• Install binaries from online repositories (M5Burner or GitHub links) without needing a USB cable
• Install binaries from a WebUI that you can start from the WUI option, using binaries you have on your computer or smartphone
• Install binaries from your SD card

• 2.7.2:

  • Adjusted boot logic, now it works as it was before.
  • Fixed devices that share TFT and Touch SPI bus (NM-CYD-C5 and others), that were unable to install firmware from SD Card.
  • Fixed devices that share TFT with SD Card being unable to download firmware from OTA.

• 2.7.1:

  • Fixed Launcher auto updater process.

• 2.7.0:

  • Improved navigation on devices with 5 buttons and keyboards; now you can navigate up and down on the main menu
  • Improved main menu for small screens (T-Dongle, StickC)
  • Custom Partition Manager "PMan" (no more hardcoded partitions on Cardputer)
  • Automatic partition maker, firmware sanity checker, and flash optimizer.
  • Ability to install more than one firmware at a time
  • Encrypted WiFi passwords within config.conf and NVS
  • Remodeled WebUI, adding the ability to edit text files and NVS fields saved in memory
  • Changed items on CFG for better understanding
  • Optimized WiFi/WebUI functions to save Flash
  • Enabled OTA for CYD-3248S035C and CYD-3248S035R
  • Port to M5-DinMeter
  • Port to Arduino Nesso N1
  • Port to Reaper Board

• 2.6.10:

  • Fixed navigation on 3-button devices that were triggering EscPress when pressing Next or Prev buttons.

• 2.6.9:

  • Port to NM-CYD-C5
  • Port to 3248W535C
  • Port to Waveshare-ESP32-S3-LCD-1.47
  • Port to T-Dongle-C5 (tft)
  • Port to T-Display S3 AMOLED Plus
  • Fix issue where brightness wasn't being saved
  • Fix issue where custom "downloads" folder wasn't being used
  • Fix issue where some firmware downloads weren't working due to prohibited characters in firmware names
  • Fixed SD card not mounting on T-Watch Ultra and adjusted UI for rounded edges on the main menu and file listings
  • Enabled WASD navigation for Lilygo T-LoraPager, T-Deck, T-Deck Plus, and T-Deck Pro
  • Added touch calibration for XPT2046-driven devices (resistive touchscreens, like CYD, Marauder, Phantom, and T-HMI). It will be prompted when no calibration data is found (first boot), or can be started from CFG > Calibrate Touch or by sending "calibrate" over Serial.
  • Added an "OFF" option to the main screen to turn off the device (DeepSleep when PMIC is not available).
  • Centralized main libraries using git submodules, so it doesn't download many copies of the same library to the .pio/libdeps/**/ folder
  • Speed up workflow using GitHub cache for framework and libs

• 2.6.8:

  • Increased Game Station partition sizes. https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/299
  • Added an option to erase the app partition
  • Added an option to always boot into Launcher https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/292
  • Added "APP" menu item to reboot into the last installed firmware
  • Enhanced NVS partition and partition schemes for UiFlow2
  • Fix M5Stack Tab5 WiFi scan and WebUI in AP mode.
  • New Device: Lilygo T-Watch-S3
  • New Device: Lilygo T-Watch-Ultra
  • New Device: Lilygo E-Paper S3 Pro H752-x

• 2.6.7:

  • Re-established Tab5 SD card on SPI for WiFi compatibility and refactored the reboot process to power cycle the SD card, resetting the SD card communication bus.
  • Tab5 now has a Mass Storage interface!
  • Fixed M5Stack Paper S3 USB Mass Storage issue https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/287 and OTA will show only S3 firmware.
  • Added app offset parameter to allow Launcher to be updated in Tab5, and firmware that is placed at different factory/app0 addresses.
  • Set StickC and CPlus devices to see only ESP32 firmware on OTA, excluding ESP32-S3 (StickS3) firmware
  • Adjusted firmware binaries that are not merged to have a partition table, allowing a SPIFFS partition to be attached to them. This binary will be valid ONLY for Launcher; it can't be flashed alone because it doesn't have a valid bootloader and partition table. https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/289

• 2.6.6:

  • M5-StickS3 port
  • (Beta) M5-DinMeter port
  • Arduino Nesso N1 port

• 2.6.5:

  • M5-Tab5 using SDMMC driver for compatibility with other firmware
  • Added the ability to order by "Latest update"
  • Port to OpenSourceSRDLabs WaveSentry and WaveSentry Pro
  • Battery ADC measurement fix for Cardputer, Tdeck, StickCPlus2, T-Display S3, T-HMI

