WLED Beta Release 0.15.0-b7

Welcome to WLED 0.15.0-b7 "Kōsen"!

May the ray of light inspire you to do great things.

WLED 0.15.0-b7 is a release candidate of WLED 0.15.0. It only features code improvements and bugfixes.

This version's highlights are:

• Fix alexa devices invisible/uncontrollable (#4214 by @Svennte)
• Add visual expand button on hover (#4172)
• Usermod: Audioreactive tuning and performance enhancements (by @softhack007)
• /json/live (JSON live data/peek) only enabled when WebSockets are disabled
• Various bugfixes and optimisations: #4179, #4215, #4219, #4222, #4223, #4224, #4228, #4230

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.4...v0.15.0-b7

NOTE:
WLED has transitioned from MIT license to EUPL v1.2 license after the release of 0.15.0-b6. Any fork wishing to continue to use MIT license will need to stop updating from upstream as EUPL cannot be converted to MIT.

As @Aircoookie wrote:

What is the difference between EUPL and MIT?
The license WLED had so far from the very first version is the MIT license - this basically allowed you to do anything with the code as long a you maintained attribution.
The EUPL is a copyleft license, which means that if you distribute WLED, you also have to release the source code.
However, it has several advantages over the GPL family of licenses - these have a viral effect in that you are locked into that GPL variant and will never be able to use that code under any other license (except if you obtain the consent of all contributors to change the license)
EUPL code on the other hand may be incorporated into projects under a number of other copyleft licenses - including the GPL, AGPL, MPL and OSL.
As an added benefit, it is written with intricacies of EU law in mind and a legally binding version is available in 23 languages.

See Discord for full announcement.

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.
ESP8266 binaries also include _compat binaries which use 0.14.0 style networking stack for situations where network connectivity was an issue.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

Installation

What binary should I use?

WLED Beta Release 0.15.0-b6

Welcome to WLED 0.15.0-b6 "Kōsen"!

May the ray of light inspire you to do great things.

WLED 0.15.0-b6 is progressive update of 0.15.0-b5 mostly with bugfixes and few minor additions.

This version's highlights are:

• Added BRT timezone (#4188 by @LuisFadini)
• Fixed positioning of the "Download the latest binary" button (#4184 by @maxi4329)
• Add WLED_AUTOSEGMENTS compile flag (#4183 by @PaoloTK)
• New 512kB FS parition map for 4MB devices
• Internal API change: Static PinManager & UsermodManager
• Change in Improv chip ID and version generation
• UI: Introduce common.js in settings pages (size optimisation)
• Add the ability to toggle the reception of palette synchronizations (#4137 by @felddy)
• Usermod/FX: Temperature usermod added Temperature effect (example usermod effect by @blazoncek)
• Fix for AsyncWebServer version
• Configure different kinds of busses at compile (#4107 by @PaoloTK)
  • BREAKING: removes LEDPIN and DEFAULT_LED_TYPE compile overrides
• Fetch LED types from Bus classes (dynamic UI) (#4129 by @netmindz, @blazoncek, @DedeHai)
• Temperature usermod: update OneWire to 2.3.8 (#4131 by @iammattcoleman)
• Various optimisations, bugfixes and enhancements (#4005, #4174 & #4175 by @Xevel, #4180, #4168, #4154, #4189 by @dosipod)
• Various effect bugfixes and optimizations by @softhack007

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.4...v0.15.0-b6

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

Installation

What binary should I use?

WLED Beta Release 0.15.0-b5

Welcome to WLED 0.15.0-b5 "Kōsen"!

May the ray of light inspire you to do great things.

WLED 0.15.0-b5 is progressive update of 0.15.0-b4.

This version's highlights are:

