diff --git a/docs/updates.pod b/docs/updates.pod index 8d21b4aca..7191585e5 100644 --- a/docs/updates.pod +++ b/docs/updates.pod @@ -1,9607 +1,9 @@ =pod -=head1 Mister House Announcement List +=head1 MisterHouse Changelog =begin html -This is a copy of the mh update announcements made to MisterHouse mailing list, also -archived here +A complete list of all changes can be found at GitHub =end html -=head2 Changes in the current test version - -=begin html -

The latest changelog for current test release -(available via the SVN repository -can be found in the SVN change log -with highlights listed in the release notes. - -=end html - - -=head2 Version 2.105 posted on 12/01/2008 - -Version 2.105 can be downloaded from here: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 - - Added ability to set local onlevel and ramprate via properties: local_onlevel and local_ramprate. -Settings are written to device memory via method: update_localproperties. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 - - Added support to change the operating flags of a keypadlinc via method: update_flags. -Pass in a two digit hex string that corresponds to the bit flags for a kpl. - -David Norwood :: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - - fixed read voice command - -David Norwood :: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - - fixed scalding problem in graphs - -David Norwood :: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - - change url encoding of space to + - -David Norwood :: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - - allow for comments in dvc files - -David Norwood :: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - - minor changes - -David Norwood :: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - - added default graph to display - -David Norwood :: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - - added pronto codes for three new devices - -David Norwood :: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - - added debugging information - -David Norwood :: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - - added a new script and web page to monitor and graph internet traffic from an Actiontec MI424-WR used by Verizon FIOS - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 - - Ensure get_idle_item_data doesn't return an empty hash if no valid types are requested. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 - - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - - Ensure debug info is only printed w/ appropriate module's debug flag enabled. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - - Rewrote logic to track timing of each received message and to use this info to guard against "hangs". - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - - Fix regex on handling names with periods. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - - Bug fix on light blanking function. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - - Use super::set_now not super::set to ensure proper state propagation. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - - Ensure debug output is enabled through debug option instead of prevented regardless. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - - Added main::get_idle_item_data which will return a sorted array of hashes containing -idle time data for items of the type (or inherited type) that is passed in -as a comma-delimitted string. - -PetaMem Research :: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - - minor reformatting, mainly svn commit test - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 - - Change server's default port from tcp 14 (incorrect and unknown?) to the correct one: 13. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 - - Removed one line from default shopping_list.txt to confirm that sourceforge write access is working. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 - - Added reset serial capability to the PLM. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 - - Implement more generic framework for intercepting/parsing "info request" style messages. -Especially useful for new classes that inherit from Insteon_Device. - -David Norwood :: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 - - dded the "-a" option to the h2ph commands in the configure script to hopefully convert all the needed include files for the ioctl definitions. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 - - Additional change to strips.def to support Dilbert Sunday comic. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 - - Updated Dilbert pattern in strips.def. - -Gregg Liming :: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 - - Ensure that reference to PLM in poll_members is not undefined. - -Jim Duda :: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 - - I changed the restore_string such that it will only reload the cmds array if a cmds array hasn't been previously defined by the new initialization call. This bug caused the persistent value to override any changed value defined in the new call. For example, a code change with a new cmds parameter to new will never take affect because the persistence value would override it. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 - - Add support for xPL_X10Security items which implement the x10.security schema. - -David Norwood :: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 - - I fixed the problem Rick Bolen found in the stocks script. It appears that the command of a process item is being reset by the item state restore mechanism in misterhouse, even if the command is set at startup. I also fixed a problem that caused some commands not to work properly if there was a stock alert. - -David Norwood :: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 - - fixed the breaking news script so it doesn't say "plus equals" over and over - -David Norwood :: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 - - Added Jim Skinner's comments about diagnosing problems with the configure script. - -Jim Duda :: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 - - I simply qualified a print_log with Debug to avoid chatter in the log file. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 - - Correct typo in state verbs specific to thermostat adapter. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 - - Adjust queueing logic so that the retry timeouts only start when the command is actually sent to the PLM -insteon of when it is received by the PLM queue. This should improve responsiveness and also avoid -accidental retries. In addition, add state "verbs" to support the EzRain and Thermostat Adapter. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 - - Adding support for Cirrus Logic chipset. Patch supplied by Daniel Arnold - -Matthew Williams :: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 - - Fixed default location for common code files. Patch supplied by Daniel Arnold. - -Andrew McLaren :: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 - - Move debug flag to use mh.ini parameter "debug=cbus". - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 - - Remove check on isa RF_Item in set method since it does not have set_receive method. - -Tim Spaulding :: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 - - Enabling AutoSend feature on the thermostat - -Gregg Liming :: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 - - Add reload_hook to reset xpl_item_names (cached item names); otherwise, xPL items can "go deaf" on a reload (vice restart). - -Andrew McLaren :: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 - - Change Subversion properties and add Subversion keywords to comments at top of file to conform to MH standard. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 - - Reset xap_item_names on reload so that new references to xAP_Items will be populated. Otherwise, -the result will be old references to previous items and code that relies on xAP_Items will go deaf. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 - - Rename is_member to is_member_device so as to not conflict with inherited method from Base_Item. Also, use add_item_if_not_present to avoid duplicate member additions. - -Andrew McLaren :: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 - - Make the print_log "updating weather graphs" a debug level message. - -Andrew McLaren :: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 - - Fixed config parameter "display_groups" handling. It now accepts lists of rooms delimited by the standard ",;|" options. (Same delimiters as used by the "display_apps" parameter.) - -Andrew McLaren :: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - - New function to allow use of config parameter "display_rooms" to -configure a MythTV device as a room display. -Allow use of either the "notify_alert_text" or "notify_cid_info" MythTV -OSD container. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 - - Remove excess restrictions on when an MWI_xAP instance can report a proper state. - -Howard Plato :: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 - - Updated to reflect new option sync_dtstamp. For use with calendar servers (ie google), which updates this field each time the calendar is downloaded. - -Tim Spaulding :: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 - - updated UPB_Thermostat.pm module and a example .pl for usage - -Howard Plato :: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 - - Added some debug to track down MD5 issue - -Andrew McLaren :: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - - Major changes to Clipsal CBus interface to make it capable with the latest CGate protocol. -Interface can now automatically scan the CBus network and self configure. -Configuration file format changed. -The original code architecture has been retained. -A rewrite is required to fully integrate CBus to the level of X10, etc. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 - - Add support for set_with_timer. Method must override Generic_Item because setby can't be self. - -Howard Plato :: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 - - Fixed a bug? message numbers were showing as 01 all the time as $msgcnt_prev wasn't being updated for imap or if pop3 left mail on the server - -Howard Plato :: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 - - Updated ical2vsdb to add the sync_dtstamp option. Google calendar updates the timestamp for calendars as they are read. This defeats the ability to MD5 the string to see if the iCal changed. This should have a significantly lower CPU load for google calendar users as iCal::Parser is no longer invoked if the iCal hasn't changed. -Update iCal::Parser to the latest - -Howard Plato :: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 - - Modified script to only process iCal if changed in poll period. As iCal::Parse is very CPU intensive, this should reduce some of the load of using ical2vsdb - -Howard Plato :: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 - - get_email can now access imap mailboxes, both over standard imap and imap-over-ssl (ie Gmail). This update requires several dependancies, which are described in the libs. handy_net_utilities has also been modified to send mail through gmail is it is a gmail account. Lastly, some minor cosmetic fixes to get_email. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 - - Fix problem w/ aliased AnalogSensor_Items occurring on reload (not restart). Problem identified by Andy McCallum. -Also, fixed ability to fully qualify the sourcename in items.mht for all sources (including oxc). - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 - - Allow Alert* and Normal* patterns to accomodate embdded chars like "lowbattery" within the expression. -Patch supplied by Jason Horne. - -Matthew Williams :: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 - - Changed some gocomics strips back from DRM to "gen" as the DRM scheme seems to have been abandoned. These strips include foxtrot, garfield and calvin and hobbes. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 - - Set the embedded BSC_Items to always report state--even if identical--so that idle tracking can occur. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 - - Set the "set_time" hash member so that idle time can be determined. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 - - Extend check during set of child objects to include RF_Items--which should only be set_receive. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 - - Fix previous check on mh_exit. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 - - Don't send xap-hbeat.stopped on reload--only on exit. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 - - Added support to adjust "nice" level to process items when they fork an external program (*nix only). -Allows global ini parm: process_nice_level=x and individual process item control: $some_proc->nice_level(x). - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 - - Implement reset method so that memory is not leaked everytime that a tab file is modified. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 - - Clear out callback record before the evaluation to prevent subsequent link add/update/link transaction's callback from being cleared. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 - - Protect against conditions where a user does not define the root device (:01) when also definining a non-root device (:0x). -Usually, this would occur from a typo when entering insteon addresses for keypadlincs. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 - - Drop flag to prevent multiple scan all or sync all attempts as a stall situation can occur and will otherwise force a reload. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 - - Fix case sensitivity bug. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 - - Fix restore and case sensitivity bugs. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 - - Adjust scan/sync all output to rely on real indices. Improve error handling for scan/sync all. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 - - Address bug introduced by duplicated processing. Improve NACK handling for synchronous messaging (e.g., peeks/pokes). - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 - - Adjust ack message routing to use cached prior command rather than use (unreliable) parsed command from insteon message. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 - - Reset scan counter. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 - - Reset retry counter if the "extra" field does not match. This prevents premature command retry aborts if a sequence of similar commands (e.g., peeks during a memory scan). - -Ryan Davies :: Thu, 29 May 2008 - - Modified mpe_mpd.pl to include additional documentation. Changed mpd.conf.raw to be more generic - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 23 May 2008 - - Prevent double-set (via surrogate) if setby self. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 23 May 2008 - - Remove warning when setting non-root (e.g., keypadlinc buttons) devices. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 23 May 2008 - - Resolve bug when case when keypadlinc button does not have an attached surrogate link. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 23 May 2008 - - Fix bug introduced by latest keypadlinc button state changes. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 22 May 2008 - - Provide improved support for controlling light state of Keypadlinc buttons. Resolve case sensitivity bugs. Implement duplicate link detection and removal. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 18 May 2008 - - Improve logging output for keypadlincs. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 18 May 2008 - - Encapsultate detection of keypadlinc. - -Ryan Davies :: Sun, 18 May 2008 - - Fixed typo on Shuffle (Sub call should have been random, not shuffle) - -Gregg Liming :: Sat, 17 May 2008 - - Support keypadlincs with devcat of 020f. Thanks to Brandon Powers for the new devcat. - -Gregg Liming :: Sat, 17 May 2008 - - Fix bug (reported by Brandon Powers) when group is '01' and controlled by the plm. - -Ryan Davies :: Thu, 08 May 2008 - - Copied code from mh/web/bin/photos.pl to make image names more HTML complient e.g. replace space with %20 - -Ryan Davies :: Thu, 08 May 2008 - - Fixed Minor bug. Photo viewer wasn't stripping file names correctly for captions in custom folders. - -Ryan Davies :: Wed, 07 May 2008 - - Accidently created Syntax Errors adding Date/Revision information - -Ryan Davies :: Wed, 07 May 2008 - - Added SmoothGallery image slideshow/viewer and web/bin/photos_new.pl - -Troy Carpenter :: Fri, 02 May 2008 - - Change X10 code created from Insteon PLM receive to properly report "all_off" -and "all_lights_on" correctly so upper level X10 code will recognize the command -and set the value of items on the house code correctly. - -Troy Carpenter :: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 - - Change handling of all_[off|lights_off|lights|on] commands. Improve X10 debug output. - -Troy Carpenter :: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 - - Add support for sending X10 all_(off|lights_off|lights_on). - -Ryan Davies :: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 - - Modified mp3_mpd.pl to use perl's KILL command to check if the mpd process is running. Noticable CPU usage drop has been noted becaus of this modification - -Howard Plato :: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 - - Web Interface to show status of Network_Items. - -Ryan Davies :: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 - - Forgot to set properties as states on the wiki (in Style) - -Ryan Davies :: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 - - Added mpd directory to data dir with initial Config file. Added MPD Playback support. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 - - Support ability to append log files via -mode_log_file command line argument. Thanks to Andy M for the suggestion. - -David Satterfield :: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 - - Fixed divide by 100 error in Kwtdy, cleaned up code - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 - - Support queues with ID=0 - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 - - Properly support valve's with ID=0. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 - - Continuation of prior fix. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 - - Bug fix to resolve errors thrown when calling queue->clear. Thanks to Andy M. for identifying the bug. - -Matthew Williams :: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 - - Adding missing ' from generate HTML. Fix from Chris Barrett. - -Joe Blecher :: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 - - Fixed issue with decoding variable packet length. -Decoded more fields --This line, and those below, will be ignored-- -M TED.pm - -Matthew Williams :: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 - - Updated dailystrips with new type "doublesearch" that searches one page to generate a URL, then retrieves and searches that second page to get the image url. -Dilbert requires this special handling. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 - - Do not automatically insert sensor type into the subaddress unless the connecting conduit is oxc. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 - - Adjust call to BSC->send_query to the new BSC->query. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 - - Implement query method to allow BSC item states to be more easily queried. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 - - Fix regex comparison problem where partial matches were allowed. Thanks to Steve Bauer for discovering the bug. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 - - Prevent resend of command if received from same Insteon_Device (or _Link) item. Add support for local on level via "local_onlevel" property. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 - - Pass real member on level--don't interpret 100% as 'on'. - -Jim Duda :: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 - - I updated the perl bindings to OWFS to use strings instead of ints to match the latest version of the OWFS software. - -David Satterfield :: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 - - David Satterfield added support for TED (The Energy Detective) - -David Satterfield :: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 - - David Sattefield added %Electric hash in support of Ted - -Matthew Williams :: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 - - Modified regex for creator class of comics as some of these have moved from .gif to .jpg. - -Pete Flaherty :: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 - - Pete Flaherty update camera dir listing to align colums to wc_max parameter and a typo too - -Pete Flaherty :: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 - - Pete Flaherty update camera dir listing to align colums to wc_max parameter - -David Satterfield :: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 - - added zwave items - -Jim Duda :: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 - - I added a new voice command which allows the pocketsphinx language files to get reset to force a rebuild on the next restart. - -Jim Duda :: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 - - I updated the pocketsphinx module to avoid rebuilding the language model files if the files are available and no new voice commands have been created since the files were last built. This saves some compute time during mh startup inside a forked thread. - -Jim Duda :: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 - - I cleaned up some of the example code and removed some confusing code snipets. - -Jim Duda :: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 - - I made some enhancements to avoid unattended pocketsphinx programs from running between restarts and reloads. - -Jim Duda :: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 - - I moved the DS2450 package into the Owfs_Item.pm file. To avoid clutter, all the OWFS modules can live in the same Owfs_Item file. - -David Satterfield :: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 - - added lirc target - -David Satterfield :: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 - - first commit for lirc support in mh - -Howard Plato :: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 - - Fix minor typo in print statement - -Pete Flaherty :: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 - - Pete Flaherty added camera snapshot directory (web/cameras), updated common code stub for settings, added support pls for dynamic slidshow/movie player and support in web/bin corrected typo added missing - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 - - -Jim Duda :: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 - - I added configuration parameters for pocketsphinx. - -Jim Duda :: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 - - Updated version with bulk of the control software pushed down to PocketSphinx.pm library module. - -Jim Duda :: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 - - Initial file revision, modules to interface with OWFS. - -Jim Duda :: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 - - Initial file submission. Library module for Pocketsphinx voice recognition. - -Jim Duda :: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 - - Initial submission. OWFS perl API interface. - -Jim Duda :: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 - - Initial file submission. One Wire File system code module example. - -Jim Duda :: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 - - Initial file submission. One Wire File system cgi perl script for thermostat. - -Pete Flaherty :: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 - - Pete Flaherty added camera snapshot directory (web/cameras), updated common code stub for settings, added support pls for dynamic slidshow/movie player and support in web/bin - -David Norwood :: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 - - removed "status" from the insteon_menu_states ini parameter, since it's added automatically - -David Norwood :: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 - - updated the "list" web function so it displays the correct image for Insteon devices based on their current light level - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 - - Adjust calls to request_status to reflect requestor (to support proper tracking). - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 - - Added level property (to support web pages) and adjusted status_request calls and state updates to reflect originator. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 - - Remove ref on call to status_request (to be consistent with status_request tracking). - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 - - Ensure that zone name matching when processing zone updates are case insensitive. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 - - Updated URLs for The Devil's Panties comic. - -David Norwood :: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 - - added support for insteon_menu_commands to the "list" web function - -David Norwood :: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 - - minor changes - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 - - Added XPL_LIGHTGATEWAY and XPL_LIGHT tags to support the new xPL Lighting classes. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 - - Initial submission of support for the xPL lighting schema. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 - - Changed debug=1 to debug=1 as requested by Andy M. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 - - Allow support for xPL's concept of "continuation lines" where additional items are continued across multiple tags with the same tag name. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 - - Allow both commas and semi-colons to delimit multiple debug options. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 - - Properly qualify debug statement in socket_has_data. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 - - Make socket warn statement in socket_has_data conditional on debug=socket - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 - - Use temporary files to write graph data to--swapping on completing a graph. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 - - Update call to socket_has_data to avoid errors. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 - - Update call to socket_has_data in http_process_request to not continue if an error is returned (negative value). This resolves problems encountered by Andy M. with system "hangs". - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 - - Update socket_has_data to retry if EINTR (system interrupt encountered). Update all calls to socket_has_data to only continue processing if returned value is greater than 0 (ignoring errors). - -Howard Plato :: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 - - Minor bugfixes and cleaned up debug output. Thanks to Troy for testing! - -Pete Flaherty :: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 - - Pete Flaherty added code support directory and file structure -committed mh-pocketsphinx automated dl,compile,install scriptt for Linux - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 - - Ensure returned values for "ignore_message" method return either 1 or 0. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 - - Ensure that deviceid=0 can be used for device monitor in xPL_SensorBasic. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 - - Support use of Insteon_PLM_disable_throttling config parm to speed things up for firmware > 62. Adjusted callback evaluation code. Omitted RemoteLinc devices from startup scan. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 - - Pass optional arguments to the Insteon_Device and Insteon_Link constructors. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 - - Support passing devcat in the constructor to support (usually) "deaf" devices like the RemoteLinc. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 - - Allow devcat to be passed in to the constructor to support (usually) "deaf" devices like the RemoteLinc. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 - - Prevent setting queue_timer_callback for the plm items. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 - - Add "sync all links" voice command. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 - - Correct add_link parameter references. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 - - Implement queue timer callback. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 - - Defer callback eval until after insteon ack. Ensure get_object's group evaluation is case insensitive. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 - - Fix problem with incorrect selection of next available address on add_link. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 - - Prevent retaining valid message as a fragment if no match against deviceid and group to a defined mh item. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 - - Handle special case of plm-controlled links with group = 01. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 - - Handle special case of plm link with group = 01. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 - - Implemented queued link delete operations so that delete orphans processing is serialized. - -Jim Duda :: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 - - I added support for the pocketsphinx voice recognition system. - -Jim Duda :: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 - - Initial file submission of the control module for the pocketsphinx voice recognition system. - -Jim Duda :: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 - - Initial file submission of the pocketsphinx script. This script runs as a -a separte process from mh. It spawns off more processes, one for each -seperate listening device. Each process starts up one instance of the -pocketsphinx_continous program and waits (blocking) for utterances from -the pocketsphinx_continous program, then forwards the resulting values -to mh via a tcp socket. - -Matthew Williams :: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 - - Backing out r1295 as it prevents callerid.pl from being used in non Windows environments. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 - - Avoid repeat (accidental) set state by processing queue timer. - -Pete Flaherty :: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 - - updated language to be GPL2 unless otherwise noted - -Pete Flaherty :: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 - - Pete Flaherty added code support directory and file structure -committed mh-pocketsphinx automated dl,compile,install scriptt for Linux - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Support adaptive queue timeouts. Miscellaneous link management bug-fixes. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Allow request_status to revert to Insteon_Device if link is a root device. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Support adaptive queue lengths. Miscellaneous link management bug fixes. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Ensure that delete_orphan_links always uses root device (not logic/link device). - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Ensure that delete_orphans always uses root device (not logical/link device). - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Fix additional cases specific to KeypadLincs. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Handle additional cases specific to KeypadLincs. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Improve logging readability. Fix bug in add_link where on_level arbitrarily set to 100. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Improve logging readability. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Minor revisions to adjust link records for Keypadlinc originated links for buttons other than A. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 - - Add status function to IPLL items whose group = '01'. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 - - Ensure Insteon_Link items w/ group = '01' are also interrogated at startup. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 - - Include sync links function for non-PLM (in addition to PLM) controlled links. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 - - Numerous link management improvements and bug-fixes. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 - - Significantly improve coverage (scope) of delete_orphaned_links. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 - - Implemented queued linking; improved sync link processing by only updating changes. - -Peter Sj���din :: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 - - Support for EIS 7 blinds, by Thomas H�rndlein - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 - - Steve Goldman's patch to items.pl to allow for a previously non-existant items.mht. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - - Merging in Bruce's accidental commit to the 2.104 branch (r1319): -Log Message: -Adding example code from Rick Bassett on interfacing to sensorts from eEsensors.com -Added Paths: - branches/v2-104/code/public/Esensor_EM01.pl - -Matthew Williams :: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 - - A few patches from David Worenklein including fixes for a small patch issue and adding additional command support for X10_Wish. - -Pete Flaherty :: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 - - Pete Flaherty supurfluous file removed - -Pete Flaherty :: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 - - Chris Barrett found a minor bug that caused the process to fork prematurely -Needed to double escape the & in the url - -Matthew Williams :: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 - - Adding definition for "Delucq". - -Pete Flaherty :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Update to start at camera 1 not 0. makes assignments consistant from ini to display - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Added support to detect and process "bad" commands--indicated by a '0f' appended to the returned message. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Increase scope of delete orphan links to include reverse references. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Allow group number to be passed into link_to_interface and unlink_to_interface methods. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Adjust logic in link_to_interface and unlink_to_interface to find appropriate "surrogate" object to perform functions when group number is not '01'. Similarly, revised xlate_mh_insteon to only perform automatic broadcast commands if group is not '01'. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Add support for log links to IPLL (Insteon_Links) whose group number is 01/ - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Avoid all-link command prefixing if setby is an Insteon_Link and group is '01'. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Ensure that device commands are adjusted to be "standard" vice "alllink" if an Insteon_Link's group is '01'. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Only iterate over members in set method if group is not '01'. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Provide support for scan links for IPLL (Insteon Links) whose group is is 01. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Fix pump_is_running method. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Added debug lines for valve state tracking. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Fix sprinklr.pump and default-queue-id tracking. Fix based on assistance from Andy M. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - - Fix reference to xPL lib. Bug fix contributed by Andy M. - -Matthew Williams :: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 - - Rick Steeve's changed to get_tv_grid_* so that it works for single digit months. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 - - Fix typos in references to sprinklr schema. Update xPL_Irrigation_Gateway's ignore_message method to prevent excluding request messages. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 - - Initial support for the xPL sprinklr.basic schema and gateway. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 - - Correct reference to print_log. Bug fix submitted by Brian Warren. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 - - Chris Barrett's patch to weather_graph_zoom.pl to respect the format of mh.ini->date_format. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 - - Adding Jo Shanks' modifications to callerid to allow an Outlook contact database to be used (Windows only!). - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 - - Adding Lio comic courtesy of Pete Flaherty - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 - - Adding Tom's (SkaBoyTD) yahoo traffic script. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 - - Adding Rick Steeve's new XMLTV based tv grid stuff. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 - - Adding additional comics courtesy of Dan Rich. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - - Updates to reflect AWS URL changes. Contributed by Brian Rudy. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - - Check existance of PLM object in check_for_data before accessing methods. - -Pete Flaherty :: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - - Adding webcam functioality and settings - -Pete Flaherty :: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - - Adding webcam functioality and settings - -Pete Flaherty :: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - - Adding webcam functioality and settings - -Pete Flaherty :: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - - Adding webcam functioality and settings - -Pete Flaherty :: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - - Update to comment out tagline dependent code, keeping mh from crashing when loading without tagline enabled - -Pete Flaherty :: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - - Audrey monitiring for ping and http with item related power cycle - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - - Trap errors caused by unavailable SAPI voices. Interrogate available SAPI voices at startup. Added additional debug statements. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 - - Disable duplicate message checking in main queue for x10 as house codes may be duplicates - -Howard Plato :: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 - - Fixed a bug where holiday's weren't processed correctly. Added an option to locally cache icals fetched over http. - -David Norwood :: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 - - minor changes - -David Norwood :: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 - - There was a strange bug in the internet weather script that kept changes to the city, state, and zone parameters from being recognized. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 - - Added ability to link/unlink back to the interface for Insteon_Device and Insteon_Links. This facilitates creating the "link back" for SwitchLinc and KeypadLinc devices. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 - - Added support for add and delete link records. Extended "sync_links" to include addition of link (and not just updates). Various bug-fixes. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 - - Change default "always_set_state" to be 0 (off). This is more intuitive behavior given that sets otherwise occur on info messages. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 - - Add pull-down support for IPLL (Insteon Link) as well as column definitions for IPLL and SCENE_MEMBER. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 - - Ensure that xap-hbeat.stopped is sent on exit so that external hubs know to release mh's hub port. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 - - Updated code to detect and process commands based on better protocol documentation for the Digimax 210 (courtesy of Chris Barrett). - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 - - Replace with proper "off" image per David Satterfield. - -Tim Spaulding :: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 - - Initial implementation of the RCS UPB Thermostat - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 - - Fix status request bug (double conversion to percent). Added ability to set local on level and ramp rate. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 - - Added x10 transmission debug statements. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 - - Detect fragments that lead w/ valid insteon code [courtesy of log file provided by DeanJunk]. - -Tim Spaulding :: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 - - Add support for "UPBT" RCS UPB Thermostat - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 - - Added ability to perform full device scans for all defined devices. Added ability to sync link data. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 - - Added support for updating link records in devices. Improved overall support for linking and resolved various link-related bugs. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 - - Added XKCD comic definition as supplied by Rick Steeves. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 - - Dave Lounsberry's fix to the web server to clear out the $html variable between runs regardless of user client settings. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 - - Added debug line to &X10_Item::set_interface. - -Tim Spaulding :: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 - - Made the $message_type hash available outside this package - -Gregg Liming :: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 - - Only allow device scans on restart after mh normally exits. Prevent rescans on reloads. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 - - Added ability to save/restore contents of AllLink table so that it will persist across restarts. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 - - Replace all occurances of timer objects and blocking selects with high-res timeout counters. Fixed flaw with fragment processing that would allow one fragment of multiple to be lost. Implemented ability to scan AllLink table and persist it as part of the object (during save/restore). - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 - - Replace bad dates with good ones (prior to 2038). - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 - - Merging in changes from 2.104 branch, revs 1213:1253. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 - - Pete (pjf) discovered that audrey_cid.pl was corrupted in rev 347. This version repairs the corruption while keeping the intended changes applied in rev 347. - -Howard Plato :: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 - - Updated organizer system. Options are now a comma delimited list, and ical2vsdb can read a directory of icals (collection). Calendar.pl quick bug fix to properly parse ical names - -Matthew Williams :: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 - - Updated Net::OSCAR to v1.925 and added debug support to AIM/ICQ (OSCAR) connections in handy_net_utilities. - -Jason Sharpee :: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 - - Update the authors - -Jason Sharpee :: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 - - Update the authors - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 - - Fixed a problem w/ loss of commands from the command stack. Implemented timeout on non-ack'd messages. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 - - Clear prior command buffer and minor debug statement additions/revisions. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 - - Ensure awaiting_ack flag is always cleared unless synch is set. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 - - Implement basic throttling of send messages when excess number is transmitted. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 - - Bug fixes related to resent timeouts and all linking. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 - - Numerous bug fixes and improvements on ack and fragment handling. - -Howard Plato :: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 - - iCal based Holiday generation code for different regions. Regional holidays are specified in data/holidays.* and an apple ical/ms outlook compatible ical file will be created at the root of the web server. This file can be imported into a calendar tool or imported back into MH via the organizer ical2vsdb parser. Setting that file's option to holiday enables the organizer.pl's holiday functionality. -Lots of dependencies, so if anyone wants to test this out see the requirements in bin/holical. If this is useful system-wide, it may be worthwhile to add the dependancies to lib/site (similar to what was done for ical2vsdb) - -Howard Plato :: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 - - organizer ical graphics - -Howard Plato :: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 - - pretty major change to the organizer web interface. Updated all code to latest release (2.5.2). Added drop downs for date processing to ensure quality data for organizer.pl, removed scripts that were not accessed by the web interface (setup.pl would crash MH for me), and lastly added some snazzy ical graphics to show which items were sync'd via ical2vsdb. - -Howard Plato :: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 - - Added ability to create i2v.cfg config file based on mh.ini param entries. Also minor bugfix to allow notification emails to be sent to multiple accounts - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 - - Added Insteon_PLM_scan_at_startup as a means of disabling the automatic scan by settting the parm to 0. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 - - Protect xPL send from poorly formed arguments. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 - - Added support for scanning link table and initiating links to PLM as a controller. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 - - Add writable method. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 - - Various Insteon ALL-link improvements--including the ability to sync Light_Items. - -Gregg Liming :: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 - - Add support for xPL_UPS. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 - - Allow state monitor override parameter in xPL_Sensor's constructor. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 - - Trap status attributes from hbeat.app messages. Fix mh's hbeat sending so that it observes the specified interval (default is 5 minutes). - -Gregg Liming :: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 - - Simplified open_port function and made heartbeat sending use xpl_address and then ipaddress_xpl as possible overrides for remoteip attrib in heartbeat message. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Object scan failed to catch embedded xAP objects like those used in BSC. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Fix reference to xAP:send that is specific to xPL so that it uses the new xPL package. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Add support for xPL_Sensor via XPL_SENSOR tag. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Added xpl as a valid "conduit". - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Add appropriate references to the new xPL_Items.pm module and related params. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Repackage all xPL-specific logic from the original xAP_Items.pm Add new package: xPL_Sensor that implements sensor.basic scheme. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Split out xPL specific logic so that it will be in its own set of packages and files (xPL_Items.pm). - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Adds voice commands for all Insteon_Device, Insteon_Link and Insteon_PLM items. These can be used to perform "assisted" link enrollment. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Add support for Insteon_Links (ALL-Linking) via tag IPLL. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 - - Added additional support for ALL-links where PLM is both responder or controller and for link state updates to cross-linked responders. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 - - merging in changes from 2.104 branch. Revs 1189:1213 - -Jason Sharpee :: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 - - fix incorrect delegation to link. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 - - Added support to receive insteon messages; accelerate sending (if insteon); initial all-link support (via reception); automatic state syncing if manual state change detected. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 - - remove debug messages - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 - - remove debug messages - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 - - remove debug message - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 - - Re-order parameters to be more like X10. Add Insteon to create list - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 - - Re-order paramters to be more like X10 - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 - - Add support for status request. Add code for LOMP objects (Gregg L.) - -Jason Sharpee :: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 - - fix quoting issue on insteon' - -Jason Sharpee :: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 - - Add support for X10_Appliance - -Jason Sharpee :: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 - - Add UPB and Insteon support - -Jason Sharpee :: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 - - Add support for UPB and Insteon Items - -Jason Sharpee :: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 - - Fix X10 receive issues - -Jason Sharpee :: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 - - Queue Reliability Issues. Fix X10 receive - -Jason Sharpee :: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 - - Forgot a message type to include in the templates - -Jason Sharpee :: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 - - Add in Insteon_Device code. Refactoring for jumbled messages. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 - - Add support for Insteon_Device.pm - -Jason Sharpee :: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 - - Initial Insteon Device - -Jason Sharpee :: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 - - Initial Version for Insteon_PLM support - -Jason Sharpee :: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 - - Initial Version for X10 support - -Matthew Williams :: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 - - Merged in patches from 2.104 branch - revs 1177:1189. - - - -=head2 Version 2.104 posted on 11/04/2007 - -Version 2.104 can be downloaded from here: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Oct 5 2007 - - Revised parsing of state_monitor and device_monitor so that they properly strip spaces and allow both colon and equals signs as delimitters. Bug idenfified by Ron Klinkien. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue Sep 25 2007 - - Made some print_logs dependent on Debug flags as per Chris Barrett's suggestion. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue Sep 25 2007 - - Dave Lounsberry's patch to vv_tts.pl to fix a few problems: -1. vv_tts.pl errors out on missing right bracket. -# ./vv_tts.pl -help -Missing right curly or square bracket at ./vv_tts.pl line 296, at end of line -syntax error at ./vv_tts.pl line 296, at EOF -Execution of ./vv_tts.pl aborted due to compilation errors. -I noticed that sometime since 2.100 was released the end curly bracket for the BEGIN statement was moved up to the end of last line with text instead of on a line by itself. Moving the bracket back to a line by itself fix the error on what I run, perl 5.8.8 on Linux/Ubuntu. There is a comment on that line about making perl2exe happy. Maybe that change was required for perl2exe? Not sure. -2. I use the swift TTS engine which was not released back when I wrote vv_tts a long time ago. Added swift as an -engine option along side theta. Also changed the debug line noting the engine used. -3. Change some minor cosmetics and my email address. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue Sep 18 2007 - - Fixing iButton list routine so that it doesn't repeat results twice if you don't have a second iButton serial port. Bug report and fix supplied by Chris Barrett. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed Sep 12 2007 - - Force reinit of organizer_tasks on reload in case reload action causes empty tasks.tab. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Sep 10 2007 - - Constrained output of element color to print_log to occur only if debug is set to weather_graph. Bug and suggested fix provided by Chris Barrett. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed Sep 5 2007 - - Protect against bad date formats (entered via web or perhaps from the flawed "stock" tab files). - -Gregg Liming :: Wed Sep 5 2007 - - Trap write errors when upgrading vsDBs (if permissions or ownership is wrong). - -Gregg Liming :: Wed Sep 5 2007 - - Rewrite vsdb upgrade function to be "safe" to include handling absent databases and databases w/ differing existing schemas. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Sep 4 2007 - - Ensure setby in set_receiver_RF_item is set to 'rf'. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Sep 3 2007 - - Wrap vsDB access code with eval to prevent errors from leaving incompletely generated organizer_*.pl code. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Aug 31 2007 - - Fix support for x10 security devices (e.g., ms10a). Fix based on submission from James Armstrong. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Aug 31 2007 - - Fix proper generation of speak announcement for all day events. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Aug 31 2007 - - Update version id to 2.104. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Aug 29 2007 - - Copied from: trunk revision 1176 -Creating branch for 2.104 stabilization. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - Change add method to support adding an array of devices - -Gregg Liming :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - Add task category and exception driven scheduling (initial) support. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - Fix handling of startdate for tasks and add task category support. - -David Norwood :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - documentation updates - -David Norwood :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - changed monitoring to include x10 commands transmitted by the Ocelot - -David Norwood :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - downloaded latest area code list from internet - -David Norwood :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - documentation updates - -David Norwood :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - Minor changes - -David Norwood :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - I added support for ANALOG_SENSOR items. - -David Norwood :: Sun Aug 26 2007 - - I enabled the photo resize feature, which was not functional before. -There are new ini parameters to control this. See mh/bin/mh.ini for -details. - -Howard Plato :: Sat Aug 25 2007 - - Significant rewrite of the calendar and organizer code, allowing importing of iCal calendars directly into MH. To use edit the i2v.cfg and add the appropriate config_parms specified in organizer.pl. Kudos to Gregg for the huge assistance and contribution to making this work! -The web scripts still need some work as data can be entered without format checking and will be updated at a later date. - -Gregg Liming :: Sat Aug 25 2007 - - Forward on all "display_room" parms in route_display_rooms to allow extending to other device functions. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Aug 24 2007 - - Initial submission of the win32 wrapper to ical2vsdb. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Aug 24 2007 - - Protect against undefined Tk grid object. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Aug 24 2007 - - Libs needed for iCal support (see newest bin/ical2vsdb and code/common/organizer.pl) - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Aug 23 2007 - - Mike Pieper's patch to add EIB15 support to EIB_Items and to add more detailed state support for EIB7 to http_server.pl. -I also added descriptions for the recently added EIB3/4 stuff to the top of EIB_Items.pm - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Aug 23 2007 - - Added use reference to Weather_Common. Thanks to "declang" for the bug catch. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Aug 22 2007 - - Reverted r1158's patch to Voice_Text that I accidently included in the EIB patch. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Aug 22 2007 - - Added Ralf Kl�Á�be's enhancements that add EIB3 and EIB4 functionality. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Aug 19 2007 - - Added RK's patch to allow EIS5 values to be sent from MH to the bus. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Aug 14 2007 - - Force print statements at startup to be controlled by debug=zone_minder. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Aug 14 2007 - - Add "writable" method so that class works well with Base_Item.pm and other inherited classes. - -David Norwood :: Mon Aug 13 2007 - - I fixed a bug that Matthew Williams found that caused X10_Appliance -items to always display as Off on the buttons web interface. I -introduced the bug six months ago when I modified the interpretation of -the $level instance variable for dimmers, but forgot to also test -appliance items. I also modified X10_Appliance so its on off status is -restored after a reload. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed Aug 8 2007 - - Wrapped event eval with pair of package statements so that evaluation occurred in main namespace and not AnalogSensor_Item. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed Aug 8 2007 - - Add call to check_tied_event_conditions in measurement method to ensure that event conditions are evaluated. Other minor errata improvements. Changes prompted by Andy McCallum. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Aug 7 2007 - - Added ability to optionally flip first and last names (when no comma delim) based on ini param, cid_reverse_names set. This is needed to compensate for certain US phone systems that can't/won't do things correctly. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Aug 7 2007 - - Allow non-US formatted phone numbers (such as VoIP extensions, etc.) to be parsed from callerid logs. - -Gregg Liming :: Sun Aug 5 2007 - - Reverted to version prior to DOS attack fix due to problems encountered with POST. - -Howard Plato :: Sun Aug 5 2007 - - added a file check to ensure that image files are not overwritten -by 'file not found' message - -Howard Plato :: Sun Aug 5 2007 - - Fixed minor spelling mistake on title window - -Howard Plato :: Sun Aug 5 2007 - - Added config_parms to make 2.103 code act like 2.102 (async speech, no -voice response to voice_cmd's) - -Howard Plato :: Sun Aug 5 2007 - - Updated phone log system. caller id information is now updated while system -is running, rather than reading in files at startup. Also includes wav and -group functionality. Also includes updated set_func.pl by David S. that -properly escapes single quotes - -Howard Plato :: Sat Aug 4 2007 - - minor change to fix find_members that will work with SysDiag_xAP items - -Gregg Liming :: Sat Aug 4 2007 - - Update reference to reliance of oxc to now include owfs. - -Howard Plato :: Sat Jul 28 2007 - - Minor fix to allow fontsize if no $fontname. status_line now works for Audrey (font=1) - -Gregg Liming :: Sat Jul 28 2007 - - Prevent remote DOS exploitation by sending false http header size value; instead, read socket data as it exists and failover accordingly. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Jul 27 2007 - - Setup setby as "web [ipaddress]" for voice command so that the respond will properly target the browser *if* the voice command menus are used in the context of web (vice nonweb). - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Jul 27 2007 - - Rename pa_control_stub to xap_pa_control_stub so that this common code can coexist w/ pa_control.pl - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Jul 26 2007 - - Alternatively, echo messages received by the hub from mh back to mh if debug=xap or debug=xpl - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Jul 26 2007 - - Allow hub to echo mh generated xAP or xPL messages back to mh listener port if xap_hub_echo=1 or xpl_hub_echo=1 - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Jul 25 2007 - - Reverted part of David Norwood's r1101 patch to http_server.pl that inadvertantly introduced a security hole. All users that are using r1101 or above are stronly advised to upgrade to this rev. -Many thanks Chris Barrett for discovering the problem. - -David Norwood :: Sat Jul 21 2007 - - Committed a bunch of changes on behalf of Chris Barrett - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Jul 20 2007 - - Allow use of simple "instance" names (e.g., "house) or fully qualified xAP source address to initialize attached xAP_Item as listener. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Jul 20 2007 - - Allow use of simple "instance" name (e.g., house) as xAP source address or fully qualified xAP source address when initializing attached BSC_Items (as listeners). - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Jul 13 2007 - - Align xPL send methods to recent changes to xAP_Items.pm - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Jul 13 2007 - - Added on_set_message to permit ease of automating xpl-cmnd messages sent when setting an xPL_Item. [based on requests by Andy McCallum]. Additional, misc. bug fixes. - -Bruce Winter :: Tue Jul 10 2007 - - - generalize security check for ../ in url pats. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Jul 3 2007 - - Prevent "state_value" tracking from reverting to message summary if the tracked state_value key is missing from the message. Change resulting from testing/suggestion from Andy McCallum. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Jun 21 2007 - - Initial implementation provided by Howard Plato. Provides support to collect systems informtation reported by psixc (also implemented by hplato). psixc is available at http://limings.net/xap/psixc - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Jun 21 2007 - - Added support for ANALOG_SENSOR_R items and update to include new separate AnalogSensor_Item lib - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Jun 21 2007 - - Refactored AnalogSensor_Item out for use as a separate lib - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Jun 21 2007 - - AnalogSensor_Item was refactored from OneWire_xAP to be more common and usable for other purposes. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Jun 7 2007 - - Don't send volume property in tts.speak if it is blank. - -David Norwood :: Mon Jun 4 2007 - - updated documentation so it displays better on the common code -activation web interface - -David Norwood :: Mon Jun 4 2007 - - changed trigger code - -David Norwood :: Mon Jun 4 2007 - - fixed minor bug - -David Norwood :: Mon Jun 4 2007 - - fixed minor bug - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Jun 4 2007 - - Fix flaw with composing UID in query method - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Jun 4 2007 - - Add support for xAP cid.incoming schema - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Jun 4 2007 - - Add support for the param: callerid_raw_numbers such that the "raw" CID number string is spoken rather than "speakable" text. This is useful when forwarding on to xAP speak. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Jun 4 2007 - - Add ability to support other xAP sources than oxc--specifically, allowing flexibility with source addressing - -Matthew Williams :: Fri May 11 2007 - - Missing semicolon inserted. - -Matthew Williams :: Fri May 11 2007 - - Previous attempt to fix the weather graph color problem caused a failure for default installations as the default apparent temperature was set to '' and there was no check for empty colors. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue May 8 2007 - - Fixed problem where graph color customizations were ignored. Bug and fix provided by Rick Steeves. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed Apr 25 2007 - - Revised sending xAP weather messages to be more compliant (to include appropriate units switching) to the current schema - -Jason Sharpee :: Sun Apr 15 2007 - - Add support for anti-water hammer zone overlap. ->zone_hammer(5); #5 second zone overlap - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Apr 8 2007 - - Fixed rate rate calculation. Bug and fix found by Greg Satz. - -David Norwood :: Fri Apr 6 2007 - - added trigger - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Apr 5 2007 - - Allow BSC_Items to represent "gateways" not just "endpoints". - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Apr 2 2007 - - Extended manual method to allow optional on-state timer and off-state timer so that manual mode will revert to automatic mode after "x" seconds. Added restrict_off property to control whether a Light_Restriction item will prevent a Light item from turning off. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sun Apr 1 2007 - - - Generic Irrigation cycle logic - -Jason Sharpee :: Sun Apr 1 2007 - - - Generic Irrigation cycle logic - -Jason Sharpee :: Tue Mar 27 2007 - - - Add support for the WGL Designs Rain8 UPB sprinkler controller: http://www.wgldesigns.com/rain8upb.html - -Jason Sharpee :: Tue Mar 27 2007 - - Add WGL Designs Rain8 UPB sprinkler controller support. http://www.wgldesigns.com/rain8upb.html - -David Norwood :: Mon Mar 26 2007 - - added some sanity checks to the items web interface - -David Norwood :: Mon Mar 26 2007 - - modified the mh4 interface to work with internet explorer 7, including -changes to http_server.pl which fix "target" frame syntax for item -lists. Also fixed some problems related to X10 brightness levels -displayed on the web interface - -David Norwood :: Mon Mar 26 2007 - - added a new resume instance variable to X10_Item to hold the level the -light will come back on at. This was being stored in the level variable -but that meant we couldn't tell if the light was off in certain cases - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Mar 25 2007 - - Added CM11 macro clearing code copied from heyu along with the appropriate copyright notice. This code is currently not proven. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Mar 25 2007 - - Added "--alt-y-grid" to parameters for generating pressure graphs to have saner y-axis grid spacing. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Mar 20 2007 - - Prevent errors thrown if no ZM_ZoneItems are attached to the monitor (credit to Bruce W. for identifying the fix) - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Mar 6 2007 - - Minor annoyance fix: reduce debug verbosity for state_now section processing - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Mar 1 2007 - - Applied Chris Barrett's patch to allow complete configuration of activity detection timers. The configuration parameter MS13_Battery_timer now correctly controls activity timeouts. - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Mar 1 2007 - - Disabled saving process states in Windows as we don't have a method for successfuly regaining visibility of Windows child processes. - -Jason Sharpee :: Mon Feb 26 2007 - - CruiseControl Status Monitor Plugin for Misterhouse. -http://ccnet.thoughtworks.com/ - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Feb 24 2007 - - Made "die" message more verbose when the rrd_dir can't be opened. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Feb 17 2007 - - Updated "creators" regex as "Archie" comic web page source changed. The new regex is more forgiving. - -Matthew Williams :: Fri Feb 16 2007 - - Patch to internet_im.pl to allow sessionless Jabber authorization. This code allows {password_allow} regexes to match on the Jabber id stripped of its session. -Patched supplied by Brian Rudy. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Feb 12 2007 - - Add support for messenger.cmd/event xAP schema--the default for xAP Four and axc. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Feb 12 2007 - - Allow xAPSend to support a single value rather than a hash--as is needed to support sending xAPBSC.query messages. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Feb 7 2007 - - Fixed typos that referred to legacy {foobar_ws} weather elements instead of the new {foobar} weather elements. Bug found by Mike Bahr. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Jan 25 2007 - - Added "allow_local_set_state(flag)" method to allow a change over the default behavior (which allows any programatic set to cause a state change) and instead (if flag set to 0) requires state change only on receipt of the device's BSC event or info message. Change resulting from need established by Martin Hagelin. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Jan 21 2007 - - Fixed some wonky html. Problems found by Chris Barrett. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Jan 21 2007 - - Modified purging of old data to keep data from today through 7 days from now. Change suggested by Jim Duda. - -Jim Duda :: Tue Jan 16 2007 - - I qualified the print_log statement with $::Debug{network} in order to -remove some chatter from the log files. - -Jim Duda :: Tue Jan 16 2007 - - I turned all the print statements into print statements with a $main::Debug{group} -qualifier in order to remove some chatter from the log files. - -Matthew Williams :: Fri Jan 12 2007 - - Updated rules for speed bump and archie. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Jan 11 2007 - - Remove check on setby == $self in BSC's set method. Bug identified by Martin Hagelin - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Jan 11 2007 - - Added new creators class to handle changes to the following comics: -- B.C. -- Andy Capp -- Wizard of Id - -Bruce Winter :: Thu Jan 11 2007 - - Mark Monnin updated lib/TI103 to Handle the limited transmit buffer and CRC messages and changed the support of PRESET_DIM1 and PRESET_DIM. - -David Norwood :: Wed Jan 10 2007 - - added sanity checks for data input by user, spaces in item name -converted to underscores - -David Norwood :: Sun Jan 7 2007 - - Minor doc change - -David Norwood :: Sun Jan 7 2007 - - Added "set ramp rate" and "set on level" states for SwitchLincs - -David Norwood :: Sun Jan 7 2007 - - Fixed to work with item files that have spaces in name, will now create -item file if none exists. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Jan 7 2007 - - Moved all '' into sections, creating new sections where needed. This is to fix frame issues with IE7. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Jan 7 2007 - - Moved mh/web/organzier/vsEmail.pm to mh/lib and removed mh/web/organizer/vsLock.pm as a duplicate version already exists in mh/lib. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Jan 7 2007 - - Removed v1.3.0 of vsDB.pm from mh/lib and moved v1.3.9 from mh/web/organizer to mh/lib. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Changed foxtrot to use gocomic's DRM scheme. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Added ability to specify font face in status lines. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Modified "clearing" logic. Instead of erasing old data from a single day only, it clears all old data, except the data from the past few days. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Added logic to limit humidity to 100% when calculated from dew point and temperature. If there are measurement errors or the sources for outdoor temp and dew point are different, then this is a possibility. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Added a mh specified block that searches all @INC paths for libnet.cfg, allowing existing site specific network configs to be used - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Changed voice command "set the house mp3 player ..." to "set house mp3 player ..." to make it consistent with mp3.pl's "set house mp3 player to playlist...". -Change suggested by Rick Steeve's - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Corrected recognition of internet_internet_usgl.pl - Rick Steeven to internet_usgs.pl - Rick Steeve. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Added support for Jabber services that require component_name to be set. One example is Google Talk. Code submitted by Brian Rudy. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Fixed unintentional comment split typo. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Jan 6 2007 - - Added support for water sensor from ibuttonlink. Code from Rick Steeves. - -Matthew Williams :: Mon Jan 1 2007 - - Modified regexes for temperature, dew point and pressure as they were occasionally being triggered on the wrong data fields. For example, the temperature/dew point regex was being triggered by "R32/6000FT/N" - -tbs007 :: Wed Dec 20 2006 - - added 3 message types for the RCS UPB Thermostat - -Bruce Winter :: Sun Dec 17 2006 - - John Wohlers added code/common/internet_weather_noaa.pl to collect and parse the XML weather data feeds from NOAA and populates the Weather_Common hash. - -Jim Duda :: Wed Dec 13 2006 - - I updated the code module to attempt a restart of the ibws client every hour. - -Jim Duda :: Wed Dec 13 2006 - - I'm restoring the changes I made to take advantage -of the restore_string method. I found the problem -I introduced to this method. I now have a proper -method for handling the @cmd array. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Dec 13 2006 - - Two patches from Howard Plato. -1. New parameter mp3_no_tkupdates that disables the tk interface from checking the mp3 playlist every second. -2. New parameter net_mail_scan_timeout_cycles that allows internet_mail.pl to check VERY slow mail servers without prematurely timing out. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Dec 13 2006 - - Fixed some minor doc issues found by Rick Steeves. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Dec 13 2006 - - Forgot to increase the regex index in rev 1052. This completes the patchs. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Dec 13 2006 - - Patch submitted by Gregg Liming. Changed one of the regex patterns to allow PoPs to be reported as "near x percent". - -Gregg Liming :: Wed Dec 13 2006 - - Allow less restricted eval on checking tied conditions to permit references to undeclared refs. In addition, include eval error in reported (printed) error. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Dec 11 2006 - - Modify handling of info_callback to ignore state=toggle (Submitted by Martin Hagelin) - -Jim Duda :: Mon Dec 11 2006 - - I'm backing out the recent changes that I made to Process_Item.pl to use -the restore_string method. There is something wrong, causing duplicates -in the process $cmd string. I need to do better regression testing before -pushing these changes. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Dec 10 2006 - - Made windows library paths absolute instead of relative. -Commented out waitpid when sound_fork is used. This is to prevent unnecessary pauses on Linux boxes. - -Gregg Liming :: Sat Dec 9 2006 - - Adjusted parsing to accomodate extra LNs. Altered URLs to match current preference. Submission thanks to Winston Gadsby. - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Dec 7 2006 - - Fixed small bug where a file handle wasn't being closed. - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Dec 7 2006 - - Fixed bug found by Dan Stern with patch suggested by Jim Serack. Added uppercase conversion to &X10_Interface::processData as there are cases (such as with x10_rf_relay) where incoming data may be in lower case and mh's X10 code relies on the data being uppercase.. - -Gregg Liming :: Wed Dec 6 2006 - - Force processing of respond targets if the object's target property or the target parm is declared. Pass the app param as well. - -Matthew Williams :: Fri Nov 24 2006 - - Modifed sensor validation regex to allow whitespace before and after sensor value. This ability was requested by Jim Duda to support his weather_iB_OWW_client.pl changes. - -Jim Duda :: Fri Nov 24 2006 - - I modified this code segment to use the latest %Weather hash values. -This module now calls Weather_Common::weather_updated to annouce the updates. -This module uses the weather_uom variables to do unit conversions. -I removed the updates to windchill as those updates are done in Weather_Common -now. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Nov 22 2006 - - Changed default file format for MS TTS generated files from 8 bit 8 kHz to 16 bit 16 kHz as the former wasn't being correctly written to the file. Also added additional conditional debug statements. - -Jim Duda :: Mon Nov 20 2006 - - I added the restore_active method to the restore_string method. This is -necessary to add the process to the active_processes array upon restart. -Failure to do so prevents a process to be harvested when it completes -after a resart is executed. - -Gregg Liming :: Fri Nov 17 2006 - - Added support for "peer-based" speech proxies so that individual mh instances can proxy speech for each other. -In addition, added per-function parms to enable/disable operation. Defaults to everything enabled. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Nov 13 2006 - - Fix faulty calculation of measurement change on submission of measurement - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Nov 9 2006 - - Howard Plato's modified "newclock" that fits Audrey better and pulls the temperature directly from $Weather{TempOutdoor}. - -Matthew Williams :: Wed Nov 8 2006 - - Howard Plato's improvements to the built-in calendar that allow days to be marked as holidays and/or vacations. -organizer_vmode.pl will use this data to automatically set $mode_occupied to 'vacation' if today is a vacation day. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Nov 6 2006 - - Force measurement_change evaluation to absolute value - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Nov 6 2006 - - Added measurement_change method to report latest change in measurement - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Nov 2 2006 - - Upgraded all libwww related libraries. We moved from v5.68 to v5.805. This upgrade is intended to resolve incompatibilities between previously upgraded libraries. - -Jason Sharpee :: Tue Oct 31 2006 - - Fix Default fade rate - -Matthew Williams :: Mon Oct 30 2006 - - Committed Ben Griffith's updates to rrd_graph_web. rrd_graph_web.pl was leaking memory due to a bug in the RRD library. Ben has split off the graph generation stuff into a separate system call. As well, the CSS file has been renamed as it was previously misspelled. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Oct 30 2006 - - Fix direct dim quoting in combo boxes - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Oct 29 2006 - - Fixed logic in &state. If $@ was set upon entry to &state, then a Weather_Item eval error would be printed if an undefined Weather item was being evaluated and $valid was set to 1. -In other words, a Weather_Item eval error would be printed even if it was a previous eval error that caused $@ to be populated. -In the reworked logic, the print statement is only reached if an eval statement is actually executed and an error is generated by that eval statement. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Oct 29 2006 - - Modifed ia5 earthquake interface to use earthquakes.txt instead of earthquakes.finger. Also added a default earthquakes.txt into standard data directory. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Oct 29 2006 - - Highly modified standard MD5.pm to always use the pure PERL interface, not the object file based interface. This is to prevent incompatibilities with locally installed versions of object files. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Oct 29 2006 - - Added set_clock method to allow easier setting of the DSC system clock. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Oct 29 2006 - - Added sending of initial poll as sometimes the first command sent generates an API Command Syntax Error. The poll is a NOP, so we use it to work around this problem before sending "real" commands. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Oct 28 2006 - - Updated LWP library. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Oct 28 2006 - - Changing case of mediatypes.pm to MediaTypes.pm to prepare for library upgrade. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Oct 28 2006 - - Added new config parms to more precisely control which weather elements are populated by each internet weather module. -Fixed problem with wind gust handling in weather_aws. Thanks to David Satterfield for reporting this bug. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Oct 28 2006 - - Added units to reported wind speeds. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Oct 28 2006 - - Fixed bug where negative numbers in sensors weren't supported. Credit to Howard Plato for identifying the bug. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Oct 28 2006 - - Added ti103 and ncpuxa to @Serial_Item::supported_interfaces and @X10_Interface::X10_Interface_Names. -Fixed small typo in comments within Device_Item.pm. - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Oct 26 2006 - - Added configurable levels of warnings within Dummy_Interface to allow users to suppress warnings when Dummy_Interfaces are not a bad thing (rare, but possible). One example of this situation is when there is no X10 transmitter present, only a receiver. Each X10_Item will then have a Dummy_Interface as its {interface} as we can not transmit these codes. - -Matthew Williams :: Thu Oct 26 2006 - - Modified definition of process item to use double quotes around URL, instead of single quotes, so that Windows doesn't choke on it. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Oct 26 2006 - - Enable an ability to prevent state updates to BSC items if the state value hasn't changed. The default is to set state anytime a BSC info is received. The method "always_set_state" can be used to disable this function. Fix implemented based on suggestions from Martin Hagelin. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Oct 24 2006 - - Allow optional use of "tk" in device parm. Also support tk, alpha, etc. devices in route_display_rooms as. These and previous display related mods suggested as mod/bug fixes per David Satterfield. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Oct 24 2006 - - Removed extaneous return from main::display - -Matthew Williams :: Tue Oct 24 2006 - - Modified @INC to make mh lib directories relative to $Pgm_Root (instead of the current directory) and changed call in comic_dailystrips.pl to include full path to mh. This fixes the problem of dailystrips not being able to find its required libraries. In particular, on my system, if I didn't have a non-mh copy of URI::_foreign.pm, then dailystrips would not work. -More detail: one of the first things that dailystrips does is to change the CWD to 'basedir' which makes the current directory relative INC library paths no longer work. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Oct 24 2006 - - Correct main::display so that multiple devices will have their display functions called. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue Oct 24 2006 - - Added recognition of mode=mute and mode=offline parameters to prevent Audrey from speaking. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue Oct 24 2006 - - Added additional delays between each initialization command to prevent buffer overruns. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue Oct 24 2006 - - Escaped URL in process definition as & was incorrectly being interpreted by the shell. Bug report and fix from David Satterfield. - -Matthew Williams :: Mon Oct 23 2006 - - Removed debug statement from handy_net_utilities.pl regarding loading the Jabber library. -Added Digest::base - required by other Digest libraries. - -Gregg Liming :: Mon Oct 23 2006 - - Ensure incoming data is defined (i.e., valid) before accepting for subsequent processing - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Oct 21 2006 - - Changed some responds to speaks and fixed problem where rain would be reported when rain fall was 0.00 units (Perl treats '0.00' as a true value). - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Oct 21 2006 - - Added TLS support to jabber. -Updated Authen::SASL libraries and added Auth::SASL::Perl pod. - -Matthew Williams :: Sat Oct 21 2006 - - Fixed typo in windchill calculation. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat Oct 21 2006 - - Remove debug prints - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat Oct 21 2006 - - Handle retransmissions and drop duplicates. Remove debuging print statements - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Oct 19 2006 - - Fix ability for a BSC_Item to be set. Set values are "folded" into one of state, level and/or text based on the state value passed to set. Uid is automatically detected and persisted. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Oct 19 2006 - - Added uid method to xAP_Item and automatically extract xAP uid during data parse - -Jim Duda :: Wed Oct 18 2006 - - I filled in the restore_item member function to allow the process id (pid) -to be retained through a restart or code reload. Before this change, -any processes started before the reload would be orphaned to mh and -could not be stopped. - -Jim Duda :: Wed Oct 18 2006 - - I corrected a race condition which occured across a restart or a -reload due to a timer update condition. The timer was getting -reset to the initial period value instead of the remaining value -attached to the timer. - -Matthew Williams :: Tue Oct 17 2006 - - Patched handy_net_utilities.pl to correctly access the Net::Jabber library. -Upgraded Digest libraries to latest versions so that the Net::Jabber library works. - -Bruce Winter :: Tue Oct 17 2006 - - Timo Sariwating sent in Nico's K8000.zip code for supporting the Vellman K8000 board - -Jason Sharpee :: Tue Oct 17 2006 - - Push the speed of the interface up a little to the brink of failure ;) - -Jason Sharpee :: Sun Oct 15 2006 - - Make the acknowledge mode configurable in derived classes. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sun Oct 15 2006 - - Prevent loops on unavailable devices. Slow up command stack processing to give the bus some time to respond to incoming messages. Upon device add, query the devices initial status. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Oct 15 2006 - - Changed X10_Sensor constructor to not pass its $id to the X10_Item constructor to prevent the standard X10 states being added to the X10_Sensor object. This was causing duplicate events. -Thanks to Chris Barrett for reporting the bug and helping to diagnose the problem. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat Oct 14 2006 - - Optimize the state retrieving code - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat Oct 14 2006 - - Turn on acknowledge confirmation. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat Oct 14 2006 - - Implement command queue system. Implement Acknowledge messages. Turn on acknowledge at protocol level. Various fixes and code cleanups. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat Oct 14 2006 - - Set the default acknowledgement protocols off. Make the 2way device support work for all other commands, not just lights. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat Oct 14 2006 - - Support UPB PIM 'busy signal' and resend command until it is processed. Bug reported by Adam D. (thank you) - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat Oct 14 2006 - - Created a generic 'Scene' object for MH such that any device can participate in a 'software' scene even if the hardware doesnt. - -Jason Sharpee :: Sat Oct 14 2006 - - Created a generic 'Scene' object for MH such that any device can participate in a 'software' scene even if the hardware doesnt. - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Oct 12 2006 - - Prefer raw_text to text in respond_telnet - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Oct 12 2006 - - Make telnet server use tracked respond and allow telnet to be supported by speach echo tag - -Gregg Liming :: Thu Oct 12 2006 - - Make $search_command_string use object's respond--not global respond - -Jason Sharpee :: Thu Oct 12 2006 - - Add support for UPB_Link (UPBL) device definition: UPBL, upb_family_movie, myPIM, 49,1 - -Jason Sharpee :: Thu Oct 12 2006 - - Add UPB_Link class. - -Jason Sharpee :: Thu Oct 12 2006 - - Add support for UPB_Link sub class. Add Support for 'status' generic command. Fix: Argument parsing on device state report. - -Jason Sharpee :: Thu Oct 12 2006 - - Fix: UPB Link recognition - -Matthew Williams :: Tue Oct 10 2006 - - Added RainTotal and RainRate as valid internet sourced weather elements. - -Gregg Liming :: Tue Oct 10 2006 - - Extend AnalogSensor_Item->map_to_weather to include an optional graph_title argument that will be used by RRDs when creating graphs. - -Matthew Williams :: Sun Oct 8 2006 - - Added &:: in front of calls to convert_c2f. Thanks to Chris Barrett for finding the first bug in 2.103! - -Gregg Liming :: Sun Oct 8 2006 - - Modified to illustrate use of AnalogSensor_Item tokens - - - -=head2 Version 2.103 posted on 10/07/2006 - -Version 2.103 can be downloaded from here: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - -- David Mark made lots of updates to the tk gui. - -- Matthew Williams created lib/Device_Item.pm and lib/X10_Interface.pm and modified X10_Items and Serial_Item so we have a more consistent set of classes. - -- Gregg Liming made various xAP and xPL updates including OneWire_xAP and AnalogSensor_Item support, proper xAP targetting on responds, -BSC_Item, and auto-detect devices targeting slimdev-slimserv. - -- Jason Sharpee added suport for UPB PIM and Devices as: UPBPIM ,,,

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- -- Gregg Liming and David Mark added lib/X10_Scene.pm to provide a convenient mechanism for defining, managing and enrolling/unenrolling lighing scenes. Current support is limited to Switchlinc family of lights. - -- Gregg Liming added support for ZoneMinder ( http://www.zoneminder.com ). - -- Mike Wiebke added SOAP server capability and several client examples - -- Matthew Williams modified audreyspeak.pl to generate TTS files asynchronously. - -- Matthew Williams added support for standard CPAN Lingua modules to convert numbers to text. - -- Matthew Williams added lib/Weather_Common.pm and updated most of the weather interface modules to provide -standard routines to update weather related variables. -Among other things, this allows a local weather station to be supplemented with data from the internet (e.g. METAR) - -- Matthew Williams added support for Davis Weather Monitor II and -updated Weather_Items.pm to monitor battery levels on the WMR968 group of weather stations. - -- John Murphy added support of DS2409 based 1-wire hubs. - -- David Norwood updated the rrd graphic code so that graphs are now created on-the-fly instead of every five minutes, less likely to cause pauses. - -- Matthew Williams split weather_rrd graph functionality out of code/common/weather_rrd_update.pl into bin/weather_rrd_update_graphs. -This allows Windows boxes to update their graphs in a forked process, removing the long pauses that can be associated with updating the rrd graphs. - -- Updated code/common/internet_mail.pl to allow for reading of local mail files. -For example, if using Thunderbird, install Thunderbird 'Tb autosave extention' from http://www.supportware.net/mozilla/#ext13 -then set the mh.ini parm net_mail_save_dir to point to the save directory. -This has the advantage over get_email of ignoring spam that you have filtered out of your inbox. - - - -B - -- Matthew Williams made about 1 billion changes, a bit too numerous to list. Check the svn log for the complete list. - -- David Mark also made many changes, some (but not all) are listed in the svn log listing. - -- David Mark added several new options to display_alpha.pl - -- David Mark updated display_alpha.pm to work with older Beta Brite signs - -- David Mark updated mh_release.pl to use respond_in_kind function and trigger - -- David Mark fixed display app parameter bug - -- David Mark fixed bug in respond_log which sent parameters to the print log - -- David Mark updated serial_port_create and serial_port_open to handle start and stop bit variations - -- David Mark fixed tk response in set_password - -- David Mark added respond_in_kind function - -- David Mark fixed tk window display bug related to recycled windows. - -- David Mark updated code/common/event_sounds.pl to allow for an optional mh.ini event_sounds_file - -- David Mark added &recompose_uri to unencoded URI's from XML parsers and re-encodes them for output in tag attributes. - -- David Mark updated code/common/news_ap_breaking.pl from 'read/show' to 'what is'. - -- Chris Barrett fixed a 2.102 X10_RF.pm bug that truncated the first character X10 code in the log errata. - -- Chris Barrett updated common/mh_release.pl to work with the new 2.102 version name, which includes the SVN Rddd version. - -- Chris Barrett fixed a case sensitiviy bug in lib/X10_RF_security.pm . - -- Added a check on text lenght in &speak, and will display instead if too long. - -- Allow for end of line comments ( ... # comment) in .mht files. - -- Brent DeShazer found a bug when trying to set Timer objects from with web SET commands. - -- Chris Barrett fixed a potential security hole by removing double slashes in HTTP requests. - -- Matthew Williams added FAQ item 2.18 to explain the differences between 'on', 'ON' and ON. - -- David Mark added a state check in Door_Item set before setting the last opened or last closed times. - -- Added a speak length mh.ini parm, to allow for truncating long text before speaking. Default is set with mh.ini entry of speak_length=500 - -- Axel Brown spoted a bug where the play sound_fork parm was ignored on non-winows boxes. - -- David Norwood improved pronto support, RSS processing, trigger actions, and usb-uirt support. - -- Dan Patellis updated lib/Marrick.pm to accept more X10 commands, including PRESET_DIMs. - -- Rick Steeves patched dailystrips to support 2 page retrieval support. - -- Joe Blecher added support in Lynx10PLC.pm to handle individual commands instead of requiring pairs. This allows "group" capability similar to the CM11 - -- Chris Barrett fixed 4 bugs in vv_tts.pl - -- David Norwood added +-##% states to X10_Item, and made many improvements related to dimming. - -- Chris Kodadek and Matthew Williams put in a fix for said_next in Socket_Item.pm for cases where $datatype is 'raw' (i.e. a raw socket). - -- Kirk Bauer updated Musica.pm. - -- Troy Carpenter updated internet_weather.pl to add -nws_data forecast to limit it to just forecast data - -- Troy Carpenter added a new volume control module for Audreys. - -- Jim Duda updated audreyspeak which has more intelligent handling of "rooms". - - -=head2 Version 2.102 posted on 04/02/2006 - -Version 2.102 can be downloaded from here: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - -- Brian McKissick created code/common/power_Xantrex.pl for communicating with a -Xantrex GT3.0 grid-tied photovoltaic power inverter, allowing for home automation monitoring of generated solar power. - -- Ricardo Arroyo sent in code and web files he has modified to speak in Spanish, -or to use Spainish web pages. Copied to mh/code/public/Ricardo - -- Jim Morrissey sent in mh/code/public/power_french_edf.zip, code and web pages he wrote to manage the different -power rates that the French national electricity (EDF) provides. - -- Michael Easton created web/newclock ( http://localhost:8080/newclock ). Enable code/common/clock_map.pl to keep world maps updated. - -- David Mark added mh.ini option html_wav_format=client which -will try to detect the best option for various browsers when playing mh TTS. - -- Gaetan Lord and Jocelyn Brouillard created lib/DSC5401.pm, code/examples/DSC5401.pl, and web/bin/DSC5401_*.pl for supporting the DSC5401. - -- Gaetan Lord, Matthew Williams, and David Mark added code/common/virtual_keyboard.pl to allow for a virtual keyboard within a web page, -and updated web/bin/shopping_list.pl to use it. - -- Gaetan Lord created web/bin/listmanager.pl, based on shopping_list.pl, but more generic and targeted for use on a PDA. - -- Gregg Liming updated code/common/asterisk_gregg.pl which uses Telephony_xAP and and netcallerid objects to perform CID, output logging, -MWI display and on-/off-hook processing (e.g, mute music on call pick-up or start). -He also updated lib/Telephony_xAP.pm, lib/CID_Log.pm, CID_Lookup.pm, and phone_logs.pl. - -- David Norwood created code/common/monitor_versalink.pl which collects and graphs DSL traffic data from a Westell Versalink 327W modem/router used by Verizon. - -- A interview about the open source aspect of MisterHouse can be found at http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showtopic=3428 -and a summary of that interview is at http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=11747 - -- Matthew Williams migrated the MisterHouse sourceforge repository from CVS to SVN (SubVersioN). -This is much nicer than CVS and we now have ALL files in the standard distros checked in. -You can continue to send updates to me directly, or feel free to send them in via SVN. -Windows users can use touroiseSVN, which integrates into explorer: http://tortoisesvn.sourceforge.net/ -Right click on explorer and do an SVN check out from here: https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/misterhouse/trunk - -- If you want to track changes to the mh wiki, you can subscribe to a RSS or ATOM feed via -this page: http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/space/notify - - - -B - -- Included mh/data/infrared/devicelib (missing from 2.101 release). - -- Neil Cherry updated mh.ini tv parms to use zip_code, rather than hardcoded values. - -- Allow for any $var substitution in .ini files, rather than just $config__parm vars. - -- Benjamin Griffith updated code/public/rrd_graph_web.pl to fix $timenow and to print better error errata. - -- David Mark changed the mh exit_pgm restart, so web based 'restart misterhouse' works better. - -- Mike Pieper added support for EIB access via eibd. - -- Tim Sailer noticed a 2.100 update to common/tv_info.pl broke it on *nix systems. - -- Chris Barrett and Neil Cherry updated some pointers to our nifty new wiki: http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com - -- David Norwood sent in more mh/lib/site/XML modules so rss_subscriber.pl works without requiring local perl modules to be installed. - -- Rick Steeves suggested we add favorite_tv_shows mh.ini parm, in place of hard coded channels in common/tv_info.pl - -- Steve Hammer and John Liss noticed the Wish::send call in lib/Serial_Item.pm was wrong. - -- David Mark fixed a quoting problem in code/common/news_ap_breaking.pl. - -- Brent DeShazer added time_date_stamp format 22 and he added cmd, findcmd, and speak to internet_im.pl - -- Matthew Williams updated code/public/weather_metar.pl to add hooks when new forecasts are retrieved -and added new SummaryLong key to Weather Hash. - -- Matthew Williams updated common/internet_earthquakes.pl to allow for km, and fixed bug to us statutory miles instead of nautical miles. - -- Matthew Williams updated lib/CID_Announce.pm to handle case when name is sent as "UNKNOWN CALLER" - -- Matthew Williams updated lib/DSC5401.pm to add new partition_mode "Exit-Delay". - -- Matthew Williams updated lib/Group.pm to allow for nested groupe and Voice_Text.pm to speak numbers > 4 digits seperately. - -- Rick Steeves added a print_log call to X10_RF.pm, so you will see errata like: XM6MJ: Porch_Light on - -- David Mark updated the web .wav generator to minimized the problem of multiple web -browsers talking at the same time by using a semi-random .wav file name. - -- David Mark added a webmute=2 option, which disables both local and remote speech. - -- David Mark added subs "e_attribute, &escape, &unescape, and &html_encode to lib/http_server.pl - -- David Mark implemented the repeat command and the &mp3_radio_play sub in code/common/mp3_winamp.pl. - -- David Norwood updated mh/lib/site/ControlX10/CM11.pm to fix -write retries which has been broken the past few releases. -He also-wrote the send subroutine without goto's, so it should be clearer and easier to maintain. - -- David Mark fixed write_mh_opts to look for mh/bin/mh.private.ini, not mh/mh.private.ini, if mh_parms is not set. - -- Gregg Liming xAP/xPL code processing to not drop sockets due to EINTR (system interrupt) calls. -He also added ability to override default broadcast on xAP/xPL data transmitions to ones defined by -ipaddress_xap_broadcast and ipaddress_xpl_broadcast (useful in multi-NIC/VLAN environments). - -- Rick Steeves added RF_Item to web/bin/floorplan.pl - -- David Norwood added support to code/common/rss_subscriber.pl for individual download directories for each feed. - -- David Norwood fixed a bug in code/common/stocks.pl introduced two releases ago that caused stock alerts to be announced even if the threshold has not been exceeded. - -- David Norwood modified code/common/USB_UIRT_learning.pl to change the default repeat used for imported codes from 0 to 1. - -- David Norwood updated code/common/internet_earthquakes_cal.pl to include Matthew Williams' statutory vs nautical mile bug fix. - -- Brent DeShazer added a parity option for serial ports, defaulting to none. - - -=head2 Version 2.101 posted on 01/29/2006 - - -Version 2.101 can be downloaded from here: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - -- Matthew Williams created a new, spam free, Wiki here: http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/ - -- Created a MisterHouse Frapper map, so we can see where we all are: http://www.frappr.com/misterhouse - -- Ron Klinkien has lots of great new info on installing MisterHouse on linux at his wiki: http://mrhousefromscratch.tk - -- Howard Plato created code/common/azureus_info.pl to display and report on bittorrent client Azureus stats. - -- Neil Cherry created mh/lib/iplcs.pm and X10_iplcs.pm for Linux support of Smarthome's Insteon interface. -He also created code/common/iplcs.pl to enable, and code/public/iplc.* to test. Code is Alpha level. -More info on Insteon here: http://www.linuxha.com/athome/common/iplcd - -- St��phane Kattoor created code/common/ical.pl to allow for control of mh items from any ICal application -(e.g. Mozilla, Outlook, or iCal for Mac). More iCal info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar . - -- Matthew Williams added buddy icon capability for AOL/ICQ and added a new callback to notify mh when the AOL/ICQ connection is lost. - -- David Norwood created code/common/weather_tides.pl based on idea by Joey French. -It collects information about ocean tides, moonrise and moonset from -the University of Southern Carolina Tide Predictor: http://tbone.biol.sc.edu - -- Matthew Williams created lib/K8055.pm, web/bin/k8055.pl, and bin/k8055d.tar.bz2 to support the -Velleman K8055 USB 5 in, 8 out digital IO card: http://www.velleman.be/ot/en/product/view/?id=351346 - -- Dan Hoffard created code/common/LitterFree.pl which uses X10 to cycle the litter box based on cat movmemnt. - -- Andrew Baker created code/public/schoolday.pl which creates functions that flag school days. - -- David Lynch created mh/lib/TI103.pm for support of ACT's TI-103 interface - -- Jason Spangler updated lib/X10_Wish.pm to send, as well as receive, X10 data via PowerLinc, using the Wish drivers. - - - -B - -- Matthew Williams made some additional updated handy_net_utilites.pl improve AOL OSCAR.pm support. - -- Gregg Liming updated lib/Telephony_xAP.pm to fix a problem with the 2.100 update. - -- Brent Gross updated bin/outlook_read to add a -all option to iterate over all entires, -and a -dump_body option to dump the entire body af an entry and not just the subject. - -- Howard Plato updated lib/Caller_ID.pm to added a Format=6 option for custom scripts such as vocp_callerid.pl - -- David Mark updated lib/Group.pm to fix some 2.100 issues. - -- Brent Gross updated common/comic_dailystrip.pl to send html as inline instead of as an attachment. - -- Henry Laxen updated web/bin/photos.pl that removes an explicit link to /ia5 rather than the html_file parameter. - -- John Wohlers fixed a bug in internet_weather.pl so the nws_city configuration parameter works. - -- Matthew Williams updated code/public/weather_metar.pl, including fixing a bug caused by occastional enter a space after "RMK" string. -Also moved it from code/public to code/common. - -- Matthew Williams updated web/bin/shopping_list.pl with a few enhancements and bug fixes. - -- Chris Barrett updated lib/X10_Items.pm to fix some battery timer bugs. - -- Chris Barrett fixed a html formating problem in web/bin/phone_list.pl - -- Gaetan Lord fixed a bug in time_date_stamp format=17, where it was doing a 12, rather than 24 hour format. - -- Neil Cherry and David Norwood updated faq 2.15: What is the format of MisterHouse X10 codes? - -- Ben Raymond updated iButton.pm to add (partial) support for DS2409 one-wire net couplers. - -- David Mark commented out an uneeded timer in Motion_Item . - -- Joel Davidson updated lib/Omnistat.pm - -- David Norwood updated uirt2 and usb-uirt, which now use device data in -mh/data/infrared/devicelib. - -- David Norwood updated lib/Serial_Item.pm, CM11.pm, and ncpuxa_mh.pm - to add support for sending and receiving some of the rarely used X10 commands. - -- David Mark updated lib/Lynx10PLC, Homebase.pm, and Stargate.pm to -support the O and P (ALL LIGHTS ON, ALL UNITS OFF) X10 commands. - -- Zen Tormey fixed a 'AOL System Msg' loop in common/internet_im.pl - -- Joe Blecher updated Lynx10PLC.pm file to add support for all EXTENDED_CODE_1 commands. -Also created new parameter Lynx10PLC_MULTI_DELAY that allows multiple packets to be combined together if they come in separate, but within the specified time of each other. - -- David Norwood updated code/common/internet_logon.pl, internet_weather.pl, weather_chance_of_rain.pl -to make them configurable via triggers. - -- David Norwood fixed a parsing bug in rss_subscriber.pl and removed the duplicate code for from stocks.pl - -- Matthew Williams updated code/common/internet_im.pl to allow a var option (e.g. var: Object_name state) - -- Andrew Baker added an optional weeder_handshake parm to support his homebuilt board. - -- Craig Schaeffer noticed we inadvertantly dropped mh/data/remarks/full_moon.txt - -- Tom Valdes created a web icon for the shopping application. - -- Bill Young patched X10_RF_security.pm to add support for low battery and tamper indications from wireless devices that support these features. -The new states generated look like AlertTamperMax or AlertBattLowMax. - -- Peter Sjodin and Rob VanHoboken updated the EIB modules to handle of physical addresses, -allow for timer-driven reading of dimmer state, and added dimmer and drive (EIS 2 and 7) support in web interface. - -- Steve Goldman updated web/bin/weather_rrd_update.pl to make it compatable with rrd 1.2 - -- Rick Steeves fixed some bugs in code/common/*weather* code. - -- David Mark updated the respond function to eliminate dual read/show commands. - - -=head2 Version 2.100 posted on 10/02/2005 - -Version 2.100 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - -- David Mark maded changes to code/common/news_mquote_oftd.pl, internet_earthquakes.pl, dvd_releases.pl, news_ap_breaking.pl, -internet_top10.pl, time_info.pl, internet_weather.pl, tv_info.pl, trivia.pl, stocks.pl, internet_top10.pl, -tv_info.pl, phone_minutes.pl, news_onthisday.pl, and internet_chance_of_rain.pl. -Many of the changes were to enable speak -vs- show options, using the respond function better. - -- Brent DeShazer created lib/Display_osd232.pl and code/common/display_osd232.pl for interfacing with -Intuitive Curciuts OSD-232 On-screen video overlay interface, available from http://www.icircuits.com/prod_osd232.html - -- Werner Lane created lib/Terminal_Menu.pm, code/common/terminal_menu.pl, and bin/terminalmenu-client.pl to allow for 'terminal window' control via SSH. -Using something like PuTTY, it is fully operated with keys found on a mobile phone: 0-9, #, *, the arrow keys and ENTER. -Screenshot: http://misterhouse.net/pictures/terminal-menu_on_nokia.jpg - -- Dan Hoffard created code/public/gas_prices.pl to find low gas prices in Fort Worth, TX. - -- Howard Plato created code/common/vocp_callerid.pl. Uses the vocp system to announce and log incoming phone calls. - -- Matthew Williams updated handy_net_utilites.pl to switch from Net/AOLIM.pm to Net/OSCAR.pm, so our AOL connections work again :) - -- Gregg Liming lib/BSC.pm and code/common/bsc.pl to monitor mh items and send out state changes via xAP BSC and -to monitor incoming BSC commands and update corresponding mh item states. - -- Dan Wilga created mh/lib/X10_Wish.pm which interfaces to the Linux Wish X10 drivers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wish . -These are the currently supported device: PowerLinc Serial, PowerLinc 1132 USB, CM11A, and Firecracker/CM17A. -Currently supports sending, but not receiving, X10 data. More info at the top of lib/X10_Wish.pm. - -- David Satterfield created code/common/phone_vcop.pl to interface to the Linux vocp system: http://www.vocpsystem.com - -- Peter Sjodin added Linux support for EIB (European Installation Bus, info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Installation_Bus ). -New modules are lib/EIB_Items.pm and lib/EIB_Device.pm. Example items are in code/examples/eib_items.mht. - -- The CaFe Perl Users Group has an online Interview with Bruce about MisterHouse: http://www.bit-man.com.ar/en/CaFePMMisterHouse - -- Wally Kissel sent in a presentation on MisterLab which shows how he uses MisterHouse at Fermi Labs: -http://misterhouse.sf.net/MisterLab.ppt - -- Created lib/Network_Item.pm which uses ping to detect when specified ip address is up. -Examples in docs/mh.