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Deprecate use of @bind_hass and hass.components

· 2 min read
Jan-Philipp Benecke

As of Home Assistant 2024.3, we deprecate the use of the @bind_hass decorator and thus also the use of hass.components. Using hass.components will issue a warning in the logs. Authors of custom integrations are encouraged to update their code to prevent any issues before Home Assistant 2024.9.

Starting from Home Assistant 2024.9, the @bind_hass decorator and hass.components will be removed and will no longer work.

Use of @bind_hass decorator​

Integrations that use the @bind_hass decorator should be updated to remove them and pass the hass object as first parameter to the function instead:

New example​

from homeassistant.core import HomeAssistant
from homeassistant.components.persistent_notification import async_create

def create_notification(hass: HomeAssistant, message: str):
    """Create a notification."""
    async_create(
        hass,
        message, 
        title='Important notification'
    )

async def async_setup(hass: HomeAssistant, config):
    """Set up the component."""
    create_notification(hass, "You're already using the latest version!")

Old example​

from homeassistant.core import HomeAssistant
from homeassistant.loader import bind_hass
from homeassistant.components.persistent_notification import async_create

@bind_hass
def create_notification(hass: HomeAssistant, message: str):
    """Create a notification."""
    async_create(
        hass,
        message, 
        title='Important notification'
    )

async def async_setup(hass: HomeAssistant, config):
    """Set up the component."""
    create_notification("You're already using the latest version!")

Use of hass.components​

Integrations that use hass.components should be updated to import the functions and classes directly from the integration package and pass the hass object as first parameter. Remember to include the imported components under dependencies in your manifest.json.

New example​

from homeassistant.core import HomeAssistant
from homeassistant.components.persistent_notification import async_create

async def async_setup(hass: HomeAssistant, config):
    """Set up the component."""
    async_create(
        hass, 
        "You're already using the latest version!", 
        title='Important notification'
    )

Old example​

from homeassistant.core import HomeAssistant

async def async_setup(hass: HomeAssistant, config):
    """Set up the component."""
    hass.components.persistent_notification.async_create(
        "You're already using the latest version!", 
        title='Important notification'
    )