The 2 ms reset of ESPHome's expander support (0.2.81) left the chip silent: "Calibration error" with the PCA9557
answering at 0x18. A component of smart_display's (elecrow_touch_reset.h, setup priority 700: after the I2C bus,
before the GT911 driver) writes the expander as Elecrow's V3.0 ESPHome example does: every pin an output and low,
20 ms, the reset released, 100 ms, the interrupt line back to an input. The driver's reset and interrupt pins are gone.
A unit's touch never answered: "touchscreen is marked FAILED: Calibration error" at setup, the GT911 still in reset
behind the PCA9557 (I2C 0x18) of the V3.0 board. The board file declares the expander as ESPHome's pca9554 (the same
register map) and hands the GT911 driver its reset (IO0) and interrupt (IO1) pins on it, so the driver runs Elecrow's
own sequence: reset low with the interrupt line low, reset high, 56 ms, address 0x5D. A V2.0 without the expander boots
its GT911 by the pull-up as before. The bus is scanned at boot for the log.
A board file for the Elecrow CrowPanel 7.0" (DIS08070H, ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N4R8): 800x480 through mipi_rgb, GT911 on the
ESP32-S3's USB pins (elecrow_usb_phy.h frees them, behind a flag only this board sets), the Guition's vertical sizes
across a wider page, no rotation. Its 4 MB of flash take the CYD's budget: a partition table of the component's
(smart_display: partitions: 4mb_wide_slots, 1,984 KB slots), the icon fonts at 2 bits a pixel and the TLS client only
bring the firmware to 1,865,440 bytes, 91.8 % of a slot, with camera images kept. docs/ELECROW.md has the numbers and
the trade.
The add-on reads a large board's name from the type sensor's value, the editor offers the board under New screen and
draws the wide preview, tools/check.sh builds it with the budget, render_topbar and capture_ui take the panel's size.
Firmware 0.2.79; the CYD image is unchanged (1,633,760 bytes).
This fork builds from gittea.trippedonmy.name/Xandrossian/homeassistant_espscreen: the packages, the fonts, the
component and the add-on repository point there instead of GitHub.
A single or double-width media player tile takes Display -> Album cover
on a Guition: the cover of what plays in the icon's place, like Home
Assistant's own tile. It rides in the page's strip of 0.2.91: the request
and the answer are the same, a media player is simply among the tiles.
The app fetches a player's picture only when its address changes; a page
with a camera loads at the camera's pace with the cover reused, a page of
media tiles alone loads once, and a new track (the picture's mark in the
state, part of the page's wish) asks again at once. A player without a
picture keeps its icon and is not asked for; the double-width tile keeps
its controls; the tile over the whole page keeps the card's big cover.
Firmware 0.2.78.
Host harness 31 checks (docs/TEST_RESULTS_0292.md). CYD firmware
1,633,760 B, 89.0 %.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live picture (issue #4): a camera or image tile on a Guition takes
Display -> Live picture with a pace of 15 or 30 s. The camera tiles of a
page share one download: the screen asks ESP Screens for them together
(esphome.screen_camera with tiles, size and bg) and the app serves one
BMP, a strip of squares with the corners rounded over each tile's own
colour; every tile draws its square out of it with LVGL's image offset
(LV_IMAGE_ALIGN_TOP_LEFT: the default centres a taller source). A third
online_image on the Guition holds the strip; it loads after the alert's
picture, a cover and the camera full screen, never under a card, in
standby or under a finger. The strip is served whole every time: ESPHome's
http_request logs a 304 as a failed request. Firmware 0.2.77.
Alert button: esp_screens_show_alert takes action and data; the app
performs the action once when the button's report (esphome.screen_alert,
ok) comes from any screen. show_alert keeps its seven fields, so every
firmware from 0.2.31 has it.
Media card and full-page media tile: a title or artist line that is too
wide rolls by (LV_LABEL_LONG_SCROLL_CIRCULAR) instead of ending in dots.
Full-page tiles are white or their own pastel like every other tile; the
tint in the state colour of firmware 0.2.62 to 0.2.76 is gone.
Host harness (27 checks) and bench Guition + local add-on on the Yellow:
docs/TEST_RESULTS_0291.md. CYD firmware 1,633,728 B, 89.0 %.
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A tile has one line under the name, and LVGL cuts what doesn't fit off the end, which is where that line
often carries what you want to read. Two lines lost it:
- "Yesterday 9:15 PM" (English with a 12-hour clock) read "Yesterday 9:1…" on both boards. The tile now takes
a shorter wording of the same line when the full one doesn't fit, screen.script.yesterday_time_short; every
language whose word is short enough keeps the same text there.
- A robot's battery stood behind Home Assistant's own word for its state, so German, French and Polish showed
"Angedockt / 10…". The battery keeps its room now and the word takes the dots: "Angedo… / 10 %".
`tools/i18n.py check` measures a tile line with a 12-hour clock in its placeholder, so a translation that is
too long for the line fails there.
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The climate card's fan and swing rows showed the raw mode names (Auto, Low, Medium, High) in every language.
Home Assistant names the common ones itself (Laag, Mittel, Élevée): ha-words now copies those into screen.ha, and
the card looks a mode up there; an integration's own mode still reads as its name. ha-words also says how many
words it really changed. Found in the second test pass.
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The app fetched Home Assistant's state words in the screens' language only, so a screen still on 0.2.75 showed
"Speelt" among its own English words (and would get letters it can't draw). It now keeps them per language, the
screens' and English, and picks the set of the screen it writes for. Found in the second test pass on the boards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The CYD's weather columns hold two letters beside the icon: every language has its own two-letter days (the CLDR's
short width, Polish nd pn wt); French mar became nar there. check fails on a longer one.
- The top bar takes the language's abbreviation (sam. 19 sept., Sa., 19. Sept.), English keeps Sa 19 Sep.
- The editor's clock and date follow the screens: 7:05 PM in the top bar, 7:05 on the clock card.
- A long weather word ends in an ellipsis before the days.
- Tile lines that were cut on a screen are shorter (Zum Öffnen, Ouvrir, Otwórz, Sin imagen, ...); check measures
them with the screens' font against the tile width of both boards.
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- Numbers in the mockup follow what the app sends the screens (style, grouping from five digits, the space before
%), a state without a unit stays as it is, and built-in cards carry the screens' names (Instellingen, not the
editor's Einstellungen).
- Automatic in Language & region is labelled with what it means now (Home Assistant's language decides).
- A screen's status (Synced, Loading tiles, ...) shows in the editor's language; the screens keep reporting it in
English, which the app reads.
- The doorbell example uses the alert examples of the editor's language; control labels keep their capitals.
- Editor bundle rebuilt with every language's texts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
From the end-to-end test on the bench boards and an independent review:
- Units spaced as Home Assistant does (54% / 54 % in German and French, 18°, 21.5 °C), in the firmware and the app.
- Grouping from five digits where the language does (1234 but 12.345 in Spanish, Polish, Portuguese): the layout
message carries group_min and percent_space; an unknown number style no longer refuses a layout.
- Automatic follows Home Assistant's own language for the clock and numbers, also without a translation (Swedish:
24 hours, 1 234,5; pt-BR: 1.234,5): regions.json from the CLDR for all 63 languages Home Assistant offers.
- 12-hour clock: the top bar says 3:48 PM, the clock card 3:48 (not 03:48), Last runs follow the clock.
- The climate setpoint font has the decimal comma; the value fonts have ², ³ and µ (m³ was a box).
- Weather days: at most three letters without the dot (mié, sáb, czw); the screen took three bytes.
- Texts fall back per key through the base language (pt-BR -> pt -> en) in the firmware and the app.
- Each screen gets the app's words in the language its firmware speaks; firmware from before the languages gets
English and its own letters, not boxes.
- set_language re-reads what it writes (indentation, comments, quoted keys, CRLF, !include) and every build writes
the language first; the 24-hour pin no longer hits a fresh install and waits for the old clock switches.
