v4.4.0 - Update for HA 2024.04

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

🔄 Restart the AppDaemon Container

Add the following workaround to your Home Assistant configuration.yaml

https://docs.nspanel.pky.eu/stable/prepare_ha/#workaround-for-homeassistant-202404

🔄 Restart Home Assistant

New Features:

• Implemented changes to work with upcoming Homeassistant Version 2024.04 @joBr99

Preperations for upcoming Homeassistant Version

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

🔄 Restart the AppDaemon Container

New Features:

• Implemented changes to work with upcoming Homeassistant Version 2023.11 (light entities caused an error) @joBr99

v4.3.2

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

🔄 Restart the AppDaemon Container

🔼 Update/reflashing of the display firmware required

How to update (automated)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.
2. You should get a message for Updating the Firmware on your nspanel

How to update (manually)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.

If you want to update manually run the following command from your tasmota console:

EU Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-v4.3.1.tft

US Landscape Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-l-v4.3.1.tft

US Portrait Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-p-v4.3.1.tft

For more details, see instructions in the ReadMe of the repository.

New Features:

• Implemented smaller font sizes for icons on cardGrid #802 #964 @joBr99

          - entity: light.schreibtischlampe
            font: small
            icon: "text:text123"

v4.2.1

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

🔄 Restart the AppDaemon Container

🔼 Update/reflashing of the display firmware required

How to update (automated)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.
2. You should get a message for Updating the Firmware on your nspanel

How to update (manually)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.

If you want to update manually run the following command from your tasmota console:

EU Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-v4.2.0.tft

US Landscape Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-l-v4.2.0.tft

US Portrait Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-p-v4.2.0.tft

For more details, see instructions in the ReadMe of the repository.

Breaking Changes:

• The new popupLight page added from previous release has been moved behind a feature flag #945 @joBr99

Add featureExperimentalSliders: True to your config to stick with the new popupLight Page.

  config:
    panelRecvTopic: "tele/tasmota_debug/RESULT"
    panelSendTopic: "cmnd/tasmota_debug/CustomSend"
    featureExperimentalSliders: True

Fixes / Minor Changes:

• Fixed multiple erros with cardGrid and more than 5 entites #957 #923 #922 #917 #915 @joBr99
• Time in forecast is now shown timezone aware #955 @joBr99
• state_template is now also evaluated for entities without state #936 @joBr99
• state_template is now also evaluated for entities without state #936 @joBr99
• Fixed sleep timeout being overwritten on popupNotify #933 @joBr99
• Fixed tilt call for covers #939 @sairon

New popupLights and alternative cardGrid

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

🔄 Restart the AppDaemon Container

🔼 Update/reflashing of the display firmware required

How to update (automated)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.
2. You should get a message for Updating the Firmware on your nspanel

How to update (manually)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.

If you want to update manually run the following command from your tasmota console:

EU Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-v4.1.1.tft

US Landscape Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-l-v4.1.1.tft

US Portrait Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-p-v4.1.1.tft

For more details, see instructions in the ReadMe of the repository.

Breaking Changes:

• ha-i icon type has been removed and replaced with <I></I> notation #867 @joBr99
  See: https://docs.nspanel.pky.eu/entities/

New Features:

• New popup style inspired from HA 2023.03 #371 @joBr99

(This has some downsides and rendering isn't always clean on nspanel, but looks way better)
Also thanks to @Coding-Lion for the idea with the font :)

• cardGrid is now able to show 8 entities and will adjust dynamically after adding more than 6 entities #898 @joBr99

Fixes / Minor Changes:

• Fixed QrCode Scanning on some devices #830 @joBr99
• Show input instead of error if there is no translation found #874 @joBr99
• Fixed bug with negative power values not showing correctly on cardPower #869 @joBr99

New alternative (additional) Screensaver

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

🔄 Restart the AppDaemon Container

🔼 Update/reflashing of the display firmware required

How to update (automated)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.
2. You should get a message for Updating the Firmware on your nspanel

How to update (manually)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.

If you want to update manually run the following command from your tasmota console:

EU Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-v4.0.3.tft

US Landscape Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-l-v4.0.3.tft

US Portrait Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-p-v4.0.3.tft

For more details, see instructions in the ReadMe of the repository.

Breaking Changes:

• US-P: Moving direction of power on cardPower flipped #768 @joBr99

New Features:

• Added an popup to select effects of an light entity #371 @joBr99

• Added alternative Screensaver #739 @joBr99

https://docs.nspanel.pky.eu/config-screensaver

Fixes / Minor Changes:

• Added a new icon type ha-i that allows to use homeassistant templates with mdi icons names #721 @joBr99
• Added config options for customizing OTA URLs #736 @joBr99
• Added a cooldown option that can be configured to rate limit entity Updates to a card #738 @joBr99
• It's now possible to define the timeout for the screensaver per card #746 @joBr99

v3.9.4

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

🔄 Restart the AppDaemon Container

🔼 Update/reflashing of the display firmware required

How to update (automated)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.
2. You should get a message for Updating the Firmware on your nspanel

How to update (manually)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.

