Looking forward to wider sections and cards.
Loving the new badges, one thing I hoped to see was the ability to remove unit from the state.
For example, with UV index, the shown state text is very long due to the unit being “UV index” and takes unnecessary space.
A little bit disappointed that new LLM providers are added but the PR to add Azure support to OpenAI was not allowed.
I wonder if there is any option to update energy graphs in the past.
I have a smart meter that provides details about the whole day with 1-hour resolution… But only after ~24 hours have passed.
It would be possible to move those reading as a energy history, but I did not see any option in Home Assistant to do that (yet?). Does anybody know how to help with that? Otherwise I get really big bar on one hour of the day which makes the graph unusable 
You can hide the untracked bar by clicking on it in the legend, if your particular configuration doesn’t work well with that feature.
Love the badge changes, any plans to be able to add badges inside tiles or between tiles?
Clearing cache helped me very often
Sadly still getting DB migration failure with this release - have had to downgrade back down to 2024.8.1 
Are there no “Other noteworthy changes” this month or is it a bug (because it is listed in the index on top of the announcement page but the section does not exist)?
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so my sections doesnt change same as before anything wrong?
there are no settings like in the screenshot
I guessed it’s a template thing. And I just needed a new - admin approved, what a great bonus - proof that I read the release notes (usually twice) 
Can it be a rounding error?
Upgrading before the release live broadcast , that’s new …
There is a functionality for changing the faulty in dev tools - statistics.
But for me, for my case, the DB was updated but the bar graph was not.
I clocked the August to Yale integration change for my Connexis lock. No biggie there.
Seems the Yale Smart Living Integration for my alarm and Key Fre Connected lock is borked by the update - in process on github. I’d suggest anyone using it to hold fire if you need it!
Just for the wider sections, this update is incredible! Thank you soooo much!
Edit: guess who just updated his dashboards with a column_span option!
Hi. I have seen this before on previous updates. In my case, the problem seems to resolve itself, usually within an hour. Not sure if the same will happen in your case …
extrem nice update, big fan of the untracked energy dashboard. Would be great if its also included in the individual devices total usage view 
Whoohoo! Was waiting for the wider sections, thanks!! This will be the moment to convert my existing dashboards 
Currently I am using my Yale lock with August integration. In core version 2024.9 they ask to replace August integration with the Yale integration. I am trying to configure the Yale integration but none of the options work with my current username and password. Is there a problem?
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Same problem here, can’t log into the Yale Home integration. My guess is that it may be locale based - in most of the world, other than North America (or maybe just USA?), people were migrated in 2023 from the Yale Access app to the Yale Home app, which imported their login information from Yale Access as part of the migration, but which I gather is a separate system.
However, for some reason that is completely unclear to me, USA/North America is still on Yale Access, and we can’t download the Yale Home app, or migrate accounts.
There may be some other way to migrate, but I wasn’t able to determine it from Yale’s documentation.
You missed to mention new UI configuration for LCN integration.
…I was awaiting for a while for this one
I tried both “Yale” and “Yale Home” from the list, and both seem to direct to the same login flow (below), and neither accept my usual Yale Access account info, which works on both August and Yale Access apps.
What region of the world are you in? It seems some regions may have been migrated to the Yale Home accounts, and other regions (USA/NA) are still on Yale Access only.
I tried them all and none accept my username and password??? I reinstalled the August integration and it works.
Nice! Good stuff. Finally was confident enough to convert all my Views into Sections.
The only thing missing now is:
Thats what I’m thinking, too. I can update records in DB, but I’ll need to recalculate the graph for the last 24 hours. Could be handled by some magic inside that I’m not aware of.
Is the background picture you use on the youtube stream available? Would be nice to use that in my new (big) sections dashboard
edit: I should not use direct names for questions, removed this
Super excited to see the Roth Touchline SL integration.
Sadly at first try I get an error:
Logger: homeassistant.config_entries
Source: config_entries.py:604
First occurred: 23:21:55 (4 occurrences)
Last logged: 23:34:15
Error setting up entry [my_user_name] for touchline_sl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/config_entries.py", line 604, in async_setup
result = await component.async_setup_entry(hass, self)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/touchline_sl/__init__.py", line 29, in async_setup_entry
TouchlineSLModuleCoordinator(hass, module) for module in await account.modules()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pytouchlinesl/touchlinesl.py", line 66, in modules
data = await self._client.modules()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pytouchlinesl/client/client.py", line 98, in modules
return [AccountModuleModel(**m) for m in resp]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "pydantic/main.py", line 341, in pydantic.main.BaseModel.__init__
pydantic.error_wrappers.ValidationError: 1 validation error for AccountModuleModel
tag
none is not an allowed value (type=type_error.none.not_allowed)
I am using the exact same username and password I use to log into roth-touchlinesl.com and the documentation doesn’t seem to be that good yet, so I’m not sure what to do from here?
I’m in Sweden, and was migrated to “Yale home” a long time ago, maybe that’s why.
Yahoo! Full width Cards, I can now re-create my dashboard the way I want with a title card!!
Why? Just because it needs lot of space?
Or migration will take lot of time & will need a lot of free space?
I would agree that it could be not crucial to know EXACT (not statistical) value of some “temperature” on 01.01.2022; but in SOME scenarios like “show me my track in London from 01.01.2020” could be useful.
i.e. only performance issues.
If someone wants to have 900 days recorded & if he/she provided a powerful hardware setup - then he/she would expect a smooth operability.
FYI, the link to the nest integration 2024.9 blog post goes to a 404 (https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/09/04/release-20249/integrations/nest), but likely should go to Google Nest - Home Assistant
edit I tried my first pull request to fix this, but I am unsure how to do this. Maybe if someone smarter than me achieves it, you can detail how you did it!
Just wanted to say thanks for removing the binary sensor for “Update available” for the TP-Link Smart Home integration, this did cause me some issues and I appreciate you keeping on top of these things.
Keep up the great work and thanks for keeping our home schedules private and out of particular companies clouds where possible, I hated knowing that I was contributing to Philips Hue’s statistics amongst others, its great that my hue integration is no longer in the cloud and I no longer have to worry about people making pie charts of what time I tuned on the bathroom light, or how many times the lights were turned on during the night and at what time and for how long, now I feel safe knowing my peeing habits are no longer making people any money. Look forward to the day Hive is no longer reliant on the cloud.
Also I’m looking forward to getting my Home Assistant’s Assist to believe it’s from Alien and is the actual computer called MU-TH-UR 6000 from the Nostromo. That will be very cool.
Thanks guys and girls for this great project in the name of privacy…
Thanks for the update, HA team. Just wanted to say how much I appreciate the direction HA is moving in, with the foundation, the certifications, and even an apparently small thing like the open source compliance check in this update. Staying and even improving on the straight and narrow!
And all the while making things easier for the less tech-savvy, and better-looking too. Great work.
ALL of my Automations disappeared after the update… rolling back to 2024.8.3 without restoring data made them appear again. Not sure if this is a fluke. Guess I’ll try again when 2024.9.1 releases.
FINALLY! Wide columns! This is what I’ve been waiting for to start updating my other dashboards. The only thing missing so far is adjusting the amount of padding between columns. On small displays, I like to use as much real estate as possible to maximize size.
Looks like we really do need a hive integration that’s not reliant on the cloud. I spoke too soon, lost my hive integration after install, can’t live without being able to control the heating, hot water and my various hive plugs from home assistant, restored to 2024.8.3, I shall have to look forward to the removal of the “Update available” , binary sensor for the TP-Link Smart Home integration in a future release. Thanks guys and girls, much appreciated…
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If I have an August and a Yale lock, and both of them are connected to my August account and I exclusively use the August Android app, should I continue to use the August integration for the Yale lock, or switch to the Yale integration?
Update seemed to break my Amber Electrical integration: error given is: “no general channel configured”. an uninstall and reinstall didnt fix it. Rolled back to 2024.8.3 and all good again.
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Love to see the energy dashboard expanded even more with price per device and current power usage.
agreed, Water usage it´s primordial and everyday more expensive and necessary to manage the consumption
Just updated to 2024.9
My NSPanel PROs running home assistant app 2024.7.3-minimal have been acting up. (Android 8.1)
When they try to load the dashboard they the app reopens and gets stuck in the loop of opening dashboard / reopening app. Tried clearing cache/data from the apps and restarting, but doesnt help.
Any idea what could cause this?
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Thank you for another step in making HA better, again! 
I’m really impressed every time in what this wonderful piece of software is able to do.
Since I very rarely had an issue in jumping on the new version, I always install the new major version asap.
Having the option to go back from my backup, makes this decision even more very easy.
So now, again, even it was late when I entered, I installed 2024.9
One of the reasons for installing every new release is my curiosity and enthusiasm but it’s also because of supporting the development/progress by using them.
I do have 1 issue for which I cannot find the reason.
The screenshot is from a dashboard for my 7" RPi touchscreen (Raspbian w/ Chromium)
I don’t know if this is important: I’m using sections.
Now that untracked consumption is also shown, so you see your total consumption in the energy graph for individual devices, it would be nice to have a bar with solar energy self consumed and solar energy returned to grid right next to each existing bar.
That way you can easily see how much of the total consumption is from your solar, and how much is from the net, not in absolute numbers, but visually.
You can also see how much energy was returned to net, but could be self consumed, for example by using a battery.
this would be amazing, would also love to see that!
