🆕 In version 5, many improvements were made to the photobooth-app
> While it was tested on different systems, you might encounter issues. I would appreciate feedback 👍🏻
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> Please report any problems to https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/issues 👋
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> The wiggle camera feature is not ready yet and will be finalized later!
See the polished look
- We've applied a glass effect to the buttons on the front page. This way the buttons are clearly visible, don't stick out too much and look nice.
- The previously blank space around the live preview is filled with a blurry stream duplicate now.
- Now there is the option to overlay a transparent PNG on the live stream.
- Wonder why the text in the image is mirrored? Because the mirror effect is on, so people can easily position themselves like in a selfi-cam. The captured image is correct and the text readable.
The buttons when viewing an item have been made similar to the main screen for consistency. Also, the buttons are bigger and work better on touchscreens 👆.
You can add custom text above and below the QR code.
The status page has been removed and integrated into the redesigned admin dashboard:
Breaking changes
* The app now uses a SQlite database to store stats, limits and gallery items. The images, stats and limits from v4 are not migrated.
* The link for the QR code needs to be updated: example: http://localhost:8000/media/full/{identifier}
Changes
* [frontend]: Equalized the gallery item viewer and the frontpage layout. The gallery item viewer buttons are bigger now which is better for touchscreens.
* [frontend]: Add a second blurred stream in the background of the first stream. This covers nicely the empty space if the aspect ratio of the livestream and the screen do not match perfectly.
* [frontend]: Next to automatic darkmode switch, the darkmode/lightmode are forceable now (thanks to zendre4)
* [frontend]: Config settings in lists can be copied now (thanks to zendre4)
* [backend]: Migrated all data stores to SQLite database with the SQLAlchemy engine. Currently Mediaitems, Cacheditems, Statistics and Limits are stored in the database.
* [backend]: Add caching mechanism to create thumbnails, preview and full versions of the Mediaitems.
* [backend]: Generate various sizes of the Mediaitems on the fly when requested instead precomputing all sizes in the jobprocessor. Reduces the amount of unneccesary computation.
* [backend]: Add framerate limitations to picamera and webcam backends. Especially picamera2 cameras can deliver high framerates overwhelming the raspberry pi display the livestream.
* [backend]: The picamera2 default configuration is now tailored to the camera module 3 as this is probably the most used camera and recommended.
* [frontend]: Added config option to select a transparent frame (PNG) that overlays the live preview.
* [frontend]: Using openapi-typescript to derive fron the openapi.json a typed interface in the frontend. No need for lodash-get to retrieve config elements any longer.
* [frontend]: Fix hiding the share/print button
* [backend]: Added option to select orientation (0/90/180/270°) per camera backend to correct for contrained camera mounting position
* [backend]: Turbojpeg is optional dependency now. If available it is used automatically. If not, the processing falls back to pillow for scaling images. Pillow is a bit slower and might be noticable on lower power devices. On Linux system it is usually installed and used so nothing changes actually.
* [api]: /media is not served from static files any longer but an actual api looking up the image id in the database and returning the correct file
* [admin]: improved, cleaner admin dashboard. status page removed and integrated with the dashboard
* [other]: Fix CPU usage calculation on windows and also the display in the frontend
* [other]: Updated all dependencies
* [other]: Improved test coverage slightly from 89% to 91%
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/compare/v4.1.6...v5.0.0
Switch from pdm to uv
For venv management, building and publishing the package, now uv is used. It's way faster than pdm and functionality is 99% the same so it is a drop in replacement for this project. Only missing currently is the dev-scripts, but we can add these later once available.
New Contributors
* zendre4 made their first contribution in https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/pull/392
**PyPi package:** https://pypi.org/project/photobooth-app/5.0.0/
**Installation:** https://photobooth-app.org/setup/installation/
**Download the package on pypi:** https://pypi.org/project/photobooth-app/5.0.0/