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current [2018/08/05 18:50] – 9.4.8 release update James Sentmancurrent [2024/02/05 17:53] (current) James Sentman
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-=====XTension Version 9.4.8===== +=====Download XTension 9.5.4===== 
-Released: 8/5/2018\\ + 
-\\ +>2/5/2024 [[current:beta|XTension 9.5.5 Beta 1]] is available. 
-Download: [[http://www.machomeautomation.com/files/xtension/xtension_988.zip|XTension v9.4.8 (build 988) 8/5/2018]]\\ + 
-zipfile md5 = [[tech_notes:md5|54c3bdba66d2477d4386a1d4c433f2b0]]\\ +Released 12/19/2023\\
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-9.4.8 is a maintenance release with many fixes for minor problems and few new features. Anyone running 9.4.7 should update to this version.\\+
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 +Download Universal Binary for all Supported OS versions; [[https://www.machomeautomation.com/files/xtension/xtension_9_5_4.dmg|XTension. v 9.5.4 (build 1085)]]\\
  
-====Change Log==== +**This is an important update for NGROK users.** This updates the ngrok client to support the system changes they are making liveThe older version will no longer be supported very soonAnyone using ngrok tunnels should definitely perform this upgrade as soon as possible.
-  Fixed a problem with the Combined Setpoint Thermostat control where the setpoint might not be updated in the web interfaces if the value changed from some other source. +
-  Fixed a problem that kept unit error icons from being cleared from the web remote even when the error had been cleared by the interface.  +
-  * Fixed a bug that would cause an error to be logged when using the new [[dictionary:unitcontrol:setdata|setData]] command. The command finished and operated properly but returned an applescript error regardless. +
-  * Fixed a regression that kept you from deleting a view in the last build. Use the File:Delete menu to delete a view. +
-  * The Vera UI7 interface now waits to report that the Vera is offline for a couple of minutes. The Vera will often refuse a connection or 2 in the process of reloading it’s interface or other functions that could result in many state changes of the AVAILABLE unit in XTension. As of this version the state of the Vera unit will only change if it’s been down long enough that it’s not going to just spontaneously come back on line in the course of it’s normal operations. +
-  * Fixed a problem in the Web Interfaces where a unit’s on or off label would not let you clear them via applescript. In this build if you execute a script like: set xtOnLabel of xUnit “name of a unit” to “” it will clear the label and start displaying the formatted value of the unit as you would expect rather than displaying just an empty string as what happened before. +
-  * The Motion Report page of the web interfaces is optimized quite a bit for faster loading and faster display of the data as the reports start to come back in from XTdb. +
-  Much more debug logging is available in the Motion Report page if the interface is in debug mode in case anyone has further problems. +
-  Fixed an issue where the Motion Report page would not draw on browsers running on non-retina screens. +
-  * I noticed that my Vera was sending some bogus values for thermostat setpoints and temperature readings sometimes. They were transient and were always corrected but they messed up my graphs. This may be limited to Vera Lite implementations of the UI7 protocol, but they may notIn this version any reading from a thermostat that is more than 3 degrees different from the current reading will result in that value not getting sent to XTension but rather a query being sent to the thermostat. The result of the query will be sent to XTensionThis has the negative feature of delaying an update to the XTension database, but it will filter out some, but not all, of the goofy values that can be received.  +
-  * Vera window coverings will now treat a set value command of 0 as an off and a non-zero value as an on. This would let you control them via the popup control in XTension. Previously you’d get an error in the log about the fact that window coverings don’t respond to a set value command. +
-  * Previously the set value command to the Vera would have converted any value you sent to an integer. With the new ability of the thermostat control to use fractional values it might be useful to be able to send values with a decimal point. Your thermostat still has to support it but XTension will at least attempt to properly send a fractional value to any Vera unit now. +
-  * Fixed a bug with Vera door locks where it would send the opposite state and then update to the correct state upon every reboot of the Vera interface. Your door locks won’t report being unlocked and then immediately locked again when you startup the interface. +
-  * Fixed a bug with the Manage Global Scripts window where after renaming a script it might not have updated it’s entry in the window list. Renaming a script will now properly update the manage global scripts window if it is open. This was a regression in the last update relating to the ability to share global scripts over the shared database system. +
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 +**Minimum System Version** for this release is OSX 10.10 but not all plugins will function properly prior to 10.13. Please start the necessary work to upgrade to at least 10.13 or recommended 10.15 or newer. At some point in the near future it will no longer be possible for me to support anything prior to 10.13 and the video plugins will never work prior to Catalina.
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 +**Rosetta Note:** While the entirety of the main app and all more recent plugins are Universal and run natively on Intel or Apple Silicon there are a few older plugins including the W800 and CM11 that are still Intel only. They run fine under Rosetta and you’ll never notice the difference. The only issue is that Rosetta is not included by default on the new Apple Silicon Macs. You’ll need to first run any Intel app, or do a get info on any app at all and select “open using Rosetta” then the OS will tell you that you need Rosetta and would you like to install it now. Once you complete that those plugins will run normally.
