1 files changed, 14 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/win/build-node-runtime.ps1 b/packaging/win/build-node-runtime.ps1
index 1171146..42d1faa 100644
--- a/packaging/win/build-node-runtime.ps1
+++ b/packaging/win/build-node-runtime.ps1
@@ -135,52 +135,21 @@ else {
 }
 
 # --- 5. default.env (shared TMDB token) ------------------------------
-# Beside the exe, where platform.packaged_default_env() looks for it, and the
-# same placement ffmpeg gets above. The daemon reads it in place, beneath
-# %LOCALAPPDATA%\meshbay\node.env: Windows autostart is a Startup-folder .vbs,
-# with no systemd EnvironmentFile.
-function Get-TmdbToken([string]$File) {
-    if (-not $File -or -not (Test-Path -LiteralPath $File)) { return "" }
-    $lines = Get-Content -LiteralPath $File
-    foreach ($line in $lines) {
-        if ($line -match '^\s*MESHBAY_TMDB_DEFAULT_TOKEN\s*=\s*(.+)$') {
-            return $Matches[1].Trim().Trim('"').Trim("'")
-        }
-    }
-    # QE\tmdb.txt is free-form prose: match the v4 read token by shape. The
-    # 32-char v3 API key in the same file is NOT what tmdb.py sends (Bearer).
-    foreach ($line in $lines) {
-        if ($line -match '^(eyJ[A-Za-z0-9._-]{40,})\s*$') { return $Matches[1] }
-    }
-    return ""
-}
-
-$tmdb = $env:MESHBAY_TMDB_TOKEN
-if (-not $tmdb) { $tmdb = Get-TmdbToken $env:MESHBAY_TMDB_TOKEN_FILE }
-if (-not $tmdb) { $tmdb = Get-TmdbToken (Join-Path $Repo "QE\node.env") }
-if (-not $tmdb) { $tmdb = Get-TmdbToken (Join-Path $Repo "QE\tmdb.txt") }
-
-$envFile = Join-Path $frozen "default.env"
-$noBom = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding $false   # a BOM would break parsing
-if ($tmdb) {
-    $body = @(
-        "# Default environment for meshbay-node.",
-        "# Read by the daemon beneath <config>\node.env; set a value there to override it.",
-        "",
-        "# TMDB API token for the Videos app (read-only, shared across installations)",
-        "MESHBAY_TMDB_DEFAULT_TOKEN=$tmdb"
-    ) -join "`n"
-    [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($envFile, $body + "`n", $noBom)
-    Step ("TMDB token baked into default.env ({0} chars)" -f $tmdb.Length)
-}
-elseif ($env:MESHBAY_ALLOW_NO_TMDB -eq "1") {
-    [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($envFile, "", $noBom)
-    Write-Host "    !! no TMDB token; default.env left empty (MESHBAY_ALLOW_NO_TMDB=1)" -ForegroundColor Yellow
-}
-else {
-    throw ("TMDB token not found (MESHBAY_TMDB_TOKEN, MESHBAY_TMDB_TOKEN_FILE, " +
-           "QE\node.env, QE\tmdb.txt). Set MESHBAY_ALLOW_NO_TMDB=1 to build without it.")
+# Copied as is from QE\default.env (never versioned), one line:
+# MESHBAY_TMDB_DEFAULT_TOKEN=eyJ... Beside the exe, where
+# platform.packaged_default_env() looks for it. The daemon reads it beneath
+# %LOCALAPPDATA%\meshbay\node.env and the operator's own token, so it is only
+# the fallback. No token, no build: an empty one goes unnoticed. The check is
+# on the raw bytes, so a BOM (which would break the daemon's parsing) fails too.
+$defaultEnv = Join-Path $Repo "QE\default.env"
+$text = if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $defaultEnv) {
+    [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($defaultEnv))
+} else { "" }
+if (-not $text.StartsWith("MESHBAY_TMDB_DEFAULT_TOKEN=eyJ")) {
+    throw "$defaultEnv missing, or not starting with MESHBAY_TMDB_DEFAULT_TOKEN=eyJ... (no BOM)"
 }
+Copy-Item -LiteralPath $defaultEnv (Join-Path $frozen "default.env")
+Step "default.env copied from QE\"
 
 # --- 6. publish ----------------------------------------------------
 Move-Item $frozen $OutDir