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Community Highlights: 13th edition
The 13th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing.
Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share.
./Klaas
Blueprint of the week
It has probably happened to everyone, you forget to put the wheelie bin on the street and now you have to wait weeks again before it can be emptied again. There are already various custom integrations where you can keep track of when the pick-up days are. But maybe the Blueprint from westenberg, can also help you to get a notification every time so that you don’t forget it.
It’s a kind of magic
This week we came across another really cool project from redphx
My Aqara Magic Cube setup is a bit different (pet-proof). Details in comment.from r/homeassistant
Retro Record Player
For those who would like to build a media player in a slightly different style in Lovelave, this is really a cool project. Edwin turned it into something very special in the form of an LP record player. How cool is this!? ❤️
On this website
HomeLab monitor dashboard
Still looking for a way how you would like to set up your own system dashboard? Maybe
the photo of Akmantainman
Homelab Monitor Setupfrom r/homeassistant
Also look in the comments on Reddit, because many people shared their own version on this post already.
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Have you seen (or made) something awesome, interesting, unique, amazing, inspirational, unusual or funny, using Home Assistant?
Click here to send us your Community Highlight suggestion.
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- Tweet it! Be sure to mention @home_assistant
- Share it on our Facebook group
- Post it to our subreddit
- Tag @homeassistant
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See you next edition!
Nabu Casa has acquired ESPHome
Today I’m happy to announce that ESPHome
Otto started ESPHome three years ago to make programming ESP devices as easy as possible. With ESPHome, users write simple YAML files in which you describe what components are attached to what pins of the ESP device. ESPHome will then make this available in Home Assistant. No extra work necessary. Super simple.
Example ESPHome configuration
The following ESPHome YAML example will program your ESP device. When you plug it in, it will make the light on pin 16 available in Home Assistant.
esphome:
name: esp32_light
platform: ESP32
board: esp32dev
wifi:
ssid: "MySSID"
password: "supersecret"
api:
light:
- platform: binary
name: "Desk Lamp"
output: light_output
output:
- id: light_output
platform: gpio
pin: GPIO16
Otto’s vision was right and ESPHome has become the easiest way for people to integrate ESP devices in Home Assistant. For example, the tag reader is based on ESPHome, and many other projects are too.
As the project grew, so did Otto’s obligations in his personal life until they could no longer be combined. With the acquisition of ESPHome, Nabu Casa now owns the copyright of Otto’s code and the ESPHome organizations on GitHub, Docker, etc. Otto has shut down his Patreon account. Otto will step back from being part of the project management side of things. The project will continue as an open source project with the current ESPHome development team, @jesserockz
We are going to bring our experience gained from the Home Assistant project and apply it to ESPHome, like focus on community and ease of use. If you have any ideas, make sure to share them in the ESPHome discord
Update: I’ve joined the Home Assistant podcast to discuss the acquisition. Episode 83 is worth a listen.
About Nabu Casa
Nabu Casa was founded by the founders of Home Assistant. It exists to make the privacy-centered smart home accessible to everyone. Nabu Casa has no investors and is solely funded by users via Home Assistant Cloud subscriptions. With Home Assistant, Nabu Casa already works on making sure the brains of your home are the best it can be. And with ESPHome they will help you make sure that other devices are too.
Community Highlights: 12th edition
The 12th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing.
Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share.
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Blueprint of the week
Do you have a number of domain names and would you like to track when an SSL certificate expires? Then you could try bkbilly’s blueprint that automatically sends you a notification when a sensor exceeds your set threshold value. Try it out!
Also, take a look at the Blueprint Exchange for more inspiration!
Birthday cake
Happy birthday to adlawton
My wife decided to bake me a cake to go along with my birthday present this year. Can't wait to fire this thing up!from r/homeassistant
Hopefully, the cake tasted delicious and have fun with your Blue!
ePaper display
maxmacstn
My DIY E-Paper Sensor Displayfrom r/homeassistant
Hass Workstation Service
For those who would like to read their webcam status on a Windows machine, there is
finally a solution! sleevezipper
You can finally switch the lights automatically when you are in an online meeting 😉
Note: If you’re on MacOS, you can achieve the same using the Home Assistant Companion app for MacOS.
Smart pet feeder
Would you like to automate feeding your pets? Then try the project of
Sokolsok
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Have you seen (or made) something awesome, interesting, unique, amazing, inspirational, unusual or funny, using Home Assistant?
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- Tweet it! Be sure to mention @home_assistant
- Share it on our Facebook group
- Post it to our subreddit
- Tag @homeassistant
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See you next edition!
Community Highlights: 11th edition
The 11th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing.
From now on we will also highlight a cool blueprint that we encountered on the Blueprint exchange. Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share.
./Klaas
Blueprint of the week
Do you have an IP camera in Home Assistant instance and do you no longer want to miss who is at the door? Then you could try the camera snapshot Blueprint from vorion. You can also indicate to which device you would like to receive a notification with a photo. Try it out!
Solar weather station in birdhouse
Spring is approaching, so it’s a good time to start building a birdhouse 🐦, so why not
immediately turn it into a weather station? With the manual
Outdoor pathway light
Do you have a garden and do you want to create lighting along the paths? Maybe the
garden lighting tutorial from KidA001
PoE powered stack light
Looking for a creative way to display the status of your Home Assistant instance? For example: there is a new Core update, too much RAM is being used or your instance is no longer online? Plenty of options to bind to each color segment.
