"unix" timestamp is number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970 UTC.
This allows scripts that use templates to generate time
deltas in seconds if desired from state attributes such
as last_updated.
Some examples:
timestamp now is
{{ as_timestamp(now) }}
timstamp of last change is
{{ as_timestamp(states.binary_sensor.garage_door.last_changed) }}
seconds since last change is
{{ as_timestamp(now) - as_timestamp(states.binary_sensor.garage_door.last_changed) }}
* Add STATE_UNAVAILABLE to states that are ignored when writing to the
database. This will avoid a field type error for string if the field
already contains a different type, eg integer.
* Add test for ignored states for influxdb.
* Clean up influxdb tests.
* Accept group without entities in configuration.
People seem to use these as placeholders for future expansion of their
home automation dreams, and we used to accept them. We still have to
specify at least one of 'name', 'view' or 'icon' so that the group is
parsed as a dictionary.
* Also accept empty entities: key in a group.
* Additional fix for empty entities value in a group config.
Two tests were invariably grinding my system to a halt as it was
applying migrations to an empty sqlite database. This patch reduces
the time of a pytest run from 50 to about 16 seconds on my desktop.
The difference is even more noticable on a slower laptop drive, but
is probably insignificant for all you fancy SSD users.
Accept delay configuration even when someone forgets to indent the time
specification.
Also removed 'weeks' and 'microseconds' from acceptable delay values.
There is a new homeassistant release every 2 weeks and running scripts
are not persisting across restarts. And there is still the option of
using (weeks*7) days if the long delay is really necessary.
And if someone really depends on microsecond delay precision we are
unlikely to be able to provide this accuracy, even milliseconds is
suspect for that matter but will at least allow us to specify some
subsecond delay.
Paulus Schoutsen
Charles Spirakis
John Arild Berentsen
Fabian Affolter
Daniel Høyer Iversen
Daniel
Brad Johnson
MartinHjelmare
Jan Harkes
Joel Asher Friedman