Home Assistant 2023.11! 🎃

It seems like I forgot to come up with a release title for this release and left a placeholder in the title. If I only could have it on a to-do list somewhere… 🤔

Before we dive into this pretty massive release, I want to quickly look back at two amazing things that happened in the past month.

First, we presented chapter 4 of the Year of the Voice , which introduced the new wake word feature in Home Assistant. This really brings the voice assistant experience to the next level, and we are super excited about it! Like have you seen the R5-based voice assistant droid ? 😍

Second, we had a security audit performed on Home Assistant by one of the top security auditors in the world! You can read all about it in the blog post . A big shout out to everybody subscribed to Home Assistant Cloud , as you enable us to do these things! 🥰

Alright, about this release! It is huge! I love the tile card, and the ability to easily customize the information it shows now is just. 🤩 But mostly, I’m super stoked about the new to-do lists, which will probably become a very central part of my household.

Enjoy the release!

../Frenck

Don’t forget to join our release party live stream on YouTube 1 November 2023, at 13:00 PDT / 21:00 CET!

There are many things to do in our lives, which is what @allenporter realized, too! We now have a new entity type in Home Assistant: To-do list entities !

A to-do list entity represents a list of tasks, and its state is the amount of uncompleted tasks that are still open. You can create one or more to-do lists and view and manage them by selecting the new To-do lists item in the sidebar.

Besides the entities, there are also new services available allowing you to automate on your to-do lists as well. Use automations to create, complete, or clean up tasks on your to-do lists.

So, what can you do with all of this? A lot! For example, you can create a to-do list for your groceries, automate a list of house chores for your kids or other household members, or automatically put a task on a list to replace the batteries of a sensor when it is low. You could even send a push notification to your phone when you are near the home improvement store and have items on a to-do list that you need to buy there.

Thanks @allenporter , and everyone involved, for this amazing addition to Home Assistant! We can now check this one off from our wishlist! ✔

As of this release, you can bring in your Todoist and Google Tasks to-do lists to Home Assistant as well!

This is awesome, as it brings all these to-do lists together in one place, and above all, provides you with the power of Home Assistant to automate on them.

The Connectivity Standards Alliance has launched version 1.2 of the Matter specification , together with a new version of the Official Matter SDK, which is not only prepared for new device types but also contains all kinds of smaller stability- and bug fixes.

Although you can only benefit from the new device types once actual devices are released, we have upgraded our Matter implementation to version 1.2 to benefit from the stability improvements and to be prepared for the new device types.

Interesting fact : Did you know that Home Assistant is used as a test platform by many device manufacturers? This potentially means that devices will be implemented and tested on the Home Assistant Matter controller before others; cool!

Tile card now displays the entity’s state information on the card. But what if you want to display something else? @piitaya to the rescue!

You can now customize it to your liking. Show the entity’s state, any of its attributes, or a combination of both!

This not only works for the climate entities but for all entities! You could, for example, add the brightness % of a light or the battery level of a sensor. Simply add the attribute to the state content and drag and drop them in the order you want them to appear.

A great addition to the energy dashboard. Thanks, @TillFleisch !

The conditional card is a great way to show or hide cards conditionally. For example, you can show a card only when the sun is setting or when you are home.

When using such a state, you also match it against multiple values. For example, you can show a card when the sun is setting or when the sun is below the horizon in a single condition.

But even more interesting, @piitaya added a whole bunch of new conditions to this card for you to use! Let’s dive in…

This is helpful! Thanks, @emontnemery !

If you bought a device that supports Improv Wi-Fi over Bluetooth, and you are using Bluetooth in Home Assistant, you can now set up your device directly from Home Assistant itself!

Plug in the power of your brand-new device, and Home Assistant will discover it and help you set it up by connecting it to your Wi-Fi network and adding it to Home Assistant.

Improv Wi-Fi is a fully open standard that can be freely adopted and implemented by any hardware creator, no matter how big or small. Improv Wi-Fi is also supported by ESPHome .

Nice job on this one @emontnemery !

Scripts have a really neat feature: fields . Fields allow you to define variables in your script that you can pass in when calling your script as a service.

For example, you could create a script that sends a notification to a specific person and use a field to define the message you want to send.

These fields support our UI selectors , so you can provide a UI for your script fields. However, this was only available when you created your scripts in YAML format.

But not anymore! Thanks to @karwosts , you can now also configure your script fields in the UI!

