New performance improvement

• The code for active wait has been revised for even better accuracy.
• Documentation updates.

Full Changelog: 7.1.0...7.1.1

Improved performance for LED strips

• The code for LED strips no longer require context switching to display all pixels.
  Active wait is used instead with nanosecond precision.
  This should improve performance.
• Active wait is also more accurate,
  improving performance a bit for button matrices,
  analog multiplexers and shift registers.
• Documentation updates.

Full Changelog: 7.0.2...7.1.0

Bug fixes (again)

• Important bug fixes affecting some "ready-to-deploy" designs based on ESP32S3 boards.
• Some "ready-to-deploy" hardware designs have changed:
  "Setup5" and "Setup7".

Full Changelog: 7.0.1...7.0.2

Bug fixes

• Important bug fixes affecting some "ready-to-deploy" designs based on pure ESP32 boards.

Major release for testability, extensibility, maintainability and new features

• TL;DR

  • The code will check that you are not doing stupid things in your custom firmware.
  • You will have to rewrite your custom code, but the setup is more intuitive.
  • New features:
    • Virtual neutral gear.
    • Configurable default input map.
  • Huge improvement in testability, extensibility and maintainability.

• This is a huge rewrite that affects the system architecture and most of the code base.

• The code will perform new checks to prevent a non-functional custom firmware, regarding:

  • Unusable, reserved, incapable, reused or non-existent GPIO pins.
  • Invalid input numbers.
  • Mapping non-existent hardware inputs to firmware features.
  • Incompatible firmware features.

• Error reporting no longer requires configuration in the Arduino IDE.

• Testability and extensibility improved with new architectural patterns:

  • Publish-Subscribe.
  • Dependency injection.

• Half of the code has been more or less rewritten to remove dependencies
  with embedded libraries. This has deep consequences:

  • This code can compile and run in a PC workstation,
    container or virtual machine.
  • Some test units are now automated, and do not require ESP32 hardware.
  • New hardware independent test units are available.
  • A custom CD/CI chain has been developed to take advantage of this.
    No external build tools are required other than the GNU C++ compiler.

• The old C-style code was rewritten in modern C++ style.
  User-defined code is more intuitive and expressive.
  Global variable declarations are no longer required
  (one less point of failure).

• A "virtual" button is available (optional).
  You can map a combination of hardware inputs to this "virtual" button.
  This is intended for shift paddles and neutral gear.
  You can map the engagement of both paddles to a neutral gear button.

• Now you can customize a default input map.
  This way, you are not forced to use the full range of 128 gamepad buttons
  if you only have a few physical buttons.
  This feature does not interfere with the ability to set a different input map
  using the companion app.

• Each UI instance runs on its own thread with its own stack size.

• The telemetry display using RGB LED strips has been removed,
  as pixel control is a better option.

• Analog multiplexers, button matrices and shift registers
  now actively wait for signal propagation with nanosecond precision
  and no context switching.
  This should improve the responsiveness of the switches.

• A migration guide is available.

Thanks to @ArtTales for a lot of suggestions.

Full Changelog: 6.11.4...7.0.0

Fixed wrong queue size for rotary encoders

The queue size for rotary encoder events should be 64, but it was 8.

Full Changelog: 6.11.3...6.11.4

Pixel control performance boost

• The HID specification for pixel control has been changed to
  remove the use of feature reports for pixels::show().
  For unknown reasons, feature reports perform worse than output reports in Windows 11.
  For this to work, you will need to update the SimHub plugin as well.
• BatchCompile.ps1 has been updated for a better look.

Full Changelog: 6.11.2...6.11.3

Minor bug fix

• Fix minor compiler error on ESP32-C3 boards.
• Battery capacity is explicitly advised.
• Other minor documentation updates.

Full Changelog: 6.11.1...6.11.2

Bug fix

• A very small but important bug in the battery monitor API has been fixed.
• Additional advice is given to avoid LED strip burnout.
  Thanks to @ArtTales for reporting this.
• Minor errata fix.

Full Changelog: 6.11.0...6.11.1

Improved rotary encoder behaviour

• For better host-side detection of rotation events,
  the behaviour of rotary encoders has been improved.
• The default pulse width of the rotary encoders
  has been increased to 100 ms pressed and 100 ms released.
• The pulse width of all encoders can now be set as a time multiplier
  using HID reports (x1, x2, etc.).
• The new feature has been synchronously updated in the companion app.
• All relevant unit and integration tests have been updated.
• Minor documentation updates.

Full Changelog: 6.10.0...6.11.0