Home Assistant Core 2023.12! 🎄
The last release of 2023 is here, and we are going out with a bang! 🎉
2023 has been the Year of the Voice, and
please stay tuned, as we will host a final 5th chapter live stream on our YouTube channel
on 13 December 2023, at 12:00 PST / 21:00 CET! But that is not the
end of the voice journey… Be sure to tune in!
This release has some nice quality-of-life improvements, making it feel
like Christmas already! The thermostat card has been redesigned to match
the gorgeous new entity dialog introduced, a new feature for the ever-improving
tile card, re-importing blueprints, and much more!
I’m most excited about the new login page that this release brings. It is
beautiful, modern, and literally welcomes you into your own home! 🏡
Home is where Home Assistant is, right? 😃
This is it for 2023! What a year it has been! I just got one last
thing to say this year:
Thank you for using Home Assistant! ❤️
Happy holidays & enjoy the release!
../Frenck
Don’t forget to join our release party live stream on YouTube
6 December 2023, at 12:00 PST / 21:00 CET!
A beautiful new login page
The login page of Home Assistant has been redesigned to be more modern and
match the recent redesign of the Home Assistant onboarding.
When Home Assistant detects you are accessing it via your local home network,
it means you are in your trusted home environment; you will be greeted by this
beautiful new login page, which resembles how most platforms, like Windows,
macOS, Netflix, and others, handle this: by showing your user profiles.
It is also much smarter! It works seamlessly with trusted networks,
and when home, we automatically remember your login. So, no more forgetting
to check the “keep me logged in” checkbox. 👊
Of course, when logging in from outside your home network, we can’t do this
as that would give away privacy-sensitive information about your system
and who is in it. So, when you are outside of your home network,
the login page will ask for your username and password, just like before.
Oh! And you can now change the language straight from the login page! 🌍
New design for the thermostat card
Home Assistant 2023.9 introduced
a gorgeous new entity dialog for thermostat entities. As a result of that, many
have been asking for a similar design for the thermostat card. Well, here it is!
There is nothing you have to do to use this new card. Once you upgrade to this
release, the thermostat card will automatically use this gorgeous new design.
We took it one step further and added support for features. Features are
additional functionality that you can add to a card, previously only available
for the tile card. This release adds support for features to the
thermostat card as well!
For the thermostat card, it allows you to add HVAC mode buttons and presets.
By default, these features are hidden, giving it the cleanest look possible.
Oh! The same design has been applied to the (de)humidifer card, of course,
including its respective tile features 😎.
Numeric input feature for tile cards
The tile card is very powerful, and @JosephAbbey
is even extending it this release by adding a new “numeric input” feature.
The numeric input feature works with all number entities and number helpers.
It allows you to control the number entity from the tile card directly
and provides the choice to use it as a slider or as an input with up/down
buttons.
Options for the default dashboard
The default dashboard now has options that will allow you to change its behavior.
You can now configure the default dashboard to hide certain areas,
hide entities that don’t belong to an area, and the option to hide the
energy summary card.
When selecting Areas, you can choose to hide the areas but also change
the display order of the areas by dragging them around.
A first step in making the dashboards configurable, but above all,
it gives you more control over the default dashboard, especially when you have
just started with using Home Assistant.
When adding a new dashboard, we added a dialog similar to the ones we show
when you create new automations or scripts. It gives you the option to start
with an empty manual dashboard or create a new default dashboard.
History dashboard showing long-term statistics
The history dashboard did get some love from @karwosts this release; he
added a big improvement to all the graphs shown there.
Previously, the graphs would only show the state history, limited to a few days,
until the data is removed. This is not always very useful, for example,
when you want to look back further in time.
@karwosts came up with a solution for this, and the history dashboard now
combines the state history with the recorded long-term statistics to provide
insights into the past.
The right and darker part of the graph line is provided by the state history
(like before), and the long-term statistics provide the left and lighter part
of the graph line (and is thus downsampled hourly data).
If you have manually modified the days to keep before purging
recorder on your system, consider removing that customization. With the
long-term statistics and new feature, you most likely don’t need it anymore,
resulting in a smaller database and, thus, faster and smaller backups.
More to-do!
The first iteration for support for to-do lists was added in the last release,
and there has been continued work on this feature in this release.
First of all, there are two new services available. A much-requested service
to list all items on a to-do list
and a helpful service to remove all completed items from a to-do list.
It is nice to see integrations adding support for the to-do list feature.
For example, the CalDAV integration now supports adding to-do items to your
CalDAV server, and with Picnic and OurGroceries you can now manage your
shopping list. In the case of Picnic, it will even look up the product you add
in their store to your shopping list and add the product to your shopping cart.
Also, when viewing a to-do list from the Home Assistant interface,
you can copy/paste or bookmark the URL, which will always bring you back
to the same one—a small but very helpful improvement.
Re-import blueprints
This release adds the ability to re-import the blueprint from the source from
which you originally imported it. The newly downloaded blueprint will overwrite
the existing blueprint, providing a simple “update” feature for blueprints.
If you use Blueprints, for example, the ones
created by our incredible community,
you might have noticed that when you import a blueprint, it will not update
when the author updates it. The only option you had was to manually adjust the
YAML of the blueprint to make it match the latest version published
by the author. To make this last bit easier, we added this re-import ability.
A helpful feature that will make it easier to keep your blueprints in
sync with the latest version published by the blueprint author.
Other noteworthy changes
There are many more improvements in this release; here are some of the other
noteworthy changes this release:
We have a brand new trigger selector for you to use in your Blueprints
and scripts. Thanks, @piitaya!
That is not all for selectors, @schelv added support for Kelvin to the
color temperature selector. Nice!
If you use the IKEA IDÅSEN desk, you will now have a height sensor!
