home-assistant / alerts.home-assistant.io

Home Assistant Alerts

Home Assistant Alerts

Home Assistant Alerts is a database of alerts for Home Assistant users. Alerts will be able to be tied to integrations, Python versions, Python packages or operating systems.

Development

Install dependencies using yarn. Then run script/develop. Dev environment will be available on http://localhost:8080.

Alert metadata

Alerts can have the following meta data:

Created (required)

When the alert was created.

Updated (optional)

When the alert was updated.

Home Assistant (required)

Home Assistant versions impacted.

GitHub issue (optional)

URL of a relevant GitHub issue.

Integrations (optional)

List of impacted integrations combined with version ranges.

Python packages (optional)

List of impacted Python packages combined with version ranges.

Supervisor (optional)

Supervisor versions impacted.

Deployment

Deployments are handled by Netlify, on each merge to master a new site will be built.

alerts.home-assistant.io's Issues

Home Assistant should check alerts and notify user

As a user, I want my Home Assistant instance to fetch the alerts.json file and notify me of any possible issues with my installation.

Add hacktoberfest label to repository

I think it would be cool if this subproject would also participate in Hacktoberfest. I think it is a good example where non-developers can work on the Home Assistant project.

Notify the users about breaking changes that the *device manufactures* made

Hi there!

I've recently read a Reddit post that my TP-Link Kasa smart plug will get an update that will completley break it's integration with Home Assistant. I was lucky enough to quickly disable it's access to internet, and still have it working but this remineded me of very important issue: Companies and manufacturers also often break our devices and setups by OTA updates or killing their services

Therefore, it would be really nice if (with this new service that you're building here) I could subscribe to alerts about different third party services and products that will change/break - not only Home Assistant

Security alert points to 404

The following warning is shown in the Home Assistant Companion App for Android:

The link behind "Bekijk nieuwsbrief" (Show newsletter) points to a location (https://www.home-assistant.io/latest-security-alert/) which is is unavailable:

I'd like to know which security issue was detected, but I can't find it out using this link.

As this link shows up here below, I hope that this is the correct place to report this.

alerts.home-assistant.io/mobile.json

Line 37 in c9ffa50

"url": "https://www.home-assistant.io/latest-security-alert",

Smartir media.player entity stopped working 0.98

Linky integration documentation not available

The linky alert refers to the /linky integration but that page shows a 404. Is the integration removed from HA? Then the alert should be deleted also?

Change date fields in feed when a post is updated

I created a blueprint to notify people when there's a new alert posted to the alerts.home-assistant.io feed. But I noticed I never got the alert for Security Disclosure 2.

I dug in and realized its because the first Security Disclosure post was updated instead of a new one being posted. Also even though the post was updated the updated fields weren't changed. There's two fields that are now inaccurate, the feed itself has an updated field and the Security Disclosure 2 entry also has an updated field which are both wrong. They both say 2021-01-14T12:00:00.000Z even though the feed was updated today with a new Security Disclosure.

Can I request that in the future you avoid updating posts and instead post new ones to make it easier for feedreaders like HA's feedreader integration to follow? You can replace alerts if you want just give the update a new publish date so readers can recognize the update. Or at the very least please change the updated fields on an update so watchers can pick that up.

Improve s3 sync

Make sure we upload JS first, then HTML.

Add brand logos

Home Assistant has brand logos now, and this alerts site seems like another place they could maybe be implemented, for both eye candy and quick scannability.

Quick mockup of how it could look (these are right aligned only cause I was too lazy to move everything in Photoshop 😆):

These would use the smaller "icon" variant - https://brands.home-assistant.io/[integration_name]/icon.png.

alerts.json should include a url for each alert

Just like the GitHub API includes links. This allows us to change the URL format without having to make a breaking change to Home Assistant (once integrated).

So per alert, add details_url: "https://alerts.home-assistant.io/#google_home.markdown

Neato is going out of business

Source: https://www.the-ambient.com/news/neato-is-no-more-robo-vac-brand-shuts-down-3053

How would this information be added to the current alert for the Neato integration?

