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Firmware 2.7.0.44

Diese Beta-"Test"-Firmware 2.7.0.44 für P44-DSB-Geräte ist ein Release-Kandidat für die kommende Produktions-Firmware 2.7.0. Falls keine Probleme mit dieser Version gemeldet werden, wird sie bald als 2.7.0 veröffentlicht.

Diese Version enthält wesentliche neue Funktionen und Verbesserungen im Vergleich zu den vorherigen 2.6.x-Firmwareversionen, wobei die Kompatibilität mit der vorherigen Version vollständig erhalten bleibt. Es wird empfohlen, auf diese Version zu aktualisieren, auch wenn die neuen Funktionen nicht benötigt werden, da diese Version auch einige Fehler behebt und im Falle von Problemen der Support einfacher ist.

Allgemeine Empfehlung für Updates: Bevor Sie ein Update durchführen, verwenden Sie bitte immer die Schaltfläche "Download configuration backup", um ein Backup Ihrer Gerätekonfiguration herunterzuladen.

Änderungen seit 2.7.0.43

• Benutzerdefinierte/Skriptgeräte: Sie können jetzt den Betriebszustand (opstate) als Stufe (0..100) und als Kurztext angeben, um Bedingungen wie "keine Verbindung" oder "schwache Batterie" zu melden.
• Evaluatoren: Fehler behoben, der zu einer endlosen Auswertung der Evaluator-Bedingungen führen konnte.- p44script: Das Stoppen von Skripten mit der Stopp-Schaltfläche in der IDE stoppt nun auch alle nicht-globalen Handler.
• p44script: Fehler/Absturz in globalen Handlern behoben
• IDE/LED-Sim: Verbessertes Löschen der Konsole/des Status (Cmd-K): die aktuelle Zeile bleibt unter der neuen Eingabeaufforderung erhalten, erst das zweite Löschen löscht auch diese.

Änderungen seit 2.7.0.42

• p44script: Bugfixes in for (tolerierte nicht überall Leerzeichen) und default für globale Variablen.
• IDE: Option zur Verkürzung der Log-Zeilen hinzugefügt - nützlich, wenn hauptsächlich die Ausgabe von Script-log() betrachtet werden soll.
• IDE: Farbkontrast für Fehler und aktuelle Ausführungsposition verbessert.

Änderungen seit Produktionsversion 2.6.9 bzw. Beta-Version 2.6.8.0

matter Unterstützung (beta)

matter ist ein neuer SmartHome-Standard, der die Interoperabilität zwischen verschiedenen Smarthome-Ökosystemen ermöglicht. Ein matter-fähiges Gerät, wie Ihr P44-DSB, kann gleichzeitig z.B. in Apple Home, SmartThings und Home Assistant in Betrieb genommen werden, wobei die besten Funktionen jedes Systems, wie z.B. Sprachassistenten, zur Interaktion mit den P44-DSB-Geräten genutzt werden können.

Ab 2.7.0.44 kann die Funktionalität von matter 1.2 (beta) als Option in Ihrem P44-DSB Gerät aktiviert werden. Weitere Informationen über P44-Geräte und matter finden Sie unter plan44.ch/matter.

matter ist ein Meilenstein für das Smarthome, insbesondere für die Elektroinstallationsbranche - denn matter ist für das Smarthome das, was die Steckdose für die Elektrifizierung vor 100 Jahren war - ein Standard, der es ermöglicht, die gebäudeseitige Infrastruktur einfach mit den benutzerseitigen Geräten zu verbinden (und von ihnen zu trennen).

plan44 arbeitet daran, die Zertifizierung für die matter bridge Komponente in den P44-DSB und P44-LC Geräten so schnell wie möglich zu erreichen - bis dahin bleibt die matter Funktionalität ein Beta-Feature.

Obwohl Digital Strom matter noch nicht unterstützt, kann Ihr P44-DSB spezielle virtuelle " bridging"-Geräte für die Spiegelung des einfachen Raumzustands in matter (einschließlich nativer dS-Geräte) bereitstellen. Hier finden Sie Informationen darüber, wie Sie matter beta auf Ihrem P44-DSB verwenden können.

p44script IDE: integrierte Entwicklungsumgebung

Seit geraumer Zeit ermöglichen P44-DSB-Geräte umfangreiche benutzerdefinierte Funktionen über die p44script-Sprache, sei es das Auslösen von Aktionen als Reaktion auf Evaluatorergebnisse, die Integration von Hardware über "scripted devices" oder sogar das Ausführen eines benutzerdefinierten "mainscript".

Mit der Firmware 2.7 wird die Arbeit mit Skripten dank der vollständig integrierten IDE, die bequemes Editieren und interaktives Skript-Debugging ermöglicht, noch viel einfacher:

• einfaches Durchsehen und Bearbeiten aller Skripte im System mit einem modernen Quelltext-Editor mit Registerkarten, Syntaxfärbung und Autovervollständigung.
• Debuggen mit Breakpoints und Einzelschritten.
• inspizieren von Variablen jedes Skripts oder jeder Testanweisung mit der integrierten Debug-Konsole.
• Playground zum Testen komplexerer Skriptschnipsel
• die integrierte Live-Log-Ansicht zeigt die Aktivitäten Ihres P44 an.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der p44script IDE Dokumentation.

Andere neue Funktionen

• Sie können jetzt den Bezug öffentlicher Beta-Firmware für Ihr P44-DSB-Gerät über die neue Schaltfläche "Beta..." neben der Schaltfläche "Auf neue Firmware-Version prüfen..." aktivieren oder deaktivieren.
• Enocean: Unterstützung für das D2-07-00 Türschloss-Statusprofil.
• EnOcean: Unterstützung für den D2-14-40 Temperatur-/Luftfeuchtigkeits-/Beleuchtungssensor.
• hue: Workaround für den nicht hue-zertifizierten, aber weit verbreiteten TS0505B Lichtcontroller, der nur CIExy-Farbeinstellungen versteht, nicht aber Farbton/Sättigung.
• Benutzerdefinierte Geräte: Die Angabe einer URN-formatierten uniqueid in der init-Nachricht für Geräte, die eine native und global eindeutige Hardware-ID haben, ist möglich, so dass diese Information in der Geräteliste angezeigt und an Digital Strom weitergegeben werden kann.
• MIDI-Unterstützung: p44script kann jetzt MIDI-Befehle senden und empfangen (z.B. MIDI-Keyboard/Controller, die über USB angeschlossen sind), um erschwingliche Eingabegeräte in Automationsprojekten zu nutzen oder die Beleuchtung mit Multimedia-Shows zu koordinieren.

Allgemeine Verbesserungen

• Plattform: P44-DSB basiert jetzt auf OpenWrt 22.03
• Protokollierung: Verwendet jetzt farbige Symbolmarkierungen zur Unterscheidung der Loglevel

Verbesserungen der p44script-Engine

• Unterstützt jetzt die Konstruktion von Objekten und Arrays im JS-Stil - Feldnamen müssen keine Strings in Anführungszeichen sein (können es aber trotzdem), Werte können beliebige p44script-Ausdrücke sein.
• Array-Elemente können jetzt mit dem Konstrukt arr[] = newElem angehängt werden.
• Die verwirrende Trennung zwischen "Deklaration" und "Skript"-Teil wurde entfernt.
• Zusammengesetzte Zuweisungsoperatoren (+=, -=, *=, etc) und Postfix-Operatoren zum Erhöhen und Verringern (++ und --) hinzugefügt.
• hinzugefügt for (init; condition; next) { ... } Schleifen-Konstrukt
• Mit webrequest(endpoint) können Sie jetzt mehrere unabhängige Script-API-Endpunkte erstellen. Damit entfällt die Notwendigkeit eines gemeinsamen Webrequest-Handlers in mainscript für Geräte mit Scripting, die eine geräteabhängige API bereitstellen müssen.
• concurrent hat jetzt eine passing Option, um Werte sicher ("glitch free") in Thread-Variablen des gleichzeitig laufenden Codes zu übergeben.
• p44script-Funktionen für den Zugriff auf serielle Schnittstellen.
• on (eventsource()) stable n { ... }` kann nun die Ereignisrate von eventsource auf ein minimales Intervall begrenzen, das durch n angegeben wird.

Siehe p44script Kurzreferenz und p44script Übersicht für weitere Informationen.

SmartLEDs (WS28xx, "Neopixels")

Wenn Sie mit SmartLEDs - einzeln adressierbaren RGB(W)-LEDs - auf dem P44-DSB/LC-TORCH, P44-LC-X, P44-DSB-X oder einem der Automatisierungscontroller für spezielle Anwendungen P44-AC,LC,MC arbeiten, ist der integrierte LED-Simulator ein sehr nützliches neues Werkzeug, um

• zu sehen, was auf dem LED-Ausgang passiert
• alle Ansichten in der Ansichtshierarchie zu untersuchen
• alle Eigenschaften der Ansicht zu untersuchen
• die Ansichtskonfiguration zu ändern / Eigenschaften live zu setzen

Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der LEDsim-Dokumentation.

Neue Funktionen im p44script SmartLED Grafik-Subsystem

• Alle Ansichten können jetzt mit Antialiasing und Sub-Pixel-Präzision scrollen (schwenken), zoomen und rotieren.
• Alle Eigenschaften der Ansichten sind jetzt direkt als Felder des View-Objekts zugänglich.
• Die Textansicht unterstützt jetzt verschiedene Schriftarten, von der sehr kleinen 3x3 bis zur größeren 6x11 - mit den neuen Stilvarianten bolden und stretch.
• Wenn Sie neue SmartLED-basierte Lichter erstellen, können Sie die automatische Größenanpassung einstellen, anstatt die Fläche in Pixeln anzugeben. Die tatsächliche Größe wird dann an die Größe der Wurzelansicht angepasst (in der Regel die gesamte von den LEDs abgedeckte Fläche). Außerdem kann das Feld "eindeutige ID" leer gelassen werden, damit automatisch eine eindeutige ID generiert wird.

Fehlerbehebungen

• p44script: behebt einen Fehler in httprequest() bei der Verwendung einer JSON-Anfragedefinition mit den Feldern user und password für die http-Authentifizierung (funktionierte nicht, aber bei Verwendung der URL-Syntax server@user:password immer).
• p44features: Fehler in der Behandlung von Ressourcenzugriffspfaden behoben, der verhinderte, dass z.B. Indikatoren View Configs laden konnten, die im Standard-Ressourcenverzeichnis für Indikatoren gespeichert waren.
• Animatoren: Die Funktion "easeout" wurde korrigiert, die überhaupt nicht einen sanften Übergang, sondern einen plötzlichen Sprung über den gesamten Bereich machte.
• p44script: Fehler behoben, der dazu führte, dass der Auslöser every() nicht so präzise (bis zu 1 Sekunde zu spät) feuerte, wie er es hätte tun sollen.

Firmware 2.7.0.42

Diese Beta-"Test"-Firmware 2.7.0.42 für P44-DSB-Geräte ist ein Release-Kandidat für die kommende Produktions-Firmware 2.7.0. Falls keine Probleme mit dieser Version gemeldet werden, wird sie bald als 2.7.0 veröffentlicht.

Diese Version enthält wesentliche neue Funktionen und Verbesserungen im Vergleich zu den vorherigen 2.6.x-Firmwareversionen, wobei die Kompatibilität mit der vorherigen Version vollständig erhalten bleibt. Es wird empfohlen, auf diese Version zu aktualisieren, auch wenn die neuen Funktionen nicht benötigt werden, da diese Version auch einige Fehler behebt und im Falle von Problemen der Support einfacher ist.

Allgemeine Empfehlung für Updates: Bevor Sie ein Update durchführen, verwenden Sie bitte immer die Schaltfläche "Download configuration backup", um ein Backup Ihrer Gerätekonfiguration herunterzuladen.

Änderungen seit Produktionsversion 2.6.9 bzw. Beta-Version 2.6.8.0

matter Unterstützung (beta)

matter ist ein neuer SmartHome-Standard, der die Interoperabilität zwischen verschiedenen Smarthome-Ökosystemen ermöglicht. Ein matter-fähiges Gerät, wie Ihr P44-DSB, kann gleichzeitig z.B. in Apple Home, SmartThings und Home Assistant in Betrieb genommen werden, wobei die besten Funktionen jedes Systems, wie z.B. Sprachassistenten, zur Interaktion mit den P44-DSB-Geräten genutzt werden können.

Ab 2.7.0.42 kann die Funktionalität von matter 1.2 (beta) als Option in Ihrem P44-DSB Gerät aktiviert werden. Weitere Informationen über P44-Geräte und matter finden Sie unter plan44.ch/matter.

matter ist ein Meilenstein für das Smarthome, insbesondere für die Elektroinstallationsbranche - denn matter ist für das Smarthome das, was die Steckdose für die Elektrifizierung vor 100 Jahren war - ein Standard, der es ermöglicht, die gebäudeseitige Infrastruktur einfach mit den benutzerseitigen Geräten zu verbinden (und von ihnen zu trennen).

plan44 arbeitet daran, die Zertifizierung für die matter bridge Komponente in den P44-DSB und P44-LC Geräten so schnell wie möglich zu erreichen - bis dahin bleibt die matter Funktionalität ein Beta-Feature.

Obwohl Digital Strom matter noch nicht unterstützt, kann Ihr P44-DSB spezielle virtuelle " bridging"-Geräte für die Spiegelung des einfachen Raumzustands in matter (einschließlich nativer dS-Geräte) bereitstellen. Hier finden Sie Informationen darüber, wie Sie matter beta auf Ihrem P44-DSB verwenden können.

p44script IDE: integrierte Entwicklungsumgebung

Seit geraumer Zeit ermöglichen P44-DSB-Geräte umfangreiche benutzerdefinierte Funktionen über die p44script-Sprache, sei es das Auslösen von Aktionen als Reaktion auf Evaluatorergebnisse, die Integration von Hardware über "scripted devices" oder sogar das Ausführen eines benutzerdefinierten "mainscript".

Mit der Firmware 2.7 wird die Arbeit mit Skripten dank der vollständig integrierten IDE, die bequemes interaktives Skript-Debugging ermöglicht, noch viel einfacher:

• einfaches Durchsehen und Bearbeiten aller Skripte im System mit einem modernen Quelltext-Editor mit Registerkarten, Syntaxfärbung und Autovervollständigung.
• Debuggen mit Breakpoints und Einzelschritten.
• inspizieren von Variablen jedes Skripts oder jeder Testanweisung mit der integrierten Debug-Konsole.
• Playground zum Testen komplexerer Skriptschnipsel
• die integrierte Live-Log-Ansicht zeigt die Aktivitäten Ihres P44 an.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der p44script IDE Dokumentation.

Andere neue Funktionen

• Sie können jetzt den Bezug öffentlicher Beta-Firmware für Ihr P44-DSB-Gerät über die neue Schaltfläche "Beta..." neben der Schaltfläche "Auf neue Firmware-Version prüfen..." aktivieren oder deaktivieren.
• Enocean: Unterstützung für das D2-07-00 Türschloss-Statusprofil.
• EnOcean: Unterstützung für den D2-14-40 Temperatur-/Luftfeuchtigkeits-/Beleuchtungssensor.
• hue: Workaround für den nicht hue-zertifizierten, aber weit verbreiteten TS0505B Lichtcontroller, der nur CIExy-Farbeinstellungen versteht, nicht aber Farbton/Sättigung.
• Benutzerdefinierte Geräte: Die Angabe einer URN-formatierten uniqueid in der init-Nachricht für Geräte, die eine native und global eindeutige Hardware-ID haben, ist möglich, so dass diese Information in der Geräteliste angezeigt und an Digital Strom weitergegeben werden kann.
• MIDI-Unterstützung: p44script kann jetzt MIDI-Befehle senden und empfangen (z.B. MIDI-Keyboard/Controller, die über USB angeschlossen sind), um erschwingliche Eingabegeräte in Automationsprojekten zu nutzen oder die Beleuchtung mit Multimedia-Shows zu koordinieren.

Allgemeine Verbesserungen

• Plattform: P44-DSB basiert jetzt auf OpenWrt 22.03
• Protokollierung: Verwendet jetzt farbige Symbolmarkierungen zur Unterscheidung der Loglevel

Verbesserungen der p44script-Engine

• Unterstützt jetzt die Konstruktion von Objekten und Arrays im JS-Stil - Feldnamen müssen keine Strings in Anführungszeichen sein (können es aber trotzdem), Werte können beliebige p44script-Ausdrücke sein.
• Array-Elemente können jetzt mit dem Konstrukt arr[] = newElem angehängt werden.
• Die verwirrende Trennung zwischen "Deklaration" und "Skript"-Teil wurde entfernt.
• Zusammengesetzte Zuweisungsoperatoren (+=, -=, *=, etc) und Postfix-Operatoren zum Erhöhen und Verringern (++ und --) hinzugefügt.
• hinzugefügt for (init; condition; next) { ... } Schleifen-Konstrukt
• Mit webrequest(endpoint) können Sie jetzt mehrere unabhängige Script-API-Endpunkte erstellen. Damit entfällt die Notwendigkeit eines gemeinsamen Webrequest-Handlers in mainscript für Geräte mit Scripting, die eine geräteabhängige API bereitstellen müssen.
• concurrent hat jetzt eine passing Option, um Werte sicher ("glitch free") in Thread-Variablen des gleichzeitig laufenden Codes zu übergeben.
• p44script-Funktionen für den Zugriff auf serielle Schnittstellen.
• on (eventsource()) stable n { ... }` kann nun die Ereignisrate von eventsource auf ein minimales Intervall begrenzen, das durch n angegeben wird.

Siehe p44script Kurzreferenz und p44script Übersicht für weitere Informationen.

SmartLEDs (WS28xx, "Neopixels")

Wenn Sie mit SmartLEDs - einzeln adressierbaren RGB(W)-LEDs - auf dem P44-DSB/LC-TORCH, P44-LC-X, P44-DSB-X oder einem der Automatisierungscontroller für spezielle Anwendungen P44-AC,LC,MC arbeiten, ist der integrierte LED-Simulator ein sehr nützliches neues Werkzeug, um

• zu sehen, was auf dem LED-Ausgang passiert
• alle Ansichten in der Ansichtshierarchie zu untersuchen
• alle Eigenschaften der Ansicht zu untersuchen
• die Ansichtskonfiguration zu ändern / Eigenschaften live zu setzen

Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der LEDsim-Dokumentation.

Neue Funktionen im p44script SmartLED Grafik-Subsystem

• Alle Ansichten können jetzt mit Antialiasing und Sub-Pixel-Präzision scrollen (schwenken), zoomen und rotieren.
• Alle Eigenschaften der Ansichten sind jetzt direkt als Felder des View-Objekts zugänglich.
• Die Textansicht unterstützt jetzt verschiedene Schriftarten, von der sehr kleinen 3x3 bis zur größeren 6x11 - mit den neuen Stilvarianten bolden und stretch.
• Wenn Sie neue SmartLED-basierte Lichter erstellen, können Sie die automatische Größenanpassung einstellen, anstatt die Fläche in Pixeln anzugeben. Die tatsächliche Größe wird dann an die Größe der Wurzelansicht angepasst (in der Regel die gesamte von den LEDs abgedeckte Fläche). Außerdem kann das Feld "eindeutige ID" leer gelassen werden, damit automatisch eine eindeutige ID generiert wird.

Fehlerbehebungen

• p44script: behebt einen Fehler in httprequest() bei der Verwendung einer JSON-Anfragedefinition mit den Feldern user und password für die http-Authentifizierung (funktionierte nicht, aber bei Verwendung der URL-Syntax server@user:password immer).
• p44features: Fehler in der Behandlung von Ressourcenzugriffspfaden behoben, der verhinderte, dass z.B. Indikatoren View Configs laden konnten, die im Standard-Ressourcenverzeichnis für Indikatoren gespeichert waren.
• Animatoren: Die Funktion "easeout" wurde korrigiert, die überhaupt nicht einen sanften Übergang, sondern einen plötzlichen Sprung über den gesamten Bereich machte.
• p44script: Fehler behoben, der dazu führte, dass der Auslöser every() nicht so präzise (bis zu 1 Sekunde zu spät) feuerte, wie er es hätte tun sollen.

Firmware 2.6.8.0

Diese Beta "testing" Firmware 2.6.8.0 für P44-DSB-Geräte ist der "Golden Master" für und deshalb identisch mit der Produktions-Firmware 2.6.8. Sie enthält einige allgemeine Verbesserungen und Fehlerbehebungen.

Hinweis: Dieses Update wird immer als Zwischenschritt zur Firmware 2.7.0.x und darüber hinaus benötigt. Deshalb bitte nach der Installation dieser Version erneut nach neuer Firmware suchen, es könnte bereits eine neuere Firmware geben.

Allgemeine Empfehlung für Updates: Bevor Sie ein Update durchführen, sollten Sie immer die Schaltfläche "Konfigurationssicherung herunterladen" verwenden, um ein Backup der Gerätekonfiguration herunterzuladen.

Änderungen seit Produktionsversion 2.6.6 und Beta-Version 2.6.7.0 testing, bzw.

Fehlerbehebungen

• lokale Klick-Behandlung: Die lokale Klick-Behandlung dient als Fallback, wenn keine Verbindung zu dSS besteht, und sorgt dafür, dass alle Lichter auf Lichtschalter reagieren. Es wurde ein Fehler behoben, der in diesem Fall dazu führte, dass Lichter auch auf Nicht-Licht-Tasten reagierten.
  
• Animatoren: Fehler behoben, der unerwünschte Glitches verursachte (Animatoren liefen scheinbar nicht oder zu schnell)
• Upgrading: bereit für das Upgrade auf 2.7.0.x und darüber hinaus vergrößert. Die Installation von 2.6.8.0 ist in allen Fällen als Zwischenschritt erforderlich. Bitte prüfen Sie nach der Installation erneut auf Updates.

Verbesserungen

• Enocean: Unterstützung für D2-07-00 Türschloss-Statusprofil hinzugefügt.
• Kanalübergänge: Verbesserte Wraparound-Kanäle (wie "hue"), um Vollkreisübergänge in einem Schritt zu ermöglichen.
• Analogio: CWWW-Lichter hinzugefügt, WebUI-Unterstützung für die Erstellung von Linux-PWMChip-basierten Lichtern hinzugefügt.
• p44lrgraphics: Unterstützung für mehrere Schriftarten hinzugefügt, vorerst 7x5 und 8x5, aber Mechanismus für größere Größen vorhanden, Unterstützung für französische Akzentzeichen hinzugefügt, mit grundlegendem Mechanismus für die Behandlung jedes UTF-8-Codepunkts in Schriftarten vorhanden.
• p44script: Anweisung foreach hinzugefügt
• p44script: answer() Funktionen für Web-Anfragen und Feature-Anfragen akzeptieren nun auch einen Fehlerwert als Argument, der an den API-Aufrufer zurückgesendet wird.
• p44script: Digitalbus() hinzugefügt, um mehrere GPIOs zu kombinieren, um einen digitalen Wert ein- oder auszugeben
• p44script: alle time getter Funktionen wie hour(), month(), sunrise() etc. akzeptieren nun ein epoch timestamp Argument. Außerdem erlaubt die Funktion epochtime() die Konstruktion von Epochenzeitstempeln aus Datumskomponenten.
• LED-Ketten: mehr LED-Layout (R,G,B,W Anordnung) Optionen
• LED-Ketten: Überarbeitete Update-Timing-Engine, ist jetzt präziser, gibt Log-Warnungen aus, wenn die Anzeige wahrscheinlich springt oder flackert aufgrund von Grenzen in der maximalen LED-Ausgabe-Frame-Rate.

Firmware 2.6.7.0

This is a beta testing firmware. Beta firmwares are released more often than release versions, and occasionally might have yet undetected bugs. However, beta firmware gets tested at plan44.ch the same way as release firmware, so the risk for severe problems is very low.

General Recommendation for updates: before updating, please always use the "Download configuration backup" button to download a backup of your device's configuration.

Changes since 2.6.6.3 / 2.6.6

• backups: P44-DSB backups are gzipped tar files and therefore had the .tgz file extension. Unfortunatly, some browsers automatically expand .tgz, which is not helpful. So backups now have .p44cfg extension to avoid auto-expansion (the file format is still .tgz - for those who want to look into a backup).
• p44script: better handling of fatal errors in general and in scripted device implementations in particular (no more attempts to re-run implementations scripts with fatal errors).

Firmware 2.6.6.3

Diese Beta "testing" Firmware 2.6.6.3 für P44-DSB-Geräte ist der "Golden Master" für und deshalb identisch mit der Produktions-Firmware 2.6.6. Sie enthält einige allgemeine Verbesserungen und Fehlerbehebungen.

Allgemeine Empfehlung für Updates: Bevor Sie ein Update durchführen, sollten Sie immer die Schaltfläche "Konfigurationssicherung herunterladen" verwenden, um ein Backup der Gerätekonfiguration herunterzuladen.

Verbesserungen seit der Produktionsversion 2.6.5 bzw. Beta-Version 2.6.5.11 testing

Fehlerbehebungen

• Evaluatoren: Problem mit between_dates() behoben, das zu viele Auswertungen am letzten Tag des Datumsbereichs verursachte und möglicherweise das Gerät für diesen Tag verlangsamte.
• p44script: Problem mit der Eventverteilung bei der Zuweisung von signal() Ergebnissen an Variablen behoben.
• Tunable Whites: Einige tunable white Leuchten zeigten immer noch ein Icon an, das volles RGB-Farblicht andeutete. Jetzt wird das korrekte WW/CW-Icon angezeigt.

Verbesserungen

• Evaluatoren: Verbesserte Protokollierung, um zu zeigen, welches Evaluator-Gerät betroffen ist, wenn es unaufgelöste Wertezuordnungen gibt.
• matter: Weitere interne Vorbereitungen, um matter bridge-Funktionalität für die P44-DSB mit einem zukünftigen Firmware-Update bereitzustellen. Eine Beta-Version ist bereits verfügbar, siehe Details hier.

Changes since 2.6.5.11 / 2.6.5

• evaluators: improved logging to show which evaluator device is affected when there are unresolved value mappings
• evaluators: fixed problem with between_dates() which caused too many evaluations on the last day of the date range and possibly slowed down the device for that day.
• p44script: fixed problem with event distribution when assigning signal() results to variables

Changes since 2.6.5.11 / 2.6.5

• evaluators: improved logging to show which evaluator device is affected when there are unresolved value mappings
• evaluators: fixed problem with between_dates() which caused too many evaluations on the last day of the date range and possibly slowed down the device for that day.
• p44script: fixed problem with event distribution when assigning signal() results to variables

Diese Beta "testing" Firmware 2.6.5.11 für P44-DSB-Geräte ist der "Golden Master" für und deshalb identisch mit der Produktions-Firmware 2.6.5. Sie enthält einige allgemeine Verbesserungen und Fehlerbehebungen sowie einige zusätzliche p44script-Funktionen.

Allgemeine Empfehlung für Updates: Bevor Sie ein Update durchführen, sollten Sie immer die Schaltfläche "Konfigurationssicherung herunterladen" verwenden, um ein Backup der Gerätekonfiguration herunterzuladen.

Verbesserungen seit der Produktionsversion 2.6.4 bzw. Beta-Version 2.6.4.0 testing

Generell

• Text lässt sich in der Weboberfläche nun leichter markieren und kopieren (in manchen Browsern konnte der Text zuvor nur per Rechtsklick ausgewählt werden).
• Präziseres Timing der Ausgangs-Übergänge, mehrere Kanäle können sich jetzt gleichzeitig in unterschiedlich schnellen Übergängen befinden, wenn die Hardware dies unterstützt.
• Evaluatoren: intuitiveres Verhalten, wenn sich Ein-/Aus-Bedingungen logisch überschneiden (beide gleichzeitig wahr sind), verbesserte Protokollierung, um das Verständnis der Auswertung von Auswerterbedingungen zu erleichtern.
• Grundlage gelegt, damit die P44-xx-Geräte möglicherweise in Zukunft als matter-bridge fungieren können.

Bugfixes

• Wenn dem P44-xx-Gerät ein sehr langer Name zugewiesen wurde, konnte dns-sd diesen nicht veröffentlichen und das Gerät wurde vom dSS nicht mehr im Netzwerk gefunden und erschien nicht mehr in Bonjour- oder Avahi-Netzwerkbrowsern. Jetzt werden lange Namen automatisch gekürzt, um dies zu verhindern.

p44script

• Bit(feld)-Manipulationsfunktionen: bit(), setbit(), flipbit() hinzugefügt.
• Hinzugefügt: lowerwcase(), uppercase(), case-sensitive Option für find() und neue replace() Funktion für Stringmanipulation.
• Funktion cquote() hinzugefügt.
• Optionen withmeta und formdata zu httprequest() hinzugefügt. Außerdem behandelt httprequest() jetzt alle Statuscodes der Klasse "Erfolg" (200..203) als ok, nicht nur 200.
• dnssdbrowse() zur Suche nach benannten öffentlichen Diensten im lokalen Netzwerk unter Verwendung von dns-sd (aka Bonjour, aka zeroconf, aka avahi) hinzugefügt.
• Funktion annotation() hinzugefügt, um den Annotationsstring eines Wertes zu erhalten (der z.B. oft den Grund dafür angibt, warum ein Ergebnis null/undefined ist).
• Hinzugefügt wurden die Funktionen globalbuiltins() und contextbuiltins(), die alle eingebauten globalen oder kontextbezogenen Funktionen/Objekte auflisten.
• Boolean-Operatoren geben jetzt "echte" boolesche Werte zurück, d.h. nicht nur die generischen numerischen Werte 0 oder 1, sondern den tatsächlichen Typ bool (der immer noch in den numerischen Wert 1 für wahr, 0 für falsch konvertiert). Der Hauptunterschied besteht darin, dass diese "echten" boolschen Werte, wenn sie JSON-Objektfeldern zugewiesen werden, tatsächlich als JSON-Boolsche Werte und nicht als Zahlen dargestellt werden.

Scripted Devices/external device API

• Tasten können jetzt direkt Klicks und langes Drücken melden (nützlich, wenn das Tastengerät bereits über eine eigene Klick-Erkennung verfügt, die präziser sein kann als die Übertragung direkter Tastendruck-/loslass-Ereignisse über eine API, die zu viel Verzögerung verursachen kann).

First release candiate for 2.6.5 production release

Changes since 2.6.5.9

• p44script: added dnssdbrowse() to find devices in local network.

Changes since 2.6.5.7

• Bugfix: assigning a very long name for the vdchost could cause dns-sd not being able to publish the IP address on the network and thus device not getting found by the dSS and not appearing in Bonjour or Avahi network browsers such as LocalSites for macOS. Now long names are shortened before pusblishing via dns-sd.
• Internal/Developer: added brigdeAPI, allowing bridge apps to access devices and get notifications for device events.
• external device API: buttons now can directly report clicks and longpress (when the button implementation wants to use its own click detection).
• p44script: added replace() for find-and-replace in strings.

Changes since 2.6.5.7

• Bugfix: assigning a very long name for the vdchost could cause dns-sd not being able to publish the IP address on the network and thus device not getting found by the dSS and not appearing in "Bonjour" or "Avahi" network browsers such as "LocalSites". Now long names are shortened before pusblishing via dns-sd.
• Internal/Developer: added brigdeAPI, allowing bridge apps to access devices and get notifications for device events.
• New "Feature" keyevents: this feature allows getting events from pressing and releasing keys from a linux /dev/input/xx device.

Changes since 2.6.5.4

• Evaluators: fix bug introduced in 2.6.5.4 which could cause holdoff delays (settling time) of conditions to get skipped.
• web UI: clarified title/hint for buttons and dialogs showing binary inputs and sensor values.
• p44script: real boolean values that actually resolve to true and false in JSON context (rather than 0 and 1 as before),  enhanced httprequest() with formdata and withmeta options and treating http status codes 200..203 all as ok (not just 200 as before).

Changes since 2.6.5.4

• Evaluators: fix bug introduced in 2.6.5.4 which could cause holdoff delays (settling time) of conditions to get skipped.
• web UI: clarified title/hint for buttons and dialogs showing binary inputs and sensor values.
• p44script: real boolean values that actually resolve to true and false in JSON context (rather than 0 and 1 as before),  enhanced httprequest() with formdata and withmeta options and treating http status codes 200..203 all as ok (not just 200 as before).

Changes since 2.6.4.0

• Evaluators: better logging helping to understand evaluator processing, sensible handling of overlapping on and off conditions.
• web UI: support for tap&hold for mobile device browsers as an alterative to Command/Ctrl-Clicks (e.g. for scene editing)
• scene editing: when opening the channels dialog for a output device with tap&hold or shift key pressed (sprocket button), additional scene call/save/edit controls appear. Now, when choosing a scene, an additional checkbox appears for each channel to enable/disable a channel for a scene. This allows configuring scenes that only affect some channels (e.g. a scene that only changes color, but not brightness).
• transitions: improved timing accuray, independent transitions can now run in different channels simultaneously with different speeds.
• p44script: add delayuntil() function for awaiting a absolute point in time (useful for making sure a longer chain of timed actions does not drift due to execution time between delay() calls adding up). Enhanced epochtime() to allow converting from wall clock time. output.stopactions() now stops ongoing transitions as well (if hardware allows), not only scene scripts/effects. New bit(), setbit() and flipbit() functions for easy bit manipulation. New lowercase() and uppercase() functions and caseinsensitive option for find().

Changes since 2.6.3.8

• hue: hue bridges are now discovered via DNS-SD (Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf) as Philips/Signify announced that SSDP/UPnP discovery will be disabled in a upcoming hue bridge firmware update (new square bridges only, old round bridges still need SSDP and are still supported).

Changes since 2.6.4.0

• web UI: support for tap&hold for mobile device browsers as an alterative to Command/Ctrl-Clicks (e.g. for scene editing)
• scene editing: when opening the channels dialog for a output device with tap&hold or shift key pressed (sprocket button), additional scene call/save/edit controls appear. Now, when choosing a scene, an additional checkbox appears for each channel to enable/disable a channel for a scene. This allows configuring scenes that only affect some channels (e.g. a scene that only changes color, but not brightness).
• transitions: improved timing accuray, independent transitions can now run in different channels simultaneously with different speeds.
• p44script: add delayuntil() function for awaiting a absolute point in time (useful for making sure a longer chain of timed actions does not drift due to execution time between delay() calls adding up). Enhanced epochtime() to allow converting from wall clock time. output.stopactions() now stops ongoing transitions as well (if hardware allows), not only scene scripts/effects. New bit(), setbit() and flipbit() functions for easy bit manipulation. New lowercase() and uppercase() functions and caseinsensitive option for find().

Changes since 2.6.3.8

• hue: hue bridges are now discovered via DNS-SD (Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf) as Philips/Signify announced that SSDP/UPnP discovery will be disabled in a upcoming hue bridge firmware update (new square bridges only, old round bridges still need SSDP and are still supported).

Changes since 2.6.3.2

• logging: better error display showing not only numeric error code, but also name text.
• p44script: new functions isok(), ifok() to catch errors for example when accessing data fields, strrep() for creating string with repeating patterns.
• p44script: signal() now can send data, which allows using it as a "pipe" to transmit information between different script contexts and threads.
• p44script: user defined functions can now be created as "local function" to keep them private to the context (e.g. device, mainscript) instead of exposing them globally. Also, for clarity, functions may now be declared "global function".
• p44script internal: the event passing mechanism (on which on(..) {...} is based on) has been significantly improved and generalized. This also fixes a few edge cases that could cause inconsistencies with events in too rapid succession.

Changes since 2.6.3.1

• log display: more legible formatting of scene name/numbers.
• REPL: added log line wrap option like already present in main log.
• scriptapi: API endpoint `/api/json/scriptapi` which can be activated via p44script is now accessible without `rqvaltok`token.

Changes since 2.6.0 / 2.6.0.10

• Scripted custom devices: fixed problem that could cause on(…){…} handlers get duplicated and being active multiple times in the background when editing implementations.
• https access from p44script: fixed a problem that prevented accessing some https servers (those that require SNI to establish a connection).
• LEDchain: divs small bugfixes, in particular more accurate LED power limiting.
• p44script: file paths prefixed with +/ are considered resource paths, prefixed with =/ data paths.

• Scripted custom devices: fixed problem that could cause on(…){…} handlers get duplicated and being active multiple times in the background when editing implementations.
• https access from p44script: fixed a problem that prevented accessing some https servers (those that require SNI to establish a connection).

Äquivalent zur Produktionsversion 2.6.0

Die Firmware 2.6.0 für P44-DSB-Geräte (und 1.6.0 für P44-LC/AC) konzentriert sich auf Erweiterbarkeit und Flexibilität um auch anspruchsvolle Anwendungen umsetzen zu können.

Es ermöglicht nun die Integration mit Diensten und Hardware von Drittanbietern komplett innerhalb des P44-xx-Geräts selbst, ohne dass externe Abhängigkeiten oder Tools erforderlich sind, und ist somit für langlebige Installationen geeignet. Die komplette kundenspezifische Einrichtung eines P44-DSB/P44-LC/AC-Gerätes kann als eine einzige Datei heruntergeladen und archiviert werden, und kann bei Bedarf einfach auf dem Originalgerät oder einem Ersatzgerät wiederhergestellt werden.

Um zu sehen, was man mit einem P44-DSB/LC-Gerät über das Übliche hinaus tun kann, finden Sie hier ein paar Beispiele.

Natürlich bleibt der P44-DSB/LC trotz all der neuen Möglichkeiten so einfach zu bedienen wie bisher und bindet DALI-, EnOcean- und hue-Geräte mit wenigen Klicks in digitalSTROM ein.

Neuerungen seit Produktions-Version 2.5.0

Web-Oberfläche

• Geschwindigkeit: Deutlich verbesserte Geschwindigkeit, insbesondere bei den interaktiven Schiebereglern (Einstellungen der Ausgangskanäle wie Helligkeit, Farbe), die jetzt viel flüssiger sind als zuvor.
• Caching: Komplette Überarbeitung der internen Webserver-Konfiguration, um Caching-Probleme und den gelegentlichen "Ajax -1"-Fehler zu vermeiden, der manchmal auftrat (was harmlos, aber unschön war).
• Mehr Informationen: Der Geräte- und VDC-Infodialog hat jetzt einen Abschnitt "Technical details" mit zusätzlichen Informationen und einem Link zum Öffnen eines separaten Geräte-/VDC-Eigenschaftsbaumfensters.
• Visuelles Feedback: Schaltflächen, die eine Aktion auslösen (z. B. das Testen eines Szenenskripts), leuchten nun auf, um zu bestätigen, dass das Gerät tatsächlich mit der Ausführung der Aktion begonnen hat. Dies ist besonders hilfreich beim Debuggen von Setups mit schwacher WLAN-Verbindung.

