docs/hardware.md and firmware/README.md were updated already; this
catches the root README, docs/architecture.md, docs/widgets.md, and
server/README.md -- all still described the project as single-panel/
single-chip (800x480, ESP32-C6 only) even after image_pipeline.py
stopped hardcoding that.
Server: migration 41 drops the pre-widget-system Frame columns
(mode/album_id/current_asset_id/queue/calendar_*/whiteboard_*, etc)
docs/widgets.md flagged as the deliberately-deferred Phase 6 cleanup,
with a raw-SQL backfill safety net for any frame that still somehow
lacks a Widget. Also drops legacy_token_enabled and the shared
MANAGEMENT_TOKEN fallback it gated in require_device/require_browser --
the per-frame manage_token/device_token flow (and the /m/ page) fully
supersede it now; MANAGEMENT_TOKEN's only remaining role is the
optional pre-setup claim gate. Confirmed with the maintainer that the
deployed frame is already off the shared token before removing the
server-side fallback.
Firmware: the captive portal's "Access Token" field and its NVS/
build_url plumbing only ever mattered for pointing new firmware at an
old pre-multi-frame server -- gone along with the server-side fallback
it fed. Version bump to publish the change.
The root logger previously had no handler at all, so every module's
logger.info() call (user creation, claims, password resets, ...) was
silently dropped, not just unviewable. Adds a RotatingFileHandler
writing into the existing /data volume so log content also survives
container restarts/redeploys, plus /admin/logs (tail + line-count
picker + full-file download) alongside the existing Users & Frames
admin page.
The share QR's URL carried no auth params at all, so it silently fell
back through require_device's legacy-token resolution to whichever
frame happened to still be flagged legacy -- working only by accident
for a single frame, sharing the wrong frame's photos for any other, and
going fully dead once that frame's legacy flag was cleared.
Move the endpoint to manage.py, keyed on the frame's own manage_token
(same pattern /m/<manage_token> already uses) instead of device auth.
Since the server now resolves assets itself instead of trusting a
caller-supplied asset_id, it naturally generalizes to gather every
photo widget's current photo into one Immich share link, not just one
"primary" widget's.
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.
Cloudflare (fronting git.thumeit.com) started rejecting image pushes
with 413 Payload Too Large once whiteboard mode's Node runtime + native
resvg bindings made the image significantly bigger than before. Switched
the build/push target to a LAN-local registry (10.0.0.246:3000) that has
nothing in front of it to hit that limit, and updated
docker-compose.yml.example to match.
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.
Switched from the monochrome emoji font to color: NotoColorEmoji's
embedded CBDT bitmap glyphs, rasterized once at their native 109px
size and scaled to the target row height (unlike normal vector text,
color bitmap glyphs aren't stored at arbitrary sizes). Confirmed by
rendering an actual agenda row through the real quantizer that the
dithered-to-6-color result still reads clearly, not just muddy noise.
Falls back to the monochrome font if a deployment's Pillow/FreeType
wasn't built with embedded color bitmap support, so this degrades
instead of crashing or showing nothing.
The earlier fix stripped emoji instead of rendering them, which wasn't
what was asked for. Event titles now draw with two fonts: the usual
default font for text, and a vendored monochrome emoji font (Noto
Emoji, OFL-1.1) for actual emoji runs, so they show up as real glyphs
instead of a tofu box or nothing at all. Monochrome rather than color,
since reliably rendering COLR/CBDT color glyphs depends on how Pillow's
FreeType was built -- not something to depend on across deployments.
Also: events sharing the exact same title and time across different
calendars (e.g. a shared family event synced onto more than one
person's calendar) now collapse into one row instead of showing twice,
with a color bar split between every contributing calendar so it's
still clear whose event it is.
Calendar rule/grid lines were light gray, which dithers away to
near-invisible on the 6-color e-ink palette -- now black.
