I’m excited to present this new version of Watchman! While the integration looks almost identical on the surface, the codebase has undergone a deep internal refactoring. This "under-the-hood" overhaul lays the foundation for much easier maintenance and faster implementation of new features in the future. ⚠️ Note: Despite extensive unit testing, bugs may still occur due to a significant rewrite of the codebase.
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Ignore disabled automations: Added the ability to exclude entities declared in disabled automations and scripts from the report. Thanks @bwibwi13 (#211).
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Support for HA Labels: You can now use Home Assistant labels to mark entities that should be ignored/excluded from the report. Thanks @bexelbie (#219). Tip: The special entity
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Parser rewritten from scratch: The new parser now utilizes standard libraries for loading YAML and JSON files. This ensures a better understanding of configuration file structures (keys/values) and enables full implementation of "automation awareness."
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CLI Parser Version: A CLI version of the parser has been developed. It will allow for more transparent troubleshooting and parsing quality assessment on any configuration files (to be released a bit later).
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Performance improvements: Efficiency on slower SoC systems should be improved due to parsing result caching. Watchman will now skip re-parsing files if their timestamp has not changed.
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Extended
.storagesupport: The parser can now process not just Lovelace JSON files in the.storagedirectory, but other storage files as well (currently Lovelace files and.config_entries, but the list can be easily extended in future versions). Thanks @chertvl.