- Tests: region and notation, plural parity with the C++ rules, set_language edge cases, the pin, PUT /api/language.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cached screen list only read the entities named in SCREEN_ENTITY_NAMES, which lacked the new sensor: the
updater waited in vain after a language update, the live page kept offering it, and the nightly round would have
rebuilt the screen every night. Found in the end-to-end test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every error, delivery status, update result and label the editor shows is an `addon` text of en.json now, in the language
of the editor's request: its X-ESP-Screens-Language header, or ?language= for the live updates, which an EventSource sends
without headers. A text made in the background and read later (a delivery status, an update result in updates.json, why a
screen can't show an alert) is kept in English with its key (i18n.Text, i18n.english) and written in the editor's language
when it is shown (i18n.shown); updates.json keeps the English message next to the key, for an older app.
The words the app sends to the screens come in the screens' language (Settings -> Language & region): the names of the
built-in tiles, the top bar's words, dates and numbers, the history card's words, the vacuum chips, the forecast's day
names and the Identify card, and so does the notification of a stopped update round. The top bar and the history card
take a binary sensor's words from screen.ha.binary, as the tiles do, which makes test_binary_words pass again; three tests
follow Home Assistant's new words there (Detected, Clear).
What stays English: what Home Assistant gets as data (a tile event's answer, the layout sensors, entity names), the logs
and the firmware jobs' logs, the screens' protocol words, and the Claude skill, which is built from the English tables in
core.py and tile_icons.py; en.json repeats those and tests/test_addon_translations.py keeps both equal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The page takes the screens' words its mockup draws from their own texts: screen.ha (Home Assistant's words, filled
from Home Assistant), screen.time, screen.date, screen.number and screen.tile.page, per language next to _meta and
editor. The copies under editor.mockup go; the rest of `screen` and all of `addon` stay out of the build.
- Numbers in the mockup follow the screens' language (screen.number, with its minimum grouping) or the chosen style,
as the firmware writes them.
- @intlify/unplugin-vue-i18n compiles every text at build time, so the page runs vue-i18n's runtime-only build
without the message compiler; every language's _meta comes with the page. Empty texts stay out while building.
- The live updates carry the editor's language (api/events?language=), as an EventSource sends no headers.
- web/ needs Node 22.13 or newer: vue-i18n 11.4, Vite 7 and the unplugin ask for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- vue-i18n 11 with the Composition API: English comes with the page, any other language loads the first time it is
needed from screen_manager/translations, and a text a language lacks shows in English. The build keeps only _meta
and editor of each file (vite.config.ts), never the screens' or the add-on's texts.
- The editor follows the language of the user's Home Assistant profile (<html lang> of Home Assistant's page), else
the browser's; plural forms follow the file's _meta.plural, with the screens' rules.
- Every request tells the add-on the editor's language (X-ESP-Screens-Language), so its own words can follow it.
- The mockup draws the screens' words (Unavailable, Page 2 ›, the date, "5 min ago") in the screens' language, with
their clock and number format.
- Settings → Language & region: the screen language, time format and number format for every screen, with the user's
own profile offered when it differs. The per-screen clock choice goes; the top bar points there. A screen that
still needs the new language says so in its update badge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
tools/i18n.py gets cldr (day and month names, date orders, numbers and the clock from Node's Intl), ha-words (the
words for states from Home Assistant's own translations, English included) and lint (English left in the firmware's
code). The screens write numbers from Home Assistant in the chosen format, and every text font carries the apostrophe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The firmware takes its texts from screen_manager/translations/<code>.json at build time (components/smart_display:
one table in main.cpp, keys in screen_text_keys.h), and the fonts carry every letter European languages write with.
The app keeps Settings -> Language & region (language, clock, numbers) for every screen, writes LANGUAGE into the
screens' YAML and sends the clock and the number format in the layout message; the per-screen 24-hour clock goes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The add-on ships ESPHome 2026.9.0: it builds an ESP32 with ESP-IDF itself
and keeps a compiler cache. firmware.py gives the CLI its own storage in
/data (ESPHOME_DATA_DIR /data/esphome, which the ESPHome Device Builder no
longer wipes on start; ESP-IDF and ccache in /data/idf, at most 1 GB;
compilers limited to the core count as PlatformIO ran them), removes the
unused PlatformIO once before the first ESP-IDF build, and leaves the new
folders out of backups.
