Release 2.5 Available: View Up to 4 Parks at a time

The main feature is the ability to view 4 parks at a time and sort the ride times, but there are a bunch of individual improvements needed to make that happen, as detailed below.

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Performance Optimizations for CircuitPython

  - Parallel park updates: Modified theme_park_service.py to fetch data for multiple parks in parallel using asyncio.gather() instead of sequential updates
  - Reduced retry delays: Changed exponential backoff from 2s, 4s, 6s to 0.5s, 1s, 1.5s in http_client.py
  - Removed redundant operations: Eliminated double gc.collect() calls in app.py

  Fixed "Group by Park" Setting Issue

  - Fixed bug where unchecking "Group rides by park" wasn't working on CircuitPython
  - Added boolean type conversion in settings_manager.py to handle CircuitPython's JSON parser storing booleans as strings
  - Enhanced message_queue.py to immediately clear queue when settings change
  - Added debug logging to trace setting changes
  - Created GROUP_BY_PARK_FIX.md documenting the fix

 

  Fixed OTA Update Error

  - Corrected is_wifi_password_configured() calls to use self.is_wifi_password_configured()
  - This fixed the "name 'is_wifi_password_configured' is not defined" error during OTA updates

  Fixed Developer Options Visibility

  - Removed conditional check for show_dev_options setting
  - Developer Options section (including pre-release checkbox) now always shows on settings page
  - Applied fix to both web_server.py and dev_web_server.py

  Fixed Font Copying Issue

  - Removed --exclude='fonts/' from rsync commands in makefile
  - Fonts directory now properly copies to CircuitPython device

  Fixed .DS_Store File Exclusion

  - Changed --exclude='.DS_STORE' to --exclude='.DS_Store' (correct case)
  - Added --exclude='**/.DS_Store' to exclude .DS_Store files in subdirectories

  Reduced flashing by adding production and dev modes to error logging.

  Code Cleanup

  - Deleted unused optimization files:
    - test_web_server_optimization.py
    - src/network/web_server_optimized.py
    - src/api/theme_park_service_optimized.py
    - src/network/http_client_optimized.py

  Settings

    -  Fixed settings problems with display options
    - Centered wait times on display, especially 3 digit times