• Fix bug in recently added feature to read whole array with a single read request when the array start isn’t zero.
• Added feature to alarms system to specify if an individual device alarm is to be included or not in its summary alarm.

• Added feature to enable the user to customise the order of devices in table view when using the default sort order based on device icon.
• Added feature to fade LEDs to a colour and this is used when an alarm is excluded from the summary alarm in a device.

• ALL
  • Tagging of VIP vars within the device variable file itself has been done for a number of devices.
• Alphawave/Site
  • Total runtime of CAM kept in a persistent variable.
• Alphawave/Planner
  • Add support for setting other modem variables for modulation, FEC rate, PCMA enable and Rx tracks Tx
  • Refinement to rendering to handle narrower frequency bandwidth slots and finer control over display of undeployed frequency slots.
  • Have a release frequency for modems at each end to prevent accidental appearance of remote sites when a subsequent remote is brought up on the same preset as a prior remote.
  • Display currently set frequencies in the modems.
  • Have a scale for the grid for the main view for when only a small frequency range is used.
  • Added Segments that can be used to specify which segments of bandwidth are displayed for a given Zone.
  • Added labelling for the Tx and Rx carriers in the main diagram view.
• Alphawave/Dialup –
  • Rework driver to allow for polled commands and async data (e.g. Iridium signal strength)
  • Indicate a ‘connected’ state by sending “AT” at regular intervals
  • Support for “test” commands, sending a command to the modem and reporting back the result
  • Improved reset code including multiple reset attempts
• Alphawave/Terminal
  • Improved options including local connection and history scrollback configurable in config file.
• Alphawave/OSCmd
  • DEPRECATED
• Advantech/iPoint
  • Support for newer firmware version devices that have less variables available – these are mainly the engineer’s commissioning variables that are of no use to the user.
  • Also support newer LNB/LO control facilities.
• Comsat/RSI 253
  • Fix some inverted status flags.
  • Deprecate some old variables not in newer firmware.
  • Improved panel layout.
• CPI/CPIAmp
  • New control for power on and beam states and gain values for each band.
  • fix timezone reporting
  • Improved panel layout.
• ETL/RFMatrix
  • Support new status command.
  • Strip trailing ‘-‘ from labels returned by device.
  • Improved panel layout.
• Gigasat/STC
  • Improved support for new improved autopoint polling method and other new commands including Inclined Tracking
  • Newest pointing and beacon code has been ported onto previous revisions, so the checks for these can be wound back to 4.98.
• Novella/BRXL
  • make dc_output floating point.
  • Refinement to panels.
• Paradise/QFlex / Evolution
  • Driver code shared with Evolution
  • Improve update time for Rx variables for when Rx tracks Tx is set.
  • Added improved feature to copy/edit/save/load/export configurations.
  • Added carrier settings feature for copying modem settings into a spectrum analyzer.
  • Support for firmware 3.1.3, 3.1.11, 3.1.24a and 3.1.31
• Research Concepts/RC3000
  • Update for newer features in firmware versions from 1.59 onwards.
  • Added Nudge system as per iPoint.
  • Added Stow and Target features to know when Stowed or pointing at Target satellite.
  • Added autopoint system that works in conjunction with beacon receiver and modem.
  • Added feature to turn off LCD panel polling to improve responsiveness.
  • Added internal delay inbetween packets to help prevent packet loss.
• Terrasat/IBUC
  • Improvement to driver to ignore missing commands and fixes for Tx-1:1 control
  • Changed to shared driver to work with Terrasat/RXC.
  • Panel improvements.
• Vislink/DVE5100
  • Re-written driver to use XML control system.

• Alphawave/IO – now supports BrainBoxes ED-516/ED-588
• Alphawave/OWTS – One-Wire Temperature Sensor device using an Arduino and DS18B20 temperature sensors.
• Alphawave/Spectrum – Spectrum Analyzer.
• Advantech/Intrac – Antenna control unit.
• ASC/IDU – Antenna control unit.
• Avcom/AvcomSBS – Spectrum analyzer.
• Comtech/CDModem – Satellite Modem – Unified driver for Comtech CDM-600/CDM-600L with new support for CDM-625A and CDM-570A/CDM-570AL.
• Comtech/MBT-5000 – L-Band up/down converter.
• CPI/BCIPSSPA – Amplifier.
• DoubleD/DDA219 – Switch controller.
• Terrasat/RXC – Redundancy controller.
• Vislink/ASC5000 – System controller.
• Vislink/IRD5200 – Receiver.
• Vislink/TSM – Transport stream manager.
• Vislink/UltraCoder – Video encoder.
• Vislink/UltraDecoder – Video decoder.

• Fix issue with command retries system which prevented previously forwarded commands from being retried.
• Fix issue that required Specific names to be pre-defined for the first run of Daemon for devices that had interface filters pre-created.
• Added “resends” system so that changes to variables are
  send out multiple times.
  • This can be disabled for variables that are constantly changing and hence don’t need it.
• Added “related” system so that a series of other variables will be sent out whenever the one they are related to is changed.
• Refined and improved remote download and install system
  used to remotely update the installed version of CAM.
  • includes a ‘.squashfs’ release for fast (read-only) mounting
• Redesigned VIP variable system to make it possible to dynamically define which variables are VIP ones on an individual device basis.
• Added feature to mark certain variable states as
  “exception” and should/could be ignored in comparison or
  arithmetic operaions.
  • Added ‘include/ignore exception’ option to alarm processing allowing e.g. -1=N/A states to be ignored and a condition of, e.g. “LT 5” to fire if value is less than 5, but is not -1.
• Redesigned logging system to be more intelligent in what
  it logs and how it logs it, along with loggin min/max and
  number of changes that occurred inbetween logging outputs
  where appropriate.
  • Improved thread management of log cleanup system (which gzips the raw text logs to reduce disk usage) that’s run on Daemon startup or at the start of each day.
  • Improved handling of log cleanups when RTC of server has failed.
• Added feature to be able to read a whole array with a single variable request.
• Added internal use send feature to variables to disable them being sent over the network which they are solely for private creation and use.
• Added feature to set the perceived time for debugging purposes.
• Internal redesign of dialup modem control system.
• A ‘tapcam’ TAP interface can be created to transport IP packets via a CAM tunnel.
• CAM Script language, a stack-based (Forth-like) language which can read and set vars as well as normal if/then, loops, functions, etc.
• Use Cam_Server() from lib.
• CAM-Site/Devices//Variables/main.py used to modify variable attributes on a per-site basis.
• Drivers can have a ‘detached’ portion of code which is run by all daemons /except/ the one controlling the device, e.g. AvcomSBS to reconstruct sweep array from packed DATA.

• Added a per-device sort code to enable user determined default sort order of devices in Table view. Similar to the pre-existing Site sort code that could be used to determine the sorting of sites.
• Rename debug use “Variable manipulator” panel to “Properties” and make it be generally available and show all attributes of a variable.
• Add in and use DejaVu as the default font.
• Add feature to fields so that when appropriate they can have left click for menu and right click for edit instead of the normal other way round.
• Added feature to be able to confirm whether to edit a field upon clicking on it to complement the current system of being able to confirm upon setting a field.
• Added feature to be able to override attributes of device variables.
• Added customisable device variable attribute override
  system and optionally hide ones as well.
  • For a given variable this can be for a specific panel or for all panels.
  • For array variables this can be per element or for the whole array.
• Refine variable create view system so that if it’s created from a button that will set the variable to a value, then that is copied to and a button is generated.
• Improved visual demarcation inbetween sub-sections of folded and rigid panels.
• Add feature to labels to be able to show its array index if required.
• Extend the label stripping feature to the direct use labels.
• Added feature to be able to toggle an individual bit of an integer variable using the standard option/toggle mechanism.
• Added feature to highlight the uses of a variable.
• Revamp of device window menu for clarity.
  • Added options to it to show hidden/shaded items and to show hidden/shaded options from lists.
• Added rudimentary line based text editor.
• Added option to turn off the display of the Console Screen selection bar for when the screen display’s vertical resolution is low.
• Added new internal file save/open dialog.
  • Added support for native file save/open dialog handlers within the client machine’s GUI.

  * This is currently only for Windows and can be turned off as a preference.

