XTension Build 930 and Video Pitcher build 71

Fri Mar 25 18:06:12 EDT 2016

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

XTension Build 930 3/25/2016

New: begin reworking the somewhat sparse tool bars in the app to be a little easier to use. The new design still doesn’t make extensive use of icons instead using labeled buttons and segmented controls but they are grouped more sensibly and the button graphics make it look more like what they are instead of just a line of text that has no suggestion of where the button regions are. This takes a little more space but I think it’s worth it. Currently the list windows and the manage global scripts window have gotten their toolbars rebuilt. Feedback is welcome.
NEW: The slow road towards full Retina compatibility continues. This isn’t a real priority since few people want to load this up on the latest most expensive mac with the fanciest monitor and even if you did you’d probably be doing most of your work through screen sharing which would remove any advantages. That being said the new graphics and drawing in most windows along with the new toolbars look really spectacular on a retina capable monitor.
NEW: The new toolbars include Search fields. Both the list windows and the Manage Global Scripts window have search fields in their toolbars. The lists still support type ahead, just start typing in the window and it will start highlighting any entries that match, but you can now use a regular search field as well. At the moment any match of what you’ve typed anywhere in the name of the unit or name of the script will keep it in the window, any units or scripts that don’t match are hidden until you clear the search field. The number of units or scripts that are hidden by your search are shown in the title of the window just to make sure you’re aware you’re not looking at the whole list.
NEW: I’m not sure I’m keeping them yet but I’ve added folder and script icons to the Manage Global Scripts window. It does seem to help to keep things straight as far as what you’re looking at.
NEW: Added several date formatting options to the options toolbar item (the one with the gear icon) on the manage global scripts window. You can now choose other date formatting options than just the “relative” date which was the only choice before. If you would prefer short dates, or dates with text month entries or 8601 style dates you can now choose them from that toolbar menu.
OPT: Improvements to the video archive page in the web remote continue. This version is much faster to load popups of available dates and videos to choose from. Previously my own system took almost 10 seconds to become active after selecting a new stream as it would have to wade through 500+ date folders each with many recordings in them. This version now loads the entire structure of available videos in just 2 seconds. 
FIX: fixed a problem where a scheduled event might get run several times when clicking the “execute now” button on the scheduled events window. This was not a problem with the events running normally as I originally feared, it only happened when you clicked the execute now button.
PARTIAL FIX: for the European users who are about to undergo their own Daylight Savings change this version will continue to properly function through the change. The logic for running events is not fleshed out yet, it will run all the events that were scheduled to go off in the missing hour immediately upon the change, but any repeating events will reschedule themselves normally from then on and the rest of the event system will also continue to operate normally. Better logic to decide what to do when and to handle the upcoming fall back will follow on soon.
FIX: minor fix to the list windows. Previously not all cells in a list window got the proper text color to draw when highlighted. So some would be the proper anti-highlight color to be easily readable over whatever your highlight color was. Now all cells properly pick up the proper color to draw text with given the highlight color.
FIX NOT YET INCLUDED: If anyone is having trouble with an ESP8266 based mySensors gateway disconnecting from XTension without it noticing I have a build that will ping the gateway if it hasn’t heard from it in a few seconds by asking it for it’s version number. If it doesn’t respond the interface will be reconnected. I haven’t included this yet as we’re still testing it and it seems that not all older gateway code versions would respond to the version info request. If you’re having this trouble please let me know I can send you a special build to try that as a solution.
EXPERIMENTAL: Global Scripts can now be blocked the same way as a unit can be blocked. There is no user interface to the blocking of a script, it can only be done using the block unit and unblock unit verbs. If you pass the name of a global script instead of a unit name then it will block the script. in/at and for/until verbs are also supported. The only indication that a script is blocked is in the manage global scripts window where the script will be listed as name (blocked) As of this moment only regular runs of the script are blocked. If you have something that is executing a handler in the script or an idle callback those will continue to run normally but I may block them entirely in the future. If anyone is interested in this please let me know and I will flesh it out with (un)block script verbs to make it more sensible than saying block unit with the name of a script and complete the other interfaces and displays of the data.

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

Video Pitcher build 71 3/25/2016

NOTE: this version of video pitcher requires at least XTension build 922

Video recordings in the automatic save folder will now be deleted starting with the oldest one from all cameras when the disk fills up. The minimum space before deletion begins can be set in the preferences window under the Movie Capture tab. The default is set to 100 meg and the minimum setting is 50 meg. Even if you’re storing your video on a separate drive from the system some space is necessary for the temporary movie files and workspace for flattening that occurs when saving a movie. Disk space scanning is done every 5 minutes or when you press the “reap files now” button on the preferences window. You cannot turn off automatic disk space deletion at the moment. All folders and files that are within the automatic recording folder will be considered for deletion.
Each camera now has an optional setting to delete recordings that are more than a certain number of days old. This is off by default but can be turned on in the setup dialog for any camera. You may wish to save some cameras for longer than others. The camera capture folders are scanned just after midnight each night. This is in addition to the disk space maintenance, both can work together to make sure that some cameras are limited to some time limit, while others are left available until the disk fills up.
Some good optimizations in internal frame handling. Less CPU is wasted decoding images when no view window is open, no video is being recorded or no other interface in XTension or web remote is watching a stream.
Known Bug: There is a minor problem in this version where the generic JPEG refresh stream doesn't draw the timestamp unless a view window is open in the application. This will get fixed for the next build.

Thanks,
 James

James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com

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