Categorising and Labelling everything with 2024.4

New Features

• Organising Home Assistant
  There are now three new ways to organise all your automations, entities etc with Home Assistant.
  
• New Interface for Tables
  Tables have had a serious overhaul with this release. Each table has a search bar, allowing you to quickly find what you are looking for.
  
  Tables now have the possibility to group rows, by for example, their entity state, and can be filtered!
  
• Map and Webpage Dashboards
  The Map panel has been replaced with a new Dashboard type – “map”. It will now be possible to have multiple Map type dashboards with different settings.
  
  Similarly a webpage dashboard has been introduced which will supersede the iframe_panel dashboard.
  
• Choose the number of columns for the Section Layout
  There is now the ability for you to define the number of columns in the section view is using.
  
• Related Items
  The information shown in the related items of the entity dialogs, but also related information on device pages (like automations, scenes, scripts, etc.) has been improved. It should now provide you with more relevant information.
  
• Repairs
  There are brand new template functions available to list all the issues in your repairs dashboard
  
• Matter Devices
  
  

New Integrations

• Fyta
  Monitor your plants with Fyta, a smart plant sensor that measures light, temperature, humidity, and soil moisture
  
• MotionBlinds BLE
  Control your Bluetooth Low Energy Motionblinds motorized window coverings
  
• Ollama
  Ollama a fully local AI conversation platform that can be used to create custom voice assistants.

Breaking Changes

• Python Version Bump
  Python 3.11 support has previously been deprecated and has now been removed. Home Assistant now requires Python 3.12 to run.
  
• Ecobee
  The non-functional away preset mode has been replaced with the correct away_indefinitely preset mode.
  
  If any automation or script was depending on the away preset mode, it needs to be updated.
  
• AEMET OpenData, Environment Canada, National Weather Service, Met Éireann
  These integrations previously created two entities for each configured location, one entity which provided daily weather forecasts and one entity which provided hourly forecasts.
  
  These integtations now only create a single entity which provides both daily and hourly weather forecasts.

Links Discussed

• https://spook.boo/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfO0CprMDH4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bx5w-n5c0Y
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-TejfwZi5g
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcL6o62Vnoo