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title: "2024.4 Beta: Organize all the things!"
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title: "2024.4: Organize all the things!"
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description: "The beta release notes for Home Assistant 2024.4"
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date: 2024-03-27 00:00:00
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date_formatted: "April 3, 2024"
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- [Organizing your Home Assistant](#organizing-your-home-assistant)
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- [Improved user interface for tables](#improved-user-interface-for-tables)
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- [Floors of your home](#floors-of-your-home)
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- [Label anything](#label-anything)
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- [Organize using categories](#organize-using-categories)
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- [Home Assistant spring cleaning! 🧹 New ways to get your automations (and more) organized](#home-assistant-spring-cleaning--new-ways-to-get-your-automations-and-more-organized)
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- [Upgraded tables!](#upgraded-tables)
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- [A new toolbar](#a-new-toolbar)
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- [Filter panel](#filter-panel)
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- [Item grouping](#item-grouping)
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- [Selection mode and batch actions](#selection-mode-and-batch-actions)
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- [Three new ways to organize](#three-new-ways-to-organize)
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- [Floors: Help Home Assistant understand your house](#floors-help-home-assistant-understand-your-house)
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- [Labels: Tag everything any way you want](#labels-tag-everything-any-way-you-want)
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- [Categories: Make each settings page easier to browse](#categories-make-each-settings-page-easier-to-browse)
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- [Time to clean up your Home Assistant!](#time-to-clean-up-your-home-assistant)
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- [Map dashboard](#map-dashboard)
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- [Webpage dashboard](#webpage-dashboard)
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- [Define the columns in the section view](#define-the-columns-in-the-section-view)
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<lite-youtube videoid="Q1yHfqsVidw" videotitle="Home Assistant 2024.4 Release Party"></lite-youtube>
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## Organizing your Home Assistant
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## Home Assistant spring cleaning! 🧹 New ways to get your automations (and more) organized
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By far, the most requested feature in Home Assistant history would be:
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[_"Grouping Automations on frontend for organization"_](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/grouping-automations-on-frontend-for-organization/102771).
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We hear you! And today, in this release, we are going to give you tools to
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organize your Home Assistant setup. We want to make it easier for everyone, not
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just to organize, but also to view and find the things you need.
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organize your Home Assistant setup, and we took it a few (well many) steps
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further than just grouping automations!
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However, we took it a few (well many) steps further than just grouping
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automations. We are introducing 3 new organization structures to Home Assistant:
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We are introducing 3 (yes, you’ve read it correctly. It’s three) organization
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taxonomies, and we also revamped our entire table user interface plus a few
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goodies along the way.
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**[Floors](#floors)**, **[Labels](#labels)**, and **[Categories](#categories)**.
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We'll dive into each of these in a moment. First, let's talk about the brand
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new user interface for tables.
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## Improved user interface for tables
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## Upgraded tables!
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Adding more ways to organize your Home Assistant is great! But being able to
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easily view, filter and navigate information is just as important. To achieve
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this, we have re-designed ALL the tables in Home Assistant.
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Each table has a search bar, allowing you to quickly find what you are
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looking for, can be sorted by any column, and has a new look and feel.
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For an admin interface, tables are essential for visualizing and managing
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large datasets, and Home Assistant has many tables in its settings pages.
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Previously, our UI provided the ability to search, sort, as well as filter
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for a few aspects, but it was relatively barebones.
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Tables now have the possibility to group rows, by for example, their entity
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state, and can be filtered! The filters are very powerful and allow you to
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only show the rows you are interested in, you could for example filter on
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areas, but also on the new organization structures we are introducing today:
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floors, labels, and categories.
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Today, we are rolling out a revamped table UI that will be standardized across
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all tables in the settings pages with new and improved features.
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### A new toolbar
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## Floors of your home
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As we are adding more features to the tables, we need to still keep the UI clean
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and its features easy to find. Therefore, we added descriptive text to the
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dropdown menus, and we standardized the look and feel of the toolbar buttons
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and textboxes. Shiny!
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__TODO: Insert screenshot hightlighting the new top bar of our data tables__
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### Filter panel
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Previously, our automations page allowed you to filter by areas, entities,
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or devices, but only one at a time, and the filters were tucked away in
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a dropdown menu, which meant you needed to click on a dropdown menu inside
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a dropdown menu to filter by area.
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A new filter panel fixes these issues by providing a new dual pane user
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interface that can let you check multiple filters across multiple filter
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types on the left that stays put, and view the filtered results on the right.
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__TODO: Insert screenshot showing the filters active on the device automation
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page.__
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We also introduced multiple new filter types for each table. For example,
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automations can now be filtered not only by areas, entities, or devices, they
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can now also be filtered by used blueprints, labels, and categories
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(more on these later!).
