Root-caused the slow-upload complaint to the Pi's own congested 2.4GHz
WiFi radio (confirmed via iperf3 - same degraded throughput even on
pure local LAN traffic, ruling out Cloudflare/ISP). Since the Pi 3 B
has no 5GHz radio, add a way to bypass it for the internet-bound leg:
a phone opens /dash and manually relays pending dashcam files straight
to the remote server over its own network, reusing the exact same
chunked upload protocol the Pi's client already uses.
- server/app.py: add CORS headers (after_request) so the phone's
browser can call the remote server cross-origin from a page served
by the Pi.
- app.py: new endpoints - GET /api/dash/pending (list not-yet-uploaded
files), GET /api/dash/file/<path> (Range-request-capable download,
path-traversal safe), GET /api/dash/relay/config (hands the phone
the device credentials), POST /api/dash/relay/heartbeat|stop (lease-
based pause of the Pi's own background uploader, self-heals if the
phone's tab closes uncleanly), POST /api/dash/relay/mark_uploaded.
- modules/app_upload.py: list_pending_dashcam_files(), relay lease
helpers, _upload_dashcam_files() now pauses while a relay lease is
active.
- modules/app_sql.py: new dashcam_hash_cache table so a file's sha256
is only computed once (keyed by path+size+mtime) instead of being
recomputed on every loop iteration/pending-list call - benefits the
existing background uploader too.
- templates/dash.html / static/js/dash.js: new "Relay via phone" card
- per-file and "relay all" buttons (manual trigger only, per user
preference), downloads+uploads one 40MB slice at a time so the
phone never holds a whole file in memory, retries chunks up to 3x.
- PLAN.md/readme.md/server/README.md updated (Phase 11).
Tested via a full local end-to-end simulation driving the real Pi and
server Flask apps side by side (Postgres mocked only at the db module
boundary - all HTTP/chunking/auth/CORS logic is real): verified Range
downloads (206), byte-for-byte reassembly via SHA256, path-traversal
rejection, and the relay lease correctly pausing/resuming the
background uploader. Not yet tested against a real phone/live network.
Mathieu Moran
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