Register-ScheduledTask failed with Access denied (0x80070005). Writing to the
root task folder needs elevation, so the claim that this install needed no
admin was simply wrong. Rather than demand UAC, use two mechanisms that need
no privileges at all:
- a Startup-folder entry (AutoFirmer.cmd) runs start-all.bat at logon
- PM2's own --cron-restart with --no-autorestart drives the 5-minute update
check, so PM2 owns the schedule it was already going to resurrect anyway
Both still run in the logged-in interactive session, which is the requirement
that ruled out a Windows service in the first place: the clicker sends real
input and needs a desktop.
pm2 save now runs after the updater is registered, so `pm2 resurrect` brings
back all three processes rather than two.
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Instances were started by hand and updated by hand, so they drifted behind
master silently. Now: PM2 supervises the dashboard and the clicker, a logon
task brings them up, and a 5-minute task pulls, rebuilds and restarts when
master moves.
Restarting on every push is only safe because the scheduler now survives it.
It was pure in-memory state (_global.__autoTrader), so any restart silently
stopped automated trading with the dashboard simply showing it as off. It now
mirrors running/action/symbol/stopAfterAll to the settings table, and
resumeSchedulerIfPersisted() picks it back up from the getClients() bootstrap.
No sync-wait was needed there: tick() already skips while a client reports
!syncComplete and while any account holds a position.
A failed build is never deployed — the build runs before anything restarts, so
a broken push leaves the previous build serving.
start-all and update-check both warm the app with a request afterwards. That is
load-bearing: getClients() is lazily bootstrapped, so until something makes an
HTTP request the Tradovate clients, the reporter and the resumed schedule never
start. That was already true of manual restarts.
Logic lives in Node so a macOS or Linux port only needs an equivalent of
install-autostart.ps1. Python deps are hash-guarded, so the common path is one
hash and one import with no network, and failure is non-fatal since only the
clicker needs them.
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focus.py now verifies on Windows rather than assuming activation worked. Windows
declines to raise a window for a process that doesn't own the foreground — it
flashes the taskbar and the call returns as if it succeeded — so the runner reads
the foreground window's process back and reports a failure instead of clicking
into a background window. Same gap that was fixed on macOS earlier.
The runner also declares itself DPI-aware at startup. Without it Windows reports
a virtualised screen size and rescales the coordinates it accepts, while the
browser keeps reporting CSS pixels; on a display at 125% or 150% the two disagree
and clicks drift further off the further they are from the top-left.
Browser windows are matched on the owning process rather than the window title, so
an editor with chrome.js open is no longer mistaken for the browser. Linux now says
window management is unsupported there, rather than reporting no browser found —
pygetwindow has no X11 backend, and "no browser window" reads like Chrome is shut.
The main README gained a section on the AutoBuyer: what the three pieces are, how
to load the extension, and that neither the extension nor the runner reloads
itself when the source changes. That last point has been the cause of most of the
confusing failures so far, so it is called out in Updating too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Switch from Ubuntu to Windows Server instructions: winget for Git/Node,
Visual Studio Build Tools for better-sqlite3 native compilation, PM2 with
pm2-windows-startup for persistence, and Windows Firewall rules.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
