Phil and Rohan talk with Aaron (geekofweek) about 0.71, and all the cool things Aaron uses Home Assistant for
- 0.71
- New Features / Platforms
- Xiaomi Aqara Lock Support https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14419
- Lagute LW-12 Wifi LED control https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/13307
- Iperf3 client sensor – With this sensor is possible to use iperf3 to test your network connection against a local or remote Iperf3 server. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14213
- homematicip cloud climate platform https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14388
- Hydrawise component – The hydrawise component allows you to integrate your Hunter Hydrawise Wi-Fi irrigation controller system in Home Assistant. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14055
- ryobi garage door opener https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14618
- sensors and services to RainMachine https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14326
- Flock notification platform https://flock.com/ https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14533
- HomeKit support for media players, automations and switches!
- Improvements for packages. Some components, like HomeKit could only be defined once. If you use packages, you could only have this in one package file. Now, all package files are merged together so you can do some more powerful things across platforms in packages. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14611
- nest updated to use cloud push https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14656
- Breaking Changes
- Australian BOM Sensor: Change ‘Wind Direction kt’ to ‘Wind Speed kt’
- Removed attribute current_time from Raincloudy sensors to avoid being triggered by recorder component
- Notify My Android is shutting down on May 24th according to their official site: https://notifymyandroid.com/ and has been removed from Home Assistant 0.71
- Add configurable decimal rounding of display value for CoinMarketCap sensor. It is no longer possible to query a ticker by the name of the currency (i.e. bitcoin). The API instead uses IDs (integers) for these tickers (i.e. bitcoin -> 1). Rounding of decimals is now configurable, because it made no sense to round to 2 decimals if display_currency was set to BTC, some values showed up as 0.00
- Give unknown zwave nodes a better name If zwave node couldn’t be parsed for manufacturer/product and also wasn’t given a saved-in-zwave name it would get a ” ” name and “_” ID. This PR would result in “Unknown Node <node_id>” name instead.This is a breaking change as such node won’t be in the entity registry and thus the entity_id would change.
- Allow user-defined sensors. The netdata sensor was re-worked to support all available details from Netdata. This requires you to adjust the your existing configuration if you use the netdata sensor.
- Disallow automation.trigger without entity_id. Triggering all automations at once is most likely a user mistake but if it is really needed, one can use entity_id: group.all_automations.
- Noteworthy Updates
- Updates to Vera component to improve stability of poll loop
- Auto discovery for nanoleaf aurora lights
- Transmission download client gets some new sensors, including paused_torrents and total_torrents
- Add Nest away binary sensor and eta sensor (Timestamp of the earliest expected time of arrival)
- Add services for adding and removing items to shopping list
- Add battery attribute to Sensibo
- Add Kodi OnResume event
- New Features / Platforms
- Frenck has released a HASS.IO Addon for NodeRed!
- OpenHAB now supports TTS for Amazon Echo https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/8nv1lo/openhab_now_supports_amazon_echo_tts_wonder_if_we/
- Jonas emailed. Creating a plant database for Home Assistant. He’s looking for others to share their settings for plants. The idea is that Homeassistant might pull this data automatically when setting up a plant so that you don’t have to fill in the values for min/max moisture, fertility, etc manually. There’s already 30 plants in the database, but we always need more! https://community.home-assistant.io/t/miflora-sensor-plant-database/53131
- Chat with Aaron (geekofweek)
