appdaemon/docs/HISTORY.md

Change Log

4.5.0

Features

• Added Pirateweather widget - contributed by Dave Dixon
• Added ability to know the topic associated with an MQTT message decode error
• Added expert mode for python imports via the import_method directive
• Added import_path directive to enable python imports from arbitary paths
• Added access to the request object for both async and non-async http callbacks - contributed by Eric Severance
• Added option for N deg rising|setting to Scheduler._parse_time
• Added silent parameter to cancel_listen_state() - contributed by Daniel Rocha
• Remove support for python 3.8 and 3.9
• Added support for python 3.12
• Update docker image to Alpine 3.20/Python 3.12
• Upgraded HASS plugin to use the aiohttp websocket client
• Upgraded HASS plugin to use the Websocket API where possible
• Implemented value return for HASS Service Calls
• added the --write_toml as an AppDaemon startup parameter to force AD to use the TOML format when creating new apps using the

Fixes

• baseicon set_service_call fix - contributed by lancasterJ
• HTTP module now correctly honors the provided host name instead of binding to 0.0.0.0, and should also now work for IPv6 - contributed by bitstacker
• Fix for baseweather direction icon - contributed by carawan
• Fix for bug in pathname checking for hidden files and pycache - contributed by David Warde-Farley- contributed by Roman Andriadi
• ADAPI Sleep now accepts a float as documented

Breaking Changes

• AppDaemon no longer supports versions of Python prior to 3.10. This is in line with other packages, and allows us to keep the code base up to date and current with the latest developments

Changes in Behavior

• The fix to honor the host name in the HTTP URL may cause AppDaemon to fail to start, if the hostname provided is not valid. In particular, docker users will need to switch their URL to either use localhost, explicitly, or "0.0.0.0" which will bind to any available interface, or use command line tools to discover the correct IP address and use that.
• The timer for internal function timeouts has been increased from 10 seconds to 60 to allow for the fact that service calls to hass can now be synchronous and may take longer
• AppDaemon will now discard any events that it attempts to process for an App that is initializing. This is intended to prevent race conditions during App Initialization
• The --toml flag has been deprecated. AppDaemon will now work transparently with either yaml or toml files, allowing the user to mix and match and convert from one format to another over time. In the event of a conflict, the yaml file will take precedence.

4.4.2 (2023-04-16)

Features

• None

Fixes

• Fix a bug in template rendering
• Fix a dashboard style bug - contributed by D3SL

Breaking Changes

• None

4.4.1 (2023-04-09)

Features

• Added curl install to the docker image for helath checks

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that crept in to sun_up() and sun_down()

Breaking Changes

None

4.4.0 (2023-04-08)

Features

• AUI Now shows performance stats for plugin network access
• New CI pipeline designed and configured by Carlo Mion
• Add support for python 3.11
• run_at() support for times that have already passed #1684
• Add TOML Support
• App endpoints now support the GET method
• Many changes to docker image including update to Alpine py3 packages - contributed by Nigel Rook
• Apps can now accept additional arguments using pythons native dictionary unpacking (** operator) instead of a dictionary
• Rename parameters for the old kwargs mechanism to cb_args to make the distinction
• Added type hints and a section on how to use with your IDE

Fixes

• Trailing slash on hass url breaks connectivity #999
• parse_time("sunset") and impact of "aware" #1645
• constrain_person not working #1437
• last_changed_seconds wrong due to timezone #1571
• Fixed a long standing bug that caused some callbacks to be 1 hour early or later after a DST transition
• Fixed an issue with sunset and sunrise based constraints on systems that use UTC instead of local timr that also affected now_is_between()
• This also fixed a long standing issue with sun_up() and sun_down()

Breaking Changes

• Remove Python 3.7 test coverage prior to deprecation at EOL in 6/23
• Register endpoint for async callbacks has been harmonized with the async version and supplies just the arguments received and not the request object

Versioning note for 4.4.0 - This release was intended to be 4.3.0, however a problem with the new packaging pipeline blocked use of that version number on PyPi.

4.2.3 (2023-02-27)

Features

Fixes

• Revert docker changes and remove arm images from CI due to memory exhaustion issues

Breaking Changes

None

4.2.2 (2023-02-26)

Features

• Added the ability to set HA certificate verify from docker arguments - contributed by Antonino Piazza
• Added MQTT VARS to docker arguments - contributed by Xavi Moreno
• Added the ability to reset a running timer via api
• Removed a warning from info_timer() for stale handles
• Added the ability to supress invalid timer handle warnings in cancel_timer()
• All scheduler calls and helper functions now support fractional timestamps. including parse_time() and now_is_between()
• sunrise(), sunset(), parse_time() and parse_datetime() now allow you to select today's sunrise/sunset, rather than the next occuring, and specify a number of offset days
• now_is_between() now supports specification of a timethat can be used for testing rather than using the current time
• Added the ability to use lambdas for filtering state callbacks - contributed by David Greenberg
• Added the ability to support multiple input constraints - contributed by Matt O
• Added the --configfile parameter
• Docker container optimizations - contributed by Nigel Rook

Fixes

• Fixed issue when when using [timeout]{.title-ref} in listen event api, after the event is ran one gets an error in log
• Fixed issue when an entity is deleted from HA, and it remains in AD
• Fixed issue with setup file saying support "python3 3.0"
• Fixed issue with the inability to know which app's callback failed [constrain_state]{.title-ref} check
• Fixed issue with AD giving messed up error messages
• Fixed an issue with scheduler.now_is_between() where it wasn't zeroing out microseconds leading to race conditions
• Fixed another issue with now_is_between() relating to sunrise & sunset periods spanning midnight
• Fixed an issue in reloads of global modules - apps are now correctly forced to reload rather than just re-init ensuring they dump any old references
• Fixed the "state attribute of the entity class to work in async callbacks - Inspired by Kostas Chatzikokolakis
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Rootie
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Jakob Ruhe
• Documentation fixes - contributed by illuzn
• Fix for flake8 repository move - contributed by dgrnbrg
• Bump black to 22.3.0 and run it on all files - contributed by Jakob Ruhe
• Bump black to 22.3.0 and run it on all files - contributed by Jakob Ruhe
• Bumped websocket-client from 1.2.3 to 1.3.3
• Bumped azure-mgmt-storage from 19.0.0 to 20.0.0
• Bumped azure-storage-blob from 12.9.0 to 12.12.0
• Bumped azure-mgmt-compute from 23.1.0 to 27.1.0
• Bumped azure-mgmt-resource from 20.0.0 to 21.1.0
• Bumped azure-keyvault-secrets from 4.3.0 to 4.4.0
• Bumped pytz from 2021.3 to 2022.1
• Bumped pygments from 2.10.0 to 2.12.0
• Bumped feedparser from 6.0.8 to 6.0.10
• Bumped deepdiff from 5.7.0 to 5.8.1
• Bumped voluptuous from 0.12.2 to 0.13
• Bumped bcrypt from 3.2.0 to 3.2.2
• Bumped requests from 2.26.0 to 2.28.0
• Bumped jinja2 from 3.0.3 to 3.1.2

Breaking Changes

None

4.2.1 (2022-01-17)

