## Summary
* This PR fixes decomposed diacritic handling end-to-end:
- Hyphenation: normalize common Latin base+combining sequences to
precomposed codepoints before Liang pattern matching, so decomposed
words hyphenate correctly
- Rendering: correct combining-mark placement logic so non-spacing marks
are attached to the preceding base glyph in normal and rotated text
rendering paths, with corresponding text-bounds consistency updates.
- Hyphenation around non breaking space variants have been fixed (and
extended)
- Hyphenation of terms that already included of hyphens were fixed to
include Liang pattern application (eg "US-Satellitensystem" was
*exclusively* broken at the existing hyphen)
## Additional Context
* Before
<img width="800" height="480" alt="2"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b9c515c4-ab75-45cc-8b52-f4d86bce519d"
/>
* After
<img width="480" height="800" alt="fix1"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4999f6a8-f51c-4c0a-b144-f153f77ddb57"
/>
<img width="800" height="480" alt="fix2"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7355126b-80c7-441f-b390-4e0897ee3fb6"
/>
* Note 1: the hyphenation fix is not a 100% bullet proof implementation.
It adds composition of *common* base+combining sequences (e.g. O +
U+0308 -> Ö) during codepoint collection. A complete solution would
require implementing proper Unicode normalization (at least NFC,
possibly NFKC in specific cases) before hyphenation and rendering,
instead of hand-mapping a few combining marks. That was beyond the scope
of this fix.
* Note 2: the render fix should be universal and not limited to the
constraints outlined above: it properly x-centers the compund glyph over
the previous one, and it uses at least 1pt of visual distance in y.
Before:
<img width="478" height="167" alt="Image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f8db60d5-35b1-4477-96d0-5003b4e4a2a1"
/>
After:
<img width="479" height="180" alt="Image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1b48ef97-3a77-475a-8522-23f4aca8e904"
/>
* This should resolve the issues described in #998
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
* The goal is to fix the title of books in the Home Screen.
Before
After:
* **What changes are included?**
## Additional Context
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
* improve Spanish translations
* **What changes are included?**
- Fix typos and accents (Librería, conexión, etc.)
- Translate untranslated strings (BOOTING, SLEEPING, etc.)
- Improve consistency and conciseness
- Fix question mark placement (¿...?)
- Standardize terminology (Punto de Acceso, Suspensión, etc.)
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## Summary
* Destroy CSS Cache file when invalid
## Additional Context
* Fixes issue where it would attempt to rebuild every book open
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
* **What changes are included?**
- Adapt card width to cover image aspect ratio in Classic theme
- Increase homeTopPadding from 20px to 40px to avoid overlap with
battery icon
- Card width now calculated from BMP dimensions instead of fixed 240px
- Maximum card width limited to 90% of screen width
- Falls back to original behavior (half screen width) when no cover
available
## Additional Context
* Solve conflicts in PR #683
Before:
<img width="1052" height="1014" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6c857913-d697-4e9e-9695-443c0a4c0804"
/>
PR:
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## Summary
* In a sample book I loaded, it had 900+ CSS rules, and took up 180kB of
memory loading the cache in
* Looking at the rules, a lot of them were completely useless as we only
ever apply look for 3 kinds of CSS rules:
* `tag`
* `tag.class1`
* `.class1`
* Stripping out CSS rules with descendant, nested, attribute matching,
sibling matching, pseudo element selection (as we never actually read
these from the cache) reduced the rule count down to 200
## Additional Context
* I've left in `.class1.class2` rules for now, even though we
technically can never match on them as they're likely to be addressed
soonest out of the all the CSS expansion
* Because we don't ever delete the CSS cache, users will need to delete
the book cache through the menu in order to get this new logic
* A new PR should be done up to address this - tracked here
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/issues/1015
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
When no width is set for an image, the image currently automatically
sets to the width of the page. However, with this fix, the parser will
use the height and aspect ratio of the image to properly set a height
for it. See below example:
Before:
After:
* **What changes are included?✱
Changes to the CSS parser
## Additional Context
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## Summary
Fixes https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/issues/1011
Use double FAST_REFRESH for image pages to prevent grayscale washout,
HALF_REFRESH sets e-ink particles too firmly for the grayscale LUT to
adjust, causing washed-out images (especially large, light-gray ones).
Replace HALF_REFRESH with @pablohc's double FAST_REFRESH technique:
blank only the image bounding box area, then re-render with images. This
clears ghosting while keeping particles loosely set for grayscale.
## Additional Context
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## Summary
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file uploading.)
Improve legibility of Cover Icons on the home page and elsewhere. Fixes
#898
Re implements the changes made in #907 that were overwritten by the new
lyra themes
* **What changes are included?**
Cover outline is now shown even when cover is found to prevent issues
with low contrast covers blending into the background. Photo is attached
below:
<img width="1137" height="758" alt="Untitled (4)"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/21ae6c94-4b43-4a0c-bec7-a6e4c642ffad"
/>
## Additional Context
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Re implements the changes made in #907 that were overwritten by the new
lyra themes
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## Summary
* ``renderChar`` checked ``is2Bit`` on every pixel inside the inner
loop, even though the value is constant for the lifetime of a single
glyph
* Moved the branch above both loops so each path (2-bit antialiased /
1-bit monochrome) runs without a per-pixel conditional
* Eliminates redundant work in the two inner loops that render font
glyphs to the frame buffer, targeting ``renderChar`` and
``drawTextRotated90CW`` in ``GfxRenderer.cpp``
## Additional Context
* Measured on device using a dedicated framebuffer benchmark (no display
refresh). 100 repetitions of "The quick brown fox jumps".
| Test | Before | After | Change |
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------|
| drawText UI12 | 1,337 µs/call | 1,024 µs/call | −23%|
| drawText Bookerly14 | 2.174 µs / call | 1,847 µs/call | −15% |
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** Small fix for bug I found.
## Additional Context
1. `RecentBooksActivity::loop()` calls
`onSelectBook(recentBooks[selectorIndex].path)` - passing a
**reference** to the path
2. `onSelectBook` is `onGoToReader` which first calls `exitActivity()`
3. `exitActivity()` triggers `RecentBooksActivity::onExit()` which call
`recentBooks.clear()`
4. The string reference `initialEpubPath` is now a **dangling
reference** - the underlying string has been destroyed
5. When the reference is then used in `new ReaderActivity(...)`, it
reads garbage memory
6. The same issue occurs in `HomeActivity` at line 200 with the same
pattern
The fix is to make a copy of the string in `onGoToReader` before calling
`exitActivity()`, so the path data persists even after the activity
clears its data structures.
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## Summary
* Increased `PNG_MAX_BUFFERED_PIXELS` from 6402 to 16416 in
`platformio.ini` to support up to 2048px wide RGBA images
* adds a check to abort decoding and log an error if the required PNG
scanline buffer exceeds the configured `PNG_MAX_BUFFERED_PIXELS`,
preventing possible buffer overruns.
* fixes
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/issues/993
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## Summary
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I flashed the last revision before commit f1740dbe, and chapter indexing
worked without any crashes.
After applying f1740dbe, the same chapter consistently triggered a
device reboot during indexing.
The affected chapter contains inline equation images surrounded by
styled (bold/italic) text that includes special math/symbol characters.
## Additional Context
Prior to f1740dbe, both `getTextAdvanceX()` and `getSpaceWidth()` always
measured text using `EpdFontFamily::REGULAR`, regardless of the actual
style.
Commit f1740dbe improved correctness by passing the active style so
spacing is calculated using the actual bold/italic font variant.
However, bold and italic variants have narrower Unicode coverage than
the regular font. When a character exists in the regular font but not in
the selected styled variant, `pdFont::getGlyph()` returns `nullptr`.
The updated measurement functions did not check for this and immediately
dereferenced the pointer:
`width += font.getGlyph(cp, style)->advanceX; // nullptr->advanceX`
Because `advanceX` is located at byte offset 2 within `EpdGlyph`,
dereferencing a null pointer caused the CPU to attempt a load from
address `0x00000002`, resulting in a RISC-V:
Load access fault
MCAUSE = 5
MTVAL = 2
## Fix
Added null-safety checks to both `getTextAdvanceX()` and
`getSpaceWidth()`, following the same pattern used in the rendering
path:
If the glyph is missing in the selected style → fall back to the
replacement glyph.
If the replacement glyph is also unavailable → treat the character as
zero-width.
This preserves the improved style-correct spacing while preventing
crashes.
No behavioral changes occur for characters that are supported by the
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I encounter this bug while testing 1.1.0 RC.
I pasted the serial log to Claude, which identify the bug and fixed it.
I can confirm now the chapter in question is indexed and loaded
correctly.
I've been reading "Children of Time" over the last days and that book,
annyoingly, has some tabular content.
This content is relevant for the story so I needed some really basic way
to at least be able to read those tables.
This commit simply renders the contents of table cells as separate
paragraphs with a small header describing its position in the table. For
me, it's better than nothing.
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Implements really basic table support
* **What changes are included?**
* Minimal changes to ChapterHtmlSlimParser
* A demo book in test/epubs
## Additional Context
Here's some screenshots of the demo-book I provide with this PR.
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_Little bit of guidance on what to touch, parts of the impl, rest
manually._
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
* Implement feature request
[#954](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/issues/954)
* Ensure cover images are scaled up to match the dimensions of the
screen, as well as scaled down
**What changes are included?**
* Naïve implementation for scaling up the source image
## Additional Context
If you find the extra comments to be excessive I can pare them back.
Edit: Fixed title
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## Summary
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Adresses Feature Request #896
* **What changes are included?**
Changed key dimensions, initial positions and margins.
## Additional Context
The keyboard now looks like this:
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## Summary
* What is the goal of this PR?
- Allow users to create custom sleep screen images with standard tools
(ImageMagick, GIMP, etc.) that render cleanly on the e-ink display
without dithering artifacts. Previously, avoiding dithering required
non-standard 2-bit BMPs that no standard image editor can produce. ( see
issue #931 )
* What changes are included?
- Add 4-bit BMP format support to Bitmap.cpp (standard format, widely
supported by image tools)
- Auto-detect "native palette" images: if a BMP has ≤4 palette entries
and all luminances map within ±21 of the display's native gray levels
(0, 85, 170, 255), skip dithering entirely and direct-map pixels
- Clarify pixel processing strategy with three distinct paths:
error-diffusion dithering, simple quantization, or direct mapping
- Add scripts/generate_test_bmps.py for generating test images across
all supported BMP formats
## Additional Context
* The e-ink display has 4 native gray levels. When a BMP already uses
exactly those levels, dithering adds noise to what should be clean
output. The native palette detection uses a ±21 tolerance (~10%) to
handle slight rounding from color space conversions in image tools.
