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0.10.0

Released: 2025-01-13

Breaking

  • switch to a new license system. Licenses are now in json format. Please contact us to get a free license upgrade for this version.

New

  • Vestel display plugin
  • `__connection_state__` parameter for nion

Changed

  • updated to Qt6
  • updted to OpenSSL 3

Removed

  • debian 10 support
  • ubuntu 20.04 support
  • openSUSE Leap 15.4 support
  • almalinux / RHEL 8 support

0.8.2

Released: 2023-03-19

New

  • pjlink: initial version of the PJLink protocol plugin. Currently only supporting power state.

Fixed

  • metrics: fix duplicate metrics

0.8.1

Released: 2022-09-18

New

  • Mappings now support a `when` check which allows or denies a value to be send out. For more info see https://dcontrol.dotcircle.co/config/settings#configuration-example

0.8.0

Released: 2022-05-27

New

  • Added support for parsing of math formulas in mappings.
  • modbusTCP: added support for using coils as inputs.

Changed

  • The short flag for `--verbosity` has changed from `-d` to `-V`.

Fixed

  • timax: fix reading values; group levels > 0dB are now correctly parsed.
  • websocket: received messages are now correctly stored and send to new client connects.
  • osc: fixed an issue where on some systems when the `allow_all_clients` is set to `false`, the allowed clients would still be blocked.
  • udp: fixed an issue where on some systems when the `allow_all_clients` is set to `false`, the allowed clients would still be blocked.

Removed

  • the --directory option to manually specify the plugin directory has been removed.

0.7.0

Released: 2021-10-10

New

  • powersoftMezzo plugin.
  • powersoftX plugin (replaces the deprecated powersoft plugin).
  • powersoftX: added metrics support.
  • core: add command line option `--plugin-list` to list all installed plugins.

Changed

  • powersoftX: now only reading data from the amplifier that is used in the mappings to further reduce the CPU load on the amplifiers.

Fixed

  • core: looped mappings that have the index `$(i)` in the middle of the mapping address or name are now correctly parsed.
  • core: multiple occurrences of the index `$(i)` in a mapping address or name are now correctly parsed.
  • powersoftX: standby state is now correctly reported.
  • powersoftX: better support for the Quattrocanali amplifiers which are much slower as the Ottocanali or X4/X8 amplifiers.

Deprecated

  • powersoft: the powersoft plugin is now deprecated and replaces with the powersoftX plugin, please upgrade your configuration to use the powersoftX plugin instead.

0.6.3

Released: 2021-01-25

New

  • timer: The timer plugin now also supports single-shot events.

0.6.2

Released: 2021-01-24

New

  • The logging verbosity can now be overruled on a per plugin instance basis with the `verbosity` option in the device definition.
  • sACN: Added an option to specify the TTL for the outgoing sACN data. The default TTL is 1.

Changed

  • Websocket: The websocket plugin now also stores values that er send to the plugin (`from` addresses) and sends those values to new clients connecting, so that they have the same initial state as clients already connected.

Fixed

  • sACN: Fix address parsing. Addresses were considered to be 8bit wide, which meant that all address > 255 were handled wrong.
  • icalscheduler: Fixed re-occurrence events that have an override (a modification of a single event in a re-occurrence ruleset). Prior to this version, both the original event, and the modified event would trigger.

0.6.1

Released: 2020-11-01

Fixed

  • nion: Fixed writing mutated boolean values.

0.6.0

Released: 2020-10-25

Breaking

  • Websocket: The 'json-schema' and 'server-name' configuration options have been renamed to 'json_schema' and 'server_name' respectively.
  • The control type names have been changed: 'digital' -> 'bool'; 'analog_8' -> 'int8'; 'analog_16' -> int16; 'float' remains 'float' and 'string' remains 'string'.
  • The control type has become a required parameter. Mappings without a type specified will error out when the settings file is loaded.
  • The root device settings `ip`, `port`, `username` and `password` have been moved into the options key.