Features

• Docker: Added MQTT vars to dockerStart.sh - contributed by Xavi Moreno

Fixes

• Fixed issue whereby [turn_on]{.title-ref}, [turn_off]{.title-ref} and [toggle]{.title-ref} for some HASS entities didn't work
• Fixed issue whereby [render_template]{.title-ref} didn't work

Breaking Changes

None

4.2.0 (2022-01-03)

Features

• Released new AppDaemon Admin User Interface
• Added support for passing a list of events to [listen_event]{.title-ref} api
• Added support for passing a list of entities to [listen_state]{.title-ref} api
• Clicking on a sequence name in AUI will now run the sequence
• Added support for entity class alongeside [get_entity]{.title-ref} and [get_entity_api]{.title-ref} functions
• Added the [wait_state]{.title-ref} command for sequences, so a sequence can be paused until an entity or its attribute has a certain state
• Added the [sequence/cancel]{.title-ref} service call. So sequences can be cancelled
• Added the ability to specify a high level namespace in sequence, so no need specifying per command
• Allowed for running or cancelling sequences using either entity_id or the sequences name
• Added [constrain_state]{.title-ref} functionality with support for lambda functions

Fixes

• Pinned socketio modules to fix a version mismatch
• Removed try/catch clause that broke dashboard for iOS 10 users - contributed by Christian Lyra
• Fixed the possibility of having [check_app_updates]{.title-ref} being a negative value
• Fix for Hass services not being captured after startup again
• Fixed issue whereby [.git]{.title-ref} paths where being imported into AD and leading to lots of unnecessary messages.
• Fixed issue with AD being unable to refresh Plugin's entities
• Fixed issue with using the [loop]{.title-ref} in sequences for certain services
• Fixed issue whereby the wrong the wrong timeout error was being captured, when running a coroutine
• Documentation fixes - contributed by markwmuller
• Documentation fixes - contributed by JonasPed
• Documentation fixes - contributed by elandt
• Documentation fixes - contributed by marcelblijleven
• Documentation fixes - contributed by scstraus
• Fixed a long standing bug in set_state ofr HASS plugin where attributes would get overwritten when setting the main state
• Bumped voluptuous from 0.12.1 to 0.12.2
• Bumped azure-storage-blob from 12.8.1 to 12.9.0
• Bumped azure-mgmt-storage from 17.1.0 to 19.0.0
• Bumped azure-mgmt-resource from 19.0.0 to 20.0.0
• Bumped azure-mgmt-compute from 22.1.0 to 23.1.0
• Bumped iso8601 from 0.1.16 to 1.0.2
• Bumped yarl from 1.6.3 to 1.7.2
• Bumped paho-mqtt from 1.5.1 to 1.6.1
• Bumped jinja2 from 3.0.1 to 3.0.3
• Bumped aiohttp from 3.7.4.post0 to 3.8.1
• Bumped pygments from 2.9.0 to 2.10.0
• Bumped deepdiff from 5.5.0 to 5.7.0
• Bumped pyyaml from 5.4.1 to 6.0
• Bumped pytz from 2021.1 to 2021.3
• Bumped python-engineio from 3.13.2 to 4.3.0
• Bumped feedparser from 6.0.2 to 6.0.8
• Bumped python-socketio from 4.6.1 to 5.5.0
• Bumped websocket-client from 1.2.1 to 1.2.3
• Bumped wheel from 0.37.0 to 0.37.1

Breaking Changes

• Service calls no longer return results by default
• [callback]{.title-ref} and [return_result]{.title-ref} are now reserved words for the service call api
• If an invalid domain or service is given in a service call, exceptions will now be raised for better error management
• Changed [set_state]{.title-ref} and [listen_state]{.title-ref} to support [entity_id]{.title-ref} and not [entity]{.title-ref}, to standardise use across api calls

4.1.0 (2021-08-21)

Features

• Added "get_logs" command to stream
• Added "deregister_service" api call
• Added new AD event [service_deregistered]{.title-ref}. This is fired when an app's service is deregistered
• Added the use of the !include directive in AD. This can be used either in the main appdaemon or apps config
• Added support for Python 3.9
• Allowed for service calls over REST API to return data
• Added the ability to auto set return for the navigate widget - contributed by Christian Lyra
• Added multi-arch builds to Docker hub - contributed by sineverba
• Added new fan widget - contributed by Ben Edmunds
• Bumped azure-mgmt-compute from 19.0.0 to 20.0.0
• Bumped azure-mgmt-resource from 16.0.0 to 19.0.0
• Bumped deepdiff from 5.2.3 to 5.3.0
• Bumped wheel from 0.34.2 to 0.36.2
• Bumped azure-storage-blob from 12.8.0 to 12.8.1
• Bumped websocket-client from 0.58.0 to 1.1.0
• Bumped jinja2 from 2.11.3 to 3.0.1
• Bumped uvloop from 0.14.0 to 0.15.3
• Bumped aiodns from 2.0.0 to 3.0.0
• Bumped docker image to alpine 3.14 using python 3.9.6
• When apps register endpoints, [kwargs]{.title-ref} can be added which is made available at the callback
• The request object is now made available in the app endpoint callback if using [async]{.title-ref}, allowing for better flexibility

Fixes

• Fixed issue with when a plugin that is persistent re-initializes, and it creates an error
• Fixed issue with when an entity has no state, and if wanting to listen to it, breaks internally
• Fixed a couple of scheduler issues that affected tmezones west of EDT
• Fixed issue of app endpoints not being cleaned when app is terminated
• Fixed issue where it was possible for different apps to register against the same endpoint
• Fixed issue whereby the wrong response code was sent, when there was a server error
• Fixed issue with climate widget, so [units]{.title-ref} can be properly set in YAML - contributed by Ben Edmunds
• Fixed issue with media_player widget in parsing state - contributed by Ben Edmunds
• fixed issue whereby if [timeout]{.title-ref} is used in listen api, and event gives "timeout" as part of the args, the [timeout]{.title-ref} is used to filter the event
• Ensured that when apps with registered services are terminated, their services are also deregistered
• Documentation fixes - contributed by sithmein
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Andrew Aneisch
• Documentation fixes - contributed by clyra
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Ben Edmunds
• Fixed an issue where AD crashes when multiple plugins restart at the same time

Breaking Changes

• Dropped support for Python 3.6
• Changed [unregister_endpoint]{.title-ref} to [deregister_endpoint]{.title-ref}
• Changed [unregister_route]{.title-ref} to [deregister_route]{.title-ref}
• Changed the callback signature for [register_endpoint]{.title-ref}. Please see example here
• Changed the callback signature for [register_route]{.title-ref}
• Changed the arg [name]{.title-ref} for [register_endpoint]{.title-ref} to [endpoint]{.title-ref}

4.0.8 (2021-03-30)

Features

None

Fixes

• Fixed issue with Dashboard icon widgets breaking - contributed by Rene Tode

Breaking Changes

None

4.0.7 (2021-03-28)

Features

• Added new api [timer_running]{.title-ref}, to be used to confirm if a previously scheduled timer is still running

Fixes

• Fixed [get_history]{.title-ref} api for HASS plugin
• Fixed issue with Dashboard not loading on old Tablets - contributed by Rene Tode
• Fixed issue with [deviceid]{.title-ref} on old Tablets - contributed by Rene Tode

Breaking Changes

4.0.6 (2021-03-21)

Features

• Added the ability to have access to metadata from HASS events - contributed by engrbm87
• Added the ability to allow widget to make use of mouse events, which can then be sent to AD backend
• Added the ability to add custom javascript code to dashboard - contributed by Rene Tode
• Added the ability to set [deviceId]{.title-ref} on dashboard, via the dashboard URL - contributed by clyra
• Added the ability to navigate to different dashboards on different devices based on the set [deviceId]{.title-ref} - contributed by clyra
• Added Icon widget service calls and state update delay - contributed by Jakub Macoun
• Improved the how the Alarm Panel Cancel button looks - contributed by Chris Johns
• Cancelling either an event, state, log or timer now returns a boolean value to indicate if executed or not
• Added ability to have custom system packages installed in docker when it starts, by specifying the packagegs in a [system_packages.txt]{.title-ref} file. - contributed by Sanjit Dutta
• Added ability for apps to create namespaces, and remove the created namespace. This namespaces are persistent by default
• Added ability to persist plugin entities. This can be useful for example if wanting to persist entities within MQTT namespace
• Moved the appdaemon reladed services to the admin namespace. So no more appdaemon namespace
• Added services for creating, editting, removing, enabling, disabling apps
• Added ability to receive binary payload from MQTT broker
• Added cchardet and aiodns to improve aiohttp speed
• Added the ability to submit tasks to executor threads
• Added the ability to make use of uvloop to improve speed, compared to the default asyncio loop
• Added the [module_path]{.title-ref} and app config [yaml_path]{.title-ref} to the app's entity_id
• Pinned requests to 2.25.1

Fixes

• Updated material design icons to v5.4.55 - contributed by Thomas Delaet
• Fixed [get_now]{.title-ref} api, whereby it returned UTC time instead of local time
• FIxed issue whereby when a non properly terminated app has an error, AD starts the app automatically
• Fixed issue whereby it is possible to use the app api to "start" an already running app
• Fixed issue whereby when app api is used, AD could hook itself since it gets into a loop depending on how the app is written
• Fixed [get_history_api]{.title-ref} for HASS - contributed by Ross Rosen
• Fixed issue with [listen_state]{.title-ref} when [immediate]{.title-ref} or [duration]{.title-ref} is used with it
• Fixed issue whereby when an invalid handler is used to cancel [event/state/log/timer]{.title-ref}, it gives no warning its invalid
• Fixed an issue with stream api using [get_state]{.title-ref} api call
• Fixed Azure packages by droping deprecated packages - contributed by freezeboy
• Prevent the ability for apps to register services in non-existent namespaces
• Fixed issue with newly registered HASS services
• Fix Cryptography Rust compile issue
• Required example files are now being created by startup script - contributed by Alexandros Dorodoulis
• Fixed issues with Bumping astral - contributed by Werner Pieterson
• Bumped websocket-client from 0.57.0 to 0.58.0
• Bumped pid from 2.2.5 to 3.0.4
• Bumped pygments from 2.6.1 to 2.8.1
• Bumped iso8601 from 0.1.12 to 0.1.14
• Bumped pytz from 2019.3 to 2021.1
• Bumped bcrypt from 3.1.7 to 3.2.0
• Bumped feedparser from 5.2.1 to 6.0.2
• Bumped yarl from 1.4.2 to 1.6.3
• Bumped voluptuous from 0.11.7 to 0.12.1
• Bumped pyyaml from 5.3 to 5.4.1
• Bumped aiohttp-jinja2 from 1.2.0 to 1.4.2
• Bumped jinja2 from 2.11.1 to 2.11.3
• Bumped astral from 1.10.1 to 2.2
• Bumped paho-mqtt from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
• Bumped aiohttp from 3.7.3 to 3.7.4
• Bumped python-socketio from 4.4.2 to 4.6.1
• Bumped deepdiff from 4.3.1 to 5.2.3
• Bumped azure-mgmt-storage from 16.0.0 to 17.0.0
• Bumped azure-storage-blob from 12.7.1 to 12.8.0
• Bumped azure-mgmt-resource from 15.0.0 to 16.0.0
• Bumped azure-mgmt-compute from 5.0.0 to 19.0.0
• Fixed issue with socketIO, where the client is incompatible with server
• Fix for multiarch docker builds, so Appdaemon is built for different platforms - contributed by Aleksey Sviridkin and Ben
• Fix for UVLOOP Windows compatibility - contributed by Steffen Fredriksen
• Fix for Hass Api async api - contributed by Oxan van Leeuwen
• Prevented the loading of hidden files into AD; those starting with a [.]{.title-ref}
• Prevented the loading of hidden python files into AD; those starting with a [.]{.title-ref}
• Prevented the loading of hidden folders into AD; those starting with a [.]{.title-ref}
• Fixed issue where when an app is stopped using api, when started it doesn't respect the previous pin given to it by AD
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Rock coaxial
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Bob Gray
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Ross Rosen
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Dougal Matthews
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Jason Lachowsky
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Jonas Pedersen
• Documentation fixes - contributed by chbndrhnns
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Addison Lynch
• Allowed for both multi and single level MQTT wildcard subscription
• Ensured AD doesn't break, when a "." is used in app name, while it is ignored. Contributed by Xavi Moreno
• Fix for MQTT Listen Event using Async - contributed by Ross Rosen
• Fix for using async method as constraints, contributed by Mithras

Breaking Changes

• Those using non-existent namespaces to register app services, will need to create a UDN and use that to register the service as described here
• If using user defined namespace, there is need to delete the present ones in the namespaces directory.
• Due to the removal of the [appdaemon]{.title-ref} namespace, if anyone was manaully making a service call using it, will need to be updated
• binary is now a reserved keyword argument used when listening to MQTT events
• When using wildcard to listen for events within an app, only those used to subscribe to the broker can be used. so if using camera/# to subscribe to all camera related topics, AD will not recognise camera/front-door/# as a valid wildcard when listening for events; unless camera/front-door/# was used for subscription itself.
• Moved the local static folder for serving static files from [web]{.title-ref} to [www]{.title-ref}. If using web already, simply add it to [static_dirs]{.title-ref} in the http component as described here

4.0.5 (2020-08-16)

Features

None

Fixes

• Fixed a duo of bugs that left entities lying around in the AUI and AD's internals tat eventually led to slowdown and crash

Breaking Changes

None

4.0.4 (2020-07-11)

