Two things the audit found, both about the archive path every shipped .app
uses.
**Settings could be wiped.** The update kept config/modules.json and
config/layouts/ by name, but not config/proddash.json — which holds the admin
PIN, the theme and the forge pointer. On an install whose data directory IS
the app's own config/ (an unwritable Application Support, or PRODDASH_DATA_DIR
aimed inside the app), an update wrote the repo's shipped defaults over it:
the theme went, and admin silently unlocked. Nothing inside the data
directory is written now, wherever it happens to sit, and the two legacy
names stay listed for an install whose state never moved out.
**A bad update was unrecoverable.** No rollback, and a fresh .app would not
help: seeding only replaces an *older* copy, and a broken one carries a
higher version — so the fix was deleting a folder nothing told you about.
Three changes, in the order they catch things:
- The download must parse before anything is swapped in. `node --check`
against the new server.js, and a failure is reported with the syntax error
and leaves the running copy untouched.
- Past that, the copy being replaced is set aside as `app.previous`, and
dropped once the new version has stayed up ninety seconds — so that folder
existing means "the last update has not proven itself yet", and never
anything older.
- The launcher, which already gives up after four stops in two minutes, now
looks for that folder before it does and puts the old copy back. Once: if
the old one will not run either, the update was not the problem.
The launcher half only reaches a machine with a new .app; the server half
travels by the normal update.
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Deploying 0.3.0 to AB crashed the ProdDash server on restart:
TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'streams')
at server.js:273 req.on('close', () => state.streams.delete(res))
teardown() nulls `state` and then ends every open stream, which fires each
request's close handler — and the handler reached back through the `state`
it had just discarded. Any re-init with a browser connected would do it, so
saving admin config while a dashboard was open was enough to stop the whole
server, every module with it.
The stream handler now closes over this mount's Set rather than the module's
state: after teardown it deletes from a set nobody reads, which is harmless.
The same hazard existed anywhere a callback could outlive the mount — the
keepalive ping, a frame arriving from the listener mid-teardown, and the
/measure interval — and each is closed over or guarded now.
Reproduced first (open an SSE client, save config, watch it fall over) and
confirmed fixed against the same sequence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rebasing onto main landed rules 5 to 11, which this module predates and
broke in three places.
Rule 5 — no explanatory text in a tile's gear: the Banding and Smoothing
fields each carried a paragraph. The Banding one said something true and
worth knowing, that below roughly 200 Hz the window length limits real
resolution however fine the setting, so it moves to the source where the
band plan is built rather than being lost. Option labels shortened with it.
Rule 11 — one control per action: the spectrogram offered its axis both as
a gear field and as a title-bar button. The button stays, since that is
what was asked for, and the field is gone. The setting still persists with
the tile; saveInstanceSettings keeps keys that no schema declares.
Rule 9 — title-bar controls are icons: the axis button was drawing a "⇆"
as a label. It is an inline SVG now, with the tooltip carrying the words
and naming the current direction rather than the action.
Rule 8 also asks that a tile can switch off what it draws, so the readout
gained a Caption toggle and both graphs gained Labels.
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The number was capped at 6rem, so a readout given half a wall stopped
growing at the size it reached in a small tile.
Removing the cap was not enough on its own. Sizing text off container units
means choosing a coefficient for some assumed number of characters, and the
value here is not a fixed width: the coefficient that fills a tile nicely
for "-45.9" pushes "-100.5" nine percent out through the side. Measured it
rather than guessed — the tile now sets a trial size, reads the width the
actual text wants, and scales to fit. That runs only when the tile size or
the length of the reading changes, not on every frame.
It now fills about 98% of the width wherever width is the limit and 92% of
the height wherever height is, at every tile size from 180x70 up to
1400x700, with no overflow on either axis. The CSS keeps a conservative
size for the first paint before the measurement has run.
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Every control asked for here is a view choice, so none of them may reach
the capture child — two dashboards watching the same room must be able to
disagree about how to draw it without disturbing the measurement or each
other. That set the shape of the change: the child now sends everything
anyone might ask for, once, and each tile folds it down.
Averaging (was "Reading") is Fast, Slow, Inf and None, and the child
computes and sends all four every frame. Fast and Slow are the IEC time
constants, Inf is Leq since reset, None is the block with no time constant
at all. The admin-wide time constant is gone — it was never a property of
the room.
Banding is 1/3 through 1/48 octave. The wire always carries 1/48, and
because every banding offered divides 48 a coarser band is an exact sum of
finer ones in the power domain. Nothing is resampled and no tile's choice
is visible to another. The transform grew to 16384 points to have bins fine
enough to mean it; below roughly 200 Hz a 1/48 band is still narrower than
one bin, which the Banding help says out loud rather than pretending.
