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CarPlay and Android Auto cannot render a web view. Both are template
surfaces, and the only audio they will control is the host's own AVPlayer
or ExoPlayer -- so an app that is "the web UI plus CarPlay" is really "the
web UI whose audio engine is native", and the page had no way to give
playback away.
web/src/native.ts replaces the playback surface of the page's media element
with one that forwards to the host and synthesises the events back. Nothing
in player.ts changes: it only ever speaks to the element, so the player bar,
the row buttons, the EQ bars and the keyboard shortcuts keep working as they
did. Video stays in the page, since CarPlay is audio-only and a native video
layer under a web view buys nothing. In a browser none of it installs.
Position and read are the host's to write. player.ts has been bitten before
by a stale position -- one left paused in another tab saved its older place
over where you had got to -- and a backgrounded web view is exactly that
tab: frozen, holding a time from minutes ago, while the host plays on. So
the beacon becomes a request for the host to save its own clock.
tests/native-bridge.js is what holds the two ends together, and it earned
its place immediately: the src setter called removeAttribute('src'), which
the shim's own override turned into a stop() that switched it back off one
line after enabling it. Silent, and only visible in a car. The stub DOM
moved to tests/dom-stub.js so that test and page-smoke share one harness
rather than two copies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# ipodderx-rs
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A self-hosted podcatcher for a household. It checks your feeds, downloads the episodes, and serves
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a web UI modelled on the 2004 Mac app **iPodderX**, for any number of people sharing one copy of
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the files. One Rust binary, `ipx`, is both the daemon and the command line.
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It is a rewrite of [ipodderx-core](https://git.sdf1.net/rays/ipodderx-core), the Python engine
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behind iPodderX (2004-2008, Ray Slakinski & August Trometer).
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## What it does
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- **The web UI.** It has a toolbar, and a feed list that opens with Directory, Popular and All
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Subscriptions. Items sit in a sortable table with a Files pane, and there is a player bar. It
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comes in Dark, Light and Classic themes, and works on a phone.
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- **Several people, one copy.** Each person has their own subscriptions and their own read, pinned
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and playback state. There is one file on disk per episode, however many people want it. People
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sign in with a password or through a proxy (Cloudflare Zero Trust or Authentik), and admins
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manage accounts and settings.
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- **Scanning.** Feeds are checked on a schedule, globally or per feed, and a feed's own TTL is
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honoured. Keyword, explicit-content and media-type filters decide what is downloaded, with a cap
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on new downloads per scan.
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- **Downloads.** Files come over HTTP or BitTorrent and are filed into a folder per feed.
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Retention deletes the oldest files to stay under a disk quota or an age limit, and never touches
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an item someone has pinned.
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- **OPML.** You can import and export your own subscriptions. You can also subscribe to an OPML
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URL, which keeps a whole list in step as a folder.
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## Run it
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With Docker:
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```sh
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docker build -t ipodderx .
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docker compose up -d
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```
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`docker-compose.yml` is set up for the author's own server. Point its `image` and its three volumes
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(`/config`, `/data` and `/downloads`) at yours first. The UI is on port 8099. BitTorrent uses 6881
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over TCP and UDP. Files are written as `PUID`/`PGID`, 99:100 by default.
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From source:
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```sh
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cargo build --release
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./target/release/ipx daemon
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```
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The first start creates **admin / ipodderx**. Sign in at `/login`, then change it:
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```sh
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echo -n 'a good password' | ipx user passwd admin
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```
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The UI is plain HTTP, so put TLS in front of it if it is reachable from outside your network.
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## Documentation
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| [docs/configuration.md](docs/configuration.md) | Every config key, path and environment variable |
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| [docs/cli.md](docs/cli.md) | Every command, including `ipx user` |
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| [docs/users.md](docs/users.md) | Accounts, and what several people share |
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| [docs/sso.md](docs/sso.md) | Signing in through Cloudflare Zero Trust or Authentik |
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| [docs/architecture.md](docs/architecture.md) | How it works: modules, schema, control socket, HTTP API |
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| [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) | What changed, by release |
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| [CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md) | Notes for working on the code, including how production is deployed |
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## Tests
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```sh
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cargo test # the engine: parsing, filters, retention, schedules, SQL, per-user state
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node tests/page-smoke.js # the page script loads without throwing
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node tests/native-bridge.js # the page hands playback to a native shell
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npx playwright test # a real browser against a real daemon on fixture feeds
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```
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`npm install` gets the test runner, and `npx playwright install --with-deps chromium` gets the
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browser.
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## License
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MIT, see [LICENSE](LICENSE). The icons are [Font Awesome Free](https://fontawesome.com) 7.3.1 by
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@fontawesome, under [CC BY 4.0](https://fontawesome.com/license/free), embedded as SVG.
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