Zac has ported the iOS app over to Mac and added some great new features specifically for the Mac.

Like many recent updates to the iOS app, we have to thank for this. Home Assistant Companion is a new application for Mac to control your Home Assistant instance, exposing your Mac sensors to Home Assistant and to receive notifications. We even got RFID tags right into the heart of Home Assistant, but we’re not done yet! We have “One more thing…” Introducing Home Assistant Companion for macOS After over 14 years, the feature is about to ride off into the sunset for good.Wow, what a birthday week it has been! We’ve had a new supervisor release, one of the largest and most user-driven core releases, thanks to the month of What The Heck?!. These widgets have relied on Safari's open source WebKit engine for rendering.ĭashboard appears to remain functional in macOS Mojave for now, although it is clearly a legacy feature and some widgets do not work. The feature has already been disabled by default since OS X Yosemite, but it can still be manually enabled within Mission Control in System Preferences as of macOS Mojave.ĭashboard, first introduced in OS X Tiger in 2005, was effectively a secondary desktop on the Mac that housed a variety of customizable widgets, ranging from sticky notes and the weather forecast to a clock and a calculator. While this news is not entirely surprising, it eliminates any slim hope that Dashboard might have returned in a future beta of macOS Catalina. Apple has removed Dashboard support from WebKit, not long after it was discovered that the feature has been completely dropped in macOS Catalina, according to a changelog spotted by Japanese blog Mac Otakara.

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