changelog

Changed

• Web-configurator: allow manual input source entry for media-player input source command (integration-androidtv#47).

Added

• Android TV integration:
  • Allow manual app launch with URL / app-id (integration-androidtv#47). Supported in the web-configurator from 1.7.14.
  • Quickline TV app. Contributed by @splattner, thanks!
• Apple TV integration: simple commands for skip forward and backward, alternative FF/RW commands with companion protocol. Contributed by @albaintor, thanks! (integration-appletv#19)
• Denon AVR integration:
  • Configurable volume step (in setup flow) and improved refresh of volume. Contributed by @albaintor, thanks! (integration-denonavr#38)
  • New commands for Output Monitor 1, Monitor 2, Monitor Auto. Contributed by @splattner, thanks! (integration-denonavr#37)
  • New commands: dim display, power toggle, trigger 1 & 2 (integration-denonavr#37).

Fixed

• Prevent standby if remote is taken out of the dock (#375).
• Enable top dock IR emitter when selecting all outputs (#378).
• Send_cmd object for external integrations (#381).
• Restore external remote-entities from backup (#382).
• Denon AVR integration: prevent disconnect state deadlock after setup or when aborting setup.

Public release containing all beta releases since 1.7.7.

Added

• Android TV integration: profiles for Philips TV and Dune HD Homatics, new apps. Contributed by @Kat-CeDe, thanks!
• Support remote-entity in integrations (core-api#44).
  • Home Assistant Remote Entity support (integration-home-assistant#23).
• Major Android TV integration update:
  • Support multiple Android TV instances and French translation. Contributed by @albaintor, thanks! (#253).
  • New media-player features, long-press commands and device profiles (generic, Google Chromecast, NVIDIA Shield TV for now) (#90, #92, integration-androidtv#34).
    • To update already configured entities: click "Reload" in the available entities pane in the web-configurator.
  • Kodi app mapping and German setup translation. Contributed by @Kat-CeDe, thanks!
• Standby inhibitor management functions in Core-API (required for #136).

Fixed

• German translation for cover-entity state "open".
• Media component image aspect ratio (#350, #369).
• Android TV integration: update androidtvremote2 library to fix a network disconnection error (integration-androidtv#40).
• German translations for media-player commands "back" and "previous" (#366).
• Web-configurator:
  • Removed entities from a profile group do not appear in the list again (#345).
  • Editing of activity GUI is not working after some added commands (#355).
• Android TV integration:
  • Same Android TV device cannot be controlled by multiple Remote Two devices (#362, integration-androidtv#39).
  • Improved reconnection handling (#283).
  • Re-authenticate a configured device with an invalid certificate (integration-androidtv#36).
  • Power on/off command handling based on device state (#218).
• "Prevent sleep" activity option when activity is used in activity groups (#281, #326).

Changed

• Apple TV integration: unique device name prefix for pairing to easily identify paired devices on Apple TV (#362).

Added

• Public opt-in for beta-software updates.
• IR codes for Lumagen Radiance Pro (#198).

Fixed

• Web-configurator:
  • Scrollbars displayed on custom icons page (#336).
  • IR-remote button mappings don't show assigned command in edit dialog.
• Apple TV integration: device is no longer switched on with the switch-off command in standby mode (#349).
• Denon AVR integration: New commands: dpad, menu, context_menu and info. Contributed by @albaintor, thanks! (integration-denonavr#33).

Changed

• Apple TV integration: "menu"-command instead of "settings" for control-center (#56).

Fixed

• Long press only mapping doesn't work (#94).
• UI reports old integration version (#338).
• Apple TV integration:
  • Invalid driver metadata file for the Remote Two (#340).
  • Temporary workaround for standby check (integration-appletv#15).

New Features

• Allow disabling the status LED with a brightness value set to 0, except for OTA update, identify, and factory reset indications (#51).

Bug Fixes

• Disable ethernet LED if there's no link (#36).
  With a link and the LED brightness set to 0, the LED will be switched off 3 seconds after receiving an IP address.
• Improved OTA update error handling for invalid, aborted or dropped uploads.

Changes

• Reduce LED pattern debug logging

Added

• Long- and short-press button mappings support in the web-configurator and user interface (feature-and-bug-tracker#56, feature-and-bug-tracker#90, feature-and-bug-tracker#94).
  • Please note that the additional commands are only supported in the Apple TV integration at the moment. The other integrations will be enhanced with future updates.
• New media-player features, commands and button mappings (core-api#32).
• Show network indicator in entity detail screen.
• Apple TV integration:
  • New media-player features (#56):
  • Multi-device support (#118).
  • Enhanced reconfiguration and manual setup option with IP address.
• Propagate entity feature-changes to already configured entities, for example if a device supports more features in a driver update.
  • This is triggered if the integration driver version changes, or if the user requests the available entities.