New

  • Support for mutating values in between the receiver and transmitter. For more info see https://dcontrol.dotcircle.co/config/mutations .
  • sACN plugin.
  • timer plugin.
  • Add support for regex matching icalscheduler event names.
  • modbusTCP: Add support for coil, input register, holding register and 32bit registers.

Fixed

  • modbusTCP: Unsupported data type on arm devices is now fixed.

Removed

  • Debian Stretch is no longer supported.

0.5.1

Released: 2019-12-08

New

  • udp: add support for appending the received value to the address string.

Fixed

  • nion: strings containing spaces now work as expected.
  • nion: fix error when only using mappings to a nion.
  • udp: document the use of overlapping addresses.
  • libqt5xml5 added as a dependency on debian installs.

0.5.0

Released: 2019-11-24

Breaking

  • dcontrol now requires a license file to run.

New

  • Looped mappings.
  • Argument option to just test the settings file for errors (`dcontrol -t`).
  • Docker image.
  • Metrics.
  • UDP plugin support for the invert parameter for boolean controls.
  • Icalscheduler now supports invite events. Only accepted events will be parsed, pending / declined / cancelled events will be skipped.
  • Support for Centos 8.
  • Support for debian buster.

Fixed

  • Systemd manual entry.
  • Log messages cleanup.
  • UDP string null termination.
  • PowersoftX logging (amplifiers were always reported online, even when they were not).

0.4.1

Released: 2018-12-27

New

  • powersoft: support for duecanali amplifiers.

Fixed

  • nion: control subscription.

0.4.0

Released: 2018-11-28

New

  • iCalscheduler plugin.
  • TiMax plugin.
  • OSC plugin.
  • UDP plugin.

Changed

  • The plugin files have been renamed from `libplugin.so` to `plugin.so`.
  • Debug logging improvements.
  • Plugin passwords will be logged with '******' in stead of printing them in clear text.

Fixed

  • Boolean parsing on yaml string: yes & true => true; no & false => false.
  • Installation of the websocket plugin and it's dependencies.

0.3.0

Released: 2018-07-16

New

  • Powersoft plugin added.
  • More complete example settings files added settings.yml.example and settings.json.example can both be found in /etc/dcontrol/ .

Changed

  • Naming changed from dControl to dcontrol (all lowercase).
  • Optimized the socket writes in the nion plugin.

Fixed

  • Segmentation fault fixes when dcontrol is stopped.
  • Removed noise debug messages from the websocket plugin.

0.2.1

Released: 2018-04-15

New

  • Rpm package added for Centos / Redhat / Fedora systems.
  • Debian stretch armhf package added.
  • Websocket plugin.
  • ModbusTCP: allow double as a received value (is parsed to int).
  • Development documentation added.

Fixed

  • ModbusTCP reconnect fixed. ModbusTCP disconnections are now handled more gracefully and will no longer spawn multiple connections to the remote device.

Removed

  • Support for debian jessie has been removed due to the requirement of Qt > 5.5 .

0.2.0-1

Released: 2018-04-14

This is a hotfix release, backported to Debian Jessie.

Fixed

  • ModbusTCP reconnect fixed. ModbusTCP disconnections are now handled more gracefully and will no longer spawn multiple connections to the remote device.

0.2.0

Released: 2017-06-27

New

  • Restore outputs on reconnect. Save the state of the output on a write request, and restore all output states when the connection is re-established after a disconnect.
  • Added verbosity level and plugins dir to settings.yml. Adds the the verbosity and plugin directory settings to the yaml/json settings file. The command arguments still override these values.
  • ModbusTCP plugin.
  • Nion plugin.

Fixed

  • Correctly using threads now.
  • Handle default I/O types.
  • Handle SIGINT and SIGTERM signals and gracefully exit.
  • Use the plugin instance name in log entries.
  • Cleaned up connection error logging.