Phil and Rohan talk about the 0.63 release, Disqus being removed from the website and the deprecation of Python 3.4.
- 0.63
- https://home-assistant.io/blog/2018/02/10/release-63/
- Reserve Entity IDs!
- Available for Z-wave, Hue, Nest, Sonos, LifX, Apple TV
- Requires a MAC address for a device
- MySQL Sensor
- New Mercedes Me Component
- Xiaomi Universal IR Remote
- Melissa HVAC component
- Goalfeed Integration – Have Home Assistant take actions when a NHL or MLB team scores
- Icon template and entity picture template support for binary sensors
- entity_id has returned for template sensors. This was removed in 0.61 in favour of Home Assistant automatically detecting the entity_ids to watch for each template sensor. Has now been reverted.
- Amazon Echo integration can now control the volume level of speakers linked via Home Assistant. Great for things exposed by Home Assistant as a media player. “Amazon, set the volume to 50 percent on the TV” where the TV could be any media_player component.
- Breaking Changes
- HASS.IO 0.89 – encrypted snapshots
- Disqus Comments
- Disqus was adding some pretty nasty ads onto the Home Assistant website
- Starting with 0.62 release notes, comments will use use community forums instead of Disqus
- Older comments currently removed from the website
- https://home-assistant.io/blog/2018/02/09/disabling-disqus/
- Python 3.4 Deprecation Update
- As of Home Assistant 0.65 (March 10th) the minimum version will be Python will be 3.5.3
- Python 3.4 support was originally scheduled to be removed in 0.64
- All good if you’re using HASS.IO or the stable release which comes with most linux distros
- https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/10/06/deprecating-python-3.4-support/
