🚀 Lovelace Hass Aarlo v0.4.0-alpha.5 — Release Notes

Version 0.4.0-alpha.5 introduces pseudo-fullscreen streaming and enhanced overlay controls, ensuring video streams can expand to full screen across desktop and mobile devices without losing access to door locks, lights, or glance icons.

🌟 What's New in v0.4.0-alpha.5

1. Container-Level Fullscreen with Overlay Controls

• Preserved Controls: Clicking fullscreen on desktop browsers elevates the entire card container (ha-card or modal viewer) into fullscreen rather than isolating the raw <video> element.
• Always Accessible: Door lock buttons, light switches, glance sensors, and video controls remain interactive over the live stream or recording playback while in fullscreen.
• Synced Button State: The fullscreen control button dynamically toggles between mdi:fullscreen and mdi:fullscreen-exit with matching localized tooltips.

2. iOS Safari Pseudo-Fullscreen

• Viewport Expansion: On iPhone / iOS Safari where the HTML5 Fullscreen API is restricted for custom DOM elements, clicking fullscreen activates a dedicated pseudo-fullscreen mode that expands the card to fill the browser viewport.
• Keyboard & Touch Dismiss: Easily exit pseudo-fullscreen using the overlay exit button, touching outside, or pressing the Escape key on physical keyboards.
• Automatic Teardown: Exiting or stopping a stream or video playback automatically exits all fullscreen states, cleanly restoring background page scrolling.

3. Touch & Mobile Refinements

• Extended video control overlay display timeouts on touch and mobile devices (4 seconds vs 2 seconds) for comfortable control interaction.
• Added touch event debouncing to prevent accidental control flashing during multi-touch gestures.

4. Secondary Door Sensor Status Fix

• Fixed status tooltip lookup for secondary door contact sensors (door2) to correctly use door_open and door_closed localization keys instead of nonexistent door2_* keys.

5. Dual-Naming Compatibility & Auto-Discovery

• Automatic Modern & Legacy Entity Resolution: Seamlessly works with both modern (<device>_<function>, e.g. sensor.aarlo_front_battery_level) and legacy (<function>_<device>, e.g. sensor.aarlo_battery_level_front) entity IDs without requiring card configuration changes.
• Auto-Discovery: Automatically binds camera spotlights (light.aarlo_<camera>_spotlight) and doorbell chimes (binary_sensor.aarlo_<camera>_ding) when omitted from card configuration.
• Migration Resilience: If legacy entity IDs are explicitly specified in existing card YAML, the card automatically falls back to modern counterparts if the legacy IDs no longer exist in Home Assistant.