Release Notes for Events2HVAC

Version 1.7.0.22 (04/26/2019)

Release Notes - Events2HVAC Event Automation - Version 1.7.0

This release is a large feature release:

  • Many UI improvements especially for large equipment lists (>1000)
  • Support for grouping equipment and rooms into common building groups and grouping buildings into campuses. See this article for group setup details after the upgrade.
  • First phase of data analytics - Daily data collection of equipment runtime vs baseline schedules, command queue metrics, and other performance related metrics.
  • Two new event provider interfaces: EMS Platform Services and FMX (Facility Management Express)

New in This Release (from v1.6.3.4)

New Feature

  • [EH-683] - Support for groups for buildings and campuses. Add Groups for buildings and campus in equipment list
  • [EH-2386] - New schedule timelines in Equipment Manager UI
  • [EH-2427] - Calculate daily action runtime and schedules for Analytics
  • [EH-2588] - New Equipment Grid Editor for mass-updates to equipment fields
  • [EH-2603] - Clone a test equipment configuration
  • [EH-2606] - Allow management of groups in Event Provider room list.
  • [EH-2611] - FMX Event Provider (Preliminary)
  • [EH-2554] - EMS Platform Services support (Preliminary)

Improvement

  • [EH-1985] - Add calendar filter for equipment room list
  • [EH-2357] - If FATAL error detected in CMD Queue Service, send request to service manager to automatically restart windows service.
  • [EH-2421] - Usability: Deleting equipment item from large list returns to top node
  • [EH-2472] - Reports: Show green/red color for start/stop in equipment schedule reports
  • [EH-2532] - Exchange/Google: Take advantage of async when using event viewer in UI.
  • [EH-2598] - R25: Get floor area custom attribute
  • [EH-2628] - Replace available room list with devExpress grid in equipment manager
  • [EH-2629] - Replace event list in equipment manager with devExpress grid
  • [EH-2630] - Implement TreeList in equipment manager
  • [EH-2632] - Auto-assign building group in equipment manager and globally
  • [EH-2635] - Replace history datagrid with devExpress grid
  • [EH-2674] - Show different visual color for equipment that isn’t completely mapped

Bug

  • [EH-2577] - BACnet: fix issue with saving multistate action type in action form.
  • [EH-2627] - BACnet: multi-state action key not found error when "Default Unocc State" = "Default No Match State".
  • [EH-2613] - Regressive bug - duplicate commands in cmq queue when ZoneFirstLast triggers are used.
  • [EH-2612] - Ad Astra: Issue with schedules and re-syncing in some situations.
  • [EH-2617] - Ad Astra: local event cached items are getting set to "unknown" status during re-sync, but aren't refreshed to correct status.
  • [EH-2620] - EMS Api: If "Confirmed, All rooms, Remote" options selected in event list, no rooms returned.
  • [EH-2621] - EMS Api: "ignore invalid schedules" isn't working.
  • [EH-1082] - equipment manager hangs when scrolling thru items w/ down arrow
  • [EH-2340] - Service manager api is downloading default.cshtml file from the e2h api project. Need to isolate these.
  • [EH-2454] - Action form can show invalid actions when interface is changed to "select".
  • [EH-2464] - Enable all equipment items in equipment tree can exceed license limit.
  • [EH-2487] - Perf issue when deleting an equipment item that has a lot of nodes.
  • [EH-2507] - Honeywell: Submitted cmd task stays in "created" status indefinitely.
  • [EH-2514] - Possible bug in storing successful room results in query results.
  • [EH-2527] - GetEquipmentListWithZoneAction index out of range exception
  • [EH-2559] - ActionType field is not saved correctly for multi-state actions
  • [EH-2579] - Google: token filename is missing email address when new google interface is first connected and saved.
  • [EH-2600] - BACnet: Can't add more than one manual router address binding
  • [EH-2605] - Device.Common: Saving existing action deletes object name
  • [EH-2615] - Resync: resync all doesn't offset start/end query with pre-start post-stop.
  • [EH-2623] - Ad Astra: Room lastModified field not getting saved
  • [EH-2631] - EMS Platform Services: reload statuses doesn't work on initial setup
  • [EH-2638] - FMX: reload request types doesn't do anything
  • [EH-2639] - FMX: Some resources that have quantities are not getting filtered out
  • [EH-2656] - Google: Test Connection dialog needs a cancel button for authentication
  • [EH-2659] - On import of equipment xml file, all device config settings are cleared and replaced by import. Update instead.

Task

  • [EH-2257] - IEMSRoom does not have a LastModified field - preserve last modified from source
  • [EH-2440] - DevExpress 18.2.5 Updates
  • [EH-2452] - Refactor Equipment Manager Tab
  • [EH-2453] - Support groups in export/import
  • [EH-2457] - Show groups in reports
  • [EH-2463] - If equipment item is disabled from scheduling, then allow rooms to be added beyond the license limit
  • [EH-2473] - Database: Include CompletedTime in cmdLogTable.
  • [EH-2474] - Database: Add foreign key id for WeeklySchedule to tblGroups, tblEquipment
  • [EH-2484] - Database: Add indexes to tblCmdLog for perf improvements
  • [EH-2485] - Database: Add Meta and auditing fields to tblEquipment
  • [EH-2511] - Equipment schedules didn't auto refresh to current day if eq mgr is left open for several days.
  • [EH-2521] - Update to servicestack 5.4.0
  • [EH-2578] - Fix customMultiState import doc section
  • [EH-2580] - Rediscover devices automatically during setup wizard.
  • [EH-2581] - SetupWiz: Add migration package to normalize all action parameters.
  • [EH-2583] - Target .net 4.5.2 required for DevExpress 18.2.x
  • [EH-2610] - Room exporter doesn't export size and other new fields
  • [EH-2657] - Address performance issue with large number of equipment items in Equipment Manager
  • [EH-2658] - Add indexes to tblEquipmentActions and tblEquipmentRooms
  • [EH-2660] - handle groups and baseline schedules during import/export of equipment configs

Upgrade Information

If you are upgrading from v1.3.x or earlier versions, please review the system requirement changes section below. Also, review the release history notes for all version in between your current version for specific changes.

  • .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

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