NPE 9000 / X1000 Packages Release notes

Package name	NPE 9XXX	NPE X1000
APACHE	1301150856	1310310159
CURL	1301150856	1309261051
FIRMWARE	1307091018	1312161331 NEW
GPRS	1308271203	1309261051
GPS	1311201352	---
IMOD	1310250906	1311190845 NEW
IMODCLOUD	1309041051	1310310344
JAVA	1301150856	1310250826
LIBNPE	1309171053	1311190845
MYSQL	---	1310310633
NPETOOLS	1306181052	1310310612
NXS	1304102010	1310310212
ONEWIRE	1304170815	1311280959
OPENSSL	1201110905	1310291317
OPENVPN	1308291237	1310310950
PHP	1211081521	1306211235
POSTGRESQL	1205161350	1310301806
PYTHON	1301150856	1306241356
RUBY	1205041059	1307161651
SOFTMGR	1102081414	1311051321
SMS	1308271204	1311280959
SSH	1205161350	1311280959
USB	1308271202	1311280959

New functionalities

IMOD: Added support for histeresis event type OnChange with possibility to define it with value of another parameter
IMOD: Added scaling for channel PSQL Scheduler
IMOD: Added Scheduler type MS-SQL
IMOD: Added persistent value event
GPRS: Added GSM_MODE=[AUTO|WCDMA|GPRS] into syscfg
GPRS: Added GSM_MODE for newest 3G modems in syscfg
GPRS: Added information about connection type
GPRS: Added connection support with AT+CREG while modem returns code 0,4
GPRS: Added power managing for modems
GPS: Added support for HUAWEI MU609 modems
X1000 FIRMWARE: Added Redis - persistent events are available
X1000 FIRMWARE: Added busybox ipcmd to filesystem
X1000 LIBNPE: Added the npe_service.rule file (only for exe_service)
X1000 LIBNPE: Added libnpe starting script

Improvements

IMOD: Fixed lack of offset save in modbus.db
IMOD: Fixed executing script with message type scheduler even though it should not
IMOD: Fixed parser error with double offset type elements
IMOD: Fixed situaction when event OnUpdate was performed three times
IMOD: Fixed iMod kill statement due to parser error after starting message-channel PSQL
GPRS: Fixed problem with displaying ERROR: Wrong modem type - no GPS was occured while gprs was connecting
GPRS: Fixed wrong ip adres in ip-up script
GPRS: Fixed problem with modem reset occuret after connection estabilished and type command gprs reconnect off.
GPRS: Fixed no response for ping with HUAWEI modem
GPRS: Fixed situaction when DNS servers was complement incorrectly
GPRS: Fixed problem where LCK files was not deleting from /tmp
X1000 FIRMWARE: Fixed issue with RS-485 while transmitting large amounts of data
X1000 FIRMWARE: Fixed issue with signaling device status via LED’s
X1000 FIRMWARE: Fixed issue while SearchNPE was not find X1000 devices
X1000 FIRMWARE: Fixed issue with lack of directory in /crontabs
X1000 FIRMWARE: Fixed issue with settime function
X1000 FIRMWARE: Fixed issue when crond wan not lunching after system startup
X1000 FIRMWARE: Fixed issue where network settings was not restoring after upgrading or reinstalling firmware
X1000 IMOD: Fixed issue with imod scan mbus
X1000 LIBNPE: Fixed correction of wrong messages returned by the npe application

Upcoming new functionalities

IMOD: New macro - CurrentTimeStamp - allows to add timestamp in the YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss format
IMOD: Object/String parameter support via dedicated iMod channel
IMOD: Progress bar for M-Bus scanning
IMOD: log4j configuration for appender allowing FTP and SQL upload
IMOD: Possibility to set frequency of scheduler CSV files rotation
IMOD: New event: OniModStart, OniModStop
IMOD: Upgrade device-id support when using RTU and TCP with access-channel and message-channel
X1000 FIRMWARE: Automatically connecting to iModCloud while internet conenction detected
X1000 FIRMWARE: InaDyn

Known issues

IMOD: Errors related with device-id
IMOD: Occasional NPE_DATE channel value format mismatch WORKAROUND: increase value of the cycle parameter element
IMOD: Double event triggering when using edge attribute
IMOD: Error during iMod start, when Access Channel contains the following element: „ET-localhost-502-TCP”\\WORKAROUND: define Access Channel as suggested in documentation, define „port” element as follows: „ET-502-TCP”
IMOD: Configuration for transfer of read error code from Modbus to Access Channel SNMP impossible WORKAROUND: do not use SNMP readout error
IMOD: Write of real32 parameter to modbus.db fails when you use a parameter with ForceWrite event WORKAROUND: do not use real32 parameters with ForceWrite event when writing to modbus.db
IMOD: Malfunction of OnChangeStatus event with “ref” element when using dummy parameter
IMOD: Malfunction of OnUpdate event with “ref” element when using dummy parameter - event mechanism fails
IMOD: Malfunction of OnChange event with “ref” element when using dummy parameter
IMOD: Malfunction of OnSourceRead event with “ref” element when using dummy parameter
IMOD: Malfunction of OnSourceWrite event with “ref” element when using dummy parameter
IMOD: It is not possible to write parameter ID containing Polish characters to modbus.db
IMOD: Unwanted event queue when Source Channel is turned off with Command Channel
IMOD: Write to CSV is not continued after deleting file manually while iMod is running
IMOD: During CSV rotation from data-logging channel first line in a file contains only time-stamp without parameter values WORKAROUND: leave out first line during CSV analysis
IMOD: iMod parser does not find XML error without space in the following expressions:
IMOD: Rated power - init value - is overwritten at each startup of TRM with the use of TRM web interface WORKAROUND: add ForceWrite mechanism to configuration, which will assign rated power
GPS: Stopping gps-daemon: /bin/gps: line 229: deinitialize: not found occured with HUAWEI MU609 modems
X1000 FIRMWARE: Hotplug is not working for ethernet#2
X1000 FIRMWARE: Missing mkfs command

Packages release notes 2013-10-29

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