• 2.6.4:

  • Fixed CYD 3243S035R touchscreen rotation
  • Fixed Marauder V7 screen issues
  • Enhanced M5-PaperS3 display, using Sprites now for better drawing resolution
  • Fixed M5Stack Cardputer ADV keyboard not adding '*' and '('
  • Add new partition scheme for Cardputer Game Station, allowing 4.5MB game ROMs
  • Port to M5-Paper
  • Port to Arduino Nesso N1, not building yet

• 2.6.3:

  • Fixed Marauder keyboard
  • Changed from EEPROM to NVS to save configs and WiFi credentials Issue 232
  • Port to M5-PaperS3
  • Fixed SelPress leaking into main menu
  • T-Embed (all) and T-LoraPager Encoder enhancement
  • WebUi session enhancement and fixes

• 2.6.2:

  • Fixed T-Embed CC1101 OTA Link
  • Changed SD file listings for speed(PR 230) Issue 229 thanks @geo-tp and @emericklaw

• 2.6.1:

  • Fixed T-Deck Plus touchscreen (added new env for it)
  • Fixed M5Stack CoreS3 SD Card not mounting
  • Add Delete from Favorites option

• 2.6.0:

  • Pulling data from my new API, integrating all device lists with the M5Burner API, and counting downloads in the M5Burner database.
  • OTA Pagination (pages of 100 firmware ordered by download-default)
  • New Device: M5Stack Tab5.
  • New Device: Lilygo T-HMI
  • New Feature: Backup SPIFFS/FAT now prompts to merge data into a chosen binary, so you can install firmware and data by choosing SPIFFS Yes during install, and backup binaries now have incremental names.
  • New Feature: Added filter and ordering to the firmware list.
  • New Feature: Added a Starred firmware list (controlled by me; support the project to have your firmware added to the starred list.).
  • New Feature: Added "Favorite" (requires SD card), where you can add firmware from the OTA list or manually add binary links from your local server or elsewhere.
  • config.conf changes:

...
    "favorite": [
      { // Example of firmware added into Favorites through OTA function
        "name": "Evil-Cardputer-7h30th3r0n3",
        "fid": "2128851a0c98a4c1d15ac1a327b49812",
        "link": ""
      },
      { // Example of my custom link file added by manually editing this file
        "name": "Launcher Beta link",
        "fid": "", // leave it blank
        "link": "https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/releases/download/beta/Launcher-m5stack-cardputer.bin"
      },
      {
        "name": "Bruce Beta link",
        "fid": "",
        "link": "https://github.com/pr3y/Bruce/releases/download/betaRelease/Bruce-m5stack-cardputer.bin"
      },
    ],
    "c0:4e:30:13:8d:f4": 1, // Rotation is now bound to hardware MAC
...

• 2.5.3:

  • Restored T-Deck OTA
  • Refined T-Deck Touchscreen inputs

• 2.5.2:

  • Fixed Marauder V6 touchscreen and CYDs touchscreen unresponsive issue and fixed Dim screen
  • Fixed Marauder Mini and V7 screen dimming.
  • Fixed Smoochiee board inputs and SD card issue
  • Fixed Longpress on Cardputer ADV
  • Fixed folder creation on subfolders

• 2.5.1:

  • Fixed Cardputer ADV Keyboard compatibility
  • Fixed issue where OTA firmware list wasn't being fully downloaded.

• 2.5.0:

  • Moving to pioarduino 3.3 based framework (ESP-IDF 5.5)
    • Enable USB Mass Storage to SD_MMC devices (T-Display-S3 and touch and T-Dongle S3 tft)
    • Partition changes
    • Firmware updates
    • OTA lists and installation
  • Added keyboard support to T-Deck Pro https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/180
  • Fixed compatibility with UIFlow 2.3.x https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/192
  • Added CSS, JS, Html online minifier
  • Moved to ESP32Async/ESPAsyncWebServer official repo
  • Port to Cardputer ADV thanks to @n0xa
  • Port to Lilygo Lora Pager by @emericklaw
  • Port to CYD-4827S043R -> WIP
  • Fixed first line filelist

• 2.4.10:

  • Fixed T-Embed screen
  • Fixed StickC (and plus) keyboard navigation
  • Phantom touchscreen mapping

• 2.4.9:

  • Fixed T-Display-S3 PRO
  • Enabled OTA for Marauder Mini

• 2.4.8:

