A new page element runs Conway's Game of Life in an area (the whole display
by default), one per page. Start: random dots, one pattern, or the icons
whose names start with a text in turn or in random order. Edges: wrap
around, dead, or a hidden margin where gliders fly out of view (leftovers
that stay put in the margin are cleared, so a glider gun runs cleanly).
It restarts when the board is still or repeats within 16 generations
and/or after a number of generations, after a hold time (an empty board
at once).
logic/life holds the board and timing (tested), display/life_player runs
the board of the shown page, ticked before each frame; frames are paced
like scrolling text. The element reuses existing fields, so the page
format stays the same. The Icons tab has a library of 17 LifeWiki
patterns (checked with a simulation), and the built-in page "Game of
Life" shuffles through the life_ icons. About 12 KB flash, 8 KB RAM.
Version 2.17.0, tested on the display over OTA.
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- Home Assistant attributes can be paths into lists (forecast.1.condition).
- Date elements can show a day ahead (day offset 0-7).
- Pages hold 16 elements (page format 6; the old formats are frozen at 8).
Pages are reset in place (clearPage), not through a 4 KB temporary.
- Verwachting page: today (icon, temperature, max/min) and the next 2
days with 7 x 7 icons (weer7 <condition>), from a template sensor
(docs/home-assistant.md).
- examples/home-pages.json is exported from the display with all pages
and their icons, private entity id parts replaced by placeholders
(tools/export_examples.py replaces tools/make_example_pages.py).
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- net/ha_api: the HTTP requests run in a FreeRTOS task on core 0; loop()
only hands over copies through queues. The web UI's test button polls.
No more 3-4 s loop() stalls once a minute; timeout raised to 5 s.
- Progress bar page element (page format 4, v3 pages are converted)
- Plex user setting (settings v6): {plex_user} in entity ids
- Plex page (examples): watchers, play/pause icon, title, progress
- Bitmaps cached in RAM: a LittleFS read took ~100 ms on every render
and web preview; long JSON lists sent in 2 KB pieces
- Backup includes the refresh settings and the Plex user
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- README is the overview; web UI, pages, Home Assistant, how it works,
wiring, Nano over WiFi and the recovery app have their own page in docs/.
- docs/web-ui.md has a screenshot of every tab, made with headless Edge by
tools/make_webui_screenshots.py.
- The web UI opens a page in the editor with #pages/<name>. Version 2.7.2.
- The reply wire is fitted (flashing the Nano over WiFi works).
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