Version 2.83 posted on 09/01/2003

Version 2.83 was just uploaded to:

  http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html
  http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html

New Features:

- Thomas Vogl has started a MisterHouse Journal' at
http://www.trvonthe.net/mh-journal/ where he cronicles his experiences of
setting up MisterHouse on Linux Redhat.

- David Norwood created code/common/mp3.pl, mp3_winamp.pl, and mp3_xmms.pl.
He reorganized the winamp and xmms mp3 scripts to be easier to setup and
maintain. There was a lot of duplication in the winamp and xmms code and
some things like playlists were handled differently.

- Sean Walker added an option to have proxies regsiter themselves with the
main mh, to allow for an optional security, and for better starting and
stopping of proxies.

- Gregg Liming enabled support for a new TTS engine from Cepstral:
http://www.cepstral.com . $30 per voice, for either Linux or Windows (only
tested on Linux so far). Set mh.ini parm voice_text=theta and modify
voice_text_theta to point to the theta binary.

- David Lounsberry modified his vv_tts wrapper to wrap around either
viavoice, festival, or the new Cepstral TTS engine. Use
vv_tts_engine=festival or vv_tts_engine=theta.

- Steve Switzer created lib/PAobj.pm and common/pa_control.pl to enable the
rooms= speak and play parm to target specific rooms via a relay controled PA
system. See comment at the end of pa_control.pl for example .mht entries.



Bug Fixes and Other Changes:

- Ross Towbin updated lib/X10_W800RF.pm to fix a case typo and increased a
delay so a single press from a remote isn't processed multiple times.

- Steve Haehnichen fixed lib/Lynx10PLC.pm to work correctly with
Lynx10PLC_XMIT_PWR values of 94 -> 100.

- Robert Mann added line 1/2/etc support to common/phone_logs.pl and
web/bin/phone_in.pl

- Wally Kissel noted the File_Item method index should have been get_index
in doc/mh.pod

- Brian McKissick fixed the web code browser on linux and noted a missing
frameset tag in the new my_mh/index.html file.

- Chris Witte updated mh so it no longer has to be re-started to activate a
password change and he updated the 'password accepted' message.

- Chris Witte and I updated the tie_event method to correctly enable
get_set_by for objects set by tied events.

- Jaco Botha updated common/internet_irridium.pl to work with
date_format=ddmm, rather than the default of mmdd.

- Steve Switzer added a link to results of web/bin/phone_search.pl

- David Norwood added info and links on IR interfaces to the hardware
section of docs/mh.pod.

- Sean Walker and I updated enabled the File_Item set_watch method to set
the respond target field and updated common/tv_info.pl to use respond
instead of speak so we can better query tv show info from other locations.

- Gregg Liming noticed that 2.82 could cause volume to muted on startup.

- Richard Phillips updated code/public/mp3_control_xmms.pl to auto-start
xmms if it isn't already running.

- Craig Schaeffer fixed a cleanup problem in common/comic_dailystrips.pl.

- Jon Boehm sent in common/speak_mac.pl, to enable speech on the Mac
(support was there since 2.76, but I forgot to include this file).

- Steve Switzer updated the setup menus with logon menus if accessed by
non-admin users.

- Scott Johnson updated lib/Stargate.pm to echo Stargate generated X10
commands to MisterHouse.

- Steve Switzer updated lib/Telephony_Interface.pm to allow 'call from
number' instead of 'call from unknown' for NetCallID calls of known numbers,
but unknown names.

- Gregg Liming suggested we update lib/Telephony_Interface.pm to ignore
callerid data that has neither name or number.

- Steve Switzer added 'Get AWS weather data' to common/weather_aws.pl

- Richard Phillips discovered a case where an mh restart would fail if a
``Can't use string (''1``) as a HASH ref'' error.

- David Norwood and Steve Switzer updated bin/get_tv_grid to create
non-cachable 'TV today' pages.

- Moved the 'proxy is dead' check into bin/mh.

- Updated common/news_yahoo.pl to store its html page in the ia5 news
directory.


Bruce



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