punktfunk

Status & Progress

Where the work stands, what's live on each box, and a running progress log.

The living progress tracker. Milestone-level status lives in CLAUDE.md and the design in the Implementation Plan; this page is the current state + a dated log of what landed, kept up to date as work happens. Newest first.

Milestones at a glance

MilestoneState
M1punktfunk-core + C ABI (protocol · FEC · crypto)✅ complete & hardened
M2 — GameStream host (Moonlight-compatible)✅ working end-to-end; HDR/surround-audio polish open
M3punktfunk/1 native protocol (QUIC control + UDP data)✅ full session planes, validated live
M4 — native client decode + present (Apple first)🟡 stage 1 live; stage-2 presenter built + decode-tested (opt-in, present needs live validation)

Live on the boxes

BoxRoleCompositorNotes
home-worker-2 (dev)KDE/KWin appliancekwin (headless Plasma)QEMU VM, passthrough RTX 5070 Ti; serve --native user unit
home-worker-3 (GNOME)GNOME/Mutter appliancemutter (RecordVirtual)RTX 4090; autologin GNOME Wayland; serve --native user unit. See Ubuntu — GNOME
home-bazzite-1SteamOS-like hostgamescopehost-managed Steam session at client mode. See Bazzite Setup

All three appliances advertise over mDNS (_punktfunk._udp) and require PIN pairing by default.

Progress log

2026-06-12

  • CI + deployment landed (see the CI & Docker guide). Gitea Actions, three workflows: Rust workspace checks inside the new punktfunk-rust-ci builder image (Ubuntu 26.04, full link-dep stack incl. a libcuda stub — 141/141 tests green in-container), web + docs-site build/typecheck, docker.yml building+pushing punktfunk-web/punktfunk-docs/punktfunk-rust-ci to the registry, and apple.yml (xcframework → swift build/swift test) on a new host-mode macOS runner (home-mac-mini-1, provisioned by scripts/ci/setup-macos-runner.sh; macOS Local-Network privacy forces it to run as a root LaunchDaemon). Host and native clients stay un-dockerized by design. This site now deploys automatically: deploy-docs ships it to unom-1:3220, Caddy serves https://docs.punktfunk.unom.io — live and verified.
  • Concurrent sessions — the host no longer serves one client at a time. The accept loop spawns each session (JoinSet), bounded by --max-concurrent (default 4, a NVENC bound; overflow waits in the accept queue). Each session keeps its own virtual output + encoder; they share the host-lifetime input/audio/mic services — i.e. multiple devices viewing/controlling the same desktop on kwin/mutter/wlroots. Validated live on the GNOME box: two clients connected at once → two independent Mutter virtual outputs (1280×720 + 1920×1080) streaming simultaneously (39 MB + 48 MB). gamescope's independent-desktops (multi-user) isolation — per-session input/audio — is a follow-up.
  • Apple client latency HUDPunktfunkConnection.clockOffsetNs (from the C-ABI getter) + LatencyMeter surface a skew-corrected capture→client-receipt p50/p95 in the macOS HUD: the first cross-machine latency the real Apple client reports. (Stage-1 AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer has no present callback, so decode→present is excluded — that needs the stage-2 presenter.) Needs an xcframework rebuild + swift test on the Mac to validate.
  • Skew handshake in the connector + C ABIquic::clock_sync is now a shared core helper used by both the reference client and NativeClient; the connector runs it at connect and exposes the host clock offset over the C ABI (punktfunk_connection_clock_offset_ns). This is the substrate the Apple client needs for the decode→present (glass-to-glass) term.
  • Wall-clock skew handshake (ClockProbe/ClockEcho, 8 NTP rounds after Start) — makes the client's capture→reassembled latency valid cross-machine. Validated GNOME box → dev box: offset −1.57 ms removed, p50 1.30 ms skew-corrected. (05bc9ab)
  • Native LAN auto-discovery — host advertises _punktfunk._udp (TXT: fingerprint, pairing, proto); punktfunk-client-rs --discover lists hosts. Validated cross-LAN. (4fff464)
  • Third test box stood up — home-worker-3 (Ubuntu 26.04, RTX 4090, GNOME 50): first GNOME/Mutter zero-copy streaming on a real desktop; 1 Gbps probe clean (625 MB/5 s, send_dropped=0). Two physical-NVIDIA gotchas documented in Ubuntu — GNOME.
  • Encode|send thread split validated on real NIC (send_dropped=0 at 720p60 / 1080p120). (b295a5b)

Earlier (see roadmap + git log)

  • 1 Gbps data plane: batched sendmmsg/recvmmsg + microburst-cap paced send thread.
  • Boot appliance: headless KDE session + host systemd units (no login).
  • Speed test + settable bitrate: negotiation + bandwidth probe (host side).
  • DualSense UHID + haptics; gamepads live; mic uplink; AV1 + surround (unit/live-capture tested).

In flight / next

See the Roadmap for the ordered list. Near-term:

  • True glass-to-glass: Apple client present-stamp (decode→present) + host render→capture term.
  • Apple stage-2 presenter (VTDecompressionSessionCAMetalLayer) — built + decode-unit-tested + live-validated on glass behind the punktfunk.presenter flag (capture→present ~11 ms p50); make it the default after a few resolution/HDR checks.
  • Mandatory PIN pairing + delegated pairing approval (an already-paired device approves a new one).
  • gamescope multi-user isolation — per-session input/audio so concurrent sessions are independent desktops (the shared-desktop multi-view case landed).
  • bazzite kept up to date (currently offline; one rebuild behind).

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