2024.9: Sections go BIG

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Thank you for another step in making HA better, again! :bowing_man:
I’m really impressed every time in what this wonderful piece of software is able to do.

Since I very rarely had an issue in jumping on the new version, I always install the new major version asap.
Having the option to go back from my backup, makes this decision even more very easy.
So now, again, even it was late when I entered, I installed 2024.9
One of the reasons for installing every new release is my curiosity and enthusiasm but it’s also because of supporting the development/progress by using them.

I do have 1 issue for which I cannot find the reason.
The screenshot is from a dashboard for my 7" RPi touchscreen (Raspbian w/ Chromium)

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This is taken from the browser on my desktop.
On the RPi the 2 vertical stacks are on top of each other instead side-by-side.
If I make make my browser (on the desktop) smaller, the stacks stay side-by-side, even by making the cards smaller quite a lot until the right one switches to the bottom.

I don’t know if this is important: I’m using sections.

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Now that untracked consumption is also shown, so you see your total consumption in the energy graph for individual devices, it would be nice to have a bar with solar energy self consumed and solar energy returned to grid right next to each existing bar.
That way you can easily see how much of the total consumption is from your solar, and how much is from the net, not in absolute numbers, but visually.
You can also see how much energy was returned to net, but could be self consumed, for example by using a battery.

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this would be amazing, would also love to see that!

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I still have a Yale Smart Lock 1 at the cellar door, which used to run via the August Cloud and from there also the infamous ‘Offline Key’ to log in via Bluetooth with the Yale Access Bluetooth.

Now, however, the latest version has issued the message to change the integration from August to Yale, which I did… So I removed the old integration and authenticated myself via the new one (with phone number). That also worked well. The real reason for this integration is the aforementioned ‘offline key’, which I need for direct communication with the lock via Bluetooth.

After checking the HA system more than 30 minutes after the integration change, I realised that the previous connection via Bluetooth to the lock no longer existed and the connection was disconnected.

I carried out several restarts so that the new ‘YALE’ integration would finally receive the ‘Offline Key’… Still not possible so far.

Only one owner is created in the app, so it can’t be stored in another profile. I’m really at a loss, as I now need this key and the slot for further communication without the cloud…

Does anyone have the same problem?

Setup failed, will try again: Cellar door (L60000S): Disconnected; Try moving the Bluetooth adapter closer to L60000S

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Badges do not show the name of the units anymore. Is this intended? It makes it so much more confusing for my use. Is there a way to change it?

Example from the weather forecast badge:
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It used to say 19 C, 63%, 3.08 m/s, so it was more clear that they are temperature, humidity and wind speed.

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For the badges units, just fully restart HA once. I had the issue, and after the second start, they showed up again. Also, force refresh your page.
I noticed that on every major upgrade, you really need to restart HA twice for everything to work properly.

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What has changed with the nest integration?
Clicking the link leads to a page not found.

Thanks

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Hive still works for me

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This - would for me provide a bit more context of how much the untracked energy is vs other measured devices - the vertical graph is great, but the more aggregated horizontal view also helps a lot imho.view also helps a lot.

Maybe voting for Add 'Unmonitored Energy' to energy dashboard individual devices - #5 by TRiSS is a good idea - should be a lot easier now it’s already added to the detail view.

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There is an integration that does exactly that for Vienna smart meters:

It’s fairly complicated, and only the statistics can be updated, not the entity value. But it does work.

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I know you guys created “untracked energy” that shows in the dash board - but I was wondering my self whenever you buys created an untracked energy AND untracked power entities that can be used in other people scripts ?
Asking because I’ve got those entities and I’m just wondering my self if I’m duplicating the data / can I migrate the history to the new entity.

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Mine still do:

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Thanks, restarting and forcing cache refresh fixed it.

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Thanks for the nice update.

But I have a problem with Yale integration. I get an error if I start det integration. The error is “Config flow could not be loaded: {“message”:“Invalid handler specified”}”.
If there anyone the can tell me, how I can fix it?

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@salzrat thank you so much! Will look into that and see what I can do to import it to my energy integration :slight_smile:

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Any idea how to apply the grid_columns: full format to custom cards? e.g. I have this working for stock weather card, but can’t find a way to implement on a custom apex chart card.

    type: sections
    sections:
      - type: grid
        cards:
          - show_current: true
            show_forecast: false
            type: weather-forecast
            entity: weather.forecast_home
            forecast_type: daily
            secondary_info_attribute: humidity
            layout_options:
              grid_columns: full
          - show_current: false
            show_forecast: true
            type: weather-forecast
            entity: weather.forecast_home
            forecast_type: hourly
            layout_options:
              grid_columns: 4
              grid_rows: 2
          - show_current: false
            show_forecast: true
            type: weather-forecast
            entity: weather.forecast_home
            forecast_type: daily
            layout_options:
              grid_columns: 4
              grid_rows: 2
        column_span: 4
        title: Weather
      - type: grid
        cards:
          - type: custom:apexcharts-card
            ...code removed for brevity...
        column_span: 4

I tried adding the below code snippet , but it results in an apexcharts error

            layout_options:
              grid_columns: full

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  1. Make gap between sections the same width as gap between cards within a section.
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Hi, I need Sections go SMALL :slight_smile: I have a dashboard on a 7’ tablet with 3 columns defined. but in the tablet, the 3rd column is moved to a new row. I made the cards inside the sections smaller but that just leaves bigger gaps between the section columns. Any way to fix?

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Am I only the one having this issue? Tried clearing cache, but same issue.

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I have a 4-core Intel machine with an SSD and haven’t had any problems with Home Assistant + MariaDB until today.
The only thing is that my VM keeps growing. To perform this migration it went from about 56 to 72GB.

I like to have yearly graphs and think that someday historical data may become useful for AI or other research.

Thanks for your answer. Love home assistant!