0.8.0

Breaking Changes

• Replaced interfaces' get_status() method with monitoring_connector(), returning a Readable (and optionally Subscribable) connector object, providing the interface health state as InterfaceStatus value
  • Custom interfaces with get_status() implementation need to be adapted, e.g. by inheriting from ReadableStatusInterface or SubscribableStatusInterface or creating a custom monitoring connector
  • See Monitoring of Interface Status in docs
• Field InterfaceStatus.metrics has been removed
  • Custom get_status() / monitoring connector implementations need to respect the removed field of the named tuple
  • Future metrics reporting for monitoring systems shall use additional SHC connectable objects (like the connector objects of the EventLoopMonitor interface interface)
• Attribute criticality of interfaces has been removed
  • individual interface criticality for the overall application status, reported via the HTTP monitoring endpoint, needs to be configured via WebServer.configure_monitoring (see "Monitoring via HTTP" in docs for more details)
• shc.log.generic moved to shc.data_logging
• PersistenceVariable has been renamed to DataLogVariable and completely reworked in its internal interface and behaviour.
  • See Data Logging in docs for further information
• shc.log.in_memory moved to shc.interfaces.in_memory_data_logging and InMemoryPersistenceVariable has been renamed to InMemoryDataLogVariable
• shc.log.mysql moved to shc.interfaces.mysql and MySQLPersistence has been renamed to MySQLConnector
• Interface of MySQLConnector for retrieving non-logging persistence connector objects has been reworked, with new method persistence_variable()
• New database schema for MySQL interface (when used for value persistence without data logging)

New Features

• New EventLoopMonitor interface, for checking the asyncio event loop health via the monitoring interface
• New Nagios-compatible monitoring script (Nagios Plugin) "check_shc.py" in shc/util/check_shc.py for monitoring the SHC server health via the HTTP monitoring endpoint
• New SimpleInputConnector and SimpleOutputConnector helper classes. They can for example be used to build function-block-like classes for SHC with multiple input and output connectors and internal logics.
• New telemetry connector for Tasmota interface.
• New energy connector for Tasmota interface
  • old energy_x() connectors are deprecated and will be removed in a future release

Misc Improvements

• Improved documentation for web UI widgets: https://smarthomeconnect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/web/widgets.html
• Update UI frontend JS dependencies
• Exceptions during startup are logged and handled gracefully now
• Tests and documentation for MySQL interface
• New settings scale_factor and unit_symbol for ChartWidgets

Internal changes

• We now use flake8 instead of pycodestyle for even stricter code style checking
• New test infrastructure for basic unit-testing of all data logging interfaces