Mobile Diagnostics

Hive now keeps a persistent frontend diagnostics log inside the app so mobile-only issues can be debugged without attaching a remote inspector.

Where To Look

• Open the app and go to Logs.
• Use the Frontend tab for Vue/WebView/xterm/mobile lifecycle diagnostics.
• Use the App tab for Rust/Tauri backend logs.
• Use the Daemon tab for logs streamed from the connected hived node.

What The Frontend Log Captures

• App startup environment: user agent, touch capability, viewport metrics, keyboard inset.
• Viewport and virtual-keyboard adjustments from window, visualViewport, and focus events.
• Resume / reconnect handling: blur, focus, visibility changes, websocket probe decisions, and session recovery.
• Terminal lifecycle: attach, detach, dispose, focus ownership changes, PTY resize sends, and forced resize resyncs.
• IME / suggestion handling in the xterm helper textarea.
• Session history timing and replay decisions.
• Unhandled browser errors and promise rejections.
• Existing console.* output from the frontend, persisted into the same log ring buffer.

Toolbar Actions

• Copy copies the currently displayed (and filtered) log lines to the clipboard. Available on every tab.
• Clear is available on the Frontend and App tabs:
  • On the Frontend tab it wipes only the in-memory frontend diagnostics log.
  • On the App tab it deletes the hive-app.log.* files on disk. The active file may keep filling until the next daily rollover or app restart.
• The Daemon tab has no Clear button - those logs live on the remote hived node.

Retention

• The frontend diagnostics log is stored in browser storage under a bounded ring buffer.
• It typically survives normal app reloads/restarts on mobile because it is not held only in memory.

Practical Debug Flow

1. Reproduce the mobile issue.
2. Open Logs → Frontend.
3. Search for one of:
   • viewport
   • connection
   • terminal
   • session-history
   • terminal-ime
   • pty-input
4. Correlate those timestamps with the App or Daemon tabs when needed.

Pulling The Buffer From The CLI

When you can't (or don't want to) open the app to read logs - phone is locked, app is on a slow link, you want a saveable dump - fetch the same buffers from any machine that has the hive CLI and the daemon's token:

hive clients ls                                            # find app connection_id and node IDs
hive logs frontend --client <connection-id> --lines 1500   # entire Vue diagnostics buffer
hive logs app --client <connection-id> --lines 2000        # Rust-side app log
hive logs daemon --lines 1000                              # daemon log of the connected node

See Remote Log Fetch for the full command reference, wire protocol, and limits.