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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Home Assistant Core 2024.6! 🎉
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Welcome to another loaded release of Home Assistant! Packed with many exciting
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new features, this month is most definitely one to remember.
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Let's talk about AI. AI might just as well be talk of the century. These
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Let's talk about AI. AI might just as well be the talk of the century. These
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so-called [LLMs] most certainly open up a whole new world of possibilities.
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When we first introduced the OpenAI and Google AI conversation agents for Assist,
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one of the most requested features was the ability to control your home with it.
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Now for the big news:
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_**Well, as of today, you can control your home with an AI!**_ 🤖
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But there is a lot more to this release. Super simple media player commands,
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more data table improvements, tag entities, collapsable blueprint sections,
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more data table improvements, tag entities, collapsible blueprint sections,
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and so much more!
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I’m personally most excited about the new features in the dashboarding area.
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@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Enjoy the release!
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- [Other noteworthy changes](#other-noteworthy-changes)
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- [Disabling expiration of login tokens](#disabling-expiration-of-login-tokens)
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- [Tag entities!](#tag-entities)
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- [Collapsable sections for blueprints!](#collapsable-sections-for-blueprints)
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- [Collapsible sections for blueprints!](#collapsible-sections-for-blueprints)
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- [Need help? Join the community!](#need-help-join-the-community)
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- [Backward-incompatible changes](#backward-incompatible-changes)
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- [All changes](#all-changes)
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@ -76,16 +76,16 @@ Don't forget to [join our release party live stream on YouTube](https://www.yout
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## Voice & Assist
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This month, we are continuing our work on improving Assist's out-of-the-box
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capabilities: Not only are we adding features, such as media control,
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that you would expect from a voice assistant, but we are leapfrogging ahead
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with some new exciting developments and experimenting with AI! 🤖
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capabilities: Not only are we adding features that you would expect from a
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voice assistant, such as media control, but we are leap-frogging ahead with
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some new exciting developments and experimenting with AI! 🤖
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We will have more to announce during a soon-to-be-announced _Voice - Chapter 7_
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livestream on June the 26th! Keep an eye out for that! 🎙️
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### Dipping our toes in the world of AI using LLMs
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Our voice assistant brain is called a **conversation agent**.
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Our voice assistant's brain is called a **conversation agent**.
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It is responsible for understanding the intention behind the spoken command,
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performing an action, and generating a response.
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@ -124,15 +124,15 @@ _"office"_ area, you can give direct commands such as:
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That was also working with Assist previously, but you can also give more
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complex commands, such as:
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> I'm going in a meeting, can you please make sure people see my face?
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> I'm going to a meeting, can you please make sure people see my face?
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The agent will figure out the intention behind the words
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and call the correct intent on the correct exposed entities.
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and call the correct intent on the matching exposed entities.
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{% details "What about custom intents?" %}
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Our intent system has been built from the start to be extensible.
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Custom integration and even users can register their own intents.
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Custom integrations and even users can register their own intents.
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This allows you to guide the agent beyond what's capable out of the box.
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Here is an example of a custom intent that explains to the agent what
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@ -204,13 +204,13 @@ awareness makes our voice assistant aware of the devices in the same area as
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the satellite. We have also created a smart matching strategy that finds the
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right media player to target.
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For example, if you say “pause,” the voice assistant will automatically
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For example, if you say “pause”, the voice assistant will automatically
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target the media player that is playing.
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<lite-youtube videoid="pFmwY-k5IcU" videotitle="Demo of media player commands of Home Assistant Assist"></lite-youtube>
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Just ensure your voice assistant device is assigned to an area with an exposed
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media player, and you will be good to go.
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media player, and you are good to go.
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## Dashboards
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@ -241,9 +241,6 @@ meaning you have a lot of flexibility in what you can do.
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Wait, we didn't stop there! This same visibility feature is now also available
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for cards! Oh yes! 🚀
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You can now hide or show a card based on certain conditions. This allows you
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to create more dynamic dashboards that adapt to your needs.
