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Updated builds Imminent!
🕑 Added 2022-09-29 09:26:18 +0000 UTCThat's one of my favorite titles. :) It means that a month of hard work is about to be released. Tonight I started a final pass on one of our releases, and tomorrow we'll release 2 builds! We push hard so that those that can't pay for next month have something to walk away with that they can have fun with and that is stable/working great. We appreciate all of your support and want you to have a great experience with this Patreon!
Here's the 2 builds coming out:
1) Stable September release - This release was released as a beta earlier in the Discord, and has fixes for stability. It displays Exif data, has some playlist fixes, and adds the experimental work to the SciFi theme. There are some fixes to the first run experience as well. It's mainly our bugfix stable release.
2) October Alpha release
This is where all the new features are, at the expense of they're a bit rough still, but we'll be spending October polishing them (goal is to stabilize this in October, and then release a November Alpha of the next feature set...see the cadence? :) )
This build will have the following (Screenshots were posted in the previous post)
Playlistis:
- A playlist view - You'll be able to see the items in the playlist, in the order they're queued up. They'll also have thumbnails!
- The ability to remove a file..this removal deletes the file entirely.
- There is a 'Play' button which will play the selected file immediately on the frame
Note: This is a new 'tab' which will be expanded to editing the playlist order, allow for sorting, and allow for saving playlists in the near future.
Plugins
- Plugins allow the frames to get content from other sources and integrate it seamlessly. The intiial work on the plugin engine is done, and we will ship our first plugin 'pixabay' in October. This plugin will allow you to do a web search of over 2.5 million images and have them on your frame.
Plugins were implemented in such a way that multiple plugin engines can run side by side along with local content, and all of the content can be shuffled together.
The plugin documentation and source will be released next month (We just ran out of time) for those that want to jump in and develop plugins. Further enhancements will happen down the line to allow for other styles of plugins such as infobar related ones (weather, sonos now playing, etc) and background plugins (essentially python scripts that can integrate sensors, remotes, and such. We've just got to figure out how to integrate them)
Plugins can have their own configuration web page, save off settings, and more. This should give plugin authors tons of flexability to really enhance the system with content or functionality we've not even dreamed up yet!
There is other work under the covers that is being done to fix some of the deeper issues that have been brought up. The plugin work will enable us to specify overlay styles for instance. We also have work in the engine now to detect where a GPS coordinate is to convert it to a city. And we have work to customize the infobar so that other EXIF data can be selected. That work was done behind the scenes, and will pay dividends in October and November as we light those features up.
Thank you all for your support, and tomorrow evening (I'm in the PST timezone) will be an exciting day! For those wanting on the beta, stay tuned for QWK's announcement in the discord. The store code for the update will be disclosed here in a post tomorrow.
Comments
Ooooh this is like a mix of a magic mirror and Dynaframe! This is wicked I can’t wait for the plug-ins. Iot Integration 😎
