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Product: rnbWeather
Author: RnB
Version: 4.6.0.0
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4.6.0.0 - 12/24/2024

  • Added: Open-Meteo Weather Service
  • Bugfix: AU BOM Fire Danger ratings (incl updated icons)
  • Bugfix: BigDataCloud - "country code is not valid" - updated api call
  • Bugfix: NOAA duplicate alert handling
  • Bugfix: NOAA updated icon generation (allow both variants)
  • Bugfix: NOAA updated icon generation
  • Bugfix: Error in Openweather URL (fixed)
  • Info: Beta moved to align with released version
  • Updated: Met Office UK migrated to new API
  • Updated: Openweather migrated to OneCall 3.0 (from 2.5)
  • Updated: AU BOM to use https (previously using http)
  • Updated: Weather Overview current weather icons to display better
  • Updated: Support Library PluginSDK to v1.5.0
  • Updated: Support Library GeoTime to v5.3.0
  • Updated: Support Library NewtownsoftJson to v13.1.0
  • Updated: Met Office UK Weather Overview page (previously giving an error, looking for hourly file)
  • Added: Windgusts to NOAA forecasts
  • Info: Debug code added to start internal testing live language translation
  • Bugfix: NOAA Daily sunrise/sunset incorrectly using current day for next 5 days
  • Updated: Openweather API usage counter updated to count rnbWeather usage
  • Info: Beta published to align with release of stable version (v4.4.0.0)

4.4.0.0 - 6/15/2022

  • Bugfix: Debug code preventing plugin form starting weather services
  • Info: Beta published to align with release of stable version (v4.3.0.0)

4.3.0.0 - 6/13/2022

  • Bugfix: OpenWeather/NOAA: Alert device was created when no alert features were selected
  • Bugfix: NOAA daily devices timezone error on sunrise/sunset calculations
  • Bugfix: Weatherbit did not display weather on Overview page
  • Bugfix: Weatherbit data did not uncompress correctly
  • Bugfix: Weatherbit API usage kept decreasing instead of being static
  • Bugfix: YR.no min/max alignment to day
  • Bugfix: YR.no - daily feature cloud cover was not updating
  • Bugfix: YR.no - daily rain was not suming correctly
  • Bugfix: AU BOM - Fire danger feature was having its status graphics replaced
  • Bugfix: AU BOM not saving weather data with location ID in file name
  • Bugfix: Common Icons not correctly recognising custom icons option
  • Added: Public Holiday detection to daily devices
  • Added: Weatherbit - allow user to specify license type as Free does not give hourly readings
  • Added: Poll location button in Locations/Devices page
  • Added: MyAlerts and AllAlerts summary to NOAA Alert features
  • Added: timezone name to celestial features
  • Added: timezone offset from UTC in minutes to celestial features (can be used in scripts)
  • Updated: formatting for NOAA edit location option when more than 1 location
  • Updated: rnbUtilities to v1.0.0.4
  • Updated: General code tidy up on feature creation
  • Bugfix: rnbWeather Data folder was not created if missing leading to an error
  • Added: Daylight Saving to celestial features
  • Bugfix: Openweather Min/Max daily features not updating correctly
  • Bugfix: Change log settings did not work untril plugin restarted
  • Updated: NOAA retry limited changed from 1.5mins to 2mins to offset NOAA Error 500
  • Updated: NOAA correlation/Error id included in error message (required for NOAA to troubleshoot)
  • Updated: NOAA daily features - only create max temp in day features an donly create min temp in night features
  • Bugfix: Wrong max/min latitude and longitude was used for country only weather services
  • Removed: 6 dependencies (Mono.Net.HttpListener, Mono.Security, HttpMultipartParser, System Buffers, Restsharp, Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream )
  • Removed support upload server (not longer required, code rewritten)
  • Added: WeatherLink Local
  • Added: WeatherLink Cloud
  • Added: Met Office UK
  • Added: HSTouch widget designer placeholder (content currently empty - future implementation)
  • Added: Ability to define date/time settings for key features (mapping/formats in settings)
  • Added: Solar Altitude and Solar Azimuth to celestial features
  • Added: Ability to set default label 1, label 2 for features - puts devices/features in correct room
  • Updated: Weather Wizard page layout (move 2 steps into 1)
  • Updated: rnbUtilites to v1.0.0.3
  • Updated: CoordinateSharp  to v2.13.1.1
  • Updated support page to remove old dependency (did not work reliably on linux)
  • Updated: large code rewrite to remove existing bugs and improve plugin speed
  • Updated: Moved non common javascript functions to the page they target
  • Info: Version number format set W.X.Y.Z where W = HS version, X = plugin major version, Y = plugin BETA version, Z = ALPHA version. (Alpha versions will not appear in revision history)
  • Bugfix: change in Yr units response created error between Celsius and Fahrenheit
  • Added: save to database (initially SQLite MSAccess) option and settings control
  • Added: prune database action in events to remove old entries from database
  • Added: Celestial Info device (groups sun times, moon times, zodiac, eclipse, perigee, apogee) together to all services
  • Added: Ability to remove weather service and associated devices from HomeSeer
  • Updated NOAA logic to remove erroneous messages in log for retry events
  • Updated: NOAA logic to ensure no cache data is received
  • Updated: Allow Custom icons - moved Moon, Compass, Zodiac to own setting as these are system wide icons
  • Updated: Remove weatherservices not in use from settings page (only show now if added to reduce clutter)
  • Bugfix: Setting custom icons - sometimes not all icons were set to use custom even with option on

