arr-summary/CLAUDE.md

Arr Summary (Greendale)

Flask dashboard aggregating status from the user's self-hosted media stack — Sonarr, Radarr, SABnzbd, Tautulli, Prowlarr, Ombi — plus Unraid array stats and a Rotten Tomatoes "what's popular that I don't have yet" feed. Branded "Media Centre". Since v2.0.0 (2026-08-29) it presents as a broadcast information service in the teletext tradition: numbered pages you reach by typing the number, status carried by colour, and no borders or cards anywhere. This replaced — not refined — the earlier neutral dark card theme, which had itself replaced five novelty themes. See DESIGN.md for the visual system and the static/css/base.css header for the five disciplines it is held to. Runs as one Docker container on the user's Unraid home server. Server-side project directory is still named greendale; the container/repo are named arr-summary.

Architecture

• app.py — single Flask app, session-based single-shared-password auth (LOGIN_PASSWORD env var, hashed comparison; can be changed at runtime via /api/change-password, persisted to settings.json). Supports running behind a reverse-proxy subpath via SCRIPT_NAME + ScriptNameMiddleware + ProxyFix (currently deployed at domain root, not a subpath, but the capability exists — see nginx/ configs for both).
  • Per-service client functions (sonarr_get, radarr_get, sabnzbd_get, tautulli_get, prowlarr_get, ombi_get) each call that service's REST API directly with its API key from env vars.
  • The dashboard route (/) fetches all services in parallel via ThreadPoolExecutor with a hard 5-second wall-clock deadline — any slow/unreachable service degrades to an error dict rather than blocking the whole page. This matters for remote/cellular access.
  • Aggressive per-service caching with different TTLs tuned to how often each actually changes: Sonarr/Radarr library lists 5 min (the biggest latency cost — full Radarr list is ~4.4MB), Tautulli stats 2 min, SABnzbd history 10 min, Ombi requests 4 hours, Rotten Tomatoes scrapes 4 hours. Active streams (Tautulli) and the SABnzbd queue are always fetched live, never cached — those need to be current-second accurate.
  • Rotten Tomatoes / IMDB are scraped directly (requests + BeautifulSoup, JSON-LD parsing), not via an official API — brittle to upstream HTML changes by nature.
• templates/ — Jinja2 templates. _shell.html is the root layout every page extends; _macros.html holds the shared fragments. Pages are home.html (P100), watch.html (101), library.html (102), discover.html (103), requests.html (104), system.html (105), activity.html (106), settings.html (900), plus login.html, which stands alone. The old single-page dashboard.html was deleted in the v2.0.0 redesign along with dashboard.css, login.css, settings.css and dashboard.js.
  • Templates carry markup only. CSS and JS live in static/ and are linked via url_for('static', ...) so they stay correct behind a SCRIPT_NAME subpath. Server-rendered config (timezone, script root, the page-number map) reaches JS through <body data-*>, never string-interpolated into a script block.
  • No style="..." attributes for anything static. A one-off tweak belongs in static/css/teletext.css, scoped with a structural selector or a small modifier class. The only legitimate inline style= is a per-request computed value Jinja has to interpolate — currently just the bar() macro's fill width.
  • _shell.html's first <body> child is an HTML comment holding the direction contract for the visual world (thesis, own-world, story, first viewport, form, seed key). Leave it in place; it is what a later session audits the design against.
• static/css/base.css — tokens and reset. Its header comment states the five disciplines the visual world is held to; read them before changing anything visual, and treat breaking one as a regression rather than a variation:
  1. No in-between tone. There are eight colours (the teletext primaries). A mid-grey is an ordered dither of two of them, never a ninth colour.
  2. No enclosure. Nothing is surrounded by a border or a box. There is zero border-radius in the codebase. Grouping is a coloured field row (.tt-field), indentation, and weight. This is the single thing the world most refuses — the previous design was built on bordered cards.
  3. One ruler. Every bar and percentage shares one scale (--bar-cells) and is drawn only by the bar() macro in _macros.html, so 60% on the array and 60% on an indexer are the same width and compare directly. Never restyle a bar per section.
  4. Every reading carries its direction. A value shows where it is heading. Only drawn where the backend genuinely holds a comparison — today that is SABnzbd speed against its stored 7-day average, and nowhere else. Do not invent a trend for data with no history.
  5. Pages differ in stock. A page holding critical state is set heavier than a quiet one (.tt-field.warn / .tt-field.crit). Uniform texture across all the pages is a failure.
  • Colour is semantic, never decorative: yellow is the service's own voice, cyan is a live value, green is healthy, red is off air, magenta means a human must decide (pending requests only), blue is a field ground. Reshading means editing the eight tokens here, nothing downstream.
  • Type is one face at exactly two heights — --fs (15px) and --fs2 (30px, double height). Adding a third size breaks the system. The 16px literal on inputs is deliberate: it prevents iOS zoom-on-focus.
  • --ink-dim (58% white) is the only dimmed token allowed to carry text; it clears 4.5:1 on black. --ink-dimmer (30%) is for graphics only — bar troughs, the dither field, separators. Setting text in --ink-dimmer fails contrast, which is exactly the bug the redesign's first inspection round caught.
  • Navigation is the page number. Typing any three digits anywhere jumps to that page, and r/g/y/c fire four of the fastext entries — both in static/js/service.js. nav_items in app.py is the source of truth for the numbers and is serialised into <body data-pages>.
  • Fastext leads everywhere but the index, and closes the index. FULL_FASTEXT in app.py lists every destination and renders right under the header on every page but the index — those pages carry no other nav, so it needs no scroll to reach. The index overrides it with HOME_FASTEXT, the original four-entry row, as its own closing line, since its body already lists every destination once. Every destination gets its own distinct mark. Six get a flat colour, text and swatch both: Index/Library/Discover/System keep their r/g/ y/c shortcut; Requests gets magenta/--pending with no shortcut (a deliberate fit — Requests already is "waiting on a human" everywhere else magenta appears); Watch gets blue (.k-blue) with no shortcut. Blue is a known exception to the app's own 4.5:1 text-contrast bar (it clears ~2.4:1 on black) — kept anyway, at the visitor's request, over the alternative of a swatch-only accent that read as unfinished next to six fully-coloured neighbours. Activity gets an ordered-dither swatch (.k-dither, same mechanism as --dither-mid) instead of a flat colour — the one other legal way to get a distinct mark without a ninth hue. Settings alone keeps plain ink with no swatch treatment — deliberately, as the one page with no live status of its own. Whichever entry matches the current page renders as a .fastext-here span instead of a link — a page linking to itself did nothing, so it isn't offered as a click.
  • Nothing is clipped, hidden, or sticky. All seven page numbers and every fastext entry stay visible at every width, reflowing to another row rather than scrolling, truncating, or folding into a menu. No header is sticky.
• export-to-unraid.sh — a pre-existing standalone deploy script (build image locally → tarball → rsync + docker load over SSH) that predates the Forgejo pipeline below. Still present, not removed, but the Forgejo pipeline is now the primary deploy path going forward.
• nginx/ — reference nginx location-block snippets for subdomain vs. subpath reverse-proxy setups; not actually consumed by the app at runtime (NPM handles proxying in practice), kept as documentation/config reference.