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<img class="no-shadow" src='/images/blog/2024-06/dashboard-card-visibility.png' alt='Screenshot showing a tile card that is only visible to a specific person.'>
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You can now hide or show a card based on certain conditions. This allows you to
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@ -351,8 +348,8 @@ changes to existing integrations:
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be helpful for {% term blueprint %} creators.
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- [@Anrijs] added support for the [Aranet Radiation] devices to the
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[Aranet] integration. Nice!
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- You can now set the cutting height of your [Husqvarna Automower], and there
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switches to make it stay out of certain zones. Thanks [@Thomas55555]!
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- You can now set the cutting height of your [Husqvarna Automower] and there
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are switches to make it stay out of certain zones. Thanks [@Thomas55555]!
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- [@thomaskistler] added flow and rain sensor support to the [Hydrawise]
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integration. Great!
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- The [SwitchBot Cloud] integration now supports the [SwitchBot Meter],
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@ -456,7 +453,7 @@ non-standardized data. We want to support custom clusters, so we need
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to add support for each one individually.
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This release allows Home Assistant to be notified when the data of a custom
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cluster changes instead of polling for it on an interval. This will reduce the
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cluster changes (instead of polling for it on an interval). This will reduce the
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network traffic and improve the performance of your Matter network,
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especially on bigger {% term Thread %} networks.
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@ -493,9 +490,9 @@ A few releases ago, we introduced the automatic expiration of logins. If a login
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session wasn't used for 90 days, it would expire and be automatically cleaned up.
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Some of you have expressed that you would like to disable this feature for
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various reasons. For example, because of a secondary holiday home, one doesn’t
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various reasons. For example, because of a secondary holiday home one doesn’t
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regularly visit, or because of relatives who can only come over a few times
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a year, we added a new option to the user profile settings to disable
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a year. We added a new option to the user profile settings to disable
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the expiration of specific login tokens.
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<img class="no-shadow" src='/images/blog/2024-06/disabling-expiration-login-tokens.png' alt='Screenshot showing the option to disable the expiration of tokens in the profile page.'>
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@ -506,22 +503,22 @@ You can find these token in your profile settings, under the **Security** tab.
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### Tag entities!
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Home Assistant has support for tags for a long time. The tags feature allowed
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NFC tags or QR codes to be used with Home Assistant, for example, to
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Home Assistant has had support for tags for a long time. The tags feature
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allowed NFC tags or QR codes to be used with Home Assistant, for example, to
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trigger {% term automations %}.
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However, tags were not real entities and, thus, not always as logical to use.
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With this release, [@gjohansson-ST] changed this!
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Tags are now normal {% term entities %} and can be used in {% term automations %},
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{% term scripts %}, {% term templates %}, and even added to
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{% term scripts %}, {% term templates %}, and even be added to your
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your [dashboards](/dashboards)!
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[@gjohansson-ST]: https://github.com/gjohansson-ST
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### Collapsable sections for blueprints!
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### Collapsible sections for blueprints!
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[@karwosts] makes an appearance again this release with another of his QoL
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[@karwosts] makes an appearance again this release with another one of his QoL
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(Quality of Live) improvements. He added the ability to add collapsible sections
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to {% term blueprints %}. This allows blueprint creators to group configuration
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options together or hide advanced or less common options by default.
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@ -535,7 +532,7 @@ Thanks [@karwosts]!
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Read more about blueprint input sections [in our documentation](/docs/blueprint/schema/#blueprint-input-sections).
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Looking for an interesting blueprint to get started? Check out the
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Looking for an interesting blueprint to get started? Check out the
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[Blueprints Exchange] on our community forum! There are great automation
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blueprints available.
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{% details "AVM FRITZ!Box Tools" %}
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The previously deprecated services `reboot`, `reconnect`, and `cleanup` has been
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removed. Please use the corresponding button entities instead.
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The previously deprecated services `reboot`, `reconnect`, and `cleanup` have
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been removed. Please use the corresponding button entities instead.
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([@mib1185] - [#118108]) ([documentation](/integrations/fritz))
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