2021.12

This is now the top thread of all time 😮

• Releases on GitHub to segment changes
  • All releases - matt8707/hass-config/releases
  • All changes - matt8707/hass-config/commits/master
• Installation notes added further down
• Hardware and docker-compose files

Buttons custom:button-card

• hide "extra_styles fix" - make the "catch-all" button non-clickable (#injecting-css-with-extra_styles)
• bug fixes and improvements ™ - shorten overall template code, fix loader on computer lock and tv icon animation
• person last_changed persistence with fallback - if set up, the timestamp is retained with mqtt across restarts
• add person zone - location is shown instead of "not home" when in a zone
• fix icon light color - color temperature shown as blue, hs shown as actual color
• button-card → light-popup-card actions and theme - revert button-card workaround, make use of actions
• fix text alignment when #name is truncated... - on small screens, the text was centered when the name didn't fit
• align lock icon on ios - on small screens the lock icon was not vertically aligned

Theme custom:card-mod

• card-mod resource → module - documentation #performance-improvements
• fix brave icon height and firefox shrinking icons - brave and firefox browser compatibility
• swipe-card height - force 100% height when only using button cards in a grid
• themes sidebar_update_color fix 2021.11.0 - ha-icon is now called ha-state-icon

Sidebar

• mailbox sensors and automation - add mailbox counter (using two aqara contact sensors)
• sidebar battery map entities - list all batteries below the 5% threshold, thanks @Se7enair
• add time offset to skånetrafiken PT sensor - "walking time" bus departure offset

Database

💡 SQL command to list worst offenders. I managed to decrease my db size by ≈ 80%

docker exec -it mariadb \
  mysql homeassistant -u"root" -p"password" \
  -e"SELECT entity_id, COUNT(*) AS count FROM states GROUP BY entity_id ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC LIMIT 10;" \
  -e"SELECT JSON_VALUE(event_data, '$.entity_id') AS entity_id, COUNT(*) AS count FROM events WHERE JSON_VALUE(event_data, '$.entity_id') IS NOT NULL GROUP BY JSON_VALUE(event_data, '$.entity_id') ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC LIMIT 10;"

• db optimization - exclude browser_mod from recorder
• lower db commit interval - decrease recorder interval and influxdb precision

Other

• @svalmorri made a nice button for roller shutters
• remove valetudo - don't want to spend my time maintaining a vacuum cleaner...
• vacuum-map-card 1 → 2 - configuration changes and styling
• fix vacuum sensors for 2021.11.1, maybe? - template seconds to percent left
• mini-graph-card → apexcharts - better graphs, I posted some examples
• update template sensors, remove legacy - convert all legacy template sensors
• template warnings and stfu home-assistant.log - template "default" log warnings
• add unifi and rpi sensors - command_line sensors for router and raspberry pi

If you want, you can buy me a beer 😊