Users can now create a 4-color grayscale BMP with (imagemagic example):
```
convert input.png -colorspace Gray -colors 4 -depth
```
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## Summary
- `UITheme::currentTheme` was a raw owning pointer with no destructor,
causing a heap leak every time `setTheme()` was called (e.g. on
theme change via settings reload)
## Additional Context
- Replaced `const BaseTheme*` with `std::unique_ptr<BaseTheme>` so the
previous theme object is automatically deleted on reassignment
- Added `<memory>` include to `UITheme.h`; allocations updated to
`std::make_unique<>` in `UITheme.cpp`
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---------
Co-authored-by: Dave Allie <dave@daveallie.com>
## Summary
1. Go to the first page in a .epub file.
2. Hit `Up` button
3. Get teleported to the last page :)
`TxtRenderActivity` seems to have this if check, but EPUB one does not.
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
`hasPrintableChars` does a pass over text before rendering. It looks up
glyphs in the font and measures dimensions, returning early if the text
results in zero size.
This additional pass doesn't offer any benefit over moving straight to
rendering the text, because the rendering loop already gracefully
handles missing glyphs. This change saves an extra pass over all
rendered text.
Note that both `hasPrintableChars` and `renderChar` replace missing
glyphs with `glyph = getGlyph(REPLACEMENT_GLYPH)`, so there's no
difference for characters which are not present in the font.
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## Summary
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file uploading.)
* Fixes:
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/issues/947
**What changes are included?**
* Check to see if there's free heap memory before processing CSS (should
we be doing this type of check or is it better to just crash if we
exhaust the memory?)
* Skip CSS files larger than 128kb
## Additional Context
* I found that a copy of `Release it` contained a 250kb+ CSS file, from
the homepage of the publisher. It has nothing to do with the epub, so we
should just skip it
* Major question: Are there better ways to detect CSS that doesn't
belong in a book, or is this size-based approach valid?
* Another question: Are there any epubs we know of that legitimately
include >128kb CSS files?
Code changes themselves created with an agent, all investigation and
write-up done by human. If you (the maintainers) would prefer a
different fix for this issue, let me know.
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## Summary
* GfxRender did handle horizontal and vertical lines but had a TODO for
arbitrary lines.
* Added integer based Bresenham line drawing
## Additional Context
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## Summary
* Original implementation had inconsistent positioning logic:
- When XPath parsing succeeded: incorrectly set pageNumber = 0 (always
beginning of chapter)
- When XPath parsing failed: used percentage for positioning (worked
correctly)
- Result: Positions restored to wrong locations depending on XPath
parsing success
- Mentioned in Issue #581
* Solution
- Unified ProgressMapper::toCrossPoint() to use percentage-based
positioning exclusively for both spine identification and intra-chapter
page calculation, eliminating unreliable XPath parsing entirely.
## Additional Context
* ProgressMapper.cpp: Simplified toCrossPoint() to always use percentage
for positioning, removed parseDocFragmentIndex() function
* ProgressMapper.h: Updated comments and removed unused function
declaration
* Tests confirmed appropriate positioning
* __Notabene: the syncing to another device will (most probably) end up
at the current chapter of crosspoints reading position. There is not
much we can do about it, as KOReader needs to have the correct XPath
information - we can only provide an apporximate position (plus
percentage) - the percentage information is not used in KOReaders
current implementation__
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Add proper hyphenation support for the Ukrainian language.
* **What changes are included?**
- Added Ukrainian hyphenation rules/dictionary
## Additional Context
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
This change fixes an issue I noticed while reading where occasionally,
especially in italics, some words would have too much space between
them. The problem was that word width calculations were including any
negative X overhang, and combined with a space before the word, that can
lead to an inconsistently large space.
## Additional Context
Screenshots of some problematic text:
| In CrossPoint 1.0 | With this change |
| -- | -- |
| <img
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/87bf0e4b-341f-4ba9-b3ea-38c13bd26363"
width="400" /> | <img
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bf11ba20-c297-4ce1-aa07-43477ef86fc2"
width="400" /> |
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## Summary
* During chapter parsing, every <img> tag triggered ZIP decompression
and an SD card write regardless of whether the image format was
supported. The mandatory delay(50) after each SD write compounded the
cost. A chapter with 6 GIF images (a common decorative element in older
EPUBs) wasted ~750 ms before any text rendering began.
* **What changes are included?**
Added an ``ImageDecoderFactory::isFormatSupported()`` check before any
file I/O in the img-handler. Only JPEG and PNG proceed to extraction;
all other formats (GIF, SVG, WebP, etc.) fall through immediately to
alt-text rendering with no SD card access.
## Additional Context
Measured impact on a representative chapter with 6 GIF decorations:
| | Before | After|
|-- | -- | --|
|Total parse time | ~882 ms | ~207 ms|
|Image handling | ~750 ms | ~76 ms|
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
Compress reader font bitmaps to reduce flash usage by 30.7%.
**What changes are included?**
- New `EpdFontGroup` struct and extended `EpdFontData` with
`groups`/`groupCount` fields
- `--compress` flag in `fontconvert.py`: groups glyphs (ASCII base group
+ groups of 8) and compresses each with raw DEFLATE
- `FontDecompressor` class with 4-slot LRU cache for on-demand
decompression during rendering
- `GfxRenderer` transparently routes bitmap access through
`getGlyphBitmap()` (compressed or direct flash)
- Uses `uzlib` for decompression with minimal heap overhead.
- 48 reader fonts (Bookerly, NotoSans 12-18pt, OpenDyslexic) regenerated
with compression; 5 UI fonts unchanged
- Round-trip verification script (`verify_compression.py`) runs as part
of font generation
## Additional Context
## Flash & RAM
| | baseline | font-compression | Difference |
|--|--------|-----------------|------------|
| Flash (ELF) | 6,302,476 B (96.2%) | 4,365,022 B (66.6%) | -1,937,454 B
(-30.7%) |
| firmware.bin | 6,468,192 B | 4,531,008 B | -1,937,184 B (-29.9%) |
| RAM | 101,700 B (31.0%) | 103,076 B (31.5%) | +1,376 B (+0.5%) |
## Script-Based Grouping (Cold Cache)
Comparison of uncompressed baseline vs script-based group compression
(4-slot LRU cache, cleared each page). Glyphs are grouped by Unicode
block (ASCII, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A, Combining Marks, Cyrillic,
General Punctuation, etc.) instead of sequential groups of 8.
### Render Time
| | Baseline | Compressed (cold cache) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Median** | 414.9 ms | 431.6 ms | +16.7 ms (+4.0%) |
| **Pages** | 37 | 37 | |
### Memory Usage
| | Baseline | Compressed (cold cache) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Heap free (median)** | 187.0 KB | 176.3 KB | -10.7 KB |
| **Heap free (min)** | 186.0 KB | 166.5 KB | -19.5 KB |
| **Largest block (median)** | 148.0 KB | 128.0 KB | -20.0 KB |
| **Largest block (min)** | 148.0 KB | 120.0 KB | -28.0 KB |
### Cache Effectiveness
| | Misses/page | Hit rate |
|---|---|---|
| **Compressed (cold cache)** | 2.1 | 99.85% |
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Implementation was done by Claude Code (Opus 4.6) based on a plan
developed collaboratively. All generated font headers were verified with
an automated round-trip decompression test. The firmware was compiled
successfully but has not yet been tested on-device.
---------
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## Summary
I want to preface this PR by stating that the proposed changes are
subjective to people's opinions. The following is just my suggestion,
but I'm of course open to changes.
The popups in the currently implemented version of the Lyra theme feel a
bit out of place. This PR suggests an updated version which looks a bit
more polished and in line with the rest of the theme.
I've also taken the liberty to remove the ellipsis behind the text of
the popups, as they made the popup feel a bit off balance (example
below).
With the applied changes, popups will look like this.
The vertical position is (more or less) aligned to be in line with the
sleep button. I'm aware the popup is used for other purposes aside from
the sleep message, but this still felt like a good place. It's also a
place where your eyes naturally 'rest'.
The popup has a small 2px white outline, neatly separating it from
whatever is behind it.
### Alternatives considered and rationale behind proposal
Initially I started out worked off the Figma design for the Lyra theme,
which [moves the
popups](https://www.figma.com/design/UhxoV4DgUnfrDQgMPPTXog/Lyra-Theme?node-id=2011-19296&t=Ppj6B2MrFRfUo9YX-1)
to the bottom of the screen. To me, this results in popups that are much
too easy to miss:
After this, I tried moving the popup back up (to the position of the
sleep button), but to me it still kinda disappeared into the text of the
book:
Inverting the colors of the popup made things stand out the perfect
amount in my opinion. The white outline separates the popup from what is
behind it.
This looked much better to me. The only thing that felt a bit off to me,
was the balance due to the ellipsis at the end of the popup text. Also,
"Entering Sleep..." felt a bit.. engineer-y. I felt something a bit more
'conversational' makes at all feel a bit more human-centric. But I'm no
copywriter, and English is not even my native language. So feel free to
chip in!
After tweaking that, I ended up with the final result:
_(Same picture as the first one shown in this PR)_
## Additional Context
* Figma design:
https://www.figma.com/design/UhxoV4DgUnfrDQgMPPTXog/Lyra-Theme?node-id=2011-19296&t=Ppj6B2MrFRfUo9YX-1
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
In some places, button labels are omitted intentionally because the
button has no purpose in the activity. I noticed a few obvious cases,
like Home > File Transfer and Settings > System > Language, where the up
and down button labels were missing. This change fixes those and all
similar instances I could find.
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## Summary
Continue my experiment from
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/801
This PR add the ability to lower the CPU frequency on extended idle
period (currently set to 3 seconds). By default, the esp32c3 CPU is set
to 160MHz, and now on idle, we can reduce it to just 10MHz.
Note that while this functionality is already provided by [esp power
management](https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/v4.3/esp32c3/api-reference/system/power_management.html),
the current Arduino build lacks of this, and enabling it is just too
complicated (not worth the effort compared to this PR)
Update: more info in
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/852#issuecomment-3904562827
## Testing
Pre-condition for each test case: the battery is charged to 100%, and is
left plugged in after fully charged for an extra 1 hour.
The table below shows how much battery is **used** for a given duration:
| case / duration | 6 hrs | 12 hrs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `delay(10)` | 26% | 48% |
| `delay(50)`, PR
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/801 | 20% |
Not tested |
| `delay(50)` + low CPU freq (This PR) | Not tested | 25% |
| `delay(10)` + low CPU freq (1) | Not tested | Not tested |
(1) I decided not to test this case because it may not make sense. The
problem is that CPU frequency vs power consumption do not follow a
linear relationship, see
[this](https://www.arrow.com/en/research-and-events/articles/esp32-power-consumption-can-be-reduced-with-sleep-modes)
as an example. So, tight loop (10ms) + lower CPU freq significantly
impact battery life, because the active CPU time is now much higher
compared to the wall time.
