel[open]` |
+| `bootstrap-admin [user] [pass]` | completes first-run `/setup` (defaults `admin`/`testpassword123`); links frame #1 and logs in |
+| `quit` | closes the browser, exits the driver |
+
+**3. Stop the server** when done:
+
+```bash
+bash .claude/skills/run-server/stop-server.sh
+tmux kill-session -t runserver
+```
+
+## Run (human path)
+
+```bash
+cd server
+DATABASE_URL="sqlite:////tmp/dev.db" CONFIG_PATH="/tmp/dev-config.json" \
+  .venv/bin/uvicorn app.main:app --reload --port 8420
+```
+
+Open `http://localhost:8420` in a real browser. `start.sh` (the Docker
+entrypoint) is not this -- it also launches the Node whiteboard
+render-service sidecar, which needs Node (not installed here) and
+isn't needed for most UI testing.
+
+## Test
+
+```bash
+cd server && .venv/bin/pytest
+```
+
+Uses its own tempfile SQLite per run (`tests/conftest.py`) -- no setup
+needed beyond the venv.
+
+---
+
+## Gotchas
+
+- **`viewport` only resizes the window -- it does not emulate touch
+  input.** `click` still dispatches a mouse click, not a tap; there's
+  no touch-delay, no `:hover`-stickiness-after-tap, no `hasTouch`
+  context. It catches real bugs (layout overflow, off-canvas sidebar,
+  a `<dialog>` mis-centering at phone widths) but won't catch anything
+  that's specifically a touch-vs-mouse event difference. Good enough
+  for CSS/layout verification; not a substitute for testing on an
+  actual phone if a change touches touch-specific interaction.
+
+- **`chrome-headless-shell` (Playwright's default headless target)
+  crashes on basic calls in this container**, e.g. `page.set_content()`
+  returns `TargetClosedError`, even after every `ldd`-reported missing
+  library is resolved. The full `chrome` binary (`chromium-*/chrome-linux64/chrome`)
+  + `--no-sandbox` is stable; `driver.py` and `setup.sh` both use it,
+  not the headless-shell default.
+
+- **Missing fonts silently break `fill()`, not just rendering.** Before
+  `fontconfig`/`libfontconfig1` were extracted and `fonts.conf` pointed
+  at the extracted font dir, `page.fill()` ran with no error but left
+  inputs empty (`input_value()` returned `""`), and all text rendered
+  invisible in screenshots. It looks like a scripting bug, not a
+  missing-lib problem -- if `fill` silently no-ops, suspect fonts
+  before suspecting the selector or a race.
+
+- **No `apt-get install` / `playwright install-deps` (no root) and no
+  `apt-get update` into the real `/var/lib/apt/lists` (root-owned).**
+  Worked around by redirecting apt's state dirs to a scratch,
+  user-writable path (`-o Dir::State::Lists=... -o Dir::Cache=...`),
+  which makes plain `update` and `install --download-only --print-uris`
+  work as a non-root user; then `dpkg-deb -x <deb> <root>` (extract,
+  not install) needs no root either. `setup.sh` does this for
+  Chromium's deps *and* for `tmux` itself, which also isn't
+  preinstalled.
+
+- **`wait-for` with an attribute selector like `#frame-preview-dialog[open]`
+  is unreliable through `tmux send-keys`** -- shell/tmux escaping of
+  `[`/`]` easily mangles it (seen: a real 10s Playwright timeout from a
+  garbled selector, not a fast failure). Use the app-specific `is-open
+  <selector>` command instead of `wait-for sel[open]` to check a
+  `<dialog>`'s open state.
+
+- **Don't chain many `tmux send-keys` + polling-`timeout` loops inside
+  one shell invocation.** Each poll can legitimately take up to its own
+  timeout (e.g. 15s) if a selector is wrong; five or six chained in one
+  command can add up past this tool's own command timeout even though
+  each individual step is fine. Send one or two commands per shell
+  call and check the pane before continuing.
+
+- **A crashed `chrome-headless-shell` process can leave a large core
+  dump file** (`server/core`, ~170MB, from the crash described above)
+  if core dumps are enabled. It's not part of the app -- delete it, and
+  use full `chrome` (as `driver.py` does) to avoid triggering it again.
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+- **`error while loading shared libraries: libglib-2.0.so.0` (or similar)
+  when launching Chromium directly**: `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` isn't set --
+  source `.claude/skills/run-server/env.sh` first, or run through
+  `driver.py`, which reads `RUN_SERVER_CHROME_BIN` from it.
+- **`fc-list` prints nothing after extracting fonts**: `fonts.conf`'s
+  `<dir>` entries still point at the real (unpopulated) `/usr/share/fonts`.
+  `setup.sh` patches this with `sed`; if you extracted packages by hand,
+  do the same.
+- **`E: Could not open lock file ... Permission denied` from `apt-get`**:
+  you're missing the `-o Dir::State::Lists=... -o Dir::Cache=...`
+  overrides -- plain `apt-get update`/`install` always needs root here.
+- **`tmux: command not found`**: not preinstalled and no sudo; run
+  `setup.sh`, which fetches it the same non-root way as Chromium's libs.
+- **`tmux: error while loading shared libraries: libutempter.so.0`**:
+  you sourced `env.sh` inside the driver's tmux pane but not in the
+  shell that *invokes* `tmux` itself -- `tmux` was extracted from the
+  same non-root `.deb` set as Chromium and needs `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` too.
+  `source .claude/skills/run-server/env.sh` before the first `tmux`
+  command, not just inside `send-keys`.

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""REPL driver for the espresso_frame server's web UI.
+
+Playwright-based since chromium-cli isn't available in this container.
+Reads one command per line from stdin, prints a result line -- built
+for tmux send-keys/capture-pane use by an agent. Vocabulary mirrors
+chromium-cli where it overlaps (nav/wait-for/click/fill/screenshot/
+eval/console-errors).
+
+Requires setup.sh to have run first (Python venv + Playwright Chromium
++ the non-root shared-lib/font extraction). Run via:
+
+    .claude/skills/run-server/env.sh sourced, then
+    server/.venv/bin/python .claude/skills/run-server/driver.py
+
+See SKILL.md for the full agent-path invocation (tmux wrapping etc).
+"""
+import glob
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+
+from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
+
+SHOT_DIR = os.environ.get("SCREENSHOT_DIR", "/tmp/run-server-shots")
+os.makedirs(SHOT_DIR, exist_ok=True)
+BASE = os.environ.get("RUN_SERVER_BASE_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:8420")
+
+
+def find_chrome() -> str:
+    override = os.environ.get("RUN_SERVER_CHROME_BIN")
+    if override and os.path.exists(override):
+        return override
+    matches = glob.glob(os.path.expanduser("~/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-*/chrome-linux64/chrome"))
+    if not matches:
+        sys.exit("chrome binary not found -- run setup.sh first")
+    return matches[0]
+
+
+pw = sync_playwright().start()
+# The FULL `chrome` binary, not chrome-headless-shell (Playwright's
+# default headless target): chrome-headless-shell crashed on basic
+# calls like set_content() in this container even once every
+# ldd-reported missing lib was resolved. Full chrome + --no-sandbox is
+# stable here.
+browser = pw.chromium.launch(executable_path=find_chrome(), args=["--no-sandbox"])
+page = browser.new_page(viewport={"width": 1280, "height": 900})
+console_errors: list[str] = []
+page.on("console", lambda msg: console_errors.append(msg.text) if msg.type == "error" else None)
+page.on("pageerror", lambda exc: console_errors.append(str(exc)))
+# Playwright auto-DISMISSES native confirm()/alert() dialogs by default
+# (returns false) -- several destructive actions in this app (remove
+# widget, clear all widgets) gate on `confirm()`, so without this a
+# `click` on one of those buttons would silently no-op. Auto-accept
+# instead, since a driver testing a "yes, do the destructive thing"
+# flow needs the confirm to actually go through.
+page.on("dialog", lambda dialog: dialog.accept())
+
+
+def cmd_nav(arg):
+    url = arg if arg.startswith("http") else BASE + arg
+    page.goto(url)
+    print("nav ->", page.url)
+
+
+def cmd_wait_for(arg):
+    page.wait_for_selector(arg, timeout=10000)
+    print("found:", arg)
+
+
+def cmd_click(arg):
+    page.click(arg)
+    print("clicked:", arg)
+
+
+def cmd_fill(arg):
+    sel, _, value = arg.partition(" ")
+    page.fill(sel, value)
+    print("filled:", sel, "=", value)
+
+
+def cmd_press(arg):
+    page.keyboard.press(arg)
+    print("pressed:", arg)
+
+
+def cmd_screenshot(arg):
+    name = arg or f"ss-{len(os.listdir(SHOT_DIR))}"
+    path = os.path.join(SHOT_DIR, name + ".png")
+    page.screenshot(path=path)
+    print("screenshot:", path)
+
+
+def cmd_eval(arg):
+    try:
+        print(json.dumps(page.evaluate(arg)))
+    except Exception as e:
+        print("ERROR:", e)
+
+
+def cmd_console_errors(_arg):
+    print(json.dumps(console_errors))
+
+
+def cmd_viewport(arg):
+    """Resize the viewport. No args -> 390x844 (iPhone-ish mobile
+    width); the page itself starts at 1280x900 (desktop) on launch, so
+    `viewport 1280 900` gets back to that. The app's mobile breakpoint
+    is 860px (see theme.css) -- anything under that exercises the
+    off-canvas sidebar/mobile-bar layout."""
+    parts = arg.split()
+    width = int(parts[0]) if len(parts) > 0 else 390
+    height = int(parts[1]) if len(parts) > 1 else 844
+    page.set_viewport_size({"width": width, "height": height})
+    print("viewport:", width, "x", height)
+
+
+def cmd_is_open(arg):
+    """App-specific: print whether a <dialog> element is open (true/false)."""
+    print(json.dumps(page.eval_on_selector(arg, "el => el.open")))
+
+
+def cmd_bootstrap_admin(arg):
+    """App-specific: complete first-run /setup (username/password args,
+    default admin/testpassword123). Every scratch DB starts with no
+    users, and /setup is the only way in -- it also auto-links the
+    pre-existing frame #1 (created by migrations) to the new admin, so
+    /frames/1/... is reachable right after this."""
+    parts = arg.split()
+    username = parts[0] if len(parts) > 0 else "admin"
+    password = parts[1] if len(parts) > 1 else "testpassword123"
+    page.goto(BASE + "/setup")
+    page.fill("input[name=username]", username)
+    page.fill("input[name=password]", password)
+    page.click("button[type=submit]")
+    page.wait_for_load_state("networkidle")
+    print("bootstrapped admin, now at:", page.url)
+
+
+def cmd_quit(_arg):
+    browser.close()
+    pw.stop()
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+
+COMMANDS = {
+    "nav": cmd_nav,
+    "wait-for": cmd_wait_for,
+    "click": cmd_click,
+    "fill": cmd_fill,
+    "press": cmd_press,
+    "screenshot": cmd_screenshot,
+    "eval": cmd_eval,
+    "console-errors": cmd_console_errors,
+    "viewport": cmd_viewport,
+    "is-open": cmd_is_open,
+    "bootstrap-admin": cmd_bootstrap_admin,
+    "quit": cmd_quit,
+}
+
+print("run-server driver -- commands:", ", ".join(COMMANDS), flush=True)
+print("driver>", end=" ", flush=True)
+for line in sys.stdin:
+    line = line.strip()
+    if not line:
+        print("driver>", end=" ", flush=True)
+        continue
+    cmd, _, rest = line.partition(" ")
+    fn = COMMANDS.get(cmd)
+    if fn is None:
+        print("unknown command:", cmd, "-- try one of:", ", ".join(COMMANDS))
+    else:
+        try:
+            fn(rest)
+        except Exception as e:
+            print("ERROR:", e)
+    print("driver>", end=" ", flush=True)

.claude/skills/run-server/setup.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# One-time (idempotent) environment bootstrap for running the
+# espresso_frame FastAPI server and browser-driving its UI, in a
+# container that ships with NO Python/Node/Docker/browser and NO sudo.
+# Re-run any time; every step checks whether it already happened.
+set -euo pipefail
+cd "$(git -C "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" rev-parse --show-toplevel)/server"
+
+UV_BIN="$HOME/.local/bin/uv"
+DEPS_ROOT="/tmp/run-server-chromium-deps"
+APT_WORK="/tmp/apt-work-run-server"
+SKILL_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+ENV_FILE="$SKILL_DIR/env.sh"
+
+# 1. uv: a static Rust binary that can fetch its own Python build with
+# no C compiler needed (this container has none).
+if [ ! -x "$UV_BIN" ]; then
+  echo "installing uv..."
+  curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
+fi
+
+# 2. Python 3.12 + venv + server deps
+if [ ! -x .venv/bin/uvicorn ]; then
+  echo "creating venv + installing server deps..."
+  "$UV_BIN" python install 3.12
+  "$UV_BIN" venv --python 3.12 .venv
+  "$UV_BIN" pip install -r requirements.txt
+fi
+
+# 3. Playwright (Python) + its Chromium download (~280MB: full chrome +
+# chrome-headless-shell + ffmpeg)
+if ! .venv/bin/python -c "import playwright" 2>/dev/null; then
+  echo "installing playwright..."
+  "$UV_BIN" pip install playwright
+fi
+if ! ls "$HOME"/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-*/chrome-linux64/chrome >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  echo "downloading chromium..."
+  .venv/bin/playwright install chromium
+fi
+
+# 4. Chromium's shared libs + fonts. `playwright install-deps` and
+# `apt-get install` both need root; neither is available. Instead:
+# download the .deb files directly (apt-get download works read-only
+# without root once given a user-writable state dir) and extract
+# (not install) them with dpkg-deb -x, which needs no root either.
+if [ ! -f "$DEPS_ROOT/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0" ]; then
+  echo "fetching chromium's shared libs + fonts (non-root)..."
+  mkdir -p "$APT_WORK/lists" "$APT_WORK/cache/archives/partial" "$APT_WORK/debs" "$DEPS_ROOT"
+
+  apt-get -o Dir::State::Lists="$APT_WORK/lists" -o Dir::Cache="$APT_WORK/cache" \
+    -o Dir::Etc::SourceParts=/dev/null update
+
+  PKGS="libglib2.0-0t64 libnspr4 libnss3 libatk1.0-0t64 libatk-bridge2.0-0t64
+        libdbus-1-3 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxrandr2 libgbm1
+        libxkbcommon0 libasound2t64 libatspi2.0-0t64 libcups2t64 libcairo2
+        libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libx11-6 libxcb1 libxext6
+        fonts-liberation fontconfig libfontconfig1"
+  # ^ first row: what chrome-headless-shell's ldd reported missing.
+  # second row: what the FULL chrome binary additionally needed (we use
+  # full chrome, not headless-shell -- see Gotchas in SKILL.md).
+
+  apt-get -o Dir::State::Lists="$APT_WORK/lists" -o Dir::Cache="$APT_WORK/cache" \
+    -o Dir::Etc::SourceParts=/dev/null install --download-only --reinstall -y \
+    --print-uris $PKGS | grep -oP "^'[^']+'" | tr -d "'" > "$APT_WORK/urls.txt"
+
+  (cd "$APT_WORK/debs" && xargs -n1 -P8 curl -sS -O --max-time 30) < "$APT_WORK/urls.txt"
+  for f in "$APT_WORK"/debs/*.deb; do dpkg-deb -x "$f" "$DEPS_ROOT"; done
+
+  # fonts.conf as shipped points at the real /usr/share/fonts, which is
+  # root-owned and has nothing extracted into it. Point it at our
+  # extracted copy instead, and give it a writable cache dir.
+  mkdir -p /tmp/run-server-fontcache
+  sed -i "s#<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>#<dir>$DEPS_ROOT/usr/share/fonts</dir>#" \
+    "$DEPS_ROOT/etc/fonts/fonts.conf"
+  sed -i "s#<cachedir>.*</cachedir>#<cachedir>/tmp/run-server-fontcache</cachedir>#" \
+    "$DEPS_ROOT/etc/fonts/fonts.conf"
+
+  PATH="$DEPS_ROOT/usr/bin:$PATH" \
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DEPS_ROOT/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$DEPS_ROOT/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" \
+    FONTCONFIG_PATH="$DEPS_ROOT/etc/fonts" \
+    "$DEPS_ROOT/usr/bin/fc-cache" -f
+fi
+
+# 5. tmux -- also missing, also no apt/sudo. Same non-root download +
+# dpkg-deb -x trick, into the same extracted root (so its `usr/bin` is
+# already on PATH via env.sh).
+if [ ! -f "$DEPS_ROOT/usr/bin/tmux" ]; then
+  echo "fetching tmux (non-root)..."
+  mkdir -p "$APT_WORK/lists" "$APT_WORK/cache/archives/partial" "$APT_WORK/debs" "$DEPS_ROOT"
+  apt-get -o Dir::State::Lists="$APT_WORK/lists" -o Dir::Cache="$APT_WORK/cache" \
+    -o Dir::Etc::SourceParts=/dev/null install --download-only --reinstall -y \
+    --print-uris tmux | grep -oP "^'[^']+'" | tr -d "'" > "$APT_WORK/tmux_urls.txt"
+  (cd "$APT_WORK/debs" && xargs -n1 -P3 curl -sS -O --max-time 30) < "$APT_WORK/tmux_urls.txt"
+  for f in $(sed -E 's#.*/##' "$APT_WORK/tmux_urls.txt"); do dpkg-deb -x "$APT_WORK/debs/$f" "$DEPS_ROOT"; done
+fi
+
+CHROME_BIN="$(ls "$HOME"/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-*/chrome-linux64/chrome | head -1)"
+
+cat > "$ENV_FILE" <<EOF
+# Generated by setup.sh. Source this before running driver.py (it
+# needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH/FONTCONFIG_PATH set before the Chromium
+# subprocess launches -- driver.py does not source it for you).
+# start-server.sh does NOT need this file -- uvicorn has no such deps.
+export PATH="\$HOME/.local/bin:$DEPS_ROOT/usr/bin:\$PATH"
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DEPS_ROOT/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$DEPS_ROOT/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"
+export FONTCONFIG_PATH="$DEPS_ROOT/etc/fonts"
+export RUN_SERVER_CHROME_BIN="$CHROME_BIN"
+EOF
+
+echo "setup complete -> $ENV_FILE"

.claude/skills/run-server/start-server.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Background-launch the server against a scratch DB/config -- never the
+# real deployment's data (see CLAUDE.md). Waits for readiness, prints
+# the PID and log path. Usage: ./start-server.sh [scratch-dir] [port]
+set -euo pipefail
+cd "$(git -C "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" rev-parse --show-toplevel)/server"
+
+SCRATCH="${1:-/tmp/run-server-scratch}"
+PORT="${2:-8420}"
+mkdir -p "$SCRATCH"
+
+DATABASE_URL="sqlite:///$SCRATCH/test.db" \
+CONFIG_PATH="$SCRATCH/config.json" \
+LOG_PATH="$SCRATCH/app.log" \
+.venv/bin/uvicorn app.main:app --host 127.0.0.1 --port "$PORT" \
+  > "$SCRATCH/server.log" 2>&1 &
+PID=$!
+echo "$PID" > "$SCRATCH/server.pid"
+
+for _ in $(seq 1 30); do
+  curl -sf -o /dev/null "http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/" && break
+  sleep 0.5
+done
+
+if ! curl -sf -o /dev/null "http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/"; then
+  echo "server did not become ready -- check $SCRATCH/server.log" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "server PID $PID up on http://127.0.0.1:$PORT (log: $SCRATCH/server.log, db: $SCRATCH/test.db)"

.claude/skills/run-server/stop-server.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Usage: ./stop-server.sh [scratch-dir]
+SCRATCH="${1:-/tmp/run-server-scratch}"
+if [ -f "$SCRATCH/server.pid" ]; then
+  kill "$(cat "$SCRATCH/server.pid")" 2>/dev/null || true
+  rm -f "$SCRATCH/server.pid"
+  echo "stopped"
+else
+  echo "no $SCRATCH/server.pid -- nothing to stop"
+fi

.gitea/workflows/firmware-build-check.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+name: Firmware build check
+
+# Fires on every push touching firmware source, unlike
+# firmware-release-build.yml (which only builds+publishes when
+# firmware/version.txt itself is bumped -- the "cut a release" signal).
+# This just verifies both board variants still compile; nothing else in
+# CI catches a firmware/** push that breaks the build until someone
+# happens to bump the version next.
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - "firmware/**"
+      - ".gitea/workflows/firmware-build-check.yml"
+
+jobs:
+  build-check:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      # Same docker create/cp/start pattern as firmware-release-build.yml
+      # (see that file's own comment for why -- the runner's job
+      # workspace lives in a named Docker volume, not a real host path,
+      # so a nested `docker run -v "$PWD:..."` bind-mounts nothing
+      # useful). No release/artifact step here -- this only needs to
+      # prove `idf.py build` still succeeds for each board.
+      - name: Build (devkit -- ESP32-C6-DevKitC-1)
+        run: |
+          cid=$(docker create -w /workspace/firmware espressif/idf:release-v6.0 bash -c '
+            git config --global --add safe.directory /workspace &&
+            . "$IDF_PATH/export.sh" &&
+            ./build_for_board.sh devkit set-target esp32c6 &&
+            ./build_for_board.sh devkit build
+          ')
+          docker cp "$PWD/." "$cid:/workspace"
+          docker start -a "$cid"
+          docker rm "$cid"
+
+      - name: Build (xiao -- Seeed XIAO ESP32-C6)
+        run: |
+          cid=$(docker create -w /workspace/firmware espressif/idf:release-v6.0 bash -c '
+            git config --global --add safe.directory /workspace &&
+            . "$IDF_PATH/export.sh" &&
+            ./build_for_board.sh xiao set-target esp32c6 &&
+            ./build_for_board.sh xiao build
+          ')
+          docker cp "$PWD/." "$cid:/workspace"
+          docker start -a "$cid"
+          docker rm "$cid"

.gitea/workflows/server-docker-build.yml

@@ -8,7 +8,27 @@ on:
       - ".gitea/workflows/server-docker-build.yml"
 
 jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        working-directory: server
+        run: pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        working-directory: server
+        run: pytest
+
   build-and-push:
+    needs: test
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
@@ -32,3 +52,41 @@ jobs:
           tags: |
             git.thumeit.com/tfaour/espresso-frame-server:latest
             git.thumeit.com/tfaour/espresso-frame-server:${{ gitea.sha }}
+
+  deploy:
+    needs: build-and-push
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Deploy over SSH
+        env:
+          DEPLOY_SSH_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_SSH_KEY }}
+          DEPLOY_HOST: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_HOST }}
+          DEPLOY_PORT: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_PORT || '22' }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p ~/.ssh
+          echo "$DEPLOY_SSH_KEY" > ~/.ssh/deploy_key
+          chmod 600 ~/.ssh/deploy_key
+          ssh-keyscan -p "$DEPLOY_PORT" "$DEPLOY_HOST" >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts 2>/dev/null
+          ssh -i ~/.ssh/deploy_key -p "$DEPLOY_PORT" -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes \
+            espressoframe_deployer@"$DEPLOY_HOST" bash -s <<'REMOTE'
+          set -e
+          cd ~/espresso-frame
+          docker compose down --remove-orphans
+          docker compose pull
+          # "down" returning doesn't guarantee the OS/docker-proxy has
+          # actually released port 8420 yet -- an immediate "up -d" right
+          # after (especially with "pull" a no-op because the image was
+          # already cached) can lose that race and fail with "port is
+          # already allocated", even though the exact same "up -d" run a
+          # few seconds later succeeds every time. Retry instead of
+          # guessing at a fixed sleep long enough to always cover it.
+          for i in $(seq 1 10); do
+            if docker compose up -d; then
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            echo "docker compose up -d failed (attempt $i/10) -- retrying in 3s"
+            sleep 3
+          done
+          echo "docker compose up -d did not succeed after 10 attempts"
+          exit 1
+          REMOTE

.gitignore

@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ server/**/__pycache__/
 server/.venv/
 server/*.egg-info/
 server/data/
+server/.pytest_cache/
+# render-service/ (whiteboard mode's Node sidecar) -- installed fresh
+# inside the Docker image, never committed. No package-lock.json exists
+# yet either (no Node/npm available in this project's dev environment to
+# generate one -- see render-service/README.md); if one's added later, do
+# NOT ignore it, lockfiles belong in git.
+server/render-service/node_modules/
 # Real deploy config, copied from docker-compose.yml.example -- holds the
 # Immich API key, must never be committed.
 server/docker-compose.yml
@@ -27,4 +34,8 @@ server/docker-compose.yml
 .idea/
 *.swp
 .DS_Store
-.claude/
+.claude/*
+# ...except Claude Code skills (e.g. agent-run instructions for this
+# app) -- those are project tooling worth sharing, not personal/local
+# state like settings.local.json or worktrees/.
+!.claude/skills/

CLAUDE.md

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+# espresso_frame
+
+A DIY e-ink photo frame: an ESP32-C6 (`firmware/`, ESP-IDF) driving a
+Waveshare 7.3" E Ink Spectra 6 panel (800x480, 6-color, SPI), paired with a
+self-hosted FastAPI server (`server/`) that pulls from Immich, does all
+image processing (crop/dither/quantize/pack), and serves a placeable
+photos/calendar/whiteboard/weather widget system to the device.
+
+CURRENT TODO
+-sharing layouts with linked users
+-a "coming up this week" widget
+-on reset dismiss the menu.
+
+Start here, don't re-derive from scratch:
+- [`docs/architecture.md`](docs/architecture.md) -- how firmware and
+  server talk (sequence diagram, boot flow).
+- [`docs/widgets.md`](docs/widgets.md) -- the server-side widget system
+  (data model, grid placement, compositor, button-action dispatch).
+- [`docs/hardware.md`](docs/hardware.md) -- wiring.
+- [`server/README.md`](server/README.md), [`firmware/README.md`](firmware/README.md)
+  -- per-component setup, config, and a lot of accumulated gotchas
+  (Immich API shape, TLS trust-anchor details, button GPIO wakeup
+  quirks, etc.) -- check these before assuming something is a new bug.
+
+## Conventions specific to this repo
+
+- **No `Co-Authored-By: Claude` trailers in commits.** Attribution lives
+  in the root [`README.md`](README.md) instead (see its last line) --
+  the maintainer's explicit preference, not the default.
+- **Copyleft dependencies need an explicit flag, not a silent decision.**
+  Before adding anything LGPL/GPL/AGPL (or unclear), verify the actual
+  license via `pip show`/package metadata -- including transitive deps,
+  not just the top-level package -- and present the finding and tradeoff
+  in plain text rather than picking an approach unilaterally (hand-rolling
+  an alternative, swapping packages, silently accepting it). This project
+  has knowingly accepted AGPL-3.0-or-later exposure once already
+  (`icalendar-searcher`, a transitive dep of `caldav`) as a deliberate,
+  explicit call -- not a precedent for skipping the check next time.
+- **Scope new auth/access-control broadly, not just to the literal
+  endpoint named.** When a request changes the trust model (e.g. adding
+  public-internet exposure), apply the new gate to every endpoint serving
+  real data or performing a real action, and call out anything you're
+  tempted to exclude and why. This repo shipped a token gate once that
+  covered `/api/*` but left `/frame/image` -- the actual photo bytes --
+  open; caught immediately in production.
+- **Commit and push once a task is verified working, without waiting to
+  be asked separately.** Once tests pass (and, for UI changes, the
+  browser check has been done), stage the relevant files, write a normal
+  commit message, and push to the current branch -- the maintainer's
+  standing authorization for the commit/push step itself. This doesn't
+  relax anything else: still run `git status`/review the diff before
+  staging, still never force-push/amend a pushed commit/skip hooks, and
+  still surface anything that looks like it needs a real decision (e.g.
+  a change that would trigger `main`'s deploy workflow, see below)
+  instead of pushing through it silently.
+
+## Working in this repo
+
+- **Server tests**: `cd server && pytest` (SQLite, fixtures wipe/reseed
+  between tests -- see `tests/conftest.py`). Migration changes need a
+  matching test in `tests/test_migrations.py`; anything touching
+  `require_frame_view`/`require_frame_control` boundaries needs a
+  same-shape permission test (see `tests/test_permission_boundaries.py`
+  and `tests/test_button_actions.py` for the pattern: owner, linked user,
+  unrelated user, logged out).
+- **UI changes**: verify in a real browser (Playwright), not just by
+  reading the JS -- this project has hit multiple bugs that only showed up
+  live (mobile viewport CSS collapse, a dialog's status message landing
+  behind its own backdrop, a JSON/form-urlencoded body mismatch). Spin up
+  `uvicorn app.main:app` against a scratch `DATABASE_URL`/`CONFIG_PATH`
+  sqlite file, don't touch the real deployment's data. `.claude/skills/run-server/`
+  (`/run-server`) has a driver for exactly this.
+- **New/changed UI must work at both desktop and mobile widths --
+  screenshot both, don't assume one implies the other.** The layout
+  genuinely forks at the 860px breakpoint (`theme.css`): the sidebar
+  goes off-canvas behind a hamburger below it. A dialog, header
+  control, or new widget that looks right at a wide viewport can
+  overflow, overlap the mobile bar, or mis-center at phone widths.
+  `run-server`'s driver has a `viewport` command for exactly this
+  (defaults to a phone size; switch to `1280 900` for desktop).
+- **Deploy**: Gitea Actions at `git.thumeit.com/tfaour/espresso_frame`
+  (`.gitea/workflows/server-docker-build.yml`: `test` -> `build-and-push`
+  -> `deploy` on any push to `main` touching `server/**`; `deploy` SSHes
+  into the host as `espressoframe_deployer` and runs `docker compose pull
+  && docker compose up -d`). A separate workflow
+  (`firmware-release-build.yml`) builds+publishes firmware binaries as
+  Gitea release assets when `firmware/version.txt` changes. Poll CI status
+  with `curl https://git.thumeit.com/api/v1/repos/tfaour/espresso_frame/actions/tasks`
+  rather than asking the user to check.
+- **Device-facing paths are frozen.** `/frame/image`, `/frame/advance`,
+  `/frame/back`, `/frame/config`, `/frame/battery`, `/frame/firmware` and
+  their exact JSON key names (`refresh_interval_s`, `firmware_version`,
+  etc.) are baked into deployed firmware -- never rename or restructure
+  these without a firmware-side migration story to match.

README.md

@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ time in deep sleep.
 - ESP32-C6 dev board (8MB flash)
 - [Waveshare 7.3" E Ink Spectra 6 (E6)](https://www.waveshare.com/7.3inch-e-paper-hat-e.htm) panel -- 800x480, 6-color, SPI
 
-See [`docs/hardware.md`](docs/hardware.md) for wiring and
+See [`docs/hardware.md`](docs/hardware.md) for wiring,
 [`docs/architecture.md`](docs/architecture.md) for how the two halves talk
-to each other.
+to each other, and [`docs/widgets.md`](docs/widgets.md) for the server's
+placeable photos/calendar/whiteboard widget system.
 