I still have a Yale Smart Lock 1 at the cellar door, which used to run via the August Cloud and from there also the infamous ‘Offline Key’ to log in via Bluetooth with the Yale Access Bluetooth.
Now, however, the latest version has issued the message to change the integration from August to Yale, which I did… So I removed the old integration and authenticated myself via the new one (with phone number). That also worked well. The real reason for this integration is the aforementioned ‘offline key’, which I need for direct communication with the lock via Bluetooth.
After checking the HA system more than 30 minutes after the integration change, I realised that the previous connection via Bluetooth to the lock no longer existed and the connection was disconnected.
I carried out several restarts so that the new ‘YALE’ integration would finally receive the ‘Offline Key’… Still not possible so far.
Only one owner is created in the app, so it can’t be stored in another profile. I’m really at a loss, as I now need this key and the slot for further communication without the cloud…
Does anyone have the same problem?
Setup failed, will try again: Cellar door (L60000S): Disconnected; Try moving the Bluetooth adapter closer to L60000S
Badges do not show the name of the units anymore. Is this intended? It makes it so much more confusing for my use. Is there a way to change it?
Example from the weather forecast badge:
It used to say 19 C, 63%, 3.08 m/s, so it was more clear that they are temperature, humidity and wind speed.
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This - would for me provide a bit more context of how much the untracked energy is vs other measured devices - the vertical graph is great, but the more aggregated horizontal view also helps a lot imho.view also helps a lot.
Maybe voting for Add 'Unmonitored Energy' to energy dashboard individual devices - #5 by TRiSS is a good idea - should be a lot easier now it’s already added to the detail view.
There is an integration that does exactly that for Vienna smart meters:
It’s fairly complicated, and only the statistics can be updated, not the entity value. But it does work.
I know you guys created “untracked energy” that shows in the dash board - but I was wondering my self whenever you buys created an untracked energy AND untracked power entities that can be used in other people scripts ?
Asking because I’ve got those entities and I’m just wondering my self if I’m duplicating the data / can I migrate the history to the new entity.
Thanks for the nice update.
But I have a problem with Yale integration. I get an error if I start det integration. The error is “Config flow could not be loaded: {“message”:“Invalid handler specified”}”.
If there anyone the can tell me, how I can fix it?
Any idea how to apply the grid_columns: full format to custom cards? e.g. I have this working for stock weather card, but can’t find a way to implement on a custom apex chart card.
type: sections
sections:
- type: grid
cards:
- show_current: true
show_forecast: false
type: weather-forecast
entity: weather.forecast_home
forecast_type: daily
secondary_info_attribute: humidity
layout_options:
grid_columns: full
- show_current: false
show_forecast: true
type: weather-forecast
entity: weather.forecast_home
forecast_type: hourly
layout_options:
grid_columns: 4
grid_rows: 2
- show_current: false
show_forecast: true
type: weather-forecast
entity: weather.forecast_home
forecast_type: daily
layout_options:
grid_columns: 4
grid_rows: 2
column_span: 4
title: Weather
- type: grid
cards:
- type: custom:apexcharts-card
...code removed for brevity...
column_span: 4
I tried adding the below code snippet , but it results in an apexcharts error
layout_options:
grid_columns: full
Hi, I need Sections go SMALL I have a dashboard on a 7’ tablet with 3 columns defined. but in the tablet, the 3rd column is moved to a new row. I made the cards inside the sections smaller but that just leaves bigger gaps between the section columns. Any way to fix?
Am I only the one having this issue? Tried clearing cache, but same issue.
I have a 4-core Intel machine with an SSD and haven’t had any problems with Home Assistant + MariaDB until today.
The only thing is that my VM keeps growing. To perform this migration it went from about 56 to 72GB.
I like to have yearly graphs and think that someday historical data may become useful for AI or other research.
Thanks for your answer. Love home assistant!
I wonder if there will ever be a victron integration
I have an automation that sets an alarm to my phone when you say “Set an alarm in X minutes”, I have exposed it to LLMs, but it does not work with any, seems like they do not know how to replace the X or something.
I tried with creating a script that sets the alarm in one minute, so they use the timing functionality, but it does not seem to work neither, sometimes it answers that it is not possible to set timer for the device, or they set the alarm in one minute, so they just run the script.
FYI you should never have to restart for frontend changes to take effect. Only refreshing cache. The frontend lives in your browser.
I have some automations which play sound (MP3 Media) on Apple Homepod mini. After the update no more sound playing (even if it says „Action run successfully“).
I restored my daily backup and it works fine again.
The issue is reproduceable: I did the update again —> no sound
Restored my backup again: works fine
Rgds,
Joop
UPDATE: I just installed 2024.9.1 and issue no longer exists
Great thanks for your help Chris I’m glad Hive still works for you, and thanks for being such a helpful human being. As mentioned it works for me too as I rolled back.