**So in conclusion, this PR improves ~150% to ~200% battery use time per
charge.**
The projected battery life is now: ~36-48 hrs of reading time (normal
reading, no wifi)
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
Several methods in GfxRenderer were doing a `count()` followed by `at()`
on the fonts map, effectively doing the same map lookup unnecessarily.
This can be avoided by doing a single `find()` and reusing the iterator.
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** Fix a dangling pointer issue caused
by using `.c_str()` on a temporary `std::string`.
`basepath.substr()` creates a temporary `std::string`, and calling
`.c_str()` on it returns a pointer to its internal buffer (not a copy).
Since the temporary string is destroyed at the end of the full
expression, `folderName` ends up holding a dangling pointer, leading to
undefined behavior.
To solve this, we stores the result in a persistent `std::string`
object, ensuring the underlying buffer remains valid for the duration of
its use.
A similar pattern caused the behavior reported in
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/728#issuecomment-3902529697
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** Update translators.md to include all
the contributors from #728
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
Skip constructing a `std::string` just to get the underlying `c_str()`
buffer, when a string literal gives the same end result.
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## Summary
This PR includes vocabulary and grammar fixes for Russian translation,
originally made as review comments
[here](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/728).
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Issues solved: #729 and #739
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Currently, the battery icon and charge percentage were aligned to the
left even for the UI, where they were positioned on the right side of
the screen. This meant that when changing values of different numbers of
digits, the battery would shift, creating a block of icons and text that
was illegible.
* **What changes are included?**
- Add drawBatteryUi() method for right-aligned battery display in UI
headers
- Keep drawBattery() for left-aligned display in reader mode
- Extract drawBatteryIcon() helper to reduce code duplication
- Battery icon now stays fixed at right edge regardless of percentage
digits
- Text adjusts to left of icon in UI mode, to right of icon in reader
mode
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
* This fix applies to both themes (Base and Lyra).
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
Add a translators document for us to track which individuals have
volunteered to contribute in which languages.
* **What changes are included?**
Add a new document that includes who the translators are and what
languages they have volunteered for.
## Additional Context
This is primarily to keep a handle on the volunteers coming into the
repo. This will serve as a master list of all volunteer translators.
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
Improve legibility of Cover Icons on the home page and elsewhere. Fixes
#898
* **What changes are included?**
Cover outline is now shown even when cover is found to prevent issues
with low contrast covers blending into the background. Photo is attached
below:
<img width="404" height="510" alt="Group 1 (4)"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9d794b51-554b-486d-8520-6ef920548b9a"
/>
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks,
specific areas to focus on).
Not much else to say here. I did simplify the logic in lyratheme.cpp
based on there no longer being a requirement for any non-cover specific
rendering differences.
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## Summary
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file uploading.)
Updating webserver.md documentation to align with 1.0.0 features
* **What changes are included?**
Added documentation for the following new features (including replacing
screenshots)
- file renaming
- file moving
- support for uploading any file type
- batch uploads
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks,
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
Empty Button Icons (I.E. Back button in the home menu) were still
rendering the full sized white rectangles going passed the boarders of
the little button nub. This was not visible on the home screen due to
the white background, but it does cause issues if we ever want to have
bmp files displayed while buttons are visible or implement a dark mode.
* **What changes are included?**
Made it so that when a button hint text is empty string or null the
displayed mini button nub does not have a white rectangle extending
passed the bounds of the mini button nub
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks,
specific areas to focus on).
Having that extended rectangle was likely never noticed due to the only
space where that feature is used being the main menu where the
background is completely white. I am working on some new features that
would have an image displayed while there are button hints and noticed
this issue while implementing that.
One other note is that this only affects the Lyra Theme
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
This PR introduces Internationalization (i18n) support, enabling users
to switch the UI language dynamically.
**What changes are included?**
- Core Logic: Added I18n class (`lib/I18n/I18n.h/cpp`) to manage
language state and string retrieval.
- Data Structures:
- `lib/I18n/I18nStrings.h/cpp`: Static string arrays for each supported
language.
- `lib/I18n/I18nKeys.h`: Enum definitions for type-safe string access.
- `lib/I18n/translations.csv`: single source of truth.
- Documentation: Added `docs/i18n.md` detailing the workflow for
developers and translators.
- New Settings activity:
`src/activities/settings/LanguageSelectActivity.h/cpp`
## Additional Context
This implementation (building on concepts from #505) prioritizes
performance and memory efficiency.
The core approach is to store all localized strings for each language in
dedicated arrays and access them via enums. This provides O(1) access
with zero runtime overhead, and avoids the heap allocations, hashing,
and collision handling required by `std::map` or `std::unordered_map`.
The main trade-off is that enums and string arrays must remain perfectly
synchronized—any mismatch would result in incorrect strings being
displayed in the UI.
To eliminate this risk, I added a Python script that automatically
generates `I18nStrings.h/.cpp` and `I18nKeys.h` from a CSV file, which
will serve as the single source of truth for all translations. The full
design and workflow are documented in `docs/i18n.md`.
### Next Steps
- [x] Python script `generate_i18n.py` to auto-generate C++ files from
CSV
- [x] Populate translations.csv with initial translations.
Currently available translations: English, Español, Français, Deutsch,
Čeština, Português (Brasil), Русский, Svenska.
Thanks, community!
**Status:** EDIT: ready to be merged.
As a proof of concept, the SPANISH strings currently mirror the English
ones, but are fully uppercased.
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I used AI for the black work of replacing strings with I18n references
across the project, and for generating the documentation. EDIT: also
some help with merging changes from master.
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## Summary
Follow-up to
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/774
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
## Release Notes
* **Refactor**
* Modernized internal synchronization mechanisms across multiple
components to improve code reliability and maintainability. All
functionality remains unchanged.
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This partially fixes#769 but is dependent upon PR #827 being merged
along side this @daveallie. I removed my PNG conversion code after
finding out that PR was already created. Without this PR though that
book in #769 will still fail to load because of how it's stored in the
file
---------
Co-authored-by: Dave Allie <dave@daveallie.com>
## Summary
- EPUB books with PNG cover images now display covers on the home screen
instead of blank rectangles
- Adds `PngToBmpConverter` library mirroring the existing
`JpegToBmpConverter` pattern
- Uses miniz (already in the project) for streaming zlib decompression
of PNG IDAT data
- Supports all PNG color types (Grayscale, RGB, RGBA, Palette,
Gray+Alpha)
- Optimized for ESP32-C3: batch grayscale conversion, 2KB read buffer,
same area-averaging scaling and Atkinson dithering as the JPEG path
## Changes
- **New:** `lib/PngToBmpConverter/PngToBmpConverter.h` — Public API
matching JpegToBmpConverter's interface
- **New:** `lib/PngToBmpConverter/PngToBmpConverter.cpp` — Streaming PNG
decoder + BMP converter
- **Modified:** `lib/Epub/Epub.cpp` — Added `.png` handling in
`generateCoverBmp()` and `generateThumbBmp()`
## Test plan
- [x] Tested with EPUB files using PNG covers — covers appear correctly
on home screen
- [ ] Verify with various PNG color types (most stock EPUBs use 8-bit
RGB)
- [ ] Confirm no regressions with JPEG cover EPUBs
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
**New Features**
- Added PNG format support for EPUB cover and thumbnail images. PNG
files are automatically processed and cached alongside existing
supported formats. This enhancement enables users to leverage PNG cover
artwork when generating EPUB files, improving workflow flexibility and
compatibility with common image sources.
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## Summary
* I am getting miniz warning during compilation: "Using fopen, ftello,
fseeko, stat() etc. path for file I/O - this path may not support large
files."
* Disable the io module from miniz as it is not used and get rid of the
warning
## Additional Context
* the ZipFile.cpp implementation only uses tinfl_decompressor,
tinfl_init(), and tinfl_decompress() (low-level API) and does all ZIP
file parsing manually using SD card file I/O
* it never uses miniz's high-level file functions like
mz_zip_reader_init_file()
* so we can disable Miniz io-stack be setting MINIZ_NO_STDIO to 1
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## Summary
* If an EPUB has:
```
<dc:creator>J.R.R. Tolkien</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>Christopher Tolkien</dc:creator>
```
the current result for epub.author would provide : "J.R.R.
TolkienChristopher Tolkien" (no separator!)
* The fix will seperate multiple authors: "J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher
Tolkien"
## Additional Context
* Simple fix in ContentOpfParser - I am not seeing any dependence on the
wrong concatenated result.
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## Summary
* Include dictionary as in-scope
## Additional Context
* Discussion in
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/discussions/878
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
Minor development tooling fix for nonstandard environments (NixOS,
FreeBSD, Guix, etc.)
**What changes are included?**
- environment relative shebang in `clang-format-fix`
- clang-format check in `clang-format-fix`
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## Summary
* The constant SETTINGS_CONST was hardcoded and needed to be updated
whenever an additional setting was added
* This is no longer necessary as the settings size will be determined
automatically on settings persistence
## Additional Context
* New settings need to be added (as previously) in saveToFile - that's
it
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## Summary
Currently, each activity has to manage their own `displayTaskLoop` which
adds redundant boilerplate code. The loop is a wait loop which is also
not the best practice, as the `updateRequested` boolean is not protected
by a mutex.
In this PR:
- Move `displayTaskLoop` to the super `Activity` class
- Replace `updateRequested` with freeRTOS's [direct to task
notification](https://www.freertos.org/Documentation/02-Kernel/02-Kernel-features/03-Direct-to-task-notifications/01-Task-notifications)
- For `ActivityWithSubactivity`, whenever a sub-activity is present, the
parent's `render()` automatically goes inactive
With this change, activities now only need to expose `render()`
function, and anywhere in the code base can call `requestUpdate()` to
request a new rendering pass.
## Additional Context
In theory, this change may also make the battery life a bit better,
since one wait loop is removed. Although the equipment in my home lab
wasn't been able to verify it (the electric current is too noisy and
small). Would appreciate if anyone has any insights on this subject.
Update: I managed to hack [a small piece of
code](https://github.com/ngxson/crosspoint-reader/tree/xsn/measure_cpu_usage)
that allow tracking CPU idle time.
The CPU load does decrease a bit (1.47% down to 1.39%), which make
sense, because the display task is now sleeping most of the time unless
notified. This should translate to a slightly increase in battery life
in the long run.
```
PR:
[40012] [MEM] Free: 185856 bytes, Total: 231004 bytes, Min Free: 123316 bytes
[40012] [IDLE] Idle time: 98.61% (CPU load: 1.39%)
[50017] [MEM] Free: 185856 bytes, Total: 231004 bytes, Min Free: 123316 bytes
[50017] [IDLE] Idle time: 98.61% (CPU load: 1.39%)
[60022] [MEM] Free: 185856 bytes, Total: 231004 bytes, Min Free: 123316 bytes
[60022] [IDLE] Idle time: 98.61% (CPU load: 1.39%)
master:
[20012] [MEM] Free: 195016 bytes, Total: 231532 bytes, Min Free: 132460 bytes
[20012] [IDLE] Idle time: 98.53% (CPU load: 1.47%)
[30017] [MEM] Free: 195016 bytes, Total: 231532 bytes, Min Free: 132460 bytes
[30017] [IDLE] Idle time: 98.53% (CPU load: 1.47%)
[40022] [MEM] Free: 195016 bytes, Total: 231532 bytes, Min Free: 132460 bytes
[40022] [IDLE] Idle time: 98.53% (CPU load: 1.47%)
```
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Refactor**
* Streamlined rendering architecture by consolidating update mechanisms
across all activities, improving efficiency and consistency.
* Modernized synchronization patterns for display updates to ensure
reliable, conflict-free rendering.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Enhanced rendering stability through improved locking mechanisms and
explicit update requests.
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## Summary
This PR applies a micro optimization on `SerializedHyphenationPatterns`,
which allow reading `rootOffset` directly without having to parse then
cache it.
It should not affect storage space since no new bytes are added.
This also gets rid of the linear cache search whenever
`liangBreakIndexes` is called. In theory, the performance should be
improved a bit, although it may be too small to be noticeable in
practice.
## Testing
master branch:
```
english: 99.1023%
french: 100%
german: 97.7289%
russian: 97.2167%
spanish: 99.0236%
```
This PR:
```
english: 99.1023%
french: 100%
german: 97.7289%
russian: 97.2167%
spanish: 99.0236%
```
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## Summary
- Add embedded image support to EPUB rendering with JPEG and PNG
decoders
- Implement pixel caching system to cache decoded/dithered images to SD
card for faster re-rendering
- Add 4-level grayscale support for display
## Changes
### New Image Rendering System
- Add `ImageBlock` class to represent an image with its cached path and
display dimensions
- Add `PageImage` class as a new `PageElement` type for images on pages
- Add `ImageToFramebufferDecoder` interface for format-specific image
decoders
- Add `JpegToFramebufferConverter` - JPEG decoder with Bayer dithering
and scaling
- Add `PngToFramebufferConverter` - PNG decoder with Bayer dithering and
scaling
- Add `ImageDecoderFactory` to select appropriate decoder based on file
extension
- Add `getRenderMode()` to GfxRenderer for grayscale render mode queries
### Dithering and Grayscale
- Implement 4x4 Bayer ordered dithering for 4-level grayscale output
- Stateless algorithm works correctly with MCU block decoding
- Handles scaling without artifacts
- Add grayscale render mode support (BW, GRAYSCALE_LSB, GRAYSCALE_MSB)
- Image decoders and cache renderer respect current render mode
- Enables proper 4-level e-ink grayscale when anti-aliasing is enabled
### Pixel Caching
- Cache decoded/dithered images to `.pxc` files on SD card
- Cache format: 2-bit packed pixels (4 pixels per byte) with
width/height header
- On subsequent renders, load directly from cache instead of re-decoding
- Cache renderer supports grayscale render modes for multi-pass
rendering
- Significantly improves page navigation speed for image-heavy EPUBs
### HTML Parser Integration
- Update `ChapterHtmlSlimParser` to process `<img>` tags and extract
images from EPUB
- Resolve relative image paths within EPUB ZIP structure
- Extract images to cache directory before decoding
- Create `PageImage` elements with proper scaling to fit viewport
- Fall back to alt text display if image processing fails
### Build Configuration
- Add `PNG_MAX_BUFFERED_PIXELS=6402` to support up to 800px wide images
### Test Script
- Generate test EPUBs with annotated JPEG and PNG images
- Test cases cover: grayscale (4 levels), centering, scaling, cache
performance
## Test plan
- [x] Open EPUB with JPEG images - verify images display with proper
grayscale
- [x] Open EPUB with PNG images - verify images display correctly and no
crash
- [x] Navigate away from image page and back - verify faster load from
cache
- [x] Verify grayscale tones render correctly (not just black/white
dithering)
- [x] Verify large images are scaled down to fit screen
- [x] Verify images are centered horizontally
- [x] Verify page serialization/deserialization works with images
- [x] Verify images rendered in landscape mode
## Test Results
[png](https://photos.app.goo.gl/5zFUb8xA8db3dPd19)
[jpeg](https://photos.app.goo.gl/SwtwaL2DSQwKybhw7)
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## Summary
Closes#766. Thank you for the help @bramschulting!
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- First and foremost, fix issue #766.
- Through working on that, I realized the current CSS parsing/loading
code can be improved dramatically for large files and still had
additional performance improvements to be made, even with EPUBs with
small CSS.
**What changes are included?**
- Stream CSS parsing and reuse normalization buffers to cut allocations
- Add rule limits and selector validation to release rules and free up
memory when needed
- Skip CSS parsing/loading entirely when "Book's Embedded Style" is off
## Additional Context
- My test EPUB has been updated
[here](https://github.com/jdk2pq/css-test-epub) to include a very large
CSS file to test this out
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## Summary
Pre-compress the HTML file to save flash space. I'm using `gzip` because
it's supported everywhere (indeed, we are using the same optimization on
[llama.cpp server](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp), our HTML page
is huge 😅 ).
This free up ~40KB flash space.
Some users suggested using `brotli` which is known to further reduce 20%
in size, but it doesn't supported by firefox (only supports if served
via HTTPS), and some reverse proxy like nginx doesn't support it out of
the box (unrelated in this context, but just mention for completeness)
```
PR:
RAM: [=== ] 31.0% (used 101700 bytes from 327680 bytes)
Flash: [==========] 95.5% (used 6259244 bytes from 6553600 bytes)
master:
RAM: [=== ] 31.0% (used 101700 bytes from 327680 bytes)
Flash: [==========] 96.2% (used 6302416 bytes from 6553600 bytes)
```
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## Summary
Flashing requires the device to be unlocked/awake
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks,
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## Summary
Closes#743.
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- Add back handling for HTML entities in expat. This was originally part
of the code that got removed
[here](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/274)
- Handle ` ` characters to resolve issue #743
**What changes are included?**
- Brought back HTML entity table from previous commit and refactored it
to use a static const char * table with linear lookup to reduce heap
allocations.
- Used `XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand` in expat to parse out the entities
correctly, without needing them defined in DOCTYPE
- Added handling for ` ` so that the text stays together and
doesn't break onto a new line with text separated by an ` `
## Additional Context
- This supersedes [this
PR](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/751)
that simply handled `nbsp;` as whitespace. Instead, we want that
character to serve its true purpose and affect the line-breaking
algorithm.
- Updated my test EPUB [here](https://github.com/jdk2pq/css-test-epub)
with ` ` characters examples at the end of the book
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## Summary
* Definition and use of a central LOG function, that can later be
extended or completely be removed (for public use where debugging
information may not be required) to save flash by suppressing the
-DENABLE_SERIAL_LOG like in the slim branch
* **What changes are included?**
## Additional Context
* By using the central logger the usual:
```
#include <HardwareSerial.h>
...
Serial.printf("[%lu] [WCS] Obfuscating/deobfuscating %zu bytes\n", millis(), data.size());
```
would then become
```
#include <Logging.h>
...
LOG_DBG("WCS", "Obfuscating/deobfuscating %zu bytes", data.size());
```
You do have ``LOG_DBG`` for debug messages, ``LOG_ERR`` for error
messages and ``LOG_INF`` for informational messages. Depending on the
verbosity level defined (see below) soe of these message types will be
suppressed/not-compiled.
* The normal compilation (default) will create a firmware.elf file of
42.194.356 bytes, the same code via slim will create 42.024.048 bytes -
170.308 bytes less
* Firmware.bin : 6.469.984 bytes for default, 6.418.672 bytes for slim -
51.312 bytes less
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## Summary
* Add a small loop in main to be able to receive external commands,
currently being sent via the debugging_monitor
* Implemented command: cmd:SCREENSHOT sends the currently displayed
screen to the monitor, which will then store it to screenshot.bmp
## Additional Context
I was getting annoyed with taking tilted/unsharp photos of the device
screen, so I added the ability to press Enter during the monitor
execution and type SCREENSHOT to send a command. Could be extended in
the future
[screenshot.bmp](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/25213230/screenshot.bmp)
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## Summary
This PR extends the delay in main loop from 10ms to 50ms after the
device is idle for a while. This translates to extended battery life in
a longer period (see testing section above), while not hurting too much
the user experience.
With the help from [this
patch](https://github.com/ngxson/crosspoint-reader/tree/xsn/measure_cpu_usage),
I was able to measure the CPU usage on idle:
```
PR:
[20017] [MEM] Free: 150188 bytes, Total: 232092 bytes, Min Free: 150092 bytes
[20017] [IDLE] Idle time: 99.62% (CPU load: 0.38%)
[30042] [MEM] Free: 150188 bytes, Total: 232092 bytes, Min Free: 150092 bytes
[30042] [IDLE] Idle time: 99.63% (CPU load: 0.37%)
[40067] [MEM] Free: 150188 bytes, Total: 232092 bytes, Min Free: 150092 bytes
[40067] [IDLE] Idle time: 99.62% (CPU load: 0.38%)
master:
[20012] [MEM] Free: 195016 bytes, Total: 231532 bytes, Min Free: 132460 bytes
[20012] [IDLE] Idle time: 98.53% (CPU load: 1.47%)
[30017] [MEM] Free: 195016 bytes, Total: 231532 bytes, Min Free: 132460 bytes
[30017] [IDLE] Idle time: 98.53% (CPU load: 1.47%)
[40022] [MEM] Free: 195016 bytes, Total: 231532 bytes, Min Free: 132460 bytes
[40022] [IDLE] Idle time: 98.53% (CPU load: 1.47%)
```
While this is a x3.8 reduce in CPU usage, it doesn't translate to the
same amount of battery life extension in real life. The reasons are:
1. The CPU is not shut down completely
2. freeRTOS tick is still running (however, I planned to experiment with
tickless functionality)
3. Current leakage to other components, for example: voltage dividers,
eink screen, SD card, etc
A note on
[light-sleep](https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32c3/api-reference/system/sleep_modes.html)
functionality: it is not possible in our use case because:
- Light-sleep for 50ms introduce too much overhead on wake up, it has
negative effect on battery life
- Light-sleep for longer period doesn't work because the ADC GPIO
buttons cannot be used as wake up source
## Testing (duration = 6 hrs)
To test this, I patched the `CrossPointSettings::getSleepTimeoutMs()` to
always returns a timeout of 6 hrs. This allow me to leave the device
idle for 6 hrs straight.
- On master branch, 6 hrs costs 26% battery life (100% --> 74%), meaning
battery life is ~23 hrs
- With this PR, 6 hrs costs 20% battery life (100% --> 80%), meaning
battery life is ~30 hrs
So in theory, this extends the battery by about 7 hrs. Even with some
error margin added, I think 3 hrs increase is possible with a normal
usage setup (i.e. only read ebooks, no wifi)
## Additional Context
Would appreciate if someone can test this with an oscilloscope.