 ## Getting started
 

docs/architecture.md

@@ -22,17 +22,17 @@ sequenceDiagram
     Frame->>Frame: Connect to home WiFi
     alt next-photo button pressed
         Frame->>Server: POST /frame/advance
-        Server->>Server: Force-advance to next queued photo, reset interval clock
+        Server->>Server: Run every action assigned to NEXT, in order<br/>(may span several widgets -- see docs/widgets.md)
     else back-photo button pressed
         Frame->>Server: POST /frame/back
-        Server->>Server: Return to previously-current photo (bounded history),<br/>reset interval clock
+        Server->>Server: Run every action assigned to BACK, in order
     else normal wake
         Frame->>Server: GET /frame/image
-        Server->>Server: Advance only if refresh_interval_s has elapsed<br/>since the current photo was set -- otherwise a no-op
+        Server->>Server: Render every widget on the panel into its own region<br/>(each independently idempotent -- a photo widget only<br/>actually advances once its own refresh_interval_s has elapsed)
     end
-    Server->>Immich: List album assets / download preview / faces
+    Server->>Immich: List album assets / download preview / faces<br/>(once per photo widget on the panel)
     Immich-->>Server: JPEG + face bounding boxes
-    Server->>Server: Crop (face-aware) + quantize (dither) + pack 4bpp
+    Server->>Server: Composite every widget's region onto one canvas,<br/>then enhance/overlay/quantize (dither)/pack 4bpp once
     Server-->>Frame: 192,000 raw bytes, streamed
     Frame->>Frame: Write to panel SPI buffer, compute CRC32
     alt CRC unchanged since last physical refresh
@@ -45,6 +45,17 @@ sequenceDiagram
     Frame->>Frame: Deep sleep (server-configured interval, or a short<br/>retry interval on any failure)
 ```
 
+The device-facing endpoints above (`/frame/image`, `/frame/advance`,
+`/frame/back`, `/frame/config`) are frozen -- baked into deployed firmware
+-- and unchanged by any of this. What *does* change server-side: a frame's
+panel isn't a single fixed "mode" anymore, it holds an arbitrary
+arrangement of independently placed/sized widgets (photos/calendar/
+whiteboard, including several of the same type), each rendered into its
+own region and composited together, with NEXT/BACK each mapped to their
+own ordered list of per-widget actions rather than one fixed meaning. See
+[`docs/widgets.md`](widgets.md) for the widget system's data model,
+placement grid, and button-action dispatch.
+
 ## Firmware boot flow
 
 1. **No stored config** (first boot, or NVS erased): bring up the display,
@@ -91,9 +102,9 @@ sequenceDiagram
    - Deep sleep for the server-configured interval on success, or a
      shorter retry interval on any failure.
 
-   The menu/reset button's soft-reset and factory-reset tiers (held ~3s
-   or ~15s) are handled earlier, before any of this, and never return --
-   see [`firmware/README.md`](../firmware/README.md#managing-the-queue-soft-resetting-and-factory-resetting).
+   The menu/reset button's soft-reset (quick press) and factory-reset
+   (held ~15s) tiers are handled earlier, before any of this, and never
+   return -- see [`firmware/README.md`](../firmware/README.md#managing-the-queue-soft-resetting-and-factory-resetting).
 
 See [`docs/hardware.md`](hardware.md) for wiring and
 [`server/README.md`](../server/README.md) for the server side.

docs/hardware.md

@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ pressed):
   photo; see
   [`firmware/README.md`](../firmware/README.md#going-back-to-the-previous-photo).
 - **Menu / reset (GPIO1)**: one button, three actions by hold duration --
-  a quick press overlays a "scan to manage" QR code on the current photo
-  for 30 seconds; holding ~3s then releasing soft-resets the device
-  (config kept); holding ~15s factory-resets it (clears WiFi/server
-  config, reprovisions); see
+  a quick press soft-resets the device (config kept); holding ~3s then
+  releasing overlays a "scan to manage" QR code on the current photo for
+  30 seconds; holding ~15s factory-resets it (clears WiFi/server config,
+  reprovisions); see
   [`firmware/README.md`](../firmware/README.md#managing-the-queue-soft-resetting-and-factory-resetting).
 
 All three pins were picked because they're within GPIO 0-7 -- the only

docs/widgets.md

@@ -0,0 +1,578 @@
+# Widget system
+
+A frame's panel isn't one fixed "mode" anymore -- it holds N independently
+placed/sized widgets (photos/calendar/whiteboard/tasks/static image/text/
+weather/battery), like arranging icons on an Android home screen. A frame
+can hold several widgets of the same type (e.g. two photo widgets pointed
+at different Immich albums side by side).
+This replaced an earlier design where `Frame.mode` picked exactly one
+full-panel renderer; that column and the other per-mode `Frame` columns
+it left behind (`album_id`, `calendar_*`, `whiteboard_*`, etc.) were
+dropped in migration 41, once every phase of the rollout had shipped
+(see "Known gaps" below for what's still open).
+
+The device-facing contract is unchanged by any of this: `GET /frame/image`,
+`POST /frame/advance`, `POST /frame/back` are the same frozen paths
+firmware has always called (see `docs/architecture.md`) -- what changed is
+entirely server-side, in how those endpoints decide what to render and what
+a button press does.
+
+## Data model
+
+- `Widget` (`server/app/models.py`): `id`, `frame_id`, `widget_type`
+  (`"photos"` | `"calendar"` | `"whiteboard"` | `"tasks"` | `"static"` |
+  `"text"` | `"weather"` | `"battery"`), `x`/`y`/`w`/`h`
+  (grid cells), `sort_order`. Widgets never overlap (enforced server-side in
+  `routers/api_widgets.py`, re-validated regardless of what the client
+  already checked) -- that's what keeps compositing simple: no z-order,
+  no blending, just N independent regions pasted onto one shared canvas.
+  Also carries an optional per-widget border (`border_style` -- `"none"`
+  | `"solid"` | `"dashed"` | `"dotted"` | `"fancy"`, `border_thickness`,
+  `border_color_index`, an index into the frame's palette so a border
+  always renders as one of the panel's exact 6 ink colors) directly on
+  `Widget` itself rather than a per-type config table, since every
+  widget type can have one regardless of `widget_type`. Drawn by
+  `image_pipeline.draw_widget_border` onto each widget's own region in
+  `routers/device.py`'s `_render_widgets`, before that region is pasted
+  onto the shared canvas -- one central integration point instead of
+  every `app/widgets/*.py` module needing to know about it. Set via the
+  gear-icon dialog's shared "Border" card (`_widget_border_fields.html`,
+  included by every `_widget_dialog_*.html` template) and
+  `POST .../widgets/{id}/border`, its own endpoint (not folded into
+  `api_widget_config_save`) since that endpoint's per-type dispatch is
+  keyed on a config row via `widget_locked`, and border fields live on
+  `Widget` itself, not any per-type config table.
+  Also carries `font_scale` (one of `panel_style.FONT_SCALE_CHOICES` --
+  `1.0`/`1.25`/`1.5`, labeled Normal/Large/X-Large), a per-widget
+  legibility control: calendar and tasks widgets pack in the most body
+  text at the smallest default sizes, so their gear-icon dialogs get a
+  "Text size" card (`_widget_font_scale_fields.html`) the other types
+  don't. Same Widget-level-property-not-config-field reasoning as
+  border, and its own `POST .../widgets/{id}/font-scale` endpoint for
+  the same reason. `panel_style.scaled_size(value, font_scale)` is the
+  one shared multiply-and-round point every classic (`calendar_render.py`)
+  and modern (`html_render.py`/`calendar_html_render.py`) size calc
+  routes through immediately after its own tier lookup/floor, so row
+  heights and per-view row caps (already derived from the font size, not
+  a fixed constant) automatically re-fit around the bigger text instead
+  of overflowing their box.
+- Per-type 1:1 extension tables -- `PhotoWidgetConfig`,
+  `CalendarWidgetConfig`, `WhiteboardWidgetConfig`, `TaskWidgetConfig`,
+  `StaticWidgetConfig`, `TextWidgetConfig`, `WeatherWidgetConfig`,
+  `BatteryWidgetConfig`, each keyed by `widget_id` with
+  `ondelete="CASCADE"` -- rather than one wide table with every type's
+  mostly-irrelevant columns. `TextWidgetConfig.content` is parsed rich
+  text (paragraphs of styled runs), never raw HTML -- see
+  `server/app/text_content.py`'s module docstring for why that parse
+  step is the widget's actual stored-XSS sanitization boundary.
+  `PhotoWidgetConfig`
+  mirrors `app/photo_queue.py`'s attribute names exactly, so that module's
+  advance/back/queue logic ports across widget instances unchanged.
+  `PhotoWidgetConfig.locked` (migration 27) freezes `current_asset_id`
+  against both the timer-elapsed auto-advance
+  (`photo_queue.get_current`) and the advance/back button actions
+  (`app/widgets/photos.py`'s `ACTIONS`) until unlocked -- toggled via a
+  "Lock this photo" button in the widget's own dialog
+  (`POST .../widgets/{id}/lock`), shown as a lock badge on the widget's
+  box on the Layout tab canvas.
+  `TaskWidgetConfig` used to be a handful of `tasks_*` columns bolted onto
+  `CalendarWidgetConfig` (a week-view-only, single-list task list); split
+  into its own widget type (migration 17) so a task list can be placed
+  and sized independent of any calendar's view/footprint, then (migration
+  18) given the same multi-source shape a calendar widget already has.
+  `WeatherWidgetConfig` similarly lifts `CalendarWidgetConfig`'s embedded
+  weather strip (still present and unchanged, `weather_*` columns) out
+  into its own placeable widget type (migration 24) -- see "Weather
+  widget" below. `BatteryWidgetConfig` (migration 25) is the odd one out
+  -- its actual content (`Frame.battery_percent`/`battery_as_of`) isn't
+  in this table at all, already existing frame-level state set by
+  `routers/device.py`'s `frame_battery` regardless of whether a battery
+  widget is even placed; the config row only holds a display-mode
+  setting (`"compact"` | `"detailed"`).
+- `FrameCalendar`/`FrameTaskList` are keyed by `widget_id` (not
+  `frame_id`) since a frame can now have more than one independent
+  calendar/tasks widget, each with its own included set. Identical
+  shape and permission model (owner-added, anyone-linked-can-mute, see
+  "Per-widget config UI" below) -- `FrameTaskList` just has no `"ics"`
+  calendar_key variant, since a plain ICS subscription has no VTODO
+  (task) collection.
+- `FrameButtonAction` (`id`, `frame_id`, `button` [`"next"`|`"back"`],
+  `widget_id`, `action`, `sort_order`) -- see "Button actions" below.
+
+## Placement: a grid, not freeform pixels
+
+`app/grid.py` is pure grid math, no I/O. The grid is `GRID_LONG=8` x
+`GRID_SHORT=5` cells, defined relative to the panel's long/short axis
+(not "landscape" specifically) so it stays valid across
+`image_pipeline.logical_render_size(orientation)`'s genuine width/height
+swap for portrait -- landscape orientations are 8 cols x 5 rows, portrait
+are 5 cols x 8 rows, same cell size either way. **Changing a frame's
+orientation invalidates its existing layout** (an 8x5 arrangement isn't
+valid on a 5x8 grid) -- the server resets to one full-panel widget on an
+orientation change rather than trying to remap coordinates.
+
+Each widget type has a minimum grid footprint (`grid.MIN_FOOTPRINT`):
+photos 1x1, calendar 3x2 (a crammed calendar is illegible regardless of
+size-tier scaling), whiteboard 2x2, tasks 2x2, static image 1x1, text 2x1,
+weather 2x2 (its hourly/daily strips need the room; current/multi_city
+modes would tolerate smaller, but every mode shares one footprint value),
+battery 1x1 (just an icon + a percent, legible even at a single cell,
+like photos/static -- though see `MIN_FOOTPRINT`'s own comment in
+`grid.py` on a mobile-width gear-icon click-target gap at that size,
+already pre-existing for photos/static too). Enforced both client-side
+(UX, in the Layout tab's drag/resize canvas -- `static/frame_layout.js`)
+and server-side (`routers/api_widgets.py`) -- the client is never trusted
+alone.
+
+## Rendering: one shared compositor
+
+`app/widgets/` is the render/action registry -- one module per
+`widget_type` (`photos.py`, `calendar.py`, `whiteboard.py`, `tasks.py`,
+`static_image.py`, `text.py`, `weather.py`, `battery.py`), each exposing:
+
+- `render(db, frame, widget, target_w, target_h, is_normal_wake) -> Image`:
+  an unquantized RGB image exactly `target_w x target_h`, the widget's
+  content composed into its own region. Never raises for a foreseeable
+  failure (an Immich hiccup, an unconfigured widget) -- falls back to a
+  small placeholder within its own region instead, so one widget having a
+  bad moment doesn't blank the whole panel.
+- `ACTIONS: dict[str, Callable]` -- named button actions this type
+  supports (`"advance"`/`"back"` for photos and calendar, `"check_now"`
+  for whiteboard and weather -- both throttled external fetches with a
+  forced-refetch action). Empty for tasks, static image, text, and
+  battery -- nothing to advance/back/force for a passive checklist, a
+  fixed uploaded image, a fixed block of authored text, or a number the
+  device itself pushes on every wake.
+- `ACTION_LABELS: dict[str, str]` -- human labels for the button-
+  assignment UI.
+
+`routers/device.py`'s `_render_widgets` loads every `Widget` row for the
+frame, maps each one's grid rect to pixels (`grid.cell_to_pixels`), calls
+its module's `render()`, and hands the whole list of `(rect, image)`
+regions to `image_pipeline.render_panel` -- which pastes every region onto
+one shared canvas, then runs enhance/manage-overlay/quantize/dither/pack
+**once** over the composited result. Quantizing the whole canvas together
+(not each region separately before pasting) is what keeps the 6-color
+e-ink dithering pattern consistent across a widget boundary instead of a
+visible seam at the edge.
+
+Calendar widgets pick from discrete size tiers (`calendar_render.py`'s
+`_SIZE_TIERS`) for font size/margins/row heights based on their actual
+grid footprint, rather than continuously scaling constants tuned for a
+full ~800x480 canvas -- falls back to agenda view if a widget is too small
+for month view to stay legible.
+
+### "Modern" render style (experimental)
+
+Every widget type except photos has a `render_style` column (`"classic"`
+default | `"modern"`) that swaps its hand-drawn PIL primitives for an
+HTML/CSS render: a Jinja2 template (`app/templates/widget_html/`) drawn
+through a persistent headless-Chromium browser (`app/html_render.py`,
+Playwright) instead of `ImageDraw` -- gradients, shadows, and soft icon
+shading PIL can't easily do. Calendar's own modern-style builders (all
+four view modes) live in `app/calendar_html_render.py` rather than
+`html_render.py` itself, mirroring `calendar_render.py`'s own separation
+from the simpler widget types.
+
+Every modern-style builder runs its own `ordered_dither` (Bayer/ordered,
+not Floyd-Steinberg) before returning, committing the widget to exact
+palette colors *before* compositing -- safe to mix with photo/other
+classic-rendered widgets on the same frame without a Floyd-Steinberg
+seam at the boundary, because ordered dithering has no cross-pixel error
+term the way Floyd-Steinberg's diffusion does (see `html_render.py`'s
+module docstring). No `Frame`-level dithering setting was needed to make
+this work.
+
+Not offered for the **photos** widget -- a real photograph isn't a
+synthesized dashboard card, and photos has a different concern instead:
+its own independent palette/dithering strength (`Frame.photo_palette_rgb`
+/ `photo_dither_strength`, a second "Photos configuration" card in
+Advanced Configuration, separate from the main `palette_rgb`/
+`dither_strength` every other widget uses). `widgets/photos.py`'s
+`render()` quantizes itself against these before returning, so a frame
+can tune the rest of its widgets' look (e.g. a calibrated palette for
+modern-style dashboard widgets) independently of what actually looks
+best for real photographs, with no `render_panel` changes needed --
+see that module's own docstring for the one small, accepted edge case
+(a border on a photos widget whose palette genuinely diverges from the
+frame's main one).
+
+Playwright/Chromium is a real, heavyweight runtime dependency imported
+lazily only when a widget actually uses modern style. Its browser binary
+is fetched by `start.sh` at container startup rather than baked into the
+image (see `server/Dockerfile`'s own comment) -- a single ~181MB
+`chrome-headless-shell` binary can't be split across Docker layers the
+way this project's pip/npm installs were, and confirmed-failed to push
+to the registry as a build-time layer; cached on the `/data` volume
+(`PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH`) so only the very first boot on a fresh
+volume actually downloads it. Still real-panel-unverified -- treat every
+"modern" style as experimental regardless of deploy status.
+
+Per-widget-type notes:
+
+- **weather**: `current`/`daily` modes only -- `hourly`/`multi_city`
+  always render classic regardless of this setting (see the Weather
+  widget section below).
+- **calendar**: all four view modes (agenda/today_tomorrow/week/month)
+  have a modern builder -- the only widget type with full modern-style
+  coverage from the start, rather than a partial rollout like weather's.
+  Month view's "falls back to agenda below a size threshold" behavior
+  (`_month_view_fits`) is honored identically in both styles.
+- **battery/text/tasks**: full coverage (both battery modes; text reuses
+  its own `_fit()` shrink-to-fit sizing logic, only the drawing differs).
+- **static image/whiteboard**: modern style is the *first* visual chrome
+  either widget type has ever had (classic draws the image with zero
+  frame/card at all) -- a rounded-corner, shadowed card
+  (`framed_image.html.jinja`, shared between the two) wrapping the
+  already-composed image. Left alone by the "bold minimal" pass below --
+  it never had the reskinned-classic problem the other widgets did.
+
+### "Bold minimal": a real redesign, not just a reskin
+
+The initial modern-style rollout (above) mostly translated each widget's
+*existing* classic layout into HTML/CSS -- same gradient header banner,
+same rounded-shadowed white card, prettier chrome around an unchanged
+composition. A second pass reworked weather (`current`/`daily`),
+calendar (all four views), tasks, and battery into an actual different
+visual language, picked from several divergent directions rendered
+through the real pipeline and reviewed with the maintainer (not chosen
+unilaterally -- see the "Reverted e-ink quantization attempt"-style
+caution about visual changes needing more than one look). Text and
+static/whiteboard were deliberately left as they were (see their notes
+just above) -- text already had zero chrome and its styling is
+user-authored content, not this system's to redesign; the framed-image
+card was already minimal.
+
+What changed, as a consistent language across every redesigned widget:
+
+- **No card.** No rounded-corner white box, no drop shadow, no outer
+  border -- content sits directly on the shared white canvas. `theme
+  ["radius"]`/`theme["shadow"]` are now unused by every redesigned
+  widget's builder (still resolved, for signature uniformity with
+  `resolve_theme`, but nothing reads them) -- a theme's radius/shadow
+  fields now only affect the *un*-redesigned modern widgets (static
+  image/whiteboard's `framed_image.html.jinja`).
+- **A slim accent rule instead of a gradient banner.** Every widget that
+  used to have a colored header bar with white text on it (weather's
+  `build_daily`, tasks, calendar's four views) now has a thin (~4-8px)
+  accent-colored rounded rule, with the header text as plain ink below
+  it instead of white text on top of it -- only that thin rule dithers
+  at the theme's richer `accent_amplitude` via `ordered_dither_regions`
+  now, not the header text sitting on it, which reads as a legibility
+  improvement, not just a visual one (see "Rich accent hues" below).
+- **A dominant hero value, not a centered icon+number of equal weight.**
+  Weather's `build_current` and battery's icon+percent used to be drawn
+  at roughly the same size, centered as a unit; both now put the numeric
+  value (temperature / battery percent) at a clearly dominant size, with
+  the icon small and secondary above it -- closer to a phone home-screen
+  widget than a dashboard tile.
+- **Padding/type sizes as a proportion of widget size, clamped to a
+  floor/ceiling, not a fixed pixel value.** So a 1-2 grid-cell widget
+  doesn't get comically large padding relative to its content, and a
+  near-full-panel widget doesn't get comically small padding either --
+  see `html_render._clamp` and every redesigned `build_*`'s own
+  `pad`/size calculations (`base = min(target_w, target_h)`, then a
+  fraction of `base` clamped to tuned floor/ceiling values).
+
+**A hairline color this palette can't actually render.** Auditing the
+month view's grid during this pass turned up a real, pre-existing bug
+carried forward unnoticed since the very first modern-style rollout:
+`.day-cell`/`.day-section`/`.col` divider borders used a pale gray
+(`#e2e6ec`) -- but `DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB` has no gray in it at all (black/
+white/yellow/red/blue/green only), so a color that close to white always
+nearest-matches to pure white regardless of Bayer bias, at any amplitude
+-- confirmed by sampling actual rendered pixels, not just eyeballing a
+screenshot. The month grid's week-row dividers now use real solid black
+(`RULE`-equivalent, matching how the *classic* PIL renderer always drew
+them -- see `calendar_render.RULE`); the day-section/week-column dividers
+were simply dropped instead, since the accent rule + spacing at the
+start of the next section/column already read as a clear boundary
+without a line at all once you could actually render one.
+
+### Themes for modern-style widgets
+
+`Frame.theme` (String, default `"classic"`, one Advanced Configuration
+`<select>`) picks a curated visual preset for every modern-style widget
+on that frame -- font family, corner radius, drop shadow, and an accent
+hue for widgets with a header/accent region. Presets live in
+`app/theme_tokens.py`'s `THEMES` dict; `resolve_theme(theme_name,
+widget_kind, palette_rgb)` turns one into concrete, ready-to-render
+values (`accent_hex`/`accent_hex_dark`, resolved `font_regular`/
+`font_bold` file paths, `radius`, `shadow`, `accent_amplitude`). Inspired
+by [Tesserae](https://github.com/dmellok/tesserae)'s (AGPL-3.0) own
+three-layer CSS custom-property theme system -- this is an original
+reimplementation of that *architecture*, not a copy of its token file
+(see this repo's `CLAUDE.md` on copyleft dependencies).
+
+**What a theme actually changes, in practice**: the accent color (now a
+slim rule rather than a full header band -- see "Bold minimal" above) is
+still the most visible change on widgets that have one, but `font_family`
+applies to *every* text element in the widget, not just the header title
+-- day labels, temperatures, task rows, event times, day numbers all
+switch fonts too (e.g. "Moss" is serif, "Ochre" a slab serif), often
+more noticeable than the accent color on text-heavy widgets. `radius`/
+`shadow` only affect static image/whiteboard's card now (every other
+modern-style widget dropped its card in the "bold minimal" pass); text
+never used them (no card from the start) and weather/battery/tasks/
+calendar no longer have a card for them to apply to either.
+
+**A theme is purely stylistic, never functional color-coding.** Battery's
+charge-level red/yellow/green, calendar/tasks' per-owner event color
+chips, and text's user-authored inline run colors are status/identity
+signals, not style choices -- no theme may recolor them, and every
+`build_*`/`resolve_theme` call site that touches those stays on its own
+existing logic untouched. Text's own per-widget `font_family` setting
+(a user's explicit content-level choice, same carve-out reasoning) is
+similarly never overridden by a theme -- `build_text` accepts a
+`theme_name` param for signature uniformity with every other modern-
+style builder but deliberately ignores it.
+
+**Rich accent hues, not just the 6 exact panel inks.** A theme's
+`accent_hex` can be any arbitrary color (e.g. terracotta, moss, slate) --
+`html_render.ordered_dither_regions(rendered, palette_rgb,
+base_amplitude, accent_regions=[(rect, amplitude), ...])` dithers the
+whole widget at the existing safe default (`ordered_dither`'s tuned 48,
+unchanged, still icon/text-legible) and then *separately* re-dithers
+just the accent rectangle (a header bar's already-computed pixel rect)
+at a theme's higher `accent_amplitude` (~130) and pastes it back. Safe
+to do per-region for the same reason `ordered_dither` itself is safe
+per-widget: ordered (Bayer) dithering has no cross-pixel error term, so
+a region's result depends only on its own pixels. A single higher
+amplitude applied to the *whole* widget instead was tried and rejected --
+it washes out pale content (a weather icon's white cloud body nearly
+vanished in testing); confining the higher amplitude to just the accent
+rect avoids that while still letting the rect approximate a rich hue via
+denser stippling instead of flatly snapping to one nearest ink (what
+happens to a rich hue at the base amplitude).
+
+**"classic" is a deliberately no-visual-change default.** Its
+`accent_hex` is `None`, meaning "keep this widget kind's own pre-theme
+look exactly": weather's header was always a fixed blue gradient (now
+`theme_tokens._CLASSIC_WEATHER_GRADIENT`, byte-identical to the old
+module-level `ACCENT_START`/`ACCENT_END` constants this system
+replaced); tasks/calendar's header was always a flat single ink resolved
+through `panel_style.THEME` (still is, just via `resolve_theme` now).
+Widget kinds with no ink of their own (battery/text/static/whiteboard)
+fall back to black, though none of their templates currently have an
+accent-colored surface for it to visibly affect.
+
+Which widgets get the richer accent-region treatment: weather's
+`build_daily` (the slim rule, when `city_label` is set), tasks, and
+calendar's four view builders -- each computes its own small accent-rule
+pixel rect (a fixed-height band, not the old full header_h) and passes
+just that to `ordered_dither_regions`. Weather's `build_current` and
+battery have no accent surface at all (no header of any kind -- see
+"Bold minimal" above) and static/whiteboard's shared `build_framed_image`
+is unchanged from the original rollout; all three call plain
+`ordered_dither` with no accent region.
+
+## Button actions
+
+Each physical button (NEXT/BACK) runs the `(widget, action)` binding of
+every widget on the frame that has one -- **at most one binding per
+widget per button** (a widget can't be bound to two different actions on
+the same button). On a press, `routers/device.py`'s `_run_button_actions`
+runs every widget's assigned action for that button (each in its own
+`widget_locked` span -- never nested, since the underlying per-frame lock
+isn't reentrant), catching and logging any single action's failure
+without blocking the rest, then re-renders and returns the whole composed
+panel once at the end regardless of which actions succeeded. Which
+widget's action runs first never matters -- each only touches its own
+state, and the shared re-render happens once, after all of them finish.
+
+The UI for this lives in each widget's own gear-icon config dialog (the
+"Button actions" card, `templates/_widget_button_fields.html` +
+`static/widget_dialog_button_actions.js`, `POST
+/api/frames/{id}/widgets/{widget_id}/button-actions`) -- not a frame-level
+tab, since assigning a widget's next/back behavior is naturally part of
+configuring that widget. The card only renders for widget types with a
+non-empty `ACTIONS` (photos, calendar, whiteboard, weather); tasks/
+static/text/battery have nothing to bind so the card is omitted for
+them. An empty selection ("(none)") clears that button's binding for the
+widget.
+
+A newly-created widget (including the one auto-migrated from a frame's
+old `mode` on upgrade) gets a sensible default binding reproducing its
+old button behavior -- see `widgets.default_button_actions` (called from
+both `migration.py`'s backfill and `api_widgets.py`'s
+`api_widget_create`), so a widget is never left with nothing bound until
+someone deliberately reassigns it.
+
+### Hold-for-global-action
+
+Holding NEXT or BACK past a configurable duration (`Frame.hold_duration_ms`,
+minimum 3000ms, set on the Configuration tab) triggers a **global**
+action instead of the per-widget one -- not scoped to any widget, e.g.
+cycling through the user's saved layouts. See `app/global_actions.py`'s
+`GLOBAL_ACTIONS`/`GLOBAL_ACTION_LABELS` registry and
+`routers/device.py`'s `/frame/global-next`/`/frame/global-back` (the
+device calls these instead of `/frame/advance`/`/frame/back` once it
+detects a long press -- see `firmware/main/next_button.c`/`back_button.c`).
+`Frame.next_hold_action`/`back_hold_action` pick which registry entry (if
+any) each button's hold triggers; unset is a silent no-op, same
+convention as an unbound short-press button.
+
+## Per-widget config UI
+
+Each widget has a gear-icon button on the Layout canvas that opens a
+`<dialog>` with that widget's own settings (album, calendar/task-list
+inclusion, whiteboard source, etc.) -- not a per-frame tab, since a
+frame can now have several widgets of the same type with independent
+settings. The
+dialog HTML is injected server-rendered (`routers/frame_pages.py`'s
+`widget_dialog`, dispatching on `widget.widget_type`); its JS is a
+top-level, always-loaded file (`static/widget_dialog_*.js`) exposing
+`init<Type>Dialog()`/`close<Type>Dialog()`, since dynamically-injected
+HTML can't carry executable `<script>` tags. While a dialog is open,
+`window.FRAME_API` is repointed at that widget's own API base
+(`/api/frames/{id}/widgets/{widget_id}`) and restored on close;
+`window.FRAME_BASE_API` stays pointed at the frame-level base throughout
+for the always-present header/status-bar JS.
+
+## Saved layouts
+
+A user can snapshot a frame's whole widget arrangement -- every widget's
+type/placement/settings, calendar/task sources, and button-action
+bindings -- under a name (`SavedLayout` + `SavedLayoutWidget` +
+`SavedLayoutSource` + `SavedLayoutButtonAction`, `server/app/models.py`),
+then switch back to it later, or apply it to a *different* frame. Saved
+layouts are owned by the **user**, not any one frame -- the same set
+shows up (with a per-frame `compatible` flag) on every frame that user
+controls whose grid matches (`grid.grid_dims(orientation)`'s cols/rows,
+landscape-class 8x5 vs. portrait-class 5x8), not just the frame it was
+captured from.
+
+Saving only captures an authored *setting*, never runtime/cache state --
+a photo widget's current queue position, a calendar's fetch cache, a
+whiteboard's rendered-image cache, etc. are deliberately left out (see
+`routers/api_layouts.py`'s `LAYOUT_CONFIG_FIELDS` allowlist per
+`widget_type`), so applying a layout feels like a fresh widget of that
+type with its settings pre-filled, not a resurrection of stale state
+from whenever it was saved. A static-image widget's uploaded bytes are
+the one exception carried through verbatim (`SavedLayoutWidget.image`).
+Saving again under a name the user already has overwrites that layout's
+snapshot in place rather than erroring or creating a duplicate --
+`SavedLayout`'s own docstring.
+
+Applying a layout to a frame (`api_layout_apply`, `require_frame_control`)
+deletes every widget currently on that frame and recreates the saved
+arrangement from scratch, remapping calendar/task sources and button
+bindings onto the newly-created widget ids -- same "act unconditionally
+on the server, confirm on the client" posture as the Layout tab's own
+"Clear all". A source whose owning user account no longer exists is
+silently dropped rather than left dangling (config is JSON, not
+FK-checked, so nothing else would catch that).
+
+The web UI lives in the Layout tab's "Saved layouts" card
+(`static/saved_layouts.js`, `GET`/`POST /api/frames/{id}/layouts`,
+`PATCH`/`DELETE /api/layouts/{id}`, `POST
+/api/frames/{id}/layouts/{id}/apply`) -- name + Save, then a list of
+saved layouts each with Apply/rename/delete, incompatible ones shown
+greyed-out with a "different orientation" badge rather than hidden.
+
+## Weather widget
+
+A standalone widget type (`models.WeatherWidgetConfig`, `app/widgets/
+weather.py`) -- distinct from, and unrelated in code to,
+`CalendarWidgetConfig`'s own embedded weather strip (still present,
+still Open-Meteo-only, still working exactly as before). Four display
+modes (`WeatherWidgetConfig.mode`, switchable in the widget's dialog like
+`calendar_view`):
+
+- `current` -- one city's current temp + a condition icon.
+- `hourly` -- one city, a row of ticks across the day at a configurable
+  interval (`hourly_interval_hours`: 3/4/6/12).
+- `daily` -- one city, a multi-day strip (`daily_days`, 1-14).
+- `multi_city` -- several cities' current-day high/low/icon side by
+  side -- the calendar widget's embedded strip, as a standalone
+  widget's whole content instead of a strip above an agenda day.
+
+**Render style** (`WeatherWidgetConfig.render_style`, `"classic"` default
+| `"modern"`, experimental) -- see "Modern render style" above; weather's
+own modern coverage is `current`/`daily` only, `hourly`/`multi_city`
+always render classic regardless of this setting.
+
+`current`/`hourly`/`daily` share one configured location
+(`city_label`/`city_latitude`/`city_longitude`, set via `POST .../
+weather-location`, geocoded through `weather.geocode_city`); `multi_city`
+has its own list (`cities`, add/remove via `POST .../weather-widget-
+cities/add`|`remove` -- named to avoid colliding with the calendar
+widget's own, differently-scoped `weather-cities/add`|`remove` routes,
+which share the same `{widget_id}`-parameterized path shape).
+
+**Providers** (`app/weather/`, a dispatch registry over pluggable
+implementations mirroring `app/widgets/` itself): `WeatherWidgetConfig.
+provider` selects which of `app/weather.PROVIDERS` actually fetches --
+`"open_meteo"` (worldwide, no API key), `"nws"` (api.weather.gov, US
+only, no API key, approximates "current" with the first hourly forecast
+period rather than a real station observation), or `"ec"` (Environment
+Canada, api.weather.gc.ca's MSC GeoMet OGC API, Canada only, no API key).
+Every provider function returns already-normalized `{"category": ...}`
+entries (one of `clear`/`partly_cloudy`/`cloudy`/`fog`/`rain`/`snow`/
+`thunderstorm`) so `app/weather_render.py`'s drawing code never needs to
+know which provider supplied an entry. `geocode_city` (name -> lat/lon)
+always goes through Open-Meteo's free geocoder regardless of which
+provider is chosen to fetch with the result.
+
+EC's `citypageweather-realtime` collection is only queryable by bounding
+box (OGC API - Features), not a direct by-coordinate endpoint -- unlike
+Open-Meteo/NWS's simple lat/lon REST, `app/weather/ec.py`'s
+`_nearest_site` widens the box progressively and picks the closest site
+by straight-line distance, rejecting anything beyond 300 km (calibrated
+against a real bug caught in development: an unconditional "nearest
+site, however far" matched a Miami, FL query to a site in Ontario,
+1824 km away, once the box widened enough to cover the whole country).
+
+`app/weather_render.py` holds every weather-related drawing primitive:
+`draw_weather_icon`/`draw_weather_row` (extracted out of
+`calendar_render.py`, which still imports `draw_weather_row` for its own
+embedded strip, unchanged) plus this widget's own `build_current`/
+`build_hourly`/`build_daily`/`build_multi_city`, dispatched by `build()`
+-- the weather analogue of `calendar_render.py`'s own `_build_tasks`/
+`render_tasks_preview_png` relationship. Icons are hand-drawn (no custom
+font/icon asset), styled after Environment Canada's own icon set
+(pointed sun rays, a puffy cloud, teardrop rain, dendrite snowflakes, a
+zigzag bolt) but filled with the panel's *exact* ink RGB values rather
+than an arbitrary bitmap's anti-aliased colors -- a flat fill that's
+already a palette color quantizes with zero dithering error to diffuse,
+where a fetched/vendored icon's colors (almost never an exact match)
+dither into a visible speckle at these small on-panel sizes (confirmed
+by actually running one through the real quantize pass during
+development). Used for every provider's rendering, not just when EC is
+selected as the provider.
+
+## Battery widget
+
+The simplest widget type (`models.BatteryWidgetConfig`, `app/widgets/
+battery.py`): shows this frame's own last-reported battery level. Unlike
+every other widget type, there's no live upstream to poll and nothing to
+cache -- the content is `Frame.battery_percent`/`battery_as_of`, set by
+`routers/device.py`'s `frame_battery` on every device wake-on-battery
+report, which already existed for the Device panel's own history chart
+regardless of whether a battery widget is placed anywhere. The widget's
+own config is just a display mode: `"compact"` (icon + percent) or
+`"detailed"` (default, adds `routers/common.py`'s existing
+`battery_estimate_s` time-remaining estimate and the last report's age).
+`render()` falls back to a "No reports yet" placeholder for a frame that
+has never reported (never run on battery, or not yet claimed by a
+device) rather than showing a stale or fabricated number. The battery
+icon fill color (red/yellow/green by percent) uses the same exact-panel-
+ink-RGB approach as the weather icons above and `manage_overlay.py`'s own
+battery glyph on the "scan to manage" overlay -- a separate, unrelated
+piece of code with its own fixed small size, not shared with this
+widget, but drawing from the same thresholds/colors so a battery glyph
+reads the same wherever one shows up on a panel.
+
+## Known gaps
+
+The original 8-phase rollout plan's last phase is done: migration 41
+dropped the legacy per-mode `Frame` columns (`mode`, `album_id`,
+`current_asset_id`, all `calendar_*`, all `whiteboard_*`, `queue`, etc.)
+-- see its own docstring in `app/migration.py` for the raw-SQL backfill
+safety net that ran first, and `server/README.md` no longer describes
+photos/calendar/whiteboard as per-frame "modes".
+
+Still open:
+
+- Whiteboard rendering is tagged **(alpha)** in the UI -- not fully
+  reliable yet, treat it as experimental if extending it.

firmware/README.md

@@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ Under **ESPresso Frame Configuration**:
 | `FRAME_NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO` | 2 | Next-photo button GPIO (-1 to disable). Must be 0-7 (ESP32-C6's deep-sleep-wakeup-capable pins) |
 | `FRAME_BACK_BUTTON_GPIO` | 0 | Back-photo button GPIO (-1 to disable). Must be 0-7 |
 | `FRAME_COMBO_BUTTON_GPIO` | 1 | Menu/reset button GPIO (-1 to disable). Must be 0-7 |
-| `FRAME_COMBO_SOFT_RESET_HOLD_MS` | 3000 | How long the combo button must be held (then released) to soft-reset |
+| `FRAME_COMBO_MENU_HOLD_MS` | 3000 | How long the combo button must be held (then released) to show the management menu |
 | `FRAME_COMBO_FACTORY_RESET_HOLD_MS` | 15000 | How long the combo button must be held to factory-reset |
+| `FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS` | 3000 | **Fallback only** -- how long NEXT/BACK must be held to trigger a global action instead of a short press; see below |
 | `FRAME_BATTERY_ADC_GPIO` | -1 (disabled) | Battery voltage-divider ADC GPIO; see the Battery section below |
 | `FRAME_VBUS_SENSE_GPIO` | -1 (disabled) | USB-power sense GPIO for hiding the battery indicator on mains |
 
@@ -84,6 +85,34 @@ reflashing. The Kconfig value only applies before the device has ever
 successfully reached a configured server, or if the response doesn't
 include a valid interval.
 
+### Holding NEXT/BACK for a global action
+
+Past `FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS`, holding NEXT or BACK stops meaning "advance/
+back this widget" and instead triggers whatever frame-wide action (if
+any) is configured for that button's hold on the server's Configuration
+tab -- e.g. cycling through saved layouts (see
+`server/app/global_actions.py`). Fires immediately at the threshold,
+without waiting for release -- same convention as the combo button's
+factory-reset tier below.
+
+Same "fallback only" caveat as `FRAME_SLEEP_INTERVAL_S` above, but with
+one more wrinkle: the server's actual `hold_duration_ms` (set on the
+Configuration tab, `GET /frame/config`'s response) can't be used for
+*this* wake's button decision -- that decision happens in `main.c`
+before WiFi even connects, but `/frame/config` isn't fetched until near
+the end of the wake cycle (after the image fetch, deliberately -- see
+`frame_client_run`'s own comment on why). So the device always acts on
+whatever value the *previous* wake fetched (persisted in NVS via
+`frame_config_set_hold_duration_ms`), falling back to
+`FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS` only before it's ever successfully fetched one.
+In practice this means changing the duration on the Configuration tab
+takes effect starting with the wake *after* the next one, not
+immediately.
+
+Holding a button through the poll loop keeps the device awake and
+connected longer than a normal short-press wake -- the same tradeoff
+already accepted for the combo button's menu/reset holds below.
+
 ### WiFi fast-connect
 
 After a successful home-WiFi connection, the device caches the AP's
@@ -118,10 +147,9 @@ two-step setup screen:
    portal's config page (`http://192.168.4.1/` by default), for a
    one-scan shortcut once you've joined the AP.
 
-The config page asks for your home WiFi SSID/password, the "Tools
+The config page asks for your home WiFi SSID/password and the "Tools
 Server" address (`host:port` of the [server](../server/) -- **not** your
-Immich server; see below for the `https://` form), and an optional
-"Access Token" (see below -- usually blank). Saving hands your browser
+Immich server; see below for the `https://` form). Saving hands your browser
 off to the server's claim page (after ~7 seconds, giving your phone
 time to rejoin its normal WiFi while the device reboots) so the frame
 gets linked to your account; the device meanwhile connects to your home
@@ -183,19 +211,6 @@ certificate was actually issued for -- a bare LAN IP address
 (`https://192.168.1.50`) will fail the handshake even against a
 perfectly valid cert for a different name.
 
-## Access token
-
-Usually blank. Current servers issue each frame its own private token
-automatically on first contact (delivered via `GET /frame/config`,
-persisted in NVS, preferred by `build_url()` from then on -- and baked
-into the manage-menu/share QR codes so scanning them just works). The
-captive portal's "Access Token" field only matters when pointing this
-firmware at an *older* (pre-multi-frame) server whose `MANAGEMENT_TOKEN`
-is set: paste that shared value and the device sends it (`?token=...`)
-until a newer server replaces it with a per-frame one. Re-provisioning
-clears any stored per-frame token -- a fresh identity handshake with
-whatever server you point it at next.
-
 ## Skipping to the next photo
 
 Wire a momentary push button between GPIO2 and GND (internal pull-up,
@@ -204,6 +219,8 @@ device (if asleep) and tells the server to advance to the next photo
 right away, regardless of the configured refresh interval -- no long hold
 needed, since advancing is easily reversible by pressing again. See
 `FRAME_NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO` above to change the pin or disable the feature.
+Holding it past `FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS` instead means something else
+entirely -- see "Holding NEXT/BACK for a global action" above.
 
 Normal wakes and reboots never advance the photo on their own -- the
 server decides when to advance based on its own clock (see
@@ -223,7 +240,8 @@ disable the feature.
 
 If there's nothing to go back to yet (freshly provisioned, or you've
 already gone back as far as there is history), it's a no-op -- the
-current photo stays exactly as it was, no flash on the panel.
+current photo stays exactly as it was, no flash on the panel. Same
+long-hold caveat as the next-photo button above.
 
 ## Battery (XIAO ESP32-C6)
 
@@ -262,9 +280,13 @@ One more button, wired between GPIO1 and GND (same wiring style as the
 other buttons), covers three actions -- disambiguated purely by how
 long it's held:
 
-**A quick press** wakes the device and overlays several corners of
-whatever photo is currently showing, leaving the middle of the photo
-visible and unchanged:
+**A quick press** soft-resets the device -- `esp_restart()`, keeping the
+stored WiFi/server config. Useful for recovering a hung device without
+losing setup.
+
+**Holding it ~3 seconds, then releasing** wakes the device (if asleep)
+and overlays several corners of whatever photo is currently showing,
+leaving the middle of the photo visible and unchanged:
 
 - **Top-right**: a QR code -- "SCAN TO MANAGE" -- linking to the
   server's config page.
@@ -283,8 +305,9 @@ for faces Immich hasn't been told a name for; no face detection happens
 on the device or the server, this is entirely Immich's own People
 feature). A third press exits immediately rather than waiting out the
 30-second timer. Holding the button during this stage doesn't trigger
-either reset tier below -- the hold-duration read only ever happens
-once, right when the device first wakes, before any menu is shown.
+the factory-reset tier below -- the hold-duration read only ever
+happens once, right when the device first wakes, before any menu is
+shown.
 
 The device stays awake for the whole menu interaction (up to three
 physical refreshes: the base overlay, the escalated one, and
@@ -292,17 +315,13 @@ reverting), so this costs meaningfully more power than a normal wake --
 expected for a deliberate, occasional action, same tradeoff as the
 other buttons.
 
-**Holding it ~3 seconds, then releasing** soft-resets the device --
-`esp_restart()`, keeping the stored WiFi/server config. Useful for
-recovering a hung device without losing setup.
-
 **Holding it ~15 seconds** (whether or not you're still holding it --
 this fires immediately, it doesn't wait for release) clears the stored
 WiFi/server config and restarts into provisioning. From either power-on
 or while the device is deep-asleep, since this GPIO is armed as a
 wakeup source.
 
-See `FRAME_COMBO_BUTTON_GPIO`, `FRAME_COMBO_SOFT_RESET_HOLD_MS`, and
+See `FRAME_COMBO_BUTTON_GPIO`, `FRAME_COMBO_MENU_HOLD_MS`, and
 `FRAME_COMBO_FACTORY_RESET_HOLD_MS` above to change the pin or hold
 durations, or disable all three actions.
 

firmware/main/Kconfig.projbuild

@@ -154,13 +154,12 @@ menu "ESPresso Frame Configuration"
             Button wired between this GPIO and GND (active-low, internal
             pull-up enabled in firmware -- no external resistor needed).
             One pin, three actions depending on how long it's held:
-            a quick press shows the management menu (same as before);
-            holding it FRAME_COMBO_SOFT_RESET_HOLD_MS then releasing
-            soft-resets the device (reboots, keeps the stored WiFi/
-            server config); holding it all the way to
-            FRAME_COMBO_FACTORY_RESET_HOLD_MS clears the stored config
-            and restarts into provisioning, regardless of whether it's
-            released yet. Must be GPIO 0-7 for the same deep-sleep-
+            a quick press soft-resets the device (reboots, keeps the
+            stored WiFi/server config); holding it FRAME_COMBO_MENU_HOLD_MS
+            then releasing shows the management menu; holding it all the
+            way to FRAME_COMBO_FACTORY_RESET_HOLD_MS clears the stored
+            config and restarts into provisioning, regardless of whether
+            it's released yet. Must be GPIO 0-7 for the same deep-sleep-
             wakeup reason as FRAME_NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO above; defaults to
             a different pin than the other buttons. Set to -1 to
             disable the feature entirely (also disables the management
@@ -168,14 +167,14 @@ menu "ESPresso Frame Configuration"
             reconfiguring then only works by erasing NVS over USB, see
             firmware/README.md).
 
-    config FRAME_COMBO_SOFT_RESET_HOLD_MS
-        int "Soft-reset hold duration (ms)"
+    config FRAME_COMBO_MENU_HOLD_MS
+        int "Management-menu hold duration (ms)"
         default 3000
         depends on FRAME_COMBO_BUTTON_GPIO >= 0
         help
             How long the menu/reset button must be held before releasing
-            it triggers a soft reset (reboot, config kept). Long enough
-            to be clearly distinct from a quick menu-opening press.
+            it shows the management menu instead of soft-resetting. Long
+            enough to be clearly distinct from a quick reset tap.
 
     config FRAME_COMBO_FACTORY_RESET_HOLD_MS
         int "Factory-reset hold duration (ms)"
@@ -185,8 +184,25 @@ menu "ESPresso Frame Configuration"
             How long the menu/reset button must be held continuously
             before the device clears its stored config and reboots into
             provisioning, regardless of release. Comfortably longer than
-            FRAME_COMBO_SOFT_RESET_HOLD_MS so the two tiers can't be
-            confused for each other.
+            FRAME_COMBO_MENU_HOLD_MS so the two tiers can't be confused
+            for each other.
+
+    config FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS
+        int "Next/back hold-for-global-action duration (ms)"
+        default 3000
+        range 3000 10000
+        help
+            How long the NEXT or BACK button must be held before it
+            triggers a frame-wide action (see server/app/global_actions.py
+            -- e.g. cycling saved layouts) instead of that button's normal
+            short-press behavior. Only a first-boot/never-connected
+            fallback: once the device has fetched GET /frame/config at
+            least once, the server's own Frame.hold_duration_ms (set on
+            the Configuration tab) overrides this on every later boot --
+            see wifi_provisioning.h's frame_config_get_hold_duration_ms.
+            Floor matches the server's own minimum, so a long-held button
+            never means something different depending on which value
+            happened to apply.
 
     config FRAME_BATTERY_ADC_GPIO
         int "Battery voltage-divider ADC GPIO (-1 to disable)"

firmware/main/back_button.c

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#include <stdint.h>
+
 #include "driver/gpio.h"
 #include "esp_log.h"
 #include "esp_sleep.h"
@@ -5,6 +7,8 @@
 #include "freertos/FreeRTOS.h"
 #include "freertos/task.h"
 
+#include "wifi_provisioning.h"
+
 #include "back_button.h"
 
 static const char *TAG = "back_button";
@@ -14,6 +18,7 @@ static const char *TAG = "back_button";
 #define BACK_BUTTON_GPIO ((gpio_num_t)CONFIG_FRAME_BACK_BUTTON_GPIO)
 #define BACK_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_MS 20
 #define BACK_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_CHECKS 3
+#define BACK_BUTTON_POLL_MS 100
 
 void back_button_init(void)
 {
@@ -36,7 +41,7 @@ void back_button_init(void)
     esp_sleep_enable_gpio_wakeup_on_hp_periph_powerdown(1ULL << BACK_BUTTON_GPIO, ESP_GPIO_WAKEUP_GPIO_LOW);
 }
 
-bool back_button_check(void)
+back_button_result_t back_button_check(void)
 {
     /* A quick tap can easily release before this runs (~0.4-0.5s into
      * boot, confirmed on hardware -- a live gpio_get_level() check here
@@ -44,32 +49,49 @@ bool back_button_check(void)
      * status register is latched at the moment of waking and isn't
      * cleared until the next sleep entry, so it reliably reflects a tap
      * regardless of how quickly it was released. */
-    if (esp_sleep_get_gpio_wakeup_status() & (1ULL << BACK_BUTTON_GPIO)) {
-        ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Back-photo button caused this wake, going back");
-        return true;
-    }
+    bool caused_wake = esp_sleep_get_gpio_wakeup_status() & (1ULL << BACK_BUTTON_GPIO);
 
-    /* Not a GPIO-wakeup-from-this-pin boot (normal timer wake, or a fresh
-     * power-on/reflash) -- fall back to a live, debounced level check so
-     * holding the button down while powering on also works. */
-    if (gpio_get_level(BACK_BUTTON_GPIO) != 0) {
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    for (int i = 0; i < BACK_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_CHECKS; i++) {
-        vTaskDelay(pdMS_TO_TICKS(BACK_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_MS));
+    if (!caused_wake) {
+        /* Not a GPIO-wakeup-from-this-pin boot (normal timer wake, or a
+         * fresh power-on/reflash) -- fall back to a live, debounced level
+         * check so holding the button down while powering on also
+         * works. */
         if (gpio_get_level(BACK_BUTTON_GPIO) != 0) {
-            return false; /* noise, not a real press */
+            return BACK_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED;
+        }
+        for (int i = 0; i < BACK_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_CHECKS; i++) {
+            vTaskDelay(pdMS_TO_TICKS(BACK_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_MS));
+            if (gpio_get_level(BACK_BUTTON_GPIO) != 0) {
+                return BACK_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED; /* noise, not a real press */
+            }
         }
     }
 
-    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Back-photo button held during power-on, going back");
-    return true;
+    /* Confirmed pressed -- measure how long, same reasoning/pattern as
+     * next_button_check(). */
+    uint32_t hold_threshold_ms;
+    if (frame_config_get_hold_duration_ms(&hold_threshold_ms) != ESP_OK) {
+        hold_threshold_ms = CONFIG_FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS;
+    }
+
+    uint32_t elapsed_ms = 0;
+    while (gpio_get_level(BACK_BUTTON_GPIO) == 0) {
+        if (elapsed_ms >= hold_threshold_ms) {
+            ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Back button held past %ums, triggering global hold action",
+                     (unsigned)hold_threshold_ms);
+            return BACK_BUTTON_HOLD;
+        }
+        vTaskDelay(pdMS_TO_TICKS(BACK_BUTTON_POLL_MS));
+        elapsed_ms += BACK_BUTTON_POLL_MS;
+    }
+
+    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Back-photo button short press (%ums), going back", (unsigned)elapsed_ms);
+    return BACK_BUTTON_SHORT_PRESS;
 }
 
 #else
 
 void back_button_init(void) {}
-bool back_button_check(void) { return false; }
+back_button_result_t back_button_check(void) { return BACK_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED; }
 
 #endif

firmware/main/back_button.h

@@ -12,9 +12,23 @@
  */
 void back_button_init(void);
 
+typedef enum {
+    BACK_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED,
+    /** A short press -- same immediate-response reasoning as the
+     * next-photo button. */
+    BACK_BUTTON_SHORT_PRESS,
+    /** Held past the configured hold duration (see
+     * wifi_provisioning.h's frame_config_get_hold_duration_ms) --
+     * triggers a frame-wide action instead (see
+     * server/app/global_actions.py, frame_client.h's FETCH_GLOBAL_BACK).
+     * Fires immediately at the threshold, without waiting for release. */
+    BACK_BUTTON_HOLD,
+} back_button_result_t;
+
 /**
- * Returns whether the back-photo button is currently held, debounced with
- * a couple of short re-checks to reject noise. Same immediate-response
- * reasoning as the next-photo button -- no long hold-to-confirm gate.
+ * Checks the back-photo button and, if it's pressed at all, blocks
+ * polling its level until either it's released (BACK_BUTTON_SHORT_PRESS)
+ * or the hold duration elapses (BACK_BUTTON_HOLD) -- same pattern as
+ * next_button_check(). Evaluated once per wake.
  */
-bool back_button_check(void);
+back_button_result_t back_button_check(void);

firmware/main/combo_button.c

@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ bool combo_button_check(void)
         return false; /* not pressed, and didn't cause this wake either */
     }
 
-    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Combo button held -- quick press for menu, %dms for soft reset, %dms for factory reset",
-             CONFIG_FRAME_COMBO_SOFT_RESET_HOLD_MS, CONFIG_FRAME_COMBO_FACTORY_RESET_HOLD_MS);
+    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Combo button held -- quick press for soft reset, %dms for menu, %dms for factory reset",
+             CONFIG_FRAME_COMBO_MENU_HOLD_MS, CONFIG_FRAME_COMBO_FACTORY_RESET_HOLD_MS);
 
     int elapsed_ms = 0;
     while (gpio_get_level(COMBO_BUTTON_GPIO) == 0) {
@@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ bool combo_button_check(void)
         }
     }
 
-    if (elapsed_ms >= CONFIG_FRAME_COMBO_SOFT_RESET_HOLD_MS) {
-        ESP_LOGW(TAG, "Held %dms and released, soft-restarting (config kept)", elapsed_ms);
-        esp_restart();
+    if (elapsed_ms >= CONFIG_FRAME_COMBO_MENU_HOLD_MS) {
+        ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Held %dms and released, showing management menu", elapsed_ms);
+        return true;
     }
 
-    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Quick press (%dms), showing management menu", elapsed_ms);
-    return true;
+    ESP_LOGW(TAG, "Quick press (%dms), soft-restarting (config kept)", elapsed_ms);
+    esp_restart();
 }
 
 bool combo_button_is_pressed(void)

firmware/main/combo_button.h

@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ void combo_button_init(void);
  * Checks the combined menu/reset button and acts on how long it was
  * held, evaluated once per wake:
  *   - Not pressed: returns false immediately.
- *   - Released before CONFIG_FRAME_COMBO_SOFT_RESET_HOLD_MS (a quick
- *     press): returns true -- caller should show the management menu.
- *   - Released between the soft-reset and factory-reset thresholds: a
- *     soft reset (esp_restart(), stored WiFi/server config kept) --
+ *   - Released before CONFIG_FRAME_COMBO_MENU_HOLD_MS (a quick press):
+ *     a soft reset (esp_restart(), stored WiFi/server config kept) --
  *     never returns.
+ *   - Released between the menu and factory-reset thresholds: returns
+ *     true -- caller should show the management menu.
  *   - Held through CONFIG_FRAME_COMBO_FACTORY_RESET_HOLD_MS: a factory
  *     reset (frame_config_clear() + esp_restart(), fires immediately
  *     without waiting for release) -- never returns.

firmware/main/frame_client.c

@@ -95,18 +95,15 @@ static void save_wifi_cache(esp_netif_t *netif)
 }
 
 /* Builds a full URL from cfg->toolsserver + a path (no leading slash),
- * appending cfg->access_token as ?token= if one's set. toolsserver is
- * normally a bare "host:port", defaulting to plain http; it may instead
- * carry an explicit "http://" or "https://" prefix to pick the scheme,
- * e.g. "https://frame.example.com" if a reverse proxy is terminating
- * TLS in front of the tools server. Every URL carries ?id= (the device's
- * MAC-derived identity -- how a multi-frame server tells frames apart
- * and how an unknown frame self-registers) plus &token=: the server-
- * issued per-frame device token once one has been delivered via
- * /frame/config, else the provisioned access token (the legacy shared
- * secret, also what a pre-multi-frame server still expects). This is
- * the one chokepoint all requests go through, so every caller gets both
- * for free instead of needing to remember to add them. */
+ * appending cfg->device_token as &token= once one's been delivered.
+ * toolsserver is normally a bare "host:port", defaulting to plain http;
+ * it may instead carry an explicit "http://" or "https://" prefix to
+ * pick the scheme, e.g. "https://frame.example.com" if a reverse proxy
+ * is terminating TLS in front of the tools server. Every URL carries
+ * ?id= (the device's MAC-derived identity -- how a multi-frame server
+ * tells frames apart and how an unknown frame self-registers) plus
+ * &token=. This is the one chokepoint all requests go through, so every
+ * caller gets both for free instead of needing to remember to add them. */
 static void build_url(char *out, size_t out_size, const frame_config_t *cfg, const char *path)
 {
     const char *toolsserver = cfg->toolsserver;
@@ -123,9 +120,8 @@ static void build_url(char *out, size_t out_size, const frame_config_t *cfg, con
         len += (size_t)snprintf(out + len, out_size - len, "?id=%s", device_id);
     }
 
-    const char *token = cfg->device_token[0] != '\0' ? cfg->device_token : cfg->access_token;
-    if (token[0] != '\0' && len < out_size) {
-        snprintf(out + len, out_size - len, "&token=%s", token);
+    if (cfg->device_token[0] != '\0' && len < out_size) {
+        snprintf(out + len, out_size - len, "&token=%s", cfg->device_token);
     }
 }
 
@@ -276,6 +272,14 @@ esp_err_t frame_wifi_connect_sta(const frame_config_t *cfg)
 typedef struct {
     bool reachable;
     uint32_t refresh_interval_s; /* CONFIG_FRAME_SLEEP_INTERVAL_S if absent/unparseable */
+    /* How long NEXT/BACK must be held to trigger a global action instead
+     * of a short press (see next_button.h/back_button.h) --
+     * CONFIG_FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS if absent/unparseable (older server) or
+     * unreachable. Persisted via frame_config_set_hold_duration_ms() for
+     * the *next* boot's button-hold decision -- this fetch happens too
+     * late in the cycle for its own boot's decision, see that function's
+     * own doc comment. */
+    uint32_t hold_duration_ms;
     char firmware_version[32];   /* server's uploaded OTA image version; empty if none/unreachable */
     /* Per-frame token the server pushes until this device has
      * authenticated with it once; empty when absent. Persisted via
@@ -370,6 +374,7 @@ static frame_server_config_t fetch_frame_config(const frame_config_t *cfg)
     frame_server_config_t result = {
         .reachable = false,
         .refresh_interval_s = CONFIG_FRAME_SLEEP_INTERVAL_S,
+        .hold_duration_ms = CONFIG_FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS,
     };
     result.firmware_version[0] = '\0';
     result.device_token[0] = '\0';
@@ -419,6 +424,10 @@ static frame_server_config_t fetch_frame_config(const frame_config_t *cfg)
         ESP_LOGW(TAG, "'%s' response missing refresh_interval_s, using fallback %ds", url,
                  (int)result.refresh_interval_s);
     }
+    uint32_t hold_ms;
+    if (json_extract_uint(body, "hold_duration_ms", &hold_ms)) {
+        result.hold_duration_ms = hold_ms;
+    }
     json_extract_string(body, "firmware_version", result.firmware_version, sizeof(result.firmware_version));
     json_extract_string(body, "device_token", result.device_token, sizeof(result.device_token));
 
@@ -443,12 +452,13 @@ static size_t http_read_fn(uint8_t *chunk, size_t chunk_size, void *ctx_)
     return n > 0 ? (size_t)n : 0;
 }
 
-/* GETs /frame/image (FETCH_NORMAL), or POSTs /frame/advance or
- * /frame/back to force a move in either direction (FETCH_ADVANCE /
- * FETCH_BACK -- the next-photo / back-photo buttons). manage=true (the
- * manage button) appends &manage=1, telling the server to bake its
- * overlay into this same response instead of returning the bare
- * content -- see server/app/routers/device.py. Returning non-ESP_OK
+/* GETs /frame/image (FETCH_NORMAL), or POSTs /frame/advance, /frame/back,
+ * /frame/global-next, or /frame/global-back to force a move/action
+ * (FETCH_ADVANCE / FETCH_BACK -- a short press; FETCH_GLOBAL_NEXT /
+ * FETCH_GLOBAL_BACK -- a held press, see next_button.h/back_button.h).
+ * manage=true (the manage button) appends &manage=1, telling the server
+ * to bake its overlay into this same response instead of returning the
+ * bare content -- see server/app/routers/device.py. Returning non-ESP_OK
  * means the panel was never actually refreshed -- epd_display_stream()
  * (see epd7in3e.c) refuses to trigger a physical refresh on a short/
  * wrong-size stream, so a failure here always leaves the visible screen
@@ -460,6 +470,10 @@ static esp_err_t fetch_and_display(const frame_config_t *cfg, fetch_action_t act
         path = "frame/advance";
     } else if (action == FETCH_BACK) {
         path = "frame/back";
+    } else if (action == FETCH_GLOBAL_NEXT) {
+        path = "frame/global-next";
+    } else if (action == FETCH_GLOBAL_BACK) {
+        path = "frame/global-back";
     }
 
     char url[256];
@@ -720,6 +734,11 @@ void frame_client_run(const frame_config_t *cfg, fetch_action_t action, bool sho
         report_battery(cfg, battery_percent);
         frame_server_config_t server_cfg = fetch_frame_config(cfg);
         sleep_seconds = server_cfg.reachable ? server_cfg.refresh_interval_s : CONFIG_FRAME_RETRY_INTERVAL_S;
+        if (server_cfg.reachable) {
+            /* For next boot's button-hold decision, not this one -- see
+             * frame_config_get_hold_duration_ms()'s own doc comment. */
+            frame_config_set_hold_duration_ms(server_cfg.hold_duration_ms);
+        }
 
         /* One-time identity handshake: the server pushes this frame's
          * own token until we've authenticated with it once. Persist it

firmware/main/frame_client.h

@@ -9,14 +9,19 @@
  * Which photo-fetch behavior this wake cycle should use -- normally the
  * idempotent GET /frame/image (the server decides on its own whether to
  * advance, based on its configured refresh interval, so a plain
- * wake/reboot never skips a photo just by asking), or POST
- * /frame/advance / POST /frame/back to force a move in either direction
- * (the next-photo / back-photo buttons).
+ * wake/reboot never skips a photo just by asking), POST /frame/advance /
+ * POST /frame/back to force a move in either direction (a short press of
+ * the next-photo / back-photo buttons), or POST /frame/global-next /
+ * POST /frame/global-back to run whatever frame-wide action (if any) is
+ * configured for a held press (see next_button.h/back_button.h's
+ * *_HOLD result and app/global_actions.py server-side).
  */
 typedef enum {
     FETCH_NORMAL,
     FETCH_ADVANCE,
     FETCH_BACK,
+    FETCH_GLOBAL_NEXT,
+    FETCH_GLOBAL_BACK,
 } fetch_action_t;
 
 /**

firmware/main/main.c

@@ -40,12 +40,21 @@ void app_main(void)
     back_button_init();
     combo_button_init();
 
-    bool next_pressed = next_button_check();
-    bool back_pressed = back_button_check();
+    next_button_result_t next_result = next_button_check();
+    back_button_result_t back_result = back_button_check();
     /* Next takes priority over back if somehow both read pressed at once
      * (e.g. both held through a power-on) -- an arbitrary but
-     * deterministic tie-break, not expected to matter in practice. */
-    fetch_action_t action = next_pressed ? FETCH_ADVANCE : back_pressed ? FETCH_BACK : FETCH_NORMAL;
+     * deterministic tie-break, not expected to matter in practice. Same
+     * priority applies whether the winning button resolved to a short
+     * press or a hold. */
+    fetch_action_t action;
+    if (next_result != NEXT_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED) {
+        action = (next_result == NEXT_BUTTON_HOLD) ? FETCH_GLOBAL_NEXT : FETCH_ADVANCE;
+    } else if (back_result != BACK_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED) {
+        action = (back_result == BACK_BUTTON_HOLD) ? FETCH_GLOBAL_BACK : FETCH_BACK;
+    } else {
+        action = FETCH_NORMAL;
+    }
     /* Soft-resets or clears config + restarts internally for a medium/
      * long hold and never returns in those cases -- only returns here
      * for "not pressed" (false) or "quick press" (true, show the menu). */

firmware/main/next_button.c

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#include <stdint.h>
+
 #include "driver/gpio.h"
 #include "esp_log.h"
 #include "esp_sleep.h"
@@ -5,6 +7,8 @@
 #include "freertos/FreeRTOS.h"
 #include "freertos/task.h"
 
+#include "wifi_provisioning.h"
+
 #include "next_button.h"
 
 static const char *TAG = "next_button";
@@ -14,6 +18,7 @@ static const char *TAG = "next_button";
 #define NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO ((gpio_num_t)CONFIG_FRAME_NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO)
 #define NEXT_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_MS 20
 #define NEXT_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_CHECKS 3
+#define NEXT_BUTTON_POLL_MS 100
 
 void next_button_init(void)
 {
@@ -40,7 +45,7 @@ void next_button_init(void)
     esp_sleep_enable_gpio_wakeup_on_hp_periph_powerdown(1ULL << NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO, ESP_GPIO_WAKEUP_GPIO_LOW);
 }
 
-bool next_button_check(void)
+next_button_result_t next_button_check(void)
 {
     /* A quick tap can easily release before this runs (~0.4-0.5s into
      * boot, confirmed on hardware -- a live gpio_get_level() check here
@@ -48,32 +53,54 @@ bool next_button_check(void)
      * status register is latched at the moment of waking and isn't
      * cleared until the next sleep entry, so it reliably reflects a tap
      * regardless of how quickly it was released. */
-    if (esp_sleep_get_gpio_wakeup_status() & (1ULL << NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO)) {
-        ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Next-photo button caused this wake, forcing advance");
-        return true;
-    }
+    bool caused_wake = esp_sleep_get_gpio_wakeup_status() & (1ULL << NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO);
 
-    /* Not a GPIO-wakeup-from-this-pin boot (normal timer wake, or a fresh
-     * power-on/reflash) -- fall back to a live, debounced level check so
-     * holding the button down while powering on also works. */
-    if (gpio_get_level(NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO) != 0) {
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    for (int i = 0; i < NEXT_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_CHECKS; i++) {
-        vTaskDelay(pdMS_TO_TICKS(NEXT_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_MS));
+    if (!caused_wake) {
+        /* Not a GPIO-wakeup-from-this-pin boot (normal timer wake, or a
