ESPHome 2023.2.0 - 15th February 2023

Friendly Name

ESPHome now supports setting a friendly_name which is sent to Home Assistant. This name will be used for the config entry, the device name, and will be automatically prefixed to all of the entities where needed by Home Assistant.

Note

If you opt to use this new friendly name, take note that you should remove any friendly name (substitition) that you currently prepend onto entity name in YAML.
esphome:
  name: living-room
  friendly_name: Living Room

sensor:
  - platform: dht
    pin: GPIO5
    name: Temperature

ESPHome Update Entities in Home Assistant

Home Assistant has offered “read-only” update entities since 2023.2.0 for ESPHome devices. This release of ESPHome added a new API required so that those update entities can now trigger a build and install of the new firmware “over the air” to your devices.

Release 2023.2.1 - February 16

Release 2023.2.2 - February 17

Release 2023.2.3 - February 20

Release 2023.2.4 - February 23

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