Skripting

• Benutzerdefinierte Geräte mit Skripting: Während es schon seit einiger Zeit möglich war, kundenspezifische Geräte mit der external device API zu erstellen, ermöglicht diese Version nun die Erstellung von benutzerdefinierter Hardware- und Service-Integrationen vollständig auf dem Gerät mit p44script. Obwohl es sich hierbei um eine fortgeschrittene Funktion handelt, die einige Programmierkenntnisse erfordert, gibt es einige gebrauchsfertige Beispiele. Folgende Dinge können z.B. mit skriptgesteuerten benutzerdefinierten Geräten durchgeführt werden: 
  • Abruf von Sensordaten von externen Webseiten
  • Steuerung von Geräten über http- oder Websocket-APIs
  • Visualisierung von Steuerwerten mit LED-Kettenanzeigen (nur P44-DSB-X und kundenspezifische P44-xx-Geräte)
  • Erstellung kundenspezifischer Motorsteuerungen für Fenster, Bildschirme usw. (nur P44-DSB-X und kundenspezifische P44-xx-Geräte)

• Viele neue Funktionen: Dateizugriff mit readfile() und writefile(), numerische Bereichstransformation mit maprange(), ord()/chr() für die Arbeit mit binären Strings, httprequest(), urlencode() und websocket() für den Zugriff auf komplexe APIs, globalvars(), localvars(), contextvars(), globalhandlers(), contexthandlers() für Introspektion und Debugging, digitalio(), analogio(), dcmotor() für die Arbeit mit direkt angeschlossener Hardware (P44-DSB-X und custom P44-xx devices).
• JSON-Objekte: Auf die Feldnamen von JSON-Objekten kann nun mit Hilfe eines numerischen Indexes zugegriffen werden (obj[0] liefert den Namen des ersten Feldes in obj).
• Externer Zugriff: Die JSON-API des Geräts verfügt über einen "scriptapi"-Endpunkt, der verwendet werden kann, um eine benutzerdefinierte API in p44script zu implementieren, wobei die Ereignisfunktion webrequest() und ihr Mitglied answer() zur Beantwortung von Web-Anfragen verwendet werden.
• Threads: Thread-lokale Variablen können mit dem Schlüsselwort threadvar definiert werden und werden implizit in der as Klausel von on() und catch() verwendet. Für die Thread-Koordination gibt es die neuen Funktionen signal(), lock().
• Dokumentation: Zusätzlich zur eingebauten Skript-Kurzreferenz bieten die p44 tech docs jetzt eine Menge Informationen und Beispiele für die vielen fortgeschrittenen Anwendungen, die p44script ermöglichen kann.
• Protokollierung: Viel bessere Anzeige des Kontexts, in dem skriptbezogene Dinge passieren, einschließlich der vollständigen Aufrufkette, wenn Skripte Funktionen aufrufen, die in anderen Skripten definiert sind. Verbesserte log()-Funktion erlaubt nun Formatierungen wie format().
• Debugging: Formattierte JSON-Ergebnisse in Read-Execute-Print/REPL (repl.html) und tweak (tweak.html) helfen bei der Inspektion von API-Ergebnissen, lrgraphics status() info usw.

Unterstützung für kundenspezifische Gerätetypen (nur P44-DSB-X und kundenspezifische P44-xx-Geräte)

• SmartLED-Ketten/p44lrgraphics: Unterstützt jetzt die Einstellung des LED-Chip-Typs und des Layouts (RGB,GRB,...) in p44script mit addledchain(). Die LED-Refresh-Rate kann mit setledrefresh() programmatisch geändert werden.
• LEDchain-Geräte: Vereinfachte Erstellung von text-, lebens- und bildbasierten Lichtern.
• "p44features": Dies ist ein Satz von ziemlich spezifischen Hardware-Treibern, die nun von p44script aus verwendet werden können. Wenn Sie zum Beispiel Swiss Railway Split-Flap-Module haben, gibt es eine splitflap-Funktion, um diese zu steuern.
• WiFi: Für RaspberryPi 3 basierte P44-DSB-X Geräte kann WiFi durch Cmd/Ctrl-Shift Klick auf "Edit Network Settings...") konfiguriert werden.
• Hardware I/O: digitalio() und analogio() ermöglichen den Zugriff auf GPIO-Pins, PWM-Ausgänge, I2C- und SPI-Peripheriegeräte wie A/D-Wandler oder Port-Erweiterungen in p44script.
• Motorsteuerung: dcmotor() bietet alle Funktionen für bidirektionale DC-Motoren mit Strommessung zur Erkennung von Endanschlägen und/oder Endkontakten, mit sanfter Aufwärts-/Abwärtsrampensteuerung (geeigneter H-Brücken-Treiber und A/D-Wandler mit Anschluss an PWM, GPIO, SPI/I2C erforderlich).

Allgemein

• Plattform: aktualisiert auf OpenWrt 19.07.8
• Sonstiges: natürlich viele Detailverbesserungen und Fehlerbehebungen...

First release candiate for 2.6.0 production release

Big New Feature in Version 2.6: Scripted Custom Devices

• Allows creating custom devices of all kinds, for example  
  • pulling sensor data from external webpages
  • controlling devices via http or socket APIs
  • visualizing control values with LED chain displays
  • creating custom motor controllers for windows, movie screens etc.
• Very similar to "external device API" (which still exists), but no need for external scripts - everything can be done in p44script on the device itself!
• Examples and documentation are available in p44 tech docs.

Changes since 2.6.0.7

• WebUI: Device info dialogs now have a "technical details..." button to reveal detail info that was previously only visible in the tooltip of the dSUID field (which only appears on desktops, not mobiles)
• Sensors and Inputs: reduced value confirming (i.e. unchanged values) reporting towards dSS, as it seems too many reports can cause congestion at the dSS already for relativley modest total amounts of reports (in the range of one per second).

Changes since 2.6.0.5

• platform: updated to OpenWrt 19.07.8
• p44features: now included, can be used from p44script in very specific applications (for example if you have Swiss Railway split flap modules...).
• bugfix: workaround for vdcd using too much CPU time when monitoring edge changes on GPIOs due to a libev incompatibility with Linux GPIOs.

Changes since 2.6.0.3

• platform: IO polling now based on libev. While this should not cause any changes in behaviour, it is technically a significant change in the core engine and as such might have unexpected side effects in edge cases - that's why it is mentioned here.
• p44script: add support for websocket APIs with websocket() function.
• p44script: accessing json object with numeric array subscript now returns field names.
• p44script: extended support for http client with httprequest() function.
• p44script: bugfix: calling user defined functions from concurrent blocks did not always work correctly. 

Changes since 2.6.0.2

• Web interface: complete overhaul of internal web server configuration to prevent caching problems and the occasional "Ajax -1" error that sometimes occurred (which was harmless, but ugly).
• Web interface speed: Significantly improved speed, especially noticeable with interactive sliders (output channel settings such as brightness, color) which are now way smoother than before.

Changes since 2.6.0.0

• external devices: fix regression: did crash when using "initvdc" message.
• evaluators: fix regression when comparing undefined sensor/input values. A comparison of an undefined input with any value, including zero, must return false.
• web-ui: visual feedback for all buttons that trigger an action (if, and only if the action was actually executed in the device) 

Changes since 2.5.1.2

• p44script full screen editor: now supports Cmd/Ctrl-S for saving script.
• p44script: better variable scopes, enhanced log() function now allows formatting like format(), appversion() function.
• p44script: support for digitalIO, analogIO and DC motors.
• p44script: add signal() function to create event object for synchronizing threads.
• p44script: now the JSON API has a "scriptapi" endpoint, which can be used to implement custom API in p44script using the webrequest() event function and its member answer() for responding to web requests.
• p44script: add readfile() and writefile() functions
• p44script: add thread-local variables. Implicitly, variables used in as clause of on() and catch() are now thread-local. Explicitly, thread-local variables can be defined using the threadvar keyword.
• ledchains/p44lrgraphics: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) support for more flexible led chain drivers which now allow setting LED chip type and layout (RGB,GRB,…) directly in ledchainarrangement specifications on the command line, or via addledchain(). Add setledrefresh() to also allow this parameter from scripts (and not only via --ledrefresh command line option).
• p44lrgraphics/scroller: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) new event function empty() to allow triggering on ticker-like displays running empty to fill in new content plus some related function alertempty(), remainingtime(), remainingpixels(), purge().

Big New Feature in Version 2.6: Scripted Custom Devices

• Allows creating custom devices of all kinds, for example  
  • pulling sensor data from external webpages
  • controlling devices via http or socket APIs
  • visualizing control values with LED chain displays
  • creating custom motor controllers for windows, movie screens etc.
• Very similar to "external device API" (which still exists), but no need for external scripts - everything can be done in p44script on the device itself!
• Examples and documentation are available in p44 tech docs.

Changes since 2.6.0.5

• platform: updated to OpenWrt 19.07.8
• p44features: now included, can be used from p44script in very specific applications (for example if you have Swiss Railway split flap modules...).
• bugfix: workaround for vdcd using too much CPU time when monitoring edge changes on GPIOs due to a libev incompatibility with Linux GPIOs.

Changes since 2.6.0.3

• platform: IO polling now based on libev. While this should not cause any changes in behaviour, it is technically a significant change in the core engine and as such might have unexpected side effects in edge cases - that's why it is mentioned here.
• p44script: add support for websocket APIs with websocket() function.
• p44script: accessing json object with numeric array subscript now returns field names.
• p44script: extended support for http client with httprequest() function.
• p44script: bugfix: calling user defined functions from concurrent blocks did not always work correctly. 

Changes since 2.6.0.2

• Web interface: complete overhaul of internal web server configuration to prevent caching problems and the occasional "Ajax -1" error that sometimes occurred (which was harmless, but ugly).
• Web interface speed: Significantly improved speed, especially noticeable with interactive sliders (output channel settings such as brightness, color) which are now way smoother than before.

Changes since 2.6.0.0

• external devices: fix regression: did crash when using "initvdc" message.
• evaluators: fix regression when comparing undefined sensor/input values. A comparison of an undefined input with any value, including zero, must return false.
• web-ui: visual feedback for all buttons that trigger an action (if, and only if the action was actually executed in the device) 

Changes since 2.5.1.2

• p44script full screen editor: now supports Cmd/Ctrl-S for saving script.
• p44script: better variable scopes, enhanced log() function now allows formatting like format(), appversion() function.
• p44script: support for digitalIO, analogIO and DC motors.
• p44script: add signal() function to create event object for synchronizing threads.
• p44script: now the JSON API has a "scriptapi" endpoint, which can be used to implement custom API in p44script using the webrequest() event function and its member answer() for responding to web requests.
• p44script: add readfile() and writefile() functions
• p44script: add thread-local variables. Implicitly, variables used in as clause of on() and catch() are now thread-local. Explicitly, thread-local variables can be defined using the threadvar keyword.
• ledchains/p44lrgraphics: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) support for more flexible led chain drivers which now allow setting LED chip type and layout (RGB,GRB,…) directly in ledchainarrangement specifications on the command line, or via addledchain(). Add setledrefresh() to also allow this parameter from scripts (and not only via --ledrefresh command line option).
• p44lrgraphics/scroller: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) new event function empty() to allow triggering on ticker-like displays running empty to fill in new content plus some related function alertempty(), remainingtime(), remainingpixels(), purge().

Big New Feature in Version 2.6: Scripted Custom Devices

• Allows creating custom devices of all kinds, for example  
  • pulling sensor data from external webpages
  • controlling devices via http or socket APIs
  • visualizing control values with LED chain displays
  • creating custom motor controllers for windows, movie screens etc.
• Very similar to "external device API" (which still exists), but no need for external scripts - everything can be done in p44script on the device itself!
• Examples and documentation are available in p44 tech docs.

Changes since 2.6.0.2

• Web interface: complete overhaul of internal web server configuration to prevent caching problems and the occasional "Ajax -1" error that sometimes occurred (which was harmless, but ugly).
• Web interface speed: Significantly improved speed, especially noticeable with interactive sliders (output channel settings such as brightness, color) which are now way smoother than before.

Changes since 2.6.0.0

• evaluators: fix regression when comparing undefined sensor/input values. A comparison of an undefined input with any value, including zero, must return false.
• web-ui: visual feedback for all buttons that trigger an action (if, and only if the action was actually executed in the device)
• web-ui: wifi settings (P44-DSB-X only) now allow configuring client and access point separately. 

Changes since 2.5.1.2

• RaspberryPi 3: (P44-DSB-X only) can now use WiFi, hold down Shift+Cmd/Ctrl while clicking on "Edit Network Settings" to open (simplistic, experimental!) WiFi settings.
• p44script full screen editor: now supports Cmd/Ctrl-S for saving script.
• p44script: better variable scopes, enhanced log() function now allows formatting like format(), appversion() function.
• p44script: support for digitalIO, analogIO and DC motors.
• p44script: add signal() function to create event object for synchronizing threads.
• p44script: now the JSON API has a "scriptapi" endpoint, which can be used to implement custom API in p44script using the webrequest() event function and its member answer() for responding to web requests.
• p44script: add readfile() and writefile() functions
• p44script: add thread-local variables. Implicitly, variables used in as clause of on() and catch() are now thread-local. Explicitly, thread-local variables can be defined using the threadvar keyword.
• ledchains/p44lrgraphics: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) support for more flexible led chain drivers which now allow setting LED chip type and layout (RGB,GRB,…) directly in ledchainarrangement specifications on the command line, or via addledchain(). Add setledrefresh() to also allow this parameter from scripts (and not only via --ledrefresh command line option).
• p44lrgraphics/scroller: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) new event function empty() to allow triggering on ticker-like displays running empty to fill in new content plus some related function alertempty(), remainingtime(), remainingpixels(), purge().

Big New Feature in Version 2.6: Scripted Custom Devices

• Allows creating custom devices of all kinds, for example  
  • pulling sensor data from external webpages
  • controlling devices via http or socket APIs
  • visualizing control values with LED chain displays
  • creating custom motor controllers for windows, movie screens etc.
• Very similar to "external device API" (which still exists), but no need for external scripts - everything can be done in p44script on the device itself!
• Examples and documentation are available in p44 tech docs.

Changes since 2.6.0.2

• Web interface: complete overhaul of internal web server configuration to prevent caching problems and the occasional "Ajax -1" error that sometimes occurred (which was harmless, but ugly).
• Web interface speed: Significantly improved speed, especially noticeable with interactive sliders (output channel settings such as brightness, color) which are now way smoother than before.

Changes since 2.6.0.0

• evaluators: fix regression when comparing undefined sensor/input values. A comparison of an undefined input with any value, including zero, must return false.
• web-ui: visual feedback for all buttons that trigger an action (if, and only if the action was actually executed in the device)
• web-ui: wifi settings (P44-DSB-X only) now allow configuring client and access point separately. 

