docs(troubleshooting): Settings tab alone never updates an already-migrated speaker

Confirmed via code review: the Settings-save handler only updates the
service's own serverURL/settings.json, never contacts a device, and
neither migration method (telnet or XML/SSH) leaves anything behind that
would make a speaker later re-fetch a new address on its own. Both write
once, at migrate time.

Adds a Troubleshooting entry for this, and a cross-reference from the
Migration Guide's Step 2 (Target Domain) pointing at it, plus a step-
number fix (Migrate is Step 5, not Step 4).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Tobias Gesellchen
2026-08-16 20:23:13 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
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@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ Open `http://<server>:8000` and go to the **Settings** tab.
Set the **Target Domain** to the address your speakers can reach — for example `https://soundtouch.fritz.box` or `http://192.0.2.100:8000`. This must be the host's address on your local network, not `localhost`.
> **Changing this later?** Saving Settings only updates AfterTouch's own record of its address — it does **not** reach out to any already-migrated speaker. Each speaker only learns a new address when you (re-)run Migrate for it (Step 5 below), regardless of migration method. If you change Target Domain after some speakers are already migrated, re-migrate each of them too, or they'll keep using whatever address they were originally migrated with. See [Troubleshooting: Changing Target Domain doesn't change what a speaker actually uses](TROUBLESHOOTING.md#settings-vs-migrate).
> **On-device install:** this "not `localhost`" rule is for the local-network-host and cloud/VPS scenarios above, where the service runs on a *different* machine than the speaker. If you're running AfterTouch directly on the speaker itself (see the [On-Device Install Walkthrough](ON-DEVICE-INSTALL-WALKTHROUGH.md)), the speaker and the service are the same machine — `http://localhost:8000` is exactly right there, and is the recommended value: it needs no DNS/mDNS to resolve and survives DHCP address changes since it never depends on the LAN address at all. Installs built after issue #546's fix set this automatically (via `DEPLOYMENT_MODE=on-device`); on older installs, or if the field still shows the speaker's own unresolvable Linux hostname (e.g. `http://spotty:8000`), set it here by hand.
If you plan to use DNS/DHCP redirect, enable the **DNS Discovery Server** and set the **DNS Bind Address** to `:53`. The upstream DNS should be your router's IP, not the service's own address.
@@ -594,6 +594,31 @@ Once the source plays once, it gets persisted to `/mnt/nv/BoseApp-Persistence/1/
If `soundtouch-cli source content --source TUNEIN ...` returns `1005` on a reset device that has never had TuneIn, the speaker is refusing because the source isn't registered yet — chicken-and-egg. The SoundTouch app is then the only practical path to register it; we can't write `Sources.xml` directly over telnet on most models.
### ❌ Changing Target Domain in Settings doesn't change what a speaker actually uses {#settings-vs-migrate}
**Symptoms:**
- You update **Settings → Target Domain / Server URL** (via the Admin UI, `SERVER_URL`, or `--deployment-mode`), and the Admin UI confirms the new value with no warning.
- An already-migrated speaker's own behavior is unchanged: playback/BMX requests still go to the *old* address, and `soundtouch-cli setup inspect --telnet` still shows the old `margeServerUrl`/`statsServerUrl`/`bmxRegistryUrl`/`swUpdateUrl`.
**Cause:** Settings only updates the *service's own* record of its address (`s.serverURL`, persisted to `settings.json`) — the save handler never contacts any device. A speaker only learns a new address at migrate time: the telnet method writes it via `sys configuration ...` plus a closing `envswitch boseurls set ...` for the reboot-persisted layer; the XML/SSH method uploads a fresh `SoundTouchSdkPrivateCfg.xml`. Both write **once**, with no mechanism for a speaker to later re-fetch its own config from the service — this is equally true for either migration method. A "Sync" or `sourcesUpdated` notification only refreshes the speaker's source *list*, not its server URL configuration.
**Fix:** Any Target Domain change that needs to reach an already-migrated speaker requires a fresh Migrate afterward — Settings alone is never enough for a speaker that's been migrated before:
```bash
soundtouch-cli --host <speaker-ip> setup migrate --method telnet --service-url <new-target-domain>
```
Confirm it took:
```bash
soundtouch-cli --host <speaker-ip> setup inspect --telnet
```
`margeServerUrl`/`statsServerUrl`/`bmxRegistryUrl`/`swUpdateUrl` should all match the new value. Repeat per speaker — Settings is one service-wide value, but each speaker keeps its own independently-migrated copy, so a multi-speaker household needs a re-migrate for each one.
This also applies to a freshly-fixed on-device default (see `DEPLOYMENT_MODE`, #546): the installer now gets the *default* right for new installs automatically, but an install that was already migrated before you updated still needs the explicit re-migrate above — the fix only stops a *new* bad value from being written, it doesn't retroactively correct an already-migrated speaker.
### ❌ Radio sources never activate after an in-place migration {#radio-sources-after-migration}
**Symptoms:**