github HuskerMinion/techo5 v1.6.40

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The rest of the screen and setup page refresh, contributors' work on pop-ups, volume and translations, and fixes from your reports.

  • Louder 2nd gen Shows: the Echo Show 5 and Show 8 2nd gen now use the volume curve Fire OS used, read from the unit itself, so full volume is about as loud as it was on Fire OS. The same volume step is louder than before from about step 10 up, for music, alarms and replies alike: turn down after updating if it's too much. Thanks, nuno407 (#546).
  • Pop-ups: a calendar pop-up tapped away on one Show now goes away on the other Shows in the house too. Thanks, Uthrom (#558).
  • Bluetooth speakers: the Echo's volume now sets the speaker's own volume (absolute volume), so the top step is the speaker's top, the speaker's buttons change the Echo's volume, and a speaker that was switched off no longer comes back quiet. Speakers without absolute volume work as before. Thanks to shawnsi for the report (#550).
  • Snapcast: the volume follows snapclient's own curve, so a TECHO5 device is no longer much quieter than the rest of its group at low volume. Thanks, Orestos (#561).
  • Clock: the Classic clock drifts a few pixels over time, so it doesn't leave a shadow of the digits on the panel. Thanks to redblack2412 for the report (#560).
  • Names: devices with letters like ü in their names show correctly in the call list, and calling or Dropping In on them by name works. Thanks to Tobi-IT for the report (#557).
  • Drawn dashboard: the screen and the setup page say where the Home Assistant token comes from and show the action to run. Thanks to doctorwho68 for the report (#551).
  • Streamed dashboard: the Home Assistant header no longer flashes when a dashboard comes back after the screen was off. Update the dashcast container to the image released with this version. Thanks to mauricekft for the report (techo5-spot#12).
  • Screen: a press shows only where a tap acts, now also on the clock page, the calendar, the media, color, thermostat and fan sheets and the music library; the weather page fills its forecast boxes and uses the room on larger screens; calendar events are at least a line tall; dark custom themes get readable accents; the camera grid's title and hint have room at larger text sizes; a camera or dashboard that can't connect shows a short message, with the details in the log.
  • Skylight: a 150% text size; the calendar's month and week stay at 125% there, where their events keep their words.
  • Words: Dutch now covers nearly the whole screen. Thanks, christianschmidt (#538). The reset row is translated in every language. Thanks, royto (#556). The last English words on the screen (the calendar pop-up, reminders, radio notes, clock style names, Next) follow the screen's language.
  • Setup page: the tabs are regrouped into Status, Alarms & Timers, Sound, Voice, Screen, Cameras, Network, Privacy and System, and old links still open the right place; Status also shows the next alarm, running timers and Tailscale or NetBird; a refused form comes back with what you typed (passwords left out); an alarm's form saves all of it or nothing.
  • Logs: what Music Assistant refuses (#521), what a voice request sent up (#477) and what each wake word scored during a call (#484) are logged for diagnostics. Thanks, new-res and rabacen.

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