Martin Bauer
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A show folder under Kinderpodcasts/ opts in by containing a feed.txt marker naming its RSS feed. A new PodcastFeedService polls every such feed every 6 hours (and once at startup), downloads any episode not already on disk using the existing YYYYMMDD - Title.ext convention, and triggers the same rescan-and-broadcast sequence "Bibliothek neu einlesen" already uses - now shared via App.rescan_library() instead of duplicated. A show with no feed.txt is untouched, so there is no new config section for this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# MusicMouse backend
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The host application: it reads RFID tags, buttons and touch areas from the ESP32
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firmware over serial, plays music through VLC, drives three LED strips, indexes the
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music collection, and exposes everything to Home Assistant over MQTT and to a browser
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over HTTP.
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```
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ESP32 ⇄ MusicMouseDevice ─┐ ┌─► MqttService (state out, intents in)
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VLC ⇄ VlcPlayer ────────┼──► EventBus ──────────►┤
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broker ⇄ MqttService ──────┤ ▲ └─► WebService (state out, intents in)
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browser ⇄ WebService ───────┘ │
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reactions/*.py ── call actions on ──► device / player
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```
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Three objects own the outside world, one bus carries everything, and the *reactions*
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are the only place that decides what should happen. Adding a new way to control the
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mouse means adding a service that emits the same intents - no device or reaction
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changes. The web front-end was added exactly that way.
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## Running it
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```sh
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pip install -e '.[dev]'
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python -m musicmouse --config /media/musicmouse/config.yml
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```
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See `config.yml.example` for the schema and `musicmouse.service` for the systemd unit.
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Config problems are reported all at once with the path to each one; unknown keys are
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errors, not silent no-ops.
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### On a host with no mouse attached
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The web front-end is a complete way to drive the player, so the backend is useful on a
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machine with no serial port and no sound card worth grabbing. Two config keys say so,
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each by taking the literal value `simulate`:
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| Setting | `simulate` gives you | Warned about as |
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| `serial_port` | no serial link; RFID, buttons and LEDs are inert | "running without the mouse" |
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| `alsa_device` | the simulator's player: everything works, nothing is audible | "nothing will be audible" |
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Both keys are **required**. Leaving one out is a config error, not a shortcut to
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simulation - running blind or silent has to be asked for, so a config that lost a line
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fails loudly instead of booting into something that looks like it is working. The
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warnings are repeated on every boot for the same reason.
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`--no-hardware` forces the serial half regardless of the config, for a one-off run:
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```sh
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python -m musicmouse --config ./config.yml --no-hardware
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```
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Note that `alsa_device` has no "just use whatever" value. VLC's own default would seize
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whatever the desktop is playing through, which is the wrong thing to do silently - name
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a device (`"default"` is the system one) when the machine is meant to make noise.
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### Without hardware
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The simulator runs the entire app - real bus, real device, real reactions, real MQTT
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if configured - against a fake serial link and a fake player.
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```sh
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python -m musicmouse --config ./config.yml --simulate
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```
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```
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musicmouse> place fuchs
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in RfidTokenRead(04a1b2c3d4, figure='fuchs')
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rfid fuchs
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led ring: SwipeAndChange(AlexaSwipe(#(1.0, 0.4, 0.0, 0) -> ...))
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play playing
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musicmouse> press right
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play track 1: 01 - Song 1
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```
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`help` lists the verbs. The same verbs go in a scenario file:
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```sh
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python -m musicmouse --config ./config.yml --simulate --script scenarios/smoke.txt
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```
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Scenario files run on a virtual clock under pytest, so `wait 1s` costs microseconds and
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every file in `scenarios/` is part of the test suite. A session reproduced by hand at
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the prompt becomes a regression test by pasting it into a `.txt` file.
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## Layout
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| Path | What it is |
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| `musicmouse/bus.py` | One FIFO queue on one loop. Thread-safe `emit()` - which is how libVLC's callback thread stops reaching the serial transport. |
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| `musicmouse/events.py` | The vocabulary: **input** (something happened), **intent** (something was requested), **state** (something changed). |
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| `musicmouse/devices/` | `mouse.py` (firmware), `player.py` (VLC), `wire.py` (pure codec), `serial_link.py` (transport + reconnect). |
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| `musicmouse/reactions/` | The policy. `@on(SomeEvent)` functions that get the app and act. |
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| `musicmouse/library/` | The music collection: scanning, tags, cover art and its colours, the cache, and the seams for future track analysis. |
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| `musicmouse/services/mqtt/` | Home Assistant entities: three lights, a player sensor, a volume number, transport buttons, device triggers, a tag scanner. |
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| `musicmouse/services/web/` | The browser front-end's API: the library, a state websocket, command endpoints, and parent-mode settings. |
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| `musicmouse/simulator/` | Fake transport and player, the driver vocabulary, the REPL and the script runner. |
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| `musicmouse/config.py` | Pydantic schema, validation, and human-readable error formatting. |
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## Checks
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```sh
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pytest # unit + scenario tests
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ruff check .
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mypy # --strict, configured in pyproject.toml
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```
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`tests/test_wire.py` parses `../esp-firmware/src/Messages.h` and fails if the Python
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message ids drift from the firmware's - the contract is hand-duplicated in two
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languages, and it had already drifted once (`BUTTON_EVENT` was missing on the Python
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side). `tests/test_effects.py` pins the exact bytes of every effect payload.
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## LED arbitration
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`MusicMouseDevice` is the single writer to each zone, and the most recent effect wins -
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whether it came from a figure animation or from Home Assistant. There is no priority
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scheme. Every write emits `LedEffectChanged`, and the MQTT light entities publish their
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state from that rather than echoing their own commands, so HA keeps showing the strip's
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real state when a figure animation overrides a colour it set.