4.2.0.0 - 10/6/2021

  • Updated: NOAA - rnbWeather will retry 3 times if  the error: Problem: Unexpected Problem Status: 500 is received. as per advice from weather.gov API team. If the error does appear this may be an issue/outage impacting the service
  • Updated: Installer updated to ignore certain paths
  • Bugfix: Some browsers did not wait for previous step to complete before starting next leading to unable to save devices and features or submit support requests
  • Bugfix:  Firefox does not always process javascript commands - alternative command used
  • Updated: Openweather Alerts: clearing Information devices when alerts are removed
  • Updated:  HomeSeer Plugin SDK (to allow specifying primary device in future version)
  • Updated: Coordinate Sharp (2.11.1.1)
  • Added: Celestial information - Next solar eclipse, next lunar eclipse (future version will move this info to a seperate device)
  • Updated:  Openweather Alerts: clearing Information devices when alerts are removed
  • Updated:  Weather Service: Met Éireann
  • Updated: Error handling for failed Openweather requests
  • Bugfix:  AU BOM - Issue with BOM service for current conditions
  • Added:  New Weather Service: WeatherAPI.com
  • Added:  New Weather Service: Met Éireann (partiallly added -  not available for use yet)?
  • Added:  New Weather Service: Met Office UK (structure/code added -  not available for use yet)?
  • Updated: NOAA Weather Information  > Add  5 day  forecast
  • Updated: AU BOM Weather Information  > Add  5 day  forecast
  • Updated: Tomorrow.io Weather Information  > Add  5 day  forecast
  • Bugfix:  Status Graphics/Labels
  • Added:  New Weather Service: Tomorrow.io
  • Added:  New Weather Service: WeatherBit.io
  • Updated: Decimal display - chose number of decimals places to show by device type
  • Bugfix: An item with the same key has already been added