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## Summary
* Unify all serial port debug messages
## Additional Context
* All messages sent to the serial port now follow the "[timestamp]
[origin] payload" format (notable exception framework messages)
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## Summary
Show "Back" in file browser if not in root, "Home" otherwise.
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## Summary
* Manually trigger GPIO update in File Browser mode
* Previously just assumed that the GPIO data would update automatically
(presumably via yield), the data is currently updated in the main loop
(and now here as well during the middle of the processing loop).
* This allows the back button to be correctly detected instead of only
being checked once every 100ms or so for the button state.
## Additional Context
* Fixes
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/issues/579
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Enhanced input state detection in the web server interface for more
responsive and accurate user command recognition during high-frequency
operations.
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Noticed that the Indexing... popup went missing despite 3-5 seconds
delay. Reducing to 10KB, so we get a popup for delays > ~2s.
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Added explanation how to recover from broken config/cache.
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## Summary
* Prevent sleeping when in OPDS browser / downloading books
## Additional Context
* Raised in
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/discussions/673
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## Summary
* I needed the ability to filter and or suppress debug messages
containig certain keywords (eg [GFX] for render related stuff)
* Update of debugging_monitor.py script for development work
## Additional Context
```
usage: debugging_monitor.py [-h] [--baud BAUD] [--filter FILTER] [--suppress SUPPRESS] [port]
ESP32 Monitor with Graph
positional arguments:
port Serial port
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--baud BAUD Baud rate
--filter FILTER Only display lines containing this keyword (case-insensitive)
--suppress SUPPRESS Suppress lines containing this keyword (case-insensitive)
```
* plus a couple of platform specific defaults (port, pip style)
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Added info about optimizing EPUB.
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
Implement natural sort (e.g. "file1.txt, file2.txt, file10.txt" instead
of "file1.txt, file10.txt, file2.txt") for files in the
MyLibraryActivity menu
* **What changes are included?**
Modifies the `sortFileList` function under
`src/activities/home/MyLibraryActivity.cpp` to use natural sort as
opposed to lexicographical sort
## Additional Context
I wasn't entirely sure whether or not i should make this a configurable
option, but most file browsers and directory listing tools have this set
as an immutable default, so I opted against it.
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
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## Summary
fixing issue if book href are absolute url and not relative to the
server
## Additional Context
* Fixes
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/issues/632
* https://github.com/harshit181/RSSPub/issues/43
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This PR unifies navigation handling & adds system-wide support for
continuous navigation.
## Summary
Holding down a navigation button now continuously advances through items
until the button is released. This removes the need for repeated
press-and-release actions and makes navigation faster and smoother,
especially in long menus or documents.
When page-based navigation is available, it will navigate through pages.
If not, it will progress through menu items or similar list-based UI
elements.
Additionally, this PR fixes inconsistencies in wrap-around behavior and
navigation index calculations.
Places where the navigation system was updated:
- Home Page
- Settings Pages
- My Library Page
- WiFi Selection Page
- OPDS Browser Page
- Keyboard
- File Transfer Page
- XTC Chapter Selector Page
- EPUB Chapter Selector Page
I’ve tested this on the device as much as possible and tried to match
the existing behavior. Please let me know if I missed anything. Thanks 🙏
---
Following the request from @osteotek and @daveallie for system-wide
support, the old PR (#379) has been closed in favor of this
consolidated, system-wide implementation.
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** Add Italian language hyphenation
support to improve text rendering for Italian books.
* **What changes are included?**
* Added Italian hyphenation trie (hyph-it.trie.h) generated from Typst's
hypher patterns
* Registered italianHyphenator in LanguageRegistry.cpp for language tag
it
* Added Italian to the hyphenation evaluation test suite
* Added Italian test data file with 5000 test cases
## Additional Context
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---------
Co-authored-by: drbourbon <fabio@MacBook-Air-di-Fabio.local>
## Summary
- Closes#730
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- Adds percentage-based value support to CSS properties that accept
percentages (padding, margin, text-indent)
**What changes are included?**
- Adds `Percent` as another CSS unit
- Passes the viewport width to `fromCssStyle` so that we can resolve
percentage-based values
- Adds a fallback of using an emspace for text-indent if we have an
unresolvable value for whatever reason
## Additional Context
- This was missed in my CSS support feature, and the fallback when we
encounter a percentage value is to use px instead. This means 5% (which
would be ~30px on the screen) turns into 5px. When percentages are used
in `text-indent`, this fallback behavior makes the indent look like a
single space character. Whoops! 😬
My test EPUB has been updated
[here](https://github.com/jdk2pq/css-test-epub) with percentage based
CSS values at the end of the book.
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## Summary
- Closes#730
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- Adds percentage-based value support to CSS properties that accept
percentages (padding, margin, text-indent)
**What changes are included?**
- Adds `Percent` as another CSS unit
- Passes the viewport width to `fromCssStyle` so that we can resolve
percentage-based values
- Adds a fallback of using an emspace for text-indent if we have an
unresolvable value for whatever reason
## Additional Context
- This was missed in my CSS support feature, and the fallback when we
encounter a percentage value is to use px instead. This means 5% (which
would be ~30px on the screen) turns into 5px. When percentages are used
in `text-indent`, this fallback behavior makes the indent look like a
single space character. Whoops! 😬
My test EPUB has been updated
[here](https://github.com/jdk2pq/css-test-epub) with percentage based
CSS values at the end of the book.
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## Summary
* Allow OTA update from RC build to full release
* If all the segments match, then also check if the current version
contains "-rc"
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## Summary
* Allow OTA update from RC build to full release
* If all the segments match, then also check if the current version
contains "-rc"
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I had an epub that just showed a blank cover and wouldnt work for the
sleep screen either, turns out it was an epub3 and I guess we didn't
support that. Super simple fix here
## Summary
This is an updated version of @itsthisjustin's #346 that builds on
current master and also deduplicates the settings list so we don't have
two copies of the settings. In the Web UI, it should organize the
settings a little closer to what you see on device.
## Additional Context
I tested this live on device and it seems to play nicely for me. It's
re-based on master since master's settings stuff has moved somewhat
since the original PR and addresses the sole review comment #346 - it
also means that I don't need to manually key in the URL for my OPDS
server. :)
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Co-authored-by: Dave Allie <dave@daveallie.com>
## Summary
Continue my changes to introduce the HAL infrastructure from
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/522
This PR touches quite a lot of files, but most of them are just name
changing. It should not have any impacts to the end behavior.
## Additional Context
My plan is to firstly add this small shim layer, which sounds useless at
first, but then I'll implement an emulated driver which can be helpful
for testing and for development.
Currently, on my fork, I'm using a FS driver that allow "mounting" a
local directory from my computer to the device, much like the `-v` mount
option on docker. This allows me to quickly reset `.crosspoint`
directory if anything goes wrong. I plan to upstream this feature when
this PR get merged.
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- Just a simple rename after feedback in #738
**What changes are included?**
- Renamed "Embedded Style" to "Book's Embedded Style" to more clearly
associate it with "Book's Style" option in "Paragraph Alignment"
settings
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## Summary
Ref https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/737
This PR further reduce ~25ms from rendering time, testing inside the
Setting screen:
```
master:
[68440] [GFX] Time = 73 ms from clearScreen to displayBuffer
PR:
[97806] [GFX] Time = 47 ms from clearScreen to displayBuffer
```
And in extreme case (fill the entire screen with black or gray color):
```
master:
[1125] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 327 ms
[1347] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms
PR:
[1334] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 225 ms
[1455] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 121 ms
```
Note that
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/737 is NOT
applied on top of this PR. But with 2 of them combined, it should reduce
from 47ms --> 42ms
## Details
This PR based on the fact that function calls are costly if the function
is small enough. For example, this simple call:
```
int rotatedX = 0;
int rotatedY = 0;
rotateCoordinates(x, y, &rotatedX, &rotatedY);
```
Generated assembly code:
<img width="771" height="215" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/37991659-3304-41c3-a3b2-fb967da53f82"
/>
This adds ~10 instructions just to prepare the registers prior to the
function call, plus some more instructions for the function's
epilogue/prologue. Inlining it removing all of these:
<img width="1471" height="832" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b67a22ee-93ba-4017-88ed-c973e28ec914"
/>
Of course, this optimization is not magic. It's only beneficial under 3
conditions:
- The function is small, not in size, but in terms of effective
instructions. For example, the `rotateCoordinates` is simply a jump
table, where each branch is just 3-4 inst
- The function has multiple input arguments, which requires some move to
put it onto the correct place
- The function is called very frequently (i.e. critical path)
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## Summary
Fix for the page skip issue detected
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/700#issuecomment-3856374323
by user @whyte-j
Skipping down on the last page now skips to the last item, and up on the
first page to the first item, rather than wrapping around the list in a
weird way.
## Additional Context
The calculation was outdated after several changes were added afterwards
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## Summary
This PR optimizes the `fillRectDither` function, making it as fast as a
normal `fillRect`
Testing code:
```cpp
{
auto start_t = millis();
renderer.fillRectDither(0, 0, renderer.getScreenWidth(), renderer.getScreenHeight(), Color::LightGray);
auto elapsed = millis() - start_t;
Serial.printf("[%lu] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in %lu ms\n", millis(), elapsed);
}
{
auto start_t = millis();
renderer.fillRect(0, 0, renderer.getScreenWidth(), renderer.getScreenHeight(), true);
auto elapsed = millis() - start_t;
Serial.printf("[%lu] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in %lu ms\n", millis(), elapsed);
}
```
Before:
```
[1125] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 327 ms
[1347] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms
```
After:
```
[1065] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 238 ms
[1287] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms
```
## Visual validation
Before:
<img width="415" height="216" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 01 04 19"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5802dbba-187b-4d2b-a359-1318d3932d38"
/>
After:
<img width="420" height="191" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 01 36 30"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3c3c8e14-3f3a-4205-be78-6ed771dcddf4"
/>
## Details
The original version is quite slow because it does quite a lot of
computations. A single pixel needs around 20 instructions just to know
if it's black or white:
<img width="1170" height="693" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 00 15 54"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7c5a55e7-0598-4340-8b7b-17307d7921cb"
/>
With the new, templated and more light-weight approach, each pixel takes
only 3-4 instructions, the modulo operator is translated into bitwise
ops:
<img width="1175" height="682" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 01 47 51"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ec2cf74-6cc0-4b5b-87d5-831563ef164f"
/>
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## Summary
Ref https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/737
This PR further reduce ~25ms from rendering time, testing inside the
Setting screen:
```
master:
[68440] [GFX] Time = 73 ms from clearScreen to displayBuffer
PR:
[97806] [GFX] Time = 47 ms from clearScreen to displayBuffer
```
And in extreme case (fill the entire screen with black or gray color):
```
master:
[1125] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 327 ms
[1347] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms
PR:
[1334] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 225 ms
[1455] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 121 ms
```
Note that
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/737 is NOT
applied on top of this PR. But with 2 of them combined, it should reduce
from 47ms --> 42ms
## Details
This PR based on the fact that function calls are costly if the function
is small enough. For example, this simple call:
```
int rotatedX = 0;
int rotatedY = 0;
rotateCoordinates(x, y, &rotatedX, &rotatedY);
```
Generated assembly code:
<img width="771" height="215" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/37991659-3304-41c3-a3b2-fb967da53f82"
/>
This adds ~10 instructions just to prepare the registers prior to the
function call, plus some more instructions for the function's
epilogue/prologue. Inlining it removing all of these:
<img width="1471" height="832" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b67a22ee-93ba-4017-88ed-c973e28ec914"
/>
Of course, this optimization is not magic. It's only beneficial under 3
conditions:
- The function is small, not in size, but in terms of effective
instructions. For example, the `rotateCoordinates` is simply a jump
table, where each branch is just 3-4 inst
- The function has multiple input arguments, which requires some move to
put it onto the correct place
- The function is called very frequently (i.e. critical path)
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## Summary
Fix for the page skip issue detected
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/700#issuecomment-3856374323
by user @whyte-j
Skipping down on the last page now skips to the last item, and up on the
first page to the first item, rather than wrapping around the list in a
weird way.
