Version 2.96 posted on 11/22/2004

Version 2.96 was just uploaded to:

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


New Features:

- Craig Schaeffer and Danal Estes sent in code/public/monitor_mbm*.pl as
examples of montioring motherboard temperature data, using mbm on windows.

- Kirk Bauer updated lib/Musica.pm to support the new 4602 series and its FM
Tuner keypads. Also did other small patches to some of his other audio
modules.

- Dave Hall updated code/public/robot_er1.pl with many improvments,
including callerid, speak/play, and new drive commands. See header for the
list of changes.

- Timo Sariwating created code/public/dreambox.pl for interfacing to the the
European Dreambox satelite receiver.

- Russ Knize created a Debian package, available here:
http://www.knizefamily.net/russ/software/misterhouse.html

- Greg Limming update lib/xAP_Items.pm so there are now two separate
listeners/senders and hubs, to support xAP and xPL at the same time. He also
added xap_disable and xpl_disable options.

- Axel Brown updated common/internet_im.pl to to queue temporarily
undeliverable IMs for all the supported IM protocols.

- Rick Steeven created code/public/internet_internet_usgs.pl for monitoring
the water level of any river or lake in the continental US that is monitored
by the USGS. Whenever that level passes a certain point MH will send
notification.

- Created lib/Servo_Item.pm to supports servo motors via the $40 Mini SSC II
serial servo control board, available from http://seetron.com .

- Created code/common/robot_esra.pl to control the $180 Robodyssy ESRA robot
head from http://robodyssey.com . It has 5 servos (eye lid, eyes, lip
top/bottom, and an optional neck) which are connected via the Mini SSC II
serial servo controler. Pictures and a movie are at
http://misterhouse.net/public/robot/ .

- Created code/common/speak_insults.pl. You can use the mh.ini speak_apps
parms to alternate the insults between different voices and/or sound cards.
I use it so allow my 2 robots to insult each other ;)

- Created code/common/phone_minutes.pl to check on remaining cell phone
minutes. Currently for Sprint only, but could be extended for other
services. I also updated get_url to add -cookie_file_in/out options to make
navigating web sites that require password logins a bit easier.

- Added -userid and -password options to get_url, so it can access pages
with 'basic authorization' like those popup login menus you get when you
access your router. This is now used for Linksys routers in the 'Reboot the
router' command in common/monitor_router.pl . I found my new Ambit cable
modem about once a week somehow glitches my Linksys router, so I now monitor
$internet_connect_check from common/internet_connect_check.pl and run
'Reboot the router' if it goes down (see code/bruce/monitors.pl for an
example).

- Created code/common/xAP_send.pl for sending out various mh source data
data as xAP messages, for use with other xAP enabled clients.

- Gordon Meyer wrote a nice nice intro to mh article, originally published
by OReilly ONLamp at
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/11/smrthome_hks1.html , now
included in the distro with various links from the mh and install docs.



Bug Fixes and Other Changes:

- Chris Barrett noticed we missed the 2.95 bin_dir update fix

- Dan Hoffard create code/public/news_star_telegram.pl (top stories from the
Fort Worth Star Telegram) and news_onion (news from mobile.theonion.com)

- David Norwood updated lib/IR_Utils.pm to work with RC-5 and RC-6 protocol
signals. Also update USB_UIRT.pm with a minor update.

- Dominique Benoliel updated lib/X10_W800.pm to support the RF KR21 remote.

- Kirk Bauer updated bin/mh to allow for : in object names.

- Eric Marti updated the web ini edit option to allow non-admin users to
browse different categories.

- Delete lib/site/Digest/*SHA1.pm, as these older versions were causing
problems with Jabber.

- Kirk Bauer sent in mh/code/examples/mode_party.pl, to show how to set up a
party mode object.

- Added a 'Song and Dance' command to common/robot_robosapien.pl. He speaks
random fun words while dancing to the YMCA song!

- Kirk Bauer re-sent the read_record update that was supposed to be in 2.95

- Craig Schaeffer found that if we updated the MS V5 volume tag in
lib/Voice_Cmd.pm to a slightly different syntax, we could fix a problem he
was having with left and right volume control.

- Neil Cherry fixed lib/handy_net_utilites.pl to do a 'use Jabber' only
once, to avoide a problem with the Client function he was seeing.

- Kirk Bauer fixed state_final so it works even if state is not defined.

- Michael Grabowski noticed that a Group_Item X10 command addressed the last
object twice. He also discovered some incoming dim/bright data was not being
decoded properly.

- Axel Brown updated lib/Telephony_Interface.pm to work with NetCallerid
hooked to VoIP.

- David Satterfield fixed a few bugs in lib/Display_Alpha.pm

- Added the SSLeay module to mhe.exe on windows, so it can do get_url on
https (encrypted) web pages.

- Added a is_speaking 'any' option (i.e. &Voice_Text::is_speaking('any')) so
we can test for speaking on all sound cards.

- Added a file_default function to allow for an easy way to use a default
file if an override does not exist.

- Added a eval_with_timer function to run some code after some delay:
eval_with_timer $code, $time. For example: eval_with_timer 'print_log "hi
from the past"', 60;

Bruce



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