@@ -75,6 +75,18 @@ jobs:
     defaults:
       run:
         working-directory: backends/advanced
+    services:
+      # Some backend tests hit real local services (vault locks are Redis-backed
+      # and fail closed; test_leading_silence_trim_db uses Mongo). Match the
+      # defaults the code assumes: redis://localhost:6379, mongodb://localhost:27018.
+      redis:
+        image: redis:7-alpine
+        ports:
+          - 6379:6379
+      mongo:
+        image: mongo:8
+        ports:
+          - 27018:27017
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
@@ -90,6 +102,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           version: "latest"
 
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        # libopus0: native library behind opuslib (services/device_audio.py),
+        # imported transitively during test collection.
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libopus0
+
       - name: Install test dependencies
         run: uv sync --locked --group test
 
 
@@ -100,6 +100,15 @@ jobs:
         echo "✓ Logs saved to backends/advanced/logs/"
         ls -lh logs/
 
+    - name: Upload service logs
+      if: always()
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: robot-service-logs
+        path: backends/advanced/logs/
+        if-no-files-found: warn
+        retention-days: 14
+
     - name: Check if test results exist
       if: always()
       id: check_results
 
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ services:
       - LANGFUSE_BASE_URL=http://langfuse-web-test:3000
       - LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY=pk-lf-test-public-key
       - LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY=sk-lf-test-secret-key
+    extra_hosts:
+      # Mock services (LLM/STT) publish ports on the host and are addressed as
+      # host.docker.internal. Docker on Linux (CI) does not resolve that name
+      # without an explicit host-gateway mapping; podman resolves it natively.
+      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
     depends_on:
       mongo-test:
         condition: service_healthy
@@ -383,9 +388,16 @@ services:
       - LANGFUSE_BASE_URL=http://langfuse-web-test:3000
       - LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY=pk-lf-test-public-key
       - LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY=sk-lf-test-secret-key
+    extra_hosts:
+      # See chronicle-backend-test: required for Docker-on-Linux (CI) to reach
+      # the mock LLM/STT services published on the host.
+      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
     depends_on:
-      chronicle-backend-test:
-        condition: service_healthy
+      # NOTE: no dependency on chronicle-backend-test. The backend's /readiness
+      # healthcheck requires the worker fleet heartbeat in Redis, so gating the
+      # workers on backend health deadlocks startup (backend waits for workers,
+      # workers wait for backend). Matches prod compose: workers only need
+      # mongo + redis.
       mongo-test:
         condition: service_healthy
       redis-test:
 
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ filterwarnings = [
     "ignore::UserWarning",
     "ignore::DeprecationWarning",
     "ignore::PendingDeprecationWarning",
+    # opuslib 3.x uses `is not 0`, a SyntaxWarning on py3.12 that "error" would
+    # promote to SyntaxError on first (uncached) import. Third-party; not ours.
+    "ignore::SyntaxWarning:.*opuslib.*",
 ]
 
 [tool.coverage.run]
 
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@
 # Global config cache
 _config_cache: Optional[DictConfig] = None
 
+# Runtime overrides registered by save_config_section(), keyed by section path.
+# Re-applied on every load_config() so they survive cache reloads even when
+# CONFIG_FILE points away from config.yml (test environments).
+_runtime_overrides: dict = {}
+
 
 def get_config_dir() -> Path:
     """Get config directory path (single source of truth)."""
@@ -117,6 +122,14 @@ def load_config(force_reload: bool = False) -> DictConfig:
                 f"{[m.get('name') for m in extra_defaults]}"
             )
 
+    # Re-apply runtime overrides saved via save_config_section(). When
+    # CONFIG_FILE points away from config.yml (test environments), the saved
+    # values exist only in memory — without this they silently revert on the
+    # next reload, so a runtime toggle only "took" until some unrelated code
+    # path refreshed the config.
+    for section_path, values in _runtime_overrides.items():
+        OmegaConf.update(merged, section_path, values, merge=True)
+
     # Cache result
     _config_cache = merged
 
@@ -182,8 +195,11 @@ def save_config_section(section_path: str, values: dict) -> bool:
     try:
         config_path = get_config_dir() / "config.yml"
 
-        # Load existing config
-        existing_config = {}
+        # Load existing config. Must be a DictConfig even when the file doesn't
+        # exist yet — OmegaConf.update() raises "Unexpected type" on a plain
+        # dict, which made the very first runtime settings save fail silently
+        # on installs without a config.yml.
+        existing_config = OmegaConf.create({})
         if config_path.exists():
             existing_config = OmegaConf.load(config_path)
 
@@ -193,13 +209,16 @@ def save_config_section(section_path: str, values: dict) -> bool:
         # Save back to file
         OmegaConf.save(existing_config, config_path)
 
-        # Reload config from the primary config file (CONFIG_FILE env var)
-        merged = reload_config()
+        # Register a runtime override BEFORE reloading: when CONFIG_FILE points
+        # to a different file than config.yml (test configs), the value we just
+        # saved is not in the file load_config() reads, so it must be re-applied
+        # on every load — a one-shot in-memory patch would silently revert on
+        # the next reload_config() from any code path.
+        _runtime_overrides[section_path] = values
 
-        # Also apply the values to the in-memory cache directly.
-        # This is needed when CONFIG_FILE points to a different file than config.yml
-        # (e.g., test configs), so the saved values still take effect at runtime.
-        OmegaConf.update(merged, section_path, values, merge=True)
+        # Reload config from the primary config file (CONFIG_FILE env var);
+        # load_config() re-applies _runtime_overrides on top.
+        reload_config()
 
         logger.info(f"Saved config section '{section_path}' to {config_path}")
         return True
 