## Additional Context
The calculation was outdated after several changes were added afterwards
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- Just a simple rename after feedback in #738
**What changes are included?**
- Renamed "Embedded Style" to "Book's Embedded Style" to more clearly
associate it with "Book's Style" option in "Paragraph Alignment"
settings
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## Summary
This PR optimizes the `fillRectDither` function, making it as fast as a
normal `fillRect`
Testing code:
```cpp
{
auto start_t = millis();
renderer.fillRectDither(0, 0, renderer.getScreenWidth(), renderer.getScreenHeight(), Color::LightGray);
auto elapsed = millis() - start_t;
Serial.printf("[%lu] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in %lu ms\n", millis(), elapsed);
}
{
auto start_t = millis();
renderer.fillRect(0, 0, renderer.getScreenWidth(), renderer.getScreenHeight(), true);
auto elapsed = millis() - start_t;
Serial.printf("[%lu] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in %lu ms\n", millis(), elapsed);
}
```
Before:
```
[1125] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 327 ms
[1347] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms
```
After:
```
[1065] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 238 ms
[1287] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms
```
## Visual validation
Before:
<img width="415" height="216" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 01 04 19"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5802dbba-187b-4d2b-a359-1318d3932d38"
/>
After:
<img width="420" height="191" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 01 36 30"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3c3c8e14-3f3a-4205-be78-6ed771dcddf4"
/>
## Details
The original version is quite slow because it does quite a lot of
computations. A single pixel needs around 20 instructions just to know
if it's black or white:
<img width="1170" height="693" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 00 15 54"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7c5a55e7-0598-4340-8b7b-17307d7921cb"
/>
With the new, templated and more light-weight approach, each pixel takes
only 3-4 instructions, the modulo operator is translated into bitwise
ops:
<img width="1175" height="682" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 01 47 51"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ec2cf74-6cc0-4b5b-87d5-831563ef164f"
/>
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## Summary
* Inverts back button behaviour while reading - short press to go home,
long press to open file browser
## Additional Context
* It seems counterintuitive that going into a book from home screen and
pressing back doesn’t take you back to the home screen. With the recent
books now displayed in the home view and a separate recents view, going
directly to the file browser is less necessary.
Closes#182. Closes#710. Closes#711.
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- A longer-term, more robust fix for the issue with spurious spaces
appearing after style changes. Replaces solution from #694.
**What changes are included?**
- Add continuation flags to determine if to add a space after a word or
if the word connects to the previous word. Replaces simple solution that
only considered ending punctuation.
- Fixed an issue with greedy line-breaking algorithm where punctuation
could appear on the next line, separated from the word, if there was a
style change between the word and punctuation
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## Summary
Reduce/fix the lag on the home screen before recent book covers are
rendered
## Additional Context
We were previously rendering the screen in two steps, delaying the
recent book covers render to avoid a lag before the screen loads.
In this PR, we are now doing that only if at least one book doesn't have
the cover thumbnail generated yet. If all thumbs are already generated,
we load and display them right away, with no lag.
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Closes#182. Closes#710. Closes#711.
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- A longer-term, more robust fix for the issue with spurious spaces
appearing after style changes. Replaces solution from #694.
**What changes are included?**
- Add continuation flags to determine if to add a space after a word or
if the word connects to the previous word. Replaces simple solution that
only considered ending punctuation.
- Fixed an issue with greedy line-breaking algorithm where punctuation
could appear on the next line, separated from the word, if there was a
style change between the word and punctuation
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## Summary
Reduce/fix the lag on the home screen before recent book covers are
rendered
## Additional Context
We were previously rendering the screen in two steps, delaying the
recent book covers render to avoid a lag before the screen loads.
In this PR, we are now doing that only if at least one book doesn't have
the cover thumbnail generated yet. If all thumbs are already generated,
we load and display them right away, with no lag.
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Closes#712
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- To add new settings for toggling on/off embedded CSS styles in the
reader. This gives more control and customization to the user over how
the ereader experience looks.
**What changes are included?**
- Added new "Embedded Style" option to the Reader settings
- Added new "Book's Style" option for "Paragraph Alignment"
- User's selected "Paragraph Alignment" will take precedence and
override the embedded CSS `text-align` property, _unless_ the user has
"Book's Style" set as their "Paragraph Alignment"
## Additional Context
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e404b13-c7e0-41c7-9406-4715f389166a
Addresses feedback from the community about the new CSS feature:
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/700
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Closes#712
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- To add new settings for toggling on/off embedded CSS styles in the
reader. This gives more control and customization to the user over how
the ereader experience looks.
**What changes are included?**
- Added new "Embedded Style" option to the Reader settings
- Added new "Book's Style" option for "Paragraph Alignment"
- User's selected "Paragraph Alignment" will take precedence and
override the embedded CSS `text-align` property, _unless_ the user has
"Book's Style" set as their "Paragraph Alignment"
## Additional Context
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e404b13-c7e0-41c7-9406-4715f389166a
Addresses feedback from the community about the new CSS feature:
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/700
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## Summary
* Direct swap of X with new logo for boot and sleep screens
* More to be done here in the future to make these screens look a little
nicer
## Additional Context
* The design comes straight from @lepislepis -
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/discussions/396#discussioncomment-15590508
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## Summary
This pull request introduces a new "Chapter Progress Bar" mode to the
status bar, allowing users to track their progress within the current
chapter in addition to the existing book-level progress options. It also
unifies and increases the progress bar height for better visibility, and
updates the settings UI to support the new mode.
Closes#636
**Status Bar/Progress Bar Enhancements:**
* Added a new `CHAPTER_PROGRESS_BAR` mode to
`CrossPointSettings::STATUS_BAR_MODE`, and updated the settings UI to
allow users to select this mode.
[[1]](diffhunk://#diff-3af36372bb6233a83387a68091b5e0651c23585c7c0a95669ed893268ca709a8R34)
[[2]](diffhunk://#diff-c55df9ec3ade843be000ba463cb75aa3df27dc34620a56c248fc4cc4e917b34bL22-R23)
* Implemented `drawChapterProgressBar` in `ScreenComponents` and
integrated it into both EPUB and TXT reader activities, so the chapter
progress bar is displayed when the new mode is selected.
[[1]](diffhunk://#diff-be271778a942f7fab0d920acd73442512346ff811a4625c011275a7ca6be3a3eL51-R64)
[[2]](diffhunk://#diff-dd410cab3a363d78172706d2ad6591f327e9b5b05f314db405db31a667af03faL16-R20)
[[3]](diffhunk://#diff-82798dedbe135495e619d4aa27a4bef560c70c7663cf43148b67a26ddde45682R518-R525)
[[4]](diffhunk://#diff-471ba9d9eb65b1a8451d41246db2aa695a42ea4ae4762163adfda4c20fec0950R563-R567)
* Updated logic in EPUB and TXT reader activities to show the correct
progress bar, progress text, and battery indicator based on the selected
status bar mode, including the new chapter progress bar mode.
[[1]](diffhunk://#diff-82798dedbe135495e619d4aa27a4bef560c70c7663cf43148b67a26ddde45682R470-R481)
[[2]](diffhunk://#diff-82798dedbe135495e619d4aa27a4bef560c70c7663cf43148b67a26ddde45682L490-R503)
[[3]](diffhunk://#diff-471ba9d9eb65b1a8451d41246db2aa695a42ea4ae4762163adfda4c20fec0950R522-R533)
[[4]](diffhunk://#diff-471ba9d9eb65b1a8451d41246db2aa695a42ea4ae4762163adfda4c20fec0950L539-R548)
**UI/Visual Tweaks:**
* Increased the progress bar height from 4 to 6 pixels for improved
visibility, and refactored code to use the new constant.
[[1]](diffhunk://#diff-dd410cab3a363d78172706d2ad6591f327e9b5b05f314db405db31a667af03faL16-R20)
[[2]](diffhunk://#diff-82798dedbe135495e619d4aa27a4bef560c70c7663cf43148b67a26ddde45682L295-R295)
[[3]](diffhunk://#diff-471ba9d9eb65b1a8451d41246db2aa695a42ea4ae4762163adfda4c20fec0950L177-R177)
These changes collectively provide users with more granular progress
tracking options and a clearer visual indicator for reading progress.
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Move the "Sync Progress" option from TOC (Chapter Selection) screen to
the Reader Menu, and fix use-after-free crashes related to callback
handling in activity lifecycle.
* **What changes are included?**
- Added "Sync Progress" as a menu item in `EpubReaderMenuActivity` (now
4 items: Go to Chapter, Sync Progress, Go Home, Delete Book Cache)
- Removed sync-related logic from `EpubReaderChapterSelectionActivity` -
TOC now only displays chapters
- Implemented `pendingGoHome` and `pendingSubactivityExit` flags in
`EpubReaderActivity` to safely handle activity destruction
- Fixed GO_HOME, DELETE_CACHE, and SYNC menu actions to use deferred
callbacks avoiding use-after-free
## Additional Context
* Root cause of crashes: callbacks like `onGoHome()` or `onCancel()`
invoked from activity handlers could destroy the current activity while
code was still executing, causing use-after-free and race conditions
with FreeRTOS display task.
* Solution: Deferred execution pattern - set flags and process them in
`loop()` after all nested activity loops have safely returned.
* Files changed: `EpubReaderMenuActivity.h`,
`EpubReaderActivity.h/.cpp`, `EpubReaderChapterSelectionActivity.h/.cpp`
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Fixes issue #182
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
When inline styles change mid-paragraph, words like periods, commas, and
quotes could end up as separate tokens. The justified text algorithm was
treating these as regular words, adding space before them.
