Revision History

v0.8.0 (Nov 12, 2020)

New animation controller that synchronizes animations, audio playback, and image displaying.
Procedural face generation to bring the roboto to life.
Loading of Cozmo resource files - activities, behaviors, emotions, light animations (thanks to Aitor Miguel Blanco / gimait)
pycozmo.audiokinetic module for working with Audiokinetic WWise SoundBank files.
New tool for managing Cozmo resources - pycozmo_resources.py .
Initial Cozmo application with rudimentary reactions and behaviors - pycozmo_app.py .
Cozmo protocol client robustness improvements.
CLAD encoding optimizations.
Cliff detection and procedural face rendering improvements (thanks to Aitor Miguel Blanco / gimait)
Replaced pycozmo.run_program() with pycozmo.connect() context manager.
Renamed the NextFrame packet to OutputSilence to better describe its function.
Dropped support for Python 3.5 and added support for Python 3.9.
Bug fixes and documentation improvements.

Full robot audio support and a new AudioManager class (thanks to Aitor Miguel Blanco / gimait).
Cozmo protocol client robustness improvements (thanks to Aitor Miguel Blanco / gimait):
- frame retransmission
- transmission of multiple packets in a single frame
Procedural face rendering improvements (thanks to Catherine Chambers / ca2-chambers).
Added support for robot firmware debug message decoding.
Added a new video.py example.
Added a tool for over-the-air firmware updates - pycozmo_update.py (thanks to Einfari).
Added hardware version description.
Bug fixes and documentation improvements.

Improved localization - SetOrigin and SyncTime commands and pose (position and orientation) interpretation.
Added new path tracking commands (AppendPath*, ExecutePath, etc.) and examples (path.py, go_to_pose.py).
Added support for drawing procedural faces (thanks to Pedro Tiago Pereira / ppedro74).
Added support for reading and writing animations in FlatBuffers (.bin) and JSON format.
Added a new tool for examining and manipulating animation files - pycozmo_anim.py .
Added commands for working with cube/object accelerometers - StreamObjectAccel, ObjectAccel.
Improved function description.
Bug fixes and documentation improvements.

Added initial client API.
Separated low-level Cozmo connection handling into a new ClientConnection class.
Improved the ImageDecoder class and added a new ImageEncoder class for handling Cozmo protocol image encoding.
Added new examples for displaying images from files and drawing on Cozmo's OLED display.
New protocol commands: EnableBodyACC, EnableAnimationState, AnimHead, AnimLift, AnimBackpackLights, AnimBody, StartAnimation, EndAnimation, AnimationStarted, AnimationEnded, DebugData.
Initial support for Cozmo animations in FlatBuffer .bin files.
Improved filtering through packet groups for pycozmo_dump.py and pycozmo_replay.py .
Added type hints in the protocol generator.
Bug fixes and documentation improvements.

New commands: Enable, TurnInPlace, DriveStraight, ButtonPressed, HardwareInfo, BodyInfo, EnableColorImages, EnableStopOnCliff, NvStorageOp, NvStorageOpResult, FirmwareUpdate, FirmwareUpdateResult.
New events: AnimationState, ObjectAvailable, ImageIMUData.
New examples: cube_lights.py, charger_lights.py, cube_light_animation.py.
Improved handling of 0x04 frames
Added support for Int8, Int32, and enumeration packet fields.
Improved robot state access.
Added object availability and animation state access.
Added initial pycozmo_replay.py tool for replaying PCAP files to Cozmo.
Added OLED display initial image encoder code.
Added initial function description.

Camera control and image reconstruction commands.
Initial robot state commands (coordinates, orientation, track speed, battery voltage).
Cube control commands.
Fall detection commands.
Audio volume control command.
Firmware signature identification commands.
Improved logging control.
Python 3.5 compatibility fixes (thanks to Cyke).