+         * fresh power-on/reflash) -- fall back to a live, debounced level
+         * check so holding the button down while powering on also
+         * works. */
         if (gpio_get_level(NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO) != 0) {
-            return false; /* noise, not a real press */
+            return NEXT_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED;
+        }
+        for (int i = 0; i < NEXT_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_CHECKS; i++) {
+            vTaskDelay(pdMS_TO_TICKS(NEXT_BUTTON_DEBOUNCE_MS));
+            if (gpio_get_level(NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO) != 0) {
+                return NEXT_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED; /* noise, not a real press */
+            }
         }
     }
 
-    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Next-photo button held during power-on, forcing advance");
-    return true;
+    /* Confirmed pressed (either the wake cause, or debounced during
+     * power-on) -- measure how long, same polling pattern as
+     * combo_button.c's own hold-tier detection. Reads the last hold
+     * duration the server reported (persisted from a previous cycle,
+     * see frame_config_get_hold_duration_ms's own doc comment), falling
+     * back to the Kconfig default before the device has ever fetched
+     * one. */
+    uint32_t hold_threshold_ms;
+    if (frame_config_get_hold_duration_ms(&hold_threshold_ms) != ESP_OK) {
+        hold_threshold_ms = CONFIG_FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS;
+    }
+
+    uint32_t elapsed_ms = 0;
+    while (gpio_get_level(NEXT_BUTTON_GPIO) == 0) {
+        if (elapsed_ms >= hold_threshold_ms) {
+            ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Next button held past %ums, triggering global hold action",
+                     (unsigned)hold_threshold_ms);
+            return NEXT_BUTTON_HOLD;
+        }
+        vTaskDelay(pdMS_TO_TICKS(NEXT_BUTTON_POLL_MS));
+        elapsed_ms += NEXT_BUTTON_POLL_MS;
+    }
+
+    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Next-photo button short press (%ums), forcing advance", (unsigned)elapsed_ms);
+    return NEXT_BUTTON_SHORT_PRESS;
 }
 
 #else
 
 void next_button_init(void) {}
-bool next_button_check(void) { return false; }
+next_button_result_t next_button_check(void) { return NEXT_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED; }
 
 #endif

firmware/main/next_button.h

@@ -12,10 +12,27 @@
  */
 void next_button_init(void);
 
+typedef enum {
+    NEXT_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED,
+    /** A short press -- advancing a photo is low-stakes and should feel
+     * immediate, so this fires the moment the button releases (or right
+     * away for a wake-triggered press, once it's confirmed not a hold). */
+    NEXT_BUTTON_SHORT_PRESS,
+    /** Held past the configured hold duration (see
+     * wifi_provisioning.h's frame_config_get_hold_duration_ms) --
+     * triggers a frame-wide action instead (see
+     * server/app/global_actions.py, frame_client.h's FETCH_GLOBAL_NEXT).
+     * Fires immediately at the threshold, without waiting for release --
+     * same convention as combo_button.c's factory-reset tier. */
+    NEXT_BUTTON_HOLD,
+} next_button_result_t;
+
 /**
- * Returns whether the next-photo button is currently held, debounced with
- * a couple of short re-checks to reject noise. No long hold-to-confirm
- * gate -- advancing a photo is low-stakes and should feel immediate, so
- * this returns right away either way.
+ * Checks the next-photo button and, if it's pressed at all (either what
+ * caused this wake, per the latched wakeup-status register, or held
+ * through a debounced power-on check), blocks polling its level until
+ * either it's released (NEXT_BUTTON_SHORT_PRESS) or the hold duration
+ * elapses (NEXT_BUTTON_HOLD, returned immediately, not waiting for
+ * release). Evaluated once per wake.
  */
-bool next_button_check(void);
+next_button_result_t next_button_check(void);

firmware/main/ota_update.c

@@ -36,9 +36,8 @@ static void build_ota_url(char *out, size_t out_size, const frame_config_t *cfg)
         len += (size_t)snprintf(out + len, out_size - len, "?id=%s", device_id);
     }
 
-    const char *token = cfg->device_token[0] != '\0' ? cfg->device_token : cfg->access_token;
-    if (token[0] != '\0' && len < out_size) {
-        snprintf(out + len, out_size - len, "&token=%s", token);
+    if (cfg->device_token[0] != '\0' && len < out_size) {
+        snprintf(out + len, out_size - len, "&token=%s", cfg->device_token);
     }
 }
 

firmware/main/root.html

@@ -97,11 +97,6 @@
                 <input type="text" id="toolsserver" name="toolsserver" placeholder="e.g. 192.168.1.50:8080 or https://frame.example.com" maxlength="128" required>
             </div>
 
-            <div class="input-group">
-                <label for="access_token">Access Token (optional &mdash; only for older servers)</label>
-                <input type="text" id="access_token" name="access_token" placeholder="usually blank; current servers issue one automatically" maxlength="64">
-            </div>
-
             <p style="font-size: 13px; color: #555;">After saving, this page will
                 take you to the server to claim your frame &mdash; reconnect to
                 your normal WiFi if it doesn't happen automatically.</p>

firmware/main/wifi_provisioning.c

@@ -73,20 +73,10 @@ esp_err_t frame_config_load(frame_config_t *out)
         return pass_err;
     }
 
-    /* Also optional -- most deployments won't set a server-side
-     * MANAGEMENT_TOKEN at all, in which case this stays empty and the
-     * manage-menu QR just links to the page with no ?token=. */
-    len = sizeof(out->access_token);
-    esp_err_t token_err = nvs_get_str(handle, "access_token", out->access_token, &len);
-    if (token_err != ESP_OK && token_err != ESP_ERR_NVS_NOT_FOUND) {
-        nvs_close(handle);
-        return token_err;
-    }
-
     /* Optional: absent until the server has pushed a per-frame token
      * (see frame_config_set_device_token). */
     len = sizeof(out->device_token);
-    token_err = nvs_get_str(handle, "device_token", out->device_token, &len);
+    esp_err_t token_err = nvs_get_str(handle, "device_token", out->device_token, &len);
     if (token_err != ESP_OK && token_err != ESP_ERR_NVS_NOT_FOUND) {
         nvs_close(handle);
         return token_err;
@@ -131,9 +121,6 @@ esp_err_t frame_config_save(const frame_config_t *cfg)
     if (err == ESP_OK) {
         err = nvs_set_str(handle, "toolsserver", cfg->toolsserver);
     }
-    if (err == ESP_OK) {
-        err = nvs_set_str(handle, "access_token", cfg->access_token);
-    }
     if (err == ESP_OK) {
         /* Re-provisioning restarts the identity handshake: the server
          * (possibly a different one now) re-issues a device token when
@@ -191,7 +178,6 @@ void frame_config_clear(void)
     nvs_erase_key(handle, "sta_ssid");
     nvs_erase_key(handle, "sta_pass");
     nvs_erase_key(handle, "toolsserver");
-    nvs_erase_key(handle, "access_token");
     nvs_erase_key(handle, "device_token");
     nvs_erase_key(handle, "connected_once");
     nvs_commit(handle);
@@ -234,6 +220,29 @@ void frame_config_invalidate_last_display_crc32(void)
     nvs_close(handle);
 }
 
+esp_err_t frame_config_get_hold_duration_ms(uint32_t *out)
+{
+    nvs_handle_t handle;
+    esp_err_t err = nvs_open(NVS_NAMESPACE, NVS_READONLY, &handle);
+    if (err != ESP_OK) {
+        return err;
+    }
+    err = nvs_get_u32(handle, "hold_ms", out);
+    nvs_close(handle);
+    return err;
+}
+
+void frame_config_set_hold_duration_ms(uint32_t ms)
+{
+    nvs_handle_t handle;
+    if (nvs_open(NVS_NAMESPACE, NVS_READWRITE, &handle) != ESP_OK) {
+        return;
+    }
+    nvs_set_u32(handle, "hold_ms", ms);
+    nvs_commit(handle);
+    nvs_close(handle);
+}
+
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * WiFi fast-connect cache
  * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- */
@@ -429,7 +438,6 @@ static esp_err_t save_config_post_handler(httpd_req_t *req)
     extract_form_value(body, "ssid", cfg.sta_ssid, sizeof(cfg.sta_ssid));
     extract_form_value(body, "password", cfg.sta_password, sizeof(cfg.sta_password));
     extract_form_value(body, "toolsserver", cfg.toolsserver, sizeof(cfg.toolsserver));
-    extract_form_value(body, "access_token", cfg.access_token, sizeof(cfg.access_token));
 
     if (strlen(cfg.sta_ssid) == 0 || strlen(cfg.toolsserver) == 0) {
         httpd_resp_send_err(req, HTTPD_400_BAD_REQUEST, "SSID and Tools Server are required");
@@ -443,8 +451,7 @@ static esp_err_t save_config_post_handler(httpd_req_t *req)
         return ESP_FAIL;
     }
 
-    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Saved config: ssid='%s' toolsserver='%s' access_token=%s", cfg.sta_ssid, cfg.toolsserver,
-             strlen(cfg.access_token) ? "set" : "none");
+    ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Saved config: ssid='%s' toolsserver='%s'", cfg.sta_ssid, cfg.toolsserver);
 
     /* The success page hands the browser off to the server's claim page,
      * carrying this device's id -- how a frame gets linked to a user

firmware/main/wifi_provisioning.h

@@ -17,11 +17,10 @@ typedef struct {
     char sta_ssid[FRAME_CFG_SSID_MAX_LEN + 1];
     char sta_password[FRAME_CFG_PASSWORD_MAX_LEN + 1];
     char toolsserver[FRAME_CFG_SERVER_MAX_LEN + 1];
-    char access_token[FRAME_CFG_TOKEN_MAX_LEN + 1]; /* optional; legacy shared MANAGEMENT_TOKEN */
     /* Per-frame token issued by the server via GET /frame/config after
-     * this device first introduces itself by id -- preferred over
-     * access_token once present (see frame_client.c's build_url). Not
-     * set at the captive portal; empty until the server pushes one. */
+     * this device first introduces itself by id (see frame_client.c's
+     * build_url). Not set at the captive portal; empty until the server
+     * pushes one. */
     char device_token[FRAME_CFG_TOKEN_MAX_LEN + 1];
 } frame_config_t;
 
@@ -94,6 +93,27 @@ void frame_config_set_last_display_crc32(uint32_t crc32);
  */
 void frame_config_invalidate_last_display_crc32(void);
 
+/**
+ * Returns the hold_duration_ms the server most recently reported via GET
+ * /frame/config (see frame_client.c's fetch_frame_config/frame_client_run)
+ * -- how long NEXT/BACK must be held before next_button_check()/
+ * back_button_check() treat it as a hold-for-global-action instead of a
+ * short press. Returns ESP_ERR_NVS_NOT_FOUND if the device has never
+ * fetched one yet (fresh install/factory reset); caller should fall back
+ * to CONFIG_FRAME_HOLD_ACTION_MS in that case.
+ *
+ * Deliberately a *previous* cycle's value: this cycle's own button
+ * decision happens in main.c before WiFi even connects, but
+ * /frame/config isn't fetched until near the end of frame_client_run
+ * (after the image fetch, for connection-warmth/timeout reasons -- see
+ * its own comment) -- so there's no same-cycle fresh value to use yet.
+ */
+esp_err_t frame_config_get_hold_duration_ms(uint32_t *out);
+
+/** Persists the hold duration reported by the server, for the *next*
+ * boot's button-hold decision to use. */
+void frame_config_set_hold_duration_ms(uint32_t ms);
+
 /**
  * Returns this device's provisioning AP identity: a fixed SSID (from
  * Kconfig) and a password that's generated once on first use and persisted

firmware/version.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.3.0
+1.4.2

server/.dockerignore

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+__pycache__/
+**/__pycache__/
+.venv/
+*.egg-info/
+data/
+render-service/node_modules/
+.git/

server/Dockerfile

@@ -2,18 +2,118 @@ FROM python:3.12-slim
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
-# tzdata: python:3.12-slim doesn't include it by default, so the zoneinfo
-# database backing the web UI's "Timezone" setting (used by "Quiet hours")
-# would have no named zones to resolve without this -- ZoneInfo() would
-# raise for anything other than "UTC".
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends tzdata \
+# tzdata/fonts/Node.js all from Debian's own repo in one layer -- no
+# external curl/gnupg dance needed (see below for why that changed).
+# tzdata: python:3.12-slim doesn't include it by default, so the
+# zoneinfo database backing the web UI's "Timezone" setting (used by
+# "Quiet hours") would have no named zones to resolve without this --
+# ZoneInfo() would raise for anything other than "UTC".
+# fontconfig/fonts-dejavu-core: whiteboard mode's render-service/ (own
+# README there) needs something to render whiteboard text with.
+#
+# Node.js: whiteboard frame mode's render-service/ runs as a second
+# process in this same container rather than a separate compose service
+# -- it's a lightweight, stateless, localhost-only sidecar with nothing
+# worth independently scaling or restarting. Used to be installed via
+# NodeSource's setup script (Debian's own nodejs package was too old for
+# jsdom's minimum back when this base image tracked Debian bookworm) --
+# switched to Debian's own `nodejs`/`npm` packages after NodeSource's
+# deb.nodesource.com started intermittently 403ing on both its setup_*.x
+# scripts *and* its GPG key (a live NodeSource-side S3/CDN issue,
+# confirmed 2026-07-27 by hitting deb.nodesource.com directly -- some
+# setup_NN.x paths 403, others 200, no consistent pattern, so no
+# NodeSource-hosted install path could be trusted not to silently break
+# again). This base image now tracks Debian trixie, whose own `nodejs`
+# package is 20.19.2 -- inside jsdom 29's stated engines range
+# (`^20.19.0 || ^22.13.0 || >=24.0.0`) and well above express/resvg-js's
+# much lower floors -- so there's no longer a version gap to route
+# around NodeSource for. One less external dependency, and no more
+# curl-piped-into-bash (that pattern is also what let the NodeSource
+# failure go undetected here in the first place: `curl -f ... | bash -`
+# on a 403 hands bash an empty, "successful" script instead of failing
+# the RUN outright).
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    tzdata fontconfig fonts-dejavu-core nodejs npm \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# EXPERIMENTAL. System libs a headless Chromium needs (app/html_render.py, the weather widget's
+# opt-in "modern" render style), trimmed from Playwright's own full
+# `install-deps chromium` list to just what a headless (no Xvfb),
+# Latin-text-plus-emoji use case needs: dropped xvfb (only needed for a
+# *headed* browser) and the CJK/Cyrillic/Thai locale font packages
+# (fonts-ipafont-gothic, fonts-wqy-zenhei, fonts-tlwg-loma-otf,
+# xfonts-cyrillic, xfonts-scalable, fonts-freefont-ttf, fonts-unifont) --
+# fonts-noto-color-emoji is the one that actually matters here (real
+# color emoji in the weather icons, vs. WeasyPrint/Pango's monochrome
+# fallback glyphs in this feature's original spike).
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    libasound2t64 libatk-bridge2.0-0t64 libatk1.0-0t64 libatspi2.0-0t64 \
+    libcairo2 libcups2t64 libdbus-1-3 libdrm2 libgbm1 libglib2.0-0t64 \
+    libnspr4 libnss3 libpango-1.0-0 libx11-6 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 \
+    libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxkbcommon0 libxrandr2 \
+    fonts-noto-color-emoji libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 fonts-liberation \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 COPY requirements.txt .
+# Split across several layers rather than one `pip install -r
+# requirements.txt` -- same Cloudflare single-blob/layer payload-size
+# limit as render-service's npm installs below. The single combined
+# layer was measured at ~113MB unpacked, over the limit on its own.
+# Isolating the largest packages gets every layer's unpacked size well
+# clear of 100MB (sqlalchemy ~15MB, pillow ~19MB, pypdfium2 ~8MB, the
+# remaining `-r requirements.txt` layer ~71MB). Each package version here
+# still comes from requirements.txt (`pip install -r` for everything that
+# doesn't need its own layer skips these, since pip sees them already
+# satisfied); the explicit versions below just control *when* each
+# installs -- same "single source of truth, just splitting *when* it
+# installs" tradeoff as the npm section's --no-save comment below.
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir sqlalchemy==2.0.51
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir pillow==12.3.0
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir pypdfium2==5.12.1
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir playwright==1.61.0
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
+# The headless Chromium binary itself is deliberately NOT installed
+# here at build time. `playwright install chromium-headless-shell`
+# unpacks to ~262MB, and its single `chrome-headless-shell` binary alone
+# (measured: 181MB) is one file -- unlike the pip/npm splits above
+# (independently-installable smaller packages moved into their own
+# layers), a single 181MB file can't be divided across multiple <100MB
+# Docker layers by any ordinary COPY/RUN restructuring; the whole file
+# lands in whichever layer's diff contains it, which confirmed-failed
+# to push to this project's registry (the same Cloudflare single-blob/
+# layer limit that forced the pip/npm splits elsewhere in this file --
+# see their comments). Fix: start.sh downloads it at container startup
+# instead, cached on the /data volume (PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH below)
+# so it survives restarts/redeploys and only ever downloads once per
+# volume, not once per image layer. Trade-off: first boot on a fresh
+# volume needs network access to Playwright's CDN -- true of Immich/
+# weather API access too, so not a new requirement for this server.
+ENV PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=/data/.playwright-browsers
+
+# render-service/'s dependencies installed as several separate layers
+# rather than one `npm install` covering all of them -- a from-scratch
+# push of this image once hit Cloudflare's payload-size limit on a
+# single blob/layer upload (the registry sits behind it), and splitting
+# a big layer into several smaller ones is the direct fix for exactly
+# that failure mode, independent of anything about the registry itself.
+# --no-save: package.json already fully declares these (with the exact
+# same version pins used here) as the single source of truth for what
+# this service depends on -- these calls are just about *when* each one
+# gets installed for layer-size reasons, not re-deciding what's needed.
+COPY render-service/package.json ./render-service/package.json
+WORKDIR /app/render-service
+RUN npm install --omit=dev --no-save express@^5.2.1 && npm cache clean --force
+RUN npm install --omit=dev --no-save jsdom@^29.1.1 && npm cache clean --force
+RUN npm install --omit=dev --no-save @excalidraw/[email protected] && npm cache clean --force
+RUN npm install --omit=dev --no-save @resvg/[email protected] && npm cache clean --force
+WORKDIR /app
+
+COPY render-service/server.js ./render-service/server.js
 COPY app ./app
+COPY start.sh .
+RUN chmod +x start.sh
 
 EXPOSE 8420
 
-CMD ["uvicorn", "app.main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8420"]
+CMD ["./start.sh"]

server/README.md

@@ -37,13 +37,10 @@ algorithm itself -- it just streams the response straight to the panel.
    instead (see `firmware/README.md`'s HTTPS section).
 5. **Each frame gets its own device token automatically** -- the server
    issues it on the frame's first check-in, so there's nothing to
-   configure. The captive portal's **Access Token** field only matters
-   when pointing new firmware at an old (pre-multi-frame) server.
-   `MANAGEMENT_TOKEN` in `docker-compose.yml` is likewise now only the
-   *migration* credential: a frame flashed with pre-multi-frame
-   firmware authenticates with it until it's updated and bound (the
-   Admin page shows the migration state per frame and a "Close legacy
-   window" button for when it's done).
+   configure. `MANAGEMENT_TOKEN` in `docker-compose.yml` is optional and
+   only matters pre-setup: if set, it's the credential that gates who
+   gets to be the one to run first-run setup on a freshly deployed
+   server, before any admin account exists.
 6. **Optional: auto-update firmware from Gitea releases.** If you're
    pushing this repo to a Gitea instance, `.gitea/workflows/firmware-release-build.yml`
    builds both supported boards and publishes them as release assets
@@ -91,11 +88,19 @@ algorithm itself -- it just streams the response straight to the panel.
   again until a recharge is detected and it crosses again. No SMTP
   configured, or no email on the relevant account, and both features
   silently no-op rather than erroring.
+- **Server logs.** `/admin/logs` shows the tail of the process's own
+  log file (`LOG_PATH` env var, default `/data/server.log` -- the same
+  `/data` volume as the database and legacy config, so it survives
+  container restarts/redeploys; `LOG_LEVEL` env var, default `INFO`).
+  Rotates at ~2MB x 3 backups; the page only reads the current file,
+  "Download full log" streams it raw. There's no log shipping/
+  aggregation beyond this -- it's a single-container deployment, so
+  the file *is* the log.
 
 ## Endpoints
 
 Pages: `/` (routing hub), `/setup`, `/login`, `/claim`, `/settings`,
-`/admin`, `/frames/{id}` (Photos), `/frames/{id}/config`,
+`/admin`, `/admin/logs`, `/frames/{id}` (Photos), `/frames/{id}/config`,
 `/frames/{id}/stats`, `/m/{manage_token}`.
 
 ### Device protocol (`/frame/*` -- paths frozen; auth = `?id=` + `?token=`)
@@ -121,9 +126,11 @@ Pages: `/` (routing hub), `/setup`, `/login`, `/claim`, `/settings`,
   this response may grow.
 - `GET /frame/photo-info` -- location/date overlay text for the manage
   menu (city + abbreviated US/CAN region or country, `MM/DD/YY`).
-- `GET /frame/share/{asset_id}` -- creates a 30-minute public Immich
-  share link and 302s to it; scoped to the photo currently showing or
-  queued on *this* frame only.
+- `GET /frame/share/{manage_token}` -- creates a 30-minute public Immich
+  share link covering every photo widget's currently-showing photo on
+  *this* frame and 302s to it. Authenticated by the frame's own
+  `manage_token` (see the manage QR below), not device credentials -- a
+  phone scanning the QR has no way to supply `?id=`/`?token=`.
 - `GET /frame/face-labels` -- up to 4 named faces with 800x480
   positions, flattened (`name_0`/`x_0`/`y_0`, ...) for the device's
   flat-scalar parser.
@@ -200,19 +207,70 @@ Pages: `/` (routing hub), `/setup`, `/login`, `/claim`, `/settings`,
   in the web UI (or using "Show next") only rearranges what's already in
   that lookahead; it doesn't add or remove photos from the album.
 - Auth in one breath: browsers use sessions (+CSRF), devices use
-  per-frame tokens (`?id=` + `?token=`), the manage QR uses its own
-  limited token, and `MANAGEMENT_TOKEN` survives only as the migration
-  credential for pre-multi-frame firmware. `/frame/share` stays scoped
-  to photos this frame is actually showing or has queued, not any
-  Immich asset ID someone might guess -- a second layer a leaked device
-  token alone wouldn't bypass.
-- Calendar frame mode (`app/calendar_feed.py`) expands recurring events
+  per-frame tokens (`?id=` + `?token=`), the manage QR and the
+  scan-to-download QR both use the frame's own `manage_token` (device
+  tokens don't work for either -- neither is ever called by firmware,
+  both are opened by a phone that has no way to supply `?id=`/`?token=`),
+  and `MANAGEMENT_TOKEN` is only ever the pre-setup claim gate (see
+  step 5 above).
+- The calendar widget (`app/calendar_feed.py`) expands recurring events
   (RRULE/EXDATE/DST) via [`recurring-ical-events`](https://pypi.org/project/recurring-ical-events/),
   which is LGPL-3.0-or-later -- the only non-permissively-licensed
   dependency here. It's used as an ordinary `pip install` runtime import,
   never vendored or modified, so this project's own code stays under its
   own license; LGPL's copyleft terms apply to that library itself, not
   to code that merely links against it dynamically.
+- CalDAV account support (`app/caldav_client.py`, alongside the plain ICS
+  subscription) wraps the `caldav` PyPI package. `caldav` itself is
+  dual-licensed GPL-3.0-or-later/Apache-2.0, but it hard-depends on
+  `icalendar-searcher`, which is **AGPL-3.0-or-later** -- the strongest
+  copyleft in this project's dependency tree, and the one whose
+  network-use clause is written specifically for server applications
+  like this one (not just "don't vendor/modify it," which was enough
+  reasoning for the LGPL dependency above). Taking this on was an
+  explicit, informed call by the project owner, not a default -- anyone
+  redistributing this project (vs. just self-hosting it) should
+  re-evaluate that tradeoff for their own situation before doing so.
+- The whiteboard widget (`app/webdav_client.py`, `app/whiteboard.py`)
+  fetches a Nextcloud Whiteboard (or any WebDAV server's) `.whiteboard`
+  file -- which turns out to be Excalidraw scene JSON (elements/appState/
+  files), not an image -- and renders it via `render-service/`, a small
+  Node.js sidecar using Excalidraw's own real export code
+  (`@excalidraw/utils`'s `exportToSvg`) plus `@resvg/resvg-js` (a native
+  Rust SVG rasterizer, no headless browser) to turn that into a PNG. That
+  sidecar runs as a **second process inside this same container**
+  (`Dockerfile` installs Node, `start.sh` launches it in the background
+  before `exec`-ing uvicorn), reachable only at `127.0.0.1:3001` from the
+  Python process -- not a second docker-compose service, since it's
+  lightweight, stateless, and has nothing worth independently scaling or
+  restarting. License check (after getting burned once already in this
+  same file, on the CalDAV dependency below, into checking transitive
+  deps and not just top-level ones): Excalidraw, `@excalidraw/utils`,
+  every one of its own runtime dependencies, `@resvg/resvg-js`
+  (MPL-2.0 -- weak/file-level copyleft, doesn't extend to code that just
+  calls into it), `jsdom`, and `express` are all MIT/Apache-2.0/Zlib/
+  MPL-2.0 -- no repeat of the AGPL surprise. **Not runtime-tested against
+  a real `npm install`/`docker build`** -- this project's dev environment
+  has no Node.js/npm, only network access to the npm registry API (used
+  to verify the above and pick real, current dependency versions). See
+  `render-service/README.md` for exactly what is and isn't verified.
+- Calendar event titles can contain emoji, which `ImageFont.load_default()`
+  (used for every other bit of text this project renders) has no glyphs
+  for -- PIL/FreeType substitute a visible ".notdef" tofu box rather than
+  skipping the codepoint. `app/calendar_render.py` draws emoji runs with
+  a vendored font instead (Google's Noto Emoji, OFL-1.1 -- license text
+  at `app/fonts/OFL.txt`), the one deliberate exception to this project's
+  usual "no new font/icon assets" default elsewhere in calendar_render.py
+  -- there's no way to hand-draw arbitrary emoji with primitives the way
+  the weather icons are. Full color (`app/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf`,
+  embedded CBDT bitmap glyphs) is tried first and confirmed to hold up
+  fine through the panel's own Floyd-Steinberg dithering; a deployment
+  whose Pillow/FreeType wasn't built with embedded color bitmap support
+  falls back to a monochrome outline font (`app/fonts/NotoEmoji.ttf`)
+  instead of crashing or rendering nothing. Color glyphs are only stored
+  at one embedded bitmap size (109px), so they're rasterized once at
+  that size and scaled down to the target row height rather than drawn
+  directly like normal vector text.
 - The 6-color palette RGB values in `app/image_pipeline.py`
   (`DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB`) are approximations, not measured values
   (Waveshare doesn't publish exact color primaries for this panel).
@@ -252,3 +310,19 @@ CONFIG_PATH=./data/config.json uvicorn app.main:app --reload --host 0.0.0.0 --po
 `--host 0.0.0.0` matters here: without it, uvicorn defaults to
 `127.0.0.1` (localhost-only), which the ESP32 can't reach over the LAN.
 The Docker image already binds `0.0.0.0` by default.
+
+## Running tests
+
+```
+pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+pytest
+```
+
+Runs against a fresh temp SQLite database (`tests/conftest.py` sets
+`DATABASE_URL` before anything imports `app.db`), with every table wiped
+and reseeded (frame #1 + server settings, same as a real fresh install)
+between tests -- no Docker, Node, or a real Immich/CalDAV/WebDAV server
+needed; a few tests spin up small local HTTP servers as fixtures to
+stand in for those. Also runs as its own job in
+`.gitea/workflows/server-docker-build.yml`, gating the image build/push
+-- a failing test suite blocks the push, not just decorates it.

server/app/auth.py

@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
-"""Authentication: password hashing, user sessions + CSRF, the legacy
-shared-token gate, and device resolution.
+"""Authentication: password hashing, user sessions + CSRF, the pre-setup
+claim gate, and device resolution.
 
 Three independent credential classes:
 - User sessions (cookie "session", server-side sessions table, per-
   session CSRF token required on mutating requests) -- humans.
-- The legacy shared MANAGEMENT_TOKEN (env-only). Still accepted on
-  browser routes so the deployed frame's on-panel manage QR (which
-  embeds ?token=) keeps working until Phase C replaces it with the
-  limited /m/ page; CSRF doesn't apply to it (it's explicit per-request
-  credential, not an ambient cookie a cross-site request could ride).
+- MANAGEMENT_TOKEN (env-only, optional). Only meaningful before any user
+  account exists yet (fresh install, or freshly migrated, before
+  /setup has been run): if set, it gates who gets to be the one to run
+  /setup and claim the first admin account; once a user exists, sessions
+  are the only way in. Not a standing bearer credential -- the on-panel
+  manage QR now embeds a frame's own per-frame manage_token (/m/, see
+  routers/manage.py) rather than this shared one; CSRF doesn't apply to
+  it either way (it's an explicit per-request credential, not an ambient
+  cookie a cross-site request could ride).
 - Device credentials (?id= + ?token=, see require_device below).
 """
 
@@ -250,17 +254,16 @@ def require_frame_control(
 
 
 def management_token() -> str:
-    """The legacy shared secret. Env-only, never stored -- same as the old
-    server, where the env var overrode anything on disk on every load."""
+    """The pre-setup claim-gate secret. Env-only, never stored -- same as
+    the old server, where the env var overrode anything on disk on every
+    load."""
     return os.environ.get("MANAGEMENT_TOKEN", "")
 
 
 def browser_token_valid(request: Request) -> bool:
-    """The legacy shared-token check. No MANAGEMENT_TOKEN configured means
-    token-holders don't exist -- but unlike Phase A this no longer means
-    "open": once users exist, sessions are the primary gate and this is
-    only the compatibility path for the deployed frame's manage QR
-    (?token=) until Phase C. Empty token => not valid (sessions rule)."""
+    """Whether the request carries the current MANAGEMENT_TOKEN, via
+    query param or cookie. Only meaningful pre-setup (see require_browser
+    below) -- empty configured token => not valid (nothing to match)."""
     token = management_token()
     if not token:
         return False
@@ -270,12 +273,12 @@ def browser_token_valid(request: Request) -> bool:
 
 def require_browser(request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)) -> User | None:
     """Dependency for the web UI's /api/* routes: a real user session
-    (CSRF-checked on mutations, returns the User), or the legacy shared
-    token (returns None -- token bearers act as an anonymous operator,
-    exactly the pre-user model). While NO users exist yet (fresh install
-    or freshly migrated, before /setup has been run) the API stays open
-    if no MANAGEMENT_TOKEN is set -- the Phase A/legacy behavior --
-    since there's nobody to log in as yet."""
+    (CSRF-checked on mutations, returns the User). While NO users exist
+    yet (fresh install, or freshly migrated, before /setup has been run)
+    the API instead stays open if no MANAGEMENT_TOKEN is set, or opens
+    to whoever supplies it if one is -- there's nobody to log in as yet,
+    so this is purely the claim gate for who gets to run /setup. Once a
+    user exists, only a session gets in."""
     session = current_session(request, db)
     if session is not None:
         if request.method not in ("GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS") and not _csrf_ok(request, session):
@@ -283,10 +286,9 @@ def require_browser(request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)) -> User | N
         user = db.get(User, session.user_id)
         if user is not None:
             return user
-    if browser_token_valid(request):
-        return None
-    if not users_exist(db) and not management_token():
-        return None
+    if not users_exist(db):
+        if not management_token() or browser_token_valid(request):
+            return None
     raise HTTPException(401, "Not logged in")
 
 
@@ -326,63 +328,29 @@ def _register_frame(db: Session, device_id: str) -> Frame:
 
 def require_device(request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)) -> Frame:
     """Resolves and authenticates the frame behind a /frame/* request.
-
-    New firmware sends ?id=<12-hex-mac>&token=<per-frame device token>.
-    Deployed legacy firmware sends only ?token=<shared MANAGEMENT_TOKEN>
-    (or nothing, on an open server) -- those requests resolve to the
-    unique legacy_token_enabled frame for as long as that migration
-    window stays open. The first id-bearing request arriving with legacy
-    credentials while the legacy frame has no device_id yet BINDS that id
-    to it -- that's the moment the deployed frame comes back up on new
-    firmware after its OTA, and it must not register as a second frame.
-    """
+    Firmware sends ?id=<12-hex-mac>&token=<per-frame device token>."""
     device_id = request.query_params.get("id", "").strip().lower()
     token = request.query_params.get("token", "")
-    legacy = management_token()
-    legacy_ok = not legacy or token == legacy
 
-    if device_id:
-        frame = db.scalars(select(Frame).where(Frame.device_id == device_id)).first()
-        if frame is None:
-            legacy_frame = db.scalars(
-                select(Frame).where(Frame.legacy_token_enabled == True)  # noqa: E712
-            ).first()
-            if legacy_frame is not None and legacy_frame.device_id is None and legacy_ok:
-                legacy_frame.device_id = device_id
-                frame = legacy_frame
-                logger.info("Bound device id %s to legacy frame #%d", device_id, frame.id)
-            else:
-                frame = _register_frame(db, device_id)
-        else:
-            token_ok = bool(token) and token == frame.device_token
-            if token_ok and not frame.device_token_ack:
-                frame.device_token_ack = True
-                logger.info("Frame #%d acknowledged its device token", frame.id)
-            if not token_ok:
-                if frame.legacy_token_enabled and legacy_ok:
-                    pass
-                elif not frame.device_token_ack:
-                    # Handshake window: the device registered but hasn't
-                    # received its token yet (the wake cycle fetches the
-                    # image BEFORE polling /frame/config, where the token
-                    # is delivered) -- the id stays the credential, same
-                    # trust level as the open registration that created
-                    # the row. Closes permanently on the first
-                    # authenticated request.
-                    pass
-                else:
-                    raise HTTPException(401, "Missing or invalid access token")
+    if not device_id:
+        raise HTTPException(401, "Missing device id")
+
+    frame = db.scalars(select(Frame).where(Frame.device_id == device_id)).first()
+    if frame is None:
+        frame = _register_frame(db, device_id)
     else:
-        if not legacy_ok:
+        token_ok = bool(token) and token == frame.device_token
+        if token_ok and not frame.device_token_ack:
+            frame.device_token_ack = True
+            logger.info("Frame #%d acknowledged its device token", frame.id)
+        elif not token_ok and frame.device_token_ack:
             raise HTTPException(401, "Missing or invalid access token")
-        frame = db.scalars(
-            select(Frame).where(Frame.legacy_token_enabled == True)  # noqa: E712
-        ).first()
-        if frame is None:
-            # Nothing to resolve a no-id request to. migration.py always
-            # creates frame #1 at startup, so this only happens if it was
-            # deleted -- treat like an unknown device.
-            raise HTTPException(401, "No frame accepts legacy credentials")
+        # else: handshake window -- the device registered but hasn't
+        # received its token yet (the wake cycle fetches the image
+        # BEFORE polling /frame/config, where the token is delivered) --
+        # the id stays the credential, same trust level as the open
+        # registration that created the row. Closes permanently on the
+        # first authenticated request.
 
     frame.last_seen = time.time()
     db.commit()

server/app/caldav_client.py

@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+"""CalDAV account support: discovering which calendars an account exposes,
+and fetching one calendar's events or tasks -- the second way (alongside
+calendar_feed.py's single-file ICS subscription) a user can link a
+calendar for calendar frame mode (Nextcloud, Fastmail, iCloud, Radicale,
+Baikal, ...). Task lists (VTODO collections) are CalDAV-only -- a plain
+ICS subscription doesn't meaningfully have one -- see fetch_tasks.
+
+Thin wrapper around the `caldav` PyPI package (RFC 4791 client). NOTE ON
+LICENSING: `caldav` itself is dual-licensed GPL-3.0-or-later / Apache-2.0,
+but it hard-depends on `icalendar-searcher`, which is AGPL-3.0-or-later --
+the strongest copyleft license in this project's dependency tree, and the
+one whose network-use clause is specifically written for server
+applications like this one. This was an explicit, informed call by the
+project owner to accept that exposure rather than hand-roll a CalDAV
+client -- see the server README's Notes section. Anyone redistributing
+this project (as opposed to just self-hosting it) should reread that
+tradeoff for their own situation.
+
+Pure functions -- no ORM, no FastAPI Depends -- same testability
+philosophy as calendar_feed.py. Event parsing/expansion reuses
+icalendar + recurring_ical_events directly (rather than trusting each
+CalDAV server's own possibly-inconsistent RRULE expansion) so a CalDAV
+calendar and an ICS subscription behave identically once fetched.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import date, datetime
+
+import caldav
+import icalendar
+import recurring_ical_events
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+HTTP_TIMEOUT_S = 15
+
+
+class CalDavError(Exception):
+    """Discovery or fetch failed -- network, auth, or an unexpected
+    server response. Raised loudly; callers (Settings' discover
+    endpoint, calendar_feed.merge_events) decide what to do. Wraps
+    whatever the caldav package/its transport raised, since that
+    exception hierarchy isn't something call sites should need to know
+    about directly."""
+
+
+def discover_calendars(base_url: str, username: str, password: str) -> list[dict]:
+    """[{"href": absolute_calendar_url, "display_name": str}, ...] for
+    every calendar in this account. base_url is the server's CalDAV
+    entry point (e.g. "https://cloud.example.com/remote.php/dav/" for
+    Nextcloud) -- the caller supplies it directly, same idiom as the
+    plain ICS subscription URL."""
+    try:
+        client = caldav.DAVClient(url=base_url, username=username, password=password, timeout=HTTP_TIMEOUT_S)
+        calendars = client.principal().calendars()
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise CalDavError(str(e)) from e
+
+    result = []
+    for cal in calendars:
+        try:
+            display_name = cal.get_display_name() or cal.name
+        except Exception:
+            display_name = None
+        result.append({"href": str(cal.url), "display_name": display_name or str(cal.url)})
+    return result
+
+
+def fetch_calendar_events(calendar_url: str, username: str, password: str,
+                           window_start: date, window_end: date) -> list[dict]:
+    """One CalDAV calendar's events in [window_start, window_end] -- same
+    event dict shape as calendar_feed.fetch_source_events (no
+    "owner_display_name"; the caller adds that).
+
+    Deliberately does NOT use the calendar-query REPORT's server-side
+    time-range filter (caldav.Calendar.date_search) -- RFC 4791 leaves
+    that corner case underspecified and real servers disagree on it
+    (the caldav package's own docs warn "servers often behave
+    differently when presented with a search request"; confirmed here
+    too, once against a real server, as a calendar whose events just
+    silently never came back despite discovery/auth both working
+    fine). Instead this fetches every event in the calendar unfiltered
+    (get_events() is a plain "list VEVENTs" REPORT with no time-range
+    element -- the much more universally-supported case) and does 100%
+    of the date-window filtering/recurrence-expansion client-side via
+    icalendar + recurring_ical_events, exactly like calendar_feed.py
+    already does for plain ICS feeds. Heavier per-fetch (the whole
+    calendar, not just the window) but far more reliable."""
+    try:
+        client = caldav.DAVClient(url=calendar_url, username=username, password=password, timeout=HTTP_TIMEOUT_S)
+        calendar = caldav.Calendar(client=client, url=calendar_url)
+        objects = calendar.get_events()
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise CalDavError(str(e)) from e
+
+    events: list[dict] = []
+    for obj in objects:
+        try:
+            ical = icalendar.Calendar.from_ical(obj.data)
+            occurrences = recurring_ical_events.of(ical).between(window_start, window_end)
+        except Exception as e:  # one malformed resource shouldn't blank the whole calendar
+            logger.warning("Could not parse a CalDAV event from %s: %s", calendar_url, e)
+            continue
+        for occ in occurrences:
+            dtstart = occ.get("DTSTART")
+            dtend = occ.get("DTEND")
+            if dtstart is None:
+                continue
+            start_dt = dtstart.dt
+            end_dt = dtend.dt if dtend is not None else start_dt
+            all_day = not isinstance(start_dt, datetime)
+            events.append({
+                "summary": str(occ.get("SUMMARY") or "(untitled)"),
+                "start": start_dt.isoformat(),
+                "end": end_dt.isoformat(),
+                "all_day": all_day,
+            })
+    return events
+
+
+def fetch_tasks(calendar_url: str, username: str, password: str,
+                completed_since: datetime | None = None) -> list[dict]:
+    """Outstanding VTODOs from one CalDAV task list, plus -- when
+    completed_since is given -- ones completed at or after that cutoff
+    (see routers/common.py's get_or_refresh_tasks_for_widget, which
+    passes "now - 24h" when TaskWidgetConfig.show_completed is on;
+    None, the default, means completed tasks are dropped entirely, the
+    original behavior). {"summary", "due" (ISO date/datetime string or
+    None), "completed_at" (ISO datetime string, or None for an
+    outstanding task)}, ... . Outstanding tasks sort first (by due date,
+    no-due-date last), any included completed ones after (most recently
+    completed first).
+
+    Fetches every task including completed ones and filters/sorts
+    client-side rather than trusting get_todos()'s own
+    include_completed/sort_keys server-side filtering, same reasoning as
+    fetch_calendar_events not trusting the time-range REPORT filter --
+    a simpler filter than a time range, but not worth re-litigating
+    which server-side filters are reliable one at a time."""
+    try:
+        client = caldav.DAVClient(url=calendar_url, username=username, password=password, timeout=HTTP_TIMEOUT_S)
+        calendar = caldav.Calendar(client=client, url=calendar_url)
+        objects = calendar.get_todos(include_completed=True)
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise CalDavError(str(e)) from e
+
+    outstanding: list[dict] = []
+    completed: list[dict] = []
+    for obj in objects:
+        try:
+            ical = icalendar.Calendar.from_ical(obj.data)
+        except Exception as e:  # one malformed resource shouldn't blank the whole list
+            logger.warning("Could not parse a CalDAV task from %s: %s", calendar_url, e)
+            continue
+        for component in ical.walk("VTODO"):
+            status = str(component.get("STATUS") or "NEEDS-ACTION").upper()
+            summary = str(component.get("SUMMARY") or "(untitled)")
+            if status == "COMPLETED":
+                completed_prop = component.get("COMPLETED")
+                completed_dt = completed_prop.dt if completed_prop is not None else None
+                if completed_since is None or completed_dt is None or completed_dt < completed_since:
+                    continue
+                completed.append({"summary": summary, "due": None, "completed_at": completed_dt.isoformat()})
+            else:
+                due = component.get("DUE")
+                outstanding.append({
+                    "summary": summary,
+                    "due": due.dt.isoformat() if due is not None else None,
+                    "completed_at": None,
+                })
+    outstanding.sort(key=lambda t: (t["due"] is None, t["due"] or ""))
+    completed.sort(key=lambda t: t["completed_at"], reverse=True)
+    return outstanding + completed
+
+
+@dataclass
+class TaskSource:
+    """One task list to merge in -- CalDAV only, no ICS variant (a plain
+    ICS subscription has no VTODO collection to speak of).
+    owner_display_name tags every task pulled from this source so a
+    merged checklist can show whose task is whose; color_index (2-5,
+    into image_pipeline.DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB) is this list's manually
+    pinned color, or None for calendar_render.py's auto-cycle-by-owner-
+    name fallback -- see models.FrameTaskList."""
+
+    owner_display_name: str
+    url: str
+    username: str
+    password: str
+    color_index: int | None = None
+
+
+def merge_tasks(sources: list[TaskSource], completed_since: datetime | None = None) -> tuple[list[dict], str]:
+    """Fetches each source independently -- one broken list never blanks
+    another's tasks. Returns (merged_tasks, fetch_summary); fetch_summary
+    is "" when every source succeeded, else "N of M task lists
+    unavailable" (same no-naming-names posture as calendar_feed.
+    merge_events). No cross-list duplicate collapsing (unlike
+    merge_events) -- a task synced to two lists at once is rare enough,
+    and lower-stakes than a duplicated calendar event, not to be worth
+    the same de-dup machinery."""
+    merged: list[dict] = []
+    failures = 0
+    for source in sources:
+        try:
+            tasks = fetch_tasks(source.url, source.username, source.password, completed_since=completed_since)
+        except CalDavError:
+            failures += 1
+            continue
+        for task in tasks:
+            merged.append({
+                **task,
+                "owner_display_name": source.owner_display_name,
+                "color_index": source.color_index,
+            })
+
+    outstanding = [t for t in merged if t["completed_at"] is None]
+    completed = [t for t in merged if t["completed_at"] is not None]
+    outstanding.sort(key=lambda t: (t["due"] is None, t["due"] or ""))
+    completed.sort(key=lambda t: t["completed_at"], reverse=True)
+    summary = f"{failures} of {len(sources)} task lists unavailable" if failures else ""
+    return outstanding + completed, summary

server/app/calendar_feed.py

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-"""Fetch, parse, and merge per-user ICS calendar feeds for calendar frame
-mode (see routers/device.py's RENDERERS["calendar"] and calendar_render.py).
+"""Fetch, parse, and merge per-user calendar feeds -- ICS subscriptions
+and (via caldav_client.py) CalDAV collections -- for calendar frame mode
+(see routers/device.py's RENDERERS["calendar"] and calendar_render.py).
 
 Pure functions -- no ORM, no FastAPI Depends. Callers (routers/common.py's
-get_or_refresh_calendar_events) supply plain (owner_display_name, url)
-pairs, not ORM objects, so this module stays testable against fixture .ics
-text with no database or app involved.
+get_or_refresh_calendar_events) supply plain CalendarSource values, not
+ORM objects, so this module stays testable against fixture .ics text with
+no database or app involved.
 
 Recurring events (RRULE/EXDATE/RDATE, DST-aware) are expanded via
 recurring-ical-events rather than hand-rolled -- that's genuinely fiddly
@@ -16,12 +17,15 @@ code under LGPL terms).
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from dataclasses import dataclass
 from datetime import date, datetime
 
 import httpx
 import icalendar
 import recurring_ical_events
 
+from . import caldav_client
+
 HTTP_TIMEOUT_S = 15.0
 FETCH_MAX_BYTES = 10 * 1024 * 1024  # sanity cap -- a real feed is KB, not MB
 
@@ -83,27 +87,68 @@ def fetch_source_events(url: str, window_start: date, window_end: date) -> list[
     return events
 
 
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class CalendarSource:
+    """One calendar to merge in: either a plain ICS subscription (kind
+    "ics", url is the feed itself) or one CalDAV collection (kind
+    "caldav", url is the calendar's own URL, username/password its
+    account credentials) -- see caldav_client.py. owner_display_name
+    tags every event pulled from this source so a merged agenda can show
+    whose event is whose. color_index (2-5, into
+    image_pipeline.DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB) is this calendar's manually
+    pinned color, or None to fall back on calendar_render.py's old
+    auto-cycle-by-owner-name behavior -- see models.FrameCalendar."""
+
+    owner_display_name: str
+    kind: str
+    url: str
+    username: str = ""
+    password: str = ""
+    color_index: int | None = None
+
+
 def merge_events(
-    sources: list[tuple[str, str]], window_start: date, window_end: date
+    sources: list[CalendarSource], window_start: date, window_end: date
 ) -> tuple[list[dict], str]:
-    """sources: [(owner_display_name, ics_url), ...]. Fetches each
-    independently -- one broken feed never blanks another's events.
-    Returns (merged_time_sorted_events, fetch_summary); fetch_summary is
-    "" when every source succeeded, else "N of M calendars unavailable"
-    (never *which* source -- naming whose feed is down to everyone who
-    looks at a shared household display is a bigger overshare than the
-    outage itself)."""
+    """Fetches each source independently -- one broken feed never blanks
+    another's events. Returns (merged_time_sorted_events, fetch_summary);
+    fetch_summary is "" when every source succeeded, else "N of M
+    calendars unavailable" (never *which* source -- naming whose feed is
+    down to everyone who looks at a shared household display is a bigger
+    overshare than the outage itself).
+
+    Events sharing the exact same (summary, start, end, all_day) across
+    different calendars -- e.g. a shared family event synced onto more
+    than one person's calendar -- collapse into one entry rather than
+    showing as duplicate rows. Every merged event carries a "sources"
+    list ([{"owner_display_name", "color_index"}, ...], length 1 for an
+    ordinary non-duplicated event) that calendar_render.py draws a
+    color indicator per entry of, so a collapsed event still visibly
+    shows every calendar it came from."""
     merged: list[dict] = []
+    by_key: dict[tuple, dict] = {}
     failures = 0
-    for owner_display_name, url in sources:
+    for source in sources:
         try:
-            events = fetch_source_events(url, window_start, window_end)
-        except CalendarFetchError:
+            if source.kind == "caldav":
+                events = caldav_client.fetch_calendar_events(
+                    source.url, source.username, source.password, window_start, window_end
+                )
+            else:
+                events = fetch_source_events(source.url, window_start, window_end)
+        except (CalendarFetchError, caldav_client.CalDavError):
             failures += 1
             continue
         for event in events:
-            event["owner_display_name"] = owner_display_name
-            merged.append(event)
+            source_entry = {"owner_display_name": source.owner_display_name, "color_index": source.color_index}
+            key = (event["summary"], event["start"], event["end"], event["all_day"])
+            existing = by_key.get(key)
+            if existing is None:
+                event["sources"] = [source_entry]
+                by_key[key] = event
+                merged.append(event)
+            else:
+                existing["sources"].append(source_entry)
 
     merged.sort(key=lambda e: e["start"])
     summary = f"{failures} of {len(sources)} calendars unavailable" if failures else ""

server/app/calendar_html_render.py

@@ -0,0 +1,347 @@
+"""Calendar widget's "modern" render style -- all four view modes
+(agenda/today_tomorrow/week/month), mirroring calendar_render.py's own
+_build dispatch shape exactly so app/widgets/calendar.py and the
+calendar preview endpoint can call either module identically. Kept in
+its own module rather than joining app/html_render.py's other build_*
+functions, mirroring calendar_render.py's own separation from the
+simpler widgets (calendar is the one case where html_render.py growing
+a 5th unrelated builder starts to hurt readability).
+
+Reuses calendar_render's own private helpers (_events_on_day/_event_
+colors/_event_start/_fmt_time/_weather_for_day/_month_view_fits/
+_add_months) so a modern-style view's event list/colors/times/weather/
+month-grid math match the classic renderer's data exactly -- only the
+drawing differs, same relationship weather's build_current/build_daily
+have with weather_render.py."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import calendar as calendar_module
+from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta
+from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
+
+from PIL import Image
+
+from . import html_render, panel_style, theme_tokens
+from .calendar_render import (
+    MARGIN,
+    WEEKDAY_NAMES,
+    _add_months,
+    _event_colors,
+    _event_start,
+    _events_on_day,
+    _fmt_time,
+    _month_view_fits,
+    _weather_for_day,
+)
+
+
+def _weather_row(weather_cities, day, units) -> list[dict]:
+    entries = _weather_for_day(weather_cities, day)
+    return [
+        {"emoji": html_render.CATEGORY_EMOJI.get(e["category"], ""), "high": round(e["high"]), "low": round(e["low"])}
+        for e in entries
+    ]
+
+
+def _day_section_data(day: date, events: list[dict], tz: ZoneInfo, palette_rgb, weather_cities,
+                      weather_units: str, owners_seen: list[str], rows_avail_h: int, row_h: int) -> dict:
+    """One day's {header, weather_entries, rows, more_count} -- shared by
+    build_agenda/build_today_tomorrow/build_week's vertical layout, same
+    reuse relationship calendar_render._draw_agenda_day has with
+    _build_agenda/_build_today_tomorrow. `rows_avail_h` is the *rows*
+    area's own pixel budget only -- the caller has already reserved a
+    separate, uniform header_h (which is where weather actually renders,
+    see the day-header macro) for every section, so this function
+    doesn't need to account for weather space itself."""
+    header = day.strftime("%A, %B ") + str(day.day)
+    weather_entries = _weather_row(weather_cities, day, weather_units)
+    max_rows = max(0, rows_avail_h // row_h)
+
+    day_events = _events_on_day(events, day, tz)
+    rows = []
+    for event in day_events[:max_rows]:
+        colors = _event_colors(event, owners_seen, palette_rgb)
+        time_str = "All day" if event["all_day"] else _fmt_time(_event_start(event, tz))
+        rows.append({"colors": [html_render._rgb_to_hex(c) for c in colors], "time": time_str,
+                     "summary": event["summary"]})
+    return {"header": header, "weather_entries": weather_entries, "rows": rows,
+            "more_count": max(0, len(day_events) - max_rows)}
+
+
+def build_agenda(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, tz: ZoneInfo,
+                 palette_rgb: list | None = None, weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None,
+                 weather_units: str = "fahrenheit", theme_name: str | None = None,
+                 font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """HTML/CSS-rendered analogue of calendar_render._build_agenda.
+
+    Bold-minimal: no card/border/shadow (theme["radius"]/theme["shadow"]
+    are unused, same carve-out as weather's build_current/build_daily --
+    see docs/widgets.md). The day header is plain ink text under a slim
+    accent-colored rule instead of white text on a full gradient band --
+    only that thin rule dithers at the theme's richer accent_amplitude
+    now, not the header text sitting on top of it, which is a legibility
+    improvement over the old design, not just a visual one."""
+    theme = theme_tokens.resolve_theme(theme_name, "calendar", palette_rgb)
+    day = datetime.now(tz).date() + timedelta(days=browse_offset)
+    title_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(14, min(target_w, target_h) // 12), font_scale)
+    body_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(11, min(target_w, target_h) // 20), font_scale)
+    weather_size = max(10, body_size - 2)
+    row_h = body_size + 14
+    unit_suffix = "F" if weather_units == "fahrenheit" else "C"
+    accent_h = round(html_render._clamp(min(target_w, target_h) * 0.025, 4, 8))
+
+    # Single day -- no cross-section alignment concern, so header_h can
+    # simply reflect whether THIS day actually has weather (unlike
+    # build_today_tomorrow/build_week's vertical layout, which must
+    # reserve the same header_h for every stacked section regardless).
+    has_weather = bool(_weather_row(weather_cities, day, weather_units))
+    header_h = accent_h + 10 + title_size + ((weather_size + 10) if has_weather else 0)
+
+    owners_seen: list[str] = []
+    data = _day_section_data(day, events, tz, palette_rgb, weather_cities, weather_units, owners_seen,
+                             target_h - header_h - MARGIN, row_h)
+
+    template = html_render._jinja_env.get_template("calendar_agenda.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, gutter=panel_style.GUTTER,
+        font_regular=theme["font_regular"], font_bold=theme["font_bold"],
+        header=data["header"], title_size=title_size, header_h=header_h, accent_h=accent_h,
+        accent_start=theme["accent_hex"], weather_entries=data["weather_entries"],
+        weather_size=weather_size, unit_suffix=unit_suffix, rows=data["rows"],
+        more_count=data["more_count"], row_h=row_h, body_size=body_size,
+    )
+    rendered = html_render.render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    gutter = panel_style.GUTTER
+    accent_rect = (gutter, gutter, target_w - gutter, gutter + accent_h)
+    return html_render.ordered_dither_regions(
+        rendered, palette_rgb, accent_regions=[(accent_rect, theme["accent_amplitude"])]
+    )
+
+
+def build_today_tomorrow(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, tz: ZoneInfo,
+                         palette_rgb: list | None = None, weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None,
+                         weather_units: str = "fahrenheit", theme_name: str | None = None,
+                         font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """HTML/CSS-rendered analogue of calendar_render._build_today_tomorrow
+    -- two day-sections stacked (see _day_section_data). Bold-minimal, no
+    card (see build_agenda's docstring) -- each section's own slim accent
+    rule dithers richer via ordered_dither_regions, not its header text."""
+    theme = theme_tokens.resolve_theme(theme_name, "calendar", palette_rgb)
+    start_day = datetime.now(tz).date() + timedelta(days=browse_offset)
+    section_h = target_h // 2
+    title_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(13, section_h // 8), font_scale)
+    body_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(10, min(target_w, target_h) // 26), font_scale)
+    weather_size = max(9, body_size - 2)
+    row_h = body_size + 12
+    unit_suffix = "F" if weather_units == "fahrenheit" else "C"
+    accent_h = round(html_render._clamp(min(target_w, target_h) * 0.02, 3, 6))
+
+    day_dates = [start_day + timedelta(days=i) for i in range(2)]
+    # Uniform across both stacked sections regardless of which day(s)
+    # actually have weather -- see _day_section_data's own docstring for
+    # why a per-day header height misaligns where rows start.
+    any_weather = any(_weather_row(weather_cities, d, weather_units) for d in day_dates)
+    header_h = accent_h + 8 + title_size + ((weather_size + 8) if any_weather else 0)
+
+    owners_seen: list[str] = []
+    days = [
+        _day_section_data(d, events, tz, palette_rgb, weather_cities, weather_units, owners_seen,
+                          section_h - header_h, row_h)
+        for d in day_dates
+    ]
+
+    template = html_render._jinja_env.get_template("calendar_today_tomorrow.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, gutter=panel_style.GUTTER,
+        font_regular=theme["font_regular"], font_bold=theme["font_bold"],
+        days=days, title_size=title_size, header_h=header_h, accent_h=accent_h,
+        accent_start=theme["accent_hex"], weather_size=weather_size,
+        unit_suffix=unit_suffix, row_h=row_h, body_size=body_size,
+    )
+    rendered = html_render.render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    gutter = panel_style.GUTTER
+    accent_regions = [
+        ((gutter, gutter + i * section_h, target_w - gutter, gutter + i * section_h + accent_h),
+         theme["accent_amplitude"])
+        for i in range(len(days))
+    ]
+    return html_render.ordered_dither_regions(rendered, palette_rgb, accent_regions=accent_regions)
+
+
+def build_week(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, tz: ZoneInfo,
+              week_start: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None, weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None,
+              weather_units: str = "fahrenheit", days: int = 7, layout: str = "horizontal",
+              start_offset: int = 0, theme_name: str | None = None, font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """HTML/CSS-rendered analogue of calendar_render._build_week -- both
+    the vertical (stacked day-sections, reusing build_today_tomorrow's
+    template with an arbitrary day count) and horizontal (side-by-side
+    columns) layouts. Each header (per-section or per-column) dithers
+    richer via ordered_dither_regions."""
+    theme = theme_tokens.resolve_theme(theme_name, "calendar", palette_rgb)
+    gutter = panel_style.GUTTER
+    today = datetime.now(tz).date()
+    if days == 7:
+        days_since_start = (today.weekday() - week_start) % 7
+        week_first_day = today - timedelta(days=days_since_start) + timedelta(days=days * browse_offset)
+    else:
+        week_first_day = today + timedelta(days=start_offset) + timedelta(days=days * browse_offset)
+    unit_suffix = "F" if weather_units == "fahrenheit" else "C"
+    owners_seen: list[str] = []
+
+    if layout == "vertical":
+        section_h = target_h // days
+        title_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(11, min(20, section_h // 6)), font_scale)
+        body_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(9, min(target_w, target_h) // (18 + days)), font_scale)
+        weather_size = max(8, body_size - 2)
+        row_h = body_size + 10
+        accent_h = round(html_render._clamp(min(target_w, target_h) * 0.018, 3, 5))
+        day_dates = [week_first_day + timedelta(days=i) for i in range(days)]
+        # Uniform across all `days` stacked sections -- see
+        # _day_section_data's own docstring for why a per-day header
+        # height misaligns where rows start.
+        any_weather = any(_weather_row(weather_cities, d, weather_units) for d in day_dates)
+        header_h = accent_h + 6 + title_size + ((weather_size + 6) if any_weather else 0)
+        day_sections = [
+            _day_section_data(d, events, tz, palette_rgb, weather_cities, weather_units, owners_seen,
+                             section_h - header_h, row_h)
+            for d in day_dates
+        ]
+        template = html_render._jinja_env.get_template("calendar_today_tomorrow.html.jinja")
+        html = template.render(
+            w=target_w, h=target_h, gutter=gutter,
+            font_regular=theme["font_regular"], font_bold=theme["font_bold"],
+            days=day_sections, title_size=title_size, header_h=header_h, accent_h=accent_h,
+            accent_start=theme["accent_hex"], weather_size=weather_size,
+            unit_suffix=unit_suffix, row_h=row_h, body_size=body_size,
+        )
+        rendered = html_render.render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+        accent_regions = [
+            ((gutter, gutter + i * section_h, target_w - gutter, gutter + i * section_h + accent_h),
+             theme["accent_amplitude"])
+            for i in range(len(day_sections))
+        ]
+        return html_render.ordered_dither_regions(rendered, palette_rgb, accent_regions=accent_regions)
+
+    header_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(10, min(16, (target_w // days) // 6)), font_scale)
+    chip_size = max(9, header_size - 3)
+    weather_size = max(8, chip_size - 1)
+    col_w = max(1, (target_w - panel_style.GUTTER * 2) // days)
+    row_h = chip_size + 8
+    accent_h = round(html_render._clamp(min(target_w, target_h) * 0.02, 3, 6))
+    # Reserve weather-line room in every column's header uniformly
+    # (whether or not THIS specific day has a cached forecast) -- a
+    # per-column height that depends on that day's own data would
+    # misalign where each column's event rows start across the week
+    # grid the moment any single day lacks a forecast entry.
+    header_h = header_size + 8 + (weather_size + 4 if weather_cities else 0)
+    max_rows = max(0, (target_h - panel_style.GUTTER * 2 - accent_h - 6 - header_h) // row_h)
+
+    cols = []
+    for i in range(days):
+        day = week_first_day + timedelta(days=i)
+        label = day.strftime("%a %-d") if day != today else f"★ {day.strftime('%a %-d')}"
+        weather_entries = _weather_row(weather_cities, day, weather_units)
+        day_events = _events_on_day(events, day, tz)
+        rows = []
+        for event in day_events[:max_rows]:
+            color = html_render._rgb_to_hex(_event_colors(event, owners_seen, palette_rgb)[0])
+            summary = event["summary"] if event["all_day"] else f"{_fmt_time(_event_start(event, tz))[:-3]} {event['summary']}"
+            rows.append({"color": color, "summary": summary})
+        cols.append({
+            "label": label, "weather": weather_entries[0] if weather_entries else None,
+            "rows": rows, "more_count": max(0, len(day_events) - max_rows),
+        })
+
+    template = html_render._jinja_env.get_template("calendar_week_horizontal.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, gutter=gutter,
+        font_regular=theme["font_regular"], font_bold=theme["font_bold"],
+        cols=cols, header_size=header_size, chip_size=chip_size,
+        header_h=header_h, accent_h=accent_h, weather_size=weather_size, unit_suffix=unit_suffix,
+        accent_start=theme["accent_hex"],
+    )
+    rendered = html_render.render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    accent_rect = (gutter, gutter, target_w - gutter, gutter + accent_h)
+    return html_render.ordered_dither_regions(rendered, palette_rgb, accent_regions=[(accent_rect, theme["accent_amplitude"])])
+
+
+def build_month(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, tz: ZoneInfo,
+               week_start: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None, theme_name: str | None = None,
+               font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """HTML/CSS-rendered analogue of calendar_render._build_month --
+    density dots per day, not literal event text, same reasoning as the
+    classic renderer (real text at typical month-cell size is close to
+    unreadable on a 6-color dithered e-ink panel). The per-owner event
+    dots are identity-coding (like every other calendar view's chips) and
+    are never touched by a theme.
+
+    Bold-minimal: no card (see build_agenda's docstring); the old flat
+    accent-colored weekday-name band is now a slim accent rule above
+    plain bold weekday labels, matching every other calendar view's
+    header treatment -- only that rule dithers at the theme's richer
+    accent_amplitude via ordered_dither_regions. "Today" is still called
+    out with a small accent-filled pill around its day number (a
+    genuinely small accent surface, not a band, so it was left alone)."""
+    theme = theme_tokens.resolve_theme(theme_name, "calendar", palette_rgb)
+    gutter = panel_style.GUTTER
+    today = datetime.now(tz).date()
+    target_month = _add_months(date(today.year, today.month, 1), browse_offset)
+    weeks_dates = list(
+        calendar_module.Calendar(firstweekday=week_start).monthdatescalendar(target_month.year, target_month.month)
+    )
+    day_names = [n[:3] for n in (WEEKDAY_NAMES[week_start:] + WEEKDAY_NAMES[:week_start])]
+
