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feat(discovery): identify servers across addresses for TV handoff - #1271

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Problem

Related issue: #1268

A phone and a TV can reach the same deployment through different addresses: the configured public URL, a LAN address, or the overlay origin a network access provider exposes (#1096). The Apple and Android clients derive a server's identity from its URL, so the two addresses look like two servers and the remote-only picker hides the TV. Companion pairing sends the phone's saved URL to the TV, which may be unreachable from there. The server offered nothing a client could use to recognize one deployment across addresses or to find an address the TV can reach.

Approach

Two additive /api/v2 operations and one new package.

  • internal/serveridentity mints one random UUID per deployment on first read and stores it in server_settings as server.identity_id. Seeding uses insert-if-absent, so concurrent API processes converge on one value. Each process caches it. The row is plaintext on purpose: a SECRET_KEY rotation must not change who a server is. It survives restarts, hostname and URL changes, and database restores. A cloned database carries the same ID to the clone; that is accepted because the ID authorizes nothing, and no regenerate operation is added.
  • GET /api/v2/system/identity is public and returns server_id. The system info document links to it as links.identity, so the build-wide discovery document stays fixed and the per-deployment value sits next to it.
  • GET /api/v2/system/connections is authenticated (account, no profile) and is the capability document for the feature. It returns the server ID, the access path the request arrived on (default or provider with the slug, read from the ingress middleware), and the endpoints: the public URL as kind: public when configured, then each installed provider with display name and API-host state, carrying a url only while connected. Node backend addresses, enrollment URLs and admin error text are not included. A missing public URL is a missing endpoint; nothing is derived from the request Host.

The ID is deliberately unsigned. The proof that two addresses share one backend remains device-login approval: the TV opens a pairing request at the candidate address, the phone approves it through its own connection, and tokens are issued only if both landed in the same store. A matching ID or display name authorizes nothing by itself. docs/architecture/server-identity.md records this and the client flow.

The diagnostics installation ID and the Jellyfin-compat server ID were not reused. The first keys upload manifests and import receipts; the second is a configurable compat setting. jellycompat is unchanged.

Client follow-ups: Silo-Server/silo-apple#341 and Silo-Server/silo-android#352.

Validation

  • New tests in internal/serveridentity (mint once, 32 concurrent processes converge on one write, non-conditional store fallback, cached reads) and internal/apiv2 (both handlers, public access, links.identity, ETag revalidation, provider state coercion, disconnected provider loses its URL, absent and malformed public URL, provider access path, dependency and read failures). All pass.
  • Regenerated and verified: OpenAPI, route inventory, contract fixtures (two new), migration ledger, offline routes, web types, media route manifest, settings bindings, local path check. golangci-lint --new-from-rev on the touched packages reports no issues.
  • TestAdminResourceCapabilitiesAndScope in internal/apiv2 fails on this branch and identically on a pristine checkout of main; it is unrelated.
  • Not run: physical phone-to-TV pairing. That belongs to the linked client tasks.

Risks

Additive contract only; no migration and no schema change. The identity is a new public field, but a UUID with no key material discloses nothing about the deployment. The connections document is authenticated and exposes only the public URL and provider origins on the API host, both of which a signed-in client could already observe by being connected. A cloned database shares its ID with the source until a regenerate action exists.

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  • New Features

    • Added a public server identity endpoint that returns a stable deployment ID.
    • Added an authenticated connections endpoint showing the current access path, public URL, and available provider endpoints.
    • Added identity and connections links to API discovery metadata.
    • Added conditional request support for connection data using ETags.
  • Documentation

    • Documented server identity, connection discovery, and device-pairing behavior.

A phone and a TV can reach one deployment through different addresses
(public URL, LAN, overlay origin from a network access provider), but
clients derive server identity from the URL and companion pairing hands
the TV the phone's address whether or not the TV can reach it.

Add a stable per-deployment server ID (internal/serveridentity, stored in
server_settings, seeded with insert-if-absent so API processes converge)
and two additive /api/v2 operations: the public getServerIdentity, linked
from system/info as links.identity, and the authenticated
getServerConnections capability document listing the public URL and each
installed provider with its API-host state and overlay origin when
connected. Node addresses, enrollment URLs and admin status stay private.
The ID is self-asserted and authorizes nothing; device-login approval
remains the proof that two addresses share one backend.