So let yourself be inspired with the PoE stack light from Karl and start
building
Got a tip for the next edition?
Have you seen (or made) something awesome, interesting, unique, amazing, inspirational, unusual or funny, using Home Assistant?
Click here to send us your Community Highlight suggestion.
Also, don’t forget to share your creations with us via Social Media:
- Twitter it! Be sure to mention @home_assistant
- Share it on our Facebook group
- Post it to our subreddit
- Tag @homeassistant
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See you next edition!
Home Assistant Companion Android App 2021 Q1 Releases
Hey everyone! It has been quite some time since we last provided an update on all that is new with the Android app. You may have already noticed that we had changed our release versioning to match that of Home Assistant Core. In fact, we will be attempting to align our releases more closely to Core releases. This way we can start supporting brand new features quickly, like the recently released My Home Assistant.
Security Check
As of Home Assistant Core 2021.1.5 some security vulnerabilities were fixed and it is very critical that all users update their instances to at least this version. The app will now do a check every 24 hours to ensure that the instance is at least on the release mentioned in the security alert. This check will be updated anytime a new security alert is issued.
Location Disabled Check
Certain app features that depend on the connected WiFi network (SSID), require the location permission to not only be granted to the app, but also have it enabled on the device. Without this, the app is unable to read the connected SSID, impacting usage of the Internal URL and any WiFi based sensors. Previously, the application would continue to function and silently fail while showing bad data for the sensors. Although the application still worked, certain parts were found to be buggy as a result of the silent failure.
Starting in android-2021.1, the app was showing a prompt before a user was able to interact with the Home Assistant frontend. We received feedback that users found this pop-up to be too intrusive. Starting android-2021.2
, this pop-up has been converted to a persistent Android notification with its own notification channel. This allows the user to fully control how it is displayed on the device, including turning the channel off. The new channel name for this notification is Location disabled
.
Screenshot of the location disabled notification.
High Accuracy Mode
High accuracy mode is a new feature in android-2021.2 to allow users to get much faster location updates at the cost of additional battery drain. Background location updates typically get reported every 30 seconds to a few minutes. This new feature allows the user to specify the update interval that defaults to every 5 seconds. When enabled, a persistent notification will be displayed containing some location data. This feature is an enhancement to the Background Location sensor and you can access it from the sensor settings screen. You can also control this feature via a new notification command to enable/disable it on the fly. You can learn more about this feature in the documentation.
Screenshot of the high accuracy mode notification.
New Sensors
We have several new sensors to welcome to the app, all of which are disabled by default:
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Active Notifications - The total count of active notifications visible to the user. Attributes will include all notification data.
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App Data Sensors - Sensors to determine how much data the app has used since the last device reboot.
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App Importance Sensor - A sensor to determine if the app is in the
foreground
,background
or any other importance level. -
App Memory Sensor - A sensor to determine how much memory is used by the app.
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App Usage sensors - Sensors to help users troubleshoot if the app is considered inactive and the current app standby bucket.
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BLE Transmitter Sensor - A sensor to control whether or not the app is actively sending out a beacon to provide support for services like Room Assistant
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Sleep Sensors - Sensors based on a new API provided by Google for devices running the full version. These sensors can be used to determine if the user is sleeping or not. The sensors update when we get data from Google so don’t expect them to update as soon as you fall asleep.
Notification Enhancements
There have been several additions and improvements to notifications:
- Controlling Bluetooth
- Broadcast intent command has been updated to allow the user to send intent extras
- A command to launch activities, see below for more details
- A new command to launch the application to any dashboard or view without needing to click on anything
- A new actionable notification type
REPLY
which will add a reply button to the notification and the response will be sent back in themobile_app_notification_action
event - A command to control whether or not the BLE transmitter sensor is enabled
Intents and Activities
We have made several enhancements to further integrate Home Assistant into the Android ecosystem. First and foremost, the Last Update Trigger sensor was updated in 2021.2 to allow users to register for any intent that they want. Intentsandroid.intent_received
along with the intent action and any extra data provided by the intent. Personally, I am using my Mi Band 5 with the Notify for Mi Band
A new notification command was added to allow the user to launch an activity on their android device. This command requires a new permission to be granted in order to launch activities from the background, Draw Over Other Apps. The first attempt to use this notification will take the user to the permission page so the user can grant proper access. It is important to note that if the app is not considered active then this permission page will not show up due to missing permissions. Try to test this with the app open or you can grant the permission manually in your device settings. There are lots of use cases for this feature such as being able to launch Google Maps driving mode or even setting an alarm on your device.
Unfortunately, it is not so straightforward to determine which intents and activities are supported by applications. You really need to know what to look for and there is not much in terms of documentation here from applications. Try reaching out to the developers of your favorite apps to see if they have any intents to consume. We have provided several live examples in the companion documentation. I have also started a new thread in the forums to maintain a list of all that we can find here. I will be trying to keep the first post as up to date as possible.
Other Enhancements
We have also spent time making improvements to all other areas too:
- Support for links from My Home Assistant
- Power menu fixes and enhancements including support for vacuum entities
- Haptic feedback support in the frontend
- Overriding certain URL types to launch an application or an intent from the frontend
- 3 finger swipe down gesture to trigger the Quick Bar
3 finger swipe gesture to trigger Quick Bar
Big thank you to everyone involved. Please keep those bug reports and feature requests coming!