• Added Save as PNG option to device window menu which will save out a PNG of the window.
• Change highlighting of dormant/latent/hidden device panels
  so that some element of the colour of items within the panels
  is retained.
  • It now tints dark/light for light/dark colour schemes.
  • Also added message to footer of panel to indicate what device state has caused this highlighting.
• Added new desaturate highlighting feature as an alternate to full monochrome.
• Added device variable command history window that shows which variable on which device was set to what value at what time by the current user.
• Added feature to offline device windows to be able to NOT
  tint by status for offline for a specified amount of time that
  will get reset while a window on that device is under the
  pointer.
  • Also added a feature to specify how long devices must be offline before their windows get tinted.
• Added feature to limit frame time to restrict load on GPU and CPU. Automatically activated on systems with slow CPUs.
• Added ability to input newlines using CTRL-RETURN in text boxes that specifically support multiple lines.
• Added feature so that clicking on a window that is locked because of the window lock padlock will make the padlock flash to remind the user.
• Added new “peanut” style switch.
• Added feature to graph system to have sub-graphs that are
  persistence versions that are a history ripple of the current
  one.
  • Mainly for use with spectrum analyzer plots.
• Added feature to graph system to emphasise the zero line when the Y axis ranges from negative to positive.
• Added feature to graph system to enable it to dynamically adjust the X and/or Y axis grid to make a sensible modulo alignment for the grid and labelling.
• Added feature to graph system to control font size of its axes labelling.
• Added feature to graph system to be able to fill the available space.
• Added feature to graph system to be able to specify the minimum size of a graph element ot specify the proportion visible and adjust the amount visible to suit.
• Added feature to graph system to support bar graphs and point graphs.
• Added feature to graph system to support different colours
  based on the value.
  • The colour can be stepped or shaded and in the case of bar graphs can be for the entire bar as well.
• Added feature to graph system to support invalid data for discontinuous graphing.
• Added feature to remember each graphed variables’ history
  inbetween stop and restart of GFX.
  • Added preference to enable/disable this feature for pre-defined and user graphed variables.
  • Will mark the gap time inbetween stop and restart as invalid data which isn’t plotted.
  • When a device is not online or a graphed variable is “old”, then it will be regarded as invalid and not graphed.
• Added feature to graph for graphed variables to specify a fixed min/max for display porposes.
• Added feature to graph to always centralise around the
  most recent Y value with fixed min/max offset from it.
  • Optionally can make the min/max stay fixed until the Y moves out of the range and then it will step by a specified amount to get the most recent Y back in view.
• Added feature to remember the low/full detail status of folded panel tabs and for them to persist per window on restart.
• Added preference to displayed of graphed variables to show the actual time on the X axis (down to minutes) rather than the elapsed time.
• Added CLI feature to specify the location of the CAM-Site directory used for custom panels and saved status/preference files.
• Added feature to control window border colour and thickness.
• Added more window border highlighting features and
  controls to select which border and which conditions.
  • Added option to show Offline mode for device windows by just recolouring the border instead of tinting the whole panel.
• Added window size memory so that on restart, windows will be restored to their original size before the device is discovered, instead of showing small tabs.
• Added feature to chose how clicks affect Device explorer
  tree bars.
  • Added icons to right of Device explorer tree bars to always perform the view or open function with a left click.
• Added feature to device open menus so they cascade down
  through the panels as well.
  • Added same feature to device panel path menu.
• Added feature to radio groups so that a right click will
  popup a menu to select the option.
  • Added new radio group style that’s like a “normal” CAM button.
• Added warning popup to recommend a restart when GFX detects that the server revision has changed – i.e. when the server is updated but the GFX client is still running.
• Added an array variable viewer.
• Don’t let GFX disable the screen saver/blanker.
• Added CLI option to specify and overscan padding to generate a border for the main window. For use when a monitor overscans and GFX is to be run fullscreen.
• Made clipboard use pure SDL clipboard handling on all platforms that support SDL2. This solves problems with the X11 clipboard handling.
• Added information to About panel for SDL renderer being used.
• Refined internal handling of variable state hiding/shading and added a masking feature as well so a bitmask can decide which states (options) are available.
• Added internal feature so that displayed objects can be tagged with a name for searching by other objects and scripts.
• Added internal feature to set expressions for internal variables to make panel display decisions based on device model or features etc. easier to manage.
• Added internal feature to recycle SDL_Surface structures to prevent memory thrashing which can ultimately lead to SDL failing to allocate new ones.
• Revised and rationalised the internal pathname hierarchy
  used to remember panel tab and Device Explorer selections.
  • This also means remember panel tab works the same irrespective of whether a given tab hierarchy is opened in a drilled down window or at the top level.
  • Also clean up these hierarchies on exit/restart for things that don’t need to be remembered or things that the user doesn’t want remembered.
• Added development use feature to enable setting of the raw value of a variable. Currently only for use on Variable manipulator panel.
• Added internal development feature to be able to render an aribtrary device panel into a file via control variables for future use as a system to generate panel views on demand for external use.
• Added development use feature that expands the device variable scanner to be used on windows with arbitrary panels or console views in them and arbitrary views on the console screen.
• Added development feature to ignore whether certain variables are missing (and not display a debugging message) when showing panels or scanning for variables.

• Added SI prefix system to handle automatically adjusting
  the SI prefix for a unit as appropriate.
  • Will work on displayed input and user entered input.
• Added archive system to handle creating and extracting .tar.gz files.
• Improved internal time tick system to not get issues
  caused by sudden clock time changes.
  • E.g. on RPi GFX terminals could cause an unexpected logout when a non-RTC client connects to the internet and updates its time.
• Factored fundamentals of server interface into core libraries from Daemon so they can be used by GFX (or other things) that require inbound connections.

• Support Python versions 2.7.14 and 2.7.15
• If there is a fatal error during program startup or while it is running, an alert box will be shown with the error message to aid support.
• If Daemon aborts startup because there’s a version of camd.exe already running on the same port number, then an alert box will be popped up.

• Fixed problems with pasting clipboard contents out of GFX – now works under SDL2.

• Daemon and GFX both now run on Raspberry Pi.

• Advantech/SSPB – updates for newer version that includes optional Rx waveguide switch and which can have some other features removed (band select, spectrum invert).
• Crown/DCi – updates to driver to use shared code with other Crown amplifiers.
• Datasat/AP20 – updates for 8 channel version and 24 channel AP24.
• Gigasat/UCU and DCU – updates for newer hardware version 15. Unified to use UCD driver.
• Gigasat/STC – update for new status commands and ability to read more variables from it while it is pointing.
• Paradise/Evolution – Satellite modem
• Support for firmware 3.0.62
• Paradise/Q-Flex – Satellite modem
  • Support for firmware 3.0.70, 3.0.85 and 3.0.90
  • Redesign of “Modem” panel branch to make the combined Tx and Rx panels easier to access.
  • Implemented 1:1 status display and switch command.

• Christie/CPSeries – CP series projector.
• CoreLogic/NCPS – Network Power Switch.
• Crown/DSi – Audio Power Amplifier
• Sony/SonySRX – SRX series projector. Currently in Beta-test.

• Added feature of tunneled IP through CAM network.
  • Contains configurable firewall to only allow specific ports and data types.
• Interrnal use feature to set variables to their default value. Mainly for use with array variables that don’t always have all elements set by the device being read.
• Added “fitted” flags which can be used to specify optional features of a device that are to be hidden or disabled under user/installer control when there’s no way of telling from the hardware itself.
• Bug found and fixed for new code needed for VIP traffic.

