Beetle v0.1.2

Beetle v0.1.2

Refreshed application icon

• Apply the approved icon design with a transparent background and crisp sizes for Windows shortcuts and taskbars.
• Keep executable and runtime artwork consistent, with the approved master and reproducible asset exporter in the repository.

Validation

• Windows release build and required checks passed. The installer and payload contain all seven approved icon frames, with transparency preserved.

Beetle v0.1.1

Beetle v0.1.1

Two new ways to light the strip: a rainbow, and a mode that reacts to what your PC is playing.

Rainbow mode

• Cycles the strip smoothly through every colour, from one trip every 60 seconds to one every 3.
• The speed changes while it runs, without the colour jumping.

Music mode

• Reacts to whatever your PC is playing: music, video or games. It listens to Windows' audio
  output, never the microphone.
• Loudness sets the brightness, flaring on each hit and fading quickly; with nothing playing the
  strip settles to a dim glow.
• Beats move the colour. Beetle adapts to the overall volume, so quiet and loud tracks both move
  the strip, and a Sensitivity slider sets how strongly it reacts.

Beat colours

• Pick colours for music mode and each beat jumps to the next one in the order you picked them,
  holding it until the following beat. Red, white and blue, say, instead of the whole wheel.
• Use the preset swatches or add the Color card's current colour. All colours goes back to the wheel.

Everything else

• Ambient, rainbow and music take turns: starting one stops the others. The tray menu controls all
  three.
• Beetle runs on the .NET 10 runtime, which the installer does not bundle. If it is missing,
  Windows offers to download it the first time Beetle starts.

Beetle v0.1.0

Beetle v0.1.0

The first release of Beetle: control an ELK-BLEDOM Bluetooth LED strip from Windows.

Strip control

• Connects over Bluetooth LE from the strip's live advertisement (the strip does not pair with
  Windows) and reconnects to your strip on launch.
• Power on and off, a colour picker with hex entry and twelve presets, and hardware brightness.

Ambient mode

• Follows your screen about 25 times a second, easing the strip toward its colour.
• Colour mode: Average follows everything; Selective ignores black, white and greys and follows
  only the colours that are left, holding the last colour when there are none.
• Sample area: full screen, center, an edge, or any area you drag out.
• Colour boost brightens and saturates colourful areas while dark greys stay dark.

Lives in the tray

• Closing the window keeps Beetle and ambient mode running. The tray icon brings it back, or turns
  the strip on and off, starts and stops ambient, and quits.
• One copy per session: launching Beetle again shows the copy already running.

Install

• Beetle-Setup-0.1.0.exe installs per user with optional Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts and keeps
  your settings when you uninstall.
• Beetle runs on the .NET 10 runtime, which the installer does not bundle. If it is missing,
  Windows offers to download it the first time Beetle starts.