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Summary

Some buttons are physically awkward to press quickly enough (e.g., buttons with long travel or stiff springs). Updating the button timing requires editing button.cpp directly and recompiling. This pr exposes them as runtime settings on the LED Preferences > Buttons page.

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Limits

Setting Default Min Max Notes
Debounce time 50 ms 0 ms 100 ms Most button/debounce libraries (OneButton, Bounce2, ESPHome) treat ~100ms as the practical ceiling for switch bounce
Long-press time 600 ms 200 ms 4000 ms Floor kept above the debounce max (which is 100 ms) - so long press can never be shorter than debounce. Ceiling capped below WLED_LONG_AP (which is 5000 ms) - so it can't collide with AP-mode/factory-reset
Double-press time 350 ms 100 ms 1000 ms
Long-press repeat delay 600 ms 100 ms 4000 ms Pause after the first long-press action before it repeats (buttons >0 only)
Long-press repeat interval 200 ms 100 ms 4000 ms Time between repeats while the button is held (buttons >0 only)

Button 0 is used to trigger AP Mode and Factory Reset which is why some of the settings above don't apply to it.

How I tested

  • Compiled & flashed to ESP32-WROOM-32D;
  • Confirmed new fields appear on LED Preferences > Buttons with correct defaults, limits, and inline hints
  • Confirmed values save to and reload from cfg.json
  • Confirmed short/long/double press behaviour on button 0 (GPIO0/BOOT) responds to changed values
  • Confirmed button 0's AP-mode (>5000 ms) and factory-reset (>10000 ms) hold thresholds are unaffected even at the new long-press max (4000 ms)

Changelog

Long-press repeat timing (buttons >0, e.g. dimming on button 1)

Repeats were timed against the long press threshold, which only worked while it was fixed at 600 ms. With a configurable value:

  • at ≤ 400 ms, a step fired on every loop (dimming jumped straight to min/max)
  • at 4000 ms, there was one step every 3.6 s, and a 4 s pause after the first step

Now: first action at the long press time, then a fixed 600 ms pause (WLED_LONG_REPEAT_DELAY), then a step every 200 ms (WLED_LONG_REPEATED_ACTION). No change to behaviour at the default 600 ms.

Also fixed:

  • Long-press presets on buttons >0 no longer fire twice back-to-back (this also happens on main).
  • Releasing right after the first long-press step no longer swallows the next short press.

Button 0 is unaffected: AP mode (> 5 s) and factory reset (> 10 s) still count from the start of the press.

Limits and validation

  • Min/max limits are named constants in const.h, with static_asserts (long press min > debounce max, long press max < WLED_LONG_AP).
  • set.cpp clamps out-of-range values like cfg.cpp, and leaves a value unchanged if its field is missing.

Usermods (user-visible)

multi_relay and pixels_dice_tray have their own button handling and ignored the new settings. They now use them. The defaults are the same, so there's no change unless the timings are changed.

Additional testing

  • Compiled: esp32dev, nodemcuv2, esp32dev + multi_relay
  • ESP32-WROOM-32D: timed the dimming at 200 / 600 / 4000 ms in both directions. At every setting: ~600 ms pause, then ~200 ms per step
  • Short press still works after releasing right after the first long-press step
  • Button 0: AP mode after a 6 s hold, factory reset after an 11 s hold
  • Assigned a different preset to short, long and double press, and confirmed each one triggers correctly across different debounce / long press / double press settings

Update: review feedback

  • Default timings are inlined in wled.h; the WLED_DEBOUNCE_THRESHOLD / WLED_LONG_PRESS / WLED_DOUBLE_PRESS macros are removed.
  • Added static_asserts: _MIN < _MAX, debounce max > 0, and AP-mode hold < factory reset hold.
  • The timing fields are hidden behind a new "Show Advanced Button Settings" checkbox in the Buttons section
  • Documented in the KB: Add button timing settings to KB WLED-Docs#377.
  • WLED_LONG_REPEATED_ACTION renamed to WLED_LONG_REPEAT_INTERVAL, since it now holds the actual repeat interval.

