meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/platform.py, branch 0.17

fix(node): tell whether a pid is alive on Linux too

2026-09-27T21:38:55Z

_pid_alive only ran tasklist, so request_graceful_stop raised FileNotFoundError off Windows and two real-daemon tests failed on Linux. Read /proc there, counting a zombie as gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(node): a Windows daemon that stops properly, starts honestly and runs once

2026-09-27T20:20:35Z

Found by installing the builds and driving every startup mode live: - Stop through the node's own control API first (POST /api/shutdown, loopback and per-run token): the one channel that reaches a daemon in any session without elevation -- a service node runs in session 0 -- and the one that runs its shutdown. Then Task Scheduler, then a forced stop. Nine stops in a row used to log no shutdown at all: each was a TerminateProcess. - The forced stop spares the command running it. The frozen meshbay-node.exe is the daemon and every CLI verb, so `taskkill /IM meshbay-node.exe` killed `autostart stop` and `restart-daemon` themselves: exit 1, no output, and no node after a restart. It excludes its own pid and its parent's, and /T takes a venv launcher's python child and a daemon's ffmpeg children with it. - Start and restart report the version that answered, never "started" about a node nobody asked; `service start` says so when no node answered, and where the log is. - A second instance fails before it touches anything. The daemon wrote ui-token, then failed to bind inside uvicorn's task and exited with the reason on a hidden console; the node still running then refused every stop and status, its token file naming a dead process. The control port is now bound first (exclusively on Windows, where SO_REUSEADDR would share it), and a refusal is logged and exits 2. Linux had the same order. - The daemon logs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\meshbay\state\node.log: Task Scheduler discards its stderr. Only the daemon run opens it, never a CLI verb. - Hub sign-in waits are interruptible, a stop requested before the node is up is honoured, and a hub that answers 429 or restarts leaves the node in waiting_for_hub rather than looking dead. - operator_paired is null until the roster is read, instead of a false that showed "No operator paired" about a node whose pairing was intact. The node test conftest also points HOME, USERPROFILE, LOCALAPPDATA and APPDATA at a throwaway directory for every test, and keeps log_file() away from the developer's own node: redirecting HOME alone isolates nothing on Windows, and the CLI tests had been writing invite and pairing codes into the real profile. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(node): read the packaged TMDB token in place

2026-09-26T10:23:16Z

A node onboarded by the desktop client never ran `init`, so default.env was never copied to node.env; and default.env was 0600 root, unreadable to a per-user node anyway. The daemon now loads it beneath node.env, 0644. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

fix(node): register the service-mode task with Register-ScheduledTask -LogonType S4U

2026-09-05T12:48:08Z

schtasks.exe has no flag naming the logon type directly -- it only infers S4U vs Interactive from whether /rp is present, and both readings broke live on a blank-password account: /rp "" fails schtasks' own credential validation, and omitting /rp registers "Interactive only", which never launches the process at boot or on demand despite installing cleanly. Register-ScheduledTask -LogonType S4U names the logon type explicitly, no inference. Confirmed live: install, manual start, and unattended boot-time start all now work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5

fix(win): graceful shutdown, one startup-mode control, and a stray-\r bug

2026-09-05T11:06:55Z

Windows-only changes, all found by actually running the previous session's work rather than by review alone: - CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT/LOGOFF/SHUTDOWN handler (platform.py, ctypes SetConsoleCtrlHandler) so closing a console window, signing off, or a system shutdown runs the daemon's real _shutdown() instead of Windows just ending the process — closing WebRTC sessions and any in-flight ffmpeg transcode instead of orphaning it. `taskkill /F` itself stays uncatchable (like SIGKILL), so autostart_run() now spawns with CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP instead of DETACHED_PROCESS and autostart_end() tries CTRL_BREAK_EVENT against the recorded pid first, falling back to the hard kill only if that doesn't stop it in time. - Replaced the Node page's two independent autostart/service-mode toggles with one "start automatically" select (off / at sign-in / as a background service). The old pair let both be active at once — starting the daemon twice, at boot and at sign-in — and their layout broke wrapping inside .node-service's flex row. The new control always removes whichever mechanism is active before installing the target; platform.py's service_install() does the same on the CLI side. The "background service" option disables itself (with a hint pointing at the CLI) when running unpackaged, since service-mode.ps1/service.ps1/firewall.ps1 all assume an installed build's layout — verified live rather than assumed by actually running those scripts unelevated. - findNodeBinary() no longer bakes a stray \r into resolved paths. Found by rebooting after enabling per-user autostart: where.exe listed two matches, and stdout.trim().split('\n')[0] only strips the whole string's ends, leaving line one's own trailing \r attached — which landed inside the Startup .vbs's quoted path and broke it with "Unterminated string constant" at boot. Fixed by splitting on \r?\n and trimming every line. - Dependency audit for the Windows installer (docs/WINDOWS-PORT.md): no VC++ Redistributable needed, confirmed by inspecting the built node-runtime's actual import table rather than assuming. New docs/windows-build.md: a concise clone-to-installer build guide. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5

