v0.7.6

Bug Fixes

• Typo in the SignalToNoiseRatio characteristic name was fixed (previously SignalToNoiseRation)
• The NetworkAccessViolationControl characteristic is now properly added again to the WiFiRouter service

v0.7.5

Notable Changes

• Added Service and Characteristic definitions introduced with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11, ... (e7e6d9f)
  • The following services are new:
    • AccessoryRuntimeInformation:
      • Required Characteristics: Ping
      • Optional Characteristics: ActivityInterval, SleepInterval
    • Diagnostics:
      • Required Characteristics: SupportedDiagnosticsSnapshot
    • WiFiTransport:
      • Required Characteristics: CurrentTransport, WiFiCapabilities
      • Optional Characteristics: WiFiConfigurationControl
  • The following service definitions were changed:
    • Lightbulb: added the characteristics CharacteristicValueTransitionControl and SupportedCharacteristicValueTransitionConfiguration (both seemed to be used for the "Ambient Lightning" feature)
    • Doorbell: added the optional characteristic OperatingStateResponse
    • WiFiRouter: the NetworkAccessViolationControl characteristic is now required
  • The following characteristic definitions were changed:
    • InputDeviceType: maxValue changed from 5 to 6 introducing a yet unknown input device type with value 6 (specifying input device types for televisions)
  • The following characteristics got added though it is not yet known to which services they should be added:
    • VideoAnalysisActive
    • TransmitPower
    • TransmitPowerMaximum
    • SignalToNoiseRation
    • ReceivedSignalStrengthIndication
    • ReceiverSensitivity
    • MacTransmissionMaximum
    • MacTransmissionCounters
    • EventRetransmissionMaximum
    • EventTransmissionCounters
    • DataStreamHAPTransport
    • DataStreamHAPTransportInterrupt
    • CCAEnergyDetectThreshold
    • CCASignalDetectThreshold

Note: All newly added services and characteristics should be considered unstable API and may change with future beta releases of Apples new os releases.

v0.7.4

Bug Fixes

• The Microphone and Speaker services are now properly referenced to the CameraController (or removed/added when the options changed) when the Accessory is deserialized from disk (#828)
• Duplicate definition of the Version characteristic was removed (#822)

v0.7.3

Bug Fixes

• A regression introduced in 0.7.0 was fixed, which caused Characteristic.setProps throwing an error when minValue was set equal to maxValue

v0.7.2

Other

• The typescript compiler was configured to output a target of ES5 again. Caused compatibilities when subclassing for example the Characteristic class (#821)

v0.7.1

Other

• TypeScript type definition for the Characteristic event handler now allow the use of the string value such as get or set instead of forcing the use of the CharacteristicEventTypes enum.

v0.7.0

Core.ts and BridgeCore.ts got deprecated in this release and are schedule to be remove by the end of 2020. Have a look at the wiki which explains this further and provides some help to create a project using HAP-NodeJS as a library.

New API

• AccessControlManagement was introduced to easily handle the AccessControl service

Improvements

• Moved to nodes crypto library (supported by the underlying openssl library) for chacha20-poly1305 encryption and decryption. This gives a 10x performance boost when doing crypto. Requires a node version of >= 10.17.0
• Moved to the futoin-hkdf library for doing HKDF. Its more efficient buffer handling gives a performance boost of about 30-40%
• To prevent brute force attacks, HAP-NodeJS will now move into an UNPAIRABLE state after 100 unsuccessful pair attempts rejecting any further attempts to pair. A restart will reset this to accept pairings again. We might improve on this in the future, that it will require some "reset" method, to clear the state.
• HAP enforces a strict limit of a maximum of 100 services per accessory and a maximum of 100 characteristics per service. HAP-NodeJS enforces this limits now to prevent accessory showing "No response" in the Home App (#814)
• All Debuggers are now prefixed with the library name HAP-NodeJS: to be conform with the conventions made by the debug library (#126)
• Mitigated a Denial of Service when setting minValue higher than maxValue (#690)

Other

• Added CONTRIBUTING.md and SECURITY.d and restructured the README.md a bit.
• Removed legacy code related for the old Relay server
• The wiki was rewritten (and still is) with the ongoing beta of this release.

v0.6.3

Note: All enum types where move to const enum types to improve how homebridge plugins can import those. You may need to recompile your Typescript code if you apply this update.