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

[pergola.fabio]

@Dingin

About the Calendar Card, is it possible to choose a view as a default?, at the moment it always go back to the month view

have you find the answer? also, what are the configurable options for this card?

[mjlev314 (Michael J Levasseur)]

This release has fixed by biggest problem I’ve had. Insteon (actually x10) was my starting point into Smart Home and that was about 10 years ago. Home Assistant had been seeing 7 of my 11 Motion Sensors and 13 of my 14 Dimmer Switches. I love Insteon and these other devices have worked correctly through the Home Assistant, but 5 of them just wouldn’t join the gang for the fun.
On this new release now when I add them through the Device Override, they’ve now joined the crew and are working with all their brothers and sisters. I want to offer my thanks and appreciation to TEHarris. I’ve watched the work he’s done on GitHub to help mature Insteon in the Home Assistant environment. That’s no small challenge, given how peculiar and picky Insteon can be. Insteon always plays well with itself, but many times doesn’t like to play well with others.
Thanks for all your hard work TEHarris, it’s really appreciated!

[jumper]

I’m wondering if some time-based sensor update confusion/complexity could be mitigated by borrowing scan_interval: from Command Line Sensor for updating entity-less sensors.

This would avoid the complexity of requiring simple interval-based automations as a trigger, at least as described in Templates.

[blhoward2]

You could set static IPs for your phones instead of using reserved IPs on the router. Then your phone just declares what IP it’s going to use and will always use that one. Typically you’d do this outside the range your DHCP server is assigning IPs, but it has to be within the same subnet.

[finity]

try removing the dot after states:

{{ states | count }}

[Coolie1101 (Coolie)]

Thanks, this was just a test, the question is, why does HA log it as an error, if the template tool is just for evaluating templates?

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

@Coolie1101

why does HA log it as an error,

I agree. Seems unnecessary

[finity]

Oh OK. Didn’t get that.

But from what I’ve read that is an expected behavior to log errors from the template editor now.

But I think I remember seeing something about a “fix” to suppress those errors being in the works.

[Coolie1101 (Coolie)]

That would be very helpful, especially for noobs like me.

[olealm (Ole)]

Did you manage to get this working? Still not working for me on 115.2.

[Morphy]

@dshokouhi

Do you see the same behavior in chrome for Android?

Yea I’ve just tried it over wifi to the nabu casa URL in Chrome Android and the same issue.
I’ve also tested in Windows Chrome and the same but it doesn’t crap out completely. It feels like a Nabu Casa issue, maybe bandwidth with all the streaming going via the proxy?

Another problem is this error in the log when connecting locally to HA on Android app and playing via the media browser:

Login attempt or request with invalid authentication from G8S-ThinQ (192.168.x.x) (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; LM-G810 Build/QKQ1.200614.002; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/85.0.4183.127 Mobile Safari/537.36)

The playback stopped after 5 seconds and I was unable to resume it. Every time I clicked on the play it started from beginning and stopped again.

EDIT: The second error maybe due to a corrupt recording I was trying to play. I’ve raised a ticket with Nabu Casa and they’ve come back and said there’s a 2mb throughput limit! News to me.

[nickrout]

OTOH I can see value if an error message tells you something about why your template fails.

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

Definitely. That info should just be shown on the template editor window though

[Holdestmade]

Definitely. That info should just be shown on the template editor window though

I think this would be very helpful

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

@sparkydave

That info should just be shown on the template editor window though

Yep. That’s the only place it’s even useful…

[lindsayward]

I’d like to add my vote of thanks for everyone who contributed to this release.
In particular:
@Frenk - I know a few people didn’t read the breaking changes but I found the use of
"Instead of … use …"
a really good way to show what and how to change. I updated my Broadlink with no problems thanks to this. Thanks!

@pnbruckner - Before this release, I had a “simple” time trigger based on an input_datetime:

# BEFORE
  trigger:
  - platform: template
    value_template: '{{ states.sensor.time.state == (states.input_datetime.coffee_start_time.attributes.timestamp | int | timestamp_custom("%H:%M", False)) }}'

# AFTER
  trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: input_datetime.coffee_start_time 

SO much nicer!

[klogg]

@Coolie1101

why does HA log it as an error

It is actually even more annoying than that.
Just try typing slowly in the Telmplate Editor and watch your logs…

Bug/annoyance in new Template Editor

First off I love the new functional Template Editor so don’t take this the wrong way but there is a bug/annoyance which might have been overlooked. Go to the editor and start typing e.g. {{ states('sensor. pause while the editor does it’s magic and updates giving: [image] …and then check your log. You’ll find that error is also logged there. Type slowly or use the editor a lot and you can get tons of errors. Couldn’t errors from the template editor be supressed in the log?

[Coolie1101 (Coolie)]

That’s what caught my attention.

[BeardedConti (BeardedTinker)]

@acortesm

- id: Telegram test
  alias: Telegram - test
  trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: telegram_callback
    event_data:
      data: /test_1
  action:
  - service: notify.telegram_id_{{ trigger.event.data.user_id }}
    data:
      message: 'Test'
  - service: notify.telegram_id_{{ trigger.event.data.user_id }}
    data:
      message: 'Trigger event info: {{ trigger.event }}'   
  - service: notify.telegram_id_{{ trigger.event.data.user_id }}
    data:
      message: 'Data: {{ trigger.event.data.data }}' 

Did you try to add target?

for ex.

  action:
  - service: notify.telegram_id_{{ trigger.event.data.user_id }}
    data:
      message: 'Test'
      target: CHANNEL_ID

I think that before you didn’t need to specify it and it used first from the list, but now you have to add it.

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

in the ongoing process of rewriting templates and automations triggers and conditions to replace templates, I was wondering if rewriting below condition without template

condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: >
      {{states('device_tracker.life360_marijn') != 'home'}}

would need to be done like:

condition:
  condition: not
  conditions:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: device_tracker.life360_marijn
      state: 'home'

we cant leave out ‘conditions:’ can we? even if this would be the only one?

and if this set of Not conditions were to be part of the larger set of conditions, write it like this:

    condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: input_boolean.espresso_notified
        state: 'off'
      - condition: time
        after: '06:00:00'
        before: '22:00:00'
      - condition: not
        conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: device_tracker.life360_marijn
            state: 'home'

?
though that still seems a bit more complex than

condition:
  - condition: >
      {{states('device_tracker.life360_marijn') != 'home'}}

which if I understand it correctly is now possible too… suppose that won’t be less efficient for the system.