in today's video we're going to be having a look at five new features
that I'd love to see be added to home assistant in 2023 check it out [Music]
what's going on guys I hope you're all doing well last year I did a very similar video to this where
I ran through a bunch of features that I'd love to see added and some of them were a bit wild and out
there and some of them actually did get added and if you are interested in checking out that video
you'll find a link to it in the description below so let's jump straight into it then with my first
feature and this one is one that is definitely actually gonna be coming this year I think oh
drag and drop yes it's coming yeah it is yes now it's been teased a couple of times by home
assistant and if you were eagle-eyed you will have seen it in a couple of videos that they've posted
out but this feature is drag and drop over the last couple of years we've seen a few different
attempts and implementations of drag and drop but none of them have actually got there yet and home
assistant has actually included drag and drop if you didn't know in a few different menu options
so you can use it to actually reorganize things in your automations the reason that drag and drop
is a highly requested feature within the community it's just because it's a very simple and very easy
option to have where you can just design these dashboards and just move things around and it
just makes everything very wysiwyg and if you're unsure of what I actually mean when I mention drag
and drop what I'm actually referring to is the ability to design and create your dashboards by
actually just moving the cards or entities around so you'll be able to drag them across the screen
and then drop them in another location and they'll just sit and move around in those orientations
and placements and as I mentioned home assistant have teased this this one a little bit so fingers
crossed that this one will actually appear this year drag and drop yes it's coming carrying on
with my second feature then and this one's another one that's highly requested within the community
and its folders for automations currently if you're designing and creating all of your
automations within home assistant you may end up with just a massive list of automations and this
list you have to scroll through or you have to filter it in a set way so you can currently filter
it by an area or by device or even by an entity and having that ability to filter is nice but it
doesn't necessarily make it visually appealing or easy to actually identify where your sections or
where your automations are actually contained so a feature that I would love to see is the ability
to actually create individual folders for these automations and then you can drill down into those
folders and find this particular automation that you're looking for and I know not everyone will
agree with folders or necessarily want them but another option here instead of folders is maybe
you could have some form of label or some kind of tag and then you could view that tag or label as a
top level header and you could just filter them by this particular tag for me personally it's
something that I'd want as a massive visual aid rather than just having this big massive list of
all these automations it would just help me find things a lot quicker up next we've got my third
feature which tags on to home assistance topic of the year which is of course the year of the
voice and this feature is the ability to quickly add entities and devices to a voice assistant as
it is currently if you want to expose a particular device or entity or some other part of your home
assistant to your voice assistant whether that be your Amazon Echo or your Google Assistant you
have to manually go into that section in home assistant you then have to find the device and
you then have to expose it my proposal for a brand new feature would be the ability to actually just
select the device or entity or script whatever it is in home assistant and just select it and
then have the ability to expose it to whichever Voice Assistant you have set up so if you have the
Amazon Echo set up you'd see a little Echo button or if you've got the Google assistant or if you
have both you'll see buttons on that screen that you can just select to quickly expose that device
and this will just save you having to drill down into that menu and just select it there carrying
on them we've got my fourth feature and this one is user-defined dashboards essentially what this
feature would allow you to do is it would allow you to design and create dashboards for specific
users and only those users that are assigned that dashboard can actually View and use those
the main purpose for this one would be for setting up wall panels or maybe if you've got kids setting
up specific dashboards on their devices that only they can use and that would stop them accessing
parts of Home assistant or turning things off in your office when they're not supposed to currently
it's only possible to do these things if you're making use of additional add-ons from hacks or
adding things manually to your home assistant so it would be nice to see this become a native
feature and something that's expanded on that way you can just customize your home assistant
and you can actually make it a bit more secure by only allowing set people set views and set access
and finally then on to my fifth and final feature and this one expands on a lot of the work that was
done last year with Bluetooth but it would be the ability to actually play audio using Bluetooth I'm
not quite sure how difficult this feature would actually be to implement but the main idea here is
you'd be able to connect your home assistant to a Bluetooth speaker whether that's directly through
a dongle or inbuilt Bluetooth or maybe even one of the new Bluetooth proxies but you'd connect home
assistant to a Bluetooth speaker and then you could just send audio to it whether that's the
form of music or text-to-speech that'd be what I'd want with this feature over Christmas I did
a live stream with Frank and I'm sure he actually mentioned that it is currently possible to do this
and there is a little workaround to do it I've done it before actually for myself so you can pair
it's all I had a command line so you could go into the SSH at arm on the command line and then try to
pair Bluetooth audio device technically that works there's no UI for it but yeah if you know them uh
if you know them commands it works yeah so again if it is possible it would be nice to see this
become a native feature with home assistant and just expand upon all of that Bluetooth work I've
got lots of cool Bluetooth speakers and I'd love to implement them just for text-to-speech devices
or being able to play music across any of them and there we go guys that's been five new features
that I'd love to see added to home assistant in 2023 if there's a particular feature that you
really liked or there's a feature that maybe you'd want to see added yourself then let me know what
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