Release v3.14.0-beta.13

Added

• Status card contents are now configurable. The dashboard
  generator's generate_dashboard service accepts a
  status_card_exclude list controlling which fields appear on the
  status card (empty by default; add docsis_status to drop the
  DOCSIS Status row). Label history for anyone diffing regenerated
  cards: that row was "Modem Status" through beta.10, silently became
  "Docsis Status" in beta.11 when a refactor routed it through the
  generic field loop, and is now "DOCSIS Status" back at its original
  position. (Related to #178)

• Firmware and hardware versions on the device page. The device
  registry now carries sw_version and hw_version, so the device
  info card shows them natively. The Software Version sensor remains
  — a firmware push is a state change worth automating on — but the
  Hardware Version and Model Name sensors are gone: immutable
  identity strings are device metadata, not sensors. Both values
  still flow in diagnostics and the event payload. Clear the leftover
  entities the same way as the uptime sensors below. (Related to #178)

• Technicolor XB8 (CGM4981COM) catalog entry (awaiting hardware
  verification). Built from a reconstructed fixture: the XB7 capture
  as structural template with real XB8 values from contributor
  diagnostics, whose live parse (34 downstream + 5 upstream channels
  locked) is the empirical basis. The entry stays awaiting
  verification until an XB8 owner confirms on current firmware.
  (Related to #101)

• Catalog timeline now dates every modem. Sourced hardware release
  dates were added to the XB8 and backfilled across 11 existing
  entries; the catalog README timeline previously skipped undated
  entries silently and now renders all 38. The CH7465MT's abbreviated
  ISP name became a proper sourced Magenta AT provider entry.

Changed

• System Uptime and Current Time sensors removed. Both wrote a new
  recorder row every poll for values with no historical worth: uptime
  is derivable at display time from Last Boot Time, and a wall-clock
  reading from 40 polls ago answers nothing. Last Boot Time now holds
  steady across poll-timing jitter and Home Assistant restarts, and
  changes only when the modem actually reboots, so its relative
  rendering ("5 days ago") carries the uptime display. The dashboard
  generator emits the updated card; regenerate your dashboard after
  upgrading. Upgrades from 3.13 clear the old System Uptime entity
  automatically during config-entry migration. On upgrades from
  earlier 3.14 betas the removed sensors linger as unavailable —
  press Reset Entities (keeps your config and history), or remove
  and re-add the integration, to clear them. Both values still flow
  in the data layer (event payload, diagnostics). (Related to #178)

• Find your modem by any name on its box. The manufacturer dropdown
  now lists brand names alongside manufacturers (union of manufacturer
  and brands catalog fields), so a modem branded differently from its
  maker appears under both — the CommScope-made G54 sold as Arris shows
  under Arris and CommScope. Labels are bucket-contextual: the lead name
  always matches the filter chosen ("Arris G54 (CommScope G54)" under
  Arris; "CommScope G54 (Arris)" under CommScope), the parenthetical
  shows sticker codes and other brands ("Xfinity XB6 (CGM4140COM)"),
  and the "All" view lists one row per user-facing name so an
  alphabetical scan finds a modem under any of them. ISP-issued
  gateways gained their ISP buckets: the XB6, XB7, and XB10 appear
  under Xfinity, and the XB7 also under Cox's Panoramic Wifi. Brand
  entries are sourced in the catalog (firmware brand fields, product
  pages, manuals). (Related to #72)

• Manufacturer names keep their real styling. Display normalization
  no longer mangles deliberate mixed case: CommScope and SURFboard
  render as branded instead of "Commscope"/"Surfboard".

• Two catalog entries renamed to their true manufacturer. The G54
  moved to commscope/g54 (firmware self-reports CommScope; Arris is
  the box brand) and the Virgin Media Hub 5 to sagemcom/f3896lg-vmb
  (the hub is a Sagemcom F3896LG-VMB; "Hub 5" and "SuperHub 5" remain
  as searchable aliases, Virgin Media as the brand). Entries created on
  earlier 3.14 betas for these two modems must be removed and re-added
  once after upgrading; upgrades from 3.13 and earlier resolve the new
  locations automatically. Unverifiable model aliases were removed
  (MB8612; Zoom 5370 and Thomson TCM420 are different hardware).
  (Related to #72, #82)

Fixed

• Honest message when login gets a 404. A login endpoint returning
  404 means the device at that address has no login page (wrong device,
  or the modem web interface is unavailable) — not that credentials
  were rejected. The circuit breaker still stops polling immediately
  (retrying would keep posting credentials at an unknown device), but
  the log now says what actually happened and that reloading the
  integration retries, instead of telling you to reconfigure
  credentials that were never wrong.
• Host field tolerates address-bar pastes. A host entered with a
  path but no scheme ("192.168.100.1/cgi-bin/luci/") kept the path as
  part of the host and broke every request. Only the protocol and
  host are ever kept now, with or without a scheme; data-page paths
  always come from the catalog. (Related to #72)
• Faster reconnect after a long modem reboot. When a reboot
  outlasted the recovery window and the modem came back through a
  DEGRADED health state (pingable, but its web UI still warming up),
  the integration did not schedule an immediate poll on recovery and
  waited for the next slow scan (or a manual refresh) to reconnect.
  The health-recovery trigger now treats DEGRADED as a data-path-down
  state, so reconnection is bounded by the health-check interval
  instead. (Related to #170)

What's Changed

• feat: v3.14.0-beta.13 - entity curation, brand-aware modem picker, XB8 catalog entry by @kwschulz in #180

Full Changelog: v3.14.0-beta.12...v3.14.0-beta.13