From 27d179a06abf6f9bb8a3ac50ab34fc5b14e2a224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paulus Schoutsen Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:41:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add alerts --- source/_posts/2019-08-28-release-98.markdown | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/source/_posts/2019-08-28-release-98.markdown b/source/_posts/2019-08-28-release-98.markdown index f7cb20c1e2d..67cfd347762 100644 --- a/source/_posts/2019-08-28-release-98.markdown +++ b/source/_posts/2019-08-28-release-98.markdown @@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ Users that rely on these integrations can continue using them as custom componen For more background on this decision, see [ADR-004](https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/blob/master/adr/0004-webscraping.md). +## Alerts + +Devices and services can receive updates that can cause integrations to break. This is frustrating and sometimes the cause can be hard to track down. Usually the users on forums/chat are aware and can help redirect people in the right direction, but that's not a scalable solution! + +So to combat this, we're launching [Home Assistant Alerts](https://alerts.home-assistant.io/). Home Assistant Alerts is a website that will track known issues and explains in user friendly language what is going on. Alerts can be tagged with applicable Home Assistant versions, integrations and Python packages. + +In the future we're planning on integrating this directly in Home Assistant, so that we can pro-actively notify users when an issue related to their configuration pops up. + ## In Other News [Mason Made](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_ONUzb4QCVuR57IL7C8rw) created a great video walking through her Lovelace UI with a fancy custom sidebar. Check it out: