MicroPythonOS/CHANGELOG.md

0.5.3

• App framework: simplify MANIFEST.JSON
• WiFi app: check "hidden" in EditNetwork

0.5.2

• Fri3d Camp 2024 Board: add I2S microphone as found on the communicator add-on
• API: add TaskManager that wraps asyncio
• API: add DownloadManager that uses TaskManager
• API: use aiorepl to eliminate another thread
• AudioFlinger API: add support for I2S microphone recording to WAV
• AudioFlinger API: optimize WAV volume scaling for speed and immediately set volume
• Rearrange automated testing facilities
• About app: add mpy format info
• AppStore app: eliminate all threads by using TaskManager
• AppStore app: add experimental support for BadgeHub backend (not enabled)
• MusicPlayer app: faster volume slider action
• OSUpdate app: show download speed
• SoundRecorder app: created to test AudioFlinger's new recording feature!
• WiFi app: new 'Add network' functionality for out-of-range networks
• WiFi app: add support for hidden networks
• WiFi app: add 'Forget' button to delete networks

0.5.1

• Fri3d Camp 2024 Board: add startup light and sound
• Fri3d Camp 2024 Board: workaround ADC2+WiFi conflict by temporarily disable WiFi to measure battery level
• Fri3d Camp 2024 Board: improve battery monitor calibration to fix 0.1V delta
• Fri3d Camp 2024 Board: add WSEN-ISDS 6-Axis Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) support (including temperature)
• API: improve and cleanup animations
• API: SharedPreferences: add erase_all() function
• API: add defaults handling to SharedPreferences and only save non-defaults
• API: restore sys.path after starting app
• API: add AudioFlinger for audio playback (i2s DAC and buzzer)
• API: add LightsManager for multicolor LEDs
• API: add SensorManager for generic handling of IMUs and temperature sensors
• UI: back swipe gesture closes topmenu when open (thanks, @Mark19000 !)
• About app: add free, used and total storage space info
• AppStore app: remove unnecessary scrollbar over publisher's name
• Camera app: massive overhaul!
  • Lots of settings (basic, advanced, expert)
  • Enable decoding of high density QR codes (like Nostr Wallet Connect) from small sizes (like mobile phone screens)
  • Even dotted, logo-ridden and scratched pictures of QR codes are now decoded properly!
• ImageView app: add delete functionality
• ImageView app: add support for grayscale images
• OSUpdate app: pause download when wifi is lost, resume when reconnected
• Settings app: fix un-checking of radio button
• Settings app: add IMU calibration
• Wifi app: simplify on-screen keyboard handling, fix cancel button handling

0.5.0

• ESP32: one build to rule them all; instead of 2 builds per supported board, there is now one single build that identifies and initializes the board at runtime!
• MposKeyboard: fix q, Q, 1 and ~ button unclickable bug
• MposKeyboard: increase font size from 16 to 20
• MposKeyboard: use checkbox instead of newline symbol for 'OK, Ready'
• MposKeyboard: bigger space bar
• OSUpdate app: simplify by using ConnectivityManager
• OSUpdate app: adapt to new device IDs
• ImageView app: improve error handling
• Settings app: tweak font size
• Settings app: add 'format internal data partition' option
• Settings app: fix checkbox handling with buttons
• UI: pass clicks on invisible 'gesture swipe start' are to underlying widget
• UI: only show back and down gesture icons on swipe, not on tap
• UI: double size of back and down swipe gesture starting areas for easier gestures
• UI: increase navigation gesture sensitivity
• UI: prevent visual glitches in animations
• API: add facilities for instrumentation (screengrabs, mouse clicks)
• API: move WifiService to mpos.net
• API: remove fonts to reduce size
• API: replace font_montserrat_28 with font_montserrat_28_compressed to reduce size
• API: improve SD card error handling
• WifiService: connect to strongest networks first

0.4.0

• Add custom MposKeyboard with more than 50% bigger buttons, great for tiny touch screens!
• Apply theme changes (dark mode, color) immediately after saving
• About app: add a bit more info
• Camera app: fix one-in-two 'camera image stays blank' issue
• OSUpdate app: enable scrolling with joystick/arrow keys
• OSUpdate app: Major rework with improved reliability and user experience
  • add WiFi monitoring - shows 'Waiting for WiFi...' instead of error when no connection
  • add automatic pause/resume on WiFi loss during downloads using HTTP Range headers
  • add user-friendly error messages with specific guidance for each error type
  • add 'Check Again' button for easy retry after errors
  • add state machine for better app state management
  • add comprehensive test coverage (42 tests: 31 unit tests + 11 graphical tests)
  • refactor code into testable components (NetworkMonitor, UpdateChecker, UpdateDownloader)
  • improve download error recovery with progress preservation
  • improve timeout handling (5-minute wait for WiFi with clear messaging)
• Tests: add test infrastructure with mock classes for network, HTTP, and partition operations
• Tests: add graphical test helper utilities for UI verification and screenshot capture
• API: change 'display' to mpos.ui.main_display
• API: change mpos.ui.th to mpos.ui.task_handler
• waveshare-esp32-s3-touch-lcd-2: power off camera at boot to conserve power
• waveshare-esp32-s3-touch-lcd-2: increase touch screen input clock frequency from 100kHz to 400kHz

