fix(display): retry a plugin that is enabled but failed to load - #495
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A plugin whose validate_config() returns False is treated as a hard load failure. The API then reports enabled=true, loaded=false, error=null: the plugin is simply absent, with nothing saying why. hockey-scoreboard sat in that state on a live rig for four days. The recovery path existed but could not be reached. _reconcile_enabled_plugins computes to_add = desired - current, and a plugin that failed to load is never in current, so it stays in to_add and would be retried. But the reconcile is queued by _enabled_set_changed(), which compares only top-level `enabled` flags -- and the edit that actually fixes such a plugin (enabling a league, filling in an API key) is nested inside the plugin's own config section. No top-level flag changes, so no reconcile is queued, and the save that should have fixed it does nothing. Only toggling some unrelated plugin -- which does change a top-level flag -- queues the global reconcile that recovers it. Add a second gate: queue a reconcile when a discovered plugin is enabled in config but absent from the running set. It is deliberately narrow rather than "reconcile on any config change". Reconcile calls discover_plugins(), a ~39-manifest filesystem scan, and it runs on the render thread; doing that on every config save would trade this bug for a frame hitch. Gating on plugin_manifests also keeps non-plugin sections that carry their own `enabled` flag (schedule, display) from queueing a reconcile they can never satisfy. In the steady state -- every enabled plugin loaded -- the new check is False and costs nothing. The same valid-but-unconfigured => hard-fail shape still exists in text-display, youtube-stats, birdnet-go, ledmatrix-flights and mqtt-notifications; this makes all of them recoverable without a restart. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe plugin manager now provides synchronized discovered-plugin snapshots. The display controller synchronizes running-mode access and detects enabled discovered plugins that are not running. Configuration changes queue reconciliation for this state, with expanded test coverage. ChangesPlugin reconciliation detection
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to The change improves recovery for enabled plugins that failed to load, but a concurrent configuration update can still be lost while reconciliation is running, leaving the latest plugin settings unapplied until another change triggers recovery. Merge should wait for the request-handling fix and regression coverage, along with tightening the lock test. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ConfigurationSubscriber
participant DisplayController
participant PluginManager
ConfigurationSubscriber->>DisplayController: Pass configuration change
DisplayController->>PluginManager: Request discovered plugin IDs
PluginManager-->>DisplayController: Return synchronized ID snapshot
DisplayController->>DisplayController: Snapshot running plugin modes
DisplayController->>DisplayController: Evaluate enabled plugins not running
DisplayController-->>ConfigurationSubscriber: Queue plugin reconciliation
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In `@src/display_controller.py`:
- Around line 2919-2924: Synchronize the snapshot logic around the plugin
reconciliation method: read plugin_manifests while holding _discovery_lock, and
protect plugin_display_modes reads and writes with the controller lock used by
the render thread. Remove the RuntimeError-based fallback and ensure both
snapshots are taken coherently before reconciliation, preserving retry behavior
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Addresses the review finding on the cross-thread reads. _enabled_plugin_not_running runs on the config-watcher thread and read two mappings the render thread mutates. Catching RuntimeError was not a fix: it turned a torn read into a coin flip between an unnecessary discovery scan and a missed retry, which is the bug this PR exists to remove. Both reads are now snapshots taken under the lock that guards their writes: - plugin_manifests via a new PluginManager.discovered_plugin_ids(), which copies the ids while holding the existing _discovery_lock. Discovery rebuilds that mapping entry by entry, so an unsynchronised reader can see it half-populated. - plugin_display_modes under a new controller lock, taken at the only two sites that mutate it (_register_loaded_plugin / _unregister_plugin). The locks are never nested -- each snapshot is taken and released before the next -- so this cannot deadlock against discovery, which holds _discovery_lock while it rebuilds. No cost on the per-frame path. Both mutation sites run during reconcile, which is rare, and every hot-path read of plugin_display_modes is on the render thread itself, same thread as the writes, so those stay lock-free. Tests: the accessor returns a snapshot rather than a live view, and actually takes the discovery lock (proved from a second thread, since an RLock is reentrant on the owning one) so a later refactor cannot quietly drop it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW
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Fixed in 7156d31 — the finding was right, and my Both reads are now snapshots taken under the lock that guards their writes:
Two things I checked rather than assumed: Deadlock. The snapshots are deliberately not nested — each is taken and released before the next. Discovery holds Cost. This adds nothing to the per-frame path, which is why I was willing to take it. Both mutation sites run only during reconcile (rare), and every hot-path read of Tests: Full suite: 3703 passed, 60 skipped. The single failure is |
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472-474: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDo not clear a concurrent reconciliation request.
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_pending_plugin_reconcilefrom the config-watcher thread. The render thread clears the same flag after a successful reconciliation. If another config update arrives after reconciliation reads its config but before that clear, the render thread overwrites the new request. The latest configuration then does not reconcile.Consume and clear the request under a dedicated lock before reconciliation. Restore it on failure. Keep requests set by the watcher during reconciliation for the next render-loop pass. Add a regression test that invokes the subscriber while reconciliation is in progress.
