Adds a fourth participant sort mode: LoudestFirst, sorts by DisplayedAudioLevel descending so the current active speaker bubbles to the top of the DataGrid. Operators reacting to who's talking can see the active speaker without scanning the list.
Refresh-on-tick (1Hz) only fires when LoudestFirst is active — other sort modes don't change keys every tick so they skip the cost. ParticipantViewModel.DisplayedAudioLevel already has a decay envelope (max-of-new-or-decayed-old at 0.7 per tick), which prevents jittery reorder on every audio frame.
Persisted via the existing UIPreferences.ParticipantSort enum (new value tacked onto the end so older ui-prefs.json files default to JoinOrder cleanly).
Reparents Teams' main top-level window into a TeamsISO-owned host via Win32 SetParent + window-style stripping. Operator gets Teams visually INSIDE TeamsISO instead of as a separate window — completes the 'Teams runs within this app' direction the user asked for after auto-hide.
Strictly opt-in (DISPLAY tab → 'Embed Teams window (experimental)'). Modern Teams runs WebView2 in its main window; WebView2 is sensitive to parent changes and may render glitches or refuse focus. If so, operator unticks and falls back to auto-hide mode.
Implementation:
- TeamsLauncher.EmbedTeamsInto(hostHwnd, w, h): finds Teams' main window (longest-title heuristic — same as GetActiveWindowTitle), saves original parent + WS_STYLE, SetParents into host, strips WS_CAPTION + WS_THICKFRAME + WS_BORDER + WS_DLGFRAME + WS_POPUP, adds WS_CHILD, MoveWindow to fit.
- TeamsLauncher.RestoreEmbed(): SetParent back to desktop + restore saved window styles. Idempotent — safe to call on shutdown even if nothing was embedded.
- TeamsLauncher.ResizeEmbedded(w, h): MoveWindow to new dimensions; called from host SizeChanged event.
- New TeamsEmbedWindow chromeless host with an EXPERIMENTAL pill in the caption. Loaded → grab HwndSource from EmbedHost Border → call EmbedTeamsInto. SizeChanged → ResizeEmbedded. Closed → RestoreEmbed (in try/finally so a crash can't leave Teams orphaned). Friendly fallback messages if no Teams window exists or HWND grab fails.
- Settings → DISPLAY → checkbox + 'Open embed window' button (gated by the checkbox). Persisted via EmbedTeamsWindow on UIPreferences.
New AutoRecordOnCall preference (DISPLAY tab). When checked, recording auto-flips ON the moment Teams transitions into a call (UIA Leave button appears in tree), and auto-flips OFF when the call ends.
Completes the unattended-show story: with Launch + AutoHide + AutoRecord all ticked, the operator launches TeamsISO and walks away — Teams runs invisibly, recording begins/ends with the meeting, ISOs route, all done. Toast surfaces each transition so they know what's happening if they glance at the screen.
Implementation: transition detection lives in the existing UIA-probe code in OnStatsTick. previousInCall != inCall gate prevents the auto-toggle from re-firing on every poll. Direct call to _controller.SetRecording + Settings.RecordIsosToDisk = ... so the existing recording infrastructure handles the rest. Toast for visibility, swallow-on-error so a recording config issue can't break the IN-CALL pill update path.
Two new persisted preferences in DISPLAY settings, paired to give operators the 'launch TeamsISO, never see Teams' experience the user asked for:
- LaunchTeamsOnStartup: TeamsISO auto-starts Teams in the background each launch (fire-and-forget background task in App.OnStartup, after the main window has materialized so a slow Teams launch doesn't delay the UI).
- AutoHideTeamsWindows: as soon as Teams' windows materialize after launch, hide them. New TeamsLauncher.AutoHideAfterLaunchAsync runs a polling loop (250ms / up to 15s) that catches the splash, main window, and any follow-up panels Teams opens. Teams takes 2-5s to render its main window and the splash arrives separately, so a one-shot hide right after launch wouldn't be enough.
When TeamsISO starts and Teams is already running (from a prior session), the auto-hide path still fires so the 'I only see TeamsISO' rule applies even when Teams was launched externally.
Operator drives everything through the IN-CALL bar (mute / camera / share / leave / marker) + participants DataGrid (ISO routing). Eye-toggle in the rail still restores Teams windows on demand.
Both toggles default to off — opt-in. Persisted via UIPreferences so they survive process restart.
When the new ControlSurfaceLanReachable preference is on, both the REST/WebSocket control surface and the OSC bridge bind to all interfaces (http://+:port/ via HttpListener wildcard, IPAddress.Any for OSC) instead of loopback. The settings VM persists the toggle, restarts both surfaces when flipped, and surfaces a ControlSurfaceUrl computed from the first non-loopback IPv4 + a Copy button so operators can paste the URL onto a control PC.
Use case: a headless host PC runs Teams + TeamsISO; a thin client on the same LAN drives it via /ui or a Stream Deck. Closed-network deployment, no auth — documented as a trusted-LAN-only mode in docs/CONTROL-SURFACE.md, including the one-time 'netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:9755/ user=Everyone' requirement and the firewall rule.