* and at the top of lib/Network_Item.pm - - - -B - -- David Mark changed the &respond_tk function to use &display, rather than respond_default, to tk requested data is more properly displayed. - -- David Mark updated common/mp3.pl and bin/get_mp3_data to enable wma files. - -- David Mark made more updates to CM11.pm to improve retry transmitions. - -- Larry Roudebush noticed we left debug turned on in 2.99 lib/site/ControlX10/CM11.pm - -- Larry Roudebush added a mh.ini fork_sound option, which worked better with esdplay on his linux box. - -- David Norwood updated net_mail_send to support smtp authentication on messages with mime attachments and -to support messages that contain both text and a file attachment. - -- Updated internet_weather.pl to allow it to writing to standard weather vars if you don't have a local weather station. - -- Jim Duda updated code/common/audreyspeak.pl to undo a 2.99 change involving the local ip address. - -- Gregg Liming updated bin/xAP-festival.pl to allow it to work better with hubs. - -- Limit outgoing im msgs to every other second, to avoid having im accounts closed due to rapid send messages. - -- Werner Lane patched lib/Numbered_Menu.pm to work with a 2.97 update dealing with parms and -fixed a check for the keyed-in number (string comparison vs numeric comparison) that prevented the -menu from functioning if more than 10 menu items were available. - -- Gregg Liming made a number of updates to lib/xAP_Items.pm . - -- Updated &force_prounce in lib/Voice_Text.pl to allow for regular expressions data/pronouncable_words.list - -- Todd Riesz noticed that menus Actions were not working for lcd menus. - -- Matthew Williams updated web/bin/shopping_list.pl, including options to allow for easier printing and -a 'at shop' button which brings up a list of items currently in the shopping list. - -- Glenn Jensen noticed the ia5 news button wasn't working. - -- Brian McKissick noticed bin/alpha_page was missing the leading # in the first line - -- Brent Gross updated code/common/comic_dailystrips.pl to allow for email "to" and "basedir" parms. - -- Richard Koch fixed a problem in lib/X10_Item.pm with sending preset dim commands to preset2 devices. - -- Dave Hall added mh.ini parm events_table so DBI based event tables are disabled by default in lib/Base_Item.pm - -- Gregg Liming update lib/Light_Item.pm to add a always_set_state method. -Setting it to 0 prevents set states when the value doesn't change. - -- Matthew Williams made some updates to web/comics/dailystrips/strips.def - -- Gregg Liming updated lib/Telephony_xAP.pm to implement most current xAP schemas for telephony, specifically CID.Meteor and CTI.*. -The CID.Meteor support addresses both incoming CID hooks and outgoing call logging. -The CTI.* support addresses MWI message counts (total and read). - -- David Norwood updated code/common/mp3.pl to remove playlists with unpronoucable characters from the playlist voice cmd -and code/common/mp3_xmms.pl to take out the /sbin/ path to pidof, because it's in /bin on debian. - -- David Norwood updated code/common/rss_subscriber.pl to add support for podcasts and other RSS feeds with enclosures. - -- David Norwood updated code/common/stocks.pl to add back the stock alerts feature. - -- David Norwood made various updates to the UIRT2, USB-UIRT, and ncpuxa (Ocelot) code and modules (ncpuxa now work on Windows). - - - - -=head2 Version 2.99 posted on 05/22/2005 - -Version 2.99 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - -- Pete Flaherty updated his new mhmedia code to collect, display, select/queue various media files, from MH web interface. -He also created bin/mhmms-server.pl for use on the box Xine is running. - -- Pete Flaherty also created docs/faq_mhmedia.* to document his new mhmedia code. - -- Chris Barrett created mh/bin/xAP-festival.pl, which provides a simple xAP listener for the Festival text-to-speech synthesizer. - -- Gregg Liming added code/common/xap_pa_control.pl, so we can use distributed xAP/xPL TTS speech clients -(like the new xAP-festival.pl) to create a distributed speech PA system. - -- Gregg Liming made numerous great updates to lib/xAP_Items.pm, including -allowing for the use of the xAP target field, a heartbeat monitor, a section specific state_now option, -and a new tie_value_converter method for modifying data on the fly. - -- Gregg Liming also updated Telephony_xAP.pm and created mh/code/public/asterisk_gregg.pl as an example of interfacing asterisk using xAP. - -- Jim Duda updated code/common/audreyspeak.pl to use the "rooms" parameter instead of the "address" parameter. -It now also builds a queue of speak and play items such that speak and play events don't stomp on each other. - -- Dan Hoffard created code/public/weather_warning.pl to periodically checks the NOAA website for severe -watches and warnings in any given area and speaks warning messages. - -- David Mark made extensive changes to the X10 processing code: -added additional code for processing commands that were otherwise discarded ($BACKLOG variable), -tweaked various timeouts and added some additional logic to the send function toeliminate the bad checksums, -added support for the extended ack (LM14's send these when their states change) and extended preset dim commands, -and polling is now reported in the logs. - -- David Satterfield created code/common/voicemail_vocp.pl to interface to the Linux vocp system: http://www.vocpsystem.com - -- Marcus M��ller created a xAP driver for his 2-way, multi-zone capable IRTrans interface, available for 99 Euro from http://www.irtrans.com/ - -- David Norwood created code/common/rss_subscriber.pl for downloading files in rss feeds (e.g. podcasts and torrent files for TV shows). - -- Updated common/phone_minutes.pl to work with Cingular (in addition to Sprint and Tmobile). - -- Added mh.ini options xap/xpl_enable_items to enable mh to echo mh item state changes to xap/xpl. -Also added code to common/xAP_command.pl to allow external xAP programs to set states on mh items and -to allow for multiple mh systems with the common mirrored items. - -- Created mh/bin/xAP-bluetooth.pl (called with mh/bin/xAP-bluetooth) and mh/code/common/xAP_bluetooth.pl -for monitoring when bluetooth enabled devices (e.g. phones) go in and out of range. -The xAP daemon runs on Linux and requires the bluez lib to be installed (pointers in the header). - - -B - -- Updated lib/Serial_Item.pm to cancel set_with_timer events if mh detects that device was set externally. - -- Chris Barrett updated web/bin/phone_out.pl to allow for numbers other than 12 digit numbers. - -- Sam Levine noticed a 2.98 typo on web/bin/floorplan.pl - -- Mark Radke updated code/common/weather_rrd_update.pl to correctly -calculates the sea level pressure if the weather_uom_baro variable is set to mb. -Mark also created code/common/weather_summary.pl to update the $Weather{Summary_Short} used in the web status bar. - -- Pete Flaherty updated code/common/phone_logs.pl to format the phone out logs with a bit more data. - -- Added $Loop_Count_Reload, so we can see how many passes we have had since the last reload. - -- Moved the GD .jpg images created by the web/button* code from html_dir/cache to data_dir/cache - -- Chris Barrett fixed two problems with net_mail_send which was creating mime email that was not quite legal. - -- Peter Woodall updated common/internet_earthquakes.pl to point to an updated usgs.gov ftp url - -- Gianni Veloce updated code/public/audrey_cid.pl - -- Tony Hall updated common/stocks.pl to work with new stock data from Yahoo. - -- Rick Steeves updated web/comics/dailystrips/strips.def to re-enable Dilbert. Also updated to the latest version from sf cvs. - -- Brian Ujvary updated X10_IrrigationController in lib/X10_Items.pm to fix issues with a timer, Rain8 All OFF, -abort requests, and allowed for a second zone cascade request. - -- Allow for a user defined modem in lib/Telephony_Interface.pm. - -- Updated lib/Telephony_Interface.pm to clean up callerid data from the bluetooth Dock-N-Talk cell phone interface. - -- Jason Sharpee updated lib/Door_Item.pm to add a periodic alarm trigger and lib/Stargate.pm to remove "Thermostat parse error" debug message. - -- Updated lib/site/Date/*.pm modules to the latest versions. - -- David Mark updated code/common/internet_weather.pl to add barometric pressure rising/falling, wind chill, -and changed the shell command to a processs_item call. - -- Nigel Titley sent in code/public/iButton_logcks.pl as an example of how he uses iButtons and a weeder module for a door lock. - - -=head2 Version 2.98 posted on 03/20/2005 - -Version 2.98 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - -- Axel Brown created code/common/mh_release.pl which -monitors the MisterHouse release page and lets the user know if there is a newer version of MisterHouse available. - -- Axel Brown created code/common/monitor_router_lingo.pl to monitor and optionally reboot a VoIP Lingo router. - -- Matthew Williams created code/public/weather-metar.pl for getting weather provided the international standard METAR format. -Similar to code/common/internet_weather_metar.pl. He also added a weather_long option to web/bin/status_line.pl - -- Pete Flaherty created common/mhmedia_xine.pl and web/media for controling Xine Media player, -available via a new Media Center button on the ia5 entertainment page. -Currently for Linux only, but Xine Windows support is planned. - -- Pete Flaherty created code/public/phone_merlin.pl and an example for interfacing to the Merlin phone system. - - -B - -- Dominique Benoliel fixed a 2.97 wind conversion problem in lib/weather_wmr968.pm - -- Added a check to web/bin/items.pl to avoid creating any mh items with embeded blanks. - -- Chris Barrett noticed a typo in lib/Telephony_Interface. A callerid should have been caller_id in this check: -config_parms{caller_id_format} eq 'number only'; - -- Axel Brown updated bin/mh set the volume on a per sound basis on unix when using the standard play program. - -- Patched bin/mh to avoid this message that Lee Varga noticed: Undefined subroutine: main::respond_UserCode main::respond_UserCode - -- Craig ? found a 2.97 problem in handy_net_utilities.pl that caused the which function to not run the dailystrip code on -some systems (switched -x file test to -f). - -- Jason Sharpee added a mos_precip_change (rain prediction) funciton to code/public/weather_mos_forecast.pl. - -- Jason Sharpee patched set_by problem he noticed with tied_item objects. - -- Jason Sharpee patched lib/X10_Items.pm to assume a ON to a non-presetable item means 100% light level. - -- Jac�� Botha found a problem with code_unselect on windows not deselecting code on Windows due to a case sensitve issue. - -- Pete Flaherty updated code/common/audrey_control2.pl to use get_url instead of get to avoid mh pauses. - -- Jason Sharpee re-wrote lib/Base_Item.pm and Light_Item.pm to add features, fix bugs, and clean up the code. - -- Bradley Erickson notice that lib/HomeBase.pm did not work with X10 house code M. - -- Pete Flaherty updated docs/faq_ia.pod with the latest info on his http://mraudrey.net project. - -- Matthew Williams updated web/bin/shopping_list.pl, changing the modify option to update list. -Also included the default data/shopping_list.txt that was left out in the last release. - -- Heath Pitts found a memory leak problem with .mht entries with blanks in the group records. - -- Pete Flaherty updated web/bin/phone_out.pl to display optional additional data. - -- David Norwood updated the common/USB_UIRT_learning.pl to handle two part raw codes. - -- Rob Walker noticed that mht entries flagged with 'hidden' group flags, inadvertantly created groups called hidden. - -- Rob Walker and I updated web/bin/floorplan.pl to not require the $om object. - -- Gregg Becnel fixed a bug in collect_accum in code/public/caddx.pl - -- James Bacus noticed code/common/callerid.pl would repeate the callerid data twice, if you only had one callerid device defined. - -- Rob Walker and I updated code/common/internet_im.pl to allow for new autoconnect parms, -so that mh can log into im services at startup, rather than only when they first need to send data. -To enable, set net_aim_autoconnect=1 (or _msn_, _icq_, or _jabber). - -- Added a list of defined constants (e.g. ON => 'on') to the 'List of global variables' of docs/mh.pod. -Also added MOTION and STILL - - -=head2 Version 2.97 posted on 01/23/2005 - -Version 2.97 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - -B - -- Matthew Williams created web/bin/shopping_list.pl, now linked under a new web ia5 'events/calender' menu with a new shopping button. - -- David Norwood updated common/phone_minutes.pl to work with Tmobile (in addition to Sprint). - -- Pete Flaherty created code/common/audrey_control2.pl, which controls lights, screen, power, volume on multiple Audreys. - -- Added support for multiple Alpha LED displays. See lib/Display_Alpha.pm for more info. Also fixed a 2.96 bug with colors. - -- Jocelyn Brouillard created code/public/dsc_pc5401.pl DSC Alarm PC5401 Serial interface. - -- Jason Sharpee created code/public/weather_mos_forecast.pl to decode MOS forecast data. - -- Dominique Benoliel, with input from Tom Valdes, Clive Freedman, and Tine Gornik updated common/weather_rrd_update.pl. -Updates include smarter $Reload, correct Wind Direction ratio, correct Rain Rate/Total, -change Celcius with Celsius, and added check for $Weather{TempInternet}. - -- Matthew Williams also updated weather_rrd_update.pl to allow for metric units and negative dew points. -He also added a bunch of metric related convert_* functions to bin/mh. For a list, search for convert_ in docs/mh.txt - - -B - -- Chris Barrett updated USB_UIRT.pm with debug updates. - -- Matthew Williams updated code/common/phone_logs.pl to allow for numbers without area codes. - -- Gianni Veloce made some updates to code/public/sms.pl . - -- Pete Flaherty updated weather_rrd_update.pl to allow for weather_rrd_format=GIF (defaults to PNG). - -- David Norwood updated weather_rrd_update.pl to fork when creating graphs, to avoid mh pauses, but this only works on non-windows boxes. - -- David Norwood noticed a 2.96 problem with set_output using open2 and not getting STDOUT results from Process_Item on Linux. - -- Fixed a 2.96 problem with sending internet messages with send_im. - -- Dan Puccio noticed a problem, caused by a bug in the which function, when mh was installed in installed in a /mh dir. - -- William Magill fixed the uptime calculation for OSx. - -- Gregg Liming update common/xAP_command.pl to allow for targets and ackmsg attributes. - -- David Satterfield noticed that unquoted arguments using the web SUB function were treated as one argument instead of multiple arguments. - -- Neil Wrightson noticed odd problems on Windows when mhe.exe was used with the mh -log_file command line option. -I tried fixing it, but it is something deep in the Windows PAR compiler, although Linux PAR works fine. -So I took that option out of the documentation, since simple redirection (mh > debug.log) works just as well -and disabled it for windows mhe.exe users. - -- Jeff Bevis fixed a problem with an authorization check in web/bin/iniedit.pl - -- Updated lib/site/Geo/Weather.pm , to be compatable again with updated weather.com pages. - -- Rick Rolstin fixed a problem with frequent disconnects in common/voice_server.pl and public/voice_client.pl - -- Matthew Williams discovered that the 'admin password accepted' speak calls would cause problems with speak hooks. -like in the Audrey code. We already had print_log calls there, so we took out the speak calls. - -- Jeff Bevis noticed we broke X10 BRIGHT/DIM states in 2.96. - -- Larry Roudebush noticed that common/xAP_send.pl disabled local speech. - -- Werner Lane found a bug in common/deep_thought.pl that was causing a file access on each mh pass! - -- Werner Lane updated common/display_slimserver.pl to work with the new slimserver 5.4+ releases. - -- Werner Lane updated common/speech_clash.pl to allow for speech with the ' character. - -- Werner Lane also updated bin/mh to use am/pm on Time_Sun* parms if time_format==12 - -- Matthew Williams added listing of X10_Item timers to the "list all timers" to common/timers.pl - -- Joel Moore added Nextel support to phone_pcs_messaging.pl. - -- Dominique Benoliel modified lib/weather_wmr968.pm -to calculate the pressure at sea level with the mh parameters "ratio_sea_baro" parm -and make metric conversions to load $Weather global variables in coherence with the "weather_uom_..." mh parameters. - -- Dominique Benoliel modified common/weather_upload.pl to send the pressure sea level and not the absolute pressure -if using the wmr968 and to make some metric->english conversions if needed, according to the "weather_uom_..." parms. - -- Jason Sharpee and Kirk Bauer fixed lib/Light_Item.pm to fix a problem with Lights and Motion sensors without occupancy (would -not stay on during motion sequences) and another problem with X10 Sync timer -killing a light when it has occupancy as well. - -- Jason Sharpee also updated lib/Door_Item.pm to make door alarm repeatable (keep on nagging until door is closed). - - - - -=head2 Version 2.96 posted on 11/22/2004 - -Version 2.96 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - -B - -- 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 - -- Gregg Liming 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 Steeve created code/public/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. - - -B - -- 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; - - -=head2 Version 2.95 posted on 09/25/2004 - -Version 2.95 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - - -- Ant Skelton created mh/code/common/internet_irc.pl which allows -MrHouse to talk to multiple channels and multiple users on multiple IRC servers. - -- Dan Wilga updated mh/bin/get_tv_grid to allow for multiple providers (e.g. local cable and Dish Network). -To use more than one, the list of providers needs to be separated by commas, like: 1234,5678 or Charter Communications,Dish Network. - -- Scott Johnson created mh/code/public/siteplayer.pl as an example of sending -digital signals to a $30 siteplayer ethernet interface: http://www.siteplayer.com - -- Mark Rogers added Ogg Vorbis support to the mp3 playlists. - -- Lou Montulli updates lib/Xantech.pm with some fixes to get it working on his Xantech whole house audio system. -He also create code/public/Xantech_test.pl for a web based control test. - -- Pierrick Dintrat created web/bin/floorplan_svg.pl, a SVG (Scaleable Vector Graphic), version of the html only version, floorplan.pl. -Required SVG plugin is available from http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install . - -- David Norwood suggested we add mh/web/bin/dbmedit.cgi, hacked from from http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/dbmedit/. -Call it to browse db files like this: http://localhost:8080/bin/dbmedit.cgi?file=tv_channels.dbm - -- Kirk Bauer updated Alsaplayer.pm (added forward, rewind functions, and get_path functions), -Light_Item.pm (added manual function), -Musica.pm (fixed set_bass, set_treble, and set_balance functions), -RCSsTR40.pm (added set_heat_limits and set_cool_limits functions), -mp3_alsaplayer.pl (added mp3_get_playlist_pos and mp3_get_curr_file functions -and added the ability for usercode to set a function to be called whenever the alsaplayer is in use), -and PlayList.pm (provides more flexibility in adding files to the playlist). - -- Clive Freedman created functions url_changed and url_last_modified functions. -See mh/doc/mh.* for an example. - -- Added a mh.ini voice_text=swift and voice_text_swift=pgm_path options for the new Cepstral Linux TTS engine. - -- Kirk Bauer created code/common/mp3Rip_code.pl to rip MP3s from audio CDs through the Misterhouse web interface. -Info available from the common code select menu (points to mh/docs/mp3Rip_system_setup.txt). Currently Linux only. - -- Kirk Bauer added a new state_final Generic_Item method, so we can query what -state an object will be in after all queued state changes have been processed. - -- Kirk Bauer created new handy_net_utilites.pl functions html_decode, cookies_parse, and cookies_generate. -He also updated bin/get_url to allow for -cookies, -post, and header_file options. - -- Kirk Bauer (busy boy!) created code/common/eBay.pl to monitor your eBay -activity and report interesting events, such as somebody outbidding you, -an item ending, an item that is going to end soon, and much more. - - - -B - -- Dominique Benoliel updated code/common/weather_rrd_update.pl to -add sea level barometric pressure (in the labels of the pressure graphs), -change label "barometric pressure" by "Absolute barometric pressure" (to avoid confusion with the sea level pressure), -add new mh parameter "$Weather{ratio_sea_baro}" to calculate the sea level barometric pressure (to avoid hard -coded in the script, default 10 meters), and use "altitude" mh parameter to calculate the sea level barometric pressure graph. - -- Updated lib/Telephony_Interface.pm to recognize NetCallerID message waiting data. - -- David Norwood modified the sort order for mp3 songs, playlists, and artists so that the string "the " at the beginning is ignored. - -- Clive Freedman and I created web/misc/failed_request.shtml for missing pages, which can be overriden with -a user aliased dir to change the message given on missing pages. - -- Added %Misc global array, to store misc goblal vars (like %Save, but not saved between mh restarts). - -- Kirk Bauer updated bin/get_mp3_data to fix a genre bug and to add support for some newer genres. - -- Added a mh.ini bin_dir option, to point to your private version of any file that -normally gets executed from the bin/mh dir (e.g. get_weather). - -- Added app=admin to http_server.pl calls to speak (e.g. "Admin password accepted"), so we can use -a speak_apps parm to override if and how to speak that speech. Also updated Voice_Text.pm to exit quietly with voice=none. - -- Mark Rogers updated common/mp3.pl to re-tie to the dbm database, so newly rebuilt mp3 data is picked up. - -- Chris Barrett found a typo in the protocol printout of USB_UIRT.pm. - -- Kirk Bauer re-wrote the read_record function to be more efficient and added a read_next_tail to File_Item. - -- Added &html_item to html_sever.pl, so we can add just specific objects to .shtml files. Example in docs/mh.* - -- Craig Schaeffer noticed that if tk_mlabel pointed to an object, it echoed only the state at startup. -We took out that object option and changed the Tk mail label in common/internet_mail.pl to point to a variable instead. - -- Craig Schaeffer noticed that web RUN:last_displayed calls caused my to pause for a long time. - -- Allow for range of channels in get_tv_grid -keep and -skip options (e.g. -keep 9,10,100-200,300 ). - - -=head2 Version 2.94 posted on 07/30/2004 - -Version 2.94 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - - -- Axel Brown updated common/internet_im.pl to add support for ICQ. Enable with mh.ini net_icq_name and net_icq_password. - -- Raul Rodriguez updated common/mp3_slimserver.pl to optionaly and transparently direct mh/slimserver music to networked computers. - - -B - -- Pete Flaherty fixed a few minor javascript typos in some of the web pages. - -- Thomas Stoll noticed a 2.92 problem with TOGGLEing states and an case sensitive state problem. - - -=head2 Version 2.93 posted on 07/18/2004 - -Version 2.93 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - - -- Pete Flaherty updated the web mp3 interface, adding delete, jump, and playlist on/off toggle button on the remote -popup player/playlist and updated mp3_xmms and mp3_winamp to be more interactive between the control and the playlist. - -- John Dillenburg wrote lib/Motion_Tracker.pm, experimenting with the occupancy monitoring stuff and -deciding it was too complicated for his application. Motion_Tracker takes a motion sensor object as -a parameter and sets up a timer everytime motion is detected. It ignores the 'off' messages from the sensors. -This allows the timeouts to be set on the computer rather than on each sensor individually. -The object state is restored through restarts, so the occupied state will eventually expire, even after restarts. - - -B - -- Timothy Spaulding found a 2.92 bug that caused set_by to get the wrong data. - -- David Norwood fixed a bug in stocks.pl that kept price drops from being announced. - -- Lowered the default MR26_multireceive_delay from 1500 to 400 -(I ment to do that in 2.92, but Bill Young noticed that I didn't). -Also added a W800_multireceive_delay to the X10_W800* modules, but left the default at 1500, -since Bill mentioned that those module does not filter repeats like the MR26 does. - -- Added 'Speak deep thought with voice xyz' to common/deep_thought.pl, -so we can read deep thoughts with different voices. - -- Fixed a 2.92 bug in display, where the tk window would not appear. - -- Fixed a 2.92 bug with Timer where active would return true after the timer expired. - -- Brent Gross added quotes to the email address that gets the response of email commands in common/internet_mail.pl, -so that emails addresses with blanks work ok. - -- Robert Rozman noticed that Voice_Cmd 'Set {the,} light on' did not work with the string 'Set light on'. - -- John Dillenburg noticed that X10_Sensor (X10MS) was giving 'serial set called but no serial port found' messages. - - - -=head2 Version 2.92 posted on 07/05/2004 - -Version 2.92 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - - -- Sean Walker sent in code/public/vocp_sean.pl for integrating with linux vocp voicemail ( http://vocp.sourceforge.net/ ). - -- Lincoln Foreman created code/public/x10_video_security2.pl as another example of interfacing with X10 cameras. - -- Kirk Bauer created lib/Tivo_Control.pm for displaying text on a Tivo. See header for details. - -- Norm Dressler created code/common/mr26_vdr.pl to send remote control commands to VDR (Video Disk Recorder) -( http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ ) from an X10 RF remote, via a MR26 interface. - -- Created lib/Display_Alpha.pm and code/common/display_alpha.pl for sending text to an Alpha LED signs using a serial port. -I picked up the Alpha 213C (a.k.a. BetaBrite, 2" x 24", 14 character) from the local Sam's Club for $150. -Their web site only lists a bigger version, but info on BetaBrite I have can be -seen here: http://www.betabrite.com/Pages/betabrite.htm . It displays in multiple colors, -in either scrolling or fixed text. See Display_Alpha.pm header for details. - -- Created code/common/games_bingo.pl for playing the game of Bingo by speaking and displaying -a randomized set of bingo numbers at a timed interval. - -- Added a xAP interface option to lib/IR_Item.pm. This allows us to send and receive IR data with the -USB RedRat3 ($99 from http://www.redrat.co.uk/ ), using the new windows xAP RedRat Connector ( -http://www.xapframework.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=45 ). - -- Created code/common/robot_robosapien.pl for using IR to control the RoboSapien Robot: -http://www.robosapienonline.com (got mine for $100 at Best Buy). It doesn't do anything practical, but it is a fun toy. -I've also sent the 70+ IR codes to the online Redrat3 database. - -- Larry Roudebush created a program that will sync a palm datebook with misterhouse calendar file. -Available at ftp://24.210.57.79 with a user name and password of: mhusers/mhusers. - - -B - -- David Norwood sent in mh/code/public/ocelot_*.pl as examples of using Ocelot infrared, digital input, and digital output. - -- Dave Hall updated code/public/robot_er1.pl to fixed bugs, made few things easier/automatic, -and added digital and analog input and an angle routine. - -- Joel Davidson updated lib/Omnistat.pm and code/public/omnistat.pl to work with an HAI RC-80 thermostat. - -- Lee Varga added mh.ini parms photo_no_title and photo_no_clock for turning off title and clock on the web photo page. - -- Fixed a bug when receiving xAP/xPL data with a blank value. - -- Added a set_now method to Generic_Item (available to most mh objects). Unlike set, which makes the state change on the -next pass, set_now changes the state when called. Used in setting incoming states on xAP and xPL objects, so -the various other data fields are in sync with the state field. - -- Updated lib/Timer.pm to have the active/inactive methods immediately reflect that a timer has been set, rather than waiting for the start -of the next pass. - -- Jukka Br updated lib/site/hardware/iButton/Connection.pm to set some port timings to improve iButton reliablity. -Since this broke things for some people, this is only enabled with parm ibutton_tweak=2. - -- Norm Dressler noticed the 'duplicate key' check in lib/X10_MR26.pm was set to high at 1.5 seconds. -Added a mh.ini MR26_multireceive_delay, defaulting it to 400 (.4 seconds). - -- Fixed a windows bug when you have duplicate file names with different cases (e.g. xAP_weather -vs- xap_weather). - -- Added the xAP/xPL module as part of bin/mh, rather than user code. If you don't want the xAP/xPL ports open, -use mh.ini parm xap_disable = 1 . - -- Added a device option to the display function, so we can send display data to specific displays. -If used, a user definable display_devicename function will be called (e.g. display "device=alpha hi" will call &display_alpha). - -- Enabled display_app parm, like we had for speak_app, so we can control display parms in common code. -For example, I can display bingo numbers to our nice big Alpha LED with this parm: display_apps = bingo => device=alpha - -- Added mh/bin/mhc and mhc.bat, the scripts I use to created the compiled mhe binaries on linux and windows with the Par compiler. - - -=head2 Version 2.91 posted on 06/06/2004 - -Version 2.91 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - -B - -- Kirk Bauer created code/public/whole_house_audio_speech.pl and whole_house_audio_musica.pl for -for distributing speech and music using multiple sources and multiple destinations. -Lots of good documentation here: http://www.linux.kaybee.org:81/tabs/whole_house_audio/ - -- Dominique Benoliel created web/bin/weather_graph_zoom.pl and added a ia5 Weather -> Weather Station -> Weather Zoom -option for creating custom sized graphs for any date range. - -- Steven Lee created lib/Logger.pm. See the top of the file for examples. - -- Amauri Viguera and I created mh/web/bin/rss_logs.pl for creating RSS feeds from various mh logs. -For example, here is my speech log feed: http://misterhouse.net:8080/bin/rss_logs.pl?speak . -RSS feeds are a popular way for various 'news aggregators' to track multiple sources of info. -To allow access from external readers, add rss_logs.pl to your data_dir/password_allow file. -See the rss_logs.pl header for more info. - -- Updated lib/CID_Server.pm to enable sending of caller ID data to xAP and xPL clients. -This will be enabled if you enable code/common/test_xap.pl and callerid.pl. -Tested with the nifty new xAP desktop application which displays various bits of data -on windows desktops, available via http://www.xapautomation.org . - - -B - -- Brian Ujvary updated lib/USB_UIRT.pm to close cleanly on mh exit/restart. - -- Chris Barrett noticed a problem with common/telnet.pl closing a client connection. - -- Brian McKissick updated bin/alpha_page to support Arch Wireless (one-way and two-way) pagers. - -- Kirk Bauer updated lib/AlsaPlayer.pm, PlayList.pm, and common/mp3_alsaplayer.pl. -Added the ability to stop/restart alsaplayer process and set the volume better. - -- Sean Walker tweaked web/bin/photo_search.pl . - -- Doug Nakakihara and Larry Roudebush noticed a commented out line in common/callerid.pl caused rejected calls not to get hung up. - -- Kirk Bauer added a "Create" button to the USB-UIRT Learning web interface, -which lets you select an exiting function, modify one or more parts of it, -type in the new name, and then click "Create". David Norwood fixed a bug in -USB_UIRT.pm that was corrupting two part UIRT codes imported from Girder. - -- Switched str2time from the HTTP version to the Date::Parse version, so we can parse more time/date strings more reliably. - -- Added offhook/onhook set options to lib/Telephony_Interface.pm -and switched to these from direct serial port calls in code/common/callerid.pl. - -- Chris Barrett added File_Item exist and exist_now methods for detecting if files exist. - -- Scott Reston noticed a 2.88 bug that disabled X10_Item level from returning the proper light level. - -- Chris Barrett updated code/common/telnet.pl to add configurable "welcome" and "exit" banners, -a built-in "whoami" command that returns either "admin", "family" or "guest", -changed the the admin prompt to "mh#" and for the other 2 levels it is "mh>", -and changed the "exit" command to now drop you back to your previous level (e.g. guest -> admin -> guest). - -- Updated perl par compiler from 0.80 to 0.83. - -- Updated lib/site/net/AOLIM.pm from 1.4 to the latest 1.6 version. - - -=head2 Version 2.90 posted on 05/02/2004 - -B - -- Added slimserver_protocol=xAP option for common/display_slimserver.pl. -This uses the xAP SlimServer Connector from: http://www.xapframework.net -to display data to Slim devices. This program allows for big and brightness controls, -and eventually will capture IR data (slimp3 -> xAP traffic -> mh), even for many non-slim IR remotes. - -- Jim Duda created common/camera_gphoto2.pl for downloading photos from digital cameras using ghoto2 (linux only) - -- Kirk Bauer created lib/VirtualAudio.pm which alows you to create virtual audio sources and route them -to a physical multi-zone audio system. For example, different playlists can be routed to different rooms. - -- Kirk Bauer also created common/mp3_alsaplayer.pl, which adds support for Alsaplayer the same way it exists for XMMS/Winamp -added some new functionality to lib/AlsaPlayer.pm. - -- Amauri Viguera created common/tv_btvwin32.pl for interfacing with SnapStream's "Beyond TV" PVR software. - - - -B - -- Neil Wrightson noticed that the windows web server was looking for mh.exe rather than mhe.exe when forking big files. - -- Neil Wrightson also noticed that a code_dir path with multiple dirs would mess up some common code file member (menu.pl, -trigger.pl, outlook.pl, and internet_irridium.pl). - -- Steve Switzer fixed a 2.89 typo in weather_aws.pl. - -- Chris Barrett fixed Holiday notices for different date_formats and fixed year based Holidays. - -- Chris Barrett also noticed a 2.89 bug in new_minute. - -- Chris Barrett added an auto-refresh to the rrd weather graphs. - -- Steven Lee updated Generic_Item property_changed to also trigger if the old or new value was undefined. - - -=head2 Version 2.89 posted on 04/25/2004 - -Version 2.89 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - -B - -- Dave Hall created code/public/robot_er1.pl for interacting with the Evolution Robotics ER1 robot: -http://www.evolution.com/er1/ - -- Created code/public/iButton_temps.pl as an alternative way of reading iButton temperatures if the built -in mh code is not working reliably. It uses the digitemp binaries (windows or linux) from http://www.digitemp.com - -- Added 'Email daily comics' to common/comic_dailystrips.pl. -Also added 'Email xxx weather chart' commands to common/weather_rrd_update.pl. -These both use html email, so the images are displayed without having to open them, just like in all those pesky spam emails. -You can have these sent on a daily basis with something like this: - - run_voice_cmd 'Email daily comics' if time_cron '2 5 * * *'; - -- Created web/bin/list_images.pl to list recent images from a directory of images (e.g webcam snapshots). -Here is an example page: http://misterhouse.net:8080/ia5/security/index.html - -- Updated bin/mh.bat to use the newer, par compiled, mhe.exe. Dropped the older perl2exe compiled mh.exe from the misterhouse_win_###.zip package. -Also updated the perl par compiler to version 0.80 on linux and windows. As a result, perl58.dll is no longer required on windows. - -- Steve Switzer created code/common/speech_clash.pl which will re-que a speak event if speech is currently in progress. -This can help speech engines that do not have built in speech ques, so that speech is not lost or overlapped. - - -B - -- Steve Switzer fixed the tv configure script web/bin/set_parm_tv_provider.pl to work on unix boxes without bin/mh it the path var. - -- Craig Schaeffer fixed Lynx10PLC when used through an mh proxy. - -- Kirk Bauer updated lib/Musica.pm, PlayList.pm, AlsaPlayer.pm, and Weeder_Light.pm. - -- Added a Play_parms hook, for modifying play parms before play calls. - -- Craig Schaeffer updated aol im buddy logon messages to be less verbose. - -- Chris Barrett fixed a security issue with web/bin/browse.pl - -- Jim Duda updated Process_Item to add methods set_killsig and runtime to allow for setting of "kill" level and querying process runtime. - -- David Norwood updated common/internet_iridium.pl to work if deactivated/reactivated. - -- Craig Schaeffer enabled play nolog => 1. - -- Dennis Hennen added a Group remove method. - -- Lincoln Foreman noticed that new_second (and new_minute etc) did not work for some intervals like 35. - -- Jason Sharpee noticed a 2.88 bug where target was lost in respond commands. - -- Clive Freedman enabled the mh.ini mail account_timeout parm. - -- Chris Barrett added net_mail_send -priority option. - -- Added a no_speak parm to speak, so we can add speak_parm hooks that abort speaking. - - - -=head2 Version 2.88 posted on 03/21/2004 - -Version 2.88 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - -- Steven Lee and I updated Generic_Item to use Tie::Hash so we can detect changes to any object property. -We now use this with a property_changed method in X10_Item that will call set_level to more accuratly set the -level attribute whenever the object state is changed. - -- Created a large (30 meg) file of optional files (mainly sound files) here: -http://misterhouse.sf.net/misterhouse_misc.zip>misterhouse_misc.zip . -It currently has the 40 west(minster) and cuckoo chimes, about 60 fun .wav files, and about 65 halloween .wav files. - -- Robert Rozman sent code files common/mythtv_osd.pl and xosd.pl as examples of display data to Freevo or Mythtv GUIs using xosd. - -- Kirk Bauer created lib/Musica.pm to control the Musica whole-house audio system by Netstreams over the RS232 port. -This system has provides 6 zones and 4 sources with very nice keypads: http://www.netstreams.com - -- Kirk Bauer created lib/AlsaPlayer.pm which allows for the creation and control of alsaplayer processes, -and Playlist.pm which manages lists of music files. Documentation is at the top of those modules. - -- Kirk Bauer created lib/Weeder_light.pm which allows you to monitors and controls a light through Weeder boards. - -- Pete Flaherty, with some help from David Norwood, updated the MP3 Jukebox page to include a nifty new Song Info popup button. - -- Dominique Benoliel updated the common/weather_rrd_update.pl script with a bunch of updates, including a new -mh.ini parm to allow for labeling of the various graphs. mh.ini parms are listed at the top of the code file. -For best results, either delete your old data_dir/rrd/weather.rrd file or rebuild it with code/public/csv2rrd_weather.pl - - -B - -- Brian Ujvary made some minor updates to lib/USB_UIRT.pm and IR_Utils.pm . - -- Ross Towbin updated common/barcode_scan.pl to allow for case senstive data and computer checkdigits for UPE codes. - -- Nick Maddock fixed a bug in the time_idle method (was true only when the object was idle for the specified time). - -- Added a Speak_parms hook, for modifying speak parms before speak calls. - -- Scott Reston and I added a X10_Item preset2 option. This will add ON after any preset command, -to de-select the module so it will not be effected by unrelated subsequent X10 commands. - -- Pete Flaherty updated weather_iB_OWW_client.pl to update wind chill based on average/peak and to fix find direction data. - -- Bill Young updated lib/X10_W800.pm to work better with noiser RF data. - -- Bill Young updated lib/RF_Item.pm to re-organize how devices are coded by breaking it into various lib/X10_RF*.pm modules. - -- Kirk Bauer added get_system_state to lib/RCSsTR40.pm and sent in mh/web/bin/hvac.pl as an example of a page to drive it. - -- Jeff Pagel noticed un-needed debug errata coming out of internet_mail.pl. - -- Pete Flaherty updated common/audreyspeak.pl to avoid doublespeak. - -- Pete Flaherty updated weather_iB_OWW_client.pl to align the variables with RRD graphing. - -- Fixed a bug with the default sound card gettting lost with the voice_text=MS engines. - -- Kirk Bauer allow Timer_Item repeat values of -1, to allow it to repeat forever. - -- Updated mh/web/display_map.pl to use map servers from aprsworld.net, since the vicinity.com maps seemed to be disabled now. - -- John McCaskey noticed that set_by was not set correctly in events that set the same item more than once in the same pass. - -- Chris Barrett add mh.ini parm season_starts, so non-US people can pick the correct local season start date. - -- Craig Schaeffer enabled a tv_lable mh.in parm in common/tv_grid.pl - -- Paul Estes added some more states to RCS_Item.pm - -- Chris Barrett noticed that a mh.ini entry of password_allow_clients = 1.2.3.4 would allow clients of 1.2.3.41 through. -We fixed the regular expresion test so it is now anchored, so if you had an entry like -192.168.0. you will want to change it to 192.168.0..+ - -- Fixed a bug in barometric pressure in common/weather_upload.pl, when $Weather{BaromSea_hg} was not available. - -- Steve Switzer sent in code/public/monitor_im_status.pl as an example of monitoring an im buddy status. - -- Lee ? sent in code/public/x10_battery_charger.pl as an example of how to cycle a battery charger with an X10 module. - -- Pete Flaherty reformated the web ia5/outside/outside/sunmoon.shtml - -- Bazyle Butcher sent in code/public/wintvcapture.pl as an example of using sendkeys to the WinTV program. - -- Kirk Bauer updated the occupancy tracking and automatic/predictive lighting modules to fix some bugs and some more timers. - -- David Norwood updated Process_Item to kill previous processes if restarted before the previous process was finished. - -- Joe Blecher fixed handy_net_utilites.pl to break up longer messages send to AIM clients. -He also updated various list commands in common/mh_control.pl to use respond instead of display, so they work ok through im requests. - - - -=head2 Version 2.87 posted on 01/31/2004 - -Version 2.87 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - - -B - -- Dominique Benoliel created common/weather_rrd_update.pl to store and graph weather data via -a RRD database. The mhe compiled versions of mh should have the RRDs.pm module enabled. Non-compiled users can install RRD -with instructions at the top of weather_rrd_update.pl. You can view the new graphs via the ia5 -> Outside -> Weather Station page -(here is mine: http://misterhouse.net:8080/ia5/outside/weather_graph.shtml ) - -- Nick Maddock replaced mh/code/public/alarm_concept.* files with mh/code/public/concept_* for interfacing to the Concept 4000 alarm panel. - -- Kirk Bauer updated web/bin/floorplan.pl and made a bunch of changes to the occupancy/presence modules. -Changes are documented in the comment section at the top of each of the .pm files. - -- Steven Lee updated lib/X10_Item.pm X10_Switchlinc to Reports the state, level, and state_level appropriately. -Also, 0% to 100% are represented correctly, supports response from status request (2-way only), and sets state/level when switch is pressed (2-way only). - -- Bob Hughes and Joel Davidson sent in example code for snapping pictures using the linux v4lctl program, saved as public/webcam_bob.zip and webcam_joel.zip. - -- Steve Switzer updated the web/bin/phone_in.pl and added web/bin/callerid.pl to allow -for web based editing of phone.caller_id.list. - -- Chris Barrett added support for a backup CM11. Point to it with the mh.ini cm11_bak_port. - -- Chris Barrett updated lib/RF_Item.pm and X10_RF.pm to support Digimax 210 thermostat via a W800RF32. -Unlike the other RF devices the Digimax has a 4 byte ID code. His .mht entry for the unit is: RF, A9EF, Digimax, Thermostat - -- David Norwood updated common/internet_earthquake*.pl to use Net::FTP instead of finger, -which was recently disable due to a security filter on the USGS site. He also updated them to download images of where -the latest quakes are and to use triggers for scheduling. - -- David Norwood updated common/stocks.pl to announce price changes that exceed the threshold specified with the stocks_thresholds mh.ini parm (defaults to 5%). - -- David Norwood updated the common/mp3* code so xmms now recognizes an mp3_player_hide ini parameter to hide the main window. -This is useful if you are using the xmms coverviewer plug-in. -He also updated the winamp mp3_play and mp3_queue routines so they will work remotely and -and disabled the $Save{NowPlaying} variable because it was a resource hog. - -- Chris Witte refreshed the sourceforge cvs repository, so you can now get the full src distro with a cvs checkout. - - -B - -- Bill Young noticed a casesensitive problem in common/x10_rf_relay.pl - -- Larry Roudebush updated mh.ini parm caller_id_file to use $config_parms{data_dir} instead of $Pgm_Root/data - -- Larry Roudebush and I merged the code/common/reject_caller_list.pl and web/bin/rejectcall.pl files into web/bin/phone_list.pl -and pointed to that script with a new 'Caller List' button to the ia5 phone menu. - -- Kirk Bauer sent in his linux mh start scripts, saved as mh/bin/misterhouse_kirk*.rc - -- Robert Mann found a 2.86 problem in lib/W800RF.pm - -- George Clark created a time_between function. - -- Kirk Bauer updated lib/RCSsTR40.pm to fix a setpoint changed bug and to track run-time for logging/analysis purposes. - -- Brian Ujvary updated lib/IR_Item.pm to support the usb_uirt interface. - -- Kirk Bauer suggested we unset set_with_timer events if the object is set before the timer is expired. - -- Pass the $source parm to Serial_data hooks. - -- Bob Hughes fixed Query_Barometer in X10_BX24.pm. Gaetan Lord updated it to detect security code, standardize debug messages, and include security information in the doc. - -- Pete Flaherty added wind chill calculations common/weather_iB_OWW_client.pl . - -- Updated the web server to honor mh.ini parm html_refresh_rate on the widget pages. - -- Chris Barrett updated Holiday anouncements to honor ddmm format. - -- Kirk Bauer noticed that a date only time_now string would get mis-interpreted and would fire every day. - -- Fixed a 2.84 bug where run_after_delay would not work with subroutine calls. - -- Jim Duda fixed a 2.86 problem with W800 proxy data (serial datatype parm was not being passed for proxies). - -- Scott Johnson updated lib/site/Hardware/iButton/Device.PM so read_temperature works for the 18B20 (1822) -and added subs to read and write to the DS2408 (Device Type 29). - -- David Norwood updated common/weather_aws.pl to only update values if the downloaded web -page has a timestamp and it's different from the previous one and added "miles per hour" the monitor_weather wind gust announcement. -He also made minor changes to the UIRT, photo_index, http_server, and tk_photos code. - - - -=head2 Version 2.86 posted on 12/21/2003 - -B - -- 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 Sharpee 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. - - -B - -- Jason Sharpee 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 Sharpee 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. - - -=head2 Version 2.85 posted on 11/30/2003 - -Version 2.85 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - - -B - -- Chris Witte created lib/table_A2XML.pm mht -> xml translator and updated lib/read_table_xml_A.pl. -By default this code is not enabled, so mh will still translate mht files -> mhp files as usual. -If you use: mh -table_type xml, it will translate mht files -> xml files, then process xml -> mhp instead. - -- Paul Estes created code/common/mp3_slimserver.pl, to use with mp3.pl with devices from http://www.slimdevices.com. -I renamed common/slimp3_display.pl to display_slimserver.pl and renamed the parms it use to be the same as those in mp3_slimserver.pl. - -- Lennart Lopin created code/common/internet_weather_metar.pl for getting international weather data from noaa.gov - -- Richard Koch created x10_priority.pl ... - -B - -- Included Digest::HMAC_MD5 in the mh/lib/site, used in the new 2.84 mail authentication code. - -- Sam Levine noticed the 2.84 windows mh.exe binary would not start. - -- Craig Schaeffer noticed a 2.84 bug where dead proxies would not come back to life unless mh was restarted. - -- Richard Koch noticed login passwords were being stored in browser history lists. - -- Robert Hughes created code/public/sports_score_bball.pl for getting basketball scores. - -- Brian Ujvary updated mh/lib/site_win58 with new modules to enable the new USB_UIRT windows support. - -- Michael Hughes noticed mh would not start if the new common/mp3.pl was enabled, but mp3_winamp.pl or mp3_xmms.pl was not. - -- Sean Walker updated various ia5 web pages to point use a common html_style link. -Deleted the duplicate default.css files, changing the default background color from wheat to white. - -- Craig Schaeffer updated lib/Lynx10PLC.pm to add proxy support, single X10 commands, and improved extended code support. - -- Enabled the common/organizer.pl script by default, since it is needed by the calander web pages. - -- Steve Switzer updated bin/misterhouse.steve-fedora.rc, a startup script example for fedora Linux. - -- Kirk Bauer updated bin/mhl and bin/mh_proxy to handle arguments better. - - - -=head2 Version 2.84 posted on 11/23/2003 - -Version 2.84 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Sean Walker is working on interfacing to the Sphinx2 VR engine on linux. -Instructions are at http://sean.surfmy.net/projects/mh/index.html - -- Amauri Viguera added support for integrating mh with myHTPC (Home Theater PC menuing program for TVs). -Details are here: http://www.viguera.net/other/projects/myhtpc/myhtpc.readme.html - -- Pete Flaherty and Ross Towbin added SMTP authentication for email checking. Set a new net_mail_*_password_encryp mh.ini option. -Pete also added a new net_mail_*_ping option you can set to off if your mail server is not pingable. - -- David Norwood created time_random_offset to code a random time around a time_now formated time. -For example, to fire a random time within 60 minutes after 1:20 pm: - - speak "random test" if time_random_offset '1:20 pm', 60; - - -- Jim Duda created code/common/proxy_client_server.pl to provide a meshed networking interface between a set of misterhouse computers. - -- Kirk Bauer created lib/Fan_Control.pm for controling Hampton Bay RF ceiling fans. -He has instructions here: http://www.linux.kaybee.org:81/tabs/fancontrol/ - -- Created code/common/email_motion.pl to copy images from email sending, motion triggered netcams to a folder for remove web viewing. -I now have my garage and driveway camera images logged to here: http://misterhouse.net:8080/web/motion/ - -- Created code/common/slimp3_display.pl to display spoken text to a list of slimp3 players ( http://www.slimdevices.com ) - -- Jason Sharpee created code/common/xAP_command.pl, a xAP server that will run requested commands and send respond results back. - -- Jason Sharpee created code/public/asterisk_jason* and Robert Mann created code/public/asterisk_robert*. -These code files interfaces mh to the Asterisk phone system ( http://www.asterisk.org ). -Jason code uses the xAP protocal to allow you to send commands to the mh via touch tone (DTMF) phone menus. -Roberts uses a TCP connection to do CallerID, DTMF, and External Commands. - -- Dan Uribe and David Norwood added functionality to the Winamp and XMMS mp3 scripts including a new web interface in mh/web/music. - -- Sean Walker and I updated common/internet_logon.pl to use a new %Flags hash to control what commands to fire when getting internet data. - -- David Norwood added a new mechanism for scheduling tasks using triggers that works for both dialup and broadband internet users. -He created internet_dialup.pl as a replacement for internet_logon.pl and updated stocks.pl as an example of how -to create a trigger that is aware of an internet connection. -If this works ok for everyone, we will update other scripts that grab data from the internet. - - - -B - -- Jason Sharpee updated his new set of Base_Item objects as well as a small Timer.pm update. - -- Gregg Liming update the Celstia TTS option to allow for aliased voice names. - -- Updated dailystrips comic script from 1.0.25 to 1.0.28 - -- Added a voice_text_card option, so you can pick the default sound card used. -Also allowed for text card names (e.g. audigy or live) in addition to the numeric card name (e.g. card=2) -in the voice_text_cards/voice_text_card parms and speak card= options (currently only for Windows). - -- Robert Mann made some formating changes to the web phone scripts. - -- David Norwood created code/examples/x10_unit_relay.pl as an example of how to relay an X10 signal - -- Nick Maddock noticed we forgot to implenent the Generic_Item.pm set_by method, as specified in the mh doc. - -- Craig Schaeffer fixed an obscure bug where mh would mis-trigger M1 and M2 codes when processing PRESET_DIM1/2 data. - -- Craig Schaeffer also noticed an X10 proxy bug where merged data would get process twice. - -- Updated bin/report_weblogs to parse the current mh http_server format. - -- Jason Sharpee fixed an 'Error in respond: respond=$object' error in sub respond in bin/mh. - -- Srdan Lasic noticed &speakify_numbers was only returning the suffix (e.g. rd instead of 3rd). -He also noticed that we didn't honor date_formats when parsing mh.ini holidays parm. - -- Added a speak_mh_room parm, so you can turn off speech to the main mh box when using speech proxies. -For example, if you use speak_mh_room=study, then speech would go to the mh soundcard only when speak rooms=all or rooms=study. - -- Jason Sharpee noticed we did not propogate set_by when using the set_with_timer method. - -- Kent Noonan and I enabled the set_casesensitve method for Serial_Items, so we could send out serial data without it getting lower-cased. - -- Kirk Bauer sent in code/examples/x10_flash_light.pl as an example of how to flash an X10 light. - -- Pete Flaherty added a ini parameter html_refresh=xx, so you can have web page created by web/bin/list_items.pl automatically refresh after xx seconds. - -- Paul Estes added support for the NCID Client/Server Network Caller ID Package ( http://ncid.sourceforge.net/ ) in code/public/callerid_ncid.pl - -- Added a &list_groups_by_object function, so we can find all groups an object is a member of. -See code/examples/list_groups.pl for an example. - -- Added export LANG=C to bin/mhl, to fix a memory leak problem many RedHat 8 users were seeing. - -- Gregg Liming fixed a voice mapping bug for the Cepstral engine=theta in lib/Voice_Text. - -- Steve Switzer sent in bin/misterhouse.steve-fedora.rc, a startup script example for fedora Linux. - -- David Norwood took out the $SIG{CHLD} in lib/Voice_Text.pm, since it is handled in bin/mh. - -- Robert Hughes updated code/common/internet_weather.pl to detect calm winds. - -- Craig Schaeffer noticed a bug where mh could loop when parsing a specific X10 string. - -- Chris Barrett updated lib/handy_net_utilites.pl to enable these new mh.ini timeout parms: -net_ftp_timeout, net_aim_timeout, net_mail_*_timeout, net_ping_timeout - -- Steve Switzer posted some magic javascript to refresh the Login icon (top frame) when entering the web password. - -- Allow for speak card= parm to specify a comma delimted list of cards, rather than only one card at a time, -to speak to more than one card at the same time. - -- Fixed a 2.83 bug that would ignore the password_allow_file and disable_command files. - -- Allow for no_log = http_local to disable logging local http hits. - -- Timothy Spaulding added X10_TempLinc to lib/X10_Items.pm to support this X10 temperature sensing device: http://www.smarthome.com/1625.HTML - -- Robert Hughes and I updated http_server.pl to add