• Added development feature of having different selectable panel hierarchies for devices. E.g. to have basic and expert versions.
• Added development feature to enable user creatable panels using drag and drop of device variables.
• New appearance style added to bring the style of look for GFX up to date and more in keeping with Windows 10.
  • Added ability to change colour of writable/read only/highlight field display boxes.
  • Added ability to specify colour of certain text types within a colour scheme.
  • Added a new colour calculation scheme based on the theme colour(s) specified.
• New Themes preferences tab added which selects from a number of preset themes and sets Appearance and Colours parameters as appropriate in one go.
• New “micro-GFX” mode designed for phone/small tablet use which displays a drastically cut down view that’s more suitable for lower CPU power devices with smaller screens.
  • Has ability to have embedded panels similar to custom views for a normal GFX console view.
  • Have 2 finger pinch zoom and 1 finger pan integrated into the view itself for use on touchscreens.
• Add preference to control the spacing between tabs – separate for horizontal and vertical ones..
• Added option to Device explorer to have an simpler un-inindented view of tabs.
  • Added option to un-indented view that only allows one tab per level open at a time.
  • Added option to un-indented view that allows a tab to be pinned open to prevent closing and override the one tab per level.
  • Added option to indented view that allows the main bar colour to extend to the LHS for a less ragged look.
• Add a preference for each of the Device explorer and Console screen to specify the spacing inbetween each item.
  • Mainly for use on higher resolution screens if things start to look too dense.
• Fix show/hide tab update issue in Device explorer that’s exacerbated by micro-GFX mode.
• Add feature to Device explorer to be able to show the main version of panels instead of the summary ones.
• Added option to disable Racks and/or Chains (and all associated tabs and menus) for when either/both are not wanted.
• Improvements to Ports view to amalgamate different potential sources of port name (based on device driver) into a unified display.
• Add cascading menu option to right click menu on device panel tabs to select a panel.
• Make graph views of Variable graphs have better labelling for the elapsed time along the X axis.
  • Added tooltip to display a snapshot of the value(s) at a given point on the graphs when the mouse is over that time line.
• Added feature to graphing of variables to be able to define groups that can be called up for multiple graph views.
  • Also added entries to open views on defined graph variables or groups from the device main popup menu.
• Added zoom/pan feature to graph views of Variables accesible from graph menu.
• Improved device address range selector to have common ranges available without using the full custom selector.
• Internal ability to have graphics specific to a device type or manufacturer.
• Internal feature to clean up certain things on exit that are otherwise remembered while running.
  • E.g. to reset all devices in Device Explorer or micro-GFX to have their summary panel tabs closed on exit.
• Changed some clickable option graphics to use more modern looking switch graphics in place of check box graphics.
  • Added a preference to apply this globally to all 2 way option controls that used a check box.
• Added feature to field to have 2 state option switch displayed with option states either side.
• Added feature of slider button graphic for use on sliders where appropriate.
• Refined tooltips so that they can update if the item to display in them changes while they are displayed.
• Added setting of a local variable to a node of panels in the same way that it works for individual panel nodes.
• Added display of summary panels from within all of the various menus that lead to selecting a device panel to open.
• Added quick display of About for a device from its Device popup menu – done using summary panel menu view.
• Add prefernece to control the individual font sizes of numerous components of the overall display.
  • Also added a master font scale as a quick way of altering all fonts together.
• Made common icons scale as appropriate based on the font size.
• Added multi-line display object for use when certain information may be a single string of multiple items separated by newlines.
• Added preference to enable directly opening windows into GUI windows when holding down SHIFT + CTRL while clicking to open.
• Made separate GUI windows use the same display pixel scaling (e.g. from a DPI setting) as per the main window.
  • On high DPI displays, GFX will start with a default DPI of 144 if the display has a higher resolution.
• Added preferences for pixel scale and DPI that can be used to override the default or CLI specified values.
• General improvements to consistency of highlighting for when something can be interacted with using the mouse and the pointer is over it.
  • Corners only and animated dashes forms of borders now available as extra ways of highlighting objects where appropriate.
• Internal improvement to panel script file system to add ability to include script files within script files to simplify sharing common functions and variables.
• Added feature to use CTRL-ALT-R to restart GFX.

• Fix issue in GZIP output handler that could truncate files.

• Use native Windows file dialog when the user wants to save a CSV file of a selection of variables.
• Fix bug when restoring a maximised window that had been minimised.
• Make installer set Environment variable PYTHONHOME if it’s not set so that Python 2.7.11 will work.
  • This is not needed for any other versions before and versions 2.7.12 and 2.7.13 work without it.
• Support native resolution of the display for high DPI awareness on modern high DPI displays.
• Shortcut to CAM-Site directory added to start menu group.
• GetCredentials for licensing system added into standard release and shortcut added to start menu group.

• Fixed bug in GFX under the SDL2 library where on certain hardware it could occasionally stop updating the display until restarted.
• Updated to ubuntu/xenial. Compatible with 64 bit and 32 bit, but runs as 32 bit native and so 32 bit libs are needed.
• Compiled and test on RaspberryPi (model 3B).

• Anritsu/MS2700 – Spectrum Analyzer
• Crown/DCi – Audio Power Amplifier

• New interface packet filter system that can be applied directly to a Site, Serial or Ethernet device.
  • This can be applied before, after or instead of the normal more complex specific device pattern interface filter system is applied.
• Refinement to the inter-site notify user message system.
  • Added message type system to differentiate between different types system messages and user messages.
  • Added receipt system to indicate when receiving site(s) have received the user message.
  • Added acknowledge system to indicate when receiving site(s) have acknowledged reading the user message.
  • Improvement to the Notify users panel on the Site device to encompass these refinements.
    • Added LED indicator to show receipt/acknowledge status, with tooltip for count for when multiple recipients are expected.
    • Popup menu to select destination from known sites.
    • Colour coding for inbound/outbound messages.
• “REQUEST variable” responses are sent back as VIP packets so they can be sent across links which are enabled for VIP packets only.
• Reworking of the generation of outbound fast/slow/VIP update packets for the variable polling system to be more efficient.
• Reworking of data traffic system to be more efficient.
• Serial links
  • New state of “Offline” rather than “Down” to avoid bogus Link Down alarms in, e.g. dormant Dialler.
  • New state of “Echo off” set when link is down, but not sending any echos.
  • New state of “Waiting” set on startup, so link doesn’t start “Down”.
  • Fix bug whereby serial links enabled for receive only wouldn’t function on startup.
  • Fix bug whereby serial links enabled for receive only would not flag that it’s connected and so would not show data arriving.
• Fix some small memory leaks.

• Added network connection status indicator to top menu bar for Linux (previously was Windows and Android only).
• Added “Site sort code” to enable user controlled sorting of the displayed order of Sites.
• Refinement to internal theme colour shade scale generation system to make better use of bright theme colours.
• Added second theme colour that can be optionally specified by the user so it can blend inbetween two colours.
• Added ability to Preferences to be able to set individual values to default via middle click menu.
• Improved device lookup method to be more efficient on large networks with many sites.
• Fix an issue that occasionally affected only a few device panels on startup when the loop variable wouldn’t update.
• Improved sophistication and flexibility of submenu auto-generation features.
• Improvement to popup user messages from Daemon.
• Added feature to be able to drill down or up to a specific panel path in a device window without opening it in a new window.
  • Added “address bar” style display at top of device window to show the window path when it’s not at the top level.
  • Make right click on a panel tab bring up a menu to open it in a window or change the current window path.
• Added new switch style graphics for use as two state or multi-state selectors.
• Added new multi-set feature to be able to set multiple variables to multiple values with one click.
• Added pre-created categories to the device variables menu.
• Added Refresh view feature to Console screen menu.
• Added XY graph plotting in addition to the already existing Y axis graphs over an evenly spaced X axis.
  • Added support for log graphs to graph plotter.
• Added new slide switch type controller.

• Factored network socket and TCP/UDP connection and data handling from separate Daemon/GFX handlers.

• DDE/AP20, AP24 and RS20i – Audio processor
  • Added support for AP24
  • Added software generated variables to indicate if specific option boards exist.
    • Used to hide non-applicable information returned about health status etc.
  • Have separate poll time for VU meter update speed.
  • Show authorisation level on window bar.
    • Indicate when variables cannot be read because of insufficient authorisation.
  • Panel improvements
• Advantech/iPoint
  • Added feature to Location panel to be able to click to view it in Google maps.
• Paradise/Evolution – Satellite modem
  • Support for firmware 3.0.36
  • Panel improvements
• Paradise/Q-Flex – Satellite modem
  • Support for firmware 3.0.36b, 3.0.50a and 3.0.58
  • Support to handle new bulk status array variables introduced under 3.0.58 for QoS.
  • Panel improvements
• Alphawave/Circuit
  • More view control features.
  • Panel improvements
• Alphawave/Serial
  • Add feature to be able to change the connection port (address, speed, type etc.) while the server is still running.
• Alphawave/Site
  • Return more OS/hardware information.
    • Currently only new information is on Windows via WBEM interface.

• Improvements to SNMP server system.
  • Removal of requirement for it to be licensed, so it’s now an always available feature of CAM Daemon.
• Installations need an install_key and a validated credentials in the licence file.
• Added ability to concatenate multiple licence files into one to simplify licence distribution to multi-server installations.
• Fix issue with unlicensed devices timing out.
• Fix issue with unlicensed devices saving out out their persistent variables when nothing should be saved.

