No developer-tools pop-ups on the computers; apps found where they really are; SuperRack and X32-Edit

On a Mac without the Command Line Tools, /usr/bin/python3 is a stub that opens Apple's installer on
that Mac's screen: Woonsocket's Tracks and FOH Macs showed it after joining (and would every ten
minutes). Python now runs on another Mac only when xcode-select says it is there (MIDI reads, MIDI
reconnects, the Computers probe); without it those Macs' own MIDI sessions are simply not read.

The app list used a glob that zsh (the Macs' login shell) turns into an error when one pattern
matches nothing, so no app was ever found there: find instead, and a running program's app path is
taken from the program itself. New recipes: SuperRack SoundGrid and X32-Edit (AUDIO).
Woonsocket now has ABLETON, SUPERRACK and X32 EDIT keys, all OK, and NA's page 99 shows them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

settings/autoconf.py

@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ MAC_APPS = [
     {"app": "obs", "process": "obs", "label": "OBS", "open": "/Applications/OBS.app", "restart": True},
     {"app": "translate", "process": "Church Translate", "label": "TRANSLATE", "open": "/Applications/Church Translate.app", "restart": True},
     {"app": "protools", "process": "Pro Tools", "label": "PRO TOOLS", "open": "/Applications/Pro Tools.app", "restart": True},
+    {"app": "superrack", "process": "SuperRack SoundGrid", "label": "SUPERRACK", "open": "/Applications/*SuperRack*.app", "restart": True, "group": "AUDIO"},
+    {"app": "x32edit", "process": "X32-Edit", "label": "X32 EDIT", "open": "/Applications/X32-Edit.app", "restart": False, "group": "AUDIO"},
 ]
 WIN_APPS = [
     {"app": "vista", "exe": "Vista.exe", "label": "VISTA", "task": "Start Vista", "restart": True},
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ def items(inv, nets):
             if c.get("os", "mac") == "mac":
                 if a["process"] not in procs:
                     continue
-                app_path = newest_app(c.get("apps") or [], a["open"])
+                app_path = (c.get("paths") or {}).get(a["process"]) or newest_app(c.get("apps") or [], a["open"])
                 if not app_path:
                     continue
                 check = {"type": "remote", "template": "mac_program", "params": {"host": alias, "process": a["process"]},
@@ -195,7 +197,7 @@ def items(inv, nets):
                 ident = "app:%s|%s" % (alias, a["exe"])
             fid = slug("%s_%s" % (a["app"], alias))
             pretty = {"propresenter": "ProPresenter", "ableton": "Ableton", "arena": "Resolume Arena", "obs": "OBS", "translate": "Church Translate",
-                      "protools": "Pro Tools", "vista": "Vista", "rtpmidi": "rtpMIDI"}.get(a["app"], a["label"].title())
+                      "protools": "Pro Tools", "vista": "Vista", "rtpmidi": "rtpMIDI", "superrack": "SuperRack", "x32edit": "X32-Edit"}.get(a["app"], a["label"].title())
             where = c.get("name") or alias
             start = dict(start, label="start %s on %s if it is not running" % (pretty, where), short=a["label"])
             again = dict(again, label="restart %s on %s (closes it first)" % (pretty, where), short=a["label"])
@@ -207,6 +209,8 @@ def items(inv, nets):
                 item["restart"].append({"label": a["label"], "fix": rid})
             if a["app"] == "arena":
                 item["group"] = "VIDEO"
+            if a.get("group"):
+                item["group"] = a["group"]
             out.append(item)
             apps_at[(a["app"], c.get("ip"))] = item
             for ip in c.get("ips") or []:

settings/discover.py

@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ from settings import PARENT  # noqa: F401  (puts the project folder on sys.path)
 import status_panel as sp
 
 TIMEOUT = 8
-MAC_LOOK = "echo SP_PROCS; ps -axo comm= 2>/dev/null; echo SP_APPS; ls -d /Applications/*.app /Applications/*/*.app 2>/dev/null; echo SP_END"
+# find, not a glob: in zsh (the Macs' login shell) a pattern that matches nothing aborts the whole line.
+MAC_LOOK = "echo SP_PROCS; ps -axo comm= 2>/dev/null; echo SP_APPS; find /Applications -maxdepth 3 -name '*.app' -prune 2>/dev/null; echo SP_END"
 WIN_LOOK = "echo SP_PROCS & tasklist /FO CSV /NH 2>nul & echo SP_TASKS & schtasks /Query /FO CSV /NH 2>nul & echo SP_END"
 HOST_FIELDS = ("host", "bonjourHost", "serverHost", "ip", "address")
 
@@ -243,10 +244,14 @@ def look_at(cfg, alias, host):
     out = {"reachable": True}
     if os_name == "mac":
         out["procs"] = sorted({os.path.basename(p.strip()) for p in got.get("PROCS", []) if p.strip()})
+        # Where each running program's app is, from its own path (".../SuperRack SoundGrid.app/Contents/MacOS/...").
+        out["paths"] = {os.path.basename(p.strip()): p.strip().split(".app/")[0] + ".app"
+                        for p in got.get("PROCS", []) if ".app/Contents/MacOS/" in p}
         out["apps"] = sorted(a.strip() for a in got.get("APPS", []) if a.strip().endswith(".app"))
         try:
-            m = subprocess.run(sp.ssh_cmd(cfg, alias) + ["/usr/bin/python3", "-"], input=sp.remote_midi_script(), capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=15)
+            m = subprocess.run(sp.ssh_cmd(cfg, alias) + sp.remote_python("-"), input=sp.remote_midi_script(), capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=15)
             out["midi"] = sp.parse_remote_midi(m.stdout) or {}
+            out["python"] = m.returncode != 97
         except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
             out["midi"] = {}
     else:

settings/probes.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ TIMEOUT = 8
 
