v2.9.7 — Still No Chill

Solar Bar Card - Releases

v2.9.7 — Still No Chill

Performance

• disable_animation config option: New toggle that stops all moving animations — flow particles, the animated dashed battery line, everything. The card still updates live; only the motion stops. Useful for high-DPI displays, low-power devices, or anyone who suspects the animations are driving GPU load. Set disable_animation: true in your card YAML or toggle it in the visual editor.

• Battery dashed-line animation migrated from SMIL to CSS: The stroke-dashoffset animation on the battery flow path was a SMIL attribute animation, which browsers run on the main thread and software-render each frame. It's now a CSS @keyframes animation injected directly into the SVG, which browsers can compositor-thread and GPU-accelerate.

• will-change: transform on all animated particles: Energy flow ellipses and battery flow circles now carry will-change: transform, hinting the browser to promote each particle to its own GPU compositor layer before animation starts — avoiding per-frame paint promotion overhead.

• Reduced EV charging glow to single shadow layer: The .ev-icon.charging glow was a double box-shadow (0 0 10px + 0 0 22px). Collapsed to a single 0 0 12px — half the blur passes, same visual effect.

• prefers-reduced-motion media query: Users who have "reduce motion" set in their OS accessibility settings now automatically get all animations disabled via a CSS media query, with no card config needed.

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