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We didn’t stop at just that page! The devices and entities pages now
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also has a way to filter by not only state, but also by integrations
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and by areas. Almost all tables now have useful new filters to help you
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find what you are looking for.
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### Item grouping
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Browsing a list of hundreds of automations or thousands of entities can be
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overwhelming. While filters can help narrow down the list, visually grouping
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the items into smaller chunks make them much easier to browse.
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With the item grouping feature, we introduced a new dropdown menu to pick
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how you’d like the items on the table to be grouped by. On the automations page,
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you can group automations by its state - whether it is enabled or not - and
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custom categories (more on that later!). On the Devices page, you can even group
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them by manufacturers, areas, or integrations, which is really cool because
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it makes the page much easier to browse and it gives you a new perspective
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on how to organize your vast network of devices.
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__TODO: Insert screenshot showing grouping.__
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### Selection mode and batch actions
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We removed the clutter of displaying a column of checkboxes by introducing
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a new selection mode. When it is toggled on, checkboxes will appear, and you
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can apply actions to all your selections with one click on the toolbar.
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__TODO: Screenshot pointing out the new "enter selection mode" button.__
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It allows you to, for example, enable or disable multiple selected entities on
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the entities page at once. This new paradigm us to introduce more batch
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management actions in future.
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__TODO: Screenshot showing multiple selected items with bulk actions.__
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## Three new ways to organize
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Upon reading through and ideating on the feature request thread on
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[“Automation Grouping”](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/grouping-automations-on-frontend-for-organization/102771),
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we realize that organization can be done in multiple ways for different purposes.
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We learned that users who are proficient in making automations have hundreds
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of them, which makes locating a particular automation hard. They often had to
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resort to using "hacks" such as emojis, bracketed “tags”, or numbering each
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automation to get the sort order they wanted. They needed a way to easily
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filter down and break down the giant list into more manageable chunks.
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We also noticed that users are stretching our areas feature beyond its
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intended purpose. For example, some users would create “areas” such as
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“3D printer”, “Christmas decorations” or even “Left side of my office desk”,
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in order to group different devices and entities together under one
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umbrella for dashboards or automations.
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As we are developing our new dashboards and voice commands, this poses a
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big problem: We would be unable to provide specialized solutions if a dashboard
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blueprint or automation blueprint cannot confidently assume the context of how
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it would be used. We need something more specialized.
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Therefore, to balance the basic goal of providing a more digestible UI for
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all users, the need for flexibility for our power users, and the future vision
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of Home Assistant, we are introducing 3 new organization structures to
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Home Assistant:
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**[Floors](#floors-help-home-assistant-understand-your-house)**,
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**[Labels](#labels-tag-everything-any-way-you-want)**,
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and **[Categories](#categories-make-each-settings-page-easier-to-browse)**
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### Floors: Help Home Assistant understand your house
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Let's talk about the new organization structures, starting with **floors**.
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Currently, Home Assistant has {% term areas %}. Areas can be used to group your
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devices per living space in your home (like the living room or kitchen). But
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if you look at your home, you might have multiple floors with its own areas.
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For Home Assistant to become a truly intelligent home automation platform,
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it needs to understand context: Where exactly is a device? How does one area
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relate to another? What is the space used for?
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This is where **floors** come in. Floors are a new way to organize your areas
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per level of floors in your home. The better Home Assistant known your home,
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and how it is structured, the better it can help you.
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Currently, Home Assistant has {% term areas %}. Areas are used to specify th
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physical location or vicinity of your devices per living space in your home
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(like the living room or kitchen). However, for some users living in standalone
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houses, there might be multiple floors with their own areas.
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Floors are a new way to organize your areas per level of floors in your home.
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The better Home Assistant knows your home, and how it is spatially structured,
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the better it can help you.
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You can use floors in your automations and script as a target for your
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actions. For example, you can turn off all the lights on the downstairs floor
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when you go to bed. For our power users, you can even use floors in your
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templates to create more advanced automations.
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__TODO: Screenshot show areas page with floors.__
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## Label anything
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You can use floors in your {% term automations %} and {% term scripts %} as a
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target for your actions or control them with your voice. For example, you can
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turn off all the lights on the downstairs floor when you go to bed, or ask
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[Assist](/voice_control/) to turn on the lights upstairs.
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Floors and areas are great to represent your actual home, but what if you
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have different needs? This is where **labels** 🏷️ come in!
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For our power users, you can even use [floors in your templates](/docs/configuration/templating/#floors)
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to create the most advanced and creative automations.
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### Labels: Tag everything any way you want
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Floors and areas are great to represent your actual home, but as everyone
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has their own ways of organizing their home, everyone has their own ways
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of organizing the Home Assistant, too! This is where **labels** 🏷️ come in!
