ESPHome 2024.5.0: Valves, events and more entity types

May 15, 2024

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Valves, Events, and More

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.

ESP32 ADC Attenuation

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.

Remote Receiver tolerance

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%.

Release 2024.5.1 - May 20

Add device_class to valve core config esphome#6765 by @acshef
Synchronise Device Classes from Home Assistant esphome#6768 by @esphomebot
Fix Upload from Dashboard with MQTT discovery. esphome#6774 by @Links2004
Fix MQTT dashboard discovery (Exception in MqttStatusThread). esphome#6775 by @Links2004

Release 2024.5.2 - May 21

Revert “Fix MQTT dashboard discovery (Exception in MqttStatusThread).” esphome#6782 by @bdraco
Fix DashboardEntries.all() call esphome#6783 by @bdraco
[remote_receiver] Add better error message for tolerance breaking change esphome#6784 by @jesserockz
Update webserver local assets to 20240519-215627 esphome#6779 by @esphomebot

Release 2024.5.3 - May 25

[voice_assistant] Don’t allocate buffers until starting the microphone for the first time esphome#6800 by @jesserockz

Release 2024.5.4 - May 28

[web_server_base] Bump ESPAsyncWebServer-esphome to 3.2.2 esphome#6797 by @jesserockz
[helpers] Move Base64 string to cpp esphome#6819 by @gabest11

Release 2024.5.5 - June 5

[voice_assistant] Half the microphone ringbuffer size esphome#6830 by @jesserockz
[i2s_speaker] Add buffer allocation failure checks esphome#6829 by @jesserockz
[improv_serial] Fix for IDF 4.4.7 esphome#6855 by @kbx81

Full List of Changes

For the complete list of every merged pull request in this release, see the full 2024.5.0 changelog.