v5.3.2 - Videos That Look And Sound Right, A Calmer App

v5.3.2 - Videos That Look And Sound Right, A Calmer App

Row-Bot 5.3.2 makes its videos look like a studio made them and never lets a
silent one slip out, asks you less for the things you clearly asked for, and
makes Home and Settings calmer. It comes from a week of using Row-Bot like you
would, on Windows and a Mac, with ChatGPT and a model on this computer. From
5.3.1 it arrives through background updates.

Videos

• Made like a studio - a camera that follows what's done, the page framed
  on your brand's backdrop, titles as lit slides and lower thirds, captions a
  phrase at a time, and a review sheet Row-Bot checks before it says it's done.
• Recordings are 1920x1080 and fill the frame: the page keeps one 16:9 size
  while it records, whatever the Browser pane does.
• Every shape, full size - phone (9:16) and square cuts show wide footage
  whole instead of cutting words.
• Voice and timing - each scene lasts until its line is said; a voice is
  never slowed to fill time; several lines voiced at once no longer fail.
• A video with no sound says so - in Row-Bot's own result, on the X card
  you approve and in Home's scheduled posts. A cut made only from a screen
  recording has no sound; a video for people to watch is made with a voice.
• Checks catch waits - a recorded stretch where nothing happens after the
  line is said ("Thinking...", a page loading) needs attention before it's done.
• Long captions show phrase by phrase instead of being cut short.
• One ask for Row-Bot's two downloads a narrated video needs (ffmpeg and
  its voice), no leftover speed badge, numbers that read as numbers, and file
  names that keep their apostrophes.
• Check before it posts - a post's pictures and videos open full size from
  its card and from Home's scheduled posts, in a viewer that fills the window.

Browser And Sandboxes

• Paste in the Browser pane reaches the page as its own paste (sign-in code
  boxes fill), and the pane's menu has Paste into the page.
• Page sizes - a desktop page is a desktop window, whatever the pane's width.
• Row-Bot's own browser - offered when you have no Chrome or Edge, with its
  real size; on a Mac it never asks to send you notifications.
• Sandboxes - Row-Bot reuses a signed-in sandbox instead of making another,
  Reset keeps its sign-in, one made from a chat on a local model uses that model,
  it starts at your chat's approval level, and a new one opens signed in. The
  shop has a customer inbox to answer.

Approvals That Fit The Request

• Auto judges the step - a step that only reads or checks something the
  request needs runs; the reviewer reads the message you just sent.
• Read-only commands - Get-Process, Import-Csv and property filters run
  without asking, and on Block.
• Installing software asks you - winget, Homebrew, apt and the like always
  come to you, even on Auto.
• After a no - the reply says what Row-Bot had already found and what it
  didn't do.
• New chats and workflows start on Auto, or the level you last chose.

A Calmer App

• Home - setup is optional ("Explore"), Monitor says "Everything's working"
  in one line, Needs you shows only when something does, and workflow rows say
  each thing once.
• Settings - one theme control, quiet empty states, Import on request,
  backups that skip a running chat's pieces, and Restore opens your Backups.
• ChatGPT sign-in - one status line, nothing to press while Row-Bot checks,
  and an expired code frees sign-in for a new one.
• Setup lists the strongest model that fits your computer first.
• Library and Home fit a phone, and Home's tabs show they scroll.
• Skills - a plain note suggests no skill, and a skill that's on says so.
• Mac - the menu bar has Edit and Window menus.

Fixes

• Big files - attachments up to 200 MB attach, open and save, recordings
  included, and Download saves in the desktop app.
• Voice memos transcribe without ffmpeg; the speech model is asked for once.
• Long tasks on local models finish instead of stopping halfway.
• A chat opened mid-run shows each step once.
• After a restart - a turn that stopped offers Resume, and a message the
  turn already read no longer waits for good.
• One-off workflows run at their time, keep no notes, and "in 2 minutes"
  counts down.
• Pages that limit readers - Row-Bot waits and tries once more, or says the
  site refused.
• Windows sign-ins save again when Credential Manager is full.
• 127.0.0.1 from this computer always reaches Row-Bot.
• Phones stay connected - a phone opening Row-Bot from its home screen or
  another app no longer asks you to connect again after a day; its connection
  lasts its full 30 days.
• From your phone - Setup says to install Ollama on Row-Bot's computer
  instead of offering a download for the phone.
• Your own model server - a new guide, Use Your Own Model Server, for
  connecting your own Ollama or vLLM server.
• One chat, one job - Row-Bot starts another conversation only when you ask.

For Hosts

• Setup code - a Row-Bot server nobody owns yet prints "Row-Bot setup code:
  …" in its log at every start; open its address and enter it. Set
  ROW_BOT_SETUP_CODE (12 to 64 letters or digits) to choose your own.
  Changing it and restarting lets one browser back in and signs out the others.
  On a server, /connect without an invitation opens this setup page;
  row-bot access invite still works.
• Secret-store key - ROW_BOT_SECRET_STORE_KEY (64 hex characters) hands
  Row-Bot its key, taken out of its environment at start. Compose's key file
  still works. A container with neither makes its own key on the data volume,
  left out of Row-Bot's backups.
• A wrong or missing key stops the start - if the key doesn't open the
  saved secrets, or saved secrets have no key, Row-Bot stops and says what to
  do. Nothing is deleted.
• An exact ROW_BOT_ALLOWED_HOSTS - Row-Bot's own start-up check and the
  image's health check now pass when the list holds only the public host, as
  the VPS Compose file asks; 127.0.0.1 no longer needs to be in it.
• Kept private - on Linux, other programs of the same user can't read
  Row-Bot's environment, and the image's health check runs with an empty one,
  so neither shows the key or the setup code.
• Sizes - Hosting Row-Bot now lists them: 4 GB memory, 2 cores and 10 GB
  disk recommended; 2 GB is the minimum without local speech-to-text.
• New pages - Operations › Hosting Row-Bot and Privacy And Safety › What
  Your Host Can See.
• No breaking change for Compose setups.

Upgrade Notes

• From 5.3.1, in the background - Row-Bot downloads 5.3.2 and says Restart
  to update.
• Installing software asks - a workflow on Auto that installs software
  with winget, Homebrew or apt now waits for you to approve it.
• Scheduled posts - check Home › Review: a scheduled video with no sound now
  says so.
• Servers - a Row-Bot server nobody has claimed asks for its setup code in
  the browser, and a missing or wrong secret-store key stops the start (see For
  Hosts).

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