MaiPai Home 0.6.0

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[0.6.0] - 2026-09-03

Changed

• YouTube playback survives a blocked home address on its own. When YouTube
  starts asking your server to "sign in to confirm you're not a bot", the
  server now goes quiet for real: no background fetching, no hover previews,
  no warming, nothing anonymous at all, so YouTube can trust the address
  again. It checks back every six hours with a single request instead of the
  old thirty-minute burst, which turned out to be what kept the block in
  place. Videos keep playing through the household account in the meantime.
• Your server keeps a signed-out YouTube session of its own, made by opening
  one video a day in a browser on the server, and uses that for playback
  before it ever touches the household account. No account, no name, no
  history attached to anyone.
• The household YouTube sign-in is treated with more care: the server no
  longer reopens it every few hours (that was what kept breaking it), signs
  in again only after the session has failed twice in a row, and never more
  than once a day. If it keeps failing you get one notification instead of a
  loop of automated sign-ins.
• Everything the server asks YouTube for is counted against one daily
  household budget sized to what a person would do, with a smaller slice for
  background work (feeds, transcripts, warming). Background work stops first;
  a person pressing play always has room.
• The piece that proves to YouTube that video requests come from a real
  player is now the maintained one (bgutil), set up and kept running by the
  server automatically. The previous one had been abandoned upstream and no
  longer produced tokens YouTube accepts.

Fixed

• Videos that resolved fine but then failed with a 403 partway through, and
  hover previews that said "available" and then died, both caused by the
  old token provider.