  • Enabled OTA function to: CYD 2432S028R, 2-USB, S024R, W328C/R, Marauder boards, Awok boards, Phantom, Lilygo T-Embed CC1101 and T-Deck (regular and plus)
  • Port to AWOK Mini v2 and AWOK Touch v2
  • Port to RabbitLabs Phantom
  • Ports to 8048S043C, 8048W550C
  • Port to Lilygo T-Deck Pro (e-paper display)
  • Enhancements on Touchscreen devices for responsive file lists and menu options
  • New Main menu with all items, with items touchable.
  • fixed ports to Marauder v4, v6, v7, mini.
  • fix for 2432s032C misaligned touchscreen

• 2.4.7:

  • WebUi: Multi file upload through drag/drop or file/folder selector, now it supports folder upload, and sorting.
  • StickC blackscreen fix
  • T-Dongle-S3 (tft) port
  • T-Display-S3 port

• 2.4.6:

  • UiFlow2 v2.2.3 and restored StickCPlus2 compatibility
  • split webui files
  • USB Interface to manage SD files on ESP32S3 devices (ESP32 can't do it)
  • Compressed WebUI with gzip
  • Port to CYD-3248S035C and CYD-3248S035R https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/125
  • Interfaces skipping options (multiple clicks) https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/127 https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/126 comment
  • Fixed StickCPlus keyboard colors
  • Fixed Back to list on OTA (will be enhanced when having multiple lists)
  • (rollback) Use http download/update for OTA to reduce flash memory.

• 2.4.5:

  • Port to CYD-2432S024R https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/99 , CYD-2432W328R, CYD-2432S022C https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/112 , CYD-2432S032C, CYD-2432S032R
  • Fixed Marauder V4-OG device
  • Removed Battery indication when it is not available (or 0%)
  • Fixed Headless 16Mb environment https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/121 https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/120
  • Now using ArduinoGFX as main graphics lib, with support to TFT_eSPI and LovyanGFX

• 2.4.4:

  • Disabled OTA menu for non M5 Stack Devices (save flash memory for CYD and Marauder, mostly), creating a new partition scheme for these devices
  • Fixed T-Embed CC1101 battery value

• 2.4.3:

  • Fixed buttons on Core devices
  • Fixed random restarts when dimming screen
  • Ported to Lilygo E-Paper S3 Pro (Only Pro for now)
  • Fixed T-Embed return from deepSleep

• 2.4.2:

  • UiFlow2 v2.2.0 compatibility https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/92 for Cardputer, Removed from StickCPlus2 due to lack of storage
  • Fix for https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/93 https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/97 https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/95
  • Possibility to connect to Hidden Networks https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/89 by typing the SSID and Pwd
  • Changed porting system, reading inputs on a background task (same as Bruce)
  • Enhanced Keyboard
  • Added Portrait rotation for bigger screens (bigger than 200x200px, such as CYD, Core devices)

• 2.4.1:

  • T-Deck SD Card fix (Disable LoRa Chip, CS pin to High state, to avoid conflicts) https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/86
  • Lilygo T-Display-S3-Pro port https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/73

• 2.4.0:

  • CYD-2432W328C port https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/80
  • Rolling texts for large SSIDs and large filenames
  • Added ways to return from menu after wrong WIFI passwords and other menus (Exit from keyboard itself won't be available) https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/82 https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/81
  • Fixed Orientation issues (not saving in the SD Card) https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/84
  • Dim Screen now turns the screen off
  • Renamed project to "Launcher" and add my nickname in the boot animation
  • Changed interfacing code, preparing for new ports https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/83

• 2.3.2:

  • T-Embed CC1101 power chip management fix

• 2.3.1:

  • Fox for https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/77
  • Fixed screen direction for T-Deck devices
  • Fixed Json handling and config.conf random fails

• 2.3.0:

  • Ported to Lilygo T-Embed CC1101
  • Ported to Lilygo T-Embed
  • Ported to Lilygo T-Deck
  • Headless version for ESP32 and ESP32-S3
  • StickCs Power Btn and Prev Btn now act as up controls in menus; long press to exit menu

• 2.2.5:

  • Changed framework to remove all Watchdog Timers https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/61 https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/63 and solve some SD related issues
  • Set Grove pins to LOW state on StickCs and Cardputer to avoid 433Mhz jamming while RF433T is connected

• 2.2.4:

  • Finally ported to CoreS3 and CoreS3-SE
  • Added reset to watchdog on WebUI and check for free memory when loading files to WebUI, to avoid crashes.

