J9 Automation Engine - Version 0.16

johnnynine

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Version 0.16 is now available for download.

This version has a wide variety of new features and fixes. A few highlights are:

  • IP Camera image and video support
  • New built-in media player
  • Nuvo Grand Concerto and Essentia support
  • The Music Media driver supports a much larger number of file types.
  • Many Weather Channel fixes and enhancements
  • New Screen Saver options in Touch Screen Viewer.
  • Touch Screen Builder has a new Toolbox window supporting drag-and-drop.
After upgrading to this version you must edit any Weather Channel devices and set the Location setting, otherwise the Weather Channel device(s) will fail to start. The Media driver has also been replaced with a new built in media player, so you'll need to update any applicable rules.

For a complete list of changes, please review the Change History.

The most notable changes are:

New Supported Devices
* Nuvo Grand Concerto
* TV One 1T-MX-3344
* System (Built-In) Media Player

Supported Device Updates
Many existing device drivers have been updated (Insteon, UPB, HAI Omni Pro II, Music Media Library, Weather Channel, NOAA Weather, and JRMC). For a full list of details please see the Change History page.
* The music media library driver now supports a much larger variety of files, including ogg, flac, ape, m4a, m4p and more.
* The Weather Channel driver now provides location searching when configuring and supports international locations. It has also received fixes and better action list and touch screen integration.
* The Media driver has been removed and replaced by the new System Media Player driver.

Touch Screen Viewer
* Added an IP Camera viewer control. It currently supports jpeg and mjpeg formats.
* Added a built in screen saver which supports dimming/blanking/and loading an alternate touch screen.
* Added Display Text Changed event to the Label and Boolean controls.
* Added Image Changed event to the Image List control.

Touch Screen Builder
* A welcome window is now shown when the application starts up giving the user a choice of creating a new interface or editing an existing interface.
* A new Toolbox window with drag-and-drop support has replaced the Toolbox menu.
* Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete now support multiple items at a time in the Image Browser.
* New touch screens are now initially assigned a unique name to help inadvertently overwriting an existing touch screen with the same name.
* A couple issues when exporting touch screens system have been fixed.

Thanks for all the great user feedback and user provided device drivers. If you are a .net software developer and are interested in a free software license, please see the Device Driver Development Incentive Program.

Johnny
 
The new IP camera viewer works great! I was trying to use the built in web widget but the BL-C10A 's dont play nice with IE. now I need to decide if I am going to try and pull live video from my cameras remotely with my ppc.
 
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