html breaks on new lines by default, for html returned data -(e.g. the eartquake and news data displays better now in web browsers). - -- Robert Hughes and I enabled the no_load parm to also specified menu files. - -- Updated bin/get_tv_grid for a recent zap2it change that disabled the -provider_name option - -- Craig Schaeffer made some minor updates to RCS_Item.pm - -- George Clark updated Tk calls to be compatable with the latest Tk modules (adding a - prefix to option names). - -- David Norwood modified run_after_delay routine so you can run it multiple times without stomping on the same timer. - -- David Norwood added a new mechanism for specifying your own sound mixer for setting the volume level. - -- David Norwood added the ability to report the amount of rainfall in the past X minutes, -hours, days, weeks, or months. He also added an option to the aws script to ignore rainfall, since he has his own raingauge. - -- David Norwood fixed a couple problems in the Ocelot code related to receiving X10, IR, and IO signals. - -- Brian G. Ujvary and David Norwood updated USB_UIRT to add support for the Windows DLL driver. - - -=head2 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 - -B - -- 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. - - - -B - -- 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. - - - -=head2 Version 2.82 posted on 07/06/2003 - -Version 2.82 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - - -B - -- Bazyle Butcher created a My MH button for the top of the default ia5 web page -which we use to point to a web page that can be easily customized. -How To instructions are on the default My MH page. -Bazyle also added a Twiki button to the 'About MrHouse' ia5 documentation page. - -- Jason Sharpee created a floorplan web script, available via http://localhost:8080/bin/floorplan.pl . -To enable, add x,y data to your .mht items (or use the new set_fp_location method) -to show where they are in each room group and add -x,y,w,h data to new mht GROUP records to define how room groups relate to each other. -See mh/code/test/test.mht for an example. - -- Jason Sharpee created Presence_Monitor, Occupancy_Monitor, Light_Item, Door_Item, Motion_Item, -Camera_Item, Photocell_Item objects, all children of a new lib/Base_Item.pm object. -Jason is still working on these objects, so we don't have any documentaion or examples yet. - -- Bill Young extracted common code from lib/X10_W800.pm and X10_MR26.pm -into lib/X10_RF.pm and added support for security devices. -Bill created RF_Item.pm for a general way to handle TV/VCR RF remotes and -X10 security devices. See RF_Item in mh/docs/mh* . -At the same time, Ross Towbin created lib/X10_W800RF.pm, which is also for the W800 and provides similar function. - -- Denis Cheong enabled a DBI interface, so we can optionally use any DBI enabled database server (e.g. mysql) -to store miscellaneous mh data. -If you are not using a compiled mh, install DBI and DBD::mysql (or relevant module for your server). -Enable with the new dbi_* mh.ini parms and test with http://localhost:8080/bin/dbi_table.pl . - -- Created code/common/xAP_news.pl to monitor data from James Traynor's new Windows xAP news.exe client, -available from from http://mi4.biz . Run a seperate news client for each news source you want -(e.g. news cnn, news reuters, etc) on any Windows computer on your network. You can use a xAP_news mh.ini -parm to control if new news titles are printed, spoken, or displayed for each news source, like this: - - xAP_news = cnn => display, slashdot => speak&display, default => display&print - - -- Created code/common/xAP_Weather.pl to monitor James Traynor's new Windows xAP weather.exe client, -also available from from http://mi4.biz . Data will be stored in $Weather{station}{key} -(e.g. $Weather{egll}{tempf}). To set the standard $Weather keys used in the web status line, -set mh.ini parm weather_source=station_name (e.g. weather_source=egll). -To find your station name, go to http://www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml, -then use that when you start the program (e.g. weather.exe krst). -If you don't specify a code it will default to London, Heathrow (EGLL). - -- Lincoln Foreman sent in mh/code/public/pha_k256.pl as an example of reading data from -Phanderson's K256 kit which can monitor 256 DS1820 temperature sensors, 8 bits digital IO, and 11 bits of analog IO. -Available for $50 from http://www.phanderson.com/t64.html - -- Bill Young sent in code/public/weeder_doorbell.pl as an example -of monitoring and controlling a doorbell with a weeder board. - - -B - -- James Derrick fixed deleting of temp festival sable files. - -- Tom Dunk updated common/audrey_control.pl to fix 'set audrey volume' and -added various 'Push Audrey Button' commands. - -- James Derrick fixed 'repeat your last command' to not repeat 'I said'. - -- Robert Mann and Edward Brookhouse fixed bin/set_password if no .password file existed -and updated the web 'Set Password' phrase to 'Submit Password' - -- Edward Brookhouse added FAQ entries 'Password Managment' and 'Customizing the TV guide' - -- Ingo Dean changed the default X10_Sensor battery expired warning to print_log, rather than speak. -If you prefer speak, add this mh.ini parm: MS13_Battery_action=speak - -- Joel Berry was having zombie problems on FreeBSD, so we dropped the $SIG{CHLD} exclusion we had on FreeBSD in bin/mh. - -- Allowed for setting $mh_volume (in common/mh_sound.pl) to 0, to enable muting of all computer sound. -It was honoring 1->100, but not 0. - -- Bazyle Butcher noticed that photo_time=0 caused instant refresh rather than disabling photo refreshes. - -- Denis Cheong used Tk::CursorControl to hide the cursor in common/tk_photo.pl. -You can install that Tk module with "ppm install Tk-CursorControl" (windows) -or "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Tk::CursorControl'" (unix). - -- Andrew Drummond spotted a 2.81 problem with browsers (like Audrey) that do not pass http port data with their requests. - -- David Norwood updated public/v4l_pvr.pl to add a dbm of recorded shows so we don't re-record them and -made the record command configurable. - -- Robin Van-Oosten sent in code/public/rrd_graph_web.pl which he uses to -graph iButtons data stored in RRD (Round Robin Database). - -- Enabled proxy support for the UIRT2 interface. - -- Correctly set the menu defaults for http://localhost:8090/sub?menu_wml , menu_vxml, and menu_html. -Looks like these got broke a few releases ago with a update for the html menus /bin/menu.pl page. -These sub?menu_* menus would work, but only if you specified a menu to start with (e.g. sub?menu_wml(main)). -Also now enable the auto-generated mh menu if the specified or default menu was not found. - - -=head2 Version 2.81 posted on 06/01/2003 - -Version 2.81 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Jon Upham added iButton DS2405 io button to site/Hardware/iButton/Device.pm. - -- Jason Sharpee created lib/Occupancy_Monitor.pm. -It counts the number of people in a house based on movement detected -throughout a graph based network of motion sensors. - -- Clive Freedman created city based data/ini/mh.city_name.ini files and -updated the web iniedit menu to allow for easy location based -initialization of the mh.private.ini file. -Only first time users with no private .ini files will see this -(move your mh.private.ini or unset mh_parms if you want to try it). -While we may re-structure this on the next release if we decide to break up the .ini file, -the idea of city based .ini seed files seems like a good one. -New or updated mh.city.ini files will be most welcomed. - -- Joe Blecher updated lib/Lynx10PLC.pm to add support for Unit Address, Extended Code 1, -a number of API methods to allow users to access low level commands, -updates from Craig Schaeffer to support PRESET_DIM[12] commands, -fixed bug with DIM/BRIGHT command where level was parsed, -and created common/Lynx10PLC.pl for reporting hourly X10 stats. - -- Created web/bin/button_toggle.pl and updated the ia5 modes menu and common/mh_control.pl to -add these new objects to track various modes: -$mode_mh (normal/mute/offline), $mode_security (armed/unarmed), -$mode_occupied (home/work/vacation), and $mode_sleeping (nobody/parents/kids/all). -Ron Klinkien created nice web/graphics/mode_*.gif buttons for the above object names and states. -If you use other object names or states and have GD installed, buttons will be generated with the state name. -The above listed states can be overridden with the set_states method, like this: - - $mode_sleeping -> set_states('nobody', 'parents', 'nick', 'zack'); - - -- Added bin/mh_run and bin/mh_run.bat, which we now call from common/get_tv_grid.pl. -This will use the compiled mhe or mh.exe it it exists, so the script will now run ok -on Linux (and Windows) even if you don't have perl installed. - -- Renamed the data and web/bin select_code* files to code_select* and code_unselect* files. -Added mh.ini parms code_select and code_unselect so we can easily switch between sets of code files. -By default, mh will now use code_select.txt which is just the core files from code/common. -To test many of the common files (like mh used to do by default), run: - - mh -code_select code_select_test.txt - - -- Autrijus Tang updated his PAR module so we can now use it to compile mh on windows, in addition to Linux. -I suspect we will run into issues with it, so this release as 2 versions of .exe files in the windows -.zip file. The standard mh.exe is like in prior releases, perl 5.0 compiled with perl2exe. -The new mhe.exe uses perl 5.8, compiled with the PAR pp script, like we do on Linux. - -- Pete Flaherty posted his a new 03-2 MrAudrey image at http://vsa.cape.com/~pjf/MrAudrey.html . -This version has a exciting new package installer where you can install Audrey applications -that he has packaged up at his web site with the click of a button from a new Package Manager web page. -For example, it took me about 30 seconds to install nifty new mpgnoph player that I can -direct to a shoutcast music station using a web browser from any machine on our network. - - -B - -- James Derrick dropped an extra \n in time_date_stamp format=17 - -- Fixed the monthly archiving of old print/speak/error logs (data_dir/logs/print.log.old). -Without this fix, the files were growing pretty large (mine was > 100 MB!) and the mh startup could -pause a while in the 'Archiving previous log files' step. - -- John McCaskey enabled the use of weeder cards on multiple ports -(normally not needed as weeder cards can share a COM port) by allowing for a xyz_process_data=1 mh.ini serial port parm. - -- Updated lib/Serial_Item.pm with the option of a x10_interface mh.ini parm, so we can control the default X10 interface. - -- Larry Roudebush sent in code/public/weather_email_breaking.pl for anouncing important weather info from email alerts. - -- Jeff Pagel sent in code/public/garage_door_code.pl for monitoring and controlling garage doors. - -- Updated web/overlib.js to version 3.51 (it does the popup windows on some menus when you hover over commands). - -- Claes Johansson updated lib/X10_W800.pm to support X10RF UR51A remote codes. - -- Ron Klinkien updated code/common/monitor_router.pl to support Draytek Vigor routers. -He also updated bin/monitor_weblog to work with the mhsend server when speaking web hits. - -- Richard Phillips updated lib/Weather_wx200.pm to honor the mh.ini default_temp=Celsius override. - -- James Armstrong noticed the new lib/X10_W800.pm module would sometimes get out of sync with incoming data. - -- Ryan Scott noticed that Voice_Text '[a,b,c]' strings returned a state of 1 instead of a,b,c. - -- Steve Switzer improved the web phone search results formating in web/bin/phone_search.pl - -- Thomas Stoll added a optonal Audrey_IPs_for_speaking mh.ini parm in code/common/audreyspeak.pl and limited -the number of .wav files generated to 10. He also updated bin/report_weblog to the apache web log format -he sees in Switzerland. - -- Scott Johnson updated lib/Startgate.pm (again!) to allows reading Digital Inputs 9-16 and -to fix a problem with DTMF decoding of the number 0 through the intercom. - -- Dominique Benoliel updated code/common/weather_upload.pl (uploads weather to wunderground.com) -to work better with the WMR968 weather station. - -- Craig Schaeffer fixed the hourly/daily summary in common/monitor_router.pl. - -- David Lounsberry fixed the stop Process_Item method (was killing all processes, not just the specified one). - -- Add 'cc' addresses to 'to' address in bin/get_email, so we can filter on cc addresses also. - -- Updated the ia5 weather page to use 2 weather_local mh.ini parms, which by default are based on the zip_code parm. -Dropped the calls to the radar image gif and set_parm_weather_local.pl script, -as wunderground changed their pages so the radar gif is no longer easy to get at, -and these did not work for non-US users with no zip code. - -- Echo errors in web .pl files to the web browser. - - -=head2 Version 2.80 posted on 04/20/2003 - -Version 2.80 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Autrijus Tang created a new PAR.pm module which allows us to compile perl scripts and libraries into -one executable binary. If you are running with a recent Linux which has a recent libc.so -(ls -l /lib/libc.so* and look ver a version > 2.2.93, like on RH 8 or higher) -you can now try the new compiled mhe file in misterhouse-2.80.linux.zip. -This might be useful if you have troubles with the CPAN installs or if you have a older (or newer) version -of perl that has some sort of problem (e.g. memory leak). - -- Created lib/X10_W800.pm to support the X10 RF -> serial W800 interface. -This is similar to the MR26, but also supports extended codes and has a better range. -Comparison between the 2 can be found here: http://www.wgldesigns.com/comments.htm . -Note: Extended codes are not yet supported (I didn't have any RF devices that generated them). - -- Created mh/code/common/x10_rf_relay.pl to relay selected X10 house codes received from either -of the X10 MR26 or W800 RF (Radio Frequency) interfaces. - -- Dree Mistrut created Text::LevenshteinXS module, like Text-Levenshtein, but implemented in C rather than Perl, so it is much faster. -If installed, it will be used in the &phrase_match function, available as 'Smart command search' on the ia5 search menu. -This enables non-exact word matches, so for example you can type 'bed light on' and it will match 'turn on bedroom lights'. -If this module is not installed, mh defaults to the previous simple/fast function that matches on exact words. -On linux, use the CPAN to install (see install doc). On windows, it is installed in the mh libs for 5.6, but not 5.0 or 5.8 systems. - -- Created bin/send_email. Tom Vanderpool was having problems when mh called &net_mail_send to send email, -so we created a stand alone command that can be called as a background process. -See 'Send test e mail 11' for and example. - -- David Norwood and I updated bin/get_tv_grid to be compatable with a new tv listings format from zap2it.com. - -- Brian Rudy added support for the iButton DS2450 Quad A/D converter. Example in code/public/iButton_DS2450.pl. - -- Neil Wrightson updated the iButton read_switch method in lib/site/Hardware/iButton/Device.pm to allow -either channel to be an input or output. - -- Jason Sharpee sent in code/publice/ivr.pl and ivr.menu as examples of his -DTFM Interactive Voice Response setup using the Stargate phone interface. -Updated supporting files are lib/Telephony_DTMF.pm, Telephony_Item.pm, Stargate.pm, and StargateJTelephone.pm. - -- Craig Schaeffer created lib/Telephony_Identifier.pm and code/common/phone_identifier.pl for talking to the 2+ line -incoming/outgoing/DTFM Identifier phone line monitor from http://www.yes-tele.com/mlm.html - -- David Norwood created a preliminary interface for the USB-UIRT two way infrared transceiver. -Installing drivers on Windows, Linux and BSD requires patches, so contact David for info. -See USB_UIRT_learning.pl in the common code selector for configuration details. -David also updated the UIRT2_learning web interface to allow generation of codes based on protocol, device and function number. - -- Ron Klinkien created a 'MisterHouse from Scratch' weblog site -(a collection of links, resources, notes and commentary) here: http://mrhousefromscratch.tk . - - -B - -- Roger Bille updated Serial_Item.pm to allow for 'X...' strings in non-X10 items. - -- Added a -state option to bin/mhsend to get the state of an object. - -- Richard Phillips and Sean Walker posted docs/faq.html entry 3.4: How do get Linux to play more than one sound at the same time - -- Richard Phillips created code/public/mp3_control_x10.pl and code/public/mh_restart.pl - -- Peter Woodall noticed we did not have a xcmd_respond function, so bin/house commands were not working. - -- Piet Delaney added X10_Sensor motion and brightness options, in addition to the existing MS13 option which detects both. -See mh/docs/mh.html X10_Sensor section for details and examples. - -- Jason Sharpee sent web/bin/video_streamer.pl as an example of how to display video from using the Linux streamer program. - -- Andrew McLaren noticed the mh lib/site/File files were pretty down level. -The newer versions are not compatable with older perls, and it looks like all versions of perl have those installed by -default, so I deleted the mh/lib/File modules. Not sure why we included them in the first place. - -- Enabled setupsup for 5.8 win98 users. - -- Added a mh.ini html_wav_format parm to control how the web server delivers TTS wav files. Options are -bgsound (default for Audrey), link (default for Netscape and Mozilla, frame (doesn't seem to work very well), -and embed (default for all others). - -- Updated Geo::Weather to version 1.2.3 (used by public/weather_com.pl to get data from weather.com). - -- Sean Walker updated web/bin/photos.pl to allow for a mh.ini photo_back_style parm, so you can specify style -stuff like background color. - -- Updated bin/set_password to honor the mh.ini password_file parm. - -- Added mh.ini parm voice_cmd_response to control the default response to voice triggered -commands. The default is 'Ok, %HEARD%', where %HEARD% will be replaced by the spoken phrase. - -- Floyd Moore fixed bin/get_tv_grid so -provider has precedence over -provider_name. - -- Changed the default mh_pause sound in common/event_sounds.pl from bird1.wav to none. - -- James Martin discovered that linux Red Hat 9.0 perl 5.8 has a wierd bug that causes mh not to parse code objects correctly. -Really strange in the same perl version is in RH 8.0 which works, and recompiling perl 5.8 on RH 9.0 also fixes the problem. -We worked around this by changing a perl regex. - -- Jeff Pagel noticed a duplicate file problem when using the -only_load option, like we use with a mh proxy. - -- Roger Bille noticed the recent 2.78 substate and multistate code (set $test_set1 'on~2~random:on;repeat:on;play';) -messed up with some he code that he had that had Socket_Item data with some ~:; characters. -To avoid this, we added a Generic_Item states_overload method, which we set to 'off' in Socket_Item, Serial_Item, and -xAP_Items.pm. - -- Added an optional iridium_brightness mh.ini parm (defaults to 0) so you can allow for announcement of only brigher flares. - - -=head2 Version 2.79 posted on 03/09/2003 - -Version 2.79 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - - -B - -- Ant Skelton patched lib/Voice_Text.pm to allow Linux users to use Wine to run the AT&T windows NaturalVoices binary. -On my 1.2 GHz Celeron, time-to-speech is about 1 second, -vs- about .4 seconds for the native Linux binary. -See bin/mh.ini for examples on these parms: voice_text=NaturalVoiceWine, voice_text_naturalvoice=windows_path_to_voices, -wine_path=path_to_wine, and wine_path_temp=windows_path_to_temp_dir. - -- Chin Lee suggested we have mh default to 'catch up' mode when restarting, setting the -start time equal to when mh last exited. To do this, set the -mh.ini of parm time_startup=resume. You can also now test when mh is in either -mh_pause or startup catchup mode by monitoring a new $Catchup_Mode object. - -- Nico ? wrote an interface to the Velleman k8000 board ( http://www.velleman.be/Product.asp?lan=1&id=9383 ), -available from his site at http://yow.be - -- Steve Switzer updated status_line.pl and the web/bin/clock2.js javascript clock to reflect -mh time, not local browser time. He also got it to work for Netscape, -so I changed mh.ini status_line3 default from clock to jclock2. - -- Steve Switzer suggested we enumerate the various -debug options, -so I create a 'List debug options' command in common/mh_control.pl. - -- David Norwood created a smart &write_mh_opts function that can update .ini files without changing order or -comments and called it with a nifty new web interface for updating the tv_provider parm. - -- David Norwood also updated common/photo_index.pl to add another web based mh.ini selector for picking -which photo dir you want active for the photo slide show. -Added this option, along with the tv_provider one above, to the web setup menu -and to the help text you see in the common code selector. - -- Joe Blecher updated lib/Lynx10PLC.pm, which supports the Marrick Lynx10-PLC X10 interface -to add logging to linux syslog, parms for transmit/receive gains, new $Debug support, and 2 way module support. -He reports using it for over two years now without a single lockup! - - - -B - -- Bob Hughes updated the unix bin/house script to use the mh.ini xcmd_file parm. - -- Bob Hughes noticed we were not passing the voice name from the eliza chatbox speech web page. - -- Jason Comander updated the X10 Status request code to work better with the Leviton DHC 2-way switches - -- James Derrick fixed a 2.78 problem with MR26 data not being relayed correctly due to the data being lower-cased. - -- Floyd Moore fixed a couple of proxy related problems in bin/get_tv_grid. - -- Robert Rozman sent code/public/winlirc_client.pl an an example of reading winlirc IR data ( http://winlirc.sourceforge.net/ ). - -- Dominique Benoliel prompted an update to the latest Date/Language.pm, adding French as well as a few other languages. - -- Steve Switzer fixed mh/lib/caddx.pm to be compatable with the 2.78 update for case insensitivity and $Debug control. - -- David Satterfield fixed the viavoice -voice option when used with -to_file in bin/vv_tts.pl. - -- Walter Leemput and Harald Koch discovered and fixed a memory leak when using HTML::Treebuilder in code/public/weather.pl. -Also updated the same fix in internet_iridium.pl, internet_starshine.pl, internet_top10.pl, news_onthisday.pl, and weather_upload.pl, -by calling a new &html_to_text function with the same non-leaking html parsing code. - -- Bill Sobel fixed Startgate.pm to support house code M. - -- Tom Vanderpool noticed that common/weather_upload.pl had the wrong units for barometric pressure from Weather_wmr968.pm (hg -vs- mb). - -- Thomas Bleau noted that the speak function would filter out many foreign languange phrases -due to characters not in the common ascii code range, so we out the 'Data is unspeakable' check. - -- Tom Vanderpool added callerid_type=motorola to Telelphony_Interface.pm, for use with Motorola Power 28.8 modems. - -- Brian Paulsen sent in his web based hvac code: mh/code/public/hvac_brian*.pl - -- Jason Sharpee added -left and -right speak options for the viavoice engine. - -- Sean Walker added proxyip to common/mhsend_server.pl and public/speak_proxy.pl, -so speech can be directed to the box that send the mhsend request. - -- Jason Sharpee made some updates to lib/CID_Announce.pm and CID_Log.pm - -- Harald Koch updated bin/get_weather_ec (Canadian weather data) to work with with current data. - -- Peter Woodall noticed we sometimes got the previous, not next, full/new moon dates. - -- David Satterfield noticed that some tk and web triggered commands were getting bogus respond states set. - -- Harald Koch updated bin/weather_ca.pl for Canadian weather. - -- Clive Freedman made some caller ID updates for the UK. - -- Claes Johansson made a keypad fix in lib/LCD.pm for LCDProc users. - -- Mark Miller noticed we pointed to the wrong directory with the web ia5 Iridium Flares button. - -- Created code/examples/x10_multievent_with_delay.pl as an example of how to send a series of X10 commands with delays -between them (e.g. you want to sequence a series of X10 cameras ON). - - -=head2 Version 2.78 posted on 02/07/2003 - -Version 2.78 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - - -B - -- Improved xAP support and added xPL support. -A few of the original xAP ( http://www.xapautomation.org ) developers -developed a lighter version of the protocol they called xPL ( http://www.wintermute-ltd.com/picxap/xpl.htm ). -The protocols are similar enough that I decided to support them both with the common code, so I -renamed lib/xAP.pm to lib/xAP_Items.pm and added various xAP and xPL items and methods. -Also added code so mh can be an xAP and/or xPL hub, so we can -now read and write to both xAP and xPL clients and/or bridge between them if needed. -Updated code/common/test_xap.pl to include new xPL examples, including calls -to a windows TTS client and a Rio Audio Receiver client, both available from http://www.xaphal.com/xap.htm . - -- Bill Sobel made a bunch of changes to enable stacked and overloaded states. -This is best explained with an example: - - set $test_set1 'on~2~random:on;repeat:on;play'; - -This will set the object to on, then 2 seconds later, sequence through states of -random:on, repeat:on, and play. The overloaded random and repeat states will -trigger setstate_random/repeat methods if they exist in that object, setting them to on. -For a complete example, see mh/code/examples/test_state_stacked.pl. -His changes also make states case insensitive, unless you use the set_casesensitive method. - -- Bill Sobel and I created time_idle Generic_Item method. -We also enabled this as a tie_time method time spec, like time_cron and time_now. -See code/examples/test_idle.pl - -- Bill Sobel suggested we get smarter with -debug, so we made it -case in-sensitive and allowed for stack debug parms like -debug serial;x10. To enable this, -I switched most of the old debug checks like this: - - old: print "debug stuff" if $config_parms{debug} eq 'stuff'; - new: print "debug stuff" if $Debug{stuff}; - -- Added support for different user logons. -If you use -tk 1, you can use the 'set the admin/family/guest password' command. -Or you can run from the command line like this: - - set_password -user family -password xyz1 - set_password -user admin -password xyz2 - -A separate record will be created for each user in the password_file (by default, data_dir/.password). -By default, the mh setup web pages can only be controlled with the admin logon, -but you can enable/disable other commands by adding authority=admin to the password_allow_file. -You can also specify authority with the set_authority object method, -or by adding it to your web/bin xyz.pl file # Authority=user comment. -The ia5 logout button now has different icons for admin, family, and guest. - -- Made menu.pl generic (it now reads all .menu files in your code dirs) and moved it to code/common. -If you have a menyu.pl file in your own user code file, delete it before you enable the code/common one. - -- Andrew Drummond created mh/code/public/tivo_direct.* code for controling his Direct Tivo. - - -B - -- Timothy Spaulding added a MS13_Battery_Timer parm to set the X10_Sensor timeout value. - -- Added a web_status_line option to web/status_line.pl, to allow for more user specific data on the status line. - -- David Satterfield noticed a 2.76 bug where the web status line was not reflecting current email counts. - -- Amauri Viguera found a 2.76 bug in lib/audrey_cid.pm - -- Pete Flaherty updated the tk widgets in weather_iB_OWW_client.pl - -- Steve Switzer updated Voice_Text.pm to allow for volume=##%, where volume will be scaled to a percentage of the default mh volume. - -- Danal Estes noticed simple meta refresh works better than JavaScript refresh, in status_line.pl and photos.pl. - -- David Satterfield noticed we could buffer data in lib/X10_MR26.pm to avoid occasional 'Bad data' errata. - -- Sam Levine found a problem with X10_Sensor with ID=x9 (the light/dark id=xA was not created correctly). - -- Martin Dolphin allowed for negative temperatures in common/weather_aws.pl - -- Kent Noonan updated mh/lib/Ultimeter.pm (renamed from mh/lib/Ultimeter2000.pm) to allow for negative temperatures. - -- David Norwood updated bin/get_tv_grid to allow for a -get_provider parm: get_tv_grid -zip 55091 -get_provider - -- Craig Schaeffer updated bin/display_callers to better sort by date and # calls. - -- Douglas Parrish sent in bin/misterhouse_Gentoo.rc, a startup script example for Gentoo Linux. - -- Richard Morgan noticed the web Squid proxy did not like the http Content-Length data we inserted for html pages a -few releases ago. We took that field out after reading the spec, which says it is only for binary data. - -- Paul Estes updated bin/set_clock for Solaris. - -- Change code/proxy/proxy_server.pl 'Proxy can not talk to MisterHouse' message -from once a minute to once every 5 minutes. - -- Parse size from http User-Agent, when provided, for use in &http_agent_size (used in web/bin/photos.pl)/ -Also added Opera and Zaurus to mh.ini parm html_browser_formats. - -- I copied a post from Bill Sobel into FAQ qusetion 2.16: How are states set for each pass though the user code loop? - -- Steve Switzer updated phone_search.pl file, so that phone_search.shtml is not needed. - - - -=head2 Version 2.77 posted on 01/17/2003 - -Version 2.77 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - - -B - -- No new features. Hoping for a fairly stable and bug free release this time :) - - -B - -- Kevin Olalde found a 2.76 bug that would ignore user private parms for a few bin/get_* programs. - -- Fixed a 2.76 bug when displaying web label widgets: 'not a SCALAR reference at ../lib/http_server.pl line 2421' - -- David Norwood updated http_server.pl to allow for multi-line data from things like textarea form elements. - -- Bob Hughes updated the clock in status_line.pl to re-align better on browser resize. - -- Michael Ryan noticed we were missing the respond function for vr triggered events. - -- Wally Kissel noticed a problem with web SET data (from Eliza) with ? in the string. - -- David Norwood updated the UIRT2 files, fixing a few problems with -learning and changed the display of codes to uppercase to be compatible with Girder. - -- Bill Sobel updated lib/Compool.pm (Timing changes to deal with network based serial ports) and -lib/Stargate.pm (Thermostats where broken, signifigantly updated and now actuallywork). - -- Created a smart file_backup function, now used by web iniedit and item edit scripts. - -- Fixed the web iniedit script to drop file= entries, -not to drop multi-line mh.ini data (e.g. like voice_names), -and to re-read parms after iniedit changes. - -- Disabled closing of Tk windows, which would cause mh errors. Now you get a popup that advices to use the File->Exit option. - - - - -=head2 Version 2.76 posted on 01/12/2003 - -Version 2.76 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Pete Flaherty posted his updated 02-1 Audrey image at http://vsa.cape.com/~pjf/MrAudrey.html. - -- Bill Sobel is back :) Lots of updates from him this release: - - - AudiotronPlayer.pm fixes for latest firmware, support password if set in .ini file. - - Compool.pm fixes for solar power. - - DSC_Alarm: supports proxy config. - - Varios small updates to http_server.pl. - - read_table_a.pl: new x10 transmiter, yacclient and wakeonline stuff - - stargate.pm: Fixes, digital relay updates, ir support (initial) - - stargate485.pm: LCD keypad digit support - - telephony_item: base work for dialed ability (we now log outgoing - calls as well if the CID hardware detects DTMF and reports them) - - xantech.pm: made some logging optional - - internet_weather.pl added nws_city .ini parm nws_city= paramter which overrides city if set - - allow a return_state in set_with_timer - - -- Bill Sobel created lib/WakeOnLan.pm, for waking up computers from susbend or hibernated states -from mh via a lan connection. See code/public/wakeup_on_lan.pl for more info. - -- Bill Sobel created lib/CID_Server, so mh can share callerid data with other callerid clients, -with initial support for the YAC client from http://www.sunflowerhead.com/software/yac. -To enable, see common/callerid.pl for an example of adding a CID_Server_YAC object. -To support this, we also created bin/send_ip_msg for sending generic messages with tcp. - -- Andrew Drummond sent in lib/Acid.pm, which I added to Bill's CID_Server, to broadcast -callerid data to Audrey Acid clients, which is included in Pete's nifty Audrey image. - -- Another Bill Sobel idea was to allow for sets of states in one string. To start with -we have allowed for ~ seperated sets of states and delays. For example, $object->set(s1~t1~s2~t2...sn~tn) -would set states s1, s2, ... sn, with delays for t1, t2, ... tn. -We may update this in the next release with other options that Bill posted earlier. - -- Bill Sobel and I added a get_parm_file function, so we can tell if a config_parm was overridden or not. This allowed us to -fixed the ia5 weather page to not display the 'click to set parm' button if the weather parm has already been overridden. - -- Jason Sharpee et all updated the new CID modules. We also updated code/common/callerid.pl announcement -to $format1, which includes City and State if the call is from out of City and/or State. -Also enabled RING for Telephone_Interface and added some different 'Test callerid #' tests. - -- Steve Switzer and I updated telnet.pl to use the new respond function. -To allow for security between different sessions on the same box, -we added new code that allows us to write to a Socket_Item by its socket handle. - -- Sean Walker and Jason Sharpee had the idea of allowing for an optional speak chime sound, -to be played before non-interactive speech event to avoid the startled spouse effect, so we created mh/code/common/speak_chime.pl. - -- Brian Paulsen suggested we use Data::Dumper on the %Save data, like we do with the %Persistant data, -so now we can store nested data in %Save ( e.g. $Save{temp_setpoints} = { basement => 70, living_room => 40}; ) -I also updated the save/restore code to allow for ~ characters in the state and state_log for objects. - -- Added set_timeout and timed_out methods for Process_Item. See code/examples/test_process.pl for an example. - -- Added a phrase_match function, which calls Dree Mistrut's updated PhraseDistance.pm module. -This allows us to find commands that are the closest match to a given string. -Dree was able to speed up his algorithm enough that we can now use it interactivly, at least on faster boxes. -Not useful yet, but you can test it with the new ia5 search 'Smart command search' menu and/or -if you type an invalid command from the updated common/telnet.pl server. - - -B - -- Change the test for 'unspeakable text' to still allow speech if < 10 unspeakable characters. - -- Tom Kotowski updated code/public/news_drudge_report.pl - -- Joe Doss fixed a few problems in the new lib/Telephony_Interface.pm code. - -- Bill Sobel found a problem with looping caused by his code that tied items, groups, and X10 whole house codes. -To fix this, we added X10_Transmitter object and a like X10_Item 'transmitter' type. . -Like X10_Item, but it will not be set when incoming or outgoing house codes are set. - -- Steve Switzer noticed that set_by and respond target were not working in the new Text_Cmd object. - -- Chris Witte made set_by smarter when set by the web and user code. -It will now return web [ip_address] or UserCode [filename]. - -- Thomas Caligiuri noticed a 2.75 bug with some browsers not loading the full html file, -due to a bug in the http length value. - -- Andrew Drummond made an update to allow for mh.ini specified serial/socket modules to be in user code. - -- Axel Brown noticed that the pronouncable_list_file was not being read in (a recent bug). - -- Jon Boehm noticed that hidden items still showed up on the list_buttons web pages. - -- Bill Sobel added code hook processing to the serial proxy data. - -- Andrew Drummond updated the RCSs code to allow for control of multiple thermostats and -to allow for control of the RS485 models. - -- Paul Wong noticed a bad return code when running 'Set the clock via the internet' from XP when run from the tk or web menu, -so we changed this to be a background process, which also avoids mh pauses. - -- David Norwood fixed a bug in the web iniedit function when updating parms with quotes. - -- Brian Rudy updated code/public/mp3_control_xmms.pl to -remove the need for xmms-shell, and the site specific code. - -- Fixed a 2.75 respond related bug in internet_top10.pl and dvd_releases.pl. The web server would stop if those commands -were run from something other than a web browser. Fixed them by calling a new &respond_wait function, which we can call -to tell the web server to wait for respond data. - -- Use UNIVERSAL::isa function, rather than isa method, in http_server, to avoid mh abends. - -- Added more data to data/logs/monitor_memory_leak.log, like total average MB/hour leak rate. - -- Updated dailystrips comic script 1.0.25 (a few new comics added changes). - -- Updated LWP and LWP and HTTP libraries from the latest libwww to fix a problem some were having with dailystrips comic downloads. - -- Fixed a 2.75 bug that would allow data_log/logs/error.log to grow (if you had code errors) without prunning on restart. -This would cause mh to load slowly on startup, if your error.log file got large. - -- Run 'Check the http server' every 10 minutes in mh_control.pl, to make sure the web server is working. - -- Removed un-needed targets from various web/bin scripts, so single window browsers like the Audrey work better. - -- Moved code/bruce/monitor_router.pl to code/common, after moving the Bruce specific code to bruce/monitor_router_bruce.pl. -This code monitors router traffic via udp broadcasts from NetGear and LinkSys routers. - -- Allow objects for tk_label, like we do for the other tk_* widgets. - -- Fix common/tv_grid.pl to not create bad code when clicking on the VCR link if a $VCR object is not defined. - -- Fixed a web select_code bug that would not show the ini parm help text unless you had already run iniedit.pl - -- Joseph Gaston fixed a net_mail_send bug when account was specified, but not server. - -- Danal Estes updated the code he uses in his house in code/public/Danal. - -- Updated the xAP code to work with Patrick's latest hub. - - - -=head2 Version 2.75 posted on 12/23/2002 - -Version 2.75 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Steve Switzer and I added a new respond function, -which can be used to send the resulting text of a command or query to a specified target. -By default, valid targets are display, email, im, log, speak, tk, and web. -The default respond target it whatever set_by is, so for example, if a command is run from an im client, -text sent to any respond called by that command will be sent only to that im client. -More info and examples are in docs/mh.html. -We also changed many of the speak calls in the code/common files to respond. - -- Jason Sharpee added mh/lib/CID_Lookup, CID_Announce, CID_Log, and Telephony_Item modules. -I created Telephoney_Interface and code/common/callerid.pl to use these modules for callerID. -These replace code/common/phone_modem.pl and phone_netcallerid.pl and lib/Caller_ID.pm, -but I left them there for a while for backward compatability while we work out the bugs in the new code :) - -- Created a Text_Cmd object, so we can fire events based on commands that match a regular expression. -For an example, see mh/code/examples/Text_Cmd_example1.pl and/or docs/mh.html. - -- Updated lib/xAP.pm to the new 1.2 protocol (info on xap is at http://www.xapautomation.org ). -To try it, first start a hub program, then enable code/common/test_xap.pl. -Not very tested yet, as there are not many applications yet. I have it working with -an older version of xhub, but not with Patric's latest xhub-hub. - -- Chris Witte created mh/lib/RCSs.pm and mh/code/public/RCSs.pl -for talking to the RS232/485 versions of the RCS thermostats. - -- Chris Witte and Rob Williams updated the cadx code with more documentation, bug fixes, -and Windows (as well as linux) compatibility. - -- Steve Switzer improved the interface to the select_code and iniedit web menus. - -- Ron Klinkien updated the ia5 web interface to v2.3. - -- Richard Smith sent mh/code/public/ir_creative.pl as an example of reading IR data from Creative Credit Card Remotes. - -- David Norwood created code/common/dvd_releases.pl, and idea that James Armstrong had to list new DVD titles. - -- Steve Switzer and Tom Kotowski created code/common/phone_pcs_messaging.pl for emailing sprint and verison phones. - -- Created code/common/x10_item_commands.pl to create Voice_Cmd items for all X10_Items. - -- Moved the 'proxy is dead' test out of bin/mh and into code/public/speak_proxy.pl - -- Perl 5.8 is now available from ActiveState. This version, at least on Windows, seems to fix the memory leak -problems that many of us saw with version 5.6. It now comes with standard with Tk. -I updated the mh/doc/install.html instructions on how to install the modules for it. -The only module not yet available is Setupsup, which allows for controling of other Windows applications. - - -B - -- Sean Walker fixed some calender -> calendar typos. - -- Axel Brown suggested we update Geo::Weather package, as weather.com has changed (used by -public/weather_com.pl to get data from weather.com). - -- David Norwood fixed a 1.74 trigger_code.pl bug to prevent it from reloading code every 5 minutes under some conditions. -He also fixed a bug that was causing full code reloads when triggers changed on some systems. - -- David Norwood noticed a problem with $Save keywords with ' in them. - -- Jeff Siddall code/public/random_time_offset.pl for adding random offset times to time_now tests. He also -added convert_f2c and convert_f2k, like the k2f and k2c functions, but for converting to celsius and kelvin. - -- Enabled the mh.ini ipaddress_local in common/audreyspeak.pl, to override the default local address. - -- Alan Womack noticed an mh divide by 0 involving mh.ini sleep_count parm. - -- Joseph Gaston updated to the HomeVision mh/lib/HVweb_Item.pm module. He also -updated the tv_grid pulldown to reflect how many days you download. - -- Steve Switzer added logon/logoff to common/internet_im.pl, so you can logon via a non-authorized ID. -Steve also added a net_aim_port option, so you can change from the default of 1234 to 23 to get through firewalls. - -- Walter Poxon added BSD/OS to bin/configure. - -- Sean Walker updated the read_table_A.pl .mht reader to drop trailing blanks from Group names. - -- Tom Kotowski and Dave Crawford updated code/common/news_yahoo.pl - -- Pete Flaherty posted version of his mh compatable Audrey image at http://vsa.cape.com/~pjf/MrAudrey.html. - -- David Norwood updated tk_photos to work even if -tk 0, and made a few updates -to the UIRT2 code to fix problems with learning and receiving. - -- Bob Hughes noticed that tie_filter did not filter when the data was incoming serial data. - -- Replaced the mh.ini sound_volume parm with mh_volume object in code/common/mh_volume.pl. -This will set the default sound, which can still be overriden by the speak/play volume= parm. -You can use the default volume widget from common/tk_widgets.pl to control it from the tk or web interface. - -- Switched from exit to POSIX::_exit for much faster mh exits. - -- Dropped 'noscroll' in the web photo search results. - -- Added mht_item_add/copy/delete functions to bin/mh, so we can write code that can manipulate mht entries. -Also added help text to the web based item editor. - -- Hollis Morrow noticed that web added triggers actions with ' characters would create code errors - - - -=head2 Version 2.74 posted on 12/01/2002 - -Version 2.74 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Added a mh.ini speak_app parm and speak app=xyz option. This allows us to code generic common code, -but still allows us to customize our speech parms. I updated most of the common code files to -use one of the app keys listed in the default speak_app parm. For example, code/common/internet_email now uses -speak app=email, which the mh.ini speak_app parm defaults to voice=male rooms=all. - -- Rewrote internet_im.pl to allow for better echoing of the mh logs. You can now start sending log data to any -authorized im client by typing log: xyz, where xyz is a filter to pick logging data. -Example filters are print, speak, play, speak|play, all, and stop (to stop). -Also added a help command and a pgm option to net_im_send/connect/disconnect so we can use a common function for all im programs -(e.g. msn, jabber, aol). - -- Re-wrote code/common/test_speak.pl and deleted test_voice.pl. -One change was to use mh.ini specified voices, rather than a hard coded list. -Most of the 'test speech' commands it creates will work with the NaturalVoices, on linux or Windows. - -- Added a 'Select User Code' option to the ia5 MrHouse Home Setup menu. Similar to the select common code we added -a few months ago, this allows you to de-select any of your user code files. - -- David Norwood and I updated mh/code/common/trigger_code.pl and created a new interface, -also under the ia5 MrHouse Home Setup button (or http://localhost:8080/bin/triggers.pl ). -Trigger code is now stored in code_dir/trigger.mhp, rather than trigger.pl (mhp stands for MH Processed files). -More documentation is under the trigger_set section of mh/docs/mh.html - -- Also created a similar web interface (http://localhost:8080/bin//items.pl -... 'Edit Items' on the ia5 page) for updating .mht files. Comments and position of the -original .mht file are preserved, and backups are made, so it should be pretty safe :) - -- Rob Williams sent in mh/code/public/grafik.pl, his interface to the Lutron Grafik Eye system -( http://www.lutron.com/grafikeye/Default.htm ). - -- Pete Flaherty posted a mh compatable Audrey image at http://vsa.cape.com/~pjf/MrAudrey.html. -He made some updates to http_server to recognize the Photon browser he has on that image. - -- Gaetan Lord created mh/web/bin/button2.pl, which allows us to create on-the-fly web buttons -where we can pick both the text and an icon. Gaetan wanted to re-create Ron Klinkien's buttons with French text. -He also extracted many icons from Ron's buttons into a new dir: mh/web/graphics/icons. -Like button.pl, it requires the perl GD module. An example is: /bin/button2.pl?Recent_Incoming_Calls&phone.png - -- Gaetan Lord also created lib/FroggyRita.pm for reading temp,pressure,humidity from the -sensor sold at http://www.froggyhome.com. Example is in code/public/froggyrita.pl. - -- David Norwood added a new infrared code generator to UIRT2_learning.pl -which automatically create codes for many TVs, VCRs, DVDs, etc, using data in a new data/infrared directory. -The generation routines are in a separate module, IR_Utils.pm, -so it should be easy to add this feature to other transmitters such as the RedRat. - - - -B - -- Steve Switzer added weather_wind_gust_threshold parm to weather_monitor.pl. - -- Scott Kennedy suggested we add an http_address parm, so we could tell the web server to use a specific ip address. - -- Neil Cherry fixed 'sending log data to Jabber' in common/internet_im.pl. - -- Ron Klinkien noticed common/monitor_server.pl was not working. - -- Andrew Drummond noticed active_now and inactive_now were not working for client Socket_Items. - -- Fredrik Olsson discovered that 3 character (-vs- 2) id names were not working in X10_Sensor items. - -- Dave Lounsberry updated public/vocp_func.pl and added a -colorfill option to bin/image_resize (default is still black) - -- Chris Witte suggested we stop buffering the speak, print, and error logs in data/log. - -- Cliff Carr noticed that mh's copy of Device/SerialPort.pm was down level. The latest version now also supports AIX. - -- Steve Switzer updated weather_monitor.pl to use the mh.ini a weather_wind_gust_threshold parm -and weather_chance_of_rain.pl to announce only a few days worth of rain ... -speaking 14 days worth of rain can get kind of long :) - -- Axel Brown fixed a 2.73 'socket_close sock port undefined for port http' message. - -- David Norwood updated the web server to allow %Included_HTML to handle multiple shtml style includes. - -- Moved weather_iB_OWW_client.pl from public to commen with an update from Pete Flaherty -that allows something other than the localhost to connect to the iButton Weather station server. - -- Allow for # noloop end-of-record comment (in addtion to # noloop=start/stop block comments, -so we can more easily force code out of the mh loop code. - -- Added more valid date/time checking, to avoid perl abends in calls to timelocal. - -- Updated the MSN IM server in lib/MSN.pm to messenger.hotmail.com. - -- Coded a personal event to post the test version of MisterHouse every night. -The download page ( http://misterhouse.net/download.html ) now points -to a current list of updates in the test code. - -- Replaced the windows only console pop-up menu with a simple print of key functions, when -using either the enter or spacebar key. - -- Switched photo and status_bar refresh html from meta Refresh to javascript, in hopes it would be more reliable. - - - -=head2 Version 2.73 posted on 11/09/2002 - -Version 2.73 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Jason Sharpee added mh/lib/Numbered_Menu.pm for navigating menus with numeric keypads like phones. -It differers from Audible_Menu.pm, which uses just one key to select menu items as they are read, -in that you can use numbered keys to jump to the desired item. -You can try this out with your keyboard number pad by enabling the new code/common/keyboard_numbered_menu.pl code, which -will use the default menu you parsed in your menu.pl code. - -- Tim Doyle created code/common/audrey_control.pl. If you download the audrey apps listed in that code, -you can control both pen and mail lights, sleep mode, and the built in sounds. - -- David Norwood created mh/lib/UIRT2.pm for the UIRT2 send and receive IR interface -( http://www.fukushima.us/UIRT2/ ). -He also created mh/code/common/UIRT2_learning.pl, a learning script -that provides a web interface for learning infrared codes and importing pronto codes. - -- Improved the web select_code interface by adding an Index, Search option, and listing of relevant config_parms. - - -B - -- Jason Sharpee noticed were were not logging 0 and 1 states in Generic_Item state_log. - -- Steve Switzer made some speak tweaks to CallerID.pm - -- Brian Rudy fix a problem with the return code from the play function on perl 5.8 on linux. - -- David Lounsberry updated vv_tts to allow for pa control and a text_first option. -See mh/code/public/pa_control_vv_tts.pl for an example. -Sean Walker updated vv_tts.pl to ignore +-1 volume changes, to not respond to round off errors. -We also added a no_log=xcmd option, to turn off errata when using xcmd a lot, like with the above change. - -- Kyle Kirkland added another sprinkler example to code/public. - -- Tim Doyle added a AOLim_Status so we can detect when buddies listed in the new net_aim_buddies parm log on and off. -Tim also updated his common/aqualink.pl code. - -- Joseph Gaston created mh/code/public/internet_ip_update_hn.pl for use with DNS servers from hn.org. -He also made some updates to the HomeVision mh/lib/HVweb_Item.pm module. - -- Brian Rudy updated weather_aws.pl (now in code/common) -adding support for weather_monitor.pl, weather_log.pl, and -the weather and wind web page status line parameters. - -- Robert Mecklenburg noticed the 'preset' X10_Item parm (to flag presetable modules) was not working, -and that, for preset-able modules, the dim level was not stored after an OFF command. - -- Robert Mecklenburg also noticed that outgoing house commands (e.g. A1 All Off) did not -set the states of mh X10 objects on those housecodes. - -- Tim Doyle fixed removing of old msvoice commands on code reload. - -- Larry Roudebush noticed that wap (phone) menus did not work right on menus with states. - -- Jeff Pagel sent in mh/code/public/sensor_water.pl an an example for sensing water in the basement. - -- Neil Wrightson noticed the .mht read_table code did not process extra iButton arguments correctly. - -- David Lounsberry created mh/code/public/vocp_func.pl for monitoring linux vocp logs for callerid and voice mail. - -- David Norwood modified the spoken common/tv_info.pl code summary. - -- Richard Koch noticed his modem callerid didn't work over a mh proxy. To fix this, I made a small update -to the proxy protcol, so if you upgrade your main mh, you will need to upgrade your proxy mh also. - -- Tim Doyle came up with a scheme to allow easy updates of the web local weather radar image, using -your mh.ini zip code. This new option is at the bottom of the ia5 local weather page. - -- Changed alarmclock.txt speperator from / to |, so we can support dates in time_now formats.x - -- Moved the print, speak, and error logs from data_dir to data_dir/logs. -Also changed the default mh.ini pid_file parm from mh/data to $config_parms{data_dir}, -so multiple mh runs (e.g. mh and mh_proxy) can write their own pid file. - -- Moved these files to code/common: weather_pollen.pl - -- Created mh/code/examples/x10_sunrise.pl as an example of how to slowly turn on an X10 light using a timer. - -- Added a mh.ini web_refresh parm so we can control the web screen saver. -Defaults to the previous photo script, but can be changed to clock or whatever. - -- Moved Bruce specific stuff out of mh/code/common/iButton.pl into mh/code/bruce/iButton_bruce.pl - -- Fixed a web server problem on unix where the browser would wait for host TTS speech to finish -(forgot to close the http port on the child after forkint). - -- Added an organizer_email parm to allow email to the web organizer todo AssignedTo name. -Also allowed the DueDate to be any valid time_now format. - -- Added X10_Sensor (mht type is X10MS) item method light and dark, to return the current light and dark -state of MS13 motion sensors. - - -=head2 Version 2.72 posted on 10/12/2002 - -Version 2.72 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Enabled the new proxy option on most Serial items. I have tested it with these interfaces: -cm11, cm17, iButton, weeder, mr26, wx200 weather, modem, netcallerid, and ham tnc. -Also added notifications if either the proxy or main mh detect the other is not responding. - -- Tim Doyle and I re-organized 80+ .pl code files from the code/test, public, and bruce directories. -into the mh/code/common code dir. -The code/test directory now only has a few example .mht and .menu files left. -You can select which of the common .pl -code files you want to run, along with the code files in your private code_dir, -with the new http://localhost:8080/bin/select_code.pl interface -(the 'Select Code' button on the ia5 MrHouse Home menu). -Current users default to just 11 core MisterHouse code files pre-selected. -New users will default to an additional set 40 code files, most of what used to be in the test dir. -We can move other public code files to the common directory by moving any user-specific data into mh.ini parms. - -- Tim Doyle also created mh/code/modules/audreyspeak.pl to send all speech and played files to Audreys. - -- Tim Doyle and I transformed Doug Nakakihara's alarmclock_doug.pl code into mh/code/common/alarmclock.pl. -Copy and modify the mh/data/alarmclock.txt file to create easy one line alarms with optional im and/or email function. - -- Axel Brown sent in mh/code/public/palm_calendar.