TVS 5.3.0-beta (9-14-2025)

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Update Notes - 9/14/2025 (5.3.0)

✨ New Features

• Added startup video feature. You can now specify content to show when the TV is powered on before the regular channels are shown. This can be a video, image, or any other content type. You can specify a duration for how long to show it or have it display until you interact with the TV (by changing the channel). You can have it display whenever the page loads or whenever the power state is changed (pressing P on the keyboard).

startup:
  content:
    video: placeholders/hypercom-boot.mp4

startup:
  content:
    color: blue
  duration: 5
  displayOnPageLoad: true
  displayOnPowerOn: false

🗜️ Optimizations

• ❗ Some placeholder images have been converted to WebP format to reduce file size. If you are updating an existing installation and you're using placeholder content, you need to either keep the old GIF files or update your config file to use the WebP versions instead. Affected files are:

  • example-ad.gif -> example-ad.webp
  • example-program.gif -> example-program.webp

• Removed the full-size welcome video since it's quite large and wasn't ever used in the default config file.

• Compressed all background images to further reduce file size.

⚙️ Other Changes

• Added documentation links in help, setup and about screens.

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This discussion was created from the release TVS 5.3.0-beta (9-14-2025).