Thank you @Ionut
Just bought the Pro version: as others have said the apps look really promising and you are clearly interested in improving it: kudos to you!
I’d like to add some comments: I’ve skimmed through the whole post and I hope I’m not suggesting something already brought to your attention.
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If i keep the mqtt topic to “homeassistant” and I copy-paste the sensor yaml code suggested by Ariela into my configuration, I end up with two sensors: the autodiscovery one and the “manual” one. Is this supposed behaviour? If I want to only handle the “manual” version, should I just change the topic, and then define it via code? This is because I’d like to override the icon_template attributes and show if it’s charging or not using the appropriate mdi (i.e. if “(battery_value / 10 | round * 10) = 50” and not charging by using mdi:battery-50 or by using mdi:battery-50-charging if instead it’s connected to the power source)
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At first I had some issues with device_tracker, because I was using nmap+zanzitto: to solve this I had to set the device_name in Ariela as the one defined for zanzitto and restart home assistant: maybe this info can help other users who weren’t able to get their device tracked with Ariela. I will monitor battery usage, and report back to you. Have you also considered implementing an owntracks emulation, like zanzitto does?
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I’m using Lovelace UI, and I found some really great custom cards and components. It seems that for the moment some of them are not supported, like the ones made by @thomasloven (https://github.com/thomasloven) (for example slider-entity-row or fold-entity-row) or the custom swiper card made by @Bram_Kragten (Lovelace: Swiper card)
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Does Ariela support camera streams? I’m using picture-glance cards for my rooms, but the camera entity isn’t shown in the picture-glance element list so I cannot click it and watch it.
_edit: the pictures of the picture-glance card are static, not the feed from the camera, and I switch them based on the status of the lights in the room. -
Have you considered integrating the app into Tasker as a plugin, so we can leverage this functionality to fire events to HomeAssistant via Ariela?
Thanks again for your app!