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Firmware 2.8.4.2

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 2.8.4.1

• DMX inputs in p44script: This is a relevant feature when it comes to using P44-LC/DSB based LED effect, smarthome elements or P44-AC controlled installations in a stage or event setup, where DMX is the common way of controlling gear. The new dmxinput() element can receive DMX via Art-Net and sACN, and virtual fixtures consisting of one or multiple channels() can be mapped onto any light or other functionality available in the P44 device with only a few lines of mainscript code.

• Evaluators and Triggers: Small but relevant change in WebUI: condition text fields now allow entering expressions on multiple lines, including comments - which can make complex conditions much more readable.

• p44script: add average() function which returns the average of all non-null arguments. This is useful for example in trigger/evaluator conditions involving multiple room temperature sensors, of which some might not always have a value. min() and max() now also allow multiple arguments and also ignore nulls.

• Enocean: improve logging of UTE learn telegrams, showing differentiation between learn-in only, learn-out only and learn in/out.

• dS485/IPv6: bugfix: automatic connection to dSS did not work in (non-standard) setups where vdcd was running with dual stack IPv4/v6 server sockets (--protocols IPv6v4).

Changes since 2.8.3.1 beta and 2.8.3

• Beta matter controller support: P44-DSB and P44-LC devices (with large enough memory: new 2026 generation and RaspberryPi based) now can also integrate matter accessories such as lights, sensors, plugin switches etc. by taking the role of a matter controller. Note that this is independent from the certified matter bridge functionality. It is in fact the opposite functionality - matter bridging makes the P44 a matter accessory, the new beta matter controller allows using matter accessories in the context of the P44 device.

  Use the new button labelled "Matter controller (beta)..." in the "Beta/Integration Features" section of the System" tab of the web interface to enable/disable the feature.

• p44script: New function between_times().

• evaluators: Evaluator with no off condition set will now just follow the value of the on condition, instead of remaining on forever after first time on condition is met.

• p44script: Bugfix: JS-style variable field names in object literals like { [var]: 'value' } could cause a crash depending on what var is.

• rrdb (sensor history): Sensors configured for recording time series (years old inofficial feature, ask in forum if you are interested) now have a nice dashboard page at /rrd.html showing one or multiple graphs and featuring grouping by sensor type to overlay multiple graphs of the same physical unit type.

• DNS-SD based proxy discovery: Subsystems advertising the bridge API (with --bridgeapinonlocal --advertisebridge as _p44-br._tcp) can be found automatically by the main controller. Newly found subsystems must be confirmed once in the main controller before devices are included.
• proxy: Zone names are now synchronized between proxy targets and proxy host. Creating new zones on the proxy host will not accidentally use zoneIDs already in use in proxy targets.