XTension 9.4.37

[rnaleonard at rcn.com]

HI,

Thank you for making the timing changes for email and loadURL.  With limited testing I see a bunch of successful sequences, but also 2 crashes.  I am calling that an improvement!  I can either stick with the new prowl process and watch for occasional crashes or move back to the old method with an external script.  So there are options pending a future version with additional changes to the email process.

Thank you,
Rich

> On Feb 14, 2021, at 1:16 PM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Folks!
> 
> Hope you’re all having a lovely weekend. I am happy to release to you a new version of XTension. As always available from the current release page here:
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> http://www.machomeautomation.com/doku.php/current <http://www.machomeautomation.com/doku.php/current>
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> 
> Edit
> 9.4.37 Change Log:
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> NEW: Wiz Connected lights plugin <http://www.machomeautomation.com/doku.php/supported_hardware/wiz>. This will work with the WiFi “Wiz” bulbs from Phillips. This does not support the bluetooth version and we already have a plugin for the Zigbee Hue bulbs <http://www.machomeautomation.com/doku.php/supported_hardware/hue>.
> NEW: The Caldav plugin <http://www.machomeautomation.com/doku.php/supported_hardware/caldav> now also supports direct vCalendar downloads. Many calendar files are hosted on regular web servers and not actual caldav servers. The plugin now supports them too. Some questions about time zone translation remain but it is working well in testing.
> Hubitat plugin now supports ceiling fan speed control via the popup menu and also enumerated values via that system I added in the last version. Note that it’s handling of such things is very different from the Vera so you may very well have to alter some scripts when converting.
> Hubitat plugin now has an “insert” toolbar menu item for the central scene handling.
> Added the “parameter” parameter to the Create Event <http://www.machomeautomation.com/doku.php/dictionary/events/createevent> verb so that if you wish to pass data to a handler function you can now do that. This brings it in line with the Execute Script <http://www.machomeautomation.com/doku.php/dictionary/events/executescript> verb which has had this capability for some time.
> FIX: The New Legacy RFX plugin now properly supports serial port connected devices. (yes, the whole new legacy naming thing is silly)
> FIX: The AD2USB <http://www.machomeautomation.com/doku.php/supported_hardware/ad2usb> plugin now sends it’s initial updates with the update only flag set. This means that when it restarts the units will only run their scripts if the value in XTension is different from what they are now.
> Reduced the amount of errors that the Hubitat plugin will log if unexpected things show up during the regular database update. This will have more info in the log when something happens. Please send me any such log output so I can fix all those unexpected things. 
> Made a timing change to the handling of send emails so that it might reduce the chances it will bump into the running of a loadURL command. Given perfect timing or just a lot of emails and loadURL commands happening at once there was a chance for a crash during their processing. This will probably not completely fix the problem but should reduce the chances of it. In a future build I will convert the method by which the emails are sent to a more modern threaded call to the CURL libraries which will definitely fix the problem for good, there just was not time to get such a thing into this release and fully tested.
> PLUGINS: For plugins who’s linked libraries generate std output or stderr output that was not easily suppressible I added a key to be able to just ignore those pipes. This is useful since anything that gets sent to them gets logged to the XTension log and many of those messages are not really errors. Unfortunately that had the effect of suppressing the errors when I actually wanted to see them after that was set. In this version I do not suppress anything from those pipes going to the log if the interface is in debug mode.
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> 
> Thanks,
>  James
> 
> 
> James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org <http://www.planetarygear.org/>		http://MacHomeAutomation.com <http://machomeautomation.com/>
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