Fixed

• User interface:
  • Entity detail screen closed if entity is unavailable.
  • Media player:
    • only update the image if image url has changed (#327).
    • do not clear data if entity is unavailable.
    • button mappings for all device classes.
    • artwork aspect ratio was incorrect in some cases.
  • Wrongly showing failed integration setup in some cases, when setup was successful.
• Web-configurator: show correct dock LED brightness when set to 0 (#304).
• Apple TV integration:
  • Only discover Apple TV 4 and newer devices (#173).
  • Improved disconnect & reconnect handling. This should solve the reported BlockedStateError issues (#300).
  • Automatically wake up Apple TV if a command is sent while it is in standby.
  • Fast-forward and rewind commands.
  • Automatically migrate old configuration file at startup and beginning of configuration flow.
• Home-Assistant integration: correctly report integration driver version.

Changed

• Speed up dock & integration connection logic for Android TV, Apple TV, Denon AVR, Home-Assistant (#320).
• Entity detail screen can be also closed with long press of Home or Back buttons.
• Home-Assistant integration: disconnect from HA server in standby (integration-home-assistant#50).
• Apple TV integration:
  • Play/Pause will exit screensaver and continue playing paused media.
  • Update pyatv client library and other dependencies to fix possible connectivity issues.

Fixed

• Dock LED brightness not shown correctly in UI (remote-ui#14).
• Activity loading stuck  (#311).

Fixed

• Media player button mapping not working in an activity (#237).
• Media player progress time might go over boundaries.
• Entity state texts can be translated and are available on Crowdin (#290).
• Web-configurator:
  - Visual bug when moving items in user interface page (#275).
  - Dock LED brightness setting (#304).
• Home Assistant integration:
  - Extract and convert color information from received HA light entities to follow external color changes. Supported color models: xy, hs, rgb (integration-home-assistant#7).
  - Connection timeout setting was used as request timeout. TCP connection timeout was always set to 5 seconds (integration-home-assistant#47).
  - Connection state handling in initial setup to avoid restart (integration-home-assistant#43).

Changed

• Info logs for button events

Fixed

• Device power state handling when switching activities in the same activity group. Fixes for "Turn off unused entities" options:
  - "Always": determine correct power commands of IR remote-entities (#225).
  - "Run modified off sequence": correct order of original power-off sequence commands (#286).
• Regression in activity groups when adding an activity to a group: activity is correctly associated to the group without having to restart the remote (#225).

Added

• Activity groups: New option for switching activities: "Run modified off sequence" (#64).
  - Run the original off-sequence of the old activity and dynamically filter out power-off commands.
• Web-configurator: configure, check and install Remote Two software updates (#274).
• Dynamic power toggle feature in remote-entity. Automatically add a POWER_TOGGLE command if the IR dataset has POWER_ON and POWER_OFF commands.

Fixed

• Web-configurator:
  - Show correct dock status LED brightness value (#178).
  - Available entities not shown in last setup-flow step.
  - Backup: Show status display for backup and restore operations.
• Integration drivers: subscribe_events message sequence order after authentication (#272).
• Entity group toggle only toggles the first entity in the group (#279).
• Activity group shows the set default options for "Remove delays after turn-on commands" and "turn-off unused entities" instead of an empty setting.
• Web-configurator dock handling:
  - Show correct version number after firmware update (#179).
  - Improved error handling if firmware update failed (#54, #184).
  - Show dock release notes if a new update is available.
  - Clicking on the available dock firmware update notification opens the dock information and doesn't automatically trigger the update anymore.
• Activity states are lost when editing an activity group (#225).

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Fixed

• Backup restore of larger custom IR codesets fails because of size limit.
• Core-API: retrieve dock status LED brightness setting. Web-configurator will be fixed in a future update.

Breaking changes

• Changed IR code format for toggle & sequence codes. This should not affect many users, since this was a hidden feature only mentioned in the API.
  - The | separator is now used for two PRONTO toggle codes.
  - The + separator is used for IR sequences of 2 or more codes.
  - Manually added IR code sequences must be changed to use the + separator.

Added

• Additional infrared codesets for set-top boxes and generic TV codesets for: Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp
• Settings option to always show battery percentage on the remote.
• Android TV integration: more app mappings, launch Max, Spotify, Steam Link, Videoland, Ziggo (thanks to Lars-' contribution).