CalDAV accounts (Nextcloud, Fastmail, iCloud, ...) can now be linked
alongside the existing single ICS subscription, since one account can
expose several calendars. A frame's Calendar tab now lists calendars
per person rather than one opt-in per person: your own row shows every
calendar you have available with a full add/remove toggle, while other
linked users' rows show only calendars they've included, toggleable
off (mute) but not on -- only a calendar's owner can add it to a
shared frame. FrameCalendar replaces the old single-boolean
UserFrame.calendar_included; existing opt-ins are migrated forward.
calendar_feed.py/calendar_render.py: fetch/merge per-user ICS feeds,
render agenda/week/month views. manage_overlay.py: composites the
manage-button overlay server-side (QR, battery, location/date,
share-QR, face labels), reused by every render mode. device.py/common.py
wire both together: mode dispatch for /frame/image+advance+back, and
the &manage=1 flag. Plus UI (frame_config.html Calendar card, settings
calendar URL field) and the icalendar/recurring-ical-events deps.
Advanced configuration gains three sliders (PIL ImageEnhance factors
for color/contrast, 0-2, 1=unchanged; a 0-1 dithering strength) applied
to every photo this frame renders. Confirmed the parameter conventions
against a similar project (jwchen119/EPF: ImageEnhance.Color/Contrast,
1.0 baseline) before implementing; dithering strength isn't natively
exposed by PIL's quantize(), so it's implemented by blending the source
toward its own flat/undithered quantization before running Floyd-
Steinberg on the blend -- at 0 there's no quantization error left to
diffuse (exactly the flat result), at 1 it's the original unmodified
behavior, with a smooth continuum between rather than dithering being
an on/off toggle.
image_pipeline.py split into composition (_compose), enhancement
(_enhance), quantization (_quantize), and transpose+pack stages so
render_frame (device bytes) and the new render_preview_png (a normal
viewable PNG, upright logical orientation) share the same pipeline
instead of duplicating it. Named-face overlay label math (face_labels.py)
was already routed through the shared _placement_transform, so it
needed no changes for the new params.
Also added the requested before/after comparison: the Configuration
tab's new Preview card shows the current photo's untouched Immich
preview next to that same photo run through the frame's actual saved
rendering pipeline (two new GET endpoints, /preview/original and
/preview/rendered) -- immediate visual feedback for tuning the palette
and these new sliders. "Refresh preview" re-fetches after saving.
Schema migration v6 adds color_boost/contrast_boost/dither_strength,
defaulting to 1.0/1.0/1.0 -- reproduces the exact previous rendering
until a frame's Configuration tab changes one.
Verified against the live-shaped test database: the migration, sliders
persisting and clamping out-of-range input, both preview endpoints
(real JPEG passthrough / real PNG at correct logical size+orientation),
confirmed dither_strength=0 actually changes the rendered bytes vs.
default, and the standing legacy-device curl suite.
Advanced configuration (Configuration tab, collapsed <details> section):
a color picker per ink color (black/white/yellow/red/blue/green),
overriding image_pipeline.DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB for that frame's actual
panel -- different units can vary enough from the documented
approximations to be worth calibrating once you can compare a rendered
photo against the real hardware. Stored as Frame.palette_rgb (NULL =
default, schema migration v4), threaded through render_frame/
render_placeholder/_quantize_and_pack (which now builds the PIL palette
image per call instead of once at import) so both photos and the
unclaimed/unconfigured placeholder screen respect it. "Reset to
defaults" clears back to NULL. Config-save validates exactly 6 #rrggbb
values, rejecting anything else with a 400.
Also: each frame's sidebar entry now shows its last-reported battery
percent (🔋NN%) next to the name, using the frame_dot's existing
recently-seen indicator conventions -- silent when never reported
(mains-only frames, or before the first report), matching how battery
is hidden everywhere else it's not applicable.
Verified against the same live-shaped database as the SMTP work: the
v3->v4 migration, save/reload/reset round trip through the real HTTP
route, an actual rendered image using a custom palette (confirmed via
its packed panel-code bytes), input validation, and the sidebar badge
against real battery data -- plus the standing legacy-device curl suite.
Admin-configured SMTP (server/port/username/password/from address/
STARTTLS, a singleton server_settings row set from /admin -- not env
vars, since it's operator infrastructure a household admin sets up
once through the UI) powers two features, both requiring the relevant
user to have an email set in their own Settings:
- "Forgot password?" on /login emails a one-hour single-use reset link
(password_reset_tokens table). The endpoint always returns the same
generic "check your email" response regardless of whether the address
matched an account, so it can't be used to enumerate registered users.
- A frame's Configuration tab can set a battery-alert threshold
(Frame.battery_alert_threshold_pct, -1 = disabled); POST /frame/battery
emails the owner the first time a report drops to or below it, then
stays quiet for the rest of that discharge cycle (battery_alert_sent,
reset alongside battery_history whenever the existing recharge-jump
detection fires) -- not once per wake.
