Hi folks, this is a nice but potentially breaking release so pay attension.
Entitystate unavailable are treated as null
The changes the behavior for entity states that are unavailable. Any state that is unavailable is set to null value. You now do not have to check for unavailable in the scenarios you expect state to be a number as an example.
It can be breaking if you rely on:
if (entity.State == "unavailable") ...after:
if (entity.State is null) ...The code below breaks before this release but will be fine this release since State is null if unavailable.
public async override Task InitializeAsync() => Entity("sensor.hacs")
.WhenStateChange((n, o) =>
o?.State != n?.State && n?.State > 0)
.Call(async (entityId, newState, oldState) =>
{
var serviceDataTitle = "Updates pending in HACS";
var serviceDataMessage = "There are updates pending in [HACS](/hacs)\n\n";
List<object> repositories = newState?.Attribute?.repositories || new List<object>();
foreach (IDictionary<string, object?> item in repositories)
{
serviceDataMessage += $"- {item?["display_name"].ToString()}\n";
}
await CallService("persistent_notification", "create", new
{
title = serviceDataTitle,
message = serviceDataMessage
}, true);
}).Execute();Home Assistant switches for app-switches
This PR is breaking. Before the app id was netdaemon.[appid] after change switch.netdaemon_[appid]
Makes a real switch of app companion switches. You can now use real Home Assistant switches to turn on/off/toggle apps. As before you need to call netdaemon.reload_apps to make your changes.