• Audioreactive usermod included by default in all compatible builds (including sync for ESP8266)
• Demystified some byte definitions of WiZmote ESP-NOW message (#4114 by @ChuckMash)
• Update usermod "Battery" improved MQTT support (#4110 by @itCarl)
• Added a usermod for interacting with BLE Pixels Dice (#4093 by @axlan)
• Allow lower values for touch threshold (#4081 by @RobinMeis)
• Added POV image effect usermod (#3539 by @Liliputech)
• Remove repeating code to fetch audio data (#4103 by @netmindz)
• Loxone JSON parser doesn't handle lx=0 correctly (#4104 by @FreakyJ, fixes #3809)
• Rename wled00.ino to wled_main.cpp (#4090 by @willmmiles)
• SM16825 chip support including WW & CW channel swap (#4092)
• Add stress testing scripts (#4088 by @willmmiles)
• Improve jsonBufferLock management (#4089 by @willmmiles)
• Fix incorrect PWM bit depth on Esp32 with XTAL clock (#4082 by @PaoloTK)
• Devcontainer args (#4073 by @axlan)
• Effect: Fire2012 optional blur amount (#4078 by @apanteleev)
• Effect: GEQ fix bands (#4077 by @adrianschroeter)
• Boot delay option (#4060 by @DedeHai)
• ESP8266 Audioreactive sync (#3962 by @gaaat98, @netmindz, @softhack007)
• ESP8266 PWM crash fix (#4035 by @willmmiles)
• Usermod: fix crash in seven_segment_display_reloaded (solves #4121)
• Usermod: Battery fix (#4051 by @Nickbert7)
• Usermod: Mpu6050 usermod crash fix (#4048 by @willmmiles)
• Usermod: Internal Temperature V2 (#4033 by @adamsthws)
• Various fixes and improvements (including build environments to emulate 0.14.0 for ESP8266 thanks to @softhack007)

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.4...v0.15.0-b5

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

Installation

What binary should I use?

WLED Beta Release 0.15.0-b4

Welcome to WLED 0.15.0-b4 "Kōsen"!

May the ray of light inspire you to do great things.

WLED 0.15.0-b4 is progressive update of 0.15.0-b4.

This version's highlights are:

• LED settings bus management update (WARNING only allows available outputs)
• Add ETH support for LILYGO-POE-Pro (#4030 by @rorosaurus)
• Update usermod_sn_photoresistor (#4017 by @xkvmoto)
• Update NeoPixelBus to v2.8.0
• Increased LED outputs one ESP32 using parallel I2S (up to 17)
  • use single/mono I2S + 4x RMT for 5 outputs or less
  • use parallel x8 I2S + 8x RMT for >5 outputs (limit of 300 LEDs per output)
• Fixed code of Smartnest and updated documentation (#4001 by @DevilPro1)
• ESP32-S3 WiFi fix (#4010 by @cstruck)
• TetrisAI usermod fix (#3897 by @muebau)
• ESP-NOW usermod hook
• Update wled.h regarding OTA Password (#3993 by @gsieben)
• Usermod BME68X Sensor Implementation (#3994 by @gsieben)
• Add a usermod for AHT10, AHT15 and AHT20 temperature/humidity sensors (#3977 by @LordMike)
• Update Battery usermod documentation (#3968 by @adamsthws)
• Add INA226 usermod for reading current and power over i2c (#3986 by @LordMike)
• Bugfixes: #3991
• Several internal fixes and optimisations (WARNING: some effects may be broken that rely on overflow/narrow width)
  • move LED_BUILTIN handling to BusManager class
  • reduce max panels (web server limitation)
  • edit WiFi TX power (ESP32)
  • keep current ledmap ID in UI (JSON API)
  • limit outputs in UI based on length
  • wifi.ap addition to JSON Info (JSON API)
  • relay pin init bugfix
  • file editor button in UI
  • ESP8266: update was restarting device on some occasions
  • a bit of throttling in UI (for ESP8266)
  • FX: replace uint8_t and uint16_t with unsigned
  • FX: replace in8_t and int16_t with int

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.4...v0.15.0-b4

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

Installation

What binary should I use?

WLED Beta Release 0.15.0-b3

Welcome to WLED 0.15.0-b3 "Kōsen"!

May the ray of light inspire you to do great things.

WLED 0.15.0-b3 is progressive update of 0.15.0-b2.

This version's highlights are:

• Added Pinwheel Expand 1D->2D effect mapping mode (#3961 by @Brandon502)
• Effect: Firenoise - add palette selection
• Experimental parallel I2S support for ESP32 (compile time option)
  • increased outputs to 17
  • increased max possible color order overrides
  • use WLED_USE_PARALLEL_I2S during compile
    WARNING: Do not set up more than 256 LEDs per output when using parallel I2S with NeoPixelBus less than 2.9.0
• Update Usermod: Battery (#3964 by @adamsthws)
• Update Usermod: BME280 (#3965 & #3966 by @LordMike)
• TM1914 chip support (#3913)
• Ignore brightness in Peek
• Antialiased line & circle drawing functions
• Enabled some audioreactive effects for single pixel strips/segments (#3942 by @gaaat98)
• Usermod Battery: Added Support for different battery types, Optimized file structure (#3003 by @itCarl)
• Skip playlist entry JSON API (#3946 by @freakintoddles2)
• various optimisations and bugfixes (#3987, #3978)

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.15.0-b3

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

Installation

What binary should I use?