New app/mail.py wraps stdlib smtplib (no new dependency); send_email()
never raises, so a broken mail server can't 500 a battery report or a
password-reset request. Schema migration v2 adds users.email and the
two frame columns via ALTER TABLE (safe against the live, already-
populated database) plus the two new tables via the existing
create_all-based migration runner.
Verified against a real (already-migrated, real user/frame data)
database: the v1->v2 migration, admin SMTP config + test-email button,
full forgot/reset-password roundtrip (including single-use token
invalidation and the no-enumeration response), and the battery alert
firing exactly once per crossing against a hand-rolled fake SMTP
server -- all via curl end-to-end, plus the standing legacy-device
curl suite to confirm the device protocol is untouched.
The web UI grows into the multi-frame world: a left sidebar lists the
user's frames (with an online dot driven by the same overdue math as
the Device panel; collapsible off-canvas with a hamburger on mobile),
and each frame gets three tabs -- Photos (album picker, now displaying,
the drag-to-reorder upcoming grid), Configuration (name/order/
orientation/refresh/quiet hours/timezone/smart crop + the firmware
card), and Stats (device telemetry, lifetime counters, battery chart).
Settings and Admin adopt the same shell. / becomes a routing hub:
first frame, empty-state onboarding page, setup/login, or the
manage-QR redirect.
The JSON API moves to /api/frames/{id}/... behind require_frame_view /
require_frame_control: any linked user (admins see all) can view; 404
for frames outside your view so ids aren't confirmed; mutations 409
with the holder's name unless you hold the soft control lock, and
POST take-control always flips it to you. Config saves are now partial
updates -- each tab posts only its own fields (checkboxes always sent
explicitly), so the split forms can't clobber each other.
All CSS moves to static/theme.css and the old 680-line inline script
block splits into static/*.js -- the Pointer Events drag-drop state
machine and the canvas battery chart ported intact, not rewritten. The
CSRF fetch wrapper now reads a <meta> tag. No build step, still vanilla.
Verified end-to-end: page/static/API suites, control-lock handoff in
both directions, partial-save field preservation, non-admin frame
isolation, and the legacy-device curl suite (still byte-identical
responses for the deployed frame).
Replaces the single global config.json (whole-file pydantic model under
one RLock) with SQLite via SQLAlchemy 2.0: users/sessions/frames/links/
pending-claims/battery_log tables (models.py), a per-frame lock registry
(db.frame_locked) succeeding config.locked(), and hand-rolled schema
versioning (migration.py). A pre-database deployment's config.json is
imported verbatim as frame #1 on first boot and left untouched as the
rollback path; the old single firmware.bin slot becomes per-frame
firmware/<id>.bin.
Routes split out of the 900-line main.py into routers/device.py (the
frozen /frame/* protocol) and routers/api.py (web UI, still on the old
single-frame paths for now). Device auth moves to require_device, which
already speaks the full multi-frame protocol: per-frame device tokens
pushed via /frame/config and acknowledged on first use, self-
registration of unknown device ids as unclaimed frames, pending-claim
attachment, and the legacy-token migration window that keeps the
currently-deployed firmware (no id, shared MANAGEMENT_TOKEN) resolving
to frame #1 -- including the one-time binding of its device id when it
first reports one after a future OTA.
Externally identical for existing deployments: same paths, same token
semantics, same response shapes -- verified with a migration fixture,
the legacy-device curl suite, a 20-way concurrent-advance smoke test,
and a mutate-restart-assert persistence check against a fake Immich.
photo_queue.py ports nearly verbatim onto the Frame ORM row (MutableList
JSON columns make its in-place list mutations dirty-track); quiet-hours
math extracted unchanged into quiet_hours.py.
GET /api/firmware/check's 15-minute throttle meant a genuinely new
Gitea release could sit invisible in the UI for up to that long even
though POST /api/firmware/apply-latest (unthrottled) would've picked
it up immediately. New ?force=true bypasses the throttle for an
explicit check; the button wires it up and surfaces errors instead of
failing silently like the passive poll.
All firmware-related controls (manual upload, Gitea repo URL,
auto-update checkbox, detected board, Update frame button) now live in
one "Firmware update" card instead of being split across the main
Settings form and a separate card.
