v1.7.0 ESPHome BLE Keyboard

Added

• A paste bar on the web keyboard and the keyboard card — in the web page's keyboard
  header, and on its own line above the card's keys. Paste or type any text and send it as
  one piece instead of tapping it out key by key; multi-line text keeps its line breaks. An
  optional auto mode types text the moment it is pasted, and on HTTPS a clipboard button
  sends the clipboard in one tap. The card can hide the bar via a new editor toggle.
• Press and hold: a key now stays down on the host for as long as the button is held.
  Every keypress used to arrive as a short tap however long the button was held, so
  push-to-talk was impossible. Set it per physical key with the new hold and release
  automation actions, or per remote button per host in the new Press and hold panel; the
  Media Remote card needs the new hold_buttons sensor. max_key_hold_ms guards against
  a release that never arrives.
• The Media Remote card now follows the per-host hold-to-repeat settings, via a new
  repeat_buttons text sensor. It previously repeated volume and channel only, at a fixed
  speed, ignoring whatever Host Actions said — so a host set to repeat the D-pad did so on
  the web remote but not the card.
• A text sensor for the connected host's Bluetooth address, so an automation can act on
  which machine is connected rather than just which slot is active. It reports the host's
  stable identity where one was exchanged at pairing, so it keeps working on phones, whose
  connection address rotates every few minutes. Hosts with a fixed address report that
  address unchanged. The web remote's host buttons and the cards show the same address, so
  a phone no longer appears under one address in the web UI and another in the sensor. Each
  host slot remembers its identity the next time that host connects, so an existing pairing
  starts showing the right address on its own — there is no need to pair it again.
• A bonded host slot now belongs to its host until you forget it. A different device that
  pairs while that slot is active is disconnected and its bond removed, instead of quietly
  taking the slot over — which mattered most on Android, where pairing has no PIN and nothing
  stopped the last device to pair from claiming the slot. Your own host is matched by identity,
  so it is still let back in after its address rotates or you re-pair it.
• A zoom option on all three cards, in the visual editor's Config tab (0.25–3, default
  1). It scales the whole card — buttons, text and spacing together — so you can shrink one
  to fit a smaller space or enlarge it for a wall tablet. The card's height follows the zoom,
  so zoom: 0.55 brings the full media remote down to about 8 rows, which is as short as
  HA's height slider goes. Everything scales by the same factor in both directions, so the
  buttons keep their shape at any zoom, and a zoomed-in card scrolls rather than squashing.
• All three Lovelace cards support resizing in sections dashboards. They keep their
  natural size by default, as before — but the Layout tab now offers sensible width and
  height ranges (1–12 columns, 1–8 rows) instead of warning that the card can't be resized.
  Cards keep their proportions at whatever size you pick and scroll if the card is smaller
  than they are; use zoom to change how big the controls actually are.
• The mouse and keyboard cards scroll as one piece when narrowed. Previously only the
  title row kept its full width while the keys and the touchpad shrank to whatever was
  visible, so scrolling sideways dragged a squashed keyboard out of view and clipped key
  labels. Every part of the card now shares the same width and scrolls together, at full
  size. To actually make a card smaller rather than scroll it, lower its zoom.

Fixed

• The hidden-buttons sensor was empty until the first host switch. It published before
  the saved lists were read from flash and never again, so a card starting up was told the
  host hid nothing. The new hold and repeat sensors publish on the same path.

Changed

• The media remote's buttons stay centred in a 460px column on wide cards, instead of
  spreading out with the power button stranded at the far edge. Only visible in panel view
  or a wide masonry column; sections cap at 500px, so they look unchanged.
• Forget Host moved into the Host Actions card, on the same row as the host picker, and
  it now forgets the slot the picker shows rather than always the active host — so a host
  that isn't currently connected can be forgotten too. The host bar at the top is host buttons
  only. Still two taps (Confirm?, disarming after three seconds or when you change slot).
  This also puts it on single-slot devices, which never had it: the host bar hides itself
  below two slots, while the Host Actions card is always shown.
• Both editors' save buttons now read Save — the Macros button was + Add (becoming
  Save mid-edit) and the Host Actions one was + Set. The Macros label no longer changes
  to signal add-versus-update; the populated Name and Action fields are the cue instead.
• The Host Actions replacement box is a 3-line textarea, matching the Macros action box,
  so a long chained action is readable without scrolling through a single-line field. Both
  action boxes are also wider than the name box beside them, and the two preset dropdowns are
  now a matched width.
• The host bar fills the card width, five hosts per row, dividing the space evenly instead
  of leaving a lopsided gap at the right; a short final row stays left-aligned under the one
  above. The toolbar's section toggles likewise stretch to reach the right-hand edge.