UL Length incompatible with release 2023.4

[robchandhok]

Upon updating to 2023.4.0 (and .1 later) there are now a lot of these errors:

2023-04-08 11:50:33.049 ERROR (Recorder) [homeassistant.components.recorder.models.context] Error converting ulid ec_27d790_e4f2ce9dacca95da39232d3b6e to bytes: ULID must be a 26 character string: ec_27d790_e4f2ce9dacca95da39232d3b6e

It appears that CONTEXT_ID_CHARACTER_LIMIT is just incompatible, but I don't know enough about it to suggest the change.

See also where used:

entity-controller/custom_components/entity_controller/__init__.py

Line 1562 in d2fd0a7

context_id = context_id[:CONTEXT_ID_CHARACTER_LIMIT]

See also this HA issue (closed) which resolved to the "adaptive lighting" custom component, not HA.
home-assistant/core#91019

[digitalconverg]

same issue reported as home-assistant/core#91249

[robchandhok]

Correct. Since the recorder component won’t be changed, the custom component has to be updated.

[digitalconverg]

Changed the value in const.py from CONTEXT_ID_CHARACTER_LIMIT = 36 to 26 and it appears to have resolved the problem.

[robchandhok]

Seems right. Can you do a PR? but @danobot or someone will have to merge/release it.

[ndbroadbent]

I think this might be breaking some of my entity controller instances (but not all.) I might have to downgrade to 2023.3 until it's working again.

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Sorry false alarm, it was something else. (I just moved to a new house and broke things!) In my case I'm using "packages" to organize my config into separate YAML files, and I had accidentally re-used the same top-level key, so one of my config hashes was getting overridden by a different one.

I did downgrade though. I SSH'd into my machine and ran: sudo ha core update --version 2023.3.6
So I'll still be following this issue and upgrade once it's working properly again without errors