2024.4: Organize all the things!

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Dwelling Assistant Core 2024.4! 🌱 🌻

Are you prepared for an additional large launch? This launch addresses essentially the most
requested characteristic in Dwelling Assistant historical past: grouping automations! 🎉

However why cease there?

This launch brings wonderful new options to our consumer interface that home not
one, not two, however three! new methods to prepare your Dwelling Assistant setup!
One of the best half is that it isn’t only for automations, however for the whole lot! 🤯

Excellent timing: spring is right here! Time to spring clear your Dwelling Assistant
setup by including some group to your configuration! 🧹

Benefit from the launch! 🌞

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Don’t neglect to join our release party live stream on YouTube
3 April 2024, at 20:00 GMT / 12:00 PST / 21:00 CEST!

Home Assistant spring cleaning! 🧹 New ways to get your automations (and more) organized

By far, the most requested feature in Home Assistant history would be:

“Grouping Automations on frontend for organization”.

We hear you! Right this moment, on this launch, we’re going to provide you with instruments to prepare
your Dwelling Assistant setup, and we took it a couple of (nicely, many) steps additional than
simply grouping automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant let you mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your house.
[Learn more]!

We’re introducing 3 (sure, you’ve learn it accurately. It’s three) group
taxonomies, and we revamped our complete desk consumer interface plus a couple of goodies
alongside the way in which.

Upgraded tables!

Adding more ways to organize your Home Assistant is great! But being able to
easily view, filter, and navigate information is just as important. To achieve
this, we have re-designed ALL the tables in Home Assistant.

For an admin interface, tables are essential for visualizing and managing
large datasets. Home Assistant has many tables in its settings pages.
Previously, our UI provided the ability to search, sort, and filter for a few
aspects, but it was relatively barebones.

Today, we are rolling out a revamped table UI that will be standardized across
all tables in the settings pages with new and improved features.

A new toolbar

As we add more features to the tables, we need to keep the UI clean and its
features easy to find. Therefore, we added descriptive text to the dropdown
menus and standardized the look and feel of the toolbar buttons and text boxes.
Shiny!

The new toolbar that is now on every table in Home Assistant.

Filter panel

Previously, our automations page allowed you to filter by areasAn area in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of devices and entities that are meant to match areas (or rooms) in the physical world: your home. For example, the living room area groups devices and entities in your living room.,
entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.

[Learn more], or unitsA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that comprises entities.
, however solely separately, and the
filters had been tucked away in a dropdown menu, which meant you wanted to pick out
a dropdown menu inside a dropdown menu to filter by space.

A brand new filter panel fixes these points by offering a brand new twin pane consumer
interface that may allow you to examine a number of filters throughout a number of filter
varieties on the left that keep put and think about the filtered outcomes on the fitting.

We additionally launched a number of new filter varieties for every desk. For instance,
automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant let you mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your house.
[Learn more] can now be filtered not solely by areasAn space in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of units and entities that should match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your house. For instance, the lounge space teams units and entities in your lounge.,
entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service.

[Learn more] , or unitsA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that comprises entities.
, but additionally by used
blueprintsA blueprint is a script or automation configuration with sure elements marked as configurable. This enables customers to create a number of scripts or automations primarily based on the identical blueprint, with every having its personal configuration-specific settings.
[Learn more], labels, and classes (extra on these later!).

We didn’t cease at simply that web page! The units and entities pages now even have
a technique to filter not solely by state but additionally by integrations and areas. Nearly all
tables now have helpful new filters that can assist you discover what you might be on the lookout for.

Item grouping

Browsing a list of hundreds of automationsAutomations in Home Assistant allow you to automatically respond to things that happen in and around your home.
[Learn more] or 1000’s of
entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service.

[Learn more] might be overwhelming. Whereas filters may also help slender the listing,
visually grouping the gadgets into smaller chunks makes shopping simpler.

