Re: [mh] Are we due for another major release

I think that’s a great idea. I’m planning on merging in my master and testing tasmota over the holidays. So I think a release in January is a perfect time.

I like the idea about gathering up all the ideas and enhancements done by the community as there may be some tools created that might help others. I’m not sure the best method to gather those however. I like some of the utilities you’ve come up with Giles, however you’re correct that there is some core functionality (like the generic_item idle response) that might be duplicated. I also like the web utilities, but again wonder with an eye to the future, if we should encourage JSON as the webapi.


> On Dec 22, 2020, at 2:22 AM, Giles Godart-Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There has been quite a bit of activity in MH recently , notably on @INC, HTML and MQTT devices I was wondering if there is an appetite for another major release?
> 
> If so I have created a number of utility subroutines  that others may find useful, please see below. I expect that at least some of these are already buried in the MH core, but I wonder if we should do a call to the community for contributions before we do another release
> 
> Regards
> 
> Giles
> 
> <snip_giles_utilities>
> 
> Core routines;
> 
> trim, ltrim, rtrim
> 
> switch_logs - archives print.log, speak.log and error.log to print.log.backupn (n=1-4) etc.
> 
> print_process_log- add the content of a sub-process log to the print log, passed the name of the file to print prefixes each entry with [filename]
> 
> get_last_idle_time_by_name- return the idle time before the most recent change by name, passed the name of an object
> 
> get_last_idle_time -  return the idle time before the most recent change, passed an object
> 
> get_state_by_name - returns the state of the object, passed an object name
> 
> get_last_state_by_name - returns the previous state of the object, passed an object name
> 
> get_last_state - returns the previous state of the object, passed an object
> 
> is_member_of_group  - returns 0 or 1 depending if this device is a member of the group, passed name of the object and the group object
> 
> is_member_of_group_name - returns 0 or 1 depending if this device is a member of the group, passed name of the object and the name of the group
> 
> change_all_devices_in_group - change the state of all devices in a group passed the group name, the new status, and a set_by message only changes the state of those objects that are not in the new state already
> 
> Web routines;
> 
> get_status - get_status(item_name)  returns the status and date last changed  of device named item_name, called like http://mhip_port/SET;&get_status(Outside_temp) <http://mhip_port/SET;&get_status(Outside_temp)>
> get_uptime - returns the Misterhouse uptime called like http://mhip_port/SET;&get_uptime
> 
> html_comment - passed text and returns it wrapped  in <!-- --> to be used as a comment in the web page (used for debugging)
> 
> get_group_members - passed a group and returns returns a comma separated list of group members, called like http://mhip_port/SET;&get_group_members("MQTT_device")
> 
> 
> </snip_giles_utilities>
> 
> 
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