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claudeandClaude Opus 5 97866e6623 Install the whole backend from one script; queue log; UI fixes
install_comfyui.sh becomes install_backend.sh and now builds everything the app
needs, not just the speech half:

- Step 7 runs normalizer/setup.sh --model, which fetches both models: the open
  inflection model first, so the install gets as far as it can before anything
  can ask for credentials, then the gated fine-tune.
- A missing Hugging Face account is no longer fatal. Accepting a licence is the
  one thing an installer cannot do, so the rest installs, the verification
  reports "fallback only (gated model missing)", and the summary prints the
  three commands that finish it.
- --skip-normalizer, disk requirement 35 -> 55 GB, removal instructions and the
  step list updated to match.

Queue logging — queue.log in the first queued video's job folder, which for a
single-video run is its own:

- Records what went wrong rather than what happened: warnings, tracebacks,
  ffmpeg errors, guard rejections, clips cut off mid-word or that crashed the
  backend, and the --regen line carrying their numbers.
- ComfyUI failures *and* restarts, so the log shows the recovery rather than
  reading as though the run simply stopped. GUI-initiated backend actions go in
  too; they never pass through a job's pipe.
- A failure also dumps the job's last 15 lines. Keyword matching alone is not
  enough — ffmpeg says "Invalid data found when processing input" and nothing
  that looks like an error.

UI:

- The output pane follows new output only while already at the bottom. Scroll up
  and it stays there; scroll back down and it resumes. Reading an earlier
  warning during a run was impossible while every ffmpeg progress frame yanked
  the view to the end.
- The ComfyUI button's status dot is drawn as its own canvas item, so it can be
  green (answering) or amber (holds the port, does not answer). A "." inside the
  label could only ever be the same grey as the words.

comfyui.log is capped at 120,000 lines, trimmed on backend start and every five
minutes. Rewritten in place, never replaced: tee holds it open in append mode,
so swapping the inode would leave the backend writing to an unlinked file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 09:48:20 +02:00