Changelogs
- 2021.1.1 - https://github.com/home-assistant/android/releases/tag/2021.1.1
- 2021.1.2 - https://github.com/home-assistant/android/releases/tag/2021.1.2
- 2021.2.1 - https://github.com/home-assistant/android/releases/tag/2021.2.1
- 2021.2.2 - https://github.com/home-assistant/android/releases/tag/2021.2.2
- 2021.3.1 - https://github.com/home-assistant/android/releases/tag/2021.3.1
2021.3: My Oh My
Home Assistant Core 2021.3! And my oh My Home Assistant!
I’m super excited for this release! 13 Brand new integrations! Z-Wave JS is moving forward with an almost insane development speed; thank you all for jumping into it as well! 🎉
For me, this release is about two things. My Home Assistant and some super slick new UI features for everything related to service calls. What it is; is explained down below, but both are just a leap forward in: making things easier.
My oh my, enjoy this release!
../Frenck
- My Home Assistant
- New UI for service calls
- Suggested areas
- Fan speeds: 100%
- Z-Wave JS update
- Flexible & variable automation triggers
- Oversettelser i Supervisor panelet
- Other noteworthy changes
- New Integrations
- New Platforms
- Integrations now available to set up from the UI
- Release 2021.3.1 - March 5
- Release 2021.3.2 - March 5
- Release 2021.3.3 - March 8
- Release 2021.3.4 - March 12
- If you need help…
- Backward-incompatible changes
- Farewell to the following
- All changes
My Home Assistant
To be more helpful, we often want to link you to a specific page in your
Home Assistant instance. However, each Home Assistant instance is hosted at a
different URL. Yours might be http://homeassistant.local:8123
, or something
completely different.
My Home Assistant allows the documentation, forums, chat, weblogs, or any other website, to link you to specific pages in your Home Assistant instance, without knowing the URL of your instance.
The beauty of this? All the data is stored locally in your browser and My Home Assistant only redirects you to pages that provide you with information about your instance or help you start an action. Following a link from My Home Assistant will never make any changes to your instance.
Long story short! We can do a lot of helpful things with this, for example, the following buttons will bring your places on your instance:
But we can make buttons or links to a lot of screen, and even help you start a configuration for adding an integration, import a Blueprint, link to an add-on page, and a lot more!
Setting up a new integration on your instance, from the documentation using My Home Assistant.
Additionally, we have added a link/badge generator, so you can create your own links, for e.g., adding to a Blueprint on the Blueprint Exchange.
https://my.home-assistant.io/create-link/
Lastly, support for My Home Assistant with our apps is expected to be available soon! Android should be available via an update today and iOS will land soon.
New UI for service calls
This release adds a new user interface for doing service calls!
Screenshot of the new UI in the services tab of the Developer Tools.
The UI may look familiar, as it uses the same UI parts as used by the recently introduced Blueprints. This new UI can be found in multiple places, that all have adjusted with a shiny new UI;
- The Actions tab in the Developer Tools.
- Doing service calls in the automation UI editor.
- Doing service calls in the script UI editor.
- In Lovelace cards that support calling actions.
Not all service calls will show this slick new UI yet, as the integrations service descriptions need to be adjusted to with this. But, all common ones have been migrated already. Like doing YAML? Well, the good old YAML mode is available as well!
Suggested areas
Areas are becoming more and more useful in Home Assistant, and this release is helping out with putting them to use a bit!
Recently, it became possible to not only assign devices to areas, but entities as well. And now; Integrations can now suggest areas!
This means, if an integration knows about an area/room/location place it is in, it can suggest an area if the device isn’t in one yet. For example, the Hue integration can now suggest an area based on the Hue group it is in.
The following integration will now already suggest areas as of this release:
- Bond
- Hue
- Hunter Douglas PowerView
- Lutron Caséta
- Netatmo
- Nexia
- NuHeat
- Roku
- Sonos
- Tado
- Universal Devices ISY994
Fan speeds: 100%
Got an overhaul! Fans now work with speed percentages instead of the previous “low”, “mid”, “high”, “off”. This makes Home Assistant more interoperable with more fan brands and third-party assistants, like HomeKit.
Don’t worry, everything has been implemented with backward compatibility.
Screenshot of automation editor, showing the % fan speeds!
Did you notice in the above screenshot, the automation editor is now wider? The layout has been adjusted to give you more screen real estate when creating automations.
Z-Wave JS update
Also this release the Z-Wave JS team has been very busy. Several new features have been added and many bugs squashed. Below you can read a summary.
We’ve introduced a protocol schema version in the Z-Wave JS server to allow older clients to connect and talk to a newer server. This prevents compatibility issues for the future!
Home Assistant Core 2021.3.0 will require Z-Wave JS server version 1.1.0. If you’re using the official Home Assistant add-on, the integration will automatically update the add-on if an older add-on and server version is encountered. Magic! If you’re not using the Home Assistant add-on to run the server you will need to update the server before updating Home Assistant Core.
You can now automate and change the configuration settings of your devices with
the zwave_js.set_config_parameter
service and create automations using the new zwave_js.refresh_value
service, to update a device that doesn’t automatically refresh itself.
But there is more!
- Garage doors (barrier) and similar covers can now be controlled.
