2021.1: Happy New Year!

[Pirol62 (Jörg Nauen)]

Even I never had contact with @Villhellm, my condolences to his family and friends.
He was way too young.

[Pirol62 (Jörg Nauen)]

Second most important action this year:

Happy new year to the core team and all contributors of Home Assistant.
You’re doing a great job, have an enormous engagement, you’re always be patient when users are neewbees or have blackouts - you’re simply great. This community is the best example of respectful teamwork around the complete world. It works!
Stay healthy, have fun and keep up this great work.
Thanks a lot!!

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

Happy new year to you all indeed. And what an immense loss for @Villhellm. Unimaginable. My thoughts are with his family.

Adding to the world in its current turmoil, one of my resolutions for HA would be to finally get Hue lights to flash long in a color (red for alarm…!)
Seems not to be possible, and really feel it should be.

Of course, will keep occupying this community and seek and offer assistance when- and wherever possible.
Cheers to you all!

btw, buttery smooth update it was, yet again. Thanks.

[tuffelh]

I still cannot readd the AppleTV.
I uninstalled the HACS version and tried again with official integration, but the same error appears.
" A problem occurred while pairing protocol MRP . It will be ignored."

Any idea?

[meconiotech (Daniele Bertocci)]

Guys i really love you, this project is born in the right way and evolving in a semi perfect solution, 30 years using internet, unix system, networking and server appliance i never see nothing growing fast and stable like hass

[M1ke]

This thread might help to achieve your goal

Update deCONZ integration to support `flash` with `color`

Currently, hue bridge users can use light.turn_on with flash:long|short and color while this same service call with deCONZ results in the light flashing white regardless of color specified. I had initially thought it may be a problem with deCONZ itself, but after raising a github feature request there, I was pointed to the actual deCONZ integration. Looks like it’s sending an {"alert": "select"} or {"alert": "lselect"} , which the Hue bridge translates to the same Trigger Effect command …

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

thanks. however, that’s for Deconz, and I should maybe have added Id like to use the Hue bridge.
btw, I did give your suggestion a go, but couldn’t get a single Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance E27 light to be found by the photon integration…

[PrayerfulDrop (AaronW)]

Is there a reason 2021.1 is not showing up correctly on my HassOS? I did the update and this is what I have in the supervisor now. Also I heard OS 5.10 is out but have not been notified of upgrade.

[tom_l]

Try a Ctrl + F5 browser refresh. If that does not change things…

@PrayerfulDrop

I did the update

You started the update, but it looks like it did not complete and was rolled back to 2020.12.7

Reload the supervisor (bottom left of the supervisor card) and see if the newest version updates.</>

EdIt: Actually looking at my supervisor card I see 2020.12.7 as the newest version too, despite having an alert for 2021.1 on my supervisor dashboard.

What does your config / info menu show?

Your update probably did work and there is something amiss in the supervisor display.

[silvrr]

The latest version of supervisor is 2020.12.7. The latest version of core is 2021.1.0.

https://version.home-assistant.io/stable.json

[Synappz]

Any chance we could get the conference videos viewable on PeerTube?

Specifically, conf.tube seems like it would be an instance that would be perfect for this, with unlimited quota for videos of conferences from open source projects. You can even set it up to automatically mirror from your YouTube account, so just 15 minutes of setup takes care of the whole thing.

Heck, I’d be happy to set it up myself with permission from the HA team to republish the videos on your behalf.

[tom_l]

Doh!

[postlund (Pierre Ståhl)]

What’s in the log?

[Burningstone]

Did you reset the bulbs before trying to pair them? I have no problems with the E27 Color and White feom Philips.

[tuffelh]

I have added

logger:
  logs:
    pyatv: debug
    apple_tv: debug

to the conf but no details regarding apple tv :-/

[postlund (Pierre Ståhl)]

Right, the error means that Home Assistant failed to connect to the device. First, did you try to reboot the Apple TV? Helps sometimes. Also, do you have any kind of special set up with VLANs and MDNS repeaters?

[tuffelh]

Just tried a reboot, but no luck.
No special setup, no vlan, same subnet.

[brandont (Brandon)]

Condolences to @Villhellm … Thank you for the GoFundMe link as well.

[Petrica (PetricaM)]

@Mariusthvdb

Adding to the world in its current turmoil, one of my resolutions for HA would be to finally get Hue lights to flash long in a color (red for alarm…!)

An alternative would be to setup Hyperion (either running as a Rpi image with Hyperbian or in Docker). It can control Hue lights and can add a hell of a lot of effects (effect_list: Atomic swirl, Blue mood blobs, Breath, Candle, Christmas, Cinema brighten lights, Cinema dim lights, Cold mood blobs, Collision, Color traces, Double swirl, Fire, Flags Germany/Sweden, Full color mood blobs, Green mood blobs, Knight rider, Led Test, Light clock, Lights, Notify blue, Pac-Man, Plasma, Police Lights Single, Police Lights Solid, Rainbow mood, Rainbow swirl, Rainbow swirl fast, Random, Red mood blobs, Sea waves, Snake, Sparks, Strobe red, Strobe white, System Shutdown, Trails, Trails color, Warm mood blobs, Waves with Color, X-Mas)

You can also define your effects, based on the templates above and they’re loaded into HA.

I have one instance running on Rpi2 connected to a digital led strip (for a Hue Sync Box clone) and another on Docker controlling a set of Hues that can either function independently or act as a receiver for the Rpi2 instance.

[GH2user]

For those missing the AVRI integration go to the Afvalbeheer integration in HACS as that one has support for the new platform AVRI is using.
https://github.com/pippyn/Home-Assistant-Sensor-Afvalbeheer