v2.3.0

✨ New

• Litescope min hops auto repeat

🔧 Improved

• Fix card registration

v2.2.1

🔧 Improved

• Moved litescope url to integration settings (solves cross-device usage).
• Fix: keep resend button after page refresh

v2.2.0

✨ New

LiteScope integration

• Real hop count and propagation: each channel message you send is looked up on LiteScope and gets a second chip under the bubble, e.g. 🔭 4 observers · 3 hops. Hovering shows the regions reached, and clicking opens the packet trace in LiteScope.
• Delivery check: a message seen by at least one observer counts as delivered, so the manual Resend button disappears. Otherwise the chip says not seen, or unavailable if LiteScope can't be reached or can't read the channel.
• Auto-resend (off by default): after the configured wait, the message is sent again only if LiteScope answered and has no trace of it, the companion heard no repeater, and the send itself didn't fail. The new bubble is tagged auto-resend N and tracked the same way.

v2.1.0

MeshCore Companion Cards is now a Home Assistant integration. It adds a full-page MeshCore panel to the sidebar, loads both cards by itself, and supports meshcore-ha 3.0.

⚠️ Breaking changes

• Install type changed. The repository is now a HACS Integration, not a Dashboard plugin. Existing users need to reinstall once (see "Upgrading" below).
• Requires meshcore-ha 3.0 or newer and Home Assistant 2025.6 or newer.
• Administrator account needed for the consoles, channel provisioning, adding or removing contacts, adverts and device settings. meshcore-ha 3.0 restricts companion commands to admins. Reading and sending messages works for every user.

✨ New

Sidebar panel

• The chat UI is available as a full-page MeshCore panel in the sidebar, with the Home Assistant app bar.
• Every view has its own URL, so browser back, bookmarks and links work:
  • /meshcore/chats, /meshcore/chats/ch/<idx>, /meshcore/chats/dm/<pubkey>
  • /meshcore/nodes, /meshcore/nodes/<pubkey>
  • /meshcore/console
  • /meshcore/settings/<tab>
• On phones, opening a chat is a real navigation step, so the phone's back button returns to the chat list.
• One panel per companion. Title, icon, URL path and "administrators only" are editable under Configure.

Zero-config install

• Set up through Settings → Devices & Services → Add integration → MeshCore Companion Cards.
• custom:meshcore-chat-card and custom:meshcore-repeater-card are loaded automatically. No dashboard resources and no configuration.yaml entries.

meshcore-ha 3.0 support

• Accurate delivery status. Messages are tracked by the integration's send_id, so "sending…" holds for the whole repeat-collection window (4 to 20 s) and late ACKs no longer create duplicate bubbles.
• New statuses:
  • unconfirmed (too long to hear repeats) for long channel messages whose repeats can't be observed.
  • A failure reason under the bubble when a message never leaves the companion (not connected, rejected, contact missing, or held back by the mesh traffic policy).
• Several companions. Each card and panel only shows its own companion's messages. The config entry is resolved automatically from the device prefix.
• Safer commands. Rejected or rate-limited commands are reported as errors instead of success, and non-admins get a clear message.

🔧 Improved

• The narrow (phone) layout now follows the width of the card itself, so a card in a narrow dashboard column also stacks list and conversation.
• The repeater card console ignores replies from other companions and reports failed logins.
• Channel discovery relies on the integration's get_channels service; the unsupported select.meshcore_* helper is no longer used.
• README rewritten, including all four example bot automations.
• Polish translation for the setup dialogs.

⬆️ Upgrading from 2.0 and older

1. In HACS, remove the old MeshCore Companion Cards download.
2. Add https://github.com/RikoDEV/ha-meshcore-cards as a custom repository of type Integration, download it, and restart Home Assistant.
3. Remove the old entries under Settings → Dashboards → ⋮ → Resources (/hacsfiles/ha-meshcore-cards/… or /local/meshcore-…-card.js) and delete any copies in config/www/.
4. If you added a panel_custom: entry for meshcore-panel to configuration.yaml, remove it.
5. Go to Settings → Devices & Services → Add integration → MeshCore Companion Cards and pick your companion.

Your dashboards keep working: card types and options are unchanged.

📦 Fresh install

1. Open HACS and choose ⋮ → Custom repositories.
2. Add https://github.com/RikoDEV/ha-meshcore-cards with type Integration.
3. Click Download on MeshCore Companion Cards.
4. Restart Home Assistant.
5. Add the MeshCore Companion Cards integration and pick your companion.