feat(stream): connection states, receive-side video quality, blur and noise cancellation (#1134)

[teetangh]

Sixth PR in the Stream.io remediation. Branched from fix/stream-scale, targeting dev so CI actually runs.

Everything here lives on the meeting surface: what the call tells you when it is not connected, what resolution it subscribes to, and the two effects a consultation held from a kitchen actually needs.

1. The four connection states, told apart

MeetingRoom collapsed everything that was not JOINED into one bare <Loader />. A mid-call drop, an SFU rebalance, a dead network and a connection the SDK had permanently abandoned were all the same unexplained spinner — and there was no manual rejoin anywhere.

State	What it means	What it now shows
RECONNECTING	Connection lost, the SDK is retrying. Transient.	"Reconnecting…", amber, spinner, no action — stay on the page.
MIGRATING	The SFU node is rebalancing or shutting down. Transient.	The same screen. It is indistinguishable from a blip to the participant, and pretending otherwise would be noise.
OFFLINE	No network at all. The SDK recovers to RECONNECTING by itself.	"You are offline", a static wifi-off mark rather than a spinner, and no button — there is nothing to press.
RECONNECTING_FAILED	Terminal. The SDK gave up after consecutive failed attempts.	"We could not reconnect you", red, Rejoin session + Leave.
LEFT	Resources released; rejoining needs a NEW call instance.	"You have left this session", with the same rejoin.

Only the terminal states get motion removed and an action added — a spinner on a state nothing is working on is exactly the lie this replaces. The mapping lives in lib/stream/connection-state.ts and is unit-tested.

The rejoin re-creates the call rather than calling join() on a dead handle, which is the SDK's documented requirement. It goes back through POST /api/meetings/[id]/join, not around it — that route is the sole grantor of Stream call membership (#1134 P0-1), and a fresh handle without it would be refused by Stream itself. It also snapshots the mic and camera before tearing down and restores them afterwards, so rejoining cannot silently switch someone's camera back on.

call.setDisconnectionTimeout(90) is now set. Stream's default is 0, documented as "allowing the user to remain in the call until their connection restores or the call is ended" — i.e. forever. On a paid consultation that is wrong in a way that costs money and data: a participant who shuts their laptop never produces call.session_participant_left, which is where #1134's 1,417 orphaned MeetingSession rows come from and why attendance and no-show detection cannot be trusted. 90s survives a lift, a tunnel or a Wi-Fi handover and still closes an abandoned tab inside the appointment.

2. Incoming video quality — a 2–5× cost lever, not a preference

Stream bills by aggregated received resolution per 1,000 participant-minutes:

Setting	Received	Price / 1,000 participant-min
Full HD	1080p	$3.00
HD	720p	$1.50
SD	480p	$0.75
Audio only	—	$0.30

What each participant subscribes to is what we pay for, so a consultation held at Full HD costs 2× the same consultation at SD and 10× one held audio-only, for a picture nobody asked for on a laptop-sized tile. The selector sits in the control bar beside the layout dropdown, labelled in the viewer's terms (Auto / Full HD / HD / SD / Audio only) with the bandwidth trade-off in the copy. It reads its current value from useIncomingVideoSettings() rather than mirroring it locally, so it cannot drift from the call.

It is also the honest answer to "my connection is bad" — dropping what you receive is the one lever a participant has over their own downlink, and the app previously offered nothing.

3. Poor-connection indicator

Driven by participant.connectionQuality, not callStatsReport — the stats report is a two-second polling diagnostic with a documented CPU warning, correct behind the stats button and wrong for a badge that is always mounted. connectionQuality is pushed by the SFU on the existing connection and costs nothing.

Both of Stream's own best practices are followed: only POOR is surfaced (no notification fatigue), and only for the local participant — telling someone their counterpart's link is merely "good" is noise they cannot act on.

participant.pausedTracks is surfaced too. Stream's low-bandwidth optimisation is on by default and auto-pauses incoming video under pressure; nothing in this app said so, so a tile going black read as the other person turning their camera off, or as a bug. It now says so, quietly.

