After a year of working on Nocturne 3.0.0, it is finally ready for release. It has been tested thoroughly, thanks to our supporters, and we are proud to say that we have the most advanced Car Thing custom firmware, and the only one that supports almost everything that Spotify's firmware had.

Changes from v2

• Bluetooth tethering for car use (no more Raspberry Pi in the car)
• Full graphics acceleration
• Native Spotify login (no more client ID/secret)
• Start DJ from the Car Thing
• Podcast support
• Gesture control
• New settings
• Boot to Now Playing
• Spotify Connect device switcher
• Support for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Devanagari, Hebrew, Bengali, Tamil, Thai, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, and Greek
• Full knob control support
• Local file support
• Preset button support
• Status bar on home (shows time & Bluetooth/Wi-Fi)
• Auto brightness
• Hold settings button for power menu
• Lock screen showing time full screen (press settings button)
• DJ preset binding (hold preset button while DJ is playing in Now Playing)
• Spotify mixes in Radio tab (Discover Weekly, daily mixes, etc.)
• OTA updates
• + MUCH more (this is just the important stuff!)

Flashing

A guide to flashing Nocturne 3.0.0 is in the README. Bluetooth will work out of the box, or choose an alternative in the Setting up Network section. Hotspot capability from your phone and plan are required for Bluetooth.

Notes

This wouldn’t be possible without our donors and the rest of the Nocturne Team. We hope you’ll enjoy it, as we've spent thousands of hours working on it!

Consider buying the team a coffee if you can ❤️ https://usenocturne.com/support

• public beta release

• initial release