Roaster Scope v2.8.2

December 21, 2022

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Special thanks to Coffee Machines Sale (CMS) for supporting this version.

Last version supporting macOS 10.15, but legacy builds of v2.8 still supports macOS 10.13+.

New Features

adds Sivetz fluid bed roasting machines support
adds Santoker Q Series and R Series support (Discussion #1019)
adds support for the Yocto Watt module (Discussion #955) and for generic Yoctopuce sensors
adds Phidget DAQ1500 support
adds Artisan Command keepON(<bool>)
adds MODBUS Commands readBCD, read32, read32Signed, read32BCD, and readFloat
adds extra device channels as PID sources to the artisan scope internal software PID (Discussion #998)
adds flags to activated/deactivate background shifting via cursor keys and slider control via up/down keys (Discussion #1026)
adds factory reset by pressing ALT/OPTION modifier on startup and skips saving app settings if ALT/OPTION is held on application exit
save generating artisan scope version/revision/build numbers to '.alog' artisan scope profiles

better designer
corrects and improves autoCHARGE/autoDROP
improved MODBUS error handling and reconnect
interprets index access of symbolic variables RB1, RB2, B1, B2,.. w.r.t. foreground time respecting background alignment (Issue #996)
keep updating software pid loop running while PID is OFF if software PID is configured
improved performance on 0.25sec sampling rate
test availability of given S7 port before trying to connect to avoid hangs
allow to use the batch prefix with deactivated batch counter supporting manual batch numbers in any format
updates keep-alive ping frequency on Probat setups
disables Phidget server password field if no host is given and thus mDNS/ZeroConf server discovery is active
coarse sliders move only with step size 10
restore profiles in graph after web ranking report
direct root logging to artisan log file
MODBUS lib internal debug messages are logged if debug logging mode is active and device logging is enabled (logging flag in device dialog)
synchronizes Curves >> UI tabs notification flag and Artisan Command notifications
upgrade to Python 3.11, pymodbus v3, Qt/PyQt 6.4.1, matplotlib 3.6.2

fixes symbolic variable RB1/RB2 index access (Issue #996)
fixes S7 and MODBUS read commands which may fail due to cache misses breaking control on some machines like Probatone (Issue #1002)
fixes crash on pidOn/pidOff Artisan Commands (Issue #1005)
fixes saveGraph as PDF regression on Windows (Issue #1011)
fixes prevent low DPI settings that could trigger a crash on redrawing the canvas (Issue #1024)
fixes event step line extension to CHARGE in case event snap, 100%-step and showFull were disabled and implemented the mechanism also for the background profile
fixes the navigation history on reset and on changing axis settings
fixes Yocto-4-20mA-Rx device input
fixes Artisan Command pidSource(<int>)
fixes Phidget 1046 configuration
fixes regression which blocked background left/right shifts if keyboard moves was active
fixes regression which crashed the Fuji PXR PID dialog (Issue #1054)