Anthias 2026.05.1
Smoother video on the Raspberry Pi 4, a Screen rotation setting, experimental TV power controls and a page that copies your content to Screenly. Videos your board can't play are now refused at upload, and running the installer again replaces lines you added to config.txt.
Released May 28, 2026
- Improvement Breaking change
Smoother video on Raspberry Pi 4, and uploads are checked against what your board can decode
Video on a Raspberry Pi 4 plays more smoothly: in the project's testing, a 1080p60 H.264 video that dropped most of its frames now drops none. A video your board can't decode is refused at upload with an ffmpeg command to fix it, instead of being re-encoded on the device.
- Improvement Breaking change
Posting a video URL to the API now downloads the file
On API v1.2 and v2, a video URL is downloaded to the device and checked like an upload, so once it's there, playback no longer depends on the server it came from.
- New
Experimental HDMI-CEC controls turn the display on and off
If the screen is a TV, you can now switch it on or off from Settings > Display power, over HDMI-CEC. The controls are experimental, and on a Raspberry Pi 2, 3 or 4 they only work from Anthias 2026.08.1.
- New
Anthias copies your content to Screenly from Settings
Moving from Anthias to Screenly no longer takes a script. Settings > Migrate to Screenly copies the content on your player to your Screenly account, and shows which files made it and which didn't.
- New
Anthias installs on Armbian and other 64-bit ARM boards, as best effort
A Rock Pi, Orange Pi or Banana Pi running Debian-based Armbian can now run Anthias, as best effort. Images and web pages work on any of these boards, and video works on the Rock Pi 4.
- New
A Screen rotation setting turns x86 displays to portrait
People have asked for a portrait setting since 2021. Settings now has a Screen rotation option that turns an x86 player's whole display without a reboot, and on Raspberry Pi boards it doesn't fully work yet in this release.
- Improvement
Boards with 1 GB of RAM run in a low-memory mode
On a board with less than 1.5 GiB of RAM, Anthias keeps memory free for your content: it doesn't load the next web page ahead of time, and it refuses video above 1080p at upload.
- Improvement Breaking change
Players boot quietly, and the installer now overwrites config.txt
A Raspberry Pi boots to the Anthias splash without the rainbow screen, kernel messages or a login prompt, and x86 players skip the kernel text too. The catch: every run of the installer rewrites config.txt and cmdline.txt, so lines you added there are lost.
- Fix
Forms in the web interface work behind an HTTPS proxy
Uploads, setting changes and sign-in no longer fail with a 403 error when a proxy or tunnel serves Anthias over HTTPS, and there's a setting for proxies that change the host name.
- Improvement Breaking change
Free disk space in the info API now reads 15.0 GB instead of 15G
free_space in /api/v1/info and /api/v2/info, and the disk figures on System info, now read like 15.0 GB, with 1 decimal and a full unit. Scripts that parse it need to accept the new form, including the non-breaking space before the unit.
- Fixes and improvements
Removed content leaves the screen right away, and other fixes
Deleting content also frees its disk space, HDMI audio follows the port with a display on a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5, and install.sh lets you pick a release from a menu.