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Home Assistant Core 2022.2 is now available

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Release 2022.2 – February 2 has been released and should be available to update in your dashboard (Click Configuration, should be listed at the top of the screen).

There were 2500 different contributions for this release, 15 brand-new integrations and 13 existing integrations.

Changes outside Home Assistant – annual subscriptions to the Nabu Casa service for Home Assistant Cloud are now available, initially in the US only but this will roll out to more countries soon. Improvements to infrastructure will also be made to help with speed and reliability of the service.

The media browser has been renamed to “Media”, and the user interface has been overhauled.

There is also an ability to check for updates on request, rather than waiting for Home Assistant to check every few hours. A ‘Check for updates’ button has been added to the main configuration screen:

Screenshot showing the new Check for Updates button in the configuration screen

Diagnositics are available for integrations and can allow you to download this information either to share with Home Assistant developers or for your own use.

A menu option has also been added to the menu of integrations to link to known issues, so that if you’re having an issue with an integration, you can check to see if it’s known about and if developers are looking into it.

Scenes now have a state – a timestamp of when the scene was activated. This can be useful to trigger automations or for logging.

There is now a search option in the configuration panel.

Improvements have been made to templates, including Shorthand Condition Notations in Actions, Immediate IF (IIF, a short alternative version to an if/else statement).

Other changes:

  • If an integration has a single device, clicking on the “1 device” link will now go directly to that device rather than a list.
  • A menu on discovered devices and services allow you to visit the device and find the documentation.
  • Trigger ID editing has now moved to the trigger menu.
  • Backups now show the size of each backup.
  • You can now select the period in the options of the statistics card.
  • Apple TV integration now supports tvOS 15 and can launch apps.
  • Devices can now display their hardware version in Home Assistant.
  • Google Assistant can use local fulfillment.
  • ZHA devices now have identify buttons.
  • Low Latency HLS is now enabled by default.
  • Magic Home improvements.
  • Adax and Mill heaters now supported.
  • Tuya Pet Feeders, Circuit Breakers and Alarms now supported, Fan support improved.
  • Generic thermostat integration now supports presets.
  • Home Connect added support for refrigerators and cook processors
  • Support for sirens to devolo Home Control.
  • Tibber added sensors for estimated hourly and monthly consumption, costs, and more.
  • We now have a slugify template filter.
  • make is_number available as tests in templates.
  • Volumio has now repeat, repeat, repeat, … support.
  • Hue integration has a service for setting more advanced scene options.
  • Sonos now has a binary sensor that can tell you if the microphone is on or off. Helpful for a notification in case it shouldn’t be on or off.
  • Support for tilt devices added to Soma.
  • Google Assistant now supports the curtain device classes.
  • If you are using Synology DSM connected cameras, you can now select the quality of the snapshots taken.
  • A whole bunch of entities have been added to configure Yamaha MusicCast.
  • Environment Canada now has an AQHI sensor.

Many more has been added, check out https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/02/02/release-20222/ for full details.