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Home Assistant 2024.10 🎃

home-assistant.io/blog/2024/10

A brand new heading card, improved YAML syntax for automations, long-term stats repairs, faster upgrades, more about Matter, 12 new integrations, and more!

@homeassistant The new colors in dark mode are significantly better and a great improvement. Good work, thanks!

@homeassistant I'm a big fan of YAML for configurations.

@homeassistant What would be a cool feature is a system-wide "time-series signal processing" toolbox of some sorts.

That, for example, can be used to detect signal peaks over a defined time horizon based on simple thresholding.

I'd love to have this to count the number of duty cycles of our heat pump's compressor. But there would be endless more use cases for it I am sure.

@abulling

Is this not possible with the existing automation functions?

I would play around with a custom entity that the automation increases if another entity is greater than x for time y.

A bit crude probably but I think what you want to do is possible without additional work from the Home Assistant team.

@homeassistant

@steffen_heublein @homeassistant Probably - but just because something might be possible, in particular if only with a hacky solution, doesn't mean it wouldn't make sense to add new functionality that does the same in a better/the right way.

And has the potential to enable even more for users once the basic framework is available.

#homeassistant is inherently about time series data so I find it surprising that there is no dedicated processing framework for such data in place.

@homeassistant That new heading card is so simple, but it's so useful. I redid a lot of my dashboard already to make use of it, and space is so much better utilized. Huge fan.