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# Installation
Two things need to exist: the **ComfyUI backend** (large, isolated, GPU-bound)
and the **script** (which needs nothing installed at all).
## Automated install
`install_backend.sh` in the project root reproduces the exact working
environment. It is idempotent — safe to re-run, and it skips any step already
satisfied.
```bash
cd ~/Programy/lektor_ai
./install_backend.sh
```
Roughly 45–90 minutes, almost all of it downloading. Expect ~39 GB: ~22 GB for
the speech backend and ~17 GB for the normalizer's own environment and models.
### Options
| Flag | Effect |
|---|---|
| *(none)* | Pinned versions — ComfyUI `7cb784e0`, suite `v5.3.0`. Recommended. |
| `--latest` | Newest ComfyUI and suite instead. You are on your own for breakage. |
| `--skip-model` | Skip the 8.7 GB TTS download; it happens on first generation anyway. |
| `--skip-normalizer` | ComfyUI only. Digits then reach the TTS as digits, which it misreads. |
| `--lock FILE` | Restore an exact package set from a `pip freeze` lockfile. |
| `--help` | Usage summary. |
### Changing where things go
```bash
CONDA_ROOT=/opt/miniforge3 COMFY_ROOT=/data/comfy ./install_backend.sh
```
| Variable | Default |
|---|---|
| `CONDA_ROOT` | `~/miniforge3` |
| `COMFY_ROOT` | `~/comfy-tts-app` |
| `ENV_NAME` | `comfy-tts` |
| `COMFY_PORT` | `8189` |
| `PYTHON_VERSION` | `3.12` |
If you change `COMFY_ROOT` or `COMFY_PORT`, update the script constants too —
see [Configuring the script](#configuring-the-script).
### Exact reproduction
`comfyui-requirements.lock.txt` pins all 232 packages. To rebuild a
byte-identical environment:
```bash
./install_backend.sh --lock comfyui-requirements.lock.txt
```
Regenerate it after intentional changes:
```bash
source ~/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh && conda activate comfy-tts
pip freeze > comfyui-requirements.lock.txt
```
## What the installer does
Useful to know when something fails midway, since each step can be repeated on
its own.
1. **Preflight** — checks Linux, git, a downloader, GPU, disk space, ffmpeg.
Only missing git or a downloader is fatal; the rest warn.
2. **Miniforge** → `~/miniforge3`, batch mode. `conda init` is deliberately not
run, so your `.bashrc` is never touched.
3. **Conda env** `comfy-tts` with Python 3.12, then a guard that refuses to
continue if the wrong Python somehow ended up active.
4. **PyTorch** from the cu128 index, pinned to 2.11.0.
5. **ComfyUI** cloned and checked out at the pinned commit (detached HEAD — this
is expected, not an error), then its `requirements.txt` installed.
6. **TTS-Audio-Suite** cloned, checked out at `v5.3.0`, then **`python
install.py`** — its own resolver, which must not be replaced with a plain
pip install (see [requirements.md](requirements.md#dependency-surface)).
7. **Model** — `bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-tts-4b` into
`ComfyUI/models/TTS/higgs_audio_v3/`.
8. **Number normalizer** — `normalizer/setup.sh --model`: its own venv with
`transformers>=5`, the open inflection model, and the gated fine-tune if you
have credentials. Failure here is reported, not fatal.
9. **Launcher** written to `$COMFY_ROOT/start_comfyui.sh`.
10. **Verification** — imports torch, torchaudio, transformers, safetensors,
soundfile, librosa, reports CUDA availability, and prints whether the
normalizer came up neural or on the fallback.
## Manual install
The equivalent by hand, if you would rather not use the script:
```bash
# Miniforge, self-contained, no shell integration
wget https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Miniforge3-Linux-x86_64.sh -b -p ~/miniforge3
source ~/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh
conda create -n comfy-tts python=3.12 -y
conda activate comfy-tts
# PyTorch with the CUDA 12.8 runtime bundled
pip install torch==2.11.0 torchvision==0.26.0 torchaudio==2.11.0 \
--index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128
# ComfyUI, pinned
mkdir -p ~/comfy-tts-app && cd ~/comfy-tts-app
git clone https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI.git
cd ComfyUI && git checkout 7cb784e0f48784bb6ed588912e186e5ee1e9ee68
pip install -r requirements.txt
# The TTS node, pinned — note install.py, NOT requirements.txt
cd custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/diodiogod/TTS-Audio-Suite.git
cd TTS-Audio-Suite && git checkout tags/v5.3.0
python install.py
```
The model downloads itself on first generation. To fetch it ahead of time:
```python
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
snapshot_download(
repo_id="bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-tts-4b",
local_dir="~/comfy-tts-app/ComfyUI/models/TTS/higgs_audio_v3/higgs-audio-v3-tts-4b",
)
```
## Running the backend
```bash
~/comfy-tts-app/start_comfyui.sh
```
which is just:
```bash
#!/bin/bash
source ~/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh
conda activate comfy-tts
cd ~/comfy-tts-app/ComfyUI && python main.py --port 8189
```
Leave it running in its own terminal for the whole session — model load takes
tens of seconds and would otherwise be repeated. The web UI at
<http://127.0.0.1:8189> is useful for watching progress and reading errors, but
is not needed; the script drives everything over HTTP.
## Configuring the script
Most settings live in **`settings.ini`** next to the script — see
[usage.md](usage.md#settings-file). The backend address in particular:
```ini
[comfy]
comfy_url = http://127.0.0.1:8189
```
Two paths remain constants in `lektor_ai_comfy.py`, because the script touches
ComfyUI's own directories directly rather than over HTTP:
```python
COMFY_OUTPUT_DIR = Path("/home/lukas/comfy-tts-app/ComfyUI/output")
COMFY_INPUT_DIR = Path("/home/lukas/comfy-tts-app/ComfyUI/input")
```
Generated audio is read straight out of the output directory and voice
references are copied into the input directory, so both must be real paths
reachable from wherever the script runs. **If you installed ComfyUI anywhere
other than `~/comfy-tts-app`, edit these two lines.** They are also what would
have to change first to drive a ComfyUI instance on another machine.
A third path, `VOICE_PROMPTS_DIR`, resolves to `voices/` beside the script and
needs no editing as long as the project stays intact.
The script itself needs no installation. Ensure ffmpeg is present:
```bash
ffmpeg -version && ffprobe -version
```
If missing, and you would rather not use sudo:
```bash
conda install -n comfy-tts -c conda-forge ffmpeg
```
Note that this puts ffmpeg inside the conda env, so the script must then be run
with that env active.
## Number normalizer
`install_backend.sh` installs this too — its own venv, the 8 GB inflection
model, and the 1.1 GB fine-tune. Nothing further is needed unless the script
says otherwise.
It gets its own venv on purpose: it needs `transformers >= 5`, which must not be
forced on the ComfyUI environment installed above. They talk over a pipe.
**The one thing the installer cannot do for you** is accept a licence. The
fine-tune is gated, so if you have no Hugging Face credentials the script
installs everything else, reports `fallback only (gated model missing)`, and
prints these three steps:
```bash
# 1. accept the terms while signed in:
# https://huggingface.co/Folx/qwen3-0.6b-pl-text-normalization
normalizer/venv/bin/hf auth login
normalizer/setup.sh --model
```
`HF_TOKEN=hf_...` in the environment works instead of `hf auth login`, and the
installer picks up either automatically if you set it up beforehand.
Until then the pipeline runs with `num2words` for times, dates and identifiers,
and says so on every run. Turn the stage off entirely with `numbers = no` under
`[normalize]` in `settings.ini`. See [normalizer/README.md](../normalizer/README.md).
## Verifying
```bash
# 1. Backend responds
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8189/system_stats | head -c 200
# 2. GPU visible to PyTorch
source ~/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh && conda activate comfy-tts
python -c "import torch; print(torch.__version__, torch.cuda.is_available())"
# -> 2.11.0+cu128 True
# 3. Model present
ls -la ~/comfy-tts-app/ComfyUI/models/TTS/higgs_audio_v3/higgs-audio-v3-tts-4b/model.safetensors
# 4. Number normalizer, if installed
normalizer/venv/bin/python normalizer/normalizer.py --status
# -> "mode": "model" ("fallback" means the weights are missing)
# 5. End-to-end on 60 seconds of a real file
cd ~/Programy/lektor_ai
python3 lektor_ai_comfy.py "input/film.mkv" --embedded-subs --end 01:00
```
The short run is the real test — it exercises subtitle parsing, TTS, assembly
and muxing, and finishes in a couple of minutes.
## Uninstalling
Nothing was installed system-wide, so removal is just deleting directories:
```bash
conda env remove -n comfy-tts
rm -rf ~/comfy-tts-app
rm -rf ~/Programy/lektor_ai/normalizer/venv # number normalizer env
rm -rf ~/Programy/lektor_ai/normalizer/model # and its weights
rm -rf ~/miniforge3 # only if nothing else uses it
```