HomeWatch

Version 1.2.2 — Open House Greeting Reliability, Whisper Timing, Minimap Fix

Summary: "Reliability release fixing Open House greetings that were silently skipped for some guests, plus gentler whisper timing and a corrected minimap button."

Fixed:

• Open House greetings silently failing for some guests. WoW rejects any single whisper over 255 characters, and guests from other servers carry long "Name-Realm" names that pushed greetings over the limit — the resulting error also stopped everyone after them from being greeted. Messages now greet guests by name only (the server is dropped from [name], although the whisper still reaches them), a message that is still too long automatically continues in a second whisper, and one failed whisper can no longer interrupt anyone else's.
• Starting an Open House with people already in your raid could greet them twice. Resolved.
• A pair of guests who were already grouped together and joined your raid at the same moment could be missed by the greeting. Resolved.
• The minimap button was missing its gold ring border and could sit inside the minimap ring instead of on it. It now matches other addon buttons and scales with your minimap size.
• Starting an Open House while HomeWatch is disabled now tells you why, instead of half-starting.

Improved:

• Open House Greeting and Thank You whispers now go out about 3 seconds after a guest joins or leaves, so they read less like an instant automated reply.
• Help tab and README now explain that long messages are split into a second whisper.

Compatibility: supports WoW 12.1.0 and 12.1.5 (Interface 120100 and 120105).

Released 2026-10-13.