- Add XTCH container format support (.xtch extension)
- Add XTH page format with two bit-plane, column-major storage
- Update XtcParser to handle both XTC/XTCH magic and XTG/XTH pages
- Update XtcReaderActivity for XTH column-major rendering
- Update cover BMP generation for 2-bit grayscale
- Add README with format documentation
XTH format details:
- Two bit planes stored sequentially (Bit1, then Bit2)
- Column-major order, scanned right to left
- 8 vertical pixels per byte (MSB = topmost)
- Grayscale: 0=White, 1=Dark Grey, 2=Light Grey, 3=Black
XTC pages have pre-rendered status bar, so the renderStatusBar
function is not needed. Remove it along with unused constants
and Battery.h include to fix cppcheck warnings.
Add support for XTC (XTeink X4 native) ebook format with pre-rendered
bitmap pages. Key changes:
- Add Xtc library with XtcParser for reading XTC files
- XTC format: 22-byte XTG page headers with 480x800 1-bit bitmaps
- XtcReaderActivity for displaying XTC pages on e-ink display
- Correct bit polarity: 0=black, 1=white in XTC format
- FileSelectionActivity: detect and handle .xtc files
- ReaderActivity: route to XtcReaderActivity for XTC files
- Cover BMP generation from first XTC page
XTC pages include pre-rendered status bar with page numbers and
progress, so no additional overlay is needed.
Using QRCode library from pio to generate the QR code.
Done:
- Display QR code for URL in network mode
- minor fixes of layout
- Display QR for URL in AP mode
- Display QR for AP in AP mode
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Add a "Continue Reading" feature to improve user experience when
returning to a previously opened book.
* **What changes are included?**
- Add dynamic "Continue: <book name>" menu item in Home screen when a
book was previously opened
- File browser now starts from the folder of the last opened book
instead of always starting from root directory
- Menu dynamically shows 3 or 4 items based on reading history:
- Without history: `Browse`, `File transfer`, `Settings`
- With history: `Continue: <book>`, `Browse`, `File transfer`,
`Settings`
## Additional Context
* This feature leverages the existing `APP_STATE.openEpubPath` which
already persists the last opened book path
* The Continue Reading menu only appears if the book file still exists
on the SD card
* Book name in the menu is truncated to 25 characters with "..." suffix
if too long
* If the last book's folder was deleted, the file browser gracefully
falls back to root directory
* No new dependencies or significant memory overhead - reuses existing
state management
## Summary
This creates a `renderer.drawButtonHints` to make all of the "hints"
over buttons to match the home screen.
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks, specific areas to
focus on).
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Replace linear O(n) search with binary search O(log n) for unicode
interval lookup. Korean fonts have many intervals (~30,000+ glyphs), so
this improves text rendering performance during page navigation.
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Fixes a bug in the user
authentication module, Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
Replace linear `O(n)` glyph lookup with binary search `O(log n)` to
improve text rendering performance during page navigation.
* **What changes are included?**
- Modified `EpdFont::getGlyph()` to use binary search instead of linear
search for unicode interval lookup
- Added early return for empty interval count
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks, specific areas to
focus on).
- Performance implications: Fonts with many unicode intervals benefit
the most. Korean fonts have ~30,000+ glyphs across multiple intervals,
but any font with significant glyph coverage (CJK, extended Latin,
emoji, etc.) will see improvement.
- Complexity: from `O(n)` to `O(log n)` where n = number of unicode
intervals. For fonts with 10+ intervals, this reduces lookup iterations
significantly.
- Risk: Low - the binary search logic is straightforward and the
intervals are already sorted by unicode codepoint (required for the
original early-exit optimization).
