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What does this change?

Disables Wi-Fi power saving while a cloud session is active and restores the previous setting afterward. Uses nl80211 directly from Zig.

Addresses #11.

How did you test it?

Tested on Miyoo Flip running SpruceOS 4.3.3. Confirmed the radio stops entering low-power mode during sessions and the original setting returns after cancellation, failure and graceful shutdown. Already-disabled power saving stays off.

All 453 tests and the ARM64 build passed. The 11 new tests also passed on the Flip.

Live gameplay remains unverified: both this build and unchanged v0.3.1 hit OfferTimeout before receiving video.


Summary by cubic

Disables Wi-Fi power saving during cloud sessions and restores the previous setting afterward, and reworks GeForce NOW session setup so server-assigned WebRTC seats are used reliably. Interrupted or slow dependency downloads are now retried and published atomically, and zlib is fetched from GitHub instead of zlib.net. Addresses #11.

Wi-Fi power save

  • Talks to nl80211 directly from Zig; no external tools required.
  • Only disables power saving when it was previously enabled; if it was already off, it stays off.
  • Skips restoration if an interface was removed or replaced, and retries failed restoration up to three times at cleanup.

GeForce NOW WebRTC sessions

  • Session and streamer requests now identify as a browser WebRTC client so NVIDIA provisions a WebRTC stream.
  • Peer assignment is acknowledged before the offer is accepted; server rejection fails fast instead of becoming an offer timeout.
  • Malformed signaling endpoints are skipped in favor of valid routes; a ready poll that omits routing keeps the seat, media endpoint, and ICE servers learned while queuing.
  • Adds Wi-Fi, WebSocket fake, and dependency-download tests covering assignment, routing retention, and interrupted or slow downloads; full suite and ARM64 build pass.

Written for commit 7da1f96. Summary will update on new commits.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • On Linux, Wi-Fi power saving is temporarily disabled on connected wireless interfaces during a session. Previously enabled settings are restored when the session ends; replacement interfaces are left unchanged.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved GeForce NOW connection handling, including signaling address selection and preservation of valid routing details across session updates.
    • Improved WebRTC signaling reliability, including handling of peer-removal messages and rejection of mismatched sessions.
    • Browser connection requests now use browser and WebRTC identifiers.
    • Dependency downloads retry failed transfers, verify files before saving them, and preserve existing files when a download fails.
  • Documentation
    • Build prerequisites now require curl 7.71 or newer.

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The change adds Linux Wi-Fi power-save management during game sessions, updates GeForce NOW session routing and signaling, and changes dependency downloads to use temporary files and hash verification.

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Linux Wi-Fi power-save session handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Netlink requests and replies
src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig, build.zig
Adds nl80211 discovery, generic-netlink request construction, and reply parsing. Tests cover message encoding, reply matching, and error handling. The host test setup includes the module.
Guard ownership and restoration
src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig, src/app/release.zig
Adds Guard.begin and Guard.end to record and restore power-save changes when interface identity matches. Release begins the guard before session creation and ends it during cleanup. Release also installs the stop-signal handler for SIGHUP.

GeForce NOW session and signaling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session requests and routing
src/provider/geforce_now/cloudmatch_protocol.zig, src/provider/geforce_now/session_client.zig, tests/gfn_http_fake.zig
Requests use browser/WebRTC identification. Session parsing validates and constructs signaling URLs, and eligible responses retain routing data. Polling rejects responses with a different session ID. Tests verify request headers and routing behavior.
Signaling message processing
src/provider/geforce_now/signaling_protocol.zig, src/provider/geforce_now/signaling_client.zig, src/provider/geforce_now/webrtc_session.zig, tests/gfn_websocket_fake.zig, build.zig
The signaling client tracks assignments, acknowledgements, and heartbeats, and limits each poll to 64 frames. The decoder rejects unsupported non-null errors. Offer timeouts log signaling state. Test transports and host test configuration support these cases.

