Blog index 2014 Dec 18 Website launched! Dec 26 Home Control, Automation & the Smart Home 2015 Jan 04 Hello PushBullet, nice talking to you Jan 11 Bootstrapping your setup with Discovery Jan 13 Nest in the house! Jan 24 Release notes for January 24, 2015 Feb 08 Looking at the past Feb 24 Streaming updates Mar 01 Home Assistant moving to YAML Mar 08 New logo for Home Assistant Mar 11 Release notes for March 11, 2015 Mar 22 Release notes for March 22, 2015 Apr 25 Release notes for April 25, 2015 May 09 UTC & Time zone awareness May 14 Release notes for May 14, 2015 Jun 10 Release notes for June 10, 2015 Jul 11 IP Cameras, Arduinos, Kodi and Efergy Energy Monitors now supported Aug 09 MQTT, Rasperry Pi, Logitech Squeezebox and ASUSWRT routers now supported Aug 17 Verisure devices and modern TP-Link routers now supported Aug 26 Laundry Automation: insight and notifications Aug 31 0.7: Better UI and improved distribution Sep 11 Using MQTT with Home Assistant Sep 13 Home Assistant meets IFTTT Sep 18 Remote Monitoring with Glances Sep 19 Alarms, Sonos and iTunes now supported Oct 05 Home Assistant goes geo with OwnTracks Oct 11 0.7.5: Blinkstick, SNMP, Telegram Oct 11 Report the temperature with ESP8266 to MQTT Oct 26 0.7.6: Amazon FireTV, Radiotherm thermostats Nov 16 0.8: Honeywell Thermostats, Orvibo switches and Z-Wave switches and lights Nov 22 Survey November 2015 Dec 05 Community Highlights Dec 06 0.9: Rollershutters, locks, binary sensors and InfluxDB Dec 07 InfluxDB and Grafana Dec 10 Activating Tasker tasks from Home Assistant using command line switches Dec 12 [Update: decision reversed!] Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights Dec 13 Set up encryption using Let's Encrypt Dec 22 0.10: Amazon Echo, iCloud, Dweet.io, Twitch and templating support! 2016 Jan 17 0.11: Extended support for DIY solutions Jan 19 Perfect Home Automation Jan 30 0.12: Insteon, LIFX, Twitter and Zigbee Feb 09 Smarter SmartThings with MQTT and Home Assistant Feb 12 Classifying the Internet of Things Feb 13 0.13: Speedtest.net, Bloomsky, Splunk and Garage Doors Feb 18 Multi-room audio with Snapcast, Mopidy, and Home Assistant Feb 20 Community Highlights Feb 27 0.14: Steam, D-Link smart plugs and Neurio Energy Sensors Mar 12 0.15: Unforked Open Z-Wave, templated service calls, extended scene support and PEP257 compliance. Mar 26 0.16: Embedded MQTT broker, Uber, Yamaha receivers and Growl Apr 05 Your hub should be local and open Apr 07 Static website Apr 09 0.17: Onkyo, Panasonic, GTFS and config validation Apr 17 Updated documentation Apr 19 To Infinity and Beyond 🚀 Apr 20 0.18: Bluetooth, LG WebOS TVs and Roombas. Apr 30 iBeacons: Making presence detection work better (part I) May 06 Talk: Automating your home with Home Assistant (OpenIoT Summit) May 07 0.19: Empowering scripts and Alexa May 12 Video: How To Configure Home Assistant May 18 Why we use web components and Polymer May 21 0.20: Roku, Last.fm, AWS, Twilio May 22 Raspberry Pi all-in-one installer May 26 iBeacons: How to track things that can’t track themselves (part II) Jun 01 Community Highlights Jun 08 0.21: Improved Web and support for EnOcean, LIRC and Osram Lightify Jun 13 Home Assistant at PyCon 2016 Jun 18 0.22: Pandora, BT Home Hub 5 and local file camera. Jun 23 Using USB webcams with Home Assistant Jul 01 0.23: Envisalink, Homematic, HDMI-CEC and Sony Bravia TV Jul 06 PocketCHIP running Home Assistant Jul 16 0.24: SQLAlchemy, KNX, Join by Joaoapps, and SimpliSafe. Jul 19 Visualize your IoT data Jul 23 IoT Data Exploration with Jupyter