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Changelog

Every AtlasCube firmware release, newest first.

All notable changes to AtlasCube firmware are documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog,

and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

While the major version is 0, any minor release may introduce breaking changes.

0.64.02026-10-22

Added

• rules: list running rules in a Running tile on the rules page
• rules: allow waits up to 24 h and keep unchanged rules running across a save
• web: center the screen preview in a 520 px page column
• display: add ST7789V 320x170 driver variant and UI profile
• web: offer a restart after saving wiring or importing settings
• board_pins: release pins before a software restart
• web: embed the wiring builder in the radio's wiring page
• web: exchange wiring with the wiring builder
• web: exchange wiring with the wiring builder
• web: exchange wiring with the wiring builder
• web: open the radio's wiring in the wiring builder
• web: apply I/O slot settings from wiring-builder bundles

Fixed

• www: report refused pins and partial saves when applying wiring
• www: sanitize wiring bundles before review and apply
• display: skip the panel reset pulse when its RST pin is not wired
• ui: skip the station icon update while the radio screen is torn down
• ui: restart the screensaver timer when playback stops
• web: tell strapping pins apart in the setup pin check
• www: pass file paths as data attributes instead of inline onclick

Other

• www: keep the wiring diagram layout on the radio

0.63.02026-10-15

Added

• voice: play spoken-time clips from the SD card
• touch: add CST328 driver
• www: highlight rules and flow tabs with unsaved changes
• io: show the weather icon beside the temperature in one line
• io: keep a one-line clock or temperature beside scrolling text
• io: add a candle WS2812 effect
• io: per-command VU settings for every layout
• io: ambient WS2812 effects: strip spectrum, glow, crossfade, cycle, wave
• io: add crossfade, colour cycle and wave WS2812 effects
• io: adjustable contrast and fall for the strip spectrum
• io: separate WS2812B strip and matrix output types on the I/O page
• io: spectrum layout on a plain WS2812 strip

Fixed

• pins: list GPIO21 as a broken-out pin
• www: unbind controls from macros whose rule was deleted

0.62.02026-10-09

Added

• display: add a show/hide toggle for the Network Music screen
• www: flag GPIO changes awaiting a power cycle on the I/O page
• encoder: bind the second knob per screen in the layout editor
• display: add software dimming for GC9A01 modules without a backlight pin
• display: add per-axis image orientation for GC9A01 and fix its MADCTL baseline
• display: add GC9A01 round 240x240 driver and UI profile
• www: show works-always on IR keys in the rules editor
• www: show works-always on IR keys in the rules editor
• www: mark repeat and always-on keys on the remote tiles
• rules: show and edit variables in a tile on the rules page
• ir: raise the remote key limit from 20 to 26
• vars: add RAM variables and gate the IR remote on one
• io: keep the strip's brightness when an effect action leaves it empty
• encoder: add a second rotary encoder with configurable turn actions
• www: add ready-made colour palettes for the WS2812 VU and volume bar
• io: let the VU rule action set zone and peak colours
• sd_player: seek SD tracks from the device screen and the web player
• io: let the matrix-middle rule action set clock and weather colours
• www: move pin setup into the settings quick links and list the backup network
• www: let the setup wizard pick the SD bus and enter SD and Bluetooth pins
• sdcard: log once when SD support is compiled out
• sdcard: log once when SD support is compiled out
• network: add a backup WiFi network tried when the primary one fails
• sdcard: mount the SD card over SPI when sd_cs is set
• ci: add the headless variant to the release build matrix

Fixed

• io: warn about backwards input polarity and ignore buttons held at boot
• net_wallpaper: hold the wallpaper batch until the boot update prompt is dismissed
• net_wallpaper: keep wallpaper fetches off the update and OTA screens
• services: keep rule and remote screen= actions off the update and OTA screens
• www: open the control panel by the rule lane that was clicked
• www: explain the missing layout editor on headless builds instead of a JSON parse error
• www: ignore a pointer release that did not start on the rule block or IR button
• www: name the wizard SD choices by bus (SDMMC/SPI) instead of slot/module
• network: stop the WiFi supervisor overflowing its stack when no saved network is reachable

0.61.12026-10-04

Fixed

• main: comment out the IR receiver default in defines.h
• ci: keep IR_RX_PIN and DISPLAY_NONE out of release builds

0.61.02026-10-04

Added

• io: let a rule set the WS2812 background colour
• io: let a rule set the WS2812 background colour
• io: let a rule pick the WS2812 clock layout
• rules: give WS2812 scrolling text its own action block
• io: add matrix VU height and text position to rule actions
• io: split WS2812 matrix between spectrum and scrolling text
• io: support WS2812 matrices chained from side-by-side panels
• io: mirror the open source list on WS2812 matrices
• io: mirror the open source list on WS2812 matrices
• io: mirror the open source list on WS2812 matrices
• io: raise the WS2812 strip limit to 1024 pixels
• io: let rules set the VU bar width and spectrum gap at runtime
• display: add DISPLAY_NONE headless variant without LVGL or UI
• io: switch dimmable outputs back on at their last level
• io: let rules pick the VU layout and the matrix middle at runtime
• io: add scrolling text effect for WS2812 matrices
• audio: add per-station loudness levelling
• display: add SH1122 256x64 grayscale OLED driver
• display: add ST7735 driver and 160x128 UI profile
• ui: show a progress bar during the web UI pull
• audio_engine: add a synchronous announcement chime
• audio: end callback
• audio: make the volume curve switchable between tapered and gentle
• audio: make the volume curve switchable between tapered and linear
• audio: configurable channel-test tone (pink/white/sine, duration) with web UI Play button
• audio: built-in stereo channel-test tone (pink noise) in Settings→Audio for SD-less HW check
• ui: reverse rotation option for animated wheels on radio and SD screens
• radio: support MP3 audio in HLS TS segments via PMT codec probe
• ui: add private animated wheels renderer
• updater_force — re-check and apply without on-screen prompt
• update.log — on-device history of fw/www update outcomes
• updater_www_apply — manifest pull via www.php, version file last
• www staleness check as check_task tail + updater_start www_expected arg
• updater: private builder for the auto-update prebuilt lib

Changed

• updater: reuse one TLS connection across the web UI pull
• updater: reuse one TLS connection across the web UI pull
• engine: give the SD reader a 256 KB buffer and priority above LVGL
• audio: cheaper 48k resample (rsp complexity 1) and stop supervising IDLE1
• www pull requests latest set, server resolves the tag

Fixed

• audio: lower station levelling target to -23 dBFS
• audio: strip UTF-8 BOM from ICY stream titles
• io: keep WS2812 temperature digits off chained-panel seams
• diag: compute CPU load in 64 bits to survive long poll gaps
• net_wallpaper: release every slot's image when a batch fetch starts
• net_wallpaper: size download buffers to the reply, not the 1.5 MB cap
• libjpeg: report free and largest PSRAM when the image alloc fails
• www: export the category sibling's layout alongside the active screen
• main: restore the IR receiver section in defines.h
• ui: keep the web UI pull on screen past the screensaver
• audio_engine: start only i2s after pre-roll so a slow open cannot abort the pipeline
• icy_http_stream: de-frame chunked transfer encoding on the raw http path
• audio_engine: recover the pipeline after a decoder failure
• icy_http_stream: send Range on plain http streams
• audio: move the PCM reserve ahead of the DSP so the VU tracks the sound
• audio: prebuffer PCM before starting I2S
• updater: update.log www line logs hash + matched fw, not stamp metadata

Other

• closed-source component sources before HLS keep-alive fix

0.60.12026-09-29

Fixed

• ci: fail when a variant define is missing from defines.h
• main: restore the SH1106 display define lost in a board swap