With the merchandise grouping characteristic, we launched a brand new dropdown menu to choose
the way you’d just like the gadgets on the desk to be grouped. On the automations web page,
you’ll be able to group automations by their stateThe state holds the data of curiosity of an entity, for instance, if a light-weight is on or off. Every entity has precisely one state and the state solely holds one worth at a time. Nonetheless, entities can retailer attributes associated to that state similar to brightness, shade, or a unit of measurement.

[Learn more] – whether or not enabled
or not – and customized classes (extra on that later!). On the unitsA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that comprises entities.

web page, you’ll be able to even group them by producers, areasAn space in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of units and entities that should match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your house. For instance, the lounge space teams units and entities in your lounge.,
or integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your units, providers, and extra.

[Learn more], which is basically cool as a result of it makes the web page a lot
simpler to browse. It provides you a brand new perspective on organizing your huge
community of units.

Selection mode and batch actions

We removed the clutter of displaying a column of checkboxes by introducing
a new selection mode. When it is toggled on, checkboxes will appear, and you
can apply actions to all your selections with one click on the toolbar.

This button enables selection mode in the new tables.

It allows you to, for example, enable or disable multiple selected
entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.

[Learn more] on the entities web page directly. This new paradigm will enable
us to introduce extra batch administration actions sooner or later.

Three new ways to organize

Upon reading through and ideating on the feature request thread on
“Automation Grouping”,
we realized that group might be carried out in a number of methods for various functions.

We realized that customers who’re proficient in making automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant let you mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your house.
[Learn more] have
a whole lot of them, which makes finding a selected automation arduous. They usually
needed to resort to utilizing “hacks” similar to emojis, bracketed “tags”, or numbering
every automation to get the type order they needed. They wanted a technique to simply
filter down and break down the enormous listing into extra manageable chunks.

We additionally seen that customers are stretching our areas characteristic past its
meant objective. For instance, some customers would create “areasAn space in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of units and entities that should match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your house. For instance, the lounge space teams units and entities in your lounge.” such
as “3D printer”, “Christmas decorations”, and even “Left aspect of my workplace desk”,
to group totally different unitsA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that comprises entities.
and entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service.

[Learn more] collectively underneath
one umbrella for dashboards or automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant let you mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your house.
[Learn more].

As we’re growing our new dashboards and voice instructions, this poses a
huge drawback: We’d be unable to offer specialised options if a dashboard
blueprintA blueprint is a script or automation configuration with sure elements marked as configurable. This enables customers to create a number of scripts or automations primarily based on the identical blueprint, with every having its personal configuration-specific settings.
[Learn more] or automation blueprint can’t confidently assume the context of
how it might be used. We want one thing extra specialised.

Subsequently, to stability the essential objective of offering a extra digestible UI for
all customers, the necessity for flexibility for our energy customers, and the longer term imaginative and prescient
of Dwelling Assistant, we’re introducing 3 new group buildings to
Dwelling Assistant:

Floors,
Labels,
and Categories

Floors: Help Home Assistant understand your house

Let’s talk about the new organizational structures, starting with floors.

To become a truly intelligent home automation platform, Home Assistant needs
to understand the context: Where exactly is a deviceA device is a model representing a physical or logical unit that contains entities.
? How does one
areaAn area in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of devices and entities that are meant to match areas (or rooms) in the physical world: your home. For example, the living room area groups devices and entities in your living room. relate to another? What is the space used for?

Currently, Home Assistant has areasAn area in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of devices and entities that are meant to match areas (or rooms) in the physical world: your home. For example, the living room area groups devices and entities in your living room.. Areas specify the physical
location or vicinity of your devices per living space in your home
(like the living room or kitchen). However, some users living in standalone
houses might have multiple floors with their own areas.

FloorsA floor in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of areas that are meant to match the physical floors in your home. Devices & entities are not assigned to floors but to areas. Floors can be used in automations and scripts as a target for actions. For example, to turn off all the lights on the downstairs floor when you go to bed. are a new way to organize your areas per level of floors in
your home. The better Home Assistant knows your home and how it is spatially
structured, the better it can help you. Especially when it comes to future
features like generating dashboards, voice commands, and maybe even
AI-related features.

