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

Stooovie · December 12, 2021, 8:27am

How does the entity customization work?

The documentation is super confusing, saying both its YAML-only now AND “additionally we have added the capability, to adjust the common device_class changes using the “Show as” feature while editing the entity from UI.”

So which is it? I definitely don’t have any “Show as” while editing am entity from UI.

Raul_7 · December 12, 2021, 8:50am

I am having same issue, Scene transition is no longer working.

Raul_7 · December 12, 2021, 9:00am

Looks like transition issue is already logged: Transition times not behaving as expected. 15 min transition is completed in under a minute. · Issue #61542 · home-assistant/core · GitHub

HumanSkunk · December 12, 2021, 9:04am

That was me who created that issue. I decided to log it as an issue as I wasn’t sure if comments in this thread would be picked up.

Migaddo · December 12, 2021, 9:06am

Thanks for this beautiful release.
I ho have 2 issues to report.

The custom:spotify-card seems to break, it keeps loading.
In the automation the Flash seems missing, (in my current automation when a outside door opens, 2 of my lights will show a flash, in stead of staying on).

I dit a rollback for now.

tom_l · December 12, 2021, 9:09am

You need to report this to the card developer.

Migaddo · December 12, 2021, 9:13am

Thanks, I see that there is already an issue opened:)

sjc.hickey · December 12, 2021, 9:16am

I can’t update to 2021.12 from 2021.11.3.

I am running supervisor 2021.12.1 and OS 7.0 and can see the following entries in the supervisor log, any ideas?

21-12-12 09:05:33 INFO (SyncWorker_3) [supervisor.docker.interface] Updating image ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2021.11.3 to ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2021.12.0
21-12-12 09:05:33 INFO (SyncWorker_3) [supervisor.docker.interface] Downloading docker image Package qemux86-64-homeassistant · GitHub with tag 2021.12.0.
21-12-12 09:06:42 INFO (SyncWorker_3) [supervisor.docker.interface] Stopping homeassistant application
21-12-12 09:06:42 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.proxy] Home Assistant WebSocket API error: Received message 8:1000 is not str
21-12-12 09:06:42 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.api.proxy] Home Assistant WebSocket API connection is closed
21-12-12 09:07:00 INFO (SyncWorker_3) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleaning homeassistant application
21-12-12 09:07:00 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.module] Update pulse/client.config: /data/tmp/homeassistant_pulse
21-12-12 09:07:00 INFO (SyncWorker_5) [supervisor.docker.homeassistant] Starting Home Assistant Package qemux86-64-homeassistant · GitHub with version 2021.12.0
21-12-12 09:07:00 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Wait until Home Assistant is ready
21-12-12 09:07:30 ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Home Assistant has crashed!
21-12-12 09:07:30 CRITICAL (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] HomeAssistant update failed → rollback!
21-12-12 09:07:30 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.resolution.module] Create new issue IssueType.UPDATE_ROLLBACK - ContextType.CORE / None
21-12-12 09:07:30 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] A backup of the logfile is stored in /config/home-assistant-rollback.log
21-12-12 09:07:30 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Updating Home Assistant to version 2021.11.3
21-12-12 09:07:30 INFO (SyncWorker_4) [supervisor.docker.interface] Updating image ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2021.12.0 to ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2021.11.3
21-12-12 09:07:30 INFO (SyncWorker_4) [supervisor.docker.interface] Downloading docker image Package qemux86-64-homeassistant · GitHub with tag 2021.11.3.
21-12-12 09:07:31 INFO (SyncWorker_4) [supervisor.docker.interface] Cleaning homeassistant application
21-12-12 09:07:31 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.module] Update pulse/client.config: /data/tmp/homeassistant_pulse
21-12-12 09:07:31 INFO (SyncWorker_2) [supervisor.docker.homeassistant] Starting Home Assistant Package qemux86-64-homeassistant · GitHub with version 2021.11.3
21-12-12 09:07:31 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Wait until Home Assistant is ready
21-12-12 09:08:01 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.resolution.evaluate] Starting system evaluation with state CoreState.RUNNING
21-12-12 09:08:01 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.resolution.evaluate] System evaluation complete

gerardsamara · December 12, 2021, 9:25am

Hello ,

The Portainer add-on has been removed from the HA Community add-on but this is not described in the release notes.

There is no warning during the 2021-12.0 update .

Please confirm.
Thank you

rulle · December 12, 2021, 9:30am

I have a problem with my Tuya lights (Biltema) This script does not work anymore (it worked in 2021.10.6) . It changes the brightness but not the color.
I will go back to 2021.10.6

sovrum_gron:
  alias: sovrum grön
  sequence:
  - service: light.turn_on
    target:
      device_id: c76c861f29aecb522378d46f783379cd
    data:
      rgb_color:
      - 0
      - 255
      - 0
      brightness_pct: 90
      transition: 5
  mode: single

Edit:
It will work if I use rgbw_color

data:
      rgbw_color:
      - 0
      - 255
      - 0
      - 0
  mode: single

sd_dracula · December 12, 2021, 9:58am

Sonoff integration broken after 2021.12 update?

2021-12-12 09:10:58 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for sonoff: Unable to import component: cannot import name 'HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY' from 'homeassistant.const' (/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/const.py)

c1c3r0 · December 12, 2021, 10:21am

Sonoff works okay for me …

sd_dracula · December 12, 2021, 10:22am

I wasn’t using Sonoff LAN but some other very old custom Sonoff integration.
I moved over to Sonoff LAN and all good now

I do wish we could add custom links to the side bar, I can’t be the only one thinking that
There was a custom integration that did that a while ago but it stopped working a few versions ago.

TimoF · December 12, 2021, 10:29am

I lost a hell lot of entities after this update. Many Z-Wave and ESPhome entities now have a *_2 added to their name and the original entities are not available anymore!

Reverting to 2021.11.5 did not solve this. Entities still messed up.
Anyone an idea how and why this happened?

Quacked · December 12, 2021, 10:34am

Brilliant! I’ve been missing that for years!

nico1 · December 12, 2021, 10:34am

same problem here! all my shellys are unreachable

rodak · December 12, 2021, 10:51am

Same issue here, lost a lot of “light” exposed to Google Assistant since the groups no longer show up from Hue integration.

Nir · December 12, 2021, 10:53am

I think this release breaks Switchbot and rainbird integrations. Switchbots stopped responding to HA and rainbird controller not contactable. Went back to 2021.11.

msvb04 · December 12, 2021, 10:58am

I now deleted Shelly, updated to 2021.12 and tried to install Shelly again. It doesn’t work (“can’t load”). I switched back to 2021-11.

Prodigyplace · December 12, 2021, 10:59am

The most things in life cannot be accurately explained or described in a few words.

Sometimes attempts are made to do this when trying to explain something to an immature person.For example (I know my coworker meant this as a joke) try explain a cloud service outage to a 2 year old. All they know is they cannot hear their favorite music now.