Firmware 0.2.75: assertion_level SILENT in every board's esp32 block, the
core logs from INFO, and clock_parts() in runtime_model.h replaces sscanf.
timer_left() caps a running timer at its duration (the screen's clock runs
up to a second behind Home Assistant's). The packages keep min_version
2026.6.2, the top-level online_image and OTA passwords for new screens, so
an add-on or Device Builder that isn't updated yet keeps building every
screen; CI now builds both boards with the add-on's ESPHome and with
min_version. ESP-IDF's error names stay on, and build_flags stay under
platformio_options, because ESPHome 2026.9's LVGL reads only those.
tools/check.sh: 478 Python tests, 19/19 C++, editor; --firmware PASS with
ESPHome 2026.6.2 (CYD 87.7 %), 2026.8.1 (88.3 %) and 2026.9.0 (86.4 %,
was 91.5 %). Both bench screens OTA'd and watched for half an hour;
ESP Screens as a local add-on on the Yellow built both profiles
(CYD 1,037 s first build, 41 s unchanged). Details:
docs/TEST_RESULTS_0289.md.
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packages/core.yaml sets wifi: power_save_mode: none. ESPHome merges it
under the screen's own wifi: block, which keeps the network, the password
and the hotspot, and the screen's own YAML still wins on the mode. The
YAML ESP Screens writes has had the line since app 0.2.24; screens with
an older or hand-written YAML ran ESPHome's ESP32 default light, and
their messages from Home Assistant waited 76-117 ms on the bench.
esphome config on the bench screens' Device Builder YAMLs: NONE for both
without a line of their own, LIGHT when the YAML says light. The bench
Guition, flashed from its Device Builder YAML: ping 15 ms average instead
of 117 ms. tools/check.sh: 474 Python tests (a new one keeps the core's
wifi: block to this one key), 19/19 C++, editor; firmware unchanged in
size (CYD 1,678,816 B, 91.5 %; Guition 2,055,280 B), since the checkout
profiles already had the line.
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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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A tap on the On/off switch of a wide or full-page tile moved the knob to on
and back, and the light stayed off. Since firmware 0.2.59 control_event drew
the new position first (Tile::optimistic writes it into state) and then asked
key_action for the action, which read that new position: an off light got
light.turn_off, an on light light.turn_on. A tap on the tile itself was never
affected.
tile_controls::press_key chooses the action first and then shows the new
position; control_event uses it. Unit tests cover a light, a fan, a sensor
and a cover key.
Checked with tools/check.sh (471 Python tests, 19/19 C++) and compiled for
both boards: CYD 1,677,504 B (91.4 %, +16 B), Guition 2,054,640 B (25.3 %).
On Max's Guition Wallbox (OTA from this branch) every tap on the switch sent
the right action and Home Assistant's logbook followed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The airco tile stayed orange while the airco was off. The firmware kept its own
short list of what turns grey and gave an off climate Home Assistant's orange,
but Home Assistant has no colour for a climate that is off: its cards fall back
to the inactive grey. Other tiles had the same fault: an off fan, a closed
blind, a docked robot, a player in standby, an idle script, a paused timer and
a camera that isn't streaming all kept their colour.
Tile::active() is now a port of the frontend's stateActive() for the domains a
tile can show, and every tile that is not active is grey. An airco that is off
reads Off, with the room's temperature when the device reports one, as Home
Assistant's tile does. tile_controls::accent() follows stateColorCss(): alarm
binary sensors red, a battery green, orange or red by its charge, a running
script or timer and a streaming camera amber, the weather per condition, the
sun amber and indigo, someone in a zone blue. Scenes, selects, numbers and
sensors keep their own colour per kind. A full-page tile lights up only for
tiles that can be off (Tile::lights_up), and a closed blind's slider keeps its
colour. The top bar's alarm classes are Home Assistant's eleven.
Checked with tools/check.sh (471 Python tests, 19/19 C++ with 58 state cases
and every colour rule) and compiled for both boards: CYD 1,677,488 B (91.4 %,
+576 B), Guition 2,054,640 B (25.3 %).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two board profiles (5,000 lines each, 87 % the same text) become packages/core.yaml and one file per
board under packages/boards/: the hardware, a table of 84 sizes and font sizes, 18 hooks with the lines of C++
only that board adds inside a shared lambda, and the board's own sections. packages/cyd.yaml and
packages/guition.yaml keep their names and places (a screen installed from ESP Screens builds as before);
home-like-2432s028.yaml and guition-4848s040.yaml become the same entries for a checkout.
The firmware stays 0.2.70: the C++ ESPHome generates for each board, through the checkout profile and
through the GitHub package route, was compared line by line with the old profiles' (docs/TEST_RESULTS_0284.md).
tools/check_packages.py replaces tools/generate_packages.py; tools/profiles.py gives the tests and tools the
three files as one; docs/PROFILES.md says how the files fit together and how a board is added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A light that offers effects gets a sparkles key at the top right of its colour
card. It opens a page with a row per thing the lamp offers, all from Home
Assistant: the light's effect and the select entities of its device (a WLED's
colour palette, preset and playlist) with what they are set to, and a slider per
number entity of the device (speed, intensity). Names are Home Assistant's own
English entity translations, icons its frontend's; nothing about a brand is
hardcoded beyond a preferred order of translation keys.
A row opens LVGL's roller with every name Home Assistant lists at that moment,
asked for when the picker opens (esphome.screen_options, answered with
op: options, one page of names per message), the effects alphabetically with
Solid on top. The check key at the top right sends the choice as one action;
the back key sends nothing. A slider sends number.set_value when let go. While
an effect runs, the tile names it instead of the brightness.
Firmware 0.2.70: effects_page.h (built when it opens, gone when it closes),
Extra.effect/option_rows/number_rows, options_request, a hidden roller widget
so ESPHome compiles LVGL's roller, five firmware-only glyphs. App 0.2.83:
light_effects.py, the effect attribute, the device rows in the state message,
card_options_loop. Checked on the host with a virtual finger (35/35 on both
boards) and compiled for both ESP32 boards; CYD 1,675,424 B (91.3 %).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GitHub issue #9 asked to drop the Previous/Next bar when Go to page tiles do the navigation and to give the tiles the whole screen. Page buttons is a setting the screen owns (on by default): a row in the Screen group of the settings page, switch.<screen>_page_buttons in Home Assistant, and a row in the editor's Screen settings. Without the bar, and on a screen with one page, place_page moves and sizes the three rows so they reach the bottom margin (Guition 108 -> 122 px, CYD 52 -> 61 px); a card keeps its circle, name and state in its middle and the single analog clock keeps its dial. With page buttons and swiping both off, the editor says where the Go to page tiles lead and which pages that leaves out of reach.
The bar itself: each half of the band under the tiles is one key with an MDI chevron and lights up under a finger, and a dot per page sits between them; the screen's settings page uses the same pager. App 0.2.82, firmware 0.2.69.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a CYD the strip at the bottom of a compact card is 8 px high, so a finger landing a little above it pressed the card: the light's card opened, the light toggled, or the page-swipe gesture turned the page without a log line. The strip's click area now covers its card (slider_zone); a press that never moves forwards the card's tap or hold and shows the card pressed; the CYD's page-swipe handler and the Guition's flick handler leave a captured slider alone and log what they do; a slider commit no longer bounces against its own previous send (TouchGuard::accept_within); the CYD's edge band is 20 px because its resistive panel reports up to the bezel. App 0.2.81, firmware 0.2.68.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A fast swipe off the right side of a Guition ended at 93-98 %: the GT911 reports the finger for the last time 33-48 px inside the edge while a wide tile's slider ends 29 px from it, and LVGL keeps the last point it saw. cyd::edge_snap() takes a release inside the band (SLIDER_EDGE_SNAP_PX: Guition 67, CYD 56) as the end that lies in that band, for the tile sliders and the light card's sliders; the log names each snap. App 0.2.80, firmware 0.2.67.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A test and code-analysis round of 0.2.72 to 0.2.76 (suites at every tag, sanitizers, ESP32 and GitHub builds, host
harnesses on both boards, the editor in a browser, best practice checked against ESPHome, LVGL, Home Assistant and
Vue) found these, fixed here with Max's choices for the product questions:
- Firmware 0.2.65: the second hand of a single analog clock moves again; on a page that is one full on/off tile the
waking push also switches it; on the Guition a flick is never a tap and a finger that slides off a tile doesn't tap
it; Previous/Next react to a firm press; the same Go to page tile may sit on several pages; a layout the screen has
no memory for is refused instead of crashing; 64-bit redraw mask for 48 tiles; Montserrat 14 no longer built.
- App: Save refuses a layout too long for one message or too big for eight pages; an offline screen keeps its
firmware version from the device registry; HA refusals reach the editor; 128 KB requests; changelog out of the
live stream; cached hashed assets; tini as init and a clean stop; changelog parsing without asterisks or crashes.
- Editor: clicking the open screen keeps unsaved edits, edits during a save stay unsaved, a Page row and phone
dragging to other pages, repeated page tiles, limits from the server, HA's error messages, a type-checked build.
- tools/check.sh + GitHub Actions + a CYD flash budget; docs match 48 tiles and the new editor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The card behind a media tile shows the album cover, the title, the artist and
the album, a progress bar that runs while the track plays with the times at its
ends, round keys for previous, play or pause and next, and a volume row with a
mute key, a wide slider and the percentage. Keys the player lacks stay faded,
an off player shows one power key, a stream without a length shows no bar, and
the CYD shows the player's icon in the cover's place. A media tile over the
whole page is the same card under the tile's head. media_card.h holds the
geometry, tests/test_media_card.cpp checks every shape.
The cover comes the way camera images do: the screen asks with the size and
the colour behind the corners, the app fetches the picture from Home Assistant,
cuts it square, rounds the corners over that colour and serves it on port 8098;
the Guition loads it once and asks again only when the picture's mark in the
state changes. Firmware 0.2.64.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Material Design Icons fonts of both boards had no bpp, so ESPHome rendered them at
its default of one bit per pixel while the text fonts already had four. On the CYD, at
18 and 28 px, a thin stroke such as the ring of mdi:power came out lumpy and uneven, and
every other icon had a ragged edge. All four icon fonts of both profiles now say bpp: 4;
the icon generator and its test keep that line. Costs the CYD 95 KB of flash (90 % of
the update slot in use on top of 0.2.74), no RAM.
App 0.2.75, firmware 0.2.63. Test results in docs/TEST_RESULTS_0275.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Max asked for many more tiles, a tile that takes the whole page as a light
switch you push without looking, and tiles that go to a page. The limit is
one tile per slot of the eight pages, 48, and the firmware keeps its tile
list on the heap sized to the layout (PSRAM on a Guition). A tile's size can
be `full`: one big button that lights up in the state colour while on, or the
double-width card's head with its small slider, direct controls or graph at
the bottom and the value the double-width card had no room for in between;
the clock, the forecast (with an hours strip) and the sun path fill the page.
Navigation tiles are the built-in entities screen.page_1 to screen.page_8:
an arrow or a chosen icon, the name and "Page n", a tap opens that page.
The app sends the three only to firmware 0.2.62+, the editor (the Vue port of
this round by the editor session, 00c9a4e) offers Normal / Double-width /
Full page and "Goes to page", and Claude in Home Assistant gets size: full and
the page tiles. Built-in tiles now send a chosen icon as its codepoint.
Found and fixed by the new host harness before release: the one-second tick
moved the analog clock's second hand (part 18) on a full forecast's hour label
during a page switch and corrupted it. Firmware 0.2.62; both C++ and Python
suites, host harness 37/37 on both boards, hardware pass on both bench boards
in docs/TEST_RESULTS_0274.md.
