Everything New In Home Assistant 2024.2!

The second Home Assistant release of 2024 is here, and the 2024.2 update adds Drag and Drop (kinda..), custom voice responses for assist, matter diagnostics tools, zigbee ZHA upgrades and many new integrations!

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0:00 - Intro
0:15 - Drag And Drop (kinda)
1:19 - Matter Tools
2:58 - Zigbee Firmware
4:03 - History export
4:50 - 3 new upgrades for Assist
6:39 - Little things, new integrations, changes!

[pokemonfreaky]

Updating Zigbee devices is huge! I hope they expand this feature quickly so more brands/devices can be updated

[dylan_]

Louis, THANK YOU. I've spent over 3 months trying to figure out how to list my todo and calendar events in a template (for a morning TTS announcement). I've looked (seemingly) high and low, but it never quite worked. I copied your stuff at 6:32, changing "items" to "events" for the calendar events, and it worked like a charm. Thank you so much!

[anotherledfreak]

As someone who constantly says "I'm moving over to Local Tuya this month" the latest update to the Tuya intergration is brilliant news (especially as my IoT account has timed out last month). This is so quick to update and get everything running but (and I haven't checked any forums) I discovered that all my automation which used a Tuya device had stopped working. They all got a error and annoyingly I had to duplicate the automation and rename it. No changes, just duplicate and rename... Very strange but not a big issue.

Great video again. 👍

[Robertf]

ooh drag and drop. its a sign we'll get drag and drop for the dashboards soon 😀

[Kurzei]

Aqara, I know you’re watching… Let us update through HA, please. Thanks!

[PatrickBulteel]

The proximity sensor change is quite good too. I like it better and will definitely use it more.

[walt_the_dolt]

Tuya user here. The update is awesome.

[junkins]

Thanks for the update video Lewis! The drag and drop feature could be really useful.

[george_gav]

Thanks for the video, cant wait for a feature to drag and drop cards in lovelace, I like HA but cant face the thought of customizing my dashboard the way I want it

[RACAPE]

I just ordered a govee light strip and I was “shocked”(in a good way) to see the new govee local integration. Best timing

[leona_devon]

Thanks for this update and warning me about Tuya, it's broken t he e met Office app to sadly, didn't see that mentioned

[sk]

Hi! I love you vidoes ... Just wondering what your thoughts on Blue Iris and HA integration is ? Im starting from scratch setting up a security and smart home

[BArtUcK]

Complete review as always! Thanks lewis

[senkoid]

Wasn't the drag/drop always there, but needet to be chosen inside the three dot menu? I thoight i already used this in the past

[KrispKiwi]

My request for Geonet Volcanoes to finally get entity IDs is here too. It won't impact most people but i do try to keep things clean so being able to assign them to areas is much better

[leonkernan]

The new proximity is a big improvement over the old one.
Good to see Tapo better supported now, might be able to remove the HACS version soon.

[jaromanda]

Unfortunately I do have 3 Tuya devices that just can not be *cracked* or replaced by non-Tuya alternatives - so the Tuya update makes life a lot easier. The only minor gripe with Tuya is, I have a fan with CT lights, and the warm/cool is the wrong way around in HA

[succubiuseisspin]

Any news about Mitsubishi Electric blocking Home Assistant (and others) from MEL Cloud?

[nerdsph]

Wonderful, 02:10 is what I expected and why I will not invest in Matter.

[-ColorMehJewish-]

Tuya's setup is really funky for a company that makes sensors or related equipment for sensors.
Their integration is a full development platform that has no free/permanent option
And licenses are tens of thousands of dollars
It's really the worst platform to use w/ serious HA setups