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Cross-phase follow-ups

Small items left over from phases that otherwise landed. No new phase home; catalogued here so they don't fall off.

Phase E — Sequence management polish

  • Sequence Settings → Data Layers tab. Image-data layers authoring. Lowest priority — deferred until someone actually uses them on iPad.

Phase C — Effect Settings Inspector polish

  • G3+ — Moving Head full waypoint path authoring. Path tab currently shows the existing Path: value with a Clear action. Sketch-style drag waypoint authoring still requires desktop's Effect Assist panel.

  • G2-c — Shader dynamic uniform grouping for large .fs files. Most shaders declare < 10 uniforms so grouping isn't needed; packs with 20+ turn into a flat scroll. Respect GLSL_GROUP: comment conventions in ShaderConfig::GetDynamicPropertiesJson() so grouping carries across. Deferred until a real shader pack trips the issue. P2.

  • Video compat badge in the media manager. Per-effect block already calls videoCompatibilityIssueForPath:; the sequence-wide Media Manager inventory list still labels incompatible videos as plain "External". Badging them requires caching the CheckVideoFile probe per entry so the inventory refresh doesn't re-open every video. Low priority.

Phase H — App Store

  • sACN multicast entitlement. com.apple.developer.networking.multicast request submitted to Apple 2026-04-28. Once approved, add the key to macOS/Assets/xLights-iPad/xLights-iPad.entitlements so iPad testers can join 239.255.x.x for sACN multicast output. Until then the toggle's "couldn't reach" alert text steers users to ArtNet, DDP, or sACN unicast.

TestFlight quality (pre-submission)

These are not engineering blockers but are the "any TestFlight report will need this" items the gap analysis (2026-04-23) flagged. Each is a near-trivial addition that materially improves the tester loop. Pull into MVP if there's bandwidth before H-5 wraps.

  • Log export (gap-analysis H-3, P0 for TestFlight). Zip the spdlog rotate-files + show folder + currently-open .xsq and present via UIActivityViewController. Without it, "weird thing happened" reports come back with nothing actionable.
  • About dialog (H-1). Version + build + EULA + dependency credits. Reachable from the menu bar Help / About entry.
  • Help menu populated (H-2). Online docs / forum / tutorial videos / issue tracker / donate. Just URLs opening in SFSafariViewController.
  • Crash telemetry (H-4). MetricKit (no SDK churn, no privacy- manifest changes) is the simpler choice over Sentry; pick before wiring. Surfaces on-device crashes without waiting for a tester to forward a .crash.
  • Check Sequence runner (T-1, P1). Validation report — duplicate universes, non-contiguous channels, missing media, broken model refs, etc. Engine logic already exists in src-core/sequencer/SequenceCheck (or similar); just needs an iPad UI sheet to surface it.
  • Incompatible video warning at sequence load (A-8, P1). Per-effect probe videoCompatibilityIssueForPath: already exists; sequence-load pass needs to walk every VideoEffect and surface a one-shot summary so the tester knows up front instead of getting silent black frames mid-playback.
  • Recent Show Folders list (L-1b). Recent Sequences is scoped per show folder (2026-04-30 refactor — flipping shows swaps the picker's recent list cleanly), but the folder-config sheet itself only remembers the current show folder. Add a "Recent Show Folders" section so users can flip between shows without re-picking from Files every time.