Update: configurable repeat timing

  • New settings "Long-press repeat delay" (default 600 ms) and "Long-press repeat interval" (default 200 ms), 100–4000 ms each, in the advanced button settings.
  • Labels hyphenated: "Long-press time", "Double-press time".

Additional testing (review feedback and repeat timing)

  • Advanced panel: hidden by default, shown when ticked, remembered after reload
  • Saving with the panel hidden and shown
  • Out-of-range value from a config template: panel opens, save blocked
  • Out-of-range value in a restored cfg.json: clamped by the firmware
  • Repeat delay < interval: blocked on the settings page, raised to the interval via the JSON API
  • Repeat timing tested at a variety or ranges, inc the defaults

Original Description

Discarded in favour of making changes in the UI instead of build flags after the discussion below.

Summary

  • Some buttons are physically awkward to press quickly enough (Buttons with long travel or stiff springs)... Updating the button timing requires editing button.cpp directly.

This update allows overriding default button timing via build flags. (E.g., WLED_DEBOUNCE_THRESHOLD, WLED_LONG_PRESS, WLED_DOUBLE_PRESS)

  • This addition guards them with #ifndef (matching the existing WLED_PWM_FREQ pattern), so they can instead be set per-board via build_flags in platformio_override.ini

How I tested...

  • Built with an override for these constants (e.g. -D WLED_LONG_PRESS=2000) via platformio_override.ini and confirmed the new value takes effect
  • Built without any override and confirmed default button timing behavior is unchanged

Usage...

Example override in platformio_override.ini:

[env:myboard]
extends = env:esp32dev
build_flags = ${env:esp32dev.build_flags}
  -D WLED_DEBOUNCE_THRESHOLD=100   ; Default is 50ms
  -D WLED_LONG_PRESS=2000          ; Default is 600ms
  -D WLED_DOUBLE_PRESS=1000        ; Default is 350ms

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added configurable button timing settings in Hardware setup:
      • Debounce time
      • Long-press detection time
      • Double-press detection window
    • Settings are validated, saved, and restored across restarts.
    • Button timing can now be adjusted at runtime without changing build configuration.
    • Default timing values remain unchanged when no custom values are provided.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Configure button debounce, long-press, and double-press timings in Hardware settings. The settings are saved and restored with configuration and apply to supported button-controlled features.
    • Default timings are 50 ms for debounce, 600 ms for long press, and 350 ms for double press.
    • Repeated long-press actions are supported for buttons other than the primary button.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Out-of-range timing values are clamped to supported limits, keeping long-press timing above the maximum debounce setting.

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Button debounce, long-press, and double-press timing now use configurable runtime values. The settings form exposes these values, and configuration paths load, save, and clamp them. Core button handling and two usermods use the configured timings.

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Button timing configuration and use

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and configure button timing
wled00/const.h, wled00/wled.h, wled00/data/settings_leds.htm, wled00/cfg.cpp, wled00/set.cpp, wled00/xml.cpp
Timing defaults and bounds are defined. The settings form exposes the values and supports configuration import. Configuration loading, saving, and request handling process the values and apply their bounds.
Apply timing in button handling
wled00/button.cpp, usermods/multi_relay/multi_relay.cpp, usermods/pixels_dice_tray/pixels_dice_tray.cpp
Core button handling and both usermods use the runtime timing values. Core repeated long-press actions use a delay followed by an interval. Button 0 retains its original press-start timer for hold checks.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: softhack007, netmindz

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6c674

Screen-reader users may have difficulty identifying the new button controls. The remaining issue is localized to the settings page; the template-import omission is fixed.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6c674

