Make the eyes follow detected faces; start the face at power-up

hermes_face now subscribes to /vision/faces and glances toward the best face (a
recognised one first, then the biggest), smoothed, holding 2.5 s and drifting
back to centre when none is seen. Sleeping ignores gaze. Image x flips on the
display: the camera looks the way the robot faces, so a person on the image's
right is on the robot's right, the viewer's left.

Fix the pan sign carried over from the prototype: positive pan is the robot's
left (the MCP contract), which is the viewer's right on the display.

robot-face.service starts the face at boot and restarts it on failure, with a
private working directory because lgpio drops a notification pipe in its cwd and
systemd's default / is not writable. robot-cpu-performance.service holds the CPU
at full clock, which halves the face's CPU cost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AFN8nRRCiDiMN7ChBpHJhs
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co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5.5
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#!/bin/bash
# Make the face start whenever the robot is powered. Run as root from this directory. Re-runnable.
set -euo pipefail
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
install -m 644 robot-cpu-performance.service /etc/systemd/system/
install -m 644 robot-face.service /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now robot-cpu-performance.service
systemctl enable robot-face.service
systemctl restart robot-face.service
sleep 8
systemctl --no-pager --lines=4 status robot-face.service
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[Unit]
Description=Hold the CPU at full clock (the face costs about half the CPU at 1.8 GHz as under ondemand)
[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'for g in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor; do echo performance > "$g"; done'
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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[Unit]
Description=Robot face (hermes_face): the display is always on while the robot is powered
After=local-fs.target robot-cpu-performance.service
[Service]
User=hermes
# lgpio (the GPIO backend for the display) drops a notification pipe, .lgd-nfy*, in its working
# directory, which must be writable: systemd's default, /, is not.
RuntimeDirectory=robot-face
WorkingDirectory=/run/robot-face
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'source /home/hermes/robot-env.sh && exec ros2 run hermes_face face_node'
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target