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 cards now support vacuums, locks, and media players

Apr 20, 2022

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.

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You can now update devices through the Home Assistant Dashboard

Apr 6, 2022

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.

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A Home Assistant Switch is no longer just a switch

Apr 6, 2022

Using Home Assistant's Switch as X helper, you can convert any switch in to a light, fan, cover, or any other device type.

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Home Assistant Groups are finally part of the graphical Configuration

Apr 6, 2022

As of Home Assistant Core 2022.4, Groups can finally be created and edited, without ever having to open a text editor.

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Lovelace is no more, say hello to the Home Assistant Dashboard

Apr 5, 2022

We no longer speak of Lovelace, but of Home Assistant's Dashboard.

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Turn your Raspberry Pi in to a notification machine using VLC

Nov 4, 2021

With the release of Home Assistant Core 2021.11 you can use VLC on your Raspberry Pi for Text to Speech.

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Home Assistant entities are about to become neater and easier to use

Nov 3, 2021

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!

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Home Assistant is finally getting an icon picker in the UI

Oct 29, 2021

With the upcoming release of Home Assistant 2021.11, the developers are adding an icon picker to the graphical interface.

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ESPHome can now display graphs

Oct 20, 2021

The upcoming release of ESPHome 2021.10.0 adds a major new feature for displays to the already feature-packed tool: graphs.

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The Philips Hue integration with Home Assistant is about to become faster

Jun 2, 2021

As of Home Assistant Core 2021.6, the Philips Hue integration with Home Assistant will support local pushing, a significant upgrade on local polling.

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