2021.12: New configuration menu, the button entity, and gorgeous area cards!

nickrout · December 12, 2021, 11:03pm

Which Shelly integration? The built in (core) one or shelly4hass?

b.maia81 · December 12, 2021, 11:06pm

The built in (core)

WhimsySpoon · December 12, 2021, 11:08pm

I had this too, immediately after upgrading on two of my five Shelly devices. I’m using the core integration. When I work up this morning, they were all working perfectly again (no changes from me).

tom_l · December 12, 2021, 11:15pm

Try reloading the integration (three dots icon).

jncanches · December 12, 2021, 11:29pm

Same here.
The MIIO integration partially works.
I have illuminance working, alarm entity unavailable and no light entity at all.
I have a lumi.gateway.v3 gateway.
I tried to remove and add it again. No luck

cg089 · December 12, 2021, 11:31pm

After updating the Vallox integration is broken.

Also I don’t understand the changelog “Entities provided by the Vallox integration now have unique IDs and can be adjusted from the UI” - there is no “Vallox” in the UI integrations.

notovich · December 12, 2021, 11:40pm

have the same error, unable to reload HA due to this error

jspanitz · December 12, 2021, 11:42pm

I’m there - just don’t think most users are. If I must say - it’s also a crap attitude to take with the community considering new releases are announced here and this is where the feedback on those releases starts. Directing people over to git is great but I’d suggest the release notes should probably link to the existing feature or bug fix to aid in and expedite the resolution of reported issues / concerns.

kanga_who · December 12, 2021, 11:54pm

Can someone please share the default config to get a button working - there is no default config listed on the Button page.

I’ve tried this, and a couple of variations adding device class and so on. None work and throw errors when I try to reboot.

I’m sure I’m missing something simple.

button.yaml

garage_door:
  name: Garage Door

petro · December 13, 2021, 12:06am

Releases are announced on the website and are cross post on the forums, they are not announced on the forums. The actual blog on the website has everything you’re suggesting. Links to every breaking change, links to the issues page, and links to each pr. All on GitHub.

jspanitz · December 13, 2021, 12:20am

Release is on website and links right here to this forum thread. Your point is null and void. The actual blog does not have links to the githib for new features, it does have it for fixes.

petro · December 13, 2021, 12:23am

Scroll down a bit, it’s the issue tracker linked in the need help section prior to breaking changes.

jspanitz · December 13, 2021, 12:29am

WLED devices can now be restarted and upgraded from Home Assistant.

This is a nice add, can’t wait to try it out.

jspanitz · December 13, 2021, 12:30am

I’m obviously blind as a bat - still can’t find it but apologies if it’s in there somewhere.

123 · December 13, 2021, 12:47am

I believe it’s currently limited to the following integrations:

For this release, MQTT & KNX added support for providing buttons. The Shelly, WLED, Elgato, Litter-Robot, TOLO Sauna, Tuya, Renault, and NAM integrations have added button entities.

Based on that statement, KNX and MQTT Button appear to be the only integrations that permit you to define a button (at this point in time).

kanga_who · December 13, 2021, 12:50am

OK, that makes sense. I obviously misunderstood the OP. I assumed it was a new input_boolean type entity that could be used generically.

123 · December 13, 2021, 12:57am

To be honest, I was under the same impression … but failed to find anything to support that notion.

It’s like the recently added number and select integrations. They’re defined via MQTT or Template integrations.

tom_l · December 13, 2021, 1:36am

I don’t think the template integration / platform will work for buttons. They don’t have states they only generate events. A generic button would have to be something along the lines of a template switch (a service call list for the on action), without the value_template.

broyuken1 · December 13, 2021, 2:21am

great release as usual, only one thing I found issue with that wasn’t listed in the breaking changes. My live camera notifications no longer display the thumbnail correctly. They display an error message now. When I open the notification the live stream works as expected, just the thumbnail is broken. This code worked perfectly on 2021.11.x and before.

data:
  message: There is motion at the deck door
  title: Motion on the deck
  data:
    entity_id: camera.backyard_camera
    push:
      thread-id: deck-notify
    actions:
      - action: MOTION_ON_THE_DECK_SNOOZE_30_MIN
        title: 'Snooze Notifications: 30 Minutes'
      - action: MOTION_ON_THE_DECK_SNOOZE_1_HOUR
        title: 'Snooze Notifications: 1 Hour'
service: notify.mobile_app_brians_iphone

avd706 · December 13, 2021, 3:13am

There were 7 betas, someone could have tested.