March 25, 2023

House Assistant Core 2022.11! šŸŽ‰

This November already feels quite a bit like Christmas šŸŽ„, what a heck of a
launch! Fairly just a few recommendations from the Month of ā€œWhat the Heck?!ā€
already landed! Able to unpack the presents? šŸŽ

Speaking concerning the WTH month, it ended. Effectively, type of, a minimum of. It’s now closed
for brand new subjects/recommendations, however existing ones
stay open for dialogue and might be voted on. I’m curious to see extra of
these WTHs being resolved within the upcoming releases.

This launch has a lot goodness that I’ve a tough time selecting a favourite.
Water utilization, perhaps? I’m actually undecided, so I’m going to chop this intro quick.
Let me know your favourite within the feedback under!

Benefit from the launch!

../Frenck

PS: There might be no launch celebration stay stream this month,
as an alternative join us on the
State of the Open Home on
Sunday, November 13, 2022 (11:00 AM PST / 20:00 CET).

Tile card

This release introduces a new Dashboard card: the ā€œTileā€!

Screenshot showing a couple of tile cards

The tile card is a lovely little card that provides a quick overview of an
entity. The icon can be tapped to toggle the entity, and the rest of the card
brings up the ā€œmore infoā€ dialog.

Read more about the Tile card in the documentation.

This first iteration of the Tile card is one of the first cards added this
release, that brings in a new style of card into Home Assistant.

Curious to find out what else will be coming? Join us for the State
of the Open Home live stream.
Go to YouTube and click the bell šŸ””
so that you get notified once we go stay!

Statistic card

Extra playing cards! We have already got the Statistics Graph card,
which can be used to display graphs of long-term statistics of an entity.
This release brings the ā€œStatisticā€ card!

The ā€œStatisticā€ card, as the name implies, can show a single value of an entity,
based on the long-term statistics stored of that entity.

For example, want to display the average temperature of your living room this
week on your dashboard? The average power usage of your home today? The peak
power production of your solar panels today?

Yes, all of the above, this card can do!

Screenshot showing the UI editor of the statistic card and all of its options

Read more about the Statistic card in the documentation.

Smarter reloading of automation & scripts

WTH do all automations get reloaded when you change any of them?

Good query! And that WTH matter bought over 180+ votes as effectively!

Once you change a single automation or script by way of the editors within the person
interface (or reload your YAML-based ones), all of them get reloaded. This
means if they’re operating, ready for one thing (a delay, an occasion, or for an
entity to be in a sure state for X time), they’d all be reset.

This launch modifications this conduct, resolving that WTH! Solely automations that
are literally modified are reloaded. All others will stay operating and untouched.

This works when enhancing an automation within the UI, and even when reloading your
YAML-based automations in any break up YAML setup you might need.

Oh, as an added bonus: We utilized the very same for scripts too!

Getting insights into water usage

Since Home Assistant added energy management, tracking the usage of water🚰
has been requested quite a bit. It was
raised again during this month of WTH,
and with over 370 votes, it’s clearly wished quite a bit.

This launch provides the flexibility to observe your water utilization within the vitality dashboard!

Though water isn’t strictly ā€œvitalityā€, it’s nonetheless a valuable resource
to trace. It’s typically tightly coupled with vitality utilization (like gasoline) when utilizing
scorching water, and the gained perception will help you cut back your ecological footprint
through the use of much less water šŸŒŽ.

The energy dashboard now includes your water usage

Some integrations, like Flo, Flume, and
HomeWizard Power, have been adjusted to help
monitoring water. Moreover, you possibly can create your individual utilizing templates, MQTT,
or ESPHome (requires ESPHome version 2022.10.1 or newer).

Try the documentation for the {hardware} choices
accessible to trace your water utilization or methods to construct your individual water utilization
sensors.

Color temperatures in Kelvin

Another WTH topic
that was voted for nearly 150 occasions! Why doesn’t House Assistant use Kelvin
for colour temperatures?

Effectively, a small piece of historical past: The House Assistant story began utilizing Philips
Hue a protracted, very long time in the past. And Hue makes use of mired for its colour temperature,
not Kelvin.

However right this moment, Kelvin is rather more generally used. It’s even on packages of the
bulbs you purchase. So, as of right this moment, House Assistant makes use of Kelvin too!

Screenshot showing the UI now uses the Kelvin unit to set the color temperature

Kelvin is now the first colour temperature unit. This implies all lights
and every part colour temperature associated proven within the person interface,
are actually in Kelvin.

We nonetheless do help the great previous mired. Mireds are nonetheless working and
robotically transformed when wanted, so this isn’t a breaking change šŸŽ‰

Moreover, integrations can now optionally use Kelvin immediately if the
machine or service accepts that. HomeKit, Shelly,
AVM FRITZ!SmartHome, and LIFX are all now utilizing Kelvin natively.

Long-term statistics in the entity dialogs

The ā€œmore infoā€ dialogs of entities now use long-term statistics for
the graphs shown. It makes those dialogs a lot faster, especially on
mobile devices.

Screenshot showing you can now set the day of the week from your user profile page

The first day of the week

The start of the week can differ for many of us. Your week will start on
Saturday, Sunday, or Monday based on where you are, your locale, or maybe
personal preference. As pointed out in
this WTH topic.

House Assistant will attempt to auto-detect the proper day to start out the week
based mostly on data supplied by your browser. Nonetheless, if it can’t detect it,
or in case you’ve gotten a private desire, now you can set it in your person profile.

Screenshot showing you can now set the day of the week from your user profile page

Now you can set the day to start out the week at in your user profile.

Setting it implies that all date inputs, date vary pickers, schedules, calendars,
and even time situations in automations, will take this into consideration when
displaying weeks.

New templating features

We also have some great new advanced features added to templating this release!

Originating from this WTH topic:
Now you can use the state_attr() and states() capabilities as a filter,
and the is_state() and is_state_attr() capabilities can now be used as checks.

The common() operate now accepts a default worth, which might be useful
if no common might be calculated.

Lastly, the config_entry_id() template technique has been added, which permits
you to search for native IDs of integration configuration entries utilizing one
of the entities it gives.

For extra data on these new options and the House Assistant templating
capabilities typically, try the documentation.

Other noteworthy changes

There is much more juice in this release; here are some of the other
noteworthy changes this release:

New Integrations

We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:

Integrations now available to set up from the UI

The following integrations are now available via the Home Assistant UI:

Release 2022.11.1 – November 3

Release 2022.11.2 – November 8

Release 2022.11.3 – November 16

Release 2022.11.4 – November 20

Release 2022.11.5 – November 30

Need help? Join the community!

Home Assistant has a great community of users who are all more than willing
to help each other out. So, join us!

Our very active Discord chat server is an excellent place to be
at, and don’t forget to join our amazing
forums.

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to get it mounted! Or, test our assist web page for steering for extra
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Breaking Changes

Below is a listing of the breaking change for this release, per subject or
integration. Click on one of those to read more about the breaking change
for that specific item.

In case you are a customized integration developer and wish to find out about breaking
modifications and new options accessible in your integration: You’ll want to observe our
developer blog. The next are probably the most notable for this launch:

All modifications

In fact, there may be much more on this launch. You could find an inventory of
all modifications made right here: Full changelog for House Assistant Core 2022.11