Life Moves Pretty Fast

Overview

This release focuses on streamlining setup (especially around docks), enhancing device control flexibility, and introducing new automation capabilities—while removing a deprecated brightness mechanism. One breaking change is included; please review before upgrading.

Breaking Change

• Removed backlight brightness number entity.
  Reason: (e.g. redundancy with new light control).
  Migration guidance (adjust to match your implementation):
  • If you exposed this entity in dashboards or automations, replace these references with the new light entity.

New Features

• Light Platform Button Color: Adds control of your button backlight luminance (R2/R3) and color (R3 only) .
• Standby Inhibitor Action: New action lets automations explicitly keep the device awake during critical use (e.g. during long-running activities).
• Remote Start Activity (HomeKit): Optional setting to auto-start a chosen activity when toggling on the remote entity.
• Wireless Charging Switch: Toggle the wireless charger allowing for battery level control.

Improvements

• Options Flow: Clearer, more resilient configuration steps; better error handling.
• Dock Management: Streamlined discovery/registration with improved feedback and fewer retries.
• Dock Learning: More robust learning sequence with clearer status indications.
• Standby Inhibitors: Programmatically prevent your remote from sleep
• WebSocket Setup Resilience: Setup now prompts to repair the WebSocket connection during setup.

Removals / Simplifications

• Dock Password Requirement: Eliminated to simplify onboarding - No loss of functionality

Fixes

• Numerous Action fixes and additional resilience for edge cases