- Some heating valves and similar devices that can be set to multiple different
values will now show up as
number
entities.
Flexible & variable automation triggers
We now support the use of variables and (limited) templates in automation triggers! This can be really useful, for example, when making Blueprints for MQTT based automations!
automation:
trigger_variables:
room: "living_room"
node: "ac"
value: "on"
trigger:
- platform: mqtt
topic: "{{ room ~ '/switch/' ~ node}}"
payload: "{{ 'state:' ~ value }}"
As shortly mentioned, the template syntax for trigger templates and variables are more limited; read more about this in the limited templates documentation.
Oversettelser i Supervisor panelet
Unless you are in the nordics, that title does not mean much, it’s Norwegian and translates to “Translations in the Supervisor panel”. Yes! We have now added translations in the Supervisor panel. 🎉
If you want to help translate that into your native language, join the frontend team on Localize.
But we did not stop there! Now add-ons can provide translation files for configuration options and network descriptions that are shown in the frontend.
Not enough? You want more? Okay then!
- The communication between the frontend and the backend now relies on WebSockets, which allows the Supervisor to notify the frontend about changes.
- For add-on authors, you can now use YAML instead of JSON for your add-ons configuration files.
- New update dialog that will ask you to take a snapshot before you upgrade core/add-ons.
- Better hardware support to cover more devices.
- Passwords and secrets in add-on configurations are checked against known
breaches with https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Screenshot of the new update dialog that asks for creating a snapshot.
Other noteworthy changes
There is much more juice in this release; here are some of the other noteworthy changes this release:
- Shelly now supports battery-operated devices, thanks to @thecode
! - You can now use the color
homeassistant
as acolor_name
in your light service calls, just because we can 😎 -
@emontnemery
, added support for using alias
to virtually any step in scripts/automations. This is really helpful when debugging and documents your sequences as well, as it annotates each step. -
@emontnemery
didn’t stop there, he also added support for enabling/disabling integration configuration entries! So you can, e.g., temporarily disable a whole integration.
Screenshot of disabling an integration entry.
- Thanks to @Nixon506E
, you can now set a transition time when activate Hue scenes. - In the States tab of the Developer Tools, there is now
a small copy to clipboard button with each entity. Thanks, @KTibow
! -
@postlund
added support for repeat, shuffle and volume stepping to the media player integration of the Apple TV integration. -
@larena1
reduced the amount of rendering history charts cause, so that will speed things up! Thanks! - We now have a select selector! Great for adding dropdown choices
to Blueprints, thanks @EPMatt
! -
@raman325
extended the Universal Media Player with a lot of new capabilities. - When adding a new integration, the UI will now show discovered devices for
that integration as well! Thanks, @bramkragten
! - We updated CodeMirror to the latest version, which provided the YAML code editors in our UI. It should now be better, faster and has improved support for mobile devices.
New Integrations
We welcome the following new integrations this release:
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AEMET OpenData, added by @Noltari
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ClimaCell, added by @raman325
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FAA Delays, added by @ntilley905
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Honeywell Lyric, added by @timmo001
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KMTronic, added by @dgomes
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Litter-Robot, added by @natekspencer
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Mazda Connected Services, added by @bdr99
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Mullvad VPN, added by @meichthys
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My Home Assistant, add by @bramkragten
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Rituals Perfume Genie, added by @milanmeu
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SmartTub, added by @mdz
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Subaru, adde by @G-Two
New Platforms
The following integration got support for a new platform:
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Aurora has now support for sensors, added by @djtimca
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KNX added support for fans, added by @crazyfx1
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Templates can now be used to create weather entities, added by @dgomes
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VeSync now support their dimmer switches, added by @decompil3d
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WiLight support covers now, added by @leofig-rj
Integrations now available to set up from the UI
The following integrations are now available via the Home Assistant UI:
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ASUSWRT, done by @ollo69
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Keenetic NDMS2 Routers, done by @foxel
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LiteJet, done by @joncar
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MySensors, done by @functionpointer
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Nuki, done by @pree
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Philips TV, done by @elupus
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Xiaomi Miio (partially), done by @starkillerOG
Release 2021.3.1 - March 5
- Fix Xiaomi Miio setup of switch entity for lumi.acpartner.v3 (@starkillerOG
- #47345 ) (xiaomi_miio docs) - Make zwave_js add-on manager more flexible (@MartinHjelmare
- #47356 ) (zwave_js docs) - Catch ConditionError in generic_thermostat climate (@amelchio
- #47359 ) (generic_thermostat docs) - Fix zwave_js manual reconfiguration of add-on managed entry (@MartinHjelmare
- #47364 ) (zwave_js docs) - Don’t raise on known non-matching states in numeric state condition (@frenck
- #47378 ) - Fix access of missing zwave_js climate unit value (@MartinHjelmare
- #47380 ) (zwave_js docs) - Update frontend to 20210302.4 (@bramkragten
- #47383 ) (frontend docs) - Revert “Speed-up wemo discovery (#46821)” (@esev
- #47392 ) (wemo docs) - Fix RFLink TCP KeepAlive error log (@cpainchaud
- #47395 ) (rflink docs) - Map silent as a preset mode for fan backcompat (@bdraco
- #47396 ) (fan docs) - Fix measurement unit (Closes: #47390) (@syssi
- #47398 ) (xiaomi_miio docs) - Fix Climacell timezone issue with daily forecasts (@raman325
- #47402 ) (climacell docs) - Fix AirVisual exception when config entry contains old integration type (@bachya
- #47405 ) (airvisual docs) - Don’t convert Climacell forecast temperatures to celsius because platform does it automatically (@raman325
- #47406 ) (climacell docs) - Bump zwave-js-server-python to 0.21.0 (@raman325
- #47408 ) (zwave_js docs) - Fix older Roborock models (@frenck
- #47412 ) (xiaomi_miio docs) - Only create snapshot if add-on update will be done (@MartinHjelmare
- #47424 ) (zwave_js docs)
Release 2021.3.2 - March 5
- Update pyotgw to 1.1b1 (@mvn23
- #47446 ) (opentherm_gw docs) - Fix issue at Netatmo startup (@cgtobi
- #47452 ) (netatmo docs) - Fix Hue scene overriding Hue default transition times (@frenck
- #47454 ) (hue docs) - Bump version with fix for v1 (@elupus
- #47458 ) (philips_js docs) - Update frontend to 20210302.5 (@bramkragten
- #47462 ) (frontend docs) - Use conn_made callback in MySensors (@functionpointer
- #47463 ) (mysensors docs) - Bump zwave-js-server-python to 0.21.1 (@raman325
- #47464 ) (zwave_js docs) - Raise error instead of crashing when template passed to call service target (@balloob
- #47467 ) (websocket_api docs) - Update zwave_js.refresh_value service description (@raman325
- #47469 ) (zwave_js docs) - Bump amcrest package version to 1.7.1 (@pnbruckner
- #47483 ) (amcrest docs)
Release 2021.3.3 - March 8
- Adjust litterrobot tests and code to match guidelines (@natekspencer
- #47060 ) (litterrobot docs) - Bump HAP-python to 3.4.0 (@bdraco
- #47476 ) (homekit docs) - Fix Sonos polling mode (@amelchio
- #47498 ) (sonos docs) - Fix mysensors notify platform (@MartinHjelmare
- #47517 ) (mysensors docs) - Fix AsusWRT wrong api call (@ollo69
- #47522 ) (asuswrt docs) - Bump pymysensors to 0.21.0 (@MartinHjelmare
- #47530 ) (mysensors docs) - Fix mysensors device tracker (@MartinHjelmare
- #47536 ) (mysensors docs) - Fix mysensors unload clean up (@MartinHjelmare
- #47541 ) (mysensors docs) - Correct weather entities forecast time (@dgomes
- #47565 ) - Allow running and restarting with both ozw and zwave active (@ronytomen
- #47566 ) (ozw docs) (zwave docs) - Add fallback zwave_js entity name using node ID (@raman325
- #47582 ) (zwave_js docs) - Ensure bond devices recover when wifi disconnects and reconnects (@bdraco
- #47591 ) (bond docs) - Update frontend to 20210302.6 (@bramkragten
- #47592 ) (frontend docs) - Fix turn on without speed in homekit controller (@bdraco
- #47597 ) (homekit_controller docs) - Ensure template fan value_template always determines on state (@bdraco
- #47598 ) (template docs) - Fix insteon fan speeds (@bdraco
- #47603 ) (insteon docs) - Fix turning off scene in homekit (@bdraco
- #47604 ) (homekit docs) - Fix Shelly logbook exception when missing COAP (@thecode
- #47620 ) (shelly docs) - Update zwave_js supported features list to be static (@raman325
- #47623 ) (zwave_js docs)
Release 2021.3.4 - March 12
- Write SimpliSafe alarm control panel state after arming/disarming (@bachya
- #47649 ) (simplisafe docs) - Cover Tilt Position Bugfix (@mtl010957
- #47682 ) (mqtt docs) - Fix zwave_js target_temp_low (@firstof9
- #47762 ) (zwave_js docs) - Adjust insteon fan speed range to valid upper bound (@bdraco
- #47765 ) (insteon docs) - Bump plexapi to 4.4.1 (@jjlawren
- #47766 ) (plex docs) - Ensure homekit reset accessory service can target any entity (@bdraco
- #47787 ) (homekit docs) - Fix Netatmo event handling (@cgtobi
- #47792 ) (netatmo docs)
If you need help…
…don’t hesitate to use our very active forums or join us for a little chat
Experiencing issues introduced by this release? Please report them in our issue tracker
Community Highlights: 10th edition
Oh yeah! This is already the 10th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing.
Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how to share.
./Klaas
Apexcharts Card
Would you like to map data in graphs? Then you should definitely try the new
ApexCharts card
If you would like to stay informed of the developments, you could also follow this topic on our forum.
Home Assistant switch panel
Last week, amauryverschooren
Lovelace dashboard inspiration
Still looking for some new inspiration for your Lovelace dashboards? Last week we
came across some beautiful Lovelace dashboards on our Home Assistant subreddit
You can find here
Home Assistant - Feb 2021
Which card in Lovelace are you most proud of? Share it with us!
Hidden garage
Do you have a vacuum cleaning robot but you don’t know where to place the charging
station? Maybe you can hide these behind a plinth, like what ialex87
My vacuum hidden garage under the kitchenfrom r/homeassistant
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Community Highlights: 9th edition
The 9th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing.
But before we move on to the highlights of this week, let’s start with a little hooray because yesterday both Pascal Vizeli and I had their birthday!
