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7.5
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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.

NOTE: The OS level not has changed and will remain at 2023.12 level.

Enhancements

  • Add ability to turn on/off/reset individual eFuse ports from Current Monitoring page
  • Email setting on privacy tab to allow FPP developers to contact users if more information is needed to diagnose crashes
  • Set thread names so crash logs are easier to diagnose
  • Some optimizations to load/process playlists quicker
  • javascript enhancement to add setting name as parameter to callbacks
  • Add Sequence Info button Sequences page of File Manger to display FSEQ header information
  • If inputs are enabled, make the default warn if data is received and sequence is running
  • Detect Falcon v5's when using http discovery

Bug Fixes

  • Fix potential crash with Command Preset timing tracks
  • Fix potential crash when setting log levels using fpp command line tool
  • Fix some crashes with Twinkly output
  • Fix problems with UDP de-dup settings not properly sending needed packets
  • Fix temp/voltage display on multi sync page for Falcon controllers

Installation Instructions

If you have a system running 7.x, 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 on the main status page. Click on that to start the update process. It may take a long time to upgrade. Likely 5-10 minutes. You will need to reboot after the upgrade is complete to finish the upgrade process.

For users of FPP 6.x or older, 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 5.x/6.x configuration, create a new image, and restore the configuration.

  • In-place upgrade - this requires you to have FPP 5.5 and all the updates for 5.5 or FPP 6.3 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 7.5. At that point, go to the Uploads tab of the FPP File Manager and delete the fppos file. An alternate method to do an in-place upgrade if you are only upgrading one device AND the device has internet connectivity, is to select the 7.5 fppos (download) file and then click on the Upgrade OS button. This will download the fppos file and then install it as mentioned above. This will still take a LONG time and if you are doing this on more than one device, you will essentially be downloading the same file multiple times so is probably not the best way.

  • 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 2, Pi 3, Pi 3+, Pi 4 and Pi Zero (all models) use this image

  • FPP-v7.5-Pi.img.zip

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

  • FPP-v7.5-BBB.img.zip

The Raspberry Pi 5 is not supported by FPP v7.x. Support for the Pi 5 will be added in FPP v8.0.

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