• Added network connection status indicator to top menu bar (currently only Windows and Android).
• Added generator feature to stagger creation of repeated items (e.g. lists) on slow CPU devices.
• Internal improvement to efficiency of management of device trees for Device Explorer.
• Improvement to update logic for Device Explorer so it doesn’t need to always rebuild when switching Console screen.
• Improvement to Console screen switching speed on devices with a slow CPU.
• Faster update to show new devices when remote sites come online and first connect to the site GFX is logged in to.
• Added keyboard navigation using arrow keys and return key to menus.
• Revamp of mouse interaction with objects when lingering/roaming with button pressed.
• Allow pinch/zoom and pan features available with touchscreens to be available via mouse.
  • CTRL-SHIFT with scroll wheel is zoom of GUI window. With movement is pan. ESCAPE resets.
• Added feature for certain windows to not be zoomed with the main view – e.g. menus, popups etc.
  • Preference available to disable this, e.g. when running at very high DPI.
• Improved window title bar features for certain non-device windows.
• Improved duplicate window detection to highlight when trying to open a window that’s already opened.
• Added extra features and special types to drag drop handling for certain objects into specific appropriate receivers.
• Added feature to specify DPI (or pixel scale) to display at.
• Added update time rate to draggable adjusters which defaults to 1/10 second to keep command traffic down.
• Click-and-hold on items without a specific action for it will pop up the meta-menu as per touch-and-hold on a touchscreen.
• Right click on toggle option items will pop up a menu of the two values that it can be set to.
• Added user controlled tag/untag all variables feature, where the tag gets cleared when the variable is updated.
  • Used in conjunction with “Refresh all variables” command to make it clear when an updated value has arrived.
• Added feature whereby it scans all device panels when the first of a device type appears to find where the variables are.
  • Added ability to save out CSV of all variables used within a panel tab hierarchy.
• More information display and features added to Variables panel for all devices, e.g. highlighting common variables.
  • Added ability to save out CSV of all or selected variables.
• Added related variables feature so objects in panels can list other related vars that need refreshing with it.
• Redesign of display in custom variables views in Console screen to make it more consistent with normal table view.
  • Added ability to save CSV view of custom variables views when in a Window as well as in a Console screen.
• Added feature to variable popup for an displayed object or icon to show its related variable and which panels they are used in.
• Added popup menus to alter viewed items in custom variable views in Console screen.
  • This menu can also now open a View Multiple User Graph panel.
• Added customisable colours on View User Graph panel and View Multiple User Graph panel.
• When creating one or more user graphs of variables for one or more devices, open them in a window or windows.
• Added ability to clear Dormant flag on all servers at once via a button on the Server connection Preferences panel.
• Allow different windows to have different theme colours.
  • Popup alerts are now yellow for standard alerts and red for warnings.
  • Popup confirms are green and popups to input a value are cyan.
  • Preferences added for these.
• Added separate alert and warning timeouts for server connection so that slow connections don’t keep popping up a warning.
• Added cancel timer feature to server connection failed timeout alert so it doesn’t log out.
• Added preferences to menu in login panel to access the system wide preferences for server connection, login servers and mouse type.
• Fix bug that would occasionally cause a device to lose its configured user graph vars after a restart.
• Fix bug that would occasionally cause a crash when closing windows on certain device panels – usually after many window operations.

• GetCredentials.exe provided for generating install licences.
• Windows Surface: Addition of specific support for better touchscreen handling.
• Correct reporting of operating system version for Windows 8.1 and 10 (and above).
• Use WBEM interface to access internal information about OS and hardware.
  • Support more types of network hardware interfaces for MAC enumeration.
• Installer now puts desktop shortcuts (if selected) on desktop for all users for consistency with start menu shortcuts.
• Fix issue with Restart option on Daemon system tray menu not restarting correctly with non-default config file.

• Further development to make it suitable for release

• Support touch-and-hold popping up a meta-menu of all the actions that the different mouse buttons would otherwise do.
• If the only action would be to pop up a menu, then just directly pop up that menu.
• C.f. Windows Surface touch-and-hold generating the same as a right click menu.
• Improvement to a number of button help messages to help with these meta-menus.

Updated drivers

• DDE/AP20 and RS20i – Audio processor
  • Display of VU levels.
  • Added filing system commands to create/copy/delete presets for EQ, format and input.
  • read GPIO lines
  • Panel refinements.
• Paradise/Evolution – Satellite modem
  • Fix long packet marker detection for packets between 255-259 bytes in length.
• Alphawave/Planner – System frequency/bandwidth planner
  • Detect carrier on for a non-deployed asset as being an error to warn the user.
  • Show asset error in addition to preset error.
  • Panel refinements.

New drivers

• NEC/Cinema Projector Series 2 – Cinema projector
  • Support for models: NC3240S-A, NC3200S, NC2000C, NC1200C, NC900C-A, NC1040L-A, NC1440L-A, NC1100L-A and MM3000B

Daemon

GFX

• Redesign of Alarm system configuration panels.

  • Functional effects of Disable and Ignore are swapped.

• Refinements to ability to open CAM windows in separate GUI windows.

  • Console views can now be launched in a separate GUI window.
  • Device explorer can now be launched in a separate GUI window.

• Refinements to some menus.

  • E.g. Device explorer display control in the main View menu

• Refinements to Create View system and editing of Console Views.

• Added features to Console View of variables:

  • Display the contents of ones that contain defined data blocks – e.g. jpeg.
  • Save current displayed values as a CSV file.

• Refinements to multi-view graph panel.

• Added “Is delta” option to user graph variables so that it graphs changes in a value.

• Added tooltips to items that will launch a confirm popup box to confirm their action.

• All Device Explorer network views can now show Dormant devices with or instead of normal ones.

• Server connection timeout is saved so that it affects login timeouts as well as connection loss.

• Prevent warnings of unknown useful device variables on startup on slow connections.

• Feature additions to diagram drawing system.

  • E.g. Simplified “human readable” forms of common angle directions to simplify development.

• Feature additions to LED creation system.

  • E.g. Separate angle specifier for rotatable LED direction instead of it being in the shape specifier.

• Improvements to appearance of numerous graphics used for buttons, selectors, nudgers etc.

  • Internal refinements to naming conventions for numerous graphics for general consistency.
  • Redesign of internal graphics loading/creating/caching and management system.
  • Additions to internal system to auto-generate numerous graphics as needed.
  • Added ability to load and pre-render on demand SVG graphics to any size.
  • Any pre-made graphics are now stored in ZIP files instead of as individual files in a directory.

• Additions to Font system to support foreign language fonts, in particular East Asian.

• Improved popup help under SDL2 so that it will now appear in the GUI window it pertains to.

  • Also option under SDL2 to have popup help in a separate GUI window in the taskbar notification area.
  • Popup help also now present on login screen for its fields and buttons.

• Improved handling of secondary windows that pop up in already open separate GUI windows.

  • Make menus launched from separate GUI windows open in their own GUI windows.

• Don’t create user directories in CAM-Site/GFX for failed logins.

• Fixed issue with occasional “script not found” messages appearing in valid device windows during startup.

• Added CLI flag to enable/disable VSync draw updates to reduce CPU load on Linux with SDL2.

• Improved internal framebuffer update management to reduce CPU load on Linux with SDL2.

• Fixed fullscreen startup issues on Linux with SDL2.

• Added use of a greater variety of cursors for appropriate mouse drag operations with SDL2.

• Added feature to determine pixel aspect ratio to handle very high DPI displays – e.g. small HD tablets.

• Added feature to zoom in/out and scroll around the contents of a window around an arbitrary point.

• Improvement to internal sound management system.

  • Added user configurable sound effects for Alert and Confirm popup boxes.

• Fixed occasional crash at the end of cleanups on exit.

• Clean up empty status files and directory structures to keep the user file space tidier.

• Added output information for stages of startup for use on slow devices – e.g. small tablets.

• Capture all internal debug messages into a file during startup until the user has logged in.

Core libraries

• Improved internal notation processing system for variable display and input.
  • Added more notation handlers for different specific forms – e.g. IP addresses
• Added support for loading files out of flat (i.e. no sub-directories) ZIP files.

Windows

Linux

Android

• First version of GFX working on Android.
• Not yet suitable for general release to customers.
• “CAM-Site” application to manage installation of customer-specific “Site” files (from zips)

• BUGFIX: fixed detection of ‘new_day’ which relied on a gmtime() value which was getting corrupted by Cam_Dir().get_gmtime()

• Disabled alarm LEDs are now shown as Off (grey) instead of being not displayed.

• Alphawave/Site
  • Add display of system sensors for platforms that supply it. (E.g. libsensors on Linux)
  • Panel improvements.
• Advantech/iPoint
  • Increase precision of the GPS position from 2dp to 4dp
  • Panel improvements.
• DDE/AP20 and RS20i – Audio processor
  • Improved handling of commands to/from device to deal with inconsistencies in their formats.
  • Support for new remote commands from new firmware.
  • Panel additions/improvements.
• Paradise/QFlex – Satellite modem
  • Support for firmware 3.0.36
• Alphawave/Serial
  • A loop back is not considered to be ‘good’ data and will trigger a fallback serial if configured.

• Alphawave/Planner – A new “System frequency/bandwidth planner” for managing connections.