4.1.0.0 - 5/12/2021

  • Initial Release
  • Support for HS4
  • Openweather service configured and available
  • YR service configured and available
  • NOAA service configured and available
  • Australia BOM service configured and available
  • Setup Wizard included
  • Bugfix:  Fixed - Wiizard error when choosing Australia BOM service
  • Bugfix: Fixed - Regional settings for Openweather on Weather Overview page (use of , vs .)
  • Updated: Openweather aways returns atmospheric pressure in SI metric units (hPa)- now fixed to show correct Imperial value (inHg: inch of mercury)
  • Added: Australia BOM - Latest condiitions - added Rain since 9am
  • Bugfix:  Fixed - Year, Month, and Day parameters describe an un-representable DateTime
  • Bugfix: Fixed - An item with the same key has already been added
  • Added: Australia BOM weather service
  • Updated: Relaxed requirement for version match on restsharp.dll
  • Bugfix: Status Graphic ranges causing some values not to show
  • Bugfix: Some Day/night devices not udating with NOAA / YR
  • Added: Ability to turn off a locaton without disabling full weather service
  • Added: Weather Overview - 24hour period
  • Added: Manual Poll button to connection features to poll weather service on demand
  • Updated: NOAA processing and calculations - aligns to NWS Website
  • Updated: YR processing and calculations - aligns to YR Website
  • Updated: javascript busy dialog to allow it to show
  • Changed http client for data download (more robust than .Net built-in)
  • Bugfix: Menu pages not appearing for all users
  • Added: Weather Overview - Selectable default page to open/load
  • Updated: Weather Overview now correctly shows selected units (previously only showed metric)
  • Added:; Day name to hourly features (all services)
  • Bugfix: Fix missing CSS for Weather Overview page - alerts section
  • Bugfix: Unable to save unit selection for NOAA and YR services
  • Bugfix: Enable service start/stop when enabled or disabled in settings
  • Bugfix: Not all features for YR devices were udating (YR service restructured)
  • Bugfix: Air Quality features on NOAA and YR were not updating
  • Fix icon and status text not displaying for some features post v4.0.0.25 (sunrise/sunset)
  • Bugfix: extra spacing in summary alerts device
  • Added: Air Quallity Index to current conditions
  • Fix icon and status text not displaying for some features post v4.0.0.25
  • Correctly terminate weather service threads to allow plugin to shutdown gracefully
  • Openweather Monthly API feature added to show cuulative monthly calls
  • Republished
  • Updated libary files
  • Weather Overview Page (Draft) now available
  • Bug fix: Norway YR - manage devices (was not saving changes or creating devices/features)
  • Bug fix: Words displaying instead of values (eg: the word temperature showing instead of the value)
  • Finalized code for Day/Night updates for NOAA
  • Auto poll devices after adding new devices & features (Openweather)v
  • Auto poll devices after adding new devices & features (YR.NO)
  • Isolate all Openweather calculations to prevent a failed calculation sending rnbWeather into a reboot loop
  • Isolate all YR.no calculations to prevent a failed calculation sending rnbWeather into a reboot loop
  • Enabled prefix/sufix for value devices in Openweather
  • Enabled prefix/sufix for value devices in YR.no
  • Fixed issue between day/afternoon in NOAA
  • Remove shutdownn error causing plugin to "hang"
  • Isolate all NOAA calculations to prevent a failed calculation sending rnbWeather into a reboot loop
  • Remove bug introduced in .20
  • Auto poll devices after adding new devices & features (NOAA)
  • Remove redundant code for older versions (may cause reboot loop)
  • Add increased error handnling for initialisation and polling threads
  • Fixed issue between day/night in NOAA
  • Disabled NOAA feature prefix and sufix for non value items (eg: moon phase)
  • Wizard updated to allow NOAA and YR selection
  • Updated min temperature to reflect overnight low
  • Removed max temp device from night
  • Removed min temp device from day
  • Fixed error in updating night devices
  • Fixed Wind Direction conversion to compass heading
  • Fixed Wind Chill calculation for units conversion
  • Fixed Wind Speed calculation error for units conversion
  • Improved error handling for period calculations
  • NOAA weather service added (testing version)
  • NOAA weather service added (testing version)
  • NOAA weather service added (testing version)
  • Fix for non US culture formats
  • Additional logging for crash
  • Alert device rebuilt for user selected number of devices (incl summary devices)
  • Downgraded NodaTime dependency on .Net standard
  • Fixed: Updated Poll duration did not take effect until after restart
  • Alert Device added for Openweather
  • Test fix for rnbWeather not starting on some Windows machines
  • Test fix for rnbWeather not starting on some Windows machines
  • Added Day Mapping as an option
  • Add missing dll files to install package
  • Add missing dll files to install package
  • Noda Time downgraded due to Mono (Linux) dependency
  • Enable weather service checks at startup
  • Support Upload server disabled on Linux due to config within Mono (under review)
  • Sunrise/Sunset/Solar Noon all calculated from chosen location (not based on weather station location)
  • Zodiac Sign added to all weather services
  • Moon Phase added to all weather services
  • YR Weather service added
  • Wizard did not automatically start the weather service updates after completion (fixed)
  • Updater installer for rnbWeather
  • Initial Release (Beta)
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