## Summary
* Use single unified cache file for book spine, table of contents, and
core metadata (title, author, cover image)
* Use new temp item store file in OPF parsing to store items to be
rescaned when parsing spine
* This avoids us holding these items in memory
* Use new toc.bin.tmp and spine.bin.tmp to build out partial toc / spine
data as part of parsing content.opf and the NCX file
* These files are re-read multiple times to ultimately build book.bin
## Additional Context
* Spec for file format included below as an image
* This should help with:
* #10
* #60
* #99
## Summary
* Prevent SD card error causing boot loop
* We need the screen and fonts to be initialized to show the full screen
error message
* Prior to this change, trying to render the font would crash the
firmware and boot loop it
## Summary
* Handle 16x16 MCU blocks in JPEG decoding
* We were only correctly handling 8x8 blocks, which means that we did
not correctly support a lot of JPGs leading to an interlacing style on
the images
## Additional Context
* Fixes https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/issues/118
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** Adds WiFi Access Point (AP) mode
support for File Transfer, allowing the device to create its own WiFi
network that users can connect to directly - useful when no existing
WiFi network is available. And in my experience is faster when the
device is right next to your laptop (but maybe further from your wifi)
* **What changes are included?**
- New `NetworkModeSelectionActivity` - an interstitial screen asking
users to choose between:
- "Join a Network" - connects to an existing WiFi network (existing
behavior)
- "Create Hotspot" - creates a WiFi access point named
"CrossPoint-Reader"
- Modified `CrossPointWebServerActivity` to:
- Launch the network mode selection screen before proceeding
- Support starting an Access Point with mDNS (`crosspoint.local`) and
DNS server for captive portal behavior
- Display appropriate connection info for both modes
- Modified `CrossPointWebServer` to support starting when WiFi is in AP
mode (not just STA connected mode)
## Additional Context
* **AP Mode Details**: The device creates an open WiFi network named
"CrossPoint-Reader". Once connected, users can access the file transfer
page at `http://crosspoint.local/` or `http://192.168.4.1/`
* **DNS Captive Portal**: A DNS server redirects all domain requests to
the device's IP, enabling captive portal behavior on some devices
* **mDNS**: Hostname resolution via `crosspoint.local` is enabled for
both AP and STA modes
* **No breaking changes**: The "Join a Network" option preserves the
existing WiFi connection flow
* **Memory impact**: Minimal - the AP mode uses roughly the same
resources as STA mode
## Summary
* Adds support for OTA
* Gets latest firmware bin from latest GitHub release
* I have noticed it be a little flaky unpacking the JSON and
occasionally failing to start
## Summary
* HTML files are now static, streamed directly to the client without
modification
* For any dynamic values, load via JSON APIs
* For files page, we stream the JSON content as we scan the directory to
avoid holding onto too much data
## Additional details
* We were previously building up a very large string all generated on
the X4 directly, we should be leveraging the browser
* Fixes https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/issues/94
Improves the duration for which the power button needs to be held - see
#53.
I left the measurement code for the calibration value in, as it will
likely change if we move the settings to NVS.
## Summary
* Give activities name and log when entering and exiting them
* Clearer logs when attempting to debug, knowing where users are coming
from/going to helps
## Summary
* Swap from `wasReleased` to `isPressed` when checking power button
duration
* In practice it makes the power down experience feel a lot snappier
* Remove the unnecessary 1000ms delay when powering off
## Additional Context
* A little discussion in here:
https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/discussions/53#discussioncomment-15309707
## Summary
* adds cyrillic glyphs to pixel arial font, used as Small font in UI
## Additional Context
* with recent changes pixel arial font lost cyrillic glyphs
## Summary
* Fix incorrect justification of last line in paragraph
* `words` is changing size due to the slice, so `isLastLine` would
rarely be right, either removing justification mid-paragraph, or
including it in the last line.
