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Home Assistant Core 2022.3 is now available

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Release 2022.3 – March 2 has been released and should be available to update in your dashboard (Click Configuration, should be listed at the top of the screen). You can also now manually check for updates by clicking the 3 dots at the top of the configuration screen.

Apologies for the delayed update for this release, illness prevented me from doing any updates. All is now well.

Media Selector and the new “Play media” action

This release brings a new media selector and a “Play media” action. These make it super easy to use media in your automations and scripts.

More media sources!

Lots of new media sources can now be ‘played’ on a supported device like a Google Nest Hub or TV. Cameras, Lovelace Dashboards, DLNA Digital Media Server and Radio Browser support.

Upload your media straight from the browser

This release adds initial support for local media management straight from the Home Assistant frontend, allowing you to upload and remove files directly.

UI Upgrades

The Home Assistant frontend now uses Material Web Components (MWC) everywhere, allowing the frontend to be up-to-date with the latest features and allows better opportunities for the future.

Triggering

When working on an automation, triggers now show up as they are triggering, so you are able to validate you set it up correctly. You are also now able to trigger each individual action in your automation manually.

Entity ID autocompletion

Entity IDs in YAML and Jinja templates now autocomplete when typing.

Other noteworthy changes

  • ESPHome added support for locks! Thanks, @kbickar
  • The HomeKit Controller integration has improved support for the Ecobee thermostats. Thanks, @Jc2k!
  • When playing media in the media browser, the media player bar in the bottom will now have a volume control, thanks @balloob!
  • Thanks to @kubawolanin, you can now filter and search the Home Assistant logs!
  • When selecting a date in the frontend, a beautiful new date picker is shown. Thanks, @bramkragten!
  • The IKEA TRÅDFRI integration has been worked on by @ggravlingen and @martinhjelmare. Lots of stability issues have been resolved, battery sensors for blinds have been added, and also support for the air purifier has been extended with sensors for air quality and filter time left.
  • @rfleming71 added button entities to the OctoPrint integration, allowing you to control to resume, pause or stop a 3D print.
  • The following integrations have added an option to set a unique_id in their YAML configuration; If set, you can customize those entities in the UI.
  • @starkillerOG has been chewing on NETGEAR, adding traffic sensors, a reboot button, but also switch to allow/block devices. Awesome!
  • Don’t be alarmed now, but @jbouwh added support for Sirens to MQTT!
  • @rubenverhoef also dove into MQTT and added additional command templates for MQTT lights.
  • The Renault integration added HVAC, door, and lock sensors, thanks @epenet
  • @bdraco added support to HomeKit for controlling the fan and oscillating of fans in climate entities. Nice!
  • The GitHub integration became much more efficient and now has many more sensors available! Thanks @ludeeus and @timmo001, that is just amazing!
  • @kbickar hasn’t been sleeping much as he modernized the SleepIQ integration, adding a bunch of new entities in the process.
  • If you have a Samsung Smart TV, @epenet added support for showing your installed TV apps as media sources!
  • Thanks to @chemelli74, you can now control the valves of those brand new Shelly TRVs!

New Integrations

We welcome the following new integrations this release:

Integrations now available to set up from the UI

The following integrations are now available via the Home Assistant UI: