Another note for you, if I set my picture entity card to “live” instead of “auto” it does display on the grid, however I was hoping to avoid having all the cameras constantly streaming when the preview was adequate before.
That said, even with live turned on, I have to click play in the camera after opening it up. Very odd.
Sorry about the deleted posts and reply to the wrong comment. It’s just one of this mornings.
There is a lot of focus on eye candy, user interface options for wow factor and showing off. From and UX related UI perspective this does not add to the strength of the application or core program, it adds a lot of clutter which requires time to be maintained. An effective user interface has its strength in simplicity, not in eye candy. I rather see more focus in strengthening some of the really popular HACS features and have them officially brought into HA, as they exist because of lacking core features.
It’s a new action which media player integrations need to implement. It allows you to call an action which searches the media library - i.e. searching through the library you see when you Browse Media. There’s no UI for it yet - i.e. it’s an action you can call. It has to be implemented in media player integrations though, so you likely won’t see much support for a short while.
Needed to go back to 4.4 today. 5.0 increased the processor use of my yellow from around 8% to almost 40%. Addons like AdGuard home were dropping out, making it not workable anymore. The latest backup made all return to normal. Not sure what is causing this.
I would like to say WOW to the HA crew for the new offline Zigbee device adding process. I just received 2 new door sensors, so scanning QR codes, naming straight away (rather than renaming later) and then switching on and seeing the entities appear in HA - amazing. A very slick process, well done.
Please don’t hide the entity id’s! It’s hard enough to find the darn things as it is. I need them in two instances: when I have a specifically named device that I now use for a different purpose and when I have generic named devices that I move around. (Please don’t ask me to rename them … that has always caused unexpected issues!)
I use the Generic Camera integration with unauthenticated http(s) camera feeds from California’s DOT. I’ll upgrade HA after 2025.5.0.
OT, the DOT feeds buffer quite a bit, every four to eight seconds for several seconds. Local TV news doesn’t seem to have that issue, unless they prerecord the feed Hmmm.