The weather widget's icons/layout are hand-drawn PIL primitives -- clean
under quantization but flat, no gradients/shadows. Adds an opt-in
render_style="modern" (current/daily modes only) that instead renders a
Jinja2 template through a persistent headless-Chromium browser
(app/html_render.py), following the approach of Tesserae, an open-source
e-ink dashboard targeting this same panel family.
Key design points:
- The Chromium dependency (Playwright) is lazily imported only when a
weather widget actually uses "modern" style, and the background browser
itself only launches on first use -- every other widget type, and this
one's own classic/hourly/multi_city paths, never pay for it.
- No Frame-level dithering setting needed: html_render dithers its own
rendered widget to exact palette colors (Bayer/ordered, not
Floyd-Steinberg) before compositing, so the shared whole-canvas
Floyd-Steinberg pass sees zero quantization error there and leaves it
untouched -- same trick draw_text/hand-drawn icons already use. Floyd-
Steinberg keeps working unchanged for photos and every other widget.
- A "Load calibrated Spectra 6 preset" button in Advanced configuration
offers a community-measured palette (data ported from
paperlesspaper/epdoptimize, Apache 2.0) as an alternative starting
point to the existing idealized DEFAULT_PALETTE_RGB -- fills the
existing palette table, doesn't save by itself.
Known open risk, not resolved here: a headless Chromium binary is far
larger than the ~100MB single-layer limit that already forced this
project's pip/npm installs into split layers, and (unlike those) is a
single ~180MB file that can't be split across layers by ordinary
Dockerfile restructuring. Flagged prominently in server/Dockerfile and
docs/widgets.md -- treat this render style as experimental/local-only
until that's resolved.
Next/back button assignment moves from a frame-level "Button
assignments" card into each widget's own gear-icon dialog, prefilled
with a sane default at creation (photos/calendar -> advance/back,
whiteboard/weather -> check_now, others -> none). At most one binding
per (widget, button) now -- cross-widget execution order never
mattered since each widget's action only touches its own state.
New firmware capability: holding NEXT or BACK past a configurable
duration (min 3s, server-side default) triggers a frame-wide action
instead of the per-widget short-press one -- cycling saved layouts,
refreshing all widgets, or freezing/unfreezing every photo widget (see
app/global_actions.py). Firmware next/back checks gain the same
hold-duration polling the combo button already had; the threshold
comes from the previous wake's /frame/config fetch (persisted in NVS),
since this wake's button decision happens before that request.
Not done here: firmware/version.txt is intentionally left unbumped --
this hasn't been built or hardware-tested (no ESP-IDF toolchain in this
environment), so no firmware release build should be triggered yet.
A Widget-level property (border_style/border_thickness/border_color_index),
not a per-type config field, since every widget type can have one -- drawn
once centrally in device.py's _render_widgets before compositing, using
an exact panel palette color so it never dithers. Styles: solid, dashed,
dotted, and a fancy double-line picture-frame-mat look. Configurable from
a shared "Border" card in every widget's gear-icon dialog.
New widget type with four display modes -- current conditions, an
hourly forecast strip, a multi-day forecast, and several cities' current
day side by side -- backed by a pluggable provider registry (app/weather/,
mirroring the app/widgets/ dispatch pattern): Open-Meteo (worldwide) and
NWS (US-only) both wired up now, Environment Canada documented as the
next one to add given its more involved station/grid-lookup API.
The calendar widget's existing embedded weather strip is untouched and
still Open-Meteo-only; this lifts the same underlying icon-drawing
primitives (now shared via app/weather_render.py, calendar_render.py
still imports draw_weather_row unchanged) into a widget that can be
placed and sized on its own. Icons are redrawn in the panel's actual ink
colors (yellow sun/bolt, blue rain/snow) instead of flat black, and
build_multi_city's icon/font sizing now scales with how many cities need
to fit rather than the box's height alone -- both fixed after catching
them via live browser verification, along with a mode-switch cache-shape
crash and a mobile-width dialog overflow.
New WeatherWidgetConfig table (migration 24), grid footprint, widget
module, common.py fetch/cache helper, router endpoints (location set/
clear, city add/remove, preview), dialog template + JS, and full test
coverage (providers, widget render, HTTP endpoints, migration replay).
docs/widgets.md and CLAUDE.md's TODO updated accordingly.
tfaour