2024.1: Happy automating!

[m4v3r1ck]

Love the dedication from the teams to all the new stuff that makes Home Assistant easier to use for newbies. Greatly appreciated!

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@KennethLavrsen

let me search for value_json.state in my YAML.

Try searching “from_json”, “to_json”.

[boheme61]

@KennethLavrsen

Guess what. It is nowhere to be found. And it is not in the .json files either.

Any templates with device_class_power or  state_class_measurement ?

EDIT: Never mind, Was just warnings, deprecated, end-of-life 2025.1

[tom_l]

It’s an issue with zigbee2mqtt:

1.35.0 - Bridge Connection state entity parsing undefined state key

If you don’t actually use it you can disable the setting legacy_availability_payload. Or put up with it until there’s a zigbee2mqtt update.

It doesn’t actually break anything.

[KennethLavrsen]

Super. Thanks.

[Gav_in]

Bit off topic for this release as its a custom component with the issue, but try this alt to the one you are using as the one you reference seems no longer maintained

GitHub - libdyson-wg/ha-dyson: Home Assistant custom integration for Wi-Fi...

[FBoscarato]

Hi, i can’t swap between setpoint and current temperature in thermostat card.
can you explain how to do it?

thank you

[petro]

Write that issue up on HA as well. There should only be a warning in the logs, not that error. We found many of these in beta and patches were made to simply warn in the logs but the entity should have still been created.

[KennethLavrsen]

Another zigbee2mqtt related thing.

The new release starts warning against attributes in selects defined by mqtt discovery as being too large in size and will not be recorded.

I cannot imagine why anyone would want to log these selects at all. Or why these entries have so many attributes.

To get rid of that warning (and make your logs a little smaller) you can add this to configuration.yaml

recorder:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - select.zigbee2mqtt_bridge_log_level
      - switch.zigbee2mqtt_bridge_permit_join
      - sensor.zigbee2mqtt_bridge_permit_join_timeout
      - sensor.zigbee2mqtt_bridge_version

There are some nice threads on this forum about how to limit the log sizes. If you do not already do this search for the topics (there are several topics)

Steps to reduce Write Cycles and extend SD/SSD life expectancy

Intro SD cards, but also SSD’s to a lesser extent, have a finite number of write cycles and will fail at some point. Your mileage will vary based on the quality of storage you’re using, and of course how busy your system is. But one thing can be said and that is that Home Assistant does very little to help and reduce the data being written to disk. In Release 2022.4 some improvements were implemented, so we may be moving in the right direction. This write-up is about possible actions you can …

How to reduce your database size and extend the life of your SD card

Preamble: @tom_l is the original author of this community guide. He proposed an analytical approach to decide for each entity_id whether to include or exclude it from the underlying database. @mbuscher suggested to go after the entities most often updated in the database, and exclude only those. Both approaches are now included in this community guide. Target audience: anyone who uses an installation on flash memory like a Raspberry Pi with an SD card or an SSD drive, or anyone who wishes to re…

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

Cannot start.
Starting in Safe mode with this:

Last restart was yesterday and it was successful.

[hedlesschkn (Timothy Hebert)]

Possible bug with the new thermostat update:
After updating to 2024.1.0, my Hot Tub thermostat card defaulted itself to minimum temp setpoint and appears to have actually sent that request. Not a huge deal for me but might be a major issue for someone using that card for their home temp and doesn’t notice quickly.

[petro]

Check your secrets file.

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

It is normal & has not been changed for a few months.

[petro]

Are you using anything that affects HA loading? Like lovelace_gen, dwains theme, homekit theme?

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

None of what you mentioned…

Btw, I have several “secrets” files - 1 main & some amount inside packages. I hope secrets in packages are still supported??? There is nothing about secrets in release log.

[samirg1 (Samir Gupta)]

I just started updating using the homeassistant.local on my laptop, it loaded for a bit then reloaded the page and now the page won’t load at all with error code 500 Internal Server Error, i’m running ha on a raspberry pi and i’ve tried restarting the pi but with no success. How can i fix this??

[petro]

They aren’t going away. Are you sure there’s not an error in one of your secrets in your packages that’s sat idle? Maybe an accidental -? search all your secrets files and make sure they are dictionaries. If they all are, write up an issue.

[stealingzen (Thomas Ourada)]

I love the small change to the Thermostat card! However, if you use that option and the thermostat is off, the card does not show the current temp in the room. I’d really like it to keep showing the current temp largely in the middle! I hope it’s just me and I can fix it, but it might be a wider issue.

[Didgeridrew]

It seems weird that the Zone trigger is shoehorned in with all the Time-related triggers…

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@petro

search all your secrets files and make sure they are dictionaries. If they all are, write up an issue.

Thank you, this is exactly what I do.
Thing is that I restarted yesterday and did not make any changes since that time.