Features

• All module dependencies pinned to exact versions for better environmental predictability
• Bump pyyaml to 5.3
• Bump yarl to 1.4.2
• Bump bcrypt to 3.1.7
• Bump jinja2 to 2.10.3
• Bump aiohttp-jinja2 to 1.2.0
• Bump deepdiff from 4.0.9 to 4.2.0
• Bump jinja2 from 2.11.0 to 2.11.1
• Bump deepdiff from 4.2.0 to 4.3.1
• Bump pygments from 2.5.2 to 2.6.1
• Add Azure pipelines for Black and Flake - contributed by Bas Nijholt
• Added service call for remove_entity
• Added ability to use now in run_every. Also seconds can be added by simply using now+10 for example
• Presence convenience functions now support a person flag to use person entities rather than device trackers for presence detection
• constrain_person constraints added to support person entities
• Add stream support for SockJS
• Dashboard component now only sends event updates for relevant dashboard entities rather than broadcasting all state_change events
• Admin UI now breaks out App instance and lifetime callback stats separately
• Convert admin and dashboard to get_state from stream
• Increase default work factor for password hashes to 12
• Added [add_entity]{.title-ref} api call, alongeside [state/add_entity]{.title-ref} service call
• Added the ability to remove plugin entities like [HA]{.title-ref} when using the [remove_entity]{.title-ref} api
• Cleanup sequences when modified. This ensures removed sequences are also removed from the Admin UI and AD
• Added support to use environment variables using the [!env_var]{.title-ref} tag, if not wanting to use the [!secrets]{.title-ref} tag
• Additional format for time travel start and end times accepted
• Added the ability to specify a callback to hass get_history. This way, large amount of data can be retrieved from the database, without AD cancelling the task
• Added retry_secs parameter to the hass plugin

Fixes

• Re-added support for SSL in the http module (should also fix dialogflow)
• Add openssl-dev package to docker image (required for RPI)
• Fixed up socketio support to work with the new stream semantics
• Fixed a bug that allowed multiple copies of an App to run if there was an error in the signature of terminate()
• AppDaemon's REST API no longer needs to be active to use the dashboard or Admin interfaces
• Fix tzdata error in docker build for RPI - contributed by Guy Khmelnitsky
• Fix for [get_tz_offset()]{.title-ref} not working in some circumstances - contributed by sillyfrog
• Added some locking to prevent array size change errors
• Fix for registering services created in HA, after it had started
• Added additional logic to wait for full HASS startup

Breaking Changes

• Changed websocket_connected and websocket_disconnected events to stream_connected and stream_disconnected respectively
• Changed the [get_history]{.title-ref} api, as [entity_id]{.title-ref} has been removed from the api

4.0.3 (2020-02-29)

Features

• Pinned astral to v1.10.1

Fixes

• Pinned astral to prevent a bug in the latest v2 astral

Breaking Changes

None

4.0.2 (2020-02-28)

Features

None

Fixes

• Fixed a critical bug that cause multiple scheduler errors during a leap year - contributed by Chad McCune

Breaking Changes

None

4.0.1 (2020-01-20)

Features

None

Fixes

• Fixed an issue, where when http is disabled in appdaemon.yaml, AD is unable to start
• Fixed an issue that prevented dashboards from working on older iPads

Breaking Changes

None

4.0.0 (2020-01-12)

Features

• Added events for when an app is initialized or terminated
• Added [event_fire]{.title-ref} service call
• Added [production_mode]{.title-ref} service call
• Added [list_services]{.title-ref} api call
• Added the ability to fire an event callback only once, using the [oneshot]{.title-ref} flag
• Added the ability to use async functions as endpoint callback
• Added the ability for input_select to auto-update when the options changes, without need of refreshing the browser page
• Added events for when a websocket client connects and disconnects
• Added the ability for apps to register web routes, thereby utilizing AD's internal web server
• Added static folder [web]{.title-ref}, which can used to serve content like images using AD's internal web server
• Added ability for users to define static folders, which can used to serve content like images using AD's internal web server
• Added support for python 3.8

Fixes

• Fixed issue where the user could potentially create entities in [admin]{.title-ref}, [global]{.title-ref} or [appdaemon]{.title-ref} namespaces

Breaking Changes

None

4.0.0 Beta 2 (2019-10-19)

Features

• Added a timeout parameter to listen_state() and listen_event() to delete the callback after a pre-determined interval.
• Added render_template() handling
• global_modules can now be declared in multiple yaml files
• It is now possible to inject arbitrary headers in served http content
• Updated camera widget now supports streams and token refreshing
• Added input_text and input_datetime widgets
• Added the ability to control the number of threadpool workers
• Each time a new service is registered, a service_registered event is fired, which can be picked up by apps
• Added support for async apps
• Added authorization to stream as well as command semantics for various functions
• Added sequences
• Added sequence widget
• Added app access to dashboard directory using self.dashboard_dir
• List of available dashes is now alphabetically sorted
• Changed namespaces implementation to use shelve instead of JSON enabling non JSON-serializable objects to be stored and also potential performance increases - contributed by Robert Schindler
• MDI updated to version 4.4.95 - contributed by Roeland Van Lembergen

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in global_modules that caused a exception
• Fixed icon bug in weather widget - contributed by Roeland Van Lembergen

Breaking Changes

• timeout is now an official parameter to listen_state() and listen_event(). If you were using timeout in your kwargs section for either you should rename that parameter.
• The camera widget has changed parameters - check the docs for details
• Moved the log events from global to admin namespace. if listen_log is just used for listening to logs, it shouldn't matter
• If you have used persistent namespaces in the previous beta it is necessary to delete all saved namespaces by removing all files in the namespaces subdirectory under your appdaemon config directory

4.0.0 Beta1 (2019-08-30)

Features

• Apps can now use a simplified version of the import statement e.g. import hassapi as hass or import mqttapi as mqtt. The existing import method will continue to work.
• Apps can now use multiple plugin APIs with the get_plugin_api() function
• Added ADBase superclass for apps that want to use the get_plugin_api() style of coding
• Scheduler rewritten to be more efficiant and allow for microsecond resolution
• listen_log() now sends AppDaemon system messages and has the option to set a log level.
• Bumped aiohttp to v3.4.4
• Added callback locking decorators
• Rearchitected the work Q to allow App pinning and avoid re-entrant and concurrent code if desired
• Implemented multiple worker Ques to avoid Head of Line blocking
• API Calls to control app pinning
• Added the run_in_thread() api call - with assistance from Odianosen Ejale
• reworked log listening functions to be more robust and added the ability to have multiple callbacks per app
• Refactored plugin APIs to remove duplication
• Moved constrain_days from being Hass only to all app, regardless of plugin used
• Added checking for overdue threads
• Added error checking for callback signatures
• Added app attributes that allows to access AD's config and apps directories within apps
• Added parse_datetime()
• run_once(), run_at() and run_daily() now optionally take parse_time() or parse_datetime() style arguments for specifying time
• Refactored appdaemon.py for greater readability and easier maintenance
• Expanded on the ability to trigger listen_state callbacks immediately using the immediate flag, without need of specifying the new nor duration parameter.
• Allowed to make use of attribute when using the immediate flag in listen_state
• Added initial version of the Admin Interface
• Added User Defined Namespaces
• Rewrote logging to include user defined logs and formats
• Added a unified http component to handle API, ADMIN and DASHBOARD access on a single port
• Added startup conditions to the HASS plugin
• Added duplicate filtering for logs
• Added standalone pidfile functionality
• Added the ability to delete an AD app generated entity from any namespace
• Added the ability to get the history of entities from HASS database
• Added the ability to force a start of the MQTT plugin, even if not connected to broker at startup
• Added the ability to set AD's production_mode from within apps
• Added the ability to start, stop, restart and reload apps from either other apps or REST API
• Added the ability to register app services
• Added sensors for different internal state of AD, that can be read by apps
• Added Person widget
• Much reworking of docs
• Added register_dependency() for dynamic dependencies in apps
• Added MQTT support for setting TLS version - contributed by Miguel
• Added support for socketio for older tablet devices - inspired by algirdasc and zarya
• Added support for default and copy parameters in get_state() api call - contributed by Robert Schindler
• added a switch to disable the encoding of every log message to ascii - contributed by Ben Lebherz
• Various YAML fixes and refactoring - contributed by Rolf Schäuble
• Allow more natural addition of commandline arguments to Docker and allow spaces - contributed by Christoph Roeder
• Allowed for subscribing to MQTT events using wildcards. e.g. homeassistant/# - contributed by Odianosen Ejale
• Allow to specify a MQTT message to be sent when AD shutdowns cleanly e.g. offline
• MQTT Retain setting for birth and will messages - contributed by Clifford W. Hansen
• Added Note on long lived tokens for Docker users - contributed by Bob Anderson
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Johann Schmitz
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Brendon Baumgartner
• Documentation fixes - contributed by Quentin Favrie
• Documentation fixes, updating and cleaning - contributed by Humberto Rodríguez A.
• Added the ability to set title 2 as friendly name in widgets - contributed by Radim
• Added the ability to listen to state_change events, without using listen_state() - contributed by Thomas Delaet
• APIAI updated to dialog flow - contributed by engrbm87

