Run the kiosk on Chromium, and take the stray media server off musicdolphin

Chromium: same page, same machine, idle, Firefox 24.2% of a core against Chromium's
11.4%. The build comes from archive.raspberrypi.com (a "+rpt" version) and is patched
for this board's V3D GPU; Debian ships a much older chromium, so the archive matters.
The whole userland here is 32-bit armhf on a 64-bit kernel, which Firefox handles worse
than Chromium does. --use-gl=egl, --enable-gpu-rasterization, --ignore-gpu-blocklist
and --enable-zero-copy are what keep rasterization on the GPU: Chromium's blocklist
does not recognise this driver and silently falls back to software without them.
pi_kiosk_browser: firefox still works, as the fallback if an update ever regresses.

Debug mode also gains xdotool, scrot and --remote-debugging-port=9222 (on 127.0.0.1),
because firing XTEST key events at a window lands about half the time and a benchmark
you cannot verify the state of is worse than none.

pi_squeezeserver gains an absent path, and mediapis.yml derives its state from
mediapi_has_squeezeserver, which defaults to false for the whole group. false means
"actively remove", not "skip": musicdolphin has been running a Logitech Media Server
that no playbook installs and nothing talks to - every squeezelite in the fleet points
at pi_squeezelite_squeezeserver (192.168.178.80, the server) - while costing ~30 MB
resident and ~47 MB of swap on a 2 GB Pi that also drives the kiosk. The absent path
stops it, purges the package, unregisters it from sysdweb, drops the port 80 -> 9000
redirect and deletes its database and logs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# The mirror image of present.yml. Worth having as a real code path rather than a
# one-off ssh session: musicdolphin had LMS running because some earlier provisioning
# put it there, no playbook has installed it since, and nothing on the network used
# it - every squeezelite in the fleet points at `pi_squeezelite_squeezeserver`
# (192.168.178.80, the server), not at the pi it happens to be running on. On a 2 GB Pi
# that is also driving a kiosk browser, a stray Perl daemon holding ~30 MB resident and
# ~47 MB of swap is worth reclaiming.
- name: Check whether the Logitech Media Server unit is there at all
ansible.builtin.stat:
path: /lib/systemd/system/logitechmediaserver.service
register: pi_squeezeserver_unit
- name: Stop and disable the Logitech Media Server
# Before the package goes, so systemd is told rather than left holding a unit file
# that vanishes underneath it.
ansible.builtin.systemd:
name: logitechmediaserver
state: stopped
enabled: false
when: pi_squeezeserver_unit.stat.exists
- name: Purge the Logitech Media Server package
ansible.builtin.apt:
name: logitechmediaserver
state: absent
purge: true
autoremove: true
- name: Drop the Logitech Media Server from sysdweb
# Same marker pi_sysdweb writes, so this removes exactly the block that role added.
ansible.builtin.blockinfile:
path: /etc/sysdweb.conf
marker: "# {mark} ansible managed for logitechmediaserver"
state: absent
notify: Restart sysdweb after dropping the LMS entry
- name: Undo the port 80 -> 9000 redirect the install added
ansible.builtin.iptables:
table: nat
chain: PREROUTING
in_interface: eth0
protocol: tcp
match: tcp
destination_port: "80"
jump: REDIRECT
to_ports: "9000"
comment: Redirect web traffic to port 9000
state: absent
- name: Remove the server's database and logs
# apt purge takes /usr/share/squeezeboxserver (118 MB) with it but leaves these. They
# are a scan cache and a log of a server nobody talked to.
ansible.builtin.file:
path: "{{ item }}"
state: absent
loop:
- /var/lib/squeezeboxserver
- /var/log/squeezeboxserver