This release brings a new Valve component, which can be used to control valves.
A Valve can be opened, closed, or a specific position set if supported.
Event entities were added to Home Assistant in 2023.8.
They allow better structure and also history and logging of the events sent from ESPHome to Home Assistant compared
to just using publishing events onto the Home Assistant event bus with the homeassistant.event action.
The datetime component has also been extended with DateTime and Time entity types this release.
The attenuation configuration option for ESP32 adc sensors has had a deprecation in the underlying ESP-IDF
framework with the 11dB option. The value to replace 11dB with is 12dB. There are no functionality changes
otherwise. There will be a warning in the logs when installing if you are using 11dB and it will be
removed in 2024.8.0.
The tolerance option in the remote_receiver component has been extended to allow time values, but at the
same time the validation is now more strict.
If you were using a raw value with no unit before 2024.5.0, for example 25, you will need to change it to 25%.
- [voice_assistant] Don’t allocate buffers until starting the microphone for the first time esphome#6800 by @jesserockz
For the complete list of every merged pull request in this release, see the full 2024.5.0 changelog.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://esphome.io/blog/2024/05/15/esphome-2024-5/