Anthias 2026.07.0
You can select several assets and change them in one go, upload many files at once, show web pages in dark colors and blank the screen through the API. Screen rotation now turns the display on the Raspberry Pi 5.
- New and changed assets reach the screen without a restart, and other fixes Backups from Settings download without timing out, content on your local network is no longer skipped, and installs on 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS and on the Raspberry Pi 3 run to the end.
- A script that collects a redacted debug bundle for bug reports One command packs a misbehaving player's logs and system details into a single archive to attach to a GitHub issue or forum post, with IP addresses, passwords and other secrets replaced first.
- Disk images flash directly in balenaEtcher, and Raspberry Pi Imager lists Anthias for the Pi 5 You no longer have to decompress an image before balenaEtcher will flash it, and the Raspberry Pi 4 download is about 30% smaller. Raspberry Pi Imager lists Anthias for every Pi it supports, the Pi 5 included, with names like Anthias (Raspberry Pi 5).
- Raspberry Pi 5 accepts H.264 video, including YouTube downloads Since Anthias 2026.05.1, a Raspberry Pi 5 refused H.264 uploads and marked YouTube downloads Failed. It takes H.264 now, and in the project's testing a 1080p, 30 fps clip played as smoothly as the same clip in HEVC.
- RTSP, HLS and DASH links play as live streams A live stream added from a URL in Anthias 2026.07.0 plays in the video player and stays on screen for the default streaming duration. RTMP links, which only ever showed a black screen, are refused with a message that says what to use instead.
- Screen rotation turns the display on Raspberry Pi 5 and generic arm64 boards The Screen rotation setting did nothing on a Raspberry Pi 5. From Anthias 2026.07.0 it turns the whole display there, and on generic arm64 boards such as the Rock Pi 4, as soon as you save.
- New blank and unblank commands turn a screen dark and wake it Two commands sent through the API pause the playlist and darken a screen outside opening hours or during a meeting, then resume it. Unlike the HDMI-CEC controls, they work with any display, and on x86, Raspberry Pi 5 and generic arm64 boards the monitor goes into standby.
- A Prefer dark mode setting shows web pages in dark colors Web pages on your screens can show in dark colors without any change to the pages themselves, including pages never designed with a dark theme. It's a switch in Settings, and it applies without a reboot.
- Bulk actions for assets, and uploads of several files at once You can now select assets on the home page and enable, disable, edit or delete them in one step, so changing the schedule of 40 assets no longer means opening each one. Upload file takes several files at once too.