Everything New In Home Assistant 2024.8!

Home Assistant’s August release is upon us with 2024.8 landing today adding a number of excellent improvements, including new dashboard badges, more data table sorting, local AI control and the removal of services!

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0:00 - Intro
0:17 - Removing services
1:29 - Dashboard Badges
2:20 - Data table fields
2:42 - Local AI
3:30 - Matter updates
4:24 - KNX UI
5:07 - YAML Integrations in UI
6:03 - The little things
6:46 - New integrations and breaking changes

[RafaGmod]

Oh god i love this project. Homeassistant shows how a opensource project can be a GREAT thing.

[kelvin]

I really wish they would do a "kiosk" dashboard, where you can set it to remove the side and header bars for a public facing dashboard. I know there are add-ons that will do that but they can break or be unsupported so an official implementation would be super useful where you have a dashboard the whole family can use but you don't want, say, the kids being able to mess around with it.

[collywallydooda]

Really happy to see the RGB CCT change, for those of us using RGB strips with the extra WW/CW colour channels this is big. Before this update after every HA restart/update I had to login to each WLED device, change an option in preferences, reload the HA integration then go back into WLED and change settings back. Now I can restart HA without losing control of my lights!

[maxking]

The KNX additions are super cool.

Imagine having a 20y old smart home (the term did not even exist back then) now showing up as a SINGLE integration with >400 entitities for lights, shades, heating, PV and weather in Home Assistant.

There is no better way of building a sustainable, long-term smart home that will last for decades.

Super happy with it … since 2006!

[craigs.]

You're a good guy, Lewis. Lucky blokes to have your friendship. Thank you for your HASS videos, fella.

[Quentame]

Added lately to the release note (and by myself 😅): picture cards can now automatically fetch its image from a person entity, instead of setting a static image !

[linux]

If the smoke detector in my office triggers, my soldering iron, hot air station, and PCB pre-heater all get turned off. The ability to monitor a soldering iron isn't just a novelty or a flex. ;)

[miko]

renaming "services" to "actions" will totally fuck up googleability for them, as "actions" already mean something in homeassistant...

[chrisdixon]

Some nice additions there!
I do agree that renaming service to action probably makes more sense to most people, however it makes the yaml look very odd as you have an action element in the action section!

[jameshancock]

Turning off your soldering iron when you leave home so that you don't forget. I wish they had this integration with hair straighteners, it would save at least 2 minutes for my wife to get out of the house 🤣

(Yes I know I can use a smart plug. I was being sarcastic. )

[Sawtooth_Wave]

Really happy to see the improvements coming for the KNX integration

[pureetofu]

Loving that Ollama is finally supported!

Response times (and accuracy) running Llama3:4b on an RTX 4070 Super have been great, especially since it is all local.

[igorGriffiths]

thanks for the info on the update, going to start working my HA into something useful, got the smart lights, the door sensors and the temperature monitors, now just need to fit and get them talking

[markbooth]

"Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' Badgers!"
- UHF, in homage to Blazing Saddles, in homage to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. *8')

[BJGrady]

Well, I appreciate the fact that the home assistant team stays on top of things is always updating. Always upgrading and making things better. It sure is a pain in the ass to just be able to enjoy home assistant. It seems like every time they do an update you have to relearn home assistant. For the layman like me or the average user that just wants a smart home and doesn't want to fiddle with it 24/7. It's really starting to push me away.

[SuspiciousAra]

It feels for me that HA is getting more and more a serious, a very serious option for home automation.

[keitharrowood]

Such a helpful fellow you are. Andy easy on the eyes to boot. I always use your tutorials and instructions.

[ivana]

I don't have insomnia anymore. Home assistant tutorials are better than any sedative.

[moirjag]

Heads up for anyone using the Alexa Media Player through HACS: The 2024.8 update introduces a breaking change. To avoid issues, make sure to upgrade to the latest version of Alexa Media Player via HACS. If you rely on the built-in temperature sensor on your Alexa device, ensure you enable the "Include devices connected via Echo" option under configuration. Otherwise, any temperature-based automation will fail because the temperature data will be unavailable.

[sammcj]

Finally official Ollama support! That’s fantastic!