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Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. Given the high speed of development in the first phase, changes are being reported only starting from v0.20.2.
[Unreleased]
This should actually be a new big major release, but I'm holding on implementing more features before a 1.0 tag.
Added
-
Migrated many integrations to the new entities framework. This is a very large change to the foundations of the platform. Many plugins (and many others will follow) now publish and store their entities in a standard format, so e.g. all the lights, switches, Bluetooth devices, cameras, audio devices, media players and sensors are now supposed to expose the same attributes and API regardless of the type of integration. This refactor also includes a new default home panel, which includes all the entities detected by the registered integrations. Many integrations have already been migrated to the new framework. Among them (and many others are on their way):
arduino
bluetooth
light.hue
linode
- All the
sensor.*
plugins serial
smartthings
switchbot
system
variable
zigbee.mqtt
zwave.mqtt
-
Added support for more complex filters on event hooks. Earlier filters could only model key-value pair matches. The interface now supports more sophisticated filters - among these, structured filters with partial matches and relational filters. For example:
from platypush.event.hook import hook
from platypush.message.event.sensor import SensorDataChangeEvent
@hook(SensorDataChangeEvent, data=1):
def hook_1(event):
"""
Triggered when event.data == 1
"""
@hook(SensorDataChangeEvent, data={'state': 1}):
def hook_2(event):
"""
Triggered when event.data['state'] == 1
"""
@hook(SensorDataChangeEvent, data={
'temperature': {'$gt': 25},
'humidity': {'$le': 15}
}):
def hook_3(event):
"""
Triggered when event.data['temperature'] > 25 and
event.data['humidity'] <= 15.
"""
The supported relational fields are the same supported by ElasticSearch - $gt
for greater than, $lt
for lesser than, $ge
for greater or equal, $ne
for
not equal, etc.
This also means that the previous SensorDataAboveThresholdEvent
and
SensorDataBelowThresholdEvent
events are now deprecated, as the new hook API
makes it much easier and flexible to define custom threshold logic on any events
without having to pre-define thresholds in each backend's configuration.
-
Added a Progressive WebApp (PWA) framework to the Vue webapp. It is now possible to install Platypush as a stand-alone webapp directly from the web panel if the panel is served over HTTPS. For now this only improves the user experience, performance and it provides a more native-like experience on mobile, but in the future the PWA background worker could be used to e.g. deliver asynchronous events and notifications to the clients without keeping the browser open.
-
Added support for application database automatic migrations after an update by using Alembic.
Changed
-
Tornado is now used as an HTTP engine by
backend.http
, instead of using bare bone Flask with its inefficient Werkzeug server and an optional uwsgi that required extra configuration (and an extra external service). -
All the streaming endpoints have been rewritten and adapted to work with Tornado. This greatly improves performance, stability and ease of configuration, while remaining back-compatible with the previous URL formats. As a side note, all the streaming endpoints are now using Redis to stream information across multiple worker processes, so make sure that you have a version of Redis that supports pub/sub (most of the recent ones should do).
-
The
bluetooth
plugin has been completely rewritten, merged with the (now deprecated)backend.bluetooth
. The previously separated low-energy/legacy integrations have now been merged too. It now supports much more than passive scanning, as it can recognize the information published by most of the device, supports both legacy and low-energy connection/disconnection actions, and it can detect most of the device classes, services and manufacturers. It also supports parsing some standard features (like battery level, temperature, state etc.) if they are published according to some convention supported by TheengsGateway. Theswitchbot.bluetooth
integration has now also been merged intobluetooth
. -
The
sound
plugin has been completely rewritten. While it should still be largely back-compatible with the previous implementation, you should probably go and take a look at the new documentation to get a grasp of the new features. -
The
camera.ffmpeg
plugin has received a big rewrite that has improved its stability and robustness against several types of cameras. It is now the recommended way of interfacing with general-purpose cameras, even for PiCameras - thecamera.pi
integration is now largely deprecated, as the old PiCamera API is deprecated as well, andcamera.ffmpeg
should now work out of the box with a PiCamera if a reasonably recent version of ffmpeg is installed. -
backend.websocket
has been removed and replaced by Tornado asynchronous websocket URLs registered on the HTTP backend. The two new routes that replace the websocket backend are:/ws/events
: subscribe to this websocket to receive any asynchronous events forwarded by the application./ws/requests
: you can send request messages to this endpoints, and the responses will be received asynchronously on the same channel.
