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Firmware 1.6.5 for P44-LC devices is a maintenance release for firmware release 1.6. It contains some general improvements and bug fixes, as well as some additional p44script capabilities.

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

Improvements since production version 1.6.4

General

• Text is now easier to select and copy in the web interface (in some browsers, text could only be selected via right-click before).
• More precise output transition timing, multiple channels can now be in differently timed transitions at the same time for hardware devices which support that.
• Evaluators: more intuitive behaviour when on/off conditions logically overlap (are both true at the same time), improved logging to make understanding evaluator condition evaluation easier.
• Foundation laid for the P44-xx device to possibly act as a matter bridge in the future.

Bugfixes

• Assigning a very long name for the P44-xx device could cause dns-sd not being able to publish and thus device would not appear in Bonjour or Avahi network browsers. Now long names are automatically shortened to prevent this.

p44script

• Added bit(field) manipulation functions: bit(), setbit(), flipbit().
• Added lowercase(), uppercase(), caseinsensitive option for find() and new replace() function for string manipulation.
• Added cquote() function.
• Added withmeta and formdata options to httprequest(). Also, httprequest() now treats all "success" class status codes (200..203) as ok, not just 200.
• Added dnssdbrowse() function to search for named public services in the local network using dns-sd (aka Bonjour, aka zeroconf, aka avahi).
• Added annotation() function to get the annotation string of a value (which for example often indicates the reason for a result being null/undefined).
• Added globalbuiltins() and contextbuiltins() functions listing all built-in global or context-level functions/objects.
• Boolean operators now return "real" boolean values, i.e. not just generic numeric 0 or 1, but actual bool type (which still converts to numeric 1 value for true, 0 for false). The main difference is that these "real" booleans, when assigned to JSON object fields, are actually represented as JSON booleans, not numbers.

Scripted devices/external device API

• Buttons now can directly report clicks and longpress (useful when the button device already has it's own click detection, which might be more precise than transmitting direct button press/release events via an API that might add too much delay).
• New "Feature" keyevents: this feature allows getting events from pressing and releasing keys from a linux /dev/input/xx device (P44-LC-X only).