
Mushroom cards now support vacuums, locks, and media players
In the two most recent releases, developers added three new heavily sought-after cards to Mushroom for our Dashboard-building purposes: vacuum, lock, and media.
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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In the two most recent releases, developers added three new heavily sought-after cards to Mushroom for our Dashboard-building purposes: vacuum, lock, and media.
Using the update entity, services such as WLED running on an ESP8266 or ESP32, Pi-hole, and Synology DSM can inform Home Assistant whenever an update is available.
Using Home Assistant's Switch as X helper, you can convert any switch in to a light, fan, cover, or any other device type.
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.4, Groups can finally be created and edited, without ever having to open a text editor.
We no longer speak of Lovelace, but of Home Assistant's Dashboard.
With the release of Home Assistant Core 2021.11 you can use VLC on your Raspberry Pi for Text to Speech.
The mess that is device entities in the Home Assistant UI will be cleaned up in the upcoming 2021.11 release. Learn everything about categories!
With the upcoming release of Home Assistant 2021.11, the developers are adding an icon picker to the graphical interface.
The upcoming release of ESPHome 2021.10.0 adds a major new feature for displays to the already feature-packed tool: graphs.
As of Home Assistant Core 2021.6, the Philips Hue integration with Home Assistant will support local pushing, a significant upgrade on local polling.