**What changes are included?**
Now tracks which words are "attaching punctuation" (., , ! ? ; : " ' and
smart quotes) and excludes them from gap counting. These punctuation
marks attach directly to the preceding word without spacing.
## Additional Context
This is split out from code in #411 to address this comment
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/411#discussion_r2751166631
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## Summary
Minor fix
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
Add shift lock to KeyboardEntryActivity
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/00973866-6b87-4d5b-a3bf-6f4f85a5e0a6
(Apologies for the graininess of the video - I was struggling to get it
below 10mb)
* **What changes are included?**
* Relax shift disable criteria to include any character
* Add third shift option `LOCK` which is not disabled on character
entry.
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks,
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
This adds renaming and moving files to the File Manager
* **What changes are included?**
New `/move` and `/rename` endpoints, and corresponding modals and icons
added. Uses the `file.rename()` function, after sanity checking.
## Additional Context
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Fixes#559, #661, #663. Only touches the File Manager, so low risk of
affecting other systems.
Simpler than #619, at the cost of not migrating the cache of renamed
books.
<img width="870" height="437" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/73e0e750-dfc8-48e0-a7a6-9694470b7ded"
/>
<img width="575" height="318" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/38c5fb19-c38a-436b-b3ad-75c1be7375ab"
/>
<img width="574" height="293" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1d2a2403-765d-473f-8c4f-c6968e9bbfeb"
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I used Codex for the implementation itself, and then carefully reviewed
the code myself. As this is a simple change and only to the webserver,
it is low risk.
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
The goal of this PR is to deliver a fix for or at least mitigate the
impact of the issue described in #561
* **What changes are included?**
This PR includes a new option "Sunlight Fading Fix" under "Settings ->
Display".
When set to ON, we will disable the displays analog supply voltage after
every update and turn it back on before the next update.
## Additional Context
* Until now, I was only able to do limited testing because of limited
sunlight at my location, but the fix seems to be working. I'll also
attach a pre-built binary based on 0.16.0 (current master) with the fix
applied to the linked ticket, as building this fix is a bit annoying
because the submodule open-x4-sdk also needs an update.
* [PR in
open-x4-sdk](https://github.com/open-x4-epaper/community-sdk/pull/15)
needs to be merged first, we also need to add another commit to this
here PR, updating this dependency.
* I decided to hide this behind a default-OFF option. While I'm not
really concerned that this fix might potentially damage the display,
someone more knowledgeable on E-Ink technology could maybe have a look
at this.
* There's a binary attached in the linked issue, if someone has the
required sunlight to test this in-depth.
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## Summary
* Add PR title check on sync
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## Summary
* Adds Go To % action in Epub Reader menu with slider style percent
selector
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** Provide support to koreader sync
server embedded in the popular *Calibre Web Automated* self-hosted
digital library solution.
* **What changes are included?**
* Trivial addition of **HTTP Basic Auth (RFC 7617) header** to
`lib/KOReaderSync/KOReaderSyncClient.cpp`
## Additional Context
None
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## Summary
* Add CI check job to consolidate status
## Additional Context
* As in the inline comment:
> This job is used as the PR required actions check, allows for changes
to other steps in the future without breaking PR requirements.
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## Summary
* adds rotation setting in epub reader menu, actual rotation happens on
going back
* improves button hint drawing to draw correctly in all orientations
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## Summary
Allows to fallback to custom sleep screens if the book does not have a
cover.
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## Summary
Use non-crop mode as expected for home thumb generation. I likely broke
this when I fixed the artifacts on the sleep screen.
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
- Allows back button to be held to escape boot loops when reader
activity crashes and device attempts to boot to previous state
- Reduces the need of removing SD card and access to another device to
delete the `/.crosspoint/state.bin`
* **What changes are included?**
- Back button can be held while booting to boot to home screen
- Update of User Guide section to include this feature
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## Summary
* Additional documentation for CrossPoint in the way of a SCOPE.md and
GOVERNANCE.md document.
* These are intentionally pretty lightweight for now
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## Summary
### What is the goal of this PR?
- Visual UI overhaul
- UI theme selection
### What changes are included?
- Added a setting "UI Theme": Classic, Lyra
- The classic theme is the current Crosspoint theme
- The Lyra theme implements these mockups:
https://www.figma.com/design/UhxoV4DgUnfrDQgMPPTXog/Lyra-Theme?node-id=2003-7596&t=4CSOZqf0n9uQMxDt-0
by Discord users yagofarias, ruby and gan_shu
- New functions in GFXRenderer to render rounded rectangles, greyscale
fills (using dithering) and thick lines
- Basic UI components are factored into BaseTheme methods which can be
overridden by each additional theme. Methods that are not overridden
will fallback to BaseTheme behavior. This means any new
features/components in CrossPoint only need to be developed for the
"Classic" BaseTheme.
- Additional themes can easily be developed by the community using this
foundation
## Additional Context
- Only the Home, Library and main Settings screens have been implemented
so far, this will be extended to the transfer screens and chapter
selection screen later on, but we need to get the ball rolling somehow
:)
- Loading extra covers on the home screen in the Lyra theme takes a
little more time (about 2 seconds), I added a loading bar popup (reusing
the Indexing progress bar from the reader view, factored into a neat UI
component) but the popup adds ~400ms to the loading time.
- ~~Home screen thumbnails will need to be generated separately for each
theme, because they are displayed in different sizes. Because we're
using dithering, displaying a thumb with the wrong size causes the
picture to look janky or dark as it does on the screenshots above. No
worries this will be fixed in a future PR.~~ Thumbs are now generated
with a size parameter
- UI Icons will need to be implemented in a future PR.
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
- Adds basic CSS parsing to EPUBs and determine the CSS rules when
rendering to the screen so that text is styled correctly. Currently
supports bold, underline, italics, margin, padding, and text alignment
## Additional Context
- My main reason for wanting this is that the book I'm currently
reading, Carl's Doomsday Scenario (2nd in the Dungeon Crawler Carl
series), relies _a lot_ on styled text for telling parts of the story.
When text is bolded, it's supposed to be a message that's rendered
"on-screen" in the story. When characters are "chatting" with each
other, the text is bolded and their names are underlined. Plus, normal
emphasis is provided with italicizing words here and there. So, this
greatly improves my experience reading this book on the Xteink, and I
figured it was useful enough for others too.
- For transparency: I'm a software engineer, but I'm mostly frontend and
TypeScript/JavaScript. It's been _years_ since I did any C/C++, so I
would not be surprised if I'm doing something dumb along the way in this
code. Please don't hesitate to ask for changes if something looks off. I
heavily relied on Claude Code for help, and I had a lot of inspiration
from how [microreader](https://github.com/CidVonHighwind/microreader)
achieves their CSS parsing and styling. I did give this as good of a
code review as I could and went through everything, and _it works on my
machine_ 😄
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## Summary
The main motivation behind this PR was because `uploadBuffer` is
statically allocated, but only used when web server is enabled. This
results in 4KB of memory sitting idle most of the time.
As expected, 4KB of initial RAM is freed with this PR:
```
master:
RAM: [=== ] 32.5% (used 106508 bytes from 327680 bytes)
PR:
RAM: [=== ] 31.2% (used 102276 bytes from 327680 bytes)
```
## Additional Context
This also highlights the importance of only using statically-allocated
buffer when absolutely needed (for example, if the component is active
most of the time). Otherwise, it makes more sense to tie the buffer's
life cycle to its activity.
---
### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? NO
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- Minor correction to the `debugging_monitor.py` script instructions
**What changes are included?**
- `pyserial` should be installed, NOT `serial`, which is a [different
lib](https://pypi.org/project/serial/)
- Added macOS serial port
## Additional Context
- Just a minor docs update. I can confirm the debugging script is
working great on macOS
---
### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**< NO >**_
## Summary
* Instruction text says "Press OK to scan again" but button label is
actually "Connect" (not OK)
* Corrects instruction text
---
### AI Usage
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? **No**
## Rationale
I have 2 wifi access points with almost identical names, just one has
`_EXT` at the end of it. With the current display limit of 13 characters
before adding ellipsis, I can't tell which is which.
Before device screenshot with masked SSIDs:
<img
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3c5cbbaa-b2f6-412f-b5a8-6278963bd0f2"
width="300">
## Summary
Adjusted displayed length from 13 characters to 30 in the Wifi selection
screen - I've left some space for potential proportional font changes in
the future
After image with masked SSIDs:
<img
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c5f0712b-bbd3-4eec-9820-4693fae90c9f"
width="300">
---
### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**< NO >**_
## Summary
Resolves#562
Implements regex change to support valid characters discussed by
@daveallie in issue
[here](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/issues/562#issuecomment-3830809156).
Also rejects `.` and `..` as folder names which are invalid in FAT32 and
exFAT filesystems
## Additional Context
- Unsure on the wording for the alert, it feels overly explicit, but
that might be a good thing. Happy to change.
---
### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**< PARTIALLY >**_
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Add a debugging script to help developers monitor the ESP32 serial port
directly from a PC.
* **What changes are included?**
Added a new script: scripts/debugging_monitor.py
## Additional Context
While working on a new Crosspoint-Reader feature, it quickly became
clear that watching the ESP32 serial output without any visual cues was
inconvenient and easy to mess up.
This script improves the debugging experience by reading data from the
serial port and providing:
1. A timestamp prefix for every log line (instead of milliseconds since
power-up)
2. Color-coded output for different message types
3. A secondary window displaying a live graph of RAM usage, which is
especially useful for tracking the memory impact of new features
<img width="1916" height="1049" alt="Screenshot_20260126_183811"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6291887f-ac17-43ac-9e43-f5dec8a7097e"
/>
---
### AI Usage
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**< PARTIALLY >**_
I wrote the initial version of the script. Gemini was used to help add
the Matplotlib-based graphing and threading logic.
## Summary
* Truncating chapter titles using utf8 safe functions (Cyrillic titles
were split mid codepoint)
* refactoring of lib/Utf8
---
### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**< PARTIALLY >**_
## Summary
* Fixing custom sleep behaviour where the first image in the /sleep
directory is not shown
* image at index 0 is not being rendered when more than 1 image is
stored in /sleep directory, because `APP_STATE.lastSleepImage` is always
0.
## Additional Context
* `APP_STATE.lastSleepImage` is reset to 0 when a epub is open, this
value is only used to compare it to the randomly selected one in
`renderCustomSleepScreen()` that should always be a valid index, since
the list of valid bmp images is colected from scratch. -> no need to
reset it and block image @ index 0 from being rendered
---
### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**NO**_
Co-authored-by: Oyster <Oyster@home>
## Summary
* This change hides the button hints from overlapping chapter titles
when in landscape CW mode.
Before
After
## Additional Context
* I initially considered implementing an offset fix, but with potential
UI changes on the horizon, hiding the button hints appears to be the
simplest solution for now.
