Release 0.8 - January 31st, 2013

with contributions from: Niko Will and Alexander Rieger. Thank you.

I am happy to announce a new cooperation with smartVISU to give you the best user interface experience.

New Plugins

  • DWD Plugin: fetch weather warnings and forecasts from Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD).

  • Mail Plugin </plugins_doc/config/mail>: sending (SMTP) and receiving (IMAP) mail.

  • RRD Plugin: build round robin databases.

  • Russound Plugin: control a Russound audio device with RIO over TCP.

  • Snom Plugin: to handle snom VOIP phones.

Features

  • Base

    • sh.tools.fetch_url()

    • item.conf: new types list, dict

    • sh.moon() with set(), rise(), pos(), light(), phase()

    • sh.find_items(‚config_string‘), sh.find_children(self, parent, ‚config_string‘)

  • Asterisk plugin: Call Log and mailbox count

  • CLI plugin: adding ‚rl‘ to reload and ‚rr‘ to reload and run logic

  • KNX plugin: DPT 16 support

  • Network plugin: adding a simple http interface

  • Visu plugin:

    • smartVISU support: to generate pages for and communicate with this visualisation framework.

    • plot rrd with flot

    • list view

    • dpt3 push buttons

    • TITLE header template

    • adding ‚unit‘ attribute to item.conf

    • JQuery: 1.8.3, JQuery Mobile 1.2

    • Log view SmartHome.py, Asterisk

Bug Fixes

  • KNX plugin: knx_init / knx_cache could not work if first connection attempt failed

    • dpt 10, 11, 16 handling fix

  • Onewire plugin: improve error handling

  • Workaround for urllib2 memory leakage