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FPP 7.0

Enhancements

  • New "OUTPUTS_ENABLED" and "OUTPUTS_DISABLED" Command preset triggers that are fired when Outputs are enabled/disabled
  • FPP remotes can play a "fallback.fseq" file if the main fseq is missing
  • FSEQ files can now contain special "Effects" and "Command Preset" timing tracks that can trigger based on timing marks instead of custom On effects on control channels.
  • Backups
    • Changing settings will now automatically trigger a configuration backup
    • Backups can be configured to save to an external device (USB) or other FPP host
    • Restoring backups from remote FPP hosts is now fully enabled
  • UI Enhancements
    • Playlist "breadcrumbs" displayed for nested/inserted playlists
    • Media files can be played directly from the Playlist drop down on the status page
    • MultiSync page now handles a mixed setup of hostnames and IP address better (CORS issues)
    • MultiSync page will now use the configured background colors of the FPP remotes
    • "Send MultiSync Packets" checkbox made more prominent on MultiSync page
    • Proxies page can now have a description for each entry
    • Popup dialogs are now used for more places where content is streamed from the device such as the expand storage, flash to eMMC/USB, cape eeprom upgrade, etc....
    • File sizes for files larger than 2G will now display
    • REST API Help and FPP Command Help now separated onto separate pages (page was too long to be useful)
    • Ability to "Add" and provision network interfaces that don't yet exist. Should allow provisioning of wlan0 adapters when only eth0 are available at first boot
    • Storage tab can unmount unused storage devices (use with caution)
    • Add "Top" button to page to scroll back to top when scrolling down longer pages
    • Playlists will automatically scroll the currently playing entry into view
  • New features for Capes/Hats
    • Upgrade/installing eeproms should now be easier from the Cape Info pages. Selection based on vendor/model/version is available
    • DPIPixel based capes now support Pi 4's as well as 4 channel pixels
    • PiHats now support four channel pixel types
    • Per output/string testing functionality added to string based capes on the string configuration page
    • Support for eFuses/relays - capes can now specify pins to enable ports and get notification of Fuse triggers
    • Current monitors- For capes that provide current monitoring per port, there is a new Current Monitor status page. "Pixel Counting" is available on that page.
    • OLED display can display WIFI QR code when put into Access Point mode
    • Support for ADS7828 A2D sensors
    • Support for using IIO for A2D sensors
  • New features for Raspberry Pi
    • On a Pi4 - the storage tab in settings now allows for flashing FPP to USB and booting from USB. Very useful for USB3 attached SATA drives. Note: heat is an issues with USB attached storage. The Pi4 NEEDS good heat syncs and fans to stay cool when using USB attached storage.
    • Kiosk mode - external links are now disables/hidden when running in Kiosk mode to prevent going to sites and not being able to return (no "back" button)
    • System setting to enable PWM fan control on GPIO14
    • Better support for various HDMI touch screens made for the Pi (1024x600 setting available)
  • New features in Channel Outputs
    • Twinkly outputs will now revalidate tokens and restart within a couple minutes if the Twinkly device power cycles.
    • "Control Channel" functionality has been moved to a dedicated Channel Output on the "Other" tab. Multiple control channels can be configured.
    • New uDMX channel output driver for uDMX based USB->DMX adapters
  • New Features in Overlay Models
    • WLED effects have been updated to the latest WLED
    • Sound reactive WLED effects are available (reacts to the sound played from that FPP instance)
  • New C++ API's for PluginDevelopers
    • New "CurlManager" for handling asynchronous HTTP calls
    • New "Timers" for handling periodic tasks
    • New "Events" API for getting additional events (same events sent to MQTT)

Major Changes/Incompatibilities

  • Persistent network names for USB ethernet devices will now flip to the Linux persistent naming convention (en#######) instead of eth0/eth1. Devices may need reconfiguring.
  • The Web frontend has been upgraded from Bootstrap 4.4 to Bootstrap 5. (Bootstrap is a library uses for UI widgets/layouts) Some FPP plugins may not work properly until they are updated. Please report any issues to the plugin developers.
  • Removal of deprecated API's - the old "Rest like APIs" from the FPP 1.x days that were part of fppjson.php and fppxml.php have been removed. Users will need to migrate to the proper REST API's in "/api".
  • Removal of Linsn Panel driver - this actually has been broken for a while, but no one reported it so is likely not used.
  • Upload of files with special characters will not strip the special characters. Filenames should remain correct.

Other updates/changes

  • PHP processing was split from the Apache HTTPD service. Due to this change, older versions of xLights cannot upload files to FPP7.

Upgrade Instructions

It is strongly recommended to do a full "OS Level" upgrade or re-image instead of attempting to upgrade directly from any older FPP version. There are several new features that will not work if an OS level upgrade is not done. There are two ways to do so:

  • Re-image - you can backup your 6.x configuration, create a new image, and restore the configuration.
  • In-place upgrade - this is new and requires you to have the latest FPP 5.5 or newer and all updates already running on the device. Download the appropriate "fppos" file to your computer. Make sure the file extension is still fppos (some browsers will rename it). Upload it to the "File Manager" on the FPP instance. Then go to the about page. Under the normal "Manual Upgrade", a new Upgrade OS button should appear. Click it and wait a LONG time. When done, it should reboot into 7.0. At that point, go to the Uploads tab of the FPP File Manager and delete the fppos file. Note: In SOME cases, the reboot will fail due to library replacement. In that case, a power cycle may be required to get it back up and running.

Selecting an image

For Raspberry Pi series including Pi B, Pi B+, Pi 3, Pi 3+, Pi 4 and Pi Zero use this image

  • FPP-v7.0-Pi.img.zip

For Beaglebone Black, Beaglebone Green, PocketBeagle, and Beaglebone Green Gateway use this image

  • FPP-v7.0-BBB.img.zip

Additional features not part of the Pi/BBB Images

  • FPP can now run natively on MacOS. It's not a simple image and must be "installed" from source. More details will come later, but you would need to download the https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FalconChristmas/fpp/master/SD/FPP_Install_Mac.sh file and run it to get all the pieces working.
  • FPP can now be installed on pretty much any Armbian based Single Board Computer. Devices like Orange Pi's, Banana Pi's, Nano Pi's Libre SBC's, etc... can now run FPP. Unfortunately, every single Armbian distribution is tied directly to the device it is designed for so we cannot provide images for all of them. There would be 10's or 100's of them which would be too time consuming. However, installing FPP is not hard. See the README.Armbian: https://github.com/FalconChristmas/fpp/blob/master/SD/README.Armbian
  • FPP can now be installed on other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu 22.10 and Linux Mint that use PHP 8 instead of PHP 7.4
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