HomeVisionXL 2.0 Beta Change Log

Version 2.0 - 3 Jan 2010

• Fix error in plug-in wizard after using "Select updated plug-ins" button.
• Schedule notes do not get cleared when opening a new schedule
• Clear the X-10 grid controller status message on update or when reopening the grid controller screen
• X-10 grid controller row and column labels should be centered.
• If the schedule is saved after a lookup table was changed and subsequently the lookup table is changed again, the schedule does not get flagged as having changed.
• Schedule does not get flagged as changed when a lookup table value or name is modified using the hvLookupTable API call.
• Clicking OK on the Thermostat Schedule screen without making a change marks the schedule as changed.
• Clicking OK on the AC/Heating TV Screen screen without making a change marks the schedule as changed.
• Clicking OK on the Custom TV Menu Page screen without making a change marks the schedule as changed.
• When HomeVisionXL.app is renamed on the Mac, the error log file is created in the wrong location.
• Error from X-10 house code menu buttons on Mac.
• The menu bar was not correct when accessing help on Mac.
• Visual flaw on the reorder screen on Mac.
• Error message when using "What's this?" on Mac.

Version 2.0b18 - 6 Dec 2009

• Vastly improve the appearance of HomeVisionXL on the Mac.
• Help now also available on the Mac.
• Redesign the interface for selectively hiding individual serial strings and save these settings between sessions.
• Add a pull down menu to the command entry box.
• Allow changing the control and fan mode using the thermostat control screen.
• Add a warning in the plug-in wizard if some of the selected plug-ins are not fit for the current operating system, or a newer HomeVisionXL version is required to be able to use the plug-in.
• Allow plug-ins to store empty configuration settings using the new -keep option to the hvConfig command.
• Add "remdownload" and "remloaded" event hooks to signal the start and end of downloads performed by a remote internet application.
• Properly initialize the thermostat control screen settings when using custom variables.
• Provide more debugging information in tech info report.
• Improve option parsing on hvPublic command.
• Store images in file format, so they can also be used by plug-ins.
• Reorganized the packages included with HomeVisionXL.
• Downloaded schedule would be corrupt if input commands are used for port C, while port C has been configured as output.
• "Set Controller To Specific Time" button refused to change the clock of the controller, claiming "Invalid Time/Date specified".
• Enabling i2c commands doesn't add address assignment entry in configure menu until HomeVisionXL is restarted.
• New analog ports were initialized with an offset of -256 instead of 0.
• Show surise/sunset times gives error when times cross midnight.
• Catch error when releasing a grab in an interpreter that no longer exists.
• Lookup table access from plug-ins was not working correctly.
• Put the error.log file in an appropriate location on the Mac.

Version 2.0b17 - 15 Oct 2009

• Add action and control commands to enable/disable automaticly reading temperature sensors
• Provide a way for plug-ins to obtain a list of user defined I2C devices
• Fix error when opening One-wire command entry screen
• The hvExecTrigger plug-in command was broken by updates in 2.0b14
• Timestamp in status bar does not get updated when scrolling using the mouse scrollbutton

Version 2.0b16 - 6 Sep 2009

• Reallow timer values above 240 hours, but provide a visual reminder that these values are not recommended
• Generate dimmed png images instead of providing both versions
• Memory use figures and pie chart did not take lookup tables and RAM video screens into account
• Error when invoking "What's this" menu entry twice in a row
• The poll interval setting is not applicable for serial thermostats
• Error when disabling the voip plug-in by closing the line status window
• Error when unloading a plug-in in nogui mode

Version 2.0b15 - 26 Jul 2009

• Allow users to make notes in the help pages
• New feature: Patching of lookup tables.
• Allow entry of information for generating IR signals in dec and hex.
• Introduce Ctrl-N shortcut on summary screens for creating new objects.
• Embed object related information in serial strings.
• Extract time stamps from the event log and place them in front of the action line.
• Possibility to change event log time display format on the fly.
• Move the event log time display format setting from preferences to the event log viewer screen.
• Check if stored screen positions are actually on screen
• Overwrite old log files
• Limit timers to 240 hours. Anything longer may not work properly in case of a power failure.
• Dismiss command windows by pressing Escape.
• Correction to the X-10 security RF IR signal specification.
• Fix context menu entries for comment line edit screen.
• Remove obsolete command that produces error during download in non-gui mode.

Version 2.0b14 - 9 Jul 2009

• Infrared bulk learn feature
• Nesting level checker
• Ignore serial commands on telnet connections during download
• Add options to also log transmitted data and add timestamps to the HomeVisionXL log file.
• Add hvLogMessage command to plug-in API allowing plug-ins to log data in the HomeVisionXL log file.
• Add option to prevent the Messages screen from popping up for each new message from the controller
• Make the date and time display format user configurable
• Use a consistent format for date and time display throughout the application
• Add a command line switch to start HomeVisionXL with a lantronix connection
• Explain controller errors on the status screen in a tooltip or with the "What's this?" function.
• Add option to the hvConfig command for saving settings encrypted
• Improve detection of corrupt data in update reports and request new updatexxx report if a corrupted one was received
• Run plug-in event hooks for updatexxx reports before processing new data, so plug-ins can catch every change
• Allow using unique prefixes of command line options
• Add an icon to all HomeVisionXL screens (linux)
• Open external URLs in help pages using the default browser on linux too
• Store flag and port status information in a more consistent way * Possible incompatibility *
• Introduce the Shift-F1 key binding for the "What's this?" function.
• Baudrate change on Windows doesn't work because the OS doesn't flush the serial buffer before changing the baudrate.
• The "What's This?" function does not work.
• Error when trying to select a file for storing a tech info report
• Fix error when deleting named constant: row index "70" out of range
• Schedule without custom lighting gives errors in -nogui mode
• Generating PDF file could fail if the schedule contained a periodic event with a rate of 8 hours.
• Action code lines in PDF file were wrapped in braces
• Action patching of some binary transmit commands shows data as text string, instead of binary data
• Configuration of HomeVision serial board #1 (Serial Port #3) is broken
• Adding objects doesn't get recorded as a change to the schedule
• The "Var = Const - Var" command should be stored in a format compatible with the original software when not using named constants, just like the other variable commands involving constants are already doing.
• Fix some bugs in the hvMenu command of the plug-in API
• Cannot enter file name when saving a schedule triggered by download
• Some output appears twice in the terminal emulator screen
• Allow external commands to include standard input in-line
• Editing "Put timer into 4 variables" shows wrong variable
• Serial comm test debug tool is broken

Version 2.0b13 - 13 Apr 2009

• Add DBus commands for exporting the schedule
• Allow public plug-in procs to obtain the name of the calling plug-in.
• Inform plug-in about connection state on start-up through event hooks.
• Upgrade to Tcl version 8.5.7
• Disable/enable plug-in by double clicking on the name in Plugin Manager
• Allow the use of PNG images in help pages.
• Allow plug-ins to read and modify IR zone names
• Allow plug-ins to modify CADDX security zone names
• Allow plug-ins to use packages in kit form again
• Named constants screen is not updated when the value of a constant is changed by a plug-in.
• Error when hovering over an undefined object in action editor when "show current object values in Action Editor" feature is active.
• IR toolbox toggle button on the convert tab sometimes stays enabled when it shouldn't be.
• Fix error when plug-in adds an entry to the File menu
• Timestamp tags in the terminal emulator were never freed
• Unnecessary resources were being used for timestamp tagging
• Export file lists one custom light for schedules without custom lighting
• Plug-in wizard on windows cannot update the help file if a plug-in is enabled (why did nobody report this problem?)
• Add delay to improve download speed on client/server connection
• Selected command on controller command control screen should stay highlighted.
• Auto reporting of Custom lights etc should be disabled for classic HV

Version 2.0b12 - 19 Mar 2009

• Provide an overview of changes made since the last time the schedule was saved.
• Better track if something was actually changed on the settings and I/O board configuration screens.
• Add security zone names to the HomeVision export (hvx) file
• Add virtual commands to enable/disable auto-reporting of HVAC, security, and custom lights.
• Add virtual command to put phone touch-tone count into a variable.
• Replace image on the reorder screen with a PNG version.
• Extract commands for controller control screen from the command database.
• Store the URL of the plug-in database in the configuration file.
• Fix error while reporting errors
• Swap/rotate objects on reorder screen produces an error: invalid command name ".ord.f.c"
• Changing the GUI style after using the file selection dialog produces an error (linux).
• Context menu did not provide a "change to And/Or operation" entry for HvXL only conditions.
• Remove the unused D-Bus "Test" signal.
• A gain setting above 1.27 was displayed incorrectly on the analog input port summary screen.