Fixes

• Fixes to listen_state() oneshot function
• Fixes to listen_state() oneshot function when duration is used
• Fixes to listen_state() function when it fires even when new and old states are same
• Fixed an issue causing incorrect busy thread counts when app callbacks had exceptions
• Fixed an issue of when MQTT Plugin not connected to broker, and it holds up AD startup
• Fix to Forecast min/max in weather widget - contributed by adipose
• Fix climate widget docs - contributed by Rene Tode
• Fix to harmonize units vs unit - contributed by Rene Tode
• Added missing import in sound.py example - contributed by cclaus
• Fix for run_once() - contributed by engrbm87
• Fix for onclick not working on IE11 - contributed by jgrieger1
• Fixed issue of AppDaemon loading all .yaml files, even those starting with a . which are hidden or binary files. Contributed by fhirschmann
• Fix for error generated when a none existent schedule timer is passed to info_timer
• Fix for log_type flag in listen_log callback
• Relative paths for appdaemon's config directory now work correctly
• Fix to Dialogflow after format changes
• MQTT fix to subscribing using wildcards - contributed by Daniel Lashua

Breaking Changes

• appapi.py has been renamed to adbase.py, and the contained superclass ha been renamed from AppDaemon to ADBase. This should only be a breaking change if you were using unpublished interfaces!
• Time travel semantics have changed to support faster scheduling.
• plugin_started and plugin_stopped now go to the appropriate namespace for the plugin and are no longer global
• Apps are no longer concurrent or re-entrant by default. This is most likely a good thing.
• Changed the signature of listen_log() callbacks
• cancel_listen_log() now requires a handle supplied by the initial listen_log()
• Removed Daemonize support - please use sysctl instead
• set_app_state() is deprecated - use set_state() instead and it should do the right thing
• dash_compile_on_start now defaults to true
• The log section of appdaemon.yaml has been deprecated and must be replaced by the new logs section which has a different format to allow for user defined logs and greater flexibility in formatting etc.
• API no longer has a separate port, all access is configured via the new unified http component
• API has its own top level configuration section
• Some dashboard parameters moved to the HTTP section and renamed
• dash_compile_on_start renamed to compile_on_start
• dash_force_compile renamed to force_compile
• Due to the new log parameter to allow apps to use user defined logs, any previous parameters named log should be renamed
• Due to a fix for info_timer, this function can now return None if the timer handle is invalid
• As a result of a change in the way AD auto generates MQTT client status topic, if not defined previously the new topic needs to be used
• In the appdaemon configuration section, latitude, longitude, elevation and timezone are now mandatory
• MQTT client status api change from clientConnected to is_client_connected

3.0.4 (2019-04-04)

Fixes

• Use yaml.Safeloader to work around known security issue with PyYaml - contributed by mvn23
• Unpinned PyYaml

3.0.3 (2019-04-02)

Fixes

• Pinned PyYaml to 3.13 to avoid a known issue

3.0.2 (2018-10-31)

Features

• added set_textvalue() api call.
• added app_init_delay to delay App Initialization
• Added ability to register apps to receive log entries
• Added instructions for running a dev build
• Added support for Long Lived Access Tokens
• Updated MDI Icons to 3.0.39
• Updated Font Awesome Icons to 5.4.2
• Added MQTT Plugin - contributed by Tod Schmidt
• Many MQTT Plugin enhancements - contributed by Odianosen Ejale
• Added entitypicture widget - contributed by hwmland
• Docker start script will now check recursively for additional requirements and install them - contributed by Kevin Eifinger
• Added ability to set units explicitly in widgets - contributed by Rene Tode
• Added --upgrade to pip3 call for recursive requirements.txt scanning - contributed by Robert Schindler
• Added the ability to pass stringified JSON parameters to service calls - contributed by Clyra

Fixes

• Fixed incorrect service call in set_value()
• Enforce domain name in rss feed target to avoid issues with other functions
• Previously deleted modules will now be correctly reloaded to reflect changes
• Fixed a bug in get_scheduler_entries()
• Prevent periodic refresh of HASS state from overwriting App created entities - contributed by Odianosen Ejale
• Fix to honor cert_path - contributed by Myles Eftos
• Run AD in docker as PID 1 - contributed by Rolf Schäuble
• Fix encoding error in log messages - contributed by Markus Meissner
• Fix a bug in get_plugin_meta() - contributed by Odianosen Ejale
• Various Doc corrections and additions - contributed by Odianosen Ejale
• Various fixes in the Docker docs - contributed by Simon van der Veldt
• Namespace fixes - contributed by Odianosen Ejale
• More namespace fixes - contributed by Odianosen Ejale
• Fixes of the namespaces fixes ;) - contributed by Brian Redbeard
• Fix typo in sample systemd config - contributed by Evgeni Kunev
• Fix to cert path config - contributed by nevalain

Breaking Changes

• RSS target names must now consist of a domain as well as the target name, e.g. rss.cnn_news
• SSE Support has been removed
• Use of ha_key for authentication is deprecated and will be removed at some point. For now it will still work
• Many Font Awesome Icon names have changed - any custom icons you have on dashboards will need to be changed to suit - see docs for more detail.

While working through the upgrade it is strongly advised that you clear your browser cache and force the recompilation of all of your dashboards to flush out references to old icons. This can be done by manually removing the compiled subdirectory in conf_dir, specifying recompile-1 in the arguments to the dashboard, or setting the hadashboard option dash_compile_on_start to 1.