Local development

pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 app.py

Runs on port 5000. Needs the various *_API_KEY and *_HOST/ARR_HOST env vars (see .env.example) to reach real services — without them, dashboard cards degrade to "error" status individually rather than crashing the page.

Expect every service to be offline on the dev machine, and expect /api/* polls to 500. The dev laptop is not on the network with the media stack, so Sonarr/Radarr/SABnzbd/Tautulli/Prowlarr/Ombi all refuse the connection: every card renders its service_error() state, the header pills all read "offline", and the browser console fills with 500 responses from the live-poll endpoints (/api/sabnzbd and /api/tautulli poll on a timer, so they repeat every few seconds). This is the normal local baseline, not a regression — don't go debugging it, and don't "fix" it. If you need to check whether a 500 is genuinely yours, stash the working tree and confirm the same response on a clean checkout.

Because of that, the only reliable way to exercise a card's real (non-error) rendering locally is to monkey-patch its fetcher and run the app on a spare port, e.g.:

LOGIN_PASSWORD=test python3 -c "
import app as a
a.get_unraid_stats = lambda: {'status': 'ok', 'source': 'api', ...}
a.app.run(host='127.0.0.1', port=5099)"

Two gotchas when doing this: Jinja's auto_reload follows app.debug, which is off, so template edits need a server restart — a browser reload alone will silently serve the cached template. And the login password comes from LOGIN_PASSWORD, so set it explicitly rather than hunting for the real one.

The listen port comes from PORT (default 5000, matching EXPOSE, gunicorn.conf.py and the ${HOST_PORT}:5000 compose mapping — change all four together or none). Set it when running locally: macOS ControlCenter already holds port 5000, so python3 app.py with no PORT will fail to bind on the dev laptop. .claude/launch.json sets autoPort so a dev harness can assign a free one, but note that on this machine the preview sandbox can't read files under ~/Desktop ("Operation not permitted"), so launching by name fails and running the app from a shell on an explicit PORT is the working path.

Deployment

See the deploy-arr-summary skill for the Forgejo push-to-deploy pipeline, manual container restart steps, deploy verification, and the Nginx Proxy Manager / TLS setup and its Cox-port-80/DNS-01 constraint.

Logins

See the manage-accounts skill for the multi-user vs. legacy single-shared-password login modes and the manage_users.py CLI.

Never put a real password in the repo — not in app.py, not in settings.json committed to git, not in a fixture. .env and data/ are gitignored and excluded from the deploy rsync precisely so secrets have somewhere to live; everything else here is pushed to Forgejo.

A key saved through the Settings page overrides the corresponding .env value at startup (see the block after the *_API_KEY reads in app.py); .env remains the source of truth for anything never overridden there. Both paths need a container restart to take effect, since the keys are read once at import.