## Additional Context
* Introduced in #73
## Summary
* Unset openEpubPath on boot and set once epub fully loaded
## Additional Context
* If an epub was crashing when loading, it was possible to get the
device stuck into a loop. There was no way to get back to the home
screen as we'd always load you back into old epub
* Break this loop by clearing the stored value when we boot, still
jumping to the last open epub, but only resetting that value once the
epub has been fully loaded
## Summary
- Add basic JPG image support
- Map JPG back to 2-bit BMP output
- Can be used to later render the BMP file from disk or directly pass to
output if wanted
- Give the 3 passes over the data needed to render grayscale content,
putting it on disk is preferred to outputting it multiple times
## Additional Context
- WIP, looking forward to BMP support from
https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/pull/16
- Addresses some of #11
## Summary
* Paginate book list
* Avoid out of bounds rendering of long book titles, truncate with
ellipsis instead
## Additional Context
* Should partially help with
https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/issues/75 as it was
previously rendering a lot of content off screen, will need to test with
a large directory
## Summary
* Extract EPUB TOC into temp file before parsing
* Streaming ZIP -> XML parser uses up a lot of memory as we're
allocating inflation buffers while also holding a few copies of the
buffer in different forms
* Instead, but streaming the inflated file down to the SD card (like we
do for HTML parsing, we can lower memory usage)
## Additional Context
* This should help with
https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/issues/60 and
https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/issues/10. It won't
remove those class of issues completely, but will allow for many more
books to be opened.
Still a bit raw, but gets the time required to determine the size of
each chapter (for reading progress) down from ~25ms to 0-1ms.
This is done by keeping the zipArchive open (so simple ;)).
Probably we don't need to cache the spine sizes anymore then...
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## Summary
* Build out lines for pages when holding over 750 buffered words
* Should fix issues with parsing long blocks of text causing memory
crashes
## Problem
`drawBmp()` allocates two row buffers via `malloc()` but doesn't check
if allocations succeed. On low memory, this causes a crash when the NULL
pointers are dereferenced.
## Fix
Add NULL check after both `malloc()` calls. If either fails, log error
and return early.
Changed `lib/GfxRenderer/GfxRenderer.cpp`.
## Test
- Defensive addition only - no logic changes
- Manual device testing appreciated
## Problem
Three Epub getter functions can throw exceptions:
- `getCumulativeSpineItemSize()`: No bounds check before
`.at(spineIndex)`
- `getSpineItem()`: If spine is empty and index invalid, `.at(0)` throws
- `getTocItem()`: If toc is empty and index invalid, `.at(0)` throws
## Fix
- Add bounds check to `getCumulativeSpineItemSize()`, return 0 on error
- Add empty container checks to `getSpineItem()` and `getTocItem()`
- Use static fallback objects for safe reference returns on empty
containers
Changed `lib/Epub/Epub.cpp`.
## Test
- Defensive additions - follows existing bounds check patterns
- No logic changes for valid inputs
- Manual device testing appreciated
## Problem
`readFileToMemory()` allocates an output buffer via `malloc()` at line
120 but doesn't check if allocation succeeds. On low memory, the NULL
pointer is passed to `fread()` causing a crash.
## Fix
Add NULL check after `malloc()` for the output buffer. Follows the
existing pattern already used for `deflatedData` at line 141.
Changed `lib/ZipFile/ZipFile.cpp`.
## Test
- Follows existing validated pattern from same function
- Defensive addition only - no logic changes
## Problem
`invertScreen()`, `storeBwBuffer()`, and `restoreBwBuffer()` dereference
`frameBuffer` without NULL validation. If the display isn't initialized,
these functions will crash.
## Fix
Add NULL checks before using `frameBuffer` in all three functions.
Follows the existing pattern from `drawPixel()` (line 11) which already
validates the pointer.
Changed `lib/GfxRenderer/GfxRenderer.cpp`.
## Test
- Follows existing validated pattern from `drawPixel()`
- No logic changes - only adds early return on NULL
- Manual device testing appreciated
## Summary
- **What is the goal of this PR?**
Implements wireless EPUB file management via a built-in web server,
enabling users to upload, browse, organize, and delete EPUB files from
any device on the same WiFi network without needing a computer cable
connection.