* files for copying palm calendar entries to the mh organizer calendar. -He also sent in public/organizer_axel.pl, which allows for variable ALARM times (not just 15 mins) and "no -specified time" events. It also announces the owner of the event (currently hard coded for his family names). - -- David Norwood added mh/lib/UIR.pm. -This module will report incoming infrared signals in the Misterhouse log output. You can use -these signal codes to create triggers that can control your MP3 player, DVD software, etc. - -- Marc Mosthav created mh/lib/X10_RedRat.pm. -He wrote this to allow mh to send X10 traffic via IR -> RF, so he didn't have to -worry about phase coupling problems. -The path is mh X10 -> X10_RedRat.pm -> RedRat.pm -> IR -> RF -> X10 receiver. - -- Added a send_x10_data code hook, so we can more easily add X10 interfaces without modifying core mh code. - -- Updated organizer.pl to also announce web entered tasks, in addition to calander events. - -- Jon Boehm and I added 'speak_text=program osascript' option for Mac OS X users. -Also added some Mac OS X install hints from Jon to docs/install.* - - -B - -- Jason Sharpee and Bill Sobel made a bunch of updates to lib/Startgate.pm - -- Axel Brown dropped newlines from text spoken in code/public/speak_proxy.pl - -- Steve Switzer updated proxy_server to not send data when not connected. - -- Steve Switzer noticed set_by was not set to web when changes were made to X10_Items via the web interface. - -- Brian Klier noticed that get_url corrupted image files on windows (needed binmode set). - -- Ryan Pomaski noticed that X10 9->16 unit bright/dim codes were not being decoded by the X10_MR26.pm code. - -- David Norwood fixed bin/get_tv_grid (changed GET to POST) so it worked better with http proxies. - -- Jon Boehm found a 2.71 bug that caused most item states not to be saved between restarts. - -- Larry Roudebush created mh/code/public/internet_ip_update_larry.pl for finding ip address from whatismyip.com -and public/mirror_directory for mirroring 2 directories. - -- Added net_mail_delete, to delete mail on servers. Example in mh/code/examples/email_delete.pl - -- Changed bin/mh, mh.bat, mhl, mh_proxy.bat, and mh_proxy -to better restart on accidental exit (tests on mh.startup rather than mh.started) - -- Dropped the 'redo' option in bin/get_tv_grid.pl. Data will always be re-parsed when called. - -- Broke internets_data.pl into mh/code/common/internet_top10.pl, internet_weather, and internet_time. - - -=head2 Version 2.71 posted on 09/21/2002 - -Version 2.71 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Richard Morgan's sent in mh/code/public/cbus_v2.0.zip, his set of code for talking to -CBUS devices via the Australian Clipsal CGATE interface. - -- Ron Klinkien and Paul Wilkinson -enabled the great sounding AT&T NaturalVoices TTS engine on Linux. -($150 from http://www.naturalvoices.com ) -Use the voice_text_naturalvoice parm to point to where you have it installed and set voice_text=naturalvoice. -As with the Windows version, you can use the speak voice=name option to pick a non-default voice. - -- Jason Sharpee and I added several new methods: Generic_Item get_idle_time and -Group member_changed and member_changed_log. -This allows us to use Group items to monitor sets of sensors for detecting occupancy states. -This change means that Group states will change whenever a member's state changes, but these -can be distinguised from full group state changes (member only state changes are prefixed with 'member'). -See an example of these new methods in Jason's occupancy algorithm in mh/code/public/monitor_occupancy_jason.pl. - -- Added the option to use additional mh instances as proxies to allow for remote ports (e.g. 'mh in the barn'), -distributed lan-based speech, or buffering of slow serial data to avoid the 'mh pause' problem. -See 'Use distributed MisterHouse proxies' in mh/docs/mh.* -( http://misterhouse.net/mh.html#use%20distributed%20misterhouse%20proxies ) - -- Created mh/code/public/speak_proxy.pl as an example of how to allow for -speech to distributed mh proxies using the speak rooms= parm. - -- Added speak voice=next and voice=all options. -For each speak call, voice=next will cycle through to the next available voice, as listed in the mh.ini voice_names parm. -voice=all is a goofy option, inspired by the fun songs at dictionaraoke.org, that will select a different voice for -each word in a phrase. This only works with XML enabled TTS engines (MSV5 and linux naturalvoices), -but just as well as it is not very intelligible :) -For those with other engines, you can use mh/code/public/speak_voices.pl to do the same thing by -synthesizing each word to seperate wav files, then use Audio::Wav to concatonate them into one wav file. - -- Added mh.ini parm sleep_count, so we can control how often mh sleeps per pass. -Default is now 5 (was 2) and I lowered the default sleep_time parm from 50 to 10 (milliseconds). -By sleeping more often for less time, total %cpu use is decreased, since active code does not don't swap out of cache as often. - - -B - -- Tom Christian sent in an update that allows for spaces in mh.ini web alias parms. - -- Steve Switzer noticed that get_set_by always returned 'serial' for Serial_Item. -Also changed this to return an object name, rather than object, if set by a tied item. - -- Scott Johnston noticed a 2.70 problem with Festival server not being used. -Also uniquified files when calling the one-the-fly festival. - -- Steve Switzer found a 2.67 bug where get_email_rule.pl would filter out most email announcements. - -- Dean Junk sent in mh/code/public/process_weather1.pl, his code for using weather forecasts -to control his sprinkler systsm. - -- Craig Schaeffer sent in mh/code/public/hvac_craig.pl as an example of a function he uses in -his HVAC setup to do a smart heat/cool setback cycle. - -- Brian Rudy sent in mh/code/public/monitor_occupancy_brian.pl as an example of how he monitors -multiple motion sensors to determine activity in the house. - -- Clive Freedman created web/bin/code_search.pl to improve the web ia5 search menu 'code search' output. - -- Steve Flick sent in mh/code/public/x10_power_reset.pl as an example of how to -reset the X10 items in a group after a power reset. - -- David Norwood updated bin/get_tv_grid to correctly delete old data for shows starting after 11:30pm. -If you have a big data_dir/tv_programs.dbm file, -you may want to delete it then run 'redo tv grid data for the next 2 weeks' to clean up the old dbm file and speed up tv searches. -My search time went from 60 seconds to 10 seconds. We also changed the default -purge option from 14 days to 2 days. -David fixed a problem with bin/get_tv_info with shows that ended at midnight and changed the -default -increment option from 5 to 30 minutes, so searches are faster. - -- Brent DeShazer notice a 2.68 problem where viavoice would always speak 'Mike' when using the default voice_names parm. - -- Max Lock enabled channel A/B selection for iButtom DS2406 switches. -For example: $ib_relay1 = new iButton $id, undef, 'B'; set $relay1 ON; - -- Fixed a 2.70 problem (perl 5.0 windows users only) which misplaced 2 Win32 modules. - -- Updated map graphics links generated in code/bruce/tracking_aprs.pl. -Mapblast changed its urls, so I switched to call vicinity.com directly -via a new script at mh/web/bin/display_map.pl - - -=head2 Version 2.70 posted on 08/22/2002 - -Version 2.70 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Chris Witte created mh/lib/caddx.pm and mh/code/public/caddx.* -for monitoring the outputs from a CADDX nx8e alarm panel. - -- Ernie Oporto updated lib/site/Hardware/iButton/Device.pm -to add the capability to read DS2438-based humidity sensors. -Example in mh/code/public/iButton_ws_ernie.pl. - -- Ryan Scott suggested we create a web/bin/get_state.pl function for returning -object states for use by other programs, like php. -As another approach, Douglas Parrish's sent in mh/code/public/get_state.php -as an example of how to get mh states from php using xml. - -- Added mh/bin/image_index, for creating simple photo index pages. -Very simple and not really mh related, but it is small and might be handy for some. -It is what I used for the mh related photos at: http://misterhouse.net:81/pictures - -- Paul Chamberlain suggested we create an undo function. I added a 'Undo the last action' to mh/code/common/mh_control.pl. -Currently it only changes the last changed X10_Item, but could be updated to allow for non-X10 items. - -- Clint Dimick suggested we add a light/dark state option to X10_Sensor. This is enabled if you pass in MS13 -(the model number of the popular X10 Hawkeye motion sensor) -to the end of your mht X10MS table entry (see X10_Sensor in doc/mh.pod for an example). -State names are now motion/still and light/dark (if MS13 is specified). - - -B - -- Mark Miller noticed that mh.ini some records without blanks padded around the '=' were not parsed correctly. - -- Craig Schaeffer noticed code/public/internet_ip_update.pl had a bogus 'inline' parm to a Process_Item call. - -- Larry Roudebush found a site hosting the lost linux IBM Viavoice files (install docs updated). - -- Shane Harrison and Nick Maddock noticed mh did not support mh objects in the Type->new syntax. - -- Wally Kissel found an updated version of Win32::DriveInfo.pm worked better on his Win2k box. - -- Max Kelly send in mh/code/public/internet_hebcal.pl for for downloading a shabbat calendar. - -- Andy Oldfield updated get_url useragent option to use agent and request, rather than simple_request, -so that it will follow redirects better. - -- Axel Brown added passing of %parms to vv_tts called from play, to allow for volume control. - -- Jeffrey Bertoia discovered a case sensitive typo in the mh/lib/weather_wmr968 - -- Brian Rudy updated mh/code/public/weather_aws.pl - -- Bill Sobel made 2 changes to tie_items. The first was to allow for cross-tied items, -so you can set either item have have them reflect each others state. The other was to -allow for multiple tied states to a controlling state. - -- Clive Freedman created mh/code/examples/test_socket2.pl to show how we can have different -mh boxes communicated to each other's mhsend_server sockets. - -- Walter Leemput found a problem with system calls done while a Process_Item was active (mh would pause). - -- Richard Phillips added a mp3 xmms 'now playing' option to the web status bar script, web/bin/status.pl. - -- Neil Cherry noticed "'CHLD' isn't numeric" errors that we fixed with an update to the waitpid call in &sig_child_death. - -- David Norwood fixed get_tv_grid to not re-get data when "preserveRaw" is off. -He also changed the url tvlistings as his provider id kept changing every week on tvlistings2. - -- Fixed the 1.69 web menu dim button. - -- Added an --outdir option to image_resize, so we can store our resized photos separately from our originals. - -- Added a no_response option to .menu files. - -- Added a 'R: href=url' .menu file response option, so you can point to other web pages when web browsing menus. - -- Added a time_catchup_skip parm, to allow for skipping mh pause catchup mode on hybernated laptops. -Default is a large number. More info in mh.ini help text. - -- Added a 'list voice commands' command in code/commond/mh_control.pl. - -- Fixed 2 wap phone problems. Blanks in menu names (e.g. 'Astro Time') were causing compile errors on some phones/browsers and -recent wav->browser support was causing errors errors from some commands. -Most wap phones don't do wml with wav files very well :). - -- Added an empty file to mh/web/cache. -Clive Freedman noticed his unzip programs was not creating this directory because it was empty. - -- Drop / suffix on http file requests that the goofy Audrey sometimes adds on pushed wav urls. - - -=head2 Version 2.69 posted on 07/03/2002 - -Version 2.69 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- David Norwood created mh/code/public/v4l_pvr.pl and v4l_radio.pl for Linux systems. -The pvr code (Personal Video Recorder) can record shows picked from the TV listings or shows -that match a list of keywords. It has a basic web interface for controlling all its functionality. -The v4l_radio.pl code allows you to stream music from a video4linux compatible -FM tuner card to shoutcast clients on your network. Install instructions are at the top of the files. - -- Nick Maddock created mh/lib/Concept.pm and mh/code/public/alarm_concept.* -to support the Concept alarm system from http://www.innerrange.com - -- Jeff_Ferris sent in code to access online mci voicemail. Enable with the new mh.ini phone_voicemail_* parms, -used by web/ia5/phone/voicemail.pl. - -- Andy Oldfield created mh/lib/read_table_xml.pl to support a Format=xml mht file. -We also now include the XPath XML parser in the mh/lib/site path. - -- Made quite a few changes to the new menu web interface. -Added optional javascript navigation keys to the web menu interface (only supported on recent NS and IE browsers). -Allow common menu pages to be split between different .menu files. -Added active, color coded buttons. See the help text for a description of state dependent colors. -To enable an active button, your menu Action must start with 'set $object', so we can -associate the correct object with that button. -To support the above, I had to change the set_menu_default syntax from Menu1,Menu2,Menu3 to Menu1|Menu2|Menu3. - -- Enabled overriding of file(s) in html subdirectories. Simply create an alias for the -root directory, then populate subdirs with just the files you want to override. For example: - - html_alias2_ia5 = /misterhouse/web/ia5 - -Then create a /misterhouse/web/ia5/security directory with the file(s) you want to override -for the ia5 security page. - -- Added mh/code/test/x10_reset.pl. This will reset all X10 devices to their previous states after a power fail was detected. - -- I figured out the magic incantation to allow web browsers to cache static files (e.g. image files). -Some older browers (e.g. Audrey and CE 3.0) were already doing this, -but the newer browsers (IE 6 and Netscape 6) were not. -This makes things like the menu buttons and LED clock much more usable, and speeds up most web pages. -For IE, I had to clear my disk cache before it would start caching correctly. - -- Registered misterhouse.com, currently pointing to the same server as misterhouse.net -Don't worry, no commercial intent planned. The domain name simply came up for grabs and the fees are down -to $10 a year now, so I had little reason not go grab it :) - - -B - -- Added to the faq question 'What do I need to use the iButtons' with info from some recent posts. - -- Added shtml directive svar. Unlike var=, the variable contents will be returned only if the web user is authorized. - -- Added mh.ini parm html_color_header, now used by the ia5 pages and web/bin/status_line.pl. - -- Added sunrise and sunset (in addition sun, which auto-picked sunrise/sunset) to web/bin/status_link.pl - -- Added mh/code/examples/timer_remarks.pl an an example of how to some character to your timer reminders :) - -- Added signoff functions for AOL, MSN, and Jabber and used these in code/test/internet_im.pl. -If you loose a connection, simply run the connect command. - -- David Norwood fixed a bin/get_tv_grid problem with incorrect vcr programing times for shows that start or end around midnight. - -- Mark Miller suggested we a page view counter, so we created a simple one with -web/bin/counter.pl. Set mh.ini parm web_href_counter to blank to turn off the new ia5 web page counter - -- David Norwood updated the web server to allow for shtml style includes in user coded %Included_HTML strings. - -- Joseph Gaston found that a mh.ini password_allow_clients with a blank in the value (e.g. 'a, b') would allow any client. - -- Wally Kissel added the logon prompt to the web 'Unauthorized mode' response. - -- Nick Maddock added time_date_stamp format 18, for creating log file names. - -- David Norwood added Process_Item set_errlog, like the existing set_output, but for STDERR, rather than STDOUT. -Examples in mh/code/examples/test_process.pl - -- Fenghua Zong fixed the mh.ini web_href_weather_local parm, used in the ia5 weather page. - -- Jeff Burricelli noticed mh was not storing the brightness level of X10_Items between mh restarts. - -- Jeff Burricelli's girlfriend updated Serial_Item to understand 3 character X10 device codes (e.g. A16 rather than AG). -We had previously updated X10_Item to allow for this, but not Serial_Item X10 codes. - -- Jason Brunen discovered mh would choke on code files named with a - (e.g. test-event.pl). - -- Created Faq from a Scott Reston post: What is the format of MisterHouse X10 codes? - -- Shane Harrison noted that we were inadvertently adding \n\r to raw Socket_Item output. - -- On XP, set $Info{OS_name} to XP, instead of NT. Added an abortable shutdown/reboot for XP option in mh/code/common/mh_control.pl. - -- Fixed missing web button images on some browsers (e.g. Netscape 4.7). web/bin/button.pl to was not adding a mime header. - -- Fixed 'list all timers' (need a space after "voice=male" ...) - -- Fixed 'browser lights/appliances' from the ia5 lights page. - -- Added mh.ini parm http_pause_time to control the http_server time exceeded messages. Defaults to 2 seconds. - -- Replaced the ia5 MisterHouse logo. The old one was cute, with the butler tie, but I thought the H looked too much -like an M, and MisterMouse just didn't seem right :) Any alternate logo suggestions are always welcome. - -- Modified web/bin/photos.pl background menu from a 3x3 grid to a 4x3 grid, -adding a menus button next to the main menu button. -Also used a style sheet directive to avoid tile-ing when in background mode on larger browsers. - - -=head2 Version 2.68 posted on 05/28/2002 - -Version 2.68 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Bill Sobel added lib/AudiotronPlayer.pm, to support the Turtle Beach AudioTron. -Bill also made updates to these modules: Stargate485.pm, Stargate.pm, weather_vw.pm, Xantech.pm, and Compool.pm. - -- Pete Flaherty's created code/public/weather_iB_OWW_client.pl to read data from the OWW 1-wire ibutton weather station daemon -( http://www.simon.melhuish.net/projects/oww/ ). - -- Added voice, compression, and deep thought buttons to the web/speak and ia5/web/speak pages. - -- Added alt text tags to most of the web pages, including the ia5 pages, so image-less browsers can see. - -- Added last_response data to internet_im.pl, so it returns the results from commands. -Also added mh.ini parm password_allow_im to specifiy what im users can type commands. - -- Re-wrote mh/web/bin/status_line.pl to make it programable. In now supports 2 types of javascript clocks -and you can pick the order and contents of data it displays. See html_status_line in mh/bin/mh.ini for more info. - -- Added a javascript clock to the photos.pl page, currently enabled for Audrey only, since they -have limited space on the status line for a clock. - -- Re-wrote the web interface to menus (mh/web/bin/menu.pl) and added a Menus link from the top of the ia5 web page. -Also added a set_menu_default function so we can have different default starting menus, -depending on the type and location (e.g. ip address) of the browser. See mh/code/test/menu.pl for an example. - - - -B - -- Alan Womack noticed we would mis-evaluated external commands that started with 'set ...' -We also improved security with this option. - -- Kevin Wambsganz noticed that $Pgm_Root was only being substituted once in a multi-path code_dir. - -- Scott Reston added mh/code/examples/x10_cycle_light1.pl for cycling through various light states - -- Kent Noonan found a 2.67 problem with #include code=&sub directives. - -- William Steiner fixed a problem with web organizer events with the ' character. - -- Bob Hughes fixed a negative lat/long postition report problem in the ham radio aprs mh/code/bruce/tracking_aprs.pl. -We also took out the Bruce specific stuff. - -- Steve Switzer suggested a few updates to internet_im.pl. - -- Timothy Spaulding added a mh.ini parm caller_id_reject_file, which puts numbers into $Caller_ID::reject_name_by_number - -- Brent Gross added mkdir to the net_ftp command. - -- Don Wilde fixed read_dir in lib/ibutton.pm to turn off the switch after checking wind direction. - -- Created mh/web/public for misc. files that go with various mh/code/public files. - -- Mickey Argo sent in mh/code/public/wintv_radio.pl and mh/web/public/wintv_radio.html. - -- Fixed the response to vxml (voice xml) commands (some responses were not returning vxml). - -- Enabled voice_names for ViaVoice and added an example in mh.ini. - -- Enable last_response data to return display and print_log data in telnet.pl. Also improved telnet password authorization. - -- Added MSNim_Status hook in internet_im.pl for detecting buddy status. - -- Fixed internet_data.pl top 10 list url and a parsing hang. - -- Fixed last_response called from menu code. - -- Changed mh.ini parm html_browser_sizes default for MSCE browsers (e.g. Aquapad and Compaq IA1) -from 640 to 800 and updated web/bin/photos.pl web photo code to -use &http_agent_size to dictate the size of the touch grids and help screen. - -- Return 'housecode' from set_by if an X10_Item is set on/off with with All on/off. - -- Updated the dailystrip comics code to version 1.0.24. - -- Added 'Send test e mail to the cell phone' to internet_mail.pl. Dropped mh/bin/sprint_pcs. - - - -=head2 Version 2.67 posted on 05/04/2002 - -Version 2.67 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- The remote web wav files wave files are now created in the background. -To support this, the Voice_Text::is_speaking function now works accurately -for all the unix TTS engines (except festival, which still uses a timer). -The generated wav files are now stored in mh/web/cache, and have $Second -append to them, to allow simultaneous multiple web clients. - -- Added support for the AT&T Natural Voices TTS engine ( http://www.naturalvoices.com ). - -- Added mh.ini parm voice_names, so we can correlate generic voice names to specific names. -For example, here is my entry (more examples in mh.ini): - - voice_names = female=>Crystal, male=>Rich16, male1=>Rich16, - male2=>Mike, Rich=>Rich16, Mary=>Crystal, Sam=>Mike - - -- Allow for a user speech subroutine to be called from the speak function, with mh.ini parm voice_text = &user_sub. -See mh/code/public/speak_mbrola.pl for an example. - -- Replaced mh/code/test/speak_server.pl with the much cleaner eliza_server.pl. -If you use the eliza web interface, you will need to replace this in your user code also -and delete any speak_server parms you have in your .ini file. - -- Gaetan Lord created mh/lib/X10_BX24.pm to support the BX24 X10 Transceiver, info at http://www.laser.com/dhouston - -- Andrew Drummond created mh/lib/dss_interface.pm and mh/code/public/dss_interface.pl -to provide serial port control of most dss receivers. - -- Scott Reston suggested we create a new Generic_Item state_changed method. -Like state_now, it will return the object's state -only for one pass after the object is set, but -unlike state_now, state_changed will return undef (false) if -the item is set to the same state it is currently in. - -- Kevin Wambsganz suggested we allow multiple code paths, -so the mh.ini code_dir parm can now be a comma delimited set of directories. - -- Also put in support for multiple mh.ini files by using a -comma delimited list of files in your mh_parms env var. - -- Holly Sommer found an perl module for the MSN instant messanger. -Also added a message callback to the AOL AIM code and modified -the Jabber_Message callback to return data consistent with MSN and AIM. These changes allowed me to -merge example code for all 3 of into mh/code/test/internet_im.pl, so I dropped internet_jabber.pl. -This code now also supports turning on and off logging of all speak and print_log data to any of the im clients. - -- Paul Chamberlain set up a TWiki web-based collaboration site for -user-supplied MisterHouse documentation here: http://tifster.tzo.com/wiki/bin/view/Misterhouse - -- Fred Frey created mh/bin/send_verison for sending messages to verison phones - -- Clive Freedman created mh/code/public/chart_xl.pl for generating html that calls Excel via activex to chart log data. - -- Robert Rozman created mh/code/public/pictures_files.pl that uses a dbm to index a photo database. - - -B - -- Scott Reston added code/examples/x10_set_group.pl - -- Chris Witte suggested we allow multiple args to print_log, as print does. - -- Kip Gebhardt noticed that password_protect=all was not protecting all web pages. - -- Bob Hughes noticed that older browsers had some broken links for some -auto-generated GD icons with blanks in the text (e.g. 'X10 Items'). - -- Mark Miller found a 2.66 bug in display that would display previous, not requested, text. - -- Alan Womack sent in a bunch of spelling/typo fixes for the mh docs. - -- Joseph Gaston noticed that .shtml #include file="code.pl?item1&item2" args were not parsed correctly. - -- Mike Bruno and Harald Koch created faq question 3.4: How do I get Mister House to start up automatically when my linux box boots - -- Kevin Wambsganz created mh/bin/misterhouse_SuSe.rc for system startup under SuSE. - -- Alex Hsia and Bob Hughes helped find and fix a 2.66 problem with INC in dailystrips use of LWP/UserAgent. - -- Kevin Wambsganz added mh.ini parm lib_dir, so you can add or override .pl library files. - -- o - - - -Ron Klinkien updated and created some more ia5 icons. -- Riad Wahby updated the AOL AIM module to work with a recent AOL change. - -- Alan Womack suggested we add a web/tk option for typing in commands, like we can type with the external bin/house command. -Added this under the ia5 search menu. - -- Allow for .mht table files with objects that have multiple states. See mh/code/test/test_x10.mht for an example. - -- Test for X10_Item, not 'light' or 'lite', in button.pl to determine if it is a bright/dimable item. - -- Added mh/bin/do_nothing and allow for a Process_Item start cmd override. -This allows us to bypass a long running process without changing much code. -For example: start $p_top10_list 'do_nothing'; - -- Keep one month of data in the data_dir/speak-print_log.old files. -Data gets moved to .old2 files at the first of the month. - -- Fixed a 2.66 problem with udp socket data being ignored. - -- Fixed an old (2.45?) Timer problem where the timer expire time was reset on reload or restart. -Also enabled timers that expired during the reload/restart to be triggered on startup. - -- Added mh/web/bin/status_line_clock.pl, which includes a javascript clock. Looks ok on an Audrey, -but is not centered on IE or Netscape. - - - -=head2 Version 2.66 posted on 03/31/2002 - -Version 2.66 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Robert Rozman sent in the mh/web/organizer files, a set of calendar, contacts, and tasks cgi scripts from verysimple.com. -Copy the default mh/data/organizer files to your own data dir and point to that dir with the new mh.ini organizer_dir parm. -I updated the default mh.ini calendar href links used in ia5/calendar to use these scripts, rather than the yahoo pages. -Since these are conventional cgi scripts, they require the ability to redirct STDOUT -(same thing required with the recent windows http_fork support). -This works on unix and NT/2K/XP boxes, but not on many (any?) win95/98 boxes. - -- Created mh/code/test/organizer.pl, which monitors that new organizer calendar, and creates -mh events to speak when a calender event occurs. - -- Added mh.ini web_href_calendar_history parm, used in the ia5 calander page. -The default points to the results of mh/code/public/news_onthisday.pl, which now works again. - -- Added a speak -compression option, currently only for the MS V5 TTS engine. -This option picks the .wav format to use when using -to_file to save TTS to a file. -Options are (example sizes are for a short 4 word phrase): - - high => GSM 6.10 11 kHz mono ( 3k. Not usable on an Audrey), - normal => PCM 8 kHz 8 bit mono (16k. New default) - low => PCM 22 kHz 16 bit mono (88k. Old default) - -Also updated speak_server.pl and http_server webmute=0 to use -high if request was from a remote browser. - -- Updated X10_Item so that the ##% states (e.g. 10% or 75%) can be used with normal (older, cheaper) modules. -mh will now use what it thinks the current brightness level is to come up with a +-## -bright/dim command. If the module was off, it will first be turned to full on, since the -older modules can not be dimmed from an off state. - -- To support the above change, but still allow preset-able modules to use ##% preset levels, -we added a 3rd parm to X10_Item (the 2nd parm is what X10 interface -you want to use, if you don't want the default). Those of you with newer 2-way modules that -support preset dims (e.g. LM14) will want to specify 'preset' or 'LM14'. -Here is an example, in normal and mht form: - - $light1 = new X10_Item('O1', '', 'preset'); - X10I, O2, light2, All_Lights|Upstairs, ,LM14 - -- Added mh.ini html_status_line* parms, so you can point to a custom status line at the bottom -of your ia5 and photos page. Default is web/bin/status_line_small/big.pl, depending if you -are browsing from a small browser (e.g. Audrey or WinCE) or not. -Bob Hughes fixed a bug to re-enabled the sunrise icon. - -- Brian Paulson added Generic_Item methods set_web_style and get_web_style, to allow us to pick the -web style of dropdown, radio, or url for Voice_Cmd objects. -An example is in mh/code/examples/test_web_styles.pl. - -- Richard Phillips added code/public/mp3_playlist_xmms.pl for linux, -so that now *all* the playlist functions, mp3 database, -etc available in the standard ia5 jukebox work 'just dinky keen fine'. - -- David Norwood and I created mh/code/public/tk_photos.pl, like the web photo slideshow, but -displays locally and full screen. Use keys n,p,q for next, previous, and quit. -If you have Image::Magick installed (or run mh.exe) and have a fast box, you can try -setting mh.ini parm photo_resize=1 to have the images resized on-the-fly to full screen (causes mh pauses on slower boxes). - -- Added a 2nd, $second parameter to time_now and time_cron. -Use this to specify which second to fire on. If not specified, the default is still $Second == 0 (i.e. minute boundaries). -Set to '*' to fire on all passes for the matched minute(s). -Note, we had recently added a more limited 2nd parm to time_cron, so if you used this, change it from '1' to '*'. - -- Added the option to specify default speak options with mh.ini parms. -For example, if you want to have a default volume of 40, use speak_volume=40. -If you want to have all speech go to files, use speak_file=file_name. - - -B - -- Reverted the windows mh.exe back to perl 5.0 (it was 5.6 in the 2.65 release). -Except for the Jabber code, 5.0 still does everything that 5.6 does, and there seems to be fewer memory problems for most. - -- Modify INC path to look for mh/lib before, not after, the locally installed libs. This avoids inconsistencies -with older/newer modules installed locally. Also modify INC before we process mh -run commands, so you can use -the local mh lib modules when calling various mh/bin scrips. Also added a lib/site_win* dirs -so we can support Windows sendkey on both 5.0 and 5.6. - -- Added a mh.ini gd parm, to allow the GD web page icons to be turned off. - -- Brian Paulson added code to the ibutton modules to verify the chip is on the bus before trying to read it's temperature. - -- Harald Koch updated bin/get_weather_ec (Canadian weather data) with more reliable table parsing. - -- Gary Sanders found a problem with passing & data to web scripts, like iniedit.pl. - -- Kent Noonan fixed logos in get_tv_grid when using multiple providers. - -- Craig Schaeffer found a 2.65 get_tv_grid problem in searching for favorite tv shows, -and Scott Johnston found an INC problem where it would not find LWP modules. - -- Kent Noonan updated lib/RedRat.pm to allow for saving and setting of states. - -- Bob Hughes sent in some fixes for the new web button code. - -- Scott Reston added a _stopped state to X10_Sensor. We also fixed it so the 2 character id option works. - -- Kevin Wambsganz and I added $ENV{HTTP_QUERY_STRING}, which reflects the current web page's arguments. -This lets use use parent shtml page arguments in child includes. - -- Added -height, -width, and -geometry options to display. Used in internet_data.pl top 10 list display, -along with a bigger font so we can read the tk display from across the room. - -- Added a 'Force reload code' option and call this from a 'Build mp3 database', so new songs are shown without restarting mh. - -- Fixed timers.pl 'Cancel all timers' - -- Fixed a 2.65 bug that messed up mh client sockets on perl 5.0 - -- Added a 'List status of all code files' commands so we can review if any code files are disabled. - -- Added 'Back' buttons to the upper left quadrant of the LED clock and photo pages. - -- Enabled the web ia5 WebMute and MSAgent speech settings page, using a new mh/web/bin/set_cookie.pl function. - -- Changed the default for mh.ini parm http_fork. If not specified, it now defaults to -1 (on) for unix and NT/2K/XP and 0 (off) for win 95/98/me. -Also, setting it to 0 will now disable if on unix also, for those having problems with forks there. - -- Fixed a memory leak problem when displaying .gif or .jpg images with tk. - - -=head2 Version 2.65 posted on 03/01/2002 - -Version 2.65 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Ron Klinkien updated the default ia5 web interface. Amongst other changes, he added more -customized icons and he and I created nifty web/bin/*button*.pl routines for -creating .jpg buttons on the fly if the perl GD module is installed (mh.exe has GD -compiled in). These are cached in a new web/cache dir. - -- Upgraded the windows compiled mh.exe from perl 5.002 to 5.6. My perl2exe registration key did not -migrate to the new version and I have not yet sprung another $50 for the upgrade, -so you will see a message and small delay when you exit mh.exe. -One obscure problem I noticed (with this new mh.exe only) is that file OPEN calls with a DATA filehandle -cause an abend! DATA can be special in perl, so should be avoided. -The only place I had this in my code was in the phone_logs.pl member (I renamed DATA to PLOG). - -- Upgraded windows Setupsup.pm to a 5.6 compatible version. This means that we can start using sendkeys -to control other Windows programs again. -If you are still on a pre5.6 perl and use this function, install the older version into your local perl dir -(email me for details). Pre5.6 users will also now need to also install Win32::Api locally (see install docs), -as it is no longer include in the mh/lib/site path. - -- Renamed get_changed_by to get_set_by and added these as valid return values: web, tk, telnet, vr, xcmd, serial. -Also added it as an option to run_voice_cmd. Examples are in code/test/internet_jabber.pl and code/examples/test_set_by.pl - -- Allow for multiple clients to connect to a mh socket server. -For example, you can now have multiple telnet clients (if you run telnet.pl). -Also added an optional 3rd parm to the Socket_Item set method which can be -'all' (send to all connected clients), ip_address (a regular expresion of the ip address(s) you want to send to, -or client_number (which client to send to, 0 .. #). See telnet.pl for an example. - -- Allow for multiple html_alias directories for the same web root, where the last one wins. -So, for example, to override some of the icons in mh/web/graphics, -use html_alias2_graphics=path_to_your_icons as a 2nd graphics dir parm. - -- Added mh/code/test/comic_dailystrips.pl to update a new web/comics dir. -Modify the mh.ini comics parm with any from the over 300 comics listed in web/comics/dailystrips/strips.def. -Like the tv data, you can change the mh.ini html_alias_comics parm to store the comics out of the mh distro path. - -- Gaetan Lord created mh/code/common/Xmms_* files for controlling the linux xmms mp3 player. -He also updated his xmms jukebox at mh/web/music/xmms (was in mh/web/misc/mp3_control_xmms.pl) - -- Roger Bille sent in the files in mh/code/public/Roger. -This code is targeting APRS, including generating this aprs hub status page: http://ahubswe.net/ahub.html - -- Stoll Thomas created mh/bin/get_tv_*_ge for retreiving and and searching german tv shows via http://www.tvspielfilm.de - -- Harald Koch created mh/code/public/weather_ec.pl and bin/get_weather_ec for parsing Canadian weather data -from weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca into %Weather. - -- David Lounsberry sent in mh/code/public/weeder_david.pl, hvac_david.pl, and rrd.pl -which show how he monitors 14 iButton buttons and the -new Solid State Relay weeder board to control his HVAC system. - -- Kent Noonan created lib/RedRat.pm and code/public/redrat.pl and redrat_capture to control IR devices with the -RedRat interface: http://www.dodgies.demon.co.uk/index.html - - -B - -- Joe Blecher updated mh/lib/LynxX10PLC.pm to autoconfigure on startup. - -- Yangmin Shen noticed is_speaking was broken for festival users. - -- Mickey Argo sent in mh/code/examples/volume_level_reset_httpq.pl as an example of how -to reset mp3 volume levels using httpq - -- Harald Koch also fixed a problem with running a Process_Item on an internal function on unix. - -- Brian Paulson sent in mh/code/public/iButton_ws_brian.pl. - -- Brian Paulson also added a ibutton_line_length mh.ini parm. It defaults to LONG, -which matches what the previous code did. If you have had problems here, try setting it to SHORT. - -- Tom Witmer made a bunch of updates to get_tv_grid, including getting it to work again after -some changes on the clicktv end. His changes are outlined at -http://www.angelfire.com/co4/mister_tom/tvmods.html - -- Tom Vanderpool and I created web/bin/tagline.pl, used by the main ia5 page for a random remark. - -- Harald Koch updated mh/code/bruce/inernet_jabber.pl -to add code hooks for processing jabber commands (jabber is an open source XML instant messaging program). -He also fixed a mh exit problem if a jabber connection was lost. - -- Tom Vanderpool noticed a recent mh problem where it exited when speaking with voice_text=ms, but no ms engine installed. - -- Kevin Wambsganz noticed that the $New_Msecond flags were not syncronized with the $New_Second flag. - -- Kent Noonan found a bug where Voice_Cmd states of 0 were returned as 1. -For example, 1 was returned for both the 0 and 1 states here: $ir = new Voice_Cmd 'Press [0,1,2]'); - -- Joseph Gaston updated the HomeVision module mh/lib/HVweb_Item.pm. - -- Harald Koch added FAQ question: Where is perl program code located? - -- David Norwood fixed the web ini editor commit option and the handling of ' and & characters. - -- Re-enabled sound_program=vv_tts - -- Updated web/ia5/speak page to not have a hard coded ip address by using $Http{Host_address}. - -- Added mh.ini proxy parm, used by get_url and get_tv_grid to enable use behind proxy firewalls. - -- Deleted some of the older web interfaces from mh/bin/web. If anyone wants them back, let me know. - -- Updated the default ia5 page to honor a new mh.ini photo_time_startup parm. -Set this to a large number to disable the photo slideshow. - -- Added jump-to option to photos slideshow (click on photo number). - -- Also added a help screen to the photos slideshow when in background mode (like when called from an Audrey). -Touch the center of the screen to activate. - -- Updated &get_ip_address, used to set $Info{IPAddress_local}, to work better on unix. - - - -=head2 Version 2.64 posted on 01/23/2002 - -Version 2.64 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Minor release (no no features) - - -B - -- Alex Hsia found a 2.63 problem if you had vv_tts_program and no sound_program parm. - -- Added missing perlctl.dll missing from 2.63 win.zip - -- Backup up to an older mh/bin/viavoice_server binary, so the newer -/lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.1.3' is not required. - -- Changed default &net_connect to pre 2.63 behaviour of returning 1 if net_connect_if is not specified. - -- Fixed a 2.63 bug in get_url url file (file data was not saved) - -- Fixed yet another 2.63 bug that caused normal MS TTS to lost after a speak to_file call. - -- Fixed the "Can't find '_hparser_xs_state' element in HTML::Parser" error. - -- Added an example copy of mh/data/pronouncable_words.list - -- Added mh.ini parm ipaddress_local which overrides $Info{IPAddress_local}, now used in speak address option. - - - -=head2 Version 2.63 posted on 01/19/2002 - -Version 2.63 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Chris Witte created mh/lib/audrey_cid.pm and mh/code/public/audrey_cid.pl -to create a UDP client to request callerid data from the Audrey acid UDP server. - -- David Lounsberry added support for mixer and voice selection to the viavoice TTS driver mh/bin/vv_tts.pl. -These changes allow for setting the mixer for the play sound and the voice sound separately. - -- Gaetan Lord created mh/code/public/dialup_unix.pl for starting/stopping ppp dialup connections. -He also and added mh.ini parm net_connect_if so unix users could test for ppp dialup connections with &net_connect_check. - -- Gaetan Lord also created mh/web/misc/mp3_xmms.* (unix only, requires Xmms::Remote to be installed). - -- Richard Phillips created mh/code/public/mp3_control_xmms.pl for controling the xmms MP3 player for Linux. - -- Joseph Gaston created mh/lib/HVweb_Item.pm to control a -Homevision controller via the Homevision web server. Example usage is in mh/code/public/HVweb.pl. - -- Larry Roudebush created mh/code/public/internet_speed_check.pl for measuring ftp updload/download rates. - -- Paul Chamberlain clued me into HTTP '204 No Response', which enables web links that -do not update a web page. If you code a html link a h_response of no_response, -the page will not be changed when you click on the link for most browsers (does not work with Audrey). -For example: test no_response - -- Brian Paulsen added self-adapting delay code to the iButton Device.pm code to improve -read_temperature reliability. - -- Kent Noonan started on mh/lib/Omnistat.pm and mh/code/public/omnistat.pl -for controling HAI Omnistat Communicating thermostats (e.g. RC80). -Kent switched houses before he had a chance to finish test this code. - -- Added Linksys router support to mh/code/bruce/monitor_router.pl. - -- Added web server support for normal cgi scripts, where html is returned via STDOUT. -To enable, simply make sure that your .pl file you point to has perl on the first record (e.g. #!/usr/bin/perl). - -- Added mh/docs/install.* instructions on how to install the fast unix TTS flite engine. -Copy it to mh/bin/flite, or point to it with mh.ini parm voice_text_flite. -If on linux, you can pick up a copy (3 meg) here: http://misterhouse.net:81/public/flite.gz - -- Added speak engine= option. The default engine is still specified with the mh.ini voice_text parm, but you can use -this new option to pick any other (unix) engines you have installed. For example: speak "engine=flite Hi", -or speak engine => 'viavoice' text => 'Hi'. Some test code is in mh/code/bruce/test_voice.pl . - -- Added and/or fixed the speak to_file option for festival, viavoice, vv_tts, and flite. - -- Enabled voice, volume, and rate controls for Festival via SABLE xml flags. -This is done with a direct call to festival, since I couldn't get it to work with festival_server. -To enable, point to the festival binary with the new voice_text_festival mh.ini parm. -Non-SABLE TTS calls will still be made to festival_server, if it is running, -as it is a bit faster, especially on slower machines. - -- Added speak and play address option for pushing speech to remote browsers. -For details on how to enable on an Audrey, -see mh/docs/faq_ia* question: How to push speech to remote Audreys -Example is in mh/code/bruce/audrey.pl - - -B - -- David Lounsberry sent in FAQ question 3.3: How do I add a multi-port serial card in linux? - -- Nick Maddock updated get_tv_info so it corretly searches into the next month (e.g. -dates +14 on 12/30 would stop on 1/1). - -- Jeff Pagel sent in mh/code/public/weeder_init.pl as an example of initializing the newer weeder DIO cards. - -- Robin Edwards found a 2.62 problem where web widgets were blank on startup, before a code reload. -This also fixes a startup problem some were having with 2.62 due to the new trigger code. - -- Clay Jackson updated mh/code/public/weather_vw.pl with an example of logging weather data to APRSWXNET. - -- Fixed perl 5.6 infinite loop problem AOLIM.pm, called by &net_im_send which is used in code internet_im.pl. - -- Allow for unit=9,10,11..16, instead of 9,A,B,C..F in X10_Item and X10_Appliance. - -- Sped up adding words when running viavoice_server. If you see any 'no data' errors in the server errata, let me know -and we will try to get a bit smarter on that interface. - -- Allow for multiple (comma or semicolin delimited) to receipents in &net_mail_send. - - - -=head2 Version 2.62 posted on 12/16/2001 - -Version 2.62 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- Improved the speed and reliability of the web server by recoding how browser socket data gets processed. - -- Added mh/code/common/trigger_code.pl. David Norwood came up with the idea of allowing for code that -runs only a specified number of times, then self prunes itself. Rather than do this with objects, as -David first suggested, I implemented this with a file to keep it simpler and the overhead less. -Examples are in mh/code/bruce/tv_grid.pl and the web page /ia5 Event-clock -> alarms button (/misc/alarms. -Triggers are stored in data_dir/triggers.current. - -- Added a bunch of mh.ini web_href_* parms, so we can point the default /ia5 web pages to references of our choice. -I picked some default ones ... suggestions welcome. - -- Tom Vanderpool created mh/lib/Weather_wmr968.pm and mh/code/public/weather_monitor_wmr968.pl. -This supports the new wireless stations -($330 from http://www.valcoelectronics.com/oregon/wmr968.htm or $400 Radio Shack Accuweather pn 63-1016), -as well as the (we think) the wired wmr918. The older Weather_wx200.pm works with the wx200 and wx918 (not wxr918) stations. -See the header in Weather_wmr968.pm for more info. - -- Joe Blecher created mh/lib/Lynx10PLC.pm to support the -Marrick X10 Lynx10-PLC controller ( http://www.marrickltd.com/LynX105.htm ). - -- David Lounsberry updated get_tv_grid and get_tv_info to support multiple databases (e.g. -tv and cable). Use the new -db parm to point to a new set of mh.ini parms. -For example, copy the tv_* parms as sat_*, then run get_tv_grid twice, once -with -db tv and once with -db sat. - -- Kent Noonan updated Ultimeter2000.pm and added Video_Inline.pm and mh/code/public/video_inline.pl to -control his Inline video scan doubler. - -- Kent Noonan sent in mh/code/public/weather_pollen.pl for monitoring pollen counts from pollen.com. - -- Robert Rozman and I created mh/web/misc/mp3.html for a web based mp3 jukebox, including playlist and search functions. - -- David Lounsberry suggested we add a countup option to Timer.pm. -Here are the new timer methods: start,restart,stop,pause,resume,query. -Added an example to mh/code/examples/test_timer.pl. - -- David Norwood added mh/code/public/weather_chance_of_rain.pl for announcing when rain or snow is forecasted. - - -B - -- Brad Reed tracked down a 2.61 (hard to find!) problem which caused mh to exit when sending email on his linux box. - -- Kevin Olalde fixed the mh.ini ibutton_tweak option. - -- Jeffrey Ferris updated mh/code/public/wintvpvr_grid.pl for controlling the Hauppage WinTV PVR. - -- Mickey Argo and David Norwood modified tv_info.pl to report on favorite shows 2 minutes before they start and -tv_grid.pl to updated the default tv pages 10 minutes prior to the hour. - -- Brian Klier noticed the new get_tv_grid did not work with the compiled mh.exe (missing the cookie module). - -- Tim Doyle noticed that tk pull downs did not work with Voice_Cmd {a,b,c} enumeration strings. - -- RJ Riemensnider sent in the javascript code for mh/web/clock. - -- David Lounsberry added get/set,incr,reset_count methods to Generic_Item. - -- Kieran Ames added %Included_HTML to the web server, so you can add html to the auto-generated -/list?xyz html by setting adding this to your user code: $Included_HTML{xyz} = "...your html...". - -- Kieran Ames sent a pointer to an example of using gnuplot to plot ibutton temps here: -http://ames.myip.org:81/pages/my_iButtonVenture.htm - -- Craig Schaeffer found a 2.61 problem with the new email not being tallied in $Save{email_check}. - -- Chris Witte suggested we move set_with_timer from X10_Item to Generic_Item. - -- Added a status frame to the photos slide show /misc/photos.html. Also cross-linked it to the new /clock javascript clock. - -- Updated the web server to drop HTTP headers on .pl results when called from .shtml files. - -- Updated mh/bin/get_tv_grid to not store data on -skip or non -keep channels. -Also fixed a table problem that caused Netscape not to display channels. - -- Updated mh/code/bruce/trivia.pl to store data in the user data_dir. - -- Changed net_mail_summary (used by get_email) age option to check against date received, rather than date sent. - -- Fixed the tk_widgets.pl pause button. Needed to point to &toggle_pause, not &pause. - -- Changed the default mh.ini parm to webmute=1, since many Unix users were not able to play wav files. - - - -=head2 Version 2.61 posted on 11/18/2001 - -Version 2.61 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - - -B - -- Ron Klinkien and Doug Nakakihara created the ia5 and ia6 web interfaces. I changed the default to -ia5, so if you want to use the older mh4 interface, set mh.ini html_file=mh4. ia5 still has -a number of menus that need updating from Ron's specific setup, but it is an excellent -start at overhalling mh's web interface. Over the next few release, I expect we will continue -to refine ia5, as well as adding parts from the other web menus. - -- Added a speak -card # option, for users of voice_text MS V5 users. If you manage to get multiple -sound cards installed, this allows you to pick which one gets used. -To get 2 cards recognized by windows, you will probably have to install 2 different types of sound cards. -I didn't have any luck with 2 SB Live cards, but a SB Live and a SB Audigy mostly work ok together, even though -Creative does not advice it. - -- Rewrote Doug's pictureframe.pl script as mh/web/bin/photos.pl and photo_search.pl, controled with mh.ini photo_* parms. -These allow for forward, pause, reverse, search, forground/background, and sync options. -I included a few small example photos in mh/data/photos. To view, use http://localhost:8080/bin/photos.pl -To point to your own photos, point to them with the mh.ini parm html_alias_photos, copy mh/code/test/photo_index.pl -and run 'Reindex the photo album'. - -- Added mh/bin/image_resize, which uses the powerful ImageMagick module to resize photos. I use it to keep -640x480 versions or our 5000+ photo collection for use with the above photos.pl script on small screens like the Audrey or ePod. -See the top of image_resize for instructions on installing the required Image::Magick module on either unix or windows. - -- Tim Doyle created mh/code/public/voice_client.pl and voice_server.pl as a way to allow mh to speak -to other windows boxes. He uses it on his boxes at work (through a firewall), to listen to what his house is up to. - -- Jeff Ferris's created mh/code/public/wintvpvr_grid.pl for controlling a -Hauppage WinTV PVR USB to record TV shows using the tv_grid web pages. - -- Tim Doyle added mh/code/public/internet_starshine.pl to announce -when one of the visible passes of a StarShine satellite is about to occur. - -- Kent Noonan created mh/lib/Ultimeter2000.pm, to support the Peet Bros. weather station (http://www.peetbros.com) -Example code is in mh/code/public/weather_monitor_ultimeter2000.pl. I think this is a work in progress (i.e. I'm -not sure if it works yet). - - -B - -- Doug Nakakihara sent in mh/code/public/chimes_cuckoo_doug.pl, a cukoo clock that uses only one wav file. - -- William Harford found a few lowercased module names in mh/lib/site - -- David Norwood updated http_server.pl and mh/web/misc/pictureframe.shtml (and now photos.pl) to allow for photo filenames with blanks. - -- Jeff Ferris fixed a problem with authorizing .pl web files. - -- Craig Schaeffer discovered 2.60 broke multi-line mh.ini parms. - -- Tim Doyle and Tom Vanderpool added X10_Sensors support to .mht files as X10MS entries. - -- Paul Chamberlain and Mark Mabry sent in a few more unix examples on starting/stoping mh in mh/bin/misterhouse*.rc - -- Doug Nakakihara fixed get_tv_grid to allow for show titles with html markup. - -- David Norwood updated mh/bin/get_tv_grid to store local copies of logo images. - -- Scott Johnston fixed a bug with tar in mh/bin/backup_data when run on linux - -- Dan Wilga and I added -keep and -skip channel options to get_tv_grid, to choose which channels to keep and skip. - -- Tim Doyle updated mh/code/public/internet_earthquakes.pl to be a bit smarter, like earthquakes_cal.pl. - -- Tim Doyle also sent in an update to mh/code/public/aqualink.pl code for controling the Jandy AquaLink pool controller. - -- Added a -no_title option to get_tv_info and used in in the favorite_tv_shows searchs in tv_info.pl - -- Minor improvements in the iniedit help - -- Added a net_mail_account_server_port and net_mail_account_server_send_port options. -Also changed ftp timeout from 120 to 20. - -- Updated mh/bin/get_email to delete attachements from the email summaries. - -- Added a few more Audrey entries to IA FAQ: mh/docs/faq_ia.html - -- Created mh/code/examples/audrey.pl as an example of how to control the Audrey led and screen from mh. - -- Change the html alias parm format (old style still works): - - Old style: html_alias_tv = /tv $config_parms{data_dir}/tv - New style: html_alias_tv = $config_parms{data_dir}/tv - -- Allow for authorizing web .pl scripts with this script string: '# Authority: anyone' - -- Added a &referer web response function, to work around tha Audrey problem of not returning full -referer urls. See the ia5 lights/appliances page for an example. - - - -=head2 Version 2.60 posted on 10/20/2001 - -Version 2.60 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sf.