0.3.2

• Settings app: add 'Auto Start App' setting
• Tweak gesture navigation to trigger back and top menu more easily
• Rollback OTA update if launcher fails to start
• Rename 'Home' to 'Launch' in top menu drawer
• Fri3d-2024 Badge: use same SPI freq as Waveshare 2 inch for uniformity
• ESP32: reduce drawing frequency by increasing task_handler duration from 1ms to 5ms
• Rework MicroPython WebSocketApp websocket-client library using uasyncio
• Rework MicroPython python-nostr library using uasyncio
• Update aiohttp_ws library to 0.0.6
• Add fragmentation support for aiohttp_ws library

Known issues:

• Fri3d-2024 Badge: joystick arrow up ticks a radio button (workaround: un-tick the radio button)

0.3.1

• OSUpdate app: fix typo that prevented update rollback from being cancelled
• Fix 'Home' button in top menu not stopping all apps
• Update micropython-nostr library to fix epoch time on ESP32 and NWC event kind

0.3.0

• OSUpdate app: now gracefully handles the user closing the app mid-update instead of freezing
• Launcher app: much faster thanks to PackageManager + UI only rebuilt when apps actually change
• AppStore app: improved stability + icons for already-installed apps are shown instantly (no download needed)
• API: Add SDCardManager for SD Card support
• API: add PackageManager to (un)install MPK packages
• API: split mpos.ui into logical components
• Remove 'long press IO0 button' to activate bootloader mode; either use the Settings app (very convenient) or keep it pressed while plugging in the USB cable (or briefly pressing the reset button)
• Increase framerate on ESP32 by lowering task_handler duration from 5ms to 1ms
• Throttle per-frame async_call() to prevent apps from overflowing memory
• Overhaul build system and docs: much simplier (single clone and script run), add MacOS support, build with GitHub Workflow, automatic tests, etc.

0.2.1

• Settings app: fix stray /cat in Europe/Brussels timezone
• Launcher app: fix handling of empty filesystem without apps

0.2.0

• Fix KeyPad focus handling for devices without touch screen like the Fri3d Camp 2024 Badge
• Use direction arrows for more intuitive navigation instead of Y/A or pageup/pagedown for previous/next
• About app: enable scrolling using arrow keys so off-screen info can be viewed
• About app: add info about freezefs compiled-in filesystem
• AppStore app: don't update UI after the user has closed the app
• Launcher app: improve error handling
• Wifi app: cleanup and improve keyboard and focus handling
• Wifi app: improve different screensize handling

0.1.1

• Update to MicroPython 1.25.0 and LVGL 9.3.0
• About app: add info about over-the-air partitions
• OSUpdate app: check update depending on current hardware identifier, add 'force update' option, improve user feedback
• AppStore, Camera, Launcher, Settings: adjust for compatibility with LVGL 9.3.0

0.0.11

• Merge official Fri3d Camp 2024 Badge support

0.0.10

• About app: add machine.freq, unique_id, wake_reason and reset_cause
• Reduce timezones from 400 to 150 to reduce scrolling
• Experimental Fri3d Camp 2024 Badge support

0.0.9

• UI: add visual cues during back/top swipe gestures
• UI: prevent menu drawer button clicks while swiping
• Settings: add Timezone configuration
• Draw: new app for simple drawing on a canvas
• IMU: new app for showing data from the Intertial Measurement Unit ('Accellerometer')
• Camera: speed up QR decoding 4x - thanks @kdmukai!

0.0.8

• Move wifi icon to the right-hand side
• Power off camera after boot and before deepsleep to conserve power
• Settings: add 20 common theme colors in dropdown list

0.0.7

• Update battery icon every 5 seconds depending on VBAT/BAT_ADC
• Add 'Power' off button in menu drawer

0.0.6

• Scale button size in drawer for bigger screens
• Show 'Brightness' text in drawer
• Add builtin 'Settings' app with settings for Light/Dark Theme, Theme Color, Restart to Bootloader
• Add 'Settings' button to drawer that opens settings app
• Save and restore 'Brightness' setting
• AppStore: speed up app installs
• Camera: scale camera image to fit screen on bigger displays
• Camera: show decoded result on-display if QR decoded

0.0.5

• Improve focus group handling while in deskop keyboard mode
• Add filesystem driver for LVGL
• Implement CTRL-V to paste on desktop
• Implement Escape key for back button on desktop
• WiFi: increase size of on-screen keyboard for easier password entry
• WiFi: prevent concurrent operation of auto-connect and Wifi app

0.0.4

• Add left edge swipe gesture for back screen action
• Add animations
• Add support for QR decoding by porting quirc
• Add support for Nostr by porting python-nostr
• Add support for Websockets by porting websocket-client's WebSocketApp
• Add support for secp256k1 with ecdh by porting and extending secp256k1-embedded
• Change theme from dark to light
• Improve display refresh rate
• Fix aiohttp_ws bug that caused partial websocket data reception
• Add support for on Linux desktop
• Add support for VideoForLinux2 devices (webcams etc) on Linux
• Improve builtin apps: Launcher, WiFi, AppStore and OSUpdate

0.0.3

• appstore: add 'update' button if a new version of an app is available
• appstore: add 'restore' button to restore updated built-in apps to their original built-in version
• launcher: don't show launcher apps and sort alphabetically
• osupdate: show info about update and 'Start OS Update' before updating
• wificonf: scan and connect to wifi in background thread so app stays responsive
• introduce MANIFEST.JSON format for apps
• improve notification bar behavior

0.0.2

• Handle IO0 'BOOT button' so long-press starts bootloader mode for updating firmware over USB

0.0.1

• Initial release