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ESPHome 2023.4.0 - 19th April 2023

.. seo::
    :description: Changelog for ESPHome 2023.4.0.
    :image: /_static/changelog-2023.4.0.png
    :author: Jesse Hills
    :author_twitter: @jesserockz


.. imgtable::
    :columns: 3

    Voice Assistant, components/voice_assistant, voice-assistant.svg, dark-invert
    Microphone Core, components/microphone/index, microphone.svg, dark-invert
    I2S Microphone, components/microphone/i2s_audio, i2s_audio.svg
    MMC5603, components/sensor/mmc5603, mmc5603.jpg
    KSZ8081 Ethernet, components/ethernet, ethernet.svg, dark-invert

Voice Assistant

This year is the Year of the Voice for Home Assistant, and ESPHome is charging ahead with this in mind. We've added a new :doc:`/components/voice_assistant` component that allows you to use ESPHome devices as an input for assist in Home Assistant 2023.5 or later.

With this also comes preliminary :doc:`microphone </components/microphone/index>` support, which has been built in a way that multiple components, like voice_assistant can request start / stop of the microphone and get the data. We hope this leads to more interesting use cases for the microphone in the future.

Home Assistant is hosting a live stream all about the Year of the Voice - Chapter 2.

Keith joins Nabu Casa

Nabu Casa is pleased to announce that long time contributor Keith Burzinski (:ghuser:`kbx81`) is joining the team as a full time developer to help out on ESPHome. Keith created the :doc:`/components/sprinkler`, :doc:`/components/climate/thermostat`, a bunch of the ssd display components and a few other components as well as fixing many bug along the way. I expect his house climate and garden area are kept well in line.

Looking forward to working with you Keith.

Release 2023.4.1 - April 24

Release 2023.4.2 - April 27

Release 2023.4.3 - May 2

Release 2023.4.4 - May 4

Breaking Changes

I²S Media Player

With the introduction of the :doc:`/components/microphone/i2s_audio`, the media player platform has some required breaking changes to the YAML configuration. This involves moving the i2s_lrclk_pin and i2s_bclk_pin to a new :doc:`/components/i2s_audio` component.

# Before
media_player:
  - platform: i2s_audio
    name: ESPHome I2S Media Player
    dac_type: external
    i2s_lrclk_pin: GPIO33
    i2s_bclk_pin: GPIO19
    i2s_dout_pin: GPIO22
    mode: mono

# After
i2s_audio:
  i2s_lrclk_pin: GPIO33
  i2s_bclk_pin: GPIO19

media_player:
  - platform: i2s_audio
    name: ESPHome I2S Media Player
    dac_type: external
    i2s_dout_pin: GPIO22
    mode: mono

Default restore mode for Switches, Fans and Lights

The default restore_mode for switches, fans and lights has been changed from RESTORE_DEFAULT_OFF to ALWAYS_OFF with the intention that restoring values from flash should be manually specified by a user if desired in their YAML configuration.

Number step

The number components have always internally set a step required in config, but allowed it to be not specified at all. This caused issues on the Home Assistant side of things. This is only a breaking change for external components that have a number platform.

UART ids

Due to uart0 / uart1 / uart2 being defined in some of the platform code ESPHome uses, ESPHome will now disallow these ids from being used in the config. You can simply change them to uart_0 to continue using.

Full list of changes

New Components

Breaking Changes

Beta Changes

All changes

Past Changelogs