The settings have a limited, device-local effect and are bounded before use. Button 0 retains its fixed AP and factory-reset hold requirements. No security regression was identified in the inspected paths, though configuration recovery and all import paths were not fully assessed.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated impact is device-local: a settings writer can persistently change interpretation of configured buttons across core handling and enabled consumers, including MultiRelay relay actions and Pixels Dice Tray menu actions. The inspected changes do not establish a new cross-device or cross-tenant authority path.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — No introduced privileged-outcome bypass was identified in the inspected timing path. Request-controlled values influence ordinary action classification, but cannot directly satisfy the fixed physical-hold checks for core AP activation or factory reset. This conclusion is limited to the traced paths, not a complete device-security assessment.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The settings POST path retains its local-subnet check and existing PIN-state gate before updating configuration. These controls are unchanged from base; they are not newly introduced per-request identity guarantees. Both request handling and configuration loading enforce numeric timing bounds before consumption.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Changing a timing value during a pending press can alter ordinary classification on subsequent evaluation; the implementation does not snapshot settings per press. Independently bounded values preserve the debounce-to-long-press separation even during partial updates, while fixed AP/reset thresholds remain outside this mutable contract. Crash recovery and concurrent-write behavior were not fully verified.
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We're generally trying to steer away from build flags. What would the difficulties be of making these configurable through the UI?

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What would the difficulties be of making these configurable through the UI?

none.
UI config has one disadvantage: if you want non-defaults at build time. Or is that possible? I remember we discussed "factory reset defaults" before, was there any work done on that?
edit:
actually two: if we keep adding, the config options may just get too overwhelming for non advanced users.

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What would the difficulties be of making these configurable through the UI?

none. UI config has one disadvantage: if you want non-defaults at build time. Or is that possible? I remember we discussed "factory reset defaults" before, was there any work done on that?

I think the plan was to support a default cfg file as a compile-time header -- all we needed to do was patch it in to resetConfig(). It was never implemented though. Good PR for a first timer perhaps!

edit: actually two: if we keep adding, the config options may just get too overwhelming for non advanced users.

I always like to handwave that away as "ui problems" ;) We cover a lot with "advanced" panels that default closed. A full settings UI rework was always the plan...

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We're generally trying to steer away from build flags. What would the difficulties be of making these configurable through the UI?

Personally I would like to see both options;

  • Build flag option - for configuring non-defaults at build time
  • UI option - for pre-compiled WLED (or changing the setting post-build)

... I'd be happy to develop this pr further to add the UI option if favourable?

if we keep adding, the config options may just get too overwhelming for non advanced users.

Perhaps we might hide it under an expandable "Advanced" button section (Say: "Advanced Button Overrides") - similar to "Colour Order Override":
Screenshot from 2026-09-14 18-45-06

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While I agree that it'd be nice to support build time configuration, I really don't want to have build flags for every cfg file entry -- we already have too many. Plus build_flags interacts very poorly with PlatformIO's build caching system -- it forces the build framework to treat every file in the entire platform as 'different' as it cannot reason about whether or not a given flag affects any given file. Not just WLED sources, but every library as well. It's not pretty.

So from my end: no thank you for more preprocessor flags. A different, generally applicable solution for build-time initial configuration is needed. If you're interested in following up with build time configuration support, a PR to accept a default cfg.json file would be greatly appreciated.

Re the UI: I'd be happy to leave the button press timing options out on the main button settings panel -- they seem useful to me. If others have strong feelings tha they belong under an advanced toggle, I think that's fine too.

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It's not pretty.

@willmmiles Thanks for the explanation on why we want to avoid adding more build flags. I'll update this pr to add to the UI and remove the build flags.

I remember we discussed "factory reset defaults" before, was there any work done on that?

I think the plan was to support a default cfg file as a compile-time header -- all we needed to do was patch it in to resetConfig()

If you're interested in following up with build time configuration support, a PR to accept a default cfg.json file would be greatly appreciated.

I'd be interested in looking over any previous work or discussion done towards this and potentially picking up where others left off if you could kindly point out where that discussion happened?

