ProsperoLight 01.000.080

Beta: a new launcher, four controllers, files that survive updates

Everything in experimental beta 01.000.070 is included; its notes below
still apply to the stream itself.

New

• A new launcher. It is drawn by the GPU with the widgets of
  ps5-homebrew-ui, at
  up to 4K, in ProsperoLight's own Moonlight theme: frosted panels over a
  night-blue sky. Four tabs: PCs, Games, Settings, About.
  • PCs. Every saved PC is on screen with its state: ready, needs pairing,
    or offline. The panel beside the list shows its address, port, pairing, app
    count and running app. Remove must be held; Unpair asks first.
    Triangle searches the network again.
  • Games. Box art is shown as posters and the list scrolls. The selected
    app's name is the headline, the page takes its colours from the poster, and
    the running app carries a badge.
  • Settings. Rows are grouped, left and right change a value, and bitrate
    is a slider from 10 to 300 Mbps. At 4K a meter shows the bitrate against
    the decoder's measured limit.
  • About. Credits, the version, three steps to get started, and the
    folders the settings, the pairing and the logs are in.
  • Address and port are typed on a number pad inside the launcher.
  • The screen keeps moving while a PC is slow to answer.
• Sounds. Every widget has its sound: moving, choosing, tabs, sliders,
  dialogs, notices, and starting a stream.
• Up to four controllers. Every user signed in on the PS5 plays with their
  own controller. Turn on another controller, choose a user for it when the PS5
  asks, and it joins as the next one, before or during a stream. Touchpad + L1
  (leave the stream) and Touchpad + R1 (statistics) work on every controller;
  mouse mode and the stream keyboard stay with the first one.
• Sunshine port per PC. The PCs page has a Change port button, and
  Add a PC accepts address:port. A PC found on the network uses the port
  Sunshine advertises.
• One folder for everything the app writes. When it starts, ProsperoLight
  asks the console's ELF loader for access to the filesystem, the way
  ProsperoEden does. Saved PCs and settings are then in
  /data/prosperolight/config, the pairing in /data/prosperolight/pairing,
  and the logs in /data/prosperolight/logs. An update or a reinstall does not
  touch them, and the first start brings the settings and the pairing over, so
  nothing is paired again. With no ELF loader on port 9021 the app uses its own
  storage as before.
• One connecting screen. The launcher's connecting screen stays on the
  television while the stream connects, its bar moving with each step; when the
  first picture arrives the bar runs to its end and the screen fades into the
  stream. Touchpad + L1 still cancels.
• New version notice. Once per launch the app asks the homebrew.page
  catalog whether a newer ProsperoLight is listed, and says so in a notice that
  stays for ten seconds. Nothing is downloaded or installed.
• Crash report. If the app faults it writes logs/crash-last.txt;
  tools/symbolize-crash.py names the functions.
• The stream shortcuts are named after their button. They were written
  Select + ...; the button is the touchpad, so they are now Touchpad + L1,
  Touchpad + R1, Touchpad + Square and Touchpad + Triangle. The shortcuts
  themselves did not change, and buttons are shown as glyphs.

Fixed

• No black screen when the app opens: the console's splash picture stays until
  the launcher has drawn its first frame.
• The launcher no longer stands still for a second every few seconds (its log
  is written by a thread of its own).
• Stopping a running app from the launcher no longer closes ProsperoLight.

Good to know

• The app file grows from 5 MB to 32 MB: the launcher brings the ps5-opengl
  runtime, and the update check brings libcurl. The app folder has one more
  file, sandbox-elevator.elf, the helper the ELF loader runs.
• Opening the app takes about five seconds; the splash picture covers it. After
  a stream above 60 Hz or in HDR the screen stays black for five seconds before
  the launcher returns, while the television changes mode.
• PC and app names can use western and central European letters and Cyrillic.
  Other scripts are not drawn yet.
• Saved PCs and settings from earlier versions are kept. Going back to an
  earlier version resets them; pairing is kept.
• pairing/key.pem under /data/prosperolight is what lets this console
  connect to a paired PC: keep it private.

What was tested

On a PS5 with a 4K television: the launcher and its four tabs, filesystem
access and the move of settings and pairing to /data/prosperolight, the
connecting screen handed to the stream, a stream and the return to the
launcher. On the PC: the launcher's screens and logic against a pretend
Sunshine network, and the unit tests.