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maziggy d9da60dd8d fix(camera): reuse the live view's frame for external-camera captures (#2707)
On a printer with an external camera, watching the live view while a print
ran meant the layer timelapse recorded almost nothing and the finish photo
went out with no image. The reporter measured 0 of 87 layer captures on one
print and 0 of 105 on another, both watched throughout. A USB camera allows
one V4L2 handle, so a capture during a live view fails outright.

The built-in camera has had this rule since #1348 and #1271: reuse the
viewer's buffered frame rather than opening a second connection. It was
never extended to the external paths, and it could not have been -- the
buffer it depends on was only ever populated by the built-in paths.
generate_mjpeg_stream yields multipart-wrapped chunks, so the route layer
could not recover the JPEG, and a guarded caller would have found an empty
buffer and skipped every time.

So the stream now publishes each raw frame through a new on_frame callback
(parallel to on_process from #2675), and the six one-shot consumers reuse
it: layer timelapse, the finish-photo moment and its background fallback,
the notification snapshot, Obico polling, and the plate check. A viewer
attached with nothing buffered yet skips that one attempt rather than
competing -- kicking the viewer off is worse than missing a frame.

on_frame exceptions are logged and swallowed, like iter_subscriber's
on_unsubscribe: buffering is a side effect and must never be able to take
the live stream down with it. The external stream's teardown now releases
the buffered frame too, ownership-checked so a concurrent viewer of the
same printer keeps its own.

Two side effects on paths not touched here, both improvements: the snapshot
endpoint and the finish-photo fallback chain consult get_buffered_frame and
can now serve an external camera's live frame. plate_detection's docstring
already claimed this behaviour while implementing it only for the built-in
fallback; that drift is resolved.
2026-07-30 13:05:15 +02:00
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