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backpressure-blind + lwIP TCP window bump
Three changes that work together to make the stream "always paint
what's freshest, never sit on a stale frame":
#1 — Firmware FIONREAD skip in stream_server
Right after the body of frame N comes off the wire (and before we
unlock the decoder + spend ~6ms on decode + paint), check the
kernel receive buffer with ioctl(FIONREAD). If at least one more
header (8 bytes) is queued, frame N is no longer the freshest
possible — skip its decode + paint and loop back to read frame
N+1. The TCP recv cost is unavoidable (bytes still have to cross
the wire) but the decoder + paint cost is saved on every superseded
frame. Glass-to-glass latency on the latest frame drops by however
many frames had backed up.
#2 — Scrypted: keep writing past kernel-buffer backpressure
Previously: when sock.write() returned false we dropped the next
ffmpeg frame at source. New: we keep writing through. Node buffers
internally; under our load (~16 MB/s ffmpeg → ~5-7 MB/s firmware)
the buffer rarely exceeds a frame or two. With the firmware now
silently skipping decode on backed-up frames (#1), excess frames
get shed for free on the device side. Scrypted's job is just to
hand the firmware the freshest bytes as fast as possible.
socketBackpressured is still tracked for the diagnostic log.
#3 — lwIP TCP window bump (revisiting earlier regression)
The previous attempt at LWIP_TCP_WND_DEFAULT=32k regressed under
HTTP because every /frame opened a fresh socket and we paid the
slow-start cost repeatedly. The streaming pivot eliminated that:
the socket is long-lived, slow-start runs exactly once, then we
ride the full window for the rest of the session. Bumping to
65535 (max for stock lwIP), SND_BUF to match, RECVMBOX to 16, SACK
on. Expected: recv throughput ceiling moves up from ~5.3 MB/s,
which directly raises the fps ceiling (recv is currently 37ms of
the 43ms per-frame total).
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Bumping WND/SND_BUF to 32 KiB + RECVMBOX to 16 + SACK on regressed
ttfb from ~350µs to ~1.2ms across every frame and introduced periodic
250+ms body stalls (TCP retransmit on the larger window). Mean body
unchanged. Reason: Scrypted's per-frame fetch() opens a fresh TCP
socket, so the larger receive window just slows slow-start on every
new connection rather than helping.
Reverted to lwIP defaults. The real fix is HTTP keep-alive on the
Scrypted side; will revisit window tuning once persistent connections
are in place. README backlog updated with what we learned.
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DSI / panel:
- LDO_VO3 acquired at 2500 mV (VDD_MIPI_DPHY) — without this the PHY
PLL busy-waits forever inside esp_lcd_new_dsi_bus.
- PSRAM bumped to 200 MHz (CONFIG_IDF_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES) to keep
the DPI fed without underruns.
- Pi-7"-style 800x480 panel init (REG_POWERON, PORTA/PORTB/PWM/PORTC)
+ 16-bit RGB565 framebuffer with portrait-mode rotation buffer in
PSRAM. Currently shows garbled output — known issue, next commit
switches to the TC358762-bridge-aware init sequence.
State + UX:
- viewport_state simplified to AWAKE/ASLEEP only; "unconfigured" is
a flag, not a state. Tap always toggles; content choice (identity
vs frame) is driven by the configured flag.
- BOOT button arms a 15 s identity overlay via local_screens_overlay;
expired callback returns to prior state.
- Boot-done indicator: two backlight flashes (no usable LED GPIO on
the Waveshare board — GPIO 35 BOOT is shared with EMAC TXD1).
- Best-effort subsystem init in app_main; display init deferred to
its own task so a panel hang can't block networking.
Display test pattern: solid R/G/B for 2 s each on boot to characterize
the garble independent of text rendering.
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net_eth module brings up the Waveshare ESP32-P4-ETH-POE Ethernet
interface (internal EMAC + IP101GRI PHY) and waits for a DHCP lease.
Pin map confirmed via Waveshare wiki + ESPHome's working config:
MDC=31, MDIO=52, REF_CLK=50 (CLK_EXT_IN from PHY)
TX_EN=49, TXD0=34, TXD1=35
CRS_DV=28, RXD0=30, RXD1=29
PHY reset/enable=51, PHY addr=1
app_main initializes NVS, netif, the default event loop, then starts
the Ethernet driver and waits up to 30s for an IP. On success it logs
the IP; on timeout it logs a warning and proceeds (the driver keeps
retrying in the background).
sdkconfig: declare 16 MB flash so partitions.csv (6.1 MB) fits.
main/CMakeLists.txt: explicit REQUIRES esp_eth esp_event esp_netif
nvs_flash.
Acceptance (per M1 in the impl guide): device gets a DHCP lease over
Ethernet and prints its IP. Build is clean against ESP-IDF 5.4 for
target esp32p4.
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Plain ESP-IDF project targeting Waveshare ESP32-P4-ETH-POE with a 5" 800x480
MIPI-DSI capacitive touch panel. Stub app_main with TODOs for Ethernet, mDNS,
HTTP API (/health, /config, /frame, /sleep, /brightness), JPEG decode, and
touch callback delivery per the v1 spec in README.md.
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