[kakismash]

Problem

The iOS app's simulator viewer fails with "No video received from the device" whenever the simulator screen is still. The viewer shows the hub's MJPEG stream in an <img>. Browsers paint a multipart/x-mixed-replace part only once the next part starts, and the device hub writes a frame only when the screen changes. An idle app under test therefore produces exactly one frame that never paints, and after 15 s the viewer gives up. The same rule hides the last frame of every screen change for any web client on the MJPEG path.

Change

DeviceHubProxy passes multipart/x-mixed-replace bodies through repeatStillFrame (apps/server/src/device/mjpegStillFrame.ts). After 100 ms of quiet it re-sends the latest complete part once.

• It follows the hub's framing (--frame, Content-Length, body, CRLF) and repeats only at a part boundary, so it never injects bytes into a frame that is still arriving. Framing it does not recognize turns it off and passes through untouched.
• Chunks are forwarded unchanged and the last part is kept as views into those chunks, so frames are not copied and nothing is added while frames keep arriving.
• The upstream pull runs in a forked fiber and only the join is timed out, so a frame that lands during the wait is never lost.

Fixing this in the proxy covers every client and connection mode (LAN, tailnet, T3 Connect, SSH device hosts) without changing the vendored hub. docs/internals/devices.md gets one sentence on the browser/hub interaction, a constraint the code alone does not show.

Taken over from @kakismash's original PR, whose analysis and design this keeps. The part tracker was tightened to a single give-up path and the seven tests were reduced to the four behaviors that matter: the repeat itself, boundary safety, a CRLF split by TCP, and pass-through of unknown framing.

Verification

• Framing confirmed against the real hub (expo-device-hub serve-sim writeMjpegFrame: one write per part, multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=frame, one frame on connect, then only on change).
• End to end in headless Chromium 154 on this Linux host: a Node HTTP server emits one hub-framed 1×1 JPEG part and goes quiet; an <img> polls naturalWidth for 3 s. Without repeatStillFrame: 0. With it: 1; the server log shows the part written at +3 ms and once more at +105 ms, then nothing. Controls: the same JPEG as a data URL paints (1), and writing one raw part vs three raw parts gives 0 vs 1, confirming the browser rule independently of the module.
• vp test run src/device/mjpegStillFrame.test.ts src/device/DeviceHubProxy.test.ts src/device/DeviceHubProxy.stream.test.ts in apps/server: 20 passed. The four still-frame tests use TestClock, no sleeps: a still screen repeats only the newest complete frame once; a repeat is never interleaved into a part that is still arriving; a part whose final CRLF arrives in a later chunk is still recognized; bodies without the hub's framing pass through.
• vp run typecheck in apps/server and vp lint on the changed files: clean.
• Two adversarial review rounds by Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6-Sol. Fixed from round one: a header split across chunks used to copy the whole next chunk during the re-scan (now only a header-sized prefix is scanned), and the common no-still-frame path no longer forks a fiber per chunk.

Not verified here: the iOS app itself on a device or simulator, and the Android emulator path (the hub has no MJPEG route for it). Linux only; no macOS simulator on this host.

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The fix changes the production device proxy to parse multipart streams, retain complete frames, and replay them after a quiet period across all multipart clients. Although focused and well-tested, the new asynchronous stream state machine and its broad runtime effect merit human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

The proxy repeats the latest complete MJPEG frame after a 100 ms quiet period. It applies the transformer to matching multipart responses and streams other response bodies unchanged.

Changes: MJPEG Still-Frame Repetition

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track and repeat complete MJPEG parts apps/server/src/device/mjpegStillFrame.ts, apps/server/src/device/mjpegStillFrame.test.ts	The stream transformer recognizes complete multipart parts and repeats the latest part after a 100 ms quiet period. Tests cover delayed repetition, incoming frames, split CRLFs, multiple frames, oversized headers, and parts without Content-Length.
Apply repetition to proxied MJPEG responses apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubProxy.ts, docs/internals/devices.md	The proxy applies the transformer to multipart/x-mixed-replace responses and leaves other response bodies unchanged. The documentation describes the repeated-frame behavior.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Upstream
  participant DeviceHubProxy
  participant repeatStillFrame
  participant Browser
  Upstream->>DeviceHubProxy: return multipart MJPEG response
  DeviceHubProxy->>repeatStillFrame: pass matching response body
  repeatStillFrame->>Browser: forward incoming frame
  Note over repeatStillFrame: After 100 ms without a new frame
  repeatStillFrame->>Browser: emit latest complete frame

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The supported device hub’s still-frame responses match the proxy’s media-type gate, and valid part-header casing is handled. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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• observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — docs (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubProxy.ts: Added the repeatStillFrame import for use in proxied MJPEG responses.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubProxy.ts: When the upstream response content type starts with multipart/x-mixed-replace, the proxy now passes its stream through repeatStillFrame; otherwise, it streams the upstream response directly. The response status and headers remain supplied as before.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/internals/devices.md: The documentation now states that the proxy resends the last MJPEG frame after a short quiet period when the screen has not changed; the previous text moved directly from the buffering explanation to browser development proxy behavior.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/device/mjpegStillFrame.test.ts: Adds multipart-frame construction and a test viewer that feeds chunks into repeatStillFrame, collects emitted output, and provides helpers to send input and finish the stream.

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[kakismash]

Re CodeRabbit's retained reliability concern (unbounded retention on a huge Content-Length): addressed in beeeb12. A part claiming more than 16 MiB now stops tracking and the stream passes through untouched, so the proxy holds at most one frame of that size. Simulator frames are well under 1 MiB. I didn't add a test: the cap changes only what is retained, not the bytes forwarded, so an output-level test would pass with or without it.

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Taking over this one. I'll trim the tests to the minimum and rebuild the implementation on top of your branch.