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Re the UI: I'd be happy to leave the button press timing options out on the main button settings panel -- they seem useful to me. If others have strong feelings tha they belong under an advanced toggle, I think that's fine too.

Any objections to it looking like this?:

Screenshot_Buttons

WLED_DEBOUNCE_THRESHOLD, WLED_LONG_PRESS and WLED_DOUBLE_PRESS were
plain #defines with no way to change them without recompiling.

Per discussion on wled#5844, expose them as runtime settings on
the LED Preferences > Buttons page.

Limits (Debounce 0-250ms, Long press 100-4000ms, Double press
0-1000ms) follow similar timing conventions used by Tasmota, OneButton
and ESPHome for the same settings. Long press is capped
below WLED_LONG_AP (5000ms) so a user-configured value can't collide
with button 0's existing AP-mode/factory-reset hold thresholds.
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🟠 Major · Populate DB, LP, and DP during config-template import. · settings_leds.htm:802

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Populate DB, LP, and DP during config-template import.

The page-load script populates the current DB, LP, and DP values, but loadCfg() only assigns the imported TT value and then calls UI(). It does not copy b.dbnc, b.lp, or b.dp into the form. Saving after applying a template therefore submits the existing timing values.

Assign each field when the key exists so older templates preserve the current values:

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 					d.getElementsByName("TT")[0].value = b.tt;
+					if (b.dbnc !== undefined) d.getElementsByName("DB")[0].value = b.dbnc;
+					if (b.lp !== undefined) d.getElementsByName("LP")[0].value = b.lp;
+					if (b.dp !== undefined) d.getElementsByName("DP")[0].value = b.dp;
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In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm` at line 802, Update loadCfg() to populate the
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In `@wled00/button.cpp`:
- Around line 304-324: Reject or clamp configurations where buttonLongPressMs is
less than buttonDebounceMs, enforcing buttonLongPressMs >= buttonDebounceMs in
both settings parsing and configuration deserialization. Update the relevant
parsing and deserialization handlers without changing the button state logic.

In `@wled00/cfg.cpp`:
- Around line 454-456: Update the configuration deserialization for
buttonDebounceMs, buttonLongPressMs, and buttonDoublePressMs so loaded JSON
values are clamped or validated to the same ranges enforced in set.cpp: DB
0–250, LP 100–4000, and DP 0–1000. Preserve existing values when fields are
absent while preventing out-of-range values from reaching button.cpp.

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- Line 802: Update loadCfg() to populate the DB, LP, and DP form fields from
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existing TT assignment. Preserve current form values for older templates where
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I'd be interested in looking over any previous work or discussion done towards this and potentially picking up where others left off if you could kindly point out where that discussion happened?

I don't think there's a clear written record on GitHub. It's come up a couple of times in our team meetings and support channels, particularly in the context of factory configurations for vendors selling pre-built boards. The feature request was to allow explicitly defining a "factory" configuration with any settings (or combination thereof) without requiring maintaining a fork full of source code edits.

The basic idea (at least as I understood it) was something along the lines of:

  • Add a new header "default_cfg.h" or the like that defines some new PROGMEM string where a saved JSON config can be pasted;
  • Include this header in cfg.cpp and wire it in to resetConfig() with some logic that writes out the default file if it was missing, empty or bad. As a fallback fallback, if we're boot-looping with the default cfg, write an empty file and use the built-in defaults. (This sort of not-really-configurable behavioural switch is a better candidate for a build time flag.)
if (WLED_FS.exists(s_cfg_json)) { 
#if WLED_ALLOW_EMPTY_FALLBACK_CONFIG
   if (contents_match(s_cfg_json, default_cfg) { write_empty_cfg(); reboot(); return; } // fallbackiest fallback
#endif
   if (!is_empty(s_cfg_json)) { rename_old_cfg(); }   // user cfg must be bad
   else { WLED_FS.rm(s_cfg_json); // delete empty file, we'll put back the default
}
// Restore default cfg
write(s_cfg_json, default_cfg)
reboot();
return;
}

The "best possible" implementation might be to add another minification target to tools/cdata.js that builds the header from a cfg.json file directly, and/or a PlatformIO script that accepts a new custom_cfg = some_path/to/cfg.json to feed it. (Though #5742 already has some work on generalized cdata.js so it'd be a merge conflict nightmare for me...) And I'm sure the question will also be asked about a factory default presets.json someday too.

