Download Home Assistant Core 2022.12.0
Home Assistant has released the December release of its smart home platform. The most striking innovation in the smart home platform is the addition of the smart home standard Matter. The makers say that the Matter support is mainly still an alpha version, which is mainly interesting for developers.
Home Assistant Core is an open source home automation platform made in Python. The software runs on a Raspberry Pi or a remote Linux, macOS or Windows computer. Home Assistant also has its own hardware to run the platform. Home Assistant is a platform that allows users to connect multiple smart home devices, such as Philips Hue or Ikea Tradfri. The platform also supports protocols such as mqtt, Zigbee or Z-Wave. For more information about Home Assistant, please refer to this page and our own forum. The full release notes for this release are here to find; this is the announcement from it:
2022.12.0: Home Assistant Core 2022.12! 🎄
Already the last release of the year, right on time to bring you some cool new features to work with during the upcoming Holidays!
2022 has been a fantastic year for the Home Assistant project. We became one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing GitHub open source projects! ❤️ Tons of new features each month, and not just that, we matured a lot! Everything became more stable and faster, and the UX made leaps forward as well!
We looked back at 2022 during the State of the Open Home, and sneak peaked at 2023, with some great new UI concepts and: The year of the voice! 🗣️ Missed it? The full video is available on YouTube.
But! The year isn’t over yet! This release really Matters! We are thrilled to be one of the first in the world to roll out Matter support to the public! 🎉
No Matter devices yet? Don’t worry! There are tons of things in this release that will keep you busy. The Tile card got “features”! You can now extend your Bluetooth range using Shelly devices, and a long-requested feature: Local Calendar. 🤩
For 2022, this is it! Thank you for joining our community. Thank you for sharing, helping out, contributing, creating YouTube videos, blog articles, and podcasts.
Thank you for using Home Assistant! ❤️
Happy holidays and for the last time in 2022: Enjoy the release!
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- It doesMatter!
- Tile card gets features
- Shiny new state colors!
- Local calendar
- Bluetooth proxy using Shelly devices
- New entity: text
- Summing entities without templates
- Other noteworthy changes
- New Integrations
- Integrations now available to set up from the UI
- Need help? Join the community!
- Breaking Changes
- Farewell to the following
- All changes
Don’t forget to join our release party live stream on YouTube today at 12:00 PDT / 21:00 CET!
It doesMatter!
Does it Matter? Yes, Home Assistant does Matter!
Matter is a new smart home interoperability standard, an open-source protocol, that defines how devices can communicate and work together. Read more about Matter in this comprehensive write-up from The Verge.
Today we release the first iteration of the Matter integration for Home Assistant. It is a big and important foundation that is probably best described as “alpha” or maybe even a “developer preview” — allowing anyone to help and jump in on the Matter development. For the first release, we think that is a great start!
At this point, Matter-enabled products are not (yet) generally available. However, if you can get a Matter-certified product, it can be commissioned!
A Matter device integrated with Home Assistant.
Adding Matter devices (commissioning) can be done using our iOS and Android Home Assistant Companion apps. Adding support for this to our apps is being worked on and will become available in the upcoming weeks. The Android Companion app supporting Matter, is currently available for beta testing.
Interested? We have made more details available in our documentation.
Tile card gets features
In the last release, we introduced the Tile card. Today we extend the Tile card by adding support for “features”.
For the Tile card, “features” are additional extras that can be added to a Tile card. For example, they can provide additional controls or information for the entity the Tile card displays.
Multiple usable Tile features have been added:
- Command buttons for vacuum cleaners
- Brightness slider for lights
- Controls for opening/closing and tilting covers
Checkout the documentation for more information about Tile features
But that’s not all! The Tile card also got colors! 🎨
Based on the entity’s state, the card will get different colors. This color provides an additional visual indication of the entity’s state.
Shiny new state colors!
Those lovely new state colors added to the Tile card, as shown above, are not just added to the tile card. This same color logic has now also been applied to the state history and the logbook!
Previously, these colors would be random. Now they are predictable, recognizable and, above all: just look a lot better 🤩
This same experience will also be visible on the dedicated Logbook and History pages of course.
