For the final release of the year, Frenck is here to reflect on the year and his recent GitHub Universe experience.

New Features

  • Reolink
    PTZ Tilt Sensor position sensor. There is also bitrate and framerate select entities.
  • Habiticia
    Binary sensors now available.

    Actions now supported for scoring habits and rewards

    Calendars have been added for to-do and daily reminders
  • Unifi Protect
    New fingerprint and NFC events
  • Time Entities
    Support time entities in automation time conditions/triggers selectors
  • Download Camera Snapshots
    Add download snapshot button to camera more info dialog
  • Automation Editor
    Show YAML parsing errors in automation editor
  • Units of Measurement
    There is an edge case for translations for units of measurement.

    Although for most cases, units do not need translation (like °C or kWh), there are many sensors in ones home that might use units that are specific and not standarized. For example, a sensor that measures the amount of “people” in a home, or one that tells you how many “movies” are in your collection.

    So, if you now have a sensor that has a custom unit of measurement, like the amount of “movies” in your collection, integrations can now provide translations for those units.

New Integrations

  • Acacia
    Acacia coffee scales now supported in Home Assistant. Local push integration.
  • Music Assistant
    The integration is now official ♥️
  • Nord Pool
    Pulls in latest energy prices from the Nord Pool energy market as sensors. “Nord Pool runs the leading power market in Europe”

    Cloud polling integration
  • Sky Remote
    The Sky Remote integration lets you control a Sky box using Home Assistant. Intended to control all Sky satellite receiver boxes with a LAN port. It will not control Sky stream pucks.

    ”Assumed state” integration

Links Discussed

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Hosted By

Phil Hawthorne

Phil is a Melbourne based web developer who lives and breathes technology. When he's not at his day job, he’s in his home office attempting to simplify his life through complicated tech.

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Rohan Karamandi

Rohan from Toronto, Canada works in the Technology sector as an architect designing network and datacenter solutions for his customers. His passion for technology stems from there and extends to IoT and home automation

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Special Appearances By

Spotlight

 

Special episodes focused on various aspects of Home Assistant and Home Automation.