+    header_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(11, min(16, target_h // 30)), font_scale)
+    day_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(10, min(15, target_w // 55)), font_scale)
+    dot_size = max(4, day_size // 2)
+    accent_h = round(html_render._clamp(min(target_w, target_h) * 0.02, 3, 6))
+
+    owners_seen: list[str] = []
+    weeks = []
+    for week in weeks_dates:
+        row = []
+        for day in week:
+            day_events = _events_on_day(events, day, tz)
+            dots = [html_render._rgb_to_hex(_event_colors(e, owners_seen, palette_rgb)[0]) for e in day_events[:4]]
+            row.append({
+                "day_num": day.day, "in_month": day.month == target_month.month,
+                "is_today": day == today, "dots": dots, "more_count": max(0, len(day_events) - 4),
+            })
+        weeks.append(row)
+
+    template = html_render._jinja_env.get_template("calendar_month.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, gutter=gutter,
+        font_regular=theme["font_regular"], font_bold=theme["font_bold"],
+        day_names=day_names, weeks=weeks, accent_h=accent_h,
+        header_size=header_size, day_size=day_size, dot_size=dot_size, accent_start=theme["accent_hex"],
+    )
+    rendered = html_render.render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    accent_rect = (gutter, gutter, target_w - gutter, gutter + accent_h)
+    return html_render.ordered_dither_regions(rendered, palette_rgb,
+                                              accent_regions=[(accent_rect, theme["accent_amplitude"])])
+
+
+def build(events: list[dict], view: str, browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, tz: ZoneInfo,
+         week_start: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None, weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None,
+         weather_units: str = "fahrenheit", week_days: int = 7, week_layout: str = "horizontal",
+         week_start_offset: int = 0, theme_name: str | None = None, font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """Dispatches to the right build_* -- mirrors calendar_render._build's
+    exact "month falls back to agenda when it doesn't fit" resolution, so
+    a narrow month-mode widget set to modern style still gets a sensible
+    modern view instead of erroring or silently reverting to classic."""
+    effective_view = view
+    if view == "month" and not _month_view_fits(target_w, target_h):
+        effective_view = "agenda"
+
+    if effective_view == "agenda":
+        return build_agenda(events, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, tz, palette_rgb, weather_cities,
+                            weather_units, theme_name, font_scale)
+    if effective_view == "today_tomorrow":
+        return build_today_tomorrow(events, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, tz, palette_rgb, weather_cities,
+                                    weather_units, theme_name, font_scale)
+    if effective_view == "week":
+        return build_week(events, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, tz, week_start, palette_rgb, weather_cities,
+                          weather_units, week_days, week_layout, week_start_offset, theme_name, font_scale)
+    return build_month(events, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, tz, week_start, palette_rgb, theme_name, font_scale)

server/app/calendar_render.py

@@ -1,50 +1,103 @@
-"""Renders calendar frame mode's three views (agenda/week/month) into the
-panel's packed format, following image_pipeline.render_placeholder's own
-precedent: build an RGB canvas with ImageDraw/ImageFont, then the same
-_quantize/_transpose_and_pack every other renderer ends on.
+"""Renders calendar frame mode's three views (agenda/week/month), and the
+separate standalone tasks widget (see models.TaskWidgetConfig -- a task
+list used to be a calendar-widget-only week-view slot, split out into
+its own widget type so it isn't tied to a calendar's view/footprint),
+into the panel's packed format, following image_pipeline.
+render_placeholder's own precedent: build an RGB canvas with
+ImageDraw/ImageFont, then the same _quantize/_transpose_and_pack every
+other renderer ends on.
 
 Event dicts here are calendar_feed.py's shape: {"summary", "start", "end"
-(ISO 8601 strings), "all_day", "owner_display_name"}.
+(ISO 8601 strings), "all_day", "sources": [{"owner_display_name",
+"color_index"}, ...]} -- more than one entry in "sources" means
+merge_events collapsed several calendars' identical (same title/time)
+events into one, see _event_colors/panel_style.draw_color_chip below.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import calendar as calendar_module
 import io
+import re
 from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta
+from functools import lru_cache
+from pathlib import Path
 from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
 
 from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
 
+from . import panel_style
 from .image_pipeline import (
     DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB,
     _apply_manage_overlay,
     _quantize,
     _transpose_and_pack,
-    compose_into,
+    draw_text,
     logical_render_size,
 )
+from .weather import weather_category
+from .weather_render import draw_weather_row
 
-CALENDAR_VIEWS = ["agenda", "week", "month"]
-CALENDAR_VIEW_LABELS = {"agenda": "Agenda (today)", "week": "Week", "month": "Month"}
+CALENDAR_VIEWS = ["agenda", "today_tomorrow", "week", "month"]
+CALENDAR_VIEW_LABELS = {"agenda": "Agenda (today)", "today_tomorrow": "Agenda (today & tomorrow)",
+                        "week": "Week", "month": "Month"}
+WEEKDAY_NAMES = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"]
 
-MARGIN = 20
+# MARGIN carries panel_style.CONTENT_MARGIN's value unchanged (not
+# re-tuned). BG/FG are this module's own plain black/white -- checkbox
+# outlines, month-view grid hairlines -- not a text-emphasis concern (no
+# MUTED gray here anymore -- see panel_style's module docstring for why:
+# a mid-gray fill has no close palette match and dithers into speckle
+# once the whole canvas is quantized. Secondary text now reads through
+# size/weight alone, always exact black).
+MARGIN = panel_style.CONTENT_MARGIN
 BG = (255, 255, 255)
 FG = (0, 0, 0)
-MUTED = (110, 110, 110)
-RULE = (200, 200, 200)
+# Structural dividers/grid lines (between stacked day sections, week
+# columns, month cells) stay a plain black rule -- gray dithers away to
+# near-invisible once quantized to the 6-color e-ink palette. Headers
+# no longer use this: see panel_style.draw_header_bar/theme_color.
+RULE = (0, 0, 0)
 
-# Cycled per distinct owner_display_name so a merged multi-person calendar
-# can visually tell whose event is whose -- the panel's own non-black/
-# white ink colors, skipping black/white (index 0/1 in DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB)
-# since those are already the page's text/background.
+# Fallback for any event whose calendar has no manually pinned color
+# (event["color_index"] is None): cycled per distinct owner_display_name
+# so a merged multi-person calendar can still visually tell whose event
+# is whose -- the panel's own non-black/white ink colors, skipping
+# black/white (index 0/1 in DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB) since those are already
+# the page's text/background.
 OWNER_COLORS = DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB[2:]
 
 
-def _owner_color(owner_display_name: str, owners_seen: list[str]) -> tuple[int, int, int]:
-    if owner_display_name not in owners_seen:
-        owners_seen.append(owner_display_name)
-    return OWNER_COLORS[owners_seen.index(owner_display_name) % len(OWNER_COLORS)]
+def _event_colors(event: dict, owners_seen: list[str], palette_rgb: list | None) -> list[tuple[int, int, int]]:
+    """One color per contributing calendar (event["sources"] -- see
+    calendar_feed.merge_events, which collapses events sharing the exact
+    same title/time across different calendars into one entry with
+    several sources, e.g. a shared family event synced onto more than
+    one person's calendar). Usually just one color; more than one is
+    what tells the "same event, more than one calendar" case apart from
+    an ordinary single-calendar event at render time -- see
+    panel_style.draw_color_chip. Each source's own manually pinned color
+    (FrameCalendar.color_index -- see routers/api_widgets.py's
+    api_widget_calendar_color) resolves against whichever palette this frame
+    actually renders with, so a pinned "Blue" stays this frame's actual
+    blue; a source with no color pinned falls back to the old
+    auto-cycle-by-owner-name behavior. owners_seen is shared across every
+    event/source in a render so that cycle stays consistent view-wide."""
+    sources = event.get("sources") or [
+        {"owner_display_name": event.get("owner_display_name"), "color_index": event.get("color_index")}
+    ]
+    colors = []
+    for source in sources:
+        color_index = source.get("color_index")
+        if color_index is not None:
+            palette = palette_rgb or DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB
+            colors.append(tuple(palette[color_index]))
+            continue
+        owner_display_name = source.get("owner_display_name")
+        if owner_display_name not in owners_seen:
+            owners_seen.append(owner_display_name)
+        colors.append(OWNER_COLORS[owners_seen.index(owner_display_name) % len(OWNER_COLORS)])
+    return colors
 
 
 def _event_start(event: dict, tz: ZoneInfo) -> datetime | date:
@@ -82,11 +135,184 @@ def _fmt_time(dt: datetime) -> str:
     return text if text else "12:00 AM"
 
 
+def _fmt_task_due(due: str | None) -> str:
+    """"2026-07-25" or "2026-07-25T14:00:00+00:00" -> "Jul 25" -- tasks
+    only need a compact reminder of when they're due, not the precision
+    an event's own start/end time gets."""
+    if not due:
+        return ""
+    try:
+        dt = datetime.fromisoformat(due)
+    except ValueError:
+        return ""
+    d = dt.date() if isinstance(dt, datetime) else dt
+    return d.strftime("%b %-d")
+
+
+# Neither Inter (panel_style.font_bold/font_regular, this module's own
+# body/title font -- see MARGIN/BG/FG comment above) nor PIL's bundled
+# default font has emoji glyphs, and PIL/FreeType don't skip an
+# unsupported codepoint, they substitute a ".notdef" tofu box (a visible
+# filled rectangle) -- reads as a rendering glitch, not "emoji not
+# supported". So event titles get drawn with two fonts: the normal
+# text font for everything else, and one of these for actual emoji runs
+# (see _split_emoji_runs/_draw_mixed_line) -- both Noto Emoji, OFL-1.1,
+# vendored at app/fonts/ (license alongside at app/fonts/OFL.txt).
+#
+# Color (NotoColorEmoji.ttf) is tried first: full-color CBDT bitmap
+# glyphs, which the panel's own Floyd-Steinberg dithering turns into a
+# recognizable (if slightly speckled) color rendering rather than a flat
+# monochrome shape -- confirmed by actually rendering a test agenda row
+# through the real quantizer, not just theorizing about it. Its one
+# real quirk: CBDT stores glyphs at a single embedded bitmap size
+# (_COLOR_EMOJI_NATIVE_SIZE), so every glyph is rasterized once at that
+# size and scaled down to the target row height, unlike normal vector
+# text which draws directly at whatever size is asked for.
+#
+# NotoEmoji.ttf (monochrome, vector) is the fallback for a deployment
+# whose Pillow/FreeType wasn't built with embedded color bitmap support
+# -- confirmed working locally, but that's a build-time detail this
+# project doesn't control everywhere it might run, so a rendering
+# failure falls back instead of showing nothing/crashing.
+_COLOR_EMOJI_FONT_PATH = Path(__file__).parent / "fonts" / "NotoColorEmoji.ttf"
+_MONO_EMOJI_FONT_PATH = Path(__file__).parent / "fonts" / "NotoEmoji.ttf"
+_COLOR_EMOJI_NATIVE_SIZE = 109
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=1)
+def _color_emoji_font() -> ImageFont.FreeTypeFont | None:
+    try:
+        return ImageFont.truetype(str(_COLOR_EMOJI_FONT_PATH), _COLOR_EMOJI_NATIVE_SIZE)
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=None)
+def _mono_emoji_font(size: int) -> ImageFont.FreeTypeFont:
+    return ImageFont.truetype(str(_MONO_EMOJI_FONT_PATH), size)
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=512)
+def _emoji_glyph(run_text: str, target_h: int) -> Image.Image:
+    """One emoji run (consecutive emoji collapse into a single run, see
+    _split_emoji_runs) as an RGBA image target_h tall, ready to
+    alpha-composite onto the canvas. Tries color first, falls back to
+    monochrome (rendered directly at target_h, since that font is
+    vector) if the color font failed to load or this Pillow/FreeType
+    build can't decode its embedded bitmaps. Cached -- the same emoji
+    recurs across a household's events, and rasterizing+scaling isn't
+    free."""
+    color_font = _color_emoji_font()
+    if color_font is not None:
+        try:
+            probe = ImageDraw.Draw(Image.new("RGBA", (1, 1)))
+            raw_w = max(1, round(probe.textlength(run_text, font=color_font)))
+            tmp = Image.new("RGBA", (raw_w, _COLOR_EMOJI_NATIVE_SIZE), (255, 255, 255, 0))
+            ImageDraw.Draw(tmp).text((0, 0), run_text, font=color_font, embedded_color=True)
+            scale = target_h / _COLOR_EMOJI_NATIVE_SIZE
+            return tmp.resize((max(1, round(raw_w * scale)), target_h), Image.LANCZOS)
+        except Exception:
+            pass  # this deployment's Pillow can't render embedded color bitmaps -- fall back
+
+    mono_font = _mono_emoji_font(target_h)
+    bbox = mono_font.getbbox(run_text)
+    w, h = max(1, bbox[2] - bbox[0]), max(1, bbox[3] - bbox[1])
+    mask = Image.new("L", (w, h), 0)
+    ImageDraw.Draw(mask).text((-bbox[0], -bbox[1]), run_text, fill=255, font=mono_font)
+    glyph = Image.new("RGBA", (w, h), (255, 255, 255, 0))
+    glyph.paste((0, 0, 0, 255), (0, 0), mask)
+    return glyph
+
+
+# Matches runs of actual emoji base characters (the standard Unicode
+# emoji blocks -- stable ranges even as new individual emoji get added
+# within them, so this doesn't need updating as emoji sets grow).
+_EMOJI_PATTERN = re.compile(
+    "["
+    "\U0001F1E6-\U0001F1FF"  # regional indicator symbols (flag emoji)
+    "\U0001F300-\U0001F5FF"  # misc symbols & pictographs
+    "\U0001F600-\U0001F64F"  # emoticons
+    "\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF"  # transport & map symbols
+    "\U0001F900-\U0001F9FF"  # supplemental symbols & pictographs
+    "\U0001FA70-\U0001FAFF"  # symbols & pictographs extended-A
+    "\U00002600-\U000026FF"  # misc symbols (☀☂☕ etc.)
+    "\U00002700-\U000027BF"  # dingbats (✂✈✉ etc.)
+    "]+"
+)
+_EMOJI_SPLIT_PATTERN = re.compile(f"({_EMOJI_PATTERN.pattern})")
+# Codepoints with no meaningful standalone glyph once color/ligature
+# context is dropped: skin-tone modifiers (this is monochrome -- no
+# color to modify), the variation selector that just requests emoji
+# presentation, and the zero-width joiner used to fuse multiple emoji
+# into one combined glyph. That fusion (e.g. the "family" emoji from
+# four base emoji + 3 ZWJs) needs OpenType ligature substitution
+# (raqm/harfbuzz), which Pillow only does with a specific, non-default
+# build -- not something to depend on. Stripping the ZWJ instead means a
+# ZWJ sequence just draws as its individual base glyphs side by side
+# (four separate people instead of one family glyph) -- a real fallback,
+# not a crash or tofu.
+_EMOJI_MODIFIER_PATTERN = re.compile("[\U0001F3FB-\U0001F3FF\U0000FE0F\U0000200D]")
+
+
+def _split_emoji_runs(text: str) -> list[tuple[str, bool]]:
+    """text -> [(run, is_emoji), ...], modifier/joiner codepoints
+    dropped first (see _EMOJI_MODIFIER_PATTERN). Consecutive emoji
+    collapse into one run (_EMOJI_PATTERN's own "+"), consecutive
+    plain-text characters into the other."""
+    cleaned = _EMOJI_MODIFIER_PATTERN.sub("", text)
+    parts = [p for p in _EMOJI_SPLIT_PATTERN.split(cleaned) if p]
+    return [(p, bool(_EMOJI_PATTERN.fullmatch(p))) for p in parts]
+
+
+def _draw_mixed_line(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, xy: tuple[int, int], text: str,
+                     text_font: ImageFont.ImageFont, max_width: int, fill: tuple[int, int, int] = FG) -> None:
+    """Draws `text` left-to-right, switching between text_font (normal
+    characters) and an emoji glyph image (actual emoji runs, per
+    _split_emoji_runs/_emoji_glyph) so emoji visibly render instead of a
+    tofu box. Truncates with "..." once max_width is exceeded -- unlike
+    _truncate_to_width this can't binary-search a single font's metrics
+    across mixed fonts/images, so it works run-by-run instead (and can't
+    partially truncate an emoji run the way it can a text run -- one
+    that doesn't fit just isn't drawn). Fine for the short single-line
+    strings this draws (event/task titles), not meant as a general
+    rich-text layout engine. `fill` only affects text runs -- emoji
+    glyphs are already their own color."""
+    x, y = xy
+    cursor = x
+    # A little taller than text_font's own size so glyphs don't look
+    # cramped next to it; the -2 paste offset below roughly centers that
+    # against the surrounding text's row -- tuned by eye against a real
+    # rendered agenda row, not derived from font metrics.
+    emoji_h = text_font.size + 6
+    for run_text, is_emoji in _split_emoji_runs(text):
+        remaining = max_width - (cursor - x)
+        if remaining <= 0:
+            break
+        if is_emoji:
+            glyph = _emoji_glyph(run_text, emoji_h)
+            if glyph.width <= remaining:
+                img.paste(glyph, (round(cursor), y - 2), glyph)
+                cursor += glyph.width
+            else:
+                break
+        else:
+            run_w = draw.textlength(run_text, font=text_font)
+            if run_w <= remaining:
+                draw_text(img, (round(cursor), y), run_text, text_font, fill)
+                cursor += run_w
+            else:
+                draw_text(img, (round(cursor), y), _truncate_to_width(draw, run_text, text_font, remaining),
+                         text_font, fill)
+                break
+
+
 def _truncate_to_width(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, text: str, font: ImageFont.ImageFont, max_width: int) -> str:
     """Pixel-width-aware truncation (unlike device.py's char-count
     _truncate, tuned for a fixed firmware font at a fixed size) -- this
     module draws at several different sizes, so truncation has to
-    measure the actual font/size in play."""
+    measure the actual font/size in play. Still uses `draw.textlength`
+    for measurement (identical metrics to draw_text's own bbox), just
+    doesn't paint anything."""
     if draw.textlength(text, font=font) <= max_width:
         return text
     ellipsis = "..."
@@ -100,191 +326,556 @@ def _truncate_to_width(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, text: str, font: ImageFont.Ima
     return text[:lo] + ellipsis if lo else ellipsis
 
 
-def _build_agenda(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, orientation: str, tz: ZoneInfo,
-                  photo_inlay: Image.Image | None) -> Image.Image:
-    logical_w, logical_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
-    img = Image.new("RGB", (logical_w, logical_h), BG)
+# --- Size tiers ---------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# A calendar widget can now be placed at any grid footprint (see
+# app/grid.py), not just the full panel -- these three discrete tiers
+# (chosen by nearest-fit against the target box's pixel area) drive font
+# sizes/margins instead of continuously scaling a layout that was tuned
+# by eye for the full ~800x480 panel, which would risk ugly proportions
+# at odd in-between sizes. Area-based (not width/height-based) so the
+# same footprint tiers the same regardless of landscape/portrait target
+# box shape.
+_TIER_LARGE_AREA = 280_000   # near/at a full 800x480 panel (384,000px^2)
+_TIER_MEDIUM_AREA = 120_000  # roughly a half-panel split
 
-    text_x0 = MARGIN
-    text_w = logical_w - MARGIN * 2
-    if photo_inlay is not None:
-        # Long axis split: landscape splits left/right, portrait top/bottom.
-        if logical_w >= logical_h:
-            photo_w = logical_w // 2
-            photo = compose_into(photo_inlay, None, photo_w, logical_h, "crop_fill")
-            img.paste(photo, (0, 0))
-            text_x0 = photo_w + MARGIN
-            text_w = logical_w - photo_w - MARGIN * 2
-        else:
-            photo_h = logical_h // 2
-            photo = compose_into(photo_inlay, None, logical_w, photo_h, "crop_fill")
-            img.paste(photo, (0, 0))
 
-    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
-    # Smaller title when the inlay halves the available width -- "Wednesday,
-    # July 22" at full size doesn't fit ~360px, and a *narrower* column is
-    # exactly when a smaller font (rather than truncating to "Wednesday...")
-    # keeps it actually informative.
-    title_font = ImageFont.load_default(size=34 if photo_inlay is None else 24)
-    body_font = ImageFont.load_default(size=22)
+def _size_tier(target_w: int, target_h: int) -> str:
+    area = target_w * target_h
+    if area >= _TIER_LARGE_AREA:
+        return "large"
+    if area >= _TIER_MEDIUM_AREA:
+        return "medium"
+    return "small"
 
-    text_y0 = MARGIN if photo_inlay is None or logical_w >= logical_h else logical_h // 2 + MARGIN
-    day = datetime.now(tz).date() + timedelta(days=browse_offset)
+
+def _month_view_fits(target_w: int, target_h: int) -> bool:
+    """Month view needs real width to keep 7 columns' day numbers and
+    density dots legible -- below the "small" size tier that stops being
+    true, so _build falls back to agenda view instead of drawing an
+    unreadable grid."""
+    return _size_tier(target_w, target_h) != "small"
+
+
+# --- Weather strip, agenda/today & tomorrow/week views only (never
+# month -- see _BUILDERS/_build) --------------------------------------
+
+def _weather_for_day(weather_cities: list[dict] | None, day: date) -> list[dict]:
+    """[{"label", "code", "high", "low", "category"}, ...] for every
+    configured city that has a cached forecast for this specific date --
+    weather_cities is routers/common.py's get_or_refresh_weather() cache
+    shape, [{"label", "days": {"YYYY-MM-DD": {"code","high","low"}}}]."""
+    if not weather_cities:
+        return []
+    key = day.isoformat()
+    entries = []
+    for city in weather_cities:
+        d = (city.get("days") or {}).get(key)
+        if d is None:
+            continue
+        # Just the city name on-panel ("Portland", not the full
+        # disambiguated "Portland, Oregon, United States") -- that fuller
+        # form matters for telling apart geocoder candidates when adding
+        # a city (see weather.geocode_city), not for a compact display row.
+        entries.append({"label": city["label"].split(",")[0].strip(), "high": d["high"], "low": d["low"],
+                        "category": weather_category(d["code"])})
+    return entries
+
+
+def _draw_agenda_day(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, day: date, events: list[dict], tz: ZoneInfo,
+                     region: tuple[int, int, int, int], title_font: ImageFont.ImageFont,
+                     body_font: ImageFont.ImageFont, owners_seen: list[str], palette_rgb: list | None = None,
+                     weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None, weather_font: ImageFont.ImageFont | None = None,
+                     weather_units: str = "fahrenheit") -> None:
+    """Draws one day's header + weather strip (if any) + event rows
+    within `region` (x0, y0, w, h) -- factored out of _build_agenda so
+    the today-and-tomorrow view (_build_today_tomorrow) can stack two of
+    these vertically without duplicating the row-layout/truncation
+    logic. Weather is drawn above the event list -- eating into the same
+    row budget the event count is truncated against, exactly like the
+    header bar above it already does."""
+    x0, y0, w, h = region
+    header_h = title_font.size + 20
+    panel_style.draw_header_bar(draw, (x0, y0, w, header_h), header_h,
+                                panel_style.theme_color("calendar", palette_rgb))
+    text_x0 = x0 + MARGIN
+    text_w = w - MARGIN * 2
     header = day.strftime("%A, %B ") + str(day.day)
-    draw.text((text_x0, text_y0), _truncate_to_width(draw, header, title_font, text_w), fill=FG, font=title_font)
-    y = text_y0 + title_font.size + 12
-    draw.line([(text_x0, y), (text_x0 + text_w, y)], fill=RULE)
-    y += 12
+    draw_text(img, (text_x0, y0 + (header_h - title_font.size) // 2),
+             _truncate_to_width(draw, header, title_font, text_w), title_font, BG)
+    y = y0 + header_h + 12
+
+    weather_entries = _weather_for_day(weather_cities, day)
+    if weather_entries:
+        y += draw_weather_row(img, draw, text_x0, y, text_w, weather_entries,
+                              icon_r=title_font.size // 2, font=weather_font or body_font, units=weather_units,
+                              palette_rgb=palette_rgb)
 
     day_events = _events_on_day(events, day, tz)
-    owners_seen: list[str] = []
     row_h = body_font.size + 14
-    max_rows = max(0, (logical_h - MARGIN - y) // row_h)
+    max_rows = max(0, (y0 + h - MARGIN - y) // row_h)
 
     if not day_events:
-        draw.text((text_x0, y), "Nothing scheduled", fill=MUTED, font=body_font)
+        draw_text(img, (text_x0, y), "Nothing scheduled", body_font)
     for i, event in enumerate(day_events):
         if i >= max_rows:
-            draw.text((text_x0, y), f"+{len(day_events) - max_rows} more", fill=MUTED, font=body_font)
+            draw_text(img, (text_x0, y), f"+{len(day_events) - max_rows} more", body_font)
             break
-        color = _owner_color(event["owner_display_name"], owners_seen)
-        draw.rectangle([text_x0, y + 3, text_x0 + 6, y + row_h - 8], fill=color)
+        colors = _event_colors(event, owners_seen, palette_rgb)
+        panel_style.draw_color_chip(draw, text_x0, y + 2, text_x0 + 10, y + row_h - 7, colors)
         time_str = "All day" if event["all_day"] else _fmt_time(_event_start(event, tz))
-        line = f"{time_str}  {event['summary']}"
-        draw.text((text_x0 + 16, y), _truncate_to_width(draw, line, body_font, text_w - 16), fill=FG, font=body_font)
+        prefix = f"{time_str}  "
+        draw_text(img, (text_x0 + 18, y), prefix, body_font)
+        prefix_w = draw.textlength(prefix, font=body_font)
+        _draw_mixed_line(img, draw, (text_x0 + 18 + prefix_w, y), event["summary"],
+                         body_font, text_w - 18 - prefix_w)
         y += row_h
 
+
+def _draw_tasks(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, region: tuple[int, int, int, int],
+                tasks: list[dict], title_font: ImageFont.ImageFont, body_font: ImageFont.ImageFont,
+                palette_rgb: list | None = None, title: str = "Tasks") -> None:
+    """A simple checklist filling `region` (x0, y0, w, h) -- a header
+    (`title`, truncated to fit -- TaskWidgetConfig.name or the "Tasks"
+    default; the only widget type with its own on-panel title, since
+    it's the only one where "which list is this" isn't obvious from its
+    content the way a calendar/photo/whiteboard's is), then a color chip
+    (reusing _event_colors/panel_style.draw_color_chip as-is: a task
+    dict's top-level owner_display_name/color_index is exactly
+    _event_colors' single-source fallback shape, since caldav_client.
+    merge_tasks doesn't cross-list-dedup tasks into a "sources" list the
+    way merge_events dedups events) + checkbox glyph + due date (if any)
+    + summary per task, same header/row-cap/truncation shape as
+    _draw_agenda_day's event list so the standalone tasks widget (see
+    _build_tasks) reads as the same consistent design as everything
+    else on-panel, not a bolted-together look. Reuses _draw_mixed_line
+    so a task summary with emoji in it renders the same way an event
+    title's does.
+
+    Outstanding tasks get an empty checkbox; completed ones (only ever
+    present when TaskWidgetConfig.show_completed is on -- see
+    caldav_client.fetch_tasks' completed_since) get a filled checkbox in
+    this widget's own Green accent (see panel_style.THEME) -- that fill
+    is the "done" signal, no due-date prefix (irrelevant once done) and
+    no separate muted text treatment (see module-level MUTED removal
+    note above _event_colors)."""
+    x0, y0, w, h = region
+    header_h = title_font.size + 20
+    panel_style.draw_header_bar(draw, (x0, y0, w, header_h), header_h,
+                                panel_style.theme_color("tasks", palette_rgb))
+    text_x0 = x0 + MARGIN
+    text_w = w - MARGIN * 2
+    draw_text(img, (text_x0, y0 + (header_h - title_font.size) // 2),
+             _truncate_to_width(draw, title or "Tasks", title_font, text_w), title_font, BG)
+    y = y0 + header_h + 12
+
+    row_h = body_font.size + 14
+    max_rows = max(0, (y0 + h - MARGIN - y) // row_h)
+
+    if not tasks:
+        draw_text(img, (text_x0, y), "Nothing outstanding", body_font)
+        return
+    owners_seen: list[str] = []
+    checkbox_fill = panel_style.theme_color("tasks", palette_rgb)
+    for i, task in enumerate(tasks):
+        if i >= max_rows:
+            draw_text(img, (text_x0, y), f"+{len(tasks) - max_rows} more", body_font)
+            break
+        done = task.get("completed_at") is not None
+        colors = _event_colors(task, owners_seen, palette_rgb)
+        panel_style.draw_color_chip(draw, text_x0, y + 2, text_x0 + 10, y + row_h - 7, colors)
+        box = body_font.size - 6
+        box_x = text_x0 + 18
+        box_y = y + (row_h - box) // 2 - 5
+        box_r = min(panel_style.CHIP_RADIUS, box // 2)
+        if done:
+            draw.rounded_rectangle([box_x, box_y, box_x + box, box_y + box], radius=box_r, fill=checkbox_fill)
+        else:
+            draw.rounded_rectangle([box_x, box_y, box_x + box, box_y + box], radius=box_r, outline=FG, width=2)
+        text_x = box_x + box + 10
+        due_str = None if done else _fmt_task_due(task.get("due"))
+        prefix = f"{due_str}  " if due_str else ""
+        if prefix:
+            draw_text(img, (text_x, y), prefix, body_font)
+        prefix_w = draw.textlength(prefix, font=body_font) if prefix else 0
+        _draw_mixed_line(img, draw, (round(text_x + prefix_w), y), task["summary"],
+                         body_font, text_w - (text_x - text_x0) - prefix_w)
+        y += row_h
+
+
+# Per-tier (title, body, weather) font sizes -- "Wednesday, July 22" at
+# full size doesn't fit a narrow column, and a narrower box is exactly
+# when a smaller font (rather than truncating to "Wednesday...") keeps
+# the header actually informative.
+_AGENDA_FONTS = {"large": (34, 22, 20), "medium": (24, 22, 16), "small": (18, 16, 13)}
+
+
+def _build_agenda(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, tz: ZoneInfo,
+                  palette_rgb: list | None = None, weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None,
+                  weather_units: str = "fahrenheit", font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    img, draw, region = panel_style.card_canvas(target_w, target_h)
+
+    title_size, body_size, weather_size = (
+        panel_style.scaled_size(v, font_scale) for v in _AGENDA_FONTS[_size_tier(target_w, target_h)]
+    )
+    title_font = panel_style.font_bold(title_size)
+    body_font = panel_style.font_regular(body_size)
+    weather_font = panel_style.font_regular(weather_size)
+
+    day = datetime.now(tz).date() + timedelta(days=browse_offset)
+    owners_seen: list[str] = []
+    _draw_agenda_day(img, draw, day, events, tz, region, title_font, body_font, owners_seen,
+                     palette_rgb, weather_cities, weather_font, weather_units)
+
     return img
 
 
-def _build_week(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, orientation: str, tz: ZoneInfo) -> Image.Image:
-    logical_w, logical_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
-    img = Image.new("RGB", (logical_w, logical_h), BG)
-    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
+_TODAY_TOMORROW_FONTS = {"large": (26, 18, 16), "medium": (20, 15, 13), "small": (15, 12, 10)}
 
-    header_font = ImageFont.load_default(size=18)
-    chip_font = ImageFont.load_default(size=14)
+
+def _build_today_tomorrow(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, tz: ZoneInfo,
+                          palette_rgb: list | None = None, weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None,
+                          weather_units: str = "fahrenheit", font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """Two _draw_agenda_day sections stacked vertically (below each other
+    rather than side-by-side -- narrower than tall doesn't leave enough
+    width per day for the event-row text at smaller sizes). browse_offset
+    shifts the whole two-day window together, same "days" unit
+    _build_agenda already uses, so NEXT/BACK behaves identically across
+    both views."""
+    img, draw, (cx0, cy0, cw, ch) = panel_style.card_canvas(target_w, target_h)
+
+    title_size, body_size, weather_size = (
+        panel_style.scaled_size(v, font_scale) for v in _TODAY_TOMORROW_FONTS[_size_tier(target_w, target_h)]
+    )
+    title_font = panel_style.font_bold(title_size)
+    body_font = panel_style.font_regular(body_size)
+    weather_font = panel_style.font_regular(weather_size)
+
+    start_day = datetime.now(tz).date() + timedelta(days=browse_offset)
+    section_h = ch // 2
+    owners_seen: list[str] = []
+    for i in range(2):
+        section_y0 = cy0 + i * section_h
+        if i > 0:
+            draw.line([(cx0 + MARGIN, section_y0), (cx0 + cw - MARGIN, section_y0)], fill=RULE)
+        _draw_agenda_day(img, draw, start_day + timedelta(days=i), events, tz,
+                         (cx0, section_y0, cw, section_h), title_font, body_font, owners_seen,
+                         palette_rgb, weather_cities, weather_font, weather_units)
+
+    return img
+
+
+# Vertical layout's base (title, body, weather) sizes, before the
+# per-day-count reduction below -- same three tiers as every other view.
+_WEEK_VERTICAL_FONTS = {"large": (26, 18, 16), "medium": (20, 15, 13), "small": (16, 12, 10)}
+# Horizontal layout's (header, chip, weather) sizes.
+_WEEK_HORIZONTAL_FONTS = {"large": (18, 14, 12), "medium": (14, 12, 10), "small": (11, 10, 8)}
+
+
+def _build_week(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, tz: ZoneInfo,
+                week_start: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None,
+                weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None, weather_units: str = "fahrenheit",
+                days: int = 7, layout: str = "horizontal",
+                start_offset: int = 0, font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """`days` (2-10, see routers/api_widgets.py's clamp) side-by-side
+    columns (layout="horizontal", the original fixed-at-7 behavior
+    generalized) or stacked bands (layout="vertical", reusing
+    _draw_agenda_day the same way _build_today_tomorrow does, just for
+    an arbitrary day count instead of a hardcoded 2).
+
+    At the default 7 days, the view anchors to week_start (a fixed
+    weekday, "start on the most recent Monday") exactly like before --
+    otherwise "start of the week" doesn't mean much for an arbitrary day
+    count, so it instead starts `start_offset` days from today (0 =
+    today, see routers/api_widgets.py's api_widget_config_save)."""
+    img, draw, (cx0, cy0, cw, ch) = panel_style.card_canvas(target_w, target_h)
+    tier = _size_tier(target_w, target_h)
 
     today = datetime.now(tz).date()
-    week_start = today - timedelta(days=today.weekday()) + timedelta(weeks=browse_offset)
-    col_w = (logical_w - MARGIN * 2) // 7
-    header_h = 44
+    if days == 7:
+        days_since_start = (today.weekday() - week_start) % 7
+        week_first_day = today - timedelta(days=days_since_start) + timedelta(days=days * browse_offset)
+    else:
+        week_first_day = today + timedelta(days=start_offset) + timedelta(days=days * browse_offset)
     owners_seen: list[str] = []
 
-    for col in range(7):
-        day = week_start + timedelta(days=col)
-        x0 = MARGIN + col * col_w
-        if col > 0:
-            draw.line([(x0, MARGIN), (x0, logical_h - MARGIN)], fill=RULE)
-        label = day.strftime("%a %-d") if day != today else f"* {day.strftime('%a %-d')}"
-        draw.text((x0 + 6, MARGIN), _truncate_to_width(draw, label, header_font, col_w - 10), fill=FG, font=header_font)
+    if layout == "vertical":
+        title_base, body_base, weather_base = _WEEK_VERTICAL_FONTS[tier]
+        title_font = panel_style.font_bold(panel_style.scaled_size(max(14, title_base - days), font_scale))
+        body_font = panel_style.font_regular(panel_style.scaled_size(max(11, body_base - days), font_scale))
+        weather_font = panel_style.font_regular(panel_style.scaled_size(max(9, weather_base - days), font_scale))
+        section_h = ch // days
+        for i in range(days):
+            section_y0 = cy0 + i * section_h
+            if i > 0:
+                draw.line([(cx0 + MARGIN, section_y0), (cx0 + cw - MARGIN, section_y0)], fill=RULE)
+            day = week_first_day + timedelta(days=i)
+            _draw_agenda_day(img, draw, day, events, tz, (cx0, section_y0, cw, section_h),
+                             title_font, body_font, owners_seen, palette_rgb,
+                             weather_cities, weather_font, weather_units)
+        return img
 
-        y = MARGIN + header_h
+    header_size, chip_size, weather_size = (
+        panel_style.scaled_size(v, font_scale) for v in _WEEK_HORIZONTAL_FONTS[tier]
+    )
+    header_font = panel_style.font_bold(header_size)
+    chip_font = panel_style.font_regular(chip_size)
+    weather_font = panel_style.font_regular(weather_size)
+    col_w = (cw - MARGIN * 2) // days
+    header_h = 44
+
+    for col in range(days):
+        day = week_first_day + timedelta(days=col)
+        x0 = cx0 + MARGIN + col * col_w
+        if col > 0:
+            draw.line([(x0, cy0 + MARGIN), (x0, cy0 + ch - MARGIN)], fill=RULE)
+        label = day.strftime("%a %-d") if day != today else f"* {day.strftime('%a %-d')}"
+        draw_text(img, (x0 + 6, cy0 + MARGIN), _truncate_to_width(draw, label, header_font, col_w - 10), header_font)
+
+        y = cy0 + MARGIN + header_h
+        # Columns are narrow, so only what actually fits gets drawn (see
+        # weather_render.draw_weather_row) -- typically one city, no label
+        # (the column itself makes which day it's for obvious; a city name
+        # wouldn't fit anyway). Never more than that -- this is already
+        # the tight view.
+        weather_entries = _weather_for_day(weather_cities, day)
+        if weather_entries:
+            y += draw_weather_row(img, draw, x0 + 4, y, col_w - 8, weather_entries,
+                                  icon_r=8, font=weather_font, units=weather_units, show_labels=False,
+                                  palette_rgb=palette_rgb)
         row_h = chip_font.size + 10
-        max_rows = max(0, (logical_h - MARGIN - y) // row_h)
+        max_rows = max(0, (cy0 + ch - MARGIN - y) // row_h)
         day_events = _events_on_day(events, day, tz)
         for i, event in enumerate(day_events):
             if i >= max_rows:
-                draw.text((x0 + 6, y), f"+{len(day_events) - max_rows}", fill=MUTED, font=chip_font)
+                draw_text(img, (x0 + 6, y), f"+{len(day_events) - max_rows}", chip_font)
                 break
-            color = _owner_color(event["owner_display_name"], owners_seen)
-            draw.rectangle([x0 + 4, y + 2, x0 + 8, y + row_h - 6], fill=color)
-            text = event["summary"] if event["all_day"] else f"{_fmt_time(_event_start(event, tz))[:-3]} {event['summary']}"
-            draw.text((x0 + 14, y), _truncate_to_width(draw, text, chip_font, col_w - 18), fill=FG, font=chip_font)
+            colors = _event_colors(event, owners_seen, palette_rgb)
+            panel_style.draw_color_chip(draw, x0 + 4, y + 1, x0 + 11, y + row_h - 5, colors, radius=2)
+            if event["all_day"]:
+                _draw_mixed_line(img, draw, (x0 + 16, y), event["summary"], chip_font, col_w - 20)
+            else:
+                prefix = f"{_fmt_time(_event_start(event, tz))[:-3]} "
+                draw_text(img, (x0 + 16, y), prefix, chip_font)
+                prefix_w = draw.textlength(prefix, font=chip_font)
+                _draw_mixed_line(img, draw, (x0 + 16 + prefix_w, y), event["summary"],
+                                 chip_font, col_w - 20 - prefix_w)
             y += row_h
 
     return img
 
 
-def _build_month(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, orientation: str, tz: ZoneInfo) -> Image.Image:
+# Only "large"/"medium" in practice -- _build falls back to agenda view
+# below the "small" tier (see _month_view_fits) -- but keyed defensively
+# by tier rather than a bare bool so a future tier addition can't
+# silently fall through to a KeyError here.
+_MONTH_FONTS = {"large": (16, 18), "medium": (12, 13), "small": (12, 13)}
+
+
+def _build_month(events: list[dict], browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, tz: ZoneInfo,
+                 week_start: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None, font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
     """Density dots per day, not literal event text -- real text at
     typical month-cell size (~100x70px) is close to unreadable on a
-    6-color dithered e-ink panel. Capped at 4 visible dots, "+N" beyond."""
-    logical_w, logical_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
-    img = Image.new("RGB", (logical_w, logical_h), BG)
-    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
+    6-color dithered e-ink panel. Capped at 4 visible dots, "+N" beyond.
+    "Not in this month" day numbers used to be a muted gray -- now
+    de-emphasized by weight instead (Regular vs. Bold), same reasoning
+    as everywhere else this module dropped MUTED -- see module-level
+    comment above MARGIN/BG/FG."""
+    img, draw, (cx0, cy0, cw, ch) = panel_style.card_canvas(target_w, target_h)
 
-    header_font = ImageFont.load_default(size=16)
-    day_font = ImageFont.load_default(size=18)
+    header_size, day_size = (
+        panel_style.scaled_size(v, font_scale) for v in _MONTH_FONTS[_size_tier(target_w, target_h)]
+    )
+    header_font = panel_style.font_bold(header_size)
+    day_font_in_month = panel_style.font_bold(day_size)
+    day_font_out_of_month = panel_style.font_regular(day_size)
 
     today = datetime.now(tz).date()
     target_month = _add_months(date(today.year, today.month, 1), browse_offset)
-    weeks = list(calendar_module.Calendar(firstweekday=0).monthdatescalendar(target_month.year, target_month.month))
+    weeks = list(calendar_module.Calendar(firstweekday=week_start).monthdatescalendar(target_month.year, target_month.month))
 
-    col_w = (logical_w - MARGIN * 2) // 7
+    col_w = (cw - MARGIN * 2) // 7
     header_h = 28
-    grid_top = MARGIN + header_h
-    row_h = (logical_h - MARGIN - grid_top) // len(weeks)
+    grid_top = cy0 + MARGIN + header_h
+    row_h = (cy0 + ch - MARGIN - grid_top) // len(weeks)
+    today_accent = panel_style.theme_color("calendar", palette_rgb)
+    today_badge_r = min(panel_style.CHIP_RADIUS, 9)
 
-    for col, name in enumerate(["Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"]):
-        draw.text((MARGIN + col * col_w + 6, MARGIN), name, fill=MUTED, font=header_font)
+    day_names = WEEKDAY_NAMES[week_start:] + WEEKDAY_NAMES[:week_start]
+    for col, name in enumerate(day_names):
+        draw_text(img, (cx0 + MARGIN + col * col_w + 6, cy0 + MARGIN), name[:3], header_font)
 
     owners_seen: list[str] = []
-    dot_r = 4
+    dot_r = 6
     for row, week in enumerate(weeks):
         for col, day in enumerate(week):
-            x0 = MARGIN + col * col_w
+            x0 = cx0 + MARGIN + col * col_w
             y0 = grid_top + row * row_h
             draw.rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + col_w, y0 + row_h], outline=RULE)
             in_month = day.month == target_month.month
-            color = FG if in_month else MUTED
             if day == today:
-                draw.rectangle([x0 + 2, y0 + 2, x0 + 24, y0 + 20], outline=FG)
-            draw.text((x0 + 6, y0 + 4), str(day.day), fill=color, font=day_font)
+                # A filled accent badge (this widget's own theme color,
+                # see panel_style.THEME) instead of the old bare outline
+                # -- an actual "today" indicator, not just an outline
+                # easy to miss at ~24px. Sized around the actual digit
+                # bbox (not a fixed pixel box) so a bold 2-digit day
+                # number ("30") fits as comfortably as a single digit
+                # ("3") at every size tier.
+                day_str = str(day.day)
+                text_x, text_y = x0 + 6, y0 + 4
+                dbbox = draw.textbbox((text_x, text_y), day_str, font=day_font_in_month)
+                pad = 3
+                badge_rect = [dbbox[0] - pad, dbbox[1] - pad, dbbox[2] + pad, dbbox[3] + pad]
+                badge_r = min(today_badge_r, (badge_rect[3] - badge_rect[1]) // 2)
+                draw.rounded_rectangle(badge_rect, radius=badge_r, fill=today_accent)
+                draw_text(img, (text_x, text_y), day_str, day_font_in_month, BG)
+            else:
+                day_font = day_font_in_month if in_month else day_font_out_of_month
+                draw_text(img, (x0 + 6, y0 + 4), str(day.day), day_font)
 
             day_events = _events_on_day(events, day, tz)
             dot_x = x0 + 8
-            dot_y = y0 + row_h - 14
+            dot_y = y0 + row_h - dot_r * 2 - 6
             for i, event in enumerate(day_events[:4]):
-                color = _owner_color(event["owner_display_name"], owners_seen)
-                draw.ellipse([dot_x, dot_y, dot_x + dot_r * 2, dot_y + dot_r * 2], fill=color)
-                dot_x += dot_r * 2 + 4
+                # First contributing calendar's color only, even for a
+                # deduplicated shared event -- month view is density
+                # dots, not a place to also show which calendars a
+                # shared event came from (see _event_colors).
+                event_color = _event_colors(event, owners_seen, palette_rgb)[0]
+                draw.ellipse([dot_x, dot_y, dot_x + dot_r * 2, dot_y + dot_r * 2], fill=event_color)
+                dot_x += dot_r * 2 + 5
             if len(day_events) > 4:
-                draw.text((dot_x, dot_y - 4), f"+{len(day_events) - 4}", fill=MUTED, font=header_font)
+                draw_text(img, (dot_x, dot_y - 2), f"+{len(day_events) - 4}", header_font)
 
     return img
 
 
-_BUILDERS = {"agenda": _build_agenda, "week": _build_week, "month": _build_month}
+_BUILDERS = {"agenda": _build_agenda, "today_tomorrow": _build_today_tomorrow, "week": _build_week,
+            "month": _build_month}
 
 
-def _build(events: list[dict], view: str, browse_offset: int, orientation: str, timezone: str,
-          photo_inlay: Image.Image | None, fetch_summary: str) -> Image.Image:
+def _build(events: list[dict], view: str, browse_offset: int, target_w: int, target_h: int, timezone: str,
+          fetch_summary: str, week_start: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None,
+          weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None, weather_units: str = "fahrenheit",
+          week_days: int = 7, week_layout: str = "horizontal",
+          week_start_offset: int = 0, font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
     tz = ZoneInfo(timezone) if timezone else ZoneInfo("UTC")
-    builder = _BUILDERS.get(view, _build_agenda)
-    if builder is _build_agenda:
-        img = _build_agenda(events, browse_offset, orientation, tz, photo_inlay)
+    effective_view = view
+    if view == "month" and not _month_view_fits(target_w, target_h):
+        effective_view = "agenda"
+
+    if effective_view == "agenda":
+        img = _build_agenda(events, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, tz, palette_rgb,
+                            weather_cities, weather_units, font_scale)
+    elif effective_view == "today_tomorrow":
+        img = _build_today_tomorrow(events, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, tz, palette_rgb,
+                                    weather_cities, weather_units, font_scale)
+    elif effective_view == "week":
+        img = _build_week(events, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, tz, week_start, palette_rgb,
+                          weather_cities, weather_units, week_days, week_layout, week_start_offset, font_scale)
+    elif effective_view == "month":
+        # Never given weather -- no room for it at typical month-cell
+        # size, same reasoning that already keeps this view to density
+        # dots instead of literal event text (see _build_month's own
+        # docstring). Colors are still passed through, though -- that's
+        # a different concern (legibility of individual events) than
+        # needing a whole extra strip of content.
+        img = _build_month(events, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, tz, week_start, palette_rgb, font_scale)
     else:
-        img = builder(events, browse_offset, orientation, tz)
+        img = _build_agenda(events, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, tz, palette_rgb,
+                            weather_cities, weather_units, font_scale)
 
     if fetch_summary:
-        draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
-        font = ImageFont.load_default(size=14)
-        logical_w, logical_h = img.size
-        draw.text((MARGIN, logical_h - MARGIN - font.size), fetch_summary, fill=MUTED, font=font)
+        # Drawn as a final overlay onto the already-composited img (not
+        # inside any one _build_* branch above), so it offsets by
+        # panel_style.GUTTER itself to land inside the same visible
+        # margin every builder's own content already respects.
+        font = panel_style.font_regular(14 if _size_tier(target_w, target_h) != "small" else 11)
+        draw_text(img, (panel_style.GUTTER + MARGIN, target_h - panel_style.GUTTER - MARGIN - font.size),
+                 fetch_summary, font)
 
     return img
 
 
 def render_calendar(events: list[dict], view: str, browse_offset: int, orientation: str,
-                    palette_rgb: list | None, timezone: str, photo_inlay: Image.Image | None = None,
-                    fetch_summary: str = "", manage: dict | None = None) -> bytes:
-    """Renders one of CALENDAR_VIEWS to the panel's packed format. Always
-    returns exactly EPD_WIDTH*EPD_HEIGHT/2 bytes, same invariant every
-    other renderer honors."""
-    img = _build(events, view, browse_offset, orientation, timezone, photo_inlay, fetch_summary)
+                    palette_rgb: list | None, timezone: str,
+                    fetch_summary: str = "", manage: dict | None = None, week_start: int = 0,
+                    weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None, weather_units: str = "fahrenheit",
+                    week_days: int = 7, week_layout: str = "horizontal",
+                    week_start_offset: int = 0) -> bytes:
+    """Renders one of CALENDAR_VIEWS full-panel to the panel's packed
+    format. Always returns exactly EPD_WIDTH*EPD_HEIGHT/2 bytes, same
+    invariant every other renderer honors. weather_cities is
+    routers/common.py's get_or_refresh_weather() cache, or None/[] to
+    omit the weather strip entirely (also always omitted for view ==
+    "month")."""
+    target_w, target_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
+    img = _build(events, view, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, timezone, fetch_summary, week_start,
+                palette_rgb, weather_cities, weather_units, week_days, week_layout, week_start_offset)
     img = _apply_manage_overlay(img, manage)
     quantized = _quantize(img, palette_rgb, dither_strength=1.0)
     return _transpose_and_pack(quantized, orientation)
 
 
 def render_calendar_preview_png(events: list[dict], view: str, browse_offset: int, orientation: str,
-                                palette_rgb: list | None, timezone: str, photo_inlay: Image.Image | None = None,
-                                fetch_summary: str = "", manage: dict | None = None) -> bytes:
+                                palette_rgb: list | None, timezone: str,
+                                fetch_summary: str = "", manage: dict | None = None, week_start: int = 0,
+                                weather_cities: list[dict] | None = None, weather_units: str = "fahrenheit",
+                                week_days: int = 7, week_layout: str = "horizontal",
+                                week_start_offset: int = 0, font_scale: float = 1.0) -> bytes:
     """Same pipeline as render_calendar, but a normal browser-viewable
     PNG in logical (upright) orientation -- mirrors
     image_pipeline.render_preview_png's relationship to render_frame."""
-    img = _build(events, view, browse_offset, orientation, timezone, photo_inlay, fetch_summary)
+    target_w, target_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
+    img = _build(events, view, browse_offset, target_w, target_h, timezone, fetch_summary, week_start,
+                palette_rgb, weather_cities, weather_units, week_days, week_layout, week_start_offset, font_scale)
+    img = _apply_manage_overlay(img, manage)
+    quantized = _quantize(img, palette_rgb, dither_strength=1.0)
+    buf = io.BytesIO()
+    quantized.convert("RGB").save(buf, format="PNG")
+    return buf.getvalue()
+
+
+# --- Standalone tasks widget (split out of the old calendar-widget-only
+# week-view task list -- see models.TaskWidgetConfig) -----------------
+
+_TASKS_FONTS = {"large": (24, 18), "medium": (20, 16), "small": (16, 13)}
+
+
+def _build_tasks(tasks: list[dict], target_w: int, target_h: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None,
+                 title: str = "Tasks", font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """A tasks widget's entire region is the checklist -- unlike the old
+    week-view slot, there's no day columns/header to share space with,
+    so this is just _draw_tasks over the whole box."""
+    img, draw, region = panel_style.card_canvas(target_w, target_h)
+    title_size, body_size = (
+        panel_style.scaled_size(v, font_scale) for v in _TASKS_FONTS[_size_tier(target_w, target_h)]
+    )
+    title_font = panel_style.font_bold(title_size)
+    body_font = panel_style.font_regular(body_size)
+    _draw_tasks(img, draw, region, tasks, title_font, body_font, palette_rgb, title)
+    return img
+
+
+def render_tasks(tasks: list[dict], orientation: str, palette_rgb: list | None,
+                 manage: dict | None = None, title: str = "Tasks") -> bytes:
+    """Renders the tasks widget full-panel to the panel's packed format.
+    Always returns exactly EPD_WIDTH*EPD_HEIGHT/2 bytes, same invariant
+    every other renderer honors."""
+    target_w, target_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
+    img = _build_tasks(tasks, target_w, target_h, palette_rgb, title)
+    img = _apply_manage_overlay(img, manage)
+    quantized = _quantize(img, palette_rgb, dither_strength=1.0)
+    return _transpose_and_pack(quantized, orientation)
+
+
+def render_tasks_preview_png(tasks: list[dict], orientation: str, palette_rgb: list | None,
+                             manage: dict | None = None, title: str = "Tasks", font_scale: float = 1.0) -> bytes:
+    """Same pipeline as render_tasks, but a normal browser-viewable PNG
+    in logical (upright) orientation -- mirrors render_calendar_preview_
+    png's relationship to render_calendar."""
+    target_w, target_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
+    img = _build_tasks(tasks, target_w, target_h, palette_rgb, title, font_scale=font_scale)
     img = _apply_manage_overlay(img, manage)
     quantized = _quantize(img, palette_rgb, dither_strength=1.0)
     buf = io.BytesIO()

server/app/db.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from typing import Iterator
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine, event
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session, sessionmaker
 
-from .models import Frame
+from .models import WIDGET_CONFIG_MODELS, Frame, Widget
 
 DATABASE_URL = os.environ.get("DATABASE_URL", "sqlite:////data/espresso.db")
 
@@ -86,3 +86,33 @@ def frame_locked(db: Session, frame_id: int) -> Iterator[Frame]:
         db.refresh(frame)
         yield frame
         db.commit()
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def widget_locked(db: Session, frame_id: int, widget_id: int) -> Iterator[tuple[Frame, Widget, object]]:
+    """Same lock/refresh/commit dance as frame_locked, additionally
+    resolving and refreshing the widget's own per-type config row
+    (PhotoWidgetConfig/CalendarWidgetConfig/WhiteboardWidgetConfig/
+    TaskWidgetConfig, see models.WIDGET_CONFIG_MODELS). Deliberately
+    still locks at *frame* granularity -- the exact same per-frame
+    threading.Lock frame_locked
+    uses, not a separate per-widget lock -- simplest, avoids a new class
+    of multi-lock deadlock bugs, and this project's actual concurrency
+    needs are tiny (a handful of users per household frame).
+
+    threading.Lock is not reentrant: a caller executing several widget
+    actions in one pass (e.g. a button press assigned multiple
+    (widget, action) pairs, see routers/device.py) MUST call this once
+    per action, sequentially, never nested inside an outer
+    frame_locked/widget_locked span for the same frame -- nesting would
+    deadlock instantly, not just misbehave."""
+    with frame_locked(db, frame_id) as frame:
+        widget = db.get(Widget, widget_id)
+        if widget is None or widget.frame_id != frame_id:
+            raise LookupError(f"Widget {widget_id} does not belong to frame {frame_id}")
+        config_model = WIDGET_CONFIG_MODELS[widget.widget_type]
+        config = db.get(config_model, widget_id)
+        if config is None:
+            raise LookupError(f"Widget {widget_id} has no {widget.widget_type} config row")
+        db.refresh(config)
+        yield frame, widget, config

server/app/face_labels.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ MAX_LABELED_FACES = 6
 
 
 def compute_face_labels(preview_bytes: bytes, faces: list[dict], display_mode: str,
-                        orientation: str = "landscape") -> list[dict]:
+                        orientation: str = "landscape", region: tuple[int, int, int, int] | None = None) -> list[dict]:
     """Returns up to MAX_LABELED_FACES [{"name", "x", "y"}], x/y in
     logical (pre-rotation) frame space at each named face's bottom-center
     point -- manage_overlay.compose() draws these directly onto the
@@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ def compute_face_labels(preview_bytes: bytes, faces: list[dict], display_mode: s
     match the settings that were active then -- otherwise the placement
     computed here won't match what's actually on screen.
 
+    `region` is (x0, y0, w, h): where in the logical canvas the photo
+    actually landed, if not the whole thing -- e.g. a photo widget placed
+    in one corner of the panel rather than full-screen (see
+    routers/common.py's build_manage_content, which passes each photo
+    widget's own placement rect) -- without this a label would be placed
+    as if the photo filled the entire canvas, landing well off where the
+    widget actually is. None (the default) means the photo fills the
+    whole logical canvas.
+
     The placement math matches render_frame()'s own composition step
     exactly (see image_pipeline._placement_transform, shared so the two
     can't drift apart).
@@ -46,11 +55,16 @@ def compute_face_labels(preview_bytes: bytes, faces: list[dict], display_mode: s
     if not named:
         return []
 
-    logical_w, logical_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
+    if region is None:
+        logical_w, logical_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
+        region_x0, region_y0, target_w, target_h = 0, 0, logical_w, logical_h
+    else:
+        region_x0, region_y0, target_w, target_h = region
+
     fitted = ImageOps.exif_transpose(Image.open(io.BytesIO(preview_bytes)).convert("RGB"))
 
     scale_x, scale_y, offset_x, offset_y = _placement_transform(
-        fitted.width, fitted.height, logical_w, logical_h, display_mode, faces
+        fitted.width, fitted.height, target_w, target_h, display_mode, faces
     )
 
     labels = []
@@ -65,12 +79,16 @@ def compute_face_labels(preview_bytes: bytes, faces: list[dict], display_mode: s
         center_x = (face["boundingBoxX1"] + face["boundingBoxX2"]) / 2 * img_scale_x
         bottom_y = face["boundingBoxY2"] * img_scale_y
 
-        frame_x = center_x * scale_x + offset_x
-        frame_y = bottom_y * scale_y + offset_y
+        # Relative to the region's own origin first (matches
+        # _placement_transform's target_w/target_h space), then shifted
+        # into full-canvas coordinates.
+        region_x = center_x * scale_x + offset_x
+        region_y = bottom_y * scale_y + offset_y
 
-        if not (0 <= frame_x <= logical_w and 0 <= frame_y <= logical_h):
-            continue  # this face got cropped out of the final frame entirely
+        if not (0 <= region_x <= target_w and 0 <= region_y <= target_h):
+            continue  # this face got cropped out of the region entirely
 
-        labels.append({"name": face["person"]["name"], "x": int(frame_x), "y": int(frame_y)})
+        labels.append({"name": face["person"]["name"],
+                       "x": int(region_x + region_x0), "y": int(region_y + region_y0)})
 
     return labels

server/app/fonts/OFL-Arvo.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+Copyright (c) 2010-2013, Anton Koovit ([email protected]), with Reserved Font Name 'Arvo'
+
+This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
+This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
+http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
+
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+PREAMBLE
+The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
+development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
+efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
+open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
+with others.
+
+The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
+redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
+fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, 
+redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
+names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
+however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
+requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
+to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
+
+DEFINITIONS
+"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
+Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
+include source files, build scripts and documentation.
+
+"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
+copyright statement(s).
+
+"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
+distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
+
+"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
+or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
+Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
+new environment.
+
+"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
+writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
+
+PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
+redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
+Software, subject to the following conditions:
+
+1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
+in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
+
+2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
+redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
+contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
+included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
+in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
+binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
+
+3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
+Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
+Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
+presented to the users.
+
+4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
+Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
+Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
+Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
+permission.
+
+5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
+must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
+distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
+remain under this license does not apply to any document created
+using the Font Software.
+
+TERMINATION
+This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
+not met.
+
+DISCLAIMER
+THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
+OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
+OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

server/app/fonts/OFL-CrimsonText.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+Copyright 2010 The Crimson Text Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/Crimson)
+
+This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
+This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
+https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
+
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+PREAMBLE
+The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
+development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
+efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
+open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
+with others.
+
+The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
+redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
+fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, 
+redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
+names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
+however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
+requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
+to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
+
+DEFINITIONS
+"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
+Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
+include source files, build scripts and documentation.
+
+"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
+copyright statement(s).
+
+"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
+distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
+
+"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
+or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
+Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
+new environment.
+
+"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
+writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
+
+PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
+redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
+Software, subject to the following conditions:
+
+1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
+in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
+
+2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
+redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
+contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
+included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
+in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
+binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
+
+3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
+Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
+Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
+presented to the users.
+
+4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
+Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
+Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
+Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
+permission.
+
+5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
+must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
+distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
+remain under this license does not apply to any document created
+using the Font Software.
+
+TERMINATION
+This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
+not met.
+
+DISCLAIMER
+THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
+OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
+OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

server/app/fonts/OFL-IBMPlex.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+Copyright © 2017 IBM Corp. with Reserved Font Name "Plex"
+
+This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
+
+This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
+
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+PREAMBLE
+The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
+development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
+efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
+open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
+with others.
+
+The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
+redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
+fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, 
+redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
+names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
+however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
+requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
+to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
+
+DEFINITIONS
+"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
+Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
+include source files, build scripts and documentation.
+
+"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
+copyright statement(s).
+
+"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
+distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
+
+"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
+or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
+Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