---
### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? < Partially >
## Summary
* Clarify strings on Wifi connection error screens
* I have confirmed on device that these are short enough not to overflow
screen margins
## Additional Context
* Several screens give duplicative text (e.g., header "Connection
Failed" with contents text "Connection failed") or slightly confusing
text (header "Forget Network?" with text "Remove saved password?")
---
### AI Usage
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? **No**
## Summary
* refactors Indexing popups into ScreenComponents (they had different
implementations in different files)
* removes Indexing popup for small chapters
* only show Indexing popup (without progress bar) for large chapters
(using same minimum file size condition as for progress bar before)
## Additional Context
* Having to show even single popup message and redraw the screen slows
down the flow significantly
* Testing results:
* Opening large chapter with progress bar - 11 seconds
* Same chapter without progress bar, only single Indexing popup - 5
seconds
---
### AI Usage
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**< PARTIALLY>**_
## Summary
* Adds a menu in the Epub reader
* The Chapter selection is moved there to pos 1 (so it can be reached by
double tapping the confirm button)
* A Go Home is there, too
* Most significantly, a function "Delete Book Cache" is added. This
returns to main (to avoid directly rebuilding cached items, eg. if this
is used to debug/develop other areas - and it's also easier ;))
Probably, the Sync function could now be moved from the Chapter
selection to this menu, too.
---
### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**PARTIALLY**_
## Summary
Extracted some changes from
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/500 to make
reviewing easier
This PR adds HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) for display and GPIO
components, making it easier to write a stub or an emulated
implementation of the hardware.
SD card HAL will be added via another PR, because it's a bit more
tricky.
---
### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? **NO**
* **What is the goal of this PR?** Implement a metadata viewer for the
Recents screen
* **What changes are included?**
| Recents | Files |
| --- | --- |
| <img alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e0f2d816-ddce-4a2e-bd4a-cd431d0e6532"
/> | <img alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3225cdce-d501-4175-bc92-73cb8bfe7a41"
/> |
For the Files screen, I have not made any changes on purpose. For the
Recents screen, we now display the Book title and author. If it is a
file with no epub metadata like txt or md, we display the file name
without the file extension.
---
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**< YES >**_
Although I went trough all the code manually and made changes as well,
please be aware the majority of the code is AI generated.
---------
Co-authored-by: Eliz Kilic <elizk@google.com>
2026-01-28 04:25:42 +11:00
316 changed files with 171634 additions and 266666 deletions
@@ -45,11 +45,13 @@ Multi-language support: Read EPUBs in various languages, including English, Span
See [the user guide](./USER_GUIDE.md) for instructions on operating CrossPoint.
For more details about the scope of the project, see the [SCOPE.md](SCOPE.md) document.
## Installing
### Web (latest firmware)
1. Connect your Xteink X4 to your computer via USB-C
1. Connect your Xteink X4 to your computer via USB-C and wake/unlock the device
2. Go to https://xteink.dve.al/ and click "Flash CrossPoint firmware"
To revert back to the official firmware, you can flash the latest official firmware from https://xteink.dve.al/, or swap
@@ -58,7 +60,7 @@ back to the other partition using the "Swap boot partition" button here https://
### Web (specific firmware version)
1. Connect your Xteink X4 to your computer via USB-C
2. Download the `firmware.bin` file from the release of your choice via the [releases page](https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/releases)
2. Download the `firmware.bin` file from the release of your choice via the [releases page](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/releases)
3. Go to https://xteink.dve.al/ and flash the firmware file using the "OTA fast flash controls" section
To revert back to the official firmware, you can flash the latest official firmware from https://xteink.dve.al/, or swap
@@ -82,7 +84,7 @@ See [Development](#development) below.
CrossPoint uses PlatformIO for building and flashing the firmware. To get started, clone the repository:
@@ -133,9 +154,12 @@ For more details on the internal file structures, see the [file formats document
Contributions are very welcome!
If you're looking for a way to help out, take a look at the [ideas discussion board](https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/discussions/categories/ideas).
If you're looking for a way to help out, take a look at the [ideas discussion board](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/discussions/categories/ideas).
If there's something there you'd like to work on, leave a comment so that we can avoid duplicated effort.
Everyone here is a volunteer, so please be respectful and patient. For more details on our goverance and community
principles, please see [GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md).
@@ -102,6 +105,7 @@ The Settings screen allows you to configure the device's behavior. There are a f
- "Custom" - Custom images from the SD card; see [Sleep Screen](#36-sleep-screen) below for more information
- "Cover" - The book cover image (Note: this is experimental and may not work as expected)
- "None" - A blank screen
- "Cover + Custom" - The book cover image, fallbacks to "Custom" behavior
- **Sleep Screen Cover Mode**: How to display the book cover when "Cover" sleep screen is selected:
- "Fit" (default) - Scale the image down to fit centered on the screen, padding with white borders as necessary
- "Crop" - Scale the image down and crop as necessary to try to to fill the screen (Note: this is experimental and may not work as expected)
@@ -112,7 +116,10 @@ The Settings screen allows you to configure the device's behavior. There are a f
- **Status Bar**: Configure the status bar displayed while reading:
- "None" - No status bar
- "No Progress" - Show status bar without reading progress
- "Full" - Show status bar with reading progress
- "Full w/ Percentage" - Show status bar with book progress (as percentage)
- "Full w/ Book Bar" - Show status bar with book progress (as bar)
- "Book Bar Only" - Show book progress (as bar)
- "Full w/ Chapter Bar" - Show status bar with chapter progress (as bar)
- **Hide Battery %**: Configure where to suppress the battery pecentage display in the status bar; the battery icon will still be shown:
- "Never" - Always show battery percentage (default)
- "In Reader" - Show battery percentage everywhere except in reading mode
@@ -148,6 +155,9 @@ The Settings screen allows you to configure the device's behavior. There are a f
- **Reader Paragraph Alignment**: Set the alignment of paragraphs; options are "Justified" (default), "Left", "Center", or "Right".
- **Time to Sleep**: Set the duration of inactivity before the device automatically goes to sleep.
- **Refresh Frequency**: Set how often the screen does a full refresh while reading to reduce ghosting.
- **Sunlight Fading Fix**: Configure whether to enable a software-fix for the issue where white X4 models may fade when used in direct sunlight
- "OFF" (default) - Disable the fix
- "ON" - Enable the fix
- **OPDS Browser**: Configure OPDS server settings for browsing and downloading books. Set the server URL (for Calibre Content Server, add `/opds` to the end), and optionally configure username and password for servers requiring authentication. Note: Only HTTP Basic authentication is supported. If using Calibre Content Server with authentication enabled, you must set it to use Basic authentication instead of the default Digest authentication.
- **Check for updates**: Check for firmware updates over WiFi.
@@ -201,7 +211,7 @@ CrossPoint renders text using the following Unicode character blocks, enabling s
***Cyrillic Script (Standard and Extended):** Covers Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, and others.
What is not supported: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic and Farsi.
What is not supported: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek and Farsi.
---
@@ -220,3 +230,18 @@ Accessible by pressing **Confirm** while inside a book.
Please note that this firmware is currently in active development. The following features are **not yet supported** but are planned for future updates:
* **Images:** Embedded images in e-books will not render.
* **Cover Images:** Large cover images embedded into EPUB require several seconds (~10s for ~2000 pixel tall image) to convert for sleep screen and home screen thumbnail. Consider optimizing the EPUB with e.g. https://github.com/bigbag/epub-to-xtc-converter to speed this up.
---
## 7. Troubleshooting Issues & Escaping Bootloop
If an issue or crash is encountered while using Crosspoint, feel free to raise an issue ticket and attach the serial monitor logs. The logs can be obtained by connecting the device to a computer and starting a serial monitor. Either [Serial Monitor](https://www.serialmonitor.org/) or the following command can be used:
```
pio device monitor
```
If the device is stuck in a bootloop, press and release the Reset button. Then, press and hold on to the configured Back button and the Power Button to boot to the Home Screen.
There can be issues with broken cache or config. In this case, delete the `.crosspoint` directory on your SD card (or consider deleting only `settings.bin`, `state.bin`, or `epub_*` cache directories in the `.crosspoint/` folder).
**Key principle:** All translations are managed in the YAML files under `lib/I18n/translations/`. The Python script generates the necessary C++ code automatically.
---
### YAML File Format
Each language has its own file in `lib/I18n/translations/` (e.g. `spanish.yaml`).
A file looks like this:
```yaml
_language_name:"Español"
_language_code:"SPANISH"
_order:"1"
STR_CROSSPOINT:"CrossPoint"
STR_BOOTING:"BOOTING"
STR_BROWSE_FILES:"Buscar archivos"
```
**Metadata keys** (prefixed with `_`):
-`_language_name` — Native display name shown to the user (e.g. "Français")
-`_language_code` — C++ enum name (e.g. "FRENCH"). Must be a valid C++ identifier.
-`_order` — Controls the position in the Language enum (English is always 0)
**Rules:**
- Use UTF-8 encoding
- Every line must follow the format: `KEY: "value"`
- Keys must be valid C++ identifiers (uppercase, strats with STR_)
- Keys must be unique within a file
- String values must be quoted
- Use `\n` for newlines, `\\` for literal backslashes, `\"` for literal quotes inside values
---
### Adding New Strings
To add a new translatable string:
#### 1. Edit the English YAML file
Add the key to `lib/I18n/translations/english.yaml`:
```yaml
STR_MY_NEW_STRING:"My New String"
```
Then add translations in each language file. If a key is missing from a
language file, the generator will automatically use the English text as a
1. Click the **+ Add** button in the top-right corner
2.Select **New Folder** from the dropdown menu
3.Enter a folder name (letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens only)
4. Click **Create Folder**
1. Click the **📁 New Folder** button in the top-right corner
2.Enter a folder name (must not contain characters \" * : < > ? / \\ | and must not be . or ..)
3.Click **Create Folder**
This is useful for organizing your ebooks by genre, author, or series.
This is useful for organizing your library by genre, author, series or file type.
#### Deleting Files and Folders
@@ -168,11 +165,25 @@ This is useful for organizing your ebooks by genre, author, or series.
**Note:** Folders must be empty before they can be deleted.
#### Moving Files
1. Click the **📂** (folder) icon next to any file
2. Enter a folder name or select one from the dropdown
3. Click **Move** to relocate the file
**Note:** Typing in a nonexistent folder name will result in the following error: "Failed to move: Destination not found"
#### Renaming Files
1. Click the **✏️** (pencil) icon next to any file
2. Enter a file name (must not contain characters \" * : < > ? / \\ | and must not be . or ..)
3. Click **Rename** to permanently rename the file
---
## Command Line File Management
For power users, you can manage files directly from your terminal using `curl` while the device is in File Upload mode a detailed documentation can be found [here](./webserver-endpoints.md).
For power users, you can manage files directly from your terminal using `curl` while the device is in File Upload mode. Detailed documentation can be found [here](./webserver-endpoints.md).
## Security Notes
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