Rohan and Phil discuss Google Home and all the other goodies that come with 0.68
- Google Home Skill is now live!
- New Platforms
- Eufy bulbs and switches http://home-assistant.io/components/switch.eufy/
- US Citizenship and Immigration Services sensor Possible new regular “most random new component award”
- Blackbird Media Player Component
- Qwikswitch binary sensors
- HomeKit Updates
- There’s now the ability to control HomeKit lights and switches.
- Support for binary sensors
- Device trackers
- locks
- CO2/PM2.5/Light sensors in HomeKit
- Garage Doors
- basic covers with open/close/stop services HomeKit
- Breaking Changes
- Support for multiple MAX!Cube LAN gateways added (Climate gateway) https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/13517
- Disable ebox requirement. if you want to use the ebox sensor, you’ll have to manually install the dependecy
- Other Changes
- Lutron works again!!!! (WHOOOOO!)
- Add option to ignore availability in google calendar events
- Support for smappee water sensors
- add support for Kodi discovery
- New math functions available for templates, sin, cos, tan, and sqrt
- Ability to “broadcast” Facebook messages to any user who has ever messaged your chat bot
- TTS get URL support. Allows you to call Home Assistant, and have the Home Assistant API return you a URL to the generated TTS file.
- Home Assistant to drop the zero soon? https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/8dprk6/home_assistant_versioning/