Dependency download handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Download verification and test coverage
tools/build-dependencies.sh, tests/dependency_download_test.py, build.zig, README.md
fetch_file downloads to a temporary file, verifies its hash, and promotes it to the destination. fetch_source uses fetch_file. The host test exercises retries, cache reuse, and failure cases. Build prerequisites specify curl 7.71 or newer.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SessionClient
  participant SignalingClient
  participant WebSocket
  SessionClient->>SignalingClient: start signaling with session routing
  SignalingClient->>WebSocket: receive signaling frames
  WebSocket-->>SignalingClient: assignment with peer info
  SignalingClient->>WebSocket: send assignment acknowledgement
  WebSocket-->>SignalingClient: offer after acknowledgement
  SignalingClient-->>SessionClient: return decoded offer
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 7da1f

The change disables Wi-Fi power saving during cloud sessions, reworks GeForce NOW signaling, and hardens dependency downloads. No open merge-blocking issue was identified. The author reports that live gameplay is unverified, because both this build and the unchanged v0.3.1 hit an offer timeout.

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The title "Disable Wi-Fi power saving during streaming" matches the main change. The changeset adds a Linux Wi-Fi power-save guard (src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig) that disables power save during a session, wires it into Release, and restores the setting on cleanup. The PR objectives state the same goal. The rest of the changes (session routing, signaling, dependency download retries) are secondary and are not covered by the title, which is expected.

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2 issues found across 3 files

Confidence score: 3/5

  • In wifi_power_save.zig, if the rollback fails, the interface is not recorded for later restoration, so power save can remain disabled. Track the interface even when rollback fails.
  • In release.zig, a panic or SIGHUP can leave power save disabled, and the next launch may not take ownership to restore it. Add a recovery path beyond normal shutdown handling.
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<file name="src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig">

<violation number="1" location="src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig:60">
P2: If the rollback `set(..., true)` in this errdefer also fails, the error is swallowed and the interface is never recorded in `changed`. Power save then stays disabled with no later restore. Consider recording the interface as owned before the disabling write when the error is ambiguous, so `restore` retries it, and add a test where the rollback fails too.</violation>
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<violation number="1" location="src/app/release.zig:495">
P2: Restoration only happens on normal shutdown paths. A panic, SIGKILL, or SIGHUP (only INT/TERM are handled) leaves Wi-Fi power save disabled. Because the next launch sees it already disabled, it takes no ownership and never restores it, so it stays off until reboot. Consider persisting the changed interface to a state file and restoring it at startup.</violation>
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Comment thread src/platform/linux/wifi_power_save.zig Resolved
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pub fn createSession(self: *Release) Result {
if (self.title_id[0] == 0) return .failed;
self.wifi.begin();

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P2: Restoration only happens on normal shutdown paths. A panic, SIGKILL, or SIGHUP (only INT/TERM are handled) leaves Wi-Fi power save disabled. Because the next launch sees it already disabled, it takes no ownership and never restores it, so it stays off until reboot. Consider persisting the changed interface to a state file and restoring it at startup.

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<comment>Restoration only happens on normal shutdown paths. A panic, SIGKILL, or SIGHUP (only INT/TERM are handled) leaves Wi-Fi power save disabled. Because the next launch sees it already disabled, it takes no ownership and never restores it, so it stays off until reboot. Consider persisting the changed interface to a state file and restoring it at startup.</comment>

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@@ -490,6 +492,7 @@ pub const Release = struct {
 
     pub fn createSession(self: *Release) Result {
         if (self.title_id[0] == 0) return .failed;
+        self.wifi.begin();
         self.drawLoading("STARTING GAME", "ALLOCATING CLOUD SESSION", c.GO_HANDHELD_UI_ACTION_CANCEL);
         debug("Creating session ({s})\n", .{std.mem.sliceTo(&self.title_id, 0)});
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1 issue found across 10 files (changes from recent commits).

Confidence score: 3/5

  • In signaling_client.zig, echoed peer_msg frames with an ackid are dropped before being acknowledged, unlike before. If the server expects those ACKs, signaling may stall; handle the ACK before dropping the frame.
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<violation number="1" location="src/provider/geforce_now/signaling_client.zig:134">
P2: Dropping self-echoed `peer_msg` frames before the ACK step means any echo that carries an `ackid` is never acknowledged. Before this PR those echoes were ACKed. If the server expects an ACK for every `ackid` it sends, it may retransmit or stall. Confirm the protocol allows this, or ACK the echo before dropping it.</violation>
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defer self.allocator.free(acknowledgement);
try self.sendText(acknowledgement);
if (message.peer_from) |from| {
if (self.peer_assigned and from == self.local_peer_id) {

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P2: Dropping self-echoed peer_msg frames before the ACK step means any echo that carries an ackid is never acknowledged. Before this PR those echoes were ACKed. If the server expects an ACK for every ackid it sends, it may retransmit or stall. Confirm the protocol allows this, or ACK the echo before dropping it.

