v2.7.0: Merge pull request #1325 from jtenniswood/configure-battery-support

EspControl v2.7.0

Changes since v2.6.3.

Full comparison

What changed?

• User-facing features: 144 changes. Notable: Add alarm delay audio feedback; Handle alarm audio lifecycle edge cases.
• User-facing bug fixes: 44 changes. Notable: Fix alarm delay audio scheduling; Preserve announcement audio ducking.

Update guidance

• Recommended for users who want the latest firmware, setup page, device fixes, or documented behavior.
• Affected devices: All supported displays may be affected because shared firmware, setup, or build files changed.

Known issues

• No release-specific known issues are listed automatically for this release.
• Check open GitHub issues before updating devices you rely on every day.

Summary

• 188 user-facing changes are included in this release.
• Release range: v2.6.3 to v2.7.0.

User-facing changes

User-facing features

• Add alarm delay audio feedback
• Handle alarm audio lifecycle edge cases
• Refresh active alarm audio settings
• Handle overlapping alarm audio delays
• Skip duplicate alarm audio contexts
• Support step-based media volume controls
• Match 4.3-inch cover art fonts
• Refresh step volume controls from reported state
• Allow step volume down before level reports
• Add temporary cover art font diagnostics
• Remove temporary cover art diagnostics
• Restore stable P4 WiFi link speed
• Remove obsolete e-paper theme remnants
• Expose voice TTS URI events
• Add confirmation prompts for garage door cards
• Add spacing between night schedule fields
• Add atomic configuration storage foundation
• Move web state behind typed module boundary
• Publish configuration headers atomically
• Add versioned configuration service
• Protect configuration selection metadata
• Add secondary media routing for cover art
• Hide cover art for external inputs
• Rename alarm audio setting
• Refine Cover Art card settings panels
• Group Cover Art screensaver settings
• Refine external source settings
• Group playback wake with screensaver settings
• Rename Cover Art screensaver panel
• Handle inactive secondary cover art sources
• Group cover art with sleep settings
• Refine external source settings
• Address cover art routing feedback
• Introduce central firmware application owner
• Show cover art when media source is unavailable
• Recover completed cover art downloads
• Group voice and sound settings
• Place idle below backlight
• Include application owner header in codegen
• Make firmware releases atomic
• Pin corrected alarm beep assets
• Add experimental battery status icon for JC8012P4A1
• Apply cleanup pass to battery status feature
• Use non-deprecated 12dB ADC attenuation value
• Use device_class: battery for proper HA icon/semantics
• Optimize battery feature and add status icon glyph check
• Update battery status for current main
• Add multi-speaker media controls
• Use lightweight speaker selection controls
• Complete speaker group verification coverage
• Address multi-speaker review feedback
• Rehydrate reusable speaker subscriptions
• Rehydrate recreated speaker rows
• Recover timed-out speaker actions
• Deduplicate reusable speaker rebinds
• Cancel pending speaker actions on teardown
• Restore media layout after speakers tab
• Discover compatible speakers automatically
• Load speaker discovery when tab opens
• Improve multiroom speaker controls
• Register speaker discovery at startup
• Trace speaker discovery registration
• Redesign multiroom speaker controls
• Improve grouped speaker card layout
• Increase speaker volume touch targets
• Redesign speaker group list
• Refine speaker row spacing
• Harden multi-speaker controls
• Address multi-speaker review feedback
• Match speaker tab icon sizing
• Remove pending speaker ellipsis
• Fit speaker rows to their content
• Prevent speaker list scroll crashes
• Align speaker cards with source design
• Refine grouped speaker icons
• Honor alarm beep volume for raw tones
• Center speaker card content vertically
• Address multi-speaker review feedback
• Soften speaker volume text
• Prevent grouped volume taps from toggling speakers
• Protect unrelated announcements during alarm cleanup
• Apply configuration changes live instead of rebooting
• Rebuild new cards after web configuration changes
• Clean up deleted cards during live rebuild
• Apply web card changes sooner
• Rebuild only changed cards after web edits
• Reuse Home Assistant subscriptions during live edits
• Defer web updates when S3 heap is low
• Bound live Home Assistant subscriptions
• Recover web streams after low memory
• Apply card edits automatically
• Add bounded card reconciliation model
• Add revision-aware configuration saves
• Add configuration snapshot API boundary
• Add bounded card resource ownership
• Add lease-based Home Assistant state broker
• Classify live card updates before teardown
• Replace live state coordinator with bounded leases
• Add versioned legacy entity documents
• Support fixed ESPHome entity registries
• Add bounded durable configuration storage
• Add revisioned configuration transport
• Save web configuration as atomic revisions
• Bound card ownership and publish revisions
• Guard bounded live configuration refreshes
• Update web transaction size baseline
• Move live configuration state to PSRAM
• Return accurate configuration transport statuses
• Address live configuration review feedback
• Retry configuration transport after boot
• Add Russian localization
• Sync 10-inch diagnostic configuration
• Add P4 C6 recovery installer
• Mipi_rgb: fix parallel-RGB models for ESPHome 2026.7 (swap_xy=UNDEFINED removed)
• Migrate saved configuration entity sets
• Address live configuration review feedback
• Reclaim obsolete configuration chunks
• Harden MIPI RGB model compatibility
• Size HA channels for live replacement
• Cancel stale Home Assistant reads during rebuilds
• Bound configuration storage to available NVS
• Rebuild media cards after layout changes
• Refresh live configuration subscriptions
• Update JC8012 panel revision guidance
• Add explicit backlight control modes (#1300)
• Resolve clock bar night mode conflicts (#1303)
• Add conditional media power controls (#1306)
• Add 4x3 camera card support (#1302)
• Decode HTML entities in media metadata (#1308)
• Restore speaker subscriptions for cover art controls
• Prevent speaker tab construction re-entry
• Revert "Merge pull request #1255 from jtenniswood/transactional-live-config"
• Use compact speaker rows on low-heap displays
• Restore full S3 speaker card controls
• Show full speaker names on S3
• Hide unsupported 3x3 card size on compact grids
• Rename largest card sizes (#1317)
• Prevent date card refresh crash after screen cleanup (#1318)
• Address speaker group review feedback
• Address follow-up speaker group feedback
• Address final speaker group feedback
• Add requested MDI icons
• Show support badge on Settings tab (#1324)
• Configure optional battery support

