Change default setting for `only_publish_changed`

Currently, this integration will publish the current state of all entities every n seconds, regardless of whether or not this entity underwent a state change.

The intent was to make visualizing this information easier in Kibana, as missing values would not render nicely in line or area charts.

Users who only want to publish state changes need to configure only_publish_changed: true.

Kibana recently added support for fitting functions for area and line charts (https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/78154), so the need for us to publish all states should be reduced.

This issue is a proposal to change the default setting for only_publish_changed from false to true.

[legrego]

That’s expected if you started one of these betas with existing Elasticsearch config in your yaml file.

If you want to use the UI, then you’ll need to remove the config entry from your yaml, and restart. Next, remove the Elasticsearch integration from the integrations screen (don’t remove the code, or files).

Once that’s done, you can add the integration back through the UI. At this point, you’ll be able to use the UI to tweak your config

[eloebl]

I will give it a shot, thank you!! FWIW I changed publish_frequency to 300s, and no issues yet with the Chromecasts, so either a coincidence (very possible as have a few networking related plugins), or a viable solution.