3.0.1 (2018-04-18)

Features

• Added Production Mode to disable checking of App config or code changes
• RSS Feed can now optionally show a description for each story
• Disabling of zooming and double tap zooming on iOs devices is now optional via the scaling dashboard argument
• Exiting from the commandline with ctrl-c will now cleanly terminate apps
• Sending SIGTERM to an appdaemon process will cause a clean shutdown, including orderly termination of all apps in dependency order
• Added extra checking for HASS Initialization to prevent a race condition in which metadata could not be read
• Weather widget adds the ability to change sensors, more dynamic units, forecast option, icon options, option to show Rain/Snow depending on precip_type sensor (and change icons), wind icon rotates according to wind bearing - contributed by Marcin Domański

Fixes

• Fixed a problem in the Docker initialization script
• Fixed an parameter collision for events with a parameter name in listen_event()
• Grammar corrections to docs, and a fix to the stop code - contributed by Matthias Urlichs

Breaking Changes

• iOS Scaling and tap zooming is no longer disabled by default

3.0.0 (2018-03-18)

Features

• API 200 responses are now logged to the access file
• Add meta tags to prevent double tap zoom on iOS

Fixes

• Re-added set_app_state() to the API

Breaking Changes

None

3.0.0b5 (2018-03-05)

Features

• Added additional error checking for badly formed RSS feeds

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that broke binary_sensor widget.
• Fixed a bug that broke retries when connecting to Home Assistant
• Fixed a bug that could cause lockups during app initialization
• Fixed a bug for Docker that prevented the initial config from working correctly - contributed by mradziwo
• Grammar corrections to docs, and a fix to the stop code - contributed by Matthias Urlichs

Breaking Changes

None

3.0.0b4 (2018-03-03)

Features

• Single App dependencies can now be specified on the dependency line itself and don't have to be a list of size 1
• Added get_ad_version(), and ad_version to the config dictionary
• Added filters for Apps
• Added global module dependency tracking
• Added plugin reload app control
• Added icon widget

Fixes

• Apps now correctly reload when HASS comes back up after a restart
• get_error() now properly returns the error log logger object
• get_hass_config() is now correctly named
• app_args now correctly returns args for all apps
• get_state() now returns fields from the attributes dictionary in preference to the top level dictionary if there is a clash. In particular, this now means it is easier to iterate through group members
• Fixed a bug preventing an objects terminate() from being called when deleted from apps.yaml
• Fixed a bug in which object info was not being cleaned out at object termination
• Fixed an issue preventing dashboard updates on python 3.6

Breaking Changes

None

3.0.0b3 (2018-02-11)

Features

• Added javascript widget
• Upgraded MDI Icons to 2.1.19
• Add separate log for diagnostic info
• Per-widget type global parameters
• App level dependencies
• listen_state() now returns the handle to the callback
• added oneshot option to listen_state()
• Add step parameter to climate widget - contributed by Adrian Popa
• Add internationalization options to clock widget - contributed by Adrian Popa
• Doc improvements - contributed by Marco

Fixes

• Fixed image path for android devices
• Fix a bug with the time parameter for images
• Fixed disable_apps
• Fixed a bug in get_state() with attributes-all returning just the attributes dictionary instead of the entire entity.

Breaking Changes

• In apps.yaml, dependencies should now be a proper yaml list rather than a comma separated string
• Dependencies now refer to individual apps rather than modules

3.0.0b2 (2018-01-27)

Features

• Make int args in appdaemon.yaml a little more robust
• Improve handling for missing app files
• Module loading enhancements
• Moved from requests to aiohttp client for better async behavior
• Added thread monitoring for worker threads
• Give more informative error message if AppDaemon can't locate a valid config dir

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause multiple apps.yaml changes or additions to be ignored
• Fixed a bug causing listen_state() callbacks with duration set to fire immediately
• Pinned yarl library to fix an issue with Docker build
• Fixed a couple of potential event loop hold ups
• Fixed a bug in password security for HADashboard service and state calls
• Changes to apps.yaml now also force a reload of dependent modules
• exclude_dirs now applies to yaml files as well as python files
• Fixed broken icon on HADashboard logon screen
• Fixed a bug preventing the media title from showing in the media player

Breaking Changes

• App modules not listed in an apps.yaml file will no longer be loaded. Python modules may still be imported directly if they are in a directory in which other apps reside.
• cert_path is deprecated. With the replacement of requests with aiohttp, it is now sufficient to set cert_verify to False to use a self signed certificate.
• Initial dashboard loads may be slower on less powerful hardware when using password authentication. Updating after the initial load is unaffected.

3.0.0b1 (2018-01-12)

Features

• Refactored pluggable architecture
• Support for multiple HASS instances
• Custom constraints
• Namespaces
• Path of Secret file can now be specified
• apps.yaml can now be split across multiple files and directories
• Apps can now establish loading priorities to influence their loading order
• IFRAME Refreshes should now be more reliable
• Added calls to access the underlying logger objects for the main and error logs
• Add the ability to ignore specific subdirectories under appdir
• Added error handling for apps that can't be read or have broken links
• Added london Underground Widget - contributed by mmmmmmtasty
• Added ability to display sensor attributes - contributed by mmmmmmtasty
• Added Weather Summary Widget - contributed by mmmmmmtasty
• Added Sticky navigation - contributed by Lars Englund
• Added Input Select widget - contributed by Rene Tode
• Redesigned Input Number widget (old is still available as input_slider) - contributed by Rene Tode
• Added Radial widget - contributed by Rene Tode
• Added Temperature widget - contributed by Rene Tode
• Added container style to sensor widget - contributed by Rene Tode

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the compiled directory not being created early enough

Breaking Changes

• Apps need to change the import and super class
• info_listen_state() now returns the namespace in addition to the previous parameters
• AppDaemon no longer supports python 3.4
• --commtype command line argument has been moved to the appdaemon.cfg file
• The "ha_started" event has been renamed to "plugin_started"
• RSS Feed parameters have been moved to the hadashboard section
• Log directives now have their own section
• [AppDaemon]{.title-ref} section renamed to [appdaemon]{.title-ref}, [HADashboard]{.title-ref} section renamed to [hadashboard]{.title-ref}
• Accessing other Apps arguments is now via the app_config attribute, config retains just the AppDaemon configuration parameters
• Plugins (such as the HASS plugin now have their own parameters under the plugin section of the config file
• The !secret directive has been moved to the top level of appdaemon.yaml
• the self.ha_config attribute has been replaced by the self.get_hass_config() api call and now supports namespaces.
• apps.yaml in the config directory has now been deprecated
• select_value() has been renamed to set_value() to harmonize with HASS
• It is no longer possible to automatically migrate from the legacy cfg style of config, and support for cfg files has been dropped.

