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Residence Assistant Core 2023.5! 🎉
What an thrilling launch now we have for you this month! This launch is all about
voice (effectively, virtually absolutely), and I’m tremendous excited we will ship you all this actually
superb stuff!
I’ve been following the progress of this all being constructed this month, and actually,
I’ve been mindblown a number of instances per week. So what’s in right here? Nicely, you possibly can
now really speak to Residence Assistant! 🤯
I actually admire that each one these voice parts have been constructed the
Residence Assistant approach: to be absolutely configurable and extendable. Providing you with decisions,
together with solely native choices to your personal voice assistant.
This launch is packed! And we aren’t even midway via Residence Assistant’s
12 months of the voice but…
Benefit from the launch!
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Don’t neglect to be part of our launch celebration reside stream on YouTube
3 Might 2023, at 12:00 PDT / 21:00 CEST!
Let’s speak!
Our aim for 2023 is to allow you to management Residence Assistant in your personal language:
It’s Residence Assistant’s 12 months of the Voice! After chapter 1 in
January, we introduced chapter 2 on this thrilling journey final week!
This launch ships the whole lot (plus extra) that was introduced! This implies, as
of this launch, you possibly can really begin speaking to Residence Assistant! 🎙️
Here’s a fast abstract of all that has been introduced, linked to
the place you possibly can learn extra about every of them:
That can assist you get began, we made positive the documentation is ideal, together with
some cool venture tutorials to jump-start your personal non-public voice assistant
journey:
For those who missed final week’s reside stream,
make sure you test it out. It is filled with reside demos and detailed explanations
of the whole lot packed into this launch. The recording of the reside stream:
Handle what’s uncovered to your voice assistants
A model new and thrilling menu merchandise will be present in your Settings
menu: Voice assistants!
This new settings merchandise provides you entry to many unbelievable new voice options;
it additionally offers a brand new Expose tab the place you possibly can handle which entities are
uncovered to your Help, Alexa, and Google Assistant.
It provides an summary of what entities you’ve uncovered to your voice assistants
and simply take away or add new ones. Clicking on an entity on this display will
deliver up the voice assistant setting for that entity, permitting you to show
on/off the entity’s publicity to a particular voice assistant and
handle the entity’s aliases.
This at the moment helps our Help, and Amazon Alexa and
Google Assistant through Residence Assistant Cloud.
Improved entity setting
Some good tweaks have been made to the entity settings dialog, making it
simpler to make use of and look cleaner.
The entity settings dialog used to have an expandable superior part,
which you would increase to entry options like displaying/hiding/disabling
entities, altering the world, and so on.
The superior part has been eliminated, and all its options have been
reorganized. So, no options had been misplaced whereas offering a a lot nicer
interface.
And, since that is the yr of the voice, you could discover the
“Voice assistants” choice within the above screenshot, which can deliver up:
This lets you shortly change the voice assistants the entity is uncovered
to, together with its aliases, with out having to navigate again to the voice
assistants panel in the principle settings display.
Configuring the LEDs of your Residence Assistant Yellow
The enclosure of our superb Residence Assistant Yellow means that you can
have a look at the gorgeous board and elements inside it.
Nonetheless, the LEDs on the board may mild up your setting when
it’s darkish in an undesirable approach. For instance, whenever you sleep in the identical room
as your Residence Assistant Yellow is in.
As of this launch, you possibly can configure (activate/off) the disk, heartbeat,
and energy LEDs of your Residence Assistant Yellow by utilizing the Configure button
on the Settings > {Hardware} web page.
Webhooks set off choices
Webhooks have been prolonged this launch. We now have assist for webhooks
that use the GET
HTTP methodology!
However that’s not all. Due to @esev, we additionally obtained some new security measures
for our webhook triggers. Now you can set which HTTP strategies your
webhook set off work with and the power to restrict webhooks to solely work on
your native community.
New Help pipeline and language selectors
In case you are constructing automation or scripts Blueprints, now you can leverage
two new UI selectors to be used together with your Blueprints: an Help pipeline selector
and a language selector.
The language selector let’s a consumer select from a listing of languages.
You could possibly, for instance, leverage this in a notification Blueprint to permit
setting a unique language on a text-to-speech notification.
Extra info will be present in our selectors documentation.
Different noteworthy adjustments
There may be far more juice on this launch; listed here are a few of the different noteworthy
adjustments this launch:
- Residence Assistant Working System v10 has been launched! The ODROID M-1 is now supported, improved information disk assist and reminiscence administration. Bug fixes and reliability enhancements for Bluetooth and Thread.