feat: opt-in Windows service mode (boot-time, one elevation) + v1.0.0

2026-09-04T15:29:24Z

The per-user Startup-folder launcher (W3) only ever runs after this user signs in. A real Windows Service would start earlier, but under LocalSystem/NetworkService -- accounts with no normal profile, so %LOCALAPPDATA%\meshbay\ (config, keystore, data) would not exist for it. Relocating storage to make that work is real surgery, deliberately not done here. Instead: a Scheduled Task, created once with admin rights, that runs AS THIS USER at boot without needing them to sign in first. `schtasks /create ... /ru /rp ""` with no `/it` registers an S4U (Service For User) logon -- no password stored anywhere, and unlike LocalSystem it loads this account's own profile, so config_dir()/ data_dir() need zero changes. The cost: S4U carries no network credential, which the node never needed -- everything it touches is local disk plus outbound internet. Creating the task needs admin (a boot trigger touches system-wide scheduler state, the same reason /sc onlogon needed it); querying/starting/stopping an existing one does not -- Task Scheduler grants the owning user that much itself, which is what lets the Node page's Start/Stop/Restart drive it with no further UAC prompts. meshbay_node/platform.py service_install/_remove/_status/_run/_end -- mirrors autostart_* but for the Scheduled Task; TASK_NAME moved here (was decorative before) meshbay_node/daemon.py new `service install|remove|start|stop|status` verb; restart-daemon and reset now check for the service task too packaging/win/service.ps1 the installer-side equivalent (extraResource); status/run/end never self-elevate -- only install/remove do, exactly matching what Task Scheduler itself requires packaging/win/service-mode.ps1 ONE elevated helper running service.ps1 + firewall.ps1 together, so choosing service mode costs exactly one UAC prompt, not two build/installer.nsh the install-time choice: "run as a background service?" (one elevation, both jobs) vs the existing per-user + separate firewall question. Checked first, unelevated, so re-running setup with everything already configured asks nothing. Uninstall offers the matching one-elevation cleanup, default No. src/main.js winServiceTaskStatus/Run/End, wired into node:installed, node:service-status/-stop/-restart and node:start: when the Scheduled Task exists, drive it; otherwise fall back to the existing per-user spawn/kill path. This is the hard requirement -- Start/Stop/Restart from the Node page must work in either mode. node-page.js / locales a hint explaining why the per-user autostart toggle is absent when service mode is active (info.mode from the backend, no new field to gate on -- it just isn't sent in that case) package.json: 0.1.0 -> 1.0.0. Verified: electron-builder compiles the new NSIS choice logic and ships all three scripts; service.ps1's S4U install fails cleanly (Access denied) when run unelevated, and its status/run/end never touch "runas". Cannot verify the elevated success path myself (no admin in this session) -- that needs a real UAC click. Node suite 843 pass / 25 skip; test_packaging_win.py pins the one-elevation property, the S4U flags, and that main.js actually checks the service task in all three handlers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5

