Release Notes V5.5

General

• FEATURE: This release adds support for the SYMPL Fusion device.
  
  
• FEATURE: SYMPL Fusion Modules are supported.
  
  
• FEATURE: SYMPL Fusion Action buttons and dry contacts are supported.
  
  
• FEATURE: Redirection of Fusion modules into local Sympholight for easier creation of projects.
  
  
• FEATURE: The web UI was extended to allow the deletion of network captures.
  
  
• FEATURE: The web UI was extended to visualize discovered DALI devices and the DALI engine status also for headless devices like Core Sp and Fusion.
  
  
• CHANGE: The Real Time Clock (RTC) precision was improved for the Core Sp.
  
  
• CHANGE: It is now possible to configure how quick the local time is corrected by the configured NTP server.
  
  
• CHANGE: When saving a project file created with an older Sympholight version in Sympholight 5.5 or later, a dialog allows to choose if the project file shall be upgraded or the save operation shall be cancelled.
  
  
• CHANGE: Dropped support for Sympl Trace.
  
  
• CHANGE: Updated the dongle drivers.
  
  
• CHANGE: Criteria for an instance name changed, name will be adapted automatically, if necessary.
  
  
• FIX: In rare cases, the NTP time was not applied correctly.
  
  
• FIX: The Core Sp could be left with corrupted files when the power supply was disconnected within a write operation.
  
  
• FIX: In rare cases, the scheduler and sACN / ArtNet functionality stopped working on wake-up after Windows was in sleep-mode.
  
  
• FIX: The subnet mask of the internal network configuration was shown incorrectly, in special cases.
  
  
• FIX: Under certain conditions, Sympholight stopped working when using the ‘Copy to Clipboard’ button in the dialog used to purchase license features and credits.
  
  
• FIX: Sympholight did not shut down gracefully in rare situations.
  
  
• FIX: Requesting sequences via RESTful API while an unsaved sequence was present, returned invalid values.
  
  
• FIX: Sympholight could crash when MDNS devices were present in the connected network.

MQTT

• FEATURE: An external MQTT broker can be configured to consume the MQTT messages send from Sympholight. This is an experimental feature available with the ‘Gateway Communication’ feature.
  
  
• FEATURE: Extended MQTT interface for RDM, DALI and Sequences. This is an experimental feature available with the ‘Gateway Communication’ feature.
  
  
• FEATURE: Publishing of DALI changes via MQTT can be enabled and disabled in the application settings and the web UI. This is an experimental feature available with the ‘Gateway Communication’ feature.
  
  
• CHANGE: The Sympholight MQTT broker does not longer retain values. The MQTT API provides a command interface instead. This is an experimental feature available with the ‘Gateway Communication’ feature

Setup

• FEATURE: It is now possible to arrange Inputs and Ballasts in one DALI group.
  
  
• FEATURE: It is now possible to identify a Core Sp / Fusion device from the Sympholight UI. The according device will be highlighted by its LED.
  
  
• FEATURE: The memory banks of DALI inputs are read much faster now.
  
  
• FEATURE: The ‘Test Mode’ was extended to allow setting a luminance value for the selected, matched virtual DALI ballasts.
  
  
• FEATURE: Adding a DALI real input device can now automatically add its instances too.
  
  
• FEATURE: Sympholight warns, when creating a patch in which one or more channels are controlled by more than one device.
  
  
• FEATURE: The toolbar in ‘Patch Mode’ is extended to provide a ‘Check for patch conflicts’ option.
  
  
• FEATURE: Extended fixture library with new fixture type ‘Media Board Plus’.
  
  
• CHANGE: Cleanup of the context menu of entries in the Sympholights view.
  
  
• CHANGE: Status indicator colors have been adapted to be consistent in WebUI, Devices View, Sympholights View und Device Manager.
  
  
• FIX: In some cases, not all connected RDM devices were discovered.
  
  
• FIX: In certain situations, the ‘Long Press Stop’ event was not evaluated in DALI.
  
  
• FIX: The ‘On’ event of DALI ballast groups was not evaluated.
  
  
• FIX: In environments with high load on the DALI bus (e.g. many sensors or inputs sending events), the initialization of DALI devices could fail. This led to different issues based on wrong configuration on the devices.
  
  
• FIX: The scanning of the DALI line could not be completed successfully on LCE2 mx.
• FIX: The default configuration written to SYMPL Nodes was not correct for some parameters.
  
  
• FIX: Sympholight stopped working when using the undo functionality after creating a background image.
  
  
• FIX: Renaming a node before removing it from the project, makes the nodes online indicator staying active when it is not online anymore.
  
  
• FIX: Import and export of *.slpatch files lost wire information.

Content

• FEATURE: Added a new ‘Scrolling Text’ effect with extended configuration for smooth running texts.
  
  
• CHANGE: The Auto size property of the group effect frame is set to enabled by default for DALI groups.
  
  
• FIX: In rare cases Sympholight stopped functioning when working with effects on the timeline.

Output

• FIX: The output view of Sympholight showed incomplete DMX data and wrong universe length for some combinations of protocol type and universe length.
  
  
• FIX: Sympholight stopped working when selecting the ‘Narrow’ radio button in the DMX Output view.

Workflow Designer

• FEATURE: The DALI Group block has been extended to provide three types of scene modes. When choosing the ‘value’ scene mode, the latest value set for this scene is persisted when the project is saved as *.hfp file.
  
  
• FEATURE: A new ‘DALI Input Automation Line’ block allows simple and fast reaction on incoming DALI events on one group. Additionally, the feedback shown at the input device can be controlled with this block.
  
  
• CHANGE: On the Observe System workflow block, ‘Device Name’ was renamed to ‘Instance Name’.
  
  
• FIX: The ‘Receive UDP’ block was not able to receive directed UDP messages on a Core S.
  
  
• FIX: The DALI ‘Presence Sensor Line’ block did not process events when the instance number was set via port.
  
  
• FIX: The DALI ‘Button Line’ block did not process events when address was set via port.
  
  
• FIX: Under certain circumstances, the Sympholight UI was freezing when pasting workflow blocks copied from a template in another workflow tab.
  
  
• FIX: The output port values of ‘MQTT Receive’, ‘Receive from Network’ and ‘UDP Receive’ blocks were not synchronously set at connected blocks when messages were received in high frequencies.
  
  
• FIX: The ‘Mutex Group’ blocks out ports were not updated when controlling the mutex group via the blocks in-ports.
  
  
• FIX: Project file was not loadable when duplicate MQTT topics had been created in the ‘MQTT Send’ or ‘MQTT Receive’ blocks.
  
  
• FIX: Using undo to recover a deleted workflow template led to wrong port types and made project no longer loadable.

Scheduler

• FIX: In rare cases the order of the events defined in the scheduler was lost.
  
  
• FIX: Events were not started as planned after Sympholight restart and project load.