in today's video we're going to be having a  look at the latest announcement from two-year  

we're also going to be running through  some troubleshooting for the new two-year  

integration and if you stick around  till the end i'm going to be showing  

you some new and upcoming features for  the two-year integration check it out

what's going on guys i hope you're all doing  well if you didn't know over the last few  

months two have been working on a brand new  integration for home assistant known as 2uv2  

the integration's been receiving regular updates  and with each update it's beginning new features  

new product support and things like language  localization and if you're up to date with your  

home assistant news then you'll know that in the  latest 2021.10 update the new two-year integration  

was added into home assistant core now when this  was done the original two-year integration was  

removed so if you were using the old one you would  have had to move to this brand new one this update  

made to you a breaking change and the reason for  this is just because it wasn't a direct upgrade  

from the original two-year integration to the new  one the new integration is a brand new integration  

with a brand new code based and it's based on  two's new open apis and with the new integration  

came a new set of instructions that you're gonna  need to follow in order to get the integration up  

and running to help out with this i have created  a video on it and you'll find a link to that above  

and also in the description so if you want a bit  of help with that be sure to check out that video  

getting set up with the new 2 integration hasn't  been plain sailing for everybody but i'm going to  

be going through some of the issues that i've been  messaged about a lot and hopefully helping you  

to resolve them so if you have had any of these  issues hopefully this helps but before we get on  

with the core integration troubleshooting let's  just take a step back and come back to your v2  

so at the point of 2021.10 releasing we had two  different versions of the two-year integration  

we had the two-year core integration which  is the new official one and then we have the  

2v2 version which was on hax so the official  version the version that's just been pulled  

into home assistant core this was created by  the two-year developers with the help of the  

home assistant developers so it's been vetted  by home assistant and it meets and passes all  

the standards and needs that a core integration  must have we've then got two v2 which can be found  

on the official two-year github page and you can  set it up and install it using the home assistant  

community store this version is also created by  the 2d developers but the code base isn't in line  

with home assistant standards and it doesn't match  and meet any of those standards needed for a core  

integration which is why we ended up with two  different integrations as b2 wasn't written or  

designed in a home assistant friendly way so the  integration that's been added to home assistant  

core had to again be created from scratch so  based on that new integration for home assistant  

core two you began refactoring the code for v2  with what they'd learned and that's what the 1.6  

update mainly focused on two years initial idea  was to just refactor the v2 integration so that  

it was more in line with the version that's in  core that way any future improvements or changes  

would be more likely to just be accepted into core  2 you were going to carry on with the development  

of v2 so we would have had v2 which two you would  have been committing and doing all the changes to  

and then we would have had the core version  and then i guess two would have just passed the  

stuff from the v2 version into core when it was  ready to go but the idea just didn't really work  

as people would be making changes and updates  and just fixing issues and just general problems  

with the version that's in core and then the v2  version would be out of sync with this and when  

i query two year about this i asked them if they'd  be pulling changes and fixes from the version core  

into v2 they actually said no so again this would  also make the v2 version be out of sync with core  

so as of today the v2 version is no longer going  to act as the beta and it's also not going to  

be developed any further by the two developers so  what this does now mean is that there's just going  

to be one version which works out well because  there's not going to be two different versions for  

people to get confused on there's not going to be  two versions to have to report issues on and just  

maintain and track as of right now the current v2  version currently supports more products and has a  

few more features than the official core version  but in the next update that should all change  

and we'll be talking more about this in just  a second so in short the v2 version is no more  

if you're currently making use of the v2 version i  would highly recommend switching over to the core  

version but i'd only do so when the 2021.11 update  drops just as it's going to contain those extra  

features that are missing as i mentioned at the  beginning of the video setting up and installing  

the new 2 integration hasn't been plain sailing  for everybody so i'm just going to run through  

some of the common questions that have been asked  a lot in the comments or in messages and hopefully  

it helps up first we've got an issue where lights  and switches are instantly turning back on or back  

off after being turned on or off this issue is  caused by the device status notification which  

is step six if you're following along with the 2d  documentation now i did try and highlight this in  

the video that i did if you missed this step or  forget to add that on you'll find that when you're  

using the integration and you're controlling  things like switches and light when you're turning  

them on and off you'll find it'll be a bit janky  where you'll turn it on and it will instantly  

switch back on now you may not have seen my video  or you may have just missed that step if you were  

watching along but the device status notification  is the likely culprit for this problem so if you  

are having this issue then you're going to want  to go and check that you've authorized this api  

now to actually do this you don't need to create  a new account you can't add it to an existing  

account so if you did miss this step you can just  add it back on so let's head over to the developer  

iot platform now once you're on the developer  platform you're going to want to choose cloud  

and then development and from here we're going to  want to select our cloud project that we created  