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In `@test/test_plugin_manager_discovered_ids.py`:
- Around line 43-63: Update test_takes_the_discovery_lock to wrap
_discovery_lock with a test helper whose __enter__() signals that lock
acquisition was attempted before acquiring the real lock; wait for that signal
while retaining the real lock, then assert the worker has not finished. Preserve
the existing release, join, and completion assertions.
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In `@src/display_controller.py`:
- Around line 472-474: Protect _pending_plugin_reconcile with a dedicated lock
shared by the config watcher and render thread; atomically consume the request
before reconciliation, restore it if reconciliation fails, and preserve any
watcher request arriving during reconciliation for the next render-loop pass.
Update the relevant reconciliation flow and add a regression test that invokes
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Addresses the second review finding: a lost update on _pending_plugin_reconcile. The flag was cleared after a successful reconcile. Reconcile has already read its config by that point, so a config change arriving mid-flight set a flag that the trailing clear then erased -- a request that was never served, and the newest config never reconciled. That is the same "my save did nothing" symptom this PR exists to remove, so leaving it would have undercut the fix. Consume the request before running it instead, and re-arm only on a retryable failure. A change that lands during reconcile now stays set and is picked up on the next pass. The per-frame read stays lock-free. It is a fast path that can only produce a false negative -- the watcher setting the flag just after it is read is seen on the next iteration -- never a false positive that loses a request. The lock is taken only when a reconcile is actually pending or a config change arrives. Extracted _service_pending_reconcile() so the sequence is testable rather than buried in run()'s loop; the review asked for a regression test that invokes the subscriber during reconciliation, which is not reachable otherwise. Tests: 4 new, covering a request racing in mid-reconcile, the quiet success, the retryable-failure re-arm, and not reconciling when nothing is pending. Two of them fail against the previous clear-after-success semantics. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW
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Good catch, and it matters more than "outside the diff" suggests — this is the same failure mode the PR exists to remove, so shipping the fix without it would have left a second way to lose a reconcile request. Fixed in the latest commit. The flag is now consumed before reconcile runs rather than cleared after: withself._reconcile_flag_lock:
pending=self._pending_plugin_reconcileself._pending_plugin_reconcile=Falseifpendingandnotself._reconcile_enabled_plugins():
withself._reconcile_flag_lock:
self._pending_plugin_reconcile=TrueA config change landing mid-reconcile now stays set and is served on the next pass, instead of being erased by a clear for work it was never part of. One deliberate difference from the suggestion: the per-frame read stays lock-free. That check runs every frame, so locking it would put a mutex on the render path for a flag that is almost always I also pulled the sequence out into Four tests: a request racing in mid-reconcile, the quiet success, the retryable-failure re-arm, and not reconciling when nothing is pending. Two fail against the previous clear-after-success semantics, so they're pinning the behaviour rather than describing it. Full suite: 3707 passed, 60 skipped, one failure — |
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hockey-scoreboardwas enabled, present, importable, valid against its own schema — and completely absent from the running process for four days. The API said:A plugin whose
validate_config()returnsFalseis a hard load failure. ledmatrix-plugins #316 fixes the two scoreboards that were returningFalsefor a state that is actually valid, but that is the trigger, not the trap. The trap is that the failure is unrecoverable from the UI, and it applies to every plugin.Why the existing retry never fires
The recovery path is already there.
_reconcile_enabled_plugins()computes:A plugin that failed to load is never in
current, so it stays into_addand would be retried. But the reconcile is only queued when_enabled_set_changed()says so, and that compares top-levelenabledflags only.The edit that fixes such a plugin — enabling a league, filling in an API key, setting a broker host — is nested inside the plugin's own section. No top-level flag changes, so no reconcile is queued.
So the one save that would fix the plugin is precisely the save that cannot trigger the retry. What does recover it is toggling some unrelated plugin, because that changes a top-level flag and queues the global reconcile. Nobody would guess that, which is how four days happen.
Two more places make it silent rather than merely broken — both guarded by
if plugin_instance:, so both no-op when the plugin never loaded:api_v3.py~L5802) never fireson_config_changePOST /plugins/toggle(api_v3.py~L3149) returns"Plugin X enabled successfully"regardlessThe fix
A second gate: queue a reconcile when a discovered plugin is enabled in config but absent from the running set.
Deliberately narrow, rather than the one-liner "reconcile on any config change":
discover_plugins()on the render thread — a ~39-manifest filesystem scan. Queueing it on every config save would trade this bug for a frame hitch, which is the wrong trade in a renderer.plugin_manifestskeeps non-plugin sections that carry their ownenabledflag (schedule,display) from queueing a reconcile they can never satisfy.Falseand costs nothing.Reads of
plugin_display_modesfrom the watcher thread are wrapped: aRuntimeErrormid-mutation falls through to queueing a reconcile, which no-ops if nothing differs.Verification
config_service._subscribers) rather than the helper, and I confirmed it fails with the fix reverted — it is not a test that would pass either way.mainand unrelated:test_install_lowmem.py(awaiting test(install): stop assuming pytest's tmp_path is on disk #492) and a flaky assertion intest_logging_config.py(fixed separately).Not fixed here
This makes the state recoverable; it does not stop
toggle_pluginreporting success for a plugin it did not load. That is a separate change to the API contract and worth deciding on its own.Not verified on hardware — both rigs have been unreachable all session.
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