+new environment.
+
+"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
+writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
+
+PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
+redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
+Software, subject to the following conditions:
+
+1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
+in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
+
+2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
+redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
+contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
+included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
+in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
+binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
+
+3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
+Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
+Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
+presented to the users.
+
+4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
+Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
+Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
+Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
+permission.
+
+5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
+must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
+distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
+remain under this license does not apply to any document created
+using the Font Software.
+
+TERMINATION
+This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
+not met.
+
+DISCLAIMER
+THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
+OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
+OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

server/app/fonts/OFL-Inter.txt

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+Copyright (c) 2016 The Inter Project Authors (https://github.com/rsms/inter)
+
+This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
+This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
+http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+PREAMBLE
+The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
+development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
+efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
+open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
+with others.
+
+The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
+redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
+fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
+redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
+names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
+however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
+requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
+to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
+
+DEFINITIONS
+"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
+Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
+include source files, build scripts and documentation.
+
+"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
+copyright statement(s).
+
+"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
+distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
+
+"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
+or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
+Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
+new environment.
+
+"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
+writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
+
+PERMISSION AND CONDITIONS
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
+redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
+Software, subject to the following conditions:
+
+1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
+in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
+
+2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
+redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
+contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
+included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
+in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
+binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
+
+3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
+Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
+Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
+presented to the users.
+
+4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
+Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
+Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
+Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
+permission.
+
+5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
+must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
+distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
+remain under this license does not apply to any document created
+using the Font Software.
+
+TERMINATION
+This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
+not met.
+
+DISCLAIMER
+THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
+OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
+OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

server/app/fonts/OFL-SourceSans.txt

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+Copyright 2010-2020 Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/), with Reserved Font Name 'Source'. All Rights Reserved. Source is a trademark of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries.
+
+This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
+
+This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
+
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+PREAMBLE
+The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
+development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
+efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
+open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
+with others.
+
+The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
+redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
+fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, 
+redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
+names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
+however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
+requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
+to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
+
+DEFINITIONS
+"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
+Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
+include source files, build scripts and documentation.
+
+"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
+copyright statement(s).
+
+"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
+distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
+
+"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
+or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
+Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
+new environment.
+
+"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
+writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
+
+PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
+redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
+Software, subject to the following conditions:
+
+1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
+in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
+
+2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
+redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
+contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
+included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
+in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
+binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
+
+3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
+Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
+Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
+presented to the users.
+
+4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
+Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
+Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
+Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
+permission.
+
+5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
+must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
+distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
+remain under this license does not apply to any document created
+using the Font Software.
+
+TERMINATION
+This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
+not met.
+
+DISCLAIMER
+THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
+OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
+OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

server/app/fonts/OFL.txt

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+Copyright 2013 Google LLC
+
+This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
+This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
+https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
+
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+PREAMBLE
+The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
+development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
+efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
+open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
+with others.
+
+The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
+redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
+fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, 
+redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
+names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
+however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
+requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
+to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
+
+DEFINITIONS
+"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
+Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
+include source files, build scripts and documentation.
+
+"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
+copyright statement(s).
+
+"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
+distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
+
+"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
+or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
+Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
+new environment.
+
+"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
+writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
+
+PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
+redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
+Software, subject to the following conditions:
+
+1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
+in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
+
+2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
+redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
+contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
+included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
+in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
+binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
+
+3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
+Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
+Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
+presented to the users.
+
+4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
+Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
+Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
+Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
+permission.
+
+5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
+must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
+distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
+remain under this license does not apply to any document created
+using the Font Software.
+
+TERMINATION
+This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
+not met.
+
+DISCLAIMER
+THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
+OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
+OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

server/app/global_actions.py

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+"""Frame-wide actions triggered by holding NEXT/BACK past
+Frame.hold_duration_ms, instead of the per-widget action a short press
+runs (see models.FrameButtonAction, app/widgets/*.py's ACTIONS). Not
+scoped to any one widget -- e.g. cycling through the owner's saved
+layouts -- so this is its own registry rather than living in a widget
+module.
+
+Each function's signature is (db, frame) -> None, the frame-level
+analogue of a widget ACTIONS entry's (db, frame, widget) -> None, and
+each is responsible for its own locking/commit internally (frame_locked/
+widget_locked), same convention as app/widgets/*.py. routers/device.py's
+/frame/global-next and /frame/global-back look up which (if any) of
+these Frame.next_hold_action/back_hold_action points to and call it,
+same "unset/unknown -> silent no-op" posture as an unbound short-press
+button."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+
+from . import grid
+from .db import frame_locked
+from .models import Frame, PhotoWidgetConfig, SavedLayout, Widget
+from .routers.api_layouts import apply_layout_to_frame
+from .widgets import WIDGET_TYPES
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def cycle_layout(db: Session, frame: Frame) -> None:
+    """Applies the owner's next saved layout compatible with this
+    frame's current grid size, in a stable order (by id), wrapping back
+    to the first past the last one. A silent no-op if the frame is
+    unclaimed or its owner has no compatible saved layouts -- same
+    posture as every other action here when there's nothing to do."""
+    if frame.owner_user_id is None:
+        return
+    cols, rows = grid.grid_dims(frame.orientation)
+    candidates = db.scalars(
+        select(SavedLayout)
+        .where(SavedLayout.user_id == frame.owner_user_id, SavedLayout.cols == cols, SavedLayout.rows == rows)
+        .order_by(SavedLayout.id)
+    ).all()
+    if not candidates:
+        return
+
+    next_layout = candidates[0]
+    if frame.last_cycled_layout_id is not None:
+        for i, layout in enumerate(candidates):
+            if layout.id == frame.last_cycled_layout_id:
+                next_layout = candidates[(i + 1) % len(candidates)]
+                break
+
+    apply_layout_to_frame(db, frame, next_layout)
+    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
+        locked.last_cycled_layout_id = next_layout.id
+
+
+def refresh_all_widgets(db: Session, frame: Frame) -> None:
+    """Runs every widget's own check_now (calendar/weather/whiteboard),
+    regardless of which button it's normally bound to -- a manual "sync
+    everything now" global action. One widget's failure doesn't block
+    the rest, same posture as routers/device.py's _run_button_actions."""
+    widgets = db.scalars(select(Widget).where(Widget.frame_id == frame.id)).all()
+    for widget in widgets:
+        module = WIDGET_TYPES.get(widget.widget_type)
+        check_now = module.ACTIONS.get("check_now") if module else None
+        if check_now is None:
+            continue
+        try:
+            check_now(db, frame, widget)
+        except Exception:
+            logger.exception(
+                "refresh_all_widgets failed for widget %d (frame %d)", widget.id, frame.id
+            )
+
+
+def toggle_all_photo_locks(db: Session, frame: Frame) -> None:
+    """Flips PhotoWidgetConfig.locked for every photo widget on the frame
+    at once. Target state is the opposite of "everything's already
+    locked" -- one hold freezes every photo widget unless they're all
+    already frozen, in which case it unfreezes all of them. A no-op if
+    the frame has no photo widgets."""
+    widget_ids = [
+        w.id for w in db.scalars(
+            select(Widget).where(Widget.frame_id == frame.id, Widget.widget_type == "photos")
+        )
+    ]
+    if not widget_ids:
+        return
+    configs = db.scalars(
+        select(PhotoWidgetConfig).where(PhotoWidgetConfig.widget_id.in_(widget_ids))
+    ).all()
+    if not configs:
+        return
+    target = not all(c.locked for c in configs)
+    with frame_locked(db, frame.id):
+        for config in configs:
+            config.locked = target
+
+
+GLOBAL_ACTIONS = {
+    "cycle_layout": cycle_layout,
+    "refresh_all_widgets": refresh_all_widgets,
+    "toggle_all_photo_locks": toggle_all_photo_locks,
+}
+
+GLOBAL_ACTION_LABELS = {
+    "cycle_layout": "Cycle saved layouts",
+    "refresh_all_widgets": "Refresh all widgets now",
+    "toggle_all_photo_locks": "Freeze/unfreeze all photo widgets",
+}

server/app/grid.py

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+"""Snap-to-grid placement math for widgets (see models.Widget) -- pure,
+no I/O, no ORM.
+
+The grid is defined relative to the panel's long/short axis, not
+landscape/portrait specifically, so it stays valid across
+image_pipeline.logical_render_size(orientation)'s genuine width/height
+swap for portrait (not just a rotation applied at the very end) --
+landscape orientations are GRID_LONG columns x GRID_SHORT rows, portrait
+orientations are GRID_SHORT columns x GRID_LONG rows, same cell size
+either way. Changing a frame's orientation therefore invalidates any
+existing widget layout (an 8x5 arrangement isn't valid on a 5x8 grid) --
+callers are expected to reset to one full-panel widget on an orientation
+change, not try to remap coordinates.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+GRID_LONG = 8
+GRID_SHORT = 5
+
+# Per-widget-type minimum grid footprint (cols, rows) -- enforced both in
+# the placement UI and server-side (routers/api_widgets.py). A calendar
+# widget crammed into 1x1 would be illegible regardless of size-tier
+# scaling (see calendar_render.py); whiteboard needs enough room to be
+# worth looking at; photos can go as small as a single cell; tasks needs
+# enough width for a due-date prefix plus a couple words of summary
+# without truncating on every row; weather needs enough room for its
+# hourly/daily strips to stay legible (its current/multi_city modes
+# would tolerate smaller, but every mode shares one footprint value).
+# battery is just an icon + a percent (+ two optional small lines in
+# "detailed" mode) -- legible even at a single cell, like photos/static.
+# NOTE: a 1x1 widget-box on a narrow mobile canvas can clip its own
+# gear/remove buttons behind theme.css's overflow: hidden (their fixed
+# pixel offsets overflow the box's clipped width) -- a pre-existing
+# layout gap that already affects photos/static at 1x1 too, not fixed
+# here; see the finding called out where this was discovered.
+MIN_FOOTPRINT: dict[str, tuple[int, int]] = {
+    "photos": (1, 1),
+    "calendar": (3, 2),
+    "whiteboard": (2, 2),
+    "tasks": (2, 2),
+    "static": (1, 1),
+    "text": (2, 1),
+    "weather": (2, 2),
+    "battery": (1, 1),
+}
+
+Rect = tuple[int, int, int, int]  # (x, y, w, h)
+
+
+def grid_dims(orientation: str) -> tuple[int, int]:
+    """(cols, rows) for this orientation."""
+    if orientation in ("portrait", "portrait_flipped"):
+        return GRID_SHORT, GRID_LONG
+    return GRID_LONG, GRID_SHORT
+
+
+def full_panel_rect(orientation: str) -> Rect:
+    """The single full-panel widget rect for this orientation -- what a
+    frame gets reset to whenever its layout can't carry over (initial
+    migration backfill, an orientation change)."""
+    cols, rows = grid_dims(orientation)
+    return (0, 0, cols, rows)
+
+
+def in_bounds(orientation: str, rect: Rect) -> bool:
+    cols, rows = grid_dims(orientation)
+    x, y, w, h = rect
+    return x >= 0 and y >= 0 and w > 0 and h > 0 and x + w <= cols and y + h <= rows
+
+
+def meets_minimum(widget_type: str, rect: Rect) -> bool:
+    min_w, min_h = MIN_FOOTPRINT.get(widget_type, (1, 1))
+    _, _, w, h = rect
+    return w >= min_w and h >= min_h
+
+
+def overlaps(a: Rect, b: Rect) -> bool:
+    ax, ay, aw, ah = a
+    bx, by, bw, bh = b
+    return ax < bx + bw and bx < ax + aw and ay < by + bh and by < ay + ah
+
+
+def find_open_rect(orientation: str, existing: list[Rect], w: int, h: int) -> Rect | None:
+    """First w x h rect that's in-bounds and doesn't overlap any of
+    `existing`, scanning row-major (top-left first) -- used when creating
+    a widget without an explicit placement (see routers/api_widgets.py),
+    so adding one from a type picker doesn't require the caller to find
+    empty space itself first. None if no such rect fits anywhere."""
+    cols, rows = grid_dims(orientation)
+    for y in range(rows - h + 1):
+        for x in range(cols - w + 1):
+            candidate = (x, y, w, h)
+            if not any(overlaps(candidate, other) for other in existing):
+                return candidate
+    return None
+
+
+def cell_to_pixels(orientation: str, panel_w: int, panel_h: int, rect: Rect) -> tuple[int, int, int, int]:
+    """Grid rect -> pixel rect in logical (pre-rotation) canvas space --
+    against image_pipeline.logical_render_size(orientation)'s own
+    (panel_w, panel_h), the same space every renderer already composes
+    in before the final orientation transpose."""
+    cols, rows = grid_dims(orientation)
+    cell_w = panel_w / cols
+    cell_h = panel_h / rows
+    x, y, w, h = rect
+    px, py = round(x * cell_w), round(y * cell_h)
+    # Snap the far edge to the next cell boundary rather than compounding
+    # per-cell rounding error across w/h -- keeps adjacent widgets'
+    # shared edge pixel-exact instead of leaving a stray gap/overlap.
+    px2, py2 = round((x + w) * cell_w), round((y + h) * cell_h)
+    return (px, py, px2 - px, py2 - py)

server/app/html_render.py

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+"""Experimental "modern" render style, offered as an opt-in alternative
+to several widget types' hand-drawn PIL primitives: Jinja2 + a
+persistent headless Chromium browser (Playwright) -- see docs/widgets.md
+for the design rationale (gradients/shadows/soft shading that PIL can't
+easily do, at the cost of a real browser-process dependency). Everything
+in this module is shared infrastructure (the persistent browser, ordered
+dithering) plus one `build_*` function per widget type that has a
+modern-style builder -- battery/text/tasks/static image/whiteboard live
+here directly (mirroring how those widget types are themselves "inlined"
+in their own widget.py rather than getting a dedicated render module);
+calendar's (all four view modes, see calendar_html_render.py) is the one
+exception, kept separate the same reason calendar_render.py itself is
+its own 800+ line file rather than joining battery/text/tasks inline.
+Not offered for the photos widget -- a real photograph isn't a
+synthesized dashboard card, and photos has its own separate palette/
+dithering concern instead (see widgets/photos.py).
+
+Two things this module owns that nothing else in the codebase needed
+before:
+
+1. A **persistent** background browser process. Widget rendering already
+   happens concurrently across a fresh `ThreadPoolExecutor` per frame
+   request (routers/device.py's _render_widgets) -- Playwright's sync
+   API is thread-affine (an object must be used from the thread that
+   created it), so a single browser object can't be handed across those
+   ad-hoc worker threads, and relaunching a full Chromium process on
+   every widget render would be real, avoidable latency. Fix: one
+   background thread runs its own persistent asyncio event loop hosting
+   one long-lived `Browser`, lazily started on first use (see start()) --
+   not eagerly at server startup, so a deployment that never enables the
+   weather widget's "modern" style never launches Chromium at all and
+   never needs Playwright's browser binaries installed. main.py's
+   lifespan only wires up the *shutdown* half (stop()), so a clean
+   server restart doesn't leave an orphaned Chromium process behind if
+   this was ever actually used. render_html_to_image() is a plain sync
+   function any worker thread can call, bridging in via
+   `asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe` (the standard safe cross-thread
+   entry point into a *running* loop on another thread).
+
+2. **Per-region ordered (Bayer) dithering against the palette**, done
+   here rather than in the shared image_pipeline.py pipeline.
+   render_panel's whole-canvas single Floyd-Steinberg pass exists
+   because Floyd-Steinberg's error diffusion can't be split across
+   independently-quantized regions without a visible seam at the
+   boundary -- but that reasoning doesn't apply to ordered dithering,
+   which has no cross-pixel error term (each pixel's dither decision
+   only depends on its own position + color). So this module dithers its
+   own rendered widget to *already-exact* palette colors before
+   returning it; the later shared Floyd-Steinberg pass sees zero
+   quantization error there and leaves it untouched -- the same
+   "pre-commit to exact palette colors" trick image_pipeline.draw_text
+   and the hand-drawn weather icons already rely on, just reached a
+   different way. Floyd-Steinberg keeps working exactly as before for
+   photos and every other (classic-rendered) widget region.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import io
+import threading
+from datetime import date
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader, select_autoescape
+from PIL import Image
+
+from . import panel_style, theme_tokens
+from .image_pipeline import DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB, hex_to_rgb
+
+_TEMPLATE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "templates" / "widget_html"
+_FONT_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "fonts"
+
+_jinja_env = Environment(
+    loader=FileSystemLoader(str(_TEMPLATE_DIR)),
+    autoescape=select_autoescape(["html", "jinja"]),
+)
+
+CATEGORY_EMOJI = {
+    "clear": "☀️",
+    "partly_cloudy": "⛅",
+    "cloudy": "☁️",
+    "fog": "\U0001f32b️",
+    "rain": "\U0001f327️",
+    "snow": "❄️",
+    "thunderstorm": "⛈️",
+}
+
+# Spelled-out condition word for the "bold minimal" current-mode layout --
+# classic's build_current never needed one (icon + temp only), but the
+# redesigned modern layout has room for a secondary line under the temp.
+CATEGORY_LABEL = {
+    "clear": "Clear",
+    "partly_cloudy": "Partly cloudy",
+    "cloudy": "Cloudy",
+    "fog": "Fog",
+    "rain": "Rain",
+    "snow": "Snow",
+    "thunderstorm": "Thunderstorm",
+}
+
+
+def _rgb_to_hex(rgb: tuple[int, int, int]) -> str:
+    return "#%02x%02x%02x" % tuple(rgb)
+
+
+def _darken_hex(rgb: tuple[int, int, int], factor: float = 0.75) -> str:
+    """A darker shade of `rgb` for a CSS gradient's second stop -- purely
+    decorative (ordered_dither commits everything to exact palette colors
+    regardless of which literal hex a gradient starts from)."""
+    return _rgb_to_hex(tuple(max(0, round(c * factor)) for c in rgb))
+
+
+def _clamp(value: float, lo: float, hi: float) -> float:
+    """Keeps a size/spacing value proportional to widget dimensions
+    (`value` is always some fraction of target_w/target_h) while still
+    guaranteeing a floor (stays legible on a 1-2 grid-cell widget) and a
+    ceiling (stops padding/type from just growing forever on a
+    near-full-panel widget -- see build_current's docstring)."""
+    return max(lo, min(hi, value))
+
+
+# --- Persistent background browser -------------------------------------
+
+_loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop | None = None
+_loop_thread: threading.Thread | None = None
+_browser = None
+_playwright_cm = None
+_start_lock = threading.Lock()
+
+
+async def _launch_browser() -> None:
+    global _browser, _playwright_cm
+    from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
+
+    _playwright_cm = async_playwright()
+    playwright = await _playwright_cm.__aenter__()
+    _browser = await playwright.chromium.launch()
+
+
+async def _close_browser() -> None:
+    global _browser, _playwright_cm
+    if _browser is not None:
+        await _browser.close()
+        _browser = None
+    if _playwright_cm is not None:
+        await _playwright_cm.__aexit__(None, None, None)
+        _playwright_cm = None
+
+
+def start() -> None:
+    """Launches the background event loop + persistent Chromium browser,
+    if not already running. Called lazily by render_html_to_image on
+    first use (not from main.py's lifespan -- see module docstring for
+    why this must stay opt-in) -- exposed directly too, for tests that
+    want to control startup explicitly. Idempotent -- a second call
+    while already started is a no-op."""
+    global _loop, _loop_thread
+    if _loop is not None:
+        return
+    ready = threading.Event()
+
+    def _run() -> None:
+        global _loop
+        loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
+        asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
+        _loop = loop
+        ready.set()
+        loop.run_forever()
+
+    _loop_thread = threading.Thread(target=_run, daemon=True, name="html-render-loop")
+    _loop_thread.start()
+    ready.wait()
+    asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(_launch_browser(), _loop).result()
+
+
+def stop() -> None:
+    """Closes the browser and stops the background loop -- called from
+    main.py's lifespan shutdown so a server restart never leaves an
+    orphaned Chromium process behind. No-op if start() was never called
+    (the common case: most deployments never enable "modern" style)."""
+    global _loop, _loop_thread
+    if _loop is None:
+        return
+    asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(_close_browser(), _loop).result()
+    _loop.call_soon_threadsafe(_loop.stop)
+    _loop_thread.join(timeout=5)
+    _loop = None
+    _loop_thread = None
+
+
+async def _screenshot(html: str, target_w: int, target_h: int) -> bytes:
+    page = await _browser.new_page(viewport={"width": target_w, "height": target_h}, device_scale_factor=1)
+    try:
+        await page.set_content(html, wait_until="networkidle")
+        return await page.screenshot()
+    finally:
+        await page.close()
+
+
+def render_html_to_image(html: str, target_w: int, target_h: int) -> Image.Image:
+    """Renders `html` (already sized to target_w x target_h via its own
+    <style>) through the persistent headless Chromium browser and
+    returns an RGB image of exactly that size. Safe to call from any
+    thread -- bridges into the dedicated background asyncio loop via
+    run_coroutine_threadsafe. Lazily calls start() on first use (see its
+    docstring) -- the first "modern" style render on a freshly-started
+    server pays Chromium's launch latency; every render after that reuses
+    the same persistent browser."""
+    if _loop is None:
+        with _start_lock:
+            if _loop is None:
+                start()
+    future = asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(_screenshot(html, target_w, target_h), _loop)
+    png_bytes = future.result()
+    return Image.open(io.BytesIO(png_bytes)).convert("RGB")
+
+
+# --- Ordered (Bayer 8x8) dithering against an arbitrary palette ---------
+
+_BAYER8 = (
+    np.array(
+        [
+            [0, 32, 8, 40, 2, 34, 10, 42],
+            [48, 16, 56, 24, 50, 18, 58, 26],
+            [12, 44, 4, 36, 14, 46, 6, 38],
+            [60, 28, 52, 20, 62, 30, 54, 22],
+            [3, 35, 11, 43, 1, 33, 9, 41],
+            [51, 19, 59, 27, 49, 17, 57, 25],
+            [15, 47, 7, 39, 13, 45, 5, 37],
+            [63, 31, 55, 23, 61, 29, 53, 21],
+        ],
+        dtype=np.float32,
+    )
+    / 64.0
+    - 0.5
+)
+
+
+def ordered_dither(img: Image.Image, palette_rgb: list | None, amplitude: float = 48.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """Bayer-ordered dither of `img` against `palette_rgb` (falls back to
+    DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB) -- every output pixel is one of the palette's
+    exact colors, spatially patterned rather than error-diffused, so it's
+    safe to run per-region before compositing (see module docstring for
+    why that's not true of Floyd-Steinberg). `amplitude` is the Bayer
+    bias's full swing in 0-255 RGB units before nearest-palette-color
+    matching -- 48 was the value this render style was tuned against in
+    the exploratory spike behind this feature; not exposed as a per-frame
+    setting (unlike dither_strength) since there's only one consumer of
+    it today."""
+    palette = np.array(palette_rgb or DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB, dtype=np.float32)
+    arr = np.asarray(img.convert("RGB"), dtype=np.float32)
+    h, w, _ = arr.shape
+    tile = np.tile(_BAYER8, (h // 8 + 1, w // 8 + 1))[:h, :w]
+    biased = np.clip(arr + tile[:, :, None] * amplitude, 0, 255)
+    diffs = biased[:, :, None, :] - palette[None, None, :, :]
+    dists = np.einsum("hwkc,hwkc->hwk", diffs, diffs)
+    idx = np.argmin(dists, axis=2)
+    return Image.fromarray(palette[idx].astype(np.uint8), "RGB")
+
+
+def ordered_dither_regions(rendered: Image.Image, palette_rgb: list | None, base_amplitude: float = 48.0,
+                           accent_regions: list[tuple[tuple[int, int, int, int], float]] = ()) -> Image.Image:
+    """Like `ordered_dither`, but lets specific rectangles (e.g. a themed
+    header bar) dither at a higher amplitude than the rest of the widget.
+    A single higher amplitude applied to a whole widget washes out pale
+    content (a weather icon's white cloud body nearly disappeared in
+    testing); dithering the base image at the safe default and only
+    re-dithering an accent rect on top -- pasted back over the base --
+    lets a header carry a rich, arbitrary accent hue (via denser
+    stippling) without touching icon/text legibility elsewhere. Safe to
+    do per-region for the same reason `ordered_dither` is safe per-widget
+    (see its docstring): no cross-pixel error-diffusion term, so each
+    region's result depends only on its own pixels."""
+    base = ordered_dither(rendered, palette_rgb, amplitude=base_amplitude)
+    for (x0, y0, x1, y1), amplitude in accent_regions:
+        crop = rendered.crop((x0, y0, x1, y1))
+        base.paste(ordered_dither(crop, palette_rgb, amplitude=amplitude), (x0, y0))
+    return base
+
+
+# --- Weather "modern" style ----------------------------------------------
+
+def _day_label(day_date: date) -> str:
+    delta = (day_date - date.today()).days
+    if delta == 0:
+        return "Today"
+    if delta == 1:
+        return "Tomorrow"
+    return day_date.strftime("%a")
+
+
+def _short_city(city_label: str) -> str:
+    """geocode_city (see docs/widgets.md's Weather widget section) hands
+    back a full "City, Region, Country" string -- fine for classic's
+    build_current (just drawn as one line, however wide) but wrong for
+    the bold-minimal layout's small top-row label, where a 1-2 grid-
+    cell widget has no room for the whole thing. Every phone-homescreen
+    weather widget this style is drawing from shows just the city, so
+    that's what this keeps -- CSS `text-overflow: ellipsis` is still in
+    the template as a safety net for a custom single-segment label
+    that's itself too long, not as the primary truncation strategy."""
+    return city_label.split(",")[0].strip()
+
+
+def build_current(entry: dict | None, target_w: int, target_h: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None,
+                  units: str = "fahrenheit", city_label: str = "", theme_name: str | None = None) -> Image.Image:
+    """HTML/CSS-rendered analogue of weather_render.build_current --
+    same call signature, so app/widgets/weather.py can dispatch to
+    either interchangeably. Returns an already-palette-exact RGB image
+    (see ordered_dither).
+
+    "Bold minimal" layout: the temperature itself is the graphic --
+    city label + icon in a top row, the temp (dominant) and spelled-out
+    condition anchored to the bottom, no card/border/shadow at all. This
+    is a deliberate departure from every other modern-style widget's
+    card-on-white-canvas chrome (see docs/widgets.md) -- there's nothing
+    for a "card" to visually separate from here, so `theme["radius"]`/
+    `theme["shadow"]` have no effect on this template; still theme-aware
+    for font_family only, same as before. No header/accent region either
+    (see ordered_dither_regions' docstring) -- a themed accent has
+    nothing to attach to in a chrome-free layout.
+
+    Every size below is a fraction of `base` (the widget's shorter side),
+    clamped to a floor/ceiling rather than fixed -- so a 1-grid-cell
+    widget doesn't get comically oversized padding relative to its
+    content, and a near-full-panel widget doesn't get comically large
+    padding relative to *its* content either. Floors/ceilings are tuned
+    by eye against real widget sizes, not derived from anything."""
+    img = Image.new("RGB", (target_w, target_h), (255, 255, 255))
+    if not entry:
+        return img
+
+    theme = theme_tokens.resolve_theme(theme_name, "weather", palette_rgb)
+    unit_suffix = "F" if units == "fahrenheit" else "C"
+    base = min(target_w, target_h)
+    pad = _clamp(base * 0.09, 10, 26)
+    icon_size = _clamp(base * 0.20, 22, 60)
+    temp_size = _clamp(base * 0.46, 30, 150)
+    deg_size = _clamp(temp_size * 0.28, 12, 40)
+    cond_size = _clamp(base * 0.075, 11, 20)
+    city_size = _clamp(base * 0.06, 10, 15)
+    template = _jinja_env.get_template("weather_current.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, pad=round(pad),
+        font_regular=theme["font_regular"], font_bold=theme["font_bold"],
+        emoji=CATEGORY_EMOJI.get(entry["category"], ""),
+        condition=CATEGORY_LABEL.get(entry["category"], ""),
+        temp=round(entry["temp"]), unit_suffix=unit_suffix, city_label=_short_city(city_label),
+        icon_size=round(icon_size), temp_size=round(temp_size), deg_size=round(deg_size),
+        cond_size=round(cond_size), city_size=round(city_size),
+    )
+    rendered = render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    return ordered_dither(rendered, palette_rgb)
+
+
+def build_daily(daily: dict[str, dict], target_w: int, target_h: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None,
+               units: str = "fahrenheit", city_label: str = "", theme_name: str | None = None) -> Image.Image:
+    """HTML/CSS-rendered analogue of weather_render.build_daily -- same
+    call signature. Returns an already-palette-exact RGB image (see
+    ordered_dither).
+
+    "Bold minimal" layout, matching build_current: no card/border/
+    shadow, a row of day columns each carrying its own high (dominant)
+    / low (muted) temp the same way build_current makes the current
+    temp dominant. The old full-width gradient banner is gone --
+    city_label, when set, is a slim accent-colored rule (not a block)
+    with the city name understated beneath it, so there's still
+    somewhere for a theme's accent hue to show up (dithered richer via
+    ordered_dither_regions, same mechanism as before) without dragging
+    back the "card with a colored header" chrome this redesign is
+    moving away from. `theme["radius"]`/`theme["shadow"]` are unused
+    here for the same reason as build_current -- no card for them to
+    apply to."""
+    img = Image.new("RGB", (target_w, target_h), (255, 255, 255))
+    days = list(daily.items())
+    if not days:
+        return img
+
+    theme = theme_tokens.resolve_theme(theme_name, "weather", palette_rgb)
+    unit_suffix = "F" if units == "fahrenheit" else "C"
+    base = min(target_w, target_h)
+    pad = round(_clamp(base * 0.08, 10, 22))
+    col_w = max(1, (target_w - pad * 2) // len(days))
+    col_gap = round(_clamp(col_w * 0.12, 4, 16))
+    icon_size = round(_clamp(col_w * 0.30, 16, 32))
+    day_label_size = round(_clamp(col_w * 0.15, 10, 14))
+    high_size = round(_clamp(col_w * 0.32, 16, 32))
+    low_size = round(max(9, high_size * 0.55))
+    city_size = round(_clamp(base * 0.055, 10, 14))
+    accent_h = round(_clamp(base * 0.025, 4, 8))
+    day_entries = [
+        {
+            "label": _day_label(date.fromisoformat(day_str)),
+            "emoji": CATEGORY_EMOJI.get(d["category"], ""),
+            "high": round(d["high"]),
+            "low": round(d["low"]),
+        }
+        for day_str, d in days
+    ]
+    template = _jinja_env.get_template("weather_daily.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, pad=pad, col_gap=col_gap,
+        font_regular=theme["font_regular"], font_bold=theme["font_bold"],
+        city_label=_short_city(city_label), city_size=city_size, accent_h=accent_h,
+        accent_start=theme["accent_hex"], accent_end=theme["accent_hex_dark"],
+        days=day_entries, icon_size=icon_size, day_label_size=day_label_size,
+        high_size=high_size, low_size=low_size, unit_suffix=unit_suffix,
+    )
+    rendered = render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    if not city_label:
+        return ordered_dither(rendered, palette_rgb)
+    accent_rect = (pad, pad, target_w - pad, pad + accent_h)
+    return ordered_dither_regions(rendered, palette_rgb, accent_regions=[(accent_rect, theme["accent_amplitude"])])
+
+
+SUPPORTED_MODES = ("current", "daily")
+
+
+def build(mode: str, data, target_w: int, target_h: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None,
+         units: str = "fahrenheit", city_label: str = "", theme_name: str | None = None) -> Image.Image:
+    """Dispatches to build_current/build_daily -- mirrors weather_render.
+    build()'s signature (minus interval_hours, which no modern-style mode
+    uses) so app/widgets/weather.py and the weather preview endpoint can
+    call either module identically. Only call this for mode in
+    SUPPORTED_MODES -- callers are expected to have already fallen back to
+    weather_render.build() for hourly/multi_city (see weather.py)."""
+    if mode == "current":
+        return build_current(data, target_w, target_h, palette_rgb, units, city_label, theme_name)
+    return build_daily(data, target_w, target_h, palette_rgb, units, city_label, theme_name)
+
+
+def render_weather_preview_png(mode: str, data, orientation: str, palette_rgb: list | None,
+                               units: str = "fahrenheit", city_label: str = "",
+                               theme_name: str | None = None) -> bytes:
+    """Modern-style analogue of weather_render.render_weather_preview_png
+    -- same browser-viewable-PNG convention every other widget's preview
+    endpoint uses. build()'s output is already palette-exact (see
+    ordered_dither), so the final _quantize pass here is a no-op on it,
+    same reasoning as the module docstring's compositing story."""
+    from .image_pipeline import _quantize, _png_bytes, logical_render_size
+
+    target_w, target_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
+    img = build(mode, data, target_w, target_h, palette_rgb, units, city_label, theme_name)
+    quantized = _quantize(img, palette_rgb, dither_strength=1.0)
+    return _png_bytes(quantized)
+
+
+# --- Battery "modern" style ------------------------------------------------
+
+def _battery_sizes(target_w: int, target_h: int, num_lines: int, scale: float) -> dict:
+    base = min(target_w, target_h)
+    icon_h = max(14, int(base * 0.15 * scale))
+    pct_size = max(20, int(base * 0.42 * scale))
+    line_size = max(9, int(base * 0.085 * scale))
+    gap = max(4, int(base * 0.035 * scale))
+    total = icon_h + gap + pct_size + num_lines * (line_size + gap)
+    return {"icon_h": icon_h, "pct_size": pct_size, "line_size": line_size, "gap": gap, "total": total}
+
+
+def build_battery(percent: int, lines: list[str], target_w: int, target_h: int,
+                  palette_rgb: list | None = None, theme_name: str | None = None) -> Image.Image:
+    """HTML/CSS-rendered analogue of widgets/battery.py's classic PIL
+    drawing -- same icon+percent+caption-lines shape, `lines` already
+    resolved by the caller (widgets/battery.py's _lines_for(), shared
+    with the classic path so the estimate/age formatting only lives in
+    one place). Returns an already-palette-exact RGB image (see
+    ordered_dither). Theme-aware for font only -- the charge-level
+    fill_color below is a functional status signal (not a style choice)
+    and is never touched by a theme, and there's no header/accent region
+    to dither richer via ordered_dither_regions.
+
+    Bold-minimal: no card (theme["radius"] unused, same carve-out as
+    weather's build_current -- see docs/widgets.md); the percent is the
+    hero value anchored toward the bottom, same treatment build_current
+    gives the temperature, with the icon small and secondary above it
+    instead of both competing at the same size like the old centered
+    layout did.
+
+    Shrinks icon/text sizes together (in 0.05 steps down to 0.3x) until
+    the whole stack actually fits the available height -- the classic
+    PIL path solves the same "icon + percent + 0-2 lines in a fixed box"
+    problem by truncating lines that don't fit; scaling down instead
+    keeps every resolved line visible, which reads better for a widget
+    that only ever has at most 2 short caption lines to begin with."""
+    pad = round(_clamp(min(target_w, target_h) * 0.09, 10, 26))
+    avail_h = target_h - pad * 2
+    num_lines = len(lines)
+    scale = 1.0
+    sizes = _battery_sizes(target_w, target_h, num_lines, scale)
+    while sizes["total"] > avail_h and scale > 0.3:
+        scale -= 0.05
+        sizes = _battery_sizes(target_w, target_h, num_lines, scale)
+    # Extreme case (a 1x1-grid-cell-sized widget in "detailed" mode):
+    # scale bottomed out and it still doesn't fit -- drop the least
+    # important line rather than render overlapping text, same
+    # graceful-degradation idiom the classic PIL path's own
+    # `if y + small_font_size > ...: break` truncation already uses.
+    while sizes["total"] > avail_h and lines:
+        lines = lines[:-1]
+        num_lines = len(lines)
+        sizes = _battery_sizes(target_w, target_h, num_lines, scale)
+
+    theme = theme_tokens.resolve_theme(theme_name, "battery", palette_rgb)
+    fill_color = panel_style.battery_fill_color(percent, palette_rgb)
+    icon_h = sizes["icon_h"]
+    icon_w = int(icon_h * 1.8)
+    stroke = max(2, icon_h // 12)
+    nub_w = max(3, icon_w // 10)
+    template = _jinja_env.get_template("battery.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, pad=pad,
+        font_regular=theme["font_regular"], font_bold=theme["font_bold"], percent=percent, lines=lines,
+        icon_w=icon_w, icon_h=icon_h, icon_radius=icon_h // 6, stroke=stroke,
+        fill_pct=max(0, min(100, percent)), fill_radius=max(0, icon_h // 6 - stroke),
+        fill_color=_rgb_to_hex(fill_color), fill_color_dark=_darken_hex(fill_color),
+        nub_w=nub_w, nub_h=icon_h // 2, nub_radius=max(1, nub_w // 3),
+        pct_size=sizes["pct_size"], line_size=sizes["line_size"], line_gap=sizes["gap"],
+    )
+    rendered = render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    return ordered_dither(rendered, palette_rgb)
+
+
+# --- Text "modern" style ---------------------------------------------------
+
+def build_text(cfg, target_w: int, target_h: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None,
+              theme_name: str | None = None) -> Image.Image:
+    """HTML/CSS-rendered analogue of widgets/text.py's classic PIL
+    drawing. Reuses widgets/text.py's own `_fit()` for the one piece of
+    logic CSS has no native equivalent for (shrink-to-fit sizing) --
+    `_fit` measures against the exact same vendored font files via PIL,
+    so the resolved size is a real fit decision, not a guess -- but lets
+    the browser do its own text wrapping/line-breaking at that size
+    (paragraphs/runs passed through directly as HTML) rather than
+    replicating `_fit`'s own word-wrapped line list; the two wrapping
+    algorithms can disagree on exact break points, an acceptable
+    approximation since this style only needs to look good and fit
+    reasonably, not be pixel-identical to classic. Returns an already-
+    palette-exact RGB image (see ordered_dither).
+
+    theme_name is accepted (every modern-style build_* function takes
+    one, threaded uniformly from frame.theme) but deliberately unused --
+    the text widget's own font_family is a per-widget, user-authored
+    choice (see widgets/text.py's module docstring), same carve-out
+    reasoning as run-level colors; a frame theme overriding it would
+    silently undo an explicit user choice. text.html.jinja also has no
+    card chrome (no radius/shadow) for a theme to touch."""
+    from PIL import ImageDraw
+
+    from . import widgets  # local import: heavy-ish, and only "modern" text needs it
+
+    text_widget = widgets.text
+    bg_rgb = (hex_to_rgb(cfg.background_color) if cfg.background_color else None) or (255, 255, 255)
+    family = cfg.font_family if cfg.font_family in text_widget.FONT_FAMILIES else text_widget.DEFAULT_FONT_FAMILY
+    paragraphs = cfg.content or []
+    margin = text_widget.MARGIN
+    max_width = max(10, target_w - 2 * margin)
+    max_height = max(10, target_h - 2 * margin)
+
+    measure_img = Image.new("RGB", (1, 1))
+    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(measure_img)
+    size, _lines = text_widget._fit(draw, paragraphs, family, cfg.font_size, max_width, max_height)
+
+    files = text_widget._FONT_FILES.get(family) or text_widget._FONT_FILES[text_widget.DEFAULT_FONT_FAMILY]
+    align = cfg.align if cfg.align in ("left", "center", "right") else "left"
+    template = _jinja_env.get_template("text.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, margin=margin, bg_color=_rgb_to_hex(bg_rgb),
+        size=size, line_height=text_widget.LINE_HEIGHT_FACTOR, align=align,
+        font_regular=str(_FONT_DIR / files[(False, False)]), font_bold=str(_FONT_DIR / files[(True, False)]),
+        font_italic=str(_FONT_DIR / files[(False, True)]), font_bold_italic=str(_FONT_DIR / files[(True, True)]),
+        paragraphs=paragraphs,
+    )
+    rendered = render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    return ordered_dither(rendered, palette_rgb)
+
+
+# --- Tasks "modern" style ---------------------------------------------------
+
+def build_tasks(tasks: list[dict], target_w: int, target_h: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None,
+                title: str = "Tasks", theme_name: str | None = None, font_scale: float = 1.0) -> Image.Image:
+    """HTML/CSS-rendered analogue of calendar_render._build_tasks --
+    same header+checklist shape. Reuses calendar_render's own
+    _event_colors/_fmt_task_due (the exact color-dedup/due-date-format
+    logic the classic renderer uses) so a task's color chip/due string
+    matches classic style exactly; only the drawing differs -- and a
+    theme's accent never touches those per-owner chip colors (identity-
+    coding, not style) or the done-checkbox fill (a completion state
+    signal, not a style choice -- it happens to reuse the accent color,
+    but that's incidental, same as before this redesign).
+
+    Bold-minimal: no card (theme["shadow"]/["radius"] unused, same
+    carve-out as calendar's redesigned views -- see docs/widgets.md).
+    The old gradient header banner is now a slim accent rule + plain
+    bold title, matching every calendar view's day-header language --
+    only the rule dithers at the theme's richer accent_amplitude, not
+    the title text sitting on it. Returns an already-palette-exact RGB
+    image (see ordered_dither)."""
+    from .calendar_render import _event_colors, _fmt_task_due
+
+    theme = theme_tokens.resolve_theme(theme_name, "tasks", palette_rgb)
+    base = min(target_w, target_h)
+    accent_h = round(_clamp(base * 0.025, 3, 6))
+    title_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(14, base // 12), font_scale)
+    body_size = panel_style.scaled_size(max(11, base // 20), font_scale)
+    row_h = body_size + 14
+    box_size = max(10, body_size - 4)
+    header_h = accent_h + 6 + title_size
+    avail_h = target_h - panel_style.GUTTER * 2 - header_h - 8
+    max_rows = max(0, avail_h // row_h)
+
+    owners_seen: list[str] = []
+    rows = []
+    for task in tasks[:max_rows]:
+        colors = _event_colors(task, owners_seen, palette_rgb)
+        done = task.get("completed_at") is not None
+        due = None if done else (_fmt_task_due(task.get("due")) or None)
+        rows.append({
+            "colors": [_rgb_to_hex(c) for c in colors],
+            "done": done,
+            "due": due,
+            "summary": task["summary"],
+        })
+    more_count = max(0, len(tasks) - max_rows)
+
+    template = _jinja_env.get_template("tasks.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, gutter=panel_style.GUTTER,
+        font_regular=theme["font_regular"], font_bold=theme["font_bold"],
+        title=title, header_h=header_h, accent_h=accent_h, title_size=title_size,
+        accent_start=theme["accent_hex"],
+        rows=rows, more_count=more_count, row_h=row_h, box_size=box_size, body_size=body_size,
+    )
+    rendered = render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    gutter = panel_style.GUTTER
+    accent_rect = (gutter, gutter, target_w - gutter, gutter + accent_h)
+    return ordered_dither_regions(rendered, palette_rgb, accent_regions=[(accent_rect, theme["accent_amplitude"])])
+
+
+# --- Static image / whiteboard "modern" style (shared) ---------------------
+
+def build_framed_image(composed: Image.Image, target_w: int, target_h: int,
+                       palette_rgb: list | None = None, theme_name: str | None = None,
+                       widget_kind: str = "static") -> Image.Image:
+    """Wraps an already-composed image (static_image.py/whiteboard.py's
+    own compose_into() output, exactly target_w x target_h, already
+    cropped/fit per that widget's own display_mode) in a rounded-corner,
+    shadowed card -- the first visual chrome either widget type has ever
+    had (both currently draw with zero chrome of their own). Theme-aware
+    for radius/shadow only -- no text/header content to accent or font.
+    Returns an already-palette-exact RGB image (see ordered_dither)."""
+    import base64
+
+    theme = theme_tokens.resolve_theme(theme_name, widget_kind, palette_rgb)
+    buf = io.BytesIO()
+    composed.convert("RGB").save(buf, format="PNG")
+    image_b64 = base64.b64encode(buf.getvalue()).decode("ascii")
+
+    template = _jinja_env.get_template("framed_image.html.jinja")
+    html = template.render(
+        w=target_w, h=target_h, gutter=panel_style.GUTTER, radius=theme["radius"], shadow=theme["shadow"],
+        image_b64=image_b64,
+    )
+    rendered = render_html_to_image(html, target_w, target_h)
+    return ordered_dither(rendered, palette_rgb)

server/app/image_pipeline.py

@@ -3,12 +3,134 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import io
+import math
 
-from PIL import Image, ImageEnhance, ImageOps
+from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageEnhance, ImageFont, ImageOps
 
 EPD_WIDTH = 800
 EPD_HEIGHT = 480
 
+# PIL's TrueType rendering antialiases by default (graduated gray edge
+# pixels). Those survive straight into _quantize's Floyd-Steinberg
+# dithering, which -- confirmed visually -- turns them into scattered
+# colored speckles along every glyph edge once forced onto the panel's 6
+# colors, since a mid-gray input has no close palette match and the
+# diffused error bounces between whichever colors are nearest. Drawing
+# through a thresholded bilevel mask instead keeps every edge pure
+# black/white, which _quantize then reproduces exactly (both are already
+# palette colors, nothing to dither). Shared by every module that draws
+# text before quantization (this file's render_placeholder,
+# calendar_render.py, manage_overlay.py).
+_TEXT_MASK_THRESHOLD = 110
+
+
+def draw_text(img: Image.Image, xy: tuple[int, int], text: str, font: ImageFont.ImageFont,
+              fill: tuple[int, int, int] = (0, 0, 0)) -> None:
+    bbox = font.getbbox(text)
+    w, h = max(1, bbox[2] - bbox[0]), max(1, bbox[3] - bbox[1])
+    mask = Image.new("L", (w, h), 0)
+    ImageDraw.Draw(mask).text((-bbox[0], -bbox[1]), text, fill=255, font=font)
+    mask = mask.point(lambda p: 255 if p > _TEXT_MASK_THRESHOLD else 0)
+    img.paste(fill, (xy[0] + bbox[0], xy[1] + bbox[1]), mask)
+
+
+def _dashed_edge(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, x0: float, y0: float, x1: float, y1: float,
+                 width: int, color: tuple[int, int, int], dash: float, gap: float) -> None:
+    length = math.hypot(x1 - x0, y1 - y0)
+    if length <= 0:
+        return
+    ux, uy = (x1 - x0) / length, (y1 - y0) / length
+    pos = 0.0
+    while pos < length:
+        end = min(pos + dash, length)
+        draw.line([(x0 + ux * pos, y0 + uy * pos), (x0 + ux * end, y0 + uy * end)], fill=color, width=width)
+        pos += dash + gap
+
+
+def _dotted_edge(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, x0: float, y0: float, x1: float, y1: float,
+                 width: int, color: tuple[int, int, int], spacing: float) -> None:
+    length = math.hypot(x1 - x0, y1 - y0)
+    if length <= 0:
+        return
+    ux, uy = (x1 - x0) / length, (y1 - y0) / length
+    r = max(1, width / 2)
+    pos = 0.0
+    while pos <= length:
+        cx, cy = x0 + ux * pos, y0 + uy * pos
+        draw.ellipse([cx - r, cy - r, cx + r, cy + r], fill=color)
+        pos += spacing
+
+
+def draw_widget_border(img: Image.Image, style: str, thickness: int, color: tuple[int, int, int],
+                       radius: int = 0) -> None:
+    """Draws a border inset within img's own bounds, mutating it in
+    place -- called once per widget's own region (routers/device.py's
+    _render_widgets, and each widget type's own dialog preview) before
+    that region's image is pasted onto the shared canvas, so a border
+    never straddles the boundary between two adjacent widgets. `color`
+    should already be an exact palette RGB (see resolve_border_color) so
+    the stroke quantizes with zero dithering error, same reasoning as
+    the weather/battery icons' exact-panel-ink-RGB fills.
+
+    "solid"/"dashed"/"dotted" are a single thickness-px stroke traced
+    just inside the image's edge; "fancy" is two thinner concentric
+    strokes with a gap between them, picture-frame-mat style. "none" (or
+    a non-positive thickness) draws nothing. `radius` is opt-in and only
+    honored by "solid"/"fancy" (rounded_rectangle instead of rectangle) --
+    "dashed"/"dotted" trace each of the 4 edges as independent straight
+    segments (see _dashed_edge/_dotted_edge) and ignore it, a documented
+    limitation rather than a bug. Defaults to 0 (unchanged sharp-corner
+    behavior) and no call site passes non-zero today -- this ships the
+    capability for a future per-widget "rounded border" setting without
+    changing default behavior anywhere (see tests/test_widget_border.py's
+    exact-corner-pixel assertions)."""
+    if style == "none" or thickness <= 0:
+        return
+    w, h = img.size
+    t = max(1, min(int(thickness), min(w, h) // 2))
+    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
+    r = max(0, min(radius, (w - 1) // 2, (h - 1) // 2))
+
+    if style == "fancy":
+        line_t = max(1, t // 3)
+        gap = max(2, t - 2 * line_t)
+        if r:
+            draw.rounded_rectangle([0, 0, w - 1, h - 1], radius=r, outline=color, width=line_t)
+        else:
+            draw.rectangle([0, 0, w - 1, h - 1], outline=color, width=line_t)
+        inset = line_t + gap
+        if w - 2 * inset > 1 and h - 2 * inset > 1:
+            inner_r = max(0, min(r - inset, (w - 1 - 2 * inset) // 2, (h - 1 - 2 * inset) // 2)) if r else 0
+            if inner_r:
+                draw.rounded_rectangle([inset, inset, w - 1 - inset, h - 1 - inset], radius=inner_r,
+                                       outline=color, width=line_t)
+            else:
+                draw.rectangle([inset, inset, w - 1 - inset, h - 1 - inset], outline=color, width=line_t)
+        return
+
+    if style == "solid":
+        if r:
+            draw.rounded_rectangle([0, 0, w - 1, h - 1], radius=r, outline=color, width=t)
+        else:
+            draw.rectangle([0, 0, w - 1, h - 1], outline=color, width=t)
+        return
+
+    # dashed/dotted trace the same centered-on-the-edge path solid/
+    # fancy's rectangle outline draws, so all four styles sit at the
+    # same inset regardless of which is chosen.
+    half = t / 2
+    x0, y0, x1, y1 = half, half, w - 1 - half, h - 1 - half
+    edges = [(x0, y0, x1, y0), (x1, y0, x1, y1), (x1, y1, x0, y1), (x0, y1, x0, y0)]
+    if style == "dashed":
+        dash, gap = t * 3, t * 2
+        for ex0, ey0, ex1, ey1 in edges:
+            _dashed_edge(draw, ex0, ey0, ex1, ey1, t, color, dash, gap)
+    elif style == "dotted":
+        spacing = max(t * 2, t + 4)
+        for ex0, ey0, ex1, ey1 in edges:
+            _dotted_edge(draw, ex0, ey0, ex1, ey1, t, color, spacing)
+
+
 # How each orientation maps the logically-composed image onto the native
 # 800x480 panel. "portrait"/"portrait_flipped" compose at 480x800 (so the
 # crop ratio matches how the frame actually hangs) and rotate into native
@@ -65,12 +187,48 @@ DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB = [
 
 PALETTE_LABELS = ["Black", "White", "Yellow", "Red", "Blue", "Green"]
 
+# A community-measured alternative starting point for the same 6 slots,
+# ported (data only, not code) from paperlesspaper/epdoptimize's
+# src/dither/data/default-palettes.json "spectra6" entry (Apache
+# License 2.0, https://github.com/paperlesspaper/epdoptimize) -- offered
+# as a one-click "Load calibrated preset" in the Advanced configuration
+# UI, not a new default: unlike DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB above, these are an
+# actual panel's measured appearance rather than idealized primaries
+# (real Spectra 6 white/black are notably duller than pure #fff/#000),
+# but measured from a different unit than any given frame's actual
+# panel -- panel_style.py's own docstring already notes units vary
+# enough to be worth calibrating per frame, and this hasn't been
+# verified against this project's own hardware.
+CALIBRATED_SPECTRA6_RGB = [
+    (0x1F, 0x22, 0x26),  # BLACK
+    (0xB9, 0xC7, 0xC9),  # WHITE
+    (0xC1, 0xBB, 0x1E),  # YELLOW
+    (0x62, 0x20, 0x1E),  # RED
+    (0x23, 0x3F, 0x8E),  # BLUE
+    (0x35, 0x56, 0x3A),  # GREEN
+]
+
 # The panel's actual 4-bit color codes (see firmware/components/epd7in3e),
 # in the same order as DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB/PALETTE_LABELS -- fixed by the
 # hardware protocol, never user-configurable. 0x4 is intentionally unused
 # upstream.
 PANEL_CODES = [0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x3, 0x5, 0x6]
 
+# Per-widget optional border (models.Widget.border_style, see
+# draw_widget_border below). "none" is the default/no-op; the rest are
+# thickness-px strokes inset within the widget's own region.
+BORDER_STYLES = ["none", "solid", "dashed", "dotted", "fancy"]
+BORDER_STYLE_LABELS = {
+    "none": "None",
+    "solid": "Solid",
+    "dashed": "Dashed",
+    "dotted": "Dotted",
+    "fancy": "Fancy (double line)",
+}
+MIN_BORDER_THICKNESS = 1
+MAX_BORDER_THICKNESS = 8
+DEFAULT_BORDER_THICKNESS = 3
+
 
 def palette_to_hex(palette_rgb: list) -> list[str]:
     """[(0,0,0), ...] -> ["#000000", ...], for pre-filling the Advanced
@@ -78,6 +236,21 @@ def palette_to_hex(palette_rgb: list) -> list[str]:
     return ["#%02x%02x%02x" % tuple(c) for c in palette_rgb]
 
 
+def resolve_border_color(color_index: int, palette_rgb: list | None) -> tuple[int, int, int]:
+    """Widget.border_color_index -> an actual RGB tuple, against this
+    frame's tuned palette if it has one (falls back to
+    DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB) -- so a border always renders as one of the
+    panel's real 6 ink colors and never needs to be dithered, same
+    reasoning as the weather/battery icons' exact-panel-ink-RGB fills
+    (see docs/widgets.md). Out-of-range indexes (a stale value from a
+    frame that used to have more colors, though that never happens
+    today) fall back to Black rather than raising."""
+    palette = palette_rgb or DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB
+    if 0 <= color_index < len(palette):
+        return tuple(palette[color_index])
+    return tuple(palette[0])
+
+
 def hex_to_rgb(hex_str: str) -> tuple[int, int, int] | None:
     """"#1a2b3c" -> (26, 43, 60), or None for anything that isn't exactly
     a 6-hex-digit color (what <input type="color"> always sends, but a
@@ -197,6 +370,13 @@ DISPLAY_MODE_LABELS = {
 DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MODE = "crop_faces"
 LETTERBOX_BG = (255, 255, 255)
 
+# Static-image widget only offers a subset of DISPLAY_MODES -- no face
+# detection for an uploaded image, so "crop_faces" (which silently falls
+# back to crop_fill anyway, see compose_into) would just be a confusing
+# duplicate entry in that dialog's dropdown.
+STATIC_DISPLAY_MODES = ["crop_fill", "stretch_fill", "letterbox"]
+DEFAULT_STATIC_DISPLAY_MODE = "crop_fill"
+
 
 def _placement_transform(
     img_width: int, img_height: int, target_w: int, target_h: int,
@@ -358,6 +538,71 @@ def render_frame(source: Image.Image, faces: list[dict] | None = None,
     return _transpose_and_pack(quantized, orientation)
 
 
+def _png_bytes(img: Image.Image) -> bytes:
+    buf = io.BytesIO()
+    img.convert("RGB").save(buf, format="PNG")
+    return buf.getvalue()
+
+
+def render_panel(regions: list[tuple[tuple[int, int, int, int], Image.Image]], orientation: str = "landscape",
+                 palette_rgb: list | None = None, color_boost: float = 1.0, contrast_boost: float = 1.0,
+                 dither_strength: float = 1.0, manage: dict | None = None, as_png: bool = False,
+                 capture_snapshot: bool = False) -> bytes | tuple[bytes, bytes]:
+    """The widget system's compositor -- generalizes render_frame's tail
+    (paste, enhance once, overlay once, quantize once, pack once) from
+    "compose one photo" to "paste N already-rendered regions, then run
+    the same single shared pipeline over the result." Not a
+    restructuring: the calendar mode's old photo-inlay feature already
+    pasted a second, independently-composed image onto the canvas before
+    `_enhance`/`_quantize` ran exactly once over the whole thing -- this
+    just generalizes that from a fixed 1-2 region split to an arbitrary
+    list.
+
+    Each region is (rect, image): rect is (x, y, w, h) in *logical*
+    (pre-rotation) canvas space -- the same space logical_render_size(
+    orientation) describes, and what app/grid.py's cell_to_pixels()
+    produces -- and image is an already-composed RGB image exactly w x h
+    in size (e.g. from compose_into() for a photo/whiteboard widget, or
+    calendar_render's own builder for a calendar widget). Regions are
+    expected not to overlap (see models.Widget's docstring on why) --
+    this function doesn't enforce that itself, callers/the placement API
+    do, since by the time rendering happens it's too late to do anything
+    but paste in whatever order they're given (later entries would just
+    paint over earlier ones).
+
+    Quantizing/dithering the *whole* composited canvas once, rather than
+    each region separately before pasting, is what keeps a 6-color
+    e-ink panel's dithering pattern consistent across a widget boundary
+    instead of showing a visible seam where two independently-dithered
+    regions meet.
+
+    as_png=True returns a normal browser-viewable PNG in logical (upright)
+    orientation instead of packed native-panel bytes, same convention as
+    render_preview_png -- used for the web UI's live "how it's displaying"
+    thumbnail.
+
+    capture_snapshot=True (only meaningful alongside as_png=False) returns
+    (packed_bytes, png_bytes) instead of just packed_bytes -- both derived
+    from the same already-quantized canvas, so a device-facing render can
+    also persist a browser-viewable copy (see routers/device.py's
+    _record_last_displayed) without re-running composition/quantization a
+    second time."""
+    logical_w, logical_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
+    canvas = Image.new("RGB", (logical_w, logical_h), LETTERBOX_BG)
+    for (x, y, w, h), region_img in regions:
+        canvas.paste(region_img.convert("RGB"), (x, y))
+
+    fitted = _enhance(canvas, color_boost, contrast_boost)
+    fitted = _apply_manage_overlay(fitted, manage)
+    quantized = _quantize(fitted, palette_rgb, dither_strength)
+    if as_png:
+        return _png_bytes(quantized)
+    packed = _transpose_and_pack(quantized, orientation)
+    if capture_snapshot:
+        return packed, _png_bytes(quantized)
+    return packed
+
+
 def render_preview_png(source: Image.Image, faces: list[dict] | None = None,
                        orientation: str = "landscape", palette_rgb: list | None = None,
                        display_mode: str = DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MODE, color_boost: float = 1.0,
@@ -371,14 +616,13 @@ def render_preview_png(source: Image.Image, faces: list[dict] | None = None,
     fitted = _enhance(_compose(source, faces, orientation, display_mode), color_boost, contrast_boost)
     fitted = _apply_manage_overlay(fitted, manage)
     quantized = _quantize(fitted, palette_rgb, dither_strength)
-    buf = io.BytesIO()
-    quantized.convert("RGB").save(buf, format="PNG")
-    return buf.getvalue()
+    return _png_bytes(quantized)
 
 
 def render_placeholder(lines: list[str], qr_url: str | None = None,
                        orientation: str = "landscape", palette_rgb: list | None = None,
-                       manage: dict | None = None) -> bytes:
+                       manage: dict | None = None, as_png: bool = False,
+                       capture_snapshot: bool = False) -> bytes | tuple[bytes, bytes]:
     """A readable full-panel message (plus an optional QR code) in the
     same packed format as render_frame -- what /frame/image serves for a
     frame that isn't claimed or configured yet, so a fresh device shows
@@ -386,15 +630,16 @@ def render_placeholder(lines: list[str], qr_url: str | None = None,
 
     `manage`, same as render_frame's -- lets the manage button still work
     (at minimum, the scan-to-manage QR) on a frame that isn't configured
-    yet."""
-    from PIL import ImageDraw, ImageFont
-
+    yet. `capture_snapshot`, same as render_panel's -- (packed, png)
+    instead of just packed."""
+    margin = 24
