Launch of Gladys Assistant 4! 🚀

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Hello everyone!

The big day has finally arrived: Gladys Assistant v4.0.0 is available :rocket:

I published an article on the blog that talks about all this:

This is just the beginning of the adventure, this launch is just the start! Developments will not slow down but rather intensify. I can’t wait to see the Zibgee2mqtt, Tasmota HTTP, Bluetooth presence, Awox, and many more :slight_smile:

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this version :folded_hands:

I’m thinking of @AlexTrovato, @VonOx, @bertrandda, @link39, @Terdious, @Tlse-vins, and I’m forgetting many more!

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D-Day! Let the downloads (and the issues :D) fly!

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We’re making great progress on the services!!! AwoX in progress (75%)


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Good news to start the day!!

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A big bravo to the whole team!!
I am one of those people who regularly watch the progress of Gladys without daring to take the plunge, but when I see the work and the motivation that have been provided for this V4, it really makes me want to try!!

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Thank you all!

Already some great articles published on well-known smart home sites, it’s bringing us massive traffic :fire:

Maison et domotique:

https://www.maison-et-domotique.com/123220-gladys-assistant-v4-solution-domotique-open-source/

Abavala:

https://www.abavala.com/gladys-assistant-4-la-solution-domotique-open-source-atteint-l-age-de-raison/

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Hello!

Great news on this Friday morning.

Well done to everyone for the work done!! :smiley:

This is just the beginning :sunglasses: long live the V4

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Short post for users who had installed Gladys Assistant V4-Beta:

How to go from the beta to v4.0.0?

Case 1: If you had installed the beta « just to test Â» and you don’t have much data on it, I advise you to just download the new Raspbian image from the website and reconfigure an instance, it takes 30 seconds and there is little interest in migrating your data from the old to the new.

Case 2: You have a lot of data on the v4-beta and you want to migrate to the new image.

Connect to your Pi via SSH (login: pi, password: raspberry)

You can stop Gladys by doing:

docker stop gladys

You can retrieve all the files in the folder /var/lib/gladysassistant on your Raspberry Pi, and copy them off your Pi.

Reinstall Gladys with the new Raspbian image, stop Gladys and restore the entire /var/lib/gladysassistant folder.

Then, restart Gladys with the command docker restart gladys

That’s it, you have migrated!

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I’m still hesitating between Jeedom, Home Assistant, and Domoticz
 Could you justify the choice of Gladys over another one?

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Mqtt now paid, would this be a hindrance for acquiring Gladys compared to Jeedom plugins (paid)?

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MQTT is now paid? :face_with_raised_eyebrow: Are you talking about Gladys? Gladys Assistant is fully open-source, everything is free.

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Et hop, a new article on Framboise314 this time!

https://www.framboise314.fr/gladys-assistant-nouvelle-version-du-projet-opensource/

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Have you tried contacting Korben?

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I should have said, I remind you that we won the Korben Raspberry Pi project contest in 2015!

https://korben.info/les-gagnants-du-concours-de-projets-raspberry-pi.html

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Oh @pierre-gilles the thing is that the Raspberry Pi running Gladys at my place hosts other services. It is not dedicated to Gladys. I may not be the only one in this situation. So is it possible to upgrade to version 4 (non-beta) without starting from a full Gladys image?

Thanks in advance.

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Of course, follow the « Docker → On Raspberry Pi Â» tutorial for a manual installation:

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Extra thanks! Newbie question, but why doesn’t Watchtower automatically update from beta to non-beta? So far, all updates have been completely transparent, and that’s exactly the role of Watchtower, right?

And I jumped straight into my question, but all my congratulations on this launch, it’s a very beautiful work on your part with the help of the community.

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Not yet, voice has not been ported to v4, for now it’s text-based via the interface or Telegram.

I would welcome any help on this part, by the way, if any developers read this message :wink:

Because we changed the Docker tag. The beta image was tagged « beta Â», and now that we’re in stable version, we’re on a stable tag that won’t change anymore :slight_smile:

Also, I made significant changes to the Raspbian image (auto-expand of the partition, automatic system update) and I recommend everyone to switch to it so that it works well in the long term! The beta image was really intended for « beta Â» use :wink:

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To update the version of Gladys without reinstalling the SD image, or for those who do not use a Pi.

  1. Kill the Gladys container:
    docker rm --force gladys
  2. Delete the gladys image
    docker rmi gladysassistant/gladys
  3. Then restart gladys as in the doc:
    Start Gladys
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Indeed, thanks @cbe317 for the mini tutorial!

Edit: I edited your post with the link to the FR documentation which is richer and in French.