Velair 1.7.0: Manual control, Diagnostics, and external execution

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Velair 1.7.0

Velair 1.7.0 promotes the work tested throughout the 1.7 beta series to a stable release. It adds explicit handling for climate changes made outside Velair, a local Diagnostics workspace, refined Room Assist control, and optional schedule execution through compatible external controllers.

✨ Added

• Managed climates can detect external HVAC mode and setpoint changes.
• The default Keep automatic policy preserves Velair control, while optional policies can enter Manual adjustment until the next schedule block, for a configured duration, or until automatic control is resumed.
• Added a read-only Diagnostics workspace with scheduler and per-climate health, bounded runtime history, configurable categories, privacy-safe support reports, a global status sensor, and automation events.
• Compatible zones can publish their effective Default, Profile, or Mode week to an external schedule controller.
• Added Evohome schedule execution through ramses_cc, while keeping direct Velair climate actions disabled for externally executed zones.
• Added Mon–Fri, Weekend, All days, and Clear selection schedule-cloning shortcuts.
• Added complete contextual Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, and European Portuguese translations.
• Completed the maintained German, French, Dutch, Russian, and Spanish catalogues.

🔄 Changed

• Room Assist now has an independent per-climate deadband.
• Fixed heating and cooling use a stateful hysteresis cycle between the configured limits.
• Automatic modes and native ranges retain their appropriate neutral or boundary-margin behavior.
• Existing effective values migrate without manual intervention.

🚀 Improved

• Overview, Settings, Schedules, Room Assist, and Diagnostics provide clearer execution ownership, publication state, controller limits, operational notices, and responsive layouts.
• External schedule editors show daily controller switchpoint usage, including the implicit midnight continuity point when required.
• The Room Assist graph keeps the complete translated deadband legend centered on the represented range.
• Documentation, deterministic screenshots, and website assets now reflect the final stable behavior.

🛠️ Fixed

• Fixed the active Boost animation extending outside its timeline block after resizing the panel or using a narrow screen.
• Added the Home Assistant config-entry-only schema required by current Hassfest validation.

🔒 Compatibility

• Existing installations retain automatic Velair authority by default.
• Existing schedules, Profiles, Modes, Room Assist settings, and external-adjustment behavior require no manual migration.
• External execution remains optional and is only offered when a supported Home Assistant integration and its services are available.
• Evohome through ramses_cc supports scalar heating schedules on a 5-minute grid with at most six translated switchpoints per day.
• An implicit midnight continuity point counts towards that limit when required.
• Published means that the external integration accepted the service call; it does not represent a physical controller readback.
• Heating, cooling, Celsius, Fahrenheit, scalar targets, and native ranges remain supported by Velair’s local execution.

✅ Validation

• Backend, documentation, and contract tests: 814 passed
• Frontend tests: 534 passed
• Screenshot Lab tests: 18 passed
• Static website tests: 11 passed
• TypeScript validation passed
• Stable release frontend build passed
• Release bundle identifies version 1.7.0
• Hassfest validation passed with 0 invalid integrations
• Custom-component ZIP verified: 49 entries
• Lovelace-resource ZIP verified: 2 entries
• 51 dark and 51 light screenshots generated
• Project and selected website screenshots updated
• Public repository and private-reference safety checks passed
• git diff --check passed