v26.8.1beta1

Smart Home Control 26.8.1beta1

Initial pre-release, for testing. What the add-on does:

• Four platforms, each usable on its own. Meross (plugs, power strips,
  lights, LED strips, diffusers, hubs with temperature, humidity and water
  sensors), Netatmo (thermostats and valves, weather station and indoor air as
  a display), VeSync / Levoit (air purifiers and tower fans) and Cozytouch /
  Atlantic (hot water heat pump, experimental – one device model tested so
  far).
• One tree view for everything. NVDA+Shift+H opens it: arrow keys to
  navigate, Enter to switch, speech and tone feedback for every action.
• A favorites layer. Devices used often – down to a single outlet of a
  power strip – get a digit and are switched with two keystrokes, without
  opening the menu. One assignable shortcut, not eighteen separate gestures.
• Changes made elsewhere are announced, whether they came from the
  manufacturer app, a voice assistant or the button on the device itself.
• A history of switching actions and sensor readings, with a detail view
  that can be read line by line and a CSV export. Dates, times and separators
  follow the system region, and the timestamp survives a spreadsheet intact.
• Sign-in once, with the manufacturer account. New credentials are proven
  at the platform before they are stored, so a typo is caught while it can
  still be corrected. Storage is encrypted and local (Windows DPAPI).
• Careful with the cloud budget. Meross allows 200 messages per hour and
  device; background polling keeps a reserve that only user-initiated queries
  may spend.
• English and German. The source language is English, so an interface
  without a matching translation stays English rather than becoming German.
  Another language is a matter of one .po file.

Known in this pre-release

• After a refresh, and after a platform is connected late, the selected entry
  in the device tree is announced two or three times, once with the wrong
  level; the NVDA log notes an error in its tree handling. The cause is the
  tree being rebuilt while it holds the focus. Nothing is lost, and switching
  devices is unaffected.
• The same rebuild puts the selection back on the first entry – a position
  further down the list is not kept across a refresh.
• Switching a platform off in the settings stops the polling immediately, but
  its devices stay in the tree until NVDA is restarted.

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Installation

1. Download the .nvda-addon file below
2. Open the file with NVDA
3. Confirm the installation
4. Restart NVDA

See the README for setup instructions per platform.