Product updates

Breaking changes

• Changed IR code format for toggle & sequence codes. This should not affect many users, since this was a hidden feature only mentioned in the API.
  - The | separator is now used for two PRONTO toggle codes.
  - The + separator is used for IR sequences of 2 or more codes.
  - Manually added IR code sequences must be changed to use the + separator.

Added

• Additional infrared codesets for set-top boxes and generic TV codesets for: Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp
• Settings option to always show battery percentage on the remote.
• Android TV integration: more app mappings, launch Max, Spotify, Steam Link, Videoland, Ziggo (thanks to Lars-' contribution).

Fixed

• Sporadic system freezes related to key presses.
• IR toggle-bit support logic for RC-5, RC-6, RC-MM 32bit (Nokia32) protocols (#126, #129, #148, #234).
• Allow saving of activities and macros containing deleted entities (#208).
• Clear activity cache when editing activity group (#225).
• UI fixes and improvements:
  - Unresponsive buttons after closing an activity.
  - Inconsistent behaviour for unavailable entity for key select vs tap.
  - Command execution loop when command fails.
  - Wait for previous command ACK before sending new command.
  - Language text retrieval.
• Web-configurator fixes and improvements:
  - Resource upload: invalid image freezes & crashes web app (#232).
  - Scrolling through available entities list resets to top (#242).
  - Disable entity configuration if integration is disconnected.
  - Confirmation dialogs for resetting button- and UI-mappings.
• Roon integration: disable album art image logging to prevent blocking, improved zone subscription logic.
• Home Assistant integration: reconnect to HA server after changing driver configuration, improved reconnection logic (#243).

Changed

• Home-Assistant integration: unlimited reconnection attempts by default (#263).
• Enhanced logging of activity groups and IR toggle-bits.
• Linux kernel update and keypad driver.

Fixed

• Sony TV IR codes (#143).
• Backup of Denon AVR integration and activity groups.
• Roon integration crash during setup and zone changes while nothing is playing (#215).
• Improved web-configurator reconnection and request timeout handling. A reconnection screen is shown while disconnected.

Changed

• Reconfiguration of integration drivers in the web-configurator without removing and adding the driver again.
  Note: this might not yet work for all drivers!

Added

• Preview feature settings in web-configurator.
• IR blaster in the remote as preview feature (#75).
• Attention: native IR-repeat is not yet supported.

Added

• Initial test version of activity groups (#64).
• WS Core-API: entity-type & activity-group specific change-event channels for subscribe_events.
• REST Core-API: configuration of the overall IR command repeat for a remote-entity.
• The configuration in the Web-configurator will be added in a future update.
• This is useful for certain PRONTO codes, which must be sent twice, e.g. for Sony devices.

Fixed

• Improve WiFi stability on certain networks.
• Use / character in IR code names (#187).
• Icons are lost on macros in UI app (#202).
• Common fixes in UI app.
• WebSocket Core-API: don't auto-subscribe new clients to all events.

Added

• Android TV & Denon AVR: manual setup by IP address.

Fixed

• Roon integration: common improvements.

Added

• Home Assistant scenes support. Active scenes with the push button entity.

Fixed

• Roon integration crashes (#109).
• Home Assistant & Denon AVR media-player sound mode selection (#165).
• Android TV crash after wakeup if a rediscovery is started for a non-reachable device.

Changed

• Disable fallback DNS, only use DNS set by DHCP.

Added

• Denon AVR integration for network capable receivers.
• Multiple zones are not yet supported.
• Multiple ressource-file upload in web-configurator.
• Android TV: support rewind, fast-forward, menu and color buttons (device-dependent).

Fixed

• Dock firmware update for manually configured docks (#184).
• Android TV: improved reconnection handling and setup flow. Detect changed IP address.
• Philips Hue: runtime crashes if bridge communication failed or timed out (#150).

Added

• Web-configurator: activity group management (#64).
  This does not yet include the entity power state logic, when switching between activities within a group.
• Button to delete current WiFi network.
• Error state handling when starting activities.
• Show source list for all media player device types.

Fixed

• Crash when deleting entities from group (#147).
• Entity titles disappear while editing or state changes (#152).
• Support WiFi SSID names with proper UTF-8 encoding (#158).
• Special, non-UTF-8 names are not yet supported!
• Activity loosing button control (#161).
• Media player power-toggle command is not dependent on entity-features.
• Ignored button presses, if the command previously resulted in an error.
• Improved Android TV reconnection after wakeup (#34).
• Web-configurator:
• Entity commands with bool parameter (#133).
• Media-player select_source command editor with source selection in UI component and button mapping.
• Edit IR codes after import.
• Reload data if activity couldn't be saved.
• Improved layout for non-english texts.
• Missing icons in button mappings.

Added

• Initial set of French and Italian translations. A very big thank you to all Crowdin contributors!
• Web-configurator contains almost all translated texts, the UI app only a partial set.
• We'll continue updating the translations and start fixing the UI where texts don't fit.
• Support for dynamic UI page grid size in web-configurator (#66).
• Support for media-player user interface item in web-configurator (#68).
• Edit integration icons (#105).

Fixed

• Provide Activity Off command (#125).

Changed

• Increased max activity sequence timeout from 30 to 60s (#137).