4. Background blur — no install needed

@stream-io/video-filters-web@0.7.4 is already installed: it is a hard dependencies entry of the video SDK, so this is pure wiring, zero new packages.

BackgroundFiltersProvider wraps both the lobby and the room, because the filter is registered on call.camera and a provider unmounting between them would unregister it exactly as the person joined. Mounting it eagerly costs only the 250KB segmentation model — the 9.6MB WASM fileset is fetched by MediaPipe on first actual use, so a participant who never blurs never pays for it.

Guarded on isSupported. Safari is deliberately not force-enabled: the SDK excludes it because Safari throttles background timers and the filtered frame rate collapses to a freeze, so forceSafariSupport would ship a broken camera rather than an honest "not available in this browser". onError disables the camera and says so — the SDK unregisters a failed filter silently, which would otherwise leave someone transmitting an unfiltered picture of their room believing it was blurred.

5. Noise cancellation — a paid add-on, defaulted OFF

Adds @stream-io/audio-filters-web@^0.7.3 (matching what the installed SDK is built against). This is a paid Stream add-on billed per participant-minute, and the live call type is already configured noise_cancellation.mode: "auto-on".

That combination is a trap, and it is worth being precise about: mounting NoiseCancellationProvider does not merely make the feature available. The SDK calls microphone.enableNoiseCancellation(), sees auto-on on a JOINED call, and switches it on — which bills. A provider mounted for everyone would have quietly added a per-minute charge to every consultation on the platform the day this merged.

So the provider is the switch. Off means unmounted: nothing initialised, no 5.9MB Krisp model fetched, nothing billed. The control is hidden entirely without the enable-noise-cancellation capability, on a call type with it disabled, or on a browser Krisp does not support, and is disabled until isReady.

One implementation note worth reviewing: the provider is mounted as a sibling of the menu, not inside it. Radix unmounts closed dropdown content, so a provider nested in the menu would have been disposed the moment the menu closed — silently turning the feature back off with the switch still reading "On".

6. CSP — the previous comment was wrong, and about the wrong directive

next.config.mjs claimed worker-src was what would break first and that it falls back to default-src. Checked against the shipped bundles rather than the docs:

• Zero new Worker in the MediaPipe glue (vision_wasm_internal.js) or the Krisp bundle. Krisp runs in an AudioWorklet, which CSP checks under script-src, not worker-src.
• worker-src falls back to script-src, not default-src. Inheriting ours would have been permissive, not restrictive.
• 'wasm-unsafe-eval' is not required today — script-src already carries 'unsafe-eval', which permits WASM compilation. It is added anyway so that removing 'unsafe-eval', the direction this header should move in, cannot silently break the filters later.

The actual blocker was connect-src: both packages fetch their model and WASM from https://unpkg.com at runtime unless given a basePath.

Self-hosting was chosen over allow-listing unpkg — it keeps the strict-CSP posture, removes a third party from the call path, and makes the assets version-matched to the installed SDK by construction. A postinstall step (chained onto the existing prisma generate, not replacing it) copies them out of node_modules into public/, and both directories are gitignored.

CSP diff: 'wasm-unsafe-eval' and blob: added to script-src, and an explicit worker-src 'self' blob: — pinning it is strictly more secure than letting it inherit. connect-src needs no change.

Deploy-artifact cost: measured 32MB added to public/ — 26MB MediaPipe (16MB selfie_multiclass_256x256.tflite + 9.6MB vision_wasm_internal.wasm + the smaller segmenters) and 5.6MB Krisp (krisp-nc-o-med-v7.kef). They are build output, not source: committing them would only create a way for them and the SDK to drift apart.

7. Restored + removed

• SpeakingWhileMutedNotification is back around the audio toggle. It came free with the SDK's CallControls and was lost when those were replaced with hand-rolled buttons — so someone talking into a muted mic got no hint at all, which on a paid session is minutes spent unheard.
• <RecordCallButton /> deleted. It was unreachable (recordingEnabled && !meetingSessionId, but both come from the same response, so recordingEnabled: true implies a session was found) and it bypassed the app's own consent gate.
• Two console.log-only effects deleted, including one that subscribed to call.updated purely to log.
• isPersonalRoom deleted — read from ?personal, which nothing in the app ever sets.
• Loader.tsx deleted; it had no remaining callers once the connection screen replaced it.

