HyperHDR Changelog

What's new in HyperHDR 20.0.0.0 Beta 2

Feb 23, 2024

SD images are available again and are based on Debian Bullseye, so they will not fit RPi 5: use the official Raspberry Pi installer for this board. It is explained here: link1
Fix: Fedora uses xz as the package name, not xz-utils #771 Thanks @hsmalley
Fix LUT loading bug to reduce memory usage by 96MB #766
Fix background music effect #761
Fix typo #762 Thanks @laurens94
Yeelight: Wizard now supports more models, workaround for music-mode reset, auto-resume support #750 Thanks @ratawhisk
Fix verbose command line option #723
Add native build for Apple M1 / M2 (arm64) architecture #755
New features: disable LEDs/components on startup #737
New features: stop processing when user has locked the system #737
Force HyperSerial detection #732 Thanks @alex-013
Fix Linux DBus sleep/wakeup handler
Fix pipewire grabber for non-contiguous DMA memory & EGL #711 Thanks @Mic92
Update build scripts and include Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Fixes for v20beta1 #705

New in HyperHDR 20.0.0.0 Beta 1 (Dec 23, 2023)

Refactoring. Migration to C++ Smart Pointers. Move almost all main objects management under control of modern C++ smart pointers, fully control complicated life-cycle and ownership of HyperHDR components #691
Windows/DirectX: use hardware acceleration (pixel & vertex shaders) for software capturing. Fixes issue #688 → #691
Windows/DirectX: fix overexposed HDR stream with pixel shader. Fixes issue #689 → #691
Windows/DirectX: autodetect HDR mode.Fixes issue #690 → #691
Automatic database backup before applying structure changes when installing new version, json backups are saved in standard HyperHDR configuration home directory #691
Smoothing clock is integrated directly within led driver: no more two separated & unsynchronized clocks for smoothing and led driver, also much more precise refresh times. #691
HyperHDR driver for WLED has been switched to WLED Audio-Reactive-Led-Strip protocol removing old 490 LEDs limit https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/wiki/UDP-Realtime-Control #691
switch libCEC to mainstream since version 6.x is widely available now #691
Linux: audio stream auto-resume on EPIPE error #691
Improved headers including for faster compilation #691
JSON API security vulnerability fixed #691
Add video buffer memory caching to Pipewire grabber #691
Fixed the LUT calibration page by removing potential scrollbars that could interfere with the final result #691
Support for Pico (rp2040) boards using HyperSPI #691
Fix over 500LEDs limit for HyperSPI when RPi5 is used #691
Improved installers script #691
Address CodeQL findings #691
Fix logging tab that can be empty when opened and add button to copy logs #691
ArtNet LED Controller: add toggle to prevent pixel color data split across two artnet universes. Fixes issue #657 → #691
Ability to change MQTT Topic. Fixes issue #619 → #691
MQTT: auto-resume. Fixes issue #570 → #691
MQTT ability to execute multiply commands in one request. Fixes issue #642 → #691
Each MQTT subcommand will return full response in the overall result at HyperHDR/JsonAPI/response #691
Fix typo in LED strip name #670 Thanks @fluchfux
Pipewire DMA & EGL hardware support (Wayland/x11 grabber) #556
Upgrade Fedora 38 to 39, Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 #667
Colorized logs #640
Fix macOS build #638 #671 #672
Update language file's. Thanks @AstaRom #617
Make bonjour use logging utilities. Thanks @nurikk #529
New interface: removed ancient Font Awesome 4 (so 2017...) Migrate to SVG: Bootstrap Icons and Google Material Icons/Symbols #605
New device discovery service #605
Stability improvements & bug fixing #605
Fix QT5.15 issue when building on Windows #605
Add new effect: Rainbow Waves #607
MQTT: hostname address resolver. Thanks @lougovsk #586
V4L: allow setting of V4L device input, fixes #537. Thanks @Thinner77 #540
Update flatbuffers to v23.5.26 #596
Pause the USB grabber when all LEDs are off to reduce load #608
Add support for HD108 led strip, 16/48bits colors #527
Use optional system libs for compiling #541
Update mbedtls to 3.4.0 #589
Add Ubuntu support to HyperHDR and Github Pages APT repository #522
New JsonAPI method to calculate average color of selected instance #611
Workaround for critical Rpi udev bug affecting serial ports #583
Add Arch Linux support #520
Fix chrome/edge fullscreen detection #519
Add automatic LUT downloader & installer #568
Allow LUT calibration when no USB grabber is present #518
Live update WLED/udpraw LEDs number #564
Add support for Raspberry Pi Pico (Rp2040) HyperSerialPico #560
Do not use TurboJPEG for RGB during calibration #508
Update Github actions/checkout@v3 #403
glibc requirements for DEB installer #402
Remove folders nesting #363
New JSON API method to update smoothing parameters #352
Update Github actions/download@v3 #372
Remove depraciated ::set-output from Github Action #390
Upgrade Bootstrap to 5.2.3 / improved 'video live preview' on smartphones #336
Update language file's. Thanks @AstaRom #505

New in HyperHDR 19.0.0.0 (Feb 13, 2023)

New features:
Added support for entertainment api v2 (hue gradient strips) (#471) Many thanks to @gibahjoe great job!
HyperHDR got new packages repository (Github Pages). More details: https://awawa-dev.github.io/ Also RPM packages are available there and Arch Linux installers are planned.
The SD images that come with this release are already linked to the HyperHDR repository, so a future update should be much simpler.
Add support for ESP32-S2 mini board. It requires latest HyperSerialESP32 v9 . This firmware brings also support for parallel multi-segments, that allows to double the refresh rate of large sk6812/ws2812b setups for free (a proper LED strip design is required)
ESP8266/ESP32 handshake for the AWA Adalight (#432)
Save/restore WLED state and set max brightness at startup (#353)
Adalight: auto-resume and ESP8266/ESP32 auto-discovery (#494)
Add support for utv007 / Linux (#423)
LED strip designer context menu incl. blink selected LED, zoom, edit, move, disable, delete single LED (more: #379)
Modifiable SPI path with device auto-detection (more: #346)
Flatbuffers: multiple custom LUT files support (more: #334)
Fix:
Automatic signal detection timing (#410)
Fix the black color for disabled LEDs (#419)
Fix: critical unicolor averaging bug causing very dark colors (more: #379)
Fix: web LED live simulator doesn't update (more: #337)
Fix: Improved HyperHDR web server startup (more: #351)
Fix: Restore support for ZasLuke Capture card (more: #335)
Fix: Philips Hue: do not treat stream errors as critical when retrying
Align SPI buffer for HyperSPI to 4 bytes
Fix: Use longer reset pulse (#468) Thanks @nurikk
Improvements:
Improved LED device performance (dropping frames that have exceeded the hardware capabilities of the LED device, UDP/SPI devices are not affected as the process is handled by the OS)
Update de.json (#411) Thanks @Duese123
Update nl.json (#491) Thanks @NicoLouis-be
Update Github actions/upload@v3 (#373)
Unified internal clocks (more: #355)
Colored cmake output (more: #364)
Support for precompiled headers (more: #359)
Improved REST API network driver (WLED, Philips Hue etc) (more: #354)
Github Action: upgrade runner to macos-12 (more: #341)
Update actions/cache@v3 (more: #371)

New in HyperHDR 19.0.0.0 Beta 2 (Dec 12, 2022)

New in HyperHDR 19.0.0.0 Beta 1 (Nov 6, 2022)

New in HyperHDR 18.0.0.0 (Aug 22, 2022)