0.60.02026-09-29

Added

• bt_module: follow volume changes made on the phone
• mqtt_svc: announce the radio to Home Assistant through MQTT discovery
• www: add a Home Assistant discovery switch to the MQTT settings
• www: add a restart button to the System tab
• log_ring: keep errors and warnings on the device across restarts and serve them at /api/log
• www: add an error log page
• status_led: draw chase and progress in columns on a matrix and add row and ripple effects
• www: pick the status LED area in matrix rows on the lighting page
• io: turn off or dim the WS2812 strips with the Blank and Dim screensavers
• ui: apply the screensaver brightness to every screensaver
• www: move WS2812 strip controls from io.html to the lighting page
• io: add a background colour under the WS2812 VU
• io: send the WS2812 VU bars at 25 fps by default, 50 on request
• io: add weather to the middle of the WS2812 matrix
• io: add a clock overlay to the WS2812 matrix
• io: add bar width and band gap to the WS2812 matrix VU
• fonts: add dashes, curly quotes, ellipsis and euro sign to the _eu fonts
• www: split the WS2812B lighting page into Audio, Volume and Status tabs
• io: draw the WS2812 volume bar in rows on a matrix
• io: link the pin setup page from the pin map hint
• io: add a spectrum layout to the WS2812 matrix VU
• io: add WS2812 matrix geometry and a matrix VU layout
• io: add WS2812 current limit
• www: release SD and Bluetooth pins when the wizard answers No
• www: list only existing on-demand rules as rule actions and flag dangling macros
• ui: add optional scrolling of the tuned station name on the tuning dial
• ui: add tuned-station font option to the tuning dial
• ui: add Montserrat 16/20 and bold 14-20 fonts
• ui: add dashed station scale between the tuning dial rows
• ui: add per-screen encoder bindings to the layout editor
• www: allow layout preset export on screens without an SD wallpaper
• ui: add horizontal tuning dial to the radio screen

Changed

• ui: remove the fireworks, plasma and Game of Life screensavers
• audio: move the VU spectrum FFT out of vu_widget

Fixed

• services: resume BT after a voice notification only if it was playing
• www: label the wallpaper fetch buttons as saving the URL
• net_wallpaper: name the URL in download failure log lines
• bt_module: skip AT commands when no BT module is wired
• io: slow the WS2812 spectrum column ballistics so the matrix flickers less
• io: keep live output state when the I/O configuration is re-applied
• io: stop a WS2812 level change flashing the base colour under the VU
• io: step the WS2812 matrix volume bar by whole rows
• io: calibrate WS2812 current limit and floor it at 500 mA
• ui: show radio track title independently of the station name

0.59.02026-09-25

Added

• www: add light theme with green accents and persistent appearance settings
• www: add display flip, date format and timezone to the setup wizard
• display: add SH1106 as a mode of the SSD1306 driver
• www: add a theme step to the setup wizard
• www: offer to clear all internet and asset slots before a theme install without SD
• www: add layout preset export to download the JSON from layout.html
• voice_time: add an optional chime before spoken time announcements
• www: link the Android app from the wizard's last page
• www: add "Don't show again" box to the setup wizard and make Skip mean not now
• www: add screen colours and screensaver steps to the setup wizard
• settings: add first-run wizard_done flag
• www: add first-run setup wizard
• www: hide PLAYERS menu links for hidden device screens
• www: draw knob artwork in the layout preview
• www: show real colours in the layout preview
• www: install whole theme into internet slots without SD
• www: quick links menu reordered
• ui: move text and element colours to per-screen fields
• settings: add DD.MM.YYYY date format option
• www: add Rules to the quick links menu
• net_wallpaper: tell on screen that a wallpaper fetch is a retry
• www: add quick links menu to the radio page view switch

Changed

• www: replace the page guide with a full contents list
• www: replace colour override checkboxes with plain pickers
• ui: remove dead apply_theme callbacks
• theme: replace dark/light palettes with global colours in ui_profile

Fixed

• settings: offer the setup wizard once on devices updated from older firmware
• www: match the weather widget placeholder to the other elements
• screensavers: use configured day names in digital clock date
• audio: rebuild audio_engine with the slow-open pre-roll fix
• telegram: keep the polling connection open between checks
• services: resume Network Music after a notification instead of the last station

0.58.02026-09-21

Added

• voice_time: offer Romanian announcements
• voice: make the spoken-time volume a shift against the current level
• ui: add a 5-bar WiFi signal widget
• www: scroll the station list to the selected entry
• voice_time: offer Ukrainian announcements
• voice_time: offer French announcements
• voice_time: offer German and Slovak announcements
• voice_time: hold a configurable pause before the announcement
• voice_time: announce the clock from half-hourly clips on a web server
• www: show the available-update banner on the settings System tab

Changed

• www: drop help.html in favour of the page map
• voice_time: drop the server setting and keep the UI to the choices

Fixed

• ui_manager: tear down live screen widgets when the dim saver is navigated away
• radio_service: silence the programme before a notification, not after
• clock: align the home clock and the spoken time to the minute boundary

0.57.32026-09-20

Fixed

• icy_http_stream: size the ICY metadata buffer to the protocol maximum

0.57.22026-09-18

Fixed

• build: compile esp_lcd at -O1 to dodge a GCC ICE

0.57.12026-09-18

Fixed

• ci: remove incomplete build dir before set-target

0.57.02026-09-18

Added

• web: add Network Music to device screen preview
• web: refine player navigation and interface switcher
• web: show active and playing source in player navigation
• display: real SSD1306 brightness range and a two-display balance
• display: drive two SSD1306 modules as one 256x64 screen
• web: add a Network Music button to the screen switcher
• display: add SSD1306 128x64 I2C OLED driver
• www: show the active source on the player pages, make BT a plain on/off
• www: show the active source on the radio page, make BT a plain on/off
• rules: give each flow its own colour
• rules: filter rules by enabled state
• network-music: show elapsed time for streams
• network-music: advance queue when a stream ends
• network-music: add three selectable server URLs
• network-music: support categorized endless streams
• espnow_link: browse Network Music by index
• espnow_link: report Network Music as its own source
• settings: auto-enable EQ when band gains change
• io: add relative level step action for PWM and WS2812 outputs
• rules: add rule duplication in editor
• web: add beginner-friendly Web UI guide and navigation
• services: add pause and seek to Network Music
• io: make WS2812 VU and volume bar zone boundaries configurable
• io: make WS2812 VU and volume bar colours configurable
• services: skip failed Network Music tracks, stop after three in a row
• ws2812: move VU, volume feedback and status effects to a unified lighting page
• io: run the volume bar's second half back from the far end
• services: log Network Music listing errors
• www: label layout preset buttons as SD card save/load
• io: set the level an output comes up at after a restart
• io: show the audio level on a WS2812 strip
• screensaver: add internet source to the photo frame
• settings: follow the playing source by default
• main: log the last reset reason at boot
• www: open the playing folder on load instead of listing the server root first
• www: list the saved music server on page load instead of waiting for Open

Changed

• web: share equalizer modal and add it to Network Music
• sdkconfig: execute from PSRAM so flash writes don't stall audio
• audio: move the VU sample ring to PSRAM

Fixed

• web: restore mouse clicks in preview playlists
• display: auto-detect the SSD1306 address
• ui: make the mono profiles legible on 1-bit panels
• net_wallpaper: skip wallpaper fetches on mono builds
• ui: make the mono profiles legible on 1-bit panels
• display: configurable SSD1306 address and a lower 1-bit threshold
• ui: paint the theme background on mono profiles
• media: switch to radio while a network track is playing
• audio: recover playback after an undecodable HTTP track
• services: skip stacked ID3 tags before Network Music playback
• www: reject Network Music folders over the 128-entry device limit
• ui: remember the boot screen however a ring screen is reached
• services: don't resume a station on boot after network music
• services: don't resume a station on boot after network music
• www: show both hold values for the internet photo frame
• ui: let the playlist start a station while another source plays
• www: make dropdown group headings stand out
• rules: offer yet-unbound IR keys as rule triggers
• io: drive four WS2812 strips instead of two
• settings: never write settings.json in place

Added

• network-music: save three server URLs with one active selection
• rules: duplicate an existing rule from the canvas or table editor
• network-music: browse categorized endless streams alongside HTTP MP3 files

Fixed

• network-music: show elapsed playback time for endless stream entries
• rules: give duplicated manual and webhook rules an independent trigger address

0.56.02026-09-12

Added

• ui: size the MQTT widget column and its controls from the profile
• ui: add an MQTT layout section and a theme-only background tier
• ui: add an MQTT layout section and a theme-only background tier
• ui: give the MQTT screen its own wallpaper and plate opacities
• ws: report Network Music as its own source instead of radio
• status-led: add configurable WS2812 system status indicators
• network-music: add Apache JSON directory listing adapter
• display: add MQTT screen visibility toggle
• add Network Music source and navigation actions
• add contextual action for opening source list
• add action to open Network Music list
• rules: play Network Music tracks from rules
• rules: add WS2812B effect conditions
• io: expose active WS2812B effect state
• rules: add brightness control to WS2812B effect actions
• rules: add guided WS2812B effect actions
• web: add per-rule saving and flow and rule ordering controls
• io: WS2812B volume effect
• rules: add save buttons to every rule