You can use floors in your automationsAutomations in Home Assistant allow you to automatically respond to things that happen in and around your home.
[Learn more] and scriptsScripts are elements that enable customers to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Dwelling Assistant when turned on.

[Learn more] as a
goal to your actions or management them together with your voice. For instance, you’ll be able to
flip off all of the lights on the downstairs flooring if you go to mattress or ask
Assist to activate the lights upstairs.

For our energy customers, you’ll be able to even use floors in your templates
to create essentially the most superior and inventive automations.

Labels: Tag everything any way you want

FloorsA floor in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of areas that are meant to match the physical floors in your home. Devices & entities are not assigned to floors but to areas. Floors can be used in automations and scripts as a target for actions. For example, to turn off all the lights on the downstairs floor when you go to bed. and areasAn area in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of devices and entities that are meant to match areas (or rooms) in the physical world: your home. For example, the living room area groups devices and entities in your living room. are great for representing your actual
home, but as everyone has their own ways of organizing their home, everyone
has their own ways of organizing their Home Assistant, too!
This is where labels 🏷️ come in!

Labels is an organizational structure that is completely up to you. You can
make as many labels with any naming structure, in any color 🌈 you want, and
assign them to basically anything in Home Assistant. You assign labels to
anything: areasAn area in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of devices and entities that are meant to match areas (or rooms) in the physical world: your home. For example, the living room area groups devices and entities in your living room., devicesA device is a model representing a physical or logical unit that contains entities.
, entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.

[Learn more],
automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant let you mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your house.
[Learn more], scriptsScripts are elements that enable customers to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Dwelling Assistant when turned on.

[Learn more], helpers, you title it!
You may even assign a number of labels to the identical factor.

Similar to with flooring, you need to use labels in your automations and scripts as
a goal to your actionsActions are utilized in a number of locations in Dwelling Assistant. As a part of a script or automation, actions outline what will occur as soon as a set off is activated. In scripts, an motion is known as sequence.

[Learn more]. This offers you lots of flexibility,
not simply in organizing your Dwelling Assistant, but additionally in automating your house! 🤯

For instance, you can create a label “🎄 Christmas” to label all of your
Christmas decorations throughout the vacation season. You may then use this label to
automate all of these decorations directly or to filter them within the new tables.

Extra examples? You may create a label “🔒 Safety” to label and management all
your security-related units and automations. Or, “🛌 Bedrooms” to label all
your bed room areas and concurrently management all of the units in these areas.

Do you could have photo voltaic panels or house batteries? Create a label “⚡️ Heavy power utilization”
to label units that devour lots of power. You may change them off when
there’s not sufficient battery or photo voltaic power accessible.

You resolve tips on how to use labels, and the chances are infinite! And for our
energy customers, you guessed it, you need to use labels in your templates.

Categories: Make each settings page easier to browse

Last but not least, we are introducing categories. Categories are designed
to be paired with the aforementioned item grouping feature,
and it may be used to group issues visually particular to a sure desk
in Dwelling Assistant.

That is nice for individuals who have a selected manner of displaying their
entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service.

[Learn more] by separating them into a number of sections on a selected web page.
For instance, on the automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant let you mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your house.
[Learn more] web page, you’ll be able to create classes solely
used for visually grouping automations however nowhere else, like “Notifications”
or “NFC tags”. You may then view your automations grouped or filtered by
these classes.

As these classes are distinctive for every dashboard, you’ll be able to have totally different
units of classes relying on the place you might be organizing. This implies
you’ll be able to have totally different classes on the automations web page than the
sceneScenes seize the states you need sure entities to be. For instance, a scene can specify that mild A ought to be turned on and lightweight B ought to be vivid crimson.
[Learn more], scriptsScripts are elements that enable customers to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Dwelling Assistant when turned on.

[Learn more], or helpers settings web page.

Time to clean up your Home Assistant!