fix(packaging): actually ship the TMDB token, on Linux and Windows

2026-09-04T12:33:33Z

default.env was empty in every build, for three independent reasons: 1. build-node.sh read QE/node.env, which does not exist. Even pointed at the real file it would have failed: its `grep MESHBAY_TMDB_DEFAULT_TOKEN=` cannot match QE/tmdb.txt, which is a free-form note, not KEY=VALUE. 2. Nothing consumed default.env. packaging/README.md and build-node.sh both claimed `meshbay-node init` copies it to /node.env; grep found the name in exactly two places, the README and the script that writes it. No code implemented the copy, and `EnvironmentFile=-` hid the absence. 3. build-win.ps1 had no env handling at all, so Windows was empty for a different reason than Linux. Now: the build extracts the v4 read token -- tmdb.py sends `Authorization: Bearer`, so it is the JWT, not the 32-char v3 key beside it in the same file -- matching KEY=VALUE first and then by shape, from MESHBAY_TMDB_TOKEN, MESHBAY_TMDB_TOKEN_FILE, QE/node.env, QE/tmdb.txt. It writes default.env 0600 and *fails the build* if no token resolves; MESHBAY_ALLOW_NO_TMDB=1 opts out. An empty default.env is invisible until a user opens Videos and finds no metadata, which is how this shipped empty on two platforms at once. platform.py gains packaged_default_env()/install_node_env()/load_node_env(). init copies the packaged file once, never overwriting an existing node.env, and the daemon loads node.env itself at startup: systemd does this on Linux via EnvironmentFile, but Windows autostart is a Startup-folder .vbs with no equivalent. Already-set variables always win. Also fixes an UnboundLocalError in main(): `config_dir` was assigned at the top of the init branch, which made it function-local for all of main(), while the reset branch calls `config_dir()` as the imported function. init returns before that line, so `meshbay-node reset` could only ever raise. The local is now cfg_dir. Verified end to end on Linux: token baked (239 chars), init writes /node.env 0600 with it. The PowerShell half is written but unrun -- no pwsh on this machine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DtfG7z6wHWj8RKHCvxQtY1

feat: Windows daemon lifecycle (W3) — Startup-folder autostart

2026-09-04T01:58:16Z

The Linux node runs under `systemctl --user`. Windows has no per-user equivalent that works without elevation: `schtasks /create /sc ONLOGON` (even `/rl LIMITED /it`) fails with "Access is denied" for a non-admin user, because a logon trigger touches machine-wide scheduler state. So autostart is a `.vbs` in the per-user Startup folder instead: CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run Chr(34) & "" & Chr(34), 0, False wscript runs it at every sign-in, hidden (0) and non-blocking. No admin, no console window, no new dependency. Verified end to end: the launcher brings the daemon up with no window and it answers its loopback API. node/platform.py autostart_install/remove/status — write / delete / detect the launcher autostart_run/end — start now (DETACHED|NO_WINDOW) / taskkill _node_exe — PATH, then next to sys.executable, then argv[0] node/daemon.py new `autostart install|remove|start|stop|status` verb reload (win32) -> POST /api/reload on the loopback API restart-daemon (win32) -> autostart_end + autostart_run reset (win32) -> also removes the launcher client/main.js, preload.js node:autostart handler + winAutostart* helpers (kept in step with platform.py) node:service-status (win32) probes the daemon; stop/restart/start use taskkill + a detached, windowless spawn Tests: 8 autostart cases in test_platform.py (mocked sys.platform, APPDATA pointed at tmp); `autostart status` added to the CLI dispatch sweep. Full meshbay-node suite green on Windows (784 passed / 34 skipped). Still open: no CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT handler, so a bare taskkill / window close does not run _shutdown() (SetConsoleCtrlHandler, follow-up). Service mode (pywin32/NSSM) stays Phase 2. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5

fix(node): run on the default Windows event loop (Proactor)

2026-09-04T01:23:10Z

Verified end to end: a live browser peer on Windows connecting to a Windows node — handshake, index sync, file download and an ffmpeg-transcoded video stream all work on the ProactorEventLoop. aiortc only hangs on it in the same-process loopback the tests use, which the repo-root conftest already handles for the suite. So the daemon no longer forces the SelectorEventLoop: that fixed aiortc-in-one-process but broke ffmpeg (no subprocess support on a Windows SelectorEventLoop). `use_compatible_event_loop()` becomes `configure_event_loop()` — a no-op unless MESHBAY_NODE_EVENT_LOOP=selector is set explicitly, as an escape hatch that probably never needs pulling. This drops the planned "move ffmpeg off the asyncio loop" work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5

fix(node): MESHBAY_NODE_EVENT_LOOP=proactor to opt out of the selector loop

2026-09-04T00:36:41Z

Whether aiortc actually hangs on the ProactorEventLoop for a live peer (as opposed to the same-process loopback the tests use) is still open. This lets a Windows node keep the default loop for that comparison — and, if Proactor turns out fine, keep subprocess ffmpeg working without a code change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5