Release Breakdowns

Home Assistant Podcast 17 – 0.61

Published January 20, 2018

Duration 31:04

Dan, Rohan and Phil talk about the 0.61 release in the first episode for 2018.

0.61
- Over 100 contributors to this release. First release of 2018
- Breaking Changes
  - Support pushing all sensors and fix wrong metrics. (@michaelkuty – #11159) (prometheus docs) (breaking change)
  - Extend Threshold binary sensor to support ranges (@DanNixon – #11110) (binary_sensor.threshold docs) (breaking change)
  - Proper Steam game names and small fixes (@frwickst – #11182) (sensor.steam_online docs) (breaking change)
  - Adds support for disabled Tiles and automatic session renewal (@bachya – #11172) (device_tracker.tile docs) (breaking change)
  - Alexa to not use customize for entity config (@balloob – #11461) (cloud docs) (alexa.smart_home docs) (breaking change)
  - Move Google Assistant entity config out of customize (@balloob – #11499) (cloud docs) (google_assistant docs) (breaking change)
  - The climate.set_aux_heat service is no longer available for the Sensibo climate platform. Now call climate.turn_on or climate.turn_off. (@andrey-git- #11579) (climate.sensibo docs) (breaking change)
- New Components
  - Sochain cryptocurrency sensor (@Klathmon – #11335) (sensor.sochain docs) (new-platform)
  - Coinbase.com sensor platform (@nkgilley – #11036) (coinbase docs) (sensor.coinbase docs) (new-platform)
  - Add Dark Sky weather component (@DanNixon – #11435) (weather.darksky docs) (new-platform)
- Other Changes
  - alexa: Add handling for covers (@philk – #11242) (alexa.smart_home docs)
  - History order bugfix and opt-in option (@rwa – #11686) (history docs)
  - Fix purge with MariaDB / MySQL (@tinloaf – #11713)
Bug with Home Assistant Cloud: Home Assistant Cloud users: a misconfiguration will cause the cloud to stop working after 30 days. We have fixed the config but can’t fix existing setups. Do these steps: Alexa: disable and re-enable the skill and log back in Home Assistant: log out of the cloud and log back in https://twitter.com/home_assistant/status/954272060636876800
HA-Dockermon
- NodeJS Service which can be used with RESTful sensors and switches to report the state of Docker containers, or even restart the Home Assistant Docker container via a script (not live yet, will be before the episode)
- https://philhawthorne.com/ha-dockermon-use-home-assistant-to-monitor-start-or-stop-docker-containers
- https://github.com/philhawthorne/ha-dockermon
Echo is coming to Australia/NZ

Hosted By

Dan Faulknor

Dan is a serial podcaster, full time day job worker and a business owner. How he gets time for sleep is anyone's guess. He started podcasting in 2005 with "The Daniel and Gemma show" to go along with a blog he was doing with a friend. Unfortunately those archives have been lost. After a few more attempts over the years at podcasting, he has now been podcasting consistently since 2015. In what little free time he has, apart from spending time with his wife, he writes software, takes photos and plays the piano.

Phil Hawthorne

Phil is a Melbourne based web developer who lives and breathes technology. When he's not at his day job, he’s in his home office attempting to simplify his life through complicated tech.

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Rohan Karamandi

Rohan from Toronto, Canada works in the Technology sector as an architect designing network and datacenter solutions for his customers. His passion for technology stems from there and extends to IoT and home automation

Website Smart Home Products Buy a Coffee

Home Assistant Podcast 17 – 0.61

Hosted By

Dan Faulknor

Phil Hawthorne

Rohan Karamandi

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