Each tile kind now carries its own settings, which is the fix for the
complaint that started this: the RTA was offering an alarm threshold and a
metric picker that did nothing to it. An entry's instanceSchema replaces the
module's, so a gear popover only holds controls that change that tile.
Also: frequency labels in three tiers that thin out as a tile narrows
instead of smearing, gridlines off by default on both graphs, RTA smoothing
as a damping factor on the drawn value only, a title-bar toggle to swap the
spectrogram's axes, and the threshold blurb removed.
Settings saved by 0.1.0 are mapped forward — a layout on a wall should not
start reading dashes because a field was renamed.
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The missing-binary fallback was a spawnSync, copied from the LTC listener
where the source is a third the size and builds in a few seconds. On the
production Mac this file took nearly two minutes, and spawnSync held the
Node event loop for every second of it: one module's optional helper froze
the entire dashboard, every other module with it, and then did it again
thirty seconds later on retry.
The build is now a plain spawn that reports "building" and calls start()
itself when it lands, so nothing waits on it. A failed build says so once
instead of spinning, and a build that never finishes is given up on after
five minutes.
The real lesson is the one in the comment: the binary should already be
there. It is built beside the app, or copied from any Mac of the same
architecture. Building on the machine that might be running a service is
the fallback, not the plan.
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A sound level meter that lives in ProdDash rather than beside it. Takes an
audio input the way the Timers module's LTC reader does, and offers four
tiles: the level as a big number, per-channel bars with peak hold, a
third-octave RTA, and a scrolling spectrogram.
The measurement happens in spl-capture.swift, not in Node and not in the
browser. LTC gets away with piping raw samples upstream because the decode
is cheap and single-channel; sound level is filtering and FFTs over every
channel at the device's rate, so the child does the work and only the
answers cross the pipe. That costs nothing in dependencies — Accelerate
ships with macOS, and the whole thing builds in two seconds with a plain
swiftc, exactly like ltc-capture.
The weighting filters are the part worth checking rather than trusting, so
`spl-capture --selftest` prints them against the IEC 61672 table. A- and
C-weighting land within 0.15 dB from 31.5 Hz to 4 kHz and exactly 0 dB at
1 kHz. The top octave is where the bilinear transform runs out of room: at
48 kHz the 16 kHz point sits about 3 dB low even with the pole pair
prewarped, and at 96 kHz that falls to 0.6 dB. It is a rounding error on a
broadband number and a real limit all the same, which is why the selftest
prints both rates instead of a pass mark.
Cross-checked against REW on the same microphone: after removing the fixed
calibration offset the two agree to a standard deviation of 0.5 dB on live
room noise.
Uncalibrated is a state the module says out loud — every tile reads dBFS
and labels it, so nobody mistakes a relative number for sound pressure. The
/measure route averages the calibrator tone in the power domain and hands
back the offset to paste into settings; a module cannot write its own admin
config, so that last step stays manual on purpose.
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Seven rules join the four in the module guide, as rules 5 to 11: no
explanatory text in a tile's gear and no label over three words; server-side
settings in configSchema only; a tile setting changes that tile alone;
hide-toggles ungrouped when there are four or fewer and in a folded "Show"
group when there are five or more; title-bar controls are icons with
tooltips, never names; anything needing words belongs in the gear; and one
control per action, either place but not both.
Two passages said the opposite and now say the same thing — "keep labels
short and put the explanation there" is scoped to configSchema, and "icon
buttons, short labels" becomes icons with no labels at all. CLAUDE.md
carries the summary.
Then the modules. Nothing here changes a setting key or a default, so saved
layouts, named layouts and every tile already on a wall keep working; group
names, labels, help and fold state are presentation and are not stored.
- pco-plan: sixteen labels cut to three words or fewer ("Tint items by type
(song / media / other)" is now "Tint by type"), "Show / hide" renamed
"Show" and folded. Its one remaining help line stays by request: the top
bar's template needs its separator syntax spelled out, which the variable
chips beside it cannot convey, so rule 5 carves out template fields.
- propresenter-timers: the "Timers ▾" menu was the only named control left
in any title bar. It is a stopwatch icon now, with the count riding
alongside it while some timers are hidden — setLabel() writes over the
button's contents, so the count needed ProdCom's badge treatment rather
than a label. "Show" folds; the Colours help goes.
- propresenter-now-next: "Show" folds, in the manifest and in the Now
entry's own copy.