Notebooks Jul 28 ESP8266 and MicroPython - Part 1 Jul 30 0.25: Custom frontend panels, Jupyter notebooks, DirecTV. Aug 03 Laundry Sensors with NodeMCU and Home Assistant Aug 07 Optimizing the Home Assistant mobile web app Aug 13 0.26: Foursquare, Fast.com, FFMPEG and GPSD Aug 16 We Have Apps Now Aug 19 Github-style calendar heatmap of device data Aug 28 0.27 is here to break eggs and take names: notifications, Hue fakery, safety and unification come to Home Assistant Aug 31 ESP8266 and MicroPython - Part 2 Sep 10 0.28: Reload automation and groups, API documentation, car tracking, Pi-Hole stats Sep 29 0.29: 🎈 Async, SleepIQ, OpenALPR, EmonCMS, stocks, and plants Oct 01 We have a Raspberry Pi image now Oct 02 Participating in Hacktoberfest Oct 08 0.30: More Async, HASSbian, Digital Ocean, statistics, REST Oct 22 0.31: Reading you the news, some serious business, spooky hackery and a breaking Z-Wave change Oct 25 Explaining the Updater Nov 05 0.32: Hacktoberfest, InfluxDB sensor, Error reporting, and Weather Nov 20 0.33: New Calendar component, Wink thermostats and Cisco IOS Dec 03 0.34: New Remote component, Websockets, Sonarr, GPSLogger Dec 17 0.35: Text-to-speech, VLC, Flic, netdata Dec 19 Thank You 2017 Jan 03 Control My Christmas Tree Stats Jan 14 0.36: ISS, USPS, Image processing, Insteon Jan 18 Numbers Jan 21 Home Assistant Governance [updated] Jan 28 0.37: Face detection, Coffee, Wink Feb 03 Smart Baby Monitor Feb 04 HASSbian 1.1 - The Toy-box Feb 11 0.38: Alert, AppleTV, MQTT discovery, and Yeelight Feb 14 Workshop at CLT 2017 Feb 22 Home Assistant t-shirts have arrived! Feb 25 0.39: Configuration panel, state restoration and improved docs Mar 11 Home Assistant 0.40: Turn any Android phone into an IP Webcam Mar 22 0.40.2 and broken dependencies Mar 23 OpenSourceCraft interviews our founder Paulus Schoutsen Mar 25 Home Assistant 0.41: Tado, Volumio, Workday, improved Plex Mar 28 HTTP to MQTT bridge Apr 01 Thomas Krenn award 2017 Apr 08 Home Assistant 0.42: Eddystone Beacons, Lockitron locks and Total Connect alarm systems Apr 15 1 year and 22 days ago I had an idea... Apr 17 IKEA Trådfri: Internet of Things done right Apr 22 Home Assistant 0.43: IKEA Trådfri, Spotify and our iOS app is live Apr 24 Hardware Contest 2017 Apr 25 Setting up InfluxDB and Grafana using Docker Apr 30 HASSbian 1.21 - It's about time isn't it May 01 Home Assistant on a Pi Zero W in 30 minutes May 05 Podcast.__init__ interview with Paulus Schoutsen May 06 Home Assistant 0.44: Zigbee, OpenCV and DLib May 07 Grazer Linuxtage 2017: Python Everywhere May 13 Home Assistant on an Orange Pi Zero May 19 Home Assistant at PyCon US 2017 May 20 Home Assistant 0.45: Automation editor, Z-Wave panel, OCR Jun 02 Home Assistant Podcast 1 Jun 04 0.46: Rachio sprinklers, Netgear Arlo cameras and Z-Wave fans Jun 10 Linux Action Show special about Home Assistant Jun 15 ZWave Entity IDs Jun 17 0.47: Python Scripts, Sesame Smart Lock, Gitter, Onvif cameras Jun 20 [Update: fixed] A frank and serious warning about X Jul 02 0.48: Snips.ai, Shiftr.io and a massive History query speed up Jul 03 Home Assistant is moving to Discord Jul 05 Home Assistant Podcast #3 Jul 15 0.49: Themes 🎨, kiosk mode and Prometheus.io Jul 17 Home Assistant Podcast #4 Jul 25 Introducing Hass.io Jul 27 Talk Python interview with Paulus Schoutsen Jul 29 0.50: Voice control, History improvements, and Xiaomi Aug 01 Home Assistant Podcast #5 Aug 12 0.51: Massive history speed up, finished automation editor and official vacuum cleaner support Aug 26 0.52: Scripts editor, Nello.io locks, HipChat and Abode Home Security Sep 09 0.53: Tesla, Customize editor, and super fast KNX rewrite Sep 16 Hassbian 1.3 - A bit of a stretch Sep 23 0.54: Todoist, DoorBird, Abode cameras Sep 26 Improved Hass.io build system Sep 27 Effortless encryption with Let's Encrypt and DuckDNS Sep 29 Participating in Hacktoberfest Oct 01 Home Assistant Podcast #9 Oct 06 Deprecating Python 3.4 support Oct 07 0.55: Tibber, DuckDNS, The Things Network, Owntrack Oct 15 Templates, dates and times Oct 18 Home Assistant Podcast #10 Oct 21 0.56: Skybell, Google Assistant, Travis CI and Toon Oct 23 Serial analog sensor Oct 28 Home Assistant Demo Nov 02 Home Assistant and SSH Nov 04 0.57: Translations, Hacktoberfest, Timers Nov 06 Translating Home Assistant Nov 10 Home Assistant and The Things Network (TTN) Nov 12 Secure remote access to Home Assistant using Tor Nov 18 0.58: More translations, faster frontend, system log Nov 29 Set up Hass.io on top of a virtual machine Dec 03 0.59: Order pizza, Entity Picker, Color Wheel Dec 17 0.60: Beckhoff/TwinCAT, WebDav, Gearbest, iAlarm Dec 17 Introducing Home Assistant Cloud Dec 28 Thank You 2018 Jan 14 0.61: Coinbase, Discogs, iGlo, Sochain Jan 21 Clarification about Emulated Hue Jan 27 0.62: MyChevy, Iota and Venstar Thermostat Feb 09 Disabling Disqus comments Feb 10 0.63: Entity Registry, SQL Sensor, Mercedes cars Feb 19 Cloud Update Feb 26 0.64: Over 1000 integrations! New: HomeKit, BMW, August. Mar 09 0.65: Rename entities, new filter sensor, UpCloud and Channels Mar 24 Updated release schedule Mar 29 Using Fedora Atomic with Home Assistant Mar 30 0.66: VeSync switches, HomematicIP, and a group cover. Apr 12 Home Assistant 🤝 Ubiquiti Networks Apr 13 0.67: Mastodon, Tahoma switches, Nanoleaf Aurora Light Panels Apr 22 Hass.io 2018 Apr 24 Our Google Assistant skill is live! Apr 26 New developer website Apr 27 0.68: HomeKit control, Eufy, FritzBox, SigFox sensors May 11 0.69: Matrix Chatbot, PostNL, Social Blade, Xiaomi Mijia sensors May 27 0.70: Facebox, SpaceAPI, Konnected Alarm System Jun 05 esphomelib - A comprehensive solution for using ESPs with Home Assistant Jun 08 0.71: Lagute LW-12, Iperf3, Hydrawise, Ryobi Garage Doors Jun 22 0.72: Lovelace UI, KIWI Doorlocks, Wireless Tags, Insteon X10. Jul 06 0.73: Preview version new user system, Rachio cloud push and Lovelace goes wild Jul 11 New Hass.io images, based on HassOS Jul 16 0.73.2 - Security Incident Jul 20 0.74: Tuya, Cloudflare DNS, Push Camera and Users UI Aug 03 0.75: Spider, Tuya, Brunt, Magicseaweed API Aug 17 0.76: Auth almost done, FleetGo, PJLink, RMV public transport Aug 29 0.77: Authentication system 👮♂️ + Hangouts bot 🤖 Sep 17 0.78: More auth, Switchmate, Yale Smart Alarm, OpenTherm Sep 17 Thinking Big Sep 28 0.79: Device Registry, Logi Circle, Huawei LTE routers, GeoJSON Sep 30 Participating in Hacktoberfest Oct 12 0.80: Lovelace updates, webhooks, TRÅDFRI switches Oct 26 0.81: new Lovelace cards, LG soundbars, Dyson fans, Elk-M1 Nov 09 0.82: TensorFlow, Lovelace UI edit, Z-Wave Barrier Class Nov 16 State of the Union Nov 29 0.83: Fibaro Home Center Hubs, locks via voice, Traccar Dec 12 0.84: Cloud webhooks, Wunderlist and USGS Earth Quakes Dec 17 [Update: resolved, API reinstated and commitment to keep it around] Logitech Harmony removes local API Dec 19 Logitech's stance on local APIs Dec 27 Launched: Data Science Portal 2019 Jan 09 0.85: ESPHome, Plum Lightpad, OpenSenseMap Jan 23 Lovelace UI released! Jan 23 0.86: New Lovelace UI and Zigbee Management Panel! Jan 24 [Update: we are