Changed

• network-music: store server URLs in settings.json; after upgrading from

the former single-server version the address must be entered again

• www: rename the per-screen Theme wallpaper source to Background
• io-web: put the system status LED section first on the I/O page
• status-led: redraw the strip only when a pixel would change

Fixed

• settings: stop the main task overflowing its stack on the boot hostname save
• ui: follow the playing source into Network Music as its own source
• status-led: circle the whole range for batch and OTA instead of a shrinking progress window
• status-led: treat brightness 0 as off instead of a black overlay and skip the spinlock for slots that own no status
• io-web: keep the status LED target list in step with the form
• network-music: let playback supersede directory fetch
• web: prevent WS2812 color picker from reverting
• web: pace static assets while audio is playing
• audio: prebuffer PCM before starting I2S
• io: treat any non-zero PWM level as on
• rules: split WS2812B node labels into two lines

Fixed

• network-music: let a web playback request supersede an in-flight directory listing and report the exact reason when it is rejected

0.55.02026-09-09

Added

• rules: play a selected Network Music track while preserving its folder queue
• io: add procedural WS2812B effects for rules
• rules: add stateful A/B toggle node
• io: add per-pixel WS2812B control for rules
• io: add PSRAM-backed WS2812B control for rules
• web: reorganize player and management navigation
• rules: add bounded execution history in PSRAM
• rules: add continuous-condition mode to Check nodes
• diag: report the DMA-capable half of internal RAM
• network-music: play through the service so the queue, length and position exist
• network-music: make it a first-class media source for transport and hotspots
• network-music: lay the playlist out from the shared browser section
• network-music: report track position and length for the progress bar
• network-music: add HTTP MP3 playback with dedicated screen and server playlist
• rules: show a rule's id beside its name, on the canvas and in the table
• rules: let import update a rule that is already on the device
• rules: let import update a rule that is already on the device
• scripts: add a web-only flash scope to build-flash.py
• rules: export one rule, and let import add instead of replacing
• rules: offer a dimmable output's level next to its on / off
• io: make the PWM frequency a device-wide setting
• rules: let a check wait for its condition before giving up
• rules: let a check inside a sequence stop the branch when it fails
• rules: set a PWM level from the action list, not by typing the command
• rules: name each group of controls on the shelf
• rules: add blocks from the block they follow, and flag a condition the trigger already decides
• rules: give a rule an else branch, and add the ≥ and ≤ operators
• rules: trigger on an I/O slot crossing a value
• web: show the live pin map on the I/O page
• io: measure analog inputs on the ADC1 slots

Changed

• ui: time label scrolling in ms so a slower speed actually applies
• lwip: halve the TCP receive window, pinned whole by a fast server
• network-music: close the old pipeline before building the next one
• audio: let the MP3 duration parser work from a buffer, not just a file
• network-music: poll a revision counter instead of the 25 KB snapshot fix(network-music): keep the NVS commit off the state mutex fix(network-music): confine the directory proxy to the saved server
• rules: send IR learning to the Remotes tab instead of doing it twice
• rules: list the switch slots under the buttons, IR last

Fixed

• rules: light the block the device actually ran on else branches
• rules: restore condition insertion and drop the redundant check record
• rules: add hold timeout, optimize history, and harden testing and diagnostics
• rules: report queue rejection and improve rule testing
• audio: tear the pipeline down when the retry budget runs out
• network-music: read the length past a big ID3 tag instead of giving up
• ui: rebuild the network-music screen when internet assets land
• network-music: put the worker stack back to 8192, the settings write needs it
• network-music: read the track length before playback, not against it
• network-music: move the worker stack into task_stacks.h and trim it to measurement
• audio: tear the pipeline down when a finite stream ends, not just flag it
• web: name the layout sections and the hotspot action that SD shares with Network Music
• ui: show the VU on Network Music and name the layouts it shares with SD
• network-music: restore the queued track after a fetch, not a radio station
• web: move the Network Music server to the Network tab and style its save button
• web: restyle the Network Music page to the shared header and theme
• audio: handle HTTP EOF and mark playback finished after audio drains
• web: show the PWM frequency range and clamp the field to it
• rules: move Export and Import up beside Save rules
• web: drop the English humidity word from the weather readout
• rules: stop render() unselecting a control the moment it is clicked
• io: the pull-up label said GND, which is where the switch goes, not the pull
• io: tell the card a pin is pending instead of calling it unassigned
• rules: repair the table view and give it every edit the canvas has
• rules: stop the table view throwing on any rule with a condition
• rules: hang the otherwise tab on the condition it forks at
• rules: say what unit an I/O value is compared in

0.54.02026-09-06

Added

• audio: cap output with audio.volume_max and drop the per-slider one
• bt: stop the radio on every switch to the BT source
• telegram: move polling into settings and name a hook by its door
• telegram: read commands on a schedule a rule owns
• telegram: send a message from a rule through a bot
• rules: name triggers by their source and add a webhook trigger
• web: accept an action string over plain HTTP, not only MQTT
• www: prioritize flows in rules page layout
• rules: open with ready-made rules instead of trigger types
• rules: add a sunrise/sunset trigger and a UDP action, and pack the payloads
• web: name macros and I/O slots in the action lists, and group them
• web: name the rule behind a macro on the I/O and remote pages
• web: back up and restore the rules file from the editor
• web: serve today's schedule at /api/rules/today
• web: show the day's schedule on the rules page
• web: group the canvas by flow when All is showing
• ui: show today's rules and calendar entries on one screen
• rules: tell the UI when today's schedule moves, instead of polling for it
• rules: answer what is scheduled for today, and let the bell count it again
• web: put every task stack in the copied diagnostics report
• web: add a storage check for what rules name on the card
• ui: add a per-screen toggle for the volume overlay
• rules: add a table view and per-flow enabling
• rules: group rules into flows
• rules: show how to start a macro rule over MQTT
• rules: show how to start a macro rule over MQTT
• mqtt: publish brightness, active source and the I/O slots
• mqtt: run actions from cmd/action and publish from a rule
• rules: let an event block play a spoken clip
• rules: add an event block that shows a notification
• rules: let a time trigger run on a date, monthly or yearly
• rules: show the full action text on the block and the full path in the editor
• setup: name the pins held by I/O slots
• rules: show the GPIO number on control blocks
• rules: play a station by name and an SD folder from a rule
• rules: pick a station by name in a play action
• rules: list the parameterised commands next to the field that takes them
• rules: draw physical controls as blocks and drop the controls table
• rules: draw physical controls as blocks and drop the controls table
• rules: list every bound control on the trigger block
• rules: bind a control to a rule from its trigger block
• rules: name remote keys from the rules page
• rules: manage buttons, remote keys and inputs from the rules page
• rules: add a block editor for rules with a live trace
• rules: add a rule engine with time, state and macro triggers
• io: add general-purpose GPIO slots with a web panel
• vu: add a per-screen sensitivity knob for the VU meters
• vu: add LED-style segments to the stereo bar VU
• ui: put the screensaver up from a button or IR key
• ui: add a shared colour override for the clock widget
• eq: add a colour override for the value label
• ui: add shared colour overrides for the weather, mode and event widgets

Changed

• web: name the rule sources the way the I/O page does
• main: allocate every cJSON node from PSRAM, not internal RAM
• web: cap concurrent SD listings on the layout page
• stacks: move seven task stacks off internal RAM into PSRAM
• diag: take the CPU dump's task snapshot from PSRAM
• weather: keep the fetch buffers out of internal RAM
• web: put the HTTP socket pool back to seven after measuring six
• web: trim the HTTP socket pool to six after measuring the peak
• web: take the diag task buffers from PSRAM, not the pool they report
• weather: start the fetch task only while weather is enabled
• stacks: size the action runner, ESP-NOW and LVGL to measurements
• rules: load the page one request at a time
• ws: build the state frame on the broadcast task, not on the caller feat(diag): report every task stack, not the tightest sixteen perf(rules): make the live trace opt-in and off by default
• ws: build the state frame on the broadcast task, not on the caller
• events: reduce the store to the phone-calendar mirror
• display: drop the dim schedule, which is three rules now
• events: drop timed playback, which is a rule now
• www: share one SD path picker, and resolve sd_play like events do
• web: move the I/O slot pins from setup onto the I/O page
• pins: name every bindable pin slotN, with a one-time migration
• io: drop boot=restore and the settings write it dragged along
• io: merge buttons into the slot table
• rules: move the trace above the canvas and the block editor into a popover
• mem: run control actions on one shared task and size stacks from measurements
• vu: flip the VU sensitivity knob so higher means taller bars
• ui: move the shared widget colours to per-screen overrides

