Version 2.86 posted on 12/21/2003

Version 2.86 was just uploaded to:

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


New Features:

- Kirk Bauer created lib/RCSsTR40.pm for the RCS TR40 Theormostate:
http://www.resconsys.com/products/stats/serial.htm

- Kirk Bauer created lib/Light_Restriction_Item.pm and updated most of the
other Base_Item objects to improve occupancy monitoring and allow for
on-the-fly object reconnection.

- Jason Sharpe created lib/Telephony_xAP.pm, a xAP Listener for Telephony
Events. He also created bin/xAP-info.pl, a stand alone program to that
interfaces to the Asterisk phone system ( http://www.asterisk.org ) to send
incoming and outgoing phone data as xAP data.

- Lennart Lopin created code/public/games_chess.pl for a voice interface to
chess.

- Richard Koch created code/public/x10_priority.pl to create a
x10_priority_set function method for allowing high priority X10 events to
get prioritized to get sent first.

- Walter Leemput created code/public/phonelogger.tar.gz to allow a linux box
to monitor DTMF, callerid, and phone messages via a soundcard.

- Richard Koch used the Win32 MemMap module to enable the web http server to
serve large files better, without causing mh pauses on Windows (Unix did not
have this problem). To enable, use -http_fork memmap. Instead of passing the
large html file to the forked process via a file, it will pass it via a
memory map.

- Paul Estes updated lib/ncpuxa_mh.pm to support the SECU-16IR module for
transmitting infrared to multiple zones. David Norwood added support for
setting relays on multiple modules.

- Larry Roudebush updated callerid.pl to honor a rejected callers list and
added code/common/reject_caller_list.pl and web/bin/rejectcall.pl to manage
that list.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes:

- Jason Sharpe updated Door_Item.pm, Occupancy_Monitor.pm, and
Presence_Monitor.pm.

- Jim Duda updated common/proxy_client_server.pl to be more robust when
dealing with dropped clients.

- Kirk Bauer updated lib/Voice_Text.pm to reconnect to the festival server
if it got restarted and to strip out sable tags, since they are not
supported with the server.

- Robert Hughes reduced the number of earthquakes saved in
common/earthquakes*.pl from 1000 to 15, to lower the size of the
data_dir/save file.

- David Norwood updated common/comic_dailystrips.pl to use triggers to
control when it runs.

- David Norwood added an internet radio feature to the MP3 web interface.
Added a mp3_running routine to the winamp script so it will work with the
mp3 web interface in mh/web/music.


- David Norwood updated common/weather_aws.pl
so weather_monitor.pl doesn't report gusts for hours after they have
occured.
- Jason Sharpe made some presence updates to Light_Item allow countdown
timer to be ``restart''ed in Timer_Item.

- Timothy Spaulding noticed a 2.84 bug in processing proxy serial barcode
data.

- Robert Hughes and I enabed X10 BX24 proxy support by fixing a case
sensitvity problem with proxy interface names.

- Brian Rudy and Gregg Liming noticed a 2.84 problem where Serial_Item
x10_rf_relay.pl data was not uppercased, so was not parsed.

- Tom Valdes updated common/phone_logs.pl to process Audrey ACID callerid
data by allowing for an optional 1- prefix.

- Chris Barrett added a ping function to the CM11.pm module.

- Sean Walker fixed the unix bin/house command.

- Chris Witte updated the mht->xml conversion code to use XML::Twig.

- Alan Simmonds created some smarter 'debounce' code for the X10 RF modules,
to help reduce bad data due to noise. The X10_MR26, X10_W800, and X10_W800RF
modules will now process data only if it is heard twice.

- Paul Estes updated the ia5 phone interface to access Asterisk's vmail.cgi.
See comments in the mh.ini phone_voicemail* parms for details.

- Added a Run option to the Triggers menu (ia5 Events -> Alarms).

- Updated $format1 in CID_Announce.pm to announce number, if it exists, but
the number does not.

- Create a net_socket_check function and called it from mp3_winamp.pl, so we
can check first to see if a winamp httpq socket is open before we try to get
data from it. mp3.pl was calling get_playlist every 10 seconds, which would
cause frequent pauses in mh if winamp was not running.

- Updated the 'wind gust' monitor in common/weather_monitor.pl to be a
little smarter.

- Added a photo_filter2 parm, to allow small web photos to point to larger,
original photos in a different directory.

- Updated X10 status request to fill in set_by with 'status', instead of ''

- Skip merging of X10 data if the source is fast RF x10 data, so we don't
mix our X10 data streams.

- Updated X10 RF source data so set_by is 'rf' instead of 'serial'. Enabled
tie_filter to use this so we can filter out rf X10 data if needed on some
items.


Bruce




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