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Sizes single, wide and full in web/src/model/layout.ts (a full tile covers the six cells of a page and starts
it; packing, fitting, arranging and page counting know it), the full card on the mockup, Size with Full page
and its firmware hint in the tile drawer, controls defaulting to none on a full tile, navigation tiles
(screen.page_1..8: Goes to page, size normal or double, icon and colour only, "Page n ›" on the card), the
tile limit of 48 from firmware 0.2.62, the "Screen" domain label. Vitest and the Python source tests cover it.
The add-on side of this round lives on the peer branch fullpage (4be6153).
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The tiles draw what Home Assistant reports (a new /api/states answers for the tiles on the page); the ···
menu gets Identify (the screen's own show_alert with flash), Copy layout from another screen, Export and
Import as JSON; the Alerts page opens with Try it (/api/alerts/test, one screen or all); the library filters
by room and hides what is placed, with lit icons for what is on; ⌘K searches screens, entities and actions;
the Update badge lists what's new from the changelog (copied into the image) and a running update shows a
progress bar with the ESPHome stage and the last log line.
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The page is now web/ (Vue 3 + Vite + TypeScript), built into screen_manager/app/static
with hashed file names; server.py serves index.html as built and /assets/. The Python
API, the data and the firmware are unchanged. Your screens sit in a sidebar, the pages
of a screen stand next to each other at the screen's own shape, the library sits on the
right, and a tile's settings slide in as a drawer while the mockup stays in view. New
screen, Firmware & USB, Alerts, Override YAML and Settings are pages of their own.
Fonts moved to web/src/assets; the tests read the source through tests/editor_sources.py.
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The Previous and Next bars ran their tap through the tile guard, whose 600 ms
same-tile window (so one contact never fires a tile twice) dropped the second
and third tap of a quick Next, Next, Next. They now use accept_repeat, the
-/+ keys' rule since 0.2.25: every clean tap counts, only a contact within
150 ms of the last accepted tap on the same button is a bounce. The page fill
already dropped a fill under way when the next page was asked for. Firmware
0.2.61; test_cyd_ui.cpp covers the page buttons; host harness and check builds
in docs/TEST_RESULTS_0272.md.
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A light group's lamps fade, Home Assistant reports every step, and the tile's slider followed each one: after a drag it
jumped back to the old value and crept up. The Tile now holds the sent value (brightness, fan percent, volume) until
Home Assistant reports within 3 % of it, reports the entity off, refuses, or reports once and stays quiet for 1.5 s;
never longer than 8 s, and without any report the hold ends with the wait. A cover's position slider keeps following
the blind. Firmware 0.2.60; host checks 17/17 on both boards.
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Home Assistant answered every command in 342-599 ms on a real installation,
yet a tile was busy for at least a second and up to six without a confirming
state. Now nothing is drawn for the first 400 ms, a tap that switches shows
the new stand at once as Home Assistant's own switch does, and the sheet
appears only for a slow command. Home Assistant's "it worked" answer ends the
wait 800 ms later, which covers a stop on a cover that already stands still,
and a wait without any answer ends after three seconds instead of six. The
cards' keys, sliders, chips and the -/+ edit now ask for an answer too, so a
refusal shows wherever a finger presses.
Firmware 0.2.59. A 200 ms LVGL timer runs only while a command is under way.
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rounded_state raised decimal.InvalidOperation for a value beyond Decimal's
28-digit context, such as 1e30; the exception escaped state_message and the
whole screen's sync stalled. Such a value now passes through unrounded.
App only, firmware stays 0.2.58. Found in a review of 0.2.67.
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GitHub issue #8: Home Assistant on a server or virtual machine is out of
reach of the screen. New screen and Firmware & USB get a Download choice:
ESP Screens builds the profile's firmware as always and offers ESPHome's
factory image, which the owner flashes with ESPHome Web in Chrome or Edge.
- Firmware: a download job compiles without uploading; only the image of
the profile's latest successful build in this process is served, a new
job withdraws it, and a build without a factory image fails.
- USB on the Home Assistant machine stays first in both lists, also before
a board is plugged in; Download and Later stay chosen once picked.
- The not-yet-in-Home-Assistant card knows a downloaded screen.