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net:81/download.html - -B - -- David Norwood added the option to edit private mh.ini parms with a web browser. -Use http://localhost:8080/bin/iniedit.pl or the new Admin menu the default web page. -This uses a slightly reformated mh/bin/mh.ini file with embeded help text and categories. -Also added to support this is http POST requests, but for some reason this currently is slow under Netscape. - - -- Added remote web browser wav file support. For TTS engines that support speak-to-wav files -(currently MS TTS 5.1 and maybe Festival), the web server will send create and send a wav -file for the requested text. To disable, check the new Mute checkbox at the top of the default webpage, -or set mh.ini parm webmute=1. - -- Added mh.ini net_mail_scan_age parm. -This is the age, in minutes, of email to report/scan. -If blank (the default), get_email (called periodically by internet_mail.pl) -reports on all mail on your server (as it used to). -If your have your mail client set to 'leave mail on server' -(useful if you want to use appliances like Audrey or remote web servers like HotMail to also read mail), -you will probably want to set this to something like 15, to match how often inetnet_mail.pl checks for new mail. - -- Added a couple of slimed down web pages for Internet Appliances like ePod or Audrey. -These are the current ones in mh/web (now outlined in mh/web/README.txt): - - ia1 is a slightly slimed down version of the default page. - ia2 (was named epods). Craigs page he uses for his epods. - ia3 John Edmonds pages with nice big touchable icons - ia4 Ron Wright's pages he wrote for his Audrey - -- Updated mh/bin/get_tv_info and code/test/tv_grid.pl to read zap2it.com pages, rather than the now dead clicktv.com. -Many thanks to David Norwood and Harald Koch for coming up with the secret cookie recipe! -Renamed mh.ini parms clicktv_* to tv_* and added tv_provider and zip_code parms. -Also renamed web/tv/clicktv to web/tv/download. - -- Denis Cheong has started work on mh/lib/X10_JR21A.pm, to support the -JR21A MouseRemote receiver with corresponding JR20A MouseRemote remote. - -- David Norwood added mh/code/public/chimes_cuckoo.pl and chimes_westminster.pl -to enable poor man's cuckoo and grandfather clocks. - -- Ron Klinkien sent in mh/code/public/callerisdn.pl for getting callerid from an ISDN AVM Fritz!Card. - -- Denis Cheong created mh/code/public/sensors_lm.pl to get motherboard temperature data -from the (linux only) lm sensors program. - -- Doug Nakakihara created mh/web/bin/pictureframe.pl and mh/web/misc/pictureframe.shtml -for serving auto-refreshing pictures to a web browser. I updated it to use a mh.ini -pictureframe_dir parm. Set that var, then use with http://localhost:8080/misc/pictureframe.shtml -More info in pictureframe.pl. -Also moved a few other misc files out of mh/web and into the mh/web/misc dir. - -- Added mh/doc/faq_ia.html (and .txt) with questions/answers about internet appliances -like the Epod and Audrey. Additions welcome! - -- Added a State_change hook. This allows us to add events that trigger when any object changes state, -so for example we can create state logs that other programs can use to monitor mh activity. -An example is at the end of mh/code/bruce/test_code_hooks.pl - -- Added set_label. Like set_icon, this can be used to create more readable menus, although it is not used -in any menus yet. - - -B - -- Evan Graham fixed a typo enabling the passive ftp option. - -- Douglas Parrish updated mh/lib/read_table_A.pl. to add iButton support to mht files. - -- Jeff Pagel discovered a startup problem with 2 or more iButton ports. -See mh/code/bruce/iButton.pl for new details on how to use 2 or more iButton ports. -The parm names were changed slightly to be consistant with other multiple-port devices, -although the old parm names are grandfathered in. - -- Ingo Dean found mh 2.59 broke speak for viavoice and festival users. - -- Geoff Harrison and Joel Moore suggested an (untested) implementation of speak -to_file options for Festival. - -- Sam Levine found problems with the Tk pause button and trying to read from blank caller id parms. - -- Ken Schumack had unreadable symbol fonts used for tk menus, so we added a new mh.ini tk_font_menus parm, -which he set to ansi. - -- Denis Cheong found a problem with time_now checks when using date_format=ddmmyy - -- David Norwood sent in FAQ question 1.20: How can I point MisterHouse to a custom web interface? - -- Fixed web Item refresh for browsers without full Referer urls, like Audrey. - -- Updated the web server to redirect directory links to add a trailing /, -(e.g. http://epods -> http://epods/) so we can rely on relative links. - -- Added mh.ini -no_speak errors option to disabled speaking warnings of user code errors. - -- Fixed a problem with the X10_Sensor expired battery check. - -- Print a warning if password_file is missing. - - - - -=head2 Version 2.59 posted on 09/23/2001 - -Version 2.59 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - -- Lowered %cpu used by improving cache hits by sleeping twice per loop, rather than once. -My linux box showed a 30% reduction in cpu used with the same passes per second. -My Win 2k box showed cpu used going from 4->20% to 0->4% used (sleep time=10, Loops/sec 30, Pentium III 600 mhz). -You may want to cut your sleep time in half (e.g. 100 -> 50) to keep the same loops/sec speed. -Another benifit to this change is the speed benchmark table now shows less dependence on -code position (abc members used to get run faster than xyz members, because the xyz members got swapped from -cache more often). -Also added OTHER and USER entries to the speed benchmark table, to measure time spent in and out of the user code loop. - -- Added support for the new Windows MS Voice SDK 5.1 TTS engine (but not the VR engine yet). -This allows for control of volume, rate, pitch, and voice. For example: - - speak voice => 'Mike', volume => 50, rate => -5, text => 'Hi'; - speak voice => 'Mary', volume =>100, pitch => 5, text => 'Bye'; - -To set the defaults, call speak without text (e.g. speak voice => 'Sam'). -The new engines also supports embedded XML parms for other on-the-fly controls (e.g. pitch, silence, pronounce, emphasis). -Another new speak option is to_file, so you can save the synthesized speech to a file, then play it. -For examples, see mh/doc/ms_speech_xml_example.*, mh/docs/mh.*, and mh/code/bruce/test_speak.pl. -A pointer to the 5.1 download is in the MS SDK 5.1 instructions secion of mh/docs/install.* -Note: 5.1 drops support for Win95. - -- Rob Walker suggested and David Norwood implemented an Emacs like date specification for day-of-week type holidays -(e.g. Labor Day). David also populated the mh.ini holiday_dates parm with popular holidays. - -- Roger Bille sent in mh/code/public/sms1.pl as an example of how to interface to SMS with a GSM modem. - - -B - -- John Edmonds discovered that MS CE browsers (e.g. epods) were not picking up the alternate browser pages. - -- Robin Edwards discovered a problem with web commands from Netscape 6.1. - -- Ron Klinkien updated mh/code/public/webcam_ron.shtml - -- Samuel Bagfors sent in mh/code/public/ImageWebSub.pl as an example of a web icon selecting function. - -- Walter Leemput found a memory leak in the reload code command (doubled memory after 4-5 reloads). - -- Harald Koch sent in an update so mh works with the latest Jabber (an open source instant messanger service). -This requires perl 5.6+ as well as current modules from CPAN (the Activestate ppm ones are too old). -See the header in mh/code/test/internet_jabber.pl with more info. - -- Donald Mason discovered that preset-dim X10 codes ##% were disabled in the 2.57 release. - -- Jeff Pagel discovered the iButton monitor didn't work with more than one ibutton port. - -- Added a serial_wx200_skip option to turn off specified weather sensors ... guess who had lost one in a lightning storm :{ - -- The latest Windows perl builds from Activestate (6.28+) have fixed the leak memory problem, -although initial virtual memory used is bigger by about 40%. -Real memory used and passes-per-second are about the same. - -- Updated outlook_read to work with perl 5.6 (dates were being returned as Win32::OLE::Variant objects). - -- Updated HTML table extraction to work with perl 5.6. - -- Updated internet_data.pl to work with the latest Letterman top 10 list. - - - -=head2 Version 2.57 posted on 08/12/2001 - -Version 2.57 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -Note: A change this release requires all of us in the Western Hemisphere (e.g. Americas and Canada)to -follow the common convention of using a negative time_zone and longitude mh.ini parms. - -B - -- Added these new speak mode options for controling spoken text -(currently only for the MS TTS engine): -stop, pause, resume, rewind, fastforward, slow, normal, fast, ###. -The speak rate option also supports slow, normal, fast, and ###. -### is words per minute. For example: speak rate => 200 -Added mh/code/common/mh_sound.pl commands "Set speech to 'stop,pause,....'" - -- Walter Leemput created mh/code/public/irvs and irvs_server.pl (linux only). -These allow for mh control via DTFM phone menus using -the Irvs.pm module from CPAN and a voicemodem. - -- Ron Klinkien sent in mh/code/public/webcam_ron.pl and webcam_ron.html. -These files create a simple webcam, using a command line frame grabber. - -- Jeff Crum sent in mh/code/public/copycode.pl -for copying voice commands from one mh computer to another. - - -B - -- Jean-Marie Martin and Harald Koch noticed mh was not -calculating sun rise/set times correctly those people in the Eastern Hemisphere. -This fix requires all of us in the Western Hemisphere to use negative time_zone and longitude mh.ini parms. - -- Benny Miller updated mh/code/public/iButton_ws_client.pl - -- Ron Klinkien and David Norwood found a 2.55 bug with shtml files. - -- Ian Davidson discovered a bug with sending out non-X10 serial data with ##% strings. - -- David Norwood added an IR_Item code of addEnter, which -adds an ENTER command after any numbers, so changing channels is -faster on devices that wait for a timeout like the Ocelot. - -- David Norwood created a California specific mh/code/public/internet_earthquake_cal.pl - -- Clive Freedman fixed a bug in get_tv_info that messed up searches for shows that started before 6am. - -- Jeff Pagel found a problem with iButton monitor when using a 2nd iButton port. -We also discovered a 2nd port did not work as documented. -Updated the iButton.pl example to point to $config_parms{ibutton_port2} rather than 'ibutton_port2'. - -- Larry Roudebush found a problem when running -no_load tk_frames.pl to -get tk windows without the main tk window (button widgets still tried to load). - -- Added format=4 to mh/lib/Caller_ID.pl to support the Call Waiting Caller ID -NetCallerID box. See mh/code/bruce/phone_netcallerid.pl for an example. -Another option is Timothy Spaulding's mh/code/public/NetCallerID.pl. - -- Disallow objects with the same group names in .mht files. - -- Add a duplicate object name check. - -- Fixed a bug with the distance reported by mh/code/bruce/tracking_aprs.pl (was way too small for long distances). -Also added an option to track vehicles via aprs internet gateway data, so you can keep track of -family when they are on a long road trip (wife just drove to Berkley and back). - -- Add a Daylight Savings Time check to internet_iridium.pl. - -- Added mh.ini parm http_fork. Windows users will want to set this to 1 to enable -the forking feature added in 2.55, which avoids mh pauses with slow remote web sites -request data. - -- Added mh.ini ibutton_tweak parm. If you are having problems with ibuttons, -set this to 1 to enable a small delay that Stoll Thomas and Kevin Olalde discovered they needed on their boxes. - -- Make a 2.52 change to the the &play function specific to OSx. On all other unix OSes, -use a system call, rather than a fork call, to avoid problems with bad return codes causing -the same wav file being played multiple times. - - -=head2 Version 2.54 posted on 06/26/2001 - -Version 2.54 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - - -- mh now forks to a background process when serving large (> 2k) web pages. This avoids pauses in mh -when being accessed by slow web browsers. On windows, we play some magic to emulate a fork -with a process that inherits the socket port, so this still works on the older pre 5.6 versions of perl. -This change also fixes the bug that -Damon Hopkins discovered with Netscape haning on browsing big (> 20k) mh web pages. - -- Started work on a mh proxy server, to deal with talking to slow serial port interfaces -like the CM11 and CM17, but this is not quite ready for prime time. - -- Craig Schaeffer sent in mh/web/epods files. http_server.pl was updated to allow for local -style sheets, so different web directories can have different looks. Updated mh/bin/mh.ini html_*1 parms -to use these pages by default when accessed from Windows CE web browsers (e.g. epod web tablets). - -- If you want to simulate different browsers, you can now override the format used with a new mh.ini -web_format parm. For example, mh -web_format 1 will use the CE epods pages. Or you can add a tk button -to change back and forth with this: - - &tk_radiobutton('Web format', \$config_parms{web_format}, ['default', 1, 2]); - - -- Evan Graham wrote mh/code/public/winamp_control.pl, which allows for -direct control of WinAmp through misterhouse without using any special plug-ins. -This allows for a larger number of commands available, some of which will -allow you to query the status of the playback. - -- Timothy Spaulding wrote mh/code/public/NetCallerID.pl to interface with the $30 NetCallerID box. -In addition to normal CallerID, it supports Call Waiting CallerID (callerid while you are on the phone). - - -B - -- Cleber Schereder found a problem parsing mh.ini parms with an embeded # character. - -- Henry Laxen discovered a non-mh version of Astro::SunTime.pm caused problems -(bad sunset time and no twilight calculation), -so I moved mh/lib/site/Astro/SunTime.pm to mh/lib/SunTime_mh.pm - -- Clive Freedman added a 'request a file' option to internet_mail.pl, so you can send an email -request to home and mh will send the requested file back. -See 'Send test e mail 10' (in internet_mail.pl) for an example. - -- Kent Noonan added format=3 to mh/lib/Caller_Id.pm for use with ZyXEL u1496 modems. - -- Jean-Marie Martin discovered a 2.52 problem with web pulldown menus. - -- Brian Klier updated mh/code/public/Brian/tracking.pl with lots of fixes, including a fix from -Roger Bille that fixed an inaccuracy in MicE longitude data. - -- Kieran Ames found a problem with user code files with blanks in the names. - -- Tom Vanderpool noticed only the first 8 characters of a password are used. -This is a crypt limitation we can not easily work around, so I updated the docs to note this. - -- Roger Bille updated mh/bin/get_email to passed $body to get_email_rule. - -- Scott Tisdale created an UltraEdit template: mh/data/mh_template.ultraedit - -- Clive Freedman updated mh/code/public/weather.pl (parses wunderground.com data) -to add non-US functionality, simple data variables -which can be accessed from other scripts, and logging to a table. - -- Joel Moore escaped & in menu_code.pl for UP wap browsers and added a -no_log mhsend_server option. - -- Moved the web overlib popup window to below, not over, the command. - - -=head2 Version 2.52 posted on 05/28/2001 - -Version 2.52 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - -- David Norwood created mh/lib/Audible_Menu.pm and mh/code/public/audible_menu.* -This code can be used for walking through mh menus with just one or two -switches (e.g. air sip switches for the disabled), using -audible feedback to help pick menu items/states. - -- Brad Reed added mh.ini parm viavoice_voice to allow voice_text=viavoice or vv_tts -users to select a default voice. We also now allow on-the-fly voice changes (viavoice only): -e.g. speak "voice=male Yo, Adrian!". - -- Greg Satz sent in updates so mh speak and play on the Mac OS X. - -- Tim Doyle created mh/code/public/aqualink.pl for the Jandy AquaLink RS pool/spa controller. - -- Jeff Crum sent in mh/code/public/date_functions.pl with various date functions like -finding the day of the first/last day of the month. - -- Added Process_Item set_output method, so we can store process results to a file. -Modified internet_connect_check.pl to use this instead of the dorky ping_to_file command, -and to also work on unix. - -- Added (currently windows only) mh/bin/find_files and find_programs. -find_files finds files on shared networked Windows and samba directories. -find_programs finds programs running on networked Windows computers. -See mh/code/bruce/find_files.pl and monitor_programs.pl for an example. - -- Added mh/lib/xml_server.pl, so other xml based programs can get data from mh. -Point an XML browser (e.g. IE) to: http://localhost:8080/sub?xml - - -B - -- Joey Smith discovered a problem with comments returned from web server include files. - -- David Norwood and Damon Hopkins came up with an addition to x10_ma26.pl to allow -the MR26a to relay RF X10 commands to the powerline. - -- Wally Kissel noticed that display file.gif (or .jpg) was no longer worked. -Turns out it was busted way back in 2.41! - -- Clive Freedman added an time_cron option to allow it to test on all passes, not just New_Minute passes. - -- Kieran Ames send in mh/code/public/phone_logs.pl. - -- Allow for strings with odd characters like & to be processed in html forms. - -- Updated mh/lib/Weather_wx200.pm to use an mh.ini altitude -parm to calculate sea level barometric pressure. -Also updated Weather_upload.pl to use $Weather{BaromSea}. - -- Allow unix Process_Item and run calls to programs in your PATH, without fully qualifying the path. - -- Added mh.ini sound_dir_common, so you can use sound_dir to point to your own wav files -without having to copy the default mh/sounds files. - -- Moved the mh_temp files from code_dir to data_dir. - - -=head2 Version 2.51 posted on 05/06/2001 - -Version 2.51 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - -- Added mh/lib/X10_MR26.pm and deleted mh/code/public/x10_mr26*. This $30 RF receiver will process -X10 data from all house codes of any RF X10 remote, including keys like Play/Stop/Rew/FF from many of the -universal X10 remotes. To enable, use the 2 new mh.ini MR26* parms. - -- Added mh.ini parm x10_multireceive_delay so we can have mulitiple X10 receivers, but only process -the data once. This allows us to process immediate incoming RF X10 data from the MR26 without having -to wait for the slower power line data. Defaults to 3 seconds. - -- Added menu P: records to allow for bypassing Passwords on specified menus/commands. -See mh/code/bruce/test.menu and/or mh/docs/mh*. -Also allow for menu level defaults in the menu code for R: and P: records. - -- David Norwood enabled volume control for linux users. To enable, install the new -Audio::Mixer module with this: perl -MCPAN -eshell; install Audio::Mixer - - -B - -- Damon Hopkins discovered that Netscape would hang on browsing big (> 20k) mh web pages. -Unfortunatly, I have not figured out the fix for this problem yet. - -- Scott Johnston dropped () around channel name in get_tv_grid, so Fesitval would work ok. - -- Kieran Ames suggested adding the 'What did you say' command, to repeat the last spoken text. - -- Clive Freedman spotted a problem with email commands with trailing blanks. - -- Thomas Stoll sent in some updates for ibutton (added DS1921 and DS2438 support), -callerid (for international calls), -and voice (so allow for arbitrary key=value options to be passed to the TTS engine). - -- Joel Moore suggested a new mh.ini clicktv_label=none parm for disabling tv web page vcr links, -and added the perl version to the web About menu. - -- Paul Wilkinson sent mh/code/public/printer_control.pl as an example of how to turn -a printer on/off based on a unix print spool file. - -- Evan Graham updated the MR26A code for use with the 4 button keycahin remotes (HC40TX). - -- Damon Hopkins added state to 'List X10 items'. - -- Added a -voice_text 'program xyz' option, so mh can use an arbitrary xyz TTS program. -Greg Satz is working on a Max OS X TTS program. - -- Changed the iButton monitor function parms from $port to $family,$port for consistency. -Those with 2+ iButton ports will need to update your code. - -- Fixed the run commands of the vxml/html menu code. Bypass authentication check on set_authority 'anyone' objects. - -- Fixed a bug that disabled some VOICE .mht table entries. - -- Fixed the previous menu in the vxml tellme menus. - -- Fixed a bug that gave no on/off links to groups in the initial web page. - -- Fixed the web page state of conditional weather items (e.g. $freezing = new Weather_Item 'TempOutdoor < 32'); - -- Fixed get_url call in internet_iridium.pl on windows boxes (DOS needs " not ' quotes). - -- Added FAQ 6.8: What sort of hardware do you have in your house? - -- Added a sound event when mh pauses. Also added a data/logs/mh_pause.*.log file to track mh pauses. - - - -=head2 Version 2.49 posted on 04/15/2001 - -Version 2.49 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - -- Created a LCD object, so we can support multiple LCD keypads. -See mh/docs/mh.* and/or mh/code/bruce/lcd.pl for an example. -To use simulate an LCD keypad with your pc keyboard, use mh/code/test/lcd_keyboard.pl - -- Wap phone authorization is now enabled. If your phone supports standard password authorization, you will be prompted -for a password (user name can be left blank), when you select a menu command to run. Or if your phone sends a unique x-up-subno -field, you can specify that in a new mh.ini password_allow_phones parm (see mh/bin/mh.ini for more info). - -- Many minor changes to the web server to enable device dependent html. -We can now have style sheets local to a web subdirectory and serve different style sheets to different browers. -For example, web pages displayed on an epod can have different html stylesheets than the same page displayed from Netscape. -Craig Schaeffer is working on an example set of epod web pages (not yet in this release). - - -B - -- Ian Davidson found an 2.47 problem when running -debug serial - -- Tom Vanderpool spotted a change in the clicktv get_tv_grid url (drop the WSN string). - -- Craig Schaeffer sent in an update mh/code/public/internet_ip_update_craig.pl for updating dynamic ip addresses to a web page. - -- Craig Schaeffer found a duplicate states problem with the vxml menu code. - -- Robert Rozman found a problem with state data in the LCD menu_code. Numerous other bugs from the new menu_code were also fixed. - -- Scott Johnston ran into a 500 phrase limit in viavoice_server. We bumped the limit to 5000. - -- Wally Kissel added SendKeys functions SetWindowText GetWindowText (windows only). - -- Douglas Parrish added mh/code/public/callerid_doug* files for processing callerid data with ties to -DB files and PHP web pages. - -- Ian Davidson updated mh/lib/LCD.pm with an example of how to talk to serial attached LCD keypads. - -- Mark Dahmke found a problem with blanks in the mh.ini password_allow_clients string. - -- Brandon verified that RCS_Item works with the TX15B thermostat. - -- Kent Noonan found a problem with the vxml tellme menu when using mh.ini parm http_server=localhost. - -- Stoll Thomas added a small delay to the iButton code to get it to work on his win 2k box. - -- David Norwood enabled relay with the CPU-XA/Ocelot. An example: $back_yard_sprinklers = new Serial_Item('OUTPUT11high', ON, "ncpuxa"); - -- Fenghua Zong updated mh/code/public/x10_mr26.pl to pass key inputs like Play/Stop/Rew/FF to mh. - -- Clive Freedman updated get_tv_info and added a mh.ini parm tv_key_symbol to highlight search words in tv search results. - -- Mark Dahmke noticed that the main web page was not immediately displayed after logging in with password_protect=all. -WAP phone menus with this parm were also fixed. - -- Fixed mh.bat so that it does not loop on normal mh exit on windows 98. - -- Updated weather_upload.pl not to use strftime, which was an hour off with with the change in daylight savings time. - -- Added a passive option to net_ftp. - -- Updated mh to it can be started from any directory, not just the mh/bin/mh dir. - - -=head2 Version 2.47 posted on 03/24/2001 - -Version 2.47 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - -- Added template based menuing code. This allows us to create nested menus for use with web browsers, LCD displays, -WAP phones, and vxml based phone voice portals. To enable, copy mh/code/test/menu.pl and test.menu. -More information can be found here in mh/docs/mh* or here: http://misterhouse.net/mh.html#Customizing_the_Menu_interfaces . -I have not yet implemented an authorization scheme for the vxml or wml menus, so you will want -to limit the commands to harmless commands disable non-local access of those functions by modifying the Password_Allow -records in menu.pl. - -- Added mh/bin/backup_data. This allows for periodic smart backups, with options for daily age -based backups and/or less periodic full backups, with options to filter based on file/dir name or size. -It defaults to using tar and gzip. It also has an option to use perl modules from CPAN, but they are slower and -use more memory. Here is how I do daily and monthly cross backups between 2 different networked computers: - - http://misterhouse.net/mh/code/bruce/backup.pl - -- X10 bright/dim commands will now set the selected X10_Item objects to the correct bright/dim states -(used to be only house code X10_Items were set). Also added a 'level' method to X10_Item, so -you can query what mh thinks the current brightness level is after one or more bright/dims. - - -B - -- David Norwood fixed a problem with internet_iridium.pl on unix boxes. - -- Wally Kissel sent in mh/code/public/x10_mr26_wally.pl, -code that shows how to listen to the wireless MR26A remote. - -- Mark Holm's sent in mh/code/public/x10_video_security.pl, -code for a video surveillance system using X10 XCAM cameras and motion sensors. - -- John Moore sent in another example unix .rc file for starting misterhouse (mh/bin/misterhouse_john.rc). - -- Brent Gross suggested we have a way to disable commands like 'reboot the computer', -so we added mh.ini parm disabled_commands, which defaults to mh/data/disabled_commands. - -- Clive Freedman fixed a couple of bugs in get_tv_info. - -- David Norwood added mh/bin/get_finger and updated mh/code/public/internet_earthquakes.pl -to use get_finger, rather than get_url. - -- Donald Hoffman sent in a patch to http_server.pl involving SET on a scalar. - -- Bill Sobel added time_greater_or_equal and time_less_or_equal, like time_grather_than and time_less_than. - -- Bill Sobel added a check to allow Windows NT/2k to use COM10+ ports without the dorky \\.\ prefix. - -- Riad Wahby updated the AOL AIM module with a timeout option (no more mh hangs when unable to logon). - -- Jean-Marie Martin added more states to the (Canadian?) X10_Ote item and X10O to read_table_A.pl. - -- Ingo Dean added a X10 Motion_Sensor object that will send a 'dead battery' message if it has not heard -from the sensor after 24 hours. - -- Stuart Grimshaw and Mark Mabry fixed a 'RUN command not found' http_server bug that some browsers had. - -- Ian Davidson found an error in reading '0' from serial ports. - -- Tim Doyle added a VOICE option to format=A mht tables. - -- Bill Sobel sent in a bunch of changes: -Compool now incudes new state checks. -Stargate includes more support for stargate variables, -thermostats (fully working), flags (in process), timers (in process), -digital inputs (fully working), relay output (read status, not set yet), -analog inputs (not done yet), and some Stargate485 fixes. -Read_Table_A includes some of the new (and renamed) Stargate devices. - -- Modified the web server to process all current get request in one pass, for faster refresh -of web pages with lots of icons/scripts, especially on slower computers. - -- Added a timer to mh/lib/Voice_Text.pm so the pa_control is_speaking test will work for all the TTS engines. - -- Updated mh/lib/CallerID.pm so it supports more than one local area code. - -- Updated so that mh will use its own updated HTML::FormatText, rather than one in your perl path, -so that table extraction works ok on all installations (e.g. internet_data.pl top 10 list). - -- Added 'Enable/Disable all code files' in mh/code/common/disable_code.pl (for performance debug). -Also added a $Disable flag for selecting internal mh functions for debug. - -- Fixed a bug in that would cause mh to slow down if net_domain_name was called many times. -I discovered this after my mh slowed down from 60 loops/second to 30 loops/second after about -4 days of high http service (about 400 clients / 4000 hits a day). - -- Re-ordered loopcode subs according to the optional Position directive. - - -=head2 Version 2.45 posted on 02/24/2001 - -Version 2.45 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - -- mh.ini files can now reference other $config_parm variables. -For example, the default alias for the http://localhost/tv is now $config_parms{data_dir}/tv, -so it now points to whatever you have your mh.ini data_dir variable pointing to. - -- Added a run_after_delay function, so we can add delays in user code without causing mh to pause. -This is code is from the examples in mh/code/examples/test_delay.pl: - - print_log "Starting delay test"; - run_after_delay 2, sub { - print_log "Ending delay test"; - } - -- Tim Doyle send in mh/code/public/internet_earthquake.pl for monitoring earthquakes. - -- Created mh/code/bruce/internet_iridium.pl to announce when one of the now -defunct Iridium satellites will create a 1-3 second flash at the coordinates specified -in the mh.ini lat, long, and time_zone parms. -These flashes can get up to a magnitude of -8 ... almost as bright as the moon! - -- Added mh/code/common/disable_code.pl. The 'disable code test ...' commands can be used -to sequentially disable code files to debug memory and/or time related problems. - - -B - -- Amaury Jacquot noticed a messed up mh.ini html_alias_tv parm that broke get_tv_grid saves. -To ease upgrades, I moved the default tv dir from mh/web to mh/data and added instructions -to the 'Coding your own events' section of mh/docs/install on how to create your own data dir -that will remain untouched between mh upgrades. - -- Danal Estes noticed that the 2.43 change to mhl did not work for win98. -We fixed this and renamed mhl.bat to replace mh.bat. - -- David Norwood updated bin/get_tv_grid for better pull down menus and -code/tv_grid.pl to auto-refresh the default tv web page to the current hour. - -- David Norwood also fixed network socket reading code in ncpuxa.pm that was causing poor performance. - -- Evan Grahaet, David McLellan, and Doug Nakakihara -sent in alarm clock examples (mh/code/public/alarmclock_*.pl) - -- Doug Nakakihara noticed that a set_index 0 on a File_Item didn't work. - -- Doug Mackie sent in an updated iButton_ws_client.pl (iButton Henriksen server client). - -- Evan Grahaet discovered that web Tk widgets dissapear when doing a web reload. - -- Brad Reed noticed that tabs were messing up mh.ini entries. - -- Bill Bass sent in points a nice set of links on X10 info -(added to FAQ question 6.6 What is X10?). - -- David Norwood updated lib/ncpuxa_mh.pm to add support for additional X10 commands like status, preset_dim0, and preset_dim1. - -- Clive Freedman updated get_tv_info to not highlight keywords. - -- Fenghua Zong noticed a problem with get_weather not parsing conditions with blanks (e.g. LGT RAIN -> light rain). -We fixed it by updating to the latest mh/lib/site/GEO/WeatherNOAA.pm from CPAN. - --Bill Sobel updated Compool.pm to fix problems in noisy environments by detecting the ack or nak -generated by the controller and resending packets if required. -He also updated Stargate485.pm to add send support for the RCS485 thermostats. - -- Evan Graham send in mh/code/public/pa_control_evan.*, as an example of controling which -rooms mh speaks/plays to using weeder DIO kit controled relays. - -- Fixed the new TOGGLE state for X10_Items. - -- Fixed uptime in the mh_control 'What is your uptime' command. - -- Fixed a couple of Timer_Item problems -(set was not valid for a full pass and the time could get reset to a minute boundary). - -- An updated mh/lib/site/Geo/Weather.pm module for the new weather.com format. - -- Allow for non-numeric months in my_str2time (e.g. Jan or january). - -- Changed the mh.ini and sun_time calculations to allow for the more correct notation of -negative numbers for time_zone and longitudes for those of us in the western hemisphere (e.g. North/South America). -This is required for the new earthquake and iridium code to work correctly. - -- Added mh.ini term=readkey option (unix only). The default is now NOT to monitor keys, since -that dis-allows a detached mh (e.g. mh &). - -- Split the mh.ini sound_pre parm into sound_pre_speak and sound_pre_play, so we can control -delay and prefix sounds to wav and TTS sounds separately. - -- Added left justification to tk_label text, so multi-line labels look ok. - - -=head2 Version 2.43 posted on 02/03/2001 - -Version 2.43 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - -- Switched to a new AOL AIM module from CPAN, so mh/test/internet_im.pl works better. -Like internet_jabber.pl (which is currently not working), we can now send and receive messages. - -- Add a restart option to &exit_pgm and modified mhl.bat (unix mhl did not need any updates) -so we can have mh restart itself with the new -mh/code/common/mh_control 'Restart Mister House' command. -This will only work if you start mh with mh/bin/mhl (l stands for loop). - -- Bill Sobel suggested adding new Generic_Item methods tie_time and tie_filter. -tie_time will set the item if the specified time_cron or time_now string is true. -tie_filter will disable control of the item if the specified filter returns true. -Examples are in mh/code/examples/test_tie.pl. Here are 2 examples: - - $fountain -> tie_time('10PM', OFF); - $fountain -> tie_filter('state $windy eq ON', ON); - -- Bill had 2 other ideas to help in event logging. -All the tie_* methods now support an optional log message. -We also can now specify a specific logfile using a log=logfile -prefix to any print_log text. For example: - - print_log 'log=test1.log Logged in code_dir/test1.log'; - $fountain -> tie_time('0 17 * * * ', ON, 'log=fountain Fountain turned on'; - -These will go into the data_dir directory. We also moved the default print, speak, -and error logs from the code_dir to the data_dir directory. - -- Added a print_log "Running: xyz" when Voice_Cmd xyz is run - -- Clive Freedman sent in a FAQ of common Perl and mh coding errors in mh/doc/faq_damnblast.html (also linke in faq.html). - - -B - -- Kees Cook updated the Unix SerialPort module to work better with fast I/O, Solaris, AIX, and OpenBSD. - -- Mike Pearce found a bug in $Season. - -- Craig Schaeffer had a patch for iButton.pm read_dir and read_windspeed. - -- Roy Thompson updated X10_IrrigationController to support 16 modules. - -- Bill Sobel suggested adding the .5, .25, and .1 second flags $New_Msecond_500/250/100. -He added these to a few of hist modules in mh/lib to improve mh efficiency. - -- Brad Reed fixed CM11.pm to correctly reset the internal CM11 clock to the right time. -We also changed mh to set the CM11 clock and reset the buffer on mh startup. - -- Fenghua Zong found the periodic 'Saving object states' would start working only after an mh pause. - -- Scott Johnston discovered we inadvertantly changed the unix mh.ini sound_program default from play. - -- Scott Johnston also sent in a fix for a new clicktv.com url in get_tv_grid. - -- Timothy Spaulding suggested we have a -no_log speak option to avoid printing spoken text to the console if -tk 0. - -- Brian Paulsen made some more improvements to the iButton code. - -- Brad Reed, through painstaking testing, discovered the cause of the cause of his CM11 errors. -It turns out the fork we were doing when voice_text=viavoice caused the child process to reset all the serial ports! -We also merged in his voice_text=viavoice patch from his website. - -- Evan Grahaet noticed a problem when setting timers with the web interface. Now the timer will start only -when the time field (not the text field) has changed. - -- Bill Sobel sent in these updates: - - Compool: fixed solar and air temp calculations (turns out - they are calculated differently then pool and spa temps) - - Read_table_A: added support for stargate thermostat items - - Stargate485.pm: added support for stargate thermostats - (RCS 485 thermostats, should be able to be used even - without the stargate eventually). Also fixed RTS bug - that caused it to hog the serial line. - - Xantech.pm: string comparison fix (!= changed to ne) - - HomeBase.pm Added a send_telephone function and a .ini - setting to disable receiving x10 events from the homebase - -- Stuart Grimshaw removed mh/lib/SMS_Item.pm (for sending SMS messages to mobile phones in Europe) at the request -of the http://www.smsboy.com guys. - -- Clive Freedman update get_tv_info to add hypertext links for setting VCR, -highlighting the selected key-word, early morning searching, -debugged searching for shows in progress, UK dates, and changed plural and upper-case recognition. - -- Tony Drumm noticed that he could not get his CM17 firecracker to work under linux -until he did h2ph linux/posix_types.h. We added that to mh/bin/configure. - -- Chris Witte suggested we reuse and expose the X10_Item set_with_timer timer object. - -- Fixed a Time::HiRes error on restoring a timer on Unix. - -- Added a $Power_Supply object to mh/code/common/mh_control.pl. -Currently only detects a power reset from a CM11. - -- Added File_Item get_index to replace a poorly named index method. - -- Updated the mh SNPP.pm module so snpp_pager would work. - -- Added a tk_startup_cmd option. Useful for debugging when you want to have -the tk command list start with a specfic set of commands. - -- Added a display append option (e.g. appending messages to the AOL AIM chat window). - -- Added Generic_Item toggle state so we toggle devices ON/OFF like this: - - set $light TOGGLE if new_second 10; -or - set $light 'toggle' if new_second 10; - -- mh.ini parm html_select_length (controls when drop down select forms are used) -now also applies to the Items web menus. - -- Fixed a problem with unix computer uptime with uptimes > 40 days. - - -=head2 Version 2.41 posted on 01/20/01 - -Version 2.41 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - -- Brian Paulsen re-wrote the iButton code for much improved reliability. -He also added iButton::Weather (see example at the end of iButton.pl). - -- Brent DeShazer added mh/bin/snpp_page, for doing snpp paging via the internet. - -- Added net_domain_name_start and net_domain_name_done, so that we can lookup domain names in -the background without the danger of mh pausing. -See mh/docs/mh.* or mh/code/examples/test_dns.pl and mh/bruce/monitor_router.pl for examples. - -- Re-wrote mh/code/common/benchmarks.pl. 'Run speed benchmark' will now create -a tk window with with the average amount of time used (in milliseconds) for each code member. -If not using tk, the results are also logged to data_dir. -On Unix, this option will not work too well unless you have Time::HiRes installed. -Unlike the previous benchmark code, this should allow for a quick and pretty painless -way to find slow running code members. -For example, this record in computer_data.pl caused an unneeded slowdown: - - $disk_drives = join(',', Win32::DriveInfo::DrivesInUse()) if $OS_win; - -Without a 'and $Reload' added, it made that call on every pass, and the DriveInof function is pretty slow. - -- Added a window_name option for the display function, so we can re-use a tk window (e.g. above benchmark code). - -- John Snow came up with the idea of using a CM11 to detect power outage. Here is an example: - - if ($ControlX10::CM11::POWER_RESET) { - display time => 0, text => "Detected a CM11 power reset"; - $ControlX10::CM11::POWER_RESET = 0; - } - - -B - -- Anders Baardsgaard sent in a bsd patch to avoid shelling out to find $Time_Boot_time on FreeBSD. - -- Ron Klinkien fixed set_clock so it works on FreeBSD. - -- Roger Bille sent in code to support a new mh.ini default_temp=Celsius parm. -Currently this is only used by mh/lib/iButton.pm - -- Ray Dzek created a 'how to get started with iButton guide' at -http://www.solarbugs.com/home/ibutton.htm (added a link to faq and mh docs). - -- Fenghua Zong discovered that we goofed up with a 2.39 update to vv_tts.pl -(should not have changed ViaVoiceTTS to TTSClass). - -- Fenghua Zong also sent in an update to Voice_Cmd.pm that tunes some delays so ViaVoice will work -better on some faster computers. Someday we will need to update the viavoice_server code with -better handshaking so it is less dependent on hardcoded delays. - -- Tony Drumm created mh/code/public/wxserver_client.pl and wxserver_server.pl. -The client code populates the mh %weather array with data from a wxserver. -Tony also has a program on his web site that will serve weather data data from -a Peet Brother's weather station (e.g. Ultimeter 2000). - -- Jean-Marie Martin found a problem with processing .MHT (rather than .mht) files. - -- Clive Freedman fixed $Time_of_Day so it is night rather than afternoon prior to 5 am. - -- Brian Paulsen modified mh/code/public/rrd_graph to make it a bit easier to add/remove rooms. - -- Ian Davidson sent in a fix so sensors.pl will work with the newer analog weeder boards. - -- Brent DeShazer fixed Timer.pm to handler subroutine actions. - -- Craig Schaeffer added a time_add function: $Save{setback_off} = time_add "$Save{wakeup_time} - 1:20"; - -- Allow for read_table_xxx.pl and user_modules to be in the user_code directory. - -- Fixed the SwitchLinc set method. - -- Fixed 2.39 bugs which caused the web parm password_allow_clients to be ignored and a web command search to fail. - -- Added a 'password set/not set' voice message in the web server, for notification of web password attempts. - -- Updated the rpm file to not require the viavoice libraries and to not require perl in /usr/bin/perl - - -=head2 Version 2.39 posted on 12/21/00 - -Version 2.39 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - -- Danal Estes updated the DCS* alarm system code to be object/state aware. - -- Stuart Grimshaw added mh/lib/SMS_Item.pm, for sending SMS messages to mobile phones. - -- David Norwood added mh/lib/Weather_wx200d.pm. This talks to the -Unix wx200d daemon: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wx200d - -- David Norwood also added mh/code/public/weather_upload.pl. -This uploads your weather station data to the wunderground personal weather project. - -- Clive Freedman sent in changes to get_tv_info: -revised to include processing of key-lists in files, -case-sensitive searches for words starting with upper-case, -searches for whole words only, plus plurals, -option for 5 minute search increments, -shows in progress, .html output. -He has an example of his use in mh/code/public/tv_info_clive.pl. - -- Added mh/bruce/news_email_breaking.pl to announce breaking email -stories from a news email subscription. -Be the first on your block to know the aliens have landed :) -This subscription sends out about 0->3 items a day: http://www.cnn.com/EMAIL . -Anyone know of other news services that send just the really big news?? - -- Modified internet_mail.pl -to not delete the get_email.scan file until one full pass after it -was created, so other code can monitor incoming mail, like the above news_email_breaking.pl - -- Added the new_second, new_minute, and new_hour functions. -These functions are like the $New_Second/Minute/Hour variables, -except they can return true only on the nth second/minute/hour. -So instead of this: - - if ($New_Minute and !($Minute % 10))) { } - -we can say - - if (new_minute 10) { } - - -- Added a few example mh/sounds/sound_nature/*.wav files. -These make for fun, less obtrusive but still distinguishable event sounds. -Our house now sounds like a bird sanctuary :) -Found this great site for sound searches: http://www.findsounds.com - -- Added mh function add_sound and mh/test/event_sounds.pl. -This allows us to create and review event sounds. For example: - - add_sound movement1 => 'sound_nature/bird1.wav', volume => 20; - play 'movement1' if state_now $movement_sensor; - -Try 'list event sounds' to review the sound assigments. - -- Enabled keyboard monitoring in Unix (was only windows). -Requires Term::ReadKey which I think is usually installed by default. -Made $Keyboard available in user code (echos characters typed on the keyboard, and F1 -> F12). -Moved the F1->F5 processing (e.g. F1 code reload) to mh/code/common/mh_control.pl - -- Moved/split mh/mh.print.log to code_dir/mh_temp.speak/print.log. -Read the previous logs at startup, so up to max_log_entries previous log entries are displayed. -If you have your own tk_frames.pl, add the 'seed' records from mh/code/common/tk_frames.pl. - - -B - -- Brent DeShazer fixed the new voice_cmd_prefix for ViaVoice. - -- Bill Sobel added 'double/triple on/off' states for X10_Item. - -- Bill Sobel found a Weather_Item.pm bug with undefined states. - -- Dan Ratzlaff found 2 typos and added the dim states in X10_Switchlinc. -He also added X10SL to read_table_A.pl. - -- David Lounsberry updated vv_tts.pl from ViaVoiceTTS to TTSClass. -He also sent in a fix for processing web forms with Mozilla. - -- Craig Schaeffer sent in mh/code/examples/weeder_io.pl as an example of using the current weeder kits. - -- Added mh/lib/example_interface.pm as an example of how to write a code for a new interface. - -- Added mh/bruce/school_closing.pl for those of you in snowy climates that have -local web pages with school closing status. - -- Added an example mh.private.ini with some common parms. - -- Added a check for no_log, in mh/code/common/mh_control.pl &serial_match_log. -If you are getting X10 errata in your print_log file that you don't want -(e.g. lots of movement sensor data), rather than turning X10 errata off, -you can turn it off for specific units with this: - - $movement_sensor->{no_log} = 1; - -- Allow for Format= table format specs as a comment. Also fixed -a problem with loosing Groups after a code reload. - -- Allow for pod comments in user code. Instead of putting # in front of a bunch of lines -(e.g. commented out section or example documentation), you can use =begin =cut to mark -the start/stop of a comment section. See mh/bruce/tellme_menu.pl for an example. - -- Use a timer, rather than a sleep, when &play is waiting to play a sound, -so mh does not pause when playing back-to-back sound files. - -- Fixed a 2.36 bug with expired timers in timers.pl - -- Move set_authority calls out of the loop code. - -- Minor changes to tellme_menu code, including detecting and using local host namename and port -when debuging with a local browser. I have not gotten a PIN login and cookies to work there yet :( - -- If get_email_rule returns a string with 'no store', get_email will not store it in html data/email index. - -- Added mh/docs/authors.html. This list is auto-parsed from mh/docs/updates.pod. -That filter may have skipped a few names here or there, so if your name is missing -and you want to be famous, let me know and I'll update that code. - -- Kieran Ames continues to update the mh users map. We are up to 68 locations. -We also added a table to list the cities/countries. - - -=head2 Version 2.36 posted on 12/03/00 - -Version 2.36 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download.html - http://misterhouse.net/download.html - -B - - -- Added Voice XML (vxml) functions and created mh/code/bruce/tellme_menu.pl. -This code enables remote VR control via 1-800-555-8355 from http://tellme.com . -For my house, speak 'Extentions', then dial 46630 (Home0). Instructions -on how to setup your own extention is at the top of tellmen_menu.pl. - -- Changed web search results to use a Category Command type table -(rather than a simple list) and added Tk widgets to the search. -Added web option /list?authority=anyone (now used in open access list on the default web page). - -- Added an index to the data/email files. -Clive Freedman sent in misc. get_email patchs, including -one to add data/email/summary.html with mailbox size data for all accounts. - -- Added mh/code/public/iButton_ws_client.pl. This gets weather data from -the Henriksen Weather Station tcp server for the iButton one-wire weather station. - -- Added mh/code/public/weather_com.pl to get weather data from weather.com. -Unlike the noaa data used by get_weather, weather.com supports non-US cities. - -- Added mh/lib/Weather_Item, derived from Bill Sobel's earlier Weather.pm module. -See mh/docs/mh.html for more info. - -- Kieran Ames built a map with the responses from his -"Where in the world are MisterHouse users" query: http://misterhouse.net/usage.html . -If you missed out on the survey, you can send in your location (anonymously if you want) -via a form on that web page. - - - -B - -- Timothy Spaulding found a 2.34 problem with RCS thermostat states. - -- David Norwood found a problem running web commands with embeded + characters. - -- Ernie Oporto found a problem with get_tv_grid data of shows that cross grid boundaries. - -- Sanjay Seth suggested adding the Windows setupsup methods -WaitForAnyWindow, SetFocus, and EnumChildWindows. See docs/mh.