-
The
inspect
plugin has been largely improved.- Its performance is now much snappier, as it scans for all the available integrations by searching for manifest files instead of scanning each single source file. Documentation about specific plugins and actions is fetched lazily when requested by the user.
- It now also caches results by looking at the last modified date of the source file, so it won't have to re-scan source files that haven't been modified.
- Its detection of RST constructs has also been improved, so most of the code blocks, schemas, return types and references to other objects are now rendered in the plugin UI.
-
Added
variable.delete
action. The existingvariable.unset
action will now only set a variable to null if it exists, whilevariable.delete
will actually remove it from the database. -
backend.sensor.distance
andgpio.sensor.distance
have been removed and migrated instead to a newsensor.hcsr04
plugin, since the existing logic actually only applies to HC-SR04-like distance sensors. -
backend.sensor.dht
andgpio.sensor.dht
have been removed and migrated to a newsensor.dht
plugin. -
backend.sensor.accelerometer
andgpio.sensor.accelerometer
have been removed and migrated to a newsensor.lis3dh
plugin, since the existing accelerometer logic only works with these sensors. -
backend.sensor.motion.pwm3901
andgpio.sensor.motion.pwm3901
have been removed and migrated to a newsensor.pwm3901
plugin. accelerometer logic only works with these sensors. -
backend.sensor.envirophat
andgpio.sensor.envirophat
have been removed and migrated to a newsensor.envirophat
plugin. -
backend.sensor.ltr559
andgpio.sensor.ltr559
have been removed and migrated to a newsensor.ltr559
plugin. -
backend.sensor.bme280
andgpio.sensor.bme280
have been removed and migrated to a newsensor.bme280
plugin. -
backend.sensor.distance.vl53l1x
andgpio.sensor.distance.vl53l1x
have been removed and migrated to a newsensor.vl53l1x
plugin. -
backend.serial
has been removed and merged into theserial
plugin. -
backend.switch.wemo
has been removed and merged into theswitch.wemo
plugin. -
backend.switch.tplink
has been removed and merged into theswitch.tplink
plugin. -
backend.zigbee.mqtt
has been removed and merged into thezigbee.mqtt
plugin. -
backend.zwave.mqtt
has been removed and merged into thezwave.mqtt
plugin.
Fixed
-
Notable performance improvements for the UI (like -50% on the load time and memory usage in some cases). Recursive/reflective Vue components now use
shallowRef
, so complex UI models won't have to be fully loaded at page start. -
Fixed compatibility with SQLAlchemy 2.
-
Migrated the
clipboard
integration frompyperclip
topyclip
(see #240).pyperclip
is unmaintained and largely broken, andpyclip
seems to be a viable drop-in alternative. -
Better implementation of the UI modals - added close buttons and trigger closure when Esc is pressed.
Removed
-
Removed SSL configuration from
backend.http
. Configuring SSL on Flask+Tornado is messy, and it won't end up with a good user experience. Instead, you should consider using a reverse proxy (e.g. nginx or Apache) if you want to make the Platypush web interface available over HTTPS. A sample nginx configuration has been added underexamples/nginx
. Note that running the web panel over HTTPS is a requirement if you want to leverage the PWA features, as a PWA can only be served over HTTPS. -
Removed the Bluetooth file server integration. It is still possible to send files over Bluetooth (the feature has now been merged into the
bluetooth
plugin, underbluetooth.send_file
), but all the server features rely on features of PyOBEX that are now very broken on recent versions of Python (the project itself hasn't been updated in years). -
Removed or deprecated all the
backend.sensor.*
backends. Their logic has now been merged into their associated plugins, and the plugins will have the ability to run in the background too. -
Removed
backend.sensor.battery
. It has now been merged into thesystem
plugin. -
Removed
gpio.sensor
plugin. It was never really fully implemented, and it was probably impossible to implement with an interface that could work with any sensor-like device connected over GPIO.