 MAC_PROBE = (
     'echo "SP_NAME=$(uname -n)"; echo "SP_OSV=$(sw_vers -productVersion 2>/dev/null)"; '
-    'echo "SP_PY=$(/usr/bin/python3 --version 2>&1)"; '
+    'echo "SP_PY=$(xcode-select -p >/dev/null 2>&1 && /usr/bin/python3 --version 2>&1 || echo none)"; '
     'echo "SP_KEY=$(grep -c status-panel ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 2>/dev/null)"; '
     'echo SP_AGENTS; launchctl list 2>/dev/null; echo SP_PROCS; ps -axo comm= 2>/dev/null; '
     'echo SP_APPS; ls /Applications 2>/dev/null; echo SP_HELPER; ls -l {helper} 2>&1; sudo -n -l {helper} 2>&1 | tail -1; '

status_panel.py

@@ -2445,7 +2445,7 @@ def stream_remote_midi(snap, cfg, host, stop):
         proc = None
         try:
             proc = subprocess.Popen(ssh_cmd(cfg, host)[:1] + ["-o", "ServerAliveInterval=2", "-o", "ServerAliveCountMax=3"]
-                                    + ssh_cmd(cfg, host)[1:] + ["/usr/bin/python3", "-u", "-"],
+                                    + ssh_cmd(cfg, host)[1:] + remote_python("-u", "-"),
                                     stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, text=True)
             proc.stdin.write(script)
             proc.stdin.close()
@@ -2488,13 +2488,23 @@ def poll_remote_midi(snap, cfg):
     script = remote_midi_script()
     for host in remote_midi_hosts(cfg):
         try:
-            r = subprocess.run(ssh_cmd(cfg, host) + ["/usr/bin/python3", "-"], input=script,
+            r = subprocess.run(ssh_cmd(cfg, host) + remote_python("-"), input=script,
                                capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=20)
             snap.remote_midi[host] = parse_remote_midi(r.stdout) if r.returncode == 0 else None
             remember_peers(snap, host, snap.remote_midi[host])
         except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError):
             snap.remote_midi[host] = None
 
+# Python on another Mac, only where it is really there: on a Mac without the Command Line Tools,
+# /usr/bin/python3 is a stub that pops up Apple's "install the developer tools" window on that Mac's
+# screen (2026-10-20: Woonsocket's Tracks and FOH Macs, every ten minutes). Exit 97 = no python there.
+REMOTE_PY = "xcode-select -p >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 97; exec /usr/bin/python3"
+
+
+def remote_python(*args):
+    return [" ".join([REMOTE_PY] + list(args))]
+
+
 def ssh_cmd(cfg, host):
     """ssh to a machine in config "hosts", with NA Ingest's status-panel key; one shared connection per host."""
     return ["/usr/bin/ssh", "-i", os.path.expanduser(cfg.get("ssh_key", "~/.ssh/id_status_panel")),
@@ -2767,7 +2777,7 @@ def execute_fix(cfg, fix_id, chk):
             args = (chk["session"], chk["peer"], chk["address"])
             repoint = bool(chk.get("repoint"))
             if chk.get("host"):
-                r = subprocess.run(ssh_cmd(cfg, chk["host"]) + ["/usr/bin/python3", "-"],
+                r = subprocess.run(ssh_cmd(cfg, chk["host"]) + remote_python("-"),
                                    input=remote_midi_script("ns['connect_peer'](%r, %r, %r, repoint=%r)" % (args + (repoint,))),
                                    capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30)
                 result = parse_remote_midi(r.stdout) if r.returncode == 0 else None

tests/test_campus.py

@@ -98,6 +98,21 @@ class TestBuild(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertIn("conn:x32", seen)
         self.assertIn("dante:SC-X32", seen)
 
+    def test_a_programs_app_comes_from_its_running_path(self):
+        """Woonsocket's FOH Mac: SuperRack lives three folders down, and zsh had hidden the app list."""
+        inv = small()
+        inv["computers"]["foh"] = {"name": "WS FOH", "os": "mac", "user": "watersmedia", "ip": "10.4.1.12", "ips": ["10.4.1.12"], "reachable": True,
+                                   "procs": ["SuperRack SoundGrid", "X32-Edit"], "apps": [],
+                                   "paths": {"SuperRack SoundGrid": "/Applications/Waves/SuperRack SoundGrid/SuperRack SoundGrid.app",
+                                             "X32-Edit": "/Applications/X32-Edit.app"}}
+        cfg, _ = ac.build(BASE, inv, {"id": "ws", "name": "Woonsocket"}, "1234")
+        self.assertEqual(schema.validate(cfg)[0], [])
+        sr = next(t for t in cfg["tiles"] if t["label"] == "SUPERRACK")
+        self.assertEqual(sr["checks"][0]["cmd"], "pgrep -xq 'SuperRack SoundGrid'")
+        self.assertIn("/Applications/Waves/SuperRack SoundGrid/SuperRack SoundGrid.app", cfg["fixes"][sr["checks"][0]["fix"]]["run"])
+        self.assertIn("X32 EDIT", [t["label"] for t in cfg["tiles"]])
+        self.assertIn("SUPERRACK", [k["label"] for k in cfg["restart_page"]["keys"]])
+
     def test_a_big_campus_gets_group_keys_and_the_receivers_fold_first(self):
         cfg, _ = ac.build(BASE, big(), {"id": "ab", "name": "Apollo Beach"}, "1111")
         self.assertEqual(schema.validate(cfg)[0], [])