Update Notes - 9/14/2025 (5.3.0)
✨ New Features
- Added startup video feature. You can now specify content to show when the TV is powered on before the regular channels are shown. This can be a video, image, or any other content type. You can specify a duration for how long to show it or have it display until you interact with the TV (by changing the channel). You can have it display whenever the page loads or whenever the power state is changed (pressing
P
on the keyboard).
startup:
content:
video: placeholders/hypercom-boot.mp4
startup:
content:
color: blue
duration: 5
displayOnPageLoad: true
displayOnPowerOn: false
🗜️ Optimizations
-
❗ Some placeholder images have been converted to
WebP
format to reduce file size. If you are updating an existing installation and you're using placeholder content, you need to either keep the oldGIF
files or update your config file to use theWebP
versions instead. Affected files are:example-ad.gif
->example-ad.webp
example-program.gif
->example-program.webp
-
Removed the full-size welcome video since it's quite large and wasn't ever used in the default config file.
-
Compressed all background images to further reduce file size.
⚙️ Other Changes
- Added documentation links in help, setup and about screens.