If you want to update manually run the following command from your tasmota console:

EU Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-v3.9.4.tft

US Landscape Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-l-v3.9.4.tft

US Portrait Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-p-v3.9.4.tft

For more details, see instructions in the ReadMe of the repository.

Breaking Changes:

• Slightly changed alternative screensaver layout #607 #680 @joBr99

The following screensaver config options have been removed:

• weatherUnit
• weatherOverrideForecast1
• weatherOverrideForecast2
• weatherOverrideForecast3
• weatherOverrideForecast4
• alternativeLayout

The following options from the theme config have been removed:

• tF1Icon
• tF2Icon
• tF3Icon
• tF4Icon
• autoWeather (also all options related to states of the weather)

See the documentation for examples of the new customized screensaver config:
https://docs.nspanel.pky.eu/config-screensaver/

• It's now possible to define a custom value for entities #272 @joBr99

The action_name config options which was used for custom names on buttons has been removed, use value instead.

New Features:

• Added a new card to display power usage #371 @joBr99

https://docs.nspanel.pky.eu/card-power/

• Added the option to show a title on cardAlarm #658 @joBr99

Fixes / Minor Changes:

• Fixed Cyrillic font support on the screensaver date #686 @joBr99

v3.8.3

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

• Restart the AppDaemon Container

• Update/reflashing of the display firmware required

How to update (automated)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.
2. You should get a message for Updating the Firmware on your nspanel

How to update (manually)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.

If you want to update manually run the following command from your tasmota console:

EU Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-v3.8.3.tft

US Landscape Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-l-v3.8.3.tft

US Portrait Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-p-v3.8.3.tft

For more details, see instructions in the ReadMe of the repository.

Breaking Changes:

• Fix state / state_not logic error for entities #637 @esclear

You might need to swap state and state_not in your config.

• bHome config options to display Home Button has been removed, use overwrite of navigation buttons instead #633 @joBr99

Also see: https://docs.nspanel.pky.eu/subpages/

New Features:

• Changed Subpage Navigation Entity Names/Keys #641 @joBr99

Navigation is now possible with navigate.key instead of navigate.type_key, old way continues to work for now, but is deprecated.

• Navigation Buttons on Pages are now confiugureable entities. #633 @joBr99

Fixes / Minor Changes:

• Simplified Berry Driver Installation #632 @joBr99

• Make single, right status icon possible on screensaver #640 @esclear

• Add status functionality for non-entities #645 @esclear

• Respect iconOverride on navigate & service #650 @EddyK69

• Allow icons based on state of status entity #651 @EddyK69

• Hide entity based on attributes #652 @joBr99

• increased size of notification chars #653 @joBr99

• Fix for empty detail page after change on previous page #662 @kayvenm

v3.7.3

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

• Restart the AppDaemon Container

• Update/reflashing of the display firmware required

How to update (automated)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.
2. You should get a message for Updating the Firmware on your nspanel

How to update (manually)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.

If you want to update manually run the following command from your tasmota console:

EU Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-v3.7.0.tft

US Landscape Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-l-v3.7.0.tft

US Portrait Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-p-v3.7.0.tft

For more details, see instructions in the ReadMe of the repository.

New Features:

• Option to increase the font size of the status icons on screensaver #618 @joBr99
  

• Moved speaker selection to popup dialog #608 @joBr99

• Added customizable buttons to cardMedia #608 @joBr99

• Added Home Button on Subpages to jump to the highest level #438 @joBr99

• Added shuffle button to cardMedia #596 @joBr99

• Added support for timers #378 @joBr99

• Implement ha templates for color overwrites #627 #426 #539 @joBr99 @livehybrid

Fixes / Minor Changes:

• input_select entities are now directly showing the popup #600 @joBr99
• select entities are now usable like input_select is #595 @joBr99
• fixed state and state_not for entities @joBr99
• update berry driver to work with latest tasmota version @joBr99
• disable spaceing of thermo modes on us-p model #631 @joBr99

v3.6.0

Besides the Update of the App in HACS you need to do the following things:

• Restart the AppDaemon Container

• Update/reflashing of the display firmware required

How to update (automated)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.
2. You should get a message for Updating the Firmware on your nspanel

How to update (manually)

1. Update App in HACS - Restart AppDaemon Container afterwards.

If you want to update manually run the following command from your tasmota console:

EU Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-v3.6.0.tft

US Landscape Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-l-v3.6.0.tft

US Portrait Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lovelace-ui/github/nspanel-us-p-v3.6.0.tft

For more details, see instructions in the ReadMe of the repository.

New Features:

• It is now possible to choose Modes on the climate page #171 @joBr99

• It is now possible to choose the value of an input_select entity #537 @joBr99

• The action label of a script/scene is now configureable #479 @joBr99

Fixes / Minor Changes:

• Width of AM/PM textbox on US-P Firmware has been changed #577 @joBr99
• alarm entities on cardGrid/cardEntites are now correctly displaied if they are in arming or triggered state #577 @joBr99
• color for service entities is now configureable #586 @joBr99
• added some paramters on cardMedia to support colors (for ioBroker) #584 @joBr99
• added navigation fallback for usage of hiddenCards as default card #535 @joBr99