How do you use the frontend integration to choose frontend version?

[Frog]

In another thread @petro wrote:

@petro

A user can choose any frontend version to use through the frontend integration.

And I asked “Could you explain this a little more? I’m probably stupid, but I don’t understand how to do this.”

And got the advise:

@petro

Please create a separate thread for this, thanks

Which I’m now doing. So, how do you use the frontend integration to choose frontend version?

[petro]

It’s covered in the development documentation here

Frontend development | Home Assistant Developer Docs

The TLDR is:

1. Create a user and generate a github token.

2. Find the frontend pr that contains the build you want (it’ll be the PR that bumps the version you want to run)

3. add this to configuration.yaml

   frontend:
     development_pr: <PR_NUMBER>
     github_token: <YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>
   

Just understand there are limitations to this apparently that I did not see when mentioning this in the release thread. So this is likely not a permanent solution unless you build it yourself.

[bschatzow (Bill Schatzow)]

Thanks for the clarification, when I did a search on this it says almost the opposite of what you said in the release thread.

In Home Assistant, users cannot typically “choose” a specific version of the core frontend to run independently of the server’s version. Instead, the Home Assistant Frontend integration serves the version bundled with your current Home Assistant Core installation.

Looks like you provided a temporary work around.