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Frank 0951d909c9 docs(agents): the bracket trick for a pkill pattern that must be named
The existing rule says don't `pkill -f` a pattern your own command line carries,
and to prefer `pkill -x` — but a remote one-shot often has to name the pattern,
and hitting it again today cost a silent `ssh` exit 255 with zero output, which
reads like a network fault. Record the escape (`"serve[-]script.sh"`), the zsh
glob-expansion trap that makes an unquoted `[s]` a no-op, and the exit-code
signature.
2026-11-02 04:47:16 -08:00
Frank 69effb542d docs(jellyfin): Shows is on providers, and the per-library door stays dead anyway
The `Shows` flip landed today (one field, proven in the server's own
`LibraryOptions` answer), so the posture table no longer calls it a silent file
index and `Music`/`Collections` are named as the remaining ones.

Two corrections the same day's measurements force:

- The per-library `POST /Items/{id}/Refresh` answered `204` and queued nothing
  both before the flip and after it — zero journal lines for ten minutes, and
  `Scan Media Library` kept `LastTaskResult=None, EndTimeUtc=None`, the never-run
  signature. The provider switch was never the reason that door is dead; only
  `POST /Library/Refresh` runs (204, then `Running` inside 15 s at 33 % CPU), and
  it walks every library, so a library-scoped pass has no door on this build.
  That paragraph also records the null-pair read that separates "never ran" from
  "just finished", and that query+body on the same call answers `400` with an
  empty body whatever the values.
- The key law: a plugin owns its own config file under its own
  `<PluginConfiguration>` root and omits null settings, so TVDB's `<ApiKey>`
  element never existed and `install` refused — which is what `MISSING key` had
  been reporting since October. PR #121 fixes the writer.

The `Shows` art census replaces speculation with the split that matters: 2,908 of
3,558 series+season carry a primary, 624 have no provider id, 26 have an id and no
poster. A `Download` campaign over them took 20 s and downloaded nothing, which is
the measurement that says identification is the only lever left.
2026-11-02 04:47:16 -08:00
Frank 8889a4ceff docs(jellyfin): episode stills are out of scope, and the cost that says so
A per-episode RemoteImages query is never cached, so the same campaign that
dressed 620 series in an afternoon costs ~11 s per episode for one hit in five.
Across 42k episodes that is days of provider traffic to dress a fifth of them, and
clients show series and season art regardless. Recorded so nobody runs the pass on
a hunch; the door and the resumable log are the same if Frank orders it.
2026-11-02 03:00:42 -08:00
Frank c21c48e61e docs(jellyfin): the door that scans is /Library/Refresh, and the art door names its field
The page sent the next agent to POST /Items/{id}/Refresh?Recursive=true per
library to make a new folder visible. Measured against a Shows library that had
never been identified: that route answers 204 and queues nothing — item census
byte-identical, ScheduledTasks idle, journal silent, and still a silent 204 after
a service restart. The door that works is POST /Library/Refresh, and the progress
read is ScheduledTasks -> Scan Media Library -> CurrentProgressPercentage.
RefreshStatus on the VirtualFolders record stays Idle through a real scan, so it
is not a progress read at all; a 204 cannot distinguish accepted-and-discarded
from accepted-and-queued, so the acceptance read is the journal naming folders.

Also recorded the art door's wire shape, because guessing it reads as a server
bug: the list response carries the address in Url (there is no ImageUrl), the
Download POST takes camelCase type/imageUrl and answers 204, and PascalCase or an
empty imageUrl answers 500. RemoteImages is empty for items with no ProviderIds,
so art coverage is capped by identification, not by the image door.
2026-11-02 02:56:12 -08:00
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@@ -735,7 +735,12 @@ linked runbooks.
**Ops** **Ops**
- Never `pkill -f` a pattern that appears in your own command line — it kills your ssh session. - Never `pkill -f` a pattern that appears in your own command line — it kills your ssh session.
Use `pkill -x <exact-name>`. Use `pkill -x <exact-name>`, or the bracket trick — `pkill -f "serve[-]script.sh"` —
when the pattern has to be named: the bracket makes the pattern stop matching the
command line that carries it. Quote it: a zsh remote glob-expands an unquoted `[s]`
and the kill silently never runs. Re-hit 2026-11-02 —
`ssh host 'pkill -f jfshowswatch.py; …'` killed the remote shell mid-command, and
ssh exits **255 with zero output**, which reads exactly like a network fault.
