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dkulp Daniel Kulp
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New user installation instructions

For new users, you need to download the appropriate image from the links below. Then follow the instructions found at https://falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php/topic,9372.0.html to "burn" the image on to an SD card. Just extracting/copying the file to a blank SD card will NOT work.

New Features:

  • Support for Raspberry Pi 4 (*)
  • Updated images to Debian 10 Buster (*)
  • Support for 1.5" SSD1327 OLED screens
  • Ability to "proxy" controllers behind FPP
  • Add support for .mov, .wav, .mpg
  • Ability to write plugins in C++ (experimental)
  • BBB - Smart Receiver support for BBB cape differential outputs
  • BBB - Add ability to turn off/control the various BBB leds
  • Support for higher bitrate audio
  • Docker images on DockerHub

Enhancements:

  • Updated to support up to 8M channels (from 1M)
  • Conversion of some boot stuff to C++ to boot faster
  • BBB - Also look on I2C1 for OLED/temperature sensors
  • Upgrade to latest jquery version
  • Pi - don't show FPD page unless FPD detected
  • Default volume to 70% to avoid overdriving SoundBlaster and other cards
  • Pi - CPU temperature displayed with other sensor information
  • New internal architecture to only load outputs that are actually configured/used. Reduces memory usage.

Bug fixes:

  • Bunch of fixes to get omxplayer video output to not leak memory and cause crashes/lockups
  • Setting UI Password now doesn't break everything

Upgrade Instructions:

The best way to upgrade is to re-image the device. The full OS upgrade to Debian Buster requires a re-image.

If you have a system running 2.7.2, 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. It will take a long time to upgrade. Likely 20-30 minutes. You will get all the improvements above except those marked with the "requires re-imaging" notes on the release notes. However, this does NOT upgrade the underlying OS to "Debian Buster". At this point, we do not know how many more releases we will continue to support building on "Debian Stretch".

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