Fixed

• web: stop every settings poll behind a hidden tab
• telegram: name the 409 conflict and read the whole reply
• rules: report the count from the reload, not from the table it replaces
• stacks: raise the action runner to 8192, MQTT left it 1184 B
• settings: never restore a saved volume of zero at boot
• web: make a flow read as one card, not a bar above loose lanes
• rules: name the state fields after what they actually test
• stacks: give the action runner and the I/O sweep room they actually need
• rules: keep a rule's name in step with its notification title
• rules: let a boot rule wait for the clock its condition needs play a notification clip from anywhere on the card
• web: quiet the 404 for a config file that has not been created yet
• events: stop the notification clip when the notification is dismissed
• rules: stop rebuilding the canvas while a field is being typed into
• rules: keep fire state across a reload, and seed state triggers without firing
• sd: reject SD paths that cannot resolve, and say when one falls back
• rules: don't hand a new macro rule a number a control already uses
• setup: count folded-away slot pins as taken
• www: style the I/O page save button
• config: raise the esp_timer task stack, which writes the settings file
• io: size the slot task for the settings-save path it can reach
• buttons: keep the list-screen re-mapping to keys, not to every action
• rules: start a new shelf row for each kind of control
• rules: box a control's press and hold together on the shelf
• rules: let an action switch to a custom command the catalogue also lists
• rules: address the trigger block by the key it is drawn with
• rules: drop the rule id from the lane header
• rules: name blocks after the buttons that add them
• rules: show I/O slot names in actions and hide slots that are not wired
• web: stop the layout editor clamping number fields mid-typing
• eq: centre-anchor the value label so it holds still as the text grows
• sdcard: skip the mount worker when the pin map has no SD lines

0.53.02026-08-30

Added

• sd: add a knob width setting for the progress bar
• eq: add a knob height setting next to the knob width
• eq: add a colour override for the response curve
• vu: add colour zones to the spectrum bar VU
• buttons: let Next/Prev/Play drive the list on the playlist and SD browser screens
• control: add brightness commands and defer volume/brightness writes to flash
• www: export and import the whole IR remote, photo included
• www: offer ready-made symbols when editing a remote button
• web: delete stored files over DELETE /api/files and keep tile colour when see-through
• www: add drag-and-drop remote view with photo backdrop for IR keys
• ir: add IR remote receiver with learnable key map
• weather: make condition names editable per language
• ci: add ST7789V + FT6336U build variant
• layout: call out in red when online artwork ships no layout
• layout: name what each internet slot holds and warn before replacing it
• layout: show whether an online wallpaper ships a layout
• layout: apply the published layout when a wallpaper goes into a net slot
• sd_player: add optional knob artwork riding the progress bar

Changed

• www: group the SD playback time row under playback info
• settings: defer the flash write for every setting a held key can spam
• www: gather IR and ESP-NOW remotes in one settings tab
• layout: state AI-generated artwork once per gallery, not per card

Fixed

• buttons: open the selected entry with any play key on list screens
• control: refuse a source switch to hardware the board does not have
• control: leave Bluetooth when switching to radio even if the stream never stopped
• www: alignment settings tabs
• www: lay the remote toolbar out as a grid so the buttons and checkbox line up
• www: version the remote photo URL so a replaced picture actually shows
• www: show a tile preview when editing a remote button and stop the emoji placeholder posing as a value

0.52.02026-08-20

Added

• buttons: add ui:menu action opening the home hub overlay
• settings: add configurable weekday names
• media_control: add a source-aware pause command
• board_pins: add nine configurable button pins
• buttons: add polled button driver with a configurable action map
• media_control: add mute, screen and sd shuffle/repeat commands
• web: add the Buttons action-map tab

Changed

• defines: add HAS_BT_MODULE / HAS_ENCODER switches and fix the BT pin typo
• defines: gate the CTP and SD pin blocks on their variant
• ui: drop the ENCODER_ prefix from input events
• encoder: move the push-button to the buttons component
• ui: drop the ENCODER_ prefix from input events

Fixed

• scripts: warn instead of aborting when otadata erase fails
• www: link the web UI zip from atlascube.net instead of github
• buttons: keep action labels readable in the 440px settings card

0.51.02026-08-18

Added

• scripts: ask whether to open the monitor after flashing
• espnow: trace the link's internal-heap cost under TRACE_ESPNOW
• audio: make the volume curve switchable between tapered and gentle
• audio: make the volume curve switchable between tapered and linear
• www: reject a full-flash image in the firmware upload panel
• ota: unify the firmware panel and export only the app image
• www: link the screen preview from the home page
• www: make the on-screen volume slider draggable in the preview
• ui: expose the equalizer's frequency and hint fonts in the profile JSON
• www: preview the equalizer screen in a modal
• ws: broadcast bt_playing in the state frame
• www: add the Bluetooth screen to the preview page
• www: open the preview with the list screen and remember the source

Changed

• ui: stop the VU meters burning float work while at rest
• ui: move screensaver and layout-editor buffers out of internal DRAM
• call the hardware remote a remote, not a pilot
• www: drop the background-tier badge from the preview
• www: move the event bell toggle from Settings to the Events page

Fixed

• www: keep the preview toolbar on one row on narrow screens
• www: make the preview volume bar visible and knob-only
• audio: reset the retry budget only after a stream has played
• net: drop hardware AES so TLS stops needing DMA-capable internal RAM
• www: load the preview's boot requests two at a time
• www: cap the equalizer modal height with a percentage, not vh
• mqtt: derive the default client_id from the MAC to avoid broker collisions
• display: serialize SSD1322 brightness writes against the LVGL flush
• bt: confirm a play announcement with a moving position before switching source
• www: draw preview artwork from the canvas instead of a PNG data URL
• www: drive BT play/pause from bt_playing, not the source-aware toggle

Other

• www: add the Bluetooth screen to the preview page

0.50.32026-08-14

Fixed

• display: bound every wait on the shared LCD/touch SPI bus

0.50.22026-08-13

Added

• sd: add colour overrides for the SD progress bar
• www: keep the source switch reachable in fullscreen

Changed

• www: drop the explanatory section from the preview page

Fixed

• www: hide the stereo VU bar colour when colour zones are on

0.50.02026-08-12

Added

• www: show live SD playback progress in the preview
• ws: publish SD playback position and duration
• www: rework the screen preview into a multi-source page
• www: add playlist screen, fullscreen and volume to radio preview
• www: add a live radio-screen preview with working touch hotspots
• www: add a faithful radio-screen preview page
• ui: make the wallpaper-fetch backdrop opaque
• ui: dim the whole screen behind the wallpaper-fetch pill
• wallpaper: add a Clear slot button that drops the URL and the fetched image
• fonts: replace the _pl fonts with pan-European Latin _eu fonts
• events: place the notification text per event and back it on a card
• events: show a per-event graphic on the notification screen
• sd: show the album art embedded in an MP3 tag
• sd: build the album cover from a folder's cover.jpg
• sd: show a per-folder album cover on the SD player
• themes: apply installed themes from SD without the network
• assets: save knob artwork to SD as RGB565A8 with transparency
• assets: keep PNG transparency in SD .bin artwork
• weather: add Celsius/Fahrenheit unit selection
• trace: add runtime diagnostic-log flags

Changed

• www: show the event graphic by name, not its net<N> spelling
• libjpeg: share one JPEG-to-RGB565 decoder
• www: move diagnostics into its own settings tab

Fixed

• www: make the preview fit narrow screens and survive fullscreen exit
• ui: scroll overlong SD, BT and browser labels instead of wrapping
• touch: use word-aligned 4-byte SPI buffers for XPT2046 conversions
• display: bound the async flush waits and move flush_ready into IRAM
• www: size the per-screen wallpaper slot picker at page load
• sd: convert folder artwork at playback start, retry when a JPEG appears
• ui: keep the update and OTA prompts on a plain background