2.1.12 (2017-11-07)

Features

None

Fixes

• Fixed passwords causing 500 error on HADashboard - contributed by wchan.ranelagh

Breaking Changes

None

2.1.11 (2017-10-25)

Features

None

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with run_at_sunset() firing multiple times

Breaking Changes

None

2.1.10 (2017-10-11)

Features

• Renamed the HADashboard input_slider to input_number to support HASS' change
• Fixed select_value() to work with input_number entities

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

The input_select widget has been renamed to input_number to support the change in HASS

2.1.9 (2017-09-08)

Features

None

Fixes

• broken [disable_apps]{.title-ref} temporary workaround

Breaking Changes

None

2.1.8 (2017-09-08)

Features

• Refactor of dashboard code in preparation for HASS integration
• Addition of check to highlight excessive time in scheduler loop
• Split app configuration out into a separate file in preparation for HASS integration
• Enhance widget API to handle all event types instead of just click
• Add example HADashboard focused Apps for Oslo City Bikes, Caching of local AppDaemon events, Monitoring events and logging, Google Calendar Feed, Oslo Public Transport, YR Weather - contributed by Torkild Retvedt

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that gave a spurious "text widget not found" error

Breaking Changes

• App configuration is now separate from AppDaemon, HASS and HADashboard configuration
• The Widget API has changed to accommodate different event types and now needs an action parameter to specify what the event type to be listened for is

2.1.7 (2017-08-20)

Features

• Converted docs to rst for better readthedocs support
• Added custom widget development
• Enhanced API support to handle multiple endpoints per App
• Added helper functions for Google Home's APP.AI - contributed by engrbm87
• Added immediate parameter to listen state to trigger immediate evaluation of the delay parameter

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

• Existing API Apps need to register their endpoint with [register_endpoint()]{.title-ref}

2.1.6 (2017-08-11)

Features

• API now runs on a separate port to the dashboard

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

• API requires the api_port configuration value to be set and now runs on a different port from the dashboard
• SSL Setup for API now requires api_ssl_certificate and api_ssl_key to be set
• ad_key has been renamed to api_key

2.1.5 (2017-08-10)

Features

None

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

• get_alexa_slot_value() now requires a keyword argument for slotname

2.1.4 (2017-08-10)

Features

None

Fixes

• .cfg file fixes

Breaking Changes

None

2.1.3 (2017-08-10)

Features

• Restructure docs for readthedocs.io

None

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

None

2.1.2 (2017-08-08)

Features

• Add `get_alexa_slot_value()
• Add log_size and log_generations config parameters
• Add additional debugging to help Docker users

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

None

2.1.0 (2017-08-08)

Features

• Add a reference to official vkorn repository for hass.io
• Add the ability to access hass state as App attributes
• Add RESTFul API Support for Apps
• Add disable_dash directive to enable API access without Dashboards
• Add Alexa Helper functions
• Update Material Design Icons to 1.9.32 - contributed by minchick
• Use relative URLs for better remote behavior - contributed by Daniel Trnka
• Add SSL Support
• Add Password security for screens and HASS proxying functions
• Add support for secrets in the AppDaemon configuration file
• Add support for secrets in HADashboard configuration files
• dash_navigate() now takes an optional screen to return to

Fixes

• Toggle area fixes submitted by azeroth12 and minchick
• Typo fixes submitted by Aaron Linville, vrs01, Gabor SZOLLOSI, Ken Davidson, Christian Lasaczyk, Klaus, Johan Haals
• Fixed missing skin variables for media player and sensor widgets

Breaking Changes

• Compiled dashboards may need to be deleted after this upgrade

2.0.8 (2017-07-23)

Features

• Add step parameter to media player
• Add row parameter to dashboard
• Add ability to set timeout and return on dash navigation
• Add ability to force dashboard page changes from Apps, Alexa and HASS Automations

Fixes

• Add quotes to times in examples.yaml - contributed by Cecron
• Fix python 3.6 issue with datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() -contributed by motir

Breaking Changes

None

2.0.7 (2017-07-20)

Features

None

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in label and text_sensor widgets

Breaking Changes

None

2.0.6 (2017-07-20)

Features

None

Fixes

• Fix a bug causing an apps terminate() to not be called

Breaking Changes

None

2.0.5 (2017-07-16)

Features

None

Fixes

• Change convert_utc() to use iso8601 library

Breaking Changes

None

2.0.4 (2017-07-16)

Features

• AppDaemon is now on PyPi - no more need to use git for installs
• Allow time_zone directive in appdaemon.cfg to override hass supplied time zone
• Add API calls to return info on schedule table and callbacks (get_scheduler_entries(), get_callback_entries())
• Add get_tracker_details()
• Add sub entity to sensor
• Add hass_disconnected event and allow Apps to run while HASS is disconnected

Fixes

• Fix startup examples to match new -c semantics and add in docs
• Fix Time Travel
• Fix for crashes on HASS restart if apps weren't in use - contributed by shprota
• Attempted a fix for NaN showing for Nest & Ecobee thermostats when in auto mode

Breaking Changes

None

2.0.3 (2017-07-09)

Features

• Add error display field to weather widget

Fixes

• Fix issue with device trackers and use_hass_icon

Breaking Changes

None

2.0.2 (2017-07-08)

Features

• Move docker image to python 3.6

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

None

2.0.1 (2017-07-08)

Features

• Much Improved Docker support including tutorial - many thanks to quadportnick

Fixes

• Version Change
• Respect cert_path setting when connecting to WebSocket over SSL -contributed by yawor

Breaking Changes

None

2.0.0beta4 (2017-06-18)

Features

• Migrate timer thread to async
• Add option to turn off verification for self signed certs (contributed by janwh)
• AppDaemon configuration now uses YAML, among other things this allows arbitrarily complex nested data structures in App parameters
• Added ability to convert from old cfg file to YAML
• AppDaemon Apps can now publish arbitrary state to other Apps and the dashboard
• Added Gauge Widget
• Added RSS Widget
• Add next and previous track to media player

Fixes

• Slider now works correctly after changes outside of HADashboard
• Climate now works correctly after changes outside of HADashboard
• Media player now works correctly after changes outside of HADashboard
• ha.log now correctly dumps data structures
• on_attributes for lights now correctly supports RGB and XY_COLOR
• Fixed a bug in the scheduler to reduce clock skew messages

Breaking Changes

• The cfg file style of configuration is now deprecated although it still works for now for most features
• Argument names passed to Apps are now case sensitive

2.0.0beta3.5 (2017-04-09)

Features

• Label now accepts HTML for the value
• IFRAME widget now allows vimeo and youtube videos to go fullscreen when clicked
• IFRAME and Camera widgets now have optional title overlay
• Widgets that display icons can now pick up icons defined in HASS
• aiohttp version 2 support

Fixes

Breaking Changes

2.0.0beta3 (2017-03-27)

Features

• Added alarm widget
• Added camera widget
• Dimmers and groups now allow you to specify a list of on parameters to control brightness, color etc.
• Edited code for PEP8 Compliance
• Widgets can now have a default size other than (1x1)
• Added empty to layouts for multiple blank lines
• Numeric values can now have a comma as the decimal separator
• Add Global Parameters
• Rewrote media widget

Fixes

• IFrames now follow widget borders better
• IFrame now allows user input
• Fixed a race condition on dashboard reload

Breaking Changes

• Media Widget now needs to be 2 cells high

2.0.0beta2 (2017-03-12)

Features

• Widget level styles now correctly override just the styles they are replacing in the skin, not the whole style
• Device tracker toggling of state is optional and defaults to off
• Add climate widget
• Add script widget
• Add lock widget
• Add cover widget
• Added optional monitored_state argument to group to pick a representative entity to track dimming instead of guessing
• Introduce new widget definition model in preparation for custom widgets
• Rewrite several widgets using the new model
• Add state map and state text functions to sensor, scene, binary_sensor, switch, device_tracker, script, lock, cover, input_boolean
• Allow dashboard accesses to be logged in a separate file
• Flag to force recompilation after startup
• Additional error checks in many places
• Dashboard determines the stream URL dynamically rather than by having it hard coded
• Add IFRAME widget
• Sensor widget now automatically detects units
• Sensor widget has separate styles for text and numeric
• Style fixes
• Active Map for device trackers

Fixes

• Various minor skin fixes

Breaking Changes

• Widget level styles that relied on overriding the whole skin style may no longer work as expected
• Device trackers must now be explicitly configured to allow the user to toggle state, by setting the enable parameter
• Groups of lights must have the monitored_entity argument to work properly if they contain any dimmable lights
• text_sensor is deprecated and will be removed at some stage. It is now an alias for sensor

2.0.0beta1 (2017-03-04)

Features

• Initial release of HADashboard v2

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

• appdaemon's -c option now identifies a directory not a file. The previously identified file must exist in that directory and be named appdaemon.cfg

1.5.2 (2017-02-04)

Features

• Code formatted to PEP8, various code optimizations - contributed by yawor
• Version check for WebSockets now understands dev versions -contributed by yawor
• turn_off() will now call turn_on() for scenes since turning a scene off makes no sense, to allow extra flexibility
• Restored the ability to use line, module and function in log messages. Recoded to prevent errors in non-compatible Python versions if the templates are not used.

