Announcement: AppDaemon 1.4.0

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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A few additions including module dependencies:

1.4.0 (2017-01-20)

Features

  • notify() now supports names
  • It is now possible to set a timeout value for underlying calls to the HA EventStream
  • It is no longer neccesary to specify latitude, longitude and timezone in the config file, the info is pulled from HA
  • When being reloaded, Apps are now able to clean up if desired by creating an optional terminate() function.
  • Added support for module dependencies

Fixes

Breaking Changes

  • To include a title when using the notify() call, you must now use the keyword title instead of the optional positional parameter

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How lovely! Does terminate() also get run if AppDaemon runs into an exception it can’t recover from? (eg. is closed suddenly)

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Nope (10 characters)

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hmm, nice on the one side, but not nice on the other side.
most of the time when i change something it is because i did something wrong.
and when i do something wrong that leads to an errorstate.

in “normal” apps thats no problem. i edit and the app restarts automaticly “clean”

but in the “new” type of apps that isnt the case.
isnt there a way to clean up everything old at the moment an app starts?
because the end is most of the time not reached while i am developing.

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Trust me - this is the easiest way. AppDaemon has no way to understand that the App has created a thread or how to clean it up - we have to do that for AppDaemon.

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i trust you, but it doesnt help me.
i still need to restart appdaemon many times when i am developing apps like this.
but at least part of the times that i know needed to restart are gone.

but just thinking:

you have a terminate function to close opened threads. so you know which threads are opened right?
isnt there a way to save that with the name from the app connected to it? like in a record in a small db.

if that is possible then we could check at start from an app if old threads are cleaned up.

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Hi Rene,

I am not sure you can actually clean a thread up in an App once that App has been terminated and reloaded - the way I have given you is the only way I know how to make this work. I am happy to be wrong but I don’t have a better idea at the moment, and this method works perfectly for my Apps …

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Hi Andrew,
i dont have the time this week anymore. (not for testing either :wink: )
ill come back to it end of next week.

i checked out your changes and its more then i can deal with in a few minutes :wink:

like i said, its an improvement anyway. maybe not as much as had hoped, but even a small improvement is an improvement :wink:
maybe i should learn to doublecheck for typos before trying to execute :wink:

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