Changes since 2.5.1.2

• RaspberryPi 3: (P44-DSB-X only) can now use WiFi, hold down Shift+Cmd/Ctrl while clicking on "Edit Network Settings" to open (simplistic, experimental!) WiFi settings.
• p44script full screen editor: now supports Cmd/Ctrl-S for saving script.
• p44script: better variable scopes, enhanced log() function now allows formatting like format(), appversion() function.
• p44script: support for digitalIO, analogIO and DC motors.
• p44script: add signal() function to create event object for synchronizing threads.
• p44script: now the JSON API has a "scriptapi" endpoint, which can be used to implement custom API in p44script using the webrequest() event function and its member answer() for responding to web requests.
• p44script: add readfile() and writefile() functions
• p44script: add thread-local variables. Implicitly, variables used in as clause of on() and catch() are now thread-local. Explicitly, thread-local variables can be defined using the threadvar keyword.
• ledchains/p44lrgraphics: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) support for more flexible led chain drivers which now allow setting LED chip type and layout (RGB,GRB,…) directly in ledchainarrangement specifications on the command line, or via addledchain(). Add setledrefresh() to also allow this parameter from scripts (and not only via --ledrefresh command line option).
• p44lrgraphics/scroller: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) new event function empty() to allow triggering on ticker-like displays running empty to fill in new content plus some related function alertempty(), remainingtime(), remainingpixels(), purge().

Big New Feature: Scripted Custom Devices

• Allows creating custom devices of all kinds, for example 
  • pulling sensor data from external webpages
  • controlling devices via http or socket APIs
  • visualizing control values with LED chain displays
  • creating custom motor controllers for windows, movie screens etc.
• Very similar to "external device API" (which still exists), but no need for external scripts - everything can be done in p44script on the device itself!
• Examples and documentation are available in p44 tech docs.

Changes since 2.6.0.0

• evaluators: fix regression when comparing undefined sensor/input values. A comparison of an undefined input with any value, including zero, must return false.
• web-ui: visual feedback for all buttons that trigger an action (if, and only if the action was actually executed in the device)
• web-ui: wifi settings (P44-DSB-X only) now allow configuring client and access point separately. 

Changes since 2.5.1.2

• RaspberryPi 3: (P44-DSB-X only) can now use WiFi, hold down Shift+Cmd/Ctrl while clicking on "Edit Network Settings" to open (simplistic, experimental!) WiFi settings.
• p44script full screen editor: now supports Cmd/Ctrl-S for saving script.
• p44script: better variable scopes, enhanced log() function now allows formatting like format(), appversion() function.
• p44script: support for digitalIO, analogIO and DC motors.
• p44script: add signal() function to create event object for synchronizing threads.
• p44script: now the JSON API has a "scriptapi" endpoint, which can be used to implement custom API in p44script using the webrequest() event function and its member answer() for responding to web requests.
• p44script: add readfile() and writefile() functions
• p44script: add thread-local variables. Implicitly, variables used in as clause of on() and catch() are now thread-local. Explicitly, thread-local variables can be defined using the threadvar keyword.
• ledchains/p44lrgraphics: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) support for more flexible led chain drivers which now allow setting LED chip type and layout (RGB,GRB,…) directly in ledchainarrangement specifications on the command line, or via addledchain(). Add setledrefresh() to also allow this parameter from scripts (and not only via --ledrefresh command line option).
• p44lrgraphics/scroller: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) new event function empty() to allow triggering on ticker-like displays running empty to fill in new content plus some related function alertempty(), remainingtime(), remainingpixels(), purge().

Big New Feature: Scripted Custom Devices

• Allows creating custom devices of all kinds, for example 
  • pulling sensor data from external webpages
  • controlling devices via http or socket APIs
  • visualizing control values with LED chain displays
  • creating custom motor controllers for windows, movie screens etc.
• Very similar to "external device API" (which still exists), but no need for external scripts - everything can be done in p44script on the device itself!
• Examples and documentation are available in p44 tech docs.

Changes since 2.6.0.0

• evaluators: fix regression when comparing undefined sensor/input values. A comparison of an undefined input with any value, including zero, must return false.
• web-ui: visual feedback for all buttons that trigger an action (if, and only if the action was actually executed in the device)
• web-ui: wifi settings (P44-DSB-X only) now allow configuring client and access point separately. 

Changes since 2.5.1.2

• RaspberryPi 3: (P44-DSB-X only) can now use WiFi, hold down Shift+Cmd/Ctrl while clicking on "Edit Network Settings" to open (simplistic, experimental!) WiFi settings.
• p44script full screen editor: now supports Cmd/Ctrl-S for saving script.
• p44script: better variable scopes, enhanced log() function now allows formatting like format(), appversion() function.
• p44script: support for digitalIO, analogIO and DC motors.
• p44script: add signal() function to create event object for synchronizing threads.
• p44script: now the JSON API has a "scriptapi" endpoint, which can be used to implement custom API in p44script using the webrequest() event function and its member answer() for responding to web requests.
• p44script: add readfile() and writefile() functions
• p44script: add thread-local variables. Implicitly, variables used in as clause of on() and catch() are now thread-local. Explicitly, thread-local variables can be defined using the threadvar keyword.
• ledchains/p44lrgraphics: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) support for more flexible led chain drivers which now allow setting LED chip type and layout (RGB,GRB,…) directly in ledchainarrangement specifications on the command line, or via addledchain(). Add setledrefresh() to also allow this parameter from scripts (and not only via --ledrefresh command line option).
• p44lrgraphics/scroller: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) new event function empty() to allow triggering on ticker-like displays running empty to fill in new content plus some related function alertempty(), remainingtime(), remainingpixels(), purge().

Big New Feature: Scripted Custom Devices

• Allows creating custom devices of all kinds, for example 
  • pulling sensor data from external webpages
  • controlling devices via http or socket APIs
  • visualizing control values with LED chain displays
  • creating custom motor controllers for windows, movie screens etc.
• Very similar to "external device API" (which still exists), but no need for external scripts - everything can be done in p44script on the device itself!
• Examples and documentation are available in p44 tech docs.

Changes since 2.5.1.2

• p44script full screen editor: now supports Cmd/Ctrl-S for saving script.
• p44script: better variable scopes, enhanced log() function now allows formatting like format(), appversion() function.
• p44script: support for digitalIO, analogIO and DC motors.
• p44script: add signal() function to create event object for synchronizing threads.
• p44script: now the JSON API has a "scriptapi" endpoint, which can be used to implement custom API in p44script using the webrequest() event function and its member answer() for responding to web requests.
• p44script: add readfile() and writefile() functions
• p44script: add thread-local variables. Implicitly, variables used in as clause of on() and catch() are now thread-local. Explicitly, thread-local variables can be defined using the threadvar keyword.
• ledchains/p44lrgraphics: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) support for more flexible led chain drivers which now allow setting LED chip type and layout (RGB,GRB,…) directly in ledchainarrangement specifications on the command line, or via addledchain(). Add setledrefresh() to also allow this parameter from scripts (and not only via --ledrefresh command line option).
• p44lrgraphics/scroller: (P44-DSB-X, P44-xx-LED, P44-xx-E+L only) new event function empty() to allow triggering on ticker-like displays running empty to fill in new content plus some related function alertempty(), remainingtime(), remainingpixels(), purge().

• EnOcean: fix problems with secure devices persistence (inactive after restart)

Changes in 2.4.9.3

• Optimizer: fix bug that could cause scene not loading correctly.
• p44Script: savescene() function
• p44Script: bugfixes around assigning thread variables (concurrent as xx statement).

Changes in 2.4.9.2

• Scene editor: fixed toggle switches (were saved as "on" even when "off" in some cases).
• LED chains: add --ledrefresh command line parameter to slow down refresh rate when using very long LED chains

Changes in 2.4.9.1

• LED-chain based lights (P44-DSB-X only): Now support the brand new Microsoft Research "Expressive Pixels" animation format.
• Scene Scripts: for advanced user scripting, there's now an editor for the so called "scene script" (which is a p44script started when a scene is called). For example this allows for launching an animation on a LED chain lamp, or a color sequence on any color capable light for certain events such as doorbell.

Changes in 2.4.9.0

• Version number jump: The jump from 2.0.5 to 2.4.9 is because the next production firmware is planned to be 2.5, while also reducing the version number to 3 levels (2.5.0, instead of 2.5.0.0). The early betas for 2.5 will have 2.4.9.x version numbers.
• Evaluators/Triggers: completely new scripting engine "p44script". This means: 
  • Please check your evaluators and triggers for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • If you were using any of the following beta features in your scripts, you need to adapt them:
    • channel(), dimchannel(), applychannels() and syncchannels() are now members of output, so you need to use them like: output.channel(...).
    • epochtime(): now returns number of seconds since 1.1.1970 UTC, as the name suggests, no longer days. Use epochdays() instead.
    • setfield() and setelement() are no longer available, no need for these any more, just use obj.field = value or obj[index] = value notations for setting object fields or array elements.
    • try/catch has a new syntax for handling the error - no longer use error() function, but use try {...} catch as errorvariable { ... } instead.
    • scriptloglevel(), earlyresult(), copy() and switchcontext() are no longer available.
    • oncondition variable in trigger expressions is no longer available.
  • There are and wil be a lot of new possibilities using the new p44script architecture. However for now, the focus is on evaluators and triggers working the same as before.
  • If you are adventurous, you can use the new full screen code editor for editing trigger actions, and have a look into the script reference to get an idea what the p44script engine can do. If you are very adventurous, you can even try the new script features - on your own risk (backup your config before...) using the repl.html page...

Other important changes since last production release

• Evaluators: now write a more informative log line when state changes, including the values involved and indicating if the change was triggered by timing or immediate input value changes.
• logging: per device/vdc/script logleveloffset now allows silencing noisy devices or focusing on devices of interest for support and debugging.
• platform: update to OpenWrt 19.07.3
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• Removed: the experimental sparkiodevice is no longer available. Note that the only sparkiodevice has been a WS2812 based torch simulation light, which is now available as a ledchaindevice option (among many other effects).

• EnOcean: fix problems with secure devices persistence (inactive after restart)

Changes in 2.4.9.3

• Optimizer: fix bug that could cause scene not loading correctly.
• p44Script: savescene() function
• p44Script: bugfixes around assigning thread variables (concurrent as xx statement).

Changes in 2.4.9.2

• Scene editor: fixed toggle switches (were saved as "on" even when "off" in some cases).
• LED chains: add --ledrefresh command line parameter to slow down refresh rate when using very long LED chains

Changes in 2.4.9.1

• LED-chain based lights (P44-DSB-X only): Now support the brand new Microsoft Research "Expressive Pixels" animation format.
• Scene Scripts: for advanced user scripting, there's now an editor for the so called "scene script" (which is a p44script started when a scene is called). For example this allows for launching an animation on a LED chain lamp, or a color sequence on any color capable light for certain events such as doorbell.

Changes in 2.4.9.0

• Version number jump: The jump from 2.0.5 to 2.4.9 is because the next production firmware is planned to be 2.5, while also reducing the version number to 3 levels (2.5.0, instead of 2.5.0.0). The early betas for 2.5 will have 2.4.9.x version numbers.
• Evaluators/Triggers: completely new scripting engine "p44script". This means: 
  • Please check your evaluators and triggers for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • If you were using any of the following beta features in your scripts, you need to adapt them:
    • channel(), dimchannel(), applychannels() and syncchannels() are now members of output, so you need to use them like: output.channel(...).
    • epochtime(): now returns number of seconds since 1.1.1970 UTC, as the name suggests, no longer days. Use epochdays() instead.
    • setfield() and setelement() are no longer available, no need for these any more, just use obj.field = value or obj[index] = value notations for setting object fields or array elements.
    • try/catch has a new syntax for handling the error - no longer use error() function, but use try {...} catch as errorvariable { ... } instead.
    • scriptloglevel(), earlyresult(), copy() and switchcontext() are no longer available.
    • oncondition variable in trigger expressions is no longer available.
  • There are and wil be a lot of new possibilities using the new p44script architecture. However for now, the focus is on evaluators and triggers working the same as before.
  • If you are adventurous, you can use the new full screen code editor for editing trigger actions, and have a look into the script reference to get an idea what the p44script engine can do. If you are very adventurous, you can even try the new script features - on your own risk (backup your config before...) using the repl.html page...

Other important recent changes

• Evaluators: now write a more informative log line when state changes, including the values involved and indicating if the change was triggered by timing or immediate input value changes.
• logging: per device/vdc/script logleveloffset now allows silencing noisy devices or focusing on devices of interest for support and debugging.
• platform: update to OpenWrt 19.07.3
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• Removed: the experimental sparkiodevice is no longer available. Note that the only sparkiodevice has been a WS2812 based torch simulation light, which is now available as a ledchaindevice option (among many other effects).

• EnOcean: fix problems with secure devices persistence (inactive after restart)

Changes in 2.4.9.3

• Optimizer: fix bug that could cause scene not loading correctly.
• p44Script: savescene() function
• p44Script: bugfixes around assigning thread variables (concurrent as xx statement).

Changes in 2.4.9.2

• Scene editor: fixed toggle switches (were saved as "on" even when "off" in some cases).
• LED chains: add --ledrefresh command line parameter to slow down refresh rate when using very long LED chains

Changes in 2.4.9.1

• LED-chain based lights (P44-DSB-X only): Now support the brand new Microsoft Research "Expressive Pixels" animation format.
• Scene Scripts: for advanced user scripting, there's now an editor for the so called "scene script" (which is a p44script started when a scene is called). For example this allows for launching an animation on a LED chain lamp, or a color sequence on any color capable light for certain events such as doorbell.

Changes in 2.4.9.0

• Version number jump: The jump from 2.0.5 to 2.4.9 is because the next production firmware is planned to be 2.5, while also reducing the version number to 3 levels (2.5.0, instead of 2.5.0.0). The early betas for 2.5 will have 2.4.9.x version numbers.
• Evaluators/Triggers: completely new scripting engine "p44script". This means: 
  • Please check your evaluators and triggers for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • If you were using any of the following beta features in your scripts, you need to adapt them:
    • channel(), dimchannel(), applychannels() and syncchannels() are now members of output, so you need to use them like: output.channel(...).
    • epochtime(): now returns number of seconds since 1.1.1970 UTC, as the name suggests, no longer days. Use epochdays() instead.
    • setfield() and setelement() are no longer available, no need for these any more, just use obj.field = value or obj[index] = value notations for setting object fields or array elements.
    • try/catch has a new syntax for handling the error - no longer use error() function, but use try {...} catch as errorvariable { ... } instead.
    • scriptloglevel(), earlyresult(), copy() and switchcontext() are no longer available.
    • oncondition variable in trigger expressions is no longer available.
  • There are and wil be a lot of new possibilities using the new p44script architecture. However for now, the focus is on evaluators and triggers working the same as before.
  • If you are adventurous, you can use the new full screen code editor for editing trigger actions, and have a look into the script reference to get an idea what the p44script engine can do. If you are very adventurous, you can even try the new script features - on your own risk (backup your config before...) using the repl.html page...

Other important recent changes

• Evaluators: now write a more informative log line when state changes, including the values involved and indicating if the change was triggered by timing or immediate input value changes.
• logging: per device/vdc/script logleveloffset now allows silencing noisy devices or focusing on devices of interest for support and debugging.
• platform: update to OpenWrt 19.07.3
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• Removed: the experimental sparkiodevice is no longer available. Note that the only sparkiodevice has been a WS2812 based torch simulation light, which is now available as a ledchaindevice option (among many other effects).

Changes in 2.4.9.3

• Optimizer: fix bug that could cause scene not loading correctly.
• p44Script: savescene() function
• p44Script: bugfixes around assigning thread variables (concurrent as xx statement).

Changes in 2.4.9.2

• Scene editor: fixed toggle switches (were saved as "on" even when "off" in some cases).
• LED chains: add --ledrefresh command line parameter to slow down refresh rate when using very long LED chains

Changes in 2.4.9.1

• LED-chain based lights (P44-DSB-X only): Now support the brand new Microsoft Research "Expressive Pixels" animation format.
• Scene Scripts: for advanced user scripting, there's now an editor for the so called "scene script" (which is a p44script started when a scene is called). For example this allows for launching an animation on a LED chain lamp, or a color sequence on any color capable light for certain events such as doorbell.

Changes in 2.4.9.0

• Version number jump: The jump from 2.0.5 to 2.4.9 is because the next production firmware is planned to be 2.5, while also reducing the version number to 3 levels (2.5.0, instead of 2.5.0.0). The early betas for 2.5 will have 2.4.9.x version numbers.
• Evaluators/Triggers: completely new scripting engine "p44script". This means: 
  • Please check your evaluators and triggers for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • If you were using any of the following beta features in your scripts, you need to adapt them:
    • channel(), dimchannel(), applychannels() and syncchannels() are now members of output, so you need to use them like: output.channel(...).
    • epochtime(): now returns number of seconds since 1.1.1970 UTC, as the name suggests, no longer days. Use epochdays() instead.
    • setfield() and setelement() are no longer available, no need for these any more, just use obj.field = value or obj[index] = value notations for setting object fields or array elements.
    • try/catch has a new syntax for handling the error - no longer use error() function, but use try {...} catch as errorvariable { ... } instead.
    • scriptloglevel(), earlyresult(), copy() and switchcontext() are no longer available.
    • oncondition variable in trigger expressions is no longer available.
  • There are and wil be a lot of new possibilities using the new p44script architecture. However for now, the focus is on evaluators and triggers working the same as before.
  • If you are adventurous, you can use the new full screen code editor for editing trigger actions, and have a look into the script reference to get an idea what the p44script engine can do. If you are very adventurous, you can even try the new script features - on your own risk (backup your config before...) using the repl.html page...

Other important recent changes

• Evaluators: now write a more informative log line when state changes, including the values involved and indicating if the change was triggered by timing or immediate input value changes.
• logging: per device/vdc/script logleveloffset now allows silencing noisy devices or focusing on devices of interest for support and debugging.
• platform: update to OpenWrt 19.07.3
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• Removed: the experimental sparkiodevice is no longer available. Note that the only sparkiodevice has been a WS2812 based torch simulation light, which is now available as a ledchaindevice option (among many other effects).

Changes in 2.4.9.2

• Scene editor: fixed toggle switches (were saved as "on" even when "off" in some cases).
• LED chains: add --ledrefresh command line parameter to slow down refresh rate when using very long LED chains

Changes in 2.4.9.1

• LED-chain based lights (P44-DSB-X only): Now support the brand new Microsoft Research "Expressive Pixels" animation format.
• Scene Scripts: for advanced user scripting, there's now an editor for the so called "scene script" (which is a p44script started when a scene is called). For example this allows for launching an animation on a LED chain lamp, or a color sequence on any color capable light for certain events such as doorbell.

Changes in 2.4.9.0

• Version number jump: The jump from 2.0.5 to 2.4.9 is because the next production firmware is planned to be 2.5, while also reducing the version number to 3 levels (2.5.0, instead of 2.5.0.0). The early betas for 2.5 will have 2.4.9.x version numbers.
• Evaluators/Triggers: completely new scripting engine "p44script". This means: 
  • Please check your evaluators and triggers for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • If you were using any of the following beta features in your scripts, you need to adapt them:
    • channel(), dimchannel(), applychannels() and syncchannels() are now members of output, so you need to use them like: output.channel(...).
    • epochtime(): now returns number of seconds since 1.1.1970 UTC, as the name suggests, no longer days. Use epochdays() instead.
    • setfield() and setelement() are no longer available, no need for these any more, just use obj.field = value or obj[index] = value notations for setting object fields or array elements.
    • try/catch has a new syntax for handling the error - no longer use error() function, but use try {...} catch as errorvariable { ... } instead.
    • scriptloglevel(), earlyresult(), copy() and switchcontext() are no longer available.
    • oncondition variable in trigger expressions is no longer available.
  • There are and wil be a lot of new possibilities using the new p44script architecture. However for now, the focus is on evaluators and triggers working the same as before.
  • If you are adventurous, you can use the new full screen code editor for editing trigger actions, and have a look into the script reference to get an idea what the p44script engine can do. If you are very adventurous, you can even try the new script features - on your own risk (backup your config before...) using the repl.html page...

Other important recent changes

• Evaluators: now write a more informative log line when state changes, including the values involved and indicating if the change was triggered by timing or immediate input value changes.
• logging: per device/vdc/script logleveloffset now allows silencing noisy devices or focusing on devices of interest for support and debugging.
• platform: update to OpenWrt 19.07.3
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• Removed: the experimental sparkiodevice is no longer available. Note that the only sparkiodevice has been a WS2812 based torch simulation light, which is now available as a ledchaindevice option (among many other effects).

Changes in 2.4.9.1

• LED-chain based lights (P44-DSB-X only): Now support the brand new Microsoft Research "Expressive Pixels" animation format.
• Scene Scripts: for advanced user scripting, there's now an editor for the so called "scene script" (which is a p44script started when a scene is called). For example this allows for launching an animation on a LED chain lamp, or a color sequence on any color capable light for certain events such as doorbell.

Changes in 2.4.9.0

• Version number jump: The jump from 2.0.5 to 2.4.9 is because the next production firmware is planned to be 2.5, while also reducing the version number to 3 levels (2.5.0, instead of 2.5.0.0). The early betas for 2.5 will have 2.4.9.x version numbers.
• Evaluators/Triggers: completely new scripting engine "p44script". This means: 
  • Please check your evaluators and triggers for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • If you were using any of the following beta features in your scripts, you need to adapt them:
    • channel(), dimchannel(), applychannels() and syncchannels() are now members of output, so you need to use them like: output.channel(...).
    • epochtime(): now returns number of seconds since 1.1.1970 UTC, as the name suggests, no longer days. Use epochdays() instead.
    • setfield() and setelement() are no longer available, no need for these any more, just use obj.field = value or obj[index] = value notations for setting object fields or array elements.
    • try/catch has a new syntax for handling the error - no longer use error() function, but use try {...} catch as errorvariable { ... } instead.
    • scriptloglevel(), earlyresult(), copy() and switchcontext() are no longer available.
    • oncondition variable in trigger expressions is no longer available.
  • There are and wil be a lot of new possibilities using the new p44script architecture. However for now, the focus is on evaluators and triggers working the same as before.
  • If you are adventurous, you can use the new full screen code editor for editing trigger actions, and have a look into the script reference to get an idea what the p44script engine can do. If you are very adventurous, you can even try the new script features - on your own risk (backup your config before...) using the repl.html page...

Other important recent changes

• Evaluators: now write a more informative log line when state changes, including the values involved and indicating if the change was triggered by timing or immediate input value changes.
• logging: per device/vdc/script logleveloffset now allows silencing noisy devices or focusing on devices of interest for support and debugging.
• platform: update to OpenWrt 19.07.3
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• Removed: the experimental sparkiodevice is no longer available. Note that the only sparkiodevice has been a WS2812 based torch simulation light, which is now available as a ledchaindevice option (among many other effects).

Changes in 2.4.9.0

• Version number jump: The jump from 2.0.5 to 2.4.9 is because the next production firmware is planned to be 2.5, while also reducing the version number to 3 levels (2.5.0, instead of 2.5.0.0). The early betas for 2.5 will have 2.4.9.x version numbers.
• Evaluators/Triggers: completely new scripting engine "p44script". This means: 
  • Please check your evaluators and triggers for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • If you were using any of the following beta features in your scripts, you need to adapt them:
    • channel(), dimchannel(), applychannels() and syncchannels() are now members of output, so you need to use them like: output.channel(...).
    • epochtime(): now returns number of seconds since 1.1.1970 UTC, as the name suggests, no longer days. Use epochdays() instead.
    • setfield() and setelement() are no longer available, no need for these any more, just use obj.field = value or obj[index] = value notations for setting object fields or array elements.
    • try/catch has a new syntax for handling the error - no longer use error() function, but use try {...} catch as errorvariable { ... } instead.
    • scriptloglevel(), earlyresult(), copy() and switchcontext() are no longer available.
    • oncondition variable in trigger expressions is no longer available.
  • There are and wil be a lot of new possibilities using the new p44script architecture. However for now, the focus is on evaluators and triggers working the same as before.
  • If you are adventurous, you can use the new full screen code editor for editing trigger actions, and have a look into the script reference to get an idea what the p44script engine can do. If you are very adventurous, you can even try the new script features - on your own risk (backup your config before...) using the repl.html page...

Other important recent changes

• Evaluators: now write a more informative log line when state changes, including the values involved and indicating if the change was triggered by timing or immediate input value changes.
• logging: per device/vdc/script logleveloffset now allows silencing noisy devices or focusing on devices of interest for support and debugging.
• platform: update to OpenWrt 19.07.3
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• Removed: the experimental sparkiodevice is no longer available. Note that the only sparkiodevice has been a WS2812 based torch simulation light, which is now available as a ledchaindevice option (among many other effects).

Changes in 2.0.5.6

• Evaluators: now write a more informative log line when state changes, including the values involved and indicating if the change was triggered by timing or immediate input value changes.
• Web-UI: Fixed regression in 2.0.5.5: Some dialogs that should stay open (e.g. update, restart progress) could be closed by clicking outside.
• Timezone support: dialog did not show currently set timezone. Clock now shows time in time zone of the device (was always time zone of the browser before)
• Webserver: now based on civetweb v1.12, which fixes a socket leak when accessing the Web-UI with a https request that fails due to SSL level errors. When polling the Web-UI constantly, over time the leak could lead to out-of-memory resulting in device becoming very slow. 

Changes in 2.0.5.5

• logging: per device/vdc/script logleveloffset now allows silencing noisy devices or focusing on devices of interest for support and debugging.
• Web-UI: Open device info dialog with shift held down to get logleveloffset controls.
• Web-UI: fixed long-standing annoying JQMobile problem that caused open dialogs to scroll instead of accepting the first button clicked.
• Web-UI: all dialogs can now be dismissed with Esc key or by clicking ouside of the dialog. 
• evaluators: result of on-condition is now available in off-condition as oncondition variable to simplify specifying mostly inverse off-conditions.
• expressions: now can use log, loglevel and logleveloffset functions for debugging. To use these null-returning side-effect-only functions and still produce a expression result, lastarg can be used.
• Removed: the experimental sparkiodevice is no longer available. Note that the only sparkiodevice has been a WS2812 based torch simulation light, which is now available as a ledchaindevice option (among many other effects).

