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Problem

Related issue: N/A
Validation tasks: none

Remote Control can't be tested end to end on emulators. Each emulator sits behind its own NAT, so a phone emulator never discovers a TV emulator or an Apple TV simulator over mDNS. There was also no way to read what a TV advertises without scraping logcat.

This adds two debug-only adb hooks. #652 and #653, stacked on this one, were tested with them.

Approach

PlaybackDebugReceiver gets two more actions:

• CAST_STATUS (TV) returns the live Remote Control port, service name and TXT record.
• CAST_TARGET (phone) adds or replaces a TV from a host, port, name and TXT string resolved on the host. --ez clear true removes them. Injected targets merge with real discovery, survive a discovery restart, and win over an mDNS record with the same device ID.

The browser's TXT parsing moves into SiloCastNsdBrowser.targetFromRecord, so the hook and real discovery read records the same way. The advertiser keeps the record it registered, so CAST_STATUS reports exactly that.

The receiver already requires the sender to hold android.permission.DUMP (adb shell does; apps can't) and does nothing in release builds. Release behavior doesn't change.

Validation

• testDebugUnitTest: 6,120 tests pass on the top of this stack. lintDebug passes for all three modules, lintVitalRelease for both apps, and the supply-chain checks pass.
• :androidApp:assembleDebug and :androidTvApp:assembleDebug on this commit alone: pass.
• On emulators, CAST_STATUS on an Android TV and CAST_TARGET on an Android phone connected the phone to the TV emulator and to an Apple TV simulator. The stacked PRs' end-to-end runs all used these hooks.
• Review fixes (3b121d9), checked on emulators. A resolved mDNS record can no longer overwrite an injected target. Clearing an injection restores the discovered record it hid: Probe TV, then Injected TV, then Probe TV again. CAST_STATUS reports only a confirmed registration, under the registered name. The fix is merged forward into feat(cast): let the phone share a TV with other controllers and ask before replacing #652 and feat(tv): keep several Remote Control controllers connected to one TV #653, and the full checks pass again on the top of the stack.

Evidence

Evidence: https://evidence.siloserver.org/r/silo-android/pr-651/

Surface and build: debug builds only; nothing a user sees changes. The page has the commands and trimmed output.

Risks

None identified. Both actions are inert in release builds and need the DUMP permission.

Checklist

• I read and can explain the complete diff.
• This pull request addresses one concern.
• The Evidence section shows every change a user can see, or says there is none.

AI Disclosure

• Harness: Claude Code in T3 Code
• Tool(s): Claude Code, GitHub CLI, Gradle, Android emulator and adb
• Model(s): claude-opus-5-5
• Involvement: Fully AI-generated; human verification of the diff is pending
• Adversarial review: covered by the independent review of the whole stack described in feat(tv): keep several Remote Control controllers connected to one TV #653. It confirmed the receiver needs DUMP and returns early outside debug builds.

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📝 Walkthrough

The Cast NSD advertiser now exposes its active advertisement. The browser parses and retains injected targets across discovery changes. The debug receiver and both app manifests support Cast status and target broadcast actions.

Changes: Cast Debug Broadcast Support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Advertisement record access android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/cast/SiloCastNsdAdvertiser.kt	The advertiser builds and caches TXT attributes, exposes the current advertisement, and clears the cached record when stopped.
Debug target parsing and retention android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/cast/SiloCastNsdBrowser.kt	The browser parses TXT data into targets and preserves injected targets through mDNS resolution, service loss, and discovery stops.
Broadcast actions and app wiring android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/player/debug/PlaybackDebugReceiver.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/AndroidManifest.xml, androidTvApp/src/androidMain/AndroidManifest.xml	The receiver reports advertisement status and accepts target updates or clearing commands. Both app manifests register the Cast actions.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Sender as Debug broadcast sender
  participant Receiver as PlaybackDebugReceiver
  participant Advertiser as SiloCastNsdAdvertiser
  participant Browser as SiloCastNsdBrowser
  Sender->>Receiver: CAST_STATUS
  Receiver->>Advertiser: currentAdvertisement()
  Advertiser-->>Receiver: Advertisement name, port, and TXT record
  Receiver-->>Sender: Cast status JSON
  Sender->>Receiver: CAST_TARGET with target data
  Receiver->>Browser: setDebugTargets()
  Browser-->>Receiver: Updated target state
  Receiver-->>Sender: Target result JSON

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3d931

Cast debug status can misreport registration, and injected targets can disappear or lose precedence. These testing-hook issues are bounded, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness and follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 15.79% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding ADB hooks to inspect and inject Remote Control targets.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The pull request description directly explains the added debug-only CAST_STATUS and CAST_TARGET adb actions, mDNS target injection, TXT parsing, validation, and release-build behavior. It matches the …

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The pull request description directly explains the added debug-only CAST_STATUS and CAST_TARGET adb actions, mDNS target injection, TXT parsing, validation, and release-build behavior. It matches the changeset.

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Docstring coverage is 15.79% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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@android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/cast/SiloCastNsdAdvertiser.kt:
- Line 106: Update the NSD registration state around registerService and
onServiceRegistered so lastRecord and the active-advertising status are set only
after successful registration, using the callback’s actual registered service
name rather than the requested TXT name; clear both on registration failure.

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@android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/cast/SiloCastNsdBrowser.kt:
- Line 60: Update the target state flow around the filter/merge expression so
discovered targets remain stored independently of injected debug targets. When
publishing _targets, overlay injected targets by deviceId while retaining the
corresponding discovered target for restoration after
setDebugTargets(emptyList()); preserve normal deduplication and replacement
behavior.
- Line 159: Update onServiceResolved so the publication eligibility check,
debugTargets precedence check, and _targets.update execute within the same
synchronized(this@SiloCastNsdBrowser) block. Preserve the existing
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• android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/cast/SiloCastNsdAdvertiser.kt
• android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/cast/SiloCastNsdBrowser.kt
• android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/player/debug/PlaybackDebugReceiver.kt
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[macroscopeapp]

The debug target injection changes which rows appear in the Cast target picker (SiloCastNsdBrowser.kt), so this is visible on the Android phone, tablet, and foldable (folded and open). The linked Evidence page is described as containing commands and trimmed output, but this picker change needs before-and-after captures of the same screen with the same data on each of those devices. The TV status hook returns adb JSON and does not change a TV screen.

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