Prerelease of 2026.8.0 for testing. Update Helios to this version in HACS and hard-refresh.
What's new since b5
- The day curve: tap the solar chip a second time, once it is the active one, and the day you are looking at rises around your house as a curve. It does not stand on a ring: it stands on the sun's own path, projected straight down onto the ground, so the track closes in on the house at midday, when the sun is overhead, and reaches out to the exact spots where the arc meets the ground at sunrise and sunset. Where a point sits on that track is the hour it happened, and a dashed line drops from the sun to the curve right beneath it. Scrub the timeline and it follows: another day means that day's sun, that day's track and that day's production. Today's remaining hours carry on from your solar forecast, dashed. Click the chip again to put it away.
Changed since b5, worth a look if you tested it
- Rotating on touch is one finger again, not the two b5 shipped. Your finger's direction decides: sideways turns the scene, up or down moves the page. Neither gesture waits for the other, and the card no longer traps your scroll. Tilting the scene stays on the mouse.
- A single tap on a chip opens its detail panel; it used to want a double-tap. A tap on the scene background dismisses it.
- The timeline is back to the height it had before b5. b5 made it a notch taller; the scene needs the room more than the curves do.
- Graph detail now also sets the day curve's own resolution, and it finally does what it says: the data used to be binned twice, so a fine setting was interpolating rather than resolving. Set it to 1 for a smooth curve, 6 to see every cloud.
Removed
- The Year period. Month is now the longest view, and the last one the scene can still speak for: any day of it can be scrubbed to and read under that day's own sun. A year sat on a daily store that carried no shape of a day at all, so the arc, the shadows and the curve had nothing to say about it, and 365 bars two pixels wide had nothing to say to the eye. Your energy dashboard already tells that story better. Cards saved on Year fall back to the default period.
Fixes
- Solar production reading 0 in the detail panel with two or more solar sources configured, whatever the period (#311). When one meter had no recorder data behind it, the per-source split fell through to a layer with nothing behind it instead of to the aggregate. The timeline kept drawing normally, which is what made it look like a display bug rather than a data one.
- The detail panel went square in a "single card" panel view. That view forces every card it holds to square corners so they fill the view edge to edge, and the floating readout was following the same rule. It is not a card, so it now keeps its own radius whatever the view.
- The curve of a day in progress stops where your meters stop, instead of trailing a flat line along the ground to midnight.