so in my case here it was 2uv2 with your project  selected you're going to want to come to the top  

here and you're going to want to choose service  api in my list here i can see that i've got the  

device status notification already authorized but  if you didn't have this you'd need to click this  

go to authorize in the top right you'll then be  presented with an authorization box and in here  

you're going to want to start typing device status  notification as you start typing that you should  

see that appear and it should have a little blue  subscribe next to it so if you were to click that  

for the device status notification it would add  it to your list you should then see the device  

status notification in your list and you should be  good to go all you'll now need to do is just head  

back into home assistant give it a reboot and then  when you try toggling on and off those lights and  

switches they should just go to the correct state  and not instantly switch back another message  

i've had a lot is how do i go about setting  up the trial account because it's now moved  

so previously when setting up a cloud account to  you would require you to set up a trial account  

and to do this you'd actually have to run through  the whole process as if you were buying an account  

but you don't actually pay anything but this  process has now been streamlined and you don't  

actually have to set up a trial account one's just  applied by default so you can just click to create  

a cloud project and you're good to go moving on  another error that i've had reported to me a lot  

is an error popping up when trying to actually  add the new to your integration so this error is  

a pop-up that says the conflict flow could not be  loaded so you'll see this message as a pop-up and  

if you were to look at your logs you'd also see a  similar message now the reason this one happens is  

because you're installing two-year whilst you've  already got the 2uv2 integration installed as well  

a simple solution for this one is just remove  the 2uv2 integration and restart home assistant  

if you're still getting that error also check  your file editor and make sure that in your custom  

components that the 2uv2 component is also removed  the next error is to do with two years cloud cross  

region limitation so with this one you'll see an  error when you're trying to scan the qr code with  

youtube or smart life app this error will occur if  you're trying to add your two year or smart life  

devices that you've got registered to your account  to an unsupported data center so this probably  

means that you've set the data center wrong on  your 2u cloud project if you are getting this  

error i'll have some links in the description  below where you can go and check out two years  

official documentation to find out which regions  you should be using up next i've had a bunch  

of different messages with two-year error codes  with the most popular error code being error 1004  

i think this one's probably the most popular error  because i think people are trying to sign into the  

integration using the developer account so when  you're setting up the integration it's going to  

ask you for your account username and password  and for this you need to make sure you're using  

youtube or smartlife account and not the developer  account i have also received a few of the other  

error codes but rather than run through them  all i'll just leave a link to the home assistant  

documentation which explains each of the error  codes and what you can do to solve them okay so  

the last one i'm briefly going to touch on then is  missing devices and this is where your integration  

is just missing a few devices or all of them  two of the common reasons i've seen for this  

is that you're moving from the v2 integration to  the core one so currently the v2 integration has  

more devices supported so when you actually move  into core you're actually losing those devices  

so with this one you'll probably just notice a few  different devices missing but if you notice that  

all of the devices are missing then you've more  than likely got the wrong data center chosen if  

you're on the iot platform and you've linked your  two-year or smart life account and you can't view  

any of your devices then it means that your data  center is set wrong so once you change that there  

the integration should start seeing those devices  too so i think all this talk about missing and  

unsupported devices segues us nicely onto our  final section of the video which is upcoming  

features so this is the part of the video where  i tell you that the 2d integration has just been  

franked just in case you didn't know who frank was  frank is one of the main home assistant developers  

and he literally contributes to all the various  corners of home assistant you probably also know  

frank is the guy that has the mammoth task of  collating all of the home assistant release notes  

and if you catch any of the home assistant  live events or release parties then you will  

have definitely seen him so for the last week  in a bit frank's been doing a lot of work on  

the two-year integration and he's implemented  a whole bunch of things things like a working  

early build of the two-year camera platform which  also includes doorbells and yes those doorbells  

have push notifications and just to make you aware  this is an early prototype but it's a massive step  

forward and cameras and doorbells in the 2-year  integration is something we've never had before  

he's also been on a mass 3 refactoring and  rewriting the two-year lights he's added  

support for the highly requested dimmer switches  he's made a lot of the light code reusable he's  

improved the colors he's improved the temperature  he's added support for a whole bunch of different  

light categories and all in all just overhauled  the whole of the two-year lights and that's  

just a small fraction of the things that he's  been working on you'll find a whole bunch more  

and you'll find all of these things in the home  assistant 2021.11 update now i'm not going to run  

through all these things but if you are interested  in knowing a bit more i'll leave a link to frank's  

twitter in the description below and i'll also  leave a link to the home assistant core git repo  

so you can go and check out the pull request for  these things midway through the week i did also  

get the chance to sit down and chat with frank  about home assistant tech two-year and some crazy  

conspiracy theories thank you again for that frank  and for all the work that you do and not just on  

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