0.8.0 (Stable Release)

🎉 WS281x LED Status 0.8.0!

This release packs a lot of small improvements, but most importantly it is launching the 'Custom Triggers' tab, allowing you to add custom events, @ commands and gcode to trigger different effects in the plugin. Get creative!

📈 Release stats - changes since 0.7.2

• #️⃣ 72 Commits
• 📄 102 changed files
• ➕ 2075 additions and 871 deletions of lines of code and documentation
• 👤 5 contributors!

✨ New Features

• All new Customize tab! You can setup custom effects to run whenever you would like! See more on the documentation
  • Allows for setting up custom effects for @ commands, events, gcode commands, gcode regex matches. Go experiment!
• Add sacrificial first pixel support (#109)
• Improved torch icon visibility, and customisable icon colour to be more compatible with themes (#111)
• Allow setting active times for LEDs to be on overnight
• Custom test effect in utilities (#178)

⬆️ Improvements

• Make heating and cooling tracking more reliable
• Don't load Font Awesome 5 on installs where it is not necessary, increasing performance
• Make @ commands consistent, with a new format
  • You will see deprecation warnings while using old-style @ commands. Old style commands will be removed in a future version.
• Allow torch mode to ignore active times, if configured (#128)
• Warning about Python 2 support being dropped in the next update.

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix LED count less than 6 causing flickering/incorrect colours (#132)
• Fix broken images (for torch icon) when OctoPrint is not at website's root (#134, @Thelm76)
• Make sure lights turn off even if fade is interrupted (#135)
• Allow proper wheel building (#142, @andyshinn)
• Fix issue with progress going over 100% (#152, @lzk666)
• Fix 'Both ends' effect with an odd number of pixels
• Fix priority of progress effects
• Fix an issue with misleading SPI bugger size error message

🎨 Internal code clean up

• Shuffle some settings names about for clarity in the code
• Make the effect runner communication more flexible
• Remove useless CSS styling
• Make effect runner module, not single file
• Rework active times to be more reliable & work better in the background.
• Rework timer code and handling of restarting timers
• Logging improvements and fixes, reduce code duplication, more comments
• Better settings debug logging, for reported issues, automatically recursively logging.

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