Roadmap#

We publish what we're working on because the people backing this work — Stripe subscribers, customers, and the wider theatre community — should know what their support is funding. No hard dates here: estimates we'd commit to in writing rarely survive contact with the soldering iron.

Recently shipped#

The v7 firmware family has been the largest single overhaul since the product launched.

• v7.7.0 — Fixed a DMX-input regression where a slow boot could leave Port A not receiving DMX in input mode. Added an optional status-LED night mode with NTP clock (a compile-time feature, off in the standard build). OTA-safe from v7.5.1+.
• v7.6.6 — Fixed the node rebooting a few seconds after Port A was switched to DMX input. The DMX-in callback is now interrupt-safe with frame handling moved to the main loop, plus a double-buffer swap fix.
• v7.6.5 — RDM and Art-Net reliability fixes.
• v7.5.2 — Per-unit human-readable serial number (e.g. DE-HI98I0YTL2B7), shown on the Device Status page and the /api/identify and /api/status endpoints.
• v7.2.1 — Status LEDs mirrored live in the web UI's status page.
• v7.2 — Per-direction status-LED state machine. Dedicated colours for DMX vs pixel mode so you can read each port's role from across the room.
• v7.1 — Ground-up rewrite of the web UI as a single-page application backed by a REST API. Per-device unique MAC. Live diagnostics dashboard. WiFi removed entirely (the dualETH hardware never used it; removing it freed memory and dropped power draw).

Coming next#

masterETH — a standalone box that sits on your network and manages every dualETH (and future quadETH) it can see. Plug it in once, give it an IP, and you get a single pane of glass for every node in the installation: current status, port modes, universe assignments, firmware version, all from one URL instead of opening a tab per node.

This is for installations where the per-node web UI starts to fight you — anything past five or six nodes, and especially venues running thirty-plus across a building. For a single-node setup, the on-device web UI is still the right tool; masterETH is purely additive.

quadETH — the four-port successor to the dualETH. Same Art-Net / sACN protocol surface, scaled up to four physical DMX outputs and four universes for installations that need more discrete DMX runs from a single network drop.

More on each here once they have a release date.

How we prioritise#

Bug reports beat feature requests, every time. Within features, we weigh how often something comes up in support, how many existing customers are affected, and what subscribers via Stripe tell us they want. If something matters to you that isn't on this page, drop us an email — we read every one.