Version 2.0b11 - 24 Feb 2009

• Add system tray icon option on linux as well.
• Preference setting for starting up minimized or hidden in the system tray.
• Add functionality to the system tray context menu.
• Provide some more interesting information in the system tray balloon
• Add a D-Bus interface to the application (linux only).
• Use D-Bus to optionally prevent the user starting multiple instances of the program (linux only).
• Highlight variable value on modify screen of flags & variable control screen.
• Change around the way standard X-10 commands are controlled on the X-10 control screen.
• Extract location for application data from registry (Windows only).
• Show timestamps for data in the terminal server window.
• Add context menu to the terminal emulator with copy and clear commands.
• Create and edit multi-line comments
• Add more commands for users to customize their main tool bar with.
• Move quick-edit menu entries to a menu on the action editor toolbar.
• Add access to named constants to the plug-in API.
• Update the internal tracking state for custom lights when the custom light control screen is updated on systems that don't support the lightupdate report.
• Move tool tip and icon preference settings to the appearance tab.
• Make the plug-in wizard window a little bigger.
• Read data file serial command to accept filename.txt without quotes
• Allow serial command procs to indicate that a match will never happen.
• Make command windows adapt better to different font sizes.
• Improve the looks of the toolbar customization dialog, the command edit window, the data file format editor and several scattered scrollable lists.
• Plug-in command hvVariable shouldn't reformat PROM version value
• The exit confirmation dialog stayed hidden when exiting from the system tray menu while the application is hidden.
• Error when selecting exit from the system tray menu while the exit confirmation dialog already exists.
• Fix hiding/restoring windows that were minimzed to the task bar.
• Error when opening X-10 summary screen: bad subcommand "cget".
• New action editor windows don't open at the user configured size.
• Correctly handle plug-ins that disable themselves during initialization.
• Prevent default fonts from being too small on high resolution screens.
• Not all variables of memory access commands using 3 variables and none of the variables used in timer commands were reported in the object use viewer.
• Problems opening data files were not reported to serial command test screen.
• Error when trying to edit a wait command using an undefined timer object.
• Re-fix non-GUI mode.
• Download is possible with undefined named constant.
• Fix error in the action editor when selecting multiple lines using the keyboard.
• The standard Tk message box looks fine nowadays, so don't need the custom message box anymore.
• Copying conditions as text shows And/Or before the first condition.
• Should not be allowed to change and/or on comment in conditions.
• Hiding the application in the system tray while a modal screen is shown makes it impossible to restore the application using the system tray icon.
• Path for finding packages was not setup correctly for plug-ins.

Version 2.0b10 - 9 Sep 2008

• Add optional system tray icon (Windows only)
• Option to minimize to the system tray when closing the main window (Windows only)
• Add key bindings for Undo/Redo functions in the Action Editor
• Make all general resource file settings accessible from a plug-in
• Remove some obsolete code for unzipping help files
• Quick-editting of HomeVisionXL only commands produced bad results
• Execute X-10 off actions command was not flagged as HomeVisionXL only
• Fix typo in hvConfigFile open subcommand

Version 2.0b9 - 24 Aug 2008

• Redesign action editor
• Introduce quick-edit: Quickly change commands via the context menu
• Add tool tips to the action editor, showing current object values
• Allow commenting/uncommenting of multi-line selections
• Add undo/redo functionality to the Action Editor
• Update signals in an X-10 sequence instantaneously, without the need to click a "Change This Signal" button.
• Make tool bars on the Action Editor and Main screen user configurable
• Provide some more actions for users to add to the tool bars
• Add new hvConfigFile command to the plugin API
• Add menu with templates for serial commands on transmit string command
• Add menu with templates for directives to the comment edit screen
• Add optional confirmation dialog before termination of HomeVisionXL
• Automatically rescan for plug-ins after running the plug-in wizard
• Remember previously used serial commands on serial command test screen
• Update the appearance of the wait command entry screen
• Upgrade to Tcl 8.5.4
• Errors when accessing functions of a plug-in while a file selection dialog from the same plug-in is open
• Error when running a macro from the control screen: bad cell index "k,state"
• Stop messing with pwd when loading a plug-in
• The plug-in "center" command should not place a window's top bar off the screen
• Center the text on the toolbar buttons of the Help screen (Windows)
• Pressing Alt-I on the help screen to invoke the Index button didn't work
• Fix error when trying to enable a plug-in that has been deleted

