Starting screen: until the first layout, render() keeps the status text
("Connecting to Home Assistant", "Waiting for ESP Screens") and a spinner
as one block in the middle of the page; the first layout deletes both.
The room label stays empty meanwhile, and ROOM_NAME defaults to "".
Camera: the full screen shows a spinner instead of "Loading image". The
screen asks when the camera opens and loads a link as soon as it comes
(camera_load, never under a finger) instead of waiting for the 250 ms
tick twice, and online_image reads 16 KB per loop instead of 4 KB. On the
bench Guition with the EZVIZ camera: cold 5.8 -> 4.55 s, warm 3.4 -> 2.06 s.
Alert picture: the image takes the frame's radius (18, the alert card's);
LVGL's software renderer clips it row by row, without a layer.
One spinner_create() makes the busy sheet's, the starting screen's and the
camera's spinner; theme role CAMERA_TRACK colours the camera's ring. The
README gets a row of camera pictures; docs/CAMERA.md, RELEASING.md and
TEST_RESULTS_0287.md describe the measurements.
Checked with tools/check.sh (473 Python tests, 19/19 C++, editor) and
--firmware: CYD 1,678,816 B (91.5 %, +1,312 B), Guition 2,055,280 B
(25.3 %). Host renders of both boards in both looks; four OTA builds on
the bench Guition Wallbox, which runs this firmware.
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Rendered again from firmware 0.2.71 and the editor of 0.2.85 on the demo homes, with the render tooling
brought over to the core and board files of 0.2.84: the tile pages with 0.2.85's colours (a running timer
amber, a docked robot and idle scripts grey, the full-page speaker lit while it plays), the cards with the
icon edges of 0.2.75, and the editor with 48 tiles, the icon-left tiles of 0.2.76, Size and Page in the
tile drawer, Perform action on the curtains as the caption says, and every Screen settings row. The camera
pictures show a free Unsplash photo by Virginia Marinova, credited in the README. The two photos at the top
carry the current firmware on their screen: the page with scenes, scripts, the robot and the table lamp,
and the vacuum card with its cleaning mode.
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The pictures of tile pages still had the Previous and Next words and the "1 / 4" counter from
before 0.2.82. The 26 pictures that show the bar are rendered again from firmware 0.2.69 with the
chevrons and page dots, and pick up the smoother icons of 0.2.75 on the way. The Screen group of
the settings page gained a Page buttons row and now has a second page, so its picture shows the
first page with the pager, and its description says where the page buttons and the rotation went.
Rendered from the host firmware and the real add-on on the same demo homes as the earlier pictures.
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An alert from esp_screens_show_alert takes a `camera` (a camera.* or image.* entity): a Guition with firmware
0.2.57 shows that moment's picture across the top of the card, and a tap opens the camera full screen. A camera
or image tile opens the same full-screen view, refreshed every four seconds at a steady pace.
ESP Screen Manager fetches the snapshot with its own access, sizes it for the screen and serves a 24-bit BMP
under a random, short-lived link on port 8098; the screen loads it with ESPHome's online_image and holds no
Home Assistant token. BMP because ESPHome decodes it per chunk, where a full-screen JPEG held the loop 0.6 s.
The CYD keeps its alerts without the picture and gets no camera tiles.
The Guition also builds with ESPHome 2026.8+ again: backlight_fade.h derived from ESPHome's LEDC output, which
2026.8 made final, so the backlight now dims through ESPHome's own light transition.
Tested on the bench boards and a local add-on on the Home Assistant Yellow; docs/TEST_RESULTS_0266.md.
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