EVA ICS CHANGELOG

3.3.0 (2020-02-05)

Common

  • Faster node interconnect protocol (via msgpack)

  • MQTT inter-connect API encryption strength increased to AES256

  • Core workers are now async to improve system performance

  • Controller auto-discovery in local network via UPnP

  • Core scripts

UC

  • Fixed PHI update timers

  • push_phi_state API method

  • Driver API 8: timeout helper, PHI state push

  • item "update_delay" property is removed

LM

  • Fixed cycle timers. As new cycle algorithm has near 100% precision, "avg" is not reported any longer. "value" field in API response is removed as well.

  • Extension API v6: persistent data storage

3.2.5 (2019-10-03)

Common

  • Google Cloud IoT Core support

  • fix: startup timeouts

LM PLC

  • Rule chill-out logic corrected

Cloud manager

  • First public beta

3.2.4 (2019-07-30)

Common

  • Core and controller interconnect stability improvements

  • IOTE cloud support

  • InfluxDB integration

  • Prometheus integration

  • Logging to syslog

  • Autocompletion files for ZSH

  • server events

  • CLI edit command for controller server config

UC

  • Driver API 7: shared namespaces

LM PLC

  • Direct use of macro functions (as @function)

  • rule, job and cycle creation with human readable input

SFA

  • edit ui / edit pvt commands in EVA shell

3.2.3 (2019-06-24)

Common

  • MQTT server is not required anymore for local host/network installations, controllers can exchange information in real-time via P2P sockets (turned on automatically if MQTT server for controller is not specified).

  • state_history method can now return chart image (SVG/PNG)

UC

  • get_phi_ports API method - get ports of loaded PHI

  • phi_discover API method - search for equipment supported by PHI module

  • Modbus values reported to UC slave can now be automatically converted to signed and divided (or multiplied).

LM PLC

  • set_job_prop macro function

  • cycle can now run macros with args and kwargs

SFA

  • easy-setup now creates default user (operator)

  • "as" parameter for .json and .yml files changes their format on the flow

  • JS SFA Framework is now deprecated. Use EVA JS Framework instead: https://github.com/alttch/eva-js-framework

3.2.2 (2019-05-21)

UC

  • Driver API 5: "unload" method, unit values in PHIs.

LM PLC

  • scheduled jobs

SFA

  • evaHI integration

  • transparent authentication on secondary UI pages

3.2.1 (2019-04-16)

Common

  • fixes: small fixes in CLI

  • fixes: code refactoring, performance optimization

  • EVA ICS now loads 3rd party libraries from virtualenv which increases system stability as only tested version of libraries are used.

  • Support for AWS IoT

  • Modbus slave register monitoring functions

  • increment/decrement functions for lvars and shared macro variables

  • read-only permissions for API keys

3.2.0 (2019-04-02)

Common

  • Core, API and CLI performance improvements

  • fixes: correct backup/restore if configuration folders are symlinks

  • fixes: correct restore if --runtime flag is specified

  • fixes: LM PLC locking problems

  • notifier performance improvements

  • CLI improvements

  • personal Cloud support (nodes run API calls via MQTT)

  • automatic node discovery

  • license changed to Apache License 2.0

  • new SYS API function: shutdown_core

  • controller/node autodiscovery

  • enterprise layout is now default item layout

  • using item ids in API key properties is not allowed any longer in enterprise layout, item oid (type:group/id) must always be specified

  • X-Auth-Key header authorization support

  • JSON RPC 2.0 API

  • JSON notifiers will send JSON RPC 2.0 notifications to the target uri, if method param is set

  • RESTful API

  • API session tokens

  • Database support for MySQL and PostgreSQL

  • supervisord support

UC

  • warning: API function set_driver renamed to assign_driver

  • new API functions: list_device_tpl, set_driver_prop, set_phi_prop

  • 1-Wire OWFS support (virtual buses, PHIs), OWFS API functions

  • Modbus slave support

  • Driver API v4

LM PLC

  • new API functions: enable_controller, disable_controller, matest_controller, set_ext_prop

  • kwargs in macros (kwargs dict, plus all keyword arguments are available as variables)

  • set_rule_prop now accepts "condition" and "for_oid"

  • cycles, cycle control API and macro functions

  • removed deprecated dm_rule* ACL

  • removed deprecated get/post functions (use requests.get/post instead)

