Server: Frame.panel_type (new column + migration) is auto-derived from
the device's reported board (X-Frame-Board), never user-set -- the
panel is a property of the hardware, not a picker in the UI.
image_pipeline's packing/render pipeline is parameterized by panel
geometry instead of hardcoded 800x480 globals, with the real confirmed
13.3in geometry (1600x1200) registered alongside the original 7.3in
panel. Existing 7.3in frames are unaffected (column default + board
mapping both resolve to the original panel).
Board identifiers are also renamed (devkit/xiao -> devkit_esp32c6/
xiao_esp32c6, plus new "ee02") since the EE02 board also carries a XIAO
module -- "xiao" alone stopped disambiguating hardware. The server
keeps accepting the legacy bare names indefinitely for already-flashed
devices.
Firmware: scaffolds a third build target (ee02, ESP32-S3 -- a real
chip-target change, not just a same-chip Kconfig variant like xiao) and
a new epd13in3e driver component skeleton. The actual panel init/LUT/
refresh register sequence isn't ported from vendor demo code yet (none
was available), so that component deliberately fails to compile
(#error) rather than risk sending unverified register values to real
hardware -- devkit/xiao are unaffected and build identically to before.
CI's ee02 build step is continue-on-error for the same reason.
This sandbox ships with no Python/Node/Docker/browser and no sudo, so
the bulk of this is setup.sh: bootstrap Python via uv, then get
Playwright's Chromium (and tmux, also missing) working by extracting
their .deb dependencies non-root instead of apt-get install. driver.py
is a small Playwright REPL standing in for chromium-cli, which isn't
available here either.
Also carves out .claude/skills/ from the blanket .claude/ gitignore --
skills are shared project tooling, not personal/local state.
64 tests covering: auth/setup and the CSRF gate, the "owner adds their
own data, anyone linked can mute it" permission pattern shared across
calendar-select/tasks-source/whiteboard-source, migration correctness
(fresh install, idempotent re-run, expected columns), battery estimate
outlier rejection, calendar_feed's fetch/merge/partial-failure handling,
webdav_client's fetch/list-directory, the whiteboard force-refresh
throttle bypass and browse endpoint, and render-size invariants across
calendar views/orientations.
No DB/HTTP fixtures need Docker, Node, or a real Immich/CalDAV/WebDAV
server -- a fresh temp SQLite file plus a couple of small local HTTP
servers as test doubles cover it all. Table data is wiped and reseeded
between tests rather than relying on SQLAlchemy's transaction-rollback
isolation pattern, which needs a pysqlite event-listener workaround
app/db.py's engine doesn't have and has no reason to gain just for tests.
Wired into .gitea/workflows/server-docker-build.yml as its own job that
build-and-push now depends on, so a failing suite blocks the image push
rather than just running alongside it for show.
New third mode alongside photos/calendar: fetches a .whiteboard file
over plain WebDAV (Basic auth -- generic, not Nextcloud-specific) and
renders it via a small Node.js sidecar using Excalidraw's own real
export code (@excalidraw/utils + @resvg/resvg-js, no headless browser),
since a .whiteboard file turns out to be Excalidraw scene JSON, not an
image. The sidecar runs as a second process inside this same container
(Dockerfile installs Node, start.sh backgrounds it before exec'ing
uvicorn) rather than a separate docker-compose service -- lightweight,
stateless, reachable only at 127.0.0.1 from the Python process, nothing
worth independently scaling.
The rendered PNG is treated exactly like a photo from there on --
composed/quantized through the existing image_pipeline (letterboxed,
never cropped) rather than a second parallel rendering pipeline.
WebDAV credentials support the common "it's actually the same Nextcloud
account as my CalDAV" case (an explicit opt-in checkbox, not silently
inferred) while still working with any WebDAV server generically.
Frame-level source (URL + owning account) follows the same owner-
controls-their-own-data permission split as calendar sources and the
week view's task list: only the account owner can point a frame at it,
anyone linked can clear it.
Honest limitation: this environment has no Node.js/npm, so
render-service/ is written carefully against each library's documented
API (verified via the npm registry, including transitive dependency
licenses after the CalDAV/AGPL surprise earlier this session) but has
never actually been executed. First real docker build is the first
true test -- see render-service/README.md.
- version.txt + esp_app_desc_t version reporting (X-Frame-Version header);
new ota_update.c checks the server's advertised version against the
running one and streams+applies an update via esp_https_ota, gated by
bootloader rollback (marks the image valid only after a full successful
cycle, so a bad update can't brick a wall-mounted frame).
- Dual-OTA partition tables: partitions.csv (8MB dev board, 2MB slots) and
new partitions_xiao.csv (4MB XIAO, 1.875MB slots -- the dev board's
table doesn't fit the XIAO's flash). New build_for_board.sh gives each
board its own build dir + generated sdkconfig via SDKCONFIG_DEFAULTS
layering, so switching boards never clobbers the other's config.
- fetch_photo_info()/fetch_face_labels() were using the short
reachability-check timeout even though the manage-menu path can be the
first (cold, TLS-handshake-paying) request of a wake cycle -- switched
to the longer fetch timeout to stop spurious ESP_ERR_HTTP_CONNECT
failures.
- XIAO: the RF switch that selects onboard vs. external antenna
(GPIO3/14) isn't initialized by plain ESP-IDF the way Seeed's Arduino
package does it, leaving WiFi unable to reliably reach the antenna at
all -- new board_antenna.c powers the switch and selects the onboard
antenna, gated behind FRAME_XIAO_ANTENNA_INIT (on by default in
sdkconfig.xiao). Also remaps the EPD DC/RST/BUSY pins, since the dev
board's defaults (GPIO9/10/11) aren't physically exposed on the XIAO.
docker-compose.yml is tracked in a repo meant for publishing, so it can't
hold a real API key. Renamed it to docker-compose.yml.example (placeholder
values, safe to commit) and gitignored the real docker-compose.yml --
deploying is now "cp the example, fill in real values, docker compose up",
no .env file needed.
config.load() now reads IMMICH_URL/IMMICH_API_KEY from the environment
and applies them on top of whatever's in config.json, so setting them in
the compose file's environment: block takes effect without ever touching
the web UI. Env vars always win over the UI-saved values when both are
present -- verified they survive a save() with different UI-entered
values still in place.
Moves the existing ESP-IDF captive_portal example into firmware/ to make
room for the new FastAPI server and project docs, ahead of building out the
full ESPresso Frame project (ESP32-C6 + Immich-backed e-ink photo frame).
tfaour
Thomas Faour