Verification

• npx tsc --noEmit — clean.
• npx eslint on every touched path — zero warnings (they are blocking here).
• npx jest — 238 suites / 2,677 tests, 2,658 passing, up from 237 / 2,665 / 2,646 on the base. The same 3 suites fail before and after (razorpay-refund-*, sweep-stuck-webhook-events); they are pre-existing local-env failures, verified by re-running them on a clean checkout of the base.
• prettier --check clean on every file this PR touches.
• next build not run locally, per repo convention — CI owns it.

Not done, and why

• No lobby control for blur. The provider spans the lobby so the filter survives the hand-off, but the toggle is only in the room. Adding a second entry point to MeetingSetup is a UI decision worth making on its own rather than inside this diff.
• Background images are wired but not exposed. applyBackgroundImageFilter and backgroundImages need a curated asset set and a picker; blur is the privacy-critical half.
• No suppression-level control. setSuppressionLevel(0-100) exists; a slider for it is polish on a feature that bills per minute.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added meeting reconnection screens with offline, reconnecting, and rejoin options.
  • Added background blur and noise cancellation controls.
  • Added incoming video quality settings, including resolution selection and video-off mode.
  • Added connection-quality and muted-speaking notifications.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved recovery when calls fail to connect or reconnect, including timeout handling and device restoration.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for connection states, video quality controls, effects, and client wait behavior.

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Walkthrough

The meeting flow adds Stream connection recovery, controlled rejoining, incoming-video quality controls, background blur, noise cancellation, connection notices, and self-hosted filter assets. Build configuration excludes generated browser assets from source control and server bundles.

Changes

Meeting stream controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Self-hosted filter asset pipeline .gitignore, scripts/copy-stream-filter-assets.mjs, package.json, netlify.toml, next.config.mjs	The postinstall script copies MediaPipe and Krisp assets into public/. Build and deployment configuration excludes these generated assets from commits and server output.
Connection recovery flow lib/stream/connection-state.ts, app/meetings/[id]/hooks/useGetCallById.ts, app/meetings/[id]/components/ConnectionStateScreen.tsx, app/meetings/[id]/components/MeetingRoom.tsx, app/meetings/[id]/page.tsx, __tests__/stream/client-wait-timeout.test.ts	Calling states now produce recovery advice and dedicated screens. Rejoining releases the previous call, joins a fresh call, restores device state, and uses bounded client-wait handling.
Media effects and quality controls lib/stream/incoming-video.ts, app/meetings/[id]/components/CallFiltersProvider.tsx, app/meetings/[id]/components/NoiseCancellationGate.tsx, app/meetings/[id]/components/CallEffectsMenu.tsx, app/meetings/[id]/components/EffectRow.tsx, app/meetings/[id]/components/IncomingVideoQualityMenu.tsx, app/meetings/[id]/components/ConnectionQualityNotice.tsx, app/meetings/[id]/components/MeetingRoom.tsx, __tests__/stream/call-connection-and-quality.test.ts	Meeting controls now support incoming-video settings, background blur, noise cancellation, muted-speaking feedback, and connection-quality notices. Tests cover state mapping and quality behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to cc025

The PR can expose a participant's background after rejoining and can prevent users from leaving while the connection is reconnecting or offline; these behaviors should be corrected before merge. The new dropdown triggers should also explicitly use button type to avoid unintended form submission.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MeetingPage
  participant MeetingRoom
  participant ConnectionStateScreen
  participant useGetCallById
  participant StreamCall
  MeetingPage->>useGetCallById: obtain call and rejoin
  MeetingPage->>MeetingRoom: pass call and onRejoin
  MeetingRoom->>ConnectionStateScreen: render state advice
  ConnectionStateScreen->>useGetCallById: request rejoin
  useGetCallById->>StreamCall: release and reacquire call
  useGetCallById->>StreamCall: restore device settings
  StreamCall-->>MeetingRoom: provide recovered call

