feat(tools): manage the MQTT bridge and Pixlet editor from the Tools tab - #544
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Both shipped in #538 with no interface at all: the bridge could only be configured by editing integrations/mqtt_bridge/bridge_config.json over SSH, and the Pixlet editor was a script you had to know existed. Neither appeared anywhere in the web UI. They are now two sections in the Tools tab. **MQTT bridge.** Service state (installed / running / stopped), install, start, stop and restart, and a form for every setting: broker host and port, username, TLS, command topic, client id, API base, request timeout, on-demand duration and log level. The password is write-only. GET returns every other field plus a password_set flag, never the value -- this interface has no authentication, so anything it hands back is readable by anyone who can reach the port. Submitting a blank password keeps whatever is stored; there is an explicit Clear for removing one. The file is written through a temp file in the same directory and chmod 0600, so a crash mid-write cannot leave a config the bridge would refuse to load. Values are range-checked server-side (port, timeouts, log level, http(s) API base). **Pixlet editor.** Lists the apps on disk and starts a session per app, with a banner showing which app is open, a link to the editor, a countdown, and Stop. The banner survives a page reload because status is polled while a session runs, and Edit is disabled while one is open. Two changes to the script make that safe to drive from a browser: - It binds 0.0.0.0 by default (PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST overrides). Loopback-only meant the URL shown in a browser was unreachable and needed an SSH tunnel, which is the confusing path. The no-auth argument for loopback does not hold when web_interface already serves 0.0.0.0:5000 unauthenticated and can reconfigure everything. - The session ends by itself after PIXLET_EDITOR_TIMEOUT (default 30 min), enforced by `timeout` inside the script rather than by the caller. The display is stopped while editing, so a forgotten session would otherwise leave the panel dark and read as broken hardware -- the timeout is the whole reason a Start button is defensible. Two bugs found while testing that lifecycle, both of which would have bitten the Stop button: - GNU timeout runs its child in a NEW process group, so signalling the script's group killed only bash and orphaned pixlet with the port still bound. Now --foreground keeps one group, and the EXIT trap kills the recorded child too. - The liveness check treated a zombie as running: the script is a child of the web process and stays unreaped after exiting, and signal 0 succeeds against a zombie, so a finished session would have read as running forever. It now reaps non-blockingly and falls back to /proc state for a process that is not ours. Covered by test/js/dom/test_tools_sections.js (26 assertions, real DOM against the server-rendered partial): form prefill, the blank-means-unchanged password contract, the running-session banner and countdown, and that the editor link uses the host the page was loaded from. Also chmod +x on both scripts, which the docs tell you to run directly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014RRtqXDCnvnY6EQwhT5CV9
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds MQTT bridge management and Pixlet editor sessions to the Tools page. It adds API endpoints, process cleanup, LAN editor binding, client controls, and jsdom integration tests. ChangesTools integrations
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Tools-started Pixlet sessions can be exposed beyond an operator’s configured loopback address, and the MQTT UI test can fail on systems where the bridge is installed. These issues should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ToolsPage
participant API
participant PixletProcess
ToolsPage->>API: Load apps and editor status
ToolsPage->>API: Start selected app
API->>PixletProcess: Start editor process group
API-->>ToolsPage: Return session status and editor port
ToolsPage->>API: Poll status while session runs
ToolsPage->>API: Stop session
API->>PixletProcess: Terminate process group
sequenceDiagram
participant ToolsPage
participant API
participant BridgeConfig
participant Systemd
ToolsPage->>API: Load bridge settings
API->>BridgeConfig: Read safe configuration
API-->>ToolsPage: Return settings without password
ToolsPage->>API: Save validated configuration
API->>BridgeConfig: Write configuration atomically
API->>Systemd: Start, stop, or restart bridge
Systemd-->>API: Return service result
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| app_dir, err = _validate_starlark_app_path(app_id or '') | ||
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In `@test/js/dom/test_tools_sections.js`:
- Line 66: Update the “not-installed shows an Install button” assertion to
branch on bridge.service.installed: assert btn-mqtt-install when the service is
not installed, and assert the installed-state controls such as btn-mqtt-restart
or btn-mqtt-startstop when it is installed. Keep coverage for both live payload
states without assuming the service is absent.
