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Greg v1.6.5b3
Pre-release
Pre-release
Test build of 1.6.5. Not for general use.
What it will contain when it ships:
Added
- Greg on your phone. Not a new ability, an explanation and a shortcut. He
has always spoken through anymedia_player, so a phone only needs something
on it for him to speak through. The README now covers the three ways to do
that, browser_mod being the least invasive, along with the four steps that
fail silently if you miss them. - Speak on this device. When the browser showing Greg's panel has a
browser_mod player of its own, a button appears under the Speaker dropdown
that switches him to it in one tap. - Greg says why he was silent. He checks his speaker before speaking now
and reports it in the panel when he cannot: a speaker that has been renamed,
one that has gone unavailable, or a browser refusing to play audio until
somebody taps the page. All of those used to leave him reporting a line he
never delivered. speech_problemattribute on the mood sensor, carrying the same thing.- Conditions. Greg can now consult the same core conditions the rest of
your automations use, rather than only his own clock. Rows of entity /
isoris not/ state in his panel, all of which have to hold or he keeps
quiet. Requested by
euf0ria on the forum thread. - Conditions sit alongside quiet hours rather than replacing them, so anyone
who has not written any notices no change at all. - Each row shows the entity's current state, and warns when what you have typed
can never match it.input_boolean.x is falsenever fires, because an
input_booleanisonoroff. - The panel says which condition is keeping him quiet, rather than leaving you
to work out why a poke did nothing. blockedandblocked_byattributes on the mood sensor.quiet_hoursstill
means only the clock, so automations reading it are unaffected.greg.set_optionstakes aconditionslist, so the same thing can be
scripted.
Changed
- Quiet hours and conditions have their own card, "When Greg keeps quiet",
below the mood card. They answer the same question and now live in the same
place, with room for as many conditions as you want and its own Save. The
settings block carries a summary and a link down to it. - The card says what is actually holding him, so a poke that does nothing has
a visible reason. - The panel's settings are one block again. They were rendered twice, once
in the cog popover and once in the right-hand column, and kept in step by
hand. Now it is a single block that CSS moves: the popover below 1000px, the
column above. - Settings are grouped into what he listens to, how he speaks, and when he
keeps quiet, rather than twelve fields in a row. - Wide screens are two columns rather than three. Greg and his last line stack
together; settings gets a column of its own. - One breakpoint fewer. Between 720 and 1000 pixels you now get the phone
layout at a wider size instead of a two-column arrangement nobody asked for. - Uninstall is a card-level action rather than the last thing in a popover you
could not reach the bottom of. - The lines editor looks like the rest of the panel now. It was built
before everything else settled on a look and had kept its own: blue buttons
where the rest of Greg is green, pill-shaped controls where the rest is
softly rounded, and outlined rows where every other list is filled. Nothing
moved, it just stopped looking like it came from somewhere else.
Fixed
- The speaker dropdown offered entities that were not there. It listed
every entity in the domain regardless of state, and several of them can share
a name, so picking the right one was guesswork. Dead entities are gone now
and duplicates carry their entity id. Whatever is currently saved stays in the
list even when unavailable: dropping it would leave the select on its first
option, so applying an unrelated setting could quietly move Greg onto a
different speaker. (#7) - The settings closed on every touch below 1000px. The click-outside
handler asked whether the click was inside the panel usingcontains, which
cannot see into a shadow DOM: every click looked like it was outside, so the
settings shut the moment you touched one. (#5) - The settings could not be scrolled, so on a short screen the bottom of
them was unreachable. They now have their own scroll and stay inside it. (#5) - The panel leaked one document listener per teardown.
- Greg's options no longer eat his settings. Pressing Submit in Greg's
options replaced the whole stored options rather than merging into them, so
it deleted any lines you had written and any conditions you had set, and
reverted advanced settings changed since install. Present since custom lines
shipped in 1.6.0.
Notes
- browser_mod needs the page open and visible. Android freezes a backgrounded
webview and Greg goes quiet with it, so it suits showing him off rather than
being a permanent speaker. - The Companion app cannot do this on its own. Its TTS notifications use the
phone's own voice, and it registers no Assist satellite, so there is nothing
to push his real voice to. - An entity that is missing, unavailable or unknown does not block Greg. Rename
something and he carries on talking, rather than going quiet for good with
nothing to say why. - Twenty conditions is the cap. That is there to stop a stray automation writing
thousands of rows into the config entry, not because anyone will reach it.