WLED release 0.14.4

Welcome to WLED 0.14.4 "Hoshi"!

If you saw a shooting star, what would you wish for?

WLED 0.14.4 is a maintenance release for 0.14.3 with a bugfix for slow framerate due to unoptimised palette handling.

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

New features and bugs fixed since 0.14.3 release

• Fix for #3978

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.14.4

Installation

What binary should I use?

WLED Beta Release 0.15.0-b2

Welcome to WLED 0.15.0-b2 "Kōsen"!

May the ray of light inspire you to do great things.

WLED 0.15.0-b2 is progressive update of 0.15.0-b1.

This version's highlights are:

• BREAKING: Effect: modified KITT (Scanner) (#3763)
• Prefer I2S1 over RMT for 1st LED output on ESP32 (reduces flickering on heavy load)
• Runtime detection of ESP32 PICO, general PSRAM support
• Extended JSON API:
  • add info.clock - CPU clock in MHz
  • add info.flash - flash size in MB
  • Individual color channel control for JSON API (fixes #3860)
    "col":[int|string|object|array, int|string|object|array, int|string|object|array]
int = Kelvin temperature or 0 for black
    string = hex representation of [WW]RRGGBB
    object = individual channel control {"r":0,"g":127,"b":255,"w":255}, each being optional (valid to send {})
    array = direct channel values [r,g,b,w] (w element being optional)
  • palette cycling (add support for {"seg":[{"pal":"X~Y~"}]} or {"seg":[{"pal":"X~Yr"}]})
• WS2805 support (RGB + WW + CW, 600kbps)
• FW1906 Support (#3810 by @deece and @Robert-github-com)
• runtime selection for CCT IC (certain 15W bulbs)
• SSD1309_64 I2C Support for 4LD Usermod (#3836 by @THATDONFC)
• usermod for Adafruit MAX17048 (#3667 by @ccruz09)
• PIO env. PSRAM fix for S3 & S3 with 4M flash
  • audioreactive always included for S3 & S2
• updated to NeoPixelBus v2.7.9
• updated to ESPAsyncWebServer 2.2.1 (#3828, #3873 by @willmmiles)
• Various bugfixes and improvements: #3843, #3844, #3859, #3862, #3873, #3875, #3879, #3889, #3887 (by @gaaat98), #3880 (by @DedeHai), #3798 (by @DedeHai), #3850 (by @w00000dy)

NOTE:
Included with this release are bootloaders for S2, S3 and C3 chips as well as partition maps for 4M and 8M flash sizes for them. You will need to flash bootloaders at offset 0x00000 for C3 and S3 and at 0x01000 for S2, partition maps at offset 0x08000, when flashing manually using esptool. Firmware is flashed at offset 0x10000.

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.15.0-b2

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

Installation

What binary should I use?

WLED release 0.14.3

Welcome to WLED 0.14.3 "Hoshi"!

If you saw a shooting star, what would you wish for?

WLED 0.14.3 is a maintenance release for 0.14.2 with a bugfix for transition 0 and newer AsyncWebServer.

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

New features and bugs fixed since 0.14.2 release

• New AsyncWebServer v2.2.1 (improved performance and reduced memory use, thanks to @willmmiles)
• New builds for ESP8266 with 160MHz CPU clock
• Fix for transition 0 (#3854, #3832, #3720)
• Fix for #3855

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.14.3

Installation

What binary should I use?

WLED Beta Release 0.15.0-b1

Welcome to WLED 0.15.0-b1 "Kōsen"!

May the ray of light inspire you to do great things.

WLED 0.15.0-b1 is major new step since the introduction of 2D and audioreactive features to WLED.