0.49.02026-08-07

Added

• www: show elapsed time and motion while the SD card formats
• sdcard: format the SD card from the web file manager
• www: install full themes from the online gallery
• assets: fetch knob artwork from the internet into PSRAM asset slots
• web: warn about manual-only auto refresh where internet slots are assigned
• ui: follow the playing source to its player screen
• espnow: report pilot link activity and make the link opt-out
• web: copy files in sd-editor and deep-link to it from sd-player
• web: copy files in sd-editor and deep-link to it from sd-player
• espnow: serve the pilot's settings and diagnostics over the link
• web: show MQTT broker connection state in the diagnostics panel
• diag: report chip temperature on the diagnostics panel and in /api/diag
• wallpaper: fetch the boot batch before the radio autostart instead of after
• www: assign a gallery wallpaper straight into an internet slot without SD
• wallpaper: hold up to ten internet wallpapers in PSRAM slots, one per screen
• wallpaper: hold up to six internet wallpapers in PSRAM slots, one per screen

0.48.02026-08-03

Added

• www: add a Diagnostics panel with copyable report to the System tab
• diag: add Diagnostics screen and /api/diag with PSRAM and firmware info
• espnow: browse and play the SD card by index from the pilot
• wifi: show RSSI in scan results and add a network picker to the settings page
• www: confirm before a Radio Browser icon replaces an existing one
• www: name station-icon files after the station, not just its key
• www: assign station icons from .bin files already on the SD card
• network: retry the saved WiFi in the background instead of parking in AP
• ui: recognise the exit swipe by drag distance on lists and the equalizer
• ui: give the playlist and SD browser lists their own row colours
• ui: format the MDY date as MM-DD-YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY
• wallpapers: file list-screen wallpapers under a playlist-sd-browser category
• ui: give both list screens their own wallpaper and a virtualised list
• playlist: add per-screen wallpaper and a resizable, virtualised list
• vu: add per-screen colour overrides for all three VU meters
• vu: give the needle meters their own vu_needle_bg plate colour
• vu: replace the needle meter frame with a vu_bg plate

Changed

• layout: pair each screen tab with the list screen it opens
• layout: drop the Move button from the wallpaper picker's SD browser
• theme: drop the VU palette fields in favour of per-screen overrides

Fixed

• http: reclaim HTTP sockets via LRU purge and TCP keep-alive
• ui: keep a sideways swipe across the volume slider from moving it
• diag: spell out the memory figures on the Diagnostics screen
• main: include ui_profile.h for DISPLAY_WIDTH/HEIGHT in network_services
• ui-list: detect the exit swipe on list rows instead of relying on LVGL gestures
• ui-list: treat a sideways drag on a list row as a swipe, not a tap
• layout: actually hide switched-off form groups and nest header sub-settings
• web: drop the wallpaper cache when a wallpaper .bin is overwritten
• layout: mirror layout presets onto the wallpaper's own folder

0.47.12026-07-29

Fixed

• ui: define the test-tone action outside the touch guard so no-touch variants build

0.47.02026-07-29

Added

• espnow: add the ESP-NOW pilot link with a web-triggered pairing window
• display: add a red/blue channel-order toggle and fix the ST7789V baseline to RGB
• wallpapers: install online gallery wallpapers into per-screen category folders
• wallpapers: file uploads and saved internet wallpapers per panel resolution
• audio: add mono downmix mode with web and on-device toggle
• touch: runtime touch orientation independent of display flip
• layout: add online asset gallery with source-size install defaults
• layout: add online gallery to Assets tab
• www,ui: font colour overrides for home date/netinfo/strip labels
• www,ui: font colour overrides for radio/sd/bt info + bt track labels
• www,ui: per-wallpaper font colour overrides for radio/sd/bt labels (0=inherit theme)
• www,ui: per-wallpaper clock time colour override (0=inherit theme)
• www: add preview button to SD .bin picker modal (EQ + screen knob images)
• www: add mkdir + move file actions to shared SD browser, enable in Assets tab
• www: add mkdir + move file actions to shared SD browser, enable in Assets tab
• layout: add folder navigation (parent + subdirs) to Assets tab file browser
• wallpapers: add Equalizer category to online gallery + website catalog
• layout: General-tab wallpaper upload scaled to panel res without assigning
• eq: movable+resizable sliders group box, toggle freq labels & legend, positionable legend
• eq: make response-curve box movable + resizable (eq_curve_x/y/w/h) in layout editor
• eq: make active-value label movable (eq_info_x/y) with configurable font in layout editor
• eq: drop title, move value to top-left, add live response curve (spline) top-right
• eq: user-defined knob width (eq_knob_w) and knob-only mode for band sliders
• eq: Open-EQ hotspot action with return-to-caller
• eq: Equalizer layout tab (shared knob image + per-screen wallpaper), open-EQ hotspot action, touch hotspots 6→8
• audio: configurable channel-test tone (pink/white/sine, duration) with web UI Play button
• audio: built-in stereo channel-test tone (pink noise) in Settings→Audio for SD-less HW check
• ui: per-slider volume max — remap slider travel to 0..max % for fine control on room-loud panels
• ui: scale the volume-slider knob image to the slider size (bilinear lv_bin_image_load_scaled)
• ui: knob image for the volume slider — SD .bin via Assets tab + per-field SD picker
• ui: knob-only mode for the volume slider (wallpaper draws the track)
• ui: explicit horizontal/vertical orientation for the volume slider
• ui: draggable on-screen volume slider on radio/SD/BT screens with layout editor support

Changed

• eq: spread bands across an editable group span for pixel-exact edges
• eq: derive sliders-group size from slider width, height and band gap
• wallpapers: name the device-saved wallpaper folder "internet"
• web: unify settings backup format between settings and setup pages
• layout: unify asset size selection for uploads and gallery installs
• www: extract shared SD folder browser (sdbrowse.js) used by wallpaper/knob/logo/assets pickers

Fixed

• espnow: fill the first line from the folder when SD is the source
• layout: place label boxes from real LVGL font metrics instead of nominal size
• layout: restore live resize preview broken by a stale wVal reference
• radio: set station name on URL playback so podcasts don't keep the previous station
• www: show .bin preview above SD picker modal + add preview to wallpaper browser
• layout: start all settings menu groups collapsed instead of auto-opening the first
• eq: band sliders ignore gesture bubble so drag updates value (taps worked, drag froze)
• web: group layout-editor form into categories — collapsible VU-meters group + section headers so widgets are easier to find
• ui: square volume-slider corners to stop large sliders hanging the LVGL renderer
• web: tidy the Assets uploader — styled file picker and standalone Upload button
• web: style the Assets tab inputs and the knob-image path field in the layout editor
• ui: stop volume-slider drags from bubbling up as screen swipe gestures
• ui: hide the themed knob under the volume-slider knob image (knob_only artwork)
• ui: label plate padding no longer triggers scroll on fitting text

0.46.02026-07-23

Added

• web: net wallpaper preview in layout editor; move brightness slider to General tab
• web: preview fetched internet wallpaper in layout editor and Internet tab
• ui: reverse rotation option for animated wheels on radio and SD screens
• ui: colour zones (green/orange/red) in stereo bar VU with per-profile toggle
• radio: support MP3 audio in HLS TS segments via PMT codec probe
• ui: swap Internet/General tab
• layout: link General tab to gradient/solid colours in Theme
• layout: move background + internet wallpaper config into layout editor tab
• layout: stereo bar VU widget
• layout: independent metadata elements (station/title, samplerate/channels/bitrate/volume) with free X/Y on radio, SD and BT screens
• layout: per-resolution preset path + preset housekeeping + online wallpaper gallery
• ui: store wallpaper layout presets per display resolution
• web: add Wallpapers subtab to display settings
• web-ui: add online wallpaper gallery with upload renaming
• web: wallpaper upload in layout.html per-screen picker (shared LvBin.uploadImage)
• web: wallpaper upload in layout.html per-screen picker (shared LvBin.uploadImage)
• ui: VU meters rest when another source owns the audio path (owner-gated bars + needles)
• ui: BT screen touch hotspots + ctrl overlay toggle (firmware + web layout editor)
• ui: touch hotspots on BT screen (bt_touch_hotspots + web layout editor)
• ui: per-label width + free X/Y for home strip station/title (replaces shared clock_strip_label_w)
• ui: free X/Y drag for home strip station/title labels (new clock_strip_*_x profile fields)
• www: orphaned layout-preset checker with delete in Theme settings
• ws: broadcast resolved media source in state JSON
• media: add source switch (radio/SD/BT) via WS source= cmd and MQTT cmd/source
• ui: add playlist and SD browser hotspot actions
• ui: move label background opacity to per-screen profiles
• ui: per-screen wallpaper override in ui_profile + section-scoped layout presets
• web: auto-apply wallpaper layout preset checkbox in layout editor
• web: move files/folders between SD directories in sd-editor and manager
• ui: PLAY_PAUSE hotspot action — in-place pause on SD, play/stop on radio/BT
• ui: PLAY_PAUSE hotspot action — in-place pause on SD, play/stop on radio
• ui: needle VU follows volume knob (sqrt scale) + gamma swing tuning
• ui: SD player layout rework — movable title box, independent time row and progress bar
• ui: center-anchored X position for SD player track title (sd_title_x)
• ui: SD player progress bar as independent element (sd_bar_x/y) + works without time row
• ui: independent Y position for SD player time row (sd_time_y) + web editor group
• ui: needle VU dynamics tuning + docs (README, website)
• ui: analog needle VU meter — two independent L/R meters over wallpaper

