Picframe

**changes in configuration.yaml run `picframe -i`**

new features

- While building the image cache, ignore hidden folders (folders starting with .)
- Add touch and mouse control
- Add new "text_bkg_hgt" config value to control the
text scrim height as a percentage of screen height.
(0 < text_bkg_hgt <= 1, default = 0.25)
- issue [185](https://github.com/helgeerbe/picframe/issues/185) Allow hiding of the text background
- Add new "text_bkg_hgt" config value to control the
text scrim height as a percentage of screen height.
- 0 <= text_bkg_hgt <= 1, default = 0.25
- When set to 0, the background is not rendered.
- Open picframe webui directly from Home Assistant setting "device config url"
- `YAML
mqtt:
...
device_url: "" if use_http==True, set url to picframe config page. Must be a valid url, or "" otherwise home assistant runs in an error.
`


beaking chages

- "use_kbd" is retired use "peripherals" configuration instead

fixes

- issue [203](https://github.com/helgeerbe/picframe/issues/203) Text fade-in is not smooth anymore
- issue [47](https://github.com/helgeerbe/picframe/issues/47) Stopping picframe with CTRL C doesn't always work
- issue [182](https://github.com/helgeerbe/picframe/issues/182) Memory issue PIL >= 8.3.0
- Will fix 182 on new install, as a workaround upgrade Pillow manually to release 9.0.0 or later
- Home Assistant: changing brightness, matting_images will show next image. So state attributes will be refreshed correctly

new features

- boomesito contributed: Remote control matting on/off 83

fixes

- Overlapping and cut-off overlay text 181
- update dependency rqmnt for pi3d to 2.49

New Contributors
* boomesito made their first contribution in https://github.com/helgeerbe/picframe/pull/178

Hotfix
- 176 mqtt directory list shows sym links, even if follow_links=false
- 175 Syntax error in os.walk
- Avoid permanent mqtt subscription to directory topic

configuration.yaml` will change

- Fix 167
- Fix 166
Make it configurable, that picframe follows symbolic links.
configuration.yaml
`YAML
model:
...
follow_links: False default=False, By default, picframe will not walk down into symbolic links that resolve to directories. Set follow_links to True to visit directories pointed to by symlinks, on systems that support them.

`
- make Exif Tag search more flexible
- Fix 164

Changes:
- update noto fonts to latest version (and License)
- 119
- 139
- 144
- 148
- this will break the old home assistant integration
- 153
- bump pi3d to v2.47

There are no changes to `configuration.yaml. So one can reuse the old one.

I described how to setup home assistant integration or upgrade the integration in the [wiki](https://github.com/helgeerbe/picframe/wiki/Homeassistant)

new features

* clock overlay (still work in progress)
* including mqtt switch to turn clock on/off
* auto discovery of switch in home assistant
* new parameters in `configuration.yaml`
* `YAML
show_clock: False default=False, True shows clock overlay. False does not show clock overlay
clock_justify: "R" default="R", clock justification L, C, or R
clock_text_sz: 120 default=120, clock character size
clock_format: "%I:%M" default="%I:%M", strftime format for clock string
`

fixes

* issue 131, update of pi3d dependency to version >= 2.46
* issue 135 , Typo in GPS code