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.
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The app grew a python-backend/ and a web/ frontend, so pi_musicmouse no
longer matches it. Rework the role:
- Install a pinned uv and build the venv with Python 3.13; Raspbian
Bookworm's python3 is 3.11 and the backend uses PEP 695 syntax.
- pip install python-backend/ instead of a requirements.txt, and take
the systemd unit straight from the checkout so it can't drift.
- Build web/ on the control machine (no npm on the Pi) and rsync
web/dist over. Chain the checkout -> install -> build -> sync -> restart
steps through handlers so a run with no repo change does nothing.
- Per-host config files (config-<host>.yml); the schema now differs
between a host with a real mouse and a display-only one.
- Version to deploy is per host (musicmouse_version), no default.
Add pi_kiosk: autologin user running startx with Firefox in kiosk mode
and no window manager, for a Pi with a monitor attached. Enabled by
mediapi_has_monitor, defaulting off.
Turn musicdolphin into a display-only instance: serial and audio
simulated, driven entirely through the kiosk page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
