Minor tweaks for ESP8266

- update was restarting device on some occasions
- a bit of throttling in UI

wled00/data/index.js

@@ -282,12 +282,12 @@ function onLoad()
  // fill effect extra data array
  loadFXData(()=>{
  // load and populate effects
- loadFX(()=>{
+ setTimeout(()=>{loadFX(()=>{
  loadPalettesData(()=>{
  requestJson();// will load presets and create WS
  if (cfg.comp.css) setTimeout(()=>{loadSkinCSS('skinCss')},50);
  });
- });
+ })},50);
  });
  });
  resetUtil();

wled00/json.cpp

@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ void serializeInfo(JsonObject root)
  root[F("ver")] = versionString;
  root[F("vid")] = VERSION;
  root[F("cn")] = F(WLED_CODENAME);
- root[F("release")] = FPSTR(releaseString);
+ root[F("release")] = releaseString;
 
  JsonObject leds = root.createNestedObject(F("leds"));
  leds[F("count")] = strip.getLengthTotal();

wled00/util.cpp

@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ bool requestJSONBufferLock(uint8_t module)
  }
  unsigned long now = millis();
 
- while (jsonBufferLock && millis()-now < 100) delay(1); // wait for fraction for buffer lock
+ while (jsonBufferLock && millis()-now < 250) delay(1); // wait for fraction for buffer lock
 
  if (jsonBufferLock) {
  DEBUG_PRINT(F("ERROR: Locking JSON buffer failed! (still locked by "));

wled00/wled.h

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  */
 
 // version code in format yymmddb (b = daily build)
-#define VERSION 2406120
+#define VERSION 2406121
 
 //uncomment this if you have a "my_config.h" file you'd like to use
 //#define WLED_USE_MY_CONFIG
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ using PSRAMDynamicJsonDocument = BasicJsonDocument<PSRAM_Allocator>;
 
 // Global Variable definitions
 WLED_GLOBAL char versionString[] _INIT(TOSTRING(WLED_VERSION));
-WLED_GLOBAL char releaseString[] _INIT_PROGMEM(TOSTRING(WLED_RELEASE_NAME)); // somehow this will not work if using "const char releaseString[]
+WLED_GLOBAL char releaseString[] _INIT(TOSTRING(WLED_RELEASE_NAME)); // somehow this will not work if using "const char releaseString[]
 #define WLED_CODENAME "Kōsen"
 
 // AP and OTA default passwords (for maximum security change them!)

wled00/xml.cpp

@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ void getSettingsJS(byte subPage, char* dest)
  olen -= 2; //delete ";
  oappend(versionString);
  oappend(SET_F("<br>"));
- oappend((char*)FPSTR(releaseString));
+ oappend(releaseString);
  oappend(SET_F("<br>("));
  #if defined(ARDUINO_ARCH_ESP32)
  oappend(ESP.getChipModel());