In `@web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py`:
- Line 10091: Update the environment setup in the web route to use setdefault
for PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST, preserving any inherited operator value while defaulting
to 0.0.0.0. Record that effective host value in the state file so host_bound
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| !/s3cret|mqtt_password"\s*:\s*"/.test(window.document.body.innerHTML)); | ||
| ok('state badge rendered', ($('mqtt-bridge-state').textContent || '').trim().length > 0, | ||
| $('mqtt-bridge-state').textContent); | ||
| ok('not-installed shows an Install button', !!$('btn-mqtt-install')); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Guard this assertion on the live install state.
The suite renders from the live payload bridge. renderMqttBridge emits btn-mqtt-install only when data.service.installed is false. On a rig where ledmatrix-mqtt-bridge.service is installed, the render emits btn-mqtt-restart and btn-mqtt-startstop instead, and this assertion fails. That rig is the one a maintainer is most likely to run the suite on.
Branch on the payload so both states are covered.
💚 Proposed fix
- ok('not-installed shows an Install button', !!$('btn-mqtt-install'));
+ ok(bridge.data.service.installed
+ ? 'installed shows Restart + Start/Stop buttons'
+ : 'not-installed shows an Install button',
+ bridge.data.service.installed
+ ? (!!$('btn-mqtt-restart') && !!$('btn-mqtt-startstop'))
+ : !!$('btn-mqtt-install'));📝 Committable suggestion
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| ok('not-installed shows an Install button', !!$('btn-mqtt-install')); | |
| ok(bridge.data.service.installed | |
| ? 'installed shows Restart + Start/Stop buttons' | |
| : 'not-installed shows an Install button', | |
| bridge.data.service.installed | |
| ? (!!$('btn-mqtt-restart') && !!$('btn-mqtt-startstop')) | |
| : !!$('btn-mqtt-install')); |
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In `@test/js/dom/test_tools_sections.js` at line 66, Update the “not-installed
shows an Install button” assertion to branch on bridge.service.installed: assert
btn-mqtt-install when the service is not installed, and assert the
installed-state controls such as btn-mqtt-restart or btn-mqtt-startstop when it
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| env['PIXLET_EDITOR_TIMEOUT'] = str(timeout_s) | ||
| # A browser reaching this endpoint is remote by definition, so the | ||
| # session has to listen on more than loopback to be usable at all. | ||
| env['PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST'] = '0.0.0.0' |
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🏁 Script executed:
#!/bin/bash
# Check whether PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST is set in any unit or env file, and how the
# script and state consume it.
rg -n 'PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST' --hidden -g '!.git'
fd -e service -e conf -e env --exec rg -n 'Environment' {} \;Repository: ChuckBuilds/LEDMatrix
Length of output: 782
🏁 Script executed:
#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- api_v3.py ---'
sed -n '10020,10125p' web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py
printf '%s\n' '--- pixlet_config_editor.sh ---'
sed -n '20,55p' scripts/utils/pixlet_config_editor.shRepository: ChuckBuilds/LEDMatrix
Length of output: 7032
Security Misconfiguration
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-1188 — Insecure Default Initialization of Resource
Honor the inherited PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST value.
The web route overwrites the operator’s loopback setting and forces the unauthenticated pixlet serve process to bind to 0.0.0.0. Use env.setdefault('PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST', '0.0.0.0'). Record the effective host in the state file so host_bound remains accurate.
🔒️ Proposed fix
- env['PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST'] = '0.0.0.0'
+ env.setdefault('PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST', '0.0.0.0')🧰 Tools
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[error] 10091-10091: Possible binding to all interfaces
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In `@web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py` at line 10091, Update the environment
setup in the web route to use setdefault for PIXLET_EDITOR_HOST, preserving any
inherited operator value while defaulting to 0.0.0.0. Record that effective host
value in the state file so host_bound accurately reflects the binding.