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[teetangh]

Held back from the 2026-08-13 release — the Netlify build fails, and it is not a code error

This is the only pull request of the #1134 train not in #1152. Both required checks pass, there are zero unresolved review threads, and next build succeeds locally on this branch — I ran it to completion rather than inferring from the green checks. So the failure is environmental, and shipping it on the assumption that Netlify would behave differently from its own preview would have been a guess.

What I checked and ruled out:

• The postinstall script. node scripts/copy-stream-filter-assets.mjs exits 0 locally and copies both asset sets. It is written to warn rather than fail on a missing package, so it cannot be the non-zero exit.
• Lockfile drift. All 105 declared dependencies resolve in package-lock.json, so npm ci has nothing to reject.
• The CSP and next.config.mjs changes. Reviewed; the reasoning is sound and none of it runs at build time.
• next/dynamic with inline options, which has broken builds in this repository before under SWC. Not present in any file this branch adds.

The Netlify API exposes only Build script returned non-zero exit code: 2 and no log body, so the next step needs the build log from the Netlify dashboard.

The most likely cause, on the evidence available: this branch copies roughly 32MB of WASM and model files into public/ at install time, and /meetings/[id] comes out at 2.08 MB first-load JavaScript in the local build — by a wide margin the largest route in the application. This repository has hit Netlify build memory limits before, which is why NETLIFY-gated lint and typecheck skips exist. Disk or memory pressure during the build fits the evidence better than anything in the diff does.

Nothing here blocks the release. Everything else in the train is merged and #1152 ships without it.

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.gitignore (1)

102-108: LGTM!

scripts/copy-stream-filter-assets.mjs (1)

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Verify the in-package asset paths, because a wrong path degrades silently.

from: "mediapipe" and from: "src/krispai/models" depend on the published package layout. If either path is absent in the installed tarball, the loop only prints a warning and the feature reports "unavailable" at runtime. The build stays green, so the regression reaches production unnoticed.

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@stream-io/audio-filters-web is pinned as ^0.7.3. This package supplies the Krisp model that scripts/copy-stream-filter-assets.mjs copies, so a patch bump can change the packaged model path. Confirm the version exists and carries no advisory.

lib/stream/incoming-video.ts (2)

90-100: LGTM!

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67-83: 🎯 Functional Correctness

Verify the SDK contract for @stream-io/video-client@1.31.5.

Confirm that both setters return void and that setIncomingVideoEnabled(true) clears the preferred resolution. If either assumption is false, explicitly reset "auto" with setPreferredIncomingVideoResolution(undefined) and handle any returned promise.

app/meetings/[id]/components/EffectRow.tsx (1)

11-61: LGTM!

app/meetings/[id]/components/CallFiltersProvider.tsx (1)

37-65: LGTM!

app/meetings/[id]/components/NoiseCancellationGate.tsx (2)

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76-79: 🩺 Stability & Availability

Check the provider cleanup behavior in @stream-io/video-react-sdk 1.31.5.

If unmount calls noiseCancellation.dispose(), the memoized instance is disposed on the first toggle-off. @stream-io/audio-filters-web cannot reinitialize it after dispose() because disposal closes its AudioContext. Create a new instance for each activation. The provider cleanup already calls call.microphone.disableNoiseCancellation, so a manual setEnabled(false) cleanup is not needed for filter detachment.

app/meetings/[id]/components/CallEffectsMenu.tsx (1)

58-97: LGTM!

app/meetings/[id]/components/IncomingVideoQualityMenu.tsx (1)

33-38: LGTM!

Also applies to: 61-88

__tests__/stream/call-connection-and-quality.test.ts (1)

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next.config.mjs (1)

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lib/stream/connection-state.ts (1)

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app/meetings/[id]/hooks/useGetCallById.ts (1)

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app/meetings/[id]/components/ConnectionStateScreen.tsx (1)

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__tests__/stream/client-wait-timeout.test.ts (1)

1-111: LGTM!

app/meetings/[id]/components/MeetingRoom.tsx (1)

10-18: LGTM!