#5274 is somewhat related -- it's about building initial flash binaries with default files -- but that mechanism doesn't survive a factory reset, so it's not really suitable for board vendors who want to offer a preconfigured output or the like.

Make sense?

Fix stuck longPressed flag and add cfg.json validation for button timing

Issue:
buttonLongPressMs could be configured shorter than buttonDebounceMs,
which leaves the longPressed flag stuck set across presses in some
configs (the debounce-reject branch on release clears pressedBefore
but not longPressed).

Fix:
Clamp buttonDebounceMs/buttonLongPressMs/buttonDoublePressMs to the
same ranges as the UI when loading cfg.json (cfg.cpp).

Issue:
cfg.json deserialization applied none of the range checks the
settings UI enforces.

Fix:
Clamp buttonDebounceMs/buttonLongPressMs/buttonDoublePressMs to the
same ranges as the UI when loading cfg.json (cfg.cpp).

Issue:
Importing a config template silently skipped the new DB/LP/DP
fields, so only the touch threshold carried over and the current
form values were kept for timing instead.

Fix:
Populate DB/LP/DP from an imported config template, falling back to
the current value when an older template omits a key
(settings_leds.htm).

Range changes, on top of the above:
- Lower buttonDebounceMs max from 250ms to 100ms - most other
  button/debounce libraries (OneButton, Bounce2, ESPHome) treat
  ~50-100ms as the practical ceiling for real switch bounce; 250ms
  was too generous.
- Lower buttonLongPressMs min accordingly, from 300ms to 200ms,
  keeping it just above the new 100ms debounce max so long press
  can never be shorter than debounce.
- Raise buttonDoublePressMs min from 0ms to 100ms, since a 0ms
  window makes double-press physically impossible to trigger.

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Make sense?

Great, that's very helpful, thankyou @willmmiles - I'll aim to dive in when time permits

Replace the duplicated min/max literals in cfg.cpp and set.cpp with
named constants in const.h, and enforce the invariants with
static_asserts instead of comments (long press > debounce, long press
< WLED_LONG_AP).

set.cpp now clamps out-of-range values like cfg.cpp instead of silently
ignoring them, and leaves a timing unchanged when its field is absent
from the request (e.g. an older cached settings page).

Drop the "(min-max)" hints from the settings page: no other number
field shows its range, the inputs already enforce it via min/max, and
the hints would duplicate the C constants.
Both usermods implement their own button handling with private copies
of the old timing defines (and hard-coded 600/350 in multi_relay), so
they ignored the configurable debounce, long press and double press
times. Use buttonDebounceMs, buttonLongPressMs and buttonDoublePressMs
instead, and drop the duplicate defines.
Repeated long-press actions on buttons >0 (e.g. dimming) were timed
against the long press threshold, which was harmless while it was a
fixed 600ms but breaks once it is configurable:
- repeats used a fixed 400ms head start, so the repeat interval was
  (long press time - 400ms): every loop iteration at <=400ms, and 3.6s
  at 4000ms.
- the pause between the first action and the first repeat was a full
  long press time (longPressAction() resets pressedTime), e.g. 4s hold,
  one step, another 4s wait, then repeats.

Once the first long press action has fired, repeats are now timed with
a fixed WLED_LONG_REPEAT_DELAY (600ms) pause followed by a fixed
WLED_LONG_REPEATED_ACTION (200ms) interval, independent of the long
press time. Behaviour of the default dimming at the default long press
time is unchanged.