[0.24.5] - 2023-02-22
Added
-
Added
hid
plugin to support discoverability and data interaction with generic HID devices - like Bluetooth/USB peripherals, joysticks, dongles and any other type of devices that supports the HID interface. -
Added
timeout
parameter towebsocket.send
to prevent messages sent on a non-responsive websocket from getting the websocket loop stuck
Fixed
-
Running the Zeroconf registration logic in another thread in
backend.http
, so failures in the Zeroconf logic don't affect the startup of the web server. -
(Temporarily) introduced
sqlalchemy < 2.0.0
as a requirement - a PR with a migration to the new stable version of SQLAlchemy is in TODO.
[0.24.4] - 2022-12-20
Fixed
- Fixed cronjobs potentially being triggered even if it wasn't their slot in case of clock synchronization events.
[0.24.3] - 2022-12-17
Added
- Added
[-v|--verbose]
command-line option to override the default logging configuration and enable debug logging. - Added
--version
command-line option to print the current version and exit. - [#236] Added
support for
author
andtags
attributes on feed entries.
[0.24.2] - 2022-12-10
Fixed
-
The
main.db
configuration should use the configuredworkdir
when no values are specified. -
The
zwave.mqtt
is now compatible both with older (i.e.zwavejs2mqtt
) and newer (i.e.ZwaveJS
) versions of the backend.
[0.24.1] - 2022-12-08
Fixed
- Removed a parenthesized context manager that broke compatibility with Python < 3.10.
[0.24.0] - 2022-11-22
Added
- Added Wallabag integration.
- Added Mimic3 TTS integration.
- Added
qos
attribute tomqtt.publish
and all the plugins derived frommqtt
.
Changed
- Replaced PyJWT dependency with the Python-native
rsa
package. This will make the installation much lighter, compatible with more systems and less dependent on the platform-specific libraries required bycryptography
.
NOTE: This is a breaking change for those who use the
backend.http
API with JWT tokens. The new logic encrypts and encodes the payload in a different format, therefore previously generated tokens are no longer compatible.
[0.23.6] - 2022-09-19
Fixed
- Fixed album_id and list of tracks on
music.tidal.get_album
.
[0.23.5] - 2022-09-18
Added
-
Added support for web hooks returning their hook method responses back to the HTTP client.
-
Added Tidal integration
-
Added support for OPML subscriptions to the
rss
plugin. -
Better support for bulk database operations on the
db
plugin.
Fixed
- Now supporting YAML sections with empty configurations.
[0.23.4] - 2022-08-28
Added
Changed
- Removed
clipboard
backend. Enabling theclipboard
plugin will also enable clipboard monitoring, with no need for an additional backend.
[0.23.3] - 2022-06-01
Added
- Added
ntfy
integration (see #219). - Support for a default
config.yaml
if one isn't specified in the default locations.
Changed
- The HTTP server dependencies are now marked as required, since the default
config.yaml
will have the HTTP backend enabled by default in order to allow the creation of a first user. - Updated Vue.js frontend dependencies to the latest version.
- Removed bulma from the frontend dependencies, making the frontend much lighter and loading times much faster.
- Other UI improvements.
Fixed
- More reliable cronjobs in case of DST change or any clock changes in general (see #217).
- Fixed
--redis-queue
argument.
[0.23.2] - 2022-03-27
Added
-
Support for asynchronous events over GPIO PINs. It is now possible to specify a list of
monitored_pins
in thegpio
plugin configuration. A change in the value on those GPIO PINs (caused by e.g. a button, a binary sensor or a probe) will trigger aplatypush.message.event.gpio.GPIOEvent
that you can use in your automation scripts. -
Simplified script API to interact with platform variables (closes #206). You can now read and write stored variables in your Platypush scripts through a much more intuitive interface compared to explicitly using the
variable
plugin explicitly:
from platypush.context import Variable
# ...
my_var = Variable.get('my_var')
my_var = int(my_var) + 1
Variable.set(my_var=my_var)
[0.23.0] - 2022-03-01
Added
- Added Jellyfin integration.
Fixed
-
Merged several PRs from
dependabot
. -
Fixed management of the
CN
field in thecalendar.ical
plugin.
[0.22.10] - 2022-02-07
Added
- Refactored the
dbus
integration. The plugin and backend have been merged into a single plugin component, and the ability to subscribe to custom signals has been added.
