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

[RiXarD (Richard)]

Thanks, that worked

[Tamsy]

You have set:

type: custom:webrtc-camera
url: rtsps://192.168.1.1:7441/ ........

Are you sure about RTSP over SSL (RTSPS)? As far as I know RTSPS feeds are not supported in the current WebRTC component (yet).

[madface (Mike)]

@ ozzie
Same here, stop and pause don’t work anymore, play only sometimes. I am back at 2021.12.1, seems the problem came with the 2021.12.2.
Since there ist another problem with the hue lights i thought my home would kidding me this morning

Mike

[Bill-Dung]

@ madface

I have the same issue with 2021.12.0 and 2021.12.1 not only 2021.12.2. In addition I have an onvif issue with them, went back to 2021.11.5, works fine.

[apeschel (Alexander)]

Since Home Assistant 2021.12 the (new) Brunt Blind Integration brings up the following Error and stop working:

Retrying setup: init() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘resaveflag’.

Any Solution or Fix?
Thank you an Merry Christmas.

[HVader2000 (Niles)]

Yup, that is the issue. It seems that UniFi Protect no longer supports ‘rtsp’ Rats!

[stephack]

@HVader2000

UniFi Protect no longer supports ‘rtsp’

Not exactly. They don’t default to rtsp but as they stated in the docs, you can access the rtsp stream by simply taking the rtsps one they provide and changing the “rtsps” to “rtsp” and the port to “7447”.

All my protect cameras work with the latest Webrtc addon.

[Damos]

My first attempt for Shelly integration was the core integration. Unfortunatelly, the core integration has (had?) a responsivenes issue ( Native Shelly integration is very slow to recognise state change - Configuration - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)) so I moved to the Shelly for HASS intergation, which did a very good job.
Does anyone know if the lagging issues has been fixed?
Thanks!

[tom_l]

Were you using multicast or unicast?

I’m using unicast and there is no noticeable delay at all.

[Damos]

@Eoin

While ShellyHass was great for me, it looks like the official integration has now caught up on functionality and well worth considering,

@Eoin, do you happen to know if the lagging issue has been fixed?

[lishan89uc]

I wanted to go into a rage when I found out that customize.yaml UI was removed. However after careful thought and consideration I do see the point the devs are making regarding the feature. That said I still would like the option to bring it back. Maybe hide it in developer tools or put a warning before you are able to access it. Just flat out removing such a convenient feature is concerning.

As someone who don’t know much about programming or coding, yaml was and still is something I am not comfortable with. It is one thing if there is a way to see all the parameters you can set in regards to an entity and another to go in blind with a list of device classes spread over 5 webpages. My main concern with removing it is people who are starting out will have a lot harder time with some devices if the convenient ui is not there. I personally probably understand enough about HA to edit customize.yaml with ease now, however I don’t think it would be as easy for new people with no knowledge of this platform.

Bring back customize.yaml UI

Please consider bringing back Customize.yaml UI. As someone who don’t know much about programming or coding, yaml was and still is something I am not comfortable with. It is one thing if there is a way to see all the parameters you can set in regards to an entity and another to go in blind with a list of device classes spread over 5 webpages. My main concern with removing it is people who are starting out will have a lot harder time with some devices if the convenient ui is not there. I persona…

[Preference22]

After upgrading to 2021.12.2 Core my Hue integration starts failing after a couple of commands. Eventho the light is off, HA seems to think it’s on (or vice versa). When you check the status of the lamp in the Hue or google Home app, it is correct and switching it on and/or off works there but not in HA anymore. I need to reload the Hue integration in HA and it works again, for like 5-10 commands and the whole thing starts again.

I’ve seen other people reply to it as well in this section but I’d figure to post the error log on core with it as well.

