Version 1.5.2.20 (01/14/2018)

Release Notes - Events2HVAC Event Automation - Version 1.5.2

Upgrade Information

If you are upgrading from v1.3.x or earlier versions, please review the system requirement changes section below.

  • .NET Framework 4.5.2 is the minimum required, but recommended version is 4.6.1+ now since future versions will use this as a base framework version.
  • Makes sure you are not using SQL 2005 (v9.0.x) for the Events2HVAC database before you try to upgrade. The update scripts might fail with this version.
  • Make sure you make database backups as with any upgrade. If there is a problem during upgrade and you need to revert back to the previous version, you must have a database backup of the previous version.
  • If you want to take advantage of the Professional edition features (multiple event providers), you will need to upgrade your license to Professional.
  • Your existing license will work as a "standard" edition license.
  • Make sure you "Rediscover" your device interfaces if you are using any of the new actions in this release. Device Interface Manager - Rediscover Devices

Please review this link before updating software:

Database Updates

  • v2.2.7 (for Rock RMS)

Improvements & Fixes

  • New Feature: Rock RMS Event Provider
  • New Feature: Events2HVAC.Manager service for controlling services w/o Windows admin permissions
  • Improvement: Optimize frequency of BACnet push schedules and improve related UI views
  • Improvement: Show pushed schedule data in command queue
  • Improvement: Run Events2HVAC client without Windows Administrator privileges
  • Improvement: Disable heartbeats and turn off local BACnet status when scheduler health checks fail
  • Improvement: Allow user to manually override and release local BACnet scheduler status point to test end-to-end schedule failover to HVAC system.
  • Show more error details for Exchange room errors.
  • Fix: wrong BACnet serial number is shown on remote clients.
  • Fix: for remote clients, some BACnet controls in options form should be disabled
  • Fix: Empty subject lines in Exchange room meetings cause errors saving to database
  • Updated DevX components to v16.2.9
  • Updated Google Api components to v1.29.1.xx
  • Updated NLOG components to v4.4.12
  • Documentation updates