2022.8: You can fix it!

[Cassy0119 (Cassidy)]

I look forward to it!

[Ecard (Eric Cardinal)]

Every night, all my Bluetooth device would stop working at the same time. I just discovered that my backup is causing this.

My scheduled backup breaks Bluetooth. I have to reboot my server

[AJStubbsy (Adam)]

Every time I restart HAOS, I’m getting a repair suggestion.

It’s because one of my entities is created by an esphome device and it’s state is ‘unavailable’ during start-up, resulting in this error
The automation "Synchronize states" (automation.synchronize_states) has an action that calls an unknown service: homeassistant.turn_unavailable.
I’ve adjusted the automation (which came from a Blueprint), so that it doesn’t trigger from ‘unavailable’ and so it doesn’t actually trigger during start-up

I’ve cleared the cache from my Chrome browser, just in case it was showing some legacy error message but it reappears after every restart. I’m surprised that a service call is being checked if the automation hasn’t even triggered.

I’m just wondering if anyone knows if this is expected behaviour?

[petro]

Post the automation in a new thread, it shouldn’t be getting to the service call to produce that error.

[Duke_box]

Hi

So I see the new 2022.9.0 release notes.
But where are the links to the forum for this release? where are the community comments?
Am i being stupid?
The link was always at the bottom of the release notes

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

[nickrout]

They are always in the Blog category on this forum.

[Duke_box]

Hi,

That’s where I thought the link was but this is all I get after several refreshes.

And when I hover over where the link should be I get

community.home-assistant.io refused to connect.

I had to google it.
Thanks

[ruben.de.diego (Ruben De Diego Martinez)]

It doesn’t run for me. I’m using windows 11.
Thanks

[adamba (Adam)]

Any news regarding the broken Bluetooth Tracker for iPhone? It hasn’t been fixed for three months now… First time in years that I can’t update.

[samuel81 (Matte)]

Nope, needing it as well. Isn’t there, also not there in 2022.9.4

[sreknob (Blake)]

Fortunately, there are others that feel the same about deprecated MDI icons.

If you install custom-icons, they maintain some of the deprecated icons, including the google-home one.

After you install the add-on, replace mdi:google-home with cil:google-home and get on with your day

Their current icon listing is here and I’m sure you could request Discord be added if there isn’t a good one in simple-icons or fontawesome yet.

[nickrout]

@sreknob

depreciated

Deprecated. Depreciated is an accountancy term.

[sreknob (Blake)]

You’re a good bot.

[kuenkin]

Hello,
Sorry not to answer you but raise a question:
How did you pair it through home assistant?
I have a couple of them, reset them to make pairable but Home Assistant doesn’t seem to detect them.
Best regards

[carsten_h (Carsten Friehe)]

@kuenkin

How did you pair it through home assistant?
I have a couple of them, reset them to make pairable but Home Assistant doesn’t seem to detect them.

I reset them (5 times power off/on) and suddendly I get a message in Home Assistant (>=2022.8) that there is a new device. Then I get a pairing dialog, the LED strip is flashing a fe times and I can input the pairing code from the device. That’s all.

[antonio1475 (Antonio)]

Hi @bdraco

Is that why I can’t seem to receive any event in HA from one of those Bluetooth remotes, despite getting it connected via bluetoothctl?

Described here: Bluetooth Button (Remote) support - #19 by antonio1475

It seems some people have achieved using the bluetooth multimedia buttons that @yousaf465 mentioned without an integration (well, maybe the Keyboard Remote one?):

[Tutorial] Using Bluetooth multimedia buttons in Hassio Automations

Hi! I’m new to Home Assistant and Hassio, so if you already knew how to do this or are already doing this then awesome! But I couldn’t find anything online with a clear instruction on how to setup Bluetooth multimedia buttons to work on my setup. So I’m sharing how I got my buttons to work with my automations in HA on Hassio in hopes that if someone had the same problem as me, this might be their answer. Please note: This the way I got it to work and there may other ways to do it but this way w…

[Tutorial] How to use Bluetooth Media Button for Sonos

Hi! I just figured out how to set up my Satechi Media Button and use it to control my Sonos system via Home Assistant. I found another community article here (thank you @Mountainous) but there was one point where I stucked. So I will sum up my steps here. Step 1: Pair your device Establish an SSH connection Type bluetoothctl for bluetooth configuration. Scan for bluetooth devices by typing scan on and find out the MAC address of your device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX. Pair the device with pair XX:XX:X…

Thank you

[bdraco (J. Nick Koston)]

Someone has to build an integration for those devices before they can be supported

[e-raser]

@frenck

We always had that. See: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bluetooth_le_tracker/

Wondering why
a) this is still not available to be configured in the UI
b) it still uses the old known_devices.yaml file which I thought was legacy/deprecated… (Device tracker - Home Assistant)

I’ll give it a try (anyway).

[e-raser]

After updating to HA 2022.8.7 ALL entities state of the mobile app (HA Companion app) were unknown until I opened the app on every device, for some I needed to disable and re-enable the sensors one by one. Everything was fine. After the next HA restart:

• all “last_reboot” sensors (Android devices) are unavailable and orphaned - which is a pattern.
  Update: looks exactly like
  Companion's Next Alarm sensor doesnt restore its state after Core restart · Issue #77106 · home-assistant/core · GitHub
• one device (iOS) does not provide the “average active pace” sensor anymore, it’s not in the sensor settings of the mobile app section

All that started with update to 2022.8. How to fix that? Nothing in logs.

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Update:
Updating to HA Core 2022.9.7 fixed the “missing last_reboot” issue.