Related issue: #1268

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The change adds persistent server identity and two v2 discovery endpoints. It updates API contracts, router wiring, web schemas, fixtures, tests, and documentation. The connections endpoint reports configured and provider endpoints with access-path, state, authentication, and conditional-request behavior.

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Server discovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persistent server identity
internal/serveridentity/serveridentity.go, internal/serveridentity/serveridentity_test.go
Adds UUID creation, persistence under server.identity_id, process caching, conditional storage support, and concurrency tests.
API schemas and discovery links
contracts/api/v2/openapi.json, contracts/api/v2/fixtures/*, web/src/api/v2/operations.ts, web/src/api/v2/schema.ts, internal/apiv2/system.go
Defines identity and connections paths, schemas, response conditions, operation mappings, fixtures, and links.identity.
Identity and connection endpoints
internal/apiv2/system_identity.go, internal/apiv2/router.go, internal/apiv2/document.go, internal/api/router.go, internal/api/testdata/media_routes.txt
Registers the public identity endpoint and authenticated connections endpoint. The connections response includes the current access path, normalized public URL, sorted provider entries, provider states, and ETag metadata.
Endpoint validation and fixtures
internal/apiv2/system_identity_test.go, internal/apiv2/system_identity_fixtures_test.go, internal/apiv2/document_test.go, internal/apiv2/fixtures_test.go
Tests authentication, headers, error mapping, endpoint ordering, provider state handling, URL filtering, current-path detection, provider failures, and generated fixtures.
Discovery documentation
docs/architecture/api-contract.md, docs/architecture/server-identity.md, docs/network-access-api.md
Documents the stable server identity, connection discovery response, endpoint rules, pairing flow, and authorization boundaries.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant getServerConnections
  participant ServerIdentityService
  participant NetworkAccessStatusCache
  Client->>getServerConnections: GET /api/v2/system/connections
  getServerConnections->>ServerIdentityService: ServerID(context)
  ServerIdentityService-->>getServerConnections: server_id
  getServerConnections->>NetworkAccessStatusCache: List provider statuses
  NetworkAccessStatusCache-->>getServerConnections: Provider states and origins
  getServerConnections-->>Client: ServerConnectionsDocument with ETag
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In `@contracts/api/v2/openapi.json`:
- Around line 35473-35475: The source contract must model ServerAccessPath and
ServerEndpoint as mutually exclusive tagged-union variants instead of requiring
only kind. Update their Schema methods using the existing OneOf pattern: require
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Comment thread docs/architecture/server-identity.md Outdated
Review feedback on #1271: ServerEndpoint and ServerAccessPath required
only kind, so a validator accepted a public endpoint without a url or a
provider endpoint without its slug and state. Both are now OneOf unions
of per-kind variants, following the ProgressSyncResult pattern. The wire
shape is unchanged. The identity doc now states what a database clone
means and how an operator separates one.

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…outing (#342)

Consume the server identity contract (Silo-Server/silo-server#1271) so a
phone on a network-plugin address and a TV on the public address recognize
one deployment, and fix a cluster of SiloRemote playback bugs found while
testing it.

Identity (#341):
- Registry entries learn a verified deployment identity; matching accepts
  equal identities alongside the existing origin rule. Registry keys and
  credential slots are unchanged.
- SiloControl hello, TXT record, and handoff offer carry the identity and
  the deployment's other addresses. The TV probes candidates and uses the
  first that answers with the expected identity; a different identity is
  refused.
- Companion pairing pushes identity and endpoints. The TV probes the pushed
  address, and on failure shows provider help with an explicit public
  fallback. Frames echo the pushed URL; the TV saves the address that
  worked. Failures now carry typed codes.

SiloRemote routing and playback:
- One "engaged" predicate drives the mode button, mini-bar, and routing.
- Every streaming play goes through the router, so an engaged TV (including
  mid-reconnect) always takes it; offline plays prompt.
- Playing a different title asks before replacing what the TV is showing.
- The phone accepts a reused handoff_ready without a challenge, and the TV
  hands the identity generation to a replacing player.
- The remote scrubber commits on value settle, so a missed end-of-edit
  callback no longer pins the slider and swallows later drags.
- Connecting to a server from the Change Server flow pops the stack.

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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