The board variant used to pick a Gitea release asset was a dropdown
the user had to set by hand and could get wrong. The device now
reports it itself via a new X-Frame-Board header (CONFIG_FRAME_BOARD_NAME,
"devkit" by default, "xiao" in sdkconfig.xiao) on every /frame/config
poll, stored as device_board_variant -- the server learns it instead.
Update checks/applies are gated on the board being known, since there's
nothing to fetch until a device has checked in at least once.
New Gitea Actions workflow builds both board variants and publishes
them as release assets whenever firmware/version.txt is bumped. The
server can now poll that repo's releases (next to the existing manual
upload) and either surface an "Update frame" button or, with
"Automatically apply updates" checked, stage the new build itself --
the frame still only updates on its own next wake either way.
New FrameStats (first_seen, device_wakes, photos_displayed,
photos_removed, battery_reports, recharge_cycles, ota_updates_applied,
config_saves), persisted alongside everything else in config.json.
Incremented at the existing route/photo_queue.py call sites that already
own each event -- no new instrumentation plumbing, no behavior depends
on these, purely informational. GET /api/stats serves them; the web UI
renders them into a native <details> "Stats" card (collapsed by default,
no JS needed for the expand/collapse), fetched once on page load like
the battery-history chart.
Verified: TestClient run through /frame/config (wakes + first_seen +
OTA-applied detection), /frame/battery (reports + recharge detection),
/api/config (saves); direct photo_queue.py unit checks for
advance/back/remove covering the "did the current photo actually
change" distinction (removing a queued-but-not-current photo bumps
photos_removed but not photos_displayed).
Replaces the ad-hoc inline styling with a shared base template driven by
CSS custom properties (light/dark palettes), a card-based two-column
layout, and a persistent dark-mode toggle. Also moves quiet-hours'
timezone from the container's TZ env var into a proper web UI setting
(zoneinfo-backed), so it no longer needs a docker-compose.yml edit and
restart to change.
Purely a server-side decision: GET /frame/config hands back a longer
refresh_interval_s while quiet hours are in effect (exactly the seconds
until they end), and clamps the normal interval so the device's next
wake lands at the boundary instead of wandering into the window, when
outside it but approaching. A device already mid-sleep when quiet hours
begin can still land one wake inside the window -- unavoidable without
touching the firmware, since it has no wall-clock awareness -- but from
that wake on it sleeps straight through to the end.
Window is "HH:MM"-"HH:MM", wrap-past-midnight aware (e.g. 22:00-07:00),
in the server's local timezone -- added tzdata to the Dockerfile since
python:3.12-slim doesn't include it and TZ would otherwise silently
resolve to nothing and fall back to UTC.
Also fixed the "overdue" device-status check to account for quiet hours:
without this it would falsely flag a device sleeping through a long
quiet window as unreachable.
battery_history stays cycle-scoped (reset on recharge, feeds the "on
battery for"/estimate numbers), but nothing kept a permanent record --
added battery_log, appended on every report and never reset, capped at
~2 years of hourly reports as a sanity bound rather than a real limit.
New GET /api/battery-log serves it; the web UI draws it as a plain
canvas line chart (no chart library) under a new "Battery history"
section, loaded once on page load.
Also caught up server/README.md, which never documented the OTA
firmware endpoints or the /api/queue response's current "device" shape
from the earlier status-panel work.
Battery (firmware + server, disabled by default): new battery.c reads
a 2x200k voltage divider via ADC oneshot with curve-fitting calibration
(the ESP32-C6's scheme), maps through a piecewise LiPo discharge curve,
and restores the pin to button duty after each read -- the settled
XIAO ESP32-C6 design shares the back button's GPIO0/A0, time-shared per
wake. Skipped entirely when on mains (a 2x100k VBUS divider into a
spare digital pin -- the 5V pin is dead on battery power, so presence =
mains, where the charging voltage would read misleadingly full) or when
the reading is implausible. The manage overlay gains a battery region
(static outline glyph + "NN%", below the manage QR, all menu levels),
and the device POSTs to the new /frame/battery endpoint after a
successful fetch; the server stores percent + as-of timestamp, exposed
via /api/queue and shown in the web UI. FRAME_BATTERY_ADC_GPIO /
FRAME_VBUS_SENSE_GPIO default to -1 (fully inert on the dev board);
compile-verified both disabled and enabled, hardware bring-up deferred
until the ordered XIAO + batteries arrive.