The pause now starts from the first action for all buttons >0, not
only for the built-in dimming on button 1: a long-press preset on
buttons >0 previously fired twice back-to-back and then repeated.
Button 0 is unaffected: its pressedTime is never moved, so the AP-mode
and factory-reset hold times still count from the start of the press.

Releases after a long press are no longer treated as debounce. A
release within the debounce time after the first action skipped the
longPressed reset, which swallowed the next short press and skipped
the brightness direction toggle on the next long press.
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@willmmiles @DedeHai, this is kindly ready for another look when you have time.

Following your suggestion, the timings are now UI settings instead of build flags. Since then I've:

  • fixed long-press repeat timing
  • replaced the magic numbers with named limits + static_asserts
  • updated multi_relay and pixels_dice_tray usermods to use the new settings
  • added details to a changelog in the description

Default button behaviour is unchanged

Happy to make further changes if you have more suggestions. Thanks!

@adamsthws adamsthws changed the title Make button timing constants overridable Make button timing constants configurable via UI Sep 25, 2026

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Apologies if I've missed some earlier context. Overall this is looking good!

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WLED_GLOBAL uint16_t buttonDebounceMs _INIT(WLED_DEBOUNCE_THRESHOLD);
WLED_GLOBAL uint16_t buttonLongPressMs _INIT(WLED_LONG_PRESS);
WLED_GLOBAL uint16_t buttonDoublePressMs _INIT(WLED_DOUBLE_PRESS);

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Like other static defaults, the initial values should be inlined here instead of #defined. They should not be referenced anywhere else, and they aren't overridable, so there's no value in the preprocessor macro.

If the intent behind the preprocessor macro is to deliberatly break usermods that have copy-and-pasted it, consider mapping it to the state variable instead, eg. #define WLED_DEBOUNCE_THRESHOLD buttonDebounceMs. I think we're still better off omitting it, though.

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Done - defaults are inlined and the macros are removed

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#define WLED_LONG_REPEATED_ACTION 200 // how often a repeated action (e.g. dimming) is fired on long press on button IDs >0
#define WLED_LONG_REPEAT_DELAY 600 // pause after the first long press action before repeating starts on button IDs >0

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Is there a reason to omit these from the configuration? I also note you've changed the value for WLED_LONG_REPEATED_ACTION.

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I also note you've changed the value for WLED_LONG_REPEATED_ACTION.

The value change is because the meaning changed – timing at the defaults is identical.

The previous value of 400 wasn't the interval... the repeat branch set pressedTime = now - 400 and compared against the 600 ms long press threshold, so the effective interval was 600 − 400 = 200 ms (hence the old //200ms comment). With a configurable long press that coupling breaks – at ≤ 400 ms it repeated on every loop, at 4000 ms every 3.6 s. It's now the real interval (200 ms), with an explicit WLED_LONG_REPEAT_DELAY (600 ms) pause before the first repeat.

Is there a reason to omit these from the configuration?

I left out the repeat delay/interval (and brightness step) to avoid overcomplicating but happy to add them if you think they're worth it? (I can imagine some people might want to change the speed/rate of dimming).

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The value change is because the meaning changed – timing at the defaults is identical

Since it's meaning has changed (and for clarification), WLED_LONG_REPEATED_ACTION has been renamed to WLED_LONG_REPEAT_INTERVAL in commit: 6c674f6

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Thanks! Yes, changing the name if the interpretation changed is a good call.

I do think they'd be good in the configuration too. I've used a button in one project for a "next preset" command, adjusting the repeat timing was helpful there for moving through the playlist.

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I do think they'd be good in the configuration too.

All set...

Thanks!

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I approve in general, a few points:

  • do not change current defaults
  • the "600ms long press" time might also be used in the turn-off delay as it uses the same 600ms but I am not sure that's what it is for or if that was chosen to be 600ms independently, my digging in the old code did not reaval the intent there.
  • the UI should not contain the explanations for these new time variables, instead that should be in KB and these options hidden by default. Buttons are used quite often and adding these parameters hardly ever need to be adjusted.

