Very strange I updated to v1.17.2 also on my production instance.

• Choose Virtual power (library)
• Selected some light entity
• Unchecked confirm model (because I don't have the eq3 device)
• Selected eq3
• Selected HmIP-BDT

And correctly got redirected to the linear config dialog.

Are you sure you don't have this same model in custom directory in config/powercalc/profiles?

Also you are confident to have restarted after upgrading to v1.17.2?

Otherwise might help maybe to call update library action: https://docs.powercalc.nl/library/library/#updating-the-library

Btw the discovery remarks will currently only be shown when the device is actually discovered.
When you choose to setup manually from library this won't show.

Also you are confident to have restarted after upgrading to v1.17.2?

Yes, several times.

Are you sure you don't have this same model in custom directory in config/powercalc/profiles?

I don't have the directory config/powercalc/profiles. However, I've used ack to find all occurrences of HmIP-BDT, and this is what I've found:

config/.storage/powercalc_profiles/library.json:
[...]
{"id":"HmIP-BDT","name":"HmIP-BDT","device_type":"smart_dimmer","updated_at":"2024-12-09T15:48:40"}
[...]

config/.storage/powercalc_profiles/eq-3/HmIP-BDT/model.json:
{
  "measure_description": "Manually measured",
  "measure_method": "manual",
  "measure_device": "From manufacturer specifications",
  "name": "HmIP-BDT",
  "standby_power": 0.4,
  "standby_power_on": 0.4,
  "sensor_config": {
    "power_sensor_naming": "{} Device Power",
    "energy_sensor_naming": "{} Device Energy"
  },
  "device_type": "light",
  "calculation_strategy": "fixed",
  "fixed_config": {
    "power": 0
  },
  "created_at": "2024-09-06T18:37:40",
  "author": "CV",
  "description": "HomematicIP smart trailing edge dimmer for outlets. This model is configured only for standby power usage of the smart device itself. The connected device(s) power usage must be configured by the user since it is possible to connect anything to it."
}

This file is indeed outdated. As far as I remember, I have not created or modified it manually. The up-to-date file at the time of writing is https://github.com/bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc/blob/3cf050be4229e3937a71114e5716c344cbfaa9e4/profile_library/eq-3/HmIP-BDT/model.json.

I've tried moving it away in the hope that it will be re-downloaded, but that gives me the following error:

So I've moved the outdated file back.

Otherwise might help maybe to call update library action: https://docs.powercalc.nl/library/library/#updating-the-library

I've called that action, but it doesn't change the file.

The log (when calling the update library action) says:

[...]
2025-01-22 15:32:03.846 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.power_profile.loader.remote] Loading library.json from github
2025-01-22 15:32:03.980 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.discovery] Start auto discovery
2025-01-22 15:32:03.981 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.discovery] Start entity discovery
[...]
2025-01-22 15:32:04.271 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.discovery] Done auto discovery

I guess I could just manually copy the new file contents into the old file, but I'm afraid my library doesn't update for whatever reason, so if you can spare the time I'd like to get to the bottom of this.

Interesting. Could you please check contents of file config/.storage/powercalc_profiles/.last_update?

Logic to determine if new version of model.json should be downloaded is here btw: https://github.com/bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc/blob/master/custom_components/powercalc/power_profile/loader/remote.py#L174

Removing the file and restarting or call the service to upload library should both download latest version of model.json.

Could you please check contents of file config/.storage/powercalc_profiles/.last_update?

The content of that file is 1734282394.4677932 (which corresponds to Sun Dec 15 2024 17:06:34 GMT+0000) - in other words, the model.jsons have not been updated in over 6 weeks.

Logic to determine if new version of model.json should be downloaded is here btw

Thanks! I've added a bunch of log output to that function and tried digging through the code, and I found the bug!

Here's the output of my debug messages:

2025-01-27 13:36:24.947 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.power_profile.loader.remote] _needs_update({'id': 'HmIP-BDT', 'name': 'HmIP-BDT', 'device_type': 'smart_dimmer', 'updated_at': '2024-12-09T15:48:40'}, /config/.storage/powercalc_profiles/eq-3/HmIP-BDT/model.json, False)
2025-01-27 13:36:24.947 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.power_profile.loader.remote] path_exists = True
2025-01-27 13:36:24.948 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.power_profile.loader.remote] remote_modification_time = 1733755720.0
2025-01-27 13:36:24.948 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.power_profile.loader.remote] self.last_update_time = 1734282394.4677932

TL;DR: The bug is that the updated_at field in library.json is the time stamp when the commit in the pull request was created, not when it was merged!

This is what happened:

• The current library.json contains the string:

  {"id": "HmIP-BDT", "name": "HmIP-BDT", "device_type": "smart_dimmer", "updated_at": "2024-12-09T15:48:40"}
  

• My local copy of library.json is up to date; calling powercalc.update_library has no effect.

Timeline:

• 2024-12-09: I opened PR Use the new smart_dimmer class for the HmIP-BDT device #2782 with a commit from the same day, which updates the model.json of HmIP-BDT.
• 2024-12-15: I downloaded some other device's model.json, so the file .last_update is now set to 2024-12-15.
• 2025-01-12: PR Use the new smart_dimmer class for the HmIP-BDT device #2782 was merged, HmIP-BDT's model.json was updated, and the updated_at field in the library.json was set to "2024-12-09T15:48:40". This is the bug. updated_at should be 2025-01-12.

Today, when Powercalc checks whether it needs to re-download HmIP-BDT's model.json, it checks if 2024-12-15 < 2024-12-09 = False, so it doesn't re-download and I am stuck with the pre-2025-01-12 version.

(BTW, this is on Powercalc v1.17.5.)

A good fix would be:

• Store the last_updated time stamp per device, not globally.
• Upon saving the last_updated stamp, don't store the current date, but instead store the current updated_at time stamp. This would ensure that whenever the updated_at stamp in the remote library changes to something newer, the device gets updated.

@mintar thanks for providing this info, and debugging. Yes that would be the actual cause.
Current logic to determine last_updated_at is here btw: https://github.com/bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc/blob/master/.github/scripts/profile_library/update-library.py#L155C26-L155C46, which will run after a profile get merged into powercalc master branch.

I agree with you keeping track of updated_at per profile is more robuust.

I have implemented a new mechanism with #3114.
Essentially it keeps a hash of all the model information per model.
Whenever the hash changes it will redownload.

Will be in next release.

Great, this worked! I didn't even have to remove and re-add the device, but it has been updated in the background, so now I have the "Linear options" dialog for the device. Thanks!