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What does this change?

  • Add Xbox home console streaming (xHome) alongside xCloud, reusing the existing WebRTC, Cedar decode and input pipeline. Cloud remains the default.
    • Auth: request an xHome GSSV token and region base URL after cloud login (best effort, non-fatal, reuses the same XSTS token).
    • Catalog: list consoles from /v6/servers/home (parser, fetch, tests).
    • Session: add an Offering (cloud/home) so play, state, connect, keepalive and teardown use /v5/sessions/{cloud|home}; an already-awake console skips straight to Provisioned without the connect step.
    • UI: new CONSOLES tab (L1/R1) listing consoles and power state; A starts the stream.
    • App: release flow is mode-aware — picking a console runs the same play → WebRTC → stream loop used for cloud.
    • Docs: add a Home streaming section to the README.
  • Add a Settings option for the video decoder (Auto / Software) and a "smooth video" toggle that allows a second queued decoded frame to be displayed when two frames land within one render tick (off by default).
  • Upload software-decoded (YUV420P) frames directly to an IYUV texture instead of converting to RGB24 on the CPU first, falling back to the RGB path if the texture can't be created. This fixes blocky artifacts the Cedar hardware decoder can leave on the right edge of the picture on some streams.
  • Fix gamepad and client-metadata input reports to send real timestamps (performance.now()-equivalent) and a touchpoint count of 1, matching what the reference clients send — Xbox dashboards tolerated the missing values, but console (xHome) games rejected input without them.

How did you test it?

  • RG35XX Pro (Knulli) streaming from an Xbox Series X over the LAN (xHome).

Summary by cubic

Adds Xbox home console streaming (xHome) alongside cloud streaming, reusing the existing WebRTC, decode, and input pipeline. Cloud remains the default. Also adds video decoder settings and fixes input reports that console games rejected.

New Features

  • A CONSOLES tab lists the account's consoles and power states; picking one starts the same play → WebRTC → stream loop against that console.
  • Settings gain a video decoder picker (Auto/Software) and a smooth video toggle that keeps a second decoded frame queued, off by default.
  • Login now also requests a home streaming token and region base URL (best effort and non-fatal; accounts without a console just stay cloud-only).

Bug Fixes

  • Gamepad and client-metadata reports now send real timestamps and a touchpoint count of 1; xHome games rejected input without them.
  • Software-decoded frames upload directly as IYUV textures instead of a CPU RGB24 conversion, fixing blocky artifacts the Cedar hardware decoder leaves on some streams.
  • xHome discovery uses a 5-second timeout so an unreachable home service never delays cloud sign-in.
  • An empty cloud catalog no longer blocks the library when the account has consoles to stream from.
  • The console list refreshes on return to the library so power states are current, and the CONSOLES tab restores the previously selected title when you leave it.
  • Smooth video no longer drops a queued frame during decode bursts, and console names/state strings are NUL-terminated to avoid out-of-bounds reads.

Written for commit 73d954a. Summary will update on new commits.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a Consoles tab for selecting and streaming from an available Xbox console. Console choices appear when home streaming is available.
    • Added settings to choose software video decoding and enable smooth video, which can reduce dropped frames at the cost of up to one frame of added latency.
    • Updated controller controls to switch among All, Favorites, and Consoles.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup details and troubleshooting guidance for console streaming, video settings, and controller input after connecting.

doomL and others added 4 commits September 19, 2026 02:27
Gamepad reports carried a timestamp of 0 and the client metadata report had
no timestamp or max-touchpoints value. The reference clients send
performance.now() and a touchpoint count of 1. Xbox dashboards ignore the
difference, but console (xHome) games do not accept the input without it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GjNU9aF1G5aFtThd3oqBZT
Adds streaming from the user's own Xbox console next to xCloud, reusing the
existing WebRTC, Cedar decode and input pipeline. Cloud stays the default.

- auth: request an xHome GSSV token and region base URL after the cloud
  login (best effort, non-fatal, same XSTS token)
- catalog: list consoles from /v6/servers/home (parser, fetch, tests)
- session: Offering (cloud/home) so play, state, connect, keepalive and
  teardown use /v5/sessions/{cloud|home}; an awake console goes straight to
  Provisioned without the connect step
- ui: CONSOLES tab (L1/R1) listing consoles and their power state; A starts
  the stream
- app: release flow is mode-aware; picking a console runs the same
  play -> WebRTC -> stream loop against the console
- docs: Home streaming section in the README

Tested on an RG35XX Pro (Knulli) against an Xbox Series X on the LAN.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GjNU9aF1G5aFtThd3oqBZT
Software decoding produces YUV420P, which was converted to RGB24 on the CPU
for every frame. Upload it to an IYUV texture instead, like NV12 already is,
and fall back to the RGB path if the texture cannot be created.

