Changelog

All notable changes are documented here.

[0.3.0] — 2026-06-20

Mini mode — compact 380×100 always-on-top window with Start/Stop and status pill (#11)
Console Players — LAN IP picker in UDP Connection settings; lists all active network interfaces so you can point F1 25 at the right adapter without guessing (#25)
Toast notifications — slide-up banner confirms when a profile is saved (#15)
SVG icons in Manual Triggers — replaced all emoji placeholders with inline SVGs (Tabler / Lucide / Phosphor); no CDN dependency (#10)

Console Players: VPN detection now uses adapter name as primary signal; 10.x.x.x Ethernet adapters no longer incorrectly flagged as VPN (#25)
Console Players: monospace font stack now matches the rest of the UI ("SF Mono", Consolas, monospace instead of bare monospace) (#25)
UDP listen address: default changed from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 so the bridge receives packets without manual configuration (#17)
UDP listen address: pending address change now applied when restarting a stopped bridge (#17)
UDP listen IP input: validates IPv4 format before saving (#21)
Multizone strip detection: improved reliability for devices that sometimes report as a single bulb (#2)
Light assignments: deferred push until after discovery and saved groups are loaded (#18)
Nanoleaf: deferred startup API calls until pywebviewready fires, eliminating spurious preview errors (#24)
Light list: added right-side padding to prevent content from sitting under the scrollbar (#4)

Nanoleaf integration — full support for Canvas, Shapes, Lines, Elements, and Light Panels
- All nine F1 race effects fire on Nanoleaf in sync with LIFX
- One-time pairing via local REST API (no cloud required)
- Discover button auto-fills device IP via SSDP
- Nanoleaf device shown as always-active entry in Light Assignment
Panel Layout UI — visualise and rearrange physical panel positions
- Correct shape detection per device type (square, hexagon, triangle, etc.)
- Drag panels to match real-world arrangement
Start lights sweep for Nanoleaf — panels light up by physical position (bottom→top or top→bottom), matching LIFX multizone behaviour
Test Multizone button wired to Nanoleaf panels
EXE build — PyInstaller spec (f1_lifx_bridge.spec); distributable folder at dist/F1LifxBridge/

LIFX and Nanoleaf effects now fire in parallel (previously sequential, causing visible lag)
Nanoleaf fade and timing: switched to static effect with transitionTime=0 for instant flashes
Nanoleaf silent failure: HTTP status now checked with fallback to /state endpoint
Nanoleaf colour accuracy: corrected set_color() call signature; fixed invalid duration on hue/sat calls
Nanoleaf master brightness: propagated from global brightness range setting
Nanoleaf IP filtered from LIFX discovery results
EXE bundle: resolved lifxlan import failures in frozen builds (bundled bitstring submodules)
Debug Timing toggle added to Settings for CMD-only performance profiling

Debug Timing toggle in Settings — logs per-effect latency to the terminal
Log panel: text is now selectable; Copy All button copies the full log to clipboard

Effect lag with multiple lights: set_color_all now sends commands in parallel with rapid=True
Effect lag: event-driven effects bypass the stagger delay entirely
safe_label was making a blocking network call on every invocation — replaced with a cached lookup
Effect timings recalibrated after safe_label latency was removed
UDP listen address ignored saved settings — IP and port now wired through to socket bind
set_listen_address failed to rebind socket on IP/port change
Blue flag and red flag now pulse instead of holding a static colour

Initial release.

UDP telemetry listener for F1 25 (port 20777)
LIFX LAN discovery and control
Nine race effects: Start Lights, Lights Out, Yellow Flag, Blue Flag, Red Flag, Fastest Lap, Chequered Flag, White Warning, Neutral
Multizone strip support — start lights sweep fills zones left-to-right or right-to-left
Stagger mode — fire each bulb with a configurable delay
Master brightness range (min/max scaling)
Idle mode — custom colour with optional slow pulse
Profiles — save and switch complete configurations
Light Assignment — assign specific lights to specific effects
Identify button — flashes a single bulb to confirm which physical light it is
UDP forwarding — relay packets to a second destination
Live packet and event log
Built-in tutorial overlay
Persistent settings (f1lifx_gui_settings.json, lifx_groups.json)
Fixed: localStorage wiped on every launch (setup flow re-ran on each start)