The default debounce/long press/double press times are only used to
initialise the globals and are not overridable, so inline them in
wled.h instead of keeping WLED_DEBOUNCE_THRESHOLD, WLED_LONG_PRESS and
WLED_DOUBLE_PRESS macros. Defaults are unchanged (50/600/350ms).

Add static_asserts for the remaining invariants:
- min < max for long press and double press, debounce max > 0
- the button 0 AP-mode hold is shorter than the factory reset hold: the
  release handler checks the factory reset time inside the AP-mode
  branch, so otherwise every AP-mode hold would format the filesystem
Button timings rarely need adjusting, so only show them when the new
"Show Advanced Button Settings" checkbox in the Buttons section is
ticked, and drop the inline explanations (to be documented in the KB
instead). The checkbox is UI-only (remembered in localStorage like the
LED "Show Advanced Settings" one) and gives future advanced button
options a place to live.

The advanced button fields are also shown whenever one of them is
invalid (e.g. after importing a config template with an out-of-range
value): the form is only submitted if it passes checkValidity(), so a
hidden invalid field would otherwise make Save silently do nothing.
Its meaning changed from a head start subtracted from the long press
time (400ms, giving a 200ms interval at the default 600ms long press)
to the actual interval between repeats (200ms). The new name says what
it is, and pairs with WLED_LONG_REPEAT_DELAY.

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Thanks @DedeHai

Do not change current defaults

If you're referring to the change to WLED_LONG_REPEATED_ACTION, even with this change, the defaults are unchanged. The WLED_LONG_REPEATED_ACTION value change doesn't change behaviour (explained in @willmmiles' thread above).

The "600ms long press" time might also be used in the turn-off delay

My reading is that they're independent: the off delay waits after brightness reaches 0 before switching the relay/LEDs off, and it applies however the light is turned off (UI, API, timers), not just via buttons.

These options should be hidden by default

The timing fields are now hidden behind a new "Show Advanced Button Settings" checkbox in the Buttons section.

The UI should not contain the explanations

Done - the explanations are removed.

Explanations for these new time variables should be in KB

Absolutely, I'll open a WLED-Docs PR to document them in the KB.

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The explanations for these new time variables should be in KB

Ready for review at your leisure: KB PR 377

Thanks!

Replace WLED_LONG_REPEAT_DELAY and WLED_LONG_REPEAT_INTERVAL with the
settings "Long-press repeat delay" (default 600ms) and "Long-press
repeat interval" (default 200ms), 100-4000ms each, in the advanced
button settings. Defaults are unchanged.

The repeat delay must be at least the repeat interval (otherwise the
repeat timing would underflow and fire on every loop):
- the settings page marks the delay invalid and blocks saving
- cfg.json / JSON API / form input raise the delay to the interval
  when the settings are read, so the corrected value is what is saved
  and shown

Also hyphenate the compound modifiers in the button labels
("Long-press time", "Double-press time").
adamsthws added a commit to adamsthws/WLED-Docs that referenced this pull request Sep 30, 2026
- Add the "Long-press repeat delay" and "Long-press repeat interval"
  settings (wled/WLED#5844) to the Button Timing table
- Describe repeat timing in terms of these settings, and that the delay
  can't be shorter than the interval
- Hyphenate the compound modifiers to match the UI labels
  ("Long-press time", "Double-press time", "long-press action")
The +/- buttons add and remove entries in the button list directly
above them, so a separator line between the two is unnecessary.
Move "Disable internal pull-up/down" and "Touch threshold" to live under "Show Advanced Button Settings" alongside the button timings.

Also add a small gap between the checkbox and the advanced settings.

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Code looks good to me too - thank you for the cool contribution!

Show "Double-press time" before "Long-press time" so the long-press
time, repeat delay and repeat interval settings sit next to each other.
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Thank you for the cool contribution!

My pleasure. Thankyou for making WLED!

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