Also add an optional second display slot (go_video_pipeline_set_smooth) so two
frames decoded within one render tick are both shown. Off by default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GjNU9aF1G5aFtThd3oqBZT
The Cedar hardware decoder can leave blocky artifacts on the right side of the
picture on some streams (cloud and console alike); the software decoder does
not. Add a Settings row to choose Auto or Software decoding, applied to the
next stream, and one to enable the second queued display frame.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GjNU9aF1G5aFtThd3oqBZT
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Walkthrough

The change adds Xbox home-console discovery and remote-play sessions to the handheld UI. It also adds persistent software-decoder and smooth-video settings, updates video frame handling and YUV rendering, and changes controller packet timestamps.

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Home Console Streaming

Layer / File(s) Summary
Home-streaming authentication and region discovery
src/auth/xbox_auth.h, src/auth/xbox_auth.zig, src/net/json_reader.zig
Authentication refresh requests the xHome offering and stores its token and default-region URL when both are available. New accessors expose the home-streaming credentials.
Console catalog retrieval and parsing
src/catalog/consoles.h, src/catalog/consoles.zig, src/catalog/consoles_parser.zig, build.zig
The catalog fetches console records from the home server. The parser validates required server IDs and bounds output to the supplied capacity. The build includes the fetch module and parser tests.
Console tab and selection
src/ui/handheld_ui.h, src/ui/handheld_ui.zig, src/ui/library_view.zig, src/catalog/service.zig
The library displays a Consoles tab when console rows are available. Users can navigate the rows and return a console selection index.
Home-session protocol
src/session/cloud_session.h, src/session/cloud_session.zig
Session requests select cloud or home credentials, hosts, endpoints, and request fields. Home readiness polling distinguishes ReadyToConnect from Provisioned.
Console session lifecycle
src/app/release.zig, README.md
Release loads consoles after authentication, starts home sessions with a selected serverId, and uses the active session for connection and session operations. The README documents console selection and remote-play behavior.

Video Controls and Streaming Media

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persistent video settings and controls
src/ui/persistent_settings.zig, src/ui/settings_view.zig, src/ui/handheld_ui.zig, src/app/release.zig, README.md
The settings store saves software-decoder and smooth-video choices. The settings view toggles them, and Release refreshes the media pipeline when the desired decoder changes.
Frame smoothing and YUV rendering
src/media/video/video_pipeline.h, src/media/video/video_pipeline.zig
Smooth mode queues a decoded frame for a later render tick. The renderer supports direct NV12 and YUV420P texture uploads, with RGB fallback.
Controller packet timestamps
src/input/controller.zig
Metadata and gamepad packets use SDL tick counts for timestamps. Metadata also sets the touchpoint limit to one.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Release
  participant XboxAuth
  participant ConsolesCatalog
  participant HandheldUI
  participant CloudSession
  Release->>XboxAuth: refresh authentication and retrieve home credentials
  Release->>ConsolesCatalog: fetch consoles with home credentials
  ConsolesCatalog-->>Release: return parsed console rows
  Release->>HandheldUI: provide console rows
  HandheldUI-->>Release: return selected console index
  Release->>CloudSession: start home session with console serverId
  CloudSession-->>Release: report ReadyToConnect or Provisioned
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 73d95

Home-console selection is available even with an empty cloud catalog. No identified issue remains that should delay merging after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 73d95

Home streaming introduces a new credential-bearing service path. The client does not constrain the discovered destination before using it, and a failed session-ending request can leave the client unable to retry. Neither outcome is established as an exploit or a lingering remote session, but both warrant design review.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · observed: The discovered home base URI is not constrained by scheme or origin before the client sends its home bearer token to that destination. Credential disclosure requires an unsafe or adversarial offering response; that condition is not established.
  • Medium · security · inferred: The shared session-ending path now handles home sessions, but discards the local session path without checking whether remote deletion succeeded. An interrupted or failed DELETE may therefore leave a home session without a client-side retry handle; remote persistence is unknown.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new path exposes the signed-in account's home offering credential and console-session lifecycle to a response-selected home endpoint. Actual console ownership and service-side isolation cannot be established from this client code.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If an unsafe home base URI is supplied in the offering response, the client can direct a bearer-authorized request to it. The observed fixed HTTPS offering endpoint limits who can supply that response; attacker control and credential disclosure are not verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Discovery uses the home rather than cloud token, missing credentials prevent the request, and bounded parsing and selection precede use of a console ID. The client does not visibly verify that the authenticated account owns that ID; enforcement by the home service is unresolved.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A failed play response may leave client-side creation status unknown, while a failed DELETE loses the recorded retry path. Server-side creation atomicity, session expiry, and independent recovery are not visible.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Constrain discovered home endpoints to approved HTTPS origins before using a home bearer token; preserve a retry or reconciliation path when remote session termination cannot be confirmed.
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🟠 Major · Allow console selection with an empty cloud catalog. · service.zig:85

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Allow console selection with an empty cloud catalog.

If a user has a home console but the cloud catalog contains zero titles, Service.load returns error.EmptyCatalog before the user can open CONSOLES. The same assumption also blocks selection in Service.pick and go_handheld_ui_pick_title. Allow an empty title list when console rows are available, and make the picker accept that state.

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Update Service.load, Service.pick, and go_handheld_ui_pick_title so an empty
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- Line 669: Update the smooth-mode setter around `pipeline.smooth.store` to
detect when smooth mode is disabled and, under `frame_mutex`, clear
`queued_frame` and set `queued_valid` to false. Leave the queued frame unchanged
when smooth mode is enabled.

