Release v24.310.0800

Fixed auto-exposure bugs 📷

• Better auto-exposure defaults for gain and shutter limits
• Fixed underflow bug for low shutter values
• Re-added VTS register adjustment for shutter values longer than 810

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Release v24.282.1117

Further power optimisations for camera 📷

• camera.power_save(true) now powers down the MIPI DPHY for even more power savings

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Release v24.276.1359

Auto-white balance & power saving features 🎨

• Added automatic white balancing to camera.auto{}
• Added display power saving API
• Fixed camera power saving API
• Fixed display glitch when turning Frame off and on
• Fixed FPGA read/write API naming
• More consistent naming of camera/display register access API

⚠️ API changes

• frame.camera.sleep() removed and replaced by frame.camera.power_save()
• frame.camera.wake() removed
• frame.fpga.read() and frame.fpga.write() changed to frame.fpga_read() and frame.fpga_write() respectively
• frame.camera.set_register() and frame.camera.get_register() changed to frame.camera.write_register() and frame.camera.read_register() respectively
• frame.display.set_register() changed to frame.display.write_register()
• Optional parameter gain_limit of frame.camera.auto{} changed to analog_gain_limit
• Return table entry gain of frame.camera.auto{} changed to analog_gain

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Release v24.267.0914

Easier pairing 🔗

• The reset button now only needs to be clicked to fully reset Frame. No need to hold
• Clicking the button will keep Frame on until it's undocked and docked again

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Release v24.255.0646

Camera autoexposure improvements 📸

• New faster and more stable autoexposure algorithm
• Added gamma correction block to ISP pipeline
• Lua file write bug fixed when string contains a zero character

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Release v24.248.0928

Bluetooth speed bump (again) and faster JPEG download 🏎️

• BLE throughput for iOS/MacOS users improved to 65+kB/s by adjusting MTU to 247
• JPEG glitch fixed when reading images very fast by adding a new API to check when the image is ready frame.camera.image_ready()

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Release v24.241.0836

Bluetooth pairing & speed improvements 🏎️

• Display now shows "Paired" or "Ready to Pair" based on the pairing state
• BLE throughput for iOS/MacOS users improved from 50kB/s to 60kB/s by adjusting MTU from 256 to 185

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Release v24.227.1307

Enabled watchdog reset 🦮

• If Frame's firmware locks up for any reason, the watchdog will reset it after 6 seconds

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Release v24.220.1445

Improved pairing screen 📲

• Display now shows "Frame" + last 2 digits of MAC address when not running anything
• Advertising name matches Frame + last 2 digits of MAC address

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Release v24.200.1206

Color text support 🌈

• Added API support in display.text() for changing text color and character spacing
• Improved display.assign_color() and display.assign_color_ycbcr() API

⚠️ API changes

• display.assign_color() and display.assign_color_ycbcr() now require a named color as the first argument
• Values passed to display.assign_color_ycbcr() must now be 0-15, 0-7 and 0-7 for y, cb, and cr respectively

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