Thanks @abmantis!
The ESPHome integration had many performance improvements, making it faster
and more reliable. Thanks @bdraco!
@Lash-L added support for displaying maps from your Roborock vacuums!
Awesome!
Services with a response now support handling responses when multiple entities
are targeted. Nice! Thanks @eifinger!
@iMicknl added local API support for the Somfy TaHoma to the Overkiz
integration! Also, thanks Somfy! It’s nice to see a manufacturer adding
local API support!
The ViCare received tons of love from @CFenner; keep up the good work!
The media browser now has support for toggling between grid and list view.
Thanks @karwosts!
@emontnemery worked hard to improve all error messages originating from
manual YAML configuration. The messages should now be more detailed, readable,
and correctly pinpoint which file and file line the error is located at. Awesome!
@karwosts created a UI when you want to add selectors to your script field!
Very nicely done!
Errors shown by Home Assistant can now be translated! While many places
still need to adopt this, it is a big and user-friendly step forward!
Outstanding job @jbouwh!
New integrations
We welcome the following new integrations in this release:
Integrations now available to set up from the UI
The following integrations are now available via the Home Assistant UI:
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Backward-incompatible changes
Calendar
calendar.list_events uses an outdated response data format and is now
deprecated, pending removal in Home Assistant 2024.6.
Please use calendar.get_events, which supports multiple entities, instead.
The output of this newer service changed slightly, as it now returns a mapping
of entity IDs to lists of events instead of a list of events.
(@eifinger – #102481) (documentation)
DSMR
DSMR entities will not automatically update on each received DSMR telegram
when the value between telegrams has not changed.
If you rely on this, for example, for graphing, please refer to the
statistics integration.
(@gigatexel – #104037) (documentation)
For users using the 5B version: The previous gas sensor (Gas consumption)
will change to Gas consumption mbusX. Also, multiple gas sensors will
be possible.
(@dupondje – #84097) (documentation)
Genius Hub
The initial state of the smart plug did not reflect the same state as in the
Genius Hub application. Correcting this creates a backward-incompatible change
in that the behavior is now correct but different.
If you have an automation that relies on this state, you should check if your
automation or script is still behaving as expected.
(@GeoffAtHome – #102110) (documentation)
Home Assistant API
When calling a service via the Home Assistant REST API, the service used to be
canceled on connection drop, which is no longer the case. If you relied on that
behavior, you would need to revisit the logic. With this change, a connection
drop will not cancel the service call.
Also, a REST post to call a service with the /api/services/<domain>/<service>
endpoint will no longer timeout after 10 seconds.
(@Shulyaka – #102657) (@MartinHjelmare – #104709) (documentation)
HomeWizard Energy
The HomeWizard HWE-SKE (the wall plugs), SDM230, and SDM630 provided duplicate
sensors for energy import and export: A total and a tariff of 1.
As only a single tariff is available on those, the total and tariff 1 are
always the same. To clean this up, tariff 1 has been removed.
If you used this sensor in your energy dashboard, you will need to configure
your energy dashboard to use the total import/export sensor instead.
(@frenck – #104493) (documentation)
Nibe Heat Pump
S-Series entities priority-3102, hot-water-demand-mode-40057, and oper-mode-40238
are changed from a number entity to a select entity with mapping values for the
possible choices.
If you have the old number entities enabled, you can delete them since they
will no longer be provided by the integration.
(@elupus – #103788) (documentation)
Open Exchange Rates
Remove rounding of the exchange rate.
Exchange rates are generally more sensitive to small changes, and some quotes
need many decimal numbers to be accurate. The Open Exchange Rates service will
provide different significant digits for different quotes.
You can change the display precision or use a template sensor to customize
the rounding of the value.
(@MartinHjelmare – #103972) (documentation)
Ping
The option to set a custom polling interval has been removed. If you are using
custom interval and really need it, you can use the homeassistant.update_entity
in an automation to poll at your custom pace. See our documentation on
defining a custom polling interval
for more information.
(@jpbede – #103743) (documentation)
Scenes
Support for the, in November 2019 deprecated, attributes brightness_pct,
color_name, flash, kelvin, profile, and transition have
been removed from light scenes.
If you have used these attributes in your scenes, you will need to adjust
those to this change.
(@emontnemery – #104254) (documentation)
SMTP
The SMTP integration will send images as attachments to a plain text email
instead of HTML in-line when the html field is not set.
Previous behavior was to send all images as HTML in-line even when the html
field was not set. To continue sending images as in-line, please set the
optional html field and include the images
as <img src=”https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/12/06/release-202312/cid:image_name.ext”> within the HTML block as described in the
documentation.
(@aptalca – #93562) (documentation)
Trafikverket Weather Station
Trafikverket Weather has changed its endpoint and is no longer providing the
information for wind direction and precipitation in plain text, so
therefore, these sensors have been removed:
Wind direction text
Precipitation name
(@gjohansson-ST – #104165) (documentation)
Weather
weather.get_forecast uses an outdated response data format and is now
deprecated, pending removal in Home Assistant 2024.6.
Please use weather.get_forecasts, which supports multiple entities instead.
The output of this newer service changed slightly, as it now returns a mapping
of entity IDs to lists of forecasts instead of a list of forecasts.
(@eifinger – #102534) (documentation)
If you are a custom integration developer and want to learn about breaking
changes and new features available for your integration: Be sure to follow our
developer blog. The following are the most notable for this release:
Farewell to the following
The following integrations are also no longer available as of this release:
MyQ has been removed. Read all about it in our blog post.
eQ-3 Bluetooth Smart Thermostats have been removed. The integration has
been in a non-functional state for a long time.
All changes
Of course, there is a lot more in this release. You can find a list of
all changes made here: Full changelog for Home Assistant Core 2023.12