Three additions to the thin-client/container-host stack:
- admin-canvas + admin-web (Phase 13): an on-demand display surface for the
sys-admin-llm, mirroring digest-engine/digest-web's write/read split but as
a small always-on token-gated write API instead of a scheduled job. New
"4:admin" thin-client workspace, MQTT button, and duplicated canvas-sdk with
stat/image/video/chart window kinds.
- ESPHome firmware for the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-1.85C-V2 (Phase 14):
a voice satellite + round-display status screen, evaluated as a DIY
alternative to Home Assistant Voice PE. Media/cover-art always takes
priority over an idle weather/time/date cycle, with a voice-state
visualizer overlaid on top. On-device wake word (micro_wake_word) feeding
the existing Assist pipeline, per-room "media_player_entity_id" wiring
documented explicitly to avoid cross-room bleed. Validated with ESPHome's
own config validator; not yet flashed to real hardware.
- Capture-card ("receiver box") video source selection on the thin client: a
new "5:capture" workspace and HA select that dynamically enumerates
USB/PCIe capture cards (re-scanned periodically for hot-plug), launches
mpv against the chosen one, and unconditionally excludes the gesture-
control camera from the list to preserve its existing no-HA-entity
invariant.
Also fixes a pre-existing bug found along the way: digest-browser's pkill
pattern matched any --kiosk mpv/firefox process rather than its own, which
would have let the new admin-browser/capture-view scripts kill each other's
windows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WgTwMqiho8DT6ue5S49WBP
Implements both new subsystems from the project plan end to end:
- hosts/thin-client/: Debian live-build Sway kiosk image — greetd autologin,
wayvnc (replaces RDP, per open decision #1), thinclient-agent (HA MQTT
discovery + swaymsg control, the sole LLM-reachable surface), mpv/mpv-mpris,
spotifyd/Steam Link, minimal-chrome Firefox with uBlock Origin/SponsorBlock
preinstalled, a fullscreen-aware now-playing widget, persistent audio-output
selection, outbound RDP/VNC via Remmina, HA mobile-app text/pointer remote
control via ydotool, an optional opt-in gesture-control camera (MediaPipe
hand tracking, off by default at two independent gates), a maintenance-shell
keybind, a German default keymap, and an idle-timeout photo slideshow from a
new gallery SMB share on the container host.
- digest-engine/: quarter-daily LLM digest — email/Signal/Telegram/Discord/
WhatsApp ingestion (WhatsApp via a headful-Chromium bridge, opt-in, highest
risk), news (including RCI/marxist.com theoretical sources and a broad
mainstream/state-affiliated outlet list), financial indicators, flight/naval
traffic and an OPNsense Suricata-alerts summary as political-analysis
evidence, Grocy/CalDAV household ingestion, an evening-only recipe and
shopping-list suggestion from soon-to-expire stock, and a vendored
digest-canvas SDK (globe/window/glow) rendering compact and full views. A
digest that goes unviewed (no thin-client canvas display or voice playback)
is merged into the next run instead of being discarded, tracked via a
retained MQTT message on the shared broker.
Both are wired into hosts/container-host/scripts/setup-container-host.sh via
the existing ENABLE_X/X_BLOCK pattern, off by default. docs/project-plan.md and
README.md are updated to match; remaining open decisions and manual-
verification items are tracked in-repo (project-plan.md §4, digest-engine/
README.md, hosts/thin-client/README.md).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KPD1RhBsjdFKFLpMCLiVT6
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki