v18.0.0.0beta2

New features:

• 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
• 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_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