Indigo 6 Beta 9 Released

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Indigo 6 Beta 9 Released

6.0 Beta 9 is now available for download.

Important: this version includes many Z-Wave related enhancements. Because of the nature of some of these changes, you might have to re-sync (via the device dialog) some of your modules. The devices that need to be re-synced will be shown in the Event Log, and communication with them will be disabled in Indigo until they are re-synced.

Known Visual Buglet (will be fixed in next beta):

  • Devices for disabled plugins, interfaces, or ones with errors (that show in red text), continue to have red text in some columns when selected. The text should turn white when selected.

In addition to the major 6.0 improvements this update includes:

  • Added Z-Wave support for Trane Thermostat (TZ45).
  • Added Z-Wave support for Digital Home Systems Motion Sensor (DHS-ZW-SNMT-01).
  • Added Z-Wave support for Interface Connection Failure and Interface Connection Initialized Triggers.
  • Added expanded device control UI area to Home Window, which includes 4 tiles: device controls, device information, custom plugin states, and custom plugin actions (coming to a future beta). The control area can be expanded and collapsed via the split control located between the device list and the control area.
  • Added contextual menu to states list for plugin devices that allows you to copy for scripts: a full reference to the state (in Python), the value of the state, or the ID of the state.
  • Added new columns to the Device List table: Last Update shows the date and time the device was last updated, and Firmware shows the INSTEON firmware version information.
  • Added new Set Variable to Variable action which will set the value of one variable to the value of another.
  • Added logging of PowerLinc scene names (in addition to scene numbers).
  • Added new menu items to the main Help menu.
  • Standardized the Notes field across all Indigo objects both in the list views and on the edit dialogs.
  • Improved all time duration UI to be more precise (no more entering fractional minutes).
  • Improved wiki lookup feature on the Help Menu to integrate with Z-Wave devices, the new Devices web app, the new wiki and forum pages.
  • Improved device list to show INSTEON and X10 devices in red in when their respective interfaces have been disabled. Also, associated menu items now behave consistently across all interfaces when the interface is enabled/disabled.
  • Modified INSTEON device syncing to allow syncing of modules that specify a bad firmware version (0).
  • Fixed bug that would cause the contextual menu for variables to not show if you were using the search feature.
  • Fixed How-To Wiki menu item when no device is selected.
  • Action Collection Plugin: Disabled debugging.
  • Timers and Pesters Plugin: Added a trigger event, Timer Expired, which allows you to trigger only when a timer runs out of time naturally (vs being explicitly stopped).
  • Device Collection Plugin: Renamed to Virtual Devices and moved to Interfaces menu. This more accurately reflects what it does and reduces confusion with other similar terminology. Also, the Pseudo On/Off Device type has been renamed Virtual On/Off Device. Note that the Protocol and Model columns in the device list will not get updated for existing devices unless you recreate the device. You can do this without losing the device ID (used all over the system for dependencies) by switching it to a completely different type of device (say, a Timer) and closing the edit dialog, then editing and switching it back again. This process will lose the configuration of the devices though so you'll have to reselect all the device options.
  • Virtual Devices Interface: Added sensor device types (motion, door, etc) that support an "on state" to the list of available devices in a Device Group.
  • Virtual Devices Interface: Added a checkbox, Update all, the the Device Group config dialog. The purpose of this checkbox is to allow the user more control over when device states are changed. The default now (unchecked) will be to only save states of new devices. Check the box to save all device states.
  • Virtual Devices Interface: Added a new Set Virtual On/Off Device State which allows you to directly set a device's state through an Action rather than using a variable.
  • Virtual Devices Interface: Fixed some bugs that might periodically cause key errors.

Developer API Changes:
  • Plugin API version number has been incremented to v1.8.
  • Plugin API addition: If you specify a default value of "" (empty string) on a menu field type and the menu doesn't have an option with the value "", then the first menu item will be selected when the dialog is first run. This technique will keep the user from seeing "- no selection -" at the bottom of the menu.

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