- prodcom-transcript: "Show channel icons" loses the redundant verb.
slack and clock were already compliant and are untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Theme's title was coming out at the normal weight — <summary> does not
inherit an <h1>'s boldness, so sitting it under .admin-h1 got the size,
colour and spacing but not the type. It now matches the other section
headings exactly.
The caret moved to the right of the words. A marker in front pushes the
heading out of line with every other one on the page; behind it, the section
still reads as "Theme" first and the caret only says there is more.
Written as the pattern rather than as Theme's own styling: any section that
folds is a <details class="admin-fold"> headed by a
<summary class="admin-h1 admin-fold-title">, and the whole row is the target.
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Seven more palettes: Midnight (indigo, violet), Moss (forest floor, lime),
Plum (aubergine, purple), Sepia (warm brown with a cool teal — Ember's
arrangement reversed), Blackout (true black for a dark room, where any glow
off the screen carries), Paper (the warm light one, next to Daylight's cool
white) and Iron, which has no colour of its own: its accent is near-white, so
the only hues on screen are a module's own and the red and amber that mean
something.
Each holds the line the first five set. Text on panel lands between 14.8:1
and 19.8:1, muted between 5.8:1 and 7.4:1, and every accent clears its own
theme's danger red and warning amber by more than Ember already does — the
narrowest of the new ones is Moss at 54 degrees of hue, against Ember's 18.
The Theme section now starts folded, wearing the same disclosure triangle as
a module's config groups. A building picks its palette once and then wants
the rest of the page, which was getting further down the screen with every
swatch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The paragraph under the PIN fields explained what the PIN covers and how to
clear it by hand — and only someone already past the PIN could read it, so
the recovery note was never where it was needed. Gone, with the dead style
and the element lookup that hung off it.
The live line under the heading stays: it is the only thing that says
whether admin is locked, and the only warning that a passcode in the
server's environment outranks whatever is set here.
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Pointing at a tile's top edge already brings its bar back, which left the
notch doing half a job: it could still hide a bar, but hiding one tile at a
time stopped being the interesting question once the whole dashboard could
fold its bars at once. It is gone.
In its place, a pin beside each tile's label. Pinned, that tile keeps its
bar while auto-hide is on — for the one or two tiles whose controls are
wanted at a glance. It sits next to the label rather than out with the gear
and ✕ because it is about the bar, not about the tile's contents, and it
stays faint until the tile is pointed at or the pin is on, so a wall of
unpinned tiles is not a wall of pins.
Fullscreen keeps its own rule: every bar folds, pinned or not, because that
is a mode for watching. What it loses with the notch it gets back better —
the same hover at a tile's top edge peeks a bar there too, and now as an
overlay, so peeking no longer pushes the tile's content down and disturbs
the auto-fit. The peek timer the notch needed goes with it.
Per-tile `headHidden` gives way to `headPinned` in the layout, on disk and
on the server.
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Every edge and both bottom corners resize now, so the little marks that used
to appear on hover were pointing at the whole rim. They are gone — corners,
edges and the seam pill alike — and the cursor over an edge is what says it
can be dragged, the way a window's own edges do it. The seam still shows
itself while it is actually being dragged, which says what is moving rather
than where you may push.
With nothing drawn, the grips could be made to cover the rim properly: the
top strip now runs corner to corner instead of stopping 24px short, the
sides run from it down to the bottom corners, and the bottom strip fills
between those. No dead spots left along an edge.
The side grips also stopped standing down at a seam. They only did so to
avoid stacking three marks in one place, and it cost real ground: a tile
taller than its neighbour lost its whole side, not just the part the seam
covers. The seam sits above them anyway, so it still wins where it exists
and the rest of the edge now works.
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Three things about arranging a dashboard.
**Auto-hide bars.** A new button left of ⛶ folds every tile's title bar away
at once, for a windowed screen that should read like a wall display.
Fullscreen already did this for watching; this is the windowed equivalent,
asked for by hand. It starts off and saves with the layout, so a booth's
named layout loads with the bars already tucked away.
**A hidden bar is not a gone bar.** Folded away — by that switch or by a
tile's own notch — the bar leaves the flow and parks just above its tile, so
the module keeps the whole body and nothing reflows as the bar comes and
goes. Point at the tile's top edge and it slides back in over the content,
where its buttons click and its width drags the tile exactly as before. A
dashboard can now be arranged with every bar out of the way, which is the
point of hiding them.
