ECOWITT - Not working after upgrading from 2024.12.x to 2025.1.4

[Sam-C-Dev]

The problem

Upgraded from 2024.12.x to 2025.1.4, and now Ecowitt is giving errors, won't load and all my sensors are unavailable. I was nervous about 2025.1.x, so I waited until a few revisions were released. Logs attached. I'm using Ecowitt Gateway GW1100, connected directly to usb. Firmware: GW1100B_V2.2.1

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2025.1.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

2024.12.x

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Ecowitt

Link to integration documentation on our website

No response

Diagnostics information

Example YAML snippet

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Additional information

home-assistant_2025-01-26T22-09-59.961Z.log

[Sam-C-Dev]

Update: apparently I still had the HACs version installed. Removed that, removed all Ecowitt Integrations. Updated my local Ecowitt Gateway as per instructions when loading the core Ecowitt Integration. Device now re-appear, and have new entities. Highly annoying as I lost all statistics, had to update a lot of dashboards, helpers, and automations. I wish there would have been a warning about this. Every update is a roll of the dice :-/