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@Keralots Keralots released this 24 Sep 16:51
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AnimatedPixelClock v2.3.2

What's new

  • Optional WS2812B LED strip: a glow under or behind the panel on one spare GPIO,
    off until enabled. Effects: Solid, Wave, Rainbow, Fire, Meteor, Scanner, Hour
    sweep, Weather and Audio VU. It follows the panel's power and dimming schedule
    and has a current limit. Wiring, pin choice and settings are in the README
    under "LED strip (optional)".
  • Matrix Rain now falls in real mirrored katakana, the way the film does, and the
    changing digit scrambles through the same glyphs.
  • Matrix Rain options: "Smooth fall" lets the leading character slide down a pixel
    at a time instead of jumping a whole cell, and "Small clock" draws the time in
    the top-right corner so the rain fills the panel. Transparent digits are the new
    default; existing devices keep their setting.
  • The web portal loads 3-5x faster and no longer makes the clock stutter while it
    loads.
  • Diagnostics: the last crash is reported in /api/info and the diagnostics
    download, so a reboot no longer leaves no trace.

Fixes

  • Saving settings no longer freezes the display for about a second.
  • Settings export and import now include the Matrix Rain settings.
  • The WiFi link watchdog no longer restarts WiFi when the board is only short of
    memory, which could take the clock off the network over and over.
  • More free internal memory: TLS buffers use PSRAM on boards that have it, and the
    weather fetch releases its memory between fetches.

Thanks to @NickoScope for contributing.

Install

  • New device: flash firmware-v2.3.2-<board>.bin at 0x0, or use the web
    flasher at https://pixelclock.stolaris.dev/
  • Existing device: upload OTA_ONLY_firmware-v2.3.2-<board>.bin on the clock's
    Firmware Update page. Do not upload a full image as an OTA update.
  • Windows: download and run pc_stats_monitor_v4.exe, no Python needed.

Boards: wroom = ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 N16R8 (16 MB), supermini =
ESP32-S3-Zero / Super Mini (4 MB), waveshare = Waveshare ESP32-S3-RGB-Matrix
(32 MB). Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt.

Contributors

NickoScope
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