Migrate to netlify

We should migrate to using Netlify for deploy instead of s3 upload.

Default only show alerts that impact the latest released minor version

The default filter of the frontpage should be to only show alerts that impact the latest released minor version of Home Assistant (0.97, 0.98 etc).

So if 0.96 broke X, it will be on the frontpage until 0.97 is released with a fix. After that it will be hidden.

Add social media tags

We should add og:image etc so that FB and Twitter show a preview image, title and description when rendering a page.

Example: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/blob/15a88385c2efb313ee23cbe150ef0fed3578808e/cast/src/html/launcher.html.template#L13-L24

Update integration docs to notify if active alerts for integration

We should create a new plugin for Jekyll that fetches https://alerts.home-assistant.io/alerts.json and checks if there is an active alert for the integration. If so, link to the alerts page with a filter applied for that integration.

We should only check for alerts in the latest release of Home Assistant, not all of them.

Ring Video Doorbell Stopped working after ring security breach

The Ring Doorbell seemed to have stopped working, after Ring recently had a security breach on their Video doorbells.

Amazon seemed to have changed something in the API that now refuses a connection from the Ring Component in HASS.

Either this component needs to be updated, to support the new Authentication requirements against the Ring API, or support needs to be pulled for this component from HASS.

Allow filtering overview

Allow the overview to be filtered by impacted Home Assistant version.

Entries in the alerts RSS feed do not comply with RFC 2.0 specification

Problem Statement

Entries of the RSS feed published at https://alerts.home-assistant.io/feed.xml do not contain pubDate field to indicate when the item was published. Each entry contains a published field that is not specified in the RSS 2.0 specification. The value of this field does not comply with RFC 822, which is the standard for RSS entries publish time.
For more info on pubDate and RFC 822, please see https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#hrelementsOfLtitemgt

Current contents of the feed:

<entry>
<title>
Ambiclimate integration will stop working April 1, 2024
</title>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://alerts.home-assistant.io/alerts/ambiclimate/"/>
<updated>2024-02-01T00:00:01Z</updated>
<published>2024-02-01T00:00:01Z</published>
<id>
https://alerts.home-assistant.io/alerts/ambiclimate/
</id>
<content xml:lang="en" type="html" lang="en">
<h2>Summary</h2>
<p>
All Ambi Climate services will be terminated, effective March 31, 2024, as Ambi Labs winds down business operations. You will be able to continue to use the Ambi Climate service until the end of March 2024.
</p>
<p>
From April 1, 2024, Ambi Climate devices will no longer be able to connect to the Ambi Climate servers, and you will no longer be able to sign into your account.
</p>
<p>
As Ambiclimate devices require a connection to the manufacturers cloud server, they will cease to function from April 1 2024 onwards. We recommend removing the integration from your Home Assistant installation once this happens.
</p>
<p>
Ambiclimate is allowing customers to export their private data, as well as offering a voluntary compensation policy for some customers. View the Ambiclimate website for more details.
</p>
</content>
</entry>

Proposed Solution

Change the published tag to pubDate as per standard and make its value compliant with RFC 822.

Context

This issue was created based on observations in custom-components/feedparser#127.

Rename knowledge -> alert

Initially I thought of naming it knowledge base, but alerts suits better. Rename folder and the Typescript type.

RSS feed broken?

I think the RSS feed is broken. I added a new alert that doesn't show up at Feedly.com. The alert is visible in the feed page however. Perhaps the file structure is incorrect?

https://alerts.home-assistant.io/feed.xml

Please add RSS feed to https://alerts.home-assistant.io

i tried to add https://alerts.home-assistant.io to my RSS reader, but it can't find a feed. Is adding a feed possible (and would that serve enough people to justify the effort)?

(Issue created based on https://twitter.com/balloob/status/1167109872501981184 )

Mobile friendly UI

The UI needs to be mobile friendly. The current detail view is not.