  • Extension API v4

SFA

  • new API functions: enable_controller, disable_controller, list_cycles

  • SFA framework: code optimization, cycle states (warning: some functions are incompatible with previous version, use eva_sfa.3.1.js library or call the functions in new format only, look UPDATE.rst for more info)

  • SFA framework: data exchange optimization with eva_sfa_state_updates variable

  • removed deprecated dm_rule* ACL and rule control functions

  • SFA templates: request now contains full request object

  • SFA templates: new function api_call (call any SFA API method)

Deprecated (will be removed in 3.3.0)

  • macro "argv" variable (replaced with "args")

  • PHP API client no longer supported (use JSON RPC)

  • removed deprecated HTTP/POST and HTTP/GET notifiers

3.1.1 (2018-10-22)

Common

  • fixes: interactive prompt behavior

  • fixes: API client libs check result of "phi_test" and "phi_exec" functions

  • history for interactive shell mode (to turn off set EVA_CLI_DISABLE_HISTORY=1 system environment variable)

  • new management CLI: eva-shell (interactive by default)

  • backup/restore operations (with eva-shell)

  • dynamic API key management via CLI and API

UC

  • fixes: device commands in enterprise layout

  • performance improvements

  • "update" command without params starts item passive update

  • batch commands in UDP API (separated with new line)

  • encryption and authentication in UDP API

  • custom packet handlers in UDP API

  • new API function: "test_controller", detailed info in "list controllers"

  • MQTT tools for PHIs

  • test-phi CLI tool

LM PLC

  • fixes: double quoted macro arguments in DM rules

  • fixes: gain param in "tts" and "audio" extensions

  • "action_toggle" macro func, "toggle" acts as an alias for unit oids

  • "shared" and "value" macro funcs default return values

  • new API function: "test_controller", detailed info in "list controllers"

  • new LPI: usp (unit single port)

  • test-ext CLI tool

SFA

  • new API function: "test_controller", detailed info in "list controllers"

  • SFA framework fixes and improvements

3.1.0 (2018-09-01)

UC drivers, device templates, state history, charts and other new features

Core

  • working with locks now require allow=lock apikey permission

  • new notifier type: db, used to store item state history

  • SYS API functions: notifiers, enable_notifier, disable_notifier. the enable/disable API functions change notifier status only temporary, until the controller is restarted

  • MQTT SSL support

  • JSON notifiers. GET/POST notifiers are marked as deprecated and should not be used any more.

  • exec function (cmd, run) string arguments split with ' ' now support the spaces inside (e.g. 'this is "third argument"')

UC

  • new uc-cmd cli

  • old uc-cmd renamed to uc-api

  • UC drivers: logical to physical (LPI) and physical (PHI) interfaces

  • native Modbus support (drivers only)

  • device templates

  • new function "state_history" in UC API

  • EVA_ITEM_OID var in the environment of UC scripts

  • action status label (case insensitive) may be used instead of number, if the label is not defined, API returns 404 error

  • new key permission: "device", allows calling device management functions.

  • uc-tpl device template validator and generator (alpha)

  • unit and sensor items now have physical location. If location is specified as coordinates (x:y or x:y:z), loc_x, loc_y and loc_z props become available

  • UC EI now should be enabled/disabled in uc.ini

LM PLC

  • new lm-cmd cli

  • old lm-cmd renamed to lm-api

  • macro extensions

  • macro function "unlock" now return false if the lock hasn't been locked or doesn't exist

  • unlock macro function may throw an exception if the controller forbids its functionality, in case the controller has no master key defined

  • new functions "state_history" in LM API and "history" (equivalent) in macros

  • new functions: status, value, nstatus, nvalue with oid support

  • new DM rule events: on nstatus, nvalue change (for units)

  • device management functions: "create_device", "update_device", "destroy_device"

  • "set_rule_prop" macro function

  • "alias" macro function

  • rule filter in LM EI

  • LM EI now should be enabled/disabled in lm.ini

SFA

  • fixes: rule management functions

  • new sfa-cmd cli

  • sfa-cmd renamed to sfa-api

  • new function "state_history" in SFA API and SFA Framework

  • all functions now accept item oids

  • "result" function returns the result of macro execution if macro action uuid or macro id (in the oid format) specified