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 +====9.5.4 Change Log:====
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 +  * The [[supported_hardware:hue|Phillips Hue]] plugin now properly supports non-dimmable plug in modules.
 +  * Fixed a problem with the [[supported_hardware:wiz|Wiz plugin]] that would log errors as the libraries now return the name of the scene rather than it’s ID as they did previously.
 +  * Fixed the error that was logged while trying to create a symlink to the internal python version if you did not have a /usr/local/bin folder on your machine. 
 +  * The python symlink is now created inside the XTension Support folder “pythonxt” and you can use that to run python scripts inside XTension or from elsewhere but using the XTension settings. It is especially useful if you are running python scripts from an async shell script in XTension as they will inherit all the path info to run properly where running the built in python may cause errors.
 +  * NEW: Added an option to delay quitting. This will popup a window asking if you really meant to quit, stopping accidental shutdown of the entire program due to misplaced fingers. The window will count down for 30 seconds and then quit the app. This window does not come up if the system tells XTension to quit as if before a restart or something similar. Find the checkbox to turn it on in the Preferences.
 +  * NEW: Added the option to send a value of 0 for a dimmable Unit to the On script if there is no Off script. Normally a value of 0 for any dimmable unit will be sent to the Off script rather than the On script. Unless there is no off script. This meant that previously you potentially had to duplicate some of your logic for handling values in the On and Off script. When this is turned on in the Preference, and a Unit has no Off script. The On script will be run instead with the future value set to 0. This is on by default, but if it causes you issues with some of your scripting you can turn it off in the preferences window.
 +  * Fixed the incorrect link to the mailing list signup page in the purchase dialog.
 +  * Removed some debug logging I failed to remove before the last release. This was in the conversion of potentially confused strings into floats and so did not affect every plugin, but might have logged confusing information occationally.
 +  * There was a change in AppleScript support in OS versions from Ventura on that would actually enforce some, but not all, of the scripting dictionary flags that have never, in the entire history of the Mac, mattered. So us developers got sloppy and failed to add things like the “optional” flag to all the verbs reliably. The first I’ve found and fixed was with the Speak verb where it would tell you that the “in” parameter was required. It is no longer required. So far I have not found any other such issues and a visual search through the dictionary did not reveal any more such issues, but it’s entirely possible there are more parameters that are not properly marked as optional. If you find any such errors please let me know.
 +  * The Interface list window can now be sorted by CPU Usage, Memory Usage and Process ID. This only works if you have the “show more information” option turned on in the gear menu on the window. This can be a great aide in finding the plugin process that is eating up all your CPU or memory and linking a python process shown in the Activity Monitor to the plugin it’s actually running. They all just say “python” in the monitor. But now it’s easier to find the PID number in the list if you sort by it.
 +  * Updated the [[xtension_manual:ngrok|ngrok client]] version to 3.5. This is an important update if you are using this service as the old version will no longer be supported sometime in January. There were many changes to the usage of the client, and many more to the layout of the configuration file. I believe I have them all sorted out, but if you have issues let me know. All output from the client is logged during startup so you can check immediately if it thinks it started the tunnels or if it logged errors instead.
 +  * I had previously hidden some of the lower level debugging aids in the contextual menus by having people hold the option key while right clicking. There is really no need for this extra step so I removed it. The Contextual menus for Units and Interfaces will have their “log debug data” and “Reveal in Finder” options at the bottom of all the contextual menus for them. This will make it easier to collect info for me if things start behaving oddly.
 +  * I added the same debug logging info to the contextual menus of global scripts should it ever be necessary to get a look at that.
 +  * To that debug output I added another line of info comparing the length of the Unit Address in both bytes and glyphs. This might be helpful to more easily discover if a plugin or a bug somewhere has inserted invisible characters into the Address field of a Unit causing things to get disconnected in the database and potentially making more and more units being created when there really should be only the one.
 +  * There were some significant updates and improvements in the main program libraries that will make many things run faster and smoother. So far my testing of all of them work just fine. They aren’t a thing I can turn off though, they are just part of the latest compiler update. It will depend on what you’re doing, how busy your machine is and how fast it is in general whether you’ll see any difference at all. Usually the things they improved aren’t an issue until you’re doing something many times in a row. So I expect that the main improvements will be in window redrawing and things like that, but if you have a machine that is very busy it may improve that somewhat throughout.
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 +NOTE: This disk image no longer includes the older legacy plugins that will not be updated for newer OS versions. If you still need to run the [[supported_hardware:cm19]], [[supported_hardware:cm15a]], [[supported_hardware:zwave]] or the various Smarthome X10 interfaces please download [[tech_notes:catalina|the legacy plugins package from here]] and install the ones you need via the “Install Plugin” menu item of the “Database” menu. 
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 =====Previous Releases===== =====Previous Releases=====
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-=== Older Versions === +
-[[beta|The Changelog and Download links for builds between 763 and version 9.1 can be found here]]+
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