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

None

1.5.1 (2017-01-30)

Features

None

Fixes

• Functionality to substitute line numbers and module names in log statements temporarily removed

Breaking Changes

• Functionality to substitute line numbers and module names in log statements temporarily removed

1.5.0 (2017-01-21)

Features

• Swap from EventStream to Websockets (Requires Home Assistant 0.34 or later). For earlier versions of HA, AppDaemon will fallback to EventStream.
• Restored less verbose messages on HA restart, but verbose messages can be enabled by setting -D DEBUG when starting AppDaemon
• From the command line ctrl-c now results in a clean shutdown.
• Home Assistant config e.g. Latitude, Longitude are now available in Apps in the self.ha_config dictionary.
• Logging can now take placeholder strings for line number, function and module which will be appropriately expanded in the actual message
• Add example apps: battery, grandfather, sensor_notification, sound
• Updates to various example apps

Fixes

• get_app() will now return None if the app is not found rather than throwing an exception.

Breaking Changes

• get_app() will now return None if the app is not found rather than throwing an exception.

None

1.4.2 (2017-01-21)

Features

None

Fixes

• Remove timeout parameter from SSEClient call unless timeout is explicitly specified in the config file

Breaking Changes

None

1.4.1 (2017-01-21)

Features

• turn_off() now allows passing of parameters to the underlying service call
• Better handling of scheduler and worker thread errors. More diagnostics, plus scheduler errors now delete the entry where possible to avoid spamming log entries
• More verbose error handling with HA communication errors

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

None

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 necessary 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

1.3.7 (2017-01-17)

Features

• Add entity_exists() call
• List Apps holding up initialization

Fixes

• Add documentation for the days constraint
• Various other contributed documentation fixes

Breaking Changes

None

1.3.6 (2016-10-01)

Features

• Add device trackers to switch_reset example

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in which AppDaemon exited on startup if HA was not listening causing AppDaemon failure to start on reboots
• Fixed some scheduler behavior for appd and ha restart events
• Fix presence example to only notify when state changes (e.g. not just for position updates)
• Change door notify example to explicitly say "open" or "closed" instead of passing through state
• Fix a bug in device_trackers example

Breaking Changes

None

1.3.4 (2016-09-20)

Features

• Add Minimote Example
• Add device trackers to switch_reset example

Fixes

• Fixed a minor scheduler bug that didn't honor the delay for callbacks fired from appd and ha restart events

Breaking Changes

None

1.3.4 (2016-09-18)

Features

• Add Momentary Switch example
• Add Switch Reset Example

Fixes

• Fix a race condition in App Initialization
• Fix a bug that overwrote state attributes
• Fix to smart heat example app
• Fix day constraints while using time travel

Breaking Changes

None

1.3.3 (2016-09-16)

Features

• Add ability to specify a cert directory for self-signed certs
• Add ability for listen_event() to listen to any event
• Add filter options to listen_event()

Fixes

• Fix several potential race conditions in the scheduler

Breaking Changes

None

1.3.2 (2016-09-08)

Features

• Document "Time Travel" functionality
• Add convenience function to set input_select called select_option() - contributed by jbardi
• Add global access to configuration and global configuration variables - suggested by ReneTode

Fixes

• Tidy up examples for listen state - suggested by ReneTode
• Warning when setting state for a non-existent entity is now only given the first time
• Allow operation with no ha_key specified
• AppDaemon will now use the supplied timezone for all operations rather than just for calculating sunrise and sunset
• Reduce the chance of a spurious Clock Skew error at startup

Breaking Changes

None

1.3.1 (2016-09-04)

Features

• Add convenience function to set input_selector called select_value() - contributed by Dave Banks

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

None

1.3.0 (2016-09-04)

Features

• Add ability to randomize times in scheduler
• Add duration to listen_state() to fire event when a state condition has been met for a period of time
• Rewrite scheduler to allow time travel (for testing purposes only, no effect on regular usage!)
• Allow input_boolean constraints to have reversed logic
• Add info_listen_state(), info_listen_event() and info_schedule() calls

Fixes

• Thorough proofreading correcting typos and formatting of API.md -contributed by Robin Lauren
• Fixed a bug that was causing scheduled events to fire a second late
• Fixed a bug in get_app() that caused it to return a dict instead of an object
• Fixed an error when missing state right after HA restart

Breaking Changes

• run_at_sunrise() and run_at_sunset() no longer take a fixed offset parameter, it is now a keyword, e.g. offset - 60

1.2.2 (2016-08-31)

Features

None

Fixes

• Fixed a bug preventing get_state() calls for device types
• Fixed a bug that would cause an error in the last minute of an hour or last hour of a day in run_minutely() and run)hourly() respectively

Breaking Changes

None

1.2.1 (2016-08-26)

Features

• Add support for windows

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

None

1.2.0 (2016-08-24)

Features

• Add support for recursive directories - suggested by jbardi

Fixes

None

Breaking Changes

None

1.1.1 (2016-08-23)

Fixes

• Fix init scripts

1.1.0 (2016-08-21)

Features

• Installation via pip3 - contributed by Martin Hjelmare
• Docker support (non Raspbian only) - contributed by Jesse Newland
• Allow use of STDERR and SDTOUT as logfile paths to redirect to stdout and stderr respectively - contributed by Jason Hite
• Deprecated "timezone" directive on cfg file in favor of "time_zone" for consistency with Home Assistant config
• Added default paths for config file and apps directory
• Log and error files default to STDOUT and STDERR respectively if not specified
• Added systemd service file - contributed by Jason Hite

Fixes

• Fix to give more information if initial connect to HA fails (but still avoid spamming logs too badly if it restarts)
• Rename 'init' directory to 'scripts'
• Tidy up docs

Breaking Changes

• As a result of the repackaging for PIP3 installation, all apps must be edited to change the import statement of the api to import appdaemon.appapi as appapi
• Config must now be explicitly specified with the -c option if you don't want it to pick a default file location
• Logfile will no longer implicitly redirect to STDOUT if running without the -d flag, instead specify STDOUT in the config file or remove the logfile directive entirely
• timezone is deprecated in favor of time_zone but still works for now

1.0.0 (2016-08-09)

Initial Release