• Support for libsensors for system specific hardware status information. Linux only.
• Improvements to remote site notifications to prevent prolonged periods of no communications.
• Fixed issue with co-existance of multiple device types that used Python drivers.
• Improvements to alarm system.

• Can now be built using SDL2 on both Linux and Windows.
• Using SDL2 can now detach CAM windows into separate GUI windows.
  • To do, hold Right-ALT (Alt-Gr) key when performing any kind of click action that would open.
• Improvements to diagram rendering system.
• Improvements to drag-and-drop system features.
• When “Auto lock” enabled, option added to specify that password must be supplied to unlock.
• Added feature to popup confirm boxes to be able to shade and lockout the background.
• Added new improved colour picker popup for use when needing to select a colour.
• Added a popup drag slide adjuster for certain variables – C.f. Adobe Lightroom adjusters.
• Added feature to have scrollbars on left/top instead of/in addition to right/left as required.
• Added feature of having a list of named servers available as a popup menu on the login screen.
• Added ability to control sort order of sites in Device Explorer for customer specific uses.
• Added feature to have Device Explorer sort device types by category as per Console Screen.
• Added feature to show/hide Dormamt devices in Network and Devices view in Device Explorer.
• Added simple show/hide button for Dormant sites in Sites view in Device Explorer.
• Resizable on/off scroll section feature added to lists for use where appropriate.
• Improved usage of regular expressions within scripts for complex custom panel requirements.
• Improvements to middle click menu features for advanced features on variables and panels.
  • Improvements for variable refresh/reset system for complex panels with embedded devices.
  • Improvements to “Create view” and graphing system and access to them from variables panel.
  • When using “Create view” to view in window, its window menu now has an option to save it.
• Show drilled down window path on Device icon menu title when window not open at top level.
• Added a decimal align feature for use in vertical tables of numbers using a monospaced font.
• LED graphics generators
  • Improvements to rectangular LEDs when used at large size.
  • Diamond (rhombus) LEDs added for use when required (e.g. on customer specific panels).
  • Triangular LEDs added for use when required (e.g. on customer specific panels).
• Deprecation of old support for LIBART rendering library. (LIBCAIRO has been used since 2.32)

• Support Python 2.7.8
• Now built under MXE64 compiler environment. (As a 32 bit application still.)
• Support for SDL2 libraries. (Currently at version 2.0.3)

• Use SDL libraries version 2.0.3

• Alphawave/Site
  • Added log file archiving and deleting.
  • Added ability to perform a system shutdown or restart via remote command.
  • Panel improvements.
• Alphawave/Dialler
  • Improvements to dialler command lookups – can now use name not just number.
  • Panel improvements.
• Alphawave/Ethernet
  • Have a confirm popup when setting remote Site Ethernet devices into Service mode.
  • Have a confirm popup when setting remote Site Tx or Rx off.
  • Panel improvements.
• Alphawave/Serial
  • Fixed issue with some persistent variables not being set.
  • Added reporting of port loops and site loops.
  • Have a confirm popup when setting remote Site Serial devices into Service mode.
  • Have a confirm popup when setting remote Site Tx or Rx off.
  • Panel improvements.
• Advantech/iPoint
  • Added ability to chose source of heading for when magnetometer is unreliable.
  • Panel improvements.
• APC/APC Smart UPS
  • Panel improvements.
• Paradise/Evolution
  • Improved support for firmware 2.0.36 and 3.0.17
  • Improvement to upgrade required notification for device variables in different versions.
  • Workaround for issue with device to zero EbNo, EsNo and BER when demodulator is not locked.

• Alphawave/Dialup – phone dialler manager.
  • Improved version of longstanding Alphawave/Dialler device driver.
• Paradise/QFlex – Satellite modem
  • Derived from Evolution modem and shares most panels.
  • Support for firmware 3.0.26
• Sierra/Airlink (now Airlink2) – GSM modem
  • Support for Sierra/ES440 model as well as previous Raven XE model.
• Victron/MultiUPS – Uninterruptable Power Supply

• Added ability to unset a device variable to its unknown state.
• Added ability to SNMP control for same variable to have different OIDs for different versions.
• Added ability to limit size of data packets or disable completely.
• Improvement to user control of alarm latching and alarm startup initialisation.
  • Ability to specify a default unlatch time instead of simple global on/off.
• Improvement to detection of port loops and site loops with regard to packet communication.
• Improvement to handling of multiple sites in one CAM-Site directory.
• Fixed issue with occasional re-execution of command packets across multiple connections.
• Fix timeout checking overflow for long term offline links (over 1 week).
• Fix bug of incorrect index introduced in 32758 (fixed 32181) when reading values from packets.
  • E.g. noticed when alarms not correctly triggering.
• Experimental ability to serve files to a client so groups of files can be synchronised.

• Ability to run GFX without a CAM-Site directory existing.
  • GFX will run, but won’t be able to save anything: preferences, tabs, history, windows, etc.
• Ability to specify a list of servers that are accessible from a popup menu on login screen.
• Ability to purge stored tabs and panel histories without resetting preferences.
• Ability for individual users to have individual versions of graphics.
• Ability to open a view on a user graph and customise aspects of its display.
• Ability to open a view on a user graph and plot it against other devices/variables graphs.
• Redesign of “Create view” panel (accessed by middle click on variables or tabs).
  • Integration of Create User Graph into Create view panel.
  • Added support for new Daemon variable unset feature.
• Improvements to graph rendering and control system – including a fix to a labelling anomaly.
• Improvements to diagram rendering and control system – in particular mouse click interaction.
• Improvements to handling of custom panels across different login sessions on different Sites.
• Improvements to features of confirm popup system.
• Improvements to manually resizable windows system and control of table size.
• Improvements to borders of windows for better delineation against busy backgrounds.
• Improvements to display highlighting of old and ancient variables.
• Improvements to Console Screen history system so it works better across restarts.
• Improvements to management of Dormant devices and fixups of occasional delays in change.
• Improvements to control of Console Screen display conditions for Hidden and Dormant devices.
• Made Device Explorer be tolerant of unknown Sites for known devices.
• Made Device Explorer Sites view be able to show/hide Dormant sites as desired.
• Window menu added to minimise window icon (in addition to device icon) for convenience.
• Internal improvement to variable usage for better performance and reliability.
• Internal improvement to script updates for better update timings and console screen switching.
• Internal improvement to device match handlers to handle mixed names/numbers and number ranges.
• Fix issue of GFX startup sometimes not displaying correct alarms when no device alarm changes.
• Fix issue of open windows on disappeared remote devices when server is stopped and restarted.
• Fix issue of TAB cycling between text fields displaying incorrectly in certain conditions.
• Fixed bug of user being able to type into non-typeable text boxes when its popup menu is open.
• Fixed bug in text scroller that could cause a crash when used in certain feature cobinations.
• Experimental ability to synchronise custom “client skin” files from a server.

• Support Python 2.7.6
• Installer improvements
  • Added detection of 64 bit Python being installed and alert the user that 32 bit is needed.
  • Checking of ranges of supported Python versions.
  • Add memory of which components are installed so only those are pre-selected on next install.
  • Set SVN revision in registry for use by directory installer for other support files.
• Improvements to system tray popup menu features.
  • The edit config link will now handle opening a non-default config file.

• Ubuntu revision Tahr 14.04 supported – built and tested.

• Paradise/Evolution
  • Fixes for popup menus for items that have had changes to displayed names of state options.
  • Some label fixups for improved consistency.
  • Some panel improvements.
• Radyne/DMD modems
  • Updates for new information from newer protocol documentation.
  • DMD2050E – Support for TRANSEC module.
• Advantech/iPoint
  • Improvements to graphics on visualisation panel.
    • Option to offset visualisations to display the dish relative to the base mount.
  • Some other panel improvements.
• All devices
  • Added quick setup panel that can contain quick setup configuration information for a device.
    • These can also have customer specific customisation.
  • Refinements to alarm configuration panel.

• Bugfix: better prevention of creation of rare “phantom” devices (caused by duplicated corrupt packets).
• Refinements to device response parsing system.
• Added internal timer system to perform regular or scheduled tasks – currently Linux only.
• Added startup system to have auto-started processes from programs in the CAM-Site hierarchy.
• Improved robustness in CTRL-C stopping so child processes exit cleanly.