Version 2.0b8 - 25 Jul 2008

• Give plug-ins the possibility to delay termination so they get a chance to clean up.
• Gracefully handle Command-Q on Mac
• Only record serial commands in the command history if they are non-empty and different from the previous command
• Improve the look of the control screen instruction labels
• Adding objects after reordering may cause error during download.
• Serial commands "read text file" and "read data file" were disabled if the controller connection was not a local serial port.
• Event hooks were not removed when a plug-in was disabled.
• Client should not send commands to the server if it is not connected to the homevision controller.
• Handle all kinds of errors that could occur when the homevision controller is not connected.
• Fix error when double clicking on a deleted object in the object usage viewer.
• Some actions of clients connected to the telnet server caused a HvXL error.
• Ctrl-U doesn't work when entering text for "Transmit ASCII string" command.

Version 2.0b7 - 8 Jun 2008

• During download all HomeVisionXL remote internet clients and servers should exhibit special behavior (suspend logging, disable terminal emulator output), if so configured.
• Give user the possibility to save the resource file on demand
• Automatically save the resource file on the server when a client has remotely opened a new schedule
• Fix error message after switching the interface type from "Remote Internet Host" to another type.
• Errors from disabled plug-ins were not handled correctly
• Display of "And" and "Or" could become incorrect when editing action code
• Error when running a macro and immediately closing the macro control screen

Version 2.0b6 - 16 May 2008

• Automatically scroll Messages window to the end when a new message comes in.
• Error when reading some schedules created with a previous version.
• It was not possible to change only the description of the main serial port.
• On the Timer command window the last part of "Hundreths" was clipped off.
• Text on button "Set Controller To Specific Time" only shown partly.
• Periodic event control screen should get sunrise/sunset time from controller when rescheduling events.
• The "start" trick described in the help page for the "run program" serial command doesn't work.
• Preserve case of the file name when sending schedules between remote internet client and server, if possible.
• Add easy method to synchronize the schedule on the remote internet server to the client.
• Action patching of input ports showed wrong port in window title
• Custom lighting object screen is not accessible after custom lighting has been setup by a plug-in
• Only enable the download button when connected to the controller
• If remote internet connection failed the file menu could get corrupted
• Error when trying to change the stat type of a thermostat zone

Versions 2.0b1 through 2.0b5 - 23 March 2008

• Fix tiny font in message windows.
• Error when saving schedule with .bak extension
• HvXL shuts down after 20 seconds without any error message
• Security system zone 0 name is displayed as "UNDEFINED !!!" in action code
• Using macro control screen changes "startup macro" configuration.
• Last Power Recovery value on Status Screen should be centered.
• Improve determination whether to save schedule as txt or pdf file
• Saving to pdf from schedule viewer changes font of titles
• Creating damaged PDF files
• Optionally include schedule notes when exporting to PDF.
• Correct tab behavior in schedule notes
• Automatically update control screens when objects change
• Experimental option to change mouse behavior for menus on linux
• Correct notebook tab background when Windows XP theme is set to classic.
• Speed up download over fast link by disabling terminal emulator output
• Options to show only command or condition details on object use screen
• Individually show/hide recognized serial commands
• When selecting multiple objects in reorder screen by dragging a box around them the window may scroll too far to the right.
• An object should not move when dragging and dropping it outside the window while reordering.
• Fix error message when closing reorder screen after dragging an object outside the window.
• Make Control-U binding work in object summary tables as well.
• File dialogs should use theme colors instead of their own hardcoded ones.
• Reorder Custom Light Extra data if it contains a homevision object number.
• Ask the user to update start-up macro setting if it has been moved during reordering.
• Only generate double-click event if the second click is on the same widget.
• Limit the amount of data in the controller messages screen to 500 lines
• Set the clock at 30 seconds after the time specified by the user to avoid scheduled events targeted at the time of the clock update to be skipped.
• Plug-in wizard creates a directory called --