Also applies to: 39-53, 139-170, 209-263, 322-347, 399-409, 432-432, 450-450, 515-522

app/meetings/[id]/page.tsx (1)

17-17: LGTM!

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app/meetings/[id]/components/ConnectionQualityNotice.tsx (1)

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Inline comments:
In `@app/meetings/`[id]/components/CallEffectsMenu.tsx:
- Around line 40-46: Set type="button" explicitly on the trigger button in
app/meetings/[id]/components/CallEffectsMenu.tsx lines 40-46 and
app/meetings/[id]/components/IncomingVideoQualityMenu.tsx lines 43-49,
preserving the existing DropdownMenuTrigger behavior.

In `@app/meetings/`[id]/components/ConnectionStateScreen.tsx:
- Around line 89-106: Update ConnectionStateScreen so the Leave button renders
for every connection state, independent of advice.canRejoin. Keep the Rejoin
button conditional on advice.canRejoin so it appears only for terminal states,
while preserving the existing onLeave and onRejoin handlers and styling.

In `@app/meetings/`[id]/hooks/useGetCallById.ts:
- Around line 15-19: Extend DeviceSnapshot and the rejoin state flow to persist
the active background filter selection when StreamCall is replaced. Restore that
filter through CallFiltersProvider before the camera is enabled, ensuring a
previously blurred camera never becomes visible unblurred; if ordering cannot be
guaranteed, keep the restored camera disabled until filters are applied.

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Closing in favour of a split. Nothing here is lost or abandoned — this PR is replaced by two pieces and a parked branch.

Why

This PR never deployed once: 18 failures out of 18, from its first commit. The failures were not build failures, which is what made them expensive to diagnose. Every required check passed, next build succeeded locally, and the log showed Section completed: deploying — the build was fine and the deploy was failing:

Failed to create function: invalid parameter for function creation:
Invalid AWS Lambda parameters used in this request.
Failed to upload file: ___netlify-server-handler

AWS was rejecting the server Lambda as oversized. The weight is @stream-io/audio-filters-web, which this PR added: 44 MB, of which 33 MB is Krisp model data. For contrast, @stream-io/video-filters-web is 30 MB but arrives as a transitive dependency of the video SDK, so dev already carries it and deploys fine. The 44 MB is the entire delta.

Three attempts to exclude it from the bundle did not work, and each cost a deploy cycle. Rather than keep guessing at the packaging, the work is being split so the fixes are not held hostage to a feature.

Where everything went

#1155	Connection states, setDisconnectionTimeout, receive-side video quality, the bounded client wait, and the Leave-button fix from this PR's review. No dependency added.
parked/stream-call-filters	This branch, preserved intact at c1e574a2. Noise cancellation, background blur, the effects menu, the asset-copy script and the CSP changes are all there and restorable with a checkout.
Tracking issue	Being filed with the cost analysis and the technical detail needed to restore it.

Why noise cancellation specifically is deferred

Beyond the deploy failure, it is a paid Stream add-on billed per participant-minute — a recurring cost on a pre-MVP product for a feature nobody has requested. The billing shape is also awkward on its own terms: Stream meters the whole call, but the feature is toggled by a single participant, so it is genuinely unclear who should pay when a consultee switches it on.

A feature flag would not have helped. The 44 MB sits in node_modules whether the flag is on or off, so the Lambda stays oversized and the deploy stays broken — the flag would have bought the maintenance burden without removing the blocker.

Background blur is a different case and may well ship: its package is already installed regardless, so it costs nothing extra. #1155 deploying green is the test of whether the audio package really was the sole cause.

The three review comments here

All three were answered on their threads before closing. The ConnectionStateScreen finding was real and is fixed in #1155. The other two concern files that moved to the parked branch, and are noted on the tracking issue so whoever restores that work starts from the corrected version.