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>
on-device-install and raspberry-pi installers default to the new
v0.79.0 release binary. Also refreshes two stale comment examples in
the raspberry-pi install script (v0.17.0 → v0.78.0, v0.18.1 → v0.79.0)
so the in-file usage hints reflect the same era as the default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
