in today's video we're going to be having a look
at five new features that i really like in the recent 2022.3 update check it out
what's going on guys i hope you're all doing well it's the first wednesday of the month which means
a brand new home assistant release and this release was heavily focused on new features
and more streamlining of the new media browser if you're interested in reading up on all the new
features additions and also the breaking changes then you'll find a link to the home assistant blog
post in the description below alternatively if you'd like to see that in a video format
then check out the home assistant release party in this video you'll get to hear the developers
talk about the new features and changes as well as run through some demos and again that will
also be linked in the description below let's get on to my favorite son kicking this off then we're
going to start with the focus of this update and that's the new changes to the new media browser
so two of the new main parts that are included in this update are the new play media action
and also the new media selectors now when you're creating your automations you'll see
a brand new action called play media and this new action is going to take two parameters the
first one is going to be the media player that you'd like to play something on and the second
one is going to be the bit of media that you actually want to play on that selected device
to accommodate the play media action you'll also find some brand new selectors within the create
automation ui these selectors just make it even simpler to create your automation by just showing
you a list of media players that you have and also the different types of media that you can
play on those devices and to take it just one step further they also added some new media sources to
the existing roster so now with supported devices you can send media such as lovelace dashboards
camera feeds and also text to speech if you're a subscriber of the channel then you will have
recently seen that i did a video on how to cache your lovelace dashboards to supported devices
and this update makes it even easier so i will be updating that video so if you are interested in
seeing that do make sure you are subscribed staying on topic with the new media changes
we had a brand new integration the radio browser from frank and what's cool about this integration
is it allows you to browse through and listen to over 30 000 different radio stations from all over
the world but make this even cooler is the fact that this can all be done from within the new
media browser so you can browse through that huge list of different radio stations we can filter
them by a particular category or genre or even language but even cooler still is the fact that
this can be made use of by the play media action so as one of your inputs for your media sources
you can select the radio browser and then you can make use of a particular radio station from within
your automations the setup for the radio browser is nice and simple it's just a case of simply
clicking the add integration button and then doing a search for radio browser you then just
select that and it just automatically adds and by making use of this you can do things like create
an automation that wakes you up at a set time in the morning by playing a particular radio station
or how i've personally been making use of it is to play a set radio station when it detects that the
dog's at home alone moving on to my third feature which is again also part of these media changes
and it's the ability to upload local media so we can now upload our own bits of media directly to
home assistant from within the browser and these can be anything from a picture to a small video
or even an audio track or sound effect and you can then make use of those bits of media within
your automations and through the media browser and you'll see the recurring theme here that
these features are compatible with the play media action so with supported devices you can send an
image directly to a screen or you can send a set track or a set video again to a supported device
this is the first implementation of this and it currently only supports adding and removing media
it's also worth noting here it's not really designed for sending around large 4k files or
any huge videos it is just for small images sound effects and just little bits of media
to make use of larger media sources like your videos and movies you want to make use of
things like the dlna digital media server and this will allow you to share that media around
to supported devices moving on to my fourth feature then and it's entity id auto completion
if you currently make use of vs code or some other kind of ide to write your automations modify your
yaml or do things like write templates in ginger then this particular feature isn't something new
to you but if you just straight up do all of those things within the home assistant configuration
so the automation writer or script editor then this feature is definitely going to be something
that's powerful and useful for you and this will work with any of the yaml configuration editors
so the automation editor the script editor your front end dashboards your lovelace cards and even
the ginger template and just to point this out here if you're making use of the file editor then
it's not supported in that just because that's a third-party add-on let's wrap this up then with
my fifth and final feature and it's a new bit of ui for the automation editor now when you're
working on an automation triggers are now shown live in the ui when they're actually triggering
and this is represented by a small animation at the top of the triggered bar and this is great for
allowing you to actually validate and test your triggers when you're building up your automations
so i've got a philips hue button here and i've got a simple trigger for when the device is pressed
so if i click that you'll see that the triggered animation appears there
and if i was to click it more than once you'd see that each action is presented by a different color
so you've got blue or orange so one clip would be blue but if i clicked it again it'd be orange
something house that's been added which is really useful in terms of building automations
is the ability to trigger each action of an automation individually so you can test each
individual action and make sure it's working as intended and there we go guys that's been a
quick look at five new features that i really like in this update if there's a particular
feature that i missed that you really liked then let me know what it was in the comments below
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