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| - | =====XTension Version 9.4.23===== | + | =====XTension Version 9.4.27===== |
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| - | Download: [[https:// | + | |
| - | zipfile md5 = [[tech_notes: | + | |
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| - | Download for Catalina: [[https:// | + | |
| - | **NOTE!** not all plugins are included in the Catalina build. Please see the Catalina note below for more info.\\ | + | |
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| ====Important Info==== | ====Important Info==== | ||
| **Minimum System Version** for this release is OSX 10.10\\ | **Minimum System Version** for this release is OSX 10.10\\ | ||
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| + | **Mac OSX Catalina** As of this moment I do not recommend that anyone update to OSX Catalina. Changes in Catalina have disabled several of the older plugins and the newer ones are not fully tested with it yet. As of this moment I do not recommend running Catalina on your house server. I don’t see any advantages and there are many potential issues not just with XTension. I can provide an Apple notarized DMG file of the subset of plugins that do work properly if this is something that you need. Otherwise do not update to Catalina yet for your house server.\\ | ||
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| **Mac OSX Mojave** has changed the requirements for scripting of other applications. You MUST force any script to run that contacts a different application when you upgrade and click “OK” when it asks for permission or your scripts will silently fail when they run later. See the [[tech_notes: | **Mac OSX Mojave** has changed the requirements for scripting of other applications. You MUST force any script to run that contacts a different application when you upgrade and click “OK” when it asks for permission or your scripts will silently fail when they run later. See the [[tech_notes: | ||
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| - | **Mac OSX Catalina** As of this moment I do not recommend that anyone update to OSX Catalina since it is still in beta. I am supplying a Notarized dmg version of XTension that will run on Catalina. The regular zip file release and any previous release version will likely not run at all. Please see the [[tech_notes: | ||
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| - | ====9.4.23 Change Log==== | ||
| - | * NEW: added the “force http1” parameter to the [[dictionary: | ||
| - | * Added a “hidden” debugging command to the plugin interface. The 'tell xUnit “name” to logDebugData()’ has been implemented forever for units. It is now implemented for plugin interfaces as well so you can do a ’tell xInterface “name” to logDebugData()’ to get log output of all its current low level configuration data. Neither of these is any use to anyone in the normal course of events but I may ask you to run those commands to gather more info for me in the event of a problem. | ||
| - | * Change to the Vera plugin to check for very small responses from the Vera. There seems to be a state the Vera can get into where it returns something that might be valid, but contains no data. This may catch that situation and get the communications going again. Or the problem may have nothing to do with this. It’s so far been impossible for me to reproduce so I haven’t been able to gather any more info on this yet. | ||
| - | * FIX: The new [[supported_hardware: | ||
| - | * FIX: The new Arduino plugin would choke on receiving a float rather than an integer from the remote device. This is fixed and floats now behave the same way that the old plugin did. | ||
| - | * FIX: A fix for the plugin API itself. Manually entered unit addresses that contained non-numeric characters might not have matched commands destined for them as the addresses were not being reliably forced to all uppercase before indexing. This now works normally. | ||
| - | * FIX: Fixed a regression during this alpha/beta cycle that could have caused an error to be logged when creating a new Global script. Global Scripts now can be created normally. | ||
| - | * FIX: The new alpha RFX plugin now scans all the units assigned to it at startup and fixes any addressing problems. This will fix the problem some people (and also myself) were seeing with some converted units not receiving the commands that were actually destined for them. This plugin is working well for me here and some beta testers but if you are on the fence about wanting to make the switch right now there is no need to do so unless you plan on updating to Catalina in the short term. The original RFX plugin will not be updated for Catalina. | ||
| - | * FIX: Fixed a regression in the last version that would have kept you from adding new Scheduled Events on a new empty database. You can now create events normally. | ||
| - | * FIX: In the last few versions the database backup window that comes up at startup when you update to a new version would open behind the load progress window. Now the load progress window is hidden during the database backup so that you can read the backup messages and see that progress separately. | ||
| - | * FIX: In the Mobile Web Remote plugin when adding a new Global Script button the global scripts in the popup menu are now always presented in correct alphabetical order making it a lot easier to find things for setting up the interface. | ||
| - | * FIX: In the Mobile Web Remote plugin when selecting a Unit for any interface element the popup list of units is now properly in alphabetical order. This wasn’t broken quite as badly as the selection of Global Scripts. The units were listed in order but with units that started in lower case sorted together but shown after those that started with an upper case letter. | ||
| - | * FIX: If you still have an older Vera plugin and are seeing the “Please update to the new plugin” message in the interface window that message will now properly clear itself when you actually do update to the new plugin. Previously it could stick even after you did the update. | ||
| + | ====9.4.27 Change Log==== | ||
| + | * NEW: Added a “Description” field to the Edit Scheduled Event window. This is just informational for you to describe why you created the event and what it is for. It is displayed as the tool tip in the Event List window but the way they implemented that it looks pretty horrid there, not like the tool tips in other display types. I’ll be updating that eventually but thats just cosmetic. It works just fine, just isn’t pretty. | ||
| + | * NEW: Added an option to “Ignore logging from Video Pitcher” on the Logging tab of the Preferences window. If you have one of those cameras that continually throws errors even though the stream is displaying this will declutter your log and make it easier to see real events. This does not suppress only errors but all logging from VP so if you’re having legitimate problems with something you may have to turn it off in order to see any actually useful messages from it. This is a temporary fix that will not be necessary once the new video plugin system is complete. | ||
| + | * FIX: Fixed an error in the AD2USB plugin that could have caused a Zone to be shown as in a fault state even when it wasn’t. The issue had to do with parsing the display data stream output in some edge conditions when using a high numbered zone id. | ||
| + | * FIX: In the new TP-Link/ | ||
| + | * Am filtering more garbage characters in the edit script window that can seemingly be inserted randomly by Apple’s VNC implementation. This should fix more of the problems that folks sometimes have when editing scripts over VNC where they fail to compile but show no location for the error as it is an invisible non-printable character that was inserted either randomly or more often in response to your hitting the delete key. | ||
| + | * FIX: the pigpio plugin no longer throws an error when setting the value of a PWM output pin that included a ramp rate property. | ||
| + | * FIX: the Recycle Interface verb no longer returns an AppleScript error even though it actually worked fine and did recycle the interface. | ||
| + | * This version returns to the new Apple file API version that will be necessary going forward to Catalina and beyond. Apple is sure keeping me busy working on this stuff that wasn’t broken last week. On earlier OS versions there should be no visible change to how anything works but please keep an eye on things when renaming Units or Global Scripts as this was where we had problems previously. Any errors will be written to the log if this happens so please let me know if you see anything while doing that. I have been running this fix on my own systems for several weeks now without being able to duplicate any of the previous errors so I don’t believe that anyone will have any new issues with it but let me know if it does. Note that this does not make it run any better on Catalina itself. Please do NOT update your servers to Catalina yet. I continue to work towards that capability. | ||
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| =====Previous Releases===== | =====Previous Releases===== | ||
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