Rohan and Phil are joined by John to discuss the 0.105 release and how John is using Home Assistant in a commercial use for solar energy.
New Name for Home Assistant
Announced a couple of weeks ago, Home Assistant will be renaming some moving parts to help make it easier for new users to understand what they are installing.- Hass.IO is now called Home Assistant Hass.IO is the all-in-one system that can run addons completely managed through the interface.
- Home Assistant is now called Home Assistant Core If you’ve manually installed Home Assistant yourself, either through Docker or perhaps a Python pip install, you’re now running Home Assistant Core.
0.105
New Features
- UI changes for the configuration area The configuration area has a lot of love added. Including a brand new zone editor
- Sighthound Integration Sighthound offers a cloud API for developers to scan images for objects. Using this new integration, Home Assistant can send an image to the Sighthound API and Home Assistant will have a sensor value with the number of people detected in the image. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/28824
- Gammu Local SMS Notifications If you have a local USB GSM modem, you can have Home Assistant send SMS notifications without an active internet connection. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/31233
- Template Alarm Panel Allows you to create an alarm panel using template values. Great if you want to create an alarm panel in Home Assistant, and you don’t have a security system or MQTT. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/30487
Breaking Changes
- Samsung TV has moved to a config flow Config options for mac address and broadcast address have been removed, with a new turn on action method added. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/28306
- Spotify integration re-written Spotify play playlist service has been removed, and you should update your configuration before upgrading. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/30717
Deprecated Features
- Hide Entity option against automations Now that we have Lovelace, automations no longer need the hide entity attribute. Be sure to start removing these from your automations if you’re using them. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/30799
- Group Services for the States UI Some services and options, like the group.set_visibility service have now been deprecated. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/30831
- Weblink Component The weblink component has been deprecated as it doesn’t work with Lovelace. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/30834
- Hide if away in Device Tracker This option will be removed in 0.107. Be sure it is removed from your known_devices YAML file as well. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/30833
- History Graph Integration The history graph integration has been removed. A lovelace compatible replacement would be the mini graph card. https://github.com/kalkih/mini-graph-card
Other Noteworthy Updates
- Doorbird Events now added to the Home Assistant logs https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/30588
- Various updates for MaryTTS MaryTTS is a locally hosted text to speech service. As of 0.105, you can also include effects when generating text to speech. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/30805
