Neap 0.2.1.5, test build

A test build, for trying what comes next before it is released. Neap does not offer it as an update, and offers the next release once it is out.

Install on Windows

1. Download Neap-0.2.1.5-win-x64.zip below. Windows 10 version 2004 or later, 64-bit.
2. Unzip it into a folder you will keep, and run Neap.exe.
3. The download is not signed yet. If Windows says it protected your PC, choose More info, then Run anyway.
4. Make sure Swarm II is not running in the background, and turn off its Autostart in its App Settings. The two apps fight over the headset when both are open.
5. Remove the Waves audio driver: in Windows Settings, under Apps, uninstall Turtle Beach Audio Driver by Waves Audio Ltd. Neap does not need it.

Install on Linux

1. Download Neap-0.2.1.5-x86_64.AppImage below, make it runnable (in a terminal, chmod +x Neap-0.2.1.5-x86_64.AppImage, or in your file manager tick Allow executing as a program), and run it. It needs a desktop with PulseAudio or PipeWire, which almost every one has.
2. If it says it needs FUSE, install libfuse2 from your distribution, or run it as ./Neap.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run.
3. The first time, Neap may say it is not allowed to use the headset. Choose Allow access: your system asks for your password once, and the only thing it changes is a small rule file that lets you use the headset.
4. The download is not signed. Check it against the .sha256 file beside it if you like: sha256sum -c on that file.
5. Neap tells you when a newer version is out and opens its page; download the new file to replace the old one.

Added

• An app given to a profile can switch to it only while it's using the microphone, rather than whenever it's open. A profile for Teams calls comes on as a call starts, and the default comes back when it ends.
• Neap recognises the Turtle Beach Atlas Air, finds its speakers and microphone, and shows only what it has: no chat wheel, noise cancellation, lights, Charging Dock or CrossPlay. Its settings can be changed, in testing with an owner of one.
• On the Atlas Air, Superhuman Hearing and voice prompts use the places Swarm II keeps them, rather than the Stealth Pro II's. In testing with an owner of one.
• On the Atlas Air, mic monitoring and the transmitter's light use the places Swarm II keeps them. In testing with an owner of one.
• On a headset with no chat wheel, such as the Atlas Air, a profile saves the game and chat mix and puts it back when it's switched to.
• The Profiles page marks the profile in use.
• The game and chat mix on Home links to its keyboard shortcuts.
• A recording lists each change Neap sends to the headset beside what the headset says, and says why when a change wasn't sent.
• What's new is always in Settings, beside Neap's version. With no update waiting, it shows what's new in the version you have, without going online.

Fixed

• On the Atlas Air, the master volume no longer jumps to 100% and back as it is moved, from the slider or the headset's wheel.
• The volume and microphone sliders no longer jump back while they are moved. The headset reports each level a moment late, and a late report pulled the slider back, then forward again. They now leave the headset's reports alone for a moment after a change.
• On the Atlas Air, Bluetooth says whether the headset is listening over it. It used to say "Connected" on the transmitter and "Not connected" on Bluetooth.
• On the Atlas Air, profiles no longer stay on "Reading the headset's settings…". They wait only for settings the headset has.
• A profile saved on one headset no longer shows as changed on another that lacks some of its settings, and saving over it keeps them.
• On the Atlas Air, AI noise reduction is no longer offered. The headset doesn't have it, and the switch was changing its mic monitoring level.
• On the Atlas Air, voice prompts go from 0 to 15, as in Swarm II, so every step changes how loud they are.
• Home calls the Atlas Air "Atlas Air", as Swarm II does, rather than the name it holds. With nothing connected, it says "Headset" rather than "Stealth Pro II".
• On Linux, a headset that seems to say nothing is also listened for where Linux keeps what the headset sends unasked. If it still says nothing, the log says what arrived there.
• On Linux, Neap waits for the headset's replies at the same pace as on Windows, rather than asking about four times as often.
• On Linux, a transmitter that stays silent is restarted once, as if it had been unplugged and plugged back in, with Neap listening as it comes back. Some transmitters answer only if something has listened since they were plugged in. Neap asks for permission once more where it was allowed before this.
• What the headset reports, under Device, can be selected and copied, and a Copy button puts all of it on the clipboard.
• Settings and recordings show a test build's full version, such as 0.2.1.1, rather than the release it follows.
• When a transmitter opens but the headset gives no answer, the log and any recording say so, rather than leaving "Quiet" unexplained.
• When a transmitter opens and the headset gives no answer, the log says what was tried, and the first ask after Neap starts waits longer, in case the answer is only slow.
• Neap no longer changes the settings of a headset it doesn't know, as it always said it wouldn't. It only reads them.
• A recording of another headset now says which functions the headset didn't answer about, rather than counting them as not found, and asks it again before giving up.
• A link in What's new sits in line with the words around it, rather than above them.
• A recording keeps going for well over an hour. It notes a sound level when it changes rather than every second, which filled it after about 37 minutes.
• A recording made on Linux names Linux and its version, rather than calling it Windows, and says once rather than every second that it can't yet tell where sound is going.