Enhance README with project details and instructions

[ChuckBuilds]

Added project overview, setup instructions, and plugin architecture details.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Enhanced installation and setup guidance with comprehensive step-by-step SSH instructions and Raspberry Pi Imager integration support.
  • Expanded configuration documentation with detailed parameter descriptions and web UI configuration recommendations.
  • Added comprehensive runtime settings and dynamic duration controls information with examples.
  • Improved plugin information and web interface overview with troubleshooting guidance.
  • Better overall organization with collapsible sections and practical code examples.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

README.md was comprehensively expanded and reorganized with new sections covering project introduction, detailed setup instructions (Raspberry Pi Imager, SSH, Quick Install), enhanced configuration guidance, expanded Display Settings and Runtime parameters, dedicated Plugins section, and web UI emphasis with collapsible manual edit details.

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Summary

Documentation expansion and reorganization README.md

Substantial restructuring: new introductory/project sections; expanded setup with Raspberry Pi Imager guidance and SSH instructions; new System Setup & Installation section with Quick Install and Alternative Manual Installation paths; comprehensive Display Settings documentation with hardware, runtime, and duration parameters; new Runtime and Dynamic Duration sections with examples; dedicated Plugins section; web UI configuration emphasis with collapsible details; example JSON config snippet; updated links, images, and formatting throughout; removal of older brittle sections and service management updates.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 3 (Moderate) | ⏱️ ~25 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• Remove detailed configuration sections from README #172 — Directly modifies README.md configuration and documentation content with overlapping setup/config section expansions.
• Update README to simplify web interface installation #168 — Restructures README's web interface installation, startup, and systemd/service instructions similarly affected in this PR.
• Revise README for core features and plugins #177 — Overlapping edits to README's plugins content and collapsible details sections with emphasis on plugin architecture.

Poem

🐰 With whiskers twitching and paws so quick,
I've hopped through docs to make them stick!
Setup guides and plugins bright,
Configuration tips done right,
LEDMatrix shines—what a sight! ✨

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