Orientation (server-side only): new config setting + web UI dropdown
(landscape / portrait / landscape_flipped / portrait_flipped). Photos
are composed/cropped at the logical hanging shape (portrait crops at
480x800, so face-aware crops match how the frame actually hangs), then
rotated losslessly into the panel's native 800x480 byte layout after
dithering -- the device never knows. Face-label anchors are transformed
through the same rotation (logical_to_native()) so they stay attached
to faces on rotated frames. Known documented limitation: the on-device
manage overlay still renders in native orientation, so it appears
sideways on a portrait-hung frame (QRs scan at any rotation; text reads
sideways).
Remove from rotation: a new bounded exclude list
(FrameConfig.excluded_asset_ids) that photo_queue._top_up() never
selects from. POST /api/queue/remove scrubs an asset out of
queue/history too so it can't resurface via "Show next" or the back
button, and if it was the current photo, advances away from it
immediately -- without recording it in history, since going back to a
photo you just explicitly removed doesn't make sense. Doesn't touch
Immich or the album itself, just this frame's own selection. Wired into
the web UI as a small "x" button on both the current-photo thumbnail
and every upcoming card.
Mobile scroll fix: touching a card to scroll the page was being
captured as a drag attempt every time (touch-action: none on every
.photo-card, needed for the existing drag-reorder gesture to work at
all), making it too easy to accidentally reorder instead of scroll.
Reworked touch dragging to require a brief hold (350ms, roughly
stationary) before it arms -- touch-action stays "pan-y" (native
scroll allowed) the whole time up to that point, so a normal
touch-and-swipe scrolls the page like anywhere else, and only switches
to "none" once a hold is confirmed as deliberate. Mouse dragging is
unchanged (no hold delay -- no scroll-vs-drag ambiguity with a mouse).
Also made the "Show next" and new remove buttons always visible instead
of hover/focus-revealed, since that was invisible-but-still-tappable on
touch (no hover state) -- a real hazard for a destructive action.
Back button (new GPIO0, POST /frame/back): the server now tracks a
bounded history of previously-current photos (photo_queue.py), pushed
to on every advance (auto or forced) and popped by back_forced() --
symmetric with advance, so pressing next afterwards returns to right
where you were. frame_client.c's force_advance bool becomes a 3-way
fetch_action_t (NORMAL/ADVANCE/BACK) threaded through the whole fetch
path.
Also folds the separate reset and manage buttons onto one pin
(combo_button.c, replacing reset_button.c/manage_button.c entirely),
disambiguated by hold duration: quick press shows the management menu
(unchanged), ~3s hold-then-release soft-resets (esp_restart(), config
kept -- new), ~15s hold factory-resets (today's old reset behavior,
extended from 10s for clearer tier separation). Driven by a production
board (Seeed XIAO ESP32-C6) exposing only 3 of the ESP32-C6's 8
deep-sleep-wakeup-capable GPIOs -- next/back keep their own dedicated
pins where instant response matters most, everything else shares the
third pin via timing instead of needing its own. Same three-pin layout
now works on both the dev board and the production board.
Fixed a fast-tap bug in combo_button_check() before shipping: it only
did a live gpio_get_level() read to decide whether the button was
pressed at all, so a press fast enough to already be released by the
time boot reached that check was missed entirely (treated as "never
pressed" rather than "quick press"). Added the same latched
esp_sleep_get_gpio_wakeup_status() check the other buttons already use
for exactly this reason.
The management token only gated / and /api/* -- every device-facing
/frame/* endpoint (including /frame/image, which serves the actual
photo bytes) stayed open regardless. That was fine while the server
was assumed LAN-only, but defeats the point now that HTTPS exists
specifically to let this sit behind a public hostname.
build_url() (frame_client.c) is the one chokepoint all firmware-side
URL construction already went through, so it now appends ?token= to
every request it builds -- device fetches and QR-embedded links alike
-- instead of that being bolted on per-callsite. Server-side, the
former require_management_token dependency (renamed require_access_token)
is applied to /frame/config, /frame/image, /frame/advance,
/frame/photo-info, /frame/face-labels, and /frame/share/{asset_id} too.
/health stays open -- pure liveness, nothing sensitive to protect.
