Snips is a popular self-hosted voice control system that has been compatible with Home Assistant for quite some time.



On November 20, SONOS announced that it had acquired the software, which it would use to create a privacy focussed local voice assistant for SONOS speakers.



Within a week, SONOS announced that the Snips Console will be closing to the public. This console allows users to create and manage their own voice control for their homes. With this change, the Snips system becomes useless to tinkerers and other self-hosted enthusiasts who wanted local voice control.



Automation Editor now supports YAML

In a previous release, we saw the developer tools moving away from JSON to support YAML. You can now edit your automations in the UI using YAML as well!

You can now create scenes by taking a snapshot of entities

The scene.create service has been updated to allow you to create scenes based on the current state of devices.



Using the new snapshot_entities parameter, you can add the entities you wish to capture their current state of to be added to the new scene.

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/11255

Proxmox VE Integration

Proxmox is a local virtualization system, allowing you to run systems in virtual machines similar to VirtualBox.



With this integration in Home Assistant, you’ll now be able to see binary sensors for your containers and virtual machines. Allowing Home Assistant to know which containers/VMS are running or not.

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/10660

Flume Integration

Flume is a smart water meter that can track how much water your house is consuming, which may help identify if there is a leak somewhere.



Home Assistant will now be able to report in real-time how much water your house is using. Great for people who want to graph that with Grafana

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/27235