- Both hosts allow passwordless sudo for the deploy user. Use plain `sudo` in committed scripts - Both hosts allow passwordless sudo for the deploy user. Use plain `sudo` in committed scripts
(no `echo pw | sudo -S`); `FRANK_SUDO_PW` covers hosts without it. (no `echo pw | sudo -S`); `FRANK_SUDO_PW` covers hosts without it.
- **ComfyUI on Dankclaw runs with GPU access** (`/dev/kfd` + `/dev/dri` via `AddDevice`, - **ComfyUI on Dankclaw runs with GPU access** (`/dev/kfd` + `/dev/dri` via `AddDevice`,
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@@ -89,13 +89,16 @@ looks exactly like an unconfigured library.
| Library | `CollectionType` | `EnableInternetProviders` | `EnableRealtimeMonitor` | | Library | `CollectionType` | `EnableInternetProviders` | `EnableRealtimeMonitor` |
|---|---|---|---| |---|---|---|---|
| `Movies` | movies | true (fixed 2026-11-02) | **false** | | `Movies` | movies | true (fixed 2026-11-02) | **false** |
| `Shows` | tvshows | **false** | true | | `Shows` | tvshows | true (fixed 2026-11-02) | true |
| `Music` | music | **false** | true | | `Music` | music | **false** | true |
| `Collections` | boxsets | **false** | false | | `Collections` | boxsets | **false** | false |
`Shows` and `Music` are silent file indexes in the sense above: a refresh answers `Music` and `Collections` are silent file indexes in the sense above: a refresh answers
`204`, stores nothing, logs nothing. Any metadata or artwork work on either one `204`, stores nothing, logs nothing. Any metadata or artwork work on either one
starts by flipping the switch, never by firing a scan. starts by flipping the switch, never by firing a scan. `Shows` sat in that set
until 2026-11-02; the door is `POST /Library/VirtualFolders/LibraryOptions` with
the library's own `ItemId` (below), and `scripts/jellyfin-providers.sh verify` is
the one command that says which libraries are still in it.
**The per-library option door on 12.x is `POST /Library/VirtualFolders/LibraryOptions`** **The per-library option door on 12.x is `POST /Library/VirtualFolders/LibraryOptions`**
— `GET` there answers `405`, which is how the route announces itself. The 10.x doors — `GET` there answers `405`, which is how the route announces itself. The 10.x doors
@@ -119,6 +122,33 @@ store on a build where the automatic image pass will not run at all — it is ho
the Movies library got its art: 2,515 of 2,564 films carry a primary now, and the the Movies library got its art: 2,515 of 2,564 films carry a primary now, and the
rest have none in TMDb (shorts like `Astartes`, files whose names match nothing). rest have none in TMDb (shorts like `Astartes`, files whose names match nothing).
**The Download door's exact wire shape:** the list response carries the address in
`Url` — there is no `ImageUrl` field — and the POST takes camelCase query params,
`?type=Primary&imageUrl=<Url>`, answering `204`; the stored tag then appears in
`ImageTags`. PascalCase params, or an `imageUrl` left empty, answer `500`, which
reads as a server fault and is a field-name fault.
**`RemoteImages` answers empty for an item with no `ProviderIds`** — no provider id,
nothing to look up. Art coverage is capped by identification, not by the image door:
the items a campaign returns nothing for are the unidentified ones, and no image
retry will change that.
**A `Download` campaign over a library that is already dressed does nothing in
seconds, and that is the measurement proving identification is the only lever
left.** Run over all 753 series and 2,805 seasons of `Shows` on 2026-11-02 it
classified 3,558 items in 20 s: 2,908 already carried a primary, 624 have no
provider id at all, 26 have an id and no poster in TMDb — zero downloads. The
artless remainder is not an image-door problem: it is the unnamed long tail (clip
collections, `(Warhammer TV)`-shaped directories), and the lever is folder names
or an identify pass, never another retry loop.
**Series and season art is fetched; episode stills are not, deliberately.** Every
episode query is a fresh provider round-trip — nothing caches per episode — measured
at ~11 s per item beside ~2 s per series on the same host, with one hit in five in a
sample. Across 42k episodes that is days of provider traffic to dress a fifth of them,
and clients display the series and season art anyway. If episode stills are ever
ordered, the loop is the same door and its log makes the pass resumable.
**API shape on 12.x:** `/Items` and `/Items/{id}` need `UserId` when **API shape on 12.x:** `/Items` and `/Items/{id}` need `UserId` when
authenticated by API key — without it the answer is `400 Error processing authenticated by API key — without it the answer is `400 Error processing
request`, which reads exactly like an authentication failure. `MetadataRefreshMode` request`, which reads exactly like an authentication failure. `MetadataRefreshMode`
@@ -232,9 +262,17 @@ scripts/jellyfin-providers.sh verify # plugin + key LENGTHS, never key bytes
- **The homelab TVDB key is a licensed key** (its JWT claims say - **The homelab TVDB key is a licensed key** (its JWT claims say
`community_supported: false`), so it needs **no PIN** — the optional `community_supported: false`), so it needs **no PIN** — the optional
`TVDB_PIN=` line exists only for a subscriber-shaped key. `TVDB_PIN=` line exists only for a subscriber-shaped key.
- **TVDB is installed and keyed but is not a metadata agent**: TMDb still - **TVDB is installed but is not a metadata agent**: TMDb still identifies
identifies everything. Enabling TVDB as a provider would re-fetch show everything. Enabling TVDB as a provider would re-fetch show metadata across
metadata across the library, so it is a deliberate, separate change. the library, so it is a deliberate, separate change.
- **A plugin owns its own config file, under its own root, and omits null
settings** — so the element an installer wants to fill may simply not exist,
and its root is `<PluginConfiguration>`, not `<Configuration>`. TVDB's file had
no `<ApiKey>` element at all, which is why `install` refused with
`no place to write <ApiKey>` from October until the anchor fix: the secret sat
valid in `provider-keys` the whole time, and `verify`'s `MISSING key` was this
fault, not a missing key. The writer now anchors on the file's own root and
still refuses by name when a file has none.
- **The deployer places the keys before it restarts jellyfin** - **The deployer places the keys before it restarts jellyfin**
(`ensure_provider_keys` in `scripts/deploy-remote.sh`) and warns instead of (`ensure_provider_keys` in `scripts/deploy-remote.sh`) and warns instead of
failing when `provider-keys` is absent, so a host without it still deploys. failing when `provider-keys` is absent, so a host without it still deploys.
@@ -284,12 +322,34 @@ anything. The fix is `systemctl --user restart jellyfin.service`, one POST after
health answers, and then believe `ScheduledTasks` State at 130 % CPU, not the health answers, and then believe `ScheduledTasks` State at 130 % CPU, not the
response code. response code.
**A scan that must see a new folder has to be recursive.** `POST /Library/Refresh` **The door that scans is `POST /Library/Refresh` (204), and `ScheduledTasks` is
is the incremental pass, and inotify does not cross a rootless podman bind, so the progress read.** A task that has never completed answers
folders created on the host stay invisible to it. The move is `LastTaskResult=None, EndTimeUtc=None`, and that pair is what separates "never
`POST /Items/{id}/Refresh?Recursive=true` (204) per library, the id from ran" from "finished a moment ago" — the difference between a door that is dead
`GET /Library/VirtualFolders` — its field is `ItemId`, not `Id` — and that same and one that merely answered `204`.
record's `RefreshStatus` is the progress read.
**The per-library `POST /Items/{id}/Refresh` queues nothing, and the provider
switch is not the reason.** Measured twice on 2026-11-02 against `Shows`: before
the flip and again after it, the call answered `204`, the journal wrote zero lines
over the following ten minutes, and `Scan Media Library` kept its never-run
signature; a service restart changes nothing. `POST /Library/Refresh` does run —
`204`, then `Running` inside 15 s at 33 % CPU — but it walks every library, so on
this build a library-scoped metadata pass has no working door and the global one
is the only lever.
**That endpoint takes its parameters from one source.** The documented query form
(empty body) and the JSON body form (no query) each parse; supplying both at once
answers `400` with an empty body whatever the values, and `ValidationFailure` is
rejected in the body while the query form accepts it.
**`RefreshStatus` on the `GET /Library/VirtualFolders` record is not a progress
read.** It stayed `Idle` through a scan that was verifiably running at 75 %. The
record's useful field is `ItemId`, and the live library set is still the entries
whose `Locations` are non-empty.
`inotify` does not cross a rootless podman bind, so folders created on the host
stay invisible until a pass like this runs; every pass that writes into a library
ends by firing one.
**`Movies` has no watcher at all.** `EnableRealtimeMonitor` is per library (table in **`Movies` has no watcher at all.** `EnableRealtimeMonitor` is per library (table in
*Data layout*) and it is false for `Movies` and `Collections`. Nothing notices a *Data layout*) and it is false for `Movies` and `Collections`. Nothing notices a