2021-12-16 12:56:33 WARNING (MainThread) [aiohue.v2[192.168.2.105].events] Unable to parse Event message: data: [{"creationtime":"2021-12-16T11:56:33Z","data":[{"id":"e01eea67-92a2-4ec0-b3b2-5948b30ff942","status":"unpaired","type":"homekit"}],"id":"d16a2f9e-ac38-48d0-bc89-3e4fbe75c6f7","type":"update"}]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohue/v2/controllers/events.py", line 195, in __parse_message
    clip_event = CLIPEvent.from_dict(event)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohue/v2/models/clip.py", line 117, in from_dict
    data=[parse_clip_resource(x) for x in dict_in["data"]],
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohue/v2/models/clip.py", line 117, in <listcomp>
    data=[parse_clip_resource(x) for x in dict_in["data"]],
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohue/v2/models/clip.py", line 94, in parse_clip_resource
    return dataclass_from_dict(resource_cls, obj_in, strict=False)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohue/util.py", line 193, in dataclass_from_dict
    **{
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohue/util.py", line 194, in <dictcomp>
    field.name: _get_val(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/aiohue/util.py", line 149, in _get_val
    return [
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

Edit:

I’ve missed a comment which I’ll quote underneath. Apparently the Hue issues will be fixed in the upcoming v3. Cheers!

@rossk

For all those having issue with hue, there were issues in 2021.12 that were partially fixed in the .2 update, however I believe a timing issue was introduced and has since been reported and fixed that causes entities to go out of sync.

Thanks to the great work of @marcelveldt i believe all these issues have been dealt with and will be rectified in the upcoming .3 release.

[tom_l]

@lishan89uc

As someone who don’t know much about programming or codingk, yaml was and still is something I am not comfortable with

Yaml is not programming. It’s writing a recipe. Just like writing a recipe there are a few simple rules, learn them and you’re sorted. http://thomasloven.com/blog/2018/08/YAML-For-Nonprogrammers/

[BebeMischa]

From all “coding”, I came across in 30 years work with computers, yaml is the easiest…

[lishan89uc]

@tom_l

Yaml is not programming. It’s writing a recipe. Just like writing a recipe there are a few simple rules, learn them and you’re sorted. Thomas Lovén - YAML for Non-programmers

You are missing the point. You have to know the valid parameters. For example. device_class: battery you have to figure out how to write

sensor.window_battery:
  device_class: battery
  icon: mdi:battery

vs. in the UI all you have to do is click on device class. Before you go on saying visual studio code, not everyone has a device that works well with that.
@BebeMischa Thats like saying in my 30 years of drafting microsoft word is the easiest… Starting out even magic plan is hard to use…

[BebeMischa]

@lishan89uc

Thats like saying in my 30 years of drafting autocad is the easiest… Starting out even magic plan is hard to use…

Sure, you have to start with MS Paint

[AleXSR7001 (AleXSR700)]

What I never understood is why HA recognizes all the different customizations but does not let me edit the code via UI.
After all, HA knows in which file(s) the code is located and could simply display the code. Then let me edit it.

So I understand why customization is no longer needed in the UI, but why was it never really fully functional to begin with?

Same for automations. Why is it not allowed to edit the code via UI? No need for visual editor, but the bare code via code editor? Why not?

[lishan89uc]

yea sorry i meant word. I didn;t mean autocad. that just came out of no where

[tom_l]

@lishan89uc

You have to know the valid parameters.

The list of ingredients is available.

e.g. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/binary_sensor/#device-class

[CaptTom (Tom)]

Removing the customize page was a minor annoyance at first. As a beginner, I just followed examples. Many of them pointed me to customize.yaml. I figured that was the way to do things, so I just kept using it. But it was hard to remember where all the different settings for an entity (name, id, icon, unit of measure, etc.) were hidden.

I’ve already removed about 90% of my customize.yaml entries, and it feels good. One less place to go looking when I want to change something! I’ll have them all gone soon.

I’m getting used to the new configuration menu, too. Once I knew it was part of a larger plan, not just a random change, I felt better about it.