meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-client/src/preload.js, branch 0.19

fix: set the Windows node up at sign-in, and stop it for real

2026-10-07T20:22:51Z

Found by the first Windows beta tester, then reproduced on a clean install. After a service-mode install nothing set the node up for the account that signed in: the boot task started a node that quit ("hub.username not set"), and the sidebar showed Node / Create group only once the hub held a node key. The only way to the wizard that provisions was the home page's welcome card, which an account already in a group never sees. The way out was `meshbay-node init` and the key pasted on the profile page -- which is also what PACKAGING-GUIDE.md told people to do. - main.js `node:ensure`, called by app.js at sign-in: provisions, starts and links the node this build ships (Windows, bundled node only). A node set up for another account, or an account linked to another node, is left alone. node:start waits for it, so the two never race. - The sidebar shows the Node section when a node exists on this machine. - The Node page's status is the node's: its control API and the process list, not the service task's state (a node started from a terminal ran while the page said Stopped). Stop says Stopped only once no meshbay-node.exe is left, and stays offered for a process that answers nothing. - CLI stop kills the pid that answered when a graceful stop does not finish, and fails with the reason when a node process is still there. - The daemon ends its process 3s after _shutdown(): Python's exit waited for a busy indexer thread, with the control API already closed. Armed by main() only, never by a daemon run inside a test. - node.toml is read as utf-8-sig (PowerShell 5.1 writes a BOM), and a config that cannot be read is logged instead of dying silently in service mode. - "Pair this browser" queues the code for the next group of this node to open instead of saying "Paired successfully"; no banner before a group. - test_e2e_windows_app.py (opt-in, MESHBAY_WIN_E2E=1) drives the installed app against a throwaway hub: fresh account to linked node, Stop, Start, Restart, checked against the real processes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(cast): music on the TV, the music bar as its remote

2026-10-05T00:29:27Z

A cast button in Music's toolbar and in the music bar. With a television chosen, each decrypted track goes to the relay with its cover — found as the album card finds it — and plays there as music with its title, artist and album; the bar's play, pause, seek, previous and next drive the receiver, its clock is the receiver's, and the end of a track there moves the queue on. A film or a photo taking the television pauses the bar; stopping the cast carries the track on locally. Photos and tracks now share one path: a whole file sent to the relay in pieces (binary frames on Android, written to disk there), served at /file with byte ranges and its cover at /cover, and loaded as what the relay says it is. cast:image is gone; cast:chromecast:seek is new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(cast): photos on the TV, and a television chosen once for the session

2026-10-04T23:16:12Z

A cast button in Videos' toolbar, at the top of Photos, in an album's bar and in the lightbox, in a group and in Search alike. A television chosen there is kept for the session: a film opened plays on it with the player as its remote from the start, and a photo opened in the lightbox is shown on it, scaled to 1920x1080, upright, as JPEG. The lightbox gains a slideshow. The relay serves one photo at /image behind the stream's token, on the desktop and on Android; the shell, not the page, decides that the receiver loads it as a picture. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(android): music keeps playing with the screen off

2026-10-04T20:46:00Z

While a track plays, the page asks the shell to stay awake (playback:keep-alive): on Android the cast's foreground service and visible WebView, with a notification; on desktop a power save blocker. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Cast: receiver position and pause/play on both clients

2026-10-03T12:24:54Z

The player's remote mode reads where the television is instead of the local playhead, which drifts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(client): list cast receivers as they answer

2026-10-02T06:39:56Z

The scan still runs six seconds, but the picker polls what it has found and shows each receiver immediately. A rescan no longer has its timer cut short by the scan it replaced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix: an identity signs a named kind, and a device approval answers a request

2026-09-30T19:04:39Z

The desktop main process builds every transcript itself from fields (transcripts.js) and signs no raw bytes; the page's identity has the same contract (crypto.js transcriptFor). The keyring seals no bundle while browser access is off. On the node, device_add must redeem a pending request filed by the same keys, and device_revoke is signed under its own prefix (meshbay:device_revoke:v1), so a retirement signature admits nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(client): the desktop application keeps M and every node identity in its main process

2026-09-30T14:58:31Z

keyring.js derives, opens, mints, seals, signs and agrees there; the page gets public keys and a handle. Argon2 comes from the page's own WebAssembly build (Electron's crypto has none). Without OS key storage the page keeps its keys as a browser does. A node's bundle is settled after connecting, re-sealed when the key changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(client): the page names node operations, and the app confirms what widens the node

2026-09-30T10:57:58Z

node:call is replaced by named operations with checked arguments; hosting a group, sharing an unpicked folder, key rotation, denylist clearing and a change of node account are confirmed by a native dialog. Every channel checks its sender, secrets:get/set/clear are gone, node:start writes the app's own hub. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(cast): carry subtitles to a Chromecast, on the relay's clock

2026-09-18T07:49:27Z

The relay forwards the node's fragments untouched, and those begin at zero at the seek point. The player never notices because its SourceBuffer is given `timestampOffset = start`; a receiver has no equivalent, so the cues are shifted by `-start` before they leave, recomputed at every restart of the relay. Sent as they are, a subtitle would be out by the whole seek. The document is served from the relay's own port at /subs.vtt, behind the same token as the stream and with CORS: a receiver fetches a side-loaded track with XHR from its own origin, and without the headers it fails as a network error with nothing on screen to say so. The URL carries a version because a track is cached by address — changing the cues behind a fixed URL leaves the previous language showing. Cues that end before the stream begins are dropped rather than clamped, so a line from before the seek cannot appear over the first frames after it. The relay is plain Node, so the tests start it and fetch from it rather than reading its source. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UGY17EPph5LsLzePPXhUVc