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New Beta FW available

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The new beta firmware begins the voice control implementation:



Beta Release 2.8.1
Voice is here: initial support for Home Assistant voice commands, with more options coming soon. For details, see the Using Voice Assistants support article. Known issues:
  • Beta updates for Remote Two are currently disabled. We are working on a secure upgrade path from the WiFi initialization and factory reset issue.
  • WiFi security mode WPA3 is not yet supported.
  • Automatic display brightness and button backlight settings in the UI are not yet working. They are currently disabled in the web-configurator.
    • Remote 3: the ambient light sensor sensitivity will be increased with a firmware update.
  • Sonos integration: a recent speaker firmware update affects the local device API access. Connection issues might be resolved temporarily by power-cycling the Sonos device(s). We are planning a rewrite of the Sonos integration using a different API.
Fixed
  • Improved media-player artwork download and display.
  • Charging screen shown after reboot.
  • Remote 3: pixel artifacts on the bottom of the screen that was present on some devices after the last update (#561).
  • Web-configurator:
    • Integration state is not updated in integration screen.
    • Possible fix for scrolling window inside seqence-list is not possible (#693).
  • Android TV integration: Fixed infinite update of media image url update using Chromecast. Contributed by @albaintor (integration-androidtv#115).
  • Denon AVR integration - a big thanks to @henrikwidlund for the contributions:
Added
  • Initial voice assistant support with Home Assistant.
    • Voice support for Android TV will follow soon.
    • Multiple voice assistants are supported, with the option to use a global voice assistant and an individual one per activity.
  • Microphone access is now available to 3rd party integrations.
  • Command retry after wakeup. Wakeup window is configurable in Power Saving settings on the Remote.
Changed
  • Increased speaker volume for voice assistant speech feedback. This also affects the current volume setting for sound effects.
  • Replacing all non-printable whitespace characters in media information fields with a normal space.
  • Filter out all emoji characters in media information fields until we have full emoji support. This makes displaying YouTube video titles endurable again :)
  • Disabling certificate validation for media-player artwork download. Unfortunately we can't convince everyone to use valid certificates for their self-hosted services.
  • Web-configurator:
    • Showing a sensor widget placeholder icon in the UI grid if the sensor doesn't have a label, value and unit.
 
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