Theengs App V1.5.0 released

Theengs App
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Added

  • SwitchBot control over BLE:

    • Bot S1 / SmartSwitch (SBS1 / X1) — On, Off, Push-Pull with selectable Press / Switch mode, inverted-direction toggle, configurable press duration.

    • Curtain 2 / Curtain 3 (SBCU / W070160X) — Open, Close, Stop, move to position, High / Low speed.

    • Blind Tilt (SBBT / W270160X) — Open, Close up, Close down, Stop, tilt to position (-100…100 %).

  • Battery monitors: BM2 and BM6 12 V monitor dongles with live voltage chart (0–20 V scale), state-of-charge / temperature on BM6, and a BatteryPresetManager so chemistry / nominal voltage / warning thresholds can be configured per device.

  • MQTT over TLS: the Integration screen now exposes a Use TLS toggle, a custom CA .pem picker (for self-signed or private brokers), and a Skip validation escape hatch for hostname mismatches. An on-screen Activity panel surfaces TLS handshake errors.

  • MQTT sentinels: missing / stale-sample sentinels and a sampling caption on the Integration screen so it’s obvious when a value forwarded to the broker is a placeholder rather than a fresh read (#131).

  • Credential secure storage: MQTT broker username / password are stored via the platform keychain (Keychain on iOS/macOS, Keystore on Android, libsecret on Linux) instead of the settings file (#132).

  • Android foreground BLE-scan service: scanning continues with the screen off via a persistent notification. The notification shows the latest reading and, when MQTT is enabled, the broker connection state and a drop counter for failed publishes. Runtime POST_NOTIFICATIONS request is handled on first launch.

  • HA gateway auto-discovery: the app now publishes its own Home Assistant discovery payload so it appears named in Home Assistant alongside the sensors it forwards.

  • History chart caption: sampling interval is now shown under each in-app history chart.

  • BBQ device support: Govee H5055 (multi-probe) and SOLIS-6 added to the BBQ live-monitoring list.

  • Window-cover actuators: preliminary support with a -100..100 tilt range.

  • About screen: shows the bundled Theengs Decoder version (derived from the submodule’s git tag) and the build number alongside the app version (#139).

Changed

  • Decoder bump: Theengs Decoder v2.3.0 (from v1.9.5 era; intermediate hop at v2.1.0). Some model_id strings are now consolidated (e.g. H5072/75, H5100/01/02/04/05/08/74/77, IBT-6XS/SOLIS-6); legacy IDs remain recognised (#137).

  • Build system: project switched from qmake to CMake ≥ 3.20. Minimum Qt 6.8 with qtconnectivity, qtcharts, qtwebsockets, qt5compat, image formats. New CMake flags ENABLE_MQTT, ENABLE_OPENSSL, ENABLE_MBEDTLS. QtMqtt is now optional at build time.

  • Permissions: Android permission flow rewritten and consolidated into a single screen alongside the background-update controls (#135); iOS adds NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription.

  • Background updates: scheduling is now driven by WorkManager exact alarms with explicit user-facing intervals; Android background scanning honours the “Update interval” setting as the actual scan cadence rather than a hard-coded value (#133, #135).

  • MQTT topics: when a sensor has no usable MAC address the topic now falls back to a stable identifier instead of BTtoMQTT//….

  • Generic widget: numeric values are formatted per type and meta-units are hidden.

Fixed

  • H5055 multi-probe state wipe (decoder #92).

  • Govee thermometers occasionally labelled as iBeacon after the advertisement-parsing rework.

  • Android decode for payload-embedded MAC rules (TPMS, VCH6003, …).

  • BM6 voltage scaling and detection on iOS.

  • BM2 bonding on Android and BM2 real-time voltage graphs.

  • Foreground-service notification tap on slow devices.

  • HA discovery now publishes all numeric properties (previously some were dropped by the validator).

  • iOS: mbedTLS subtree is now linked statically, fixing broken dylib @rpath lookups in the signed bundle (#138).

  • device_bm26: the mbedTLS AES block is properly guarded by ENABLE_MBEDTLS so builds with the flag off no longer fail to link (#134).

Security

  • mbedTLS 3.6.5 bundled in contribs/ for the encrypted-advertisement decoders.

  • TLS support in the MQTT bridge unblocks public-CA brokers (EMQX, HiveMQ Cloud, AWS IoT) without requiring a VPN.

  • MQTT broker credentials moved out of the plain-text settings file into the platform secure store (#132).

Full Changelog: v1.4.0…v1.5.0

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