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<comment>Dropping self-echoed `peer_msg` frames before the ACK step means any echo that carries an `ackid` is never acknowledged. Before this PR those echoes were ACKed. If the server expects an ACK for every `ackid` it sends, it may retransmit or stall. Confirm the protocol allows this, or ACK the echo before dropping it.</comment>

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@@ -113,31 +118,41 @@ pub const Client = struct {
-                    defer self.allocator.free(acknowledgement);
-                    try self.sendText(acknowledgement);
+            if (message.peer_from) |from| {
+                if (self.peer_assigned and from == self.local_peer_id) {
+                    message.deinit();
+                    continue;
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Outside diff Retry pending Wi-Fi restoration before closing the guard.

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Retry pending Wi-Fi restoration before closing the guard.

If restoration fails with a transient error, Guard.end() keeps the pending record but closes its netlink connection. resetSession() then returns to the catalog, and the later Release.close() call cannot retry because the connection is already null. The interface can remain with power saving disabled after exit. Make final cleanup retry pending ownership before discarding the connection or state. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the Wi-Fi cleanup flow at self.wifi.end so pending restoration is retried
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All reported issues were addressed across 8 files (changes from recent commits).

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1 issue found across 2 files (changes from recent commits).

Confidence score: 5/5

  • tests/dependency_download_test.py's /gradual case transfers well above the 1 KiB/s threshold, so it may pass without exercising the slow-download allowance. Use a smaller payload and chunks to bring the transfer closer to the threshold.
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P3: The `/gradual` case does not exercise the new slow-download allowance: it transfers about 80 KiB/s and finishes in roughly 1.4 seconds, far above the 1 KiB/s threshold. Use a smaller payload with smaller chunks and delays below 1 KiB/s while keeping the test within its 30-second timeout.</violation>
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for offset in range(0, len(payload), 8192):
self.wfile.write(payload[offset:offset + 8192])
self.wfile.flush()
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P3: The /gradual case does not exercise the new slow-download allowance: it transfers about 80 KiB/s and finishes in roughly 1.4 seconds, far above the 1 KiB/s threshold. Use a smaller payload with smaller chunks and delays below 1 KiB/s while keeping the test within its 30-second timeout.

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<comment>The `/gradual` case does not exercise the new slow-download allowance: it transfers about 80 KiB/s and finishes in roughly 1.4 seconds, far above the 1 KiB/s threshold. Use a smaller payload with smaller chunks and delays below 1 KiB/s while keeping the test within its 30-second timeout.</comment>

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+            for offset in range(0, len(payload), 8192):
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+                time.sleep(.1)
+        elif self.requests <= 2:
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zlib.net keeps only the newest release at its top-level URL; 1.3.2 moved to /fossils/ when 1.4 shipped.

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1 issue found across 1 file (changes from recent commits).

Confidence score: 4/5

  • vendor/manifest.lock still points to the removed zlib.net URL, so consumers using it may hit a 404 and get a different source than this build uses. Update it to the new GitHub release URL.
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P3: Update `vendor/manifest.lock` to the new GitHub release URL as well; it still records the removed `zlib.net` URL, which returns 404 and no longer matches the source used by this build.</violation>
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332cb37d0be20cb9541739c61f79bae5a477427d79ae85e352089afdaf6666e4
fetch_source zlib-1.3.2.tar.gz zlib-1.3.2 \
https://zlib.net/zlib-1.3.2.tar.gz \
https://github.com/madler/zlib/releases/download/v1.3.2/zlib-1.3.2.tar.gz \

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P3: Update vendor/manifest.lock to the new GitHub release URL as well; it still records the removed zlib.net URL, which returns 404 and no longer matches the source used by this build.

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@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ fetch_source SDL2-2.28.5.tar.gz SDL2-2.28.5 \
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 fetch_source expat-2.8.5.tar.xz expat-2.8.5 \
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