github dermotduffy/advanced-camera-card v8.0.0-rc.4
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pre-release4 hours ago

8.0.0-rc.4 (2026-08-11)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

  • condition: initialized is now false whenever the
    card is not usable, and trigger: initialized fires each time the card
    starts up rather than only the first time. Set ever: true on either to
    keep the previous behaviour.

🚀 Features

  • Add a simple mode to the visual card editor (#2588) (e29c082)
  • Add experimental rewrite of go2rtc live provider (MSE/WebRTC/MP4/MJPEG) (#2580) (c02c692), closes #2556 #2450
  • Allow disabling the call controls (#2615) (3b8835e), closes #2587
  • Answer or reject inbound calls from menu (#2620) (0f8593f), closes #2587
  • Automatically recover from frozen live streams (#2569) (fb1bbc7), closes #2099
  • Compress related editor fields into grid rows (#2589) (f28b16a)
  • Modernize the visual card editor. (#2586) (b6e1de5)
  • Show the build date on the loading banner of unreleased builds (#2659) (5676908)
  • Surface the provider's error cause in the media_unavailable notification (#2599) (448fa2d), closes #2592
  • Trigger automations on call answered, rejected and hung up (#2591) (87ecbc7)
  • Use the card's own pan & zoom with the webrtc-card live provider (#2630) (e9e6d9f), closes #2628

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Clear stale media unavailable errors when a camera recovers (#2627) (15b08db), closes #2576
  • Clear the initialized condition state when the card is not usable (#2646) (17146c8), closes #2642
  • Connect the microphone when an inbound call is answered (#2609) (#2612) (8f95354)
  • Correct status bar alignment in Safari (#2581) (e204ec1), closes #2578
  • Correctly bind MJPEG stream URL in the ha live provider (#2305) (#2600) (cd53ebd)
  • Do not activate pan & zoom on a detached element (#2640) (51c0fab), closes #2633
  • Ensure a bare ptz_digital action resets the zoom (#2635) (a736f3d), closes #2632
  • Ensure no camera outlives a failed initialization (#2657) (9f88aac)
  • Error when a zoomable element is removed during zoom initialization (#2624) (231e308), closes #2410
  • Exponentially back off initialization-error retries (#2579) (#2605) (f419798)
  • Guard the ha provider MJPEG stream URL against a missing access_token (#2602) (6817d27), closes #2601
  • Highlight folder icon for correct folder / media (#2560) (6a6d65d), closes #2128 #2129
  • Ignore startup triggers from cameras without the trigger capability (#2621) (8d44fce), closes #2103
  • Improve media_query retry behavior (#2603) (54f75be)
  • Match state trigger/condition semantics to HA (#2565) (9f956fe), closes #2530
  • Only report a live error from the visible ha-camera-stream player (#2596) (8c36637), closes #2583
  • Prevent microphone auto-disconnect during calls and restore the removed microphone connected condition (#2597) (5a549c0), closes #2590
  • Prevent the media grid from collapsing when its cells are unchanged (#2608) (5f2c7f5), closes #2306
  • Report and retry media failures for every camera in a grid (#2658) (c137f4c), closes #2637 #2099
  • Report media failures once per failure (#2666) (5e199b5)
  • Restore keyboard focus for key triggers (#2634) (#2639) (f240646)
  • Restore picture element actions on Home Assistant 2026.8+ (#2670) (45f88a8), closes #2663
  • Should recover from an interrupted initialization (#2673) (a8aa9ec)
  • Size the expanded dialog and grid columns to their content (#2611) (2a84f19), closes #2607
  • Stop a released PTZ key ending another held key's movement (#2675) (70ca0a9), closes #2668
  • Stop PTZ movement and browser key handling from fighting (#2674) (3808a1b), closes #2623
  • Stop the live media frame collapsing while a stream loads (#2671) (98a0084), closes #2574
  • Stop the webrtc-card provider recreating its player on every render (#2629) (70abb39), closes #2625
  • Use auto_unmute as input to stream selection for HA (#2562) (3494706), closes #2479

📚 Documentation

  • Add config example for problematic doorbells (#2604) (0a763b7)

🚨 Tests

  • Add a browser based test harness (#2641) (e590f72)
  • Add a test harness for the built card (#2653) (2d124fe)
  • Add browser based tests for keyboard focus handling (#2647) (5d247d4)
  • Add browser tests for the media viewing gallery and viewer (#2661) (673d8fe)
  • Add regression test for media info stability (#2571) (5662e48), closes #2563
  • Also run firefox & webkit automated tests (#2651) (18ea725)
  • Remove unnecessary jsdom environment declarations (#2616) (a0fd464)
  • Split browser test-utils (#2662) (8d8d486), closes #2660
  • Split test utilities to improve test times (#2622) (ad89aa9)
  • Split the test suite into isolation groups for faster runs (#2613) (c4c6058)

👷 Continuous Integration

  • Upload the bundle treemap visualization browser-viewable (#2617) (eccf7f3)

🔨 Code Refactoring

🐎 Performance Improvements

  • Deduplicate concurrent Home Assistant registry list fetches (#2650) (4a7c1b6)

🔧 Chores

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