2024.7: Time to resize your cards!

Aladdin Connect has been removed, as Home Assistant cannot use the upstream library at this time.

I replaced our garage door openers with Genie branded ones, and was planning on getting the Aladdin Connect hardware soon to add them to Home Assistant. If Aladdin Connect isn’t supported anymore, does anyone have a good way to add Genie garage door openers to Home Assistant?

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Note to myself!
Always double-check the braking changes twice! AND remember to remove deprecated stuff when you get a notification.
I forgot to remove the old legacy API password configuration.

I just finished upgrading HA as well as upgrading my ESP32-S3 box to the latest ESPHome, and I’m still getting “sorry, timers are not supported on this device”.

Is there something I’m missing?

EDIT: It looks like my device is still on 2024.5.0, even though I’ve tried to update it and ESPHome no longer shows an update.

Apparently we are not allowed to comment on the licence. My post quoting it has been flagged.

Edit : my post was correctly moderated, and I have fixed it.

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Ditto. Local man ruins everything.

We were using this before the official integration came back last month. I’ll probably switch back to it when I update to 2024.7.x

Re: Card resizing: maybe in the next release we will see 2x more rows that would allow to resize cards height more, i.e. I am proposing to make a single “cell” 2 times smaller.

Seems to have also affected my wall mounted tablet themes. I have icons that would previously change color based on an entity state but now they’re just always green. Unfortunately I don’t see anything in the changes (or I’m just missing it) that mentions ha-card or ha-state-icon changes.

            {% if not is_state('alarm_control_panel.security_system', 'disarmed') %}
              ha-card, ha-state-icon {
                color: rgb(245,0,0) !important;
                opacity: 1 !important;
                animation: update 1.5s ease-out infinite;
              }
              ha-card:hover {
                filter: brightness(130%);
                animation-play-state: paused;
              }
            {% endif %}
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Very disappointing to see the Aladdin Connect integration being removed right after it was made working again just a month ago.

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Don’t blame HA.

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My instance goes into recovery mode on this update, but I cant figure out why… The error I get is:

2024-07-04 06:37:38.789 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.ban] Login attempt or request with invalid authentication from 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1). Requested URL: '/api/error_log'. (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; ONEPLUS A6013 Build/RKQ1.201217.002; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/124.0.6367.179 Mobile Safari/537.36)

As always great updates from HA but this update has messed up my dashboards completely - I use simple grid cards and everything lines up - after the upgrade the cards in the grids don’t line up

I use stock cards and custom one like mini graph

Anyone has this issue - I have to revert to 2024.6 for now till it gets shorted

Thanks

Perhaps Tailwind.

The HA team continues to blow any alternative out of the water. You guys fucking rock

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I wrote an explanation for the problem in your issue.
The rewritten upstream-lib is not part of that release.

But yes, i am searching for beta testers!

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Light card is a bit broken in certain screen resolution and width/height combination. This is because cells in the grid do not have fixed width, but they do have fixed height. Light card content tries to fit width, and in some cases it does not fit in height.

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In general my first impressions with the resizable cards in sections view is that it’s nice, but it’s less flexible than I hoped it would be. For example, there are barely any cards that can be 1 cell wide. So setting any card to be 3 cell wide doesn’t make sense in almost any case, limiting the practical options to 2 cells or 4 cells wide.

Some things in the grid were placed in a way to make it look nice, to follow the lines of the grid. But not everything. I’m not a fan of how the tile cards look with one or more bars, as there is an unnecessary big white space below the icon and name, and the bars do not fit the grid at all, they don’t even fit nicely with other tile cards:

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So in this case the flexibility is quite limited and still the neat look is not achieved.

Another example is the glances card. If you set it to only show icons, the icons are fit to grid in height, but not in width. While this is limiting flexibility (as there’s no way to for example fit 5 rows of icons in 4 rows of the grid), it does look nice (although would be better if each row was center aligned in height, like the text in the tile card, not bottom aligned):

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However, if you also try to display names and/or statuses, the fit to grid aspect is lost completely. For example 3 lines of icons and names take 4 grid rows:
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and with statuses also enabled they take 5 grid rows.

Overall I do like the change, it makes it easier to do some things, especially to make tile cards that are whole-section wide without tricks.

Of course the elephant in the room is still that the older cards look so completely different compared to the tile card, they use different color scheme, mark unavailable entities differently etc. I would love to know what’s the direction HA will take about this. Are the older cards going to get some love?

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I had previously only created a wider map for the outside temperature with a horizontal stack in the new section view. I removed this stack after updating to 2024.7.0 and added a wider outdoor temperature using the new scaling function. This looks good on the computer, but unfortunately the font for the temperature is cut off in the iOS app. This still looked correct with the old solution under 2024.6.4.

me to, but Paulus mentioned that in the Release Party. It could be implemented, but is difficult.

I’m trying. I did a helper timer of 1 minute.
Then I created a script called “set a timer” with a field that can change the minutes. Manually it works and the timer starts for the minutes I ask. But it fails using assist saying this device can’t start a timer