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## Home Assistant
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The backend no longer calls Home Assistant directly (`hass-client` is gone). It
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publishes what happened; the automations live in HA.
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MQTT device triggers are published for every button (`pressed`, `double_clicked`,
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`long_pressed`), every touch area (touched/released), and the RFID reader appears as a
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tag scanner. Topics are under `musicmouse/trigger/…` and `musicmouse/tag`.
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### Recreating the old room-light behaviour
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Two behaviours used to be hard-coded in `main.py` and now need automations:
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**Rotary press toggled the room light.** Trigger on the `rotary_pressed` device
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trigger, action `light.toggle` on `light.kinderzimmer_fluter`.
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**Touching a body part set a colour** on `light.kinderzimmer_fluter` and
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`light.music_mouse_regal_licht`:
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| Touch area | Old service data |
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| `right_foot` | `rgb_color: [235, 255, 67]` |
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| `left_foot` | `color_temp: 469` |
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| `right_ear` | `rgb_color: [101, 49, 255]` |
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| `left_ear` | `rgb_color: [255, 74, 254]` |
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Trigger on the corresponding `*_touched` device trigger and call `light.turn_on` with
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that data.
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## The library
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`general.library.root` is the one path to the music. The shelves under it are fixed
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names rather than settings (`musicmouse/library/sections.py`), because each has quirks
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the scanner has to know about:
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| Folder | Shown as | Why it is special |
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| `Figuren/<figure>/` | an album per figurine | the folder name *is* the figure name from the config |
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| `Musik/<Artist> - <Album>/` | music, grouped by artist | plain ID3 |
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| `Hörbücher/<Artist> - <Album>/` | audiobooks, grouped by character | `album_artist` is a credit list; only the name before the first comma groups usefully |
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| `Kinderpodcasts/<Show>/` | audiobooks, newest episode first | the tags are useless here - `artist` is the presenter list and `album` is the feed name, so the *folder* is the show |
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Only files whose suffix is in `audio_extensions` are read, and dotfiles are skipped, so
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a podcast downloader's `archive.json` and its half-finished `.download.tmp` never reach
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a playlist.
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Drop a `feed.txt` into a show folder (its first line the show's RSS feed URL) and the
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backend becomes that podcast downloader itself: every six hours it checks the feed and
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saves any episode not already on disk, named `YYYYMMDD - Title.ext` like a hand-placed
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one so it sorts and scans identically. A show with no `feed.txt` is untouched, exactly
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as before - the file is the opt-in, there is no separate setting for it.
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Each album carries three colours, pulled out of its cover art with Pillow (or
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synthesised from a hash of its id when it has none). The frontend paints cards with
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them and the LED strips run the first of them, so shelf and screen agree.
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### The cache
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`general.library.cache` is a directory, not a file, because its contents cost wildly
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different amounts to produce:
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index.json cheap: tags and structure. Rebuilt freely.
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covers/<album_id>.jpg medium: art extracted from an ID3 APIC frame
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analysis/<track_key>.json expensive: reserved for offline audio analysis
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```
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Deleting the whole directory is safe; deleting it throws away analysis that is minutes
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of DSP per track, which is why anything expensive is keyed by *file content* rather than
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by album id - renaming a folder or re-sorting a section then costs nothing.
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An entry is reused whenever its files' sizes and mtimes are unchanged. That means a
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change to how the scanner derives a title, artist or series is invisible until the cache
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is invalidated: bump `_INDEX_VERSION` in `musicmouse/library/cache.py` when you touch
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that logic.
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**Track analysis is not implemented.** `musicmouse/library/analysis.py` fixes the shape
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of the results - scalars (`tempo`, `energy`, `valence`, `brightness`) travel inline with
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the index, and a beat grid lives in its own file and is fetched per track - so an
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analyzer can be added later without touching the scanner, the API or the frontend. It
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will go behind an optional dependency group, and because results are content-keyed
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files, they can equally well be computed on a workstation and the `analysis/` folder
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copied to the device.
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## The web front-end
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`web/` in the repo root, served by this backend when `general.web.static_dir` is set.
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| Route | Purpose |
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| `GET /api/library` | Every album with its tracks and colours. ~90 kB, sent once. |
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| `GET /api/albums/{id}/cover` | The cover, or 404 - the client paints the album's colours instead. |
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| `POST /api/library/refresh` | Rescan in the background; connected clients are told when it lands. |
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| `GET /api/state` | Snapshot: what is playing, where, how loud. |
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| `WS /api/ws` | Push only. A snapshot on connect, then a frame per change, plus the position at 2 Hz while playing. |
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| `POST /api/play` | `{album_id, track_index?}` |
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| `POST /api/resume` `/pause` `/next` `/previous` `/seek` | transport |
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| `POST /api/volume` | `{percent}` or `{delta_percent}` |
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| `GET` `PUT /api/settings` | parent mode |
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Two decisions worth knowing:
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**Search is not an endpoint.** The whole index goes to the browser and filtering happens
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there, which is what makes the design's type-to-search feel instant.
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**Volume is a percentage at this boundary.** `max_volume` is a parent's business, not a
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child's, so it never crosses into the browser: `100 %` means whatever ceiling is
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configured, and the mapping lives in `services/web/settings.py` so MQTT, the rotary
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encoder and the firmware carry on in device units.
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### Parent mode
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`?parentMode=1` reveals a settings panel for the volume limits, the rotary step and the
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button brightness. Saving writes `config.yml` back through ruamel's round-trip loader,
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so the file keeps its comments, and a new ceiling applies to the running player rather
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than waiting for a restart.
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This **hides** the settings; it does not protect them. There is no authentication on any
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endpoint, which matches a device on a home network - put it behind a reverse proxy if
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that is not good enough.
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