Release 3.0.0 - Turing 5" display support!

This release comes with Turing 5" displays support!
Many thanks to @alexwbaule @arthurferrai @MrFr1day and everyone that contributed in issues #81 and #90
Please note there is only basic support for now: no video or storage.

Documentation, Theme Editor, Configuration Wizard and Github workflows have been updated to handle 5" devices as well.
This release comes without any breaking changes for 3.5" devices.

Configuration Wizard

In the configuration Wizard, you can now select Turing 5" as your smart screen model.

Themes

Because the display resolution is different for 3.5" displays (320x480) and 5" displays (800x480), themes made previously for 3.5" displays cannot be used on 5" displays.
New 5" themes have been developed and packaged in this release:

When you select Turing 5" in the Configuration Wizard, the theme list is automatically updated to display only compatible themes.

theme.yaml

To create a theme for 5" devices, the format is the same as the 3.5" themes. You can do it manually or using the Theme Editor.
The only property to add to your theme.yaml is:

display:
  DISPLAY_SIZE: 5"

If this property is not in the theme file (to keep compatibility with old/community themes) or if its value is different than 5" then the theme will be for 3.5 displays.

What's Changed

• Support 5 inches devices by @alexwbaule & @arthurferrai in #252
• New themes for 5" displays by @mathoudebine in #253

New Contributors

• @alexwbaule made their first contribution in #252
• @arthurferrai made their first contribution in #252

Full Changelog: 2.4.3...3.0.0

Release 2.4.3

What's Changed

• Radial Progress Bar (not implemented in themes for now) by @cobacdavid in #175
• Update dependencies to latest versions by @mathoudebine in #231
• Add specific error message if tkinter is not installed by @mathoudebine in #238
• ⬆️ Bump actions/setup-python from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #235
• ⬆️ Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in #234
• ⬆️ Update cython requirement from ~=0.29.34 to ~=0.29.35 by @dependabot in #242
• ⬆️ Update ruamel-yaml requirement from ~=0.17.26 to ~=0.17.27 by @dependabot in #241
• ⬆️ Update ruamel-yaml requirement from ~=0.17.27 to ~=0.17.31 by @dependabot in #250
• Only commit theme previews if they have changed by @mathoudebine in #251

New Contributors

• @dependabot made their first contribution in #235

Full Changelog: 2.4.2...2.4.3

Release 2.4.2

What's Changed

• Simplifying the color encoding for the XuanFang display (RevB) by @estevaozr in #196
• Fix struct.pack used incorrectly for image data by @mathoudebine in #211
• Add message when modules are missing, instead of default stacktrace by @mathoudebine in #213
• Detect and handle multiple GPUs better by @mathoudebine in #214

New Contributors

• @estevaozr made their first contribution in #196

Full Changelog: 2.4.1...2.4.2

Release 2.4.1

What's Changed

• Turn screen off/on when computer goes to/resume from sleep (Windows) by @mathoudebine in #184
• Allow drawing zones and click to get coordinates for the theme by @mathoudebine in #186
• Upgrade LibreHardwareMonitor to 0.9.2 by @mathoudebine in #201

Full Changelog: 2.4.0...2.4.1

Release 2.4.0 - config. wizard

What's Changed

Configuration wizard

This release introduces the first version of the Configuration Wizard (#176) in configure.py
It offers an easy way to update the config.yaml file, as well as various checks and constraints on values (theme names, COM ports...) to avoid errors. The selected theme is also displayed as a preview.

This GUI is similar to what is offered by the original Windows program from screen manufacturers, and will offer a serious alternative for beginners wanting to use this program instead!
The wizard also offers a quick way to edit a selected theme from the Theme Editor, and to start the system monitor main program.
Related documentation has been updated.

Other changes

• Auto-commit theme previews on master/release push by @mathoudebine in #173
• text alignment by @cobacdavid in #172
• Allow custom date/time formatting from babel module by @mathoudebine in #174

    DAY: # Format (Y/M/D ordering, month/day translations...) will match your computer locale
      TEXT:
        FORMAT: medium # short (2/20/23) / medium (Feb 20, 2023) / long (February 20, 2023) / full (Monday, February 20, 2023)

    HOUR: # Format (12/24h, timezone translations) will match your computer locale
      TEXT:
        FORMAT: short # short (6:48 PM) / medium (6:48:53 PM) / long (6:48:53 PM UTC) / full (6:48:53 PM Coordinated Universal Time)

• Feature/176 add a configuration gui by @mathoudebine in #177

Full Changelog: 2.3.2...2.4.0

Release 2.3.2 - ⚠️ breaking changes

Breaking changes

The text box for all text sensors has been reworked to remove top margin.

