On an on-device install, soundtouch-service defaulted its server URL to
os.Hostname() when --server-url wasn't set. Since the service runs on the
speaker's own Linux, that returns the speaker's internal variant codename
(e.g. "spotty", "mojo") -- never resolvable, not even by the speaker itself
-- breaking TuneIn/BMX playback with CURL ErrorCode 6 (issue #546).
Add a --deployment-mode/DEPLOYMENT_MODE flag (on-device, private-network,
public-network) so the fallback is chosen deliberately instead of guessed:
on-device defaults to localhost, public-network refuses to start rather
than guess a public address, and the previous hostname-guessing behavior
is kept for private-network/unset installs, now with a startup warning.
The on-device init script sets DEPLOYMENT_MODE=on-device automatically and
now auto-exports aftertouch.conf into the daemon's environment generally,
which also unblocks discussion #610 (setting MGMT_USERNAME/MGMT_PASSWORD
on-device) without any further code change.
Verified end-to-end on real ST20 hardware: service now resolves
http://localhost:8000, a re-migrate updates the speaker's own runtime
config to match, and TuneIn playback works again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On-device installs were only reachable through an SSH tunnel, and the
docs blamed it on the service binding loopback-only. That was wrong.
Some SoundTouch chassis carry a BCO ("SMSC") Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
co-processor, and inbound LAN traffic reaches the main Linux SoC only
for a fixed set of Bose's own service ports, a list that appears to be
compiled into the co-processor firmware. AfterTouch's :8000 was never
part of that design, so connections never arrive at the SoC at all.
Confirmed on an ST20: a port sweep from a LAN client showed Bose's
:82/:8080/:8090/:8091/:8200/:17000 all answering while :8000 failed,
and tcpdump on the speaker's own eth0 recorded zero packets for it.
Ruled out along the way: iptables (empty), nft/ebtables (absent), the
router, Wi-Fi isolation, and the binding itself (0.0.0.0 is correct).
The init script now redirects one of the relayed ports to AfterTouch,
so http://<speaker-ip>:17008 works with no tunnel. 17008 is Bose's
software-update listener, whose cloud no longer exists. Only external
traffic is matched, so anything on the speaker still reaches :8000 as
before. Auto-enabled only where has-bco reports the co-processor, and
configurable via AFTERTOUCH_LAN_PORT (auto/none/port) in
aftertouch.conf. The rule is re-applied on every start and removed on
stop and uninstall, so it needs no watchdog; unlike prior art it is not
pinned to the LAN IP, so it also survives DHCP changes.
Credit for the REDIRECT technique goes to the STR / SoundTouch Reborn
project, which documented and shipped it first.
Also de-hardcodes the service port, which was baked independently into
the daemon args, the readiness poll and status, and makes install.sh
print the speaker's real address instead of a <your-device-ip>
placeholder it never filled in.
Adds a model support matrix, since the repo had no per-model
compatibility record and this behaviour is entirely chassis-dependent.
Only the verified ST20 row is filled in; everything else is marked
unknown rather than inferred.
Verified on hardware: auto-detection, idempotency across restarts,
teardown and restore, persistence across a full reboot, and LAN access
returning the service's health JSON.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Confirmed on real hardware: `VERSION=0.123.0 curl -sSL .../install.sh | sh`
silently does NOT pin the version, despite the docs claiming it "works
with pipe-to-sh". Shell variable-assignment prefixes only apply to the one
command they're attached to; in a pipe each command is its own process, so
the env var was set for `curl` (which never reads it) and never reached
`sh` (which does). A real attempt to pin v0.123.0 for a #614 pure
reproduction silently installed "latest" instead.
Verified the fix with a minimal repro (VERSION=X cat file | sh vs.
cat file | VERSION=X sh) before changing anything.
Moves the VERSION= prefix onto sh -- the last command in the pipe, the one
that actually reads it -- in ON-DEVICE-INSTALL-WALKTHROUGH.md (both
occurrences), scripts/on-device-install/README.md, and
scripts/on-device-install/install.sh's own header comment.
RASPBERRY-PI.md/EXTERNAL-HOST-WALKTHROUGH.md's `sudo VERSION=x ... bash
install.sh` pattern is unaffected -- that's a direct invocation, not a
pipe, so the env var already reaches the right process there.
Repo-wide sweep of example version strings still pinned around 0.111.2/
0.111.3 (four releases behind) across install-script comments, README
walkthroughs, the FALLBACK_VERSION defaults in on-device-install and
raspberry-pi install scripts, and the bug-report issue template's version
placeholder. Bumped to 0.123.0, the current release.
Left untouched: RFC-5737 example IPs and Go test fixtures that happened to
match the same version-number pattern, dated blog posts, and the Hugo
theme's own unrelated version pin.
The on-device and Raspberry Pi installers hardcoded the release version, which
had to be bumped on every release. Default VERSION to empty and resolve the
newest tag by following GitHub's documented stable redirect
(https://github.com/<repo>/releases/latest -> .../releases/tag/vX.Y.Z), reading
the effective URL. This avoids the GitHub API rate limit and needs no jq.
An explicit version (positional arg / VERSION= / --version) still pins a
release. If the lookup fails (offline, rate-limited, or a curl without -w
support), each script falls back to a pinned FALLBACK_VERSION so installs still
work. The Pi self_update path runs after resolution, so it fetches the resolved
tag's installer.