• Added in confirm popup system for setting items or performing actions.
  • Can require a simple Confirm/Cancel click or password entry as well.
  • This can be set as a general preference as well as being explicitly used where appropriate.
• Added “Restore defaults” buttons (with confirm popup) to all preferences panels.
• Changed radio buttons and check boxes so that only the graphic can be clicked.
• Added field width control system to limit input length where appropriate.
  • Added preference control to disable this to prevent potential issues with old servers.
• Added coloured indication for when typed input will not be allowed.
• Added checksum system for variables and text which can be used to confirm inputs are correct.
• Added texttips to be able to show the checksum (and other info if needed) while typing.
• Additions to diagram system.
• Redesign of layout of popup help.
  • Addition of checksum for main variable.
  • Addition of usage information for related variables.
  • Addition of appropriate source information for variables that contain times/dates.
  • Refinement of formatting control for larger help text displays.
• Added more window controls to window popup menu for device panels and console views.
• Ability to create a console view directly into a window without making a named view first.
• Addition of device addresses to console views of groups of panels – as per variables view.
• Separate preferences tab for all the colours that can be customised.
• Additions to customer specific customisation features.
  • Improved overrides and additions to device panel hierarchy systems.
  • All user variable setting to ensure specific things can be set on startup.
• Added command line option -V to set a number of variables on startup from a file.

• Paradise/Evolution
  • Some panel improvements, particularly to clarify “ESC unit” when relevant.
  • Support reading of device time from the modem.
• Avcom/AvcomCSW
  • Some panel improvements, particularly to trace and controls.
• Gigasat/STC
  • Support for new features:
    • Pointing status of ACU
    • Beacon receiver, GPS and compass status reporting.
• Radyne/DMD modems
  • Fix bug from recent change for newer firmware which caused incorrect FEC setting display.
  • Refinement of IFO calculation system.
  • Support for DMD2050E version.

• Advantech/iPoint – Antenna controller
• DDE/AP20 and RS20i – Audio processor
  • Basic support only

• Improvements to generic system of assembling/parsing packets to/from devices.
• Improvements to consistency of handling of times to always use GMT for clarity.
  • Mainly to always have Site logs be in GMT and not in local time.

• Added text box tips to typed in text boxes to display a CRC for support use.
• Added client side device variables that can be optionally preserved.
• Improvements to drawing features and performance by using the Cairo library.
  • It now fully replaces the LIBART library.
  • More drawing features added in for lines, arcs, circles, rectangles, paths etc.
  • Graphics transform support for scaling/rotating drawn items – e.g. indicators.
• Added graphics factory for certain common elements so they can now be any size.
• Numerous drawing performance improvements by using the new graphics factory system.
• Added 4 port switch as a graphic factory object for ease of making mimic panels.
• Font renderer performance improvements and transparent background support.
• Replaced GIF with PNG graphics.
• General improvements of panels and labels for dark themed colour schemes.
• Improvement to labelling and grid control of graphing system.
• Added feature to have a level meter bar attached to a graph for the value being graphed.
• Added feature to have dials as display objects for values when appropriate.
• Added in a Ports view to Device Explorer tree to view devices by connected ports.
  • Added in a Ports console view mode similar to Alarms view.
• Ability to directly launch a web browser for easy access to device web pages when appropriate.
• Refinements to information displayed on About panel accessed from CAM main menu.
• Added in the last updated time to the popup help display for variables.
  • Added warning for non-existant variables when viewing old Daemon drivers via new GFX panel.
• Feature to have a “dropdown menu” icon on fields with popup menus when required for clarity.
• Ability to have specific graphic for a specific device or specific device type.
  • It supports both PNGs and JPGs
• Make the “Sites” tab in the Device Explorer use their graphic for display.
• Added “Dormant” branch to Device Explorer for devices on sites that have disappeared.
• Improvements to login/retry system.
• Quicker rejection of invalid IP address by login system (e.g. user typo).
• Added in a backup server system that can be specified to be used if a main server fails.
  • It will use the client preferences for the main server so as to keep the view the same.
• Improvements to the alarm sound control behaviour.
• Performance improvement when switching console screens when Process hidden objects is off.
• Fixed rarely seen crash caused by loading in huge line saved out in window contents file.
• Improvements to initialise/finalise system at top level to better control memory resources.
• Further memory tidyups on exit to speed up awareness of any memory leaks that develop.
• In debug mode have ability to display process stats for numerous memory usages.
• In debug mode have ability to run a simulant user for long tests to find memory leaks.
• Fixed a number of minor memory leaks that would accrue memory over a long time.
• Improvements to consistency of handling of times as GMT for clarity.
  • Added help and tooltips where appropriate to clarify which time is used where.
  • Added option to display GFX time (local machine time) in either GMT or local format.
    • Added option to not show it at all.
  • Added Server time to top bar display in GMT form next to the server info for clarity.

• Fix so the “Remove user files” feature correcly cleans up all that’s expected of it.
• Now built under MXE compiler environment.
• Update to Python 2.7.4
• Support for Windows 8

• Improvements to support for EmbeddedArm TS-4700/TS-8100 using kernel 2.6.34
  • Includes support for TS-CF Compact Flash board.
  • “:xuart:” port descriptor to connect directly the xuartctl 16-bit “raw” ports on ts-4700
• Activity indicator can now use arbitrary IO line instead of only on-board LEDs.

• Added section on “CAM times” to explain the different sources of time across the network.
  • Also documented which times are used where and for what to clarify alarms, logs, etc.

• Alphawave/Circuit
  • Added ability to Acknowledge/Reactivate alarms to all devices in circuit.
  • Fix to update the circuit alarm condition when a device is deleted.
  • Improvements to device selection popup menus.
    • Ability to select groups of devices by category when specifying menu.
  • Added alarm menu functions into alarm LED on individual circuit panels.
  • General improvements/additions to some panels.
• Alphawave/Serial
  • Improved error reporting – mainly for TCP connection problems.
  • Added common baud rates to target baud popup menu.
  • General improvements/additions to some panels.
• Avcom/AvcomCSW
  • Improved control over range, sample rate, downsampling and filtering.
  • Added a pair of plot markers which are set by clicking in the trace.
  • General improvements/additions to most panels.
• CPI/CPIAmp
  • Allow port_format of 8N1, and generate the parity bit in the driver.
    • I.e. soft parity, so 7E1 devices can be on same bus as 8N1 devices.
  • Panel patch-up for “TWT Ka 250W CW” (hiding some icons)
• Paradise/Evolution
  • Support for firmware 2.0.22 and 2.0.24
  • Improved error reporting.
  • Improved access control via icons on device window title bar.
  • General improvements/additions to some panels.
• Comtech/SLM5650
  • Now has IFO panel system as per Radyne modems.
• Comtech/SLM5650 and RadyneDMD20 modems
  • Added GFX client generated EbNo graph.
• Comtech, EFData, Paradise and Radyne modems
  • Added optional EbNo level meter to main panel configured under CAM tab.

• Comtech/SLM5650 – Satellite modem.
• Comtech/RFPOD – Amplifier.
  • This supports the Comtech HPOD and LPOD range of amplifiers.
• CPI/BCIPAmp – Amplifier.
  • This supports the new binary protocol of newer CPI/CPIAmp amplifiers.

• Fix so that interface filter names correctly shown when device names change.
• Improved timeout handling to better handle long packets on slower links.
• Implemented hysteresis system for alarms.
• Use getipaddrs() to fetch the list of interfaces including those not yet configured.
  • I.e. will startup if no ether configured
• Debug and message output available over server port.
• Site CLI “client” commands
  • “DEBUG <n>” outputs log [n=1] and debug [n=2] messages.
  • “client list” returns a list of IP addresses and user names of users logged in
  • “client logout <ip:user>” forces logout of a client or IP address or “*” for everyone

• Added ability to change the base theme colour for the whole of GFX.
• Added CAM and OS info for GFX and Server to About panel on main CAM menu.
• Added ability to launch Console Views (formerly bookmarks) into a window.
  • Can also open the view from the current Console Screen into a window.
• Improved category sort order for devices in Console Screen Table view.
• Added in instant button help displayed beside the Console Screen tabs.
• Added in tooltips that popup beside certain icons to state what they are.
  • All Console Screen icons have tooltips in front panel Table/Alarms views.
• Added ability to select groups of devices by category in specifiers.
  • E.g. ..&Satellite modem.* means all satellite modems of all makes.
• Improved Manuals submenus for device documentation on main CAM menu.
• Added “Toggle full screen mode” to main View menu.
• Added option to not stretch small windows to accomodate long device titles.
• Rewrite of Device Explorer for better internal structure and performance.
• Added new “Sites” tab to Device Explorer which just shows sites.
  • Ability to launch client specific custom panels for a site into a window.
• Popup help reports last update time for variables when no longer recent.
• Improvement to line and object positioning table system.
  • Enables easier creation of custom synoptic/mimic panels for customers.
• Improved variable status (non-recent update, changing, unknown) tinting.
• Performance improvement to internal variable lookup.
• Improvements to CAM/Variables panel to show raw values of variables.
• Improvements to CAM/Variables panel for comparing variables of two devices.
• Added generic graphing system for variables.
  • This can be used for specific variables on specific devices.
  • A number of graph forms can be plotted from this, e.g. average, min/max.
• Added in LED level meter which can be deployed where needed.
  • E.g. for EbNo quality indication on some main panels for some modems.
• Improved startup performance for displays with many devices shown.
• Fixed grid table problem of hovering over empty space causing freeze.
  • This manifested itself on Summary view for Alphawave/Circuit device.
• Fixed issue of waiting for ever for a server on a non-existant IP address.
• Fixed memory leak that would eventually cause GFX to crash after a while.
• Added in debug mode to enable reporting of internal data and memory usage.
  • Added more exit memory cleanups to spot any leaks in debug exit report.
  • Improved error reporting for unknown variables in debug mode.

