Notifications from Home Assistant, a choice of fonts, a fixed network address, live camera video, and the Spotify slider and the Show's volume moving together.
- Notifications from Home Assistant. The
notifyaction puts up a card with a title and a message, andnotify_pictureputs up a picture or a camera with a caption. Either can chime and be said aloud, and the Show tells Home Assistant when one is tapped, dismissed or runs out. A routine picture waits behind a camera somebody is watching instead of replacing it, and the chime waits for a reply that's being spoken. See docs/actions.md. Thanks, wonderslug (#115). - What the Show plays, as sensors in Home Assistant: Now playing source, title, artist, album and state (playing, paused or idle), for AirPlay, Spotify, DLNA, Music Assistant, Bluetooth and the radio. Thanks, maxvaega (#123).
- The Spotify app's slider and the Show's volume move together. The slider shows the Show's real level, also after the buttons, your voice or Home Assistant change it, and moving the slider sets the Show to that level. During quiet hours, neither Spotify's nor Music Assistant's slider can turn the Show up past the night volume. Not yet tested with a real Spotify account, so please tell us on #125 how it works. Thanks to @frebbelio for the report.
- A choice of fonts for the screen: Go (as before), Inter, MuseoModerno, Exo, Overpass, Saira, Comic Neue, Open Sans and Google Sans Flex, under Screen font in Home Assistant, on the setup page, and in the screen's settings (#116). Thanks to @kevin909867 and Reddit for the suggestions.
- Fonts of your own for Korean, Chinese, Japanese and anything else the bundled fonts don't have: upload a font on the setup page (Screen & Photos), or copy it to the device's fonts folder. It's only used for the characters the chosen font lacks (#122). Thanks to @saya6k for the report.
- A fixed network address, set on the screen, on the setup page (Connections → Network address), or with the
network_addressaction. A new address is tried first and only kept if it works. If the router stops answering, the Show falls back to an address from the router and goes back to the fixed one once it can. Thanks, mawi13 (#107). - Live camera video (off by default): with Live camera video on, a camera Home Assistant can stream plays as live video with its sound. A camera's own RTSP address can be set for its picture and sound on the setup page, close to live. A camera's login is only ever sent protected (Digest). Thanks, mawi13 (#108, #110).
- "Play the sounds of rain" has a ready-made automation in docs/actions.md (#120).
Nothing to do after updating. Live camera video, the fixed address and the fonts stay off or as they were until you choose them.
Verify this release was built by CI from its own tag:
gh attestation verify echod-arm --repo HuskerMinion/techo5 --source-ref refs/tags/v1.2.7