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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The standard tile still joined a unit with a space, and the climate status, cover and light values and the slider
overlay wrote their own "%": all go through screen_text::with_unit / percent now (54% in Spanish, 54 % in German).
Found on the Guition in the end-to-end test.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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