     logical_w, logical_h = logical_render_size(orientation)
     img = Image.new("RGB", (logical_w, logical_h), (255, 255, 255))
-    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
+    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)  # measurement only (textbbox/textlength) -- painting goes through draw_text
 
     title_font = ImageFont.load_default(size=34)
     body_font = ImageFont.load_default(size=24)
+    max_text_w = logical_w - margin * 2
 
     qr_img = None
     if qr_url:
@@ -409,19 +654,39 @@ def render_placeholder(lines: list[str], qr_url: str | None = None,
         scale = max(1, target // raw.width)
         qr_img = raw.resize((raw.width * scale, raw.height * scale), Image.NEAREST)
 
+    # Word-wrap each input line to the panel's actual width (portrait is
+    # much narrower than landscape -- a line written assuming ~800px
+    # would otherwise run straight off the edge) before laying anything
+    # out, so wrapped sub-lines count toward the vertical centering below.
+    def wrap(text: str, font) -> list[str]:
+        words = text.split()
+        if not words:
+            return [text]
+        out, current = [], words[0]
+        for word in words[1:]:
+            candidate = f"{current} {word}"
+            if draw.textlength(candidate, font=font) <= max_text_w:
+                current = candidate
+            else:
+                out.append(current)
+                current = word
+        out.append(current)
+        return out
+
     # Vertical layout: text block, then QR under it, centered as a group.
     line_heights = []
     for i, line in enumerate(lines):
         font = title_font if i == 0 else body_font
-        bbox = draw.textbbox((0, 0), line, font=font)
-        line_heights.append((line, font, bbox[2] - bbox[0], bbox[3] - bbox[1]))
+        for sub_line in wrap(line, font):
+            bbox = draw.textbbox((0, 0), sub_line, font=font)
+            line_heights.append((sub_line, font, bbox[2] - bbox[0], bbox[3] - bbox[1]))
     gap = 14
     text_h = sum(h for _, _, _, h in line_heights) + gap * (len(line_heights) - 1 if line_heights else 0)
     total_h = text_h + (qr_img.height + 28 if qr_img else 0)
     y = max(20, (logical_h - total_h) // 2)
 
     for line, font, w, h in line_heights:
-        draw.text(((logical_w - w) // 2, y), line, fill=(0, 0, 0), font=font)
+        draw_text(img, ((logical_w - w) // 2, y), line, font)
         y += h + gap
 
     if qr_img:
@@ -429,4 +694,9 @@ def render_placeholder(lines: list[str], qr_url: str | None = None,
 
     img = _apply_manage_overlay(img, manage)
     quantized = _quantize(img, palette_rgb, dither_strength=1.0)
-    return _transpose_and_pack(quantized, orientation)
+    if as_png:
+        return _png_bytes(quantized)
+    packed = _transpose_and_pack(quantized, orientation)
+    if capture_snapshot:
+        return packed, _png_bytes(quantized)
+    return packed

server/app/image_upload.py

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+"""Decodes an arbitrary uploaded file (PNG/JPEG/GIF/BMP/WEBP/TIFF/PDF/...)
+into a plain RGB PIL image, for the static-image widget (see routers/
+api_widgets.py's api_widget_static_upload, app/widgets/static_image.py).
+The result is stored (as PNG bytes) rather than the original upload, so
+render() never needs to re-run PDF/GIF decoding on every panel refresh --
+this module only runs once, at upload time.
+
+PDF decoding uses pypdfium2 (Google's PDFium bindings -- BSD-3-Clause/
+Apache-2.0, no copyleft exposure) rather than a GPL/AGPL alternative
+like PyMuPDF, per CLAUDE.md's copyleft-dependency convention (a check
+that only applies to copyleft/unclear licenses -- this one's plainly
+permissive, so no explicit flag was needed here)."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import io
+
+import pypdfium2 as pdfium
+from fastapi import HTTPException
+from PIL import Image, UnidentifiedImageError
+
+MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES = 25 * 1024 * 1024  # generous for a single image/PDF page; stops an accidental huge upload
+# ~144 DPI off a PDF's 72-DPI native unit -- comfortably above the panel's
+# own 800x480, without ballooning render time/memory on a poster-sized page.
+PDF_RENDER_SCALE = 2.0
+
+
+def decode_upload(data: bytes) -> Image.Image:
+    """Raises HTTPException(400) for anything that isn't a recognizable
+    image or PDF. Detects PDF by magic bytes, not the client-supplied
+    filename/content-type (neither is trustworthy). A PDF renders only
+    its first page -- there's no "which page" concept for a single-image
+    widget."""
+    if len(data) > MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES:
+        raise HTTPException(400, f"File is too large (max {MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES // (1024 * 1024)}MB)")
+    if data.startswith(b"%PDF-"):
+        return _decode_pdf(data)
+    try:
+        img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(data))
+        img.load()
+    except UnidentifiedImageError:
+        raise HTTPException(400, "Not a recognizable image or PDF file") from None
+    return img.convert("RGB")
+
+
+def _decode_pdf(data: bytes) -> Image.Image:
+    try:
+        pdf = pdfium.PdfDocument(data)
+        if len(pdf) == 0:
+            raise HTTPException(400, "PDF has no pages")
+        bitmap = pdf[0].render(scale=PDF_RENDER_SCALE)
+    except pdfium.PdfiumError as e:
+        raise HTTPException(400, f"Could not read PDF: {e}") from e
+    return bitmap.to_pil().convert("RGB")

server/app/immich_client.py

@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ class ImmichClient:
         resp.raise_for_status()
         return resp.json()
 
-    def create_share_link(self, asset_id: str, expires_in_s: int) -> str:
-        """Creates a public, view-only Immich share link for a single
-        asset, expiring expires_in_s seconds from now, and returns its
-        public URL. Used by the manage-button overlay's share QR --
+    def create_share_link(self, asset_ids: list[str], expires_in_s: int) -> str:
+        """Creates a public, view-only Immich share link covering one or
+        more assets, expiring expires_in_s seconds from now, and returns
+        its public URL. Used by the manage-button overlay's share QR --
         created lazily (only when someone actually scans it), not when
         the button's pressed, so the expiry clock starts when it's
         actually used."""
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class ImmichClient:
             headers=self._headers,
             json={
                 "type": "INDIVIDUAL",
-                "assetIds": [asset_id],
+                "assetIds": list(asset_ids),
                 "expiresAt": expires_at,
                 "allowUpload": False,
                 "allowDownload": True,

server/app/logging_setup.py

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+"""Root-logger configuration: a rotating file handler under the same
+/data volume as the sqlite DB and legacy config.json, so the admin log
+viewer has something to read and log content survives container
+restarts -- a redeploy happens on every push to main touching
+server/**, which would make an in-memory-only log buffer nearly
+useless in practice. Before this, the root logger had no handler at
+all, so every module's logger.info() call (user creation, claims,
+password resets, ...) was silently dropped rather than merely
+un-viewable -- this fixes that too, not just adds a viewer."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+import os
+from logging.handlers import RotatingFileHandler
+from pathlib import Path
+
+LOG_PATH = Path(os.environ.get("LOG_PATH", "/data/server.log"))
+
+
+def configure_logging() -> None:
+    LOG_PATH.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    handler = RotatingFileHandler(LOG_PATH, maxBytes=2_000_000, backupCount=3)
+    handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(name)s: %(message)s"))
+    root = logging.getLogger()
+    root.addHandler(handler)
+    root.setLevel(os.environ.get("LOG_LEVEL", "INFO"))
+
+
+def read_log_tail(lines: int) -> str:
+    if not LOG_PATH.exists():
+        return ""
+    text = LOG_PATH.read_text(errors="replace")
+    return "\n".join(text.splitlines()[-lines:])

server/app/main.py

@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ for the panel, and serves ESP32 frames ready-to-display images.
 This module is assembly only -- routes live in app/routers/:
   device.py       the firmware-facing /frame/* protocol (paths frozen)
   api_frames.py   the web UI's JSON API, /api/frames/{id}/...
-  frame_pages.py  the per-frame Photos/Configuration/Stats pages
+  api_widgets.py  widget CRUD + grid placement, /api/frames/{id}/widgets
+  api_layouts.py  named, user-owned saved layouts, /api/layouts,
+                  /api/frames/{id}/layouts
+  frame_pages.py  the per-frame Photos/Configuration/Layout/Stats pages
   pages.py        setup/login/claim/settings/admin
   manage.py       the limited manage-QR surface (/m/, /api/m/)
 Storage is SQLite via models.py/db.py; migration.py imports a
@@ -13,14 +16,16 @@ pre-database config.json deployment on first boot."""
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging
+import time
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
 
 from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
-from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse, RedirectResponse
+from fastapi.responses import FileResponse, HTMLResponse, RedirectResponse
 from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
 from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
 from sqlalchemy import select
 
-from . import migration
+from . import html_render, logging_setup, migration
 from .auth import (
     browser_token_valid,
     current_user,
@@ -30,21 +35,64 @@ from .auth import (
 )
 from .db import SessionLocal
 from .models import Frame
-from .routers import api_frames, device, frame_pages, manage, pages
+from .routers import api_frames, api_layouts, api_widgets, device, frame_pages, manage, pages
 from .routers.common import shell_context
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+# Before anything else logs: a handler exists to catch it, and it lands in
+# the same persistent volume the admin log viewer reads from.
+logging_setup.configure_logging()
+
 # Schema + legacy-config import, before the first request is served.
 migration.run_migrations()
 
-app = FastAPI(title="ESPresso Frame Server")
+@asynccontextmanager
+async def _lifespan(app: FastAPI):
+    """Startup does nothing browser-related -- html_render.start() is
+    lazy (only the weather widget's opt-in "modern" render style ever
+    triggers it, see that module's docstring), so a deployment that
+    never uses it never launches Chromium or needs Playwright's browser
+    binaries installed. Shutdown calls html_render.stop() unconditionally
+    (a no-op if it was never started) so a server restart never leaves
+    an orphaned Chromium process running."""
+    yield
+    html_render.stop()
+
+
+app = FastAPI(title="ESPresso Frame Server", lifespan=_lifespan)
 templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="app/templates")
 
+
+@app.middleware("http")
+async def log_device_requests(request: Request, call_next):
+    """Access log for the firmware-facing /frame/* protocol -- the admin
+    log viewer otherwise only ever shows exceptions (device.py logs
+    those, not successful requests), so a slow-but-200 request or a
+    device hammering a stale/wrong token leaves no trace at all. Logs
+    the device id (query param, not the token -- never log credentials)
+    and wall time, which is exactly what's needed to spot a request that
+    blew past the firmware's fixed HTTP timeout without technically
+    failing server-side."""
+    if not request.url.path.startswith("/frame/"):
+        return await call_next(request)
+    start = time.monotonic()
+    device_id = request.query_params.get("id", "") or "-"
+    response = await call_next(request)
+    elapsed_ms = (time.monotonic() - start) * 1000
+    logger.info(
+        "%s %s id=%s -> %d (%.0fms)",
+        request.method, request.url.path, device_id, response.status_code, elapsed_ms,
+    )
+    return response
+
+
 app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory="app/static"), name="static")
 
 app.include_router(device.router)
 app.include_router(api_frames.router)
+app.include_router(api_widgets.router)
+app.include_router(api_layouts.router)
 app.include_router(frame_pages.router)
 app.include_router(pages.router)
 app.include_router(manage.router)
@@ -55,26 +103,23 @@ def health() -> dict:
     return {"status": "ok"}
 
 
-def _device_credential_redirect(request: Request, db, allow_legacy: bool) -> str | None:
+@app.get("/sw.js")
+def service_worker() -> FileResponse:
+    # Served from / rather than /static/sw.js so its default scope is the
+    # whole app -- a SW can only ever control paths at or below its own URL.
+    return FileResponse("app/static/sw.js", media_type="application/javascript")
+
+
+def _device_credential_redirect(request: Request, db) -> str | None:
     """The on-frame manage QR points at the server root with the device's
-    own credentials (new firmware: ?id=&token=; deployed firmware:
-    ?token=<legacy shared token>). Those scans get the frame's limited
-    manage page -- never the full UI, which requires a login.
-    allow_legacy is False before /setup has run: at that point a bare
-    ?token= hit is the admin coming through the token prompt to do
-    first-run setup, not a QR scan."""
+    own credentials (?id=&token=). Those scans get the frame's limited
+    manage page -- never the full UI, which requires a login."""
     device_id = request.query_params.get("id", "").strip().lower()
     token = request.query_params.get("token", "")
     if device_id and token:
         frame = db.scalars(select(Frame).where(Frame.device_id == device_id)).first()
         if frame is not None and token == frame.device_token:
             return f"/m/{frame.manage_token}"
-    if allow_legacy and token and management_token() and token == management_token():
-        frame = db.scalars(
-            select(Frame).where(Frame.legacy_token_enabled == True)  # noqa: E712
-        ).first()
-        if frame is not None:
-            return f"/m/{frame.manage_token}"
     return None
 
 
@@ -85,7 +130,7 @@ def index(request: Request):
     else is walked through setup/login."""
     with SessionLocal() as db:
         have_users = users_exist(db)
-        manage_redirect = _device_credential_redirect(request, db, allow_legacy=have_users)
+        manage_redirect = _device_credential_redirect(request, db)
         if manage_redirect is not None:
             return RedirectResponse(manage_redirect, status_code=303)
 

server/app/manage_overlay.py

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
 
+from . import panel_style
+from .image_pipeline import draw_text
+
 PADDING = 16
 QR_TEXT_GAP = 8
 LINE_GAP = 4
@@ -25,9 +28,12 @@ BODY_FONT_SIZE = 20
 
 BATTERY_ICON_W = 40
 BATTERY_ICON_H = 22
-BATTERY_ICON_STROKE = 2
+# Stroke/nub width/height are no longer fixed constants here -- panel_
+# style.draw_battery_icon derives them from icon_w/icon_h itself (same
+# formula widgets/battery.py's own icon already used). BATTERY_NUB_W
+# below is kept only as this box's own outer-width estimate, not fed
+# into the icon drawing itself.
 BATTERY_NUB_W = 5
-BATTERY_NUB_H = 10
 BATTERY_ICON_TEXT_GAP = 8
 BATTERY_REGION_GAP = 8  # vertical gap below the manage QR box
 
@@ -35,10 +41,6 @@ FACE_LABEL_PADDING = 8
 FACE_LABEL_GAP = 4  # distance from the face's anchor point to the label box
 
 
-def _font(size: int) -> ImageFont.ImageFont:
-    return ImageFont.load_default(size=size)
-
-
 def _qr_image(url: str, target_px: int = QR_TARGET_PX) -> Image.Image:
     import qrcode
 
@@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ def _qr_image(url: str, target_px: int = QR_TARGET_PX) -> Image.Image:
     return raw.resize((raw.width * scale, raw.height * scale), Image.NEAREST)
 
 
-def _text_box(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, lines: list[str], font: ImageFont.ImageFont) -> tuple[int, int]:
+def _text_box(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, lines: list[str], font: ImageFont.FreeTypeFont) -> tuple[int, int]:
     """(width, height) of `lines` stacked with LINE_GAP between them, at
     `font` -- the box _draw_text_box below will need."""
     w = 0
@@ -62,13 +64,13 @@ def _text_box(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, lines: list[str], font: ImageFont.Image
     return w, h
 
 
-def _draw_centered_lines(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, lines: list[str], font: ImageFont.ImageFont,
+def _draw_centered_lines(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, lines: list[str], font: ImageFont.FreeTypeFont,
                          center_x: int, top: int) -> None:
     y = top
     for line in lines:
         bbox = draw.textbbox((0, 0), line, font=font)
         w = bbox[2] - bbox[0]
-        draw.text((center_x - w // 2, y), line, fill=(0, 0, 0), font=font)
+        draw_text(img, (center_x - w // 2, y), line, font)
         y += (bbox[3] - bbox[1]) + LINE_GAP
 
 
@@ -80,7 +82,8 @@ def _draw_qr_box(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, url: str, caption:
     (the battery, below the manage QR) use it instead of recomputing the
     same geometry a second time."""
     qr_img = _qr_image(url)
-    text_w, text_h = _text_box(draw, caption, _font(TITLE_FONT_SIZE)) if caption else (0, 0)
+    caption_font = panel_style.font_bold(TITLE_FONT_SIZE)
+    text_w, text_h = _text_box(draw, caption, caption_font) if caption else (0, 0)
     content_w = max(qr_img.width, text_w)
     content_h = qr_img.height + (QR_TEXT_GAP + text_h if caption else 0)
 
@@ -88,25 +91,27 @@ def _draw_qr_box(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, url: str, caption:
     h = content_h + PADDING * 2
     x0, y0 = _corner_origin(img.size, (w, h), corner)
 
-    draw.rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + w, y0 + h], fill=(255, 255, 255), outline=(0, 0, 0))
+    draw.rounded_rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + w, y0 + h], radius=panel_style.CHIP_RADIUS,
+                           fill=(255, 255, 255), outline=(0, 0, 0))
     center_x = x0 + w // 2
     img.paste(qr_img, (center_x - qr_img.width // 2, y0 + PADDING))
     if caption:
-        _draw_centered_lines(draw, caption, _font(TITLE_FONT_SIZE), center_x, y0 + PADDING + qr_img.height + QR_TEXT_GAP)
+        _draw_centered_lines(img, draw, caption, caption_font, center_x, y0 + PADDING + qr_img.height + QR_TEXT_GAP)
     return x0, y0, w, h
 
 
 def _draw_text_box(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, lines: list[str], corner: str) -> None:
     """White-padded box with centered text lines, placed in one of the
     panel's four corners."""
-    font = _font(BODY_FONT_SIZE)
+    font = panel_style.font_regular(BODY_FONT_SIZE)
     text_w, text_h = _text_box(draw, lines, font)
     w = text_w + PADDING * 2
     h = text_h + PADDING * 2
     x0, y0 = _corner_origin(img.size, (w, h), corner)
 
-    draw.rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + w, y0 + h], fill=(255, 255, 255), outline=(0, 0, 0))
-    _draw_centered_lines(draw, lines, font, x0 + w // 2, y0 + PADDING)
+    draw.rounded_rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + w, y0 + h], radius=panel_style.CHIP_RADIUS,
+                           fill=(255, 255, 255), outline=(0, 0, 0))
+    _draw_centered_lines(img, draw, lines, font, x0 + w // 2, y0 + PADDING)
 
 
 def _corner_origin(img_size: tuple[int, int], box_size: tuple[int, int], corner: str) -> tuple[int, int]:
@@ -126,8 +131,12 @@ def _draw_battery(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, percent: int, anc
     """Battery glyph + "NN%" text, right-aligned under the given anchor
     box (the manage QR box) -- a sensible default position, not a
     constraint anything else has to route around; move this call site's
-    arguments to place it anywhere else instead."""
-    font = _font(BODY_FONT_SIZE)
+    arguments to place it anywhere else instead. The glyph itself is
+    panel_style.draw_battery_icon -- the one shared implementation
+    replacing what used to be a second, independent copy of widgets/
+    battery.py's own icon-drawing code (same shape, same red/yellow/
+    green thresholds, previously kept in sync by convention only)."""
+    font = panel_style.font_regular(BODY_FONT_SIZE)
     text = f"{percent}%"
     icon_total_w = BATTERY_ICON_W + BATTERY_NUB_W
     text_w = draw.textlength(text, font=font)
@@ -139,17 +148,14 @@ def _draw_battery(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, percent: int, anc
     x0 = anchor_x0 + anchor_w - w
     y0 = anchor_y0 + anchor_h + BATTERY_REGION_GAP
 
-    draw.rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + w, y0 + h], fill=(255, 255, 255), outline=(0, 0, 0))
+    draw.rounded_rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + w, y0 + h], radius=panel_style.CHIP_RADIUS,
+                           fill=(255, 255, 255), outline=(0, 0, 0))
 
     icon_x = x0 + PADDING
     icon_y = y0 + PADDING + (content_h - BATTERY_ICON_H) // 2
-    draw.rectangle([icon_x, icon_y, icon_x + BATTERY_ICON_W, icon_y + BATTERY_ICON_H], outline=(0, 0, 0),
-                   width=BATTERY_ICON_STROKE)
-    nub_y = icon_y + (BATTERY_ICON_H - BATTERY_NUB_H) // 2
-    draw.rectangle([icon_x + BATTERY_ICON_W, nub_y, icon_x + BATTERY_ICON_W + BATTERY_NUB_W, nub_y + BATTERY_NUB_H],
-                   fill=(0, 0, 0))
-    draw.text((icon_x + icon_total_w + BATTERY_ICON_TEXT_GAP, y0 + PADDING + (content_h - font.size) // 2),
-              text, fill=(0, 0, 0), font=font)
+    panel_style.draw_battery_icon(draw, icon_x, icon_y, BATTERY_ICON_W, BATTERY_ICON_H, percent)
+    draw_text(img, (icon_x + icon_total_w + BATTERY_ICON_TEXT_GAP, y0 + PADDING + (content_h - font.size) // 2),
+             text, font, panel_style.battery_fill_color(percent))
 
 
 def _draw_face_label(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, name: str, anchor_x: int, anchor_y: int) -> None:
@@ -157,7 +163,7 @@ def _draw_face_label(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, name: str, anc
     anchor_y) point, flipped above if there's no room below, clamped to
     stay fully on-panel -- unlike the four corner boxes (always in-bounds
     by construction), a face can be anywhere, including near an edge."""
-    font = _font(BODY_FONT_SIZE)
+    font = panel_style.font_regular(BODY_FONT_SIZE)
     text_w = draw.textlength(name, font=font)
     bbox = draw.textbbox((0, 0), name, font=font)
     text_h = bbox[3] - bbox[1]
@@ -173,8 +179,9 @@ def _draw_face_label(img: Image.Image, draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, name: str, anc
     x0 = max(0, min(x0, img_w - w))
     y0 = max(0, min(y0, img_h - h))
 
-    draw.rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + w, y0 + h], fill=(255, 255, 255), outline=(0, 0, 0))
-    draw.text((x0 + FACE_LABEL_PADDING, y0 + FACE_LABEL_PADDING - bbox[1]), name, fill=(0, 0, 0), font=font)
+    draw.rounded_rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + w, y0 + h], radius=panel_style.CHIP_RADIUS,
+                           fill=(255, 255, 255), outline=(0, 0, 0))
+    draw_text(img, (x0 + FACE_LABEL_PADDING, y0 + FACE_LABEL_PADDING - bbox[1]), name, font)
 
 
 def compose(image: Image.Image, management_url: str, battery_percent: int | None = None,

server/app/models.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import time
 
-from sqlalchemy import JSON, Boolean, Float, ForeignKey, Index, Integer, String
+from sqlalchemy import JSON, Boolean, Float, ForeignKey, Index, Integer, LargeBinary, String
 from sqlalchemy.ext.mutable import MutableList
 from sqlalchemy.orm import DeclarativeBase, Mapped, mapped_column, relationship
 
@@ -48,12 +48,45 @@ class User(Base):
     # email -- see routers/device.py's frame_battery) go here; blank = no
     # email configured, both features silently no-op for this user.
     email: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
-    # Personal iCal/CalDAV .ics subscription URL (no OAuth) for calendar
-    # frame mode -- see calendar_feed.py. Setting this alone shows up
-    # nowhere: a linked frame only pulls this user's events in once
-    # they've also opted in on that frame's own Configuration -> Calendar
-    # card (UserFrame.calendar_included below).
+    # Personal ICS subscription URL (no OAuth) for calendar frame mode --
+    # see calendar_feed.py. Setting this alone shows up nowhere: a linked
+    # frame only pulls this user's events in once they've also added it
+    # on that frame's own Calendar tab (FrameCalendar below).
     calendar_ics_url: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    # A CalDAV account (Nextcloud, Fastmail, iCloud, ...) alongside the
+    # plain ICS subscription above -- see caldav_client.py. calendar_url
+    # is the server's CalDAV entry point the user pasted in, not any one
+    # calendar's own URL; the individual calendars it exposes are
+    # discovered and cached below.
+    calendar_caldav_url: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    calendar_caldav_username: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    calendar_caldav_password: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    # [{"href", "display_name"}, ...] from the last successful
+    # caldav_client.discover_calendars() call, refreshed by Settings'
+    # "Discover calendars" button -- NULL until discovery has ever
+    # succeeded. This is what a frame's Calendar tab offers the user to
+    # add, without hitting the CalDAV server on every page load.
+    calendar_caldav_calendars: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
+    calendar_caldav_checked_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
+    # WebDAV credentials for whiteboard frame mode (see webdav_client.py,
+    # whiteboard.py) -- generic WebDAV, not Nextcloud-specific, but
+    # webdav_reuse_caldav_creds is a convenience for the common case
+    # where it IS the same Nextcloud account as calendar_caldav_*: skip
+    # re-entering the same username/password, since Nextcloud's CalDAV
+    # and general-file-WebDAV both sit under the one account. Doesn't
+    # try to be clever and derive the reuse automatically -- an explicit
+    # opt-in, same as everywhere else in this project defaults features
+    # off rather than silently inferring them.
+    webdav_username: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    webdav_password: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    webdav_reuse_caldav_creds: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
+    # Optional starting folder for the whiteboard dialog's file-picker
+    # (see routers/api_widgets.py's api_widget_whiteboard_browse) --
+    # purely a convenience for browsing to a file rather than typing its
+    # full URL.
+    # Never used for fetching/rendering itself, which always uses the
+    # frame's own saved whiteboard_url regardless of whether this is set.
+    webdav_base_url: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
     created_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=time.time)
 
     __table_args__ = (
@@ -84,13 +117,10 @@ class Frame(Base):
     __tablename__ = "frames"
 
     id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
-    # 12 lowercase hex chars of the device's full STA MAC. NULL only for
-    # the migrated legacy frame until its device first reports an id.
+    # 12 lowercase hex chars of the device's full STA MAC. NULL until its
+    # device first reports an id.
     device_id: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String, unique=True, nullable=True)
     name: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
-    # Renderer dispatch seam for future calendar/canva modes -- only
-    # "photos" is registered today (see routers/device.py RENDERERS).
-    mode: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="photos")
     # Whose Immich library this frame pulls from; NULL = unclaimed.
     owner_user_id: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(
         ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True
@@ -104,11 +134,6 @@ class Frame(Base):
     # pushing it in /frame/config responses.
     device_token_ack: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
     manage_token: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, unique=True)
-    # Migration window: this frame also accepts the legacy shared
-    # MANAGEMENT_TOKEN (and no-id requests resolve to it). Only ever the
-    # migrated frame #1; cleared from /admin once the device is on
-    # per-frame auth.
-    legacy_token_enabled: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
     claimed_at: Mapped[float | None] = mapped_column(Float, nullable=True)
     created_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=time.time)
 
@@ -119,19 +144,13 @@ class Frame(Base):
     immich_url: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
     immich_api_key: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
 
-    # -- settings (attribute names match the old FrameConfig fields) --
-    album_id: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
-    order: Mapped[str] = mapped_column("photo_order", String, default="sequential")
+    # -- settings --
     refresh_interval_s: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=3600)
     quiet_hours_enabled: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
     quiet_hours_start: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="22:00")
     quiet_hours_end: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="07:00")
     timezone: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="UTC")
-    # How a photo's aspect ratio is reconciled with the panel's -- see
-    # image_pipeline.DISPLAY_MODES.
-    display_mode: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="crop_faces")
     orientation: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="landscape")
-    queue_target_len: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=20)
     # Advanced configuration: [[r,g,b], ...] x6 (black/white/yellow/red/
     # blue/green, matching image_pipeline.PANEL_CODES order) overriding
     # DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB for this frame's actual panel. NULL = use the
@@ -144,39 +163,19 @@ class Frame(Base):
     # 0.0-1.0, see image_pipeline._quantize -- 1.0 matches this project's
     # original always-on full-strength Floyd-Steinberg dithering.
     dither_strength: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=1.0)
-
-    # -- calendar mode (see calendar_feed.py, calendar_render.py,
-    # routers/device.py's RENDERERS["calendar"]) --
-    calendar_view: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="agenda")  # "agenda" | "week" | "month"
-    # Agenda view only; reuses this frame's existing photos-mode album/
-    # queue, not a separate photo setup.
-    calendar_photo_inlay: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
-    # How many periods (unit depends on calendar_view: days/weeks/months)
-    # NEXT/BACK have browsed from "today". Reset to 0 by the next normal
-    # (non-button) /frame/image request, and whenever calendar_view
-    # itself changes -- a stale offset means something different in a
-    # different view's units.
-    calendar_browse_offset: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
-    # Throttled merge-fetch cache (see routers/common.py's
-    # get_or_refresh_calendar_events) -- same shape as the
-    # firmware_update_checked_at/firmware_gitea_latest_version pattern
-    # below. One shared cache for every included user's merged events,
-    # not per-user.
-    calendar_checked_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
-    calendar_cached_events: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
-    # "" when the last merge-fetch fully succeeded, else e.g. "1 of 2
-    # calendars unavailable" -- never names which user's feed failed, a
-    # shared household display shouldn't call out a specific person's
-    # outage to everyone who looks at it.
-    calendar_fetch_summary: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
-
-    # -- state --
-    current_asset_id: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
-    current_asset_set_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
-    queue: Mapped[list] = mapped_column(MutableList.as_mutable(JSON), default=list)
-    queue_cursor: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
-    history: Mapped[list] = mapped_column(MutableList.as_mutable(JSON), default=list)
-    excluded_asset_ids: Mapped[list] = mapped_column(MutableList.as_mutable(JSON), default=list)
+    # Same shape as palette_rgb/dither_strength above, but scoped to only
+    # the photos widget (widgets/photos.py quantizes against these itself,
+    # before returning -- see its own docstring) -- lets a frame tune the
+    # rest of its widgets' palette/dithering (e.g. a "modern" HTML-
+    # rendered dashboard look) independently of what actually looks best
+    # for real photographs. NULL/1.0 = same defaults as the main fields.
+    photo_palette_rgb: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
+    photo_dither_strength: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=1.0)
+    # Curated visual theme for "modern" (HTML/CSS) style widgets -- see
+    # theme_tokens.THEMES. Frame-level (like palette_rgb/dither_strength
+    # above), not per-widget, since a theme is "how this frame looks."
+    # Widgets rendered in classic (PIL) style ignore this entirely.
+    theme: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="classic")
 
     # -- telemetry --
     battery_percent: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=-1)
@@ -203,6 +202,33 @@ class Frame(Base):
     firmware_update_checked_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
     firmware_gitea_latest_version: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
 
+    # -- hold-for-global-action (see app/global_actions.py) -- holding
+    # NEXT/BACK past hold_duration_ms triggers a global action instead of
+    # the per-widget one that a short press runs (models.FrameButtonAction).
+    # Not scoped to any widget, e.g. cycling saved layouts -- hence its
+    # own pair of frame-level columns rather than living in that table.
+    hold_duration_ms: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=3000)
+    next_hold_action: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String, nullable=True, default=None)
+    back_hold_action: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String, nullable=True, default=None)
+    # Where "cycle saved layouts" resumes from -- the last SavedLayout id
+    # it applied, so repeated holds advance through the list instead of
+    # re-applying the same one every time. Deliberately not a real FK:
+    # this is just a resume cursor, not a relationship needing cascade/
+    # referential integrity -- if that layout's since been deleted or
+    # renamed away, global_actions.cycle_layout just doesn't find it and
+    # starts over from the first one, same as an unset value.
+    last_cycled_layout_id: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(Integer, nullable=True)
+
+    # -- "now displaying" (see routers/device.py's _record_last_displayed,
+    # api_frames.py's /now-displaying endpoint) -- exactly what the last
+    # device-facing render (/frame/image, /frame/advance, /frame/back, or
+    # a global hold action) actually sent, as an upright PNG, so the web
+    # UI's header preview can show it frozen alongside a live "up next"
+    # re-render instead of conflating the two. NULL until a real device
+    # has fetched at least once.
+    last_displayed_image: Mapped[bytes | None] = mapped_column(LargeBinary, nullable=True, default=None)
+    last_displayed_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
+
     # -- stats (flattened from the old nested FrameStats) --
     stats_first_seen: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
     stats_device_wakes: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
@@ -231,14 +257,518 @@ class UserFrame(Base):
         ForeignKey("frames.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), primary_key=True
     )
     created_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=time.time)
-    # Explicit per-(user,frame) opt-in for calendar frame mode -- being
-    # linked to a frame does NOT by itself contribute this user's
-    # calendar to it (deliberate choice, not an oversight: each person's
-    # calendar is their own data to share or not, not something a
-    # frame's controller decides on their behalf). Meaningless if the
-    # user has no calendar_ics_url set. See routers/api_frames.py's
-    # api_calendar_included.
-    calendar_included: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
+
+
+class FrameCalendar(Base):
+    """One calendar included on one frame -- calendar_key is "ics" (the
+    owner's single calendar_ics_url) or "caldav:<href>" (one of the
+    owner's CalDAV collections; href matches an entry in
+    User.calendar_caldav_calendars). Replaces the old single
+    UserFrame.calendar_included boolean now that a CalDAV account can
+    expose more than one calendar.
+
+    A row only ever gets created by its own owner (adding a calendar to
+    a frame is each person's own data-sharing choice, not something a
+    frame's controller decides on their behalf) -- but once it exists,
+    ANY user linked to the frame may flip included back to False, muting
+    a calendar they'd rather not see on a shared display even though
+    they don't own it. Only the owner may flip it back to True. See
+    routers/api_widgets.py's api_widget_calendar_select.
+
+    Keyed by widget_id, not frame_id -- a frame can hold more than one
+    independent calendar widget (see Widget), each with its own included-
+    calendars set; "included on this frame" stopped being unambiguous
+    the moment that became possible (see migration.py's
+    _ensure_frame_calendars_rekeyed, which re-keyed this table)."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "frame_calendars"
+
+    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    user_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    calendar_key: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)
+    # Snapshot label for display -- so the list still reads sensibly even
+    # if the owner's CalDAV account later stops offering this calendar.
+    calendar_label: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    included: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=True)
+    # Index into image_pipeline.DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB/PALETTE_LABELS (2-5:
+    # Yellow/Red/Blue/Green -- 0/1 are reserved, already the page's
+    # text/background) pinning this calendar's events to a specific
+    # panel color rather than calendar_render.py's old owner-name
+    # auto-cycle. NULL keeps the auto-cycle behavior. Only the calendar's
+    # owner may set this -- see routers/api_widgets.py's api_widget_calendar_color.
+    color_index: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(Integer, nullable=True, default=None)
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        Index("ix_frame_calendars_unique", "widget_id", "user_id", "calendar_key", unique=True),
+    )
+
+
+class FrameTaskList(Base):
+    """One CalDAV task list included on one tasks widget -- calendar_key
+    is "caldav:<href>" (an entry in User.calendar_caldav_calendars; no
+    "ics" variant, unlike FrameCalendar -- a plain ICS subscription has
+    no VTODO collection). Same owner-controls-their-own-data shape as
+    FrameCalendar in every other respect: a row is only ever created by
+    its own owner, but any user linked to the frame may flip included
+    back to False, and only the owner may flip it back to True or set
+    color_index. See routers/api_widgets.py's api_widget_task_list_select/
+    api_widget_task_list_color."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "frame_task_lists"
+
+    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    user_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    calendar_key: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)
+    calendar_label: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    included: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=True)
+    color_index: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(Integer, nullable=True, default=None)
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        Index("ix_frame_task_lists_unique", "widget_id", "user_id", "calendar_key", unique=True),
+    )
+
+
+class Widget(Base):
+    """One placed/sized content item on a frame's panel -- the unit the
+    widget system replaces the old single Frame.mode with (see
+    app/grid.py for the grid this x/y/w/h is measured in, and app/widgets/
+    for the widget_type -> render/action dispatch registry). Widgets never
+    overlap (enforced server-side in routers/api_widgets.py), which is
+    what keeps compositing simple: no z-order, no blending, just N
+    independent regions pasted onto one shared canvas before a single
+    shared dither/quantize pass (see image_pipeline.render_panel).
+
+    widget_type selects which of the three per-type extension tables below
+    (PhotoWidgetConfig/CalendarWidgetConfig/WhiteboardWidgetConfig) holds
+    this widget's actual settings/state -- a 1:1 relational split rather
+    than one wide table with every type's columns, matching how
+    FrameCalendar/BatteryLog are already their own tables in this
+    codebase rather than crammed onto Frame."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "widgets"
+
+    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
+    frame_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("frames.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    widget_type: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)  # "photos" | "calendar" | "whiteboard" | "tasks" | "static" | "text" | "weather" | "battery"
+    x: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    y: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    w: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    h: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    # Display/tie-break ordering only (e.g. listing widgets in a UI) --
+    # NOT a z-order, since widgets never overlap. Named sort_order, not
+    # order, to sidestep the SQL-keyword dance Frame.order needed
+    # (mapped to a differently-named column) -- nothing outside this
+    # table needs to match a specific attribute name here.
+    sort_order: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
+    created_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=time.time)
+    # Optional decorative border, drawn once around this widget's own
+    # region (routers/device.py's _render_widgets) regardless of
+    # widget_type -- a Widget-level property, not a per-type config
+    # column, since every widget type can have one. See
+    # image_pipeline.BORDER_STYLES/draw_widget_border. "none" (the
+    # default) draws nothing, so existing widgets don't suddenly grow a
+    # border. border_color_index indexes into the frame's palette_rgb
+    # (0-5, Black/White/Yellow/Red/Blue/Green) rather than storing an
+    # arbitrary hex -- an exact palette color quantizes with zero
+    # dithering error, same reasoning as the weather/battery icons'
+    # exact-panel-ink-RGB fills (see docs/widgets.md).
+    border_style: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="none")
+    border_thickness: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=3)
+    border_color_index: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
+    # Text-size multiplier for this widget's own body/title text -- another
+    # Widget-level property regardless of widget_type, same reasoning as
+    # border_style above (any widget type with text can use it). One of
+    # panel_style.FONT_SCALE_CHOICES; 1.0 (unchanged size) for every
+    # existing widget until its dialog's "Text size" picker sets it.
+    font_scale: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=1.0)
+
+    __table_args__ = (Index("ix_widgets_frame", "frame_id"),)
+
+
+class PhotoWidgetConfig(Base):
+    """One photo widget's settings + queue state. Attribute names match
+    Frame's old photo-queue columns exactly (down to `order`'s same
+    photo_order column-name dodge) -- app/photo_queue.py's 5 functions
+    are duck-typed against these exact names (never isinstance-checked
+    against Frame), so they port unchanged onto this table."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "photo_widget_configs"
+
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), primary_key=True)
+    album_id: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    order: Mapped[str] = mapped_column("photo_order", String, default="sequential")
+    display_mode: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="crop_faces")
+    queue_target_len: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=20)
+    current_asset_id: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    current_asset_set_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
+    queue: Mapped[list] = mapped_column(MutableList.as_mutable(JSON), default=list)
+    queue_cursor: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
+    history: Mapped[list] = mapped_column(MutableList.as_mutable(JSON), default=list)
+    excluded_asset_ids: Mapped[list] = mapped_column(MutableList.as_mutable(JSON), default=list)
+    locked: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
+
+
+class CalendarWidgetConfig(Base):
+    """One calendar widget's settings + cached-fetch state -- the same
+    fields that used to live as calendar_* columns directly on Frame,
+    minus calendar_photo_inlay (dropped: arbitrary widget placement
+    subsumes what a fixed 50/50 inlay split did, so it's not a special
+    case anymore, just place a photo widget alongside) and minus
+    tasks_* (also dropped: split out into its own standalone widget
+    type, see TaskWidgetConfig, so a task list isn't tied to a
+    calendar's week view/footprint anymore). "Included calendars" is
+    its own table (FrameCalendar), widget_id-keyed so each calendar
+    widget on a frame has its own independent set."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "calendar_widget_configs"
+
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), primary_key=True)
+    view: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="agenda")
+    week_start: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
+    browse_offset: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
+    checked_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
+    cached_events: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
+    fetch_summary: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    weather_enabled: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
+    weather_units: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="fahrenheit")
+    weather_cities: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
+    weather_checked_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
+    weather_cached: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
+    week_days: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=7)
+    week_layout: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="horizontal")
+    week_start_offset: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
+    # classic (calendar_render.py) vs modern (app/calendar_html_render.py,
+    # agenda mode only so far -- see that module's docstring) -- see
+    # widgets/calendar.py's render().
+    render_style: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="classic")
+
+
+class TaskWidgetConfig(Base):
+    """One tasks widget's settings + cached-fetch state -- split out of
+    CalendarWidgetConfig (which used to carry these as tasks_* columns,
+    a week-view-only task list bolted onto a calendar widget) so a task
+    list can be placed and sized on its own, independent of any
+    calendar's view/footprint. No separate "enabled" flag -- unlike the
+    old bolted-on version, the widget's mere presence on the grid is the
+    on/off switch, same as every other widget type.
+
+    Which task lists feed this widget lives in FrameTaskList, not here
+    -- a widget can merge more than one person's list, mirroring
+    CalendarWidgetConfig/FrameCalendar exactly (this used to be a single
+    user_id/calendar_key pair here, one list only; migration 18 carried
+    each widget's existing single source forward as its first
+    FrameTaskList row when splitting this out)."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "task_widget_configs"
+
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), primary_key=True)
+    # Shown on-panel in place of the default "Tasks" header (see
+    # calendar_render._draw_tasks) -- "" keeps the default. The only
+    # widget type with its own on-panel title at all, since it's the
+    # only one where "which list is this" isn't already obvious from
+    # its content the way a calendar/photo/whiteboard's is.
+    name: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    checked_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
+    # [{"summary", "due", "completed_at" (ISO date/datetime strings or
+    # None), "owner_display_name", "color_index"}, ...] -- the merged
+    # multi-list result, same general shape as CalendarWidgetConfig.
+    # cached_events. See caldav_client.merge_tasks.
+    cached: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
+    # Also include tasks completed in the last 24h (drawn checked-box +
+    # muted, see calendar_render._draw_tasks) rather than just
+    # outstanding ones -- off by default, same "opt into more" posture
+    # as calendar_weather_enabled.
+    show_completed: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
+    # classic (hand-drawn PIL, calendar_render._build_tasks) vs modern
+    # (app/html_render.py) -- see widgets/tasks.py's render().
+    render_style: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="classic")
+
+
+class WhiteboardWidgetConfig(Base):
+    """One whiteboard widget's source + rendered-PNG cache -- the same
+    fields that used to live as whiteboard_* columns directly on Frame."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "whiteboard_widget_configs"
+
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), primary_key=True)
+    user_id: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True)
+    url: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    checked_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
+    cached_image: Mapped[bytes | None] = mapped_column(LargeBinary, nullable=True)
+    # classic (no chrome, unchanged) vs modern (app/html_render.py's
+    # rounded-corner shadowed card) -- see widgets/whiteboard.py's
+    # render().
+    render_style: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="classic")
+
+
+class WeatherWidgetConfig(Base):
+    """One weather widget's settings + cached-fetch state. Four display
+    modes (see app/widgets/weather.py): "current" (one city, current
+    temp + icon), "hourly" (one city, a row of ticks across the day),
+    "daily" (one city, a multi-day strip), "multi_city" (several cities'
+    current-day high/low/icon side by side -- the calendar widget's
+    embedded weather strip, lifted out into its own widget type).
+    `provider` selects which of app/weather/'s PROVIDERS actually fetches
+    ("open_meteo" | "nws" -- see that package's own module docstring).
+    `cached`'s shape depends on `mode`: {"temp","category"} for current,
+    a list of {"time","temp","category"} for hourly, a
+    {"YYYY-MM-DD": {...}} dict for daily, or a list of
+    {"label","high","low","category"} for multi_city.
+    `render_style` picks which renderer draws the widget: "classic" (the
+    hand-drawn PIL primitives in app/weather_render.py, unchanged
+    default) or "modern" (app/html_render.py's Jinja2/headless-Chromium
+    path, "current"/"daily" modes only for now -- see weather.py's
+    render())."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "weather_widget_configs"
+
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), primary_key=True)
+    mode: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="current")  # current | hourly | daily | multi_city
+    provider: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="open_meteo")  # open_meteo | nws
+    render_style: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="classic")  # classic | modern
+    units: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="fahrenheit")  # fahrenheit | celsius
+    # Single-location modes only (current/hourly/daily) -- geocoded once
+    # via weather.geocode_city() when set, same idiom as
+    # CalendarWidgetConfig.weather_cities' per-entry shape.
+    city_label: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String, nullable=True)
+    city_latitude: Mapped[float | None] = mapped_column(Float, nullable=True)
+    city_longitude: Mapped[float | None] = mapped_column(Float, nullable=True)
+    hourly_interval_hours: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=4)
+    daily_days: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=5)
+    # multi_city mode only -- [{"label", "latitude", "longitude"}, ...],
+    # same shape as CalendarWidgetConfig.weather_cities.
+    cities: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
+    checked_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
+    cached: Mapped[dict | list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
+
+
+class TextWidgetConfig(Base):
+    """One text widget's authored content + display settings -- another
+    no-live-upstream type like StaticWidgetConfig, just parsed rich text
+    instead of an uploaded image. content is never raw HTML: the
+    dialog's contenteditable innerHTML is parsed server-side (see
+    app/text_content.py, the sanitization boundary) into this plain
+    run structure at save time, so render() (app/widgets/text.py) never
+    re-parses/sanitizes HTML on every panel refresh, and the dialog never
+    re-injects stored HTML via innerHTML when reopened.
+
+    [[{"text","bold","italic","underline","color","bg"}, ...], ...] --
+    outer list is paragraphs (line breaks), inner list is styled runs
+    within that paragraph. color/bg are "#rrggbb" or null (falls back to
+    black text / no highlight). NULL (not just []) means never
+    configured, matching StaticWidgetConfig.image's None-vs-empty
+    convention for "not configured yet"."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "text_widget_configs"
+
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), primary_key=True)
+    content: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=True, default=None)
+    # Base point size for the whole block -- render() shrinks this down
+    # (never up) to fit the widget's actual box; per-run font size isn't
+    # supported, only the bold/italic/underline/color/bg style flags are
+    # per-run (see app/text_content.py) -- keeps the wrap/shrink-to-fit
+    # layout in app/widgets/text.py to one size per render pass.
+    font_size: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=28)
+    # A key into app/widgets/text.py's FONT_FAMILIES, also whole-widget
+    # not per-run (see font_size above for why).
+    font_family: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="sans")
+    align: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="left")  # "left" | "center" | "right"
+    background_color: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="#ffffff")
+    # classic (hand-drawn PIL) vs modern (app/html_render.py) -- see
+    # widgets/text.py's render()/render_preview_png().
+    render_style: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="classic")
+
+
+class StaticWidgetConfig(Base):
+    """One static-image widget's uploaded content + display settings --
+    unlike every other widget type, this one has no live upstream to
+    poll (Immich/CalDAV/WebDAV): the "source" is whatever the user last
+    uploaded (see routers/api_widgets.py's api_widget_static_upload,
+    app/image_upload.py), decoded once at upload time into plain RGB PNG
+    bytes so app/widgets/static_image.py's render() never re-runs
+    PDF/GIF decoding on every panel refresh."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "static_widget_configs"
+
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), primary_key=True)
+    image: Mapped[bytes | None] = mapped_column(LargeBinary, nullable=True)
+    original_filename: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    uploaded_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=0.0)
+    # Same DISPLAY_MODES vocabulary as PhotoWidgetConfig.display_mode,
+    # minus crop_faces -- no face detection for an uploaded image (see
+    # image_pipeline.STATIC_DISPLAY_MODES).
+    display_mode: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="crop_fill")
+    # classic (no chrome, unchanged) vs modern (app/html_render.py's
+    # rounded-corner shadowed card) -- see widgets/static_image.py's
+    # render().
+    render_style: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="classic")
+
+
+class BatteryWidgetConfig(Base):
+    """One battery widget's display settings -- another no-live-upstream
+    type like StaticWidgetConfig/TextWidgetConfig, just showing existing
+    frame-level state (Frame.battery_percent/battery_as_of, already set
+    by routers/device.py's frame_battery on every device report) instead
+    of anything the widget itself fetches or the user authors. `mode`
+    "compact" is icon + percent only; "detailed" (default) adds the
+    routers.common.battery_estimate_s time-remaining estimate and the
+    last report's age. `render_style` picks classic (hand-drawn PIL) vs
+    modern (app/html_render.py) -- see widgets/battery.py's render()."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "battery_widget_configs"
+
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), primary_key=True)
+    mode: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="detailed")  # compact | detailed
+    render_style: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="classic")  # classic | modern
+
+
+# widget_type -> its per-type extension table, keyed by widget_id. Used
+# by db.widget_locked() to resolve the right config row without importing
+# app/widgets/'s heavier render/action registry just for this lookup.
+WIDGET_CONFIG_MODELS: dict[str, type] = {
+    "photos": PhotoWidgetConfig,
+    "calendar": CalendarWidgetConfig,
+    "whiteboard": WhiteboardWidgetConfig,
+    "tasks": TaskWidgetConfig,
+    "static": StaticWidgetConfig,
+    "battery": BatteryWidgetConfig,
+    "text": TextWidgetConfig,
+    "weather": WeatherWidgetConfig,
+}
+
+
+class FrameButtonAction(Base):
+    """One (widget, action) binding for one of a frame's two physical
+    buttons -- e.g. {button: "next", widget_id: <photo widget>, action:
+    "advance"}. At most one binding per (widget, button) -- edited from
+    that widget's own config dialog (routers/api_widgets.py's
+    api_widget_config_save), prefilled with a sane default at widget
+    creation (app/widgets/default_button_actions). On a press, every
+    widget's row for that (frame, button) runs -- see routers/device.py's
+    frame_advance/frame_back. sort_order is unused (which widget's action
+    runs first never matters: each only touches its own state, and one
+    shared re-render happens after all of them finish) but kept around so
+    dispatch has a stable, deterministic query order."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "frame_button_actions"
+
+    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
+    frame_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("frames.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    button: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)  # "next" | "back"
+    widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    action: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)  # e.g. "advance", "back", "check_now" -- see app/widgets/
+    sort_order: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
+    created_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=time.time)
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        Index("ix_frame_button_actions_frame_button", "frame_id", "button", "sort_order"),
+        Index("ix_frame_button_actions_widget_button", "widget_id", "button", unique=True),
+    )
+
+
+class SavedLayout(Base):
+    """A named snapshot of one frame's widget arrangement (types,
+    placement, per-widget settings, button assignments) -- owned by a
+    *user*, not a frame, so it can be applied to any frame that user
+    controls whose grid matches (see docs/widgets.md's "Saved layouts").
+    cols/rows is the grid.grid_dims(orientation) the snapshot was taken
+    at -- an 8x5 (landscape-class) layout isn't meaningful on a 5x8
+    (portrait-class) frame, same reasoning as grid.py's own orientation-
+    change note.
+
+    Saving again with a name that already exists for this user
+    overwrites that layout's snapshot in place (see routers/
+    api_layouts.py's api_layout_save) rather than erroring or quietly
+    creating a second layout with the same name -- the "named save slot"
+    behavior people expect."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "saved_layouts"
+
+    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
+    user_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    name: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)
+    cols: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    rows: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    created_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=time.time)
+    updated_at: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, default=time.time)
+
+    __table_args__ = (
+        Index("ix_saved_layouts_user_name", "user_id", "name", unique=True),
+    )
+
+
+class SavedLayoutWidget(Base):
+    """One captured widget's type/placement/settings within a
+    SavedLayout -- the snapshot analogue of Widget plus its per-type
+    config row, minus anything that's runtime/cache state rather than an
+    authored setting (a photo widget's current queue position, a
+    calendar's fetch cache, a whiteboard's rendered-image cache, etc.)
+    -- see api_layouts.LAYOUT_CONFIG_FIELDS for the exact per-type field
+    allowlist. `config` holds every JSON-safe captured setting; `image`
+    is only ever populated for a static-image widget's uploaded bytes
+    (its own BLOB column rather than folding base64 into the JSON, same
+    reasoning as StaticWidgetConfig.image itself)."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "saved_layout_widgets"
+
+    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
+    saved_layout_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("saved_layouts.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    widget_type: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)
+    x: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    y: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    w: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    h: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    sort_order: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
+    config: Mapped[dict] = mapped_column(JSON, default=dict)
+    image: Mapped[bytes | None] = mapped_column(LargeBinary, nullable=True)
+
+    __table_args__ = (Index("ix_saved_layout_widgets_layout", "saved_layout_id"),)
+
+
+class SavedLayoutSource(Base):
+    """One included calendar/task-list source captured on a calendar or
+    tasks SavedLayoutWidget -- the snapshot analogue of FrameCalendar/
+    FrameTaskList. `kind` ("calendar" | "task") distinguishes which,
+    since both shapes are otherwise identical and sharing one table
+    avoids a near-duplicate SavedLayoutTaskSource table."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "saved_layout_sources"
+
+    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
+    saved_layout_widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(
+        ForeignKey("saved_layout_widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE")
+    )
+    kind: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)
+    user_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
+    calendar_key: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)
+    calendar_label: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String, default="")
+    included: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=True)
+    color_index: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(Integer, nullable=True, default=None)
+
+    __table_args__ = (Index("ix_saved_layout_sources_widget", "saved_layout_widget_id"),)
+
+
+class SavedLayoutButtonAction(Base):
+    """One (button, action) binding captured for one SavedLayoutWidget --
+    the snapshot analogue of FrameButtonAction. References the captured
+    widget directly rather than a frame_id/widget_id pair (neither
+    exists until the layout is applied) so applying can remap it onto
+    whichever new Widget row that captured widget becomes -- see
+    routers/api_layouts.py's api_layout_apply."""
+
+    __tablename__ = "saved_layout_button_actions"
+
+    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
+    saved_layout_widget_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(
+        ForeignKey("saved_layout_widgets.id", ondelete="CASCADE")
+    )
+    button: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)
+    action: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String)
+    sort_order: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0)
+
+    __table_args__ = (Index("ix_saved_layout_button_actions_widget", "saved_layout_widget_id"),)
 
 
 class PendingClaim(Base):

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+"""Shared visual language for everything drawn onto the e-ink panel
+(excluding widgets/text.py, which already has its own richer multi-
+family font picker and is left alone) -- spacing, ink-color resolution,
+Inter font loading, and the small set of drawing primitives
+(header bar, color chip, battery icon) more than one render module needs.
+
+Centralizes what used to be independently redefined per render file
+(calendar_render.py/weather_render.py each had their own MARGIN/BG/FG/
+RULE, widgets/battery.py and manage_overlay.py each had their own
+battery-glyph-drawing code) so the panel reads as one consistent system
+instead of N separately-styled widgets. Still bound by the same hard
+constraints as everything else that draws before the single whole-canvas
+quantize/dither pass (see image_pipeline.py's module docstring/draw_text):
+every fill here is one of DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB's 6 exact colors, and text
+always routes through image_pipeline.draw_text.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from functools import lru_cache
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
+
+from .image_pipeline import DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB
+
+# Spacing scale. CONTENT_MARGIN carries over calendar_render.py/
+# weather_render.py's own long-tuned MARGIN=20 value unchanged (not
+# re-tuned -- every wrap/truncation-width calc in those modules was
+# measured against it). GUTTER is new: the inset every widget applies
+# within its own target_w x target_h box (see card_canvas) to get a
+# visible seam between adjacent widgets without touching grid.py's
+# zero-gap cell math.
+GUTTER = 6
+CONTENT_MARGIN = 20
+CARD_RADIUS = 12
+CHIP_RADIUS = 4
+
+# models.Widget.font_scale's allowed values -- a per-widget text-size
+# multiplier (the Layout dialog's "Text size" picker), same "reject
+# invalid, don't silently coerce" posture as border_style. Deliberately a
+# small fixed set (a <select>, not a raw slider) rather than an arbitrary
+# float: every _AGENDA_FONTS/_TASKS_FONTS-style tuple in calendar_render.py
+# and every proportional size in html_render.py/calendar_html_render.py
+# derives row heights/max_rows from the same scaled font size, so an
+# unbounded scale risks a layout that no longer fits its own box.
+FONT_SCALE_CHOICES = (1.0, 1.25, 1.5)
+
+
+def scaled_size(value: float, font_scale: float) -> int:
+    """Applies a widget's font_scale to a text-size value and rounds to
+    an int px, floored at 1 so an extreme scale can never zero out a
+    font. Shared by both the classic (PIL, calendar_render.py) and modern
+    (HTML/CSS, html_render.py/calendar_html_render.py) renderers so "make
+    this widget's text bigger" behaves identically regardless of
+    render_style -- every caller applies this immediately after its own
+    tier lookup/floor calc, so row heights/max_rows computed from the
+    result already account for the bigger text."""
+    return max(1, round(value * font_scale))
+
+# Index constants into DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB/a frame's own Frame.
+# palette_rgb override -- same order as image_pipeline.PALETTE_LABELS.
+BLACK, WHITE, YELLOW, RED, BLUE, GREEN = range(6)
+
+# Which accent ink each widget kind's chrome (header bar, task checkbox,
+# etc.) uses -- one dict, so "what color is a calendar header" has a
+# single answer instead of being hardcoded separately everywhere a
+# render module wants it. This is what makes a future global color
+# theme *possible* without another pass through every render module: a
+# per-frame override just needs to pick a different THEME mapping (or
+# remap individual entries) here and resolve through theme_color/ink
+# below, which already goes through a frame's own tuned Frame.
+# palette_rgb -- swapping a slot's actual RGB (e.g. a custom "blue")
+# already re-themes every widget that uses THEME_CALENDAR for its
+# header, with no other code to touch. Weather deliberately maps to
+# BLACK, not a color -- see weather_render's header call site -- so its
+# own hand-drawn, already-colorful icons stay the star.
+THEME_CALENDAR = BLUE
+THEME_TASKS = GREEN
+THEME_WEATHER = BLACK
+THEME = {"calendar": THEME_CALENDAR, "tasks": THEME_TASKS, "weather": THEME_WEATHER}
+
+
+def theme_color(widget_kind: str, palette_rgb: list | None = None) -> tuple[int, int, int]:
