Extends the appliance endpoint that landed in the previous commit with a
time_synced field, sourced from /run/bambuddy/time-synced (the appliance's
ntp-gate.sh writes this once chronyd reports sync, or with a "warning"
marker after the 3-minute timeout). The RPi 5 has no battery-backed RTC,
so on a fresh boot the system clock is wrong until NTP catches up -- JWT
expiries and TLS certificate validity windows depend on this being right.
Exposing the gate lets the SPA render a "time not synced" indicator while
that's still true and clear it once "ok" comes through.
backend/app/core/local_config.py
New read_ntp_gate(path) function alongside read_local_toml. Three states:
"ok" chrony reported sync within the 3-minute window
"warning" 3-minute timeout elapsed without sync; user already waited
and the wizard proceeded with a degraded clock
None file absent (non-appliance install), OSError, empty content,
unknown marker, or binary garbage -- "unknown / don't gate"
Defensive read mode (errors="replace") survives non-utf8 content without
crashing. Module docstring broadened from "local.toml reader" to "small
readers for appliance-set state files".
backend/app/api/routes/system.py
/system/appliance now returns:
{hostname, timezone, locale, time_synced}
with the same no-auth posture: bootstrap surfaces (i18n init, time-sync
banner) read this before auth might be set up, and the contents are
non-secret (user-set defaults + a public sync flag). The endpoint
docstring expands to explain the RTC motivation -- otherwise the
time_synced field reads like a leftover.
Closes the cross-repo contract started in bambuddy-appliance: the firstboot
wizard writes /etc/bambuddy/local.toml with the user's hostname / timezone /
locale, but nothing on the main app side read it. Hostname + timezone are
already applied by the appliance's firstboot.sh via hostnamectl /
timedatectl. This PR closes the loop for the third field — locale — so the
language the user picked in the wizard actually shows up on first SPA load.
backend/app/core/local_config.py
New module. read_local_toml(path) returns a LocalConfig TypedDict
({hostname?, timezone?, locale?}) parsed from /etc/bambuddy/local.toml.
Defensive on every failure mode -- missing file returns {}, invalid TOML
returns {} + log warning, non-string values dropped with warning. The
reader never raises; a malformed config never blocks startup.
backend/app/api/routes/system.py
New endpoint GET /system/appliance. Returns {hostname, timezone, locale}
with null for any field not present in the TOML. No auth required: the
frontend i18n bootstrap reads this before auth might be set up, and the
contents are user-set defaults, not secrets. The function calls
read_local_toml() with no args (default path) so tests can monkeypatch
the module's read_local_toml reference to inject fixtures.
frontend/src/i18n/index.ts
One-shot applyApplianceLocale() runs after i18n.init(). Gated by a
bambuddy_appliance_locale_consumed localStorage flag so it runs at most
once per appliance. Fetches /api/v1/system/appliance, validates the
returned locale against supportedLngs, calls i18n.changeLanguage if
valid. Silent .catch() because the endpoint absent / unreachable means
non-appliance install or dev environment -- we leave the LanguageDetector's
choice in place. The consumed flag is set on success; future loads skip
the fetch entirely. Won't override a user's explicit language pick (the
language picker writes to a separate localStorage key, bambutrack_language).
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