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dkulp Daniel Kulp
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Learn about vigilant mode.
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dkulp Daniel Kulp
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Learn about vigilant mode.

New Features

  • Support for gzip compression of fseq files while uploading from xLights (2018.44 or newer)
  • Ask to copy settings/sequences/etc... onto newly formatted storage locations
  • Playlist "pause" entry can now support fractional seconds
  • Support for Adafruit PiRTC (pcf8523)
  • Bind bridge mode UDP inputs to all interfaces, UDP data can come from any network
  • Playlist page will display total duration for the playlist
  • Filemanager now displays various information about media
  • Multisync - can now manually enter IPs for remotes that are not discoverable (F16v3) or on another subnet
  • Updates to backup/restore to allow network settings, others to be restored.

Bug Fixes

  • BBB boot up was slower than necessary with v2.3 due to some changes from TI
  • Remotes may blank/blink between sequences
  • MQTT authorization updates, hostname updates
  • Bug in scheduler which would occasionally cause playlists to stop gracefully prematurely
  • Don't allow sending UDP data to itself. This was causing various network buffer fills and lockups
  • Fix various outputs that only required a single channel (gpio) not working correctly (no data loading)
  • Fix scripts that used to reference /opt/fpp/bin.pi
  • Fix Mutlisync expert view to properly display if Update Available
  • WiFi SSID/PSK not allowing various special characters
  • Playlist shoudl allow sequences/music/videos with special characters
  • NRF output fixed to work with 2.x
  • RasClock RTC not working
  • Multisync - media sync now occurs every 1/2 second, allows faster catchups.
  • Multisync - media sync bugs/fixes to prevent getting out of sync, back and forth slow/fast, etc...
  • omxplayer -b flag added to use a black background to prevent linux command line stuff from showing
  • Various issues with Pi Matrix and others that had their channels shifted

Upgrade instructions

If you have a system running 2.1 through 2.3, you can go to the FPP about page (about.php) and click on the "Manual Update" button. At that point, a big green "Upgrade" bar should appear. You will get all the improvements above except those marked with the "requires re-imaging" notes on the release note for all the versions is upgrading through. Note: there are a LOT of changes in this release. The "Upgrade" button may take several minutes.

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