v1.3.0

1.3.0

Features

• Notify Entity transport now only selects unique targets, so if a Notify Entity has been delivered
  in the same notification call, for example by Alexa Devices, it won't be called again for a duplicate
  announcement. Closes issue#8
• Deliver can now have a list of target inclusion regexes, useful for excluding Alexa _speak devices
  or for custom notifications using Generic transport
• Target definition for Delivery or Transport can now be more flexible
  • Allows a structured dict, a single value, or list of strings.
  • Structure only required where category can't be inferred, so entity_ids, device_ids, email and phone numbers are fine
• Deliver has a new target_usage key, taking values of:
  • no_action only uses the Delivery target if there's no target on the notification action call
  • no_delivery only uses the Delivery target if there's no target applicable to this delivery
  • merge_delivery combines the targets in the Delivery with any on the action call, only where delivery already has a target
  • merge_always combines the targets in the Delivery with any on the action call, or if there's
    no target on the notification, it defaults to the Delivery target
  • fixed only ever delivers to the targets in the Delivery config, ignoring any direct or indirect (for example person_id) in the action call
• Entity states for Delivery and Transport now directly reflect configuration
• target_required is no longer boolean (although backward compatible), and now has values always,never and optional.
  • If set to never it speeds up delivery and debug traces by not computing targets when they're not needed
• Improved DebugTrace - more stages, shows NO_CHANGE when no effect
• Documentation improved - core concepts and principles, transports, more schema definitions

Internal

• Transport implementations simplified, select_targets now replaced by options to select
  target categories, for example entity_id and a list of inclusions regexs
• Target now has dunder method to support subtraction, for the targets only, and a safe_copy method
• Notification object now maintains a list of all the target values selected by deliveries, and this
  is archived for debug purposes ( and supports the new unique target value functionality)
• Snoozer now uses timedelta rather than integer seconds to measure snooze length
• More tests for common

Full Changelog: v1.2.3...v1.3.0