Rohan and Phil talk about 0.74, the new multi-user support, HassOS, Lovelace Cards, Ring Video Doorbells and running multiple instances of Home Assistant.
- 0.73.3 security patch: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/07/16/release-73-2/
- 0.73.3 Introduces a security patch, which addresses a potential security breach effecting Home Assistant versions 0.56 to 0.73.2.
- 0.56 was released on October 21st 2017
- A Python 3.4 patch has been made available, as a beta tagged as 0.64.4b0
- with the release of Home Assistant 0.56, we misconfigured the SSL context that aiohttp used (PR). By trying to do the right thing (use an up to date cert store instead of relying on the system certs), we ended up doing the complete opposite: SSL verification was disabled for outgoing requests that were done using the shared aiohttp session. This is our fault, and not aiohttp’s faults. The impact of this is that certain integrations in Home Assistant have been susceptible to man in the middle attacks.
- 0.74
- New Platforms
- USERS! https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15420
- Duke Energy Smart Meters (USA, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina) https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15165
- Push Camera – Allows platforms and custom scripts to POST images to Home Assistant, which will treat them like a camera. Great idea for weather radar images. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15151
- Cloudflare DNS component https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15388
- Tuya Component Fan, Light & Switch Support. https://www.tuya.com/ Internet of things smart devices https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15399
- HomematicIP alarm control panel https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15342
- Breaking Changes
- Fixer,io Sensors now require an API key https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15279
- Synology DSM Sensor now supports HTTPS. Home Assistant by default will assume you’re using HTTPS, and will use port 5001. If you’re not using HTTPS, you’ll need to update your config to specify HTTPS as false, and set the port number back to 5000 https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15270
- Tradfri will no longer be automatically detected by the Home Assistant HomeKit integration. Some bridges (such as the Hue) provide reduced functionality over HomeKit and have a functional native API, so should be ignored. We also shouldn’t offer to configure the built-in Home Assistant HomeKit bridge. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15316
- LimitlessLED will no longer report hs_color/rgb_color and color_temp simultaneously, as a light bulb cannot be in a colour and white state at the same time. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15298
- Other noteworthy changes
- Additional Sensors for Arlo Baby Cameras https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15074
- New voices added to Amazon Poly TTS – Aditi, Léa, Matthew, Seoyeon, Takumi, Vicki https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15320
- Change Ring binary_sensor frequency polling to avoid rate limit exceeded errors https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15414
- New Platforms
- Amazon Echo now supported in Italian, Spanish and french for the Home Assistant Cloud component!
- HassOS release
- HassOS is a brand new operating system that we have created specifically for the purpose of running Hass.io. And yes, this supports the Raspberry Pi 3 B+!
- The focus of the system is to be a very small and highly efficient operating system to run Docker like a hypervisor. It has just enough software installed, to run a supervisor.
- HassOS is a wonderful base system and allows us to start working on integrating all kinds of amazing features into Hass.io (and bring them to the UI as well). For example, we are planning on bringing network and Bluetooth configuration possibilities into the UI. The goal is a full featured hub system that allows anybody to use Home Assistant.
- The Hass.io API is extensive, and we are going to adopt more of its features into Home Assistant as well. For example, sensors that allows you to monitor the system usage of an add-on or even Home Assistant itself.
- Some great custom cards for Lovelace
- Marius has been killing it with some great custom cards for Lovelace
- Gauge card, very similar to Grafana/Google Charts https://community.home-assistant.io/t/lovelace-gauge-card/58880
- Alarm Control Panel Card https://community.home-assistant.io/t/lovelace-alarm-card/59831
- Attributes Card https://community.home-assistant.io/t/lovelace-attributes-card-entity-row/59122
- Big Number Card https://community.home-assistant.io/t/lovelace-bignumber-card/59280
- Custom Animated Weather Card https://community.home-assistant.io/t/custom-animated-weather-card-for-lovelace/58338
- Munich Public transport card for lovelace by David Straub https://community.home-assistant.io/t/lovelace-munich-public-transport-departure-card/59622
- Thomas Loven has created a Python script, which allows you to split your Lovelace configuration YAML files into multiple files, and then the Python script will merge them together. https://github.