V1.7

🚀 Additional Features & Architectural Changes

🏗️ Config Subentry Architecture

• Subentry Pattern Implementation: Transititioned the internal architecture to use a ConfigSubentry pattern (#209, #353). This allows for granular management of individual devices (Trackers) and the Service itself within a single parent Config Entry.
• Subentry Flows: Added specific config flows for managing subentries, including device selection and options handling (#212, #353).
• Self-Healing & Deduplication: Implemented logic to prevent duplicate subentries and automatically heal/link orphaned devices to the correct service anchor (#419, #432).

☁️ Discovery & Automation

• Cloud Discovery: Added support for cloud discovery triggers. The integration can now automatically detect when new trackers are added to the Google account and prompt to register them in Home Assistant (#244, #271).
• Discovery Runtime: Implemented the underlying runtime to handle discovery signals and metadata (#245).

🎛️ UI & Entities

• Stop Sound Button: Added a dedicated "Stop Sound" button entity (and service) to explicitly stop ringing devices (#49).
• Nova Auth Sensor: Added a specific binary sensor to surface the immediate authentication status of the Nova API (#149, #156).
• Contributor Mode: Added and localized specific options for "Contributor Mode" to assist with advanced debugging (#663).
• Activity Health Tracking: Implemented activity-based health tracking specifically for FCM (Firebase) clients to detect stalled connections (#708).

⚡ Performance & Quality of Life

• Lazy Loading: Significantly improved startup time and event-loop stability by lazy-loading heavy dependencies:
  • Recorder history fallback (#706)
  • Protobuf decoders (#705)
  • http_ece encryption modules (#705)
  • Chromedriver dependencies (#599)
• Strict Typing & Linting: Enforced strict mypy typing across the codebase (Coordinators, API helpers) and added Semgrep SAST workflows for higher code quality (#265, #624, #215).

🐛 Specific Bug Fixes

• History & Timestamps:
  • Fixed Recorder history to respect the last_seen timestamp from the device rather than the Home Assistant state-change timestamp. This ensures historical maps reflect the actual time the device was at a location, not when HA received the update (#163, #165, #167).
  • Fixed datetime handling to strictly use UTC and ISO strings, resolving future deprecation warnings (#160, #184).
• Map View Rendering:
  • Fixed HTML escaping issues within the Map View entity (#182).
  • Fixed last_seen parsing specifically for Map View ISO formats (#162).
• Data Accuracy:
  • Fixed altitude-only updates being dropped if coordinates hadn't changed (#148).
  • Prioritized fresher decoder location reports over cached data to prevent "rubber-banding" logic (#146).
• Notifications:
  • Fixed GCM sender fallback logic when receiving HTML responses instead of JSON (#172).

HUGE thanks to @jleinenbach for this release!