CHANGES.md

Change log

This page describes the changes in each release.

To update your kit, see the system updates guide. All system images can be downloaded from the GitHub releases page.

AIY Kits Release 2021-04-02

Compatible with Voice HAT, Voice Bonnet, and Vision Bonnet.

Based on the Raspberry Pi OS with desktop from March 4th 2021.

Fixes

• Sound driver compilation errors on the latest Raspberry Pi OS
• Upgrade Colab TF version to 1.13.1
• Driver source code added to this repository

AIY Kits Release 2020-11-20

Compatible with Voice HAT, Voice Bonnet, and Vision Bonnet.

Based on the Raspberry Pi OS with desktop from August 20th 2020.

Fixes

• Driver compilation errors on the latest Raspberry Pi OS
• HACKING.md instructions for Vision Bonnet and Voice HAT

AIY Kits Release 2019-11-13

Compatible with Voice HAT, Voice Bonnet, and Vision Bonnet.

Based on the Raspbian Buster with desktop.

Fixes

• Fix driver compilation errors on the latest Raspbian
• Fix HACKING.md instructions
• Fix gpiozero integration

Improvements

• Debian packages are now hosted at https://packages.cloud.google.com/
• Original Raspbian image is modified in the minimal way (no unnecessary packages)

AIY Kits Release 2018-11-16

Compatible with Voice HAT, Voice Bonnet, and Vision Bonnet.

Fixes

• Fix tts engine click sound
• Fix assistant_grpc_demo.service: add DISPLAY environment variable and proper systemd dependencies
• Fix various linter findings: python3 compatibility, wrong variable names, etc.

Improvements

• New board.py to access button and LED on all boards
• New audio API in voice/audio.py
• Direct python support for iNaturalist models
• Load anchors/labels directly from text files
• Add get_inference_state() and resest() to Vision Bonnet protocol
• Add Voice HAT schematic in docs folder
• Add sparse representation for output tensors to increase data transfer rate
• SVG-image overlay for video streaming (experimental)

AIY Kits Release 2018-08-03

Compatible with Voice HAT, Voice Bonnet, and Vision Bonnet.

Fixes

• Fix PulseAudio infinite loop with Voice Bonnet
• Fix PulseAudio volume control
• Fix gpiozero LED on/off bug
• Fix local USB networking on macOS, no driver required
• Fix check_audio.py

Improvements

• Add Makefile for common shortcuts
• Add vision unit tests for all models and examples
• Add video streaming support (experimental)
• Add Google Cloud IoT support (experimental)
• Add more documentation (pinouts, drivers, troubleshooting, etc.)
• Add new code examples and update existing ones
• Add CHANGES.md to track release changes
• Remove unnecessary files (e.g. ALSA configs)
• Update vision driver to support mmap syscall
• Update sound driver to support latest Raspbian image
• Update HACKING.md

AIY Kits Release 2018-04-13

Compatible with Voice HAT, Voice Bonnet, and Vision Bonnet.

AIY Kits Release 2018-02-21

Compatible with Voice HAT, Voice Bonnet, and Vision Bonnet.

AIY Kits Release 2017-12-18

Compatible with Voice HAT and Vision Bonnet.

VoiceKit Classic Image 2017-09-11

Compatible with Voice HAT.