Fixed

• Sporadic system freezes related to key presses.
• IR toggle-bit support logic for RC-5, RC-6, RC-MM 32bit (Nokia32) protocols (#126, #129, #148, #234).
• Allow saving of activities and macros containing deleted entities (#208).
• Clear activity cache when editing activity group (#225).
• UI fixes and improvements:
  - Unresponsive buttons after closing an activity.
  - Inconsistent behaviour for unavailable entity for key select vs tap.
  - Command execution loop when command fails.
  - Wait for previous command ACK before sending new command.
  - Language text retrieval.
• Web-configurator fixes and improvements:
  - Resource upload: invalid image freezes & crashes web app (#232).
  - Scrolling through available entities list resets to top (#242).
  - Disable entity configuration if integration is disconnected.
  - Confirmation dialogs for resetting button- and UI-mappings.
• Roon integration: disable album art image logging to prevent blocking, improved zone subscription logic.
• Home Assistant integration: reconnect to HA server after changing driver configuration, improved reconnection logic (#243).

Changed

• Home-Assistant integration: unlimited reconnection attempts by default (#263).
• Enhanced logging of activity groups and IR toggle-bits.
• Linux kernel update and keypad driver.

Fixed

• Sony TV IR codes (#143).
• Backup of Denon AVR integration and activity groups.
• Roon integration crash during setup and zone changes while nothing is playing (#215).
• Improved web-configurator reconnection and request timeout handling. A reconnection screen is shown while disconnected.

Changed

• Reconfiguration of integration drivers in the web-configurator without removing and adding the driver again.
  Note: this might not yet work for all drivers!

Added

• Preview feature settings in web-configurator.
• IR blaster in the remote as preview feature (#75).
• Attention: native IR-repeat is not yet supported.

Added

• Initial test version of activity groups (#64).
• WS Core-API: entity-type & activity-group specific change-event channels for subscribe_events.
• REST Core-API: configuration of the overall IR command repeat for a remote-entity.
• The configuration in the Web-configurator will be added in a future update.
• This is useful for certain PRONTO codes, which must be sent twice, e.g. for Sony devices.

Fixed

• Improve WiFi stability on certain networks.
• Use / character in IR code names (#187).
• Icons are lost on macros in UI app (#202).
• Common fixes in UI app.
• WebSocket Core-API: don't auto-subscribe new clients to all events.

Added

• Android TV & Denon AVR: manual setup by IP address.

Fixed

• Roon integration: common improvements.

Added

• Home Assistant scenes support. Active scenes with the push button entity.

Fixed

• Roon integration crashes (#109).
• Home Assistant & Denon AVR media-player sound mode selection (#165).
• Android TV crash after wakeup if a rediscovery is started for a non-reachable device.

Changed

• Disable fallback DNS, only use DNS set by DHCP.

Added

• Denon AVR integration for network capable receivers.
• Multiple zones are not yet supported.
• Multiple ressource-file upload in web-configurator.
• Android TV: support rewind, fast-forward, menu and color buttons (device-dependent).

Fixed

• Dock firmware update for manually configured docks (#184).
• Android TV: improved reconnection handling and setup flow. Detect changed IP address.
• Philips Hue: runtime crashes if bridge communication failed or timed out (#150).

Added

• Web-configurator: activity group management (#64).
  This does not yet include the entity power state logic, when switching between activities within a group.
• Button to delete current WiFi network.
• Error state handling when starting activities.
• Show source list for all media player device types.

Fixed

• Crash when deleting entities from group (#147).
• Entity titles disappear while editing or state changes (#152).
• Support WiFi SSID names with proper UTF-8 encoding (#158).
• Special, non-UTF-8 names are not yet supported!
• Activity loosing button control (#161).
• Media player power-toggle command is not dependent on entity-features.
• Ignored button presses, if the command previously resulted in an error.
• Improved Android TV reconnection after wakeup (#34).
• Web-configurator:
• Entity commands with bool parameter (#133).
• Media-player select_source command editor with source selection in UI component and button mapping.
• Edit IR codes after import.
• Reload data if activity couldn't be saved.
• Improved layout for non-english texts.
• Missing icons in button mappings.

Added

• Initial set of French and Italian translations. A very big thank you to all Crowdin contributors!
• Web-configurator contains almost all translated texts, the UI app only a partial set.
• We'll continue updating the translations and start fixing the UI where texts don't fit.
• Support for dynamic UI page grid size in web-configurator (#66).
• Support for media-player user interface item in web-configurator (#68).
• Edit integration icons (#105).

Fixed

• Provide Activity Off command (#125).

Changed

• Increased max activity sequence timeout from 30 to 60s (#137).