Changed

• www: move orphaned layout-preset checker from Theme settings to Layout editor Presets tab
• ui: drop dead clock_panel_* fields (leftover of removed standalone clock screen)

Fixed

• layout: close online wallpaper gallery on screen tab switch
• layout: internet wallpaper outranks all SD/gradient backgrounds
• ui: stop encoder_task stack overflow from logging on full event queue
• ui: reparent home station/title labels to screen so they aren't clipped to strip bounds
• ui: don't clip station/title labels to home strip bounds
• media: route plain next/prev/play/stop to the active source via shared media_control dispatcher
• www: release input focus when selecting layout placeholders
• ui: grow wallpaper path buffers to 128 chars (long filenames were silently truncated)
• sd: strip file extension from fallback track title on SD player screen

0.45.02026-07-17

Added

• www: per-wallpaper layout presets saved to SD (/wallpapers/layouts)
• ui: per-screen option to disable tap controls overlay (radio/SD)
• ui: optional transparent VU background (vu_transparent profile flag)
• events: group playback start and stop as linked schedules
• web: add daily timetable view for playback schedules
• web: add location search to weather settings
• ui: toggle radio layout elements on device
• ui: add on-device radio layout editor
• ui: allow positioning radio station icon and constrain long metadata
• ui: add layout-configurable touch hotspots

Changed

• ui: native-size hub overlay glyphs instead of transform_scale
• audio: low-bandwidth HLS variant, cheaper 48k resample, per-task CPU dump
• events: patch-style playback PUT and lean enable toggle
• web: organize touch hotspots into nested groups

Fixed

• www: show voice files check only on Events tab, not Playback
• ci: freeze clean-tree version before variant switch so releases aren't stamped -dirty
• ui: long press to exit wifi screen

0.44.02026-07-15

Added

• ui: allow hiding radio track title
• ui: allow individual animated wheels to be hidden
• web: add wallpaper picker to layout editor
• web: add keyboard nudging to layout editor
• web: show active wallpaper in layout preview
• web: add browser wallpaper conversion and SD upload
• ui: add radio station icon visibility toggle
• ui: add configurable radio playback status visibility
• ui: add configurable animated wheels widget
• web: add station icon audit and cleanup
• display: add ST7789V 320x240 driver
• ui: add wallpaper fetch and SD save actions to hub overlay
• ui: add wallpaper fetch button to hub overlay
• ui: add configurable radio station icon size
• radio: add SD-backed station icons with playlist web management
• ui: add configurable station strip background opacity
• web: improve layout editor with grouped settings and semantic placeholder colors
• web: compact layout editor settings into collapsible groups
• ui: global label-background plate for readability over wallpaper (all screens)
• ui: global label-background plate for readability over wallpaper (all screens)
• ui: optional background plate behind home weather widget
• ui: adjustable opacity for home clock-label background plate
• www: layout editor warning to Reset after firmware layout changes
• weather: condition icons via Weather Icons font (day/night variants)
• ui: AM/PM time format on radio/SD/BT clock widget
• weather: OpenWeatherMap as alternative provider
• weather: on-screen weather widget (Open-Meteo) + /api/weather + settings tab
• web: redesign station discovery calls to action
• www: surface station search — top of playlist editor + link on index
• www: radio-browser.info station search in playlist editor
• www: atlascube.net link under the logo on all web UI pages
• setup: one-file settings.json + pin map export/import, unified /setup buttons
• scrsaver: option to block screensaver while radio/SD/BT is playing

Changed

• ui: move wallpaper actions to third hub overlay row

Fixed

• ui: rebuild animated wheels library against LVGL 9.2.2
• web: remove white padding from station icons
• ui: tighten weather and clock label backgrounds
• ui: use pill background for weather widget
• www: clip placeholder sample text to its box in layout editor
• www: layout editor screen tabs order — home, sd, radio, bt
• scrsaver: normalize photo dir path (case/slash) + path example in web hint

0.43.02026-07-12

Added

• display: add ST7789V 320x240 SPI driver and touch-less firmware variant
• events: stop-playback option for playback schedules (station -1 sentinel)
• setup: hide/dim pin sections not matching compiled drivers + show-all toggle
• setup: hide pin sections not matching compiled drivers + show-all toggle
• setup: hide touch/LCD pin sections not matching compiled drivers
• web: hint + link to MQTT tab when MQTT screensaver style selected
• ui: wallpaper dim 0-80% baked at load (SD + internet, pristine sources) + web slider
• web: move Screen layout editor panel to top of Display/Panel + add hint
• ui: theme-aware bg plates under home clock labels + clock_label_bg profile toggle
• web: live resolved-URL preview for internet wallpaper + readable field hints
• ui: save fetched internet wallpaper to SD
• ui: on-screen status pill during internet-wallpaper fetch
• ui: scheduled internet-wallpaper refresh (on-boot/daily) + persisted source URL
• web: internet wallpaper source presets (APOD/picsum/LoremFlickr/Cataas/PlaceDog)
• ui: internet wallpaper — on-device fetch + vendored libjpeg decode (progressive JPEG OK)
• ui: MM/DD/YYYY date format option + NTP tab reworked into Date & Time
• ui: optional MM/DD/YYYY date format on home screen + web toggle
• ui: optional 12-hour AM/PM clock format on home screen + web toggle
• ui: warn self-built (-dirty) firmware on update prompt that changes will be replaced
• ui: VU meter AGC — bars track programme level instead of fixed dB window

Changed

• web: merge Theme tab into Display as Panel/Theme sub-tabs

Fixed

• ui: radio VU at bottom edge, state line above (all VU profiles)
• web: events list sorted by next occurrence instead of random id
• ui: SD VU at bottom edge, folder above (all VU profiles)
• web: settings export/import bundles only .json config files
• web: sort directories first in wallpaper/logo SD file picker
• ui: explicit background choice evicts the fetched internet wallpaper
• web: wallpaper preset select mirrors the URL field (match Android behaviour)
• ui: readable error for progressive JPEGs exceeding PSRAM (coef-size pre-check)

0.42.02026-07-10

Added

• wifi: WiFi setup reachable at runtime via Settings → System → WiFi (touch builds); STA scans without disconnecting, screen shows live SSID/IP, swipe backs out

Fixed

• ws: malformed set_eq_10 bands array crashed the device (NULL deref)
• ws: cap incoming frame size at 4 KB (client-supplied length went straight to malloc)
• state: long station/podcast URL could overflow the app_state log buffer (stack corruption)
• web: JSON replies crash-proofed against cJSON heap exhaustion (send_json_or_500, guarded WS broadcasts)
• settings: volume/brightness clamped in setters (unvalidated WS/HTTP values reached the audio engine)
• settings: concurrent saves from different tasks could corrupt settings.json (now serialized)
• events: a voice notification interrupting another no longer loses the source to restore

Changed

• www: split System tab out of Tools, group Display panels in settings

0.41.02026-07-09

Added

• updater: show remote www pull progress on SCREEN_UPDATE
• updater: remote-triggered update via POST /api/update for Android app
• updater: log fw/www update outcomes to /config/update.log

Fixed

• fonts: add SD card glyph to montserrat_14_pl for mode indicator
• updater: update.log www line logs hash + matched fw, not stamp metadata

0.40.02026-07-09

Added

• updater: on-device web UI pull from SCREEN_UPDATE (no reboot)
• updater: flag stale web UI on SCREEN_UPDATE after boot version check
• updater: on-device auto-update — boot check, SCREEN_UPDATE, pull-OTA