**Every edge resizes.** The top, left and right edges join the bottom one:
each moves only itself, so the tile grows into the space beside it while the
opposite edge stays put, stopping at a neighbour or at the module's own
minimum. Where two tiles meet, that boundary already belongs to the seam
pill between them — it moves both edges and leaves no gap — so the two
tiles' side marks step aside there rather than offer a second, different
control on the same pixels.
One fix underneath: saving a named layout was dropping each tile's variant,
title, minimum size and hidden-bar state, so a saved "Now" tile came back as
the full Now/Next card and a solo timer came back with a full tile's
settings. The layout file now carries them — and the new switch with them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every shipped module had an entry under "Included modules" except Slack,
which wasn't mentioned anywhere in the README — so the one module that can
send as the campus was also the one nobody could read about.
Its entry now sits with the others, in their shape: what it does, the tiles
it offers in the ＋ picker (one transcript per configured channel plus the
two single send surfaces), its four admin groups and its tile settings —
all taken from modules/slack/module.json and client.js.
The testing paragraph listed the ProdCom, ProPresenter and PCO mocks but
not the Slack one, though CLAUDE.md has documented it all along; it is now
there with the SLACK_API_BASE line it needs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The line above the message box said "Sending as Apollo Beach → #ops" with a
Lock button beside it. The box's own placeholder already reads "Message
#ops…" and the title bar already has a Lock, so both went. Quick replies
keeps its line: it has no placeholder, so that is the only place its target
is named.
The bigger thing behind it: until a transcript was clicked, a send went to
the first channel in the admin list whether or not that channel was on the
dashboard — so a board showing only #ops would quietly aim at #general. The
target now falls to the first configured channel whose transcript is
actually up, which with a single transcript is that one. Only when the page
shows no transcript at all does it fall back to the first configured
channel.
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The ＋ picker now offers the module two ways. "Now / Next" is the card as it
was. "Now" is the live item on its own: the gradient comes off the card and
fills the tile edge to edge, the border, radius and box go, and the playlist
name and live dot float over the colour instead of sitting above it. A wall
of them reads as panels of colour rather than cards on a background.
Every part of the tile is now a switch in a "Show" group in the gear —
playlist, live status, the NOW and NEXT labels, slide count, progress bar,
the next list and its item tags. One or two words each, no descriptions. The
Now entry carries its own six, since the three Next ones have nothing to act
on there.
Two things the tile still insists on. Trouble overrides the switches: the
top row and the live chip come back the moment the feed drops, whatever is
switched off, because a tile that has stopped updating must never look like
one with nothing live. And at the Now tile's shortest sizes the floating top
row would sit on the title, so below the height it needs it goes — the
header dot and the title itself still say what is wrong.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The shipped defaults pointed at GitHub, so a fresh install with no
configuration would have looked there — and that repository is going away.
They now name michael/ProdDash on chronicles-ab.waterschurch.org:3000, which
a fresh install was verified to reach with nothing configured at all.
The hostname rather than the IP, because the UniFi DNS record is
authoritative and this survives the NAS changing address. Both production
machines already carry an explicit setting of their own, so neither is
affected either way.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both sides added to the same two places — the environment-variable list in
server.js and the settings table in the README — because the forge work and
the PIN work each documented a new setting. Everything from both is kept.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The forge setting is a new capability, so the version moves — which is
also how a machine already running 1.4.0 is offered the update at all
(an archive install compares versions, having no commit of its own).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ProdDash fetched one tar.gz of the branch from GitHub's codeload host, with
that URL shape hardcoded. A `forge` setting now names where the code comes
from: absent or "github" behaves exactly as before, and a Gitea or Forgejo
base URL such as http://10.3.8.90:3000 fetches from a server of your own.
Gitea spells an archive URL differently — /archive/<branch>.tar.gz rather
than /tar.gz/<branch> — and that is the only real difference. Its tarball
carries the same pax header with the same commit hash, so the archive
parser, update detection and module installs are untouched. The "what
changed" link follows the forge too, using each one's own compare and
commits paths.
Verified against both: the same commit and version come back from GitHub
and from a self-hosted Gitea, and a module installs from each.
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The passcode machinery existed but could only be set by hand in a config
file, so in practice every install left admin open to anyone on the
network. It is now a PIN you set from the admin page itself.
- Six digits, stored as a scrypt hash in this machine's proddash.json —
never in the clear, since that file gets copied between machines.
- The unlock card takes the PIN and submits itself on the sixth digit.
Five wrong tries from one address locks it out for 30 seconds, and the
right PIN is refused during the lockout.
- Changing or turning off the PIN asks for the current one, so a browser
left open on the admin page cannot be used to take the machine over.
Whoever sets it keeps their session rather than being bounced to the
card they just built.
