0.115: B-Day release! Media browser, tags, automations & WTH

[asieraccord]

Thanks nickrout;

Can you explain me how to configure my automations with the new feature?
How can I do to click the button and trigger an action?

Thank you again!

[nickrout]

Automation Trigger

An event is also available as a trigger when using the UI automation editor.

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

is this new to HA 115, or didnt we get all sun.sun attributes in the more-info card before?

[bdraco (J. Nick Koston)]

@gerard33

I had one template sensor which was using {{ states | ... }} . Once I removed that the cpu load is back to the 0.114 level.

Improve performance of accessing template state by bdraco · Pull Request #40323 · home-assistant/core · GitHub should make these much faster in 0.116.

[asieraccord]

I have read the documentation you post.
I think I am already configuring my automation as an event.
I don’t find anything that I could be doing wrong.
My trigger has the following form:

  trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: xiaomi_aqara.click
    event_data:
      event_id: binary_sensor.switch_xxxxxxxxxxxx
      click_type: single

[jtnn60 (John)]

@asieraccord

I have configured Spotify as media browser in HA 0.115.2
Works great, but how can I send the audio to any of my Google Home Mini? Is there any possibility to do that?

See my post here:

Media browser, Spotify, select output device?

Here is a solution for you using the excellent SpotCast integration. I added this on my dashboard [CastSelectorStudy] First install SpotCast using HACS. I have four Chromecast Audio devices and a group called Flat. Each one has the room in the title (e.g. the Study cast entity is called media_player.study_audio_cast). So I created an input_select drop-down list with the five human readable names and then wrote an automation to change to the correct casting device when changed in the drop-…

[Dolores]

I have the sonos integration, but when I click on the browser I just get " Local library not found."

Is there something that I need to do in order to get the media into HA?

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

That trigger code works for me. Are you sure the issue isn’t elsewhere in that automation?

[kanga_who (Jason)]

I use zigbee2mqtt, so slightly different, but this is how I use the button in an automation.

# XIAOMI BUTTON #
- alias: Xiaomi Button
  initial_state: True
  trigger:
    platform: mqtt
    topic: 'zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d000155d403'
  condition:
    condition: template
    value_template: "{{ 'single' == trigger.payload_json.click }}"
  action:
    service: light.toggle
    entity_id: light.steps

[benm7 (Ben M)]

Perfect, that did the trick thanks!

[Blair_Pollard]

HA restart now takes over 6 minutes on 115 looks like z wave network takes ages to start compared to 114 which only took 115 seconds to do a restart.

[nickrout]

How is your load average/cpu usage compared to before? It could be a dodgy template.

[Blair_Pollard]

running on i3 nuc cpu barely goes above 50% on a restart and only running on 1 core on all cores even lower normally idle around 1-2% cpu usage.

I did config check against latest release no errors found.

just need a restart and by 75 seconds only entities not back are z wave ones at 3 minutes so far still waiting for z wave network cpu sat at 2%.

also have issues where states are not saved on restart so core.restore states is not updating so states are not correct.

[nickrout]

I have no idea about Z-Wave, and the template thing was an idea because it had caused high CPU usage on 0.115. Hope you find the answer.

[Coolie1101 (Coolie)]

Is there an alternate to {{ states.sensor | count }}?

[asieraccord]

I post the solution to my problem in order to help anyone else.
It seems that recent versions of Home Assistant have changed the following:

Before—> event_id:

And now is—> entity_id:

Thanks everyone for your help.

[tom_l]

It appears that the light group platform is no longer registering entity ids in the backend.

See edit #3 at the end.

light:
- platform: group
  name: All Hallway Lights
  entities:
  - light.lifx_bottom_of_stairs
  - light.lifx_hallway
  - light.lifx_linen_cupboard
  - light.lifx_top_of_stairs

- platform: group
  name: All Lounge Lights
  entities:
  - light.lifx_lounge_entrance_lamp
  - light.lifx_lounge_front_left
  - light.lifx_lounge_front_right
  - light.lifx_lounge_middle_left
  - light.lifx_lounge_middle_right
  - light.lifx_lounge_rear_left
  - light.lifx_lounge_rear_right

- platform: group
  name: All Rumpus Room Lights
  entities:
  - light.led_strip_bar
  - light.lifx_bar_1
  - light.lifx_bar_2
  - light.lifx_bar_3
  - light.lifx_bar_lamp
  - light.lifx_cinema_1
  - light.lifx_cinema_2
  - light.lifx_cinema_3
  - light.lifx_cinema_left
  - light.lifx_cinema_right
  - light.led_table

Developer Tools / States:

I noticed this because of the error:

However the strangest part is that the entities are available in the frontend:

EDIT: This is really screwy. After displaying them in the front end they now appear in Developer Tools / States.

Going to restart and see if they disappear again.

EDIT2: Nope. Can’t reproduce it.

I am still getting the error, despite the fact that the entity exists. (I did ctrl+F5, entity light.all_lounge_lights was still visible in the developer tools).

EDIT3: Found the culprit.

Calling the service lifx.effect_stop on a light group (even if it only contains lifx lights). Calling the service on a plain old vanilla group of lifx lights does work. Apologies for the false alarm.

[Eoin]

I’m going to ask a really stupid question, but if you don’t ask…

What are you using to produce the Log Details Warning? When looking at HA logs I open the home-assistant.log file, is there a more elegant way to do this on the front end I don’t know about

[anon43302295]

Configuration > Logs > Load full homeassistant log

[Eoin]

Thx mf_social, however that’s a different visual from this one.