From 16f69ed65ea5ae97bb542383b1516bb731f9df40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ab=C3=ADlio=20Costa?= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:00:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add blog post on unit of measurement translations (#2461) --- ...-11-21-unit-of-measurement-translations.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/2024-11-21-unit-of-measurement-translations.md diff --git a/blog/2024-11-21-unit-of-measurement-translations.md b/blog/2024-11-21-unit-of-measurement-translations.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cd85514b --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2024-11-21-unit-of-measurement-translations.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +author: Abílio Costa +authorURL: https://github.com/abmantis +title: "Translating units of measurement" +--- + +Home Assistant 2024.12 will support the translation of custom units of measurement. Previously, those would have been hardcoded in their integrations. + +Just like for entity names, integrations just need to set the `translation_key` on the entity definition and provide the unit designation in the `strings.json` file (with the new `unit_of_measurement` key): + +```json +{ + "entity": { + "sensor": { + "subscribers_count": { + "unit_of_measurement": "subscribers" + }, + } + } +} +``` + +Check our [backend localization documentation](/docs/internationalization/core#unit-of-measurement-of-entities) for details.