A new Z-wave radio launches, and a new home screen on the horizon with Home Assistant 2024.9

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New Features

• A new Home Dashboard
  
• New Tile Card Features
  History Chart!
  
  Fan Direction
  
  Buttons
  
  Valve Open/Close
  
  Date/Time Inputs
  
• Analog Clock is here
  2025.4 started with a digital clock, now let’s go old school
  
• Automation Editor Sidebar
  
• Disk Metrics
  
  Disk almost full? You might wonder where your storage space has gone…
  
  This release adds disk metrics to the storage configuration panel, giving you a glance at your disk usage and helping you identify what is taking up space.
  
• Husqvarna Automower
  You can now reset cutting blade usage time and track error events with a new event entity. Perfect for keeping track of your lawn mowing robot!
  
• Reolink
  now includes speak and doorbell volume controls, plus a chime silent time number entity!
  
  Reolink firmware update to allow speaking again?
  
• PlayStation Network
  You can now send messages to your friends
  
• UniFi
  You can now enable or disable individual switch ports
  
• Teslemetry
  Add charging and preconditioning actions
  
• OpenWeatherMap
  Adds new wind gust sensor
  
• Bayesian Sensors
  Can now be setup from the UI!
  
• Voice
  We now have built-in intents to control the volume of (active) media players! Like the song? Just ask Home Assistant to turn it up a notch!
  
  After all that dancing, you might have gotten a little warm. Hence in this release, we now also have intents to control fan speeds. Nice!
  

New Integrations

• SEKO PoolDose
  Integrate your SEKO water treatment system of your pool or spa to monitor temperature and chemical levels.
  
• Sleep as Andriod
  Connects the Sleep as Android app to Home Assistant, allowing you to trigger automations based on alarm clock or sleep cycle events.
  
• ToGrill Bluetooth BBQ thermometers
  Connect your ToGrill-compatible Bluetooth grill thermometer and monitor your BBQ efforts to cook steaks to absolute perfection.
  

Breaking Changes

• Husqvarna Automower BLE
  Now requires the PIN when being setup
  
• Switchbot Bluetooth
  The battery property on vacuum entities is being removed in Home Assistant. Therefore, this property is now removed from this integration and is replaced by a battery level sensor.
  
• Yale August
  The August integration now uses OAuth authentication with Yale August’s official API. This is a required one-time breaking change as the unofficial authentication method will stop working soon.