Version 2026.6.0-beta1

🌱 What's new in 2026.6.0-beta1

Three new feature sets in this beta. Thanks to @danielbrunt57 (#449) and @gczobel (#439) for the contributions.

🪴 OpenPlantbook care guidance (#451)

Plants now expose per-species care text from OpenPlantbook as individual state attributes — care_watering, care_sunlight, care_soil, care_pruning, care_fertilization — for any species that has them. Reference them in templates, automations, or dashboards.

🔄 Restore state across restarts (#449)

Plant and sensor entities now keep their last known values across a Home Assistant restart instead of showing unknown until the source sensors report again. Restored values are held during a 10-minute startup grace window and replaced the moment live data arrives — a real improvement for push-only BLE sensors that broadcast irregularly.

⚠️ Structured problems + logbook (#439)

Each plant exposes a problems attribute: a list of every active threshold violation (sensor_type, status, current, min, max). Problem onset and recovery are also written to the Home Assistant logbook (deduplicated — one entry when a problem appears, one when it clears), e.g. "conductivity low — current: 352, min: 400". An example dashboard is included under examples/.

⚠️ Upgrade note: existing plants must be refreshed (Force refresh, or change the species) to populate the new care_* attributes. Newly added plants get them automatically.

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Notable changes since v2026.5.1

v2026.6.0-beta1 (2026-06-01)

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Closed issues:

• No easy way to know what’s wrong #448
• Restore plant and sensor states after Home Assistant restart #444
• DLI has a unit of measurement or precision mismatch #443
• Watering and fertilizing interval #415

Merged pull requests:

• Release 2026.6.0-beta1 #452 (Olen)
• Expose OpenPlantbook care guidance as care_* attributes #451 (Olen)
• ci: add workflow permissions and fix master→main triggers #450 (Olen)
• Restore plant and sensor states after Home Assistant restart #449 (danielbrunt57)
• Allow 0.1 precision for DLI Min/Max thresholds #447 (danielbrunt57)
• Feat: plant problems logbook #439 (gczobel)

v2026.5.2-beta1 (2026-05-27)

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Closed issues:

• VPD calculation incorrect when using Farenheit #440
• Fahrenheit Soil Temperature #438

Merged pull requests:

• release: 2026.5.2-beta1 #442 (Olen)
• fix: temperature unit handling for imperial-configured installs #441 (Olen)