Everything New In Home Assistant 2023.10!

Home Assistant 2023.10 has arrived and this month brings in more tile card features for thermostats and input select helpers, map card improvements, new integrations including Switchbot Cloud, bug fixes and more!

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[philip_fletcher]

Whilst I'm appreciative of the love given to the climate entity UI, we still need a much cleaner way to assign schedules to it - a programmable thermostat is probably the most useful home automation yet it is still really challenging to achieve in Home Assistant.

[latchkeylegion]

This year has had so many new things! Year of the voice... tile cards... too much to keep up with. I'd love an end of year review showing what you think are the best and how you've incorporated them with a nice how-to. Love your channel!

[kevinshi]

thank you for keeping me updated. could you make a video near the end of the year of your recommedations on addons and what to connect to eco system?

[SeraphicRav]

The SwitchBot Cloud integration is to support a wifi only plug only sold in Japan and add the support of the hub infra red functions. For now, it only supports on/off.

[rudischoors]

How do you get the heat en cool on the climate card?

[richierich]

Your DYI Sensor, can it work with hubitat?🤔

[junkins]

Thanks for the video Lewis! Cool shirt bro 😁

[Bibins]

Showing this error message

Waiting for the Home Assistant CLI to be ready...
[WARN]Home Assistant CLI not starting! Jump into emergency console....
# _

Any solutions??

[kwametakyi]

Thanks so much for all your effort on this, I have one issue and I wonder if you could assist me.
When I tried to configure an automation script for example.
Play media on my Amazon Echo when an alarm is triggered.

In the process of creating the script: In the "Action" tab ---> "select media". When I select my Amazon Echo device, I get this message: "Media player does not support browsing media", I don't have the option to select the media file media I have placed in the media folder. Any idea why I am not seeing the option to select the media file?
Thank You
Kwame

[xmine]

Video/Series Idea: Best custom/HACS integrations and love lace cards would be really good. Just found out about a scheduler component+card which in itself is amazing already, another one is a sun horizon card (Looking just like the one in the Google app).

[WarpedFlayme]

Having SwitchBot cloud support also means being able to control devices in another physical location. Don't know how much that use case will be useful, but having options is always nice.

[dsdlonyer]

Thanks again for the informative overview. 😊

[ulrar]

The password manager fix is probably the only bit of this I'll actually use but hey, nice to finally have that sorted. Although I'm intrigued by that private ble one, I'll need to look into it

[zZ-Wipeout-Zz]

they need to allow complete freedom to css without the limited custom-card addon :(

[soumynonareverse]

Nice update. Do you have a Pi5 video planned? I'd really like to see how it runs Supervised alongside a dashboard app or similar that doesn't require a paid subscription.

[wththomas]

Hi Lewis! How is the "Year of the Voice" going so far? My smart home project got delayed so I'm not able to check for myself for now! Is it easy now to interract with Home Assistant by voice locally? Cheers :)

[Weeem]

Private BLE is huge.
I'll no longer need to rely on HA tracking my fitbit for presence if I can now start tracking my phone (Samsung with it's annoying randomised BT MAC)

[elmonte]

for year of voice, where are wake words?

[McTobi]

How many memes do you wanna fit in this video?
Everything Smart Home: Yes!

[quattrohead]

I have a CT50 by Radio Thermostats and I want to make it run the fan for x minutes per y hours. Still cannot figure this out.
Yes I am a programming dummy.