Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/HwzRzjuDnRU
Android Auto
Was in a blog post on Jan 20: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/01/20/android-auto/
New Features
- Restarting Home Assistant
Remember Windows XP? There’s a new shutdown/reboot dialog to make it easier to understand how to restart/reload Home Assistant.Remember all those reload YAML buttons? Now there’s a quick reload button that will reload all the components of Home Assistant that can be reloaded without restarting Home Assistant.The individual buttons to reload only automations or scripts are still available in Dev Tools.
- More Assist updates
Can now ask for the current state of devices
Are all windows closed? How many doors are open?
English and Dutch intents are covered, but we need other language support too!
- Cleaner Entity information dialogs
Tabs in the more information dialogs are gone! You can see an icon in the top to get to related entitles or device info screen.
- Python 3.11 Support
Not currently available for Home Assistant OS or Containers - The Reolink integration
now provides entities to update the firmware of your camera, control zoom, and control auto-focus. - The OpenAI Conversation
integration now has options to customize it to your liking. You can now use templates in theforparameter of state conditions
New Integrations
- Dormakaba dKey
Connect and control your Dormakaba dKey Bluetooth Low Energy locks - easyEnergy
Retrieves dynamic (hourly) energy & gas prices from the Dutch utility company easyEnergy.
- TP-Link Omada SDN Controller
Control your TP-Link Omada SDN Devices such as network switches, access points, and internet gateways.
Breaking Changes
- MQTT
The behavior for receiving values on sensors that expect numeric* values has changed.- From now on a
'None'value or a value rendered to'None'will set such a sensor to anunknownstate. - Empty values on such sensors (
'') are ignored and will not affect the state of the sensor.
- From now on a
- Profiler
Theprofiler.memoryservice is not available when using Python 3.11, due to an incompatibility with a needed dependency for this service. It will return if and when the usedguppy3package becomes available with Python 3.11 compatibility. - ZwaveJS Bump
Home Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa
Easily connect to Google and Amazon voice assistants for a small monthly fee that also supports the Home Assistant project. Configuration is via the User Interface so no fiddling with router settings, dynamic DNS or YAML.
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