• CAM Daemon now works on EmbeddedArm TS-4×00 (TS-SOCKET) boards.
  • I.e. TS-4700, TS-4800, etc.
• Also reports the ARM board on the About tab and Site System information.

• S3Satcom/Satsio – fixups to NORAD track and beacon receiver.

• Alphawave/Circuit – A new “Link”-like manager for named circuits
• Avcom/AvcomCSW – a spectrum analyser.
• Xicom/XTC120D – a cut-down Xicom XTC.

• Latent devices – hidden ones to seed the network for devices yet to appear.
• alarms can be configured to auto-unlatch after a given time.

• “Boomkarks” system renamed to “Console view” to help clarify its purpose.
• Added ability to show “hidden” devices in Console screen optionally at end.
• Middle click device tab or variable opens menu to snapshot to Console view.
• Device explorer shows the CAM address of the portion scrolled off the top.
• Simple minimise/restore feature added to windows with button by close icon.
• Added feature to make all or individual windows be manually resizable.
• Added feature to break out Device Explorer into a resizable window.
• Added multi-select popup feature for variables that need it.
• Improved Console Fade so it doesn’t occur when there are no open windows.
• Added “Manuals” option to main CAM menu for easier documentation access.
• Added “Cleared Latched Alarms” option to Console menu for quick access.
• Improvement to options on numerous menus for ease of use/finding option.
• Improvement to features on device popup when right clicking a device name.
• Improved highlighting to do ALL windows of the device under the mouse.
• Improved human readability of saved out state files for GFX options.
• Improvement to input checking of numbers so spurious content is rejected.
• Improvement to mouse jitter rejection so it doesn’t stop popup help.
• Internal and visual improvements to scroller and list systems.
• Performance improvement on object lookups to help views with many devices.
• Performance optimisations on numerous low level classes and objects.

• Added panel feature so variables can be displayed with different units.
  • These are fields explicitly added on request so general use is unchanged.
• Feature improvements to some Alarms and CAM panels.
• Added “device_alias” variable which can be used for arbitrary info or name.
  • This is a site specific variable for the device for human use.
• Some devices create “Console views” on startup – e.g. Circuit device.

• Improvement to System Tray popup and the information it reports.

• Added documentation link in Start Menu folder.

• Added draggable gauge bars which can be used to set values in a range.
• Added user created Groups which are available in Device Explorer.
• Individual control for Auto-Lock option for Panels and Padlocks.
• Tidyup so that transient windows auto-close whenever another window opens.
• Improvement to login box.
• Improvements to popup help for variables with long display values.
• Translucent graphic rendering added for improved display features.
• Speedups to area blitting for colour tinting.
• Fixed occasional crash caused by double clicking device icon window menu.

• Control/Redundancy CAM Redundancy System added.
• Terrasat/IBUC panel improvements.
• Paradise/P1510 configuration for IO device added.
• Vislink/DVM5100 panels simplified for when there is no encoder
• Advantech/AMT TXR2
  • TXR2 replacement to TXR driver for newer devices.
  • poll_delay required for when there are multiple devices on a single bus.
  • tx/rx waveguide switch control added.
• Alphawave/IO
  • Multiple (named) prefixes so single IO can use multiple devices (e.g. ADAMs)
  • Fixes to cam_io_adam and cam_io_var to return ‘null’ (0) values before connection.
  • Fix to “invert” line.
• Paradise/CSSPA
  • Improvements to readings and panels (.e.g. ADC/DAC).
  • auto_mute to automatically mute on a switch over.

• Improved general mouseover highlighting for clickable graphical buttons.
• Shutters and padlocks auto-lock if device not under remote control.
• Folders added to per-user “Favourites” view in Device Explorer.
• Added graphing and stats of GFX to Server comms in Server Stats panel.
• Improved sorting, control and device viewing for Summary Alarms view.
• Improved robustness for program/display errors in user modified scripts.
• Improved device wildcard acceptance in user specific local panels/scripts.
• Added ability to make stepthough “Setup Wizards” for devices if wanted.
• Improved time-out handling to allow GFX connections over slow links.

• Evertz/Topaz video router added.
• Vislink/AXC3000 pseudo device managing up/down converters for switching.
• Vislink/AWC5000 switch controller added.
• Vislink/DVE5100 video encoder added.

• Fixed premature exit issue when using shuttered buttons on busy systems.

• Deletes pre-existing Program Files/Alphawave/CAM directories at start.
• Preserves pre-existing desktop shortcuts instead of rewriting them.

• New watchdog feature to enable a backup server to monitor a main one.

• Auto-scrolling when mouse pointer near edges of scrollable regions.
• Graphical explorer buttons highlight when their view/panel is selected.
• New coloured highlight style feature for certain selection groups.
• Added “Address bar” option to Console Screen to view display specifier.
• Further refinements to new style Device Explorer tree.
• Added Recent tab to Device Explorer for recently opened devices.
• Added Favourites tab to Device Explorer for custom user set of devices.
• Added optional new two level arrangement of Device Explorer tabs.
• Reduced some tab sizes to increase usable screen area.
• Ability to add new line markers to Racks and Chains display layout.
• Ability to turn off auto-line wrap for Racks and Chains display layout.
• Added “Close all other windows” option to device window menu.
• Added feature to graphing to know if all points off screen.
• Refinement of highlighting and disabling for padlocks and shutters.
• Made internal user files and folders be host as well as user specific.
• Command line option to select a specific Console Screen on startup.
• Command line option to set the view to a specific Bookmark on startup.
• Improvements to command line option and option file processing on startup.

• Alphawave/IO improvements to config and main panels.
• CPI/CPIAmp improvement to RF output band display for single band models.

• Improvements to installer.
• Fixed bug from 2.15 causing occasional program exits.

• Radyne/DMD20 new frequency set modes and numerous refinements to panels.
• Paradise/Evolution fixed possible (slow) memory leak in alarm processing.

• Advantech/ADAM-6000 series Ethernet controlled relay/IO box.

• General performance improvements after profiling function call usage.
• OS and CAM Build information shown in Site device.
• Added PAD manager to Site allowing serial data to be dumped to a file.
• Better handling of commands on “local devices only” sites.
• Refinements to smooth out device polling distribution on large networks.
• Improved packet retry system for better reliability of sets and requests.
• Improved resilience to not register spurious devices in spurious packets.

• System wide performance improvements achieved by:-
  • General performance improvements after profiling function call usage.
  • Restructuring of Device management, Alarm handling and Resource lookups.
• New style Device Explorer tree on the LHS. (Old style one still available)
  • Summary alarms now less intrusive.
  • Names flash as well as fault LEDs.
  • Clicking a fault LED gives Summary Alarms view of devices it represents.
  • “Connected” icon shown on Device Explorer tabs for Sites.
  • Popup menu available on device icon as per elsewhere in views.
  • Click and hold on a closed tree branch toggle arrow expands whole tree.
  • Click and hold on an open tree branch toggle arrow closes neighbours.
  • Middle click device icon to select without need to turn on select mode.
  • Added search system to Device Explorer to only display matching devices.
    • Can search by either name or full CAM address for the devices.
    • Supports simple wildcards in search patterns.
    • Automatically updates search result when typing is paused.
    • Single click to open all matched branches down to the devices found.
  • Added optional “Names” tab to Device Explorer based on device names.
  • Ability to switch off any of the Device Explorer tabs if unwanted.
• Added more right click options to tabs where appropriate.
• Added quick access to Summary Alarms view from home button.
• Easier creation of Summary Alarm views in Bookmark system.
• Ability to forcibly refresh a variable on a device’s CAM/Variables panel.
  • Refresh also available on middle-click over a variable.
• Option for popup help to try and reappear in the same place as before.
• General improvements on numerous popup help messages.
• Improved window titling and panel layout for Preferences windows.
• Improvement consistency on all device related popups across all views.
• Added “Restart” buttons to Preferences panels for options that need it.
  • This will immediately log the user back in as per the current session.
• Added “Updating” message to top line when awaiting device update display.
• Improved updating of Racks/Chains view when device positions are changed.
• Consistency of Left/Right click to expand with/without closing neighbours.
  • Preferences option added as to which click has which side effect.
• Login screen is now clearer about which server it will be connecting to.
• Ability to remove a whole Site and all its devices in one action.
• Easier removal method for spurious devices registered by old Daemons.

• Alphawave/Site – added System tab with system, memory and CPU usage info.
• CPI/CPIAmp – allow ‘band’ to be set for any of the single band amplifiers.
• Paradise/Evolution
  • Updated to support firmware 2.0.13 and updated panels as appropriate.
  • All unavailable/irrelevant options hidden according to firmware version.
  • Fixed parsing of a partial packet; now NO parameters are updated.
  • ‘Reset Modem’ added (performs a modem reboot)
  • Minor panel improvements.
• Radyne/DMD20 – update for DMD2050 and fixes/improvements to panels.
• Radyne/DMD15,20,2401 – ranges and offset calculation modes added in.
• Gigasat/STC – fixed reading of firmware version, can also be overridden.

• Ability of server to list “Removed” devices for GFX recovery system use.
• ‘config’ file only re-written if changed; previous version kept as ‘.bak’

• Tidyup of login screen with clearer method of server selection.
• Major rework of Console Screen interface for cleaner look and simpler use.
• Major increase in presence of menus available from right click.
• Major rework of system to define, edit & use Racks, Chains and Bookmarks.
• Major rework of display features for Racks and Chains.’
• Popup help improvement to be less obtrusive but its appearance is clearer.
• Improvement to onscreen keypad.
• Console Screens save and restore history inbetween user sessions.
• ALT-Left/Right can now be used to move backwards/forwards through history.
• Interface to recover “Removed” devices similar to “Hidden” devices one.
• Feature to show Service mode devices at end of lists or to hide them.
• More ways to get hold of device address descriptors for customising views.
• Ability to drag device icons or names to get device address descriptors.
• Ability to drag and drop device address descriptors into text boxes.
• Ability to drag and drop the view from one console screen into another.
• Ability to drag windows from one console screen into another.
• Windows become translucent when dragging to clarify the action.
• More popup help added across the board to clarify actions available.
• Action of shutters to lock items made clearer when pointer over them.
• Feature where text too large to fit will auto scroll when pointer over it.
• Feature to display multiple graphs on same axes and added min/max type.
• Temporary windows/popups can now all be cleared away with the Escape key.
• Feature for device windows to either open at last tab viewed or first tab.
• Ability to remove user config files to clean up settings.
• Ability for Device Explorer open in one go for use on remote (VNC) setups.
• Ability to lock a specific Console Screen so it can’t be changed.
• Command line can now select a Console Screen to startup on.
• Command line can now show/hide Device Explorer tree on startup.
• Fixed alarm LEDs being rendered incorrectly as always ‘Off’

• Feature to view all device variables in one panel from under the CAM tab.
• Ability to drag and drop specific variables into a monitor list therein.
• Padlocking of all Bus Address fields that can cause communication loss.

• Update to Python 2.7
• Improvement to System Tray menu.
• Fixes to installer for shortcut issues under 64bit Windows 7.
• Improvements to installer to have a better option system.
• Installer includes the Python installers for required modules (for mimic).
• Installer and Uninstaller both check Daemon and GFX aren’t running.

• OSX build now cross-compiled rather than needing to be built on a Mac.
• Update to Python 2.7
• Tested on ‘Lion’

• Update to Python 2.7
• Update to 2.4.26-ts11 kernel and etch (‘e1’ suffix).
• Improved CF card file system resilience from power outages during boot.

• Addition of ReleaseVersion file containing build information for support.

• Addition of server and GFX client activity indicators to main top bar.
• Rationalisation of top bar menu options with server menu on its indicator.
• Addition of middle click to bring up preferences for certain main items.
• Increased number of Console Screens with improved preferences control.
• Console Screen fade added to make windows clearer when they are being used.
• Window border highlight whenever mouse is over something for same device.
• New window/open menu added to window top LHS device icon on device windows.
• Rationalisation of LHS Device Explorer tree options into a menu.
• Addition of automatic sub-menus when appropriate entry highlighted.
• Show/hide setting for individual grouping tabs in LHS Device Explorer tree.
• Improved control for partition bar between Device Explorer tree and Console.
• Improved sorting of device names to handle numbered items in a useful way.
• Device display uses full name which can optionally include CAM name.
• Option to display plain CAM name instead, if using full name is unhelpful.
• Improvement to pop-up help positioning and display behaviour.
• Addition of more pop-up help for numerous features.
• Added in scroll wheel support for things which have a vertical scroll bar.
• Mouse cursor changes from pointer to drag cursor when dragging items.
• Improvement to a number of commonly used icons. E.g. lock.

• Devices can be selected with a menu for Interface Filters (and similar)

• Default alarm time set to 5s

• Overhaul of CAM tab and its sub-panels for all devices.
• Overhaul of System tab and its sub-panels for CAM Site device.
• Ethernet device main panel can set interface filter for Site device edit.
• Serial device main panel can set interface filter for Site device edit.
• CAM/Variables tab shows all CAM variables in a scrolling list.

• Display in top right of which CAM site and server that GFX is connected to.
• Text box edit and clipboard select keys now conform to Windows standard.
• Console Screen control option of display width for device name and location.
• Full name of device shown as well if different to its CAM name.
• Improved name sorting handles groups of digits within as numerical values.
• “Hidden” tab on LHS Device Explorer tree is hidden if no hidden devices.
• Device Explorer preferences option to always hide “Hidden” tab.
• Hold left click on a device panel tab will break off a window at that level.
• Addition to bookmarks for wildcard matching (now have ‘@’ as well as ‘*’).
• Made some more preferences be saved per user instead of for all users.
• -W (window-size) command line flag now accepts “FULL” and “MAX” as well.
• Vertical/rotated text supported in tabs and other panel items.
• Resource tabs can also be placed on the right or along bottom.

• Installer now checks user has administrator privileges before continuing.
• Un-installer asks at start instead of end if to keep CAM-Site directory.

• Alphawave/IO – RS232 control lines (2 out 4 in) available to IO.
• Alphawave/Site – Ability to run external scripts and append to output log.
• Codan/5000 – Ability to ignore unsupported commands, e.g. 40W SSPA version.
• S3Satcom/Satsio – Sorting added to Satellites panel plus minor improvements.

• Control/TSRS – Customer specific device.
• Gigasat/RFS3 – Redundancy Controller.

• “Hot standby” script to wait on a(nother) CAM server failure.

• Added visual feedback to panel tabs when pointer over or when clicked.
• Improvement and re-jig to User/Preferences panels.
• Improvement to device sorting on console screen.
• Added user alterable column width for Name and Location on console screen.
• Some lists can be sparse and/or sortable with optional movable columns.
• Horizontal scrolling added to node explorer and console screen views.
• Device panel edit overrides feature introduced for engineering use.
• Can hold down CTRL while logging in to suppress restoration of windows.

• Release file filenames contain version control revision, CPU and OS name(s).
• (INTERNAL) Build and release processes improved. SCons used instead of Make.

• Paradise/Evolution – updated to firmware 1.9.92a and fixes/improvements.
  • Relevance rules updated to decide what’s shown/hidden selectable/shaded.
  • Added ability to override SAF codes for forcing features to be available.
  • Special polling of some slow-to-read MCP variables to prevent TCP timeout.
  • More freqent polling of read-only MCPs.

• Advantech/AMT-TXR – Tranceiver.
• S3Satcom/Satsio – Antenna controller.
• Terrasat/IBUC – Intelligent block upconverter.

• Unlicensed devices return appropriate lock message for display by GFX.

• Added in summary panels on LHS explorer tree for all device panels.
• General tidyup of all panels on all devices.
• Proper control of default font sizes now available in Preferences.
• Window Raise Policy works better and Page Up/Down will raise/lower windows.
• Added in under View tab: Cascade / Move Onscreen / Close All windows.
• Added in under View tab: Lock Windows Layout.
• Added in under View tab: Show Hidden List Options, e.g. in Radio Groups.
  • This overrides hiding options that are otherwise unavailable/unselectable.

• Installer improvements for XP/Vista/Win7 consistency for Start Menu/Programs
• Uninstaller improvements to delete empty folders on exit.
• All GFX Resource filenames end “.txt” and have CR/LF line termination.