Local calendar
This is one of the longer outstanding and bigger requested features of Home Assistant: A local calendar!
Building a calendar isn’t easy, but Allen Porter did it! And it is not just a calendar with dates and descriptions… oh no! Everyone went all in!
We now have a full blown, local, built-in calendar, which can do all-day event or recurring ones tuned to your liking. Even multiple different local calendars are supported!
Bluetooth proxy using Shelly devices
In the September release, we brought Bluetooth everywhereby adding Bluetooth proxy support, allowing any ESPHome device in your home to relay Bluetooth traffic across your home.
This release adds support for using Shelly devices as a remote Bluetooth adapter as well!
It works with all second-generation Shelly devices that use firmware 12.0 or later. Those are able to provide Bluetooth advertisements to Home Assistant’s Bluetooth integration.
This can greatly help with extending the range of your Bluetooth network to help with things like Bluetooth temperature or plant sensors in your home.
In other Bluetooth news: The performance of Bluetooth has, again, been improved this release, and the memory usage should be lower. Always good!
New entity: text
Say hello to a new entity: text! The text entity is very similar to the Text helper (also known as input_text).
The difference is that the helper is configured and managed by you, while the new text entities are provided by integrations. This means integration can now provide entities that ask for a textual input in the UI.
The first integrations that can now provide text entities as of this release are KNX and MQTT.
Summing entities without templates
Let’s say you have two numeric sensor entities, and you like to have an entity that shows the sum of those two; how would you do that? Creating a template entity, right? Nope! 😁
You can now create a new helper entity that sums the values of two (or more) sensor entities into a brand-new entity.
When creating a new helper, select “Combine the state of several sensors”, pick the sensor you’d like to sum, and select “Sum” for the statistical characteristic. Voila!
You might have noticed that this looks like the “Min/Max” helper. True! We have renamed “Min/Max” to “Combine the state of several sensors”, to make it more descriptive as it gets more features.
Other noteworthy changes
There is much more juice in this release; here are some of the other noteworthy changes this release:
- You can now set your country and default language Home Assistant should use in the general settings. These new options allow Home Assistant to consider those in future features.
- Using Twinkly in your Christmas tree? 🎄 You can now control the effects! Right on time! Thank you @Olen!
- MQTT reached the gold level on the integration quality scale! Nice work @jbouwh! But that’s not all; it now supports MQTT v5 and WebSocket connections too!
- NO2 and VOC sensor entities are now working with HomeKit. Thank you @stackia!
- Shelly is now a platinum integration! Thank you @thecode, @bieniuand @chemelli74 for your hard work on this integration 🥇
- ZHA now supports the new Aqara c1 pet feeder. Thanks @dmulcahey for adding it, and thanks @kirovilya figuring out the communication!
- The humidifier card, now has on/off controls. Thank you @Shulyaka
- Amazon Alexa now supports humidifiers. Thank you @jbouwh!
- BTHome version 2 has been released and Home Assistant now supports it! Thank you @Ernst79!
- Slack now has a Do Not Disturb sensor you could automate on. Thank you @tkdrob!
- Support for IP-Secure routing has been added to KNX. Thank you @farmio!
- Are you using Picnic for your groceries? You can now add products to your order straight from Home Assistant. Thank you @corneyl!
New Integrations
We welcome the following new integrations in this release:
- air Qadded by @Sibgatulin
- Aranetadded by @aschmitz
- LIVISI SmartHomeadded by @StefanIacobLivisi
- Local Calendaradded by @allenporter
- Matteradded by @marcelveldt, @MartinHjelmare and @agners
- RuuviTag BLEadded by @akx
- Sensirion BLEadded by @akx
- Textadded by @raman325
Integrations now available to set up from the UI
The following integrations are now available via the Home Assistant UI:
- Push bulletdone by @engrbm87
- Scrapedone by @gjohansson-ST & @epenet
| Version number | 2022.12.0 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Script language |
| Website | Home Assistant |
| Download | https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/ |
| License type | GPL |