Hip hip hooray! 🎂🥳
./Klaas
O and would you like to keep track of your birthdays in Home Assistant? Then
try this custom integration of Miicroo
Help each other with any question
Last week, we found a burning question on the Home Assistant subreddit
Maybe we can give him some community love and help with his question? 😄
I accidentally got some paint on a curtain in my house, it’s oil paint, how do I get it out without taking my curtain down?from r/homeassistant
DSMR Reader add-on
Good news for those who would like to get started with DSMR Reader!
sanderdw
Laundry card
Would you like to display the state of your smart washing machine (such as an LG ThinQ)
in a fun way in Lovelace? Perhaps the example below could inspire you. You can find the
Lovelace YAML code here
Took some trickery but my laundry card is donefrom r/homeassistant
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Community Highlights: 8th edition
The 8th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, we thought was worth sharing. But first of all, I would like to introduce myself and say Hello! Because it’s no longer Frenck who writes the community highlights, but a new person.
My name is Klaas Schoute, 25 years old (almost 26 🥳) and living in the Netherlands. Currently, I’m studying interaction technology at the university of applied sciences in Leiden and from this week until the summer I’m doing an internship at Nabu Casa.
In the coming period, I will be working on energy measurements: what ways there are to measure energy, which insights you can gain from it and how you could optimize consumption.
./Klaas
Control your home from a StreamDeck
Especially the streamers “among us” will really enjoy this! There is now a way to operate your Home Assistant using the buttons on a StreamDeck but also display certain sensor values.
How cool is this!
ESPHome update
Quite recently ESPHome has received a new update (1.16.0), with a lot of new hardware support. From now on, you will also be able to expect more frequent updates, as they have adopted a monthly release cycle.
Mechanical sculptures
jessecakeindustries shared a nice vintage project on the Home Assistant subreddit
Who else would want one in the house?
Is there a market for bespoke home automation components? You may recall I built this interface to our home that speaks, rings, and lights regular alerts. It has tasmota at its heart so is hardware based and easily interfaced with Home Assistant. Is there a market for me to make this kind of thing?from r/homeassistant
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2021.2: Z-Wave... JS!
Dear reader,
Usually, I try to write a small introduction that recaps the release, while putting a bit of my view in it as well. This release, however, I’m struggling to find the right words…
So there is DHCP discovery added, which is super nice! And some really helpful new Blueprint selectors, tons of UI tweaks! But honestly…
Have you heard about Z-Wave JS?!
Well, out of nowhere, a huge bunch of developers came together this month and spat out a completely new, full-blown, fast, slick, sexy, complete, Z-Wave integration! 🤯
So, thanks guys! An achievement beyond words, really; You all rock ❤️
Enjoy the release!
../Frenck
- Erik Montnemery joins Nabu Casa
- Python 3.7 dropped, Python 3.9 supported
- Z-Wave JS
- No more badges in auto generated dashboards
- DHCP Discovery
- New Blueprint selectors
- Cloud Text to Speech settings
- Other noteworthy changes
- New Integrations
- New Platforms
- Integrations now available to set up from the UI
- Release 2021.2.1 - February 5
- Release 2021.2.2 - February 9
- Release 2021.2.3 - February 11
- If you need help…
- Backward-incompatible changes
- Farewell to the following
- All changes
Erik Montnemery joins Nabu Casa
Today, we are proud to announce that Erik Montnemery has joined Nabu Casa to work full-time on the Home Assistant project.
Some of you might know Erik better by his GitHub handle: @emontnemery
We are excited to have you aboard Erik! Welcome!
Python 3.7 dropped, Python 3.9 supported
Support for Python 3.7 has been removed, raising the minimum Python version you need to run Home Assistant Core to Python 3.8. Python 3.7 was already deprecated since Home Assistant Core 0.116.0.
This is only a concern if you are running Home Assistant Core directly on Python. If you run Home Assistant OS, Supervised or Container, you don’t have to worry about this, as the Home Assistant project takes care of this for you.
However, say hello to: Python 3.9. As of this release, Python 3.9 is fully supported and tested.
Z-Wave JS
This release brings you the Z-Wave JS integration!
A brand new integration for Z-Wave in Home Assistant, full-blown, created in just a month by a bunch of awesome people!
More and more people were concerned about the future of Z-Wave with
Home Assistant; meanwhile the Z-Wave JS
This new integration is based on the same base principles as the OpenZWave integration: It is decoupled from Home Assistant. Instead of MQTT, the Z-Wave JS integration uses a WebSocket connection to a Z-Wave JS server.
This means, in order to use this new integration, you’ll need to run the Z-Wave JS server that sits in between your Z-Wave USB stick and Home Assistant. There are multiple options available for running the Z-Wave JS server, via Docker or manually, and there is also a Home Assistant add-on available.
If you run an installation with a Supervisor, the add-on will even be set up automatically for you.
Current state of Z-Wave JS
The new Z-Wave JS integration is amazingly complete. It supports the following platforms from the start: Binary Sensors, Climate, Covers, Fans, Lights, Locks, Sensors and Switches. Scenes are also supported!
Besides that, it is just blazing fast! ⚡️
While fast-growing, it is a new integration and there is still a lot
in progress. Of course, no doubt, there will be bugs. Bugs that will
be squashed and handled. Please, be sure to
report issues in our issue tracker
What is left? See our Z-Wave JS integration roadmap
Thanks to all
Thanks to all of the following people, the Z-Wave JS integration was able to see the light in just a month!
