Fall back to next port on EADDRINUSE; show dialog and update tray URL

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

desktop-client/index.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain } = require('electron');
+const { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain, dialog } = require('electron');
 const path = require('path');
 const { startServer } = require('./server');
 const { createTray } = require('./tray');
@@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ async function createWindow() {
 app.whenReady().then(async () => {
   serverHandle = await startServer({ port: PORT, overlayDir: OVERLAY_DIR });
 
+  if (serverHandle.port !== PORT) {
+    const actual = serverHandle.port;
+    await dialog.showMessageBox({
+      type: 'info',
+      title: 'Port in use',
+      message: `Port ${PORT} was in use; using ${actual} instead.`,
+      detail: `If you have an OBS browser source pointed at this app, update it to http://localhost:${actual}/`,
+      buttons: ['OK'],
+    });
+  }
+
   ipcMain.on('wtm:state', (_event, payload) => {
     const next = serverHandle.setState(payload || { isPlaying: false });
     if (tray) tray.update({ title: next.title, artist: next.artist });
@@ -48,7 +59,7 @@ app.whenReady().then(async () => {
   await createWindow();
 
   tray = createTray({
-    port: PORT,
+    port: serverHandle.port,
     onShow: () => {
       if (!mainWindow) return;
       if (mainWindow.isMinimized()) mainWindow.restore();

desktop-client/server.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const { initialState, mergeState } = require('./state');
  * @param {string} [opts.overlayDir] Absolute path to the overlay/ directory to serve as static files. Optional (omit for tests).
  * @returns {Promise<{ setState: (update: object) => object, stop: () => Promise<void> }>}
  */
-function startServer({ port, overlayDir }) {
+async function startServer({ port, overlayDir }) {
   let currentState = { ...initialState };
 
   const app = express();
@@ -82,13 +82,49 @@ function startServer({ port, overlayDir }) {
     });
   }
 
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+  // Try the preferred port first, then up to 4 sequential fallbacks on EADDRINUSE.
-    server.listen(port, '127.0.0.1', () => {
+  const MAX_PORT_ATTEMPTS = 5;
-      console.log(`[wtm] server listening on http://127.0.0.1:${port}`);
+  let actualPort = null;
-      resolve({ setState, stop });
+  let lastErr = null;
-    });
+
-    server.on('error', reject);
+  // The WebSocketServer re-emits server 'error' events on itself.
+  // Add a no-op sink so Node doesn't crash on unhandled 'error' during port scanning.
+  const wssErrorSink = () => {};
+  wss.on('error', wssErrorSink);
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < MAX_PORT_ATTEMPTS; i++) {
+    const tryPort = port + i;
+    try {
+      await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        const onError = (err) => {
+          server.removeListener('listening', onListening);
+          reject(err);
+        };
+        const onListening = () => {
+          server.removeListener('error', onError);
+          resolve();
+        };
+        server.once('error', onError);
+        server.once('listening', onListening);
+        server.listen(tryPort, '127.0.0.1');
       });
+      actualPort = tryPort;
+      break;
+    } catch (err) {
+      lastErr = err;
+      if (err.code !== 'EADDRINUSE') throw err;
+      // EADDRINUSE — fall through and try the next port.
+    }
+  }
+
+  wss.removeListener('error', wssErrorSink);
+
+  if (actualPort === null) {
+    throw lastErr || new Error(`No free port in range ${port}..${port + MAX_PORT_ATTEMPTS - 1}`);
+  }
+
+  console.log(`[wtm] server listening on http://127.0.0.1:${actualPort}`);
+  return { setState, stop, port: actualPort };
 }
 
 module.exports = { startServer };