Docs updated to state the default installs the latest release; the pinned-version
examples remain as illustrations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The installer docs and the on-device + Raspberry Pi installer scripts all
defaulted to and showed v0.107.0. Update every install example and the
VERSION defaults to the current release v0.111.3 across the on-device and
Pi guides and scripts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update v0.103.0 -> v0.104.0 across installer scripts, walkthrough docs,
and example go.mod files, and refresh the devices/migration/settings/sync
UI screenshots.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Files in cmd/ examples/ scripts/ referenced docs/guides/ and docs/reference/
which moved to docs/content/docs/guides/ and docs/content/docs/reference/.
A few links to loose files at the docs/ root were updated to their new
location under docs/content/docs/appendix/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- aftertouch init script: stop) now waits up to 15 s for SIGTERM
to take effect, then escalates to SIGKILL; prevents stale daemon
processes after '/etc/init.d/aftertouch stop' returns (weissigera's
workaround was manual 'killall aftertouch-service')
- install.sh: add --version / -v CLI flag so the version to install
can be passed as a command-line argument in addition to the VERSION
env var; document the trade-off of the hard-coded default in a
comment; update scripts/on-device-install/README.md with concrete
usage examples for env-override, CLI flag, and rollback tip
- docs/guides/ON-DEVICE-INSTALL-WALKTHROUGH.md: 10-step runbook
derived from weissigera's field-tested procedure (issue #329
comment #4521280831): SSH connection, storage cleanup, install via
install.sh, reboot, SSH tunnel, Health QuickFix, pairing
verification, soundtouch-cli download, custom-radio preset setup,
and final verification; troubleshooting table at the end
Closes#329 (remaining two tasks)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lifts the back-and-forth in issue #250 into the README so the next
user doesn't repeat the same three traps Gustour hit:
1. The `ssh -L 8000:localhost:8000` command must run on the user's
own machine, NOT inside the speaker's SSH session. Gustour
pasted it at the speaker's `root@mojo:~#` prompt; the tunnel
ended up speaker → speaker (loopback) and did nothing.
2. SoundTouch firmware offers only ssh-rsa/ssh-dss host-key
algorithms; modern OpenSSH refuses them by default with
`Unable to negotiate with <ip> port 22: no matching host key
type found`. The README's *initial* ssh command already
uses `-oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa`, but the port-forward
example didn't — adding it.
3. If the tunnel is correct and the browser still gets
ERR_CONNECTION_RESET, the daemon isn't listening. The previous
README left the user stranded here. Adds the diagnostic ladder
(`netstat`, `ps`, `logread | grep aftertouch`) that matches
the syslog-tag pattern shipped in the prior commit, plus the
`/etc/init.d/aftertouch start` + `status` retry — the new
status case can now distinguish "PID alive, listener up" from
"PID alive, listener silently died".
No script changes; pure docs lift.
Refs #250.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bundles the install-time hygiene work for issues #268 and #250.
# Install location — #268
Stock SoundTouch rootfs has only a few MB free (~4 MB on the ST20
the reporter captured); the AfterTouch binary is ~12 MB. The previous
flow downloaded into tmpfs (/media/aftertouch) and then `mv`'d the
binary into /opt/aftertouch on rootfs — which fails with
"No space left on device" on any speaker with the standard layout.
install.sh now installs to /mnt/nv/aftertouch by default (the
persistent partition, ~30 MB free on the same captures) and points
/opt/aftertouch at it via a symlink so the init script's hardcoded
DAEMON path keeps working unchanged. Power users can override with
INSTALL_DIR=/some/other/path. The interactive prompt from the
community patch in #268's thread is dropped — STDIN is the curl
pipe under the documented `curl | sh` invocation, so a read prompt
would hang or read garbage.
uninstall.sh is updated to resolve the symlink and remove the
target before unlinking, so the 12 MB binary doesn't get orphaned
on /mnt/nv when users uninstall.
# Logging — #250
Issue #250 surfaced a "running but unreachable" state: the install
script reported AfterTouch as running, the init script's status
agreed, but `curl :8000` returned connection-refused. start-stop-
daemon's --background detaches stdout/stderr, so any panic the
daemon emitted before dying went to /dev/null with no diagnostic
trail.
The fix is to route the daemon's stdout/stderr through `logger -t
aftertouch` so output lands in BusyBox syslog — a bounded in-memory
ring buffer that never grows on disk (writing to a file in /mnt/nv
would have eaten the volume over months). Diagnostic flow is now:
logread | grep aftertouch | tail -20
logread -f | grep aftertouch # live tail
Matches the recipe already documented in TROUBLESHOOTING.md for the
speaker's own logs (Curl 7 section).
Tightening on top of the syslog change:
- The init script's `status` case now also curls localhost:8000
when the PID is alive — distinguishes "PID alive, listener up"
from "PID alive, listener silently died" (which is what fooled
everyone on #250). A bare PID-liveness check returned "running"
in both cases.
- install.sh's post-install verification now does its own 10s
curl probe after the init script returns; on failure it tails
the aftertouch syslog so the user sees the actual error rather
than the install script claiming success.
- `exec` is added inside the start-stop-daemon's shell wrapper so
--make-pidfile records the daemon's own PID (not the shell's),
which keeps `stop` semantics correct.
README updated to document the install location, INSTALL_DIR
override, and the syslog tag.
No automated tests — these are shell scripts the install pipeline
runs once on the device. All three scripts pass `bash -n` /
`sh -n` syntax checks. Real validation is end-user retest, gated on
the next release.
Refs #268, refs #250.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
