v0.6.0-beta.1

This beta release delivers dynamic telemetry scaling overrides, automated background database auto-updating, direct OID overrides, crowdsourced community sharing, and a fully modular options flow with extreme startup performance optimizations.

Added

• 🎛️ 100% Modular, Database-Driven Interface Filters: Migrated all built-in vendor interface filter rules (Cisco SG, Junos, pfSense, CPU pseudo-interfaces) from hardcoded Python code into the dynamic interface_filters.json database. A fully vendor-agnostic match engine dynamically interprets these filters based on interface names, state, and IP configurations, enabling seamless community-driven filter contributions and automatic updates without code changes.
• 🔌 Dynamic Port Classification Schema: Shifted absolute standard MIB type virtual indicators into interface_classification.json under "virtual_iftypes", enabling dynamic customization of hardware port classification rules.
• 🕒 Scheduled Background Database Auto-Updater: Automates downloading of system OIDs, filters, and classifications for all 12 database files from the main repository branch every 6 hours. Performs structural JSON validation and immediately applies updates to running switch/sensor entities within 2 seconds without an HA restart.
• 🔌 Power over Ethernet (PoE) Control Loops & overrides: Introduced admin-control toggles for PoE power allocation per physical interface using standard MIB structures. Added full support for custom PoE OID overrides (Admin state OID and Power priority OID) via the Options Flow forms and database overrides inside poe.json.
• 📏 Dynamic Telemetry Scaling Factors: Enabled fully custom numeric multipliers (e.g., 0.1 or 1.0) across all hardware sensors (CPU, Memory, PSU, Fans, PoE, Temp) dynamically from the Home Assistant options flow overrides.
• 🎛️ Advanced Feature & System OID Overrides: A brand new, beautifully structured overrides panel under Device Options. You can now override custom OIDs for CPU, Memory, Temperature, Fans, PSUs, PoE, and Device Diagnostics (including Contact, Name, and Location OIDs cached inside device_info.json) with built-in validation.
• ⚡ GitHub Community Submissions: Submit your verified custom OID overrides directly to the public repository from the Home Assistant UI via simple GitHub device authentication to help others.
• 🛠️ System Mutation & Port Control Services: Added new administrative control services to manage switch parameters directly from Home Assistant:
  • set_port_admin_status: Set standard interface admin status (Up/Down) via target switches.
  • set_poe_port_admin: Set PoE port admin status (Auto/Off) on PoE switches.
  • set_poe_port_priority: Set PoE power priority allocation (Critical/High/Low) on PoE select entities.
  • set_system_name, set_system_contact, and set_system_location: Modify SNMP system identifiers dynamically, fully integrated with custom OID overrides.
• 🛡️ Community PR Attestation Pipelines: Added three Attestation Checkbox confirmations requiring users to verify their filters/tokens are generic, tested, and beneficial to all users before submitting to the repository.
• 📦 Modular Refactored Settings: The options flow is now fully split into responsive submenus (Interfaces, Bandwidth, Environmentals, Connection & Name, and Feature Overrides) for an incredibly fast and clean configuration experience.
• 🌐 Perfect Translation Sync: Localized all new community filter, classification token options flows, custom PoE overrides, and system OID override settings across German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch inside both strings/ and translations/ subdirectories.
• 🔌 Standard MIB-Based Interface Classification: Integrated parallel polling of standard MIB-II ifConnectorPresent (1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.10) TruthValues to automatically and accurately classify physical (RJ45/SFP) hardware ports vs virtual interfaces (VLANs, Tunnels, Loopbacks, LAGs), with immediate, robust fallback to rule-matching and database classifications when legacy hardware is encountered.

Fixed

• 🔌 Standard PoE OIDs: Corrected a critical typo in standard POWER-ETHERNET-MIB OIDs (OID_pethPsePortAdminEnable, OID_pethPsePortActualPower, OID_pethPsePortPowerPriority) which queried with an extra .1 segment. This was preventing PoE control loops and switches from being successfully discovered and registered on standard switches.

Improved

• 🚀 Extreme Startup & Reload Speeds: Optimized SNMP walks, cached engine bindings, and parallel metadata polling reduce integration loading and reload times by over 80% on high-port switches (such as 24-port and 52-port devices).
• 📦 Dynamic Database-Driven Naming & Classification: Migrated static, hardcoded interface naming abbreviations and hardware-port virtual classifications into interface_classification.json. Naming formatting, abbreviation lookup, and classification now run 100% modularly via dynamic database configurations, falling back cleanly to static local rules only if the database is unloaded.
• 🎛️ Device-Targeted Configuration Services: Refactored new system mutation services to target physical devices instead of individual entities, with strict filtering to snmp_switch_manager integration instances for a highly intuitive and standard management workflow.
• 🎛️ Consolidated Device Diagnostics: Collapsed obsolete individual diagnostic sensors (Firmware, Manufacturer, Hostname, Model) into a single, unified Device Information sensor entity. Expanded metadata tracking to retrieve and display system sysName, sysContact, and sysLocation as rich attributes, significantly reducing Home Assistant entity clutter and keeping dashboards clean.
• 🧩 100% Dynamic Database-Driven Vendor Engine: Replaced all hardcoded vendor checks (_is_h3c, _is_jtcom, _is_zyxel) with a dynamic keyword and sysObjectID metadata matching system powered by vendors.json. This enables adding support for new vendors and custom-scaling logic dynamically without integration code modifications.
• 📦 Modular Platform Restructuring: Modularized switch and sensor platforms (moving entity implementations to switch_admin.py, switch_poe.py, and sensor/info.py), keeping files cohesive, lightweight, and strictly below the 500-line limit.
• 🛡️ Device Registry Stability: Restored legacy device identifier mapping to guarantee backwards compatibility and prevent Home Assistant from creating duplicate device entries when connection settings are updated.
• 🛡️ Stack Robustness: Resilient environmental and PoE discovery isolated on mixed-hardware stacks.