ESP32 side can now reach the tools server over HTTPS: the Tools Server
field accepts an https:// address for a TLS-terminating reverse proxy
in front of the server (which still only ever speaks plain HTTP
itself), trusting Cloudflare's Origin CA root (embedded at build time)
since that's the common way to get a real cert on a private origin.
Every URL the device builds -- image fetch, config check, manage-menu
data, the QR codes' own links -- goes through one build_url() helper
that picks the scheme from what's configured.
Also adds an optional MANAGEMENT_TOKEN (docker-compose.yml) that gates
the web UI (/, /api/*) behind a shared secret -- unset by default, so
existing trusted-LAN deployments are unaffected. The same token is
entered once during the ESP32's captive-portal setup and gets baked
into the manage-menu's QR code (?token=...), so scanning it just works;
visiting the page without a valid token shows a plain entry prompt
instead of the config UI, and a valid query-param hit sets a cookie so
the page's own fetch()/<img> calls stay authorized for the rest of the
visit. Device-facing /frame/* endpoints are unaffected -- a separate,
already-documented trust boundary.
A plain read-only key (per the original setup instructions) 403s on
POST /api/shared-links -- confirmed against the live instance's
permission enum in /api/spec.json.
Two rounds of follow-up work on the manage-button overlay:
1. Location formatting: US/Canada now show abbreviated state/province
("CA", "ON") instead of the full name, other countries show the full
country name, and each is its own line (was one line, now wraps to
two) so longer international place names have more room without
threatening to overlap the top-right QR box. The bottom-left share QR
also gets a "SCAN TO DOWNLOAD" caption.
2. Escalating menu: pressing the manage button again while its overlay
is already up adds a second level -- each Immich-identified person's
name labeled next to their face in the photo (using Immich's own
face recognition/People data, no detection/recognition added to this
project). A third press exits immediately instead of waiting out the
30s auto-revert timer. No new Immich API needed -- GET /api/faces
already embeds a nullable person.name per face; new
server/app/face_labels.py maps a named face's box into the final
800x480 frame's pixel space (reusing crop-box math extracted from
image_pipeline.py's face-aware cropping). Capped at 4 named faces,
sized to a real firmware RAM budget: each label is its own malloc'd
overlay region on the device, alongside the 4 fixed corner regions
already in use. New GET /frame/face-labels returns a flattened
fixed-slot JSON shape (not a real array) so firmware's existing
flat-scalar parser can read it without needing an actual array
parser. No persistent state needed for the escalation itself -- it's
all local control flow within one continuous awake session
(frame_client.c's run_management_menu()).
Two changes, bundled since they landed in the same session and touch
overlapping files:
1. Fix: "Show next" sent the browser's full queue snapshot to
POST /api/queue/reorder, which hard-rejected if the server's queue
had shifted since the last fetch (e.g. right after a queue-length
trim). New POST /api/queue/promote moves one photo to the front
authoritatively, with no dependency on client staleness. /reorder
itself is now tolerant too -- unrecognized IDs are dropped and
missing ones appended, instead of rejecting the whole request.
2. Feature: the manage button's overlay now also shows the photo's
location (top-left, only if Immich reverse-geocoded it from GPS
EXIF), the date it was taken (bottom-right), and a QR code (bottom-
left) linking to a 30-minute public Immich share link -- created
lazily when someone actually scans it, not when the button's
pressed. New server endpoints GET /frame/photo-info and
GET /frame/share/{asset_id} (scoped to the frame's current/queued
photos, not any arbitrary Immich asset). Firmware-side, the overlay
mechanism generalizes from one spliced region to up to four
(manage_qr_overlay.c), each its own small buffer, still never
holding the full frame in RAM.
Adds "Upcoming photos to show" to the config UI (queue_target_len, 5-50,
default 20, replacing the hardcoded QUEUE_TARGET_LEN constant). Lowering
it trims the queue immediately on next page load rather than waiting for
enough advances to consume the excess naturally; raising it tops back up
the same way, via a new photo_queue.sync_queue_length() called from
GET /api/queue.
Replaces the up/down-button vertical list with a responsive photo grid
(native HTML5 drag-and-drop between cards, reusing the existing
POST /api/queue/reorder endpoint -- no new server route needed). Each
card also gets a "Show next" button that jumps it straight to the front
of the queue.