Fixed
- Proper support for empty payloads on the integrations that trigger a
SensorDataChangeEvent
. - Fixed possible infinite recursion on the Pushbullet integration in case of errors where the error and close handlers keep calling each other in a loop.
[0.22.9] - 2022-01-06
Added
- Added
rss
integration (replaces the cumbersome and deprecatedbackend.http.poll
).
Fixed
- Fixed timezone handling in calendar integrations.
- Fixed handling of ignored directories in the
file.monitor
backend.
[0.22.8] - 2021-12-13
Added
- Added support for audio tracks in Plex integration.
Changed
- Web server uWSGI wrapper changed from
uwsgi
togunicorn
.
Fixed
- Fixed client ID assignment logic in MQTT backends to prevent client ID clashes and reconnections (closes #205).
- Updated LTR559 integration to be compatible with the new API.
- Updated Chromecast integration to be compatible with
pychromecast >= 10
. - Better handling of media errors.
[0.22.6] - 2021-11-27
Added
- Added support for converting webpages to markdown in
http.webpage.simplify
even if nooutfile
is specified.
Fixed
- Improved robustness of the ICal calendar parser in case some fields (e.g.
*status
) are not defined.
[0.22.5] - 2021-11-15
Added
- Added
mastodon
plugin. - Added
chat.irc
plugin. - Added
mailgun
plugin.
Fixed
- Fixed
switchbot.status
method in case of virtual devices. - Fixed
platypush[alexa]
optional package installation.
[0.22.4] - 2021-10-19
Added
- Support for IR virtual devices in Switchbot plugin.
- Added
google.maps.get_travel_time
method (closes #115). - Support for custom YouTube video/audio formats on media plugins.
Fixed
- Responses for requests received over an MQTT backend are now delivered to the right topic
(
<device_base_topic>/responses/<msg_id>
). - Various fixes on media plugins.
[0.22.3] - 2021-10-01
Added
gotify
integration (see #198).
[0.22.2] - 2021-09-25
Added
ngrok
integration (see #196).
[0.22.1] - 2021-09-22
Fixed
-
zigbee.mqtt
backend now no longer requires the MQTT backend/plugin to be enabled. -
Fixed bug on empty popcorn API responses.
Changed
- Created CI Gitlab pipeline to replace the Platypush event-based pre-existing pipeline.
Removed
- Removed docs references to removed/abstract integrations.
[0.22.0] - 2021-09-16
Changed
-
Platypush now uses manifest files to describe plugins and backends. Each extension is now expected to provide a
manifest.yaml
file in its folder, reporting its package name, pip dependencies, required system packages and optional extra installation commands. -
Refactored
platyvenv
,platydock
, documentation generation and plugin management engine. They are now both faster and more robust, since they can rely on the manifest definition to operate instead of pydoc strings conventions orconfig.yaml
conventions. -
platyvenv start
now starts the environment process synchronously and it prints stdout/stderr instead of redirecting it to the logs dir (previous behaviour:platyvenv start
used to start the process asynchronously and the logs were stored to~/.local/share/platypush/venv/<env>/logs/<stdout|stderr>.log
).
Removed
- Removed
Homeseer
integration - it was based on a Python integration that has now been pulled out of PyPI and GitHub. A new integration may come in the future if there is enough demand for it.
[0.21.4] - 2021-08-24
Fixed
- Fixed JWT token generation, since python-jwt >= 2.0 always returns strings (not bytes) upon
jwt.encode
.
[0.21.3] - 2021-07-28
Added
-
Added
sun
plugin for sunrise/sunset events. -
Added
slack
integration.
[0.21.2] - 2021-07-20
Added
-
Added
music.spotify
backend to emulate a Spotify Connect receiver through Platypush. -
Added
music.spotify
plugin. -
Added
music.spotify
UI integration.
[0.21.1] - 2021-06-22
Added
-
Added
switchbot
plugin to interact with Switchbot devices over the cloud API instead of directly accessing the device's Bluetooth interface. -
Added
marshmallow
dependency - it will be used from now own to dump and document schemas and responses instead of the currently mixed approach withResponse
objects and plain dictionaries and lists. -
Support for custom MQTT timeout on all the
zwavejs2mqtt
calls. -
Added generic joystick backend
backend.joystick.jstest
which usesjstest
from the standardjoystick
system package to read the state of joysticks not compatible withpython-inputs
. -
Added PWM PCA9685 plugin.
