2021.11: Review comments

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@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ This release... a long-time wishlist item of mine is in: The icon picker! 😍
So cool to see this happening, it is amazing, beautiful, super helpful,
and it also supports third-party icon sets! 🤩
Oh, to spoil some inside information, you might want to block your
agenda for the Home Assistant State of the Union 2021 on Saturday 11 December,
8 pm (CEST)!
Enjoy the release!
../Frenck
@ -82,7 +86,7 @@ upgrade!
## Visit devices and services
Your device has a web interface, but you don't remember the (IP) address it
has on your network... So you start guessing a couple of addresses; And end upi
has on your network... So you start guessing a couple of addresses; And end up
checking your router, looking it up in an app, or scanning the network...
Sounds familiar? Annoying, right?
@ -90,8 +94,8 @@ Well, as of today, integrations can provide the URLs to devices or services
where the device can be managed or configured.
<p class='img'>
<img src='/images/blog/2021-11/visit-device.png' alt='Screenshot of WLED that now a button that links to the WLED web interface of the device directly'>
Screenshot of WLED that now a button that links to the WLED web interface of the device directly.
<img src='/images/blog/2021-11/visit-device.png' alt='Screenshot of WLED that now has a button that links to the WLED web interface of the device directly'>
Screenshot of WLED that now has a button that links to the WLED web interface of the device directly.
</p>
If an integration provides a single web interface to configure multiple devices,
@ -154,7 +158,7 @@ diagnostic entities), we now do the following:
- Non-primary entities are, by default, not exposed to Amazon Alexa or
Google Assistant. You, of course, still can expose them, but by default,
we don't send them to these voice assistants.
- None-primary entities are not called by service calls that target the device
- Non-primary entities are not called by service calls that target the device
or area the device is in. They are only called if explicitly called by their
entity ID.
@ -206,10 +210,10 @@ the official API instead of a soon-to-be-removed API. Sadly, this update did
not live up to our standards, for which we want to apologize.
Tuya had initially planned to deprecate the old API in December, giving users
only last and this release to migrate. Thats not a lot of time, so we
decided to move forward with releasing the updated integration. Tuya pushed
back the timeline for sun setting the old API with 6 months; but it was too
late for us to change course and ship the old integration.
2 months to migrate. Thats not a lot of time, so we decided to move forward
with releasing the updated integration. Tuya pushed back the timeline for
sunsetting the old API with 6 months; but it was too late for us to change course
and ship the old integration.
The updated Tuya integration had some bugs and also was missing some features
compared to the previous integration and various available custom components.
@ -225,8 +229,9 @@ done; We have done everything we can to provide a solid base this release.
As a final note: Some people complained about that this integration relies
on the cloud. We have always supported integrations with both local and
cloud APIs. Integrations with cloud APIs allow people to adopt Home Assistant
without having to replace all devices in their house. Using devices that require
the cloud, or are fully local, is a choice everyone should make for themselves.
without having to replace all devices in their house. Although we recommend
local, using devices that require the cloud, or are fully local,
is a choice everyone should make for themselves.
## Some nice new template filters
@ -246,8 +251,8 @@ really helpful if you need to compare against another DateTime. For example:
{% endraw %}
Next up is [@raman325], who added the `area_entities` and `area_devices` filter
and function that allows you to get all devices or entities that are in an area.
Next up is [@raman325], who added the `area_entities` and `area_devices` filters
and functions which allow you to get all devices or entities that are in an area.
The methods return a list, which you can loop on.
{% raw %}
@ -301,6 +306,9 @@ noteworthy changes this release:
Thanks, [@rytilahti]!
- OpenGarage has seens lots of updates and love from [@Danielhiversen], adding
lots of sensors in the process.
- With the recent improvements made to the VLC media player integration and
add-on, there is now a way to get TTS working by connecting some speakers to
your Blue, ODROID or Raspberry Pi. Thanks, [@mib1185] & [@MartinHjelmare]!
Adding support for long-term statistics is a much requested feature; This
release adds support for long-term statistics to the following integrations: