2026 - Jan - 08

Just released a new version of the 4.16 firmware. It has a lot of features I have been waiting to add. Namely:

• Automatically naming the backup folder on the USB after the mothbox’s name
• fixing the battery percent indicator to be a bit more accurate
• blocking mothbox cron functions at boot until the main scheduler.py has fully run (so we can do other sensing more accurately)
• moved “mode” to the controls.txt so other things can read the current mode

Big change: STANDBY mode- doesn’t just turn on when you turn on the mothbox during the day

The big improvement was probably in the UI though. We chunked the information on the epaper a lot better and are working on better fonts that are hinted for low resolution displays (thanks to some person on bluesky who was roasting me over my fonts)

2025 - Dec - 20

Starting to track development in this development blog