wrong] Nest locks users out of their own data Feb 04 Introducing Home Assistant CLI aka. hass-cli Feb 06 0.87: SmartThings, Areas and Entity Registry UI. Feb 11 hass-cli 0.5: Area, Device Registry and event CLI Feb 20 0.88: Persons, Command line auth and event subscriptions Mar 06 0.89: Nissan Leaf, PlayStation 4, Point alarm control, Owlet baby monitor Mar 20 0.90: Remote UI, Streams, User Groups Apr 01 When will there be an official Home Assistant for Android app??? Apr 03 0.91: More streaming, better Zigbee, cameras with ESPHome Apr 15 Introducing Hass.io Ingress Apr 24 0.92: HEOS, Somfy MyLink, Genius Hub May 03 Update from the Field May 08 [Update: new users only] Nest to turn off their API May 16 0.93: Essent, AmbiClimate, VS Code debugging Jun 05 0.94: SmartHab, Watson TTS, Azure Event Hub Jun 26 0.95: AdGuard, Life360, Plaato Airlock Jul 09 Home Assistant Cast (preview) Jul 17 0.96: Notion, updated sidebar, advanced mode Jul 19 Piwheel issues with older versions of Raspbian/Hassbian Aug 06 Home Assistant Cast Aug 07 0.97: Apache Kafka, Fortigate, Twente Milieu Aug 28 0.98: Improved entity management, options and Home Assistant Alerts Sep 17 Happy 6th Birthday Sep 18 0.99: Withings, Device Automations, launch Home Assistant Cast from Python. Oct 10 0.100: Better Plex, Bye JSON, HERE Travel time. Oct 26 R.I.P Hassbian Oct 30 0.101: Airly, Apprise, Sinch, Solar-Log, Microsoft Teams Nov 20 0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor Nov 20 Almond & Ada: privacy-focused voice assistant Nov 22 State of the Union 2019: Recap Dec 01 Home Assistant for everyone Dec 03 Sonos shutting down local voice option Snips Dec 11 0.103: Happy Holidays, Service calls, StarLine, GeoNet NZ and Proxmox Dec 17 HassOS 3 released! Raspberry Pi 4 support Dec 20 Celebrate the holidays with open standards 2020 Jan 15 0.104: Sentry, Signal Messenger, IntesisHome, Sure Petcare, KEF Jan 28 Home Assistant Companion for Android 1.5.0 Jan 29 Changing the Home Assistant Brand Jan 31 Community Highlights, first edition! Feb 05 0.105: Safe mode, Headers & Footers, New Zones Editor, Garmin, Sighthound Feb 07 Community Highlights: 2nd edition Feb 11 Home Assistant Companion for Android 1.6 and 1.7 Feb 19 Community Highlights: 3rd edition Feb 26 0.106: Light brightness stepping, better Safe Mode and person dialog Feb 28 Community Highlights: 4th edition Mar 02 0.106.3: Coronavirus integration (COVID-19), track the outbreak Mar 15 Community Highlights: 5th edition Mar 18 0.107: Multiple Lovelace Dashboards, adds helpers, new media player card Apr 08 0.108: Logos, Area Pages, Lovelace Entity Card, Lovelace Map History Apr 14 The future of YAML Apr 29 0.109: New integrations page and weather card, frontend lost weight. May 09 [On hold] Deprecating Home Assistant Supervised on generic Linux May 20 0.110: Speed! OpenZWave beta, HomeKit Cameras, ONVIF, Calendars May 25 Home Assistant Code of Conduct 2.0 May 26 Installation Methods & Community Guides Wiki Jun 10 0.111: Frontend loaded sooner, Elexa Guardian, Unify Circuit, Acmeda Jul 01 0.112: Making things faster; Logbook & History Jul 22 0.113: Automations & Scripts, and even more performance! Jul 28 Migrating the iOS Companion App to Nabu Casa Aug 05 Home Assistant Companion Apps: New and Upcoming Features Aug 12 0.114: Dark mode, Open Z-Wave progress and more automation & scripts Aug 18 The month of 'What the Heck?! (2020)' Aug 28 Home Assistant Companion Android App: New Features Sep 12 Home Assistant Companion Android App Release 2.4.0 Sep 14 Happy 7th birthday Home Assistant! 