User-facing bug fixes

• Fix alarm delay audio scheduling
• Preserve announcement audio ducking
• Fix alarm delay audio asset URLs
• Reduce P4 4.3 modal tab icons
• Keep step volume summaries uncapped
• Fix alarm audio review findings
• Fix manual display off during screensaver
• Fix garage confirmation direction changes
• Keep cover art hidden until source loads
• Keep failed configuration publication unpublished
• Fix alarm delay beep audio format
• Fix cover art boot loop on layout refresh
• Clear stale cover art route before rebinding
• Clear cover art route before source binding
• Fix missing battery icon glyphs and topbar spacing
• Fix alarm delay audio sequencing
• Reduce speaker subscription memory overhead
• Fix speaker card sizing and visibility
• Reduce speaker row height
• Fix S3 display framebuffer wrap
• Keep grouped volume state current
• Fix time sensor layout clipping
• Fix alarm delay TTS and beep playback
• Fix alarm TTS and media ducking
• Preserve media controls during live card refresh
• Keep cover art during live card updates
• Fix configuration transport build guard
• Keep diagnostics connected during API refresh
• Preserve speaker volume on capped decreases
• Fix S3 media card rebuild compile
• Keep configuration setters revisioned
• Fix alarm TTS satellite targeting
• Fix duplicate media artwork processing
• Fix live configuration rebuild edge cases
• Fix configuration test includes
• Fix Russian push action label
• Fix vertical slider endpoints
• Keep transient state out of configuration
• Preserve light temperature slider endpoints
• Fix stale media metadata across media types (#1305)
• Fix cover art modal metadata routing
• Fix Latin Extended Additional glyph rendering (#1304)
• Preserve alarm countdown during TTS (#1313)
• Fix ESPHome 2026.7.3 compile warnings (#1323)