All my sensors are report back in English now?
“Zuhause” is "Home, other sensors are on/off instead of any translation that was present before the update…
Did i miss something?
UPDATE: As usual users fault - clearing cache did the trick, all back to normal
The first thing I looked for myself after upgrading was the untracked consumption, and I remember it not being there. I then watched the release livestream, and during watching that and refreshing the energy dashboard page it suddenly was there - I didn’t enable anything. I suppose you tried clearing browser cache etc?
Nice! The ability to just control those gaps natively (similar to PowerToys Fancyzones) would be awesome.
No; didn’t find it
The only reason I can think of it would not be there is if you do not have any grid or solar sensors.
HA needs to be able to calculate the whole house load before it can derive the untracked consumption from that.
Do you have grid sources, or some other power source?
Otherwise it’s maybe just a cache clearing issue. There’s no setting to enable or disable this.
Hi @NathanCu, thanks for your answer, but I’m not sure how to do that.
I had this automation that was working fine with the normal intents:
alias: Alarm
description: This automation activates the phone alarm in 'time_amount' minutes.
trigger:
- platform: conversation
command:
- Set the alarm in {time_amount} minuts
condition: []
action:
- data:
message: command_activity
data:
intent_action: android.intent.action.SET_ALARM
intent_extras: >-
{% set alarm_time = now() +
timedelta(minutes=trigger.slots.time_amount|int) %} {{
'android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:' ~ alarm_time.hour|string ~
',android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:' ~ alarm_time.minute|string ~
',android.intent.extra.alarm.SKIP_UI:true' }}
action: notify.mobile_app_xxx
- set_conversation_response: The alarm will ring in {{trigger.slots.time_amount}} minutes.
mode: single
So I tried this in my configuration file:
intent_script:
PhoneAlarm:
description: Set the alarm in the phone (in minutes)
speech:
text: Alarm set in {{ trigger.slots.time_amount }} minutes
action:
action: notify.mobile_app_xxx
data:
message: command_activity
data:
intent_action: android.intent.action.SET_ALARM
intent_extras: >-
{% set alarm_time = now() + timedelta(minutes=trigger.slots.time_amount|int) %} {{
'android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:' ~ alarm_time.hour|string ~
',android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:' ~ alarm_time.minute|string ~
',android.intent.extra.alarm.SKIP_UI:true' }}
Following the documentation from: Intent Script - Home Assistant
But I can’t see how the LLM is supposed to pass the variable ‘time_amount’ to the intent_script.
I’ve been trying since last night after switching from August to Yale, the Bluetooth connection is broken! I even created a new account, performed factory settings on my Yale Linus, re-integrated everything + Connector WLAN… Nothing has helped. A restart of Home Assistant, instance of Yale Access Bluetooth and Yale deleted and Yale re-added successfully… Now I have a found Yale Access Bluetooth and am asked for offline key and slot… What else to try? Also checked all logs and protocols, no success. - I also tried the old key and slot - searched everything and found nothing for the key and slot… Does anyone have a tip?
This clearly states that the offline key will be executed. All points are taken into account. + Yale lock reset, everything deleted from account and account deleted! Re-created and re-linked everything.
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Nice update to the sections!
It needs one more thing and then I can convert all my dashboards
Is changing the sections layouts’ grid size on the roadmap… now they are all fixed so making 3 equal icons on a row still needs an hstack card extra…
Seems that a similar estimation is for a “repack of a native sqlite base” case.
Worth to mention that if it’s true, then it’s not db limitation but HA architecture.
I understand 10days limit for sqlite running on raspberypi class HW. But with resonable resources said postgress can maintain and serve in real-time data out of unlimited stored size. If db and app are properly designed.
on the other side of the coin, indeed time series databases are even more efficient for such a job. I recently installed Postgres with TimescaleDB, LLTS and Grafana. All running on rpi4 together with HA. and indeed, graphs provided by grafana are rendered way faster than Apex charts.
Another benefit is, that such postgres-based db cannot break (benefit of fully transactional db) In worst scenario some records might be lost but anomalies in stored data will definitively not affect HA (which cannot be said about sqlite sometimes messed up by HA)
btw the Energy dashboard. I can see some love put on this recently.
What hit me not long ago is, that the dashboard is tightly coupled with sensors set to it (with their entity names)
If one collects energy data for years and then installs FVE, he likely has to change the dashboard settings replacing energy sensors with others, likely provided by a solar inverter (consumption and production)
In such case house consumption for past days/years is gone from the dashboard.
The same will happen if you change the energy sensor for another one, unless you secure the same entity name
Do you know about incoming improvement in this area?
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I don’t, but there’s this to help, even though it’s quite manual: HA Energy Dashboard FAQ · GitHub. See #1.
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