- @AlCalzone
- @balloob
- @bramkragten
- @cgarwood
- @firstof9
- @itewk
- @jcam
- @kpine
- @marcelveldt
- @MartinHjelmare
- @Michsior14
- @Petro31
- @pvizeli
- @raman325
- @robertsLando
Yes, that is an awful lot of people! Amazing how this all came together and incredible work!
What about the old Z-Wave integration?
The old zwave
integration has been based on
OpenZWave 1.4, which is really old and does not get any upstream updates
anymore. This also means that it is hard for us to keep it in a working state
for the upcoming future.
Therefore, as of today, the old Z-Wave is marked as being deprecated.
If one is starting with Home Assistant and Z-Wave, the zwave
integration is
no longer recommended. For existing users, we recommend migrating to the
Z-Wave JS integration. However, don’t panic,
zwave
is deprecated but not removed yet. We currently have no plans for
removing it, unless it can no longer be made to be build for the
latest Python
What about the OpenZWave beta integration?
Over a year ago, Home Assistant started working on the OpenZWave integration. Based on OpenZWave 1.6 and the OZW daemon, using MQTT as a transport. This project was promising and something we put a lot of time and effort in.
Unfortunately, the OpenZWave project itself became a bit stale as most of the upstream development is done by a single person: Justin Hammond (Fishwaldo).
Quite a few people were worried about the lesser activity on OpenZWave. Justin has responded on our forum on what is happening in his life and it is sad to read how many people have personally impacted him negatively.
Is OZW Dead - No. I’ll tinker with it, I’ll make changes as time allows, but it will be at my own pace, to scratch my own itches now.
Let us be straight here: OpenZWave is an 11 year-old project, which is used by an incredible amount of systems (besides Home Assistant) in this world, with an even greater track record. So:
Thank you Justin for all you have done in all those years!
The team that was working on the OZW integration have shifted their focus to the new Z-Wave JS integration. We don’t think the OpenZWave integration will make it out of beta. We recommend Home Assistant users migrate to the Z-Wave JS integration.
No more badges in auto generated dashboards
If you are using an auto generated Lovelace dashboard, you probably always had a ton of badges on the top of your dashboard. If there are just a few it works, but as more start to appear, it soon becomes cluttered.
Screenshot of the old badges clutter that is now gone!
We decided to no longer use badges in the auto generated Lovelace dashboards. Instead, every entity is neatly grouped by area or domain in an entities card.
If you liked the badges, you can always take control of your dashboard and add them.
DHCP Discovery
Home Assistant now listens on your network for devices that request a IP address. Based on those intercepted messages, Home Assistant can now discover integrations for you to use with the discovered devices.
This really powerful addition has been made by @bdraco
So as of this release, your Home Assistant might actually find some new
devices it can use! Thanks @bdraco
New Blueprint selectors
For our Blueprint fanatics, some new goodies to the Blueprint has been added
this release. Thanks to @thomasloven
Screenshot of the text selectors.
- An object selector: Shows an YAML editor in the UI.
- An text selector: Show a single line text input or text area for longer messages in the UI.
- Blueprint descriptions now support Markdown.
Screenshot of the object selector, giving a YAML input field.
Cloud text-to-speech settings
Nabu Casa has been offering an amazing text-to-speech service for a while now, yet it was hard to find, and even harder to setup and use.
To fix this, a new settings UI has been added where you can select the default language and gender to use for the text-to-speech service, so you no longer have to attach that to every service call. You can find it in the Home Assistant Cloud panel.
Screenshot of Cloud TTS options.
We also added the ability to try the chosen settings right in your browser. Click the try button, enter some text and click play to hear the text being spoken.
Other noteworthy changes
This release has no big new features, but we do have quite a bit of tweaks that are definitely noteworthy to mention.
- We now give you a clearer reason why your Lovelace card configuration is not
supported in the UI editor thanks to @spacegaier
. - Shelly RGB devices are now fully supported!! Nice @chemelli74
! -
@dmulcahey
Added filtering and zoom to node to the ZHA network visualization. Very useful to find you Zigbee network issues. - The deCONZ integration added support for logging basic event in the logbook.
Nicely done @Kane610
. - The Tasmota integration is out of beta! Awesome @emontnemery
! -
@spacegaier
Added support for themes on the media card. - The items in the shopping list card can be ordered using drag & drop!
Thanks @ShaneQi
! - Newly ignored discovered integrations now show a name of the item ignored. This makes it easier to undo that later.
-
@balloob
made a new framework that can detect significant changes in entities, allowing to reduce the amount of update we need to send to both Google Assistant and Alexa! - Setting up Lutron Caseta was quite a pain, but not anymore! @bdraco
added one-touch pairing to the integration set up! - If you use light profiles,
@Adminiuga
is your man. All parameters of a light profile can now be optional and default profiles are always applied. - Dropdown helpers (
input_select
) got some new service capabilities added by @l-mb. They can now cycle through the options, and service calls to jump to the first or last item have been added as well. - If you have a Foscam camera, @joe248
added a service to move to PTZ presets.
