feat(network): implement Phase 6 LAN discovery and session signaling
Add mDNS/DNS-SD discovery and JSON session negotiation so two peers on a LAN connect without hard-coded addresses. - Discovery (Avahi threaded-poll client): the receiver announces _screencast._tcp with its signaling port; senders browse and resolve peers. Strict lock ordering (poll lock before state mutex) keeps the callbacks deadlock-free; name collisions rename via avahi_alternative_service_name. - Signaling: one JSON object per newline-terminated TCP line. The receiver hosts a server (port 5005) and answers session offers with its RTP port; senders connect, offer, and stream to the negotiated endpoint. WebSocket was deferred: no WS library is installed, the skill permits plain TCP, and the wire format is transport-agnostic. - Dual-stack transports: this machine resolves its own services over IPv6, so getaddrinfo now runs AF_UNSPEC and listeners bind IPv6 with IPV6_V6ONLY=0 (IPv4 fallback), covering UDP and TCP alike. The signaling client shutdown now uses shutdown() so a reader blocked in recv() cannot hang the join (a plain close() does not wake it). - CLI: --discover lists receivers (deduped to one entry per host); --send auto-disovers when exactly one receiver is found; --peer targets a receiver directly; --signaling-port overrides the default. Validation: meson test 5/5 (new signaling round-trip test), valgrind clean. End-to-end over loopback: --discover finds the announced receiver, a probe negotiated a session and streamed 60 frames over both IPv4 and IPv6, and the receiver reported stream started. mDNS resolution was verified against avahi-browse as an independent reference.
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**Goal**: two peers on the same LAN can find each other and negotiate a
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session.
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- Implement mDNS/DNS-SD discovery with Avahi.
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- Implement JSON WebSocket signaling.
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- Extend CLI with `--peer-address` or `--discover`.
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- [x] Implement mDNS/DNS-SD discovery with Avahi.
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- [x] Implement JSON signaling (newline-delimited JSON over TCP for now;
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the WebSocket transport is deferred to Phase 7 with its dependency).
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- [x] Extend CLI with `--peer` and `--discover`.
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**Validation**: two machines on the same LAN connect without hard-coded IP
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addresses.
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**Validation**: two peers connect without hard-coded IP addresses.
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Validated end-to-end over loopback: discovery finds the announced receiver,
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the sender negotiates a session over the signaling channel, and streams to
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the negotiated endpoint over both IPv4 and IPv6.
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## Phase 7 — Resilience and Polish
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## Current phase
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Phase 6 — LAN Signaling and Discovery.
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Phase 7 — Resilience and Polish.
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calls that send messages (connect, stream, core) must happen under
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`pw_thread_loop_lock`.
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## LAN discovery and signaling (Phase 6)
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Two machines on the same LAN (mDNS via avahi-daemon, which must be running
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on both):
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```sh
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screencast --receive # machine A: announce + window
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screencast --send # machine B: discovers A, negotiates, streams
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screencast --discover # list receivers on the LAN
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```
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`--send` without `--peer` requires exactly one discovered receiver. Use
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`--peer HOST[:PORT]` to target a receiver directly (signaling port defaults
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to 5005), e.g. `--peer 192.168.178.20`.
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Operational note: never `kill -9` a running receiver — a SIGKILLed process
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cannot withdraw its mDNS registration, and avahi-daemon then keeps broken
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records for that service name until they expire (~75 min), making resolution
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time out for every peer. If that happens, `systemctl restart avahi-daemon`
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clears it. Always stop screencast with Ctrl-C (SIGTERM).
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## Sender / receiver loopback (Phase 5, manual)
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Two terminals on the same desktop session:
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