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Both landed in #538 with no interface at all. The MQTT bridge could only be configured by editing
integrations/mqtt_bridge/bridge_config.jsonover SSH; the Pixlet editor was a script you had to know existed. Neither appeared anywhere in the web UI, and nodocs/page covers either. They're now two sections in the Tools tab.MQTT Bridge
Service state (installed / running / stopped), install / start / stop / restart, and a form for every setting — broker host and port, username, TLS, command topic, client id, API base, request timeout, on-demand duration, log level.
The password is write-only.
GETreturns every other field plus apassword_setflag and never the value: this interface has no authentication, so anything it hands back is readable by anyone who can reach the port. Submitting a blank password keeps whatever is stored, and there's an explicit Clear. The file is written via a temp file in the same directory thenos.replace, atchmod 0600, so a crash mid-write can't leave a config the bridge would refuse to load. Values are range-checked server-side (port, timeouts, log level,http(s)API base).New endpoints:
GET /api/v3/integrations/mqtt-bridge,PUT /api/v3/integrations/mqtt-bridge/config, plusmqtt_bridge_{install,start,stop,restart}cases on the existingsystem/action.Pixlet Config Editor
Lists the apps on disk and starts a session per app, with a banner showing which app is open, a link to the editor, a live countdown, and Stop. The banner survives a page reload (status is polled while a session runs), and Edit is disabled while one is open.
Two changes to the script make it safe to drive from a browser:
0.0.0.0by default (PIXLET_EDITOR_HOSToverrides). Loopback-only meant the URL shown in a browser was unreachable and needed an SSH tunnel — the confusing path. The no-auth argument for loopback doesn't hold whenweb_interfacealready serves0.0.0.0:5000unauthenticated and can reconfigure everything from there.PIXLET_EDITOR_TIMEOUT(default 30 min), enforced bytimeoutinside the script rather than by the caller. The display is stopped while editing, so a forgotten session would otherwise leave the panel dark and read as broken hardware. That timeout is the whole reason a Start button is defensible.Two bugs found while testing the lifecycle
Both would have broken the Stop button, and neither was visible without actually running a session:
timeoutputs its child in a new process group. Signalling the script's group killed onlybashand orphanedpixletwith the port still bound — I reproduced exactly that (pgid1668671 vs 1668658, port 8099 still listening after a "successful" stop). Now--foregroundkeeps one group and theEXITtrap kills the recorded child too. Verified: all three processes share a pgid, and stop leaves nothing behind.os.kill(pid, 0)succeeds against a zombie — so a finished session would have read as running forever, with the UI offering Stop for something already over. It now reaps non-blockingly and falls back to/proc/<pid>/statstate for a process that isn't ours.Testing
test/js/dom/test_tools_sections.js— 26 assertions, real DOM (jsdom) against the server-rendered/partials/toolswith the real API payloads: form prefill, the blank-means-unchanged password contract, the running-session banner and countdown formatting, Edit disabled during a session, and that the editor link uses the host the page was loaded from rather thanlocalhost.test/js/run_all.jsand the README.HTTP 200→ status countdown → concurrent start refused (409) → stop → port released, no leftover processes, state cleared. Auto-timeout verified separately with an 8s limit: self-terminated, exit 0, nothing left behind.Also
chmod +xonpixlet_config_editor.shandinstall_mqtt_bridge.sh— both were100644despite the docs telling you to run them directly.Not covered
No visual check — jsdom has no layout engine, so how the form and banner actually look at various widths is unverified. The MQTT bridge's install path and service buttons were verified only against a box where the unit isn't installed (so: the Install branch renders,
systemctlstates read correctly); an actual install-and-connect against a live broker hasn't been run.Summary by CodeRabbit
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