2024.3: Drag 'n Drop it like it's hot! 🎉

[stamandr]

I just update from 2024.2 to 2024.3. Many automations got wiped out. How can this be fixed ?

alias: Water leak Alerts
description: ""
trigger:
  - device_id: ""
    domain: ""
    entity_id: ""
    platform: device
  - device_id: ""
    domain: ""
    entity_id: ""
    platform: device
  - device_id: ""
    domain: ""
    entity_id: ""
    platform: device
  - device_id: ""
    domain: ""
    entity_id: ""
    platform: device
  - device_id: ""
    domain: ""
    entity_id: ""
    platform: device
  - device_id: ""
    domain: ""
    entity_id: ""
    platform: device

[jarrah]

Unfortunately I used cheap versions of the Tuya-based plugs from Aliexpress so there’s no sign of firmware updates for them.
Thank you for your suggestion though.

[jarrah]

@ShadowFist yes that’s true, the oven certainly wouldn’t work with standard smart plugs.
Therefore @stamandr has a good idea to use devices like Shelly EM as I already use one of these to monitor the main electricity feed into my house but never thought to do the same for individual appliances too. The only downside is they’re fairly expensive so would only use them for things like the oven.
I might try one of these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005873738695.html
Thanks!

[Holdestmade]

@jarrah

I might try one of these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005873738695.html

I have one of those working great for my oven and immersion heater, inside a metal consumer unit. Make sure you put the supply wires for the module from a low amp circuit, not the same as the circuit you’re monitoring

[tom_l]

Are your leak detector devices missing from home assistant?

There may be a problem with the integration that supplies them.

Still… it should not wipe the missing entities from the automation.

[GrizzlyAK]

I just update everything Core/SV/OS, and did a full HA backup and it was 85MB, compared to about 160MB for all the previous Full backups prior to today. Has the backup function become more efficient or is something missing? Anybody else seeing this? I just want to make sure I’m getting good backups.

[Joao-Sousa-71 (Joao Sousa)]

Yes I sense that I saw that on the change logs but don’t remember what was the version.

[HomeArseisstant]

Yep, seeing this in two of my 6 todo lists. Haven’t dug into it yet.

[boheme61]

You can always copy your backup, to another destination, and unpack it, , but the “size” of a full-backup can vary depended upon the size of your DB
But as Joao mention there has been several improvements the past year, in both speed and size
Latest a few month ago if i remember right

[GrizzlyAK]

Cool! I did read about speed improvements. I updated from 2024.1.x, so I had a couple months there to catch up. I didn’t think the DB was backed up anymore though. Mine usually gets pretty large (GB) because I keep 14 days of many entities. I guess since it is text is can be zipped pretty small. Cheers.

[CaptTom (Tom)]

Did you leave those devices as Tuya or did you flash them with something else? I’ve read a lot about Tuya here and have been reluctant to add that to my ever-growing list of integrations.
Still, the price sure looks right.

[Holdestmade]

I got the Zigbee ones so work with Z2M as-is

[stamandr]

There doesn’t appear to be a problem with the integration(s). All devices and entities are there. I checked core.device_registry from a previous backup the compared it to the most recent one. Many of the ID’s have been changed (eg: “id”: 62ecab8f05675d2d495f8dc2e16b4f3d",) to something different. This is not only for my Water leak sensors, but plugs, lights as well… I really don’t have a way to troubleshoot this as there is nothing in the logs to point me in the right direction. I rolled back, everything is good. Apply the latest update, the issue comes back.

[petro]

That’s 100% provided by the integration. If the integration provides information that differs from what it used to provide, you will get new entities.

[patrix487]

@Ildar_Gabdullin

@patrix487

why the buttons in the header don’t show status on with colors?

To see yellow colors, you need to specify “state_color: true”, but for buttons it was broken in 2024.3. See a registered issue .

so when the bug has been fixed and i am on Appversion 2024.3.1 do i have to wait for 2024.4 until it’ll be implemented?
or should it work with my current config:

Thanks in advance!

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@patrix487

so when the bug has been fixed and i am on Appversion 2024.3.1 do i have to wait for 2024.4 until it’ll be implemented?

To know it estimate it - you need to track PRs in github frontend repo.

[stamandr]

Hi Tom, Do you know how to extract the “name_by_user” and “id” in templates ? I thought I could restore the old version, get this info, then compare this with the new version and make the necessary changes. Thanks…

[petro]

Can you please just share the integration you’re using? I’m not sure why you’re avoiding this question.

[nickrout]

It comes with warnings, but the spook integration identifies errors like this, and helped me mend automations that resulted.

[PedroKTFC]

I see 2024.3.2 has just become available but there are no release notes for it (at least at the time of writing). Any idea what changes have been made? I’ll install it anyway!