Piik/docs/status.md

Current Status

Last updated: 2026-08-19

Phase

https://share.bonfire.icu runs 769de201f7cc with simplified entry, bounded clarity-first controls, persistent rooms, and reusable links. Peer/LiveKit is unconfigured, so production remains one host connection per viewer and P2P/TURN.

Current Snapshot

• Capture precedes room creation; live source/quality changes preserve peers and picture pause keeps audio/connections. Quality defaults to maintain-resolution with balanced/fluid options.
• Optional ACCESS_PASSWORD uses a stateless 12-hour HMAC HttpOnly Strict cookie; host auth stays internal and signaling role-bound.
• Without ROOM_DATABASE_PATH, rooms are temporary. With it and the password, sequential links persist after stop; SQLite stores only room ID and host-token digest.
• Direct ICE is preferred independently per media edge. Authenticated TURN/UDP and TURN/TCP are required production fallbacks; TURN/TLS is optional.
• Hidden routing is direct P2P -> peer-assisted -> optional SFU roots; TURN is selected per edge, and SFU roots retain bounded peer descendants. Exact-room canaries use PEER_ASSISTED_ROOM_IDS; production is off.
• Configured fallback adds a non-secret standby URL and token-free DNS/TLS warmup; absent configuration adds no field, import, request, participant, or edge.
• Each viewer advertises relay capacity 0/1; detected mobile/iPad clients are leaves. Withdrawal does not move a healthy edge. Browser relays stay one-child and host two-child.
• Production has one memory-only video setting with manual ceilings/readback. Automatic per-path HIGH/FALLBACK and one on-demand shared LOW are accepted but not deployed; only the first local A+B foundation exists. Browser audio is request/presence-only.

Verified Evidence

• Release 769de201f7cc passed CI/hygiene/typecheck, 22 files/274 tests, both builds, and zero production dependency vulnerabilities.
• Chrome 151 synthetic 1/3/5/8 kept host/relay edges at 2/1 and all viewers decoding; slowest first frame was 1.05 seconds and one three-viewer relay close recovered in 5.32 seconds.
• Synthetic Chrome 151 720p30 propagated balanced/clarity to one host and three viewers without peer changes; decoding and 2/1 fanout continued. This proves control continuity only.
• Chrome 151/LiveKit localhost A/B measured cold active/render at 1.481/2.257 seconds versus standby 0.200/0.320 with host edges at two. It includes SDK/prewarm and is not public-network evidence.
• Atomic activation passed health/access, exact bundle, SQLite preservation, services, and logs; the old release is rollback-ready. Responsive 320/375/390 px checks passed without live media.
• The local A+B alignment foundation samples capture settings with one uniquely matched host outbound track, explicit window/media identity and valid adjacent deltas, remoteId, and the RTP-bound selected path. Source replacement blocks sampling and discards stale in-flight generations; ambiguous, changed, and reset evidence rebases to unknown.
• HTTPS/WSS, access and room/WebSocket auth, renewal, public STUN, and authenticated TURN/UDP/TCP relay-only paths pass; TURN/TLS is off.
• Draft native ladder #16/#18/#22/#23/#25/#28 passed one bounded 720p30 two-leg loop with an experiment-only minimum GCC target and one recovered loss; it is not product behavior.

Unverified Boundaries

• Full-resolution 30-minute runs, relay CPU/GPU, generational quality, controlled loss/RTT, depth latency, and game capture are unverified.
• Android Chrome/iOS Safari leaves are unverified; runtime conservatively marks detected mobile/iPad clients as leaves.
• Silent partitions can wait 30 to 60 seconds for heartbeat detection before the default 5-second grace; this remains unverified.
• Real audio, heterogeneous clients, mobile lifecycle, quality/pause, room 1 republish, and sustained profiles are unverified. Poor movie/video audio is user-reported but unclassified; after video A+B, diagnose capture settings, codec/fmtp, actual bitrate, loss, jitter, concealment, jitter buffer, and A/V sync.
• Production 769de201f7cc reportedly sustains native qualityLimitationReason=bandwidth and severe blur with one capable LAN/direct viewer; only Host refresh restores quality. Within the five-second grace, stable-clientId Viewer refresh retains its peerId/HostPeer, while Host refresh rebuilds peers/capture; churn persistence is also reported. This prioritizes but does not prove sender/PC/GCC/capture generation over network or lifecycle causes.
• ADR-0007 is incomplete. Local A+B alignment exists, but codec evidence is MIME-only; derived profile/parameters/scalabilityMode, authenticated C, the controller, and LOW runtime are absent. Weak paths must ultimately share one LOW; fail closed protects HIGH only exceptionally, and an unreliable supported cohort fails acceptance.
• Browser relays re-encode. The native ladder proves one WebCodecs object, not hardware encode. GCC+RTX is no-go; no-RTX weakens stats. Broader audio/loss/routes/reconnect/browser/product/striping gates remain.
• The endpoint budget remains host/relay at most two downstream edges; the browser path is host two/viewer one.
• ADR-0005 permits SFU only after peer failure. Stable dual-TURN roots are shadow-only; exact-room TURN-root/SFU-root cost, recovery, and trust evidence is absent.
• Pinned LiveKit 1.13.5 Dynacast enables all qualities at or below the room's maximum request, so a HIGH root is expected to keep LOW enabled. It remains a bounded rejection/verification spike, not evidence that on-demand LOW can stop.
• The corrected standby smoke is localhost/headless/video-only; public DNS/TLS reuse, transport, audio, shaping, load, mobile, endurance, and sub-25 ms overlap remain open.

Next Milestone

Finish video A+B codec derivation, then reproduce the same-LAN/direct case. First rebuild one affected HostPeer/connectionId while retaining capture and healthy peers; separately compare capture-only and full Host rebuilds with A+B/C evidence and opaque generations. The affected viewer must recover without moving healthy peers or breaking the host-edge cap. Only proven stuck generations justify guarded/cooldown recovery; never reconnect periodically or raise ceilings blindly.

After video A+B, separately run the movie/video audio A/B/C and sync diagnosis in docs/research/browser-screen-audio-quality.md; maxBitrate is not a quality fix. Then add minimal authenticated video C, the two-state controller, and on-demand shared LOW. Later route work starts with manual ICE ground truth and shadow-only exact-room TURN-root/SFU-root comparisons, not automatic migration.

ADR-0004 still requires a full-resolution 30-minute 1/3/5/8 network, resource, quality, latency, recovery, and browser/mobile-leaf matrix.

Observed disconnects retain 5-second grace plus at most 3 seconds to a decodable picture; silent partitions add detection delay.

ADR-0004 fails closed. Native shared encode and packet/layer striping remain separate experiments, not ways to relabel a failed browser route.

The native ladder stops at #28; its minimum-of-two policy is not a product candidate. Do not bypass stock GCC/RTX; no-RTX remains research-only.

Blockers And Decisions

Peer assistance and automatic routing remain No-Go until ADR-0004/0005 pass. Without LiveKit, two mobile leaves can fill both host roots; use an isolated exact-room canary only. Native shared encode and striping remain separate experiments. Deferred architecture audit: docs/maintenance.md.

• Whole-system versus selected-game audio for the first release.
• Initial deployment region and network cohort.
• Project license and distribution model.
• Whether peer assistance passes every non-encoding gate; any failure closes it.