Announcements

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Plugin: Ambient Light Bricklet 2.0 2.0.1

 

• Ignore invalid sensor values
  

Download: Ambient Light Bricklet 2.0

[photron]

Plugin: Accelerometer Bricklet 2.0.1

 

• Fix value comparison for threshold callback
  

Download: Accelerometer Bricklet

 

[borg]

Scale for Load Cell Bricklet

• Blogentry
  

[borg]

Plugin: RS232 Bricklet 2.0.1

 

• Make reading of RHR register more efficient
  
• Add callbacks for overrun, framing and parity errors
  

Download: RS232 Bricklet

 

[borg]

Plugin: Laser Range Finder Bricklet 2.0.1

 

• Disable interrupts during I2C communication (Fixes accidental incompatability with Servo Brick)
  

Download: Laser Range Finder Bricklet

[borg]

50-66% price reduction for deprecated Bricks/Bricklets

• Blogentry
  

[borg]

Plugin: Laser Range Finder Bricklet 2.0.2

 

• Make sure interrupts are enabled after I2C communication in all cases
  

Download: Laser Range Finder Bricklet

[photron]

Plugin: Analog In Bricklet 2.0.5, Analog In Bricklet 2.0 2.0.1, Voltage Bricklet 2.0.2

 

• Fix value range and comparison for threshold callback
  

Download: Analog In Bricklet, Analog In Bricklet 2.0, Voltage Bricklet

[borg]

MQTT with Tinkerforge

• Blogentry
  

[borg]

Build environment for Brick firmware development

• Blogentry
  

[photron]

Plugin: Ambient Light Bricklet 2.0 2.0.2

 

• Invalid values due to sensor saturation are reported as 0lux
  
• Clamp measured values to the configured illuminance range
  
• Add new unlimited illuminance range for unclamped measurements
  

Download: Ambient Light Bricklet 2.0

[borg]

Firmware: Stepper Brick 2.3.2

 

• Increase external detection voltage to 6V
  

Download: Stepper Brick

[borg]

New RS485 Extension

• Blogentry
  

[photron]

Brick Daemon 2.2.2

 

• Use uname to get RED Brick kernel release for loading Ethernet Extension kernel driver (hotfix-1: already released as part of RED Brick Image 1.6)
  
• Improve RED Brick SPI stack protocol error recovery (hotfix-2: already released as part of RED Brick Image 1.7)
  
• Add start menu link for logviewer.exe on Windows
  
• Adapt to file system protection changes in Mac OS X 10.11
  
• Update libusb WDF co-installer for Windows Vista and 7
  

Downloads: Windows, Linux (amd64, i386, armhf), Mac OS X

[borg]

Tinkerforge Workbench

• Blogentry
  

[photron]

Plugin: Industrial Digital In 4 Bricklet 2.0.2

 

• Fix interrupt callback for grouped pins 8 to 15
  

Download: Industrial Digital In 4

[photron]

Brick Viewer 2.3.0

 

• Add data logger for Bricks and Bricklets
  
• Show WIFI and GSM signal quality on RED Brick Network and Mobile Internet tab
  
• Make SIM PIN optional for RED Brick Mobile Internet service
  
• Add "Test Email" button to RED Brick Server Monitoring tab
  
• Add support for more openHAB config file types (.persist, .script and .transform) to RED Brick plugin
  
• Reduce Mobile Internet connection checks to reduce RED Brick CPU load
  
• Add configurable line ending for RS232 Bricklet plugin
  
• Handle split multi-byte line ending correctly in RS232 Bricklet plugin
  
• Add error counters to RS232 Bricklet plugin
  
• Add support for unlimited range and out-of-range and overflow states to Ambient Light Bricklet 2.0 plugin
  
• Show Master Extensions in devices tree
  
• Sort device tree by position by default
  
• Fix download of non-ASCII log files from RED Brick
  

Downloads: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

[borg]

New Software: Brick Logger

• Blogentry
  

[photron]

Bindings: Delphi/Lazarus 2.1.7

 

• Fix use-after-free bug in callback thread destruction logic
  
• Fix memory leaks
  

Download: Delphi/Lazarus

[borg]

Firmware: IMU Brick 2.0 2.0.1

 

• Fix wrong order of callbacks.
  

Download: IMU Brick 2.0

[photron]

Plugin: Load Cell Bricklet 2.0.1

 

• Fix inversion in weight calculation
  

Download: Load Cell Bricklet

 

If you swapped the signal wires of the load cell to compensate for this problem then you need to swap them back now.

[photron]

Brick Viewer 2.3.1

 

• Add millisecond interval support for data logger
  
• Add custom strftime format for data logger
  
• Improve UI font selection on Mac OS X 10.11
  
• Sign Brickv.app on Mac OS X to silence the Gate Keeper
  

Downloads: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

[photron]

Brick Logger 2.0.2

 

• Add millisecond interval support
  
• Add custom strftime format
  

Downloads: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, RED Brick

[photron]

Brick Viewer 2.3.2

 

• Ignore errors during locale initialization
  
• Change modeless dialog handling to workaround problem on Mac OS X
  

Downloads: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

[photron]

Bindings: C/C++ 2.1.8, C# 2.1.7, Delphi/Lazarus 2.1.8, Java 2.1.6, JavaScript 2.0.6, LabVIEW 2.1.6, Mathematica 2.1.6, MATLAB/Octave 2.0.6, Perl 2.1.6, PHP 2.1.6, Python 2.1.6, Ruby 2.1.6, Shell 2.1.6, VB.NET 2.1.6

 

• Add missing constant for 19200 baud to RS232 Bricklet API [all]
  
• Add error callback to RS232 Bricklet API [all]
  
• Add set_break_condition function to RS232 Bricklet API [all]
  
• Add unlimited illuminance range constant to Ambient Light Bricklet 2.0 API [all]
  
• Break API to fix threshold min/max type mismatch in Ambient Light, Analog In (2.0), Distance IR/US, Humidity, Linear Poti and Voltage Bricklet API [all]
  
• Break API to fix bool return type mismatch in Servo Brick (is_position_reached_callback_enabled and is_velocity_reached_callback_enabled function), Accelerometer Bricklet (is_led_on function) and Load Cell Bricklet (is_led_on function) API [all]
  
• Avoid race condition in callback thread destruction [C/C++]
  
• Avoid warnings about experimental reference access patterns [Perl]
  
• Don't decode non-ASCII strings and chars in Python 3 [Python]
  

Download: C/C++, C#, Delphi/Lazarus, Java, JavaScript, LabVIEW, Mathematica, MATLAB/Octave, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Shell, VB.NET

 

This release brakes API in two places. Programs that use the affected functions have to be adapted. The change is about the parameter and return types of some functions. Because of that only strictly typed languages are affected: C/C++, C#, Delphi/Lazarus, Java and VB.NET. In all cases the changes will reveal themself as compile error, so no change can be missed.