hamclock-next Files

New Features & Enhancements

• Widgets & Displays:
• Added RigControlPanel widget for live and interactive CAT control via Hamlib (rigctld).
• Added Solar Impact Timeline widget (SOLAR_TIMELINE) showing a 3-day Kp forecast.
• Added Widget Maximize feature allowing any pane to expand and temporarily fill the map area.
• Added Contest Mode Profile with quick layout swapping and preset capabilities.
• Enhanced GreylineDXPanel with peak countdown timers and near-peak warnings.
• Added geofenced POTA/SOTA distance filters to the ONTAPanel.
• Upgraded CalendarPanel with inline config, state persistence, and a ListPanel visual style with multi-line hover tooltips.
• Added CME arrival countdown support to the SolarStormPanel.
• Audio & TTS:
• Introduced native voice alerts via flite TTS for Watchlist, flares, countdowns, and calendar events.
• Web API / Endpoints:
• Added several new REST endpoints for system interrogation: /get_capabilities, /get_config.json, /get_build.txt, /get_env.txt, /get_sensors.txt, /get_stopwatch.txt, and /debug/logs with an in-memory ring buffer.
• Extended API controls with pane-specific manipulation using set_pane solo.
• Hardware Integration:
• Added LTR329 photosensor driver via I2C for dynamic, ambient-light automatic dimming.
• Data Integrations:
• WSPR source integrated into the propagation Heatmap engine (powered by db1.wspr.live).
• System Automation:
• Implemented glyph font fallback resolving missing Unicode symbols when custom fonts are in use.
• Complete overhaul of the capture_wiki_screenshots.sh automation for generating Wiki documentation images.

Bug Fixes

• Added previously missing web configuration handlers (latitude/longitude, audio muting, and font selection).
• Corrected rendering logic producing invisible Moon and SDO panels under light themes (fixing paper background bleed-through).
• Refined TTS behavior: greeting plays only once on startup and voice alerts remain silent when the screen is disabled.
• Fixed 4 dangling-pointer and Use-After-Free (UAF) stability issues inside satellite tracking logic and WebServer teardown routines.
• Addressed thread-safety issues, MJPEG mutex deadlocks, and fixed various GCC false-positive warnings.
• Fixed Heatmap overlays skipping underlying data computations and related persistence bugs.
• Executed an MCP bug-fix pass that resolved ~10 identified issues.

Refactoring & Technical Maintenance

• Architecture Decomposition: Massive cleanup breaking out god-files (SetupScreen.cpp, main.cpp).
• Standardization:
• Replaced raw number parsing with secure, catch-free StringUtils validation functions standardizing all input parsing.
• Extracted common widget background and border boilerplate into a single Widget::renderChrome() helper across dozens of panels.
• Created reusable ProviderBase standardizing update intervals and thread lifetimes for networking capabilities.
• Added GraphHelper class deduplicating time-series graph rendering logic across widgets.
• Refactored core time formatting with new TimeUtils date-time formatting standardizations.
• Code Hygiene: Cleaned up orphaned code snippets and modernized source code formatting.