Changes in 2.0.5.4

• sensor RRDB: improved case of sensors with infrequent changes
• logging: "logleveloffset" vdc method to elevate or reduce logging per device or per behaviour.
• vdc API: string channels
• platform: update to OpenWrt 19.07.3
• platform: fix UART1 + UART2 in device tree

Changes in 2.0.5.3

• platform: now based on OpenWrt 19.07.2
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• optimizer: keep statistics valid even when devices starts with no or different NTP time. Some more logging when creating native scenes/groups.
• scripts: added modulo operator (%) and epochtime() function

Other recent features:

• Sensors+Inputs: now push of sensor values to vdsm/dSS are shown in Level 5 log to help debugging sensor value processing issues.
• EnOcean: support for A5-20-04 communication interval reduced from 20 to 10min
• EnOcean: support for A5-20-06 self-powered heating valve
• EnOcean: support for notion sensors that only signal "motion", but not "no motion" (profile variant, e.g. for Eltako TF-BSB)
• Expressions: all expressions can now access global variables.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• EnOcean: support for D2-03-0A single button
• hue: A recent hue bridge firmware update has changed the signature ("Philips" replaced by "Signify"). This prevents updated hue bridges to get recognized with P44-DSB versions before 2.0.4.0.
• EnOcean: Support for D2-14-30 Smoke/Temperature/Humidity sensor
• Scene Scripts: scenes can now have scene scripts, triggered by scene effect 6
• Evaluators: completely rewritten the expression evaluation code, now is a fully functional script engine.
  This means:
  • Please check your evaluators for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • Evaluator Actions no longer use the strange "cmd:action" syntax, but can now be specified in a full-featured script language, including if/else, while/break/continue, return, local variables and more. The existing actions are automatically converted to the new script syntax on first use.
  • In the web-UI, when editing/checking expressions, in case of errors the cursor is positioned at the error location in the input field.
  • Expressions now can include a lot of function calls, in particular is_time, after_time and between_dates to specify time-based triggers.
• Identify from dSS Configurator: now the P44-DSB device itself can be identified from the dSS, by clicking on the lightbulb "identify" button causing the P44-DSB LED blinking red/yellow 4 times.
• Web-UI: log display: new "stats" button/link prints some momentary statistics into the log, such as optimizer state.
• EnOcean: support for A5-3F-7F (manufacturer specific) for SR65 3AI (Thermokon 3*0..10V input).
• Option for persistent outputs: if enabled (vdchost level property) output state changes will be saved and when device is restarted, re-applied to the hardware.

Changes in 2.0.5.5

• logging: per device/vdc/script logleveloffset now allows silencing noisy devices or focusing on devices of interest for support and debugging.
• Web-UI: Open device info dialog with shift held down to get logleveloffset controls.
• Web-UI: fixed long-standing annoying JQMobile problem that caused open dialogs to scroll instead of accepting the first button clicked.
• Web-UI: all dialogs can now be dismissed with Esc key or by clicking ouside of the dialog. 
• evaluators: result of on-condition is now available in off-condition as oncondition variable to simplify specifying mostly inverse off-conditions.
• expressions: now can use log, loglevel and logleveloffset functions for debugging. To use these null-returning side-effect-only functions and still produce a expression result, lastarg can be used.
• Removed: the experimental sparkiodevice is no longer available. Note that the only sparkiodevice has been a WS2812 based torch simulation light, which is now available as a ledchaindevice option (among many other effects).
• P44-DSB-X only: DMX/ola users please note: due to yet-to-be-resolved build problems with ola on OpenWrt 19.07, this version does not contain ola. So please do not install it if you depend on ola/DMX.
• sensor RRDB: improved case of sensors with infrequent changes
• logging: "logleveloffset" vdc method to elevate or reduce logging per device or per behaviour.
• vdc API: string channels
• platform: update to OpenWrt 19.07.3

Changes in 2.0.5.3

• platform: now based on OpenWrt 19.07
• filesystem: changed to squashfs+f2fs overlay
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• optimizer: keep statistics valid even when devices starts with no or different NTP time. Some more logging when creating native scenes/groups.
• scripts: added modulo operator (%) and epochtime() function

Other recent features:

• Sensors+Inputs: now push of sensor values to vdsm/dSS are shown in Level 5 log to help debugging sensor value processing issues.
• EnOcean: support for A5-20-04 communication interval reduced from 20 to 10min
• EnOcean: support for A5-20-06 self-powered heating valve
• EnOcean: support for notion sensors that only signal "motion", but not "no motion" (profile variant, e.g. for Eltako TF-BSB)
• Expressions: all expressions can now access global variables.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• EnOcean: support for D2-03-0A single button
• hue: A recent hue bridge firmware update has changed the signature ("Philips" replaced by "Signify"). This prevents updated hue bridges to get recognized with P44-DSB versions before 2.0.4.0.
• EnOcean: Support for D2-14-30 Smoke/Temperature/Humidity sensor
• Scene Scripts: scenes can now have scene scripts, triggered by scene effect 6
• Evaluators: completely rewritten the expression evaluation code, now is a fully functional script engine.
  This means:
  • Please check your evaluators for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • Evaluator Actions no longer use the strange "cmd:action" syntax, but can now be specified in a full-featured script language, including if/else, while/break/continue, return, local variables and more. The existing actions are automatically converted to the new script syntax on first use.
  • In the web-UI, when editing/checking expressions, in case of errors the cursor is positioned at the error location in the input field.
  • Expressions now can include a lot of function calls, in particular is_time, after_time and between_dates to specify time-based triggers.
• Identify from dSS Configurator: now the P44-DSB device itself can be identified from the dSS, by clicking on the lightbulb "identify" button causing the P44-DSB LED blinking red/yellow 4 times.
• Web-UI: log display: new "stats" button/link prints some momentary statistics into the log, such as optimizer state.
• EnOcean: support for A5-3F-7F (manufacturer specific) for SR65 3AI (Thermokon 3*0..10V input).
• Option for persistent outputs: if enabled (vdchost level property) output state changes will be saved and when device is restarted, re-applied to the hardware.

Changes in 2.0.5.3

• platform: now based on OpenWrt 19.07
• filesystem: changed to squashfs+f2fs overlay
• hue: fix problem with manually specified hue bridge url/IP, did not work in some cases.
• optimizer: keep statistics valid even when devices starts with no or different NTP time. Some more logging when creating native scenes/groups.
• scripts: added modulo operator (%) and epochtime() function

Other recent features:

• Sensors+Inputs: now push of sensor values to vdsm/dSS are shown in Level 5 log to help debugging sensor value processing issues.
• EnOcean: support for A5-20-04 communication interval reduced from 20 to 10min
• EnOcean: support for A5-20-06 self-powered heating valve
• EnOcean: support for notion sensors that only signal "motion", but not "no motion" (profile variant, e.g. for Eltako TF-BSB)
• Expressions: all expressions can now access global variables.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• EnOcean: support for D2-03-0A single button
• hue: A recent hue bridge firmware update has changed the signature ("Philips" replaced by "Signify"). This prevents updated hue bridges to get recognized with P44-DSB versions before 2.0.4.0.
• EnOcean: Support for D2-14-30 Smoke/Temperature/Humidity sensor
• Scene Scripts: scenes can now have scene scripts, triggered by scene effect 6
• Evaluators: completely rewritten the expression evaluation code, now is a fully functional script engine.
  This means:
  • Please check your evaluators for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • Evaluator Actions no longer use the strange "cmd:action" syntax, but can now be specified in a full-featured script language, including if/else, while/break/continue, return, local variables and more. The existing actions are automatically converted to the new script syntax on first use.
  • In the web-UI, when editing/checking expressions, in case of errors the cursor is positioned at the error location in the input field.
  • Expressions now can include a lot of function calls, in particular is_time, after_time and between_dates to specify time-based triggers.
• Identify from dSS Configurator: now the P44-DSB device itself can be identified from the dSS, by clicking on the lightbulb "identify" button causing the P44-DSB LED blinking red/yellow 4 times.
• Web-UI: log display: new "stats" button/link prints some momentary statistics into the log, such as optimizer state.
• EnOcean: support for A5-3F-7F (manufacturer specific) for SR65 3AI (Thermokon 3*0..10V input).
• Option for persistent outputs: if enabled (vdchost level property) output state changes will be saved and when device is restarted, re-applied to the hardware.

Changes in 2.0.5.1

• EnOcean: support for A5-20-04 communication interval reduced from 20 to 10min
• Sensors+Inputs: now push of sensor values to vdsm/dSS are shown in Level 5 log to help debugging sensor value processing issues.
• hue: hue device info now shows actual vendor name of the individual light, no longer just the bridge's vendor.
• hue: better logging, some workaround refinements for ill-behaving third-party lights.

Other recent features:

• EnOcean: support for A5-20-06 self-powered heating valve
• EnOcean: support for notion sensors that only signal "motion", but not "no motion" (profile variant, e.g. for Eltako TF-BSB)
• Platform: now based on Openwrt 18.06.5
• Expressions: all expressions can now access global variables.
• Web-UI: support for setting geographic location (for sunrise/sunset calculations) and time zone. 
• vdc visibility in digitalSTROM: the web-UI now offers an option to hide vdcs which have no devices in digitalSTROM configurator. Note that you need to delete the greyed-out vdcs in the configurator after hiding a vdc that was previously visible.
• EnOcean: support for D2-03-0A single button
• hue: A recent hue bridge firmware update has changed the signature ("Philips" replaced by "Signify"). This prevents updated hue bridges to get recognized with P44-DSB versions before 2.0.4.0.
• EnOcean: Support for D2-14-30 Smoke/Temperature/Humidity sensor
• Scene Scripts: scenes can now have scene scripts, triggered by scene effect 6
• Evaluators: completely rewritten the expression evaluation code, now is a fully functional script engine.
  This means:
  • Please check your evaluators for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • Evaluator Actions no longer use the strange "cmd:action" syntax, but can now be specified in a full-featured script language, including if/else, while/break/continue, return, local variables and more. The existing actions are automatically converted to the new script syntax on first use.
  • In the web-UI, when editing/checking expressions, in case of errors the cursor is positioned at the error location in the input field.
  • Expressions now can include a lot of function calls, in particular is_time, after_time and between_dates to specify time-based triggers.
• Identify from dSS Configurator: now the P44-DSB device itself can be identified from the dSS, by clicking on the lightbulb "identify" button causing the P44-DSB LED blinking red/yellow 4 times.
• Web-UI: log display: new "stats" button/link prints some momentary statistics into the log, such as optimizer state.
• EnOcean: support for A5-3F-7F (manufacturer specific) for SR65 3AI (Thermokon 3*0..10V input).
• Option for persistent outputs: if enabled (vdchost level property) output state changes will be saved and when device is restarted, re-applied to the hardware.

• hue: A recent hue bridge firmware update has changed the signature ("Philips" replaced by "Signify"). This prevents updated hue bridges to get recognized with P44-DSB versions before 2.0.4.0.
• Scripts/Expressions: bugfixes, improved error display, timed expressions now track change of real time (NTP updates, TZ changes).

Other recent features:

• EnOcean: Support for D2-14-30 Smoke/Temperature/Humidity sensor
• Scene Scripts: scenes can now have scene scripts, triggered by scene effect 6
• Evaluators: completely rewritten the expression evaluation code, now is a fully functional script engine.
  This means:
  • Please check your evaluators for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • Evaluator Actions no longer use the strange "cmd:action" syntax, but can now be specified in a full-featured script language, including if/else, while/break/continue, return, local variables and more. The existing actions are automatically converted to the new script syntax on first use.
  • In the web-UI, when editing/checking expressions, in case of errors the cursor is positioned at the error location in the input field.
  • Expressions now can include a lot of function calls, in particular is_time, after_time and between_dates to specify time-based triggers.
• Identify from dSS Configurator: now the P44-DSB device itself can be identified from the dSS, by clicking on the lightbulb "identify" button causing the P44-DSB LED blinking red/yellow 4 times.
• Web-UI: log display: new "stats" button/link prints some momentary statistics into the log, such as optimizer state.
• EnOcean: support for A5-3F-7F (manufacturer specific) for SR65 3AI (Thermokon 3*0..10V input).
• Option for persistent outputs: if enabled (vdchost level property) output state changes will be saved and when device is restarted, re-applied to the hardware.

• hue: A recent hue bridge firmware update has changed the signature ("Philips" replaced by "Signify"). This prevents updated hue bridges to get recognized with P44-DSB versions before 2.0.4.0.
• Scripts/Expressions: bugfixes, improved error display, timed expressions now track change of real time (NTP updates, TZ changes).

Other recent features:

• EnOcean: Support for D2-14-30 Smoke/Temperature/Humidity sensor
• Scene Scripts: scenes can now have scene scripts, triggered by scene effect 6
• Evaluators: completely rewritten the expression evaluation code, now is a fully functional script engine.
  This means:
  • Please check your evaluators for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • Evaluator Actions no longer use the strange "cmd:action" syntax, but can now be specified in a full-featured script language, including if/else, while/break/continue, return, local variables and more. The existing actions are automatically converted to the new script syntax on first use.
  • In the web-UI, when editing/checking expressions, in case of errors the cursor is positioned at the error location in the input field.
  • Expressions now can include a lot of function calls, in particular is_time, after_time and between_dates to specify time-based triggers.
• Identify from dSS Configurator: now the P44-DSB device itself can be identified from the dSS, by clicking on the lightbulb "identify" button causing the P44-DSB LED blinking red/yellow 4 times.
• Web-UI: log display: new "stats" button/link prints some momentary statistics into the log, such as optimizer state.
• EnOcean: support for A5-3F-7F (manufacturer specific) for SR65 3AI (Thermokon 3*0..10V input).
• Option for persistent outputs: if enabled (vdchost level property) output state changes will be saved and when device is restarted, re-applied to the hardware.

• hue: A recent hue bridge firmware update has changed the signature ("Philips" replaced by "Signify"). This prevents updated hue bridges to get recognized with P44-DSB versions before 2.0.4.0.
• Scripts/Expressions: bugfixes, improved error display, timed expressions now track change of real time (NTP updates, TZ changes).