🎉 Sep 15 Home Assistant Tags Sep 16 The Supervisor joins the party Sep 17 0.115: B-Day release! Media browser, tags, automations & WTH Sep 18 One more thing… Sep 19 Summing-up the month of 'What the heck?!' Sep 20 Community Highlights: 6th edition Oct 01 Hacktoberfest 2020 Oct 07 0.116: Entities card row editor, restore snapshots and performance metrics Oct 21 Supervisor 249: Resolution center, Stability & Private container registries Oct 28 0.117: Quick Bar, compact header, a YAML editor, XBox and Template types Nov 06 Home Assistant Companion Android App Release 3.0.0 Nov 18 0.118: Grid and logbook cards, quick navigation, native template types Nov 23 [Better solution!] TP-Link offers way to add local API back Dec 01 Community Highlights: 7th edition Dec 13 Home Assistant OS Release 5 Dec 13 2020.12: Automate with Blueprints! 2021 Jan 06 2021.1: Happy New Year! Jan 14 Security Bulletin Jan 22 Disclosure: security vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Dwains Dashboard, Font Awesome and others Jan 23 Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others Feb 03 2021.2: Z-Wave... JS! Feb 12 Community Highlights: 8th edition Feb 18 Community Highlights: 9th edition Feb 26 Community Highlights: 10th edition Mar 03 2021.3: My Oh My Mar 04 Home Assistant Companion Android App 2021 Q1 Releases Mar 05 Community Highlights: 11th edition Mar 12 Community Highlights: 12th edition Mar 18 Nabu Casa has acquired ESPHome Mar 19 Community Highlights: 13th edition Mar 26 Community Highlights: 14th edition Apr 02 Community Highlights: 15th edition Apr 07 2021.4: For our advanced users ❤️ Apr 08 Home Assistant Companion Android App April 2021 Release Apr 09 Community Highlights: 16th edition Apr 16 Community Highlights: 17th edition Apr 23 Community Highlights: 18th edition Apr 30 Community Highlights: 19th edition May 05 2021.5: Stability, performance, triggers, color modes! May 07 Community Highlights: 20th edition May 10 Easier notifications in iOS 2021.5 May 12 Why Home Assistant doesn't have an external API for integrations May 14 Community Highlights: 21st edition May 21 Community Highlights: 22nd edition May 28 Community Highlights: 23rd edition Jun 02 2021.6: A little bit of everything Jun 04 Community Highlights: 24th edition Jun 11 Home Assistant OS Release 6 Jun 11 Community Highlights: 25th edition Jun 16 Power-up your ESP8266 and ESP32 projects: browser-based installation and configure Wi-Fi via Bluetooth LE Jun 18 Community Highlights: 26th edition Jun 25 Community Highlights: 27th edition Jul 07 2021.7: A new entity, trigger IDs and script debugging Aug 04 2021.8.0: Feel the energy ⚡️ Aug 04 Energy Management in Home Assistant Aug 24 Supervisor update Sep 01 2021.9.0: More energy, USB discovery, template ❤️ Sep 13 Home Assistant Yellow Oct 06 2021.10.0: Z-Wave S2 support, Tuya, secure ESPHome and 400 new icons Oct 13 User Experiences and Designers Nov 03 2021.11: Icon picker, device links and entity categories Nov 12 100,000 installations in analytics! Nov 27 New NetDaemon Release: Use C# to automate Home Assistant Dec 11 2021.12: New configuration menu, the button entity, and gorgeous area cards! Dec 18 Multi-server support in iOS 2021.12 Dec 20 Android 2021.12: Wear OS Beta! Dec 21 Demo: Genie, privacy-preserving virtual assistant by Stanford Dec 23 The Open Home Dec 28 Energy management research using Home Assistant 2022 Jan 07 Oculus Quest Meet the Smart Home! Jan 19 Streamlining Experiences Feb 02 2022.2: Let's start streamlining! Feb 07 New Add-on for