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| current [2019/08/17 19:35] – [Change Log] added the new RFX information. James Sentman | current [2019/08/18 19:02] – [Important Info] James Sentman | ||
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| - | =====XTension Version 9.4.21===== | + | =====XTension Version 9.4.22===== |
| - | Released: 8/17/2019\\ | + | Released: 8/18/2019\\ |
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| - | Download: [[https:// | + | Download: [[https:// |
| - | zipfile md5 = [[tech_notes: | + | zipfile md5 = [[tech_notes: |
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| - | Download for Catalina: [[https:// | + | Download for Catalina: [[https:// |
| **NOTE!** not all plugins are included in the Catalina build. Please see the Catalina note below for more info.\\ | **NOTE!** not all plugins are included in the Catalina build. Please see the Catalina note below for more info.\\ | ||
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| - | ====Change Log==== | + | 9.4.22 is a hotfix release to fix a regression in the last version and contains only one other new feature: |
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| + | ====9.4.22 | ||
| + | * FIX: Groups that are not dimmable will now behave the same way they did previously. | ||
| + | * NEW: The “House Mode” Unit for the VeraUI7 plugin is now readable and writable. Previously it was a one way pipe to XTension of the house mode in the Vera. You can now set it from XTension and have the new values be sent to the Vera. Valid values are 1=Home, 2=away, 3=Night, and 4=vacation. Any other values that you would set will result in an error and no change being made. | ||
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| + | ====Change Log from 9.4.21==== | ||
| Many existing plugins were updated to 64 bit executables for the upcoming update to Catalina. This is not the same as creating a new plugin as I am doing for some and should not create any conversion difficulties and makes no changes to the XTension database at all. If you need to go back to the previous build for any reason this will not cause you any problems with changes to the unit types.\\ | Many existing plugins were updated to 64 bit executables for the upcoming update to Catalina. This is not the same as creating a new plugin as I am doing for some and should not create any conversion difficulties and makes no changes to the XTension database at all. If you need to go back to the previous build for any reason this will not cause you any problems with changes to the unit types.\\ | ||
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| * NEW: Groups can now be defined as Dimmable. Dimmable groups also have a checkbox for supporting color and color temperature settings. If any of those checkboxes are set then the detailed unit controls for the group will contain the appropriate controls for that data. The dim level as well as any color or color temperature data that you set when controlling the group will be sent to all the Units included in the group. Very useful for setting up fixtures with multiple bulbs in them, or for controlling all the dimmable or color capable devices in a room. | * NEW: Groups can now be defined as Dimmable. Dimmable groups also have a checkbox for supporting color and color temperature settings. If any of those checkboxes are set then the detailed unit controls for the group will contain the appropriate controls for that data. The dim level as well as any color or color temperature data that you set when controlling the group will be sent to all the Units included in the group. Very useful for setting up fixtures with multiple bulbs in them, or for controlling all the dimmable or color capable devices in a room. | ||
| * NEW: Dark Sky weather data plugin. Not a replacement for the excellent Weatherman app, but I know some of us are having lots of problems with AppleScripting external apps in the latest OS versions and we need another way to get weather data that doesn’t require that to be working. Gets you access to all the Dark Sky forecast data as well as creating some really nice reports. See the [[supported_hardware: | * NEW: Dark Sky weather data plugin. Not a replacement for the excellent Weatherman app, but I know some of us are having lots of problems with AppleScripting external apps in the latest OS versions and we need another way to get weather data that doesn’t require that to be working. Gets you access to all the Dark Sky forecast data as well as creating some really nice reports. See the [[supported_hardware: | ||
| - | * NEW RFX plugin. At this moment the plugin supports only the original “RFXe” and Serially connected RFX devices. The original RFXe and RFX plugins will be going away in a future build and will never run on Catalina so please test the conversion and report any problems to me. Ton convert your existing RFX or RFXe interface first disable the interface, edit the interface and change the device type popup from either “RFX Ethernet Transceiver” or “RFX Serial Transceiver” to “RFXComm Transceivers” make sure to select “Legacy” as the protocol type below and then re-enable the interface. At this moment transmission is not supported. Please do not convert if you are using one of the other RFX interfaces or need the transmission features of the devices. More support for the newer devices as well as transmission is coming in a future version. | + | * NEW RFX plugin. At this moment the plugin supports only the original “RFXe” and Serially connected RFX devices. The original RFXe and RFX plugins will be going away in a future build and will never run on Catalina so please test the conversion and report any problems to me. Ton convert your existing RFX or RFXe interface first disable the interface, edit the interface and change the device type popup from either “RFX Ethernet Transceiver” or “RFX Serial Transceiver” to “RFXComm Transceivers” make sure to select “Legacy” as the protocol type below and then re-enable the interface. At this moment transmission is not supported. Please do not convert if you are using one of the other RFX interfaces or need the transmission features of the devices. More support for the newer devices as well as transmission is coming in a future version. Note that the plugin starts up in debug mode. To stop all the extra logging control click on the entry in the Interface list window and select “turnon debug mode” and then again and select “turnoff debug mode” This will be unset in the next build. |
| * NEW: Added the “handler” parameter to the [[dictionary: | * NEW: Added the “handler” parameter to the [[dictionary: | ||
| * NEW: A new Arduino interface is included in this build. The older one will not be converted to 64 bit so you must convert at some point before the next major release as I will be removing the old plugin at that time. The conversion is just editing your existing Arduino interface and selecting the New Arduino interface from the popup, saving and re-enabling the interface. If you experience any problems with the conversion please let me know. | * NEW: A new Arduino interface is included in this build. The older one will not be converted to 64 bit so you must convert at some point before the next major release as I will be removing the old plugin at that time. The conversion is just editing your existing Arduino interface and selecting the New Arduino interface from the popup, saving and re-enabling the interface. If you experience any problems with the conversion please let me know. | ||
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| * FIX: Fixes to a couple more places where Unicode characters would have potentially caused errors. | * FIX: Fixes to a couple more places where Unicode characters would have potentially caused errors. | ||
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| =====Previous Releases===== | =====Previous Releases===== | ||
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