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

matteos1 · December 20, 2021, 11:04am

I have several xiaomi devices and almost all of them are unavailable after update to 2021.12.x

123dev · December 20, 2021, 12:52pm

I’m not sure if this has already been reported or not, updates are not showing up in the supervisor panel anymore even days after the release, the only way to update is to use the terminal
ha core update ...

petro · December 20, 2021, 1:21pm

Updates were consolidated to the configuration page. That’s where they will show up. At the top of the page.

petro · December 20, 2021, 2:58pm

A post was merged into an existing topic: Helping with trigger variables & inputs

123dev · December 20, 2021, 4:31pm

Thanks
Not really consistent, which confuses users.
See in this case I have an update for glances showing up in the configuration.

And if I go to supervisor panel, I see it there too.

But the same is no longer true for Home Assistant Core Update.

Note that, at this point I can’t even check if core update showed up in configuration page, because I’m already updated to the latest, but I suppose it did.

petro · December 20, 2021, 4:45pm

Core would show up there if there was an update. You can see it on my screenshot.

EDIT: It doesn’t show up on the supervisor addon page that doesn’t make sense. Addon page shows addons. It just used to be on that page because there was no where else to put it. Now there’s a place to put it. Addons themselves show when they have an update. The info page on core / supervisor also show that. They just don’t have a nice little highlight.

123dev · December 20, 2021, 5:37pm

Thanks, that makes sense
Should it perhaps also show up in /hassio/system with the ability to update from there?
Just a suggestion.

spacegaier · December 20, 2021, 6:56pm

The goal was the opposite (to make the behavior especially with the shown cursors more consistent), but that unfortunately introduced some side effects that are already fixed and will be in 2021.12.4.

spacegaier · December 20, 2021, 6:57pm

The translations themselves are handled by the community (see https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/translations/). However, if some translations are missing there should still be the English ones as fallback I think. Is the page showing no text at all?

arminmehr · December 20, 2021, 9:57pm

After upgrading from 2021.11.5 to 2021.12.3 media_player is not working properly:

following script

  play_pause_music:
    alias: Musik play/pause
    icon: mdi:play-pause
    sequence: 
      - service: media_player.media_play_pause
        entity_id: media_player.kinderzimmer

leads to following exception

Logger: homeassistant.components.script.play_pause_music
Source: components/cast/media_player.py:419 
Integration: Skript (documentation, issues) 
First occurred: 22:25:21 (3 occurrences) 
Last logged: 22:29:11

Musik play/pause: Error executing script. Unexpected error for call_service at pos 1: Namespace urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media is not supported by running application.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 381, in _async_step
    await getattr(self, handler)()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 584, in _async_call_service_step
    await service_task
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1495, in async_call
    task.result()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1530, in _execute_service
    await handler.job.target(service_call)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py", line 209, in handle_service
    await self.hass.helpers.service.entity_service_call(
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/service.py", line 663, in entity_service_call
    future.result()  # pop exception if have
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 896, in async_request_call
    await coro
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/service.py", line 700, in _handle_entity_call
    await result
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/media_player/__init__.py", line 877, in async_media_play_pause
    await self.async_media_play()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/media_player/__init__.py", line 670, in async_media_play
    await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(self.media_play)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 52, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/cast/media_player.py", line 419, in media_play
    media_controller.play()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pychromecast/controllers/media.py", line 410, in play
    self._send_command({MESSAGE_TYPE: TYPE_PLAY})
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pychromecast/controllers/media.py", line 371, in _send_command
    self.send_message(command, inc_session_id=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pychromecast/controllers/__init__.py", line 87, in send_message
    raise UnsupportedNamespace(
pychromecast.error.UnsupportedNamespace: Namespace urn:x-cast:com.google.cast.media is not supported by running application.

Am I the only one with this kind of exception? I would be grateful if someone could help

nickrout · December 20, 2021, 10:16pm

No you are not the only one. Read the thread

avd706 · December 20, 2021, 11:14pm

only for Alexa?

hajtux · December 20, 2021, 11:39pm

Hello,

Thanks for this update. Great job !

For me, after the update, I notice that all my switch sensor (Ikea Tradfri & Aqara) are disappeared from the Entities list. Only, the Battery Level entities for these device are there.
I use the Deconz add-on with the recommended installation (HA OS). I also notice that the events, like click on button switch, are received by node-red add-on.

Please let me know if do you have the same behaviour and if you find how to fix it.
Thanks

Prodigyplace · December 21, 2021, 12:41am

Did you read the Release Notes to look for any behaviour changes? Especially Breaking Changes? That is recommended standard practice before performing any updates.

I suspect if you read this thread you may find others that had similar issues and possibly how to update your configuraiton.

matteos1 · December 21, 2021, 6:22am

the problem for xiaomi miio has not yet been resolved in Release 2021.12.4?

bjorn.sivertsen · December 21, 2021, 6:32am

What issues? My integration is working perfectly.

aidbish · December 21, 2021, 6:41am

there is nothing in the release for 2021.12.4 that mentions miio, so thats probably why
Release 2021.12.4 · home-assistant/core (github.com)

KingRichard · December 21, 2021, 7:26am

did someone having this problem? I seems to see 2 update, one for home-assistant core and one for addon ESP Home. So I decided to upgrade HA Core first. Upon upgrade ESP Home seems to lost its update, so any idea?

TalWinter · December 21, 2021, 8:06am

Did anyone update HA OS to Version 2021.12.4 ?
I tried to update and I get an error:

21-12-21 09:50:46 ERROR (SyncWorker_4) [supervisor.docker.interface] Can’t install ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2021.12.4: 404 Client Error for http+docker://localhost/v1.41/images/ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2021.12.4/json: Not Found (“no such image: ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2021.12.4: No such image: ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2021.12.4”)
21-12-21 09:50:46 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Updating Home Assistant image failed

It happens to me on Core and Supervised install too so I used the HA OS VM method.
Something is really wrong.

spacegaier · December 21, 2021, 8:28am

Upgrade worked fine for me (RPi4 though). The qemux86-64 version however also seems to be online for me, so that should work.