0.99.6 installation record

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/VERIFICATION-0.99.6.md

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 ## Rollback
 
 Install 0.99.5. After Dark's pool then reads its full accepted list again.
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+## Installation record (4 November 2026, 09:36 GMT)
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+Paul approved this release at 09:35. Orbit wasn't on screen; the TV was on its home screen, with Orbit's last playback note at 09:01. I took a snapshot of all 96 schedule files, then installed over 0.99.3 with `adb install -r`. The box reports 0.99.6-after-dark-review.
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+I launched Orbit so its scheduler would run. Once the checks were done, I returned the TV to its home screen with a launcher intent rather than a remote key. There was no crash in the log. The rollback APK is in outputs/revision-0.99.3.
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+- **Committed plans:** every one of the 31 plans kept every remaining entry identical. The only change was the normal daily trim of programmes that ended more than 24 hours ago.
+- **New bookings:** Vortex and Orbit X topped up on their own, adding 64 and 67 programmes from about 10 November, because their plans dropped under six days ahead. All of the new bookings carry weighted reasons. These are Vortex's first bookings under the hybrid. Every other plan cursor is identical.
+- **Episode cursors:** every aired cursor that moved points to an episode that has started in its plan. None was reset.
+- **Schedulers in the installed configuration** (WeightedRotationTest):
+  - 15 channels weighted.
+  - Rewind, Dark Files and Vortex with the 24-hour hybrid.
+  - Riot, Terra, Ring X and Junior on equal turns.
+  - Tots' Wind Down and Night on equal turns.
+  - After Dark and Premiere with adaptive film rest.
+- **After Dark** re-read its pool (cache=false, 73 requests), going from 170 shows to 132.
+  - None of the 38 withdrawn item ids is in it, and nothing else left.
+  - Terrorizers, Black Swan, The Outcasts and Zombieland are present, as are the 56 kept cult films.
+- **Horror** re-read its pool, going from 113 films to 118. All five moved films resolve to exactly the intended items: 5638364, 6044302, 6049755, 6414670 and 5718634.
+- **Clashes:** every channel's log line reads `clashes=0`.
+- **Playback:** this morning's notes on Orbit Three show idents and changeovers working, with no player, decoder or audio-clock errors in the log. No DTS programme played during the check, so DTS isn't verified here.
+- **Planning speed, a known limit:**
+  - Two weighted top-ups were slow: Orbit X took 41 seconds for 67 programmes, and Vortex 17 seconds for 64. They run in the background and don't affect playback, but they hold up the next channel's top-up.
+  - The likely cause is each pick scanning every show's episode list. That isn't confirmed. I'll measure it and fix it in the audit release.
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+## On-air verification (pending)
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+- From about 10 November: the hybrid on Rewind, Dark Files and Vortex; the seven newly weighted channels; After Dark without the withdrawn films; and the five films on Horror.
+- Paul's eyes and ears on playback, DTS, audio sync and presentation.