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@ -96,34 +96,34 @@ Don't forget to [join our release party live stream on YouTube](https://www.yout
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## Dashboards - Chapter 2
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As part of our [roadmap](/blog/2024/06/12/roadmap-2024h1/#dashboards), work has
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continued, making the dashboard customization and organization easier and more
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continued on making dashboard customization and organization easier and more
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intuitive.
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Last week, we had the ["Dashboards Chapter 2"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zmXLxQPr1o)
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live stream, talking about the current state of the dashboards, the progress
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we have made, the upcoming features and improvements we are working on, but
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more importantly: Great insights in all the research and design philosophy
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behind the dashboards. In case you missed it, you can watch the recording
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we have made, the upcoming features, and improvements we are working on, but
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more importantly: The great insights in all our research and the design philosophy
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behind the dashboards. In case you missed it, you can watch the 1-hour recording
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on our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zmXLxQPr1o) or
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read the [recap blog post](/blog/2024/07/26/dashboard-chapter-2/).
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As part of our continuous improvement: This month we have fully redesigned
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As part of our continuous improvement, this month we have fully redesigned
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and revamped the badges for your dashboards!
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### New badges for your dashboard
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We already wrote about it extensively in our [Dashboard Chapter 2 blog post](/blog/2024/07/26/dashboard-chapter-2/#new-badges):
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We already wrote about it extensively in our [Dashboard Chapter 2 blog post](/blog/2024/07/26/dashboard-chapter-2/#new-badges) and
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this release introduces our redesigned badges!
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A big revamp of the original badges that have been in Home Assistant since, well,
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forever. The new badges are designed to match the design of the
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[Mushroom] chip cards, and are
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mean to sit at the top of a dashboard view, providing a summary of the most
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meant to sit at the top of a dashboard view, providing a summary of the most
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important information that you need to know, at a glance.
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<img src="/images/blog/2024-07-dashboard-chapter-2/new-badges.png" alt="New badges sitting on top of a dashboard view!">
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These new badges are of course fully configurable from the UI, allowing you to
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These new badges match the functionality of the previous design, but now are even more feature rich. They are of course fully configurable from the UI, allowing you to
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fully tweak them to your needs. You can specify whether the icon, name, and/or
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state will be visible, and you can configure the contents within each of them.
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@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ screen size it is displayed within, whether an entity is in a certain state, and
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<img class="no-shadow" src="/images/blog/2024-08/badges-add-visibility.png" alt="Screenshots; left showing the add badge dialog wich include the custom mushroom template badge, on the right shows the visibility tab and options badges now have.">
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The best news of all? The new badges work across both the new sections view and
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the old masonry view! 🎉 Heck!, we even support for custom badges, like the
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the old masonry view! 🎉 Heck!, we even have support for custom badges, like the
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custom template one released by the [Mushroom] project 🍄.
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If you have existing old-style badges today, don't worry! They will be
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@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ we are saying goodbye to **service calls** and hello to **actions**!
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If you are a long-time user of Home Assistant reading this now: don't be alarmed
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by this change, nothing breaks with this, and everything will continue to work
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as you are used to.
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just as it did before.
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In the 2024.1 release, we [unified the actions](/2024/01/03/release-20241/#unified-actions)
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in the Home Assistant automation & script editors. The goal of that change
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@ -161,20 +161,20 @@ removing the "Service call" layer and terminology.
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<img class="no-shadow" src="/images/blog/2024-01/add-action-search.png" alt="Screenshot showing the new add action dialog utilizing the search function to find whatever you need.">
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The UI in above screenshot is thus already in place since the January release,
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The above screenshot shows the UI that has been in use since the January release,
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and was very well received in general. However, the underlying terminology
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in our documentation and all other places in Home Assistant was still using
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the "service call" terminology.
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Additionally, the term "services" in Home Assistant is overloaded and abiguous.
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It is used for both the services you can call in Home Assistant, but also for
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service you might integrate with, like a weather service, or a music service.
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service you might integrate with, like a weather or music service.
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In the latter case, we are talking about integrating with a service provided by
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a software program or website, the menu item in the setting called
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**Devices & services** that refers to that. 😵💫
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a program or website, which is referenced in our Settings page as
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**Devices & services**. 😵💫
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To make things more clear, we are now changing the terminology in Home Assistant
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from "services" (as in service calls variant) to "actions" **everywhere**.
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To make things more clear, we are now changing the terminology around _service calls_ in Home Assistant
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from "services" to "actions" **everywhere**.
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Every occurance in the documentation, the UI, the code, and everywhere else
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in Home Assistant, has been replaced with "action". Unlike the previous services
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