New Integrations
We welcome the following new integrations this release:
-
AirNow, added by @asymworks
-
DHCP Discovery, added by @bdraco
-
Huisbaasje, added by @denniss17
-
Ondilo ICO, added by @JeromeHXP
-
Z-Wave JS, added by @cgarwood
, @MartinHjelmare , @marcelveldt , @raman325 , @firstof9 , @balloob
New Platforms
The following integration got support for a new platform:
-
Logitech Harmony Hub now adds switches for activities,
added by @mkeesey
-
WiLight now supports fans, added by @leofig-rj
-
Hyperion now has all kinds of advanced control switches,
added by @dermotduffy
Integrations now available to set up from the UI
The following integrations are now available via the Home Assistant UI:
-
Somfy MyLink, done by @bdraco
-
Foscam, done by @skgsergio
Release 2021.2.1 - February 5
- Convert ozw climate values to correct units (@Chrisgozd
- #45369 ) (ozw docs) - Add support for iCloud 2FA (@nzapponi
- #45818 ) (icloud docs) - Don’t log missing mpd artwork inappropriately (@mweinelt
- #45908 ) (mpd docs) - Fix entities device_info property in Harmony integration (@bieniu
- #45964 ) (harmony docs) - Fix Local Media in Media Browser (@DeadEnded
- #45987 ) (media_source docs) - Bump zwave-js-server-python to 0.17.1 (@MartinHjelmare
- #45988 ) (zwave_js docs) - Bump awesomeversion from 21.2.0 to 21.2.2 (@ludeeus
- #45993 ) - Do not listen for dhcp packets if the filter cannot be setup (@bdraco
- #46006 ) (dhcp docs) - Bump zwave-js-server-python to 0.17.2 (@MartinHjelmare
- #46010 ) (zwave_js docs) - dhcp does not need promisc mode. Disable it in scapy (@bdraco
- #46018 ) (dhcp docs) - Revert aioshelly (@balloob
- #46038 ) (shelly docs) - Prevent fritzbox callmonitor phonebook_id 0 from being ignored (@obelix05
- #45990 ) (fritzbox_callmonitor docs) - Upgrade holidays to 0.10.5.2 (@fabaff
- #46013 ) (workday docs)
Release 2021.2.2 - February 9
- Fix zwave_js cover control for Up/Down and Open/Close (@natekspencer
- #45965 ) (zwave_js docs) - Fix foscam to work again with non-admin accounts and make RTSP port configurable again (@skgsergio
- #45975 ) (foscam docs) - Fix downloader path validation on subdir (@gadgetchnnel
- #46061 ) (downloader docs) - Fix deprecated method isAlive() (@cdce8p
- #46062 ) (zwave docs) - Improve deCONZ logbook to be more robust in different situations (@Kane610
- #46063 ) (deconz docs) - Fix zwave_js Notification CC sensors and binary sensors (@raman325
- #46072 ) (zwave_js docs) - Fix incorrect current temperature for homekit water heaters (@bdraco
- #46076 ) (homekit docs) - Use async_update_entry rather than updating config_entry.data directly in Axis (@Kane610
- #46078 ) (axis docs) - Handle missing value in all platforms of zwave_js (@marcelveldt
- #46081 ) (zwave_js docs) - update discovery scheme for zwave_js light platform (@marcelveldt
- #46082 ) (zwave_js docs) - Update zwave_js discovery scheme for boolean sensors in the Alarm CC (@marcelveldt
- #46085 ) (zwave_js docs) - Fix Google translate TTS by bumping gTTS from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 (@hmmbob
- #46110 ) (google_translate docs) - Revert “Convert ozw climate values to correct units (#45369)” (@dshokouhi
- #46163 ) (ozw docs) - Enable KNX auto_reconnect for auto-discovered connections (@farmio
- #46178 ) (knx docs) - Ensure creating an index that already exists is forgiving for postgresql (@bdraco
- #46185 ) (recorder docs) - Fix Tado Power and Link binary sensors (@Noltari
- #46235 ) (tado docs) - Handle empty mylink response at startup (@bdraco
- #46241 ) (somfy_mylink docs)
Release 2021.2.3 - February 11
- Fix SNMP engine memory leak in Brother integration (@bieniu
- #46272 ) (brother docs) - Use oauthv3 for Tesla (@alandtse
- #45766 ) (tesla docs) (breaking-change) - Bump pymyq to 3.0.1 (@ehendrix23
- #46079 ) (myq docs) - Revert transmission to check torrent lists by name rather than object (@JPHutchins
- #46190 ) (transmission docs) - Update powerwall for new authentication requirements (@bdraco
- #46254 ) (powerwall docs) - Fix Lutron Integration Protocol reconnect logic (@bdraco
- #46264 ) (lutron_caseta docs) - Bump roonapi to 0.0.32 (@pavoni
- #46286 ) (roon docs) - Add guards for missing value in binary_sensor platform of zwave_js integration (@marcelveldt
- #46293 ) (zwave_js docs) - Add reauth support for tesla (@bdraco
- #46307 ) (tesla docs) - Add
already_in_progress
string to roku config flow (@bramkragten- #46333 ) (roku docs) - Restore Google/Alexa extra significant change checks (@balloob
- #46335 ) (alexa docs) (google_assistant docs) - Fix Shelly relay device set to light appliance type (@thecode
- #46181 ) (shelly docs)
If you need help…
…don’t hesitate to use our very active forums or join us for a little chat
Experiencing issues introduced by this release? Please report them in our issue tracker