Fixed

• web: skip HTML recompress + version stamp rewrite when UI hash unchanged
• ui: update/OTA screens leaked flex layout onto shared screen object

0.39.02026-07-06

Added

• podcast: finite-stream playback, episode title + mid-file resume
• sd: add playback progress bar + folder/info show toggles on SD player screen
• sd: show elapsed/total time on SD player screen (MP3/WAV duration + wall-clock position)

Changed

• pins: changed default pins for XPT2046

Fixed

• uv: narrow band to 150Hz–13kHz so top bar is audible + low bars gang less
• audio: run file-end restore on internal-stack task to avoid flash-cache panic on audio_play's PSRAM stack

Other

• vu: raise meter low edge 60→120Hz so bass bars stop ganging together

0.38.02026-07-05

Added

• web: add config settings export/import (JSON backup) to Tools
• events: raise EVENTS_MAX 100→200 (buffers already in PSRAM)

Fixed

• web: cache-bust JS/CSS with ?v=<www-version> so UI updates aren't masked by stale browser cache
• web: retry per-file www uploads to survive transient connection resets
• web: style Export/Import settings buttons like the other tool buttons
• web: stream file uploads through gzip so large UI files (settings.js) aren't capped at 64 KB

0.37.02026-07-04

Added

• events: EV_CALENDAR mirror type + bulk PUT /api/events/calendar
• layout: calendar widget fields on Home tab (renamed from Clock)

Fixed

• playlist: move station list to /config so a www update can't clobber it

0.36.02026-07-04

Added

• events: add voice-file audit on events.html cross-checking events ↔ /voice
• display: add SD player quick-switch button on settings display tab
• wifi: encoder navigation on the on-screen WiFi setup

Changed

• hls: rebuild icy_stream lib with TLS keep-alive segment reuse
• tls: re-enable hardware AES/SHA/MPI to fix HLS stutter + IDLE0 watchdog

Fixed

• fps: toggle HIDDEN flag on the auto-created perf monitor to kill ghost overlay
• touch: guard XPT2046 dead-MISO ghost-press + seed 320x240 calibration
• wifi: show AP password on touch WiFi setup screen

0.35.22026-07-02

Fixed

• touch: make XPT2046 variant build under -Werror

0.35.12026-07-02

Fixed

• ci: drop inline comment on TOUCH_XPT2046 define so variant selection works

0.35.02026-07-02

Added

• ui: runtime FPS-overlay toggle via web UI
• vu: snappier decay + less gamma compression for more musical VU
• wifi: on-screen WiFi provisioning on the AP setup screen
• security: store WiFi/MQTT passwords in NVS, not config JSON
• touch: add XPT2046 resistive (SPI) touch driver
• display: live colour-invert toggle + make 180° flip live

Changed

• ci: touch-controller suffix in all firmware variant names
• ui: solid overlay bg — fix sluggish touch over live VU
• ui: VU meter delta rendering — redraw only the moving bar tips
• ui: non-blocking VU meter — custom-draw + async DMA flush

0.34.22026-06-27

Fixed

• web: make www version hash line-ending independent

0.34.12026-06-27

Changed

• restructure stream component internals
• reorganize audio and stream internals

0.34.02026-06-27

Added

• web: surface web-UI build stamp + expected hash in settings/setup
• web: show web-UI version in settings + reorder setup OTA/web-UI
• web: label the www stamp time as UTC

0.33.02026-06-27

Added

• web: include time in the www stamp
• web: add fw-version + date to the www stamp

Fixed

• flash: erase otadata after USB app-flash
• flash: erase otadata after USB app-flash
• web: web UI upload uses PUT, guard against .bin, style www button

0.32.02026-06-27

Added

• web: add OTA upload to setup page, web UI upload to tools tab
• web: show www_expected hash in /api/state + setup.html warning

0.31.22026-06-27

0.31.12026-06-26

Fixed

• web: track www_version.txt so it ships in release zip
• ui: lighten hub overlay button fill so circles stand out from dim layer
• web: add "Back to AtlasCube" link to setup.html (top + bottom)
• web: make GitHub link readable in setup.html + point straight to www.zip

0.31.02026-06-26

Added

• web: publish www.zip in release + link from stale-UI warning
• web: detect stale web UI after app-only OTA
• web: add first-run welcome modal + help page
• setup: collapse Wi-Fi form when already connected (STA)
• ui: encoder-driven hub overlay on Home
• ui: hub overlay widget buttons adjusted

Changed

• settings: data-driven sections for on-device settings screen
• setup: serve unified setup.html in AP mode, drop wifi_setup.html

0.30.02026-06-25

Added

• display: add 180° screen flip option
• ui: wire BT transport in controls overlay + faithful play state
• ui: add Clock/Radio nav-ring show/hide toggles
• ui: add unified Home hub screen with source-aware overlay
• settings: group colour palette into labelled sections
• theme: per-theme VU meter colours (vu_bg/vu_bar)

Changed

• ui: tighten settings row height across graphical profiles
• ui: remove standalone clock screen, superseded by Home hub

Fixed

• ui: show BT artist/title in Home strip instead of radio station

0.29.02026-06-24

Added

• setup: export/import pin map to/from JSON file

0.28.02026-06-24

Added

• setup: group GPIO pins into labelled sections with descriptions

0.27.02026-06-24

Added

• pins: make I2S pins runtime-configurable too

Fixed

• pins: handle -1 (absent peripheral) without crashing

0.26.02026-06-24

Added

• pins: runtime GPIO pin map configurable via /setup
• ui: adjust vu meter
• eq: touch support for equalizer
• eq: touch support for equalizer band sliders

Changed

• ui: drop unused physical-button inputs

Fixed

• ui: sync controls overlay play/stop with external state changes
• eq: don't clip round slider knobs at min/max
• touch: keep polling while finger held so swipes aren't fragmented

0.25.02026-06-22

Added

• ui: VU meter on SD player screen + per-screen toggle
• ui: real-audio FFT spectrum VU meter on the radio screen
• audio: play segmented HLS (.m3u8) radio streams
• scripts: add "Update from git" menu option to build-flash.py
• ui: toggle to show/hide SD player screen in nav ring
• ui: decorative "Fake VU" animated background

Changed

• ui: remove animated "Fake VU" background

Fixed

• eq: narrow EQ slider range to -13..+6 dB
• mem: reclaim ~84 KB internal DRAM to stabilize HTTPS radio
• ui: VU background follows theme and costs less on CPU1
• web: switch to wallpaper clears VU sentinel path
• audio: stop socket exhaustion on live HLS streams
• web: keep UI loadable while radio HTTPS stream runs
• web: drag playlist rows only from the grip handle
• ntp: apply saved timezone and servers on boot

0.24.02026-06-18

Added

• ui: controls widget on screen clock
• ui: center-anchor clock_widget and BT/radio screen labels
• ui: anchored auto-width labels that don't wander on text change
• ui: add idle auto-dim screensaver

Fixed

• ui: clock controls resume SD instead of starting radio

0.23.02026-06-17

Added

• ui: custom splash logo from SD
• web: preview LVGL .bin images in browser
• ui: add SD wallpaper background option
• web: add config partition to the file editor
• web: replace "back to radio" with bottom toolbar nav on events/settings
• sd-player: on-screen control changes pause to stop/play toggle

0.22.02026-06-16

Added

• web: add cross-page toolbar nav to bt.html and sd-player.html
• events: timed playback schedules (radio or SD file/folder)
• audio: auto-detect stream codec from Content-Type, relink on mismatch

Changed

• events: replace alarm type with playback schedules

Fixed

• web: style "Use this folder" button as primary in events.html

0.21.22026-06-15

Fixed

• build: default to esp32s3 target on a fresh checkout
• compress-web: use ASCII arrow so logging doesn't crash on cp1250

0.21.12026-06-15

Changed

• move playlist.csv from config to www partition

0.21.02026-06-15

Added

• build-flash: add "first flash" option for blank chips
• build-flash: group the menu
• build-flash: add full chip erase menu option
• build-flash: prompt for the serial port when -p is omitted
• scripts: build-flash.py self-sets-up ESP-ADF on first run (single user entry) + scripts/README
• fs: isolate settings on a config partition (www/config split) + built-in setup page
• ui: ui profile for sd player screen
• ui: on-device SD music player + file browser (LVGL)
• audio: ID3 track titles + resume SD music after voice notification

