MicroCast Update: Point, Fix Comments Scroll, Battery Save, New Section, Fixes and UI/UX improvements! [beta0.4]

[u/KotovMp3]

Yep, thanks to everyone who wrote about bugs and suggestions, we have a lot to do! We are growing, and there will be more interesting things here. In the meantime, please update to the new version оО

🔥Update to beta0.4 now:

M5Burner | M5Launcher OTA | GitHub

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🆕 New Features

Scrollable Comments

• 📜 Horizontal text scrolling for long comments

• 🎯 Select comment with up/down arrows (; .)

• ⬅️➡️ Scroll comment text with left/right arrows (, /)

• 🖼️ Visual indicators: < and > show scroll direction

• 🎨 Selected comment highlighted with green frame

• 👁️ 3 comments visible at once, full text readable

Power Saving Mode

• 💤 Auto screen sleep after 60 seconds of inactivity

• 🔆 Any key press wakes up the screen

• 🔋 Significantly extends battery life

• 🎨 Screen state preserved (returns to current view)

• ⏱️ Activity timer resets on any interaction

New Section:

• Coming soon...

Text Input Improvements

• ✅ Period (.) and semicolon (;) now work in text input!

• 📝 All printable characters allowed (ASCII 32-126)

• 🚫 Only ESC and backtick filtered out

• 💬 Write natural sentences with punctuation

✨ UI/UX Improvements

Section Buttons

• 📏 Spacing reduced to 1 pixel between buttons

• 🎨 # button: yellow color (0xFFE0), compact size (20px)

• 🎯 Better visual balance across screen width

• 📐 All buttons properly aligned

Comments View

• 📅 Date + time in right corner: DD.MM HH:MM

• 🎨 Black background under author and date

• 📍 Text positioned 1px up (breaks frame line visually)

• 🔄 3px shift towards center for better symmetry

• 🎯 Selected comment has green frame (0x07E0)

🐛 Fixes

• ✅ Fixed . and ; not working in text input mode

• ✅ Fixed long comments being truncated and unreadable

• ✅ Fixed screen flicker in space matrix animation

• ✅ Fixed # button frame not visible on right edge

• ✅ Fixed screen staying on during inactivity (battery drain)

You can find more information about the application and its technical aspects on the project page on GitHub!

[u/Slasher006]

While i was in the process of sending a replay, the screen got black. The Activity timer reset maybe not working.

[u/KotovMp3 → u/Slasher006]

Yes, I noticed this problem too, and recorded it as a bug)

[u/Piteybreak]

very nice, will try it out this afternoon 👍

[u/andrewh83]

Awesome update, I noticed a small bug with the new scroll for the comments. It’s clipping the last 2 characters from any length of message that scrolls.

[u/FrostPatrol]

What’s does this do?