- **What changes are included?**
- **New Web Server**
([`CrossPointWebServer.cpp`](src/CrossPointWebServer.cpp),
[`CrossPointWebServer.h`](src/CrossPointWebServer.h)):
- HTTP server on port 80 with a responsive HTML/CSS interface
- Home page showing device status (version, IP, free memory)
- File Manager with folder navigation and breadcrumb support
- EPUB file upload with progress tracking
- Folder creation and file/folder deletion
- XSS protection via HTML escaping
- Hidden system folders (`.` prefixed, "System Volume Information",
"XTCache")
- **WiFi Screen** ([`WifiScreen.cpp`](src/screens/WifiScreen.cpp),
[`WifiScreen.h`](src/screens/WifiScreen.h)):
- Network scanning with signal strength indicators
- Visual indicators for encrypted (`*`) and saved (`+`) networks
- State machine managing: scanning, network selection, password entry,
connecting, save/forget prompts
- 15-second connection timeout handling
- Integration with web server (starts on connect, stops on exit)
- **WiFi Credential Storage**
([`WifiCredentialStore.cpp`](src/WifiCredentialStore.cpp),
[`WifiCredentialStore.h`](src/WifiCredentialStore.h)):
- Persistent storage in `/sd/.crosspoint/wifi.bin`
- XOR obfuscation for stored passwords (basic protection against casual
reading)
- Up to 8 saved networks with add/remove/update operations
- **On-Screen Keyboard**
([`OnScreenKeyboard.cpp`](src/screens/OnScreenKeyboard.cpp),
[`OnScreenKeyboard.h`](src/screens/OnScreenKeyboard.h)):
- Reusable QWERTY keyboard component with shift support
- Special keys: Shift, Space, Backspace, Done
- Support for password masking mode
- **Settings Screen Integration**
([`SettingsScreen.h`](src/screens/SettingsScreen.h)):
- Added WiFi action to navigate to the new WiFi screen
- **Documentation** ([`docs/webserver.md`](docs/webserver.md)):
- Comprehensive user guide covering WiFi setup, web interface usage,
file management, troubleshooting, and security notes
- See this for more screenshots!
- Working "displays the right way in GitHub" on my repo:
https://github.com/olearycrew/crosspoint-reader/blob/feature/connect-to-wifi/docs/webserver.md
**Video demo**
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/283e32dc-2d9f-4ae2-848e-01f41166a731
## Additional Context
- **Security considerations**: The web server has no
authentication—anyone on the same WiFi network can access files. This is
documented as a limitation, recommending use only on trusted private
networks. Password obfuscation in the credential store is XOR-based, not
cryptographically secure.
- **Memory implications**: The web server and WiFi stack consume
significant memory. The implementation properly cleans up (stops server,
disconnects WiFi, sets `WIFI_OFF` mode) when exiting the WiFi screen to
free resources.
- **Async operations**: Network scanning and connection use async
patterns with FreeRTOS tasks to prevent blocking the UI. The display
task handles rendering on a dedicated thread with mutex protection.
- **Browser compatibility**: The web interface uses standard
HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript and is tested to work with all modern browsers on
desktop and mobile.
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Adresses #53
Please check if we still need the code to "Give the user up to 1000ms to
start holding the power button, and must hold for
SETTINGS.getPowerButtonDuration()" - the power button should be pressed
already when waking up...
Also, decided to return before the delay to wait more to make the
behavior more immediate.
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## Problem
Three `fopen()` calls in ZipFile.cpp did not check for NULL before using
the file handle. If files cannot be opened, `fseek`/`fread`/`fclose`
receive NULL and crash.
## Fix
Added NULL checks with appropriate error logging and early returns for
all three locations:
- `getDataOffset()`
- `readFileToMemory()`
- `readFileToStream()`
## Testing
- Builds successfully with `pio run`
- Affects: `lib/ZipFile/ZipFile.cpp`
## Problem
- `getBookSize()` calls `getCumulativeSpineItemSize(getSpineItemsCount()
- 1)` which passes -1 when spine is empty
- `calculateProgress()` then divides by zero when book size is 0
## Fix
- Return 0 from `getBookSize()` if spine is empty
- Return 0 from `calculateProgress()` if book size is 0
## Testing
- Builds successfully with `pio run`
- Affects: `lib/Epub/Epub.cpp`