presence-detect.sh now feeds the real webcam into a v4l2loopback virtual
device (/dev/video42) via a self-healing ffmpeg background process, and reads
motion off that mirror instead of opening the physical camera directly. This
means the daemon's 20s-interval checks never contend with other apps (video
calls, howdy) for exclusive camera access. Falls back to direct camera access
if the loopback isn't set up yet, so the feature degrades gracefully rather
than breaking.
New etc-v4l2loopback/ ships the modules-load.d/modprobe.d config (fixed
video_nr=42, exclusive_caps=1) following the repo's existing etc-greetd/
etc-lightdm/ convention. Deliberately no runtime sudo/modprobe calls inside
the daemon itself — the module loads declaratively at boot instead, matching
this repo's existing caution around unattended sudo.
hyprlua.sh and niri.sh installers now pull in linux-headers,
v4l2loopback-dkms, and v4l2loopback-utils and deploy the module config
immediately. sysupdate.sh gained _ensure_v4l2loopback(), wired into
sync_configs(), so existing machines pick up the new packages and /etc
config on their next --config or --both run without needing a fresh install.
enroll-biometrics.sh's camera picker now excludes the loopback device itself
(by card_label) so configuring the real camera can't accidentally target the
mirror it feeds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the Haar-cascade face detector with lightweight frame-differencing
motion detection so the daemon can poll every 20s (backing off to 120s under
heavy CPU/RAM load) without adding noticeable overhead.
Presence detection now shares caffeine's systemd-inhibit lock instead of
holding its own, so the caffeine status widget reflects either source. A new
ownership flag ensures the daemon only ever releases a lock it acquired
itself, so a manually-started caffeine session is never interrupted by the
user stepping away. Also re-enables the daemon in hyprlua's autostart (was
previously only wired up for niri).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add presence-detect.sh daemon: checks webcam every 2 min via OpenCV haar
cascade (presence_detect.py); holds systemd-inhibit --what=idle lock while a
face is detected so hypridle never fires during an active session
- Add enroll-biometrics.sh: Cyberqueer dialog TUI for camera configuration/test
and howdy face auth enrollment (add/list/remove/test models)
- Rewrite caffeine.sh (hyprlua + niri): replace kill/restart of idle daemon with
systemd-inhibit --what=idle:sleep + PID file; idle daemon stays running
- Fix hypridle.conf: correct ;; → ; in after_sleep_cmd, add
ignore_dbus_inhibit=false, bump lock timeout 120s→180s to account for the
2-min presence detection cycle
- Wire Super+Shift+B keybind for enrollment TUI in both hyprlua and niri
- Fix niri/scripts/python: was real dir with inner symlink causing cp -rL to
create a nested python/python/ hierarchy; replaced with direct symlink
- Add python-opencv and v4l-utils to hyprlua + niri installers
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki