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So cool to see this happening, it is amazing, beautiful, super helpful,
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and it also supports third-party icon sets! 🤩
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Oh, to spoil some inside information, you might want to block your
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agenda for the Home Assistant State of the Union 2021 on Saturday 11 December,
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8 pm (CEST)!
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Enjoy the release!
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## Visit devices and services
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Your device has a web interface, but you don't remember the (IP) address it
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has on your network... So you start guessing a couple of addresses; And end upi
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has on your network... So you start guessing a couple of addresses; And end up
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checking your router, looking it up in an app, or scanning the network...
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Sounds familiar? Annoying, right?
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Well, as of today, integrations can provide the URLs to devices or services
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where the device can be managed or configured.
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<pclass='img'>
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<imgsrc='/images/blog/2021-11/visit-device.png'alt='Screenshot of WLED that now a button that links to the WLED web interface of the device directly'>
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Screenshot of WLED that now a button that links to the WLED web interface of the device directly.
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<imgsrc='/images/blog/2021-11/visit-device.png'alt='Screenshot of WLED that now has a button that links to the WLED web interface of the device directly'>
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Screenshot of WLED that now has a button that links to the WLED web interface of the device directly.
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</p>
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If an integration provides a single web interface to configure multiple devices,
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- Non-primary entities are, by default, not exposed to Amazon Alexa or
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Google Assistant. You, of course, still can expose them, but by default,
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we don't send them to these voice assistants.
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-None-primary entities are not called by service calls that target the device
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-Non-primary entities are not called by service calls that target the device
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or area the device is in. They are only called if explicitly called by their
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entity ID.
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not live up to our standards, for which we want to apologize.
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Tuya had initially planned to deprecate the old API in December, giving users
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only last and this release to migrate. That’s not a lot of time, so we
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decided to move forward with releasing the updated integration. Tuya pushed
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back the timeline for sun setting the old API with 6 months; but it was too
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late for us to change course and ship the old integration.
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2 months to migrate. That’s not a lot of time, so we decided to move forward
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with releasing the updated integration. Tuya pushed back the timeline for
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sunsetting the old API with 6 months; but it was too late for us to change course
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and ship the old integration.
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The updated Tuya integration had some bugs and also was missing some features
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compared to the previous integration and various available custom components.
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As a final note: Some people complained about that this integration relies
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on the cloud. We have always supported integrations with both local and
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cloud APIs. Integrations with cloud APIs allow people to adopt Home Assistant
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without having to replace all devices in their house. Using devices that require
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the cloud, or are fully local, is a choice everyone should make for themselves.
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without having to replace all devices in their house. Although we recommend
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local, using devices that require the cloud, or are fully local,
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is a choice everyone should make for themselves.
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## Some nice new template filters
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{% endraw %}
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Next up is [@raman325], who added the `area_entities` and `area_devices`filter
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and function that allows you to get all devices or entities that are in an area.
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Next up is [@raman325], who added the `area_entities` and `area_devices`filters
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and functions which allow you to get all devices or entities that are in an area.
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The methods return a list, which you can loop on.
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{% raw %}
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Thanks, [@rytilahti]!
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- OpenGarage has seens lots of updates and love from [@Danielhiversen], adding
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lots of sensors in the process.
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- With the recent improvements made to the VLC media player integration and
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add-on, there is now a way to get TTS working by connecting some speakers to
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your Blue, ODROID or Raspberry Pi. Thanks, [@mib1185] & [@MartinHjelmare]!
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Adding support for long-term statistics is a much requested feature; This
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release adds support for long-term statistics to the following integrations:
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