You can find the fields in the script editor when selecting the three dots in the top right corner of the editor and selecting Add fields from the drop-down menu.

This release also has a new virtual integration. Virtual integrations are stubs that are handled by other (existing) integrations to help with findability. The following virtual integrations have been added:

Our very active Discord chat server is an excellent place to be at, and don’t forget to join our amazing forums .

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# Example configuration.yaml
# This is correct
demo:
# This no longer works and should be removed
light:
  - platform: demo
(@gjohansson-ST - #100867) (documentation)
The OpenUV “UV Level” sensor has updated its possible state values so that
translations can occur. The new values are:
extreme
moderate
very_high
If you previously used the state values of this sensor in your automations,
you will need to update them to use the new values.
(@bachya - #101978) (documentation)
The OpenWeatherMap rain and snow sensors now have a different unit
of measurement (mm/h instead of mm) and a different device
class (precipitation_itensity instead of precipitation).
(@MatteoGheza - #101485) (documentation)
The option to set a custom polling interval has been removed. If are using
custom interval and really need it, you can use the homeassistant.update_entity
in an automation to poll at your custom pace. See our documentation on
defining a custom polling interval
for more information.
(@engrbm87 - #98858) (documentation)
Västtrafik has upgraded all infrastructure for handling external access,
including handling user accounts for 3rd party applications.
This means that users of the older infrastructure now need to migrate to use
the new environment. Create a new account at
https://developer.vasttrafik.se,
then create a new application
and subscribe to the Planera Resa v4 API.
Next replace your old client identifier and secret in your Home Assistant
configuration.
For more information, see this official post from Västtrafik.
(@Miicroo - #102570) (documentation)
The VOC device class has been removed from the air density sensor, and
its unit of measurement has been changed to kg/m³.
(@natekspencer - #101777) (documentation)
The Withings sleep sensors will now show only the data from last night instead
of an aggregation of the data since the day before noon.
(@joostlek - #101993) (documentation)
The state attributes of the WAQI air quality sensor have been moved to their own
sensors. The previous state attributes are now deprecated and will be removed in
2024.5.
If you are using the state attributes of the WAQI air quality sensor, you will
need to update your automations to use the new sensors.
(@joostlek - #101217) (documentation)
Improved support for King of Fans (Hampton Bay) breaks previous workarounds
such as template fans (example)
or automations/scripts that set fan speed percentage or preset.
If you have an automation that sets speed, it will now be at one speed higher.
If you set the speed at 100% before, it would actually set the speed at 75%,
but now it will be 100%. If you have an automation that sets the preset to
‘on’ to get 100% speed, now the request will fail, and you will have to
change the speed to 100% instead.
(@tronikos - #101859) (documentation)
With this release, you will need to update your zwave-js-server instance.
You must use zwave-js-server 1.33.0 or greater (schema 33).
If you use the Z-Wave JS add-on, you need at least version 0.2.1.
If you use the Z-Wave JS UI add-on, you need at least version 2.2.3.
If you use the Z-Wave JS UI Docker container, you need at least version 9.2.3.
If you run your own Docker container or some other installation method,
you will need to update your zwave-js-server instance to at least 1.33.0.
(@raman325 - #102790) (documentation)
Basic Command Class values were previously exposed as number entities and
were disabled by default. They are now exposed as light entities
and are enabled by default.
If you have scripts or automations that use any of these number entities,
they should be updated to use the new light entities instead. Any previously
created number entities for this Command Class can safely be deleted once
you have validated that your scripts and automations are up to date.
(@raman325 - #101438) (documentation)
If you are a custom integration developer and want to learn about breaking
changes and new features available for your integration: Be sure to follow our
developer blog. The following are the most notable for this release:
Country selector
Removal of deprecated unit conversion utilities
 Farewell to the following
The following integrations are also no longer available as of this release:
Eight Sleep has been removed. The API has changed and is no longer
accessible, making the integration unusable.
(@raman325 - #102669)
IMAP email content has been removed. This functionality is now available
in the IMAP integration. Users have been assisted to migrate to the new
integration in the past months.
(@jbouwh - #101233)
Shiftr has been removed. Shiftr.io closed its platform and is no longer
available.
(@stefanroelofs - #102224)
 All changes
Of course, there is a lot more in this release. You can find a list of
all changes made here: Full changelog for Home Assistant Core 2023.11
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