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Labels is an organization structure that is completely up to you. You can
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make as many labels with any naming structure your want and assign them to
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basically anything in Home Assistant. You assign labels to area, devices,
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entities, automations, scripts, helpers, you name it! You can even assign
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multiple labels to the same thing.
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make as many labels with any naming structure, in any color 🌈 you want and
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assign them to basically anything in Home Assistant. You assign labels to
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anything: areas, devices, entities, automations, scripts, helpers, you name it!
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You can even assign multiple labels to the same thing.
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your security-related devices and automations. Or, "🛌 Bedrooms" to label
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all your bedroom areas and control all the devices in those areas at once.
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Do you have solar panels or home battery? Create a label "⚡️ Heavy Energy Usage"
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Do you have solar panels or home batteries? Create a label "⚡️ Heavy Energy Usage"
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to label devices that consume a lot of energy, you could maybe switch them
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off when there is not enough battery or solar energy available.
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You decide how to use labels, and the possibilities are endless! And for our
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power users, you guessed it, you can use labels in your templates.
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power users, you guessed it, you can use [labels in your templates](/docs/configuration/templating/#labels).
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## Organize using categories
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### Categories: Make each settings page easier to browse
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Last but not least, we are introducing **categories**. Categories can be used
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to group things in for organization purposes and are specific for a certain
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dashboard in Home Assistant.
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Last but not least, we are introducing **categories**. Categories are designed
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to be paired with the aforementioned [item grouping feature](#item-grouping),
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and it can be used to group things visually that are specific for a certain
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table in Home Assistant.
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For example, you can create as many categories as you want on the automations
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dashboards, and group your automations in those categories. You can then view
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your automations grouped by those categories, or filter them by those categories.
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This is great for those who have a particular way to display their entities by
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separating them into multiple sections on a specific page. For example, on the
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automations page, you can create categories that are only used for visually
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grouping automations but nowhere else, like "Notifications" or “NFC tags”. You
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can then view your automations grouped or filtered by those categories.
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__TODO: Show screenshot with automations grouped by categories__
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As these categories are unique for each dashboard, you can have different
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sets of categories depending on the place you are organizing. This means
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you can have different categories on the automations dashboard than on the
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scene, scripts, or helpers dashboard.
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you can have different categories on the automations page than on the
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scene, scripts, or helpers settings page.
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### Time to clean up your Home Assistant!
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In summary, there are a total of 4 taxonomies for organizing your entities.
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It sounds like a lot, but they all serve a distinct purpose. We are extending
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and clarifying areas with floors, and we are introducing labels and categories
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to make your automations and many other tables to look more organized
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and to be more manageable.
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What’s next? Time to dig in! Here are a few steps we recommend you to take
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action on in order to organize your Home Assistant better:
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- **Migrate to labels**:
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- If you have been grouping automations with emojis and bracketed text,
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you can now create labels for each of them. Labels can have icons to replace
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the emojis you had before.
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- For areas that aren’t really physical spaces, switching them to labels will
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provide you more flexibility in organizing your entities.
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- **Start using categories**:
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If you have a favorite way of organizing a particular page, create those
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categories and group the table by them. For example, you could create a
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notification category for all your notification automations and put all
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notification automations in that category.
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- **Group your areas into floors**:
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If you live in a multi-storey home, grouping areas into floors helps with
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organizing the areas as well as making them more compatible with future
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features.
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Last of all, to help us to help you to perfect the design of these new features,
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we would love to hear your feedback and see how you use them! Please feel free
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to share them in the comments below and discuss them in our community.
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## Map dashboard
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dashboards with different entities and settings, but you can also just remove
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the map if you don't want it.
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__TODO: Insert screenshot__
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On upgrade Home Assistant will automatically migrate your existing map
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integration to a map dashboard.
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This could be a webpage from the internet, but also a local webpage or a
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webpage from a local server.
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__TODO: Insert webpage dashboard screenshot__
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This dashboard replaces the old iFrame panel (`iframe_panel`). If you have
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existing panels configured in your YAML configuration, Home Assistant will
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## Even more performance!
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Remember how we wrote last release that [Home Assistant now boots twice as fast](/blog/2024/03/06/release-20243/#home-assistant-boots-twice-as-fast)?
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Well, [@bdraco] wasn't done yet. If you thought that was fast, you are in for
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a treat! 🚀 The difference is, yet again, very noticable.
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Well, [@bdraco] wasn't done yet and teamed up with [@balloob]. If you thought
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previous release was fast, you are in for a treat! 🚀 The difference is,
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yet again, very noticable.
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Besides streamlining what is loaded when at startup (and doing less loading),
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we have also adjusted the startup time tracking. It used to be that 1 buggy
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startup time.
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[@bdraco]: https://github.com/bdraco
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[@balloob]: https://github.com/balloob
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## Other noteworthy changes
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