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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.
The upcoming release of Home Assistant introduces exactly 100 new Material Design Icons. These include meters, horizontal blinds, a heat pump, and roller shades.
Home Assistant Core 2022.6 reduces your database's size by 25-40% and improves the load times for the logbook and history.
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.
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.
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.
Home Assistant's reshuffled configuration menu groups items much logically than the previous iteration.
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.