OrbitTv/VERIFICATION-0.40.0.md

Orbit TV 0.40.0 verification

Smart Channels Phase B: Terra and After Dark on the same engine as Paradox. Also a guide day jump and a clearer switch.

Changed

• A film channel is a configuration with a rest period. Films past their rest are picked by a generator seeded from the start time, or the longest-waiting film if none has rested.
• After Dark (102): Paul's chosen films plus 30 curated titles, exact title matches only, 48-hour rest. Terra (140): up to 8 of 10 curated nature series.
• Holding left or right in the guide jumps a day. The switch says ON or OFF and ignores a second press within 5 seconds.

Checked on the box, 2 November 2026

Channel	Pool	Programmes in 7 days	Requests	Read	Plan	Stored	Most airings	Smallest gap
After Dark	33 films, all 30 picks found	101	30	22.6 s	107 ms	17.7 KB	4	48.3 h
Terra	63 episodes, 8 series	184	16	6.9 s	137 ms	31.5 KB	6	29.1 h

• Film runtimes 84 to 133 minutes, Terra 49 to 59 minutes, all back to back.
• Schedule files identical after two restarts, with 0 requests. catalogue.db fingerprint unchanged (b630828b...).
• Film extension from 5.5 to 7 days: 425 ms, every committed film kept, smallest gap still 48.3 h.
• Damaged After Dark schedule and backup: rebuilt in 232 ms with 0 requests. The aired place survived.
• Paradox: every programme kept in the plan. Its file grew by 11 bytes at the upgrade, matching a new empty film field. The pre-upgrade copy wasn't kept for a byte comparison.
• Tuning this morning, 9 changes: 10 to 20 s in total. Vortex, still on its loop, took 15 to 20 s. Last night's tunes took about 2 s. Measurements point to the provider or time of day, not the engine, but the cause isn't proven.

Unit tests

• assembleDebug, testDebugUnitTest and lintDebug pass; 182 tests, 0 failures, 8 new.

Not checked

• The held-key day jump on the real remote, film join-in-progress by eye, and a film becoming unavailable on the box (same code path as Paradox).
• Several days of real running on these two channels.