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Shion 3.1.0

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Remote control driver and software for the SmartHome PowerLinc USB. Free

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Shion is a free, full-featured home automation application for the Mac (10.4+). Using Shion.app, you can control and monitor a variety of X10 and INSTEON devices from the convenience of your Mac computer. Shion.app also includes Snapshots, an easy way to configure & manipulate multiple devices with a single click. Shion.app's Triggers let Shion monitor and respond to changes in it's local environment: time of day, sunrise & sunset, temperature changes, and more.

Shion.app is available for no cost, and is designed to work with the forthcoming Shion Online subscription service

What's New

Version 3.1.0:

This is a major release that adds official support for the SmartLinc 2412N Ethernet controller. I’ve been using this controller for the past month and have debugged and optimized it extensively. The only outstanding issue is that it fails to link with one-way sensors such as motion detectors and SynchroLinc devices. This appears to be a hardware limitation that I will be unable to work past. Users of previous implementations of this device will need to reselect the controller type in the preferences.
This release also includes major performance enhancements across the application. These improvements are the result of migrating the events database from a flat file storage system to one powered by a CoreData SQLite database. Please note that the older events will not be migrated to the new storage, so this update will essentially "reset" your device history.
I’ve improved support for the Weather Underground sensors, so more endpoints should work now. To use these devices, create a Weather Underground Sensor and use your station ID as the address.
There are other bug fixes dealing with time zone issues, crashes, and poorly-performing controllers.

Version 3.1.0:

This is a major release that adds official support for the SmartLinc 2412N Ethernet controller. I’ve been using this controller for the past month and have debugged and optimized it extensively. The only outstanding issue is that it fails to link with one-way sensors such as motion detectors and SynchroLinc devices. This appears to be a hardware limitation that I will be unable to more...

Requirements

PPC / Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
A compatible X10 or INSTEON controller.

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Cjkarr commented on 25 May 2010

Note that Shion 3.0 is currently in alpha. This means that the app is incomplete and buggy and mainly intended for testing purposes. Unfortunately, MacUpdate insists on posting each and every release (independent of developers' wishes), so use this release at your own risk.

[Version 3.0a1]

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Misha replied on 25 May 2010

To my knowledge the developer has never contacted us requesting that we don't post pre-release versions.

It has been MacUpdate's policy for 14 years to publish the latest publicly available release... we try to always link to the most recent stable release in the Related Links field.

Cjkarr replied on 25 May 2010

I haven't made any requests with respect to Shion, but we did this song and dance a couple of years ago with Books alpha releases. My takeaway from that conversation was that if it's public, MacUpdate can't afford to not post it, otherwise VersionTracker would steal your thunder.

Apologies for not contacting you with respect to Shion. My experience with Books led me to believe that it would be a wasted effort. However, I would appreciate it if you would flag Shion as a product that only gets updated on this site by its developer, and not part of an automatic process. If I can't get this product flagged in this way, my original point stands.

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Misha replied on 25 May 2010

If you would like us to omit alphas/betas, we now respect that if the developer requests. We want to make sure that we're as "with" you as we can be, and not "against" you -- we exist to benefit developers and respect that without developers we wouldn't exist.

Having said that, we'll continue to auto-update posts ourselves with stable releases. Too few developers directly submit updates to MacUpdate and fewer do so in a timely fashion, so it's imperative we take the initiative ourselves for us to continue our relevancy and to deliver the service our users expect.

You can always email me at misha@ -- I'll be happy to dialogue with you further about this.

cjkarr (developer) commented on 10 Jan 2008

If you're having problems running Shion and have installed Indigo in the past, you need to remove a bit of software that Indigo installs into your system that prohibits other applications (such as Shion) from accessing your Insteon software. See

http://www.audacious-software.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=2&page=1

My apologies for the inconvenience, and I'll be adding a detector for this file in the next release of the application.

[Version 1.0b5]

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