Also bumps the queue lookahead from 10 to 24 photos (QUEUE_TARGET_LEN in
photo_queue.py) now that the grid has room to show more at once.
Factory-reset (GPIO3, hold 10s): clears stored WiFi/server config and
restarts into provisioning -- the deliberate, USB-free replacement for
the earlier reverted RST-based auto-reprovisioning idea.
Next-photo (GPIO2, tap): wakes the device and forces the server to
advance immediately via a new POST /frame/advance, instead of waiting
for the refresh interval. Both buttons arm themselves as deep-sleep GPIO
wakeup sources so a press is noticed promptly even while asleep.
Also makes GET /frame/image side-effect-free: it now only advances once
refresh_interval_s has elapsed since the current photo was set (tracked
server-side), so a device reboot for any reason just redisplays the
current photo instead of silently skipping ahead. The server maintains a
small reorderable upcoming-photos queue, viewable and rearrangeable from
the web UI.
- LICENSE: MIT, with attribution notes for the vendored qrcode/epaper_fonts/
dns_server code and the epd7in3e driver's transcription of Waveshare's
register sequence.
- Top-level README.md: project overview, hardware list, quick-start
pointing at firmware/ and server/, repo layout, license, Claude Code
attribution.
- firmware/README.md: full rewrite (was still the stock ESP-IDF captive
portal example's README) -- build/flash instructions, Kconfig reference
table, first-boot walkthrough, and how to reset to provisioning mode via
NVS erase (the only way in right now; a proper reconfigure trigger is a
future addition).
- docs/hardware.md: wiring table + parts list + strapping-pin/SPI-speed notes.
- docs/architecture.md: sequence diagram and walkthrough of the full
provision -> connect -> fetch -> display -> sleep cycle, plus the
reasoning behind doing image processing server-side and reusing Immich's
face detection instead of bundling a detector.
- server/README.md: fixed stale endpoint docs (missing GET /frame/config,
POST /api/config still describing removed immich_url/api_key fields).
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.
- pillow==11.1.0 has no prebuilt wheel for Python 3.14, so pip fell back
to building from source and failed without libjpeg dev headers
installed. Bumped to 12.3.0 (has wheels); re-ran the local test suite
against it with no other changes needed.
- The local-dev uvicorn command in the README was missing --host 0.0.0.0,
so it defaulted to 127.0.0.1 -- unreachable from the ESP32 on the LAN.
The Docker image already binds 0.0.0.0 correctly; only the doc'd local
command was wrong.
Builds server/Dockerfile and pushes to this repo's Gitea Container
Registry (git.thumeit.com/tfaour/espresso-frame-server) on every push to
main that touches server/, tagged both latest and the commit SHA.
docker-compose.yml now sets both image: and build: -- deploy hosts can
docker compose pull to grab the CI-built image without needing this
repo's build context, while local dev can still docker compose build
against Dockerfile changes directly.
Implements the server side of the architecture decided on: the ESP32-C6
has no PSRAM and a tight RAM budget, so all the heavy lifting (JPEG
decode, resize, Floyd-Steinberg dithering, 6-color quantization, 4bpp
packing) happens here instead of on-device. The frame just does a single
GET and streams the response straight to SPI.
- GET /frame/image: looks up the current cursor's asset in the configured
Immich album, downloads its preview thumbnail, and returns it packed
into the panel's exact 800x480/4bpp/2px-per-byte format
(application/octet-stream, always exactly 192,000 bytes).
- GET / + POST /api/config + GET /api/albums: a small web UI for entering
the Immich URL/API key and picking an album, rather than cramming that
into the ESP32's captive portal form.
- Config (Immich creds, selected album, cursor) persists to a JSON file
via a docker-compose volume mount.
Verified locally with a venv (Docker isn't available in this environment):
unit-tested image_pipeline against a synthetic image (exact byte count,
valid panel color codes only), and ran a full end-to-end pass against a
mock Immich HTTP server exercising the real /frame/image path.
Pinned dependency versions in requirements.txt after hitting a real bug
with unpinned floors: the latest starlette (1.3.1) resolved by `pip
install fastapi` breaks Jinja2Templates outright.
Not yet wired to the ESP32 side (task 6) or authenticated -- /frame/image
is unauthenticated for now, fine on a trusted LAN but worth revisiting
once the firmware sends a shared device token.
tfaour