Diagnosis: individual tiles flickered when their stream died and mpv
relaunched (confirmed via status: a PID dropping to 0 and coming back).
The restarted window mapped at the video's native size wherever sway
dropped it, and the corrective loop only snapped it into its cell on the
next tick — up to 2s later on the relaxed cadence.
Fix, at the source instead of racing the map:
- Pre-install a per-slot for_window rule (matched on each mpv's unique
window title, anchored so slot-1 never matches slot-10) so sway
positions and sizes the window synchronously the moment it maps.
- Pass --geometry=WxH per tile so mpv opens at the tile size rather
than resizing itself to the video's native size on load.
The placeLoop remains as a corrective backstop for mid-life drift.
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- Skip stream restarts when a reload resolves to the identical wall
(same URLs, tile geometry, player settings) — saving an unrelated
config edit no longer blanks the screen.
- Replace per-tile placement polling (a swaymsg fork per tile per second,
plus 150ms get_tree polling per tile at startup) with one shared loop:
a single get_tree snapshot per tick, re-placing only drifted windows,
relaxing to a 2s tick once settled.
- Mute streams by default (--no-audio) to skip an audio decoder per
stream; opt back in with player.audio: true.
- Graceful, parallel mpv teardown via cmd.Cancel/WaitDelay, fixing the
double-Wait race between Stop and Supervise and cutting worst-case
layout switches from ~2s x N streams to ~2s total.
- status: probe mpv IPC outside the daemon mutex so a slow probe can't
block layout switches.
- View sync: reuse the Protect session across ticks (re-login only on
expiry) and pick up view_refresh_seconds changes without a restart.
- Health strikes keyed by player, not slot, so they never carry across
layout switches; prune stale entries.
- New `rtsp-streamer reload` CLI; fix dead sort in `layout ls`; back off
on persistent control-socket accept errors; fsync config before the
atomic rename (SD-card power-cut safety); bump IPC client deadline;
gofmt stragglers.
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views ls/dump/import copy a Protect live view (cameras + grid) into a
layout; grid inferred from slot count (asymmetric presets TBD, see
views dump). Imported layouts link back via protect_view.
Daemon re-syncs the active linked view every view_refresh_seconds (0=
off), so Protect-side edits appear on the wall. Needs the controller
password at runtime; off by default keeps the wall credential-free.
Shared viewmap package used by CLI and daemon.
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Document the grid+tiles model, mouse/quality editing, git-based deploy
(run as your user, reboot not getty), Pi 4 hwdec/H.265/substream notes,
and the real troubleshooting lessons. Add a Roadmap incl. importing
pre-made UniFi Protect views.
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Cameras carry multiple stream URLs (streams: high/medium/low); each
tile picks one via Quality (auto/high/low). Small tiles can pull the
low substream to cut Pi decode load. discover --enable-rtsp takes a
comma list (high,low), enables each channel, records all enabled ones.
TUI: q cycles a tile quality (shown in the tile); discover enables
high+low. Player: --framedrop + low-delay demuxer flags; player.max_fps.
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Enable mouse in the Bubble Tea program. In the layout grid editor:
click a cell to assign a camera, or press on a tile and drag to
resize its span (grid-snapped). Click-to-select on the menu/list
screens and the camera picker. Works over SSH; edits the config,
so it never fights the daemon geometry.
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Add --keepaspect-window=no so mpv stops reshaping its window to the
video aspect (which pushed a 4:3 camera below its tile and hid the
bottom behind the neighbour). Combined with keepaspect=yes the video
is letterboxed to fit the tile for any camera type.
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ldflags inject version, commit, and build date; a version subcommand
also reports go version and platform. Ends the which-binary-is-this
guessing after deploys.
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Probe mpv-version (always present) instead of time-pos, which live
streams with caching off can report unavailable while playing fine —
that produced false unhealthy verdicts. Also require 3 consecutive
misses (~60s) before force-restarting a hung stream.
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mpv 0.35 rejects --auto-window-resize, which crash-looped every player.
Drop that flag and re-assert each tile geometry on a 1s timer in the
daemon, overriding mpv auto-resize on any mpv version.
Add make install (auto-sudo, native build + copy to /usr/local/bin)
and make deploy (install + restart the kiosk getty unit).
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