XTension build 904

[James Sentman]

Good Evening and Happy Halloween!

This XTension build is important to anyone who has turned off the auto restart feature. If you’ve turned off the Daylight Savings Time restart in the preferences your log will fill with timing errors come this Sunday morning unless you install this version.  Many small big fixes and a large re-working of color handling this week:

http://machomeautomation.com/doku.php/beta

	• for those that have turned off the automatic restart for fixing daylight savings time this version fixes an issue that will fill your log with errors after the time change. Anyone who has turned off the automatic restart should install this version.
	• The Mobile Web Remote adds a slider for value making it a lot easier to select a level.
	• The Mobile Web Remote replaced the almost useless color pallet image with RGB sliders. You can adjust the color with those much more accurately.
	• This version contains a fairly significant refactoring of color capable devices:
		• The current preset level of a Hue bulb or RGB device is always honored. If you change the color of a unit via the turnon command including the color or selecting a preset or using the new RGB sliders in the mobile web remote the level of the light will stay the same. The current preset level will be applied to the color before sending it to the device. This is how the regular Hue controllers function and makes sense. You want to hit a preset and have it show that color, but at the current level of the lamp. 
		• If you wish to have an RGB color be displaed at a different level use the dim command including both the new color and the new level.
		• NOTE: if you are using the hue/sat/value or x/y methods for setting the value of a hue bulb it make take a few moments for the new color to be reflected in XTension’s interface.
		• NOTE: XTension may not update it’s idea of what color is being displayed when you make color changes from other Hue apps.
	• RGB Pseudo devices should now function more similarly to the Hue bulbs. Keeping their level across color changes.
	• The Color Temperature slider on the Mobile Web Remote now displays the current color temperature of the light, if any, before you change it.
	• The hue/sat and X/Y parameters that are visible in the Unit Parameters are now read only. Please use the color properties of the turnon or dim verb to set a units color.
	• Fix: the Small Unit Value Display on the web remote now actually brings up it’s edit display if you select edit from it’s contextual menu.
	• Known Bug: There is a problem with the web remote control framework where sessions are dropped if the IP address changes. This is more a problem with the Mobile Web Remote as an iOS device may roam from wifi to cell radio or between wifi networks and if it does the interface will need to be reloaded to bring back the connection. This is also aggravated by the new “Wifi Assist” function of iOS where some connections may come over the WiFi and other may come over the cell radio. For the moment if the interface stops responding reload it to get a new connection. 



Thanks,
 James


James Sentman                       http://sentman.com		http://MacHomeAutomation.com