Changed

• scripts: split toolchain setup into env_setup.py, move build.py → ci/build.py; build-flash.py is the sole user script
• ram: recover internal RAM + drop deferred settings write

Fixed

• ui: show now-playing only for the active source

0.20.02026-06-14

Added

• web: English SD player UI + embedded EQ modal
• sd: pause/resume + shuffle/repeat
• sd: folder browsing + EQ link on the SD player
• web: SD Player link on home + volume on the SD page
• sd: folder-queue music player with web UI
• audio: WS play_file test hook for SD music playback
• ws: accept BT transport commands over plain-text WS

Changed

• audio: split audio_player into engine + net/file source layers
• web: rename file tools for clarity, file manager first
• web: rename file tools for clarity — spiffs-editor / sd-editor / manager

Fixed

• audio: BT↔SD source exclusivity + httpd stack overflow

Other

• ws: drop plain-text BT transport handlers

0.19.02026-06-14

Added

• web: browsable folder tree in the SPIFFS pane + SD play legend
• web: browsable folder tree in the SPIFFS panel
• web: show SPIFFS and SD usage in the file manager
• events: flat voice clip files, drop the per-clip folder
• web: play voice clips from the events list rows
• web: inline WAV/MP3 playback in the SD file manager
• voice: readable slug folder names, drop text sidecar

Fixed

• events: widen sound path buffer for readable clip folder names
• web: label SD card consistently in file manager

0.18.02026-06-13

Added

• ui: boot splash overlay with firmware version + STA IP
• bt: per-module AT command descriptor, web sync/transport controls, codec & sample-rate info
• web: move layout editor link from Tools to Display tab
• web: add icon legend for each file-manager panel
• web: add "backup all SPIFFS files" to file manager
• web: per-file copy buttons in file manager
• web: add dual-pane SPIFFS↔SD file manager with inline editor
• screensaver: overlay clock on photo frame

Fixed

• web: stop file-manager editor modal colliding with shared .modal

0.17.02026-06-13

Added

• display: add ILI9488 480x320 driver variant
• buzzer: allow disabling buzzer with BUZZER_PIN -1
• events: self-describing voice clips — sidecar text + WWW preview

0.16.02026-06-12

Added

• events: voice notifications - playing WAV from SD at a given time
• screensaver: apply photo-frame config live
• web: add mkdir + rename to SD file manager
• web: add New folder (mkdir) to SD file manager
• sd: enable LVGL POSIX fs (S:→/sdcard); finalize SD/display pins
• web: SD card file manager
• sd: add SDMMC 1-bit SD card mount

Changed

• screensaver: partial invalidation + lower LVGL priority

Fixed

• mem: persist WiFi RAM tuning in defaults; revert LVGL to prio 5
• sd: move SD to GPIO 12/13/11, display to 39/40
• web: correct SD file manager build errors

0.15.02026-06-11

Added

• audio: exclusive audio source auto-switch (Radio ⇄ Bluetooth)
• clock: optional IP + <hostname>.local on the clock screen
• ws: expose WiFi RSSI in state broadcast
• settings: rename WiFi tab to Network
• mdns: advertise device as <hostname>.local

Fixed

• playlist: change max entry to 512 on the web
• bt: make exclusive auto-switch reliable

Added

• bluetooth: exclusive audio source — starting BT play stops the radio and starting the radio pauses the phone, with automatic source switching (toggleable, default on; in web BT panel and on-device Settings)

0.14.02026-06-10

Added

• playlist: increase max entries
• radio: resume playback on boot if it was playing
• screensaver: add digital clock screensaver
• build: prompt whether to bundle the web UI into storage

Changed

• audio_board: centralize I2S pins in defines.h

Fixed

• radio: play http SHOUTcast streams via raw socket
• build: don't clobber a symlinked/junctioned board in ESP-ADF

0.13.02026-06-07

Added

• ota: auto-rollback on a failed update
• ota: web-push firmware update with on-device progress
• web: audio source switch, move device screen to settings
• ui: move theme & background toggles to Colors tab, rename it to Theme
• ui: configurable clock & now-playing fonts in layout editor

Fixed

• ota: render progress screen before the flash erase storm

0.12.02026-06-02

Added

• ui: dithered gradient screen background

Fixed

• radio: re-anchor curr_index after playlist edit
• scripts: guard flash-web.py against stale sdkconfig on variant switch

0.11.02026-06-01

Added

• night: wake/sleep radio actions on the dimming schedule

Changed

• ui: move night mode into its own Sleep & Wake tab

0.10.02026-06-01

Added

• ui: centralize screen navigation into an editable ring table

Changed

• scripts: unify build tooling as Python under scripts/

Fixed

• web: no-cache for mutable data files (playlist/configs)

0.9.32026-05-31

Fixed

• build: set esp32s3 target in build.py; add Windows build guide

0.9.22026-05-31

0.9.12026-05-30

Fixed

• ui: ignore layout JSON saved for a different LCD size

0.9.02026-05-30

Added

• ui: fonts added
• ui: auto-fit splash logo to the panel
• display: add SSD1322 256x64 mono variant
• web: show firmware version in UI and wifi setup

Changed

• screensaver: changed default

Fixed

• scripts: default flash-web.ps1 to flash when no args

0.8.12026-05-30

Fixed

• build: ship SPIFFS web assets in CI/release binaries

0.8.02026-05-29

Added

• build: select flash size per variant via defines.h
• ui: event indicator on radio screen + live refresh on add/edit/delete
• events: per-alarm volume override

Fixed

• wifi: improve AP compatibility with modern phones
• ui: adjust screen radio
• ui: controls overlay reads mode from owner, not app_state

0.7.02026-05-28

Added

• web: group editors in Tools tab, rename EQ button to Radio EQ
• display: add ST7796U 480x320 driver and UI profile
• web: move Web files editor to a new Tools settings tab
• web: add Clear button and follow/pause auto-scroll to BT console
• web: move Bluetooth panel to dedicated bt.html page
• ui: dark/light theme for clockhands and dashboard screensavers
• ui: touch support in settings + global idle-timer hook
• ui: modified ui profile for ILI9341
• touch: FT6336U driver, rebuild touch orientation
• events: alarm type with radio stream wake-up
• display: night dimming schedule

Changed

• config: pick HW variant only in defines.h

Fixed

• display: shrink ST7796 LVGL buffer to fit internal DRAM budget
• web: show Dashboard widget settings only when Dashboard style selected

0.6.02026-05-22

Added

• ui: mqtt screensaver
• www: pretty-print and validate JSON in file editor
• web: rebuild active screen after MQTT config save
• mqtt: mqtt widgets
• mqtt: mqtt client
• ui: controls widget resets screensaver idle timer

Changed

• widget: changed control widget auto hide time
• mqtt: remove client id from base topic

Fixed

• mqtt: wrap widget command payload in JSON when json_path is set
• ui: clear scrollable flag for main screens
• screensaver: disable screensaver in wifi ap mode

0.5.02026-05-18

Added

• ui: Touch closes the event notification screen
• ui: Touch closes the screensaver
• playlist: play station on row tap
• ui: volume widget and gestures
• ui: controls overlay widget
• touch: CST816D capacitive driver
• bluetooth: audio metadata
• screensaver: alarms for dashboard
• screensaver: dashboard and blank
• ui: add screensaver entry to settings menu

Changed

• screensaver: live update setting for dashboard screensaver
• screensaver: remove enable status (0s - OFF)

Fixed

• bluetooth: fixed refresh title

0.4.02026-05-13

Added

• ui: Added screensavers

0.3.02026-05-11

Added

• www: On-device web file editor

Changed

• ui: single source of truth for display dimensions
• layout: Clock, mode, events widgets change to absolute pos
• www: Added radio layout to editor
• display: Modiefied CO5300 layout

0.2.02026-05-09

Added

• display: Added CO5300 display driver
• playlist: Added fav stations and import/export

Other

• Add diagram image to README table

0.1.02026-05-04

Initial public snapshot pushed to GitHub.

Added

• Audio pipeline (player, playlist, internet radio service).
• Wi-Fi manager with STA + AP fallback.
• HTTP and WebSocket servers.
• Display + UI manager with profile loading from filesystem.
• Bluetooth, NTP, encoder, buzzer, events service.
• SPIFFS-based settings and assets.
• Firmware version derived from git describe and logged at boot.