Pixelix v7.1.0

Features

General

• Support for the Ulanzi TC001 smart pixel clock added.
• Different LDRs are now supported an be configured in the board.ini per development board.
• If plugin has no alias, the plugin UID is used to generate a MQTT topic. If a alias is set, only the alias will be used to generate a MQTT topic.
• If a topic is unregistered, the MQTT HA discovery info will be purged.
• HomeAssistant entity icon support added.
• MQTT birth and last will messages implemented.
• Pixelix can now be switched off. It will go into a light standby mode and disables wifi.
• Control Pixelix with 1, 2 or 3 buttons, depended on your Pixelix hardware.
• LED matrix width, height and topology can be configured in the board.ini
• Supply current can be configured in the board.ini
• Min. brightness limited to 10%. Default brightness set to 20%.
• Sensor default offsets can be pre-configured in the Sensors.cpp. This is useful in case of known devices, like the Ulanzi TC001.
• The BTCQuotePlugin is removed from small configurations, because of less available space.
• File browser supports now simple uploading of files.
• Platform updated to v6.3.0.
• ACE editor updated to v1.22.1.

Plugins

BatteryPlugin

• New plugin implemented to show the state of charge in a graphical way. Currently only used by the Ulanzi TC001.

IconTextLampPlugin

• A lamp which is off, is now black and therefore usually not shown.
• A lamp which is on, is now red.

Bugfixes

General

• Obsolete PIO keywords (check_patterns) replaced with reccomended ones.
• SensorPlugin sensor and channel selection fixed.

Plugins

OpenWeatherPlugin

• Sometimes a "?" with the standard icon was shown instead of the weather icon.