Review comments at @src/ui/handheld_ui.zig:
- Around line 676-677: Update go_handheld_ui_set_consoles to force the final
byte of each copied name and power_state field to NUL after copying, ensuring
both fixed-size strings are terminated for consumers using std.mem.span.

Review comments at @src/ui/library_view.zig:
- Line 46: Update the collection-switching logic around the consoles early
return to save the selected title index before resetting self.count and
self.selected, then restore that index when returning to a title tab. Preserve
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go_http_request always used a hardwired 30s CURLOPT_TIMEOUT. Best-effort
requests (xHome discovery) need a much shorter deadline of their own so an
unreachable optional service can never hold up a real, time-sensitive flow.
Adds go_http_request_with_timeout on top of the same internal request path,
with the existing entry points unchanged (still default to 30s).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmK4hLTaxP6Ud8EaAEDZzR
The xHome offering request in refresh() and the console-list fetch in
fetchConsolesJson() are both best-effort lookups that ran on the default
30s HTTP timeout. An unreachable or slow xHome service could hold cloud
sign-in for the full 30s before falling back to cloud-only. Both now use
go_http_request_with_timeout with a 5s deadline instead.

Also corrects fetchConsolesJson's comment: go_cloud_session_request is
already offering-aware (this PR made it switch between the cloud and home
token/base URL), so the duplicated request-building code here is no longer
justified by that being unsupported - it stays separate because it needs
its own short timeout, which go_cloud_session_request doesn't provide.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmK4hLTaxP6Ud8EaAEDZzR
In smooth-video mode, publishFrame queued a second decoded frame ahead of
display_frame while the display slot was still waiting to be rendered. If a
third frame arrived before the render loop consumed the queued one, it
unconditionally overwrote queued_frame, silently dropping the frame that
was already queued. Now it only fills the queue slot when it's empty,
dropping the newer frame instead so nothing already queued is lost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmK4hLTaxP6Ud8EaAEDZzR
go_handheld_ui_set_consoles copies fixed-size C strings into console_rows
with a plain @memcpy. A source string that exactly fills its buffer leaves
no room for a terminator, and downstream rendering reads these fields with
std.mem.span, which would then scan past the end of the buffer looking for
one. Force a trailing NUL on both fields after the copy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmK4hLTaxP6Ud8EaAEDZzR
loadConsoles() only ran inside refreshAuth on a successful cloud sign-in,
so a console that went to sleep during or after a home stream kept
showing "On" in the CONSOLES tab until the next full sign-in. resetSession
now re-runs it (best effort, same as at sign-in) when returning to the
library.

Also, the streaming loop always logged "Cloud game ended" when the WebRTC
session closed, even during a home (xHome) stream. The message now
reflects self.mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmK4hLTaxP6Ud8EaAEDZzR
switchCollection dropped the previously selected title when leaving the
CONSOLES tab (it has no title list of its own, so selectedTitleIndex()
read back null) and always landed back on the first title in ALL/
FAVORITES. It now remembers the title selected on the way in and restores
it on the way out, matching how ALL <-> FAVORITES already preserves
selection.

Adds unit tests for this and wires library_view.zig into the host test
suite (it wasn't covered before), including the module import and project
include paths its C imports need.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmK4hLTaxP6Ud8EaAEDZzR
Service.load and Service.pick both failed with error.EmptyCatalog whenever
the cloud title list had zero entries, even when the account has xHome
consoles to stream from instead - blocking the whole app (loadCatalog
treats EmptyCatalog as fatal) before the user could ever reach the
CONSOLES tab. Same assumption in go_handheld_ui_pick_title/pickTitle: a
zero-count title list was cancelled outright regardless of console rows.

Adds go_handheld_ui_console_count so Service can check for that case, and
only fails with EmptyCatalog when there are neither titles nor consoles.
The picker now runs with an empty title slice when count is 0, so the
CONSOLES tab is still reachable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmK4hLTaxP6Ud8EaAEDZzR
Disabling smooth video while a frame was already queued ahead of
display_frame left that frame in place. publishFrame stops consulting it
once smooth mode is off (it overwrites display_frame directly instead),
but go_video_pipeline_render still checks queued_valid unconditionally and
would promote that stale frame out of order on a later render. Clear
queued_frame/queued_valid under frame_mutex when smooth mode turns off;
enabling it still leaves any queued frame untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmK4hLTaxP6Ud8EaAEDZzR
The previous fix for restoring title selection across the CONSOLES tab
saved it in switchCollection, one step removed from where rebuild()
actually discards self.count/self.selected. Moving the save into rebuild's
.consoles branch, exactly where the list is zeroed, means any path that
puts the view on CONSOLES keeps the invariant, not just switchCollection.

A null preserve_title_index (e.g. a redundant rebuild call while already
on CONSOLES, as handheld_ui.zig's START-button handler does) is treated as
"nothing new to remember" rather than clearing the earlier save.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmK4hLTaxP6Ud8EaAEDZzR
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