+    """THEME[widget_kind] resolved against this frame's actual palette --
+    the one call every render module's header/accent chrome should go
+    through instead of hardcoding a palette index inline."""
+    return ink(palette_rgb, THEME[widget_kind])
+
+
+def ink(palette_rgb: list | None, index: int) -> tuple[int, int, int]:
+    """One of this frame's actual panel colors by DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB
+    index -- generalizes the same resolution idiom weather_render._ink/
+    calendar_render._event_colors already used locally, so a custom
+    palette override (Frame.palette_rgb) still gets its own actual
+    yellow/red/blue/green, and every fill stays an exact, ditherless
+    palette match either way."""
+    return tuple((palette_rgb or DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB)[index])
+
+
+_FONT_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "fonts"
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=256)
+def font_bold(size: int) -> ImageFont.FreeTypeFont:
+    return ImageFont.truetype(str(_FONT_DIR / "Inter-Bold.ttf"), size)
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=256)
+def font_regular(size: int) -> ImageFont.FreeTypeFont:
+    return ImageFont.truetype(str(_FONT_DIR / "Inter-Regular.ttf"), size)
+
+
+def card_canvas(target_w: int, target_h: int,
+               bg: tuple[int, int, int] = (255, 255, 255)) -> tuple:
+    """A full target_w x target_h canvas filled with `bg`, plus the
+    GUTTER-inset rect (x0, y0, w, h) every widget should draw its actual
+    chrome/content within -- this is the whole mechanism behind the
+    gutter between widgets (see module docstring): the widget's render()
+    contract (exact target_w x target_h in, same size out, unchanged) is
+    what routers/device.py pastes and what draw_widget_border frames, so
+    a border still frames the widget's true full box; only the widget's
+    own drawing backs off from that box's true edge."""
+    img = Image.new("RGB", (target_w, target_h), bg)
+    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
+    x0, y0 = GUTTER, GUTTER
+    w, h = max(1, target_w - 2 * GUTTER), max(1, target_h - 2 * GUTTER)
+    return img, draw, (x0, y0, w, h)
+
+
+def _clamped_radius(radius: int, w: int, h: int) -> int:
+    return max(0, min(radius, w // 2, h // 2))
+
+
+def draw_header_bar(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, rect: tuple[int, int, int, int], height: int,
+                    fill: tuple[int, int, int], radius: int = CARD_RADIUS) -> None:
+    """A widget's title bar: rounded top corners only (corners=(tl, tr,
+    bl, br), the bottom pair left square) so it reads as a card's header
+    fused to the content below it, not a standalone pill floating with a
+    gap above its own body."""
+    x0, y0, w, h = rect
+    r = _clamped_radius(radius, w, height * 2)
+    draw.rounded_rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + w, y0 + height], radius=r, fill=fill,
+                           corners=(True, True, False, False))
+
+
+def draw_color_chip(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, x0: int, y0: int, x1: int, y1: int,
+                    colors: list[tuple[int, int, int]], radius: int = CHIP_RADIUS) -> None:
+    """One rounded chip for a single-source event/task, or that same
+    footprint split into equal-width side-by-side segments -- one per
+    contributing calendar -- for a deduplicated shared event (see
+    calendar_render._event_colors/calendar_feed.merge_events). Splitting
+    rather than e.g. concentric rings keeps every color equally "thick
+    and bold" at a glance, the same design goal a single pinned color
+    already has. Generalizes calendar_render.py's old private
+    _draw_color_bar so the radius comes from one shared constant."""
+    if len(colors) == 1:
+        r = _clamped_radius(radius, x1 - x0, y1 - y0)
+        draw.rounded_rectangle([x0, y0, x1, y1], radius=r, fill=colors[0])
+        return
+    seg_w = (x1 - x0) / len(colors)
+    for i, color in enumerate(colors):
+        seg_x0 = round(x0 + i * seg_w)
+        seg_x1 = round(x0 + (i + 1) * seg_w) - (2 if i < len(colors) - 1 else 0)
+        draw.rectangle([seg_x0, y0, seg_x1, y1], fill=color)
+
+
+def battery_fill_color(percent: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None) -> tuple[int, int, int]:
+    """Red/yellow/green by charge level -- the fill itself carries the
+    "how worried should I be" signal, not just the number next to it.
+    Shared threshold logic for widgets/battery.py and manage_overlay.py,
+    which previously each defined the same three-tier thresholds twice."""
+    if percent <= 15:
+        return ink(palette_rgb, RED)
+    if percent <= 40:
+        return ink(palette_rgb, YELLOW)
+    return ink(palette_rgb, GREEN)
+
+
+def draw_battery_icon(draw: ImageDraw.ImageDraw, x0: int, y0: int, icon_w: int, icon_h: int,
+                      percent: int, palette_rgb: list | None = None) -> None:
+    """A rounded battery glyph -- outline + charge-level fill + terminal
+    nub -- anchored at (x0, y0), the body's own top-left corner (the nub
+    extends past icon_w on the right). The one shared implementation
+    behind what used to be two separate ImageDraw glyphs: widgets/
+    battery.py's own icon+percent widget, and manage_overlay.py's compact
+    battery readout on the "scan to manage" overlay -- same shape, same
+    red/yellow/green thresholds, previously kept in sync by convention
+    rather than by sharing code."""
+    stroke = max(2, icon_h // 12)
+    nub_w = max(3, icon_w // 10)
+    nub_h = icon_h // 2
+    radius = _clamped_radius(icon_h // 6, icon_w, icon_h)
+
+    inner_x0, inner_y0 = x0 + stroke, y0 + stroke
+    inner_x1, inner_y1 = x0 + icon_w - stroke, y0 + icon_h - stroke
+    fill_x1 = inner_x0 + round((inner_x1 - inner_x0) * (max(0, min(100, percent)) / 100))
+    if fill_x1 > inner_x0:
+        fill_radius = _clamped_radius(radius, fill_x1 - inner_x0, inner_y1 - inner_y0)
+        draw.rounded_rectangle([inner_x0, inner_y0, fill_x1, inner_y1], radius=fill_radius,
+                               fill=battery_fill_color(percent, palette_rgb))
+    draw.rounded_rectangle([x0, y0, x0 + icon_w, y0 + icon_h], radius=radius, outline=(0, 0, 0), width=stroke)
+    nub_y = y0 + (icon_h - nub_h) // 2
+    nub_radius = _clamped_radius(max(1, nub_w // 3), nub_w, nub_h)
+    draw.rounded_rectangle([x0 + icon_w, nub_y, x0 + icon_w + nub_w, nub_y + nub_h], radius=nub_radius,
+                           fill=(0, 0, 0))

server/app/photo_queue.py

@@ -85,11 +85,21 @@ def _top_up(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict]) -> None:
     cfg.queue_cursor = (cfg.queue_cursor + i + 1) % n
 
 
-def advance_forced(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict]) -> None:
+def advance_forced(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], frame: Frame) -> None:
     """Unconditionally moves to the next photo, ignoring elapsed time, and
     resets the interval clock from now. Used by the explicit next-photo
     action (POST /frame/advance) and by get_current() once the refresh
-    interval has elapsed -- always mutates cfg."""
+    interval has elapsed -- always mutates cfg.
+
+    `frame` is a separate reference to the owning Frame, for fields that
+    stay frame-level rather than moving onto a photo widget's own config
+    (currently just stats_photos_displayed) -- once a photo widget's
+    queue state lives on its own PhotoWidgetConfig row rather than
+    directly on Frame (see models.py), `cfg` and `frame` stop being the
+    same object; every existing caller today still passes the same Frame
+    for both, which is also why this stays a required (not optional)
+    param -- no implicit "guess which Frame owns this" fallback to get
+    wrong later."""
     if cfg.current_asset_id:
         # Recorded regardless of *why* this advance happened (a manual
         # next-press or the timer just elapsing) -- back should be able
@@ -105,7 +115,7 @@ def advance_forced(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict]) -> None:
         # only asset is already current) -- keep showing what we have.
         cfg.current_asset_id = assets[0]["id"]
     cfg.current_asset_set_at = time.time()
-    cfg.stats_photos_displayed += 1
+    frame.stats_photos_displayed += 1
     # Refill back up to queue_target_len now that current_asset_id has
     # changed -- otherwise the queue is left one short until the *next*
     # advance, since the pop above consumes one of the items _top_up just
@@ -113,7 +123,7 @@ def advance_forced(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict]) -> None:
     _top_up(cfg, assets)
 
 
-def back_forced(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict]) -> bool:
+def back_forced(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], frame: Frame) -> bool:
     """Unconditionally moves to the previously-current photo, the mirror
     image of advance_forced() -- pops the most recent entry off history,
     pushes the photo it's replacing onto the front of queue (so pressing
@@ -122,7 +132,7 @@ def back_forced(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict]) -> bool:
     since). Returns whether it actually moved -- False (history empty or
     entirely stale) is a no-op, callers should still just display
     whatever's current rather than treating it as an error. Used by the
-    back-photo button (POST /frame/back)."""
+    back-photo button (POST /frame/back). See advance_forced() on `frame`."""
     valid_ids = {a["id"] for a in assets}
     while cfg.history:
         previous_id = cfg.history.pop()
@@ -132,12 +142,12 @@ def back_forced(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict]) -> bool:
             cfg.queue.insert(0, cfg.current_asset_id)
         cfg.current_asset_id = previous_id
         cfg.current_asset_set_at = time.time()
-        cfg.stats_photos_displayed += 1
+        frame.stats_photos_displayed += 1
         return True
     return False
 
 
-def remove_from_rotation(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], asset_id: str) -> bool:
+def remove_from_rotation(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], asset_id: str, frame: Frame) -> bool:
     """Permanently excludes asset_id from this frame's rotation (see the
     module docstring) -- doesn't touch Immich, just this frame's own
     selection. Scrubs it out of queue and history too, so it can't
@@ -146,10 +156,10 @@ def remove_from_rotation(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], asset_id: str) -> bool:
     *not* through advance_forced(), since that would record the removed
     photo in history, and going back to a photo you just explicitly
     removed doesn't make sense. Returns whether the current photo
-    changed as a result."""
+    changed as a result. See advance_forced() on `frame`."""
     if asset_id not in cfg.excluded_asset_ids:
         cfg.excluded_asset_ids.append(asset_id)
-        cfg.stats_photos_removed += 1
+        frame.stats_photos_removed += 1
     cfg.queue = [a for a in cfg.queue if a != asset_id]
     cfg.history = [a for a in cfg.history if a != asset_id]
 
@@ -167,7 +177,7 @@ def remove_from_rotation(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], asset_id: str) -> bool:
         remaining = [a["id"] for a in assets if a["id"] not in excluded_ids]
         cfg.current_asset_id = remaining[0] if remaining else ""
     cfg.current_asset_set_at = time.time()
-    cfg.stats_photos_displayed += 1
+    frame.stats_photos_displayed += 1
     _top_up(cfg, assets)
     return True
 
@@ -180,7 +190,7 @@ def sync_queue_length(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict]) -> None:
     _top_up(cfg, assets)
 
 
-def get_current(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], in_quiet_hours: bool = False) -> bool:
+def get_current(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], frame: Frame, in_quiet_hours: bool = False) -> bool:
     """Time-based, idempotent path used by GET /frame/image. Advances only
     if the current photo is unset/invalid or refresh_interval_s has
     elapsed since it was set. Returns whether it changed anything, so the
@@ -190,6 +200,10 @@ def get_current(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], in_quiet_hours: bool = False) ->
     ahead, while a wake that lands after the interval has elapsed still
     advances exactly once, even after a long time offline.
 
+    refresh_interval_s is read off `frame`, not `cfg` -- it's a device
+    wake-cadence setting shared by the whole panel, not something that
+    becomes per-widget (see advance_forced() on the cfg/frame split).
+
     in_quiet_hours suppresses *only* the elapsed-time trigger -- an
     unset/invalid current photo still gets picked regardless, since
     showing nothing is worse than showing something even at 3am. This
@@ -197,12 +211,19 @@ def get_current(cfg: Frame, assets: list[dict], in_quiet_hours: bool = False) ->
     /api/queue), so without this an open browser tab polling overnight
     would silently advance the current photo on raw elapsed time alone,
     even though the device itself is correctly asleep through the
-    window (see main.py's _effective_refresh_interval_s)."""
+    window (see main.py's _effective_refresh_interval_s).
+
+    cfg.locked suppresses the elapsed-time trigger the same way
+    in_quiet_hours does -- a locked widget still needs an initial pick
+    if it somehow has none (an unconfigured widget just locked, or a
+    changed album), but once it has a current photo the whole point of
+    locking is that it stops moving on its own until explicitly
+    unlocked."""
     valid_ids = {a["id"] for a in assets}
     needs_pick = not cfg.current_asset_id or cfg.current_asset_id not in valid_ids
-    time_elapsed = (time.time() - cfg.current_asset_set_at) >= cfg.refresh_interval_s
-    stale = needs_pick or (time_elapsed and not in_quiet_hours)
+    time_elapsed = (time.time() - cfg.current_asset_set_at) >= frame.refresh_interval_s
+    stale = needs_pick or (time_elapsed and not in_quiet_hours and not cfg.locked)
     if not stale:
         return False
-    advance_forced(cfg, assets)
+    advance_forced(cfg, assets, frame)
     return True

server/app/quiet_hours.py

@@ -114,6 +114,18 @@ def in_quiet_hours(cfg) -> bool:
     return in_quiet
 
 
+def quiet_span_s(cfg) -> int:
+    """Seconds per day quiet hours keeps the device asleep -- 0 when
+    disabled. Used by common.py's battery-remaining estimate to turn a
+    per-wake battery cost into a wall-clock duration: quiet hours cuts
+    how many wakes happen per day without changing what any one wake
+    costs, so it belongs in the wakes-per-day math, not the per-wake
+    rate itself."""
+    if not cfg.quiet_hours_enabled:
+        return 0
+    return _quiet_hours_span_s(cfg.quiet_hours_start, cfg.quiet_hours_end)
+
+
 def max_expected_gap_s(cfg) -> int:
     """Longest gap between wakes the device might legitimately have --
     normally just refresh_interval_s, but quiet hours can make the real

server/app/routers/api_frames.py

@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-"""The web UI's JSON API, namespaced per frame: /api/frames/{id}/...
+"""The web UI's JSON API for frame-wide settings: /api/frames/{id}/...
+Per-widget settings (album, calendar view/inclusion, whiteboard source,
+etc.) live in api_widgets.py instead, under /api/frames/{id}/widgets/
+{widget_id}/... -- split out once a frame could hold more than one
+widget of the same type.
 
 Auth: session-only (require_frame_view for reads, require_frame_control
 for mutations -- the "take control" soft lock). The limited manage-QR
 surface lives separately under /api/m/ (routers/manage.py), and device
 traffic under /frame/* (routers/device.py).
 
-Config saves are PARTIAL updates: each page's form posts only its own
-fields (the old single Settings form split across the Photos and
-Configuration tabs), so every field is optional and only provided ones
-are touched. Checkboxes are sent explicitly as "true"/"false" strings by
-the page JS -- an absent field means "not this form's field", never
-"unchecked".
+Config saves are PARTIAL updates: only provided fields are touched.
+Checkboxes are sent explicitly as "true"/"false" strings by the page JS
+-- an absent field means "not this form's field", never "unchecked".
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -21,35 +22,18 @@ import time
 import httpx
 from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, File, Form, HTTPException, Request, UploadFile
 from fastapi.responses import Response
-from pydantic import BaseModel
 from sqlalchemy import select
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 
-from .. import calendar_render, gitea_releases, photo_queue, quiet_hours
+from .. import gitea_releases, grid, quiet_hours, theme_tokens
 from ..auth import require_frame_control, require_frame_view, require_user_api
 from ..db import frame_locked, get_db
-from ..image_pipeline import (
-    DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MODE,
-    DISPLAY_MODES,
-    PALETTE_LABELS,
-    hex_to_rgb,
-    render_preview_png,
-)
+from ..global_actions import GLOBAL_ACTIONS
+from ..image_pipeline import PALETTE_LABELS, hex_to_rgb
 from ..firmware import firmware_path, parse_app_version
-from ..models import BatteryLog, Frame, UserFrame
-from .common import (
-    FRAME_MODES,
-    OVERDUE_FACTOR,
-    battery_estimate_s,
-    calendar_sources_for_frame,
-    fetch_source_and_faces,
-    get_or_refresh_calendar_events,
-    immich_client_for,
-    immich_creds,
-    list_assets,
-    require_configured,
-    valid_http_url,
-)
+from ..models import BatteryLog, Frame, Widget
+from .common import OVERDUE_FACTOR, battery_estimate_s, immich_client_for, immich_creds, valid_http_url
+from .device import render_frame_preview_png
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -57,11 +41,40 @@ router = APIRouter()
 
 MIN_REFRESH_INTERVAL_S = 60
 MAX_REFRESH_INTERVAL_S = 86400
-MIN_QUEUE_TARGET_LEN = 5
-MAX_QUEUE_TARGET_LEN = 5000
 
 ORIENTATIONS = ("landscape", "portrait", "landscape_flipped", "portrait_flipped")
 
+# See app/global_actions.py -- how long NEXT/BACK must be held before the
+# device treats it as a hold instead of a short press.
+MIN_HOLD_DURATION_MS = 3000
+MAX_HOLD_DURATION_MS = 10000
+
+
+def _reset_widget_layout_for_new_orientation(db: Session, frame_id: int, new_orientation: str) -> None:
+    """A widget's x/y/w/h are grid cells relative to the OLD orientation's
+    cols x rows (see grid.grid_dims) -- landscape and portrait use a
+    transposed grid (8x5 vs 5x8), so an existing placement is often
+    literally out of bounds on the new grid, not just visually wrong.
+    There's no sensible coordinate remap between two differently-shaped
+    grids, so instead: keep whichever widget was first by placement
+    order, resized to fill the new full panel, and delete the rest --
+    cascading to their own config rows and any FrameButtonAction
+    bindings via ondelete="CASCADE" (see models.py). The frontend is
+    expected to confirm this with the user before submitting an
+    orientation change (see frame_config.js) -- this always executes
+    unconditionally once called, same posture as every other
+    confirm-on-the-client / act-unconditionally-on-the-server action in
+    this codebase."""
+    widgets = db.scalars(
+        select(Widget).where(Widget.frame_id == frame_id).order_by(Widget.sort_order)
+    ).all()
+    if not widgets:
+        return
+    keep, *rest = widgets
+    for widget in rest:
+        db.delete(widget)
+    keep.x, keep.y, keep.w, keep.h = grid.full_panel_rect(new_orientation)
+
 
 @router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/albums")
 def api_albums(frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view)):
@@ -78,11 +91,7 @@ def api_albums(frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view)):
 @router.post("/api/frames/{frame_id}/config")
 def api_config_save(
     name: str | None = Form(None),
-    album_id: str | None = Form(None),
-    order: str | None = Form(None),
     refresh_interval_s: int | None = Form(None),
-    display_mode: str | None = Form(None),
-    queue_target_len: int | None = Form(None),
     orientation: str | None = Form(None),
     quiet_hours_enabled: bool | None = Form(None),
     quiet_hours_start: str | None = Form(None),
@@ -96,37 +105,52 @@ def api_config_save(
     color_boost: float | None = Form(None),
     contrast_boost: float | None = Form(None),
     dither_strength: float | None = Form(None),
-    mode: str | None = Form(None),
-    calendar_view: str | None = Form(None),
-    calendar_photo_inlay: bool | None = Form(None),
+    photo_palette: list[str] | None = Form(None),
+    photo_palette_reset: bool | None = Form(None),
+    photo_dither_strength: float | None = Form(None),
+    theme: str | None = Form(None),
+    hold_duration_ms: int | None = Form(None),
+    next_hold_action: str | None = Form(None),
+    back_hold_action: str | None = Form(None),
     frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_control),
     db: Session = Depends(get_db),
 ):
+    """Partial update of frame-wide settings only -- per-widget settings
+    (album, calendar view/inclusion, whiteboard source, etc.) live on
+    routers/api_widgets.py's /widgets/{widget_id}/... endpoints instead,
+    since a frame can hold more than one widget of the same type and
+    "the frame's calendar settings" stopped being unambiguous the moment
+    that became possible. `mode` and `calendar_photo_inlay` are no
+    longer accepted here either: mode no longer governs anything (a
+    frame's widgets do), and photo inlay has no widget-system equivalent
+    (place an independent photo widget alongside instead). All three are
+    harmless no-ops if an old cached page still POSTs them -- FastAPI
+    silently ignores form fields with no matching parameter.
+
+    An actual orientation *change* resets the frame's widget layout (see
+    _reset_widget_layout_for_new_orientation) -- widget placement is
+    grid-cell-relative to the panel's long/short axis, which swaps on a
+    landscape<->portrait change, so an old placement is usually not just
+    visually wrong but literally out of bounds on the new grid.
+
+    hold_duration_ms/next_hold_action/back_hold_action configure hold-
+    for-global-action (see app/global_actions.py) -- a frame-wide
+    setting, not per-widget, hence living here rather than on
+    api_widgets.py's per-widget button-actions endpoint. An unrecognized
+    action value clears the binding rather than erroring, same posture
+    as this endpoint's other enum-ish fields (orientation, timezone)."""
     with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as cfg:
         if name is not None:
             cfg.name = name.strip()[:64] or cfg.name
-        if album_id is not None and album_id != cfg.album_id:
-            # A newly selected album starts clean -- the old current photo
-            # and queue don't mean anything in the new album's context.
-            cfg.current_asset_id = ""
-            cfg.current_asset_set_at = 0.0
-            cfg.queue = []
-            cfg.queue_cursor = 0
-            cfg.history = []
-            cfg.excluded_asset_ids = []
-            cfg.album_id = album_id
-        if order is not None:
-            cfg.order = order if order in ("sequential", "shuffle") else "sequential"
         if refresh_interval_s is not None:
             cfg.refresh_interval_s = max(
                 MIN_REFRESH_INTERVAL_S, min(MAX_REFRESH_INTERVAL_S, refresh_interval_s)
             )
-        if display_mode is not None:
-            cfg.display_mode = display_mode if display_mode in DISPLAY_MODES else DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MODE
-        if queue_target_len is not None:
-            cfg.queue_target_len = max(MIN_QUEUE_TARGET_LEN, min(MAX_QUEUE_TARGET_LEN, queue_target_len))
         if orientation is not None:
-            cfg.orientation = orientation if orientation in ORIENTATIONS else "landscape"
+            new_orientation = orientation if orientation in ORIENTATIONS else "landscape"
+            if new_orientation != cfg.orientation:
+                _reset_widget_layout_for_new_orientation(db, cfg.id, new_orientation)
+            cfg.orientation = new_orientation
         if quiet_hours_enabled is not None:
             cfg.quiet_hours_enabled = quiet_hours_enabled
         if quiet_hours_start is not None and quiet_hours.valid_hhmm(quiet_hours_start):
@@ -162,19 +186,27 @@ def api_config_save(
             cfg.contrast_boost = max(0.0, min(2.0, contrast_boost))
         if dither_strength is not None:
             cfg.dither_strength = max(0.0, min(1.0, dither_strength))
-        if mode is not None:
-            cfg.mode = mode if mode in FRAME_MODES else "photos"
-        if calendar_view is not None:
-            new_view = calendar_view if calendar_view in calendar_render.CALENDAR_VIEWS else "agenda"
-            if new_view != cfg.calendar_view:
-                # A stale offset means something different in a different
-                # view's units (days vs. weeks vs. months) -- same
-                # reasoning as album_id's reset above.
-                cfg.calendar_browse_offset = 0
-            cfg.calendar_view = new_view
-        if calendar_photo_inlay is not None:
-            cfg.calendar_photo_inlay = calendar_photo_inlay
+        if photo_palette_reset:
+            cfg.photo_palette_rgb = None
+        elif photo_palette is not None:
+            if len(photo_palette) != len(PALETTE_LABELS):
+                raise HTTPException(400, f"Expected {len(PALETTE_LABELS)} palette colors, got {len(photo_palette)}")
+            parsed = [hex_to_rgb(h) for h in photo_palette]
+            if any(rgb is None for rgb in parsed):
+                raise HTTPException(400, "Palette colors must be #rrggbb hex values")
+            cfg.photo_palette_rgb = [list(rgb) for rgb in parsed]
+        if photo_dither_strength is not None:
+            cfg.photo_dither_strength = max(0.0, min(1.0, photo_dither_strength))
+        if theme is not None:
+            cfg.theme = theme if theme in theme_tokens.THEMES else "classic"
+        if hold_duration_ms is not None:
+            cfg.hold_duration_ms = max(MIN_HOLD_DURATION_MS, min(MAX_HOLD_DURATION_MS, hold_duration_ms))
+        if next_hold_action is not None:
+            cfg.next_hold_action = next_hold_action if next_hold_action in GLOBAL_ACTIONS else None
+        if back_hold_action is not None:
+            cfg.back_hold_action = back_hold_action if back_hold_action in GLOBAL_ACTIONS else None
         cfg.stats_config_saves += 1
+
     return {"status": "saved"}
 
 
@@ -207,65 +239,82 @@ def api_stats(frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view)):
     }
 
 
-@router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/queue")
-def api_queue(
+@router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/status")
+def api_status(
     request: Request, frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view), db: Session = Depends(get_db)
 ):
+    """Device liveness + control-lock info -- frame-level facts (battery,
+    last-seen, firmware, who has control), not tied to any particular
+    widget. Powers static/device_status_bar.js, shown on every per-frame
+    page regardless of which widgets that frame has. Used to piggyback on
+    the photo queue endpoint (back when a frame had at most one widget,
+    always photos-shaped); split out once that stopped being true, so the
+    status bar isn't blank on a frame with no photo widget."""
     user = require_user_api(request, db)
-    require_configured(frame)
-
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    assets = list_assets(client, frame)
-
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as cfg:
-        photo_queue.get_current(cfg, assets, in_quiet_hours=quiet_hours.in_quiet_hours(cfg))
-        photo_queue.sync_queue_length(cfg, assets)
-        snapshot = {
-            "current_asset_id": cfg.current_asset_id,
-            "queue": list(cfg.queue),
-            "last_seen": cfg.last_seen,
-            "overdue_gap": quiet_hours.max_expected_gap_s(cfg) * OVERDUE_FACTOR,
-            "firmware_version": cfg.device_firmware_version,
-            "firmware_available": cfg.firmware_available_version,
-            "battery_percent": cfg.battery_percent,
-            "battery_as_of": cfg.battery_as_of,
-            "battery_estimate_s": battery_estimate_s(cfg),
-            "controller_id": cfg.controlled_by_user_id,
-            "controller": (
-                (cfg.controlled_by.display_name or cfg.controlled_by.username)
-                if cfg.controlled_by
-                else None
-            ),
-        }
-
-    def entry(asset_id: str) -> dict:
-        return {"id": asset_id, "thumbnail_url": f"/api/frames/{frame.id}/thumbnail/{asset_id}"}
-
     now = time.time()
+    overdue_gap = quiet_hours.max_expected_gap_s(frame) * OVERDUE_FACTOR
     return {
-        "current": entry(snapshot["current_asset_id"]) if snapshot["current_asset_id"] else None,
-        "upcoming": [entry(asset_id) for asset_id in snapshot["queue"]],
         "control": {
-            "controller": snapshot["controller"],
-            "you": snapshot["controller_id"] == user.id,
+            "controller": (frame.controlled_by.display_name or frame.controlled_by.username) if frame.controlled_by else None,
+            "you": frame.controlled_by_user_id == user.id,
         },
         "device": {
-            "last_seen": snapshot["last_seen"] or None,
-            "overdue": bool(
-                snapshot["last_seen"] and now - snapshot["last_seen"] > snapshot["overdue_gap"]
+            "last_seen": frame.last_seen or None,
+            "overdue": bool(frame.last_seen and now - frame.last_seen > overdue_gap),
+            # When the device is next expected to check in, per the same
+            # sleep duration frame_config() actually hands it (see
+            # device.py's /frame/config) -- not the raw overdue_gap above,
+            # which is deliberately generous (OVERDUE_FACTOR) to avoid
+            # false alarms during quiet hours rather than a best guess.
+            "expected_next_checkin": (
+                frame.last_seen + quiet_hours.effective_refresh_interval_s(frame) if frame.last_seen else None
             ),
-            "firmware_version": snapshot["firmware_version"] or None,
-            "firmware_available": snapshot["firmware_available"] or None,
+            "firmware_version": frame.device_firmware_version or None,
+            "firmware_available": frame.firmware_available_version or None,
             "battery": (
-                {"percent": snapshot["battery_percent"], "as_of": snapshot["battery_as_of"]}
-                if snapshot["battery_percent"] >= 0
-                else None
+                {"percent": frame.battery_percent, "as_of": frame.battery_as_of}
+                if frame.battery_percent >= 0 else None
             ),
-            "battery_estimate_s": snapshot["battery_estimate_s"],
+            "battery_estimate_s": battery_estimate_s(frame, db),
         },
     }
 
 
+@router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/preview")
+def api_frame_preview(
+    request: Request, frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view), db: Session = Depends(get_db)
+):
+    """A small PNG of exactly what the frame is currently displaying --
+    the same widget compositor /frame/image uses (see routers/device.py's
+    render_frame_preview_png), just handed back upright and unpacked for
+    the dashboard header's live thumbnail instead of the device's packed
+    native format. Not cached: cheap enough for an on-demand header image,
+    and each widget's own render is already idempotent between a device's
+    real wakes (see photo_queue.get_current, calendar widget's browse
+    reset), so an extra read here doesn't skip or duplicate anything."""
+    png = render_frame_preview_png(db, frame, request)
+    return Response(content=png, media_type="image/png")
+
+
+@router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/now-displaying")
+def api_frame_now_displaying(frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view)):
+    """Exactly what was last actually sent to this frame's device (see
+    routers/device.py's _record_last_displayed) -- the frozen "now
+    displaying" half of the header preview pair, as opposed to /preview's
+    always-live "up next" re-render. 404 (not a placeholder image) until
+    the device has fetched at least once, so the web UI can show its own
+    empty state instead of a broken image. X-Displayed-At carries the
+    capture time (unix seconds) for a "N ago" label -- a header, not the
+    body, since the body is the raw PNG bytes."""
+    if frame.last_displayed_image is None:
+        raise HTTPException(404, "This frame hasn't displayed anything yet")
+    return Response(
+        content=frame.last_displayed_image,
+        media_type="image/png",
+        headers={"X-Displayed-At": str(frame.last_displayed_at)},
+    )
+
+
 @router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/battery-log")
 def api_battery_log(frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
     rows = db.execute(
@@ -276,210 +325,6 @@ def api_battery_log(frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view), db: Session = De
     return {"log": [[ts, percent] for ts, percent in rows]}
 
 
-class QueueReorderRequest(BaseModel):
-    queue: list[str]
-
-
-@router.post("/api/frames/{frame_id}/queue/reorder")
-def api_queue_reorder(
-    body: QueueReorderRequest,
-    frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_control),
-    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
-):
-    """Applies the client's requested order, tolerating drift between the
-    browser's last-fetched snapshot and the server's current queue (e.g.
-    a top-up/trim landed in between) instead of hard-rejecting: any ID
-    the client sent that's no longer actually queued is dropped, and any
-    ID the server has that the client didn't know about is appended
-    rather than lost."""
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as cfg:
-        current_set = set(cfg.queue)
-        reordered = [asset_id for asset_id in body.queue if asset_id in current_set]
-        reordered += [asset_id for asset_id in cfg.queue if asset_id not in set(reordered)]
-        cfg.queue = reordered
-    return {"status": "saved"}
-
-
-class QueuePromoteRequest(BaseModel):
-    asset_id: str
-
-
-@router.post("/api/frames/{frame_id}/queue/promote")
-def api_queue_promote(
-    body: QueuePromoteRequest,
-    frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_control),
-    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
-):
-    """Moves a single photo to the front of the queue -- "Show next".
-    Unlike reorder, doesn't depend on the client knowing the queue's
-    exact current order, so it can't fail from staleness."""
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as cfg:
-        if body.asset_id not in cfg.queue:
-            raise HTTPException(400, "That photo is no longer in the upcoming queue")
-        cfg.queue = [body.asset_id] + [asset_id for asset_id in cfg.queue if asset_id != body.asset_id]
-    return {"status": "saved"}
-
-
-class QueueRemoveRequest(BaseModel):
-    asset_id: str
-
-
-@router.post("/api/frames/{frame_id}/queue/remove")
-def api_queue_remove(
-    body: QueueRemoveRequest,
-    frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_control),
-    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
-):
-    """Permanently removes a photo from this frame's rotation. Does NOT
-    touch Immich or the album itself; see photo_queue.remove_from_rotation()."""
-    require_configured(frame)
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    assets = list_assets(client, frame)
-
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as cfg:
-        photo_queue.remove_from_rotation(cfg, assets, body.asset_id)
-    return {"status": "removed"}
-
-
-@router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/thumbnail/{asset_id}")
-def api_thumbnail(asset_id: str, frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view)):
-    """Scoped to what this frame is actually showing/queuing -- a user
-    merely linked to view this frame shouldn't be able to pull thumbnails
-    for arbitrary asset ids in the owner's Immich library, only the
-    frame's own curated album. Same rule device.frame_share and
-    manage.manage_thumbnail already enforce."""
-    require_configured(frame)
-    if asset_id != frame.current_asset_id and asset_id not in frame.queue:
-        raise HTTPException(404, "Not on this frame")
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    try:
-        content, content_type = client.download_asset_thumbnail(asset_id)
-    except httpx.HTTPError as e:
-        raise HTTPException(502, f"Could not download thumbnail from Immich: {e}") from e
-    return Response(content=content, media_type=content_type)
-
-
-def _current_asset_id(frame: Frame, db: Session) -> str:
-    """Same idempotent get_current() dance /api/frames/{id}/queue uses --
-    picks a current photo if none is set yet, otherwise just reads it,
-    never advances early."""
-    require_configured(frame)
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    assets = list_assets(client, frame)
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as cfg:
-        photo_queue.get_current(cfg, assets, in_quiet_hours=quiet_hours.in_quiet_hours(cfg))
-        asset_id = cfg.current_asset_id
-    if not asset_id:
-        raise HTTPException(404, "No current photo")
-    return asset_id
-
-
-@router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/preview/original")
-def api_preview_original(frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    """The Immich preview image behind the currently-displayed photo,
-    unprocessed -- the "now displaying" side of the Configuration tab's
-    before/after comparison."""
-    asset_id = _current_asset_id(frame, db)
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    try:
-        jpeg_bytes = client.download_asset_preview(asset_id)
-    except httpx.HTTPError as e:
-        raise HTTPException(502, f"Could not download asset from Immich: {e}") from e
-    return Response(content=jpeg_bytes, media_type="image/jpeg")
-
-
-@router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/preview/rendered")
-def api_preview_rendered(frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    """The same photo run through this frame's actual saved rendering
-    pipeline (display mode, palette, color/contrast/dithering) and
-    exported as a PNG -- the "how it will look on the frame" side of the
-    comparison. Not a live preview of unsaved slider values; reflects
-    whatever's currently saved."""
-    asset_id = _current_asset_id(frame, db)
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    source, faces = fetch_source_and_faces(client, frame, asset_id)
-    png = render_preview_png(
-        source, faces=faces, orientation=frame.orientation, palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb,
-        display_mode=frame.display_mode, color_boost=frame.color_boost,
-        contrast_boost=frame.contrast_boost, dither_strength=frame.dither_strength,
-    )
-    return Response(content=png, media_type="image/png")
-
-
-class CalendarIncludedRequest(BaseModel):
-    included: bool
-
-
-@router.post("/api/frames/{frame_id}/calendar-included")
-def api_calendar_included(
-    body: CalendarIncludedRequest,
-    request: Request,
-    frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view),  # view access only -- NOT require_frame_control
-    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
-):
-    """A user's own opt-in into this frame's merged calendar (see
-    UserFrame.calendar_included). Deliberately not require_frame_control:
-    this is the toggling user's own data-sharing preference about their
-    own calendar, not a frame setting its controller manages on someone
-    else's behalf -- there's no target user_id in the request body by
-    design, it always toggles the calling session's own row."""
-    user = require_user_api(request, db)
-    row = db.get(UserFrame, (user.id, frame.id))
-    if row is None:
-        raise HTTPException(404, "Not linked to this frame")
-    row.calendar_included = body.included
-    # Force this frame's merged cache to pick up the change promptly
-    # rather than waiting out the throttle.
-    frame.calendar_checked_at = 0.0
-    db.commit()
-    return {"status": "saved", "included": row.calendar_included}
-
-
-def _calendar_photo_inlay(frame: Frame, db: Session):
-    """The agenda view's optional photo-inlay source image, or None if
-    inlay is off, not agenda view, or the frame's photos-mode album isn't
-    configured. Shared shape between the live render (routers/device.py's
-    _render_calendar_mode) and this preview endpoint; small enough that
-    duplicating rather than factoring out is fine, since the two call
-    sites differ slightly in error handling."""
-    if not (frame.calendar_view == "agenda" and frame.calendar_photo_inlay):
-        return None
-    url, key = immich_creds(frame)
-    if not (url and key and frame.album_id):
-        return None
-    try:
-        client = immich_client_for(frame)
-        assets = list_assets(client, frame)
-        with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
-            photo_queue.get_current(locked, assets, in_quiet_hours=quiet_hours.in_quiet_hours(locked))
-            asset_id = locked.current_asset_id
-        if not asset_id:
-            return None
-        import io
-
-        from PIL import Image
-
-        return Image.open(io.BytesIO(client.download_asset_preview(asset_id)))
-    except HTTPException:
-        return None
-
-
-@router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/preview/calendar")
-def api_preview_calendar(frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    """The same merged, cached event set a live device render would use
-    -- not a live preview of an unsaved calendar_view choice, same
-    "reflects what's currently saved" convention as preview/rendered."""
-    if not calendar_sources_for_frame(db, frame):
-        raise HTTPException(400, "No calendars included on this frame yet")
-    events, summary = get_or_refresh_calendar_events(db, frame)
-    photo_inlay = _calendar_photo_inlay(frame, db)
-    view = frame.calendar_view if frame.calendar_view in calendar_render.CALENDAR_VIEWS else "agenda"
-    png = calendar_render.render_calendar_preview_png(
-        events, view=view, browse_offset=frame.calendar_browse_offset, orientation=frame.orientation,
-        palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb, timezone=frame.timezone, photo_inlay=photo_inlay, fetch_summary=summary,
-    )
-    return Response(content=png, media_type="image/png")
-
 
 @router.post("/api/frames/{frame_id}/firmware")
 def api_firmware_upload(
@@ -583,6 +428,7 @@ def api_firmware_check(
         "board": frame.device_board_variant or None,
         "latest_version": frame.firmware_gitea_latest_version or None,
         "staged_version": frame.firmware_available_version or None,
+        "running_version": frame.device_firmware_version or None,
         "update_available": update_available,
     }
 

server/app/routers/api_layouts.py

@@ -0,0 +1,337 @@
+"""Saved layouts: a named snapshot of one frame's widget arrangement
+(types, placement, per-widget settings, button assignments) that a user
+can capture and later apply to any frame they control whose grid matches
+-- see models.SavedLayout and docs/widgets.md's "Saved layouts" section.
+
+Layouts are owned by a *user*, not a frame (SavedLayout.user_id), so
+every endpoint here except save/apply/list (which need a frame_id to act
+on) is frame-agnostic -- /api/layouts/{id} rather than /api/frames/{fid}/
+layouts/{id}, gated purely on "is this your own saved layout" rather than
+frame view/control.
+
+Save/apply DO live under /api/frames/{frame_id}/... (require_frame_
+control) since they read/replace one specific frame's actual widgets.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import time
+
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, Request
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+from sqlalchemy import delete, func, select
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+
+from .. import grid
+from ..auth import require_frame_control, require_frame_view, require_user_api
+from ..db import frame_locked, get_db
+from ..models import (
+    Frame,
+    FrameButtonAction,
+    FrameCalendar,
+    FrameTaskList,
+    SavedLayout,
+    SavedLayoutButtonAction,
+    SavedLayoutSource,
+    SavedLayoutWidget,
+    User,
+    WIDGET_CONFIG_MODELS,
+    Widget,
+)
+
+router = APIRouter()
+
+MAX_LAYOUT_NAME_LEN = 60
+
+# Per-widget-type allowlist of config columns that are an actual authored
+# *setting* (captured/restored by a saved layout) as opposed to runtime/
+# cache state (a photo widget's current queue position, a calendar's
+# fetch cache, a whiteboard's rendered-image cache, ...) which a layout
+# deliberately leaves out -- applying a layout should feel like a fresh
+# widget of that type with these settings pre-filled, not a resurrection
+# of stale queue/cache state from whenever it was saved. "static"
+# excludes `image` on purpose -- that BLOB lives on SavedLayoutWidget.image
+# instead (see its own model docstring).
+LAYOUT_CONFIG_FIELDS: dict[str, tuple[str, ...]] = {
+    "photos": ("album_id", "order", "display_mode", "queue_target_len"),
+    "calendar": (
+        "view", "week_start", "weather_enabled", "weather_units", "weather_cities",
+        "week_days", "week_layout", "week_start_offset", "render_style",
+    ),
+    "tasks": ("name", "show_completed", "render_style"),
+    "static": ("display_mode", "original_filename", "render_style"),
+    "text": ("content", "font_size", "font_family", "align", "background_color", "render_style"),
+    "whiteboard": ("user_id", "url", "render_style"),
+    "battery": ("mode", "render_style"),
+    "weather": (
+        "mode", "provider", "units", "city_label", "city_latitude", "city_longitude",
+        "hourly_interval_hours", "daily_days", "cities", "render_style",
+    ),
+}
+
+# widget_type -> (FrameCalendar|FrameTaskList model, SavedLayoutSource.kind)
+SOURCE_MODELS: dict[str, tuple[type, str]] = {
+    "calendar": (FrameCalendar, "calendar"),
+    "tasks": (FrameTaskList, "task"),
+}
+
+
+def _layout_summary(db: Session, layout: SavedLayout, frame: Frame | None = None) -> dict:
+    widget_count = db.scalar(
+        select(func.count()).select_from(SavedLayoutWidget).where(SavedLayoutWidget.saved_layout_id == layout.id)
+    )
+    result = {
+        "id": layout.id,
+        "name": layout.name,
+        "cols": layout.cols,
+        "rows": layout.rows,
+        "widget_count": widget_count or 0,
+        "created_at": layout.created_at,
+        "updated_at": layout.updated_at,
+    }
+    if frame is not None:
+        cols, rows = grid.grid_dims(frame.orientation)
+        result["compatible"] = (layout.cols, layout.rows) == (cols, rows)
+    return result
+
+
+def _user_owned_layout(db: Session, layout_id: int, user: User) -> SavedLayout:
+    layout = db.get(SavedLayout, layout_id)
+    if layout is None or layout.user_id != user.id:
+        raise HTTPException(404, "No such saved layout")
+    return layout
+
+
+@router.get("/api/frames/{frame_id}/layouts")
+def api_layouts_list(request: Request, frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_view), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    """Every saved layout owned by the calling user (saved layouts are
+    global to a user, not scoped to this or any other frame) -- includes
+    a `compatible` flag per layout for whether it can actually be applied
+    to *this* frame's current grid, so the UI can offer incompatible ones
+    greyed-out with a reason rather than hiding them outright."""
+    user = require_user_api(request, db)
+    layouts = db.scalars(
+        select(SavedLayout).where(SavedLayout.user_id == user.id).order_by(SavedLayout.name)
+    ).all()
+    return {"layouts": [_layout_summary(db, layout, frame) for layout in layouts]}
+
+
+class LayoutSaveRequest(BaseModel):
+    name: str
+
+
+def _snapshot_widget_config(widget: Widget, config) -> dict:
+    fields = LAYOUT_CONFIG_FIELDS.get(widget.widget_type, ())
+    return {field: getattr(config, field) for field in fields}
+
+
+def _snapshot_sources(db: Session, widget_id: int, model: type) -> list[dict]:
+    rows = db.scalars(select(model).where(model.widget_id == widget_id)).all()
+    return [
+        {
+            "user_id": row.user_id, "calendar_key": row.calendar_key, "calendar_label": row.calendar_label,
+            "included": row.included, "color_index": row.color_index,
+        }
+        for row in rows
+    ]
+
+
+@router.post("/api/frames/{frame_id}/layouts")
+def api_layout_save(
+    body: LayoutSaveRequest, request: Request,
+    frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_control), db: Session = Depends(get_db),
+):
+    """Snapshots this frame's current widgets (placement + settings,
+    see LAYOUT_CONFIG_FIELDS), their calendar/task sources, and their
+    button-action bindings into a named layout owned by the calling
+    user. Saving again with a name this user already has overwrites that
+    layout's snapshot in place (see models.SavedLayout's docstring)
+    rather than erroring or creating a duplicate."""
+    user = require_user_api(request, db)
+    name = body.name.strip()
+    if not name:
+        raise HTTPException(400, "Name is required")
+    if len(name) > MAX_LAYOUT_NAME_LEN:
+        raise HTTPException(400, f"Name must be {MAX_LAYOUT_NAME_LEN} characters or fewer")
+
+    cols, rows = grid.grid_dims(frame.orientation)
+    widgets = db.scalars(
+        select(Widget).where(Widget.frame_id == frame.id).order_by(Widget.sort_order)
+    ).all()
+
+    now = time.time()
+    existing = db.execute(
+        select(SavedLayout).where(SavedLayout.user_id == user.id, SavedLayout.name == name)
+    ).scalar_one_or_none()
+    if existing is not None:
+        layout = existing
+        layout.cols, layout.rows, layout.updated_at = cols, rows, now
+        db.execute(delete(SavedLayoutWidget).where(SavedLayoutWidget.saved_layout_id == layout.id))
+        db.flush()
+    else:
+        layout = SavedLayout(user_id=user.id, name=name, cols=cols, rows=rows, created_at=now, updated_at=now)
+        db.add(layout)
+        db.flush()
+
+    snapshot_id_by_widget_id: dict[int, int] = {}
+    for widget in widgets:
+        config = db.get(WIDGET_CONFIG_MODELS[widget.widget_type], widget.id)
+        snapshot = SavedLayoutWidget(
+            saved_layout_id=layout.id, widget_type=widget.widget_type,
+            x=widget.x, y=widget.y, w=widget.w, h=widget.h, sort_order=widget.sort_order,
+            config=_snapshot_widget_config(widget, config),
+            image=config.image if widget.widget_type == "static" else None,
+        )
+        db.add(snapshot)
+        db.flush()
+        snapshot_id_by_widget_id[widget.id] = snapshot.id
+
+        source_model = SOURCE_MODELS.get(widget.widget_type)
+        if source_model is not None:
+            model, kind = source_model
+            for source in _snapshot_sources(db, widget.id, model):
+                db.add(SavedLayoutSource(saved_layout_widget_id=snapshot.id, kind=kind, **source))
+
+    actions = db.scalars(select(FrameButtonAction).where(FrameButtonAction.frame_id == frame.id)).all()
+    for action in actions:
+        snapshot_id = snapshot_id_by_widget_id.get(action.widget_id)
+        if snapshot_id is None:
+            continue
+        db.add(SavedLayoutButtonAction(
+            saved_layout_widget_id=snapshot_id, button=action.button, action=action.action,
+            sort_order=action.sort_order,
+        ))
+
+    db.commit()
+    return _layout_summary(db, layout, frame)
+
+
+class LayoutRenameRequest(BaseModel):
+    name: str
+
+
+@router.patch("/api/layouts/{layout_id}")
+def api_layout_rename(layout_id: int, body: LayoutRenameRequest, request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    user = require_user_api(request, db)
+    layout = _user_owned_layout(db, layout_id, user)
+    name = body.name.strip()
+    if not name:
+        raise HTTPException(400, "Name is required")
+    if len(name) > MAX_LAYOUT_NAME_LEN:
+        raise HTTPException(400, f"Name must be {MAX_LAYOUT_NAME_LEN} characters or fewer")
+    conflict = db.execute(
+        select(SavedLayout).where(
+            SavedLayout.user_id == user.id, SavedLayout.name == name, SavedLayout.id != layout.id
+        )
+    ).scalar_one_or_none()
+    if conflict is not None:
+        raise HTTPException(400, "You already have a saved layout with that name")
+    layout.name = name
+    layout.updated_at = time.time()
+    db.commit()
+    return _layout_summary(db, layout)
+
+
+@router.delete("/api/layouts/{layout_id}")
+def api_layout_delete(layout_id: int, request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    user = require_user_api(request, db)
+    layout = _user_owned_layout(db, layout_id, user)
+    db.delete(layout)
+    db.commit()
+    return {"status": "deleted"}
+
+
+def apply_layout_to_frame(db: Session, frame: Frame, layout: SavedLayout) -> int:
+    """Replaces frame's entire widget arrangement with layout's snapshot
+    -- every current widget (and its own config/sources/button actions,
+    all ondelete="CASCADE") is deleted first, same "act unconditionally
+    on the server, confirm on the client" posture as
+    api_widgets.api_widgets_clear. A source whose owning user account
+    (or a whiteboard's user_id) no longer exists is silently dropped
+    rather than left dangling -- config is JSON, not FK-checked, so
+    nothing enforces that at the storage layer. Shared by api_layout_apply
+    (explicit user action) and global_actions.cycle_layout (a hold-
+    triggered global action, see app/global_actions.py) -- caller is
+    responsible for checking the grid-size match first. Returns the
+    number of widgets applied."""
+    snapshots = db.scalars(
+        select(SavedLayoutWidget)
+        .where(SavedLayoutWidget.saved_layout_id == layout.id)
+        .order_by(SavedLayoutWidget.sort_order)
+    ).all()
+
+    with frame_locked(db, frame.id):
+        for widget in db.scalars(select(Widget).where(Widget.frame_id == frame.id)).all():
+            db.delete(widget)
+        db.flush()
+
+        new_widget_id_by_snapshot_id: dict[int, int] = {}
+        for snapshot in snapshots:
+            widget = Widget(
+                frame_id=frame.id, widget_type=snapshot.widget_type,
+                x=snapshot.x, y=snapshot.y, w=snapshot.w, h=snapshot.h,
+                sort_order=snapshot.sort_order, created_at=time.time(),
+            )
+            db.add(widget)
+            db.flush()
+            new_widget_id_by_snapshot_id[snapshot.id] = widget.id
+
+            config = WIDGET_CONFIG_MODELS[snapshot.widget_type](widget_id=widget.id)
+            for field, value in snapshot.config.items():
+                if field == "user_id" and value is not None and db.get(User, value) is None:
+                    value = None  # that WebDAV account no longer exists
+                setattr(config, field, value)
+            if snapshot.widget_type == "static" and snapshot.image is not None:
+                config.image = snapshot.image
+                config.uploaded_at = time.time()
+            db.add(config)
+
+            source_model = SOURCE_MODELS.get(snapshot.widget_type)
+            if source_model is not None:
+                model, kind = source_model
+                sources = db.scalars(
+                    select(SavedLayoutSource).where(
+                        SavedLayoutSource.saved_layout_widget_id == snapshot.id, SavedLayoutSource.kind == kind
+                    )
+                ).all()
+                for source in sources:
+                    if db.get(User, source.user_id) is None:
+                        continue  # that account no longer exists
+                    db.add(model(
+                        widget_id=widget.id, user_id=source.user_id, calendar_key=source.calendar_key,
+                        calendar_label=source.calendar_label, included=source.included,
+                        color_index=source.color_index,
+                    ))
+
+        for snapshot in snapshots:
+            actions = db.scalars(
+                select(SavedLayoutButtonAction)
+                .where(SavedLayoutButtonAction.saved_layout_widget_id == snapshot.id)
+                .order_by(SavedLayoutButtonAction.sort_order)
+            ).all()
+            for action in actions:
+                db.add(FrameButtonAction(
+                    frame_id=frame.id, button=action.button,
+                    widget_id=new_widget_id_by_snapshot_id[snapshot.id], action=action.action,
+                    sort_order=action.sort_order, created_at=time.time(),
+                ))
+        db.commit()
+    return len(snapshots)
+
+
+@router.post("/api/frames/{frame_id}/layouts/{layout_id}/apply")
+def api_layout_apply(
+    layout_id: int, request: Request,
+    frame: Frame = Depends(require_frame_control), db: Session = Depends(get_db),
+):
+    """Replaces this frame's entire widget arrangement with a saved
+    layout's -- see apply_layout_to_frame above for what that actually
+    does."""
+    user = require_user_api(request, db)
+    layout = _user_owned_layout(db, layout_id, user)
+    cols, rows = grid.grid_dims(frame.orientation)
+    if (layout.cols, layout.rows) != (cols, rows):
+        raise HTTPException(400, "This layout was saved for a different frame size/orientation")
+
+    widget_count = apply_layout_to_frame(db, frame, layout)
+    return {"status": "applied", "widget_count": widget_count}

server/app/routers/common.py

@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import io
 import logging
 import os
+import statistics
 import time
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 import httpx
@@ -15,15 +16,28 @@ from PIL import Image
 from sqlalchemy import select
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 
-from .. import calendar_feed, quiet_hours
-from ..db import frame_locked
-from ..image_pipeline import render_frame
+from .. import caldav_client, calendar_feed, grid, quiet_hours, weather, whiteboard
+from ..db import widget_locked
+from ..image_pipeline import logical_render_size
 from ..immich_client import ImmichClient
-from ..models import Frame, User, UserFrame
+from ..models import (
+    BatteryLog,
+    CalendarWidgetConfig,
+    Frame,
+    FrameButtonAction,
+    FrameCalendar,
+    FrameTaskList,
+    PhotoWidgetConfig,
+    TaskWidgetConfig,
+    User,
+    Widget,
+    WeatherWidgetConfig,
+    WhiteboardWidgetConfig,
+)
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-FRAME_MODES = ("photos", "calendar")
+FRAME_MODES = ("photos", "calendar", "whiteboard")
 
 # Battery-history / estimate tuning (see /frame/battery and battery_estimate_s).
 BATTERY_HISTORY_MAX = 500  # ~20 days at hourly reports
@@ -38,8 +52,19 @@ RECHARGE_JUMP_PCT = 5  # a report this much above the recent baseline = battery
 # still needs to clear all of them, while a single stray low one doesn't
 # get to set the bar.
 RECHARGE_LOOKBACK = 3
-MIN_ESTIMATE_SPAN_S = 2 * 3600  # need at least this much observed time...
-MIN_ESTIMATE_DROP_PCT = 2  # ...and this much observed drop before estimating
+BATTERY_ESTIMATE_SAMPLE_COUNT = 100  # most recent battery_log rows considered
+MIN_ESTIMATE_SAMPLES = 5  # discharge steps needed before trusting the average
+# Modified z-score cutoff (Iglewicz & Hoaglin's standard figure) for
+# _reject_outlier_drops -- see that function's docstring for why a
+# single noisy reading needs rejecting at the per-wake-drop level, not
+# just at the recharge-detection level.
+OUTLIER_MODIFIED_Z_THRESHOLD = 3.5
+# Readings considered on each side of a given reading when
+# _smooth_percents looks for local outliers. Needs to be at least half
+# the length of the longest bad-reading burst a noisy divider produces
+# (observed up to ~4 consecutive corrupted reports on one frame) so the
+# good neighbors still outnumber the bad ones in the window.
+BATTERY_SMOOTHING_WINDOW = 4
 
 # "Overdue" threshold multiplier: the device should check in roughly every
 # refresh_interval_s; give it half again as long before flagging it.
@@ -67,17 +92,9 @@ def immich_client_for(frame: Frame) -> ImmichClient:
     return ImmichClient(url, key)
 
 
-def require_configured(frame: Frame) -> None:
-    url, key = immich_creds(frame)
-    if not url or not key:
-        raise HTTPException(400, "Immich URL/API key not configured yet")
-    if not frame.album_id:
-        raise HTTPException(400, "No album configured yet")
-
-
-def list_assets(client: ImmichClient, frame: Frame) -> list[dict]:
+def list_assets(client: ImmichClient, album_id: str) -> list[dict]:
     try:
-        assets = client.list_album_assets(frame.album_id)
+        assets = client.list_album_assets(album_id)
     except httpx.HTTPError as e:
         raise HTTPException(502, f"Could not reach Immich: {e}") from e
     if not assets:
@@ -85,18 +102,22 @@ def list_assets(client: ImmichClient, frame: Frame) -> list[dict]:
     return assets
 
 
-def fetch_source_and_faces(client: ImmichClient, frame: Frame, asset_id: str) -> tuple[Image.Image, list[dict] | None]:
+def fetch_source_and_faces(
+    client: ImmichClient, display_mode: str, asset_id: str
+) -> tuple[Image.Image, list[dict] | None]:
     """The shared first half of rendering: download the Immich preview
-    and (only if display_mode needs it) its detected faces. Used by both
-    render_asset (device-facing) and the web UI's rendered-preview
-    endpoint (routers/api_frames.py) so they can't drift apart."""
+    and (only if display_mode needs it) its detected faces. Used by the
+    web UI's rendered-preview endpoint (routers/api_widgets.py's
+    api_widget_preview_rendered). Takes display_mode directly (a photos
+    widget's own setting, see PhotoWidgetConfig) rather than a whole
+    Frame -- this function only ever needed that one attribute off it."""
     try:
         jpeg_bytes = client.download_asset_preview(asset_id)
     except httpx.HTTPError as e:
         raise HTTPException(502, f"Could not download asset from Immich: {e}") from e
 
     faces = None
-    if frame.display_mode == "crop_faces":
+    if display_mode == "crop_faces":
         try:
             faces = client.get_asset_faces(asset_id)
         except httpx.HTTPError as e:
@@ -107,30 +128,173 @@ def fetch_source_and_faces(client: ImmichClient, frame: Frame, asset_id: str) ->
     return Image.open(io.BytesIO(jpeg_bytes)), faces
 
 
-def render_asset(client: ImmichClient, frame: Frame, asset_id: str, manage: dict | None = None) -> bytes:
-    source, faces = fetch_source_and_faces(client, frame, asset_id)
-    return render_frame(source, faces=faces, orientation=frame.orientation,
-                        palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb, display_mode=frame.display_mode,
-                        color_boost=frame.color_boost, contrast_boost=frame.contrast_boost,
-                        dither_strength=frame.dither_strength, manage=manage)
+def _avg_wake_interval_s(frame: Frame) -> float:
+    """Average wall-clock seconds between wakes: refresh_interval_s
+    scaled up for however much of each day quiet hours removes from the
+    wake schedule entirely -- fewer wakes/day, not a cheaper wake. This
+    is what lets battery_estimate_s convert a per-wake drop rate into a
+    remaining-time estimate that reacts to both settings immediately,
+    rather than only after enough new history accumulates under them."""
+    active_day_s = max(1, 86400 - quiet_hours.quiet_span_s(frame))
+    interval_s = max(1, frame.refresh_interval_s)
+    wakes_per_day = max(1, active_day_s // interval_s)
+    return 86400 / wakes_per_day
 
 
-def battery_estimate_s(frame: Frame) -> int | None:
-    """Linear remaining-time estimate from the current discharge cycle's
-    observed rate, or None when there's not enough signal to be honest
-    about (too little time observed, or too little drop -- a flat line
-    extrapolates to garbage)."""
-    hist = frame.battery_history
-    if len(hist) < 2:
+def _reject_outlier_drops(steps: list[tuple[int, float]]) -> list[tuple[int, float]]:
+    """Drops (weight, drop_pct) pairs whose drop is a wild outlier
+    relative to the rest of the recent steps. A single noisy ADC/
+    regulator glitch (see firmware/main/battery.c) corrupts one of the
+    two steps around it, whichever way it reads: a glitch that dips low
+    then recovers makes the step INTO it a spurious huge drop (the step
+    back out is an increase, already excluded above as a "recharge");
+    one that spikes high then settles makes the step OUT OF it the
+    spurious one instead (the step into it is the excluded "recharge").
+    Either way, one bad reading survives the recharge filter looking
+    like an ordinary, legitimately huge drop and swings the whole
+    remaining-time estimate on its own.
+
+    Uses a MAD-based modified z-score (robust to a small number of
+    extreme values in a way a plain mean/stdev z-score isn't -- a single
+    huge outlier inflates the stdev itself, which just hides the outlier
+    from a stdev-based test) rather than a fixed percent-point cutoff, so
+    it adapts to how noisy a given frame's own sensor actually is
+    instead of guessing one global threshold for every install."""
+    drops = [drop for _, drop in steps]
+    median = statistics.median(drops)
+    abs_devs = [abs(d - median) for d in drops]
+    mad = statistics.median(abs_devs)
+    if mad == 0:
+        # The standard median-based MAD degenerates to exactly 0 as soon
+        # as more than half the steps share the median exactly -- and
+        # real battery data is small integer percents, so "most wakes
+        # cost exactly 1%" ties are the norm, not an edge case. That's
+        # precisely the shape a single spliced-in glitch among a steady
+        # discharge rate has (18 steps at "1", one at "26"), so treating
+        # MAD==0 as "no spread, nothing to reject" would let exactly the
+        # outlier this function exists for sail straight through. Fall
+        # back to mean absolute deviation instead, which only reaches 0
+        # when every single step is identical.
+        mad = statistics.mean(abs_devs)
+        if mad == 0:
+            return steps  # every step really is identical -- nothing to reject
+    kept = [
+        (weight, drop) for weight, drop in steps
+        if abs(0.6745 * (drop - median) / mad) <= OUTLIER_MODIFIED_Z_THRESHOLD
+    ]
+    return kept or steps  # never filter down to nothing
+
+
+def _smooth_percents(percents: list[int]) -> list[float]:
+    """Replaces any reading that's a wild outlier against its own local
+    neighborhood with that neighborhood's median, before per-wake drop
+    steps are ever built from the series.
+
+    _reject_outlier_drops (above) only catches a bad reading by how much
+    it distorts the *steps* immediately on either side of it -- which is
+    exactly what one isolated glitch does, but a 1M-ohm divider (see
+    firmware/main/battery.c) doesn't always misfire in isolation: several
+    consecutive reports can drift or glitch together (a multi-minute
+    crawl from 68 up into the high 70s with nothing charging, or a run of
+    several ~40 reports spliced into an otherwise flat ~53 run). A step
+    computed *between* two bad readings in the same burst looks like an
+    ordinary small change, not an outlier, so it sails through
+    _reject_outlier_drops untouched.
+
+    A Hampel identifier catches that instead: each reading is compared to
+    the median of its own local window (not the whole series), using the
+    same MAD-based modified z-score as _reject_outlier_drops so this
+    adapts to how noisy a given frame's sensor actually is rather than a
+    fixed percent-point cutoff. A window of BATTERY_SMOOTHING_WINDOW
+    reports on each side tolerates a bad burst up to that long while
+    still being outvoted by the surrounding good readings."""
+    n = len(percents)
+    smoothed = list(percents)
+    for i in range(n):
+        lo = max(0, i - BATTERY_SMOOTHING_WINDOW)
+        hi = min(n, i + BATTERY_SMOOTHING_WINDOW + 1)
+        neighborhood = percents[lo:hi]
+        median = statistics.median(neighborhood)
+        abs_devs = [abs(v - median) for v in neighborhood]
+        # Unlike _reject_outlier_drops, no mean-of-abs-devs fallback here:
+        # a burst can be a big enough share of this small a window that
+        # the mean itself gets dragged up by the very values being
+        # tested, hiding them. A flat 1-percentage-point floor -- this
+        # project's smallest real unit of noise -- keeps the test from
+        # dividing by zero without being skewed by the burst it's
+        # checking.
+        mad = statistics.median(abs_devs) or 1
+        if abs(0.6745 * (percents[i] - median) / mad) > OUTLIER_MODIFIED_Z_THRESHOLD:
+            smoothed[i] = median
+    return smoothed
+
+
+def battery_estimate_s(frame: Frame, db: Session) -> int | None:
+    """Remaining-time estimate from a recency-weighted average of the
+    *per-wake* percent drop, over the last BATTERY_ESTIMATE_SAMPLE_COUNT
+    rows of the permanent battery_log table -- not just the current
+    discharge cycle's battery_history, which resets to empty on every
+    recharge and so often doesn't hold enough signal on its own even
+    though the frame has plenty of history overall.
+
+    Consecutive reports are assumed to be consecutive wakes (firmware
+    reports battery on every wake while on battery), so each step's
+    (prev_percent - next_percent) is that wake's cost. Raw percents go
+    through _smooth_percents first, which corrects readings (including
+    short bursts of them) that are wild outliers against their own local
+    neighborhood -- see that function's docstring for why that catches
+    noise shapes _reject_outlier_drops can't. A step where percent went
+    *up* is a recharge, not negative drain, and is skipped entirely
+    rather than folded in as a weird outlier; a flat step (0% change)
