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

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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. ☕