Mac Home Automation

XTension version 9.5.1 beta 2 is available:

https://MacHomeAutomation.com/files/xtension/xtension_9_5_1b2.dmg

New features are pretty much just the 2 plugins to support most of the 4×4 and 8×8 HDMI matrix switchers from No Hassle AV. If you have any of those to test with I would greatly appreciate you giving it a try and letting me know what happens. I do not own or have access to any of these devices and so have implemented the protocol based entirely on their slightly over simplified documentation and no testing whatsoever. There will be issues.

Change log:

• NEW Plugin for No Hassle AV 4×4 HDMI switchers. Documentation is here. This supports (or tries to) 4 different 4×4 size devices.
• NEW Plugin for No Hassle AV 8×8 HDMI switchers. Documentation is here. This supports (or tries to) 3 different 8×8 size devices.
• FIX: Fixed a problem loading Unit Icon files that were not JPEGs. PNG’s and GIF’s load normally again. This was broken recently when I switched to a faster jpeg parsing library.
• FIX: more bugs in the Phillips Hue plugin that would have caused an error, and then an error in the error handling when it tried to log the wrong data.
• Database Format Change: For more than 5 years I’ve been keeping 2 copies of the Unit Properties data to make it easier should anyone have to revert to an earlier version after using the newer version. This build stops doing that and removes the old file potentially making the database quite a bit smaller and therefore faster to load and easier to manage. At this point if you need to revert to a version more than 5 years old you’ll have to use the backup file that is zipped up when each new version is loaded. Or just be OK with losing the Unit Properties from your database.
• Enumerated Values for Units are now individually trimmed of leading or trailing spaces. So if you enter the values like “slow, medium, fast” the system will know you didn’t actually mean those spaces to be part of the enumerated values.
• If a plugin has an empty description the name in the popup will no longer show an empty set of parenthesis after the name.