Interstellar: Gargantua with a time dilation clock (Earth today vs.
Miller's planet), TARS with his settings and remarks about the house,
the Endurance spinning at a solar-driven RPM while a Ranger docks, and
the tesseract's bookshelf with the time in binary dust and the Message's
first word in Morse on a watch.
Your Name: comet Tiamat splitting over Itomori's lake, and
kataware-doki, a countdown to sunset from sun.sun where two silhouettes
stand on the crater rim during the twilight hour.
HomeData gains sunset, sunrise and sun elevation (with an ISO time
parser); wrap() and typed() move to el512_pages.h. Share Tech Mono 22
gets the full Latin set. All pages are in the renderer, checked with
normal, busy and empty data.
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The tube was 56 px wide while its dome (radius 28) spans 57, so the dome
overshot the right wall by a pixel; tubes are now 57 px. The Nixie digits
at size 110 were up to 60 px wide (plus the 1 px glow) in a 55 px tube;
size 90 fits, and each digit is clipped to the inside of its glass.
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tools/render_pages.py compiles the page code natively with g++ against
ESPHome's own display and font code and the font bitmaps of the last
`esphome compile`, and draws pages to PNG at chosen moments with sample
data (normal, empty, alert, busy), as a contact sheet, or as one example
per page in docs/images/pages (now shown in the README).
Fixes found with it: Cyber HUD zone names ran into the temperatures,
the breach header label hit the tag and the column marker the matrix
label; KonoSuba subtitle, guild weather icon, cabbage text and all-day
deadline, and hills through the party; Steins;Gate D-mail recipient, the
microwave display, the gadget card value and world line labels; LCARS
room rows, readout bars and data cascade, warp core readouts, and the
captain's log weather wording.
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LCARS ship status, the Cerritos duty roster from the agenda, a warp core
driven by solar power with Rutherford's advice, and a captain's log under
a viewscreen. Original pixel art in tools/trek_sprites.py.
When the 3D printer (Moonraker current_print_state, `printer`
substitution) is paused or in error, the panel jumps to LCARS Status in
red alert and holds the rotation until it carries on.
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Divergence meter (Nixie tubes, world lines and clock), a D-mail sent
through the Phone Microwave using the panel's Message text, the Future
Gadget Lab inventory with live sensors, and a world line chart of today's
solar power. Original pixel art in tools/steins_sprites.py; the sprite
tool is shared between themes and Sprite, sprite(), polar() and arc()
move to el512_pages.h. HomeData gains the message and a 24 h solar
history in 15-minute slots.
The rotation now walks all pages in a random order that is reshuffled
every hour (Still Alive stays out, Now playing is skipped when idle).
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Megumin's daily explosion, the Adventurers' Guild quest board (agenda,
weather, solar), Megumin's adventurer card and a party battle against a
giant toad with a live-data battle log. Original 1-bit pixel art lives in
tools/konosuba_sprites.py, which generates konosuba_sprites.h and can
render a preview PNG.
Home data and drawing helpers shared by the themed pages move to
el512_pages.h; the display gains dither_mask() for a dissolve-in intro.
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Netrunner HUD, self-solving breach protocol, optics boot-and-scan and a
split HUD with a mini breach matrix, all in the page rotation. The el512
display gains animated_pages / animation_interval (redraw ~15 fps while
shown), page_age_ms() as animation clock, and shift_rows() / invert_rect()
for glitch effects.
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- el512_panel.cpp: esp_cpu_get_cycle_count() exists only in ESP-IDF 5;
use cpu_hal_get_cycle_count() on 4.4 (Arduino 2.x), which broke both
PlatformIO environments.
- README: ring-buffer refresh, tear-free status, D1 mini ESP32, new layout
(components/el512, esphome/, home_assistant/), ESPHome setup, Still Alive
paths, and the Wi-Fi blanking findings with wiring advice.
- docs/README: ring, lookup table, double buffer, health counters; tear-free
and memory items done; Wi-Fi blanking and boot blanking as open items.
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The panel driver counts ring refills, the largest gap between refills,
frame swaps, swap timeouts and I2S TX FIFO underruns (takeStats()). The
ESPHome component checks them every 10 s and logs a warning only when the
ESP32 side of the signal had a problem, plus a debug summary per minute.
Measured with Wi-Fi on: ~4600 refills/s, max gap < 0.4 ms (lead 1.7 ms),
no underruns or timeouts, so remaining blinks come from the signal being
disturbed on the wires (Wi-Fi transmit bursts), not from the refresh.
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Driver (components/el512/el512_panel.*, ESP-IDF only):
- DMA ring of 8 x 4 lines (17 KB) refilled from the I2S EOF interrupt
(IRAM) instead of a 142 KB full-frame stream; ~107 KB heap freed.
- 256-entry lookup table encodes 8 pixels per step.
- Back buffer + displayed buffer, swapped at the start of a frame.
- PlatformIO builds it via lib_extra_dirs (EL512Core); lib/EL512 keeps
the Adafruit GFX front end.
ESPHome external component (platform: el512):
- DisplayBuffer with optional ENABLE / _LOWPWR pins, set_enabled(),
set_low_power(), helper functions for page lambdas.
- still_alive_page: plays the Portal end-credits show, then returns to
the previous page.
Still Alive engine moved to components/el512/still_alive.* with a built-in
5x7 font (from Adafruit GFX, BSD); the PlatformIO demo uses the same code.
The importer writes components/el512/still_alive_data.h and stops at 200 s
(--until-ms), matching the hand-trimmed data.
esphome/el512-panel.yaml: 8 pages (clock, forecast, agenda, dashboard,
now playing, Plex, solar, Still Alive), page select, rotation, display
and low-power switches, message text. home_assistant/packages/el512_panel.yaml:
helper template sensors for forecast, agenda, now playing and Plex streams.
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