[misterhouse-announce] Version 2.90 posted on 05/02/2004

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

Here is a stable release, fixing a few bug fixes in last weeks 2.90 release.

The 2.90 rpm file upload failed, so I'll have to re-upload that Monday
night, (it takes 24 hours for bad uploads to get purged from the upload
directory).  The rest of the files are ready now.


New Features:

- 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.


Bug Fixes and Other Changes:

- 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.


Bruce