-
Added Linux native joystick plugin,
backend.joystick.linux
, for the cases wherepython-inputs
doesn't work andjstest
is too slow.
Changed
switch.switchbot
plugin renamed toswitchbot.bluetooth
plugin, while the new plugin that uses the Switchbot API is simply namedswitchbot
.
Fixed
- More robust reconnection logic on the Pushbullet backend in case of websocket errors.
[0.21.0] - 2021-05-06
Added
-
Support for custom PopcornTime API mirror/base URL.
-
Full support for TV series search.
Fixed
-
Fixed torrent search (now using a different PopcornTime API mirror).
-
Migrated SASS engine from
node-sass
(currently deprecated and broken on Node 16) tosass
. -
Fixed alignment of Z-Wave UI header on Chrome/Webkit.
[0.20.10] - 2021-04-28
Fixed
- Fixed zwave/zwavejs2mqtt interoperability.
[0.20.9] - 2021-04-12
Added
- Added zwavejs2mqtt integration (see #186.
Fixed
- Major LINT fixes.
Removed
- Removed unmaintained integrations: TorrentCast and Booking.com
[0.20.8] - 2021-04-04
Added
-
Added
<Camera>
dashboard widget. -
Added support for custom dashboard widgets with customized (see https://git.platypush.tech/platypush/platypush/wiki/Backends#creating-custom-widgets).
-
Added support for controls on
music.mpd
dashboard widget.
Fixed
-
Fixed zigbee2mqtt backend error in case of messages with empty payload (see #184).
-
Fixed compatibility with all versions of websocket-client - versions >= 0.58.0 pass a
WebSocketApp
object as a first argument to the callbacks, as well as versions < 0.54.0 do, but the versions in between don't pass this argument.
[0.20.7] - 2021-03-26
Fixed
-
Fixed race condition on
media.vlc.stop
when clearing the VLC instance. -
Fixed dashboard widgets custom classes being propagated both to the container and to the widget content [see #179]
-
Fixed compatibility with SQLAlchemy >= 1.4.
[0.20.6] - 2021-03-16
Added
-
Added
log.http
backend to monitor changes to HTTP log files (see #167). -
Added
file.monitor
backend, which replaces theinotify
backend (see #172).
Removed
- Removed legacy
pusher
script andlocal
backend.
Fixed
-
Fixed support for Z-Wave switches.
-
Fixed possible race condition on VLC stop.
[0.20.5] - 2021-03-12
Added
-
Added support for a static list of devices to actively scan to the
bluetooth.scanner
backend (see #174). -
Added
weather.openweathermap
plugin and backend, which replacesweather.darksky
, since the Darksky API will be completely shut down by the end of 2021.
Fixed
-
Cron expressions should adhere to the UNIX cronjob standard and use the machine local time, not UTC, as a reference (closes #173).
-
Better management of Z-Wave values types from the UI.
-
Disable logging for
ZwaveValueEvent
events - they tend to be very verbose and can impact the performance on slower devices. They will still be published to the websocket clients though, so you can still debug Z-Wave values issues from the browser developer console (enable debug traces). -
Added suffix to the
zigbee.mqtt
backend defaultclient_id
to prevent clashes with the defaultmqtt
backendclient_id
.
[0.20.4] - 2021-03-08
Added
- Added SmartThings integration.
- Support for custom Redis message queue name over the
--redis-queue
argument.
Fixed
- Refactored tests to use
pytest
instead ofunittest
. - Some major bug fixes on procedures and hooks context evaluation.
[0.20.3] - 2021-02-28
Fixed
- Several bug fixes on the VLC plugin, including proper management of stop/end-of-stream, volume set and missing integration requirements in
requirements.txt
andsetup.py
.
[0.20.2] - 2021-02-27
Fixed
- More stable ZeroConf backends registration logic in case of partial or missing results.
- Improved and refactored integration tests.
Added
- Support for passing context variables (${}) from YAML procedures/hooks/crons to Python procedure/hooks/crons.
- New integration test for testing procedures.