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2022
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Entity state color changes
From the Home Assistant Core 2022.12 release, we are using different colors per domain when an entity is active.
1 min readSummary of unit system related changes
The last few months saw many changes to the supported unit systems, and how numerical sensors are influenced by them.
2 min readAdd more unit enumerators
As of Home Assistant Core 2023.1, the following unit constants are deprecated and replaced by a corresponding enum:
1 min readTranslating the state of entities
The method for integrations to provide translations for states of its entities under other integrations, for example to translate an integration's sensors has changed.
1 min readAdd more unit enumerators
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.12, the following unit constants are deprecated and replaced by a corresponding enum:
1 min readChanges to long term statistics APIs
Some changes have been made to the long-term statistics-related APIs to reduce response size and database load.
2 min readIntroducing new unit enumerators
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.11, the following unit constants are deprecated and replaced by a corresponding enum:
1 min readAdd new precipitation intensity units
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.11, the following constants are deprecated for volumetric flux (like precipitation intensity), replaced by UnitOfVolumetricFlux enum:
1 min readIntroducing virtual integrations and differentiating hubs, devices, and services,
For the 2022.11 release, we have been adjusting our integration manifests to better differentiate between hubs, devices, and services.
2 min readGitHub Commands for Code Owners
The Home Assistant service hub has been extended by Ludeeus with a new feature: GitHub commands for code owners.
1 min readDeprecate IMPERIAL_SYSTEM unit system and linked constants and properties
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.11, the IMPERIAL_SYSTEM is deprecated, replaced by US_CUSTOMARY_SYSTEM.
1 min readAdd options to SelectEntityDescription
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.11, options is available as a standard property of SelectEntityDescription.
1 min readLong term statistics now tracks the source entity's unit
Long term statistics now allows showing statistics in a different unit than it's stored in.
1 min readDeprecating unit conversion utilities
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.10, the following utilities are deprecated:
1 min readNew sensor device classes
Several new sensor device classes have been added:
1 min readBluetooth async_track_unavailable API changes for 2022.10
For Home Assistant Core 2022.10 we have changed the async_track_unavailable bluetooth API to send the last BluetoothServiceInfoBleak to the callback instead of the address.
1 min readDeprecating media player constants
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.10, the following media player constants are deprecated:
1 min readThe issue registry has been moved to homeassistant.helpers
The issue registry has been moved from homeassistant.components.repairs to homeassistant.helpers and is now loaded together with the other registries very early during bootstrapping, before setup of any integrations.
1 min readGlobally available HomeAssistant object (hass)
It's now possible to get a reference to the HomeAssistant instance by calling core.async_get_hass().
1 min readLightEntity no longer supports white_value
LightEntity no longer supports white_value, it's replaced by color mode white.
1 min readAutomationActionType deprecation for 2022.9
For Home Assistant Core 2022.9, we have deprecated AutomationActionType, AutomationTriggerInfo, and AutomationTriggerData from homeassistant/components/automation/init.py.
1 min readBluetooth passive sensor API changes for 2022.9
For Home Assistant Core 2022.9 we have changed the PassiveBluetoothProcessorCoordinator and PassiveBluetoothDataProcessor bluetooth API's to make PassiveBluetoothProcessorCoordinator responsible for parsing.
1 min readDevice tracker deprecations for 2022.9
For Home Assistant Core 2022.9, we have deprecated the device_tracker SOURCE_TYPE_* constants.
1 min readAdopting a new way to name entities
We are working on improving and standardizing our entity naming. This will allow us to show, in the UI, entities in the right context in the future while removing some error-prone magic mangling of entity names from the code base.
3 min readWaiting for config entry platforms
Before 2022.8, it was impossible to await config entry platforms forwards without a deadlock if one of the platforms loaded by the config entry was not already loaded.
1 min readStore is now a Generic class
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.8, a Store (from homeassistant/helpers/storage.py) is defined as a Generic Store(Generic[_T]).
1 min readWeather entity refactoring to support unit conversions
WeatherEntity now supports temperature unit conversion following a similar pattern as the unit conversion supported by NumberEntity and SensorEntity.
1 min readNumber entity refactoring to support unit conversion
NumberEntity now supports temperature unit conversion following a similar pattern as the unit conversion supported by SensorEntity.
1 min readAvoiding reloading config entries while they are setting up
Before 2022.7, it was possible to trigger a reload of a config entry while it was still setting up.
1 min readDeprecating Data Entry Flow constants
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.7, all RESULT_TYPE_* constants for data entry flow result types are deprecated:
1 min readSupport context in update coordinator
Starting with Home Assistant 2022.7, the update coordinator supports keeping track of context for each listening entity.
1 min readMedia Player updates: enqueue changes, announce added
Starting with Home Assistant 2022.6, the media player integration has received two updates to the media_player.play_media service.
1 min readLogbook API removal of
entity_matches_onlyflagBefore 2022.6, the entity_matches_only flag prevented the logbook from providing context data in exchange for performance improvement when querying specific entities.
1 min readS6-Overlay 3.x update on our docker base images
We started to update our base images to use the new s6-Overlay v3. A migration article also explains the new possibilities around this change.
2 min readConstant deprecations for 2022.5
For Home Assistant Core 2022.5, we have deprecated many constants and replaced them with enums.
1 min readServiceInfo model improvements and deprecations
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.6, access to discovery information via the, previously deprecated, dictionary methods have been removed.
1 min readText-to-speech say service to use media source IDs
Starting with Home Assistant 2022.5, the TTS say service will set the media content ID to be a media source URI.
1 min readSaying goodbye to the time_changed event
With Home Assistant Core 0.113, we began transiting to using the asyncio event loop for scheduling events.
1 min readCalendar Data Model improvements and deprecations
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.5, CalendarDeviceEntity is deprecated and superseded by CalendarEntity.
1 min readLocal OAuth2 Updates
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.5, integrations that register a config_entry_oauth2_flow.LocalOAuth2Implementation must have a manifest dependency on the auth component.
1 min readDeprecating all SUPPORT_* constants
As of Home Assistant Core 2022.5, all SUPPORT_* constants are deprecated, each entity platform is providing an EntityFeature enum to replace them.
2 min readNew features for developers in 2022.4
There are a handful of new features for developers in 2022.4.
2 min readIntroducing the update entity
Home Assistant 2022.4 will provide a brand new entity platform: the update entity.
1 min readOpt in support to manually remove device
In the Home Assistant Core 2022.3 release, Erik Montnemery added support for any integration to opt in to show a "delete device" button on the device page in the Home Assistant interface.
1 min readPaper Elements are being removed
In the Home Assistant Core 2022.3 release, we are removing all of the paper-dropdown-menu and paper-input elements in the Frontend Repository.
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