2024.10: Heading in the right direction

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Is popup animations a “new feature” or a frontend bug? How do I disable it?
Popups now open too slowly. Even restart popup window now has this animation.

138

After failed attempt to update my HA keeps crashing… Not really a good first impression.

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Are you using Alexa media player? If so, you know what to do.

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Since in automation now we have

triggers:
  - trigger: homeassistant

then shall we use

{{ trigger.trigger == 'homeassistant' }}

instead of

{{ trigger.platform == 'homeassistant' }}

? ))

Traces still show a “platform”:
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Well, this Doc is still telling us to use “platform”.

And still there is a non-plural “wait_for_trigger”:

- wait_for_trigger:
    - trigger: ...
     ...
    - trigger: ...
      ...
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Completely uneventful update for me, which is nice. :partying_face:

Love the new graph colours. They work much better with both my day and night themes.

It took very little time to update all my automations and scripts to the new schema using find and replace in VSCode. Even though it is not actually required I did this to force myself to use the new schema to keep current when helping others here on the forums. Also the new schema makes a lot of sense.

That may or may not be changed, I don’t know. Either way, as I said before it is a work in progress. Expect more updates in future releases.

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Out of curiosity, are other Firefox users finding that the new Heading card displays in their browser default font (in my case, DejaVu Serif) instead of Roboto?

I’ve seen this behavior before in other parts of the frontend, but this update makes it very apparent in Heading cards. I’ve recorded my observations in this thread and this GitHub issue.

For context, I’m using Firefox 130.0.1 (64-bit), Snap version, canonical-002-1.0 on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (64-bit).

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Win10x64, FF 130.0.1 - Roboto is used.

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Thanks for posting this. After upgrading, I started having massive memory leaks. I added 4GB, then another 8GB to the VM hoping it would buy time to investigate, but it didn’t. I didn’t connect the dots, but you did. I disabled the AMP and that seems to have fixed it. It’s not been too long, but I’m sitting at under a gig of consumed memory now. This looks like the issue, thanks again!

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After updating my HA is constantly rebooting. Seems to be a memory leak, since I see this on the CLI.

Out of memory: Killed process XXXX (python3)

I’m running on a Raspberyy pi4 w/ 4gb of RAM. Never had this problem

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the disconnection errors seems to be related to Alexa Media Player as already stated by petro 2024.10: Heading in the right direction - #134 by petro

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Dont have Alexa, never have… Wish it was that simple. 2024.10 killed my day. I should have practiced restores more often in prep for outages like this. My plants didnt get and sleep as HA automation was down all night :wink: Anyway managed to get in fast enough to do safe-mode reboot before an auto restart and reverted to 2024.9. Think I will just wait for the brains trust to find the issues for the next release. I really shouldnt be so eager to update in future. Has never given me problems in the past, silly me. Happy to provide my log if helps the brains trust.

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Or you could be proactive and post your logs on a github issue.

But of course you are free to just be ‘that guy’.

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@sgurgul @Tekwyzard @henrikbla
please join in and share logs or whatever might be needed for someone to fix this

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and how do i make the icons the same size?

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Same here. Issue is already opened in repo.

Restoring to 2024.9.3 fixes the problem but unveils that the new “Improved YAML syntax for automations” are backward incompatible if you restore previous version of HA Core… Good I’ve edited just one automation since Wednesday…

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did you check the link I posted? there is also a variable for the icon size there
though you have to be careful, as its not a dedicated hiding variable, so it will also change your other icons…

for now (until they add a dedicated icon variable) you’d have to use card-mod to change it

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Thanks for the tip. Helped me with reboot loop.

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The objects in jinja haven’t changed.

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I think I can finally rid myself of that custom card, much as I loved it

This tabular data for climate sensors, (temp and humidity) with battery is made using auto-entities and the (I LOVE IT) new title card :slight_smile:

image

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This is good.
So far in my config I have not renamed “platform” to “trigger” since “platform” is more familiar & logical (since the attribute is “platform” as well). But probably will rename to make the code consistent with Docs.