- This is the shell's own PIN and guards /admin and the admin API only.
Dashboards stay open, and it is unrelated to a module's PIN — Slack's
4-8 digit send PIN still guards sending, separately and independently.
- Ways back in if it is forgotten: PRODDASH_PASSCODE in the environment
(which overrides the PIN), or delete adminPin from proddash.json and
restart. Both are in the README and on the page itself.
- The older free-text adminPasscode still works, so an existing install
keeps running.
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prodcom-transcript's endpoint defaulted to 10.3.11.152:24480 — Apollo
Beach's ProdCom. A fresh install anywhere therefore came up reading AB's
comms and reported itself healthy doing it: that is exactly what the new
North Attleboro install did. The default is now blank, so a new install
says "No ProdCom server configured" (in red, as the ProPresenter modules
already do for a missing host) until someone points it at the ProdCom for
that location. Setting a host still connects as before.
The same address is out of SPEC.md's worked example, CLAUDE.md's note
about the reference app, and the prodcom-listener snapshot's config,
README and fallback — that fallback now exits with a line telling the
operator what to set, rather than throwing on an empty URL.
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A colour picker at the foot of every gear window washes that tile's
chrome — panel, border and title bar — in a colour of the operator's
choosing, so one screen's tiles can be told apart at a glance. "Clear"
takes it off again. The value saves with the layout under the reserved
key __tint; it is the shell's, not a module's, so picking a colour paints
the tile without remounting the module, and every tile now has a gear
even when its module offers no settings of its own.
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The sizing budget counted rows as if every card sat in one grid unless
headings were showing, so a grouped tile without headings got digits
sized for fewer rows than it had and the lines below were cut off. Rows
now follow the grouping itself; each group's share of the height is the
exact height its rows, gaps and heading take, so every row is the same
height; and after the layout is applied each card's real height is
measured and digits that would still spill are shrunk to fit.
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Off, every timer sits in one grid filled row by row — a wrapping flex row
rather than a CSS grid, so the last row's cards widen to use the whole
width and nothing is left empty; a source in trouble is named in one line
above the cards, and its own cards dim. On, the sections per source come
back, and "Source headings" appears (showWhen) to hide their titles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The module used to proxy each browser's transcript stream to ProdCom one
to one, so N screens meant N upstream connections and N history reads.
It now follows ProdCom once: it keeps the channel list, the groups and
the last 300 entries, and gives every browser a snapshot on connect
(`state`) plus each changed entry as it happens (`entry`), with `clear`
and `status` frames as the link changes. Reconnects back off from 2 s to
15 s, re-read the lists and history, and re-send the snapshot. The tile
no longer loads anything itself; the admin readout says how many channels
and entries the server holds. The /prodcom/* proxy is gone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Browsers allow about six HTTP/1.1 connections to a host and an open
EventSource holds one. Sharing a stream per URL was not enough: a
dashboard with six modules still ran out — Safari first — and every later
request (a remounted tile's /state, an avatar) waited in the browser's
queue for ever; a Timers clock tile went blank after any settings change.
The page now holds ONE EventSource, GET /api/stream?s=<keys>, naming the
streams it wants (`slack:/stream`, `shell:` for the shell's own events).
The server relays each module stream into it over loopback — module
routes are untouched and still serve curl — prefixing every event name
with its key, and brackets each stream's life with `<key>|__open` and
`<key>|__down` (re-opened after a pause). sseSubscribe keeps its shape:
subscribers see their events by their own names, a stream joining the
connection is remade with the new list a moment later, and every stream
announces `open` again after it so backfills run as before.
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Every header and top-bar button's title becomes a tip the shell shows the
moment the pointer arrives (the browser's own waits a second and looks
different everywhere); it moves from `title` to data-tip so the native one
never appears, and a module that sets `title` again is picked up on the
next hover. The shell's own labels are "Settings" and "Remove"; the top
bar's are "Fullscreen", "Add tile", "Layouts", "Admin"; Slack, PCO Plan,
ProdCom and Timers shorten theirs to match. A− / A+ are a drawn − and +
in Slack, PCO Plan and ProdCom, sized like every other header icon.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every top-bar button is now an icon with a hover title and no text. The
Admin link uses the same cogwheel as the tile gears; the add button's ＋
glyph (font-dependent, uneven across browsers) is an SVG plus.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ✕ glyph came from whatever font the browser chose — smaller in
Safari than in Chromium. An inline SVG at the icon size is the same
everywhere and still takes the button's colour on hover.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Off, the picture square goes and each row starts at the left edge — the
same behaviour as ProdCom's channel-icon switch.
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