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

in that case, what does this mean? “In case you used this to change how, for example, a cover or door contact entity is shown, you can now change that by editing the entity in the UI.” See? Unclear.

One example: my door sensor was customized via the old Customization UI to act like a window sensor. The documentation tells me " additionally we have added the capability, to adjust the common device_class changes using the “Show as” feature while editing the entity from UI." but I definitely don’t see a way to do that. Not in the very entity’s UI nor Entities settings panel.

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Yeah, a bit confusing.

Is this referring to the ability to use the icon chooser?

Yeah, I kind of agree with this.

It would be nice if all the configuration sections were cards, and we could just make our own configuration dashboard :wink:

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Yeah for benefit of others: install the master version from hacs.

Hacs, integrations, click the overflow menu for webrtc, redownload, choose master version.

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One more UI change - I have no polite words for this:


Now to change some entity I always need to expand this!!!
And of course the “expand/collapse” state is not memorized locally.

This is not a progress.
This is a changing UI for changing UI.

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If you have no polite words then don’t post.

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Anyone else having problems with the ShellyforHASS integration?
I get this:

Component error: shelly - cannot import name get_local_ip
from homeassistant.util’ (/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/util/init.py)

This prevents me from even restarting HA.

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After updating my shellys didn’t work anymore, it couldn’t load the integration and it was no possible to delete it.

So I had to restore the old version.

@AndyBman, yep.

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Thanks for the update, smooth as always!

Same issue! All my 40+ shellys stopped working! restore worked smooth.

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I have no idea, probably not.

You should move to the core Shelly integration, which works perfectly, or raise an issue with the developer of the 3rd party integration, ShellyforHASS.

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That’s harsh…

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How is the Lovelace area card installed?

It is installed in the core distribution. You add it to your dashboard the same way as any other card.

How do I move to the core Shelly integration?

When I click to add a dashboard, it asks for a URL. What is the URL to the card?

I guess I’m not understanding how to add the card. Also, when I go into configuration mode and select “Add Card” there is not an Area card available to select.

Remove ShellyForHASS then…

It’s a card not a dashboard.

Though there is a page under Configuration. Is that what you mean?

Is it really? The original message is the kind of inappropriate toxic response that should not be tolerated. This is a team effort and there are much politer ways to provide feedback. Imagine you’ve worked on something for a month and what you get back is a message that states: you’ve not improved things, you’ve changed things for no reason, you’ve now made life harder for someone, and throw in some triple exclamation marks. Yes, I know the pandemic has strained all of us, many are struggling, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t respect one another. File a bug report or a suggestion; keep this kind of negativity out of what should be a positive blog post and a celebration of hard work. Thank you to everyone that worked hard on this release. :heart:

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