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  Cody Bryant released this 2026-08-11 12:44:31 -07:00 | 140 commits to main since this release

  Thanks to @CryingPecan, whose LitterHopper robot
  on ESP 1.4.4 is behind much of what's below. Protocol detail lives in
  docs/devices/litter-robot-4/.

  Added

  • The clean cycle and reset buttons are back, and this time they work: they
    synthesise the same button press the panel sends. Proven on ESP 1.1.75 and 1.4.4.
  • Empty cycle and Power buttons, disabled by default and named (danger) — an
    empty cycle dumps the globe into the drawer, and Power takes the robot off the
    network. The CLI gains empty-cycle and power, which prompt first.
  • Pet weight actually works. Recent rc builds doubled the reading; weights now
    match the household scale (raw ÷ 100, the cloud's own units).
  • LitterHopper support: connected, fill gauge, and an out-of-litter alert the
    firmware itself never raises. The hopper entities switch themselves on the first
    time a hopper reports.
  • Litter level as a percentage. It calibrates itself over time; one button press
    with the globe filled to the line pins it immediately.
  • New entities: last cat visit, last visit duration, waste drawer last moved,
    and panel brightness for bright and dark rooms.
  • Activity-derived entities survive a restart instead of reading unknown until
    the next cat visit.
  • New install channels: brew install sisyphusmd/tap/whiskerless, .deb and
    .rpm for amd64 and arm64, and standalone Linux binaries for both. None of them
    need a system Python — the audience is someone provisioning a robot from a laptop
    that has none.

  Fixed

  • A robot without a LitterHopper no longer grows hopper entities. The dispense
    burst turns out to fire on hopperless robots too, so it no longer counts as proof
    a hopper exists — only a real hopper link report (0x57) switches the entities on.
  • The weekday sleep schedule now arms every day. It is a per-day bitmask, not a
    switch, and turning it on armed Sunday alone — so it looked fine if you tested on
    a Sunday and did nothing all week.
  • The panel sleep schedule can actually be set. The sleep and wake time entities
    wrote a register the firmware only computes, so they never did anything.
  • Litter readings are suppressed while the globe is not level. Mid-cycle the
    sensors read the globe rather than the litter, and that was published as a level.
  • robotStatus 10 is the clean cycle on every firmware; the old map called it a
    cat pause. The boot cycle and the filter-change wizard are mapped too — both move
    the globe, and while unmapped their readings published as real litter levels.
  • whiskerless set night-light-mode auto works. Every spelling the command
    accepts used to crash — and it is the command in the README quickstart.
  • The declared Home Assistant minimum was wrong (2025.2.0), so a user on 2025.2
    could install this and watch it fail. It is 2025.3.0.
  • Every settings write is verified by reading it back, a multi-register write no
    longer loses one of its parts, and broker failures are reported rather than raised
    as a traceback.
  • The hopper no longer drops to unknown on a link code that is not a disconnect, and
    one dispense can no longer prove an empty hopper on its own.

  Changed

  • Breaking: binary_sensor.<robot>_waste_drawer_removed is replaced by
    sensor.<robot>_waste_drawer_last_moved. The robot reports that the drawer moved
    and never which way — nine codes turned up across removals and insertions alike.
  • Breaking: clean cycle wait time is a number (3–30 minutes), not a select. Move
    automations from select.<robot>_clean_cycle_wait_time to
    number.<robot>_clean_cycle_wait_time.
  • Breaking (library): Hazard.MOTOR, MotorCommandError and allow_motor are
    gone. A written press is the same event as a physical one, so the robot's own
    interlocks apply either way. Power still requires allow_dangerous.
  • Last visit duration needs ESP 1.4.4, so it ships disabled and switches on the
    first time a robot reports one. On 1.1.75 that register has never appeared, and the
    sensor would otherwise read unknown for the life of the robot.
  • Cat detected follows the scale, not the sensors looking into the globe, so it
    can stay on for hours after a cat leaves. Automate on it as "the robot is busy
    with a cat" rather than "there is a cat in the box right now".

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