[PLUGIN] Glass - Phoenix risen from the PeppyMeter Screensaver ashes

Notices and credits

Notices

This post is reserved for notices about Glass: changes of status, breaking changes, and anything every user needs to know. Entries are dated, newest first.

  • 27 Sep 2026 - Thread opened. PeppyMeter Screensaver is discontinued; 3.5.0 “Guard Engine” was its last release. Its repositories stay public, unsupported. Its thread stays as history.

Credits

Glass carries what PeppyMeter Screensaver learned during its Volumio 4 run, and that learning came from people. Thank you to the patients of the old clinic, who followed it to the new building.

Working with me

  • @Wheaten - there from day one: testing, Pi wrangling, keeping the forum sane, and never once saying “that is good enough”.
  • @balbuze - for the work behind the scenes, and for keeping a maintained PeppyMeter in the Plugin Store while this one experimented.
  • @Gelo5 - over twelve hundred skins, and the “what if” behind nearly every feature. The dreams were his; the insomnia was mine.

Shaped it through testing and reports

  • @Lee.Yan - Windows remote testing without end, and the config file that found the reload loop in five minutes after five days.
  • @pjorgenunes - the first and most comprehensive confirmation reports, the remote wizard selections, and the touch dismiss.
  • @dewen - clean reports with hardware details and logs. His CJK squares became a font pipeline covering fifteen writing systems.

Reports that led to fixes

  • @naimnatnod - the OTA and Thai font findings.
  • @Fire - x86 installs and spectrum timing.
  • @vbhvmlk - the touch dismiss report, with a log.
  • @aluisperezh - a report with every log asked for, which showed in plain numbers why the Python engine had to go.

Kind Regards,

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