  • state API function accepts "full" parameter

  • full SFA states now have item descriptions and status labels (for units)

  • SFA API groups function now accept "g" parameter to filter group list (with MQTT-style wildcards)

  • SFA rpvt function to load documents from remote servers

  • SFA cvars are automatically available in SFA Framework app. Note: SFA cvars are public and may be obtained with any valid API key

  • SFA Framework is now jQuery 3 compatible, included jQuery lib updated to 3.3.1

  • SFA Framework item states now also have description and status labels fields

  • eva_sfa_groups function, returns item groups list (with optional filter)

  • eva_sfa_chart function, displays item state charts

  • eva_sfa_popup function, displays popups and info windows

  • new ws event: server restart and eva_sfa_server_restart_handler in a framework. SFA API function "notify_restart" allows to notify clients about the server restart w/o actual restarting (e.g. when restarting frontend)

  • jinja2 templates for SFA ui and PVT files (all files with .j2 extension are served as templates). index.j2 has more priority than index.html

API Client

  • new API function call result: "result_invalid_params" (11)

Common

  • new notifier management CLI (old CLI tools available in legacy folder)

  • watchdog to test/automatically restart controllers in case of failure

  • oid support in API keys

  • other stability improvements

3.0.2 (2018-06-23)

Bugfix release, some new urgent features, stability improvements

EVA documentation is now available in reStructuredText format and at https://eva-ics.readthedocs.io

Emergency interfaces

  • fixes: correct display of long item names

  • fixes: various bug fixes

  • refresh buttons on item pages

  • LM EI: reset button and expire timer in LM EI show/hide when prop changed

Core

  • fixes: remove empty controller group when all objects are deleted

  • fixes: remote items correctly display state in list_remote

  • fixes: disabled sensors and lvars should not react to expiration

  • each set_prop call now logs what's actually changed

  • added item oid (type:group/item_id) - reserved for the future releases

  • added stop_on_critical option in config (default: yes), server will be restarted via safe-run if critical exception occur

  • uptime in dump and test API function, last 100 exceptions are now stored in a dump, dumps are now compressed with gzip

  • API functions now support JSON requests

UC

  • action_toggle function to quickly toggle status of simple units

LM PLC

  • list_remote returns array + controller_id property instead of dict

  • result function in macro api. terminate and result function accept action uuid as a param

  • on_set lm rule (status changed to 1)

  • new LM API and macro functions: clear (set lvar value to 0), toggle (toggles lvar value between 0 and 1)

  • cmd macro function now accepts full controller id (uc/controller_id) as well as short

  • new macro functions for file management: ls, open_oldest, open_newest

SFA

  • fixes: dm_rule_props acl in SFA

  • list_remote returns array instead of dict + controller_id property

  • list_macros contains now controller property

  • append_controller now tries to autodetect controller type if no type is specified

  • sfa pvt access logs

  • reset, toggle, clear, action_toggle, result and terminate by uuid funcs in sfa & sfa framework

  • reload_clients command and sfa framework reload event handler

  • eva_sfa_expires_in function in a framework to work with timers

  • log processing functions in a framework

  • wildcard masks in eva_sfa_state and eva_sfa_register_update_state

Common

  • easy-setup.sh - an interactive/automatic script to quickly set up the current host

  • ability to run controllers under restricted user

3.0.1 (2018-02-21)

Minor release with some urgent features

Core

  • EVA_ITEM_PARENT_GROUP variable in script ENV which contains the parent group of the item

  • cvars now can be set as global or assigned to the specified item group i.e. 'VAR1' - global cvar, available to the all scripts, 'group1/VAR2' - variable available only to scripts from group 'group1' (as 'VAR2'), 'group2/VAR2' - variable available only to group 'group2' (also as 'VAR2'). Used by UC scripts to let one script manage different items

UC

  • 'update_delay' prop - item passive update may start with a delay to prevent multiple updates running simultaneously producing high system load

  • 'clone' function in UC API and uc-cmd to clone items

  • 'clone_group' function - clones all matching items in a group

  • 'destroy_group' function destroys all items in the specified group

LM PLC

  • item id in LM rules match by simple mask (i.e. '*id'* or 'id'* or '*id')

3.0.0 (2017-10-19)

First public release