several observations latest (local) build

[dutch-anykey]

Hi Martin,

I'm testing your latest version by building it locally. (Not the latest CI build. espixelstickwebflasher seems down again)

FW Version 4.x-dev (downloaded zip file from 8 jan 2025 martin mueller)
Build Date Jan 8 2025 - 07:21:13
Architecture ESP32Board
Name esp32_devkitc
Flash Size 4194304
Flash ID9C0B8D0A8AB4

Some observations:

1 - Maybe a bug? I can enable FPP remote although there is no SD card connected.
Not bothering me, but in the past "fpp remote" on the secondary input was not selectable if SD card was absent.

After installing SD card:

2 - automatic switching between primary and secondary input seems to be working now (No concurrent outputs anymore) However I noticed a few reboots when switching inputs.
Setup is playing live DDP data from Xlights and configured effects on secondary input. When stopping the sequence in Xlights espixelstick switches to the configured effect. And also the effect stops when starting the seq. again from xlights. Tried switching a few times but after a few times switching back and forward I noticed a few reboots.

below the output from the serial console:

[ 96883][E][vfs_api.cpp:105] open(): /littlefs/config.json.gz does not exist, no permits for creation
[109949][E][vfs_api.cpp:105] open(): /littlefs/admininfo.json.gz does not exist, no permits for creation
[110085][E][vfs_api.cpp:105] open(): /littlefs/input_config.json.gz does not exist, no permits for creation
[110227][E][vfs_api.cpp:105] open(): /littlefs/output_config.json.gz does not exist, no permits for creation
Guru Meditation Error: Core 0 panic'ed (LoadProhibited). Exception was unhandled.

Core 0 register dump:
PC : 0x4018d7d7 PS : 0x00060d30 A0 : 0x8018d9c7 A1 : 0x3ffaf2b0
A2 : 0x00000000 A3 : 0x3ffdfe60 A4 : 0x00000000 A5 : 0x00000000
A6 : 0x3ffdaf8c A7 : 0x00000000 A8 : 0x80084d0d A9 : 0x3ffaf2b0
A10 : 0x3ffdfa70 A11 : 0x00001800 A12 : 0x3ffdfa70 A13 : 0x00000001
A14 : 0x00060d20 A15 : 0x00000001 SAR : 0x00000013 EXCCAUSE: 0x0000001c
EXCVADDR: 0x00000000 LBEG : 0x4008b1a0 LEND : 0x4008b1b6 LCOUNT : 0xffffffff

Backtrace: 0x4018d7d4:0x3ffaf2b0 0x4018d9c4:0x3ffaf2f0 0x4018da15:0x3ffaf310 0x4013921d:0x3ffaf340 0x4013dffe:0x3ffaf3b0 0x4014204a:0x3ffaf3e0 0x40132eb9:0x3ffaf400

ELF file SHA256: 673df002762e6a7d

E (5934) esp_core_dump_flash: Core dump flash config is corrupted! CRC=0x7bd5c66f instead of 0x0
Rebooting...
ets Jul 29 2019 12:21:46

rst:0xc (SW_CPU_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
configsip: 0, SPIWP:0xee
clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00
mode:DIO, clock div:2
load:0x3fff0030,len:1184
load:0x40078000,len:13232
load:0x40080400,len:3028
entry 0x400805e4
E (539) esp_core_dump_flash: No core dum ѥѥ found!
E (539) esp_core_dump_flash: No core dump partition found!

[ ESP] ESPixelStick v4.x-dev (Jan 8 2025 - 07:21:13)
[ ESP] v4.4.7-dirty
[ ESP] CPU Frequency: 240MHz
[ ESP] APB Frequency: 80MHz
[FileMgr] Flash file system initialized. Used = 233472 out of 327680

3 - upload of sequence via espixelstick gui works, but via fpp i get error 100 each time:

[dutch-anykey]

Can't reproduce upload fault....

Upload via FPP is working now and not failing anymore, tried several files.
Can't figure out what I have changed since this morning.

[dutch-anykey]

regarding point 2

I had one more crash and after the reboot the input fields disappeared:
(secondary input not visible at all and primary input shows option "null")

reboot and power off/on didn't change anything. So I did a factory reset. both input fields back to normal again.
Also after the factory reset I'm unable to reproduce the fault again. Switching between DDP and local effect works without problems now (tried switching more than 20 times so far now)