This allows you to add an optional "description" to a Characteristic. This is not the same as the name of a Service and is generally not used by the Home App. However, it appears to be consumed by the Eve app, which can be helpful in some circumstances when developing custom characteristics.
The update from Arduino-ESP32 2.0.0 to 2.0.1 contained significant changes to the structures used by the IDF for generic timers. This broke the Blinker code (would not compile for ESP32-S2 and C3 chips).
The solution: Modified Blinker::isrTimer() to use a *generic* interrupt-clearing function when available (IDF version >= 4.0.0). Below 4.0.0 the code continues to manually clear the interrupt flag by resetting specific structure variables, though the logic is simpler since this is only needed for the ESP32 chip (the S2 and C3 are not supported in earlier versions of Arduino-ESP32).
This provides for full compatibility with Arduino-ESP32 versions 2.0.1, 2.0.0, and 1.0.6. The use of a generic interrupt clearing function when IDF>=4.0.0 will hopefully make this future-proof to any further changes by Espressif to the underlying timer structures.
The loop over TimedWrites incorrectly erased iterators inside a for-loop. For some reason this never caused an issue on the ESP32, but crashed on the ESP32-C3. Solution is to change the for-loop to a while-loop with proper handling of the iterator when an element is deleted. This appears to fix the problem.
Characteristic::ConfiguredNameStatic() is no longer needed since you can now change permissions on ConfiguredStatic to remove PW with removePerms(PW). Updated Television Example accordingly.
To Do: Add getLinks() and setPerms/addPerms/removePerms to API Reference Documentation
This returns a vector of linked Services that can be used in a for-each loop as such:
for(auto services : getLinks()){ ... }
Must cast services into specific Service type to access anything not generic to the SpanService class
Second optional argument to setVal() determines whether or not HomeSpan sends notification of new value to HomeKit. Default if left blank is "true" for backwards compatibility.
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