New nodes
- Tag (beta)
- Time (move to beta from alpha)
- Device (alpha) requires v0.5.2+ of the NR companion custom component
- Create device based event triggers
- Trigger device actions
Features
Queues for call-service node
There always seemed to be confusion over why the call-service node would report an error of no connection to server. This error is often thrown when using a starting node that fires directly after loading, i.e. Bigtimer, eztimer. The cause was that the node would trigger the flow before the HA config node had a chance to connect to Home Assistant hence 'no connection to server. This update adds a queue system to the call-service node. With the ability to save only the first/last message or all messages and then resend them after NR has successfully connected to HA.
Async done / complete
Home Assistant nonevent nodes will notify the Node-RED runtime when it has completed its action. Basically, the complete node will now function with HA nodes.
https://nodered.org/blog/2019/08/16/going-async
https://nodered.org/blog/2019/09/20/node-done
Helper functions added to JSONata Expressions
https://zachowj.github.io/node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket/guide/jsonata.html
- $randomNumber
- $sampleSize
Migrations
The node migration system has been reworked and allows for updating all HA nodes with a push of a single button. With this release, a lot of nodes have changed how certain data is saved. So it is highly recommended to make a backup of your flows before doing upgrades.
Custom Outputs
- API
- Current state
- Device
- Events: all
- Events: state
- Fire event
- Poll state
- Render Template
- Tag
- Time
- Wait Until
- Webhook
- Zone
Features
- Add $randomNumber and $sampleSize as JSONata helper functions (b5b65bf)
- Add device node (b08fcbe)
- api: Add custom outputs (da0187f)
- call-service: Add message queue (58df3a0)
- current-state: Add custom ouputs (f4ecbb8)
- events-all: Add custom outputs (0a3fc23)
- events-state: Add custom outputs (aa07fb4)
- Make use of NR v1.0 async send and done (d5b69f4)
- migrations: Add config nodes to mass update (5d23126)
- tag: Add tag node (17585bb)
- time: Move time node to beta release (27caacc)
- webhook: Add custom outputs (5dff14b)
Bug Fixes
- api: add try catch for setCustomOutputs (ee5189d)
- Check for valid property for custom outputs (f971856)
- Check for valid server before processing input (a86a9a6)
- check for valid server config before using it (d7b322b)
- ci: Don't lint included external libs (8cd6735)
- destroy bonjour after finished using it (eb2208f)
- entity-switch: Remove unused declaration (e6b15a0)
- Fix Comms import (8c51877)
- migration: Move event-state for properties to a newer version (de68154)
- migrations: make sure schema version is a number (e1bc0f8)
- migrations: swap conditional for default value (996b9ef)
- only trim spaces of server url if it exists (f9ce69f)
- poll-state: call correct error method (5f7b1a8)
- poll-state: Use correct element id for entity_id input (0c2fe30)
- request autocomplete results only if server actually changes (27dc32a)
- routes: fix server id for getting integration version (fc6c808)
- routes: flatten out properties array (45df3f1)
- status: check for valid homeAssistant before adding listeners (c1d29ec)
- time: Check jsonata length before attempting to find entity ids (e3de59e)
- time: use correct i18n errror message (be3db24)
- Use correct element id for update all button (6bcf9a8)
- use the correct RED (03bb7a0)
Documentation
- Add github discussions link to header (dfa74a7)
- Add new nodes to index (7b305d0)
- Add new nodes to TOC (9a73e86)
- cookbook: Correct spelling (28928b4)
- cookbook: Update starting flow after HA reboot (388b70a)
- current-state: add information about custom outputs (e9fcb91)
- events-state: Add custom output information (e2a11a9)