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General
It's been a while since the last update - but we also need time for our families.
In this version we have reprogrammed the climate page and the code from scratch and believe me, climate is really no fun :)
The Home page also got some attention and is loading much faster.
In addition, we have fixed some bugs and adjusted small things in the UI design.
Updating
Since in this update lots of input to the blueprint changed, we highly recommend you review your settings and make sure all fields have the correct selection. We did our best to support your legacy settings and avoid breaking your system, but please double check your settings if you see something not working as expected.
Files that need to be reloaded:
- nspanel_blueprint.yaml - v3.4
- nspanel_eu.tft or nspanel_us.tft - v3.4
- nspanel_esphome.yaml - v3.4
Instructions
You can find the update procedures following here:
- (EN) HowTo - All important thing you should know - Update
- (DE) HowTo - Alle wichtigen Dinge die man wissen sollte - Update
Breaking changes
- Customization of climate icon on home page (chip 03) - Now it follows the standard icon & color selection used on page climate, but with a thermometer-lines for heating and a thermometer for idle.
Overview of all changes
- New Climate page for EU and US
- More flexible date and time engine (#744)
- Users now can select alignment on entities pages (#753)
- Auto-update of entities pages (#819)
- Much faster load of home page
Details of all changes
1. New Climate Page
The climate page was totally rebuild and now is more responsive, with more information available and much easier to use.
The Climate Page pulls all information from the selected Climate Device in the Blueprint.
This allows us to also support climates like sauna or with Fahrenheit.
- Easy access buttons for controlling the climate entity.
- 4 user selectable values shown
- 2 user defined buttons for more flexibility
2. More flexible date & time engine
Apart of the options for date and time you are already familiar, users can now define their preferred format using any of the options available for Strftime in ESPHome.
To use your own format, just type it in the drop down:
Please be careful using this, as you can easily exceed the limited space for time and date strings in your panel.
3. Select alignment on entities pages
You can now select how the column showing the values will be aligned in your entities pages:
4. Auto-update of entities pages
Now while an Entity page is visible, all the entities will be updated when it's statuses changes, improving the user's experience.
5. Much faster load of home page
The Home page is now updated in the background, even when the panel is sleeping, and will be shown almost instantaneously with a touch in the screen or when navigating from other pages.
Next topics we are currently working on
See here: roadmap Roadmap contains future features
What's Changed
- fix: corrects date_format by @albinmedoc in #568
- Update the correct Nextion variable for sleep modus by @doron1 in #667
New Contributors
- @albinmedoc made their first contribution in #568
- @doron1 made their first contribution in #667
Full Changelog: v3.2.2...v3.3