• 2.2.3:

  • StickC, Plus and Plus2: removed power btn from skip logic at start.
  • Changed EEPROM addresses to avoid problems with the new Bruce and other firmware.

• 2.2.2:

  • Port for CYD-2432S028R and CYD-2-Usb
  • Added a check after downloads finish that will delete failed downloaded files

• 2.2.1:

  • Port for Lilygo T-Display S3 Touch
  • Fixed JSON read/write

• 2.2.0:

  • M5Launcher 2.2+ can now be updated over the air or using an SD card
  • UI color settings (can be customized in /config.conf file)
  • Reduced flickering on SD files navigation
  • Fixed problem where firmware names with "/" prevented downloads
  • Appended firmware version to the download name.
  • Added Dim time to lower brightness and CPU freq while idle
  • Added "Charge Mode" in settings, reducing CPU frequency to 80MHz and brightness to 5%, https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/40
  • Fixed download progress bar https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/41
  • Change default folder for download (manually on /config.conf) https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/15
  • Save more SSIDs and passwords, and connect automatically if it is a known network (config.conf) https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/30
  • Slightly increased WiFi download/OTA speed using a customized framework.

• 2.1.2:

  • Fixed OTA error message
  • Increased Options Menu width and reduced menu flickering

• 2.1.1:

  • Fixed UIFlow Compatibility
  • Fixed SD card issues
  • Small Fixes https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/37

• 2.1.0:

  • Core Fire (all 16Mb Core devices) and Core2 compatibility
  • Made SPIFFS update optional (turned off by default) (config.conf)
  • De-Sprite-fied the screens for Core devices (no PSRAM, unable to handle huge sprites) https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/34
  • Make keyboard work with touchscreen capture in Core devices
  • Dedicated btn for WebUI on main screen https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/22
  • Multiple files upload on WebUI https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/28
  • Update FAT VFS partition to make it compatible with UIFlow2 https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/29
  • Partition changer to allow running DOOM and UIFlow on Cardputer and StickC
  • Fixed (increased number of files) https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/33
  • Backup and restore FAT and SPIFFS filesystems. If you use UIFlow, you can save all sketches to your device and make a backup to restore after reinstalling UIFlow, MicroHydra, or CircuitPython

• 2.0.1:

  • Fixed UIFlow installation https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/20
  • Fixed folder creation on WebUI https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/18
  • Fixed problem that prevented the WebUI from opening in some cases https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/16
  • Now M5Launcher formats the FAT VFS partition, so make sure you have saved your data to the SD card when using MicroPython, UIFlow, or MicroHydra https://github.com/bmorcelli/Launcher/issues/19

• 2.0.0:

  • SD: added folder creation, delete and rename files and folders, and copy and paste files
  • OTA (Over-The-Air update): Added feature to list the programs available in M5Burner and install them from the internet.
  • WebUI: Added a WebUI where you can manage your SD Card and install new binaries wirelessly
  • Some other minor features

• 1.3.0:

  • Added support for MicroPython-based binaries (MicroHydra), with a 1MB FAT partition for Cardputer and StickCPlus2 and 64KB for StickC and Plus1.1

• 1.2.1:

  • Launcher now lowers the LCD power and fills the screen black before restart to prevent LCD burn when using apps that don't use the screen
  • Fixed display things and positions for the M5StickC

• 1.2.0:

  • Excluded ota_data.bin file as it is not needed
  • Excluded StartApp application
  • Excluded OTA_1 partitions from .csv files because I found out it is not needed
  • Reallocated free space into the "SPIFFS" partition, giving room for improvements and support for applications that use it (OrcaOne)
  • Added Bootscreen with battery monitor
  • Added Restart option and battery monitor to launcher
  • Added auto orientation to M5StickCs
  • Launcher does not create .bak files anymore!!
  • .bin file handling to avoid some errors: File is too big, file is not valid, etc etc..

• 1.1.3:

  • Fixed menu files that were occasionally hiding files and folders.

• 1.1.2:

  • Adjusted Magic numbers to work with some apps (Volos Watch).

• 1.1.1:

  • Changed OTA_0 partition size from 3MB to 6MB on Cardputer and M5StickCPlus2
  • Added verification to identify MicroPython binaries and don't corrupt them with the cropping process (these apps still don't work, need more work...)

• 1.1.0:

  • Fixed issues that prevented M5Launcher from launching apps on Cardputer

• 1.0.1:

  • Fixed black screen and keyboard capture on Cardputer.