v4.1

版本发布时间: 2023-11-12 23:29:31

Blackymas/NSPanel_HA_Blueprint最新发布版本:v4.3.7(2024-04-26 00:39:13)

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General

The focus this time was on making easier to transfer the TFT files.

As this project grows with features, it becomes more hungry of resources from all sides (ESPHome, your Home Assistant server and even the Nextion display) and with that the chances of something going wrong when updating increased.

So at this release we concentrated on cleaning up de code everywhere and shave some unnecessary elements, making the system easier to install and opening some space for future features. But you still can find a couple of nice new things not related to the cleaning.

Updating

Since in this update lots of input to the blueprint changed, we highly recommend you review your settings and make sure all fields have the correct selection. We did our best to support your legacy settings and avoid breaking your system, but please double check your settings if you see something not working as expected.

Files that need to be reloaded:

nspanel_eu.tft, nspanel_us.tft or nspanel_us_land.tft - v4.1
nspanel_esphome.yaml - v4.1
nspanel_blueprint.yaml - v4.1

Instructions

You can find the update procedures following here:

Breaking changes

Home Assistant 2023.9.0 or later is now required
This is necessary in order to support the new Weather Forecast Service.
The legacy forecast based on attributes will be deprecated in Home Assistant on the begining of 2024.
The following components are now deprecated:
- Buttons:
  - Exit reparse (button.xxxxx_exit_reparse) - It shouldn't be necessary with the new TFT upload engine
- Services:
  - Play rtttl (esphome.xxxxx_play_rtttl)
- Sensors:
  - API uptime
  - Device uptime
  - RSSI
  - ESPhome Version
  - IP
  - SSID
  - BSSID
- ESPHome components:
  - Web server
You can still add these components (except by "Exit reparse") by adding the file nspanel_esphome_advanced.yaml in your ESPHome settings as in the example bellow, but please have in mind that these are not used by the blueprint and will be using some memory of your ESPHome.

...
packages:
  remote_package:
    url: https://github.com/Blackymas/NSPanel_HA_Blueprint
    ref: main
    files:
      - nspanel_esphome.yaml # Core package
      - nspanel_esphome_advanced.yaml # activate advanced (legacy) elements - can be useful for troubleshooting
...

Very long press on hardware buttons
If you have a custom automation using very long hold (more than 15s) of hardware buttons it may fail as now the panel will restart with button hold for 15s.
Logger via UART is disable
You can add it back as a customization.
Service notification_show parameter text was renamed to message to support ESPHome 2023.11.0.
Buttons now will run an automation
On the previous versions, a button with an automation will enable or disable the automation. Now the button will trigger the automation.
If you want the legacy behavior, please create a script to enable/disable the automation and assign this to your button. 😉

Overview of noteworthy changes

New Upload TFT engine
Hardware restarts with button hold for 15s
Support to esp-idf framework
Support to 921600 bps
Font size for chips
Short click to open Climate and Media Player

Details of noteworthy changes

1. New Upload TFT engine

We rebuilt the Upload TFT engine and now it will be using less resources from ESPHome during the transfer and, in addition, will provide more logs for troubleshooting.

The original engine from Nextion component still as a fallback in case the new engine fails, but it might be removed in a future version.

2. Hardware restarts with button hold for 15s

Now if you press the hardware buttons for more than 15s, the panel will act as the following:

Button	Action	Details
Left	Power cycle the screen	It can remove the need to power cycle the panel when the screen can't stablish connection to ESPHome (`Nextion is not connected!` on logs).
Right	Restarts the panel	It is equivalent to press the "Restart" button on the Settings page or from Home Assistant, but is available even when the Wi-Fi isn't connected or Home Assistant is out.

3. Support to `esp-idf` framework

Although this project still using ESPHome default framework (currently arduino), we started supporting the framework esp-idf as this is a recomendation from ESPHome team since an year ago or so. The arduino protocol still more popular and therefore more components are available, but there are some advantages with the ESP-IDF framework:

It is updated more frequently by EspressIF, which means it is more secure and stable.
It reduces a layer, as Arduino is developed in top of ESP-IDF, so basically we are changing from ESPHome -> Arduino -> ESP-IDF -> Hardware to ESPHome -> ESP-IDF -> Hardware.
By reducing a layer, more memory is available for future features and for the custom components you might want to add to your panel.
The memory management is more efficient, which makes critical tasks, like uploading a TFT file, more reliable.
In the future we will probably make this as the default framework, so if you are a new user or if for some reason you have to flash your panel via serial/usb, it's a good idea to change to ESP-IDF now.
Please look at customizations docs in the Wiki for more details on how to change the framework.
-> The ESP-IDF framework will be used when you enable the advanced mode.

4. Support to 921600 bps

Until this point, the communication between ESPHome and the Nextion display is at 115200 bps. This is not changing for now, but we are preparing to change this in the near future to a higer rate of 921600 bps, which is 8 times higher than the one used currently. After installing the latest TFT v4.1, you will be able to change the speed as a customization and your system will switch to the higher transfer rate after the next boot.
In most of the cases, you are not going to see any diference related tho this change, but it will reduce significantly the time to upload a TFT file.

5. Font size for chips

We ran a poll, the maiority select one option, but we respect the minority and... we supported both options. :smiley:
Now you can have your chips a bit bigger, making it easier to see from the distance:

24px	32px
As before	New option

If you wanna try the new option, just go to your blueprint setting and select the font size:

6. Short click to open Climate and Media Player

Now on any button page, buttons assigned to Climate or Media Player entities will always open the detailed page. As it is hard to define an adequate toggle action for all the different cases, it makes more sense to just open the page and let the control to the users.

Next topics we are currently working on

See here: https://github.com/Blackymas/NSPanel_HA_Blueprint/labels/roadmap

Special thanks to:

@misery - Fixing a typo in the docs (#1176)
@Floppe - Adding space for value fields on Home page (#1180)

New Contributors

@misery @Floppe

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