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@
     utcnow,
 )
 from advanced_omi_backend.models.user import User
-from advanced_omi_backend.services.device_context import request_conversation_context_jobs
+from advanced_omi_backend.services.device_context import (
+    request_conversation_context_jobs,
+)
 from advanced_omi_backend.services.memory.vault_manager import ConvDocVaultManager
 
 router = APIRouter(prefix="/device-input", tags=["device-input"])
@@ -180,6 +182,24 @@ async def ingest_activity(
         try:
             await item.insert()
             accepted += 1
+            frame_id = incoming.metadata.get("representative_frame_id")
+            if (
+                frame_id is not None
+                and "screen_context" in source.capabilities
+                and any(
+                    incoming.metadata.get(key)
+                    for key in ("app_name", "window_name", "text")
+                )
+            ):
+                await DeviceInputJob(
+                    user_id=source.user_id,
+                    source_id=source.source_id,
+                    kind="thumbnail",
+                    start_at=incoming.captured_at,
+                    end_at=incoming.ended_at,
+                    purpose="timeline_thumbnail",
+                    payload={"item_id": str(item.id), "frame_id": frame_id},
+                ).insert()
         except DuplicateKeyError:
             duplicates += 1
             existing = await DeviceInputItem.find_one(
@@ -307,6 +327,37 @@ async def complete_job(
     return {"ok": True}
 
 
+@router.post("/jobs/{job_id}/thumbnail")
+async def complete_thumbnail_job(
+    job_id: str,
+    file: UploadFile = File(...),
+    source: CaptureSource = Depends(_device_source),
+):
+    job = await DeviceInputJob.get(job_id)
+    if job is None or job.source_id != source.source_id or job.kind != "thumbnail":
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Thumbnail job not found")
+    item_id = job.payload.get("item_id")
+    item = await DeviceInputItem.get(item_id) if item_id else None
+    if item is None or item.source_id != source.source_id:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Timeline item not found")
+    content_type = (file.content_type or "").split(";", 1)[0]
+    if not content_type.startswith("image/"):
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=415, detail="Thumbnail must be an image")
+    data = await file.read(_MAX_IMAGE_BYTES + 1)
+    if len(data) > _MAX_IMAGE_BYTES:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=413, detail="Thumbnail exceeds the media limit")
+    item.media_data = data
+    item.media_filename = file.filename or "screenpipe-thumbnail.jpg"
+    item.media_content_type = content_type
+    item.content_hash = hashlib.sha256(data).hexdigest()
+    item.metadata = {**item.metadata, "thumbnail_available": True}
+    await item.save()
+    job.status = "complete"
+    job.completed_at = utcnow()
+    await job.save()
+    return {"ok": True, "item_id": str(item.id)}
+
+
 @router.get("/sources")
 async def list_sources(user: User = Depends(current_active_user)):
     rows = (
@@ -476,6 +527,16 @@ async def _immich_bytes(asset_id: str, endpoint: str) -> tuple[bytes, str]:
 @router.get("/items/{item_id}/thumbnail")
 async def context_thumbnail(item_id: str, user: User = Depends(current_active_user)):
     item = await _owned_item(item_id, user)
+    if (
+        item.media_data
+        and item.media_content_type
+        and item.media_content_type.startswith("image/")
+    ):
+        return Response(
+            content=item.media_data,
+            media_type=item.media_content_type,
+            headers={"Cache-Control": "private, max-age=3600"},
+        )
     asset_id = item.metadata.get("asset_id")
     if item.kind != "immich_memory" or not asset_id:
         raise HTTPException(
@@ -489,6 +550,43 @@ async def context_thumbnail(item_id: str, user: User = Depends(current_active_us
     )
 
 
+@router.post("/items/{item_id}/request-thumbnail")
+async def request_item_thumbnail(
+    item_id: str, user: User = Depends(current_active_user)
+):
+    item = await _owned_item(item_id, user)
+    if item.kind != "activity":
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=409, detail="Only activity items have frames")
+    if item.media_data:
+        return {"status": "complete"}
+    frame_id = (
+        item.metadata.get("representative_frame_id")
+        or item.metadata.get("last_frame_id")
+        or item.metadata.get("first_frame_id")
+    )
+    if frame_id is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=409, detail="Activity has no source frame")
+    existing = await DeviceInputJob.find_one(
+        DeviceInputJob.source_id == item.source_id,
+        DeviceInputJob.kind == "thumbnail",
+        {"payload.item_id": item_id},
+        {"status": {"$in": ["pending", "claimed"]}},
+    )
+    if existing:
+        return {"status": existing.status, "job_id": str(existing.id)}
+    job = DeviceInputJob(
+        user_id=item.user_id,
+        source_id=item.source_id,
+        kind="thumbnail",
+        start_at=item.captured_at,
+        end_at=item.ended_at,
+        purpose="timeline_thumbnail",
+        payload={"item_id": item_id, "frame_id": frame_id},
+    )
+    await job.insert()
+    return {"status": "pending", "job_id": str(job.id)}
+
+
 @router.post("/items/{item_id}/promote")
 async def promote_context_item(item_id: str, user: User = Depends(current_active_user)):
     item = await _owned_item(item_id, user)
Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ filterwarnings = [`
`104`	`104`	`"ignore::UserWarning",`
`105`	`105`	`"ignore::DeprecationWarning",`
`106`	`106`	`"ignore::PendingDeprecationWarning",`
	`107`	+ # opuslib 3.x uses `is not 0`, a SyntaxWarning on py3.12 that "error" would
	`108`	`+ # promote to SyntaxError on first (uncached) import. Third-party; not ours.`
	`109`	`+ "ignore::SyntaxWarning:.opuslib.",`
`107`	`110`	`]`
`108`	`111`
`109`	`112`	`[tool.coverage.run]`