This results in:

• faster text refresh on screen
• text sensors can be displayed one above the other closer than before

But this has an impact on all previously made themes: some texts are now displayed higher than expected.
Theme files have to be manually edited, and the impacted text Y coordinates have to be increased by few pixels to restore the original theme layout.
Not all texts are impacted: it depends on the font used, and is usually tied to non-monospaced fonts.

All the included themes have already been updated to match the new text box

What's Changed

• fix text bbox height by @cobacdavid in #163
• Fix/fix text bbox height by @mathoudebine in #167
• Clean themes by removing unused entries (will be picked from default.yaml) by @mathoudebine in #168

New Contributors

• @cobacdavid made their first contribution in #163

Full Changelog: 2.3.1...2.3.2

Release 2.3.1

What's Changed

• Add turing-theme-extractor program to extract resources from Turing Windows app themes (.data files) by @mathoudebine in #157
• Catch Windows logoff/shutdown event to do a clean stop, fix Ctrl+C for Windows by @mathoudebine in #166

Full Changelog: 2.3.0...2.3.1

Release 2.3.0 - Theme Editor

What's Changed

This new release comes with a Theme Editor to easily create/update themes for Turing System Monitor.
When started, the theme-editor.py program will open the selected theme YAML file in your default editor associated to .yaml files (e.g. Notepad++, VS Code...)
It will also open an always-on-top window displaying a preview of the selected theme with stubbed data.

Whenever the theme.yaml file is updated, the preview window will reload the theme with the new changes.
It is much faster than having to stop/restart the Turing System Monitor to see new changes!

Feature/theme editor by @mathoudebine in #149

Other changes

This release also comes with the following updates and fixes:

• Turn off backplate LED when program stops by @mathoudebine in #135
• Hide Python Launcher icon from MacOS dock by @amiltonjr in #137
• add a default YAML and change config to use it. by @RussNelson in #142
• Hotfix/add workflows for python 3.11 by @mathoudebine in #145
• Add Cyberpunk with network stats theme by @amiltonjr in #136
• Feature/add static stub data by @mathoudebine in #146
• Use D3D memory usage if global GPU memory usage not available (e.g. AMD GPU) by @mathoudebine in #153

New Contributors

• @amiltonjr made their first contribution in #137

Full Changelog: 2.2.1...2.3.0

Release 2.2.1

What's Changed

• Add a tray icon by @mathoudebine in #112
• Feature/new landscape theme with optional units by @mathoudebine in #124
• Add AUTHORS file and copyright notice to source files, as recommended by license by @mathoudebine in #128
• Add code quality CI checks by @mathoudebine in #129
• Add a bash-dark-green-gpu theme (for gpu support) and edit bash-dark-green by @Rollbacke in #127
• Fetch disk (partitions) data from psutil even with LHM enabled by @mathoudebine in #131

Full Changelog: 2.2.0...2.2.1

Release 2.2.0 - LibreHardwareMonitor integration

This release adds LibreHardwareMonitor support for Windows platforms (feature request #52) and other improvements.

LibreHardwareMonitor integration

Libre Hardware Monitor, a fork of abandoned Open Hardware Monitor, is a free open-source project to monitor your computer hardware sensors.

This 2.2.0 release of turing-smart-screen-python uses LibreHardwareMonitorLib (the library version) loaded from the official .dll to read information from your computer hardware (CPU, GPU, memory, disk, network) instead of using Python libraries.

A new parameter HW_SENSORS in config.yaml allows to select LibreHardwareMonitor / Python libraries / stubbed data for HW sensors.
By default it uses the best method available for your platform: LHM for Windows, Python libraries for other platforms.

Benefits

Compared to using Python libraries, the LibreHardwareMonitor integration has several benefits:

• CPU temperature support (fixes #82)
• Full support of newer (2019+) AMD GPUs (fixes #49)
• No more Nvidia GPU stuttering when getting latest data (fixes #53)
• Can be run with pythonw in background without annoying cmd popup (fixes #23)
• Current CPU clock instead of max (fixes #86)

Limitations

The system monitor must be launched as administrator to use LibreHardwareMonitor. If you cannot run a program as administrator, use the Python libraries as previously (see config.yaml).

License

LibreHardwareMonitor is free and open source software licensed under MPL 2.0, it is provided in the external folder as a built dynamic library from the 0.9.1 release with a copy of its license.

Other improvements

This release contains following improvements for all platforms:

• Autostart script for Linux with systemd (thanks @Rollbacke!). Documentation updated.
• Autostart task creation for Windows in the documentation
• Reverse orientations are now managed in config.yaml by the user with DISPLAY_REVERSE. Themes now define only basic orientation (portrait or landscape).
• Fix network speed display & now aligned to the right
• Fix date & time format: now use computer locale (custom date/time format will be implemented later in #99)

Merged PR

• Feature/systemd file for autostart by @Rollbacke in #88
• LibreHardwareMonitor integration for Windows platform by @mathoudebine in #100

Full Changelog: 2.1.1...2.2.0