HomeMatic/homematicIP support - Action Required Feb 11 Android Companion 2022.2: Local Push Notifications! Mar 02 2022.3: Select and play media Mar 14 Content Trust with Home Assistant & Codenotary CAS Apr 06 2022.4: Groups! Groups! Groups! Apr 16 Buying a device to run Home Assistant (April 2022 edition) Apr 19 Hey Insteon users! Apr 29 Introducing the Home Assistant Creator Network! May 04 2022.5: Streamlining settings May 08 2022.5.3: Ukraine Alarm integration, get alerted for attacks by air or artillery May 16 Home Assistant OS Release 8 May 29 Matter in Home Assistant workshop announcement Jun 01 2022.6: Gaining new insights! Jul 06 2022.7: A stunning performance Jul 12 Introducing the Works with Home Assistant program Jul 27 Leviton joins as a Works with Home Assistant partner Aug 03 2022.8: You can fix it! Sep 07 2022.9: Home Assistant Birthday Release! Sep 30 The month of 'What the Heck?!' 2022 Oct 03 Short-term solutions on how to use smart home tech to save energy and money in Europe Oct 05 2022.10: All over the place Oct 13 Third Reality joins Works with Home Assistant Oct 25 Ultraloq joins Works with Home Assistant Oct 26 Jasco joins Works with Home Assistant Nov 02 2022.11: A heck of a release! Dec 07 2022.12: It does matter! Dec 20 2023: Home Assistant's year of Voice 2023 Jan 04 2023.1: Happy New Year of the voice! Jan 20 Home Assistant coming for your car! Jan 23 Want to help others? Leave your AI at the door Jan 26 Year of the Voice - Chapter 1: Assist Feb 01 2023.2: How can I Assist? Feb 08 Matter & Thread: where we’re at Mar 01 2023.3: Dialogs! Mar 03 HELTUN joins Works with Home Assistant Mar 08 Disclosure: Supervisor security vulnerability Mar 30 Android 2023.3: Multiple servers & Windows 11 app Apr 05 2023.4: Custom template macros, and many more new entity dialogs! Apr 11 HomeSeer joins Works with Home Assistant Apr 18 Home Assistant OS 10: Better memory management and new board support Apr 27 Year of the Voice - Chapter 2: Let's talk May 03 2023.5: Let's talk! Jun 07 2023.6: Network storage, favorite light colors, new integrations dashboard Jun 27 Home Assistant collaborates with KNX Jul 05 2023.7: Responding services Jul 20 Year of the Voice - Chapter 3: Ready when you are Aug 02 2023.8: Translated services, events, and wildcards! Sep 06 2023.9: New climate entity dialogs, lots of tile features, and template sensors from the UI! Sep 13 Celebrate 10 years with us Sep 17 A refreshed logo for Home Assistant! Sep 17 Introducing Home Assistant Green: Your entry to Home Assistant Sep 17 10 years Home Assistant Sep 22 Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud Help us to improve our documentation Suggest an edit to this page, or provide/view feedback for this page. Edit Provide feedback View given feedback
Mar 12 0.15: Unforked Open Z-Wave, templated service calls, extended scene support and PEP257 compliance.
Aug 28 0.27 is here to break eggs and take names: notifications, Hue fakery, safety and unification come to Home Assistant
Oct 22 0.31: Reading you the news, some serious business, spooky hackery and a breaking Z-Wave change
Aug 12 0.51: Massive history speed up, finished automation editor and official vacuum cleaner support
Dec 17 [Update: resolved, API reinstated and commitment to keep it around] Logitech Harmony removes local API
Jan 22 Disclosure: security vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Dwains Dashboard, Font Awesome and others
Jun 16 Power-up your ESP8266 and ESP32 projects: browser-based installation and configure Wi-Fi via Bluetooth LE
