* updated color scaling to preserve hue at low brightness resulting in much better colors
* replace NPBlg with NPB, moved brightness scaling to bus manager
* improved gamma table calculation: fixed mismatch in inverting gamma table calculation: inversion should now be as good as it gets
* code cleanup, fixed gamma being applied in unnecessary places
Improvements to ABL handling:
- removed strip level handling, ist now all done on bus level
- limiter now respects pixel mapping
- proper handling of white channel
- improved current estimation
- current is now always correctly reported to UI
- minimal FPS impact if the ABL is not limiting but slighly higher impact for global ABL limit due to double-scaling
- moved brightness scaling to BusDigital
- created new header file colors.h to be able to access color functions in bus-manager.
- updated colo_fade() with better video scaling to preserve hue's at low brightness
- added IRAM_ATTR to color_fade (negligible speed impact when compared to inline and benefits other functions)
- added IRAM_ATTR to color_blend as it is used a lot throughout the code, did not test speed impact but adding it to color_fade made it almost on-par with an inlined function
Additional changes:
- fixes for properly handling `scaledBri()` (by @blazoncek)
- also use bit-shift instead of division in blending for ESP8266
- improvements for faster "softlight" calculation in blending
- changed some variables to uint8_t to maybe let the compiler optimize better, uint8_t can be faster if read, store and set are all done in uint8_t, which is the case in the ones I changed
- various minor code formatting changes
* added boot loop detection and config backup
* automatic OTA rollback if loading backup does not fix it
* added new file handling functions
* adding verification of json files, added config restore at bootup if broken
* added function to compare contents of two files for future use (currently not used)
- Photoshop-style segment/layer blending
- return of strip ABL
- remove global LED buffer in favour of segment-local buffer
- new effect blending modes/transitions
- custom palettes moved out of WS2812FX class
- increased limits (matrix size, LED RAM)
- added "rainbow"-mode colorwheel
- replaced palettes with gamma unmodified ones
- move gamma adjustment to last step before sending to LEDs
- Segment & WS2812FX class reorganisation (mutable members, reordered members, protected members)
Break the actual JSON assembly apart from the file writing code. This
permits calling it in other contexts, allowing us to pull the live
config data even if the filesystem is out of date.
This fixes a crash in the dmx receiver. The dmx receiver cannot work while cache is disabled. For some reason activating wifi disables the cache. In theory, the driver is placed in iram and should work, but it doesn't. This might be a bug in the driver.
Redesign the usermod system so that usermods are implemented as
PlatformIO libraries instead of headers. This permits them to call for
dependencies, and eliminates the compiler flags for enabling each one,
allowing the build cache to behave better.
The usermod list is built using some linker magic to construct a static
list in ROM memory. This eliminates the need for wasting SRAM on
something fixed at build time.
