UnleashedCreativity Lights 2026.041

🎉 2026.041 - UnleashedCreativity Lights

UnleashedCreativity Lights 2026.041 is a minor release focused on setup clarity and user-facing diagnostics.
This release fixes target selector behavior under live status updates and improves version/diagnostic visibility.

🌟 What’s New in 2026.041

• Fixed target CAN-ID selector behavior where the UI could flick back to previously saved values during live status updates
• Target changes now remain stable while edits are pending Save Config
• Added a clear diagnostics line when target CAN-ID edits are unsaved

⚙️ Under the Hood

• Leaner protocol/UI path with removed legacy ToS flow
• Simpler runtime model by dropping startup-mode/startup-timeout branches
• Cleaner and safer config-apply behavior under active LED loop conditions

👀 Before You Update

• Built for VESC Express / ESP32-C3
• Requires VESC firmware 6.05+
• After changing target CAN-IDs, click Save Config to persist and clear pending-edit diagnostics

🙌 Acknowledgements

Thanks to the original Float Accessories codebase by Relys, it was the starting point and original inspiration:

• https://github.com/Relys/vesc_pkg/tree/float-accessories

❤️ Support Ongoing Development

If this package made your setup cleaner, your lighting smarter, or saved you a pile of debugging time, consider supporting future development.

Coffee, hardware, testing time, and late-night debugging all add up. Your support genuinely helps keep new ideas turning into real releases. ☕

UnleashedCreativity Lights 2026.04

🎉 2026.04 - UnleashedCreativity Lights

UnleashedCreativity Lights 2026.04 focuses on cleanup, stability, and runtime behavior refinements after 2026.03.
This release removes legacy UI/protocol overhead, tightens CAN timing defaults, and improves LED loop behavior during config updates.

🌟 What’s New in 2026.04

• Wiki populated for some guidance
• Removed Terms of Service flow and related protocol hooks
• Removed startup mode and startup timeout controls
• Non-running behavior now defaults to idle mode
• Compressed UI settings payload to used parameters only
• Updated CAN timing defaults:
  • refloat-poll-interval -> 0.75
  • ucl-peer-poke-interval -> 2.0
  • ucl-announce-interval -> 3.0
  • refloat-quiet-grace -> 15.0
  • ucl-fwd-source-freshness -> 2.0
• Forwarded lights replay is now tied to CAN loop frequency
• Improved LED watchdog handling on Save Config to prevent duplicate loop overlays

⚙️ Under the Hood

• Leaner protocol/UI path with removed legacy ToS flow
• Simpler runtime model by dropping startup-mode/startup-timeout branches
• Cleaner and safer config-apply behavior under active LED loop conditions

👀 Before You Update

• Built for VESC Express / ESP32-C3
• Requires VESC firmware 6.05+
• For multi-node systems, keep CAN timing defaults unless you have a known reason to override

🙌 Acknowledgements

Thanks to the original Float Accessories codebase by Relys, it was the starting point and original inspiration:

• https://github.com/Relys/vesc_pkg/tree/float-accessories

❤️ Support Ongoing Development

If this package made your setup cleaner, your lighting smarter, or saved you a pile of debugging time, consider supporting future development.

Coffee, hardware, testing time, and late-night debugging all add up. Your support genuinely helps keep new ideas turning into real releases. ☕

UnleashedCreativity Lights 2026.03

🎉 2026.03 - UnleashedCreativity Lights

This one’s out in the wild.

UnleashedCreativity Lights 2026.03 delivers a focused lighting package for VESC Express ESP32-C3 accessories, built around Refloat RT integration, smarter CAN node behavior, and a cleaner master/slave lighting model. Less clutter, tighter control, better lighting behavior. ⚡

🌟 What’s New

• 🚀 New Refloat RT API integration for lighting control
• 🎛️ Lighting behavior is now driven directly from Refloat
• 🔗 Master-only Refloat discovery and polling, with forwarded state for peers/slaves
• 🧠 Simplified node model with just Master and Slave roles
• 💾 Slave nodes now store pushed configuration with CRC-checked persistence
• 🎯 Target LED outputs by SELF (-1) or specific peer CAN-ID for daisy-chain layouts
• 🌈 Advanced lighting patterns and states including Cylon & Rainbow
• 📡 Optimized for minimal CAN traffic during normal operation

⚙️ Under the Hood

• Master is the single source of truth for configuration across nodes
• Slave UI is streamlined so it clearly follows the active master configuration
• Runtime startup is staged so CAN role election settles before LED output starts
• Compatibility and persistence handling were tightened up with config restore/default logic and CRC validation
• Includes safeguards around stale state, forwarded Refloat status, and LED watchdog/restart behavior
• Terms-of-service acceptance and device checks are built into the package UI for safer deployment

👀 Before You Update

• Built for VESC Express / ESP32-C3 hardware
• Requires VESC firmware 6.05 or newer
• This package is intended for CAN-connected lighting accessories used with Refloat
• If you’re running multiple nodes, configure the layout around the new Master / Slave model
• Slave nodes follow the master and receive pushed configuration automatically

🐛 Bug Reports

Found something off? File an issue with reproducible steps, your hardware/setup details, expected behavior, and what actually happened. Logs, screenshots, and CAN/node context will help a lot.

🙌 Acknowledgements

Thanks to the original Float Accessories codebase by Relys, it was the starting point and original inspiration:

• https://github.com/Relys/vesc_pkg/tree/float-accessories

❤️ Support Ongoing Development

If this package made your setup cleaner, your lighting smarter, or saved you a pile of debugging time, consider supporting future development.

Coffee, hardware, testing time, and late-night debugging all add up. Your support genuinely helps keep new ideas turning into real releases. ☕