- Matter now has assist for covers, thanks @hidaris!
- The method of creating backups is now sooner 🚀, thanks @bdraco!
-
@bdraco additionally gave the ONVIF integration some love, which ought to enhance
the soundness of the combination. Good! - Now you can arrange a number of cases of the OpenAI Dialog integration
with, for instance, completely different prompts. Thanks, @balloob! - @rubenbe added route assist to MQTT followers! Good!
-
BTHome added assist for button and dimmer occasions. This implies it helps
the model new Shelly BLU Button1! Thanks, @Ernst79! - The Supervisor can now create restore points for a few of the points
it detected in your system. Superior @mdegat01! - @mib1185 added a service to permit sorting of the Buying checklist. Thanks!
-
@depoll added an attribute to the Individual entities that checklist the system
trackers for this individual. Very helpful for templates! Thanks! - The NextDNS integration added a complete bunch of latest parental management
switches, thanks @bieniu! -
Synology DSM can now browse your Synology Photographs within the media browser. Cool
addition, @lodesmets! - Simplepush now helps attachments, due to @tymm!
- Some Z-Wave notification sensors gained’t clear to idle mechanically. Now you need to use the brand new notification idle buttons to idle them manually!
New Integrations
We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:
This launch additionally has a brand new digital integration. Digital integrations
are stubs which might be dealt with by different (present) integrations to assist with
findability. This one is new:
Integrations now obtainable to arrange from the UI
The next integrations are actually obtainable through the Residence Assistant UI:
Launch 2023.5.1 – Might 4
Launch 2023.5.2 – Might 5
Launch 2023.5.3 – Might 14
Launch 2023.5.4 – Might 23
Need assistance? Be part of the group!
Residence Assistant has an ideal group of customers who’re all greater than keen
to assist one another out. So, be part of us!
Our very energetic Discord chat server is a wonderful place to be
at, and don’t neglect to affix our superb boards.
Discovered a bug or concern? Please report it in our concern tracker,
to get it mounted! Or, examine our assist web page for steerage for extra
locations you possibly can go.
Are you extra into e-mail? Signal-up for our Constructing the Open Residence Publication
to get the newest information about options, issues taking place in our group and
different information about constructing an Open Residence; straight into your inbox.
Breaking Modifications
The ozone
sensors and the ozone
state attribute of the climate entity confirmed
incorrect values and are being eliminated. For those who use these values in your
automations or scripts, it’s worthwhile to replace them.
(@bieniu – #91492) (documentation)
The “Android TV” integration has been renamed to “Android Debug Bridge”.
This rename is as a result of that’s what it really managed/offered. With
the addition of the Android TV Distant integration on this launch, we needed
to scale back attainable confusion sooner or later.
(@tronikos – #90657) (documentation)
All YAML configuration choices for the historical past integration have been eliminated
as they had been now not utilized by the frontend.
(@bdraco – #90992) (documentation)
The min/max goal humidities for (de)humidifier system uncovered over HomeKit
has modified. The HomeKit UI will now present the actual relative humidity. When
the slider in HomeKit goes above or under the max/min set humidity, it is going to
be set again to the max/min allowed humidity.
(@stackia – #90854) (documentation)
Default HomeKit to pay attention on all interfaces to match Residence Assistant habits.
To restrict HomeKit to particular community interfaces, specify an deal with
in configuration.yaml
.
(@bdraco – #91520) (documentation)
The usage of imap_content
occasion might break for customers that wish to parse information
from bigger e-mail messages from the truncated half. Solely the primary 2048
bytes of the message physique (2 KiB) can be obtainable.
(@jbouwh – #92066) (documentation)
The silence choice for DynamicShutter has been eliminated as a result of it precipitated the
cowl entity to be non-functional if it didn’t assist silence. This
performance can be reintroduced in a future launch.
(@iMicknl – #91354) (documentation)
For Reolink doorbells, the “Standing LED” mild entity is changed by a
“Standing LED” choose entity. The change off
state corresponds to the choose
Auto
, and the change on
state corresponds to the choose
Auto & at all times on at evening
. An extra Keep off
state is now obtainable.
(@starkillerOG – #90469) (documentation)
- Muted teams with stream enjoying may have state
idle
as an alternative ofenjoying
. - Linked shoppers is not going to have state
on
anymore however use the identical states as
teams:idle
andenjoying
. - Disconnected shoppers have state
standby
as an alternative ofoff
as a result of the
Snapcast server nonetheless accepts instructions.
