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What this PR changes

  1. Shut down cleanly on stop: adds an s6 down-signal file so the whisper service is stopped with SIGINT instead of SIGTERM.
  2. Leave "Starting" faster: the healthcheck now probes readiness every 5 s during startup (--start-interval=5s, normal interval stays 30 s).
  3. Bumps the app to 3.5.3.

Background

Clean shutdown: same situation as speech-to-phrase (companion PR #4800): wyoming-faster-whisper installs no SIGTERM handler, so on stop the process dies from the default signal action and the container exits with 143, which newer Supervisor versions flag:

App Whisper did not handle SIGTERM and was terminated by the default signal handler (exit code 143).

Its __main__ wraps the asyncio entrypoint in except KeyboardInterrupt: pass, so SIGINT already produces a clean exit 0 — s6-rc's down-signal file makes s6 deliver SIGINT on service stop. Mechanism verified end-to-end on speech-to-phrase with the real s6 init (docker stop ~3 s, clean service stop, container exit code 0); whisper's signal-handling code path is identical.

Faster startup detection: with the default 30 s healthcheck interval the app can sit in "Starting" for half a minute after the Wyoming port is already open; --start-interval=5s detects readiness within seconds (measured 8 s start→healthy on speech-to-phrase with the same change). Requires Docker Engine ≥ 25 (HAOS ships well past that) and hadolint ≥ v2.14 in CI — see #4802, which should merge first.

Longer term, a SIGTERM handler in python-wyoming's AsyncServer fixes all Wyoming apps at once — submitted as OHF-Voice/wyoming#55; the down-signal makes this app well-behaved now and becomes redundant-but-harmless once that ships.

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wyoming-faster-whisper has no SIGTERM handler, so s6's default SIGTERM
kills the process and the container exits with code 143, which newer
Supervisor versions flag as an unclean shutdown. It does catch
KeyboardInterrupt and exit 0 on SIGINT, so tell s6 to stop the
service with SIGINT via the down-signal file.

Same fix as speech_to_phrase; mechanism verified there with the full
s6 init (docker stop ~3s, container exit code 0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Whisper add-on version is updated to 3.5.3. The service now uses SIGINT when stopped. The startup health check probes every 5 seconds during its 10-minute startup period. The changelog records these changes.

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Whisper 3.5.3 update

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shutdown and startup behavior
whisper/rootfs/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/whisper/down-signal, whisper/Dockerfile
The service uses SIGINT as its down signal. The health check adds a 5-second startup probe interval while retaining the 10-minute startup period.
Release metadata and changelog
whisper/config.yaml, whisper/CHANGELOG.md
The add-on version changes to 3.5.3. The changelog records clean shutdown behavior and faster readiness checks during startup.

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The updated image health check may prevent builds on supported Docker Engine 23.x and 24.x hosts. Merge should wait for a compatible configuration or an explicit Docker Engine 25.0 minimum.

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With the default 30s healthcheck interval the app can sit in the
"Starting" state for half a minute after it is already serving. Use
--start-interval=5s so readiness is detected within seconds once the
model is loaded and the Wyoming port opens.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Pull request overview

Adds graceful Whisper shutdown behavior and faster startup health detection, with a corresponding release bump.

Changes:

  • Uses SIGINT when stopping the Whisper service.
  • Checks startup readiness every 5 seconds.
  • Bumps the add-on version to 3.5.3.

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File Description
whisper/rootfs/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/whisper/down-signal Configures SIGINT for service shutdown.
whisper/Dockerfile Adds the startup healthcheck interval.
whisper/config.yaml Bumps the version to 3.5.3.
whisper/CHANGELOG.md Documents the release changes.

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