This version's highlights are:

• UI refinements, performance tweaks and included simplified mode
• Multi-WiFi support. Add up to 3 (or more via cusom compile) WiFis to connect to (with help from @JPZV)
• ESP-NOW sync. Sync your WLED devices without WiFi.
• ESP-NOW Wiz remote JSON overrides (similar to IR JSON) & WIZ Smart Button support (#3547 by @micw)
• "SuperSync" from WLED MM (by @MoonModules)
• Per port/output Auto Brightness Limiter (ABL)
• ColoOrderMap W channel swap (color order overrides now have W swap)
• Added PWM frequency selection to UI (Settings) and better low brightness level handling (12-bit resolution)
• Better reverse proxy support (nested paths)
• Implement global JSON API boolean toggle (i.e. instead of "var":true or "var":false -> "var":"t").
• Three (optional) Audio palettes (Audioreactive usermod required, credit @netmindz)
• Reduced RAM usage for ESP8266 which may allow more stable operation
• Virtual Art-Net RGBW option (#3783 by @shammy642)
• DMX: S2 & C3 support via modified ESPDMX
• Product/Brand override so OEM may choose their own branding (API & AP SSID) (#3750 by @Moustachauve)
• Harmonic (AKA much nicer) Random Cycle palette (#3729 by @DedeHai)
• Temporary AP. Use your WLED in public with temporary AP to allow configuration. Includes new JSON API to enable WiFi/AP on button/IR press.
• APA106 support (#3580 by @itstefanjanos)
• BREAKING: Effect: updated Palette effect to support 2D (#3683 by @TripleWhy)
• Compile-time WLED time overrides (WLED_NTP_ENABLED, WLED_TIMEZONE, WLED_UTC_OFFSET, WLED_LAT and WLED_LON)
• En-/dis-able LED maps when receiving realtime data (#3554 by @ezcGman)
• BREAKING: Reduced number of segments (12) on ESP8266
• Enhanced PSRAM support (double size JSON buffer, preset caching, larger ledmaps, up to 2k pixels, etc); included new binary for classic ESP32 with PSRAM (WROVER models, includes Pico)
• Restore presets from browser local storage in case of corruption
• and numerous other improvements, refinements and bugfixes.

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.15.0-b1

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

All contributors for this version include:
@ajotanc
@Akaricchi
@BaptisteHudyma
@DedeHai
@demophoon
@Derek4aty1
@ezcGman
@imeszaros
@itstefanjanos
@lost-hope
@m-wachter
@micw
@MoonModules
@Moustachauve
@muebau
@netmindz
@roelbroersma
@shammy642
@TripleWhy
@willmmiles
@w00000dy
@zanhecht

Installation

What binary should I use?

WLED release 0.14.2

Welcome to WLED 0.14.2 "Hoshi"!

If you saw a shooting star, what would you wish for?

WLED 0.14.2 is a maintenance release for 0.14.1, with many bugfixes.

WARNING:
This version includes binaries for ESP8266 which feature double CPU clock frequency (160MHz) distinguished by the _160 name suffix. Although it has been tested on many variants of ESP8266 there may be devices that do not support overclocking the CPU. If your device is in places hard to reach or difficult to flash DO NOT use these binaries unless you test them on a similar device first. And even then there are no guarantees that a particular device will run correctly with overclocked CPU.
In case you do update with 160MHz version and your device fails to boot or operates incorrectly you may need to connect it to a computer and flash it serially using USB connection. Please erase flash prior to doing so.

A huge thank you to the WLED community - to everyone who has contributed to development, documentation and testing, and to all early adopters who provided lots of feedback and sparked many discussions on how to improve things. You all made WLED better and made this version happen! ❤️

Bugs fixed since 0.14.1 release

• New AsyncWebServer (improved performance and reduced memory use, thanks to @willmmiles)
• New builds for ESP8266 with 160MHz CPU clock
• Fixing stairway usermod and adding buildflags (#3758 by @lost-hope)
• Fixing a potential array bounds violation in ESPDMX
• Reduced RAM usage (moved strings and TZ data (by @willmmiles) to PROGMEM)
• LockedJsonResponse: Release early if possible (by @willmmiles)
• Possible fix for #3589 & partial fix for #3605
• Prevent JSON buffer clear after failed lock attempt
• Multiple analog buttons (fix for #3549)
• Usermod: Audioreactive, add two compiler options (#3732 by @wled-install)
• Fix for #3693

Please see the changelog for a detailed list of changes!

Full Changelog: v0.14.1...v0.14.2

Installation

What binary should I use?