+    still counts as a real, cheap wake -- excluding those would
+    systematically overstate the per-wake cost by only counting the
+    wakes that happened to tick the percentage down. The remaining steps
+    then get one more pass, _reject_outlier_drops, to catch whatever
+    single-noisy-reading shape survives smoothing (see that function's
+    docstring). Steps are weighted linearly by recency (step i of n gets
+    weight i, 1-indexed) so a recent change in usage pattern shows up
+    quickly instead of being washed out by a long flat history.
+
+    The resulting %/wake rate is then converted to wall-clock time using
+    the frame's *current* refresh_interval_s and quiet-hours settings
+    (see _avg_wake_interval_s), not whatever cadence produced the
+    historical data -- so halving refresh_interval_s roughly halves the
+    estimate immediately (not exactly halves: quiet hours removes a
+    fixed wake-free window from every day regardless of interval, which
+    is the "other things going on" that keeps the scaling sublinear)."""
+    if frame.battery_percent < 0:
         return None
-    first_ts, first_pct = hist[0]
-    last_ts, last_pct = hist[-1]
-    span = last_ts - first_ts
-    drop = first_pct - last_pct
-    if span < MIN_ESTIMATE_SPAN_S or drop < MIN_ESTIMATE_DROP_PCT:
+    rows = db.execute(
+        select(BatteryLog.percent)
+        .where(BatteryLog.frame_id == frame.id)
+        .order_by(BatteryLog.ts.desc())
+        .limit(BATTERY_ESTIMATE_SAMPLE_COUNT)
+    ).scalars().all()
+    if len(rows) < MIN_ESTIMATE_SAMPLES + 1:
         return None
-    rate = drop / span  # percent per second
-    return int(last_pct / rate)
+    percents = list(reversed(rows))  # chronological order
+    percents = _smooth_percents(percents)
+
+    steps: list[tuple[int, float]] = []  # (recency_weight, drop_pct)
+    for i in range(1, len(percents)):
+        prev_pct, next_pct = percents[i - 1], percents[i]
+        if next_pct > prev_pct:
+            continue  # recharge (or a swap) -- not a discharge sample
+        steps.append((i, prev_pct - next_pct))  # later steps (larger i) weigh more
+
+    if len(steps) < MIN_ESTIMATE_SAMPLES:
+        return None
+    steps = _reject_outlier_drops(steps)
+
+    weight_total = sum(weight for weight, _ in steps)
+    if weight_total <= 0:
+        return None
+    avg_drop_per_wake = sum(weight * drop for weight, drop in steps) / weight_total
+    if avg_drop_per_wake <= 0:
+        return None  # flat -- no honest rate to extrapolate
+
+    remaining_wakes = frame.battery_percent / avg_drop_per_wake
+    return int(remaining_wakes * _avg_wake_interval_s(frame))
 
 
 def shell_context(request, db: Session, user, active_frame: Frame | None = None,
@@ -241,16 +405,63 @@ def _format_taken_at(exif: dict) -> str | None:
         return None
 
 
-def _manage_content_asset_id(frame: Frame) -> str | None:
-    """Whether frame.current_asset_id refers to a photo actually visible
-    right now, for whichever mode is active -- always true in photos
-    mode; only true in calendar mode when the agenda view's photo inlay
-    is on (otherwise current_asset_id could be stale, left over from
-    whenever photos mode last ran, and showing its location/date/share
-    info on a manage overlay over a view with no visible photo at all
-    would be actively misleading, not just unhelpful)."""
-    relevant = frame.mode != "calendar" or (frame.calendar_view == "agenda" and frame.calendar_photo_inlay)
-    return frame.current_asset_id if relevant and frame.current_asset_id else None
+def widget_of_type(db: Session, frame: Frame, widget_type: str) -> Widget | None:
+    """The frame's first widget of this type, by placement order. Until
+    the placement UI (a later phase) ships, every frame has at most one
+    widget per type -- the auto-migrated default -- so callers needing
+    "the photo widget" / "the calendar widget" / "the whiteboard widget"
+    for what's still effectively a single-widget-per-type frame use this
+    rather than querying Widget directly. None if the frame has no widget
+    of this type."""
+    return db.scalars(
+        select(Widget).where(Widget.frame_id == frame.id, Widget.widget_type == widget_type)
+        .order_by(Widget.sort_order)
+    ).first()
+
+
+def photo_widget_config_or_404(db: Session, frame: Frame) -> tuple[Widget, PhotoWidgetConfig]:
+    """The frame's photo widget + its config, or a 400 if Immich creds or
+    an album aren't set up yet. Immich creds are frame/owner-level, but
+    album_id lives on PhotoWidgetConfig. Shared by api_frames.py and
+    manage.py, whose photo-related endpoints both need exactly this."""
+    url, key = immich_creds(frame)
+    if not url or not key:
+        raise HTTPException(400, "Immich URL/API key not configured yet")
+    widget = widget_of_type(db, frame, "photos")
+    cfg = db.get(PhotoWidgetConfig, widget.id) if widget else None
+    if widget is None or not cfg.album_id:
+        raise HTTPException(400, "No album configured yet")
+    return widget, cfg
+
+
+def photo_widgets_for_frame(db: Session, frame: Frame) -> list[Widget]:
+    return db.scalars(
+        select(Widget).where(Widget.frame_id == frame.id, Widget.widget_type == "photos")
+        .order_by(Widget.sort_order)
+    ).all()
+
+
+def _primary_photo_widget(db: Session, frame: Frame, photo_widgets: list[Widget]) -> Widget | None:
+    """The one photo widget the manage overlay's location/date/share-link
+    boxes show info for -- unlike face labels (which generalize to every
+    photo widget on screen, see build_manage_content), there's only one
+    of each of these fixed panel corners to go around, so with more than
+    one photo widget some single one has to be picked. Resolution rule:
+    whichever photo widget the NEXT button's first assigned action
+    targets, falling back to the first photo widget by placement order
+    if none is button-assigned."""
+    if not photo_widgets:
+        return None
+    next_actions = db.scalars(
+        select(FrameButtonAction)
+        .where(FrameButtonAction.frame_id == frame.id, FrameButtonAction.button == "next")
+        .order_by(FrameButtonAction.sort_order)
+    ).all()
+    photo_widget_ids = {w.id for w in photo_widgets}
+    for action in next_actions:
+        if action.widget_id in photo_widget_ids:
+            return next(w for w in photo_widgets if w.id == action.widget_id)
+    return photo_widgets[0]
 
 
 def build_manage_content(db: Session, frame: Frame, request) -> dict:
@@ -259,82 +470,332 @@ def build_manage_content(db: Session, frame: Frame, request) -> dict:
     /frame/face-labels, both removed -- see the module docstring in
     manage_overlay.py) are now just internal calls made here, once,
     server-side, since compositing itself also moved server-side.
-    management_url and battery_percent always apply; location/date/
-    share-URL/face-labels only when there's a real current photo (see
-    _manage_content_asset_id) -- absent otherwise, which
-    manage_overlay.compose() already treats as "skip that region",
-    exactly the graceful-degradation behavior the old firmware-fetched
-    version had."""
+    management_url and battery_percent always apply. location/date/
+    share-URL come from one "primary" photo widget (see
+    _primary_photo_widget -- there's only one of each of those fixed
+    panel corners, so with more than one photo widget on screen some
+    single one has to be picked); face labels generalize more simply,
+    since manage_overlay.compose() already takes a flat list and draws
+    each one independently -- every photo widget's own named faces get
+    concatenated in, each positioned within that widget's own region
+    (see face_labels.compute_face_labels' region param) rather than as
+    if a photo filled the whole panel."""
     base = str(request.base_url).rstrip("/")
     content: dict = {
         "management_url": f"{base}/m/{frame.manage_token}",
         "battery_percent": frame.battery_percent,
     }
 
-    asset_id = _manage_content_asset_id(frame)
-    if not asset_id:
+    photo_widgets = photo_widgets_for_frame(db, frame)
+    if not photo_widgets:
         return content
 
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    try:
-        asset = client.get_asset(asset_id)
-        faces = client.get_asset_faces(asset_id)
-    except httpx.HTTPError as e:
-        logger.warning("Could not fetch manage-overlay photo info for asset %s: %s", asset_id, e)
-        return content
-
-    exif = asset.get("exifInfo") or {}
-    content["location_lines"] = _format_location(exif)
-    content["taken_at"] = _format_taken_at(exif)
-    content["share_url"] = f"{base}/frame/share/{asset_id}"
-
-    if any((face.get("person") or {}).get("name") for face in faces):
+    primary = _primary_photo_widget(db, frame, photo_widgets)
+    primary_cfg = db.get(PhotoWidgetConfig, primary.id) if primary else None
+    if primary_cfg and primary_cfg.current_asset_id:
+        client = immich_client_for(frame)
         try:
-            preview_bytes = client.download_asset_preview(asset_id)
-            from ..face_labels import compute_face_labels
-
-            content["face_labels"] = compute_face_labels(preview_bytes, faces, frame.display_mode, frame.orientation)
+            asset = client.get_asset(primary_cfg.current_asset_id)
         except httpx.HTTPError as e:
-            logger.warning("Could not download asset %s for face-label mapping: %s", asset_id, e)
+            logger.warning(
+                "Could not fetch manage-overlay photo info for asset %s: %s", primary_cfg.current_asset_id, e
+            )
+        else:
+            exif = asset.get("exifInfo") or {}
+            content["location_lines"] = _format_location(exif)
+            content["taken_at"] = _format_taken_at(exif)
 
+    # Unlike location/date-taken (a single fixed corner, so tied to the
+    # one "primary" widget above), the share link covers every photo
+    # widget's current photo (see manage.manage_share) -- so it only
+    # needs *some* photo widget to have a current photo, not specifically
+    # the primary one, and doesn't depend on the EXIF fetch above
+    # succeeding.
+    if any(db.get(PhotoWidgetConfig, w.id).current_asset_id for w in photo_widgets):
+        content["share_url"] = f"{base}/frame/share/{frame.manage_token}"
+
+    panel_w, panel_h = logical_render_size(frame.orientation)
+    face_labels: list[dict] = []
+    for widget in photo_widgets:
+        cfg = db.get(PhotoWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+        if not cfg.current_asset_id:
+            continue
+        client = immich_client_for(frame)
+        try:
+            preview_bytes = client.download_asset_preview(cfg.current_asset_id)
+            faces = client.get_asset_faces(cfg.current_asset_id)
+        except httpx.HTTPError as e:
+            logger.warning("Could not fetch manage-overlay face info for asset %s: %s", cfg.current_asset_id, e)
+            continue
+        if not any((face.get("person") or {}).get("name") for face in faces):
+            continue  # no Immich-identified person on this widget's current photo -- nothing to label
+
+        from ..face_labels import compute_face_labels
+
+        region = grid.cell_to_pixels(frame.orientation, panel_w, panel_h, (widget.x, widget.y, widget.w, widget.h))
+        face_labels.extend(compute_face_labels(preview_bytes, faces, cfg.display_mode, frame.orientation,
+                                               region=region))
+
+    if face_labels:
+        content["face_labels"] = face_labels
     return content
 
 
-def calendar_sources_for_frame(db: Session, frame: Frame) -> list[tuple[str, str]]:
-    """Every user linked to this frame with BOTH a calendar URL set AND
-    explicit per-frame opt-in (UserFrame.calendar_included) -- the exact
-    set calendar_feed.merge_events needs. [(display_name-or-username,
-    ics_url), ...]."""
+def calendar_sources_for_widget(db: Session, widget: Widget) -> list[calendar_feed.CalendarSource]:
+    """Every calendar included on this calendar widget (FrameCalendar.
+    included) -- the exact set calendar_feed.merge_events needs. A
+    calendar_key of "ics" resolves against its owner's calendar_ics_url;
+    "caldav:<href>" resolves against the href itself, authenticated with
+    the owner's CalDAV account credentials (see caldav_client.py)."""
     rows = db.execute(
-        select(User)
-        .join(UserFrame, UserFrame.user_id == User.id)
-        .where(UserFrame.frame_id == frame.id, UserFrame.calendar_included == True,  # noqa: E712
-               User.calendar_ics_url != "")
-    ).scalars().all()
-    return [(u.display_name or u.username, u.calendar_ics_url) for u in rows]
+        select(FrameCalendar, User)
+        .join(User, User.id == FrameCalendar.user_id)
+        .where(FrameCalendar.widget_id == widget.id, FrameCalendar.included == True)  # noqa: E712
+    ).all()
+    sources = []
+    for fc, u in rows:
+        name = u.display_name or u.username
+        if fc.calendar_key == "ics":
+            if u.calendar_ics_url:
+                sources.append(calendar_feed.CalendarSource(
+                    name, "ics", u.calendar_ics_url, color_index=fc.color_index
+                ))
+        elif fc.calendar_key.startswith("caldav:") and u.calendar_caldav_username:
+            href = fc.calendar_key[len("caldav:"):]
+            sources.append(calendar_feed.CalendarSource(
+                name, "caldav", href, u.calendar_caldav_username, u.calendar_caldav_password,
+                color_index=fc.color_index,
+            ))
+    return sources
 
 
-def get_or_refresh_calendar_events(db: Session, frame: Frame) -> tuple[list[dict], str]:
+def get_or_refresh_calendar_events_for_widget(db: Session, frame: Frame, widget: Widget) -> tuple[list[dict], str]:
     """Frame-level throttled merge-fetch (calendar_feed.CHECK_INTERVAL_S)
     -- same shape as the Gitea release-check throttle in api_frames.py's
-    api_firmware_check. One shared cache for the whole merged result
-    (every included user's events together), not per-user -- ICS feeds
-    are small and this refetches at most every ~20 minutes regardless of
-    how many are included, so per-user cache columns would add
-    bookkeeping for a marginal benefit."""
+    api_firmware_check -- reading/writing CalendarWidgetConfig (see
+    app/widgets/calendar.py, which this backs). One shared cache for the
+    whole merged result (every included user's events together), not
+    per-user -- ICS feeds are small and this refetches at most every ~20
+    minutes regardless of how many are included, so per-user cache
+    columns would add bookkeeping for a marginal benefit."""
+    cfg = db.get(CalendarWidgetConfig, widget.id)
     now = time.time()
-    if frame.calendar_cached_events is not None and now - frame.calendar_checked_at < calendar_feed.CHECK_INTERVAL_S:
-        return frame.calendar_cached_events, frame.calendar_fetch_summary
+    if cfg.cached_events is not None and now - cfg.checked_at < calendar_feed.CHECK_INTERVAL_S:
+        return cfg.cached_events, cfg.fetch_summary
 
-    sources = calendar_sources_for_frame(db, frame)
+    sources = calendar_sources_for_widget(db, widget)
     today = quiet_hours.local_date(frame)
     events, summary = calendar_feed.merge_events(
         sources,
         today - timedelta(days=calendar_feed.EXPAND_WINDOW_PAST_DAYS),
         today + timedelta(days=calendar_feed.EXPAND_WINDOW_FUTURE_DAYS),
     )
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
-        locked.calendar_cached_events = events
-        locked.calendar_fetch_summary = summary
-        locked.calendar_checked_at = now
+    with widget_locked(db, frame.id, widget.id) as (_, _, locked_cfg):
+        locked_cfg.cached_events = events
+        locked_cfg.fetch_summary = summary
+        locked_cfg.checked_at = now
     return events, summary
+
+
+def get_or_refresh_weather_for_widget(db: Session, frame: Frame, widget: Widget) -> list[dict]:
+    """Throttled per-city forecast cache (weather.CHECK_INTERVAL_S, much
+    longer than calendar_feed's -- weather doesn't need to be that
+    fresh), reading/writing CalendarWidgetConfig (see
+    app/widgets/calendar.py). [] if weather's off or no cities are
+    configured. A city whose refetch fails keeps its last-known days
+    rather than going blank for one bad cycle -- calendar_render.py
+    would otherwise show a real city as having no forecast at all just
+    because one refresh hit a network hiccup."""
+    cfg = db.get(CalendarWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+    if not cfg.weather_enabled or not cfg.weather_cities:
+        return []
+    now = time.time()
+    if cfg.weather_cached is not None and now - cfg.weather_checked_at < weather.CHECK_INTERVAL_S:
+        return cfg.weather_cached
+
+    previous_days = {c["label"]: c.get("days", {}) for c in (cfg.weather_cached or [])}
+    result = []
+    for city in cfg.weather_cities:
+        try:
+            days = weather.fetch_daily_forecast(city["latitude"], city["longitude"], cfg.weather_units)
+        except weather.WeatherFetchError as e:
+            logger.warning("Could not refresh weather for %s: %s", city["label"], e)
+            days = previous_days.get(city["label"], {})
+        result.append({"label": city["label"], "days": days})
+
+    with widget_locked(db, frame.id, widget.id) as (_, _, locked_cfg):
+        locked_cfg.weather_cached = result
+        locked_cfg.weather_checked_at = now
+    return result
+
+
+HOURLY_FETCH_HOURS = 48  # 2 days -- comfortably covers every hourly_interval_hours option (3/4/6/12) at any widget width
+
+
+def get_or_refresh_weather_widget_data(db: Session, frame: Frame, widget: Widget, force: bool = False):
+    """Throttled fetch cache (weather.CHECK_INTERVAL_S) for the standalone
+    weather widget (see app/widgets/weather.py) -- reads/writes
+    WeatherWidgetConfig. What gets fetched depends on cfg.mode: current/
+    hourly/daily need a single configured location (city_latitude/
+    city_longitude); multi_city needs cfg.cities. None if not configured
+    yet, so render() falls back to a placeholder -- same convention as
+    get_or_refresh_whiteboard_for_widget. force=True (the "Refresh now"
+    button) bypasses the throttle entirely.
+
+    A single-location mode's fetch failure keeps the last-known cached
+    value (same reasoning as get_or_refresh_whiteboard_for_widget); a
+    multi_city fetch fails per-city (like get_or_refresh_weather_for_
+    widget's calendar-strip counterpart) so one broken city doesn't blank
+    the others."""
+    cfg = db.get(WeatherWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+    if cfg.mode == "multi_city":
+        if not cfg.cities:
+            return None
+    elif cfg.city_latitude is None or cfg.city_longitude is None:
+        return None
+
+    now = time.time()
+    if not force and cfg.cached is not None and now - cfg.checked_at < weather.CHECK_INTERVAL_S:
+        return cfg.cached
+
+    if cfg.mode == "multi_city":
+        previous = {c["label"]: c for c in (cfg.cached or [])}
+        result = []
+        for city in cfg.cities:
+            try:
+                today = weather.fetch_daily(cfg.provider, city["latitude"], city["longitude"], cfg.units, 1)
+                d = next(iter(today.values())) if today else previous.get(city["label"], {})
+            except weather.WeatherFetchError as e:
+                logger.warning("Could not refresh weather for %s: %s", city["label"], e)
+                d = previous.get(city["label"], {})
+            result.append({
+                "label": city["label"], "high": d.get("high"), "low": d.get("low"),
+                "category": d.get("category", "cloudy"),
+            })
+    else:
+        try:
+            if cfg.mode == "current":
+                result = weather.fetch_current(cfg.provider, cfg.city_latitude, cfg.city_longitude, cfg.units)
+            elif cfg.mode == "hourly":
+                result = weather.fetch_hourly(cfg.provider, cfg.city_latitude, cfg.city_longitude, cfg.units,
+                                              hours=HOURLY_FETCH_HOURS)
+            else:  # "daily"
+                result = weather.fetch_daily(cfg.provider, cfg.city_latitude, cfg.city_longitude, cfg.units,
+                                             cfg.daily_days)
+        except weather.WeatherFetchError as e:
+            logger.warning("Could not refresh weather widget %d: %s", widget.id, e)
+            return cfg.cached
+
+    with widget_locked(db, frame.id, widget.id) as (_, _, locked_cfg):
+        locked_cfg.cached = result
+        locked_cfg.checked_at = now
+    return result
+
+
+TASKS_COMPLETED_WINDOW_HOURS = 24  # how far back TaskWidgetConfig.show_completed looks
+
+
+def task_sources_for_widget(db: Session, widget: Widget) -> list[caldav_client.TaskSource]:
+    """Every task list included on this tasks widget (FrameTaskList.
+    included) -- the exact set caldav_client.merge_tasks needs. CalDAV
+    only (calendar_key is always "caldav:<href>" -- no "ics" variant, a
+    plain ICS subscription has no VTODO collection), resolved against
+    the owning user's CalDAV account credentials."""
+    rows = db.execute(
+        select(FrameTaskList, User)
+        .join(User, User.id == FrameTaskList.user_id)
+        .where(FrameTaskList.widget_id == widget.id, FrameTaskList.included == True)  # noqa: E712
+    ).all()
+    sources = []
+    for ftl, u in rows:
+        if not ftl.calendar_key.startswith("caldav:") or not u.calendar_caldav_username:
+            continue
+        href = ftl.calendar_key[len("caldav:"):]
+        sources.append(caldav_client.TaskSource(
+            u.display_name or u.username, href, u.calendar_caldav_username, u.calendar_caldav_password,
+            color_index=ftl.color_index,
+        ))
+    return sources
+
+
+def get_or_refresh_tasks_for_widget(db: Session, frame: Frame, widget: Widget) -> list[dict]:
+    """Throttled multi-list merge-fetch cache (calendar_feed.
+    CHECK_INTERVAL_S, same cadence as event merging), reading/writing
+    TaskWidgetConfig (see app/widgets/tasks.py). [] if no list is
+    included yet. Same posture as get_or_refresh_calendar_events_for_
+    widget (which this otherwise mirrors closely), not weather's own
+    per-city stale-cache fallback: a broken list just contributes
+    nothing to this cycle's merge (logged in fetch_summary) rather than
+    silently keeping its last-known tasks around."""
+    cfg = db.get(TaskWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+    now = time.time()
+    if cfg.cached is not None and now - cfg.checked_at < calendar_feed.CHECK_INTERVAL_S:
+        return cfg.cached
+
+    sources = task_sources_for_widget(db, widget)
+    if not sources:
+        return []
+    completed_since = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(hours=TASKS_COMPLETED_WINDOW_HOURS) \
+        if cfg.show_completed else None
+    tasks, summary = caldav_client.merge_tasks(sources, completed_since=completed_since)
+    if summary:
+        logger.warning("Could not refresh tasks for widget %d: %s", widget.id, summary)
+
+    with widget_locked(db, frame.id, widget.id) as (_, _, locked_cfg):
+        locked_cfg.cached = tasks
+        locked_cfg.checked_at = now
+    return tasks
+
+
+def webdav_creds_for(user: User) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
+    """(username, password) for `user`'s WebDAV access -- their own
+    dedicated webdav_username/password, or (if they opted in)
+    calendar_caldav_username/password reused from their CalDAV account
+    (see models.py's User docstring on webdav_reuse_caldav_creds). None
+    if neither is actually set up."""
+    if user.webdav_reuse_caldav_creds:
+        if user.calendar_caldav_username:
+            return user.calendar_caldav_username, user.calendar_caldav_password
+        return None
+    if user.webdav_username:
+        return user.webdav_username, user.webdav_password
+    return None
+
+
+def get_or_refresh_whiteboard_for_widget(
+    db: Session, frame: Frame, widget: Widget, force: bool = False
+) -> bytes | None:
+    """Throttled render cache (calendar_feed.CHECK_INTERVAL_S), reading/
+    writing WhiteboardWidgetConfig (see app/widgets/whiteboard.py) --
+    None if no whiteboard source is configured, credentials are missing
+    (e.g. the owning user unlinked their WebDAV/CalDAV account), or the
+    most recent fetch/render failed and nothing was ever cached yet. A
+    failure after a previous success keeps showing the last good render
+    rather than going blank for one bad refresh cycle, same reasoning as
+    get_or_refresh_weather_for_widget/get_or_refresh_tasks_for_widget.
+    force=True (the web UI's "Refresh now" button) skips the throttle
+    entirely -- unlike a device's normal wake, a person clicking a
+    button means do it right now, not eventually once the cache goes
+    stale."""
+    cfg = db.get(WhiteboardWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+    if not cfg.url or not cfg.user_id:
+        return None
+    now = time.time()
+    if not force and cfg.cached_image is not None and now - cfg.checked_at < calendar_feed.CHECK_INTERVAL_S:
+        return cfg.cached_image
+
+    user = db.get(User, cfg.user_id)
+    creds = webdav_creds_for(user) if user else None
+    if creds is None:
+        return cfg.cached_image
+
+    try:
+        png = whiteboard.fetch_and_render(cfg.url, creds[0], creds[1])
+    except whiteboard.WhiteboardRenderError as e:
+        logger.warning("Could not refresh whiteboard for widget %d: %s", widget.id, e)
+        return cfg.cached_image
+
+    with widget_locked(db, frame.id, widget.id) as (_, _, locked_cfg):
+        locked_cfg.cached_image = png
+        locked_cfg.checked_at = now
+    return png

server/app/routers/device.py

@@ -14,32 +14,28 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging
 import time
+from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 
-import httpx
 from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, Request
-from fastapi.responses import FileResponse, RedirectResponse, Response
+from fastapi.responses import FileResponse, Response
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 from sqlalchemy import delete, func, select
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 
-from .. import calendar_render, mail, photo_queue, quiet_hours
+from .. import grid, mail, quiet_hours
 from ..auth import get_server_settings, require_device
-from ..db import frame_locked, get_db
+from ..db import SessionLocal, frame_locked, get_db
 from ..firmware import firmware_path
-from ..image_pipeline import render_placeholder
-from ..models import BatteryLog, Frame
+from ..global_actions import GLOBAL_ACTIONS
+from ..image_pipeline import draw_widget_border, logical_render_size, render_panel, render_placeholder, resolve_border_color
+from ..models import BatteryLog, Frame, FrameButtonAction, Widget
+from ..widgets import WIDGET_TYPES
 from .common import (
     BATTERY_HISTORY_MAX,
     BATTERY_LOG_MAX,
     RECHARGE_JUMP_PCT,
     RECHARGE_LOOKBACK,
     build_manage_content,
-    get_or_refresh_calendar_events,
-    immich_client_for,
-    immich_creds,
-    list_assets,
-    render_asset,
-    require_configured,
 )
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -47,12 +43,13 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 router = APIRouter()
 
 
-def _setup_placeholder(frame: Frame, request: Request, manage: dict | None = None) -> bytes:
-    """What an unclaimed or not-yet-configured frame displays instead of a
-    photo -- instructions with a QR, rendered at 200 so the device treats
-    it as a perfectly normal image and never error-loops. The URLs are
-    built from the request's own base URL: whatever address the device
-    reached us at is by definition an address that works on this
+def _setup_placeholder(frame: Frame, request: Request, manage: dict | None = None,
+                       as_png: bool = False, capture_snapshot: bool = False) -> bytes | tuple[bytes, bytes]:
+    """What an unclaimed or widget-less frame displays instead of real
+    content -- instructions with a QR, rendered at 200 so the device
+    treats it as a perfectly normal image and never error-loops. The
+    URLs are built from the request's own base URL: whatever address the
+    device reached us at is by definition an address that works on this
     network."""
     base = str(request.base_url).rstrip("/")
     if frame.owner_user_id is None and frame.device_id:
@@ -63,6 +60,8 @@ def _setup_placeholder(frame: Frame, request: Request, manage: dict | None = Non
             orientation=frame.orientation,
             palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb,
             manage=manage,
+            as_png=as_png,
+            capture_snapshot=capture_snapshot,
         )
     if frame.owner_user_id is None:
         return render_placeholder(
@@ -70,137 +69,186 @@ def _setup_placeholder(frame: Frame, request: Request, manage: dict | None = Non
             orientation=frame.orientation,
             palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb,
             manage=manage,
+            as_png=as_png,
+            capture_snapshot=capture_snapshot,
         )
     return render_placeholder(
-        ["Almost there!", "Pick an album for this frame:", base],
+        ["Almost there!", "Add a widget for this frame at", base],
         qr_url=base,
         orientation=frame.orientation,
         palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb,
         manage=manage,
+        as_png=as_png,
+        capture_snapshot=capture_snapshot,
     )
 
 
-def _frame_configured(frame: Frame) -> bool:
-    url, key = immich_creds(frame)
-    return bool(url and key and frame.album_id)
-
-
-# --- photos mode ---
-
-def _render_photos_mode(db: Session, frame: Frame, request: Request, manage: dict | None,
-                        is_normal_wake: bool) -> bytes:
-    if not _frame_configured(frame):
-        return _setup_placeholder(frame, request, manage=manage)
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    assets = list_assets(client, frame)
-
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
-        photo_queue.get_current(locked, assets, in_quiet_hours=quiet_hours.in_quiet_hours(locked))
-        asset_id = locked.current_asset_id
-
-    return render_asset(client, frame, asset_id, manage=manage)
-
-
-def _advance_photos_mode(db: Session, frame: Frame, manage: dict | None) -> bytes:
-    require_configured(frame)
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    assets = list_assets(client, frame)
-
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
-        photo_queue.advance_forced(locked, assets)
-        asset_id = locked.current_asset_id
-
-    return render_asset(client, frame, asset_id, manage=manage)
-
-
-def _back_photos_mode(db: Session, frame: Frame, manage: dict | None) -> bytes:
-    require_configured(frame)
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    assets = list_assets(client, frame)
-
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
-        photo_queue.back_forced(locked, assets)
-        asset_id = locked.current_asset_id
-
-    return render_asset(client, frame, asset_id, manage=manage)
-
-
-# --- calendar mode ---
-
-def _render_calendar_mode(db: Session, frame: Frame, request: Request, manage: dict | None,
-                          is_normal_wake: bool) -> bytes:
-    from .common import calendar_sources_for_frame
-
-    if not calendar_sources_for_frame(db, frame):
-        return render_placeholder(
-            ["This frame's calendar isn't set up yet",
-             "Add a calendar in Settings, then include it on",
-             "this frame's Configuration -> Calendar card."],
-            orientation=frame.orientation, palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb, manage=manage,
+def _render_one_widget(frame_id: int, widget_id: int, orientation: str, panel_w: int, panel_h: int,
+                       cell: tuple[int, int, int, int], is_normal_wake: bool,
+                       ) -> tuple[tuple[int, int, int, int], object] | None:
+    """Renders exactly one widget on its own DB session, so several of
+    these can run concurrently in a thread pool -- see app/db.py's
+    module docstring: handlers already run multi-threaded (sync
+    handlers in FastAPI's threadpool, one process), and frame_locked/
+    widget_locked's per-frame threading.Lock is what makes that safe,
+    not anything about which Session object is in play. A SQLAlchemy
+    Session itself is never safe to share across threads, so each
+    concurrent render gets a fresh one rather than reusing the
+    request's. Most of a widget's render time is spent waiting on an
+    external call (Immich, a weather provider, CalDAV) with the DB
+    untouched, which is exactly the time this buys back."""
+    db = SessionLocal()
+    try:
+        frame = db.get(Frame, frame_id)
+        widget = db.get(Widget, widget_id)
+        if widget is None:
+            return None  # deleted between the listing query and this fetch -- skip it, not a 500
+        module = WIDGET_TYPES.get(widget.widget_type)
+        if module is None:
+            return None  # unrecognized widget_type -- shouldn't happen, skip defensively rather than 500
+        px, py, pw, ph = grid.cell_to_pixels(orientation, panel_w, panel_h, cell)
+        img = module.render(db, frame, widget, pw, ph, is_normal_wake=is_normal_wake)
+        draw_widget_border(
+            img, widget.border_style, widget.border_thickness,
+            resolve_border_color(widget.border_color_index, frame.palette_rgb),
         )
+        return (px, py, pw, ph), img
+    finally:
+        db.close()
 
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
-        if is_normal_wake and locked.calendar_browse_offset != 0:
-            locked.calendar_browse_offset = 0
-        browse_offset = locked.calendar_browse_offset
-        view = locked.calendar_view if locked.calendar_view in calendar_render.CALENDAR_VIEWS else "agenda"
-        inlay_wanted = locked.calendar_photo_inlay and view == "agenda"
 
-    events, summary = get_or_refresh_calendar_events(db, frame)
+def _render_widgets(db: Session, frame: Frame, manage: dict | None, is_normal_wake: bool,
+                    as_png: bool = False, capture_snapshot: bool = False) -> bytes | tuple[bytes, bytes]:
+    """The widget-system compositor: renders every widget on this frame
+    into its own region (see app/grid.py for grid-cell -> pixel math),
+    draws that widget's own optional border directly onto its region
+    (models.Widget.border_style, a shared per-widget property no
+    widget_type module needs to know about) and hands the results to
+    image_pipeline.render_panel for the single shared paste/enhance/
+    overlay/quantize/pack pass. Replaces the old per-mode RENDERERS
+    dict -- a frame can now show several widgets at once instead of
+    exactly one mode owning the whole panel.
 
-    photo_inlay = None
-    if inlay_wanted and _frame_configured(frame):
-        try:
-            client = immich_client_for(frame)
-            assets = list_assets(client, frame)
-            with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
-                photo_queue.get_current(locked, assets, in_quiet_hours=quiet_hours.in_quiet_hours(locked))
-                asset_id = locked.current_asset_id
-            if asset_id:
-                jpeg_bytes = client.download_asset_preview(asset_id)
-                import io
-
-                from PIL import Image
-
-                photo_inlay = Image.open(io.BytesIO(jpeg_bytes))
-        except HTTPException:
-            pass  # inlay is nice-to-have -- an Immich hiccup shouldn't blank the whole agenda
-
-    return calendar_render.render_calendar(
-        events, view=view, browse_offset=browse_offset, orientation=frame.orientation,
-        palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb, timezone=frame.timezone,
-        photo_inlay=photo_inlay, fetch_summary=summary, manage=manage,
+    Widgets render concurrently (_render_one_widget, each on its own DB
+    session) rather than one at a time -- a layout with several
+    network-backed widgets (photos, weather, calendar) previously paid
+    their fetch latency serially, which could push a single /frame/*
+    response past the firmware's fixed HTTP timeout and show a
+    misleading "server failed" status screen even though the server
+    was simply still working. Futures are submitted in sort_order and
+    collected in that same order (not completion order) -- overlapping
+    widgets must still paint in the original z-order."""
+    all_widgets = db.scalars(
+        select(Widget).where(Widget.frame_id == frame.id).order_by(Widget.sort_order)
+    ).all()
+    panel_w, panel_h = logical_render_size(frame.orientation)
+    regions = []
+    if all_widgets:
+        with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=min(len(all_widgets), 8)) as pool:
+            futures = [
+                pool.submit(
+                    _render_one_widget, frame.id, widget.id, frame.orientation, panel_w, panel_h,
+                    (widget.x, widget.y, widget.w, widget.h), is_normal_wake,
+                )
+                for widget in all_widgets
+            ]
+            for future in futures:
+                result = future.result()
+                if result is not None:
+                    regions.append(result)
+    return render_panel(
+        regions, orientation=frame.orientation, palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb,
+        color_boost=frame.color_boost, contrast_boost=frame.contrast_boost,
+        dither_strength=frame.dither_strength, manage=manage, as_png=as_png,
+        capture_snapshot=capture_snapshot,
     )
 
 
-def _advance_calendar_mode(db: Session, frame: Frame, manage: dict | None) -> bytes:
-    """NEXT in calendar mode: moves the displayed period forward one step
-    (day for agenda, week for week view, month for month view) from
-    wherever it currently is -- not from "today" -- so repeated presses
-    walk further forward. See Frame.calendar_browse_offset."""
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
-        locked.calendar_browse_offset += 1
-    return _render_calendar_mode(db, frame, request=None, manage=manage, is_normal_wake=False)
+def _render_frame_content(db: Session, frame: Frame, request: Request | None, manage: dict | None,
+                          is_normal_wake: bool, as_png: bool = False,
+                          capture_snapshot: bool = False) -> bytes | tuple[bytes, bytes]:
+    """The top-level "what does this frame show right now" entry point.
+    An unclaimed frame or one with no widgets yet gets the setup
+    placeholder (needs `request` for its QR URLs -- only available on the
+    normal-wake path where a real request is on hand, never on an
+    advance/back button press); otherwise every widget on it gets
+    composited via _render_widgets. Individual widgets that are
+    themselves unconfigured show their own small placeholder within
+    their own region (see app/widgets/*.py) rather than blanking the
+    whole panel -- a partially-set-up multi-widget frame still shows
+    whatever IS configured."""
+    has_widgets = frame.owner_user_id is not None and (
+        db.scalars(select(Widget.id).where(Widget.frame_id == frame.id).limit(1)).first() is not None
+    )
+    if not has_widgets:
+        if request is None:
+            return render_placeholder(
+                ["Almost there!"], orientation=frame.orientation, palette_rgb=frame.palette_rgb,
+                manage=manage, as_png=as_png, capture_snapshot=capture_snapshot,
+            )
+        return _setup_placeholder(frame, request, manage=manage, as_png=as_png, capture_snapshot=capture_snapshot)
+
+    return _render_widgets(db, frame, manage, is_normal_wake, as_png=as_png, capture_snapshot=capture_snapshot)
 
 
-def _back_calendar_mode(db: Session, frame: Frame, manage: dict | None) -> bytes:
-    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
-        locked.calendar_browse_offset -= 1
-    return _render_calendar_mode(db, frame, request=None, manage=manage, is_normal_wake=False)
+def render_frame_preview_png(db: Session, frame: Frame, request: Request) -> bytes:
+    """The web UI's live "how it's displaying" thumbnail (see
+    routers/api_frames.py's /preview endpoint) -- same compositor
+    /frame/image uses, just handed back as a small upright PNG instead of
+    packed native-panel bytes. Exported from here (rather than
+    duplicated) since this module already owns the full widget-
+    compositing pipeline; nothing about the /frame/* paths themselves
+    changes."""
+    return _render_frame_content(db, frame, request, manage=None, is_normal_wake=True, as_png=True)
 
 
-RENDERERS = {
-    "photos": _render_photos_mode,
-    "calendar": _render_calendar_mode,
-}
-ADVANCE_RENDERERS = {
-    "photos": _advance_photos_mode,
-    "calendar": _advance_calendar_mode,
-}
-BACK_RENDERERS = {
-    "photos": _back_photos_mode,
-    "calendar": _back_calendar_mode,
-}
+def _run_button_actions(db: Session, frame: Frame, button: str) -> None:
+    """Executes every (widget, action) binding assigned to this physical
+    button, in order -- see models.FrameButtonAction and the button-
+    assignment UI (a later phase). Each action runs to completion (its
+    own widget_locked span) before the next one starts -- never nested,
+    since db.widget_locked's underlying lock isn't reentrant (see its own
+    docstring) -- a button assigned several actions would deadlock
+    instantly if this looped any other way. One action failing
+    unexpectedly doesn't block the others, or the eventual re-render,
+    from happening -- the user pressed a physical button and expects
+    *something* to happen even if one of several assigned widgets is
+    having a bad moment."""
+    actions = db.scalars(
+        select(FrameButtonAction)
+        .where(FrameButtonAction.frame_id == frame.id, FrameButtonAction.button == button)
+        .order_by(FrameButtonAction.sort_order)
+    ).all()
+    for action_row in actions:
+        widget = db.get(Widget, action_row.widget_id)
+        if widget is None:
+            continue
+        module = WIDGET_TYPES.get(widget.widget_type)
+        action_fn = module.ACTIONS.get(action_row.action) if module else None
+        if action_fn is None:
+            continue
+        try:
+            action_fn(db, frame, widget)
+        except Exception:
+            logger.exception(
+                "Button action %r failed for widget %d (frame %d)", action_row.action, widget.id, frame.id
+            )
+
+
+def _run_global_action(db: Session, frame: Frame, button: str) -> None:
+    """The hold-triggered counterpart to _run_button_actions -- runs
+    whichever entry in app/global_actions.GLOBAL_ACTIONS this button's
+    Frame.next_hold_action/back_hold_action points to, if any (unset or
+    unrecognized is a silent no-op, same posture as an unbound short-
+    press button). See routers/device.py's frame_global_next/back."""
+    action = frame.next_hold_action if button == "next" else frame.back_hold_action
+    action_fn = GLOBAL_ACTIONS.get(action) if action else None
+    if action_fn is None:
+        return
+    try:
+        action_fn(db, frame)
+    except Exception:
+        logger.exception("Global hold action %r failed for frame %d", action, frame.id)
 
 
 @router.get("/frame/config")
@@ -228,12 +276,16 @@ def frame_config(request: Request, frame: Frame = Depends(require_device), db: S
         response = {
             "refresh_interval_s": quiet_hours.effective_refresh_interval_s(locked),
             "firmware_version": locked.firmware_available_version or None,
+            # Additive key -- old firmware's hand-rolled parser only ever
+            # extracts the keys it knows about, so this is safe for
+            # firmware that predates hold-for-global-action (see
+            # firmware/main/next_button.c, app/global_actions.py).
+            "hold_duration_ms": locked.hold_duration_ms,
         }
-        # Per-frame token push: only once the device has introduced itself
-        # by id (so the response to pure-legacy firmware stays byte-
-        # compatible with its 256-byte parse buffer), and only until the
-        # device has authenticated with the token once (device_token_ack).
-        if locked.device_id is not None and not locked.device_token_ack:
+        # Per-frame token push: only until the device has authenticated
+        # with it once (device_token_ack) -- no reason to keep sending it
+        # on every wake once the device has it.
+        if not locked.device_token_ack:
             response["device_token"] = locked.device_token
     return response
 
@@ -242,46 +294,103 @@ def _manage_flag(request: Request) -> bool:
     return request.query_params.get("manage") == "1"
 
 
+def _record_last_displayed(db: Session, frame: Frame, png_snapshot: bytes) -> None:
+    """Persists exactly what a device-facing render just sent (upright
+    PNG, manage overlay included if present -- whatever's actually on the
+    panel) as this frame's "now displaying" snapshot, the frozen half of
+    the web UI's header preview pair (see api_frames.py's /now-displaying
+    endpoint and its always-live "up next" counterpart, /preview)."""
+    with frame_locked(db, frame.id) as locked:
+        locked.last_displayed_image = png_snapshot
+        locked.last_displayed_at = time.time()
+
+
 @router.get("/frame/image")
 def frame_image(
     request: Request, frame: Frame = Depends(require_device), db: Session = Depends(get_db)
 ):
-    """Returns the frame's current image. For photos mode: idempotent --
-    only actually advances to the next photo once refresh_interval_s has
-    elapsed since the current one was set (see app/photo_queue.py) --
-    safe to call as often as the device wants, including after an
-    unplanned reboot, without skipping ahead in the album. An unclaimed/
-    unconfigured frame gets a rendered instruction placeholder (200, not
-    an error) so a fresh device never error-loops.
+    """Returns the frame's current image -- every widget on the frame
+    composited into one panel (see _render_widgets). Each widget's own
+    render is idempotent in whatever way makes sense for its type (e.g.
+    a photo widget only actually advances once its own refresh interval
+    has elapsed, see app/photo_queue.py) -- safe to call as often as the
+    device wants, including after an unplanned reboot, without skipping
+    ahead. An unclaimed frame or one with no widgets yet gets a rendered
+    instruction placeholder (200, not an error) so a fresh device never
+    error-loops.
 
     ?manage=1 (the manage button) composites the manage overlay onto
     whatever this would have returned anyway -- see build_manage_content.
-    For calendar mode, this is also the "normal wake" that resets
-    calendar_browse_offset back to 0 (see _render_calendar_mode)."""
-    renderer = RENDERERS.get(frame.mode, _render_photos_mode)
+    This is also the "normal wake" that resets any calendar widget's
+    browse position back to today (see app/widgets/calendar.py).
+
+    Also records what's returned as this frame's "now displaying"
+    snapshot (see _record_last_displayed) -- every other device-facing
+    render endpoint below does the same."""
     manage = build_manage_content(db, frame, request) if _manage_flag(request) else None
-    content = renderer(db, frame, request, manage, True)
+    content, snapshot = _render_frame_content(db, frame, request, manage, is_normal_wake=True, capture_snapshot=True)
+    _record_last_displayed(db, frame, snapshot)
     return Response(content=content, media_type="application/octet-stream")
 
 
 @router.post("/frame/advance")
 def frame_advance(request: Request, frame: Frame = Depends(require_device), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    """Forces an immediate move forward -- the next photo in photos mode,
-    or the next day/week/month in calendar mode -- ignoring
-    refresh_interval_s. Used by the device's next-photo button."""
-    handler = ADVANCE_RENDERERS.get(frame.mode, _advance_photos_mode)
+    """Forces an immediate move forward on whatever widget(s) the NEXT
+    button is assigned to (see models.FrameButtonAction) -- e.g. the next
+    photo for a photo widget, or the next day/week/month for a calendar
+    widget -- then re-renders and returns the whole panel. Used by the
+    device's next-photo button."""
+    _run_button_actions(db, frame, "next")
     manage = build_manage_content(db, frame, request) if _manage_flag(request) else None
-    return Response(content=handler(db, frame, manage), media_type="application/octet-stream")
+    content, snapshot = _render_frame_content(
+        db, frame, request=None, manage=manage, is_normal_wake=False, capture_snapshot=True
+    )
+    _record_last_displayed(db, frame, snapshot)
+    return Response(content=content, media_type="application/octet-stream")
 
 
 @router.post("/frame/back")
 def frame_back(request: Request, frame: Frame = Depends(require_device), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    """The mirror of /frame/advance -- back a photo in photos mode, back
-    a period in calendar mode. A no-op (still 200, unchanged) if there's
-    nothing to go back to. Used by the device's back-photo button."""
-    handler = BACK_RENDERERS.get(frame.mode, _back_photos_mode)
+    """The mirror of /frame/advance, for whatever widget(s) the BACK
+    button is assigned to. A no-op (still 200, unchanged) for any widget
+    with nothing to go back to. Used by the device's back-photo button."""
+    _run_button_actions(db, frame, "back")
     manage = build_manage_content(db, frame, request) if _manage_flag(request) else None
-    return Response(content=handler(db, frame, manage), media_type="application/octet-stream")
+    content, snapshot = _render_frame_content(
+        db, frame, request=None, manage=manage, is_normal_wake=False, capture_snapshot=True
+    )
+    _record_last_displayed(db, frame, snapshot)
+    return Response(content=content, media_type="application/octet-stream")
+
+
+@router.post("/frame/global-next")
+def frame_global_next(request: Request, frame: Frame = Depends(require_device), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    """Fires when the device detects NEXT held past Frame.hold_duration_ms
+    instead of a short press -- runs Frame.next_hold_action (see
+    app/global_actions.GLOBAL_ACTIONS) if one is set, then re-renders and
+    returns the whole panel same as /frame/advance. A separate endpoint
+    from /frame/advance (not a query flag on it) so the frozen short-press
+    path's behavior never has to account for the long-press case -- see
+    firmware/main/next_button.c for the short/long split."""
+    _run_global_action(db, frame, "next")
+    manage = build_manage_content(db, frame, request) if _manage_flag(request) else None
+    content, snapshot = _render_frame_content(
+        db, frame, request=None, manage=manage, is_normal_wake=False, capture_snapshot=True
+    )
+    _record_last_displayed(db, frame, snapshot)
+    return Response(content=content, media_type="application/octet-stream")
+
+
+@router.post("/frame/global-back")
+def frame_global_back(request: Request, frame: Frame = Depends(require_device), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    """The mirror of /frame/global-next, for a held BACK button."""
+    _run_global_action(db, frame, "back")
+    manage = build_manage_content(db, frame, request) if _manage_flag(request) else None
+    content, snapshot = _render_frame_content(
+        db, frame, request=None, manage=manage, is_normal_wake=False, capture_snapshot=True
+    )
+    _record_last_displayed(db, frame, snapshot)
+    return Response(content=content, media_type="application/octet-stream")
 
 
 class BatteryReport(BaseModel):
@@ -373,27 +482,3 @@ def frame_firmware(frame: Frame = Depends(require_device)):
     if not path.exists():
         raise HTTPException(404, "No firmware uploaded")
     return FileResponse(path, media_type="application/octet-stream")
-
-
-@router.get("/frame/share/{asset_id}")
-def frame_share(asset_id: str, frame: Frame = Depends(require_device)):
-    """Creates a 30-minute public Immich share link for asset_id and
-    redirects to it -- what the manage overlay's bottom-left QR code
-    points to. The link is created lazily, when this actually gets hit
-    (i.e. when someone scans it), not when the manage button was
-    pressed, so the 30-minute window starts when it's actually used.
-    Also scoped to the photo currently showing or queued on THIS frame --
-    not any arbitrary Immich asset id -- as a second layer even a leaked
-    token wouldn't bypass."""
-    require_configured(frame)
-
-    if asset_id != frame.current_asset_id and asset_id not in frame.queue:
-        raise HTTPException(404, "That photo isn't currently showing or queued on this frame")
-
-    client = immich_client_for(frame)
-    try:
-        share_url = client.create_share_link(asset_id, expires_in_s=1800)
-    except httpx.HTTPError as e:
-        raise HTTPException(502, f"Could not create share link: {e}") from e
-
-    return RedirectResponse(share_url)

server/app/routers/frame_pages.py

@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
-"""The per-frame HTML pages: Photos (/frames/{id}), Configuration, and
-Stats tabs, all inside the sidebar app shell. Data loading happens
-client-side against /api/frames/{id}/... (routers/api_frames.py); these
-routes just authorize and render the scaffold."""
+"""The per-frame HTML pages: Layout (/frames/{id}, the widget placement
+canvas), Configuration, and Stats, all inside the sidebar app shell.
+Each widget's own settings (album, calendar view/inclusion, whiteboard
+source, etc.) no longer have their own tab/page -- they're a dialog
+opened from a gear icon on the widget's box in the Layout canvas (see
+static/frame_layout.js), whose content this module also serves (the
+/widgets/{widget_id}/dialog route) as a small HTML fragment, not a full
+page. Data loading otherwise happens client-side against
+/api/frames/{id}/... (routers/api_frames.py, routers/api_widgets.py);
+these routes just authorize and render the scaffold."""
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
@@ -11,18 +17,44 @@ from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
 from sqlalchemy import select
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 
+from .. import panel_style, theme_tokens, weather
 from ..auth import can_view_frame, current_user
 from ..calendar_render import CALENDAR_VIEW_LABELS
 from ..db import get_db
+from ..global_actions import GLOBAL_ACTION_LABELS
 from ..image_pipeline import (
+    BORDER_STYLES,
+    BORDER_STYLE_LABELS,
+    CALIBRATED_SPECTRA6_RGB,
     DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB,
     DISPLAY_MODE_LABELS,
+    MAX_BORDER_THICKNESS,
+    MIN_BORDER_THICKNESS,
     PALETTE_LABELS,
+    STATIC_DISPLAY_MODES,
     palette_to_hex,
 )
-from ..models import Frame, User, UserFrame
+from ..models import (
+    BatteryWidgetConfig,
+    CalendarWidgetConfig,
+    Frame,
+    FrameButtonAction,
+    FrameCalendar,
+    FrameTaskList,
+    PhotoWidgetConfig,
+    StaticWidgetConfig,
+    TaskWidgetConfig,
+    TextWidgetConfig,
+    User,
+    UserFrame,
+    WeatherWidgetConfig,
+    WhiteboardWidgetConfig,
+    Widget,
+)
 from ..quiet_hours import ALL_TIMEZONES
-from .common import shell_context
+from ..widgets import WIDGET_TYPES
+from ..widgets import text as text_widget
+from .common import shell_context, widget_of_type
 
 router = APIRouter()
 templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="app/templates")
@@ -41,43 +73,266 @@ def _frame_page(request: Request, db: Session, frame_id: int, template: str, tab
 
 
 @router.get("/frames/{frame_id}", response_class=HTMLResponse)
-def frame_photos_page(frame_id: int, request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    return _frame_page(request, db, frame_id, "frame_photos.html", "photos")
-
-
-def _calendar_users_for_frame(db: Session, frame_id: int) -> list[dict]:
-    """Every user linked to this frame, their calendar opt-in state, and
-    whether they even have a calendar URL set -- what the Configuration
-    tab's "Included calendars" list needs. Whether a given row is *this*
-    viewer's own (and therefore editable) is decided in the template,
-    using the `user` shell_context already provides."""
-    rows = db.execute(
-        select(User, UserFrame.calendar_included)
-        .join(UserFrame, UserFrame.user_id == User.id)
-        .where(UserFrame.frame_id == frame_id)
-        .order_by(User.username)
-    ).all()
-    return [
-        {"user_id": u.id, "display_name": u.display_name or u.username,
-         "has_url": bool(u.calendar_ics_url), "included": included}
-        for u, included in rows
-    ]
+def frame_layout_page(frame_id: int, request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    return _frame_page(request, db, frame_id, "frame_layout.html", "layout")
 
 
 @router.get("/frames/{frame_id}/config", response_class=HTMLResponse)
 def frame_config_page(frame_id: int, request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    frame = db.get(Frame, frame_id)
+    photo_widget_id = None
+    if frame is not None:
+        photo_widget = widget_of_type(db, frame, "photos")
+        if photo_widget is not None:
+            photo_widget_id = photo_widget.id
     return _frame_page(
         request, db, frame_id, "frame_config.html", "config",
         timezones=ALL_TIMEZONES,
         palette_labels=PALETTE_LABELS,
         default_palette_rgb=DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB,
+        calibrated_spectra6_hex=palette_to_hex(CALIBRATED_SPECTRA6_RGB),
         palette_to_hex=palette_to_hex,
-        display_mode_labels=DISPLAY_MODE_LABELS,
-        calendar_views=CALENDAR_VIEW_LABELS,
-        calendar_users=_calendar_users_for_frame(db, frame_id),
+        photo_widget_id=photo_widget_id,
+        global_action_labels=GLOBAL_ACTION_LABELS,
+        themes=theme_tokens.THEMES,
     )
 
 
 @router.get("/frames/{frame_id}/stats", response_class=HTMLResponse)
 def frame_stats_page(frame_id: int, request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    return _frame_page(request, db, frame_id, "frame_stats.html", "stats")
+    return _frame_page(request, db, frame_id, "frame_stats.html", "stats")
+
+
+# --- Per-widget config dialog content -------------------------------------
+
+def _user_available_calendars(user: User) -> list[dict]:
+    """This user's full set of calendars available to add to any widget:
+    the single ICS subscription (if set) plus every CalDAV calendar last
+    discovered from Settings' "Discover calendars" button. Doesn't hit
+    the network -- reads the cached list a user refreshes themselves."""
+    calendars = []
+    if user.calendar_ics_url:
+        calendars.append({"key": "ics", "label": "My calendar (ICS)"})
+    for c in (user.calendar_caldav_calendars or []):
+        calendars.append({"key": f"caldav:{c['href']}", "label": c.get("display_name") or "Calendar"})
+    return calendars
+
+
+def _calendar_users_for_widget(db: Session, frame_id: int, widget_id: int, viewer_id: int | None) -> list[dict]:
+    """Per-linked-user calendar list for the calendar dialog's "Included
+    calendars" section. The viewer's own row lists EVERY calendar they
+    have available, each with a full add/remove toggle; every other
+    linked user's row lists ONLY the calendars they've already included
+    (mute-only for the viewer -- see api_widgets.py's
+    api_widget_calendar_select: only a calendar's owner may turn it on,
+    but anyone linked to the frame may turn one off)."""
+    users = db.execute(
+        select(User).join(UserFrame, UserFrame.user_id == User.id)
+        .where(UserFrame.frame_id == frame_id).order_by(User.username)
+    ).scalars().all()
+    included_by_user: dict[int, list[FrameCalendar]] = {}
+    for fc in db.execute(select(FrameCalendar).where(FrameCalendar.widget_id == widget_id)).scalars().all():
+        included_by_user.setdefault(fc.user_id, []).append(fc)
+
+    result = []
+    for u in users:
+        is_self = u.id == viewer_id
+        if is_self:
+            own_rows = {fc.calendar_key: fc for fc in included_by_user.get(u.id, [])}
+            calendars = [
+                {**c, "included": own_rows[c["key"]].included if c["key"] in own_rows else False,
+                 "color_index": own_rows[c["key"]].color_index if c["key"] in own_rows else None}
+                for c in _user_available_calendars(u)
+            ]
+        else:
+            calendars = [
+                {"key": fc.calendar_key, "label": fc.calendar_label, "included": True}
+                for fc in included_by_user.get(u.id, []) if fc.included
+            ]
+        result.append({
+            "user_id": u.id, "display_name": u.display_name or u.username,
+            "is_self": is_self, "calendars": calendars,
+        })
+    return result
+
+
+def _task_users_for_widget(db: Session, frame_id: int, widget_id: int, viewer_id: int | None) -> list[dict]:
+    """Per-linked-user task-list list for the tasks dialog's "Included
+    task lists" section -- same shape as _calendar_users_for_widget,
+    restricted to CalDAV calendars only (no "ics" option: a plain ICS
+    subscription has no VTODO collection to speak of, see
+    caldav_client.fetch_tasks)."""
+    users = db.execute(
+        select(User).join(UserFrame, UserFrame.user_id == User.id)
+        .where(UserFrame.frame_id == frame_id).order_by(User.username)
+    ).scalars().all()
+    included_by_user: dict[int, list[FrameTaskList]] = {}
+    for ftl in db.execute(select(FrameTaskList).where(FrameTaskList.widget_id == widget_id)).scalars().all():
+        included_by_user.setdefault(ftl.user_id, []).append(ftl)
+
+    result = []
+    for u in users:
+        is_self = u.id == viewer_id
+        available = [c for c in _user_available_calendars(u) if c["key"].startswith("caldav:")]
+        if is_self:
+            own_rows = {ftl.calendar_key: ftl for ftl in included_by_user.get(u.id, [])}
+            task_lists = [
+                {**c, "included": own_rows[c["key"]].included if c["key"] in own_rows else False,
+                 "color_index": own_rows[c["key"]].color_index if c["key"] in own_rows else None}
+                for c in available
+            ]
+        else:
+            task_lists = [
+                {"key": ftl.calendar_key, "label": ftl.calendar_label, "included": True}
+                for ftl in included_by_user.get(u.id, []) if ftl.included
+            ]
+        result.append({
+            "user_id": u.id, "display_name": u.display_name or u.username,
+            "is_self": is_self, "task_lists": task_lists,
+        })
+    return result
+
+
+def _whiteboard_source_info(db: Session, whiteboard_cfg: WhiteboardWidgetConfig) -> dict | None:
+    """Whose account this widget currently fetches with, for showing
+    "using <name>'s account" to everyone linked, not just whoever set
+    it. None if no source is configured."""
+    if not whiteboard_cfg.user_id or not whiteboard_cfg.url:
+        return None
+    user = db.get(User, whiteboard_cfg.user_id)
+    if user is None:
+        return None
+    return {"user_id": user.id, "display_name": user.display_name or user.username, "url": whiteboard_cfg.url}
+
+
+WEEK_START_LABELS = {0: "Monday", 1: "Tuesday", 2: "Wednesday", 3: "Thursday",
+                     4: "Friday", 5: "Saturday", 6: "Sunday"}
+
+
+@router.get("/frames/{frame_id}/widgets/{widget_id}/dialog", response_class=HTMLResponse)
+def widget_dialog(frame_id: int, widget_id: int, request: Request, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    """The gear-icon dialog's content, dispatched by widget_type -- a
+    small HTML fragment (no app_base shell/tabs), fetched and injected
+    into a <dialog> by static/frame_layout.js. Not itself a page a user
+    would navigate to directly."""
+    user = current_user(request, db)
+    if user is None:
+        raise HTTPException(401, "Not logged in")
+    frame = db.get(Frame, frame_id)
+    if frame is None or not can_view_frame(db, user, frame):
+        raise HTTPException(404, "No such frame")
+    widget = db.get(Widget, widget_id)
+    if widget is None or widget.frame_id != frame.id:
+        raise HTTPException(404, "No such widget")
+
+    # Every dialog includes the shared "Border" card (_widget_border_fields.html,
+    # models.Widget.border_style/border_thickness/border_color_index) --
+    # a Widget-level property, not a per-type config field, so this
+    # context is the same regardless of widget_type.
+    border_ctx = {
+        "border_styles": BORDER_STYLES,
+        "border_style_labels": BORDER_STYLE_LABELS,
+        "border_color_labels": PALETTE_LABELS,
+        "default_palette_rgb": DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB,
+        "palette_to_hex": palette_to_hex,
+        "min_border_thickness": MIN_BORDER_THICKNESS,
+        "max_border_thickness": MAX_BORDER_THICKNESS,
+    }
+
+    # Every dialog also includes the shared "Button actions" card
+    # (_widget_button_fields.html) if this widget type supports any --
+    # empty for tasks/static/text/battery, so the card renders nothing
+    # for those. Bindings, not the type's own config, so this lives in
+    # FrameButtonAction (see models.py), same reasoning as border_ctx
+    # above for why it's a separate card/endpoint from the type-specific
+    # form.
+    bindings = {
+        row.button: row.action
+        for row in db.scalars(
+            select(FrameButtonAction).where(FrameButtonAction.widget_id == widget.id)
+        )
+    }
+    button_ctx = {
+        "button_action_labels": WIDGET_TYPES[widget.widget_type].ACTION_LABELS,
+        "next_button_action": bindings.get("next", ""),
+        "back_button_action": bindings.get("back", ""),
+    }
+
+    # The shared "Text size" card (_widget_font_scale_fields.html,
+    # models.Widget.font_scale) -- only included on the dialogs whose
+    # on-panel content is mostly body text (calendar/tasks; the other
+    # types are either image-only or, for text, already have their own
+    # richer per-widget font_size control -- see TextWidgetConfig).
+    font_scale_labels = {1.0: "Normal", 1.25: "Large", 1.5: "X-Large"}
+    font_scale_ctx = {
+        "font_scale_choices": [(v, font_scale_labels[v]) for v in panel_style.FONT_SCALE_CHOICES],
+    }
+
+    if widget.widget_type == "photos":
+        photo_cfg = db.get(PhotoWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+        return templates.TemplateResponse("_widget_dialog_photos.html", {
+            "request": request, "frame": frame, "widget": widget, "photo_cfg": photo_cfg,
+            "display_mode_labels": DISPLAY_MODE_LABELS, **border_ctx, **button_ctx,
+        })
+
+    if widget.widget_type == "calendar":
+        calendar_cfg = db.get(CalendarWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+        return templates.TemplateResponse("_widget_dialog_calendar.html", {
+            "request": request, "frame": frame, "widget": widget, "calendar_cfg": calendar_cfg, "user": user,
+            "calendar_views": CALENDAR_VIEW_LABELS,
+            "calendar_users": _calendar_users_for_widget(db, frame.id, widget.id, user.id),
+            "week_start_labels": WEEK_START_LABELS,
+            "calendar_color_labels": PALETTE_LABELS,
+            **border_ctx, **button_ctx, **font_scale_ctx,
+        })
+
+    if widget.widget_type == "tasks":
+        task_cfg = db.get(TaskWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+        return templates.TemplateResponse("_widget_dialog_tasks.html", {
+            "request": request, "frame": frame, "widget": widget, "task_cfg": task_cfg, "user": user,
+            "task_users": _task_users_for_widget(db, frame.id, widget.id, user.id),
+            "task_color_labels": PALETTE_LABELS,
+            **border_ctx, **button_ctx, **font_scale_ctx,
+        })
+
+    if widget.widget_type == "static":
+        static_cfg = db.get(StaticWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+        return templates.TemplateResponse("_widget_dialog_static.html", {
+            "request": request, "frame": frame, "widget": widget, "static_cfg": static_cfg,
+            "display_mode_labels": {k: v for k, v in DISPLAY_MODE_LABELS.items() if k in STATIC_DISPLAY_MODES},
+            **border_ctx, **button_ctx,
+        })
+
+    if widget.widget_type == "text":
+        text_cfg = db.get(TextWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+        return templates.TemplateResponse("_widget_dialog_text.html", {
+            "request": request, "frame": frame, "widget": widget, "text_cfg": text_cfg,
+            "text_font_families": text_widget.FONT_FAMILIES, **border_ctx, **button_ctx,
+        })
+
+    if widget.widget_type == "whiteboard":
+        whiteboard_cfg = db.get(WhiteboardWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+        viewer_has_webdav_creds = bool(
+            user.webdav_username or (user.webdav_reuse_caldav_creds and user.calendar_caldav_username)
+        )
+        return templates.TemplateResponse("_widget_dialog_whiteboard.html", {
+            "request": request, "frame": frame, "widget": widget, "user": user,
+            "whiteboard_cfg": whiteboard_cfg,
+            "whiteboard_source": _whiteboard_source_info(db, whiteboard_cfg),
+            "viewer_has_webdav_creds": viewer_has_webdav_creds, **border_ctx, **button_ctx,
+        })
+
+    if widget.widget_type == "weather":
+        weather_cfg = db.get(WeatherWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+        return templates.TemplateResponse("_widget_dialog_weather.html", {
+            "request": request, "frame": frame, "widget": widget, "weather_cfg": weather_cfg,
+            "weather_provider_labels": weather.PROVIDER_LABELS, **border_ctx, **button_ctx,
+        })
+
+    if widget.widget_type == "battery":
+        battery_cfg = db.get(BatteryWidgetConfig, widget.id)
+        return templates.TemplateResponse("_widget_dialog_battery.html", {
+            "request": request, "frame": frame, "widget": widget, "battery_cfg": battery_cfg, **border_ctx, **button_ctx,
+        })
+
+    raise HTTPException(400, f"Unknown widget type: {widget.widget_type}")