In summary, there are a total of 4 taxonomies for organizing your entities.
It sounds like a lot, but they all serve a distinct purpose. We are extending
and clarifying areasAn area in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of devices and entities that are meant to match areas (or rooms) in the physical world: your home. For example, the living room area groups devices and entities in your living room. with floorsA floor in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of areas that are meant to match the physical floors in your home. Devices & entities are not assigned to floors but to areas. Floors can be used in automations and scripts as a target for actions. For example, to turn off all the lights on the downstairs floor when you go to bed., and we are introducing
labelsLabels in Home Assistant allow grouping elements irrespective of their physical location or type. Labels can be assigned to areas, devices, entities, automations, scenes, scripts, and helpers. Labels can be used in automations and scripts as a target for actions and services. Labels can also be used to filter data. and categoriesA category is an organization tool that allows grouping items in a table. Like labels, categories allow grouping irrespective of the items’ physical location. For example, on the automations page, you can create the categories “Notifications” or “NFC tags” to view your automations grouped or filtered. Categories are unique for each table. The automations page can have different categories than the scene, scripts, or helpers settings page. to make your automationsAutomations in Home Assistant allow you to automatically respond to things that happen in and around your home.
[Learn more]
and lots of different tables look extra organized and be extra manageable.

What’s subsequent? Time to dig in! Listed here are a couple of steps we suggest you are taking
motion on to prepare your Dwelling Assistant higher:

Migrate to labels:
- When you have been grouping automations with emojis and bracketed textual content,
  now you can create labels for every. Labels can have icons to exchange the
  emojis you had earlier than.
- For areas that aren’t actually bodily areas, switching them to labels will
  present you extra flexibility in organizing your entities.
Begin utilizing classes:
When you have a favourite manner of organizing a selected web page, create these
classes and group the desk by them. For instance, you can create a
notification class for all of your notification automations and put all
notification automations in that class.
Group your areas into flooring:
When you stay in a multi-story house, grouping areas into flooring assist with
organizing the areas in addition to making them extra appropriate with future
options.

Final of all, to assist us that can assist you to good the design of those new options,
we might love to listen to your suggestions and see how you employ them! Please be at liberty
to share them within the feedback under and talk about them in our neighborhood.

Map dashboard

Introducing a new dashboard this release: The map! 🗺️

You might think, “Hey, we already have a map dashboard in Home Assistant!”
and you are right! However, the map was an integration that was always there
and didn’t provide the flexibility and features that were wanted.

With the map dashboard’s introduction, you can now add multiple map dashboards
with different entities and configuration settings. For example, create a
dashboard to show the location of your family members, another to track your
car, and another to show the location of your pets. 🐶

On upgrade, Home Assistant will automatically migrate your existing map
integration to a map dashboard.

You don’t like having the map in your sidebar? Well, that is no longer a
problem. Since it is now a dashboard it means you can remove it in the dashboard
settings.

Webpage dashboard

Another new dashboard for this release is the webpage! 🌐

The webpage dashboard allows you to add and embed a webpage to your dashboard.
This could be a web page from the internet or a local web page from a local
machine or device like your router or NAS.

This dashboard replaces the old iFrame panel (iframe_panel). If you have
existing panels configured in your YAML configuration, Home Assistant will
automatically migrate them to the new webpage dashboard on upgrade.

Note that not every webpage can be embedded due to security restrictions that
some sites or pages have in place, enforced by your browser, that prevent
embedding them into a Home Assistant dashboard.

Define the columns in the section view

In the last release, we introduced the section view
with drag and drop assist. We’re completely thrilled to see what number of of you
cherished it! 🥰

Many thanks for all of the suggestions and strategies! We’re prioritizing them and
are engaged on making the part view even higher within the upcoming releases.

On this launch, primarily based in your suggestions, now we have added the flexibility so that you can
outline the utmost variety of columns that the part view makes use of. This enables you
to restrict the variety of columns, whatever the display screen width on which you
are viewing your dashboard.

Adding Matter devices from other controllers

In the February release,
we added assist for sharing Matter units tied to Dwelling Assistant with different
Matter controllers. This launch, we’re making the opposite manner round simpler.

