# pixoo-mcp-server MCP Server

Render and push styled pixel art, text, dashboards, and animations to Divoom Pixoo LED displays.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@cyanheads/pixoo-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**8 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### enhancement(pixoo_push_image): enforce fetch size cap during streaming; use os.tmpdir()

Two I/O-hygiene gaps in the URL-image path, present in both `pixoo_push_image` and the scene image preloader:

**1. The 10 MB cap is enforced only after the full response is buffered.** Both call sites check `content-length`, then `await resp.arrayBuffer()`, then check `buf.byteLength` (`src/mcp-server/tools/definitions/pixoo-push-image.tool.ts:133-148`, `src/renderer/scene-renderer.ts:230-243`). A response with **no** `content-length` header passes the pre-check (`contentLength` defaults to `0`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/pixoo-mcp-server/issues/7) · 2026-06-30 · open · 1 comment

### bug(pixoo_compose_scene): output path traversal guard is dead code

### Server version

1.0.0

### mcp-ts-core version

0.10.6

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

Bun 1.3.x

### Transport

stdio

### OS

macOS

### Description

The `output` path validation in `pixoo_compose_scene` resolves the path first, then checks it (`src/mcp-server/tools/definitions/pixoo-compose-scene.tool.ts:534-539`):

```ts
const resolvedOutput = path.resolve(input.output);
if (!path.isAbsolute(resolvedOutput) || resolvedOutput !== path.normalize(resolvedOutput)) {
  throw invalidPa

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/pixoo-mcp-server/issues/5) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### bug(tools): Pixoo device responses never checked — failures report success

### Server version

0.3.1

### Description

No tool inspects the \`PixooResponse.error_code\` returned by \`@cyanheads/pixoo-toolkit\` client calls (\`grep -rn error_code src/\` matches only a telemetry constant). The toolkit reports network/timeout/device failures as values (\`{ error_code: -1, message }\`), never throws — so with the device unreachable or rejecting a command, every tool still resolves successfully:

- \`pixoo_compose\` — \`setChannel\`/\`push\`/\`pushAnimation\` results discar

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/pixoo-mcp-server/issues/2) · 2026-06-12 · closed · 1 comment

### enhancement(pixoo_compose_scene): output does not suppress the PIXOO_OUTPUT_DIR auto-save

When `PIXOO_OUTPUT_DIR` is configured and a call also passes an explicit `output` path, `pixoo_compose_scene` writes **both** files. The auto-save preview lands in `PIXOO_OUTPUT_DIR` first, then the first frame is written again to `output`, and `outputFiles` reports both paths.

The `output` field's description previously read "overrides PIXOO_OUTPUT_DIR", which is not what the handler does. That description has been corrected to describe the as-built behavior ("in addition to"), so the tool is 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/pixoo-mcp-server/issues/9) · 2026-08-22 · open · 0 comments

### bug(pixoo_overlay_text): inaccurate invalid_color hint; x/y bounds hardcoded to 64

### Server version

1.0.0

### mcp-ts-core version

0.10.6

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

Bun 1.3.x

### Transport

stdio

### OS

macOS

### Description

Two small DX issues in `pixoo_overlay_text`:

1. **Misleading `invalid_color` recovery.** The error contract's recovery text reads *"Named color strings are not supported for overlays."* (`src/mcp-server/tools/definitions/pixoo-overlay-text.tool.ts:108`). But the handler resolves the color with `resolveColor(input.color)` (line 142) —

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/pixoo-mcp-server/issues/8) · 2026-06-30 · open · 0 comments

[See all 8 reports Pod holds for pixoo-mcp-server](/mcp/pixoo-mcp-server/issues).

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