New features:
Registering HyperHDR services with the MQTT broker
System event support: hibernation/sleep/wake up/resume
WLED Configuration Wizard can discover WLED devices on the network
Added WLED auto-resume initialization and improved existing Philips Hue auto-resume feature
Reworked network discovery service and added Windows support
Frame Buffer software screen grabber (Linux)
New config option to fix static flickering for DX11 grabber (#275)
Improved Philips Hue wizard
Protocol buffers HDR tone mapping (mainly for Android Screen Grabber #263)
Replaced protobuf with a lightweight nanopb library
Limit for software screen grabbers increased to 60FPS
New software grabber for Linux: Wayland (pipewire/portal). Support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS!
Wayland grabber: support for pipewire/portal protocol version 4 persistent authentication
New fully automatic LUT calibration for HDR/SDR/YUV
New set of dedicated LUT tables for supported grabbers
30% improved performance for MJPEG HDR mode
Add white channel calibration for RGBW led strips and latest HyperSerialEsp8266/HyperSerialESP32/HyperSPI (Adalight HyperSPI)
New dynamic video cache buffers (improved performance, fixes #142)
Performance information panel in the overview tab:
CPU performance and RAM usage (excluding Apple M1)
CPU temperature reading (Linux only, when the sensor is present)
Under-voltage detection (Raspberry Pi OS only)
USB grabber performance (shows framerate and latency)
Instance input images to LED colors performance
LED device output performance
New JSON API function to control USB grabber: brightness, contrast, saturation, hue
USB grabber latency benchmark (link)
HDR tone mapping for flatbuffers (PR #215 thanks @chbartsch)
Dynamic LED layout resize on the container size changed
Improved and refactored LED devices model and communication
Flatbuffers: HDR tone mapping can use alternative filename: flat_lut_lin_tables.3d
FlatBuffers: add support for high performance local sockets (link)
The new build scheme allows graberless configuration and usage of external toolchains
Add popular 'UDP raw' (WLED compatible) receiver for HyperHDR (link1 link2)
Bug Fixing:
Fix variuos memory leaks reported by diagnostic tools
Fix Philips Hue reconnection issues
Synchronize interface to FlatBuffers HDR state when no USB grabbers are present in the build
Fix for DirectX11 grabber secondary monitor capturing (fixes #223)
Fix translations for parametrized items. Germany resources corrected (thanks @tuxuser)
Fix for broken LED raw JSON editor (fixes #235)
Fix looped communication in the remote tab
Fix restart issue of X11 software screen grabber (fixes #167)
Fix LED devices on/off race condition
Fix saving Yeelight configuration (fixes #133)
Fix inter-thread communication
Fix saving changed Philips Hue configuration
Fix LED devices state synchronization
Fix invoking setting static color from the system menu
Ignore Bluetooth devices during Adalight auto-discovery
ProviderRestApi and ProviderUdpSSL are rewritten to fix variuos related issues
ProviderUdpSSL (Philips Hue) ability to resume the connection when the communication stream is broken
Fix for the undervoltage detection for newer Raspberry Pi OS
Improvements:
Migration from Pi-gen to CustomPiOS (Rpi SD images)
Utilizing and migration to C++ smart pointers
Move the flatbuffer server to separate thread
Upgrade MBEDTLS to version 3.1
Upgrade FlatBuffers to version 2.0.0
Switch to mainline libjpegturbo 2.x
Use prebuild protobuf compiler for Windows or the system library for other targets
Updated rpi_ws281x library
Windows and macOS releases are using QT6.2 LTS
Windows: migrate the solution and documentation to Visual Studio 2022
Removed: tinkerforge and USB-HID support
Removed: LED device latch time
Community:
mjoshd Home Assistant HyperHDR integration plugin https://github.com/mjoshd/hyperhdr-ha
ihrapsa HA plugin to install HyperHDR https://github.com/ihrapsa/hassio-addons

New in HyperHDR 18.0.0.0 Beta 3 (Jun 4, 2022)

New in HyperHDR 18.0.0.0 Beta 2 (May 4, 2022)

New features:
New software grabber for Linux: Wayland (pipewire/portal). Support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS!
Wayland grabber: support for pipewire/portal version 4 protocol persistent authentication
New fully automatic LUT calibration for HDR/SDR/YUV
New set of dedicated LUT tables for supported grabbers
30% improved performance for MJPEG HDR mode
Add white channel calibration for RGBW led strips and latest HyperSerialEsp8266/HyperSerialESP32/HyperSPI (Adalight HyperSPI)
New dynamic video cache buffers (improved performance, fixes #142)
Performance information panel in the overview tab
CPU performance and RAM usage (excluding Apple M1)
CPU temperature reading (Linux only, when sensor is present)
Under-voltage detection (Raspberry Pi OS only)
USB grabber performance (shows framerate and latency)
Instance input images to LED colors performance
LED device output performance
New JSON API function to control USB grabber: brightness, contrast, saturation, hue
USB grabber latency benchmark (link)
HDR tone mapping for flatbuffers (PR #215 thanks @chbartsch)
Dynamic LED layout resize on the container size changed
Improved and refactored LED devices model and communication
Flatbuffers: HDR tone mapping can use alternative filename: flat_lut_lin_tables.3d
FlatBuffers: add support for high performance local sockets (link)
The new build scheme allows graberless configuration and usage of external toolchains
Add popular 'UDP raw' (WLED compatible) receiver for HyperHDR (link1 link2)
Bug Fixing:
Fix variuos memory leaks reported by diagnostic tools
Fix Philips Hue reconnection issues
Synchronize interface to FlatBuffers HDR state when no USB grabbers are present in the build
Fix for DirectX11 grabber secondary monitor capturing (fixes #223)
Fix translations for parametrized items
Fix for broken LED raw JSON editor (fixes #235)
Fix looped communication in the remote tab
Fix restart issue of X11 software screen grabber (fixes #167)
Fix LED devices on/off race condition
Fix saving Yeelight configuration (fixes #133)
Fix inter-thread communication
Fix saving changed Philips Hue configuration
Fix LED devices state synchronization
Fix invoking setting static color from the system menu
Ignore bluetooth devices during Adalight auto-discovery
ProviderRestApi and ProviderUdpSSL are rewritten to fix variuos related issues
ProviderUdpSSL (Philips Hue) ability to resume the connection when the communication stream is broken
Improvements:
Migration from Pi-gen to CustomPiOS (Rpi SD images)
Utilizing and migration to C++ smart pointers
Move the flatbuffer server to separate thread
Upgrade MBEDTLS to version 3.1
Upgrade FlatBuffers to version 2.0.0
Switch to mainline libjpegturbo 2.x
Use prebuild protobuf compiler for Windows or the system library for other targets
Updated rpi_ws281
Windows and macOS releases are using QT6.2 LTS
Windows: migrate solution and documentation to Visual Studio 2022
Removed: tinkerforge and USB-HID support
Removed: LED device latch time

New in HyperHDR 17.0.0.0 (Dec 19, 2021)

Changelog (v17 key highlights can be found on the HyperHDR blog link ):
fix for default LUT table for both SDR (yuv/nv12/i420) and HDR video stream: BT2020 color space matrix multiplication bug, truncating values to the allowed range and apply proper processing order. First & major LUT table update since v14 (important: included after v17 beta2 so testers need to upgrade HyperHDR and recalibrate automatic signal detection if used)
upgrade ancient Bootstrap 3 to version 5 (the core of the user interface)
replace and update most of UI components, new layout picture1, picture2, picture3, picture4, picture5, picture6
software screen grabbers (Windows: DirectX11 / Linux:X11 / macOS:CoreGraphics) pictureWin
pictureLin pictureMac #46
automatic signal detection with smart learning capability for USB grabbers (you can have only one algorithm enabled at the time: automatic one or the old, difficult to setup and unreliable manual one) picture1 picture2 picture3 picture4 picture5 picture6
new feature: auto-resume option for video grabbers when capturing stops for some reason (for example: changing the resolution or refresh rate of the incoming video stream) picture1
re-implemented backup import / export function for ALL instances settings in place of the old functionality that clumsily imitated creating of backups, which in many cases resulted in data loss picture1
current video stream information in the 'overview' tab picture1
support for my new HyperSPI project (https://github.com/awawa-dev/HyperSPI) with awa_spi LED driver picture1
new video stream crop method in JSON API picture1 #64
JSON API documentation in a form of live playground in 'Advanced' tab picture1
new feature: execute multiple JSON commands via GET request using single link picture1
LED grouping aka PC mode aka gradient mode, can help with eye fatigue when used with the monitor, each LED in the group has same average color picture1, you can even improve the effect with the anti-flickering filter with threshold set to 255
add timeout for the anti-flickering filter picture1
fix: in specific cases some devices could not react to 'no-signal' when it's triggered
translation resources are updated
new panel for easy video resolution & refresh mode selection picture1 picture2
add release for AARCH64 architecture #68 PERFORMANCE INCREASED UP to 30% COMPARED to Rpi 32bits: 32bit 1280 32bit 1920 64bit 1280 64bit 1920
fix for WLED new network protocol #90
HDR tone mapping is available as a global component picture1 picture2 picture3
new feature: add list of available COM ports for the adalight driver picture1
removed redundant default JSON config in favour of JSON Schemas defaults
fix missing Linux taskbar icon
support for libCEC 6.0.2 to turn on/off video & system grabber picture1
support for libCEC to turn on/off HDR tone mapping with remote buttons (CEC or libCEC is quite buggy here and dependent on the hardware, with LG C9 must restart TV to make them work) picture1
HyperHDR is ready for QT6.2 (tested with the preview version/Vulkan/Windows)
lower CPU usage when automatic signal detection triggers 'nosignal' ('save resources' for software framerate decimation) picture1 #93
standardize libJPEG-turbo library (where it's necessary)
fix values premature clipping in the LUT generator & SDR preview rendering fix, access available now from the menu ('Advanced' tab)
suppress most of external components' warnings while building
faster image to LED colors transformation
import 'sparks' and 'system shutdown' effects to the new effect API #75
upgrade: rpi_ws281x library
better logging with instances' indexes
fixed power saving issue in macOS version
fixed memory leaks in SPI drivers
Boblight changed from built-in to optional component