Other recent features:

• EnOcean: Support for D2-14-30 Smoke/Temperature/Humidity sensor
• Scene Scripts: scenes can now have scene scripts, triggered by scene effect 6
• Evaluators: completely rewritten the expression evaluation code, now is a fully functional script engine.
  This means:
  • Please check your evaluators for correct operation. There might be bugs as this is a lot of brand new code ;-)
  • Evaluator Actions no longer use the strange "cmd:action" syntax, but can now be specified in a full-featured script language, including if/else, while/break/continue, return, local variables and more. The existing actions are automatically converted to the new script syntax on first use.
  • In the web-UI, when editing/checking expressions, in case of errors the cursor is positioned at the error location in the input field.
  • Expressions now can include a lot of function calls, in particular is_time, after_time and between_dates to specify time-based triggers.
• Identify from dSS Configurator: now the P44-DSB device itself can be identified from the dSS, by clicking on the lightbulb "identify" button causing the P44-DSB LED blinking red/yellow 4 times.
• Web-UI: log display: new "stats" button/link prints some momentary statistics into the log, such as optimizer state.
• EnOcean: support for A5-3F-7F (manufacturer specific) for SR65 3AI (Thermokon 3*0..10V input).
• Option for persistent outputs: if enabled (vdchost level property) output state changes will be saved and when device is restarted, re-applied to the hardware.

• EnOcean: support for A5-3F-7F (manufacturer specific) for SR65 3AI (Thermokon 3*0..10V input).

Changes since 2.0.1.0:

• Option for persistent outputs: if enabled (vdchost level property) output state changes will be saved and when device is restarted, re-applied to the hardware.

Note: this is a release candidate for the 2.0.1 production release

Changes since 2.0.0.0:

• EnOcean: Support for A5-04-03 10bit temperature + 8bit humidity sensor.
• EnOcean: Multisensor Window Handle (D2-06-xx): Buttons now also work in "dimming" (press-and-hold) mode.
• EnOcean: Now detects out-of-order A5-13-xx weather station, fixed false sensor timeouts that could happen when multiple measurements did not change for some time.
• EnOcean: bug fix in secure teach-in, did affect e.g. A5-14-xx window contacts supporting encryption.
• EnOcean: FAH60 variant of A5-06-01 profile has no supply voltage sensor.
• ELDAT: support for window contacts and window handles
• WebUI: fixed problem with setting fixed hue bridge address.
• WebUI: should no longer hang/time out even with many devices responding slowly to connection test.

New Features in Version 2.0:

• hue: Scene+Dimming Optimizer can now can now automatically use native hue scenes and groups. For hue, the main benefit is that scene/group calls are more reliably forwarded to many lights (due to bugs in the hue bridge, changing many lights directly does not always work reliably). The optimizer can be enabled in the hue-vdc info dialog.
• Web UI: new colored column for operational state (radio strength, errors, reachability etc.) at a glance. Number of devices for each vDC is visible in the icon column.
• Web UI: device list can be sorted by clicking on column header.
• Web UI: not responding devices are now shown greyed out in device list (like in dSS)
• Web UI: refreshed look, more responsive (works even on small phone screens now), more compatible with different browsers.
• EnOcean: now supports secure pairing with PT215 based buttons.
• EnOcean: new profiles supported:  
  • D2-01-xx: electronic switches and dimmers (actors)
  • D2-32-xx: AC current clamps (Pressac CTV3 series)
  • F6-01-01: single button
  • F6-05-00: wind speed threshold detector
• Evaluators: now support functions (abs, round, if, ifvalid, testlater) and can access sensor's age, validity and operation state.
• Evaluators: now run a initial evaluation after start and when expressions are modified. The initial function can test for this to provide default values.
• Evaluators: sensor evaluators can now also be used to calculate a virtual sensor value (e.g. a total wattage from 3 current sensors etc.). 
• Evaluators: internal action evaluators can trigger an external action via http(s) GET/POST/PUT.

Improvements:

• Device LEDs: the LEDs of the P44-DSB-E now work like for the other P44-DSB models (DEH, E2, DEH2): In normal operation only the green LED is constantly lit. In addition, the red LED flashes shortly to indicate activity. If only the red LED is on or blinking, this indicates a error or warning.
• EnOcean: upside down option for A5-14-09/0A window handle profiles.
• EnOcean: weather station profile A5-13-0x now reports short wind spikes as separate gust sensor.
• Sensor handling: sensors value processing is now adapted to the sensor type to ensure timely updates while still avoiding too many sensor events overloading the dSS.
• Connection to dSS: made more resilient in case of occasional network problems.
• and numerous other detail improvements.

Bugfixes:

• EnOcean: Fixed F6-05-01 water sensor, did not take back the detector signal when the water detection state went back to normal.
• EnOcean: Fixed temperature sensor reporting in D2-06-01 profile (Multifunction Window Handle)
• EnOcean: Fixed prophylaxis runs for A5-20-04 profile
• and many other smaller bugfixes.

Changes since 2.0.0.9:

• ELDAT: support for window contacts and window handles.

Changes since 2.0.0.7:

• Platform: now based on OpenWrt 18.06.2
• WebUI: should no longer hang/time out even with many devices responding slowly to connection test.
• EnOcean: fixed: FAH60 variant of A5-06-01 profile has no supply voltage sensor.

Changes since 2.0.0.0:

• EnOcean: Now detects out-of-order A5-13-xx weather station
• EnOcean: Multisensor Window Handle (D2-06-xx): Buttons now also work in "dimming" (press-and-hold) mode.
• EnOcean: bug fix in secure teach-in, did affect e.g. A5-14-xx window contacts supporting encryption.
• EnOcean: Wheater station: fixed false sensor timeouts that could happen when multiple measurements did not change for some time.

New Features in Version 2.0:

• hue: Scene+Dimming Optimizer can now can now automatically use native hue scenes and groups. For hue, the main benefit is that scene/group calls are more reliably forwarded to many lights (due to bugs in the hue bridge, changing many lights directly does not always work reliably). The optimizer can be enabled in the hue-vdc info dialog.
• Web UI: new colored column for operational state (radio strength, errors, reachability etc.) at a glance. Number of devices for each vDC is visible in the icon column.
• Web UI: device list can be sorted by clicking on column header.
• Web UI: not responding devices are now shown greyed out in device list (like in dSS)
• Web UI: refreshed look, more responsive (works even on small phone screens now), more compatible with different browsers.
• EnOcean: now supports secure pairing with PT215 based buttons.
• EnOcean: new profiles supported: 
  • D2-01-xx: electronic switches and dimmers (actors)
  • D2-32-xx: AC current clamps (Pressac CTV3 series)
  • F6-01-01: single button
  • F6-05-00: wind speed threshold detector
• Evaluators: now support functions (abs, round, if, ifvalid, testlater) and can access sensor's age, validity and operation state.
• Evaluators: now run a initial evaluation after start and when expressions are modified. The initial function can test for this to provide default values.
• Evaluators: sensor evaluators can now also be used to calculate a virtual sensor value (e.g. a total wattage from 3 current sensors etc.). 
• Evaluators: internal action evaluators can trigger an external action via http(s) GET/POST/PUT.

Improvements:

• Device LEDs: the LEDs of the P44-DSB-E now work like for the other P44-DSB models (DEH, E2, DEH2): In normal operation only the green LED is constantly lit. In addition, the red LED flashes shortly to indicate activity. If only the red LED is on or blinking, this indicates a error or warning.
• EnOcean: upside down option for A5-14-09/0A window handle profiles.
• EnOcean: weather station profile A5-13-0x now reports short wind spikes as separate gust sensor.
• Sensor handling: sensors value processing is now adapted to the sensor type to ensure timely updates while still avoiding too many sensor events overloading the dSS.
• Connection to dSS: made more resilient in case of occasional network problems.
• and numerous other detail improvements.

Bugfixes:

• EnOcean: Fixed F6-05-01 water sensor, did not take back the detector signal when the water detection state went back to normal.
• EnOcean: Fixed temperature sensor reporting in D2-06-01 profile (Multifunction Window Handle)
• EnOcean: Fixed prophylaxis runs for A5-20-04 profile
• and many other smaller bugfixes.

Changes since 2.0.0.7:

• Platform: now based on OpenWrt 18.06.2
• WebUI: should no longer hang/time out even with many devices responding slowly to connection test.
• EnOcean: fixed: FAH60 variant of A5-06-01 profile has no supply voltage sensor.

Changes since 2.0.0.0:

• EnOcean: Now detects out-of-order A5-13-xx weather station
• EnOcean: Multisensor Window Handle (D2-06-xx): Buttons now also work in "dimming" (press-and-hold) mode.
• EnOcean: bug fix in secure teach-in, did affect e.g. A5-14-xx window contacts supporting encryption.
• EnOcean: Wheater station: fixed false sensor timeouts that could happen when multiple measurements did not change for some time.

New Features in Version 2.0:

• hue: Scene+Dimming Optimizer can now can now automatically use native hue scenes and groups. For hue, the main benefit is that scene/group calls are more reliably forwarded to many lights (due to bugs in the hue bridge, changing many lights directly does not always work reliably). The optimizer can be enabled in the hue-vdc info dialog.
• Web UI: new colored column for operational state (radio strength, errors, reachability etc.) at a glance. Number of devices for each vDC is visible in the icon column.
• Web UI: device list can be sorted by clicking on column header.
• Web UI: not responding devices are now shown greyed out in device list (like in dSS)
• Web UI: refreshed look, more responsive (works even on small phone screens now), more compatible with different browsers.
• EnOcean: now supports secure pairing with PT215 based buttons.
• EnOcean: new profiles supported: 
  • D2-01-xx: electronic switches and dimmers (actors)
  • D2-32-xx: AC current clamps (Pressac CTV3 series)
  • F6-01-01: single button
  • F6-05-00: wind speed threshold detector
• Evaluators: now support functions (abs, round, if, ifvalid, testlater) and can access sensor's age, validity and operation state.
• Evaluators: now run a initial evaluation after start and when expressions are modified. The initial function can test for this to provide default values.
• Evaluators: sensor evaluators can now also be used to calculate a virtual sensor value (e.g. a total wattage from 3 current sensors etc.). 
• Evaluators: internal action evaluators can trigger an external action via http(s) GET/POST/PUT.

Improvements:

• Device LEDs: the LEDs of the P44-DSB-E now work like for the other P44-DSB models (DEH, E2, DEH2): In normal operation only the green LED is constantly lit. In addition, the red LED flashes shortly to indicate activity. If only the red LED is on or blinking, this indicates a error or warning.
• EnOcean: upside down option for A5-14-09/0A window handle profiles.
• EnOcean: weather station profile A5-13-0x now reports short wind spikes as separate gust sensor.
• Sensor handling: sensors value processing is now adapted to the sensor type to ensure timely updates while still avoiding too many sensor events overloading the dSS.
• Connection to dSS: made more resilient in case of occasional network problems.
• and numerous other detail improvements.

Bugfixes:

• EnOcean: Fixed F6-05-01 water sensor, did not take back the detector signal when the water detection state went back to normal.
• EnOcean: Fixed temperature sensor reporting in D2-06-01 profile (Multifunction Window Handle)
• EnOcean: Fixed prophylaxis runs for A5-20-04 profile
• and many other smaller bugfixes.

Changes since 2.0.0.0:

• EnOcean: Now detects out-of-order A5-13-xx weather station
• EnOcean: Multisensor Window Handle (D2-06-xx): Buttons now also work in "dimming" (press-and-hold) mode.
• EnOcean: bug fix in secure teach-in, did affect e.g. A5-14-xx window contacts supporting encryption.
• EnOcean: Wheater station: fixed false sensor timeouts that could happen when multiple measurements did not change for some time.

New Features in Version 2.0:

• hue: Scene+Dimming Optimizer can now can now automatically use native hue scenes and groups. For hue, the main benefit is that scene/group calls are more reliably forwarded to many lights (due to bugs in the hue bridge, changing many lights directly does not always work reliably). The optimizer can be enabled in the hue-vdc info dialog.
• Web UI: new colored column for operational state (radio strength, errors, reachability etc.) at a glance. Number of devices for each vDC is visible in the icon column.
• Web UI: device list can be sorted by clicking on column header.
• Web UI: not responding devices are now shown greyed out in device list (like in dSS)
• Web UI: refreshed look, more responsive (works even on small phone screens now), more compatible with different browsers.
• EnOcean: now supports secure pairing with PT215 based buttons.
• EnOcean: new profiles supported: 
  • D2-01-xx: electronic switches and dimmers (actors)
  • D2-32-xx: AC current clamps (Pressac CTV3 series)
  • F6-01-01: single button
  • F6-05-00: wind speed threshold detector
• Evaluators: now support functions (abs, round, if, ifvalid, testlater) and can access sensor's age, validity and operation state.
• Evaluators: now run a initial evaluation after start and when expressions are modified. The initial function can test for this to provide default values.
• Evaluators: sensor evaluators can now also be used to calculate a virtual sensor value (e.g. a total wattage from 3 current sensors etc.). 
• Evaluators: internal action evaluators can trigger an external action via http(s) GET/POST/PUT.

Improvements:

• EnOcean: upside down option for A5-14-09/0A window handle profiles.
• EnOcean: weather station profile A5-13-0x now reports short wind spikes as separate gust sensor.
• Sensor handling: sensors value processing is now adapted to the sensor type to ensure timely updates while still avoiding too many sensor events overloading the dSS.
• Connection to dSS: made more resilient in case of occasional network problems.
• and numerous other detail improvements.

Bugfixes:

• EnOcean: Fixed F6-05-01 water sensor, did not take back the detector signal when the water detection state went back to normal.
• EnOcean: Fixed temperature sensor reporting in D2-06-01 profile (Multifunction Window Handle)
• EnOcean: Fixed prophylaxis runs for A5-20-04 profile
• and many other smaller bugfixes.