- The device name pattern is valid again under Chrome's v flag.
- Docs: README, DOCS, EASY_SETUP, DOCKER, TROUBLESHOOTING. App only;
firmware stays 0.2.58.
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GitHub issue #7 asked for cover.toggle on tap. ESP Screens now asks Home
Assistant which actions each entity has instead of keeping lists: the editor
offers On / off (covers included), sliders, controls and displays only where
Home Assistant has the action, and refuses only new unsupported settings.
Perform action runs any action Home Assistant offers for the tile's entity,
under its own names and fields; the screen sends it with a call id and says
Refused when Home Assistant refuses. Sensors round by display precision, and
tiles, the top bar, timelines, vacuum chips and the inspector use Home
Assistant's words where they showed raw states. Tiles show Home Assistant's
icons, picked as its frontend does (the fonts grow to 309 glyphs).
Existing screens keep every setting and tap as before: stored layouts load
leniently, legacy taps route the same (1020 combinations), and messages are
byte-identical without Home Assistant's words and icons. Firmware 0.2.58.
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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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Wake from Home Assistant counted as a tap: it reset last_touch_ms, the one
clock that standby and Back to page 1 both read. An automation pressing Wake
on every motion therefore held an open card or page 2 up for as long as
someone moved in the room. Back to page 1 now has its own clock, last_use_ms,
written only by the boot, the touchscreen triggers, open_settings from Home
Assistant and the UI self test. Wake, an alert ending and Auto standby on
still restart the standby time, and Wake still brings back the brightness and
the second hand.
The rule moved from the interval into the script back_to_page_1_when_due.
Wake runs it right after waking a dimmed screen, so a page whose time ran out
during standby lights up on page 1 instead of jumping there a second later.
ESP Screens no longer opens the first screen by itself. Until one is picked
the page says "Choose a screen", and with no screens it still offers the
install; both cards start hidden so neither flashes while the page loads.
Checked with 48 host API checks per board, both ESP32 builds, 314 Python and
16 C++ tests, and the editor on the demo home. Firmware 0.2.56.
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The title label had long_mode: DOT and a width but no height. LVGL 9.5 only
puts the dots on a label whose wrapped text is taller than the label, so the
label grew with its lines and a long title ran into the subtitle. It now has
one line of the headline font as its height (32 px Guition, 21 px CYD).
The Claude skill and the editor's alert tips said the CYD shows about forty
characters of a title; both screens show about twenty.
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Dark mode is a new switch under Brightness on the screen's settings page, in
the Screen settings of ESP Screens and as switch.<screen>_dark_mode in Home
Assistant, so an automation can turn it on at bedtime. The screen changes
look at once, open cards and an alert included, and keeps it after a
restart. The design stays the same: a black page, graphite cards with a
hairline, soft white text, Home Assistant's state colours where they tell
something, and pastel card colours as deeper versions of themselves.
Every colour the firmware chooses now lives in components/smart_display/
theme.h: roles with a light and a dark value, the named card colours and
Home Assistant's state colours. The board profiles give widgets colourless
shared styles that theme.h fills, so a change of look refills those styles
and draws again what code painted by state. The light look is unchanged
apart from merges below one panel step. Dark mode costs 440 bytes of static
RAM on the CYD, and the LVGL tree of the host build is 416 bytes smaller; tests
keep colours out of every other file.
Comparing a screen that switched looks with one that booted in it also
found two older bugs, now fixed: a settings switch that was on showed its
knob at the left whenever its page was drawn, and the sun card's sunlit
area turned orange after a palette change. Firmware 0.2.54.
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A binary sensor's tile and card now say what Home Assistant says for its
device class, such as Open or Closed for a door and Wet or Dry for a leak
sensor. The screen maps the class it already receives, with the same words
as the top bar and the history card; a test keeps both tables equal. A
history card still waiting for its answer no longer shows the previous
card's word.
Lights and binary sensors that are off turn grey, as in Home Assistant, and
a light without an icon of its own shows a crossed-out bulb while it is off,
on the tile and in the top bar. A chosen icon stays and turns grey.
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