0.6.0 - 2026-08-12

✨ Features

• 17 Languages: The Twilight panel — every card, dialog, and label — is now available in Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian, matching Home Assistant's own language setting automatically.

• Respect Off: Activities can now be set to leave a light alone if it was switched off manually while active, instead of turning it back on at the next slot change.

• Rule Control Over Manual Off: Rules can now force an Activity to either respect or ignore manually switched-off lights while the rule is active, overriding the Activity's own setting.

🎨 Improvements

• Clean Reinstall: Removing the Twilight integration now also clears its stored configuration, so adding it again starts fresh instead of restoring old areas.

• Translated Service & Setup Text: The Trigger Input service and the one-time setup step now show properly translated text in Home Assistant's supported languages instead of always falling back to English.

• Localized Heatmap Week Start: The Analytics heatmap now starts its week on the day Home Assistant's language settings expect, instead of always starting on Monday.

• Light Command Handling Refactor: Reworked how Twilight sends and retries light commands internally, making transitions and retries more consistent across scenes and single lights.

• Faster Areas Tab Switching: Switching away from and back to the Areas tab now keeps its live data and any area you have open, instead of reloading everything from scratch.

🔧 Fixes

• Startup Responsiveness: Fixed a case where loading sun/slot data during setup could briefly stall Home Assistant's event loop.

• Areas Overview Flicker: Fixed a rendering loop that could cause the Areas tab to flicker while no areas are configured yet.

• Stuck Scene Transitions: When a light fails to reach its target during a slot change, the next motion trigger now reapplies the scene properly instead of being ignored.

• Daylight-Saving Accuracy: Slot transitions around the summer/winter time change are now executed at the correct time instead of one hour off.

• Presence Simulation: Fixed a double start after a Home Assistant restart when a sensor triggers the simulation at the same time.

• Disabling or Deleting an Area: Lights now switch off when an area is disabled or deleted, matching the existing behavior for individual channels.

0.5.0 - 2026-08-05

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Auto-Expire is now switched on or off explicitly: A zero duration no longer means "no timer" — untick "Enable Auto-Expire" instead. Activities previously set to 00:00:00 need to be checked.

• Expiry Check Mode removed: An activity is now always held open while one of its triggering inputs is still on, including Block activities. For motion inputs this follows the input's own brightness settings.

✨ Features

• Enable Auto-Expire: Activities can run without any timer, ending only on release or when another activity takes over.

• Rule-Granted Auto-Expire: Rules can now temporarily give an auto-expire timer to an activity that normally has none, keeping it running for the rest of that duration even after the rule ends.

• Dynamic Hue Scenes: Slots using Philips Hue scenes can now opt into dynamic color rotation with configurable playback speed in the slot editor.

• Presence Simulation Frequency: Added wider frequency options ranging from very low to very high for presence simulation.

🎨 Improvements

• Smart Rule Editor: The Rule editor now only displays configuration fields (such as Auto-Expire, channel slots, or input suppression) that apply to the selected target activity.

• Rule Mismatch Warnings: If a rule's settings no longer fit its target activity after an edit, the rule is automatically disabled and clearly flagged in the Rules list.

• Alphabetical UI Lists: Lights, entities, and state lists across cards are now sorted alphabetically by name.

🔧 Fixes

• Presence Simulation: Fixed simulation trigger timing and restored automatic resumption after Home Assistant restarts.

0.4.0 - 2026-07-30

✨ Features

• Area Template Slot Editing: Primary-Channel slots and offsets can now be configured directly in the Area Template (Settings tab) to serve as default values for new areas.

• Rule Auto-Expire Controls: Rules can now pause, suspend, or restart an Activity's auto-expire timer while active.

• Rule Input Suppression: Rules can now temporarily suppress specific inputs (e.g. motion sensors) while active, overriding the target activity's default suppression settings.

🎨 Improvements

• Interface polish: various refinements to layout, labels and chart rendering across the panel.

0.3.0 - 2026-07-27

✨ Features

• Timeline Area Offsets: The Timeline tab now features an Area selector, displaying area-specific primary-channel slot offsets on both the day and year sun charts.

🔧 Fixes

• Input & Activity Editor: Fixed an issue where entity pickers were hidden.

0.2.0 - 2026-07-26

✨ Features

• Rules system: parallel, temporary override layer triggered by switches or buttons. Rules modify active behavior without controlling lights directly, allowing multiple overrides to run simultaneously.

• Activity Rules: the first Rule type, allows overriding a target activity's channel/slot configuration, while the activity is running.

• Presence Simulation Action: activities can now use the simulation action type to make an empty home look occupied by playing back an activity's light behavior based on historical motion density.

• Saved Heatmap Profiles: save up to 5 static snapshots of sensor motion heatmap data per area, manage profiles in the Heatmap card, and select profiles for presence simulation or visualization.

0.1.0 - 2026-07-23

First public (experimental) release. Twilight is functional but not
feature-complete; the configuration model is still evolving and breaking
changes between versions are expected.

✨ Features

• Solar-aware scheduling: 10 astral zones per area (dawn to dusk, golden hour to night), with per-slot scene/script and offset configuration.

• Multi-channel areas: a fixed Primary channel plus up to 3 custom channels per area, each with its own slot set and transition, sharing the area's sensors and inputs.

• Input-driven activities: motion, binary sensor, event, timer, and button inputs mapped to freely named activities; per-activity start/release actions (slot/scene/script/light/turn-off/none).

• Multi-entity inputs: several entities per input — motion with configurable re-trigger, binary with any/all/count aggregation.

• Lux gating: illuminance sensors as a per-input threshold, with configurable ignore scopes.

• Anticipatory transitions: two-stage slot fades with a per-light retry loop and deviation watching.

• Full Web UI: a Lit-based sidebar panel (Areas, Analytics, Timeline, Settings) — all configuration happens in the UI, no YAML beyond twilight: in configuration.yaml.

• Analytics & timeline: uPlot charts over real Recorder data, plus day/year sun-path visualizations.

• Config backup & restore: versioned export/import of the full store.