(@luar123 – #77449) (documentation)
The unit conversion for all reminiscence, storage, and community utilization-related
sensors was corrected from binary (1024) to decimal (1000) base to be in
line with the used measurement items (eq. MB = 1.000.000 bytes).
You might must replace the traditionally recorded items for these sensors through
the statistics web page below developer instruments.
(@mib1185 – #90633) (documentation)
The ensure_ascii
argument for to_json
in Jinja templates now defaults to
False
, permitting us to make use of a sooner JSON encoder by default.
This shouldn’t be a problem for many, as JSON parsers broadly settle for Unicode
enter. For those who nonetheless must encode Unicode characters inside JSON strings,
set ensure_ascii
to True
explicitly to revive the previous habits.
UniFi integration now not offers each hostname
and host_name
attributes
for a shopper tracker entity. Solely host_name
can be offered as an attribute.
(@Kane610 – #91188) (documentation)
The earlier deprecated set_doorbell_message
service has been eliminated. Use
the textual content entity for the UniFi Defend LCD display as an alternative.
The beforehand deprecated YAML configuration of the Common Gadgets ISY/IoX
integration has been eliminated.
Common Gadgets ISY/IoX is now configured through the UI. Any present YAML
configuration has been imported in earlier releases and may now be safely
eliminated out of your YAML configuration recordsdata.
(@shbatm – #91575) (documentation)
The built-in proportion unit %
is now used for relative humidity and absolute
humidity as an alternative of the customized items %RH
and %AH
, respectively.
(@shbatm – #90863) (documentation)
The next customized ISY994 companies have been eliminated:
reload
cleanup_entities
system_query
set_ramp_rate
set_on_level
run_network_resource
set_variable
These companies had been beforehand deprecated in favor of built-in companies
and quantity
, choose
, and button
entities. Please replace your automations
and dashboards to make use of the brand new entities and/or built-in companies if in case you have
not already.
(@shbatm – #91569) (documentation)
Nightfall/Daybreak nodes on Insteon Movement Sensors now have their states inverted to
appropriately present “Gentle detected” throughout daylight and “No mild” when the nightfall
sensor is energetic.
That is reversed from earlier habits. For those who depend on this sensor in your
automations, they have to be up to date.
(@shbatm – #92035) (documentation)
Two new Webhook set off choices have been added that restrict how a webhook can
set off an automation. A brand new allowed_methods choice can be utilized to regulate
which HTTP request strategies can activate the set off (GET
, HEAD
, POST
, and
PUT
). And the local_only
choice is used to permit gadgets exterior your native
community to activate the set off.
Beforehand all webhook triggers might be activated by HEAD
, POST
, and PUT
strategies from any system (native or on the web). With the brand new choices, solely
POST
and PUT
are enabled by default.
In Residence Assistant Core 2023.7, any webhook set off that doesn’t set local_only
to false can solely be activated by gadgets on the identical community as Residence Assistant.
Click on the gear/cog icon beside the Webhook ID to replace your webhook triggers.
Then choose an acceptable worth for Solely accessible from the native community.
It’s essential to deselect the choice for the Save button to look. Then
reselect the choice if it ought to be enabled. This may make the restore warning
go away.
See the webhook set off documentation
for an outline of the brand new choices. And please evaluate the brand new
Webhook Safety part for finest
practices when utilizing webhook triggers.
(@esev – #66494) (documentation)
With this launch, you will have to replace your zwave-js-server
occasion.
You have to use zwave-js-server
1.28.0 or better (schema 28).
- For those who use the
Z-Wave JS
add-on, you want no less than model0.1.79
. - For those who use the
Z-Wave JS UI
add-on, you want no less than model1.11.2
. - For those who use the
Z-Wave JS UI
Docker container, you want no less than model8.14.2
. - For those who run your personal Docker container or another set up methodology,
you will have to replace yourzwave-js-server
occasion to no less than1.28.0
.
(@raman325 – #91989) (documentation)
In case you are a customized integration developer and wish to find out about breaking
adjustments and new options obtainable to your integration: Make sure to comply with our
developer weblog. The next are essentially the most notable for this launch:
Farewell to the next
The next integrations are additionally now not obtainable as of this launch:
All adjustments
After all, there may be much more on this launch. Yow will discover a listing of
all adjustments made right here: Full changelog for Residence Assistant Core 2023.5