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The 27th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, which we thought was worth sharing. But first I have one more announcement. My internship is (almost) over and I’m happy to say that I passed and completed it with a good grade. That also means that this community highlight is the last one from me as an intern, time will tell when the next one will appear. Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share . ./Klaas Intern on Home Assistant Energy Blueprint of the week This week’s blueprint is that of bfranke1973 , who has created a blueprint with which you can receive a notification when a device loses connection with the network. Try it out! Read more about it on the community forum or install this automation in your instance with a click on the My button! Love Lock Card Do you ever accidentally turn on a light or switch? Then try the love lock card made by CyrisXD . With thi...

The 26th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, which we thought was worth sharing. Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share . ./Klaas Intern on Home Assistant Energy Power-up your ESPHome Projects Speaking of interesting stuff, have you seen what cool new stuff has come to ESPHome ? Read more about it in this blog . Blueprint of the week This week’s blueprint is that of danielbook , who created a blueprint that turns on the lights of a room based on a motion and brightness sensor. You will no longer be in the dark when you get home 😉 Try it out! Read more about it on the community forum or install this automation in your instance with a click on the My button! Floor3D Card Last time we shared a dashboard with floorplan , this time the floor3D card from adizanni , which you can use to get started with your own floorplan. Lovelace Dashboard This week again w...

From switching over units as residents move in and out to keeping track of ticket repair requests, managing multi-family homes can be tedious and challenging. The process is about to... from SmartThings Blog https://blog.smartthings.com/roundups/smartthings-and-entrata-make-property-managers-and-residents-lives-easier-with-new-integration/ via IFTTT

The 25th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, which we thought was worth sharing. Also, keep an eye out for the ESPHome release next week Wednesday. We’re going to have some great announcements! Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share . ./Klaas Intern on Home Assistant Energy Blueprint of the week Are there more people who turn their lights on and off at certain times when they go on holiday? This week’s blueprint is that of timgiwo , who created a blueprint that can repeat the behavior of your lights from the past week, so it seems like you are still at home. Try it out! Read more about it on the community forum or install this automation in your instance with a click on the My button! Slider Button Card Mattieha made a button card that also included a slider, so you could, for example: switch a light but also immediately adjust the brightness with the slider...

Home Assistant OS 6.0 stable is available now! Highlights : OS Agent for better OS integration with Supervisor Support for additional Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices Smaller virtual machine disk images Improved: Generic x86-64 system support Table of contents Operating System Changes OS Agent Under the Hood Device Support Raspberry Pi Generic x86-64 Open Virtualization Appliance Additional Wi-Fi and Bluetooth device support Homematic IP Support Google Coral PCIe AI Accelerator Support Other Changes Operating System Changes OS Agent Operating System release 6 comes with a new, Go written daemon called OS Agent. This allows the Supervisor to access more aspects of the OS. One such aspect is to move the data to an external data disk or wipe data to start over without reinstalling. Note however that at this point, the required logic in the Supervisor and Frontend is still being developed. Under the Hood Under the hood, the OS was updated to the latest u...

We are pleased to unveil the next generation of our SmartThings connected home experience. Featuring a new look and feel, the new SmartThings interface offers users a simpler, more robust... from SmartThings Blog https://blog.smartthings.com/roundups/introducing-the-new-smartthings-experience/ via IFTTT

The 24th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, which we thought was worth sharing. Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share . ./Klaas Intern on Home Assistant Energy Blueprint of the week I think this situation is familiar to many parents: your children who get out of bed too early and who you would like to learn when it is the right time to get out of bed. This week’s blueprint is that of koosvanw , who created a blueprint for the above situation that works with a light that can change color and where the brightness can also be adjusted. Try it out! Read more about it on the community forum or install this automation in your instance with a click on the My button! Threedy card Do you have a 3D printer and are you not quite sure how to display it in a beautiful way in your Lovelace dashboard? Then try this card from dangreco , which works well in combination with o...

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A little bit of everything. That is probably the best way to describe this release. It is a packed release, with a lot of small new features everywhere! Sonos got quite a bit of love, Hue now supports push updates, the UI has a lot of usability tweaks, MQTT added quite a few attributes, themes can now support modes… seriously, I can go on forever with this list. So, no new big features (something might be cooking for the next release…), but a nice release that has something for everybody. Definitely worth scanning the all changes section for your favorite integrations. ../Frenck Support for custom Dark mode themes Collapsed attributes Time format settings Disable polling updates on any integration Network integration Other noteworthy changes New Integrations New Platforms Integrations now available to set up from the UI If you need help… Breaking Changes Integrations that removed deprecated YAML import Integrations that deprecated YAML import Other breaking changes ...