[misterhouse-announce] Version 2.61 posted on 11/18/2001

[Bruce W. <br...@mi...>]

Version 2.61 was just uploaded to:

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


New Features:

- 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).



Bug Fixes and Other Changes:

- 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.


Bruce