Anthias 2026.06.1
Video plays on the Raspberry Pi 2 and Pi 3 instead of a black screen, and more smoothly on the Pi 4 and Pi 5. Older balena players that lost their playlist after 2026.05.2 get it back.
- Raspberry Pi 2 and Pi 3 viewers retry a crashed start, and other fixes A Raspberry Pi 4 with no display attached waits for one on balenaOS 2026.x, and device logs on every board no longer fill up with Qt debug output.
- x86 displays no longer freeze on a heavy web page An x86 device keeps updating its screen when it moves to a complex web page, instead of freezing on the last frame until the container restarts.
- Screen rotation turns web pages and images on Raspberry Pi 4 On a Raspberry Pi 4, the Screen rotation setting now turns the whole display, so web pages and images go portrait or upside down along with video.
- Raspberry Pi 2 and Pi 3 play video instead of a black screen Every video on a Raspberry Pi 2 or Pi 3 showed a black screen while images and web pages played as usual. Video plays now, and in the project's testing a Pi 3 handled 1080p with frames to spare.
- Smoother video on Raspberry Pi 4 and Pi 5 Video on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi 5 no longer stutters along at 8 to 12 frames per second. A 30 fps clip now plays at or close to its own frame rate, and the viewer uses less CPU doing it.
- Balena devices from before the Anthias rename keep or recover their playlist on upgrade A balena device that still keeps its data under the old Screenly folder names now carries its playlist and content over when it upgrades, and a device that already came up empty gets them back.