Previously check() re-fetched the configured image URL over HTTP on
every poll (every 30 min by default). If the remote image ever came
back even slightly byte-different between fetches -- common with
dynamically-generated images -- that forced a real e-ink flash for no
visible reason, since this panel has no partial refresh.
Now the URL is downloaded exactly once, server-side in the settings
route, and saved into web/static/uploads/current.<ext> the same way a
direct upload already was -- clearing any previous upload/download
first so switching sources doesn't accumulate orphaned files.
check() just reads that local file regardless of whether it came from
an upload or a URL, with zero network calls. Also added a browser
User-Agent to the download request -- confirmed live that Wikimedia
(plausibly a common source people would link to) 403s the default
requests/python User-Agent as bot traffic, same class of issue as the
EFA transit endpoints handled earlier.
Verified end-to-end against real URLs: download+cache works, a second
URL replaces rather than accumulates, and a settings-only save (no
new URL entered) no longer wipes the cached picture.
The epd4in0e panel's palette has no gray at all (just black/white/
yellow/red/blue/green -- see epd4in0e.py's putpalette), so any gray
RGB fill gets Floyd-Steinberg dithered into a black/white checkerboard
across the whole glyph body. At the small font sizes most of these
screens use (Navidrome's artist/album/genre/source lines, Departures'
direction/platform columns, Weather's description/forecast labels,
Clock's date line, the placeholder messages), that reads as blurry,
half-rendered text -- same root cause already fixed in Journey.
Switched every gray fill/outline to solid black across navidrome.py,
weather.py, departures.py, clock.py, and picture.py. Left the
intentionally-faint row-divider hairlines (228,228,228) alone --
those are meant to almost disappear, not readable text. Removed
departures.py's now-unused MUTED constant.
New screen alongside clock/weather/navidrome. Upload goes through the web
UI (validated with PIL before accepting, stored under web/static/uploads/,
gitignored), or point it at a URL re-fetched every 30 minutes. Cover/contain
fit modes (new fit_cover/fit_contain helpers in render_utils.py, generalized
from the square-only cover-art cropping already used by the Navidrome
screen), plus the same contrast-boost/grayscale options that screen has.
Honey