- Add 100ms minimum interval between brightness updates to backend
- Keep UI responsive with immediate local brightness updates
- Prevent backend overload from rapid MIDI CC33 changes
- Add time import for rate limiting functionality
- Add debug output to show when updates are sent vs rate limited
- Improve smoothness and reduce network traffic
- Protect lighting controller from too many rapid parameter changes
- Remove knobs section (CC38-45) to simplify interface
- Make window fit screen with cross-platform maximization
- Use weight-based grid resizing instead of fixed minimum sizes
- Add responsive layout with expandable frames
- Fix Linux compatibility for window maximization
- Disable window geometry loading to maintain maximized state
- Elements now resize proportionally to fit any screen size
- Cleaner, more focused interface without redundant controls
- Increase window size from 1800x1200 to 2700x1800
- Scale all font sizes by 50% (14pt → 21pt, 12pt → 18pt, etc.)
- Make all buttons and controls 50% larger
- Increase grid minimum sizes from 140x70 to 210x105
- Scale button dimensions from 14x4 to 21x6 characters
- Increase padding and spacing by 50% (6px → 9px)
- Make border widths thicker (2px → 3px)
- Improve touch-friendliness and readability
- Maintain proportional scaling across all UI elements
- Improve MIDI dropdown contrast with better colors (#FFFFFF text on #2C2C2C background)
- Add bold font and larger size for better visibility
- Fix MIDI device detection to show all available devices
- Add port validation to only show accessible MIDI devices
- Use direct widget reference instead of searching for dropdown
- Add delayed initialization to ensure UI is ready before populating dropdown
- Improve debugging output for MIDI port detection
- Add placeholder text 'No MIDI device selected' when no devices available
- Restore window geometry persistence for proper window positioning
- Use python-dotenv to load environment variables
- Add CONTROL_SERVER_URI environment variable for WebSocket connection
- Create .env.example with configuration examples
- Update Pipfile to include python-dotenv dependency
- Allows easy configuration for running UI on desktop pointing to Pi
- Add n4 parameter to control server, LED bar receiver, and test script
- Create segmented_movement pattern with alternating forward/backward movement
- Pattern supports n1 (segment length), n2 (spacing), n3 (forward speed), n4 (backward speed)
- Fix test script to send all messages instead of just the first one
- Add segmented_movement to patterns_needing_params for proper parameter transmission
- Pattern intelligently handles all cases: alternating, forward-only, backward-only, or static
- Implements repeating segments with configurable spacing across LED strip
- Create UI client (src/ui_client.py) with MIDI controller integration
- Create control server (src/control_server.py) with lighting logic
- Implement WebSocket protocol between UI and control server
- Add startup script (start_lighting_controller.py) for all components
- Update Pipfile with new scripts for separated architecture
- Add comprehensive documentation (README_SEPARATED.md)
- Fix LED connection stability with heartbeat mechanism
- Fix UI knob display and button highlighting
- Maintain backward compatibility with existing MIDI mappings
- Add configuration file system to remember MIDI device selection
- Load saved MIDI device preference on application startup
- Automatically save MIDI device selection when changed
- Handle device disconnection gracefully with fallback
- Smart initialization with validation and error handling
- Create config.json for storing device preferences
- Improve user experience by eliminating need to re-select device
- Add MIDI port detection and listing functionality
- Create dropdown widget for MIDI controller selection in GUI
- Implement dynamic MIDI controller switching without restart
- Add refresh button to scan for new MIDI devices
- Add status indicator showing connection status
- Add comprehensive error handling for MIDI operations
- Fix initialization timing issues with GUI widgets
- Support graceful fallback when no MIDI devices available
- Change step calculation from beat_index % 2 to beat_index % 256
- Provides full 0-255 step range for rainbow pattern color cycling
- Fixes rainbow pattern that was limited to only 0 or 1 step values
- Alternating phase patterns still use % 2 for proper phase offset
- Add pattern name mapping to translate between MIDI handler names and GUI display names
- Fixes highlighting for patterns with underscores (sequential_pulse, alternating_phase, n_chase)
- Now properly highlights selected patterns in the button grid
- Add missing self.n3 = 1 attribute to MidiHandler initialization
- Fix update_rgb async function to properly yield control with await asyncio.sleep(0)
- Resolves TypeError about expecting coroutine but getting None
- Application now working properly with buttons and dials functional
- Comment out all debug logging statements to reduce console noise
- Fix empty if/else blocks by adding pass statements
- Remove beat logging, TCP server logging, and MIDI debug messages
- Keep only essential info, warning, and error messages
- Revert radiate delay separation back to using main delay parameter
- Rate limit parameter updates to 100ms minimum interval
- Send immediate updates if rate limit allows, otherwise queue
- Process pending updates during beat handling
- All knob changes (CC30-37) now trigger parameter updates
- Add message type field: 'b' for beats, 'u' for updates
- Optimize message type to single letters to save packet space
- Prevents ESP-NOW network flooding during rapid knob adjustments
- All packets stay under 230-byte limit with automatic splitting
- Send all parameters when pattern changes (may require 2 packets if >200 bytes)
- Send periodic parameter updates every 8 beats to keep bars synchronized
- Beat packets remain minimal for performance
- All packets stay under 230-byte limit
midi: bind patterns to notes 36+; beat triggers selected pattern; include n index; CC map: 30=R 31=G 32=B 33=brightness 34=n1 35=n2 36=delay; send n1/n2 raw 0-127
gui: show n1 and n2 in status
