Otto joins Rohan and Phil to talk about 0.72, Lovelace, Alexa text to speech and esphomelib
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- 0.72
- New features
- Portugese weather service IPMA as a weather component
- Freebox routers can now be used for device trackers https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/12727
- IBM Watson IoT Platform component – adds a new history component for the IBM Watson IoT Platform. The IBM Watson IoT Platform allows for tracking of devices and analytics on top of the device data. This new component allows users to have home assistant automatically populate a watson iot platform board with device data from devices managed by home assistant. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/13664
- Wireless Tags Platform – (http://wirelesstag.net/) https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/13495
- netgear_lte component for the LB2120 LTE Modem. Supports a notify service that will send an SMS, a sensor with the number of unread SMS messages in the inbox and a sensor with data usage (in MiB) https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14687
- Uptime Robot (uptimerobot.com) sensor https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14631
- KIWI Door Locks (https://kiwi.ki/en/the-electronic-locking-system/) support. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14485
- New sensors for New South Wales (Australia) fuel station prices. Can select fuel types etc, https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14757
- Xiaomi Camera’s – Xiaomi Xiaofang 1080p Camera. In order to integrate the camera with Home Assistant, it is necessary to install a custom firmware on the device. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14244
- New Media Player Components for Epson and Unitymedia Horizon HD Recorders
- Breaking Changes
- Added support for multiple Doorbird stations. Will need to adjust your config slightly.
- AirVisual (airvisual.com) has removed the radius parameter The unique IDs for each sensor have also changed to correctly include the locale. New unique IDs will now include _us_ and _cn_ – example
- Nest, Sonos and Cast will now have to be configured using a config entry. Config entries can be created via the integrations page in the config panel https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14955
- “Last in Bed” attribute has been removed from the Eight Sleep Component, as it wasn’t updated accurately. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14937
- TP-Link LBxxx light bulbs will now report in kwh to be consistent with other supported devices. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15001
- Other Noteworthy Changes
- Correction for last weeks episode: Nest Estimate Arrival Time isn’t calculated by Nest. Starting with 0.72, there’s a new nest.set_mode service. This allows Home Assistant to set the Away mode on Nest, and also tell Nest what the estimate arrival time of someone is, so Nest can start warming the house slowly. Thanks Jason for reaching out on the Discord! https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/14901
- Insteon integration now supports X10
- Color status sensor for Nest Protect. Indicates device status by color in the Nest app UI. It is an aggregate condition for battery+smoke+CO states, and reflects the actual color indicators displayed in the Nest app https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.github.io/pull/5506
- Upgrade Ring Component to support oAuth. Should be able to Login and use Ring doorbells with Home Assistant now!
- Lovelace UI
- Lovelace is a new front end prototype being worked on
- Requires a new ui-lovelace.yaml file to work
- Access the Lovelace UI by appending lovelace to the Home Assistant URL or click the link from the dev-info panel
- Designed to remove the use of Home Assistant groups for the front-end, allowing the UI to have its own settings
- Currently supports some basic cards and options
- Each tab can have its own theme
- Some new cards include entity pictures, glances, picture glances and Markdown support in cards.
- Great rundown of options from Marius here: https://gist.github.com/ciotlosm/9508388876edf92c4c1f3579e740fbd5
- New features
- Call for donations for HASS.IO hardware
- Alexa TTS Script for Home Assistant on Reddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/8s0q66/alexa_text_to_speech_support_for_home_assistant/
- Thanks to Ralf Otto and Michael Geram
- 0.72
- ESPHomeLib – https://github.com/OttoWinter/esphomelib
