Gladys v4.0.2 is available!

Hello everyone,

The version v4.0.2 of Gladys is available!

What are the changes?

  • A new weather box is available, with more data and more modes

Complete mode:

Next hours forecast:

Temperature, humidity and wind speed:

  • It is now possible to run a scene only on the first pass of a device’s threshold. Example: you have a temperature sensor in the fridge, and you want to know if the temperature goes above 8°C, but you don’t want to be spammed, just receive a message as soon as the temperature is too high. You can do this in the scenes! @Hamtaro

  • A bug with passwords automatically generated by the MQTT integration has been fixed. Now passwords no longer include special characters.
  • The bug that prevented launching a scene from the list of scenes has been fixed. @Tlse-vins @Hamtaro
  • Fix a Caldav bug that prevented calendar synchronization in case of a problem on an event.
  • And many other small improvements!

The complete changelog is available on GitHub.

How to update?

If you have installed Gladys with the official Raspbian image, your instances will update automatically in the coming hours. This can take up to 24 hours, no panic.

If you have installed Gladys with Docker, check that you are using Watchtower (See the documentation)

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this release!

At the top!!! :+1:
It’s been hard work lately on Gladys, the launch of V4 has given a real boost!

I’ll let users provide feedback on the weather box, but I’m missing one thing to make it perfect.

In the 7-day forecast, the day is missing. It’s not a big deal, but it helps avoid asking « Is this Tuesday or Wednesday? »

You’re right, we could just put the day. The date isn’t necessarily useful. On my iPhone weather app, I only have the day!

Is it possible to integrate weather into the scenes? Like expected rain, frost, temperature, wind, etc…

@VonOx: Thanks for your feedback
@pierre-gilles: That’s right, I have more or less the same thing on my phone too. Except it’s more like « Mar. 1 Dec. ». I can quickly make a small PR that adds this.

@Hamtaro: Not DSL, and besides, I wouldn’t know how to add this to Gladys. But if someone explains it to me, I can try to do it. (I don’t know the scene system well)

And for the chat, it would be great to be able to ask for the weather for tomorrow or for Saturday.

What do you mean by « integrate the weather into scenes »? Triggers based on the weather? Integrate the weather into a message? Retrieve the weather and put it in a variable for use in a « continue only if »?

If you are thinking of a specific feature, do not hesitate to put it in the « feature request » category of the forum, so that it can be prioritized over other existing features (there are already about a hundred, I would say).

I would prefer to put just « Tuesday », it’s too heavy to put the full date on such a small screen.

Are you making a PR now that you master the chat? :slight_smile: otherwise it goes in « feature requests » to be prioritized

If I have the different labels that @Lokkye will create, I can take care of it.
In the style of:
weather.tomorrow
weather.after-tomorrow
weather.monday

Congratulations on this V4!
This is great work!

In any case, what I appreciate, unlike other open-source projects, is that you keep the threads related to V3! This allows others, like me, to continue finding information, and that’s really appreciated!
As long as Gladys V4 doesn’t have as many integrations as V3, I don’t think I’ll make the leap :slight_smile:.

But once again, all my congratulations!

I’ve never added anything to the chat, but if I understand correctly, I need to add commands in « lib/weather/weather.command.js ». For the list, I don’t really have any ideas, but what you propose is already pretty good.

Ouch, you’re going to be disappointed, that’s exactly something we were discussing this week, we plan to delete these posts…

I’ve received a lot of feedback saying that the forum was not easy to understand for newcomers as they came across answers to their questions that were completely outdated (because they were for V3). Newcomers may not necessarily know that we are on V4, that V3 is not the same software, etc…

Would there be a way for you to back up the posts that interest you before we delete the V3 posts? I’m open to other solutions if you think of another solution :slight_smile:

That’s it!

Once you have added them, I will take care of adding the questions and answers in the chat.

I also draw from messages to maintain and evolve my v3, but I acknowledge that the search can sometimes be tedious and less suited to answering for v4.
The v4 is not yet complete enough to take over.
Unfortunately, I still don’t know what I will need tomorrow to save the posts.

Otherwise, we can create a private category and put you both in it so you still have access to the posts without them being visible in the search :smiley:

It might be a good idea the archive key :wink:

@tiboys and @spenceur I have added you to a private group on the forum « v3 users ». I created a category « v3 topics archive », and we will transfer all v3 topics there. This way you don’t lose the history, and the new users don’t get confused: everyone is happy :smiley:

@pierre-gilles, can I ask you to add me too? I go there regularly as well since I always have the professional side and my Netatmo jokes running on the V3.

Thanks in advance!!

Here is the PR that adds this: https://github.com/GladysAssistant/Gladys/pull/1001
(finally, if I understood everything correctly because there are still some concepts I don’t know)