* for more info. - -- Brent DeShazer added Subject to net_jabber_send and found that net_jabber_server and _resource -were not being used. - -- Brent also found a problem running more than one mhsend command. - -- Fixed sluggish tk windows with running in accelerated time test mode (e.g. -time_stop "11:59 pm"). -Als fixed -time_start (was ignored). - -- Re-enabled -w 1 (was supposed to be the same as -diagnostics 1, but was being ignored). - -- Allow for mh.ini abc_module=abc.pm parms. See mh/lib/Weather_wx200.pm for an example. - -- Added 'update location' option on aprs tracking web pages. - -- Added /mh/code/examples/play_midi_windows.pl as an example of playing midi files. - -- Allow web requested display data to be displayed to a local tk window, -only if the display $time parameter is specified. - -- Added mh.ini net_mail_scan_size (defaults to 2000). This is the number of records -that &net_mail_summary uses (called by mh/bin/get_email). - -- Allowed a 'round to the nearest $digits' mode to the round function (see mh.pod for example). - -- Added mh.ini voice_cmd_prefix option. This will be added to all voice commands. - -- Avoid errors wint Win32::Sound::Volume with older win32 Perls - -=head2 Version 2.34 posted on 11/12/00 - -Version 2.34 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download - http://misterhouse.net/download - -B - -- David Lounsberry sent in mh/bin/ical_load and mh/code/public/ical.pl. -This code allows unix users to create mh events based on ical calander program entries, -like mh/bruce/outlook.pl and mh/bin/outlook_read does on Windows. - -- David also sent in an example of how to log and plot data to/from a Round Robin Database (rrd), -using rrdtool, which is available on both unix and Windows. -David has plots from is iButton temperature logs at http://dittos.yi.org/automation/plots/temps.html . -See mh/code/public/README.txt rrd* entries for more info. - -- Kieran Ames came up with the idea of a programable timer. To enable, delete the old timers_*.pl members -and copy in the new mh/code/test/timers.pl member. This will enable tk and web menu fields that you -can enter timer time and text into. - -- Douglas Nakakihara suggested a get_email enhancement that allows for browsing mh monitored email from -a web browser. One weeks worth of email is stored (by day, as html files) -for each account in a new data/email dir. In addition an html.latest member shows -just the email that has not been received yet. -Added a 'Email Received' link to the default we menu. - -- Added a mh.ini password_protect_dir parm, so that specified web directories -can only be viewed by browsers logged in with the correct password. -By default the /data and /email directories are protected. - -- David Norwood sent in an update to support long X10 strings that -include bright/dim data (e.g. XA1A-100A+40). - -- Bill Sobel added X10_Switchlinc as a child class of X10_Item. -We also added support for recognizing long incoming X10 strings, like XK1KJKJKJ Switchlinc 3 push strings by -allowing for > 2 passes in X10 string merging. - -- A number of changes to web server to support various browsers -(e.g. object and vars without $, list:last_response?category). -A mh/web/wap directory has some wap phone examples. - -- Allow for multiple iButton adaptors on multiple COM ports. If $port is not specified on -the methods/functions calls (e.g. new, monitor), it will default to the port used on the -first iButton::connect call. - -- Added a bunch of file attachement mime options to &net_mail_send. -See internet_mail.pl and/or mh/docs/mh.html for examples. - - -B - -- David Lounsberry sent in an iButton Device.pm update to loop on CRC errors. -Craig Schaeffer sent in a Connection.pm timing adjustment. - -- Wally Kissel discovered File_Item read_random was not random on Windows. - -- Clive Freedman sent in a patch to bypass sendkeys_find_window for perl 5.6+ - -- Brian Rigsby sent in mh/code/public/news_yahoo.pl. - -- Ray Dzek sent in some Caller_ID.pm updates for is number-only callerid modem. - -- Benny Miller discovered mh.exe did not run get_tv_grid due to a Win32::CopyFile problem. - -- Timothy Spaulding discovered a problem upper case ON/OFF not working in X10 Voice_Cmd strings. - -- Dropped $module from new X10_Item (not needed anymore). -So, for example, you no longer need to specify a LM14 module when defining an X10_Item. - -- Added mh.ini no_log=save_state option, to turn off the 'Saving object states' message. - -- Added mh.ini get_url parm, to choose between simple or useragent LPW modules. Changed -the default from useragent to simple, since more people were having problems with useragent. - -- Added a Testimonials section to the misterhouse.net web page. - -- Added 'list barcoded inventory' command to barcode_inventory.pl - -- Allow for local module.pm files in the user code_dir directory. - -- Allow for Group_Item X10_Item sets with ncpuxa and HomeBase (like CM11). - -- Change Web pull downs to default to the first item, rather than blank - -- The web SET and SET_VAR directives now do the same thing (can be used for mh variables or objects). - -- A minor change to get_tv_grid (tv table format got messed up by a javascript). - -- Added a 'top' option to file_cat, for concatenating a file to the top (rather than -bottom) of another file. - -- Added a $Dark flag (true before and after twighlight) - -- Changed sort in get_tv_info from date/channel/time to date/time/channel - -- Set $Info{OS_name} to Win98 (rather than Win95) on Win98 systems. - -- Fixed the mh/code/common/mh_control.pl 'reboot the computer' option. - -- Updated install.html/install.txt (based off of a new install.pod file). - - -=head2 Version 2.32 posted on 10/22/00 - -Version 2.32 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/download - http://misterhouse.net/download - -B - -- Added mh.ini code_dir_common, like code_dir, but for common code files. -Moved the tk*, mh_control, mhsend_server, and benchmark .pl files into there. -This should ease the mh upgrade process. -To pick up the default mh/code/common versions of these files, -delete these files from your code_dir. - -- Added mh/code/common/mh_sound.pl . This currently does 3 things: - -1: I figured out a way to work around the bug in Win32::Sound::Volume, so we can -now control volume each time we call speak and play (any suggestions on how to patch -this for unix?). -Defaults to a new mh.ini sound_volume parm. Set to blank to disable auto-volume adjustment. -Use either of these formats to override the default volume (range 0->100): - - speak 'volume=100 Hello from Mr. Bruce'; - speak volume => 5, text => 'Hello from Mr. Bruce'; - -2: mh_sound also sets a mh_speakers object, which can be used to turn relays on/off -before and after TTS and wave file sounds for room speaker control (see mh/code/bruce/pa_control.pl). - -3: Plays the mh.ini sound_pre wav file before all sounds. -Useful if you want to add delay and/or an activation noise for things -like VOX (Voice Activated) Radios . - -- Figured out a way to monitor memory usage from NT/2k, using Win32::PerfLib. -Added mh/code/common/monitor_memory.pl as an aid to finding code members that leak memory -(works on unix and NT/2k only). - -- Danal Estes made various updates to Bill's DCS_Alarm code, including support for multiple serial ports. -See mh/lib/DSC_Alarm.pm and mh.pod/txt/html for more info. - -- Bill Sobel came up with the idea of using a http redirect command to allow mh to return the browser back -to the calling web page, or some other arbitrary web page. Use either 'Referer' or 'http://your_url' -as the response string. For example: - - Light on - - Light off - - -B - -- Fixed the MsAgent code added last time so it works with all VR commands. - -- Fixed a memory leak in barcode_scan.pl. - -- Fixed a bug in mh_control.pl that disabled web based code reloads after the first reload. - -- Fixed mh/bin/trivia to reset count correctly (messed up after 250 questions). - -- Fenghua Zong found a problem with Timer actions being corrupted by a object state save. - -- Wally Kissel found a bug that disabled MS VR after a code reload. - -- Chris Witte sent in a patch to fix dissapearing Group problem when reloading changes in format=A tables. - -- Stephen Merrony found a problem with SunTime.pm calculation for -time_zone 0. - -- Danal Estes noted that Serial_Items without defined state strings returned 'default_state'. -We switched it back to return the ID string like it used to. - -- Ingo Dean discovered that incoming DIM/BRIGHT commands crashed mh when using a non-CM11 interface -(e.g. HomeVision). - -- David Norwood updated the ncpuxa code (Applied Digital interfaces) to -allow for preset dim working on LM14A and Leviton units. - -- Bill Sobel ran into a problem where mh went into an X10 loop, -with a house code and a device code each setting each other off. -To avoid this, mh now checks and avoids sending out the same X10 code on consecutive passes. - -- Bill sent in a http_server update to disable caching. - -- Improved iButton reliabilty on Windows. I can now used it again from NT/2k. - -- Modified read_file to chomp newlines, when used in an array context. - -- Added mh/lib/site/HTML/TableExtract.pm and mh/lib/site/Win32API/Resources.pm and Resources.html - -- Added +-100 to X10_Item (max/min use to be +-95), so we can do full bright/dims. - -- Added the mh.ini no_log parm. Use no_log=pause to turn of the 'mh paused' message. - -- Added FAQ entry 1.17: How can I use Family Radios with MisterHouse?' -and pointed it to Danal Estes's Family Radio Service FAQ mh/docs/faq_frs.html. - - -=head2 Version 2.29 posted on 10/01/00 - -Version 2.29 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - http://misterhouse.net/download - -B - -- Re-organized the http://misterhouse.net homepage. This is now fully mirrored in mh/docs and -at http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - -- mh now goes into a 'catch up' mode after it detected that it paused for more than a second. -This mode guarantees that we won't miss any time based events. -When this occurs, you will see a 'mh paused for ## seconds' messaging in the log. -Thanks to Craig Schaeffer for this suggestion. - -- Changed the Web Items menus to list all legal item states, rather than just an ON/OFF toggle. -A new mh.ini x10_menu_states parm controls which X10 states are displayed on the tk and web menus. - -- Added set_states, add_states, and get_states as a way to specify legal states to -Generic_Items. See mh/bruce/tv.pl for an example. - -- Added a set_expect method to Socket_Item. This allows us to easily walk through -telnet menus by specifing pairs of prompt/response strings. Here is an example -from the 'reboot the router' command at the end of mh/code/bruce/monitor_router.pl - - set_expect $router_client (Password => $config_parms{router_password}, - Number => 24, Number => 4, Number => 11); - -- David Norwood added monitoring and IR support to the ncpuxa code for Applied Digital interfaces. -See mh/code/examples/ncpuxa_example.pl for an example - -- Bill Sobel sent in updates for Compool.pm, Stargate485.pm, Xantech.pm, and read_table_A.pl. -He also added a new Mp3Player.pm object. See mh/code/public/AudioControl.pl for an example. - -- Jeffrey Ferris sent patches to enable MsAgent characters. -MsAgent allows remote IE web browsers to do TTS and VR on the remote box. -Note, you can do this even if you are running mh on a linux box as long as your remote box is running IE. -To enable, add the new mh.ini html_msagent_script* parms that -points to a mh/web file with the agent code (currently only Jeff's miniJeff agent is available). -Then click on the MSAgent checkbox at the top of the Web menu to turn him on or off. -IE will do each command only once, unless you change this setting: -Tools, Internet Options, General, Settings button on Temporary Internet -Files, under "Check for new versions of stored pages" select the option "Every visit to the page." - -- Added mh.ini password_menu parm. It now defaults to html, which gives -an html password form that is compatible with web browsers that don't support -popup password menus. -The crypted password is stored in a cookie, so if you don't like -cookies, set password_menu=browser to get the old menu (browser popup). - -- Added the restore_data method to Generic_Item. This calls the restore_string method we added last time -so we can easily define object data that we want saved across mh reloads/restarts. -See mh/code/bruce/weather_log.pl for an example. - -- Added set_authority and get_authority to Generic_Item. -This allows us to bypass password protection for specified commands, -like the mh.ini password_allow_file parm did, except with set_authority -we can specify it in user code. Examples in mh/code/test/time_info.pl - -- Added the mh/code/test/barcode* members. These will process data from the Cue Kat keyboard simulator -barcode scanner, which you can pick up for free at Radio Shack. The manufacture of the Cue Kat -prefers that you use their software (thats why they give it away), and if you want to look up data -on the web for an item, their software is probably best, as they have a large databse of UPC codes. -If, however, you want to use the scanner -for some sort of home inventory purpose, their software does not do that. The problem is that if -you use their software, you must agree to a Licence that says you will only use the scanner with their -software. Hopefully they will not notice or care that small group of us HA hobbiest are using it -without their software (other people who have written similar code have gotten cease-and-desist letters). - - -B - -- Brian Rudy sent in mh/public/aws_weather.pl,weather_aws.pl, and weather_monitor_aws.pl -for getting weather data from aws web sites. - -- Mark Lamourine sent in a patch for mh/bin/configure for sparc boxes. - -- Charles D. sent in a fix for Caller_ID.pm for Canadian caller ID format. - -- Brian Rudy and Bill Sobel sent in mh/code/public/sprinkler_*.pl - -- Updated the internet_data.pl 'Top 10 list' url. - -- Fixed a bug in Socket_Item raw. - -- Kip Gebhardt noticed extra 'unmatched incoming serial' data errata, on matched X10 data. - -- Bill Sobel added $Time_Sunrise_Twilight and $Time_Sunset_Twilight, with a new mh.ini -twilight parm to pick what kind of twilight you want. - -- Bill also noticed that sending out X10 All On/off house commands did not -set the states of individual items within that house code. Another fix -was to make sure that items with duplicate codes have their states mirrored. - -- Modified X10_Item to accept any level from 0%->100%, in 1% increments, -instead of 5% increments. These preset dims can only be done with a CM11->LM14. - -- Fixed Preset Dims (xx% or &Pxx) so it will work on all Device codes. - -- Allow for passing parms with code hooks. - - - -=head2 Version 2.28 posted on 09/09/00 - -Version 2.28 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - http://misterhouse.net/download - -B - -- Added hidden method to most objects. If you set to 1 (e.g. $item1->hidden(1) ), then -the object will not show up on Tk or web menus. - -- David Norwood added support for Applied Digital CPU-XA/Ocelot interfaces via -the cpuxad daemon server from Mark Day's xalib package (unix only). -xalib is available from David at judapeno@gte.net . -Enable with the new ncpuxa_port mh.ini parm. - -- Brad Reed has coded a ViaVoiceTTS.pm module that calls the IBM's ViaVoice TTS engine directly from perl. -David Lounsberry worked with Brad to add hooks into mh using mh/bin/vv_tts.pl. -Since this is a more direct/flexible interface than what we had with David's vvo_speak server, -David decided to take out mh support for vvo_speak. -To install Brad's module, follow his instructions at http://sammy.reednet.org/~breed/ViaVoiceTTS -then set the mh.ini voice_text parm to vv_tts - -- Added Serial_match, Play_pre, Play_post, Speak_pre, and Speak_post code hooks, like the Mainloop hooks -we added a few months ago. These give us more flexibility than the &serial_stub and &pa_stub subroutines -that were in mh, so those have been removed. If you were using one of those stub subroutines, -add these lines to your code (see mh/code/bruce/pa_control.pl for an example): - - &Serial_match_add_hook(\&serial_stub) if $Reload; - &Speak_pre_add_hook(\&pa_stub) if $Reload; - &Play_pre_add_hook (\&pa_stub) if $Reload; - -- Added &net_jabber_send, like the &net_im_send function we have for sending messages to AIM clients. -Jabber is a new, open, XML based protocol for instant messaging. You can get free IDs and client for various -platforms at http://jabbercentral.com or http://www.jabber.com . We can also code mh events to respond -to incoming Jabber messages. Currently, it will simply pop up a tk display window. - -- Allow Process_Item to run multiple commands in series. This way we can build simple batch/shell type -scripts within mh, and run them as a detached, monitored process. -See mh/code/examples/test_process.pl for an example. - -- Allow Process_Item to run internal mh subroutines. If the command passed to Process_Item starts with -a & (e.g. &main::net_ftp), then the command is run with eval, rather than an external system command. -This allows us to call long running internal mh functions -with a Process_Item fork, so we can avoid mh pauses. This currently only works on unix systems. -In theory it will also work with Win32 perl 5.6+, but on my box, perl abended when I tried it :( - -- Added mh/bin/net_ftp, with the same options as the mh &net_ftp function. This -allows us the option of doing ftp commands with separate processes, so mh does not pause. -See mh/code/examples/test_ftp.pl and/or mh/docs/mh.html for an example. - -- Bill Sobel had the great idea of moving the code that saves states from mh into the various object models, -so now we can customize the various objects to save whatever data should be persistent between -mh restart/reloads, using a &restore_string object method. - - -B - -- Cullen Simpson found a 2.27 problem with X10 bright/dim decoding. - -- Bill Sobel found a problem with decoding incoming PRESET_DIM commands. - -- Ron Wright found yet another mis-decoding of bright/dim commands that would sometimes trigger the wrong events. - -- Justin Matlock inspired the addition of &serial_match_log to mh_control.pl. -This will do a &print_log the object names that match incoming serial (e.g. X10) data. - -- thegreen [thegreen@mediaone.net] mail_send... - -- Switched to the Cpan Astro/SunTime.pm module, to avoid the problems some people were having calling sun_time. - -- Fixed a problem with ViaVoice recognition after a code reload. - -- Add mh.ini parm time_format_log, so you can choose the time_date format for the speak and print logs. -Any &time_date_stamp function format is valid. Set to 16 to get date hh:mm:ss am/pm (e.g. 04/14/97 2:28:00 PM). -(see mh.html for other format examples). - -- Implemented the pause function (F2 from the tk or dos console). - -- Added a small delay in &read_counter funcion of ibutton device.pm. - -- Used an older compiler so mh.exe works on more boxes. - -- Added $Loop_Speed to Tk Cpu Used widget. Moved memory used (unix only) to $Tk_objects{label_memory_used}. - - - - -=head2 Version 2.27 posted on 08/18/00 - -Version 2.27 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - http://misterhouse.net/download - -B - -- Mark Lamourine set up a SPECs file so I can create a tar and rpm file from our beloved zip file. -The rpm file installs to the docs to /usr/doc/misterhouse-#.##. and everything else to /usr/local/mh. - -- Created mh/code/bruce/monitor_router.pl. This monitors incoming and outgoing -traffic on NetGear RT311 and RT314 routers. The RT311 is a really nifty -$130 firewall/router designed to allow multiple home computers to share -internet cable/dsl access. The RT314 ($180) is the same, with a built in 4 port hub. -They both can log activity to remote computers via a Syslog connection, -so we can set up monitor_router.pl to monitor a Syslog udp port to -track internet activity. This is what I used to do with mh/bin/monitor_weblog -to monitor apache weblogs and monitor_firewall.pl to monitor linux ipchain logs. - - -B - -- Allow Group to inherit Generic_Item methods, like state_now and tie*/untie*. - -- Added a get_changed_by method, to detect which object set a tied object. - -- Allow for items to have more than one state set per pass. -Each state will be processed, one per subsequent pass. - -- Add a weeder_baudrate mh.ini parm - -- Added a delay to when sending phrases set to viavoice on startup, so we avoid 'no data' errors with faster computers. - -- Added mh/bin/test_x10.pl as a simple test for those X10 interfaces. - -- Added mh/code/examples/test_tie.pl as an example of how to tie/untie items/events. - -- Added mh/code/examples/test_group.pl as an example of how to use groups. - -- William Steiner found a 2.24 bug with sunrise/sunset on Win95/98 boxes. - -- Brad Reed fixed a 2.24 problem with the tk $cpu_used display. - -- Craig Schaeffer found a 2.24 problem with Serial_Items with undefined states. - -- Brian Klier found a problem with multi-event X10 processing. - -- Bill Sobel found a problem when running untie* on some, but not all, child objects. - -- Monte discovered that direct X10 commands like 'house XA1AJ' didn't work. -Note you can also enter direct X10 commands directly in the Tk Command/search field. - -- CyberLink discovered that mh/code/public/mp3_control_GQmpeg.pl got overwritten in 2.24. - -- Improved error processing if voice_cmd=MS and the MS VR engine is not installed. - -- Fixed member name parsing, so mh can be in a dir with a . (e.g. misterhouse-2.26). - -- Fixed a minor get_tv_grid error with vcr links on shows that cont. between grids. - -- Fixed a bug that disabled simultaneous X10 Group action with a CM11. - - - -=head2 Version 2.24 posted on 08/06/00 - -Version 2.24 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.net/download - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - -B - -- Added a &dir_index html function, so we can now get -sortable file name type, date, and size listings of selected directories. -Enable it by creating a index.shtml file that calls &dir_index. -Try http://localhost:8080/graphics (mh/web/graphics/index.shtml) as an example, -or look for &dir_index in mh.html. - -- Enabled showing of gif and jpg files with the display function -(e.g. display /pictures/pic1.gif). -Unfortunately, it looks like both perl 522 and 616 leak memory with each picture displayed. -If you are using the uncompiled version of -mh and want to display jpg files, you will need to run: - - windows: ppm install Tk-JPEG - unix: perl -MCPAN -e 'install Tk::JPEG' - - -- Made many small changes to allow us to the option of running with the -perl Diagnostics module (enables the 'perl -w' option). -This enables a ton of warning messages that often point out potential coding errors. -To enable, set the mh.ini parm diagnostics (or w) to 1, or just run: mh -w 1 -This takes about 1 meg more of memory and causes mh to run about 10% slower, but the messages it displays -often point to valid problems. - -- Improved processing of errors that do not show up on reload (i.e. only triggered -by an event). The first time this happens, a console/tk message -will be displayed, and a message spoken. Since these errors might happen on sequential passes of mh, subsequent errors -are only listed in the console window. If more than 10 occur, another window is displayed, -and the code member there error was in is disabled. - -- Improved messages when you load user code with perl errors. -It should now point to the correct line number of the error, -including those nasty 'global symbol' errors. - -The only exception I have seen is if you have too few/many {} around code. -In these cases, if you can not find the file with the error, -you can try a new option: mh -error_by_file 1 . -This will try loading one file at a time until the error is found, but -it runs pretty slow and may not work with members that have # noloop directives. - -- New untie_items and untie_event methods. -All the tie/untie methods now allow for on-the-fly calls, -instead of being set just on code reload. If you do use these conditionally, -make sure you also call the methods on $Reload, as the tie states -are not saved between reloads. - -- Reworked how mh processes the merging/breaking of X10 strings to provide consistent -monitoring of longer X10 strings that might be broken up by the receiver (e.g. DSC Alarm panel). - -- Created mh/bin/get_ceiva and mh/code/bruce/ceiva.pl. -This code will download and display new pictures that are deposited in -electronic picture frame folders at http://www.ceiva.com . -As various relatives deposit pictures there for my Dad's picture frame, -we get the new pictures also! get_ceiva is an example of how -perl can log onto a site that uses cookies for user/password security. - -- Brian Paulsen wrote a Slinke.pm module to send/receive IR data from -the Nirva Slink-e interface. His examples are in mh/code/public/slinke*, -but it has not been integrated into mh yet. - -- Bill Sobel made some changes/additions to mh/lib members -Compool.pl, DSC_Alarm.pm, Stargate485.pm, Xantech.pm, and read_table_A.pl. -The Xantech code is the initial pass at controlling the Xantech preamp. -The Stargate485 is his first pass at interfacing with the stargate -(and the stargatelcd keypads) via the 485 interface. - - -B - -- Ron Wright spotted an recent error with the VCR start/stop times in get_tv_grid html. - -- Brian Paulsen's sent in a fix to avoid repeating voice commands when using Viavoice. - -- Bradford Reed helped fix an error with group commands on CM17 controlled X10 items. - -- Bill Sobel sent in a patch that allows for auto-loading of new or user-defined mh/lib modules -(e.g. Compool.pm). These new object types will also show up in the tk and web menues. - -- Fixed the on.gif blinking status icon so it will also blink in Netscape. - -- Fixed the html_info= tag in mh.ini (html popups accidently got disabled in 2.22) - -- Added mh.ini x10_errata parm, so you can turn up/down the print_log errata on X10 data. - -- Allow for muli-line mh.ini parms (see mh/bin/mh.ini favorite_tv_shows for an example) - -- Added mh/code/examples/generic_item.pl - -- Added a -quiet option to get_email and get_tv_info, so you can avoid mh console clutter. - -- Added browser function. This simply calls the browser defined by mh.ini browser parm on the specified -url or file. - -- Moved Tk* widgets from various mh/test/code files into tk_widgets.pl, for easier ordering. - -- Dropped the B prefix on incoming bright/dim decoding and added bright/dim states to house X10_Items. -This allows us to monitor bright/dim commands easier. - - - - - -=head2 Version 2.22 posted on 06/24/00 - -Version 2.22 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.net/download - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - -B - -- Updated all items that have states (Voice_Cmd, Serial_Item, X10_Item, iButton, IR_Item) to inherit Generic_Item methods. -This allows for easier maintance of common methods. - -- Bill Sobel and I came up with 2 new methods for Generic_Item: tie_items and tie_event. -Per the above change, this is inherited by all state items. -When an item's state changes, so will the state of all items tied to it. For example, if we have this: - - $indoor_fountain = new X10_Appliance 'C3'; - $v_indoor_fountain = new Voice_Cmd 'Indoor fountain [on,off]'; - -Then instead of this: - - set $indoor_fountain $state if $state = state_now $v_indoor_fountain; - -We can do this: - - $v_indoor_fountain -> tie_items($indoor_fountain); - -or use the indirect object style like this: - - tie_items $v_indoor_fountain $indoor_fountain; - - -- Another Bill Sobel idea was to allow for table based entries for codeing mh objects and events. -With table data, we should be able to enable gui or web based front end tools for editing. -Currently we have defined just one format defined, creativly named A -(I suggested we call it Bill, but Bill didn't want the fame), but other formats (e.g. xml) should -be easy to implement. - -To use, create one or more *.mht (mh table) files in your code directory, specifying the table format with Format=A -at the top of the table. Then mh will process (on starup and reload) each record with mh/lib/read_table_A.pl, to create -*.mhp (mh processed) files, which are then processed with all your other, normal mh code. - -Examples are in mh/code/bruce/*.mht and mh/code/test/*.mht. -If you want to create another table format, all you need to do is create a mh/lib/read_table_xyz.pl member, then set Format=xyz. - - -- Updated tk_radiobutton and tk_entry so they can now use state objects, like Generic_Item. -This allows for easier triggering and auto-saving of Tk entered changes. -Here is an example (from mh/code/examples/tk_examples.pl): - - $mp3_search_text = new Generic_Item; - $mp3_search_text -> tie_event('print_log "mp3 search text is now $state"'); - &tk_entry('mp3 Search', $mp3_search_text); - - -- Douglas Nakakihara sent in a pointer mrMP3, a mh compatable Windows mp3 player he wrote. -The mh code he wrote to control it, along with a download url, is in mh/code/public/mp3_control_mrMP3.pl - - -- Added an example of how to push data from mh to a java applet -I got from the Linux Home Automation mailing list (http://linuxha.sourceforge.net) -called tattler, written by John W. Klar. -To test, include mh/code/test/tattler.pl -with your code and point your java enabled browser to http://localhost:8080/tattler - -- Bill Sobel added X10_IrrigationController to support the RCI X10 based sprinkler system -( http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rciautomation/p6.htm ). - -- Added initial (untested) support for sending X10 commands via the Marrick interface. - - -B - -- Bill Sobel has updated mh/lib/compool.pm and added mh/lib/weather.pm - -- Dan Wilga sent in various improvements to http_server.pl, including correctly mime-typing external files. - -- Brent Gross added a -type option to ftp, so we can upload/download binary files also. - -- Monte Freeman cleaned up and reformated mh/bin/mh.ini - -- Fixed get_tv_grid to work with a new clicktv format. - -- Fixed a bug in sendkeys_find_window that could cause mh to hang if the program was not able to start. - -- Changed mh to not create empty _loopcode subroutines. - -- Commented out the Cyan console color change, for win32 mh users. If anyone wants this as an option, let me know. - - - - -=head2 Version 2.20 posted on 05/27/00 - -Version 2.20 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.net/download - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - -B - -- Danal Estes has added mh/code/public/Danal/ISDN*.pl and Cat_Box.pl. -The ISDN code monitors incoming and outgoing -calls for ISDN modems, including caller ID processing. -He also added/mh/bin/set_ip_3com_tzo to get the Internet connection from a 3com ISDN -Lan Modem and sets TZO service appropriately. - -- Added server_*_protocol=udp, and server_*_datatype=raw options to socket servers -specified in mh.ini. datatype=raw, like the serial_*_datatype parm, -allows for raw/binary or record based data. -Also allow for udp in Socket_Port clients. - -- Frank Varnavas and Bill Sobel came up with the option to add user callback functions, so you can have -user functions called, once per loop, before and/or after all the other user code is run. -For an example, look for &MainLoop_pre_add_hook in mh/docs/mh.html. - -- Bill Sobel added mh/code/public/Compool* files, for monitoring and controling ComPool pool/spa equipment. - - -B - -- Added mh.ini parm play_mode, so you can control the default mode for playing wav files (e.g. wait so older -sound cards will only try to play one thing at a time). - -- Allowed the mh.ini local_addresses and password_allow_clients parms to be regular expressions. - -- Added internet_speak_flag so you can control if all, local, or none speech data will -be spoken when requested from the web interface. - -- Change speak log to include file contents, not just file name. - -- Tom Kotowski updated his mh/code/public/news* files. He also added a Drudge Report file. - -- Bill Sobel updated mh/code/public/internet_ip_update.pl to allow for sending email and -finding NAT/firewall ip addresses. - -- Bill Sobel sent in a update to mh/code/public/weather.pl so it can find weather by zipcode. - -- Fixed a bug introduced in 2.15 in the code used to read the weeder analog module (code/bruce/sensors.pl). - -- Fixed a problem with parsing HTML TABLE data, introduced in 2.13 for those who are on perl 5.6. - -- Fixed an error in mh.ini comment. Now reads "use positve numbers longitude", not latitude. - -- Fred Richards reports that a Tk "font doesn't exist at PERL2EXE_STORAGE/Tk/Widget.pm" error was fixed -with this version of mh.exe, probably due to Tk being upgraded from version 8.020 to 8.021. - -- Changed to a simpler way of reading tcp socket data (thanks go to Danal). - -- Renamed server1 to server_telnet in mh.ini and code/test/telnet.pl - -- Added FAQ question 6.7 What do I need to use the iButtons? - -- Added FAQ question 5.2 What are good editors to use with perl? - -- Added these new bugs to the mh.html bug list: - - Windows Activestate perl 5.6 build 613 leaks memory - when running mh. On my box about 30 Meg a day. - - Some people are getting CRC errors when running iButton - code under Windows NT. - - Adding, deleting, or changing Voice commands does is not - recognized by the Windows MSVoice application while it - is running. You have to exit and restart MSVoice, then - restart mh to get it to recognize new commands. - Hopefully we can get this to work with release 5.0 - of the MS Speech SDK. - - - -=head2 Version 2.15 posted on 05/06/00 - -Version 2.15 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.net/download - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - -B - - -- Brian Klier is working on some nifty code to -interface with a voice modem in mh/code/public/voicemodem.pl. -Currently it works with modems based on the Rockwell chip set. -The script can pickup your phone after so many rings, play an outgoing -message, and take a message. There is also code to dial up a number you specify -and play a voice message. - -- Ingo Dean and Radi Shourbaji made some X10 updates to HomeVision.pm - -- Clay Jackson added iButton support for the 1822 temperature button. - -- Kees Cook added the mh.ini prounoucable_list_file option, so you can change -change to phonetic spellings of words, but still keep the correct spelling in your code and logs. -Control this with the new mh/data/pronouncable_words.list file. - -- Kees also sent in a patch to make Caller_ID a bit smarter. -I added a mh.ini caller_id_format parm, so we can adapt to various caller ID formats. -Also, Caller_ID::make_speakable now returns just the caller name, so you can -create control the phrasing better (see mh/code/bruce/phone_modem.pl for an example). - -- Allow for duplicate Serial_Items and X10_Items. Now all items with the same ID code will get set -when data is received, rather than just the last defined item. - -- Added tk_font and tk_font_fixed mh.ini parms. -Like most mh.ini parms, you can change them while mh is running -and use the F1-reload button to evaluate the change. - - -B - -- Christopher Witte send in a fix for the 'broken pipe' problem that unix users -could get when doing multiple quick web browser reloads. - -- Chris also updated the CVS repository to be a full copy of mh, so in theory, people can do a full -install of mh via cvs. - -- Ron Klinkien sent in some updates for mh on FreeBSD. - -- Kees Cook send in a patch to Text_Cmd.pm to allow Festival to use esdplay, so mh can share the sound card -with other programs. The is controled with a new mh.ini festival_init_cmds parm. - -- Christopher Kodadek send a fix for a bug introduced in 2.13 where get_mail would announce incoming mail twice. - -- Added a '3digit' option to IR_Item to it can be used with devices that require -all 3 digits to be entered for channel numbers. - -- Re-fixed a bug in CM11.pm that created "unrecognized X10 data:" messages. - -- Added Volume Up/Down to mp3_control.pl (latest httpq 1.6 winamp plugin required) - -- Added HTML::Parse to get_tv_info, so we can drop HTML tags from TV data. - -- Allow for tabs in speakable data. - -- Fixed a bug that caused duplicate filename to be listed on the web page popups if code was reloaded with errors. - -- Fixed a bug that cause an eval error when listing Global Variables via the web interface. - -- Added mh/code/examples/x10_motion_sensor_ben.pl - -- Added FAQ question 3.2: How can I set the default volume level for Festival? - -- Added FAQ question 1.15 How can I call mh from a non-mh web server like Apache? - - - - - -=head2 Version 2.13 posted on 04/09/00 - -Version 2.13 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.net/download - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - -B - -- Added IR_Item to support the new X10 IR transmiter, available for $50 at http://www.x10.com/products/ux17a_bj2.htm . -Documentation is in mh.pod and example is in mh/code/test/tv.pl. -Also updated tv_grid.pl to use IR_Item instead of the older, one-for-all mh/bin/ir_cmd - -- Added Kevin Olande's mh/code/public/x10_ma26.pl code for monitoring the X10 wireless mouse receiver. -This also monitors other X10 rf traffic, so may prove to be a good way to improve latency on things -like X10 motion sensors. - -- Craig Schaeffer added a iButton read_switch method, for the DS2407 switch. He also has started on -code for monitoring the Dallas 1 wire weather station: mh/code/public/iButton_ws.pl - -- Added volume, rate, and voice options to the speak function. -An example is in mh/code/test/test_voice.pl. -Unfortunatly, these don't work yet. I don't think the MS TTS engine can be controled (with perl via OLE anyway), -and I couldn't get my Festival speech engine to use the SABLE parms that Neil posted. -Maybe a newer version of Festival will work ... if someone gets this to work with Festival, let me know. - -B - -- Documented iButton_Item in mh/docs/mh.html - -- Updated mh to be compatable with the new 5.6 perl release. Note, the install.html instructions now specify -a required step for perl 5.6+ Win32 users: ppm install Win32::API. Without this you will get "illegal operionation" popup. - -- Updated code to be compatable with the new Tk 8.020 release (was getting Can't locate delgate.al errors). - -- Fixed a Windows bug that cause mh to hang while wav files were played. -They are now played asynchronously. - -- Added Kevin Olande's fix to CM11.pm to fix the problem he was having with not receiving all incoming X10 signals. - -- Fixed a bug introduced in 2.11 that disabled dialup on Windows. - -- Disabled the mh/web/overlib.js tracking. - -- Fixed a bug where mh would respond with "I heard" when using the ms speech recognition engine. - -- Added David Lounsberry's linux mp3 control code as code to mh/code/public/mp3_control_GQmpeg.pl. - -- Added Brian Klier's example of a custom status pannel page to mh/code/public/statuspannel.pl and .shtml. -Also added a screenshot of what Brian's mh page looks like at http://misterhouse.net/pictures/brian.gif . -If anyone else wants to send in screenshots of their mh web -interfaces, send them my way and I'll post them. - -- Refreshed Tom Kotowski's mh/code/public/news_*.pl members - -- Added an optional net_mail_account_server_send parm, to allow for accounts that have different -send and receive (stmp/pop) mail servers. - -- Changed tv_grid.pl to use the optional mh.ini html_alias_tv parm, so you can put -your tv pages in a directory other than the main mh/web directory, enabling easier upgrades. - - - -=head2 Version 2.11 posted on 03/09/00 - -Version 2.11 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.net/download - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - - -B - -- Added Brian Warner's iButton perl modules. I have tested it with a -Id button (DS1990), temp sensors (DS1820) and the 2 channel digital IO (DS2406, via -the sixpoint.com TR1 relay card). Examples on talking to these devices are in -mh/code/test/ibutton.pl. A couple of urls with prices are listed -in the hardware section of mh/docs/mh.html. -I converted the iButton modules to use Bill's SerialPort module, so it now works -on Windows as well as Linux! - -- Split mh/code/bruce/phone.pl into phone.pl, phone_weeder.pl, phone_modem.pl, and phone_logs.pl. -This should allow caller ID modem users another option. phone.pl differs from the -mh/public/calllog.pl code that Brian and Ernie Oporto put together. The phone_modem.pl code is a bit -simpler (e.g. no auto-hangup), but it logs data for use with display_callers. - -- Reworked the default web page again (now mh/web/mh4). This now uses the javascript overlib.js -library from Erik Bosrup. This allows us to use a new Voice_Cmd -set_info method to display additional information in a pop-up box -that will show up when your mouse hovers over the command text. -Unfortunately this does not work with Netscape because onMouseOver only -works with href tags, so I added a special option for Netscape users that adds small info and log links. -This option can be turned off with a new new mh.ini parm, along with several other -other new html related parms. For example, you can now control -if and when a dropdown select list gets used for Voice_Cmd states. -As with many mh.ini parms, you can use the Reload function to quickly test/play -with these options, without restarting mh. - -- Added support for winamp plugin httpq to mp3_control.pl and mp3_playlist.pl. -This lets mh control mp3s on any computer in your network. -A new mh.ini parm mp3_program_control lets you choose between this and the windows only wactl program. -Also added code from Nicholas Brink for a 'Random Song' option. - -- Added code to monitor_shoutcast.pl so it can re-connect the player to the server if disconnected or stopped. -My shoutcast server should be up most of the time now, if any of you want to stop by and say hi: -http://misterhouse.net:8080/speak/ - -- Added Global and Save variables to the web widget menu. - -- Added widgets and vars as mh.ini password_protect options. -When used (the default), computers other than those listed in password_allow_clients, -will not be able to view that data. - - -B - -- Included Craig Schaeffer's sump pump code and Tom's news_* code to mh/code/public. - -- Added Voice_Cmd set_order method so you can control the order that the commands are listed -in web Category list. The default is alphabetically by file, then by name. - -- Pointed to a new top 10 list url in internet_data.pl - -- Put time-date stamp back into the speech log - -- Check for valid serial state data before saving, to avoid object state restore eval errors. - -- Added a head_tail option to logit, so we can log records to the top (instead of the bottom) of a file -(e.g. tracking_bruce.pl). - -- Added mh/code/examples/test_open2.pl as an example of how to read/write -to another program's STDIN/STDOUT - -- Fixed a mh.exe problem with mail related steps. - -- Fixed a bug that disabled brightening lights via the web interface - -- Disabled auto-refresh on .shtml included html, per suggestion from Ron W. - -- Fixed a bug where the web category name was lost on a code reload. - -- Allow /graphics to be an http_alias. - -- A web request to display data will now only display to the web page and not also -create a tk popup window. - -- Added Tom Kotowski's $Time_Of_Day global var (morning, afternoon, evening, and night) - - -=head2 mh ver 2.1 posted on 02/19/00 - -Version 2.1 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.net/download - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - - -Mainly a few bug fixes from the 2.00 release. - -B - -- The widgets now also show up in the category lists, before the voice commands. - -- /widgets now shows widgets listed in code order, as it was before 2.00. -Added /widgets_type to be the widgets in sorted order like 2.00. - -- Added mh.ini html_alias* parms. This allows you to point to directories that are not under html_dir - -- Added code to monitor All-lights-on and All-off, so mh can correctly track the state of -X10_Item and X10_Appliance objects. - -- Changed web Items and Groups to auto-refresh, so the state of the items stays current. - -- Moved Speak_Log from Voice_Text to mh so the web interface will echo spoken text even when muted. - -- Jay Archer sent a bunch of new icons. - - -B - -- Enabled web response from widget commands - -- Fixed a bug with the auto-refresh of the speak, log, and widget screens. -It no longer will run the last selected commands on every refresh. - -- Fixed a bug in set_password, when run directly from perl - -- Fixed a bug that would cause + to be inserted instead of blanks for web entered data. - -- Re-enable .shtml /list?xyz directives. - -- Fixed a bug that caused netscape not to load really small graphics files. - -- 'List X10 items' now includes Appliances. Fixed 'List serial items' to list all ID codes. - -- Fixed a bug that would add a suffix of 'nd' instead of 'th' to 11,12, and 13th Date_Now_Speakable dates. - -- Fixed mp3_playlist so it does not fail if DB_File is not installed. - -- Changed mh.ini to read vvo_speak instead of vvo_server (to enable IBM viavoice outloud) - -- Move the get_email_rule.pl from mh/bin to the code_dir. -This allows you to modify it without changing files in the main distribution directory. - -- Added FAQ 2.13: How can I control Command Categories - -- Craig Schaeffer fixed a set_clock 2k bug. - -- Delete X10_Item 'none' state (use manual instead). - -- Updated monitor_server.pl to allow for 'web hits per hour'. - - - -=head2 mh ver 2.00 posted on 02/12/00 - -Version 2.00 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.net/download - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - -We overflowed the mh version number, so rather than go from version 1.99 to 1.100, we -decided to use 2.00. -This isn't a major re-write of mh (except for the web interface), -but mh has had enough changes since 1.00 that we thought maybe it deserved a new number :) - -B - -- David Lounsberry and I re-vamped the web interface. -There are too many changes to summarize here, but most of it documented in the -'Customizing the Web Interface' section of mh.html. -There are some new parms in mh.ini so you can taylor it somewhat with just parm changes. -For example, you can turn -the icons off and you can set the refresh rate of the speak, log, and widget label screens. -mh uses various search strategies for picking the best icon to match a command -or item (documented in mh.html), but if you want to manually pick an icon, you can -use the new set_icon method for various objects. - -- Also include in the web overhall is a new last_response html response function, -which is now used by all the web RUN commands. This will allow the web interface -to see all the Display and/or Spoken data, so now you -tk 0 guys can have some fun! - -- Added state_log method to various items. This is used in the Tk Items pull down state_log -entry and the new web pages. It shows the time_date stamps of the last -max_state_log_entries (mh.ini parm, default is 10) state changes. - -- Added net_im_send. This allows mh to send messages to AOL AIM clients. -Set the new mh.ini net_aim_* parms and try running mh/test/internet_im.pl. -More info is in mh/docs/mh.html. - -- Added a tracking_mailto option to mh/code/Bruce/tracking_bruce.pl. -mh will now send me email or an instant messages whenever it detects our -cars have gone somewhere. It is a great way to keep track of the family from work! - -- Added a call to the new Astro::MoonPhase module to create, -$Moon{phase}, $Moon{brightness}, $Moon{age}, and $Moon{new,first,full,last} entries. -See mh/code/test/time_info.pl for examples. - -- I created a survey at http://sourceforge.net/survey/survey.php?group_id=1365&survey_id=10139 -Unfortunatly it seems to only allow me to look at the results, but I'll -post a summary of the survey in a month or 2 so you can all see the results. - - -B - -- Moved the loading of playlists from mp3_control.pl to mp3_playlist.pl - -- Fixed CM11.pm so it would not do a power fail time reset after sending a D5 command. - -- Added FAQ question 6.5 What is X10?. - -- Added 'Coding your own events' to install.html - -- Added mh/code/examples/x10_motion_sensors_kevin.pl - -- Jay Archer added mh/code/public/door_monitor_jay.pl as an -example of using an X10 powerflash and hawkeye motion sensors -to monitor and control a garage door - -- Restored the mh/data/remarks/deep_thoughts.txt database (accidently deleted in the last release) - -- Drop the extra "" in mh.ini favorite_tv_shows parm - -- Fixed the web server stats report in monitor_server.pl - -- Add plural_check to de-pluralize a string (example in monitor_shoutcast.pl). - - - -=head2 mh ver 1.97 posted on 01/27/00 - -Version 1.97 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.net/download - http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net - -Lets try this again! The only change between 1.97 and the 1.96 posted earlier today is -the O_CREAT error is fixed and the new X10 Garage_Door state is now saved. - -B - -- Moved the mh CVS repository to sourceforge.net. This doesn't affect most of you, but if anyone -who wants to get involved in updating core mh code, let me know and I'll send you a howto note. - -- Added the time_random function. This can be used to code randomly fired events. -See mh/code/test/goofy.pl and mh/doc/mh.html for examples. - -- Danal Estes updated CM11.pl so it can now receive extended X10 data, in addition to sending it. -He also added a X10_Garage_Door object to X10_Items.pl and created code/public/Garage_Door.pl. -This allows mh to read Stanley Homelink modules. See code/public/Garage_Door.txt for more info. - -- Added mh/code/test/mp3_playlist.pl. After setting the mh.ini mp3_dir to point to all your -mp3 directories, run "build the mp3 database". When that step is done -(it took about a minute to read many songs spread across 4 computers at my house), you can -then use the MP3 Search and/or MP3 Genre tk fields to start your mp3 player for the requested songs. - -- Updated internet_slashdot.pl to work with the newer slashdot xml standard. - -- Added a said method to File_Item. -This allows us to easily monitor the tail end of log files. -See shoutcast.pl for an example. - -- Updated mh/code/Bruce/shoutcast.pl so it can be used with the newer, web based -shoutcast servers. This code will announce when you have new listeners to your mp3 streamed broadcasts. - -- Added mh/code/public/callerid.pl as another example on how to do callerid with a modem. - -- Added David Lounsberry's motion sensor code as code/examples/x10_motion_sensors_dave.pl - - -B - -- Fixed an 'unrecognized data: X##' bug recently introduced into CM11.pm. - -- Added a new_mail_light example to internet_mail.pl. - -- Fixed the {a,b,c} enumeration problem on web category lists. - -- Fixed the CM11 group set method so items are left in the correct state, rather than none. - -- Fixed the DNS lookup in monitor_server.pl. It always said 'web access from unknown', -even if you had the mh.ini DNS parm enabled. - -- Allow display_callers to work with the compiled mh.exe. - -- Fixed "What is your uptime?" in mh_control.pl, for linux users (again!) - -- Added FAQ 4.2: How do I set setup networking between Windows boxes, -1.14: How does mh read and use the user code in code_dir and, -6.5: How can I use cvs to co-develop core mh code - - - -=head2 mh ver 1.93 posted on 01/05/00 - -Version 1.93 was just uploaded to: - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/mh (for unziped, individual files) - -New Features: - -- Changed Voice_Text to allow for calls David Lounsberry's new ViaVoice Outloud TTS -server for Linux. David has an rpm and a tarball, with installation documention, at: -http://dittos.penguinpowered.com/automation/index.html#software - -- Added mh/code/test/stocks.pl. This will use Yahoo to look up stock data -for the symbols listed in the new mh.ini stock parm. -All it does now is pop up a Tk window and update a Tk widget with last -prices and change data. This could be exended to do logging, alerts, charts, etc. - -- Added a Tk Code Search option to mh_control.pl. This can be used to quickly find which -objects and/or variables are in which code files. It pops up a Tk window that shows -which code files the specified string is found in. - -- Added "List X10 Items" and "List serial items" to mh_control.pl. These will display -an sorted list of your items, so you can easily review what is assigned to what. - -- If you are using an CM11, the Group object will now control all X10 -devices simultaneously, rather than sequentially. -Thanks to Nic Brink for pointing out this option. - -- Allow for the Voice_Cmd state to be in the response field with either of the following: - - $v_fan = new Voice_Cmd 'Fan [on,off]', - 'Ok, I turned the fan $v_indoor_fountain->{said}'; - - $v_fan = new Voice_Cmd 'Fan [on,off]', - 'Ok, I turned the fan %STATE%'; - - -Bug Fixes and Minor Changes: - -- Fixed the time_now problem with "12:xx AM" tests that Brent J. found. - -- Fixed the 100 -> 00 date display problem on the Tk windows. - -- Added Ron Wrights drop down box updates to get_tv_grid. - -- Added Nic Brink's mh/code/public/cd_player.pl code (for linux). - -- Created $Date_Now_Speakable, complements of Amaury J. - -- Added mh/code/public/send_alpha_page.pl from David Lounsberry -It uses a linux program called bip to send pages. - -- Bill Birthisel updated CM11.pm to an official CPAN 2.06 version (extended data added). - -- William Steiner found a bug in trivia.pl - -- Fixed a bug with mh_server processing mhsend -run commands. - -- Added File_Item read_all, read_head, and read_tail methods. - -- Added numbers to the FAQ questions. Added a "What are the advantages/disadvantages to the -compiled vesions of mh" question. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.90 posted on 12/12/99 - -Version 1.90 was just uploaded to: - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/mh (for unziped, individual files) - -New Features: - -- Craig Schaeffer added mh/lib/RCS_Item.pm and mh/code/public/rcs.pl, to allow for control -of the RCS TX thermostats. - -- Added the option for internet_mail.pl to run commands via email. -To test it, fill in the new mh.ini net_mail_command_code, then run -'send test e mail', then a little later 'list new e mail'. -See mh/docs/faq.html question 'Can do I send mh comands via email?' for -more info. Thanks to Chris H. for this idea! - -- Added mh/bin/outlook_read and mh/code/Bruce/outlook.pl. This code will -read events from Outlook '97, '98, or 2000 calendars and create a mh code file. -The subject of the calendar entry can be "VCR CH# Show name", "voice_cmd_to_run", -or "message to speak". Run outlook_read -help for more info. - -- Added &Voice_Cmd::said_this_pass and &Voice_Cmd::noise_this_pass so we can get -better feedback from the viavoice VR engine. See mh/code/Bruce/lcdproc.pl -for an example, where I use an LCD to display if a command or noise was detected. -Other minor changes to viavoice_control.pl - -- Added a 'find a command' function to viavoice_control.pl. This lets speak -a word or two of and have mh return a list of all commands that match those words. - -- Added an html log to tracking_bruce.pl. Check out where our cars -have been at http://misterhouse.net:8080/aprs - -- Enabled Bright/Dim, and +-##% when using the X10 Weeder kit interface - -- Added mh.ini date_format parm, so you can pick US mm/dd/yy or non-US dd/mm/yy. -You can also choose 2 year yy or 4 year yyyy formats. - -- Took out hard coded small fonts and put in more html_style mh.ini parms (e.g. html_style_tk). - - -Bug Fixes and Minor Changes: - -- Fixed a http server problem where Netscape would sometimes say 'Document contains no data'. - -- Allow mh.ini parm html_default to be a list of possible default files, rather -than just one (e.g. index.html,index.shtml). - -- Return a web Error page for unrecognized web requests. - -- Return 'not authorized' if someone tries to access web files above the root web directory. - -- Added $New_Week, like $New_Day, $New_Month etc. - -- Added file_cat so we can concatonate data from one file to another. - -- Fixed "What is your uptime?" in mh_control.pl, for linux users. - -- Fixed 2 recently introduced log related bugs with display_callers. - -- Allow for blanks before and after the = in mh.ini files. - - -- Allow for mh objects to be declared without () around the new argument. Either -of these are now allowed: - - $test1 = new Voice_Cmd "Test 1"; - $test1 = new Voice_Cmd("Test 1"); - -Along with this change, mh now requires objects declarations (e.g. new Voice_Cmd) -to start in column 1-3. This is consistant with global 'my' variables. -Unfortunatly, this may break -some code that used to have global objects that were indented. For example, -several objects in the old test_stuff.pl were that way. - -I debated this change for some time, but it seems better to be consistant. -I could see problems with pulling out any/all objects (e.g. eliza object in speak_server.pl). -I can get talked out of it if this is a problem for someone. - -=head2 mh ver 1.89 posted on 11/20/99 - -Version 1.89 was just uploaded to: - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/mh (for unziped, individual files) - -New Features: - -- Added HomeVision support, complements of Ingo Dean. Set the Homevision_port mh.ini parm -to enable. Check mh/code/public/test_homevision.pl for example code. - -- Upgraded viavoice_server to V2.0 SDK. Added instructions in install.html on how to -install viavoice SDK (available free from IBM, for linux only). - -- Added 3 new Voice_Cmd options: $response, $confirm, $vocabulary. These are currently -only used if you are using the viavoice engine, which currently is only available -on linux (you linux guys now have a leg up!). We might be able to add these -new options to the MS VR engine, but I'm not convinced the current MS VR engine is -accurate enough to justify the effort. If you have a linux box running on your -network, you can use the viavoice_server from your windows mh (which is what I am doing). -Another option is maybe we can compile a version of viavoice_server for Wwindows, but -that would not be free. I think IBM sells their windows version of viavoice for around $100. - -- Created mh/code/Bruce/viavoice_control.pl. Using this, you can switch between -'awake', 'asleep', and 'off' modes. Added a bunch of viavoice_* parms to mh.ini -so you can personalize how these modes work. - - -Bug Fixes and Minor Changes: - -- Added an -hour option to get_tv_grid, so you can specify grid times other than the -default of 4 hours. - -- Added -size and -type options to report_weblog. Change -type default from gif to -png. I am a little late to the 'burn all gifs' party! - -- Added a check for an html browser, before displaying the help text. - -- Changed the 3rd argument to logit to be the &time_date_stamp format used. -The default is unchanged 14 (e.g. Mon 04/14/99 14:28:00). - -- Fixed a bug with the new set_with_timer option added last to X10_Item. - -- Added mh.ini sound_program parm. If you are on linux and to not have a sound card -or do not want sound files played, set this to blank. - -- Drop 50 frow/o + from X10_Items. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.87 posted on 11/07/99 - -Version 1.87 was just uploaded to: - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/mh (for unziped, individual files) - -New Features: - -- Added the option to interface to a viavoice_server Voice Recognition server running on linux. -The server (complements of Michael Flaster) currently requires the V1.0 SDK installed. The V2.0 SDK -was just release and probably requires a different executable, so unless you really want to be -bleeding edge, you probably want to wait till Michael and I get the new version up. Mike, -I'll send you a seperate note on how to enable mh to use it and what works and what doesn't. - -- Added Voice_Cmd 'phrase enumeration' with {} (e.g. {tell me the time,what time is it}). -Unlike the existing 'state enumeration' with [] (e.g. [on,off]), you can -have as many phrase enumeration groups as you want. Examples are in mh.html and in -http://misterhouse.net/mh/code/examples/Voice_Cmd_enumeration.pl . - -- Extended X10 Preset Dim commands are now supported, if you have the CM11 interface and a compatible (LM14A) module. -You can send them directly, like XA1&P64 (set unit A1 to Preset level 64), or use the new X10_Item ##% state. -Examples are in http://misterhouse.net/mh/code/examples/x10_preset_dim.pl . Also look for "Preset Dim" in mh.html. - -- Added a set_with_timer X10_Item and X10_Appliance method. This idea is complements of Craig. Examples are in mh.html. - -- Added $Reread. This is true on the first pass after a Reload(F1) request. Unlike $Reload -which is is true only if one or more code members changed, $Reread is always true on a Reload request. -Using $Reread, you can create events to quickly re-read input -files without restarting mh (e.g. the tracking.pl position file). - -- Added mh.ini time_format=24 option, for our non-US buddies. - - -Bug Fixes and Minor Changes: - -- Moved X10_xx items from Serial_Item.pm to X10_Items.pm. - -- Allow for X10_Item brighten levels to work without the '+' sign (e.g. 50 instead of +50). - -- Fixed a mh.exe bug with get_url ('port not specified' message). - -- Fixed a recent bug that caused Serial_Item not to start after being stopped. - -- Fixed a get_weather bug where conditions were not always retreived. - -- Used the mh.ini data_dir in get_tv_info, instead of the hardcoded mh/data. - -- Closed an file handle in Display. - -- Added code/public/weather from Ernie Oporto - -- Added code/Bruce/tracking_bruce.pl. This is a subset of Brian's mh/public/Brian/tracking.pl code that -just does GPS tracking. - -- Renamed the convert_wind_direction to convert_direction (since we can use it in the gps tracking code also). - -- Updated to the latest version of Geo::WeatherNOAA.pm, used by get_weather. - -- Changed time/date format of logit (uses 24 hour time and includes seconds and year). -If anyone wants the old format back, let me know and we can put in an option. - -- renamed file_change to file_changed (and granfathered in old name) and added file_unchanged. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.83 posted on 10/09/99 - -Version 1.83 was just uploaded to: - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/mh (for unziped, individual files) - -New Features: - -- Added mh.ini password_protect=all option. If this is used, and mh/bin/set_password has -been run, none of the mh web pages will be displayed unless you have entered the password. - -- Added mh.ini max_log_entries, to control how many entries are shown in the web print and speak logs. - -- Updated the FireCracker CM17.pm module to allow for numeric bright/dim (e.g. "set light to +50"). -As noted in the mailing list earlier this week, the CM17 only supports one DIM and BRIGHT command, -so we have to run a loop in CM17.pm. Each CM17 command takes about 1 second, and it takes 7 DIM/BRIGHTS -to cover the whole range, so a +95 will cause mh to pause for about 7 seconds. - -- Updated mh/code/Bruce/phone.pl and mh/bin/display_callers so they search mh.ini caller_id_file data also. - - -Bug Fixes and Minor Changes: - -- Re-fixed the DB_file compile bug in handy_utilites, introduced in 1.82. - -- Updated Serial_Item.pm so it works with mh/code/public/rcstx15.pl again. - -- Fixed test on zero length xcmd_files. - -- Fixed a bug in time_date_stamp format 13. - -- Added dbm_read function, for reading just one record from a dbm. - -- Added mh/code/public/Nick. This is the code we set up for my son Nick's room. - -- Refreshed CM11.pm and CM17.pm to from CPAN and moved from mh/lib/site/HomeAutomation to mh/lib/site/ControlX10. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.82 posted on 10/02/99 - -Version 1.82 was just uploaded to: - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/mh (for unziped, individual files) - -New Features: - -- Added X10_Item interface field, so you can specify if which X10 device you want to use to control that item. - -- Allow for serial port sharing. For example, you can put the CM11 and CM17 (ActiveHome and FireCracker) -interfaces on the same port. - -- Changed logit_dbm and display_callers from SDBM_file to DB_file. This is a more reliable DBM storage format. -If you have been using display_callers or have your own DB file that used the logit_dbm function, you will -need to convert to the new format using http://misterhouse.net/public/dbm_sdbm_to_db - -- Added a search_dbm function. Updated mh/code/Bruce/phone.pl and mh/bin/display_callers to use it. -Using this, we can quickly search for the phone number of anyone who has ever called us, using a part of their -name or phone number (e.g. area code). - - -Bug Fixes and Minor Changes: - -- Updated mh/phone/phone.area_codes.txt (thanks Bill!) - -- Exposed CallerID.pm names and states arrays. - -- Fixed 'use lib' with mh.exe bug in get_tv_grid and set_password. - -- Fixed a bug with the file 'copy' function when run from mh.exe - -- Changed file_change to return undef when first called. So it returns 1 if the -file has changed, 0 if it has unchanged, and undef it we don't know (because mh just started). - -- Minor bug fix in processing of a get_email_rule.pl rule. - -- Updated mh.exe to latest Activestate build (520) - -- The new release of ActiveState perl, build 520, has a new function for -volume control: Win32::Sound::Volume($left, $right). So those of you with that build -or those using mh.exe can try this function. I found it didn't work as -documented ( http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/docs/lib/site/Win32/Sound.html ) -Looks to me like the sound range is from 0 to 255), and it would always zero out -the right channel. If we can get this to work, we can add in a volume_stub to speak -so we can support different volume levels. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.79 posted on 09/26/99 - -Version 1.79 was just uploaded to: - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/mh (for unziped, individual files) - -New Features: - -- Buffer incoming X10 data so that multi-keyed events can be processed, -one keystroke per pass. For more info, see the mailing list thread "missed" X10 signals. - -- Added mhsend and mhsend_server.pl. These are a more flexible replacement for the speak_server.pl code. -They allow you to send data to mh over the intra/internet. Data can be logged, filed, spoken, displayed, -or run. Password authorization is the same as for web pages. - -- Added -mail_to option to get_tv_grid. If specified (see http://misterhouse.net/mh/code/test/tv_grid.pl for an example), -it will email the default tv web page so you can have the current TV schedule in your html -compatible inbox. - -- Allow control of Reload and Error sounds in mh.ini. - -- Added sound_dir to mh.ini, so you can point to your own directory of wav files. - -- Added sendkeys_find_window. It adds the option of starting a program if its window is -not found. See mh.html or http://misterhouse.net/mh/code/test/internet_mail.pl - -- Another example of how to use SendKeys to send/receive mail -with Outlook and Outlook Express in mh/code/test/internet_mail.pl - -- Add mh.ini password_allow_clients parm so we can specify intranet boxes that do not -require password protection. - - - -Bug Fixes and Minor Changes: - -- Added a note on the Windows 98 DCOM update to install.html and faq.html. - -- Added 2 missing .gifs to the TV web pages. Re-enabled the detailed program discriptions -from the clicktv site. Unfortunatly, I'm not sure how to get the Javascript popup windows re-enabled. -The web pages I download do not use PDetail javascript subroutine. - -- Enabled the get_tv_grid -label option. Default it to - -- Fixed a bug where web pages would keep waiting when running events that do not respond with spoken or displayed data. - -- Fixed the 'command not found' bug that Bill Birthisel noticed at startup. - -- Added a check for bad data in code/mh_temp.saved_states. - -- Fixed a bug where web links to commands with _ in them would not work. - -- Changed set_password, set_clock, get_tv_grid, get_weather, -and display_calls to use the new mh.ini data_dir and html_dir parms. - -- Save state of debug flag between code reloads. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.77 posted on 09/17/99 - -Version 1.77 was just uploaded to: - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/mh (for unziped, individual files) - -New Features: - -- Added Socket_Item is_available and set_port methods, so we can have mh make sure various -socket ports are up (see http://misterhouse.net/mh/code/Bruce/monitor_mh.pl for an example). -Don't tell the 'script kiddies' about it or they will use it as a port scanner. - -- On Windows, there are two new functions that can be used for controlling other applications. -WaitForAnyWindow and SendKeys are new functions exported from a perl module called Win32::Setupsup. -Full documentation is in mh/lib/site/Win32/Setupsup.html, but most of what you need to know can -be gleaned from the function descriptions in mh.html. Examples can be found in -http://misterhouse.net/mh/code/test/ members -mp3_control and test_stuff.pl (tests o and p) - - - -Bug Fixes, small changes: - -- Fixed the CM17 bug that Bill Birthisel found. Also moved CM11.pm to the lib/site/HomeAutomation/X10 directory. - -- Fixed a bug where blanks in '# Category=my category' directives messed up web pages listings. - -- Changed the Tk Command menu items so it will not list empty groups. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.75 posted on 09/12/99 - -Version 1.75 was just uploaded to: - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/mh (for unziped, individual files) - -Here is what's changed: - -- Added a data_dir parm, and renamed html_root to html_dir (html_root will still work). As outlined at the -top of mh.ini, changing code_dir, data_dir, and web_dir should be enough to keep your files seperate from -the mh distribution, for easier upgrades. - -- Changed the mh/web/mh_chaz and mh/web/mh2. Renamed the old page from mh_default to mh1. You -can play/change with the different web pages by pointing to: - - http://localhost:8080/mh_chaz - http://localhost:8080/mh1 - http://localhost:8080/mh2 - -Or you can edit your mh.ini html_dir parm and hit Reload, then refresh your browser window. - -mh2 is a combination of the old mh1 interface with some of the nifty new stuff that Charles has in -mh_chaz. Thanks to Charles for his expert web work! - -- Added mp3_control.pl for controlling mp3 songs. On Windows it uses wactrl.exe from David Kindred. -We should be able to find a linux player we can control from the command line in a similar way. If -not we can compile the new perl MP3 module. - -- Improved, but didn't fully fix the memory lead on Reload problem. I (painfully) tracked this -down to a Tk Menu problem and the perl Tk author is taking a look at it. -Until that is fixed, if you are doing frequent code reloads, you may want to turn off the pull down menus -by editing the 3 tk_* parms in your mh.ini or run with: - - mh -tk_items 0 -tk_commands 0 tk_groups 0 - -Items uses the most memory, so just turning that one off will probably be enough. On my box with -tk_items 0, mh leaks about -200k per reload, it costs me 2 meg per 10 reloads. - -- Added mh/docs/faq.html (and faq.txt). Added/changed a few items from when it was first posted a few weeks ago. - -- Added $Holiday. See mh.ini holiday_dates parm. - -- Added mh.ini html_style option. Use this to change mh web pages colors and fonts. - -- Added mh/bin/alpha_page from Craig Schaeffer - -- Some more homebase updates. Bob and I are closing in on getting this working. - -- Some SerialPort and CM17/CM11 updates. Bill Birthisel is kindly going through all the work to preparing the -CM17/CM11 modules for eventual upload to a new perl CPAN HomeAutomation::X10 directory. - -- Updated get_tv_grid to work with the new click.tv pages. It now also deletes old shows from the dbm database. - -- mh/web/mh_default/test bar graphs were pointing to the wrong directory, so the color from the one dot gif did not show. - -- Changed the Reload and Error sounds to use mh/sound/sound_click1 and sound_beep1. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.71 posted on 08/29/99 - -Version 1.71 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - -Here is what's changed: - -- Added support for 4x20 LCD interface with keypad. I've just started using it, but this looks -like it will be a really handy, inexpensive ($100) way to query/display mh data. See mh/code/Bruce/lcdproc.pl -and/or the hardware section of mh.html for more information. - -- Added support for the $30 IRman receiver. mh/code/Bruce/irman.pl shows how to program a database -for your IR, and how to set a Generic_Item that you can then use to trigger events in any code -member. See irman.pl and/or mh.html for more info. - -- Added support for .pl web files. Like 'cgi' programs, this allows us to generate html on the fly, -that reflects the status of various mh items. For a few examples, try -http://misterhouse.net:8080/mh_default/test/test_stuff.shtml . Brian Klier has another example in -mh/web/examples/statuspanel.pl - -- Added set_dtr set_rts methods to Serial_Item. See irman.pl for an example. - -- Added a Process_Item set method, so the Process_Item program and/or arguments can be set/changed -after mh startup. See mh/code/Bruce/reports.pl and/or mh.html for an example. - -- Fixed the Log(F5) option, so it correctly toggles on and off. Useful if you want to turn logging -on for just a bit, then turn it off again. - -- Fixed get_email and display_callers so they work when mh.private.ini is pointed to with ENV var mh_parms. - -- Disabled Serial_Item state_now results for the first few passes after startup. This way we can -initialize Serial Items at startup and not get false triggers. - -- Added mh/code/test/startup_msg.pl to give a few pointers to first time mh users. - -- I just noticed a resource leak when doing code reloads. About 6% of windows resources (per the Win98 resource meter) -on each reload! I'm suspect this bug has been with us a for a few releases. I'll try to fix it next time round. Till -then, best restart mh about every 10 reloads or so. - -- More Homebase.pm debug. Bob, I'll send a seperate note to you on this. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.69 posted on 08/01/99 - -Version 1.69 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - -Heres what's changed: - -- Fixed the run bug that Craig found, introduced in 1.68. - -- Added status option. For those with CM11 and the newer, smarter, more expensive queriable X10 modules -(e.g. PLM21 lamp module). Now you can send periodic 'set $my_light STATUS' and it will set the state -of the item, so you can account for manual control of lights. Thanks to Brandon for starting the work on this one! - - -=head2 mh ver 1.68 posted on 07/31/99 - -Version 1.68 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - -Heres what's changed: - -- Some new HomeBase subroutines to test. Bob, copy mh/code/Bruce/test_homebase.pl into your code dir -and try the various tests. I have very little confidence in any of them, but they should give us a place -to start debuging. The documentation I have is very poor, so if you can dig up anything better, -that would help. - -- Added html_reponse method last_displayed (see previous posts and/or mh.html). - -- Added Charles C.'s javascript to the mh/web/mh_default/category.shtml. The only example that uses it is the -'deep thought' button. - -- Added mh.ini allow_password_file and mh/data/password_allow. This gives those of us who password protect -our web pages (with mh/bin/set_password) the option of allowing specific command and/or items to not -be password protected. For example, anyone can click on the 'display the next deep though' on my web page -at http://misterhouse.net:8080 - -- Bill Birthisel updated Device/SerialPort.pm so should now load OK even on Unix boxes without the proper .ph files. - -- Added some new small sounds in mh/sounds. mh will now bypass logging the wave file name in the speak -log if the name of the file starts with sound_*. These are ment to be short, frequent sounds. - -- Added mh/code/test/monitor_server.pl. This code will make a clicking sound whenever anyone hits on the -misterhouse web server. It also can announce new clients. There is also a new local_addresses mh.ini parm -so this code can distinguish between local hits and external hits. - -- Added mh/bin/monitor_weblog, which does the same sort of monitoring as above, but it monitors an Apache -server log, rather than the MisterHouse web server. This can run on a different box, as it passes the -hit info to MisterHouse via the speak_server port. - -- Added mh/bin/report_weblog, and mh/code/Bruce/reports.pl. This code generates gif graphs that reflect -how many hits and clients Apache and/or Misterhouse logs shows. It can optionally email the graphs. - For an example of the graphs, check out: http://misterhouse.net/report_weblog.html - -- Added a mh.ini browser parm and enabled the tk Help button (brings up mh.html). - -- Log files now include startup info (e.g. program version). - -- Added mh/bin/test_cm* scripts for testing CM11 (Activehome) and CM17 (Firecracker) X10 interfaces -stand alone, without mh. - -- Fix a bug that disabled the DOS console controls. - -- Fixed a bug with run if the full pathname to the program was specified. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.65 posted on 07/22/99 - -Version 1.65 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - -Heres what's changed: - -- Enabled the Firecracker CM17 interface on both Unix and Windows. Much thanks to Bill Birthisel for his -efforts in updating the SerialPort modules! If you know of someone who wants cheap one-way (transmitting) control -with X10, they can still get the $6 deal at http://www.x10.com/free_fire.htm The "offer ends at midnight" is the standard -X10 ploy which typically last for months. Also handy if you want wireless control from a laptop (it transmits commands -to an RF receiver). - -- If you have password protection on (i.e. you have run the mh/bin/set_password program), the web speak log and print_log -files will now require authorization. You can change it back to allowing anyone to view those logs by blanking out the -new mh.ini password_protect option. - -- You can now use 'server side include' directives in your web html, to allow better control of the mh generated lists. -Charles, this wasn't exactly the function you asked for, but I thought it would us more control and be more secure -than allowing functions to be passed in via the url name. If you still see benefit in what you originally asked for, -or think of something else useful as you design your mh web page, let me know. See the 'include file' string in -mh_default/category.html and/or the mh.html docs for an example. Note: the files must have a .shtml extension for this to work. - -- Moved the default web files from mh/web/mh to mh/web/mh_default. As before, you can create your own web files and point -to them with mh.ini html_* parms. - -- Added a state method to voice_cmd (see previous post to this list and/or the mh.html doc). - -- Created mh/code/Bruce/shoutcast.pl to monitor the coming and going of listeners to any shoutcast server you have -a password for. Shoutcast servers (available on many platforms from http://shoutcast.com) stream live audio from -winamp players. I often have one running at my house if you want to stop by and say hello at http://misterhouse.net/speak/ -Using my microphone, I can respond to any comments you might type in. - -- Made the debug messages in HomeBase.pm conditional. - -- Speed up the processing of unbuffered socket data. Telnet sessions to mh (telnet localhost 1234) are now much faster. - -- Fixed a SET_VAR bug with strings that had blanks in them (introduced in 1.63). - -- Fixed a get_tv_grid bug where it would mess up the 'set the vcr' name for the show. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.63 posted on 07/05/99 - -Version 1.63 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - -Guess who stayed home over the 4th :) - -Two really nifty new functions with this version. A 'chatbot' speak server, and -a searchable TV database. I also finished the mh.html document. - -Here is the detailed list: - -- Modifed get_tv_grid to create DBM database files of TV show times and content. - -- Added get_tv_info to query the tv DBM files. After visting the clicktv.com site -and personalizing your listing, update clicktv_id in your mh.private.ini with your id. -Then create/update your databse by running something like: - - get_tv_grid -hour all -days 2 - - If you already have been running this, you can use the mh/web/tv/clicktv - files already downloaded and quickly update the database with: - - get_tv_grid -hour all -days 2 -redo - - You can then run a test search with something like this: - - get_tv_info -channels 4 - get_tv_info -keys dilbert - - Now you can search the database using the voice commands or - tk entry widget setup by mh/test/tv_info.pl. - -- The get_tv_* programs use the DB_File DBM, rather than the built in SDBM_File DBM. The good news is that -DB_File works (SDBM_File has a bug under windows and is in general slow and flaky). -The bad news it is not installed by default. Those -of you who are not running the compiled versions of mh will need to run: - - On windows: ppm install DB_file - - On unix: > perl -MCPAN -eshell - cpan> install DB_file - - -- Modified speak_server.pl. You can how used it to process HTML FORM data directly, -without a real web server. It is seperate server from the mh http server (on a different -port), so you can control authentication on it differently. You can password -protect the rest of the mh web server functions, but allow people to talk to you -via the net without a password. For an example, come say hello to us at: - - http://misterhouse.net:8080/speak/index.html - -To enable this, copy speak_server.pl to your code dir, edit mh/web/speak/speak.html to point your IP -address (localhost will work also) and match the port with the entry in mh.ini (the default -is now 8082) and then point your browser to: - - http://localhost:8080/speak/index.html - -This also has a 'ChatBot' option, so you can program your house to talk back :) The rules are in -mh/data/eliza/*.txt. - -- I finally finished filling in the blanks for all the Items, Variables, Functions, and -Companion Programs in the mh.html/mh.txt documents. I'm sure the description of much -of mh still leaves much to be desired, but its a start and it has plenty of examples. - - -- Allow for a simple mode of calling the play function. Also included a sample wav file -( try 'How do you pronounce MisterHouse' from mh/test/hello_play.pl). Changed the default -so that the play process will fork under linux (i.e. mh does not wait for -sound file to finish playing). - -- Added more smarts to the net_domain_name function. See mh.html for details and examples. - -- Move html_escape function into the http server, so you no longer need to call it to clean -up html SET_VAR results. - -- Fixed the get_tv_grid Copy.PM proglem and added a -label option so you can change -'Set the VCR' to whatever html you want. - -- Updated CM11.pm so that when it resets after a power fail, it sends -the correct time, rather than a bogus 0 time. - -- Fixed a bug in the file_head function. - -- Added a flag option to the File_Item set_watch method (used in code/test/tv_info.pl). - -- Added a %Tk_results hash, so we can use Tk entry items better. See tk_entry in mh.html for details. - -=head2 mh ver 1.61 posted on 06/27/99 - -Version 1.61 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - -Here is a list of this months changes: - -- Fixed a bug where various files were not allowed to be changed while mh was running (forgot to close some file handles). - -- Fixed a bug where X10 Appliance states were not saved. - -- Fixed a bug that caused a timer action to be duplicated, if the timer was reset. - -- Include File::Copy so get_tv_grid works for everyone. - -- Allow for multiple DNS servers. - -- Added &html_unescape function, to decode HTML FORM data. Here is an example: - - if ($Save{web_text1}) { - my $msg = "Internet message: " . &html_unescape($Save{web_text1}); - speak $msg; - &display($msg, 120, 'webcam text'); # 120 seconds till autoclose - $Save{web_text1} = ''; - } - -- Fixed it so the compiled versions no longer have to be started from the mh/bin directory. - -- Allow for a mh_parms enviromental variable. See the mh.ini header for examples on syntax. -This allows you to have your 'mh.private.ini' file wherever you want. -If you also specify the mh.private.ini code_dir parm, you should be able to -keep all of your personalized mh stuff seperate from the standard distribution. Hopfully this will -make upgrading as simple as unziping the new distribution. - -- Added a 'state' link on the default 'By Object Type' section of the web page. This allows you to view -the current state of various items. This is less noisy than the normal list that shows all possible states. - -- Added support for the new CM17 X10 interface (aka firecracker). Not very useful, as it Currently only works on Windows, -it is slow (2-3 seconds per command), and it is transmit only. But it is cheap :) ($6 from x10.com). - -- Modified the syntax of the optional html_response directive for the RUN, SET, and SET_VAR html commands. -Also added the option of having the html reponse be a user defined function. See mh.html for more info. - -- Moved Brian Klier's code from mh/code/public to mh/code/public/Brian. Added Mike M's webcam code. -I'd be happy to distribute any other code, for those brave enough :) - -=head2 mh ver 1.58 posted on 06/20/99 - -Version 1.58 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - -Here is a list of this months changes: - -- Fix uptime on linux (was counting down, thanks Matt!). - -- Fixed a get_tickcount problem that caused uptime to count down after 25 days on windows (thanks Craig!). -Windows still has the problem of rolling over its counter after 49 days. - -- Fix 'data=165' CM11 problem that Matt found. The documentation said you had to download a macro -to turn off this power-fail indicator, but that did not work. Reseting the CM11 clock, however, does the trick. - -- Store the IP address of clients. For example, the address from the last -web access is in $Socket_Ports{http}{client_ip_address}. - -- Added the DNS_server mh.ini parm and the &net_domain_name function. This allows us to look up the -domain name of any IP address. - -- Allow for different html responses to the html RUN and SET commands. The response can be a string, contents of a file, -or the last spokent text. For example: - -
  • +50 - -will return the contents of mh/web/test/test3.html after running the command 'WebCam light brighten'. -See 'Customizing the Web Interface' section of mh.html for more examples. - -- Allow for setting of variables directly from html. -This allows us to specify web widgets indpendently of tk widgets. For example: - -
    Test 1: - -- Change the debug flag. It now indicates the category of debug, rather than just everything on or off. For -example, set debug to serial to see serial port debug. - -- Took blanks out of the timer categories string, so they work on from the web interface. - -- Changed web page so it only list categories that have commands (i.e. empty categores will not be listed). - -- Changed how the new TV schedule is loaded in tv_grid.pl. The old read_user_code method would sometimes cause a perl abend. - -=head2 mh ver 1.56 posted on 05/30/99 - -Version 1.56 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - http://misterhouse.net/house/programs/index.html - -Here is a list of this months changes: - -- Got a new domain name! misterhouse.net. Thanks to Jon for helping me set this up. This is via -a cable modem to a linux box in my house. It has a limited upload data rate, so you probably want to -download large files from one of the other 3 servers. - -- The files are packaged differently now. A mh_src_156, mh_win_156, and mh_linux_156. Everyone will want -the mh_src_156 file. The other 2 files contain only the compiled files, required for those who do -not have perl installed. The compiled linux version -is new, but other than an error on exiting, seems to be working OK. - -- Fix a get_email bug that caused it to re-announce old, unreceived email as new email. Also -changed get_email so it will not list blank names, as filtered by get_email_rule.pl - -- Cleaned up some net_mail_login errata. - -- Updated mh.exe to SerialPort 0.15, Tk to 8.014, and perl to 5.005_003 build 517. - -- Added a check that freezes the current time, if the system clock was set back in time. mh keeps processing real time -events, but it will not re-trigger timed events. When the real time catches up to the time mh was at, normal mode resumes. -This fixes the problem of events re-triggering after a call to set_clock, where the pc clock was adjusted back in time. - -- Added -time_start, -time_stop, and time_increment options. This allows you to debug time events in a simulated fast mode. -For example, the following will simulate one days worth of events (takes about 3 minutes on my box), with a default -of -time_increment 60 (60 seconds per loop). There are more examples in mh.html. - - mh -time_start 0 -time_stop 24 -voice_text 0 - -- Fixed Cpu Used %, uptime, and loops per second meters for linux users. Also added 'Memory Used' -(only for linux ... I don't know how to do that for windows). Never guess who has finially gotten -his linux box up and running and has been reading proc manpages :) - -- Added web widgets. All the tk_xxx widgets (except the tk_button widget) - will be echoed to a 'widgets' frame. The default html file, mh\web\mh\index_1.html -has been modified to include this frame. - -- Added an index in the mh/code/public/README.txt, and added 2 examples on how to send pages using a modem from Brian and Jeff -and Brian's house code, which includes examples on how to run Winamp. - -- Added test_stuff.pl. Try entering 'a', 'b', 'c', ... etc in the 'Test 1' Tk widget field to run these tests. -The idea is that you can easily test a chunk of code by adding another elseif section. - -- Added a generic tk_entry, inspired by Charles wakeup_time tk widget. When running test_stuff.pl, try -entering 'g' on the tk 'Test input 1' for a demo, and watch the tk 'Test out' widget for the results. - -- Allow mh.ini tk_geometry updates on Reload. This was working before, but was broken in a recent release. - -- Documented time_* functions, and Serial_Item a bit more. - - - -=head2 mh ver 1.54 posted on 04/27/99 - -Version 1.54 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - -- Fix the 'killing run process' errata on mh exit (Craig Schaeffer bug # 1). - -- Fix a bug where mh would exit if a process_item was re-started before a previous process for that item had -finished (Craig Schaeffer bug # 2). - -- Play a wav file only once on linux (thanks to Kevin P. for that fix). - -- Added tk_checkbutton widget (see docs and/or tk_widgets.pl for an example). - -- Allow for house code (one character) X10_Items. These translate to ALL_ON and ALL_OFF commands. - -- Change the mult-X10 event check, so it checks for 2 and 4 character X10 events. - -- Decode and store incomming CM11 dim/bright codes. You can set up Serial_Items to trigger off of the dim -amount. This also fixes the Craig Schaeffer bug # 3 he found in mh 1.52. - -- Switched to the latest version of the Serial_Port.pm code. SerialPort_Linux.pm renamed to SerialPort.pm. - -- mh.exe is built with the latest version of perl (5.005_03 build 515). I don't think this causes -any noticble changes or fixes anything in mh, but it is 'the latest and greatest' :) - -- Add a -cgi option to display_callers, so it can be called from a web server. Not fully implemented yet. - -- A http server log is created for each month, in the data/logs directory. - -- Turn on command buffering when using -log, so the log is always up to date. - -- Allow for unlimited number of server#_ports - -- Add server_name_buffer parm, so you can allow for buffered socket ports. - -- Add server_speak example to mh.ini, and code/test. You can use this to pass text to speak into mh -via a socket port. An example is in the speak.cgi script, which can be called by a perl enabled -web server and/or tested with the speak.cgi.bat script. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.51 posted on 03/27/99 - -Version 1.51 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs/index.html - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/index.html - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/index.html - -Once again, a ton of changes/fixes/updates: - -- Yet one last fix to time_now. It now correctly handles day boundaries with offsets. - -- Fixed the 'said $serial_object' method so it no longer drops records. - -- Fixed the web authentication so it works with IE 3.0 and IE 5.0. - -- Fixed the Process_Item hang on exit problem! For those of you who are into gory details, -I discovered that you can not kill unfinished .BAT files (command.com) Win32::Processes, but -kill works fine on other programs (e.g. no kill on get_url.bat, but we CAN kill 'mh.exe -run get_url' -or 'perl get_url'). So, I put in code that bypasses most bat files when called with Process_Item. -If anyone still gets a hang on exit, note the names of the unfinished processes it was trying to kill. - -- Moved the 'check email' function from get_internet_mail.pl into a stand alone get_mail script. This allows -us to call get_mail with a Process_Item and not have mh hang when checking email. - -- Added a &net_ping function and use it in the functions called by get_mail, so it doesn't waste much time -on trying to get to in-accessable mail accounts. - -- Fixed a bug in phone display_callers script so it can be called from mh with 'do' rather than 'run' (much faster). - -- Completely changed how the tk windows are created. You can now customize the tk windows by modifying the -tk_frame.pl and tk_widgets.pl members. Details are in the 'customizing the Tk interface' section of mh.html. - -- Added a tk mail flag widget to code/Bruce/internet_mail.pl so you can see how much mail is in various mailboxes. - -- Added code/Bruce/tk_eye.pl. This adds one of those nifty 'live eye' type displays to the menu bar, so you can visually see -mh running. It also has a 'opps, I fell asleep' checks in it, so we can log when mh gets hung up on something. Should -be much less frequent now that get_mail is forked. - -- Added code/bruce/weather_wx200.pl. This code parses the data from a WX200 or WM918 weather station. -$200->$300 from Radio Shack and other places, it does indoor/outdoor temp, humidity, barom. pressure, and wind speed/dir. -Also added some tk widgets to code/Bruce/weather_monitor.pl. - -- Fixed bux on speak "rooms=all $text" when $text was muli-lined. - -- Rename the temp files in the code dir from -*- to mh_temp.* (e.g. mh_temp.user_code). - -- Added a file_head, file_tail, file_read, and file_write functions (see mh.html). - -- Added a log_format option to logit (see mh.html). - -- Added a serial#_datatype mh.ini parm. A datatype of 'raw' allows mh to better process binary datastreams. - -- Added mhl.bat (dos users) and mhl (unix users). The 'l' suffix is for loop. -These shells loop if mh had a non-normal exit, so mh will be restarted if it somehow accidentally dies. - - -Next up ... I'm not sure. Guess we will find out in a few weeks :) - - -=head2 mh ver 1.46 posted on 03/12/99 - -Version 1.46 was just uploaded to: - - http://members.home.net/winters/house/programs - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/ - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/ - -Lots of changes: - -- Fixed the XD1DJ -vs- XD1 XDJ problem. mh will now break up XD1DJ into XD1 XDJ and form XD1 XDJ into XD1DJ. -It decides to break or merge by looking at what events are defined. See code/examples/x10_multievent_tests.pl for an example. -Note, the later (forming seperate stirngs into one event) occurs over a 5 second window, -so you can use this to create multi-key X10 keypad events. - -- Simulate incoming serial data from Tk cmd window or xcmd file (e.g. type house XA1AJ to turn on X10 light A1) - -- Fixed get_tv_grid so it will refresh old (last month's) data. - -- Fixed the typo in get_url and allowed it to work with proxies. - -- Fixed the 'Charles bug', where mh would hang when transmiting commands (like C1 DIM-30) that had a checksum -that matched the X10 'data to send' string 0xa5. Also limit the number of times we loop through the retry code. - -- Fixed the 'Craig bug' in str2time that messed up time arithmetic with minutes :08 and :09 because -they looked like illegal octal numbers (e.g. time_now("11:08 + 0:01"). Also added -more error checking so it is clear when there is a problem. - -- Fixed the 'Craig2 bug' in time_now where it would not trigger if mh was busy doing something else (like -an internet mail check) on a minute boundary. I checked all the other time related tests and it looked -like this was the only one that was broken. - -- Fixed the 'Craig3 bug' where state_now was not turned on when mh was sending serial item states. - -- mh IS exposed to the 49.7 day bug (2**32 milliseconds) that has been in the news lately: -http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33117,00.html?st.ne.ni.rel . -If you manage to keep windows running for that long, mh should be restarted. As a quick fix, I just put in a -'better restart' warning if uptime > 48 days. If windows ever gets reliable to stay up that long, I'll put in a better fix. -Hmmm, now that we are running on linux as well, I should give this some more serious thought :) - -- Seperated the timer_kitchen code into seconds, minutes, and hours members for better control and more -managable menus. Complements of Lee McLaren. Also changed the seconds timer as an example of how -to use local objects, so we -can easily create simultaneous timers. The down side to this is that these timers are not saved between -reloads, since all local objects are destroyed. Because of this, I left the minutes and hours timers -as global, so they are 'one at a time, but saved' timers. - -- Added a mh.ini seasons parm so our southern buddies can be backwards :) Also put in the standard dates -for season changeover. On the average, it is right, but it will be off by a day every once and a while. -If anyone has forumlas for equinox and/or 'phase of the moon' calculations, let me know. - -- Documented mh.ini time_zone and longitude parms better (should always both be positive). - -- Added a mh.ini option to save the my 'process ID' to a file, so you can easily send mh signals (like 'reload code'). - -- Updated the uptime and %cpu used indicators so they work under linux. - -- Reset window size/position on reload only if the mh.ini tk_geometry parm was changed. - -- Modified internet_mail.pl so it can check for multiple email accounts. See mh.ini on how -to define as many accounts as you want. - -- Added Serial_Item methods stop, start, is_stopped, and is_available. See mh.html and/or code/examples/serial_port_examples.pl. -Brian had the good idea of trying to share a dial out modem with mh caller-id monitoring function. Hopefully these new -methods will enable that. - -- Brian Klier added code/public/phone_callerid.pl. It will allow your internet/data modem to also be used by mh -for callerid function. Brian is still working on it, but it mostly works. - -- Included the display_callers program. This tk window will display outgoing and incoming phone info. Incoming as logged by callerid code -(see Brian's code for a modem example and bruce/code/phone.pl for a weeder callerid kit example) and outgoing call monitoring -(see bruce/code/phone.pl, which uses the weeder phone tone monitoring kit). - -- Allow for more than 2 generic serial ports. Defined as many serial#_ mh.ini parms as you want. Also, if the port -is in use when mh is started, you can use 'start $serial_item' to start it later after the port frees up. - -- Errors on code reloads will put relevent errata to a tk popup. With -tk 0, it will remain in the console where it has -always been. Unfortunatly, this error errata is not always useful/relevant, but it is sometimes useful. - -- Added a 'mode' option to speak, so you can force speech even if mh is in mute or offline mode. See speak section -of mh.html and code/test/mh_control.pl $mh_mode as an example (it toggles between modes with an X10 keypush) - -Unfixed bugs: - -- I tried to fix the 'hang after bye bye' on exit problem, but no luck. It is caused by a 'get_url' Process_Item -that does not finish. The time-out feature does not work on Windows, nor does the 'process kill' function. Not -a problem on linux, where killing things is easy. - - -Next up, programable Tk widgets. I know, thats what I said last time ... this time I mean it :) - -=head2 mh ver 1.42 posted on 02/26/99 - -Version 1.42 was just uploaded to: - - http://misterhouse.webjump.com/ - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/ - - -- The SerialPort abend with the 1.40 compiled mh.exe is fixed. I messed it up for just the compiled version when -I added some debug for the HomeBase.pm code. I also added some more errata so it is clearer where the problem -is if this type of problem happens again. - -- The memory leak problem is fixed. It occured only if you were lucky enough to put a tab character in the -wrong place in object add records. - -- The web server will now default to being not authorized. - -- The get_url program was changed so that it will now timeout after 2 minutes. If mh was exited and -a get_url process had not finished, perl was SUPPOSED to kill the process, but I had problem with it -waiting for get_url to finish (which it sometimes never would). It would be better if the 'kill on exit' -worked, but allowing it to time out is at least a bit better than hanging on exit. - - - -=head2 mh ver 1.40 posted on 02/20/99 - -- The web page can now (optionally) require password authentication to function, like the telnet.pl server does. -See the mh.html Authentication section for more details. - -- Allow search commands to also match on filenames - -- Added new Group item. Thanks to Craig for this suggestion! This shows up on both the Tk menu and the web interface. -See mh.html and code/test/test_x10.pl for examples. - -- Added a Tk items menu. If you have many items, this can slow the mh startup down a by a few seconds and add -another Meg to the mh memory useage, so I made this menu optional. If you don't think you will use -this menu much, you may want to set tk_items=0 in mh.private.ini file. - -- code/public/tracking.pl now is configurable with parms in the mh.ini. This code is for anyone with a ham radio -receiver and a 'tnc' (radio modem). It tracks, logs, announces radio annoucements, weather data, and gps -position data. Those with a ham licence can add a gps unit to your car and have your house track and announce -where you are! I just got my ham licence :) Thanks to Brian for writing this one! - -- Added bin/get_slashdot_news program and code/test/internet_slashdot.pl. This gets/displays/reads the most -recent news titles from the popular slashdot.com web site. Thanks to David for writing this one! - -- Added a Process_Item object. This allows mh to start and stop a detached program. Most importantly, it also -allows my to test for when the detached program is finished. On Windows systems, the Win32::Process -function is used, on Unix the fork function is used. In either case, the mh methods are the same. See -internet_slashdot.pl and 'get top 10 list' in internet_data.pl for examples. - -- Added get_url command, so we can get use Process_Item to get any internet web page in a background process. -See "get top 10 list" in internet_data.pl for an example. - -- Added the global $Reload and $OS_win variables. $Reload is true for the event pass after a 'reload code' -event. It is also true when $Startup is true, when mh is first started. - -- Fixed a bug where the initial Tk Cmd list would not respond to a double-click - - -I didn't get the customizable Tk widgets added yet. Also, I couldn't find any way to play compressed -wave files on linux, so I didn't include any wav files. Uncompressed wav files are just too big. - - -=head2 mh ver 1.35 posted on 02/07/99 - -Version 1.35 was just uploaded to http://www.isl.net/~winter/house/programs and http://misterhouse.webjump.com. -Here are the package files: - - - http://freehosting.at.webjump.com/mi/misterhouse-webjump/mh_135.zip - - http://freehosting.at.webjump.com/mi/misterhouse-webjump/mh_135e.zip - - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/mh_135.zip - - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5514/mh_135e.zip - - -In my haste to turn off non-debug serial port write print_log errata, I also turned off the serial port writes! - -If you happened to be un-lucky enough to have just downloaded 1.34, you can get it to work by -turning debug on. - -Honestly, I DID test this code, on linux, windows, and compiled windows. I just forgot to test serial port output :) - - -=head2 mh ver 1.34 posted on 02/07/99 - -Version 1.34 was just uploaded to http://www.isl.net/~winter/house/programs and http://misterhouse.webjump.com - -Changes include: - -- Added the 'search string' function to the web pages. - -- Fixed tk Command menu so it is reset on reload, rather than added to. - -- Added filename to all the Tk and web item lists - -- Added a mh -run option, so the compiled mh.exe can be used to run any arbitrary perl script from -the command line. Changed get_weather.bat, set_clock.bat, get_tv_grid.bat, and set_password.bat to use this, so they -can now be called stand alone from a DOS shell, even if you do not have perl installed. -This also lets us detatch these processes from mh events, so -mh does not hang, waiting for them to finish. The tv_grid.pl event and internet_data.pl get_weather calls -now do this. - -- Added and documented File_Item methods 'name', 'set_watch', and 'changed'. See the -'Get internet weather data' for an -example. This allows mh to respond to the detatched get_weather process after it is finished. - -- Fixed a bug where an active timer would get cloned on a code reload. - -- Added mh.ini parm tk_geometry so you can control size and position of the mh tk window - -- Change the default to log serial IO to the log window only if debug is on. If people would rather see this -on by default let me know. Maybe we should set a debug level, and thus have better control over this. - -- Added some info on system requirements to README.html - -Looking for ideas on what to put in the 'this space for rent' section of the tk menu. Right now a -'print_msg "hi there"' will add an entry, but that I'm not sure we need that in addition to the print_log -and speak log windows. - - -=head2 mh update 02/04/99 version 1.32 - -Version 1.32 was just uploaded to http://www.isl.net/~winter/house/programs and http://misterhouse.webjump.com - -Changes include: - -- Fixed the Windows OLE calls, so they work better. Thanks to Walley for helping with this! No more ghost DDE and OLEmain windows!! - -- Fixed the Tk bug on Windows where you could not press buttons. The Shortcut keys still do not work :( - -- Added a Tk menu pull down with all the voice commands. Also allow the Tk command entry to do a string match to list all -voice commands that match whatever string (e.g. try typing: time). - -- Added a mh.ini delay_speak parm. Wally, try setting this to 500 or so (.5 seconds) to see if we can get your 1/2 duplex sound card -not to que up speech after VR. You should see "Sleeping for xxx ms" in your mh console, after doing VR that requires speech. - -- Fixed 'bad time record: time=' on startup. - -- Fixed internet.pl to it reports non-Rochester forecast. Thanks Craig! - -- Fixed 'duplicate socket item' message. - -- Fixed display so it will run stand alone, if perl is installed. - -- Added an code/example directory. Keep those code snippets comming! - -- Fixed the web path so all the example interfaces work (index_1.html, index_2.html, index_3.html). - -- Fixed a typo in tv_grid.pl, so PM is not added to all times - -- Allow telnet.pl to run without a password file. - - - -=head2 mh update 01/30/99 version 1.30 - -Version 1.30 was just uploaded to http://www.isl.net/~winter/house/programs - -Changes include: - -- Linux serial port support! Thanks to Joe Doss for creating SerialPort_Linux. -I tested both a CM11 (i.e. activehome) and weeder X10 interface on it. Works great! - -- Added a simple bin/configure file, to help with a linux install (See readme.html). - -- Fixed case names on various lib modules. Now, all the files in the bin directory -should work OK stand alone on linux (and windows if perl is installed). - -- Change the zip so it creates an mh directory, so you can unzip right from a root drive/directory. - -- Added the API.pm to the sit lib so that the uncompiled version will run 'out of the box' on -windows with just the standard perl distribution installed. - -- The web top 10 list works again. - -- On windows, if you don't want/use voice recognitions, mh -voice_cmd 0 will now cause perl -to load without those pesky 'DDE' and 'OleMain' ghost windows. - -A note to potential linux users. The festival TTS engine works good, but it sucks up about 20-30 meg (it forks once). -So, there can be a fair amount of latency with when speaking longer strings, on a 32 meg machine. - - -=head2 mh update 01/30/99 version 1.29 - -Version 1.29 was just uploaded to http://www.isl.net/~winter/house/programs - -In addition to the bug fixes posted a few days ago, here is the list of fixes/updates: - -- get_tv_grid now has a better index, so you can navigate different hours/days. You will -need to run get_tv_grid -days 7 -hour all to get a full weeks worth of data. - -- telnet.pl was updated with an example of how you can set a wakeup time item. - -- Startup time for the windows mh.exe was improved. - -- mh.ini and mh.private.ini are now reloaded on a reload command. - -- A new file, internet_logon.pl, demonstrates how to do windows auto-dialing/auto-updating of net data. - -- The set_clock now uses a simple socket call to get time from a server. Charles, if this still does not work -behind your firewall, see if you can connect with: telnet time-a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov 14 That should work unless your -firewall is blocking port 14. - -- internet_ip_update.pl can now update the TZO dynamic IP server and it can upload your current dynamic IP address to a web -page (see http://www.isl.net/~winter/online for an example of what that page looks like). - -- Fixed a bug with get_weather had a bug where it would not return the current weather conditions. - -- Created 'house' and 'speak' shells for unix users. - -- mh.html has a bit more documentaion on items and their methods. - -- deep_though.pl has been re-worked. It no longer relies on a DOS program, so now linux dudes can revel in -'Deep thoughts for the day' - - - -=head2 mh update 01/24/99 version 1.27 - -Version 1.27 was just uploaded to http://www.isl.net/~winter/house/programs. Lots of new tricks and changes: - -- With some help from David DellaNave, we now have mh working on linux! -Except for a few minor things like VR and serial port IO :) Still, there should be enough function on a linux to be useful. -TTS (with the Festival speech engine installed) and all the internet, telnet, and web function works. -Details on installation are in the README.HTML and limitations are documented at the bottom of mh.html - -- new function: get_weather. Gets current conditions and/or forecast data from the net. -See 'Get internet weather data' in the test/internet_data.pl file and set the city and state entries in mh.ini - -- new function: get_tv_grid. Gets tv programing from clicktv.com. You can go to their website and personalize -your tv grid to your location and preferences, then set the clicktv_id in mh.ini. Now use the web interface -to drive the test/tv_grid.pl code to program tv reminders and/or vcr programing. It needs a bit more work -in navigating through different days, but I its a start. - -- added a Generic_Item object, for storeing arbitrary data. An example is in tv_grid.pl - -- added test/internet_ip_update.pl This is an example of how you can update an 'Dynamic IP address' server with -your current dynamic IP address. This one is for the postmodem.com DIPS service, but I think we could -also code one 2 other popular servers: tzo.com and dyn.ml.org. - -- quite a few changes in mh.ini, so if you have your own mh.ini, you will probably want to put your changes in -a mh.private.ini file, which has precedence. - -- a bit more documention, especially on windows VR and TTS, in mh.html - -- Probably other important changes I have forgotten to take notes on :) - - -=head2 mh update 01/13/99 version 1.21 - -I just uploaded version 1.21 of mh to - -- fixed a bug where many of the commands would not work if the VR (Voice Recognition) engine was not installed. Now everything should work with or without VR. - -- added the option for mh to be a socket port server. It defaults to monitoring the telnet port (23). If you are running telnet.pl (in the test directory), you should be able to do a 'telnet localhost' and run any voice command (as listed on by the web interface), in addition to 'say phrase/file' and 'display phrase/file'. Thanks to Brian for this idea! - -Keep those ideas coming and we will soon have an automation engine capable of running the country! Someone needs to :) - - -Near term todos: - -- A socket client option, so mh can start a socket communication (in addition to the server option that was just added). - -- Add authentication, to optionally limit telnet and web interaction to 'good guys' - -- More documentation - -- Modify code so it can also run on Linux with the Festival TTS engine. Any linux users out there want to test it? - - -=head2 mh update 01/08/99 version 1.18 - -I just uploaded version 1.18 of hh. Changes include: - -- Fixed the run command option. For example, this dos command should work now: - - house speak hi there - -- Started documenting! There is now a \mh\docs\mh.html file. It is pretty sketchy for now, but it should grow pretty quick in the next week or two. - - -=head2 mh update 01/06/99 version 1.17 - -I just uploaded version 1.17 of mh. Changes include: - -- 5% increments in bright dim (instead of 10%) - -- fixed a memory leak introduced in the previous version - -- added run_voice_cmd and allow $voice_item set method - -- allowed time offsets in time_greater_than/less_than - -- minor changes to the web interface