Hi All. We’ve got a beta firmware out now, which may be of interest to Vertilux and Jstar motor users, as well as anyone who has been dissatisfied with the Virtual Remote Control feature.
This is a release for all currently supported Bridges. (All serials starting with Z.)
Going to Beta: 23 Jan 2025
Stable Release: 12 Feb 2025
Highlights:
- fixes for VRC issues
- VRC now supporting Nice Green
- added new technology ADD Window
- Vertilux 2-way group support & fixes
- JStar slider
What’s Changed since v4.8.1
Works with Bond
- BOFU: shorter identify code at request of BOFU Smart
- RMS76: Disable multiple bursts of Pair after discovering that a new SelectBlinds motor was being unpaired by the second burst
- Add support for ADD Window (RMS177)
- Update the template for Equinox/Liferoom (RMS169, RMS1692) to support both the latching and momentary control types, in collaboration with the brands
- Vertilux 2-way (JCBD) now supports groups that start together, and various fixes
- BON (RMS125): support both Old & New BON motors
- JStar (RMS119): add native slider position control, now the default, can be enabled on older devices after fw upgrade
Virtual Remote Control
- Add support for NICE Green (RMS92)
- Add support for ADD Window
- Fix issue where VirtualRC would hang, requiring a reboot to restore VRC function
- Fix issue where the first tap after some idle time may be lost
Performance
- On BD-17xx, we now allocate memory for up to 16KB bodies on the HTTP transport. The 8KB limitation remains for MQTT. This was added to support very large systems from Mecho shade on the local webgui.
- Again only for BD-17xx, we have adjusted the TCP/IP stack to allow more simultaneous UDP packets to be received. This fixes a problem with the Mecho integration where discovery of more than ~6 hubs to be intermittent. This may have also improved performance of BBCAP when there are many Bridge Pros on the same network, but this remains to be tested at scale.
- Breeze Pro: fix issue where Bridge would make excessive flash writes
- BBCAP: add option to disable collision avoidance in /bridge webgui
Misc
- debug/syslog: fix GET which previously reported broken subsystem verbosity levels; and prevent enabling global trace
- Livelog: all livelog connections are now encrypted and no longer work with now only support encryption; prepended bondid; incl crc32
Note that bond-cli livelog feature is not yet updated to support the new encrypted livelog.
