EspControl v2.5.0

Changes since v2.4.0.

Full comparison

What changed?

• User-facing features: 82 changes. Notable: Add configurable fan control modal; Add cover settings panels.
• User-facing bug fixes: 54 changes. Notable: Preserve page title on keepalive pings; Keep script field strings alive.

Update guidance

• Recommended for users who want the latest firmware, setup page, device fixes, or documented behavior.
• Affected devices: All supported displays may be affected because shared firmware, setup, or build files changed.

Known issues

• No release-specific known issues are listed automatically for this release.
• Check open GitHub issues before updating devices you rely on every day.

Summary

• 136 user-facing changes are included in this release.
• Release range: v2.4.0 to v2.5.0.

User-facing changes

User-facing features

• Add configurable fan control modal
• Add cover settings panels
• Refine cover settings panels
• Space cover settings panels
• Pad expanded settings panels
• Increase settings panel top padding
• Hide cover modal tab heading
• Remove modal tab move chevrons
• Add spacing below on icon field
• Use device name for web page title
• Add fields to script action cards
• Send script fields as variables
• Send script fields in service payload
• Split web test hook registration
• Load page title on standard web view
• Round cover modal control buttons
• Match light slider to selected colour
• Make cover controls feature aware
• Remove e-paper preview controls
• Show cover all controls position fill (#783)
• Vendor MDI font for firmware builds (#795)
• Simplify colour settings (#800)
• Revert light modal brightness colour fill (#804)
• Add media icon options (#809)
• Revert "Fix settings modal background scrolling (#808)" (#815)
• Add playlist media button (#806)
• Activate home cards from navigate action (#812)
• Revert HA availability resync (#826)
• Improve playlist media ID setup
• Improve playlist active state matching
• Support playlist playback device selection
• Add playlist playback diagnostics
• Remove per-card offline styling (#843)
• Add climate modal (#696)
• Simplify media content card setup (#846)
• Add Gate card type (#836)
• Add media control modal (#509)
• Move climate tab controls into panel
• Shorten climate temperature option labels
• Rename climate modal tab panel
• Group playlist settings fields
• Group alarm card settings
• Group alarm PIN settings
• Align 4-inch web grid spacing
• Normalize web grid spacing across screens
• Rename Home Assistant offline message
• Clarify playlist player source setting
• Share browser settings form helpers
• Extract active display settings component
• Share cover-like card settings
• Share firmware modal icon helpers
• Share web action button builder
• Share modal tab layout helpers
• Pass media control context to opener
• Add WiFi firmware controls to settings
• Handle localized C6 firmware status
• Remove cover art touch pause setting
• Honor cover art show delay after wake
• Avoid duplicate media control modal open
• Revert "Merge pull request #871 from jtenniswood/remove-cover-art-touch-pause"
• Revert "Fix S3 cover art heap pressure"
• Disable S3 weather forecast cards
• Hide S3 weather forecast web options
• Restore S3 media modal metadata
• Hide low-heap media progress UI
• Restore screensaver settings from backups
• Back up remaining device settings
• Share media progress with S3 cover art
• Expand shared media playback registry
• Freeze media progress before pause
• Show source label for line input media
• Avoid heap-owned now playing artist state
• Normalize media line-in source matching
• Move cover art layout into device profiles (#898)
• Add parser runtime fixture coverage (#899)
• Remove stale string inventory artifact (#903)
• Validate firmware versions device (#911)
• Validate firmware manifest chip family (#912)
• Align modal tab background colours (#938)
• Guard card contract include boundary
• Update Home Assistant connection message
• Split large web UI modules (#958)

User-facing bug fixes

• Preserve page title on keepalive pings
• Keep script field strings alive
• Improve modal tab editing
• Stabilize fan control status
• Reset light slider colour fallback
• Keep only primary colour control
• Preserve black primary colour choice
• Clear stale cover command context
• Fix subpage light control status indicator
• Reduce alarm card normalization drift (#749)
• Reduce image card normalization drift (#750)
• Reduce light control normalization drift (#751)
• Reduce cover normalization drift (#752)
• Reduce garage normalization drift (#753)
• Reduce climate normalization drift (#755)
• Reduce media normalization drift (#756)
• Reduce lock normalization drift (#757)
• Reduce screen lock normalization drift (#758)
• Reduce date time normalization drift (#759)
• Reduce sensor normalization drift (#760)
• Reduce presence window normalization drift (#761)
• Reduce confirmation normalization drift (#762)
• Reduce todo normalization drift (#763)
• Reduce webhook normalization drift (#764)
• Reduce weather normalization drift (#765)
• Reduce vacuum mower normalization drift (#766)
• Reduce internal push normalization drift (#767)
• Fix display firmware compile errors (#784)
• Fix cover art refresh recovery (#807)
• Fix settings modal background scrolling (#808)
• Reset clock bar customization scaffolding (#819)
• Fix mobile selection bar overflow (#816)
• Fix HA availability recovery after restart (#811)
• Fix action numeric state highlight (#805)
• Fix playlist button active state (#821)
• Preserve playlist media card mode
• Fix cover art refresh cache selection (#844)
• Fix garage toggle not firing when label display is Status (#837)
• Fix gate availability firmware compile
• Fix alarm name display field
• Fix media controls modal opener
• Fix S3 cover art and action memory guard
• Fix media controls modal startup memory
• Reduce media modal tab memory
• Fix media controls modal after grid refresh
• Fix cover art start delay
• Fix cover art touch return timer
• Fix S3 cover art heap pressure
• Fix S3 cover art heap pressure
• Fix camera subpage rebuild crash
• Fix media progress slider tab flash
• Fix paused media position slider layout
• Reduce architecture coupling guards (#957)
• Stabilize media modal progress layout (#959)