Home Assistant, ESPHome, and Self-Hosted Software Changelogs

Home Assistant is constantly changing and evolving. One day, you might be editing your automations and scripts using YAML, the next you might be using a fancy and user-friendly interface. The same goes for ESPHome and many other self-hosted home automation software commonly used. The following articles will let you stay on top of everything that is new to your favourite applications.

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Mushroom Template Cards Get Customizable Badge Icons and Colours in Latest Update

Jun 19, 2022

The latest release of the Mushroom cards for Home Assistant (v1.10.0) allows you to add a splash of colour and a badge icon to template cards.

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Transform Your Windows PC into a Home Assistant Media Player with HASS.Agent

Jun 18, 2022

The most recent release of HASS.Agent turns Windows into a Home Assistant controllable media player.

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Zigbee2MQTT Adds Support for New Philips Hue Lights and More

Jun 7, 2022

The most recent Zigbee2MQTT release adds support for multiple new Philips Hue lights, countless fixes, and numerous improvements.

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Home Assistant Simplifies OAuth2 Application Credentials Management

May 29, 2022

Good news for haters of editors, as this is another step to a YAML-free future, as the configuration.yaml file remains untouched when integrating certain services with Home Assistant.

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Home Assistant Core 2022.6 Introduces 100 New Material Design Icons

May 28, 2022

The upcoming release of Home Assistant introduces exactly 100 new Material Design Icons. These include meters, horizontal blinds, a heat pump, and roller shades.

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Your Home Assistant Database is About to Get Even Leaner

May 26, 2022

Home Assistant Core 2022.6 reduces your database's size by 25-40% and improves the load times for the logbook and history.

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Update your manually configured MQTT entities

May 26, 2022

As of Home Assistant Core 2022.6, MQTT entities will not be configured directly under the respective platform keys and will instead require the MQTT platform key.

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Stay Ahead: Adopt the Custom Raspberry Pi GPIO Integration Before the Official Deprecation

May 26, 2022

If you are actively using the official Raspberry Pi GPIO integration, now is the time to make the switch to the community-driven custom integration.

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If-then(-else) actions are finally coming to Home Assistant

May 3, 2022

The if-then(-else) action won't allow you to do anything you couldn't do before, but it will make the creation of automations easier and faster.

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The Home Assistant Configuration Menu Gets Another Reshuffle

Apr 28, 2022

Home Assistant's reshuffled configuration menu groups items much logically than the previous iteration.

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