Now we have improved how one can add Matter units from different controllers to
Dwelling Assistant. While you add a Matter gadget to Dwelling Assistant, it should now
ask you if you wish to add a brand new Matter gadget or if you wish to add a tool
that’s already added to a different controller (like Google Dwelling or Apple Dwelling).

Suppose you select so as to add a tool that has already been added to a different
controller. In that case, Dwelling Assistant will information you thru tips on how to
obtain this step-by-step.

Lock behavior improvements

Some smart locks have an open (or unlatching) mechanism that can be triggered
remotely. The door either pops out of the lock or can be opened by pushing
against the door.

We want to ensure you don’t accidentally open the door when you miss-clicked
the button (for example, while not at home 😬). Therefore, we have improved
the behavior of locks in our user interface by requiring you to confirm the
action.

Even more performance!

Remember how we wrote last release that Home Assistant now boots twice as fast?
Effectively, @bdraco wasn’t carried out but and teamed up with @balloob. When you thought
the earlier launch was quick, you might be in for a deal with! 🚀 The distinction is,
but once more, very noticeable.

Apart from streamlining what’s loaded at startup (and doing much less loading), we
have adjusted the startup time monitoring. It was that one integration
may push different integrations to be sluggish too; that ought to not be the case,
making this a extra correct illustration of the particular startup time.

Wish to study concerning the particular person startup occasions of your integrations? You may
discover them within the Settings -> System -> Repairs
web page by deciding on the three-dotted menu within the high proper and deciding on the
Integration startup time merchandise.

Other noteworthy changes

There are many more improvements in this release; here are some of the other
noteworthy changes this release:

@karwosts has improved your Dwelling Assistant user profile
web page, making navigating and discovering the settings you might be on the lookout for simpler.
Good work!
When you use a sentence trigger in your automation to set off it utilizing
Assist. The set off will now embrace the device_id in its set off knowledge
you’ll be able to automate with. Thanks, @synesthesiam!
The HomeWizard Energy integration now helps the most recent era of
HomeWizard Power Sockets! Thanks, @DCSBL!
We are able to now ship new releases of Dwelling Assistant in waaay much less time.
Constructing and delivery Dwelling Assistant for you, went down from 1.5-2 hours to
simply 20 minutes! 🚀 Thanks @edenhaus!
Learn more about it in our developer blog.
Reolink now helps PTZ patrol begin/cease, bundle detection and controls
for enjoying fast reply messages. Thanks, @starkillerOG!
Now we have model new template features accessible to listing all the issues in
your repairs dashboard. Thanks, @RoboMagus!
When you desire your wind velocity sensors to be in Beaufort, you might be in luck!
Now you can change the unit of measurement to Beaufort. Thanks, @fwestenberg!
The Husqvarna Automower integration growth continues and has further
new entities, together with sensors, choose entities, and a tool tracker.
Thanks, @Thomas55555!
@catsmanac has added a sensor to observe the battery storage hooked up
to your Enphase Envoy; it really works with the power dashboard! Good!
The Xiaomi BLE integration now helps locks and fingerprint readers!
Superior, @Ernst79!

New integrations

We welcome the following new integrations in this release:

Fyta, added by @dontinelli
Monitor your crops with Fyta, a sensible plant sensor that measures mild,
temperature, humidity, and soil moisture.
Motionblinds Bluetooth, added by @LennP
Management your Bluetooth Low Power Motionblinds motorized window coverings.
Ollama, added by @synesthesiam
Ollama a totally native AI dialog platform that can be utilized to create
customized voice assistants.

This launch additionally has new digital integration. Digital integrations are stubs
which might be dealt with by different (present) integrations to assist with findability.
The next digital integration have been added:

Integrations now available to set up from the UI

The following integrations are now available via the Home Assistant UI:

Release 2024.4.1 – April 5

Release 2024.4.2 – April 8

Release 2024.4.3 – April 12

Release 2024.4.4 – April 23

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Backward-incompatible changes

If you’re a customized integration developer and wish to study breaking
adjustments and new options accessible to your integration: Be sure you observe our
developer blog. The next are essentially the most notable for this launch: