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Dylan DeverillandClaude Fable 5
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Control modes (tray 'Control Mode' submenu, persisted): - Manual: tray toggle only (grayed labels now explain why when disabled) - Auto - Off while Steam running: yield the controller whenever steam.exe runs; reclaim ~6s after it exits (debounced against Steam self-restarts) - Auto - Off ONLY while in Steam game: yield only while RunningAppID != 0 SteamWatcher polls the Steam process and RunningAppID every 2s with asymmetric debounce: transitions toward more Steam activity are reported immediately (yield fast), transitions away must hold ~6s. Taking the device from a running Steam requires invalidating its HID write handle. A new elevated helper (SteamlessDeviceCycle.exe) restarts the controller device node (unplug/replug equivalent) on demand via a highest-privileges scheduled task, registered by the installer or a one-time UAC prompt. The tray app itself NEVER runs elevated: an elevated foreground window blocks unelevated SendInput via UIPI, which froze Steam Input's desktop cursor whenever the tray menu was open. The same cycle mechanism hands the device to an already-running Steam on game launch (Steam only opens controllers on arrival events). Crash safety: an unhandled-exception filter best-effort restores lizard mode without taking locks; the firmware's own revert timeout remains the final fallback. ClaimExclusive now restores shared access on failure instead of leaving the device handle closed. Diagnostics for field disconnect reports: - Event log at %LOCALAPPDATA%\SteamlessController\events.log (512KB rotation, read-shareable): connect/disconnect causes, game mode transitions with failure reasons, battery changes, stalls, keepalive failures, auto-mode decisions. 'Open Event Log' in the tray menu. - Silent-stall detection: no reports for 4s while enumerated (battery death, sleep, wireless drop) is now detected, logged, and alerted with the last battery reading. - Disconnect/stall alert balloons, suppressed for intentional handoffs, with a 'Disconnect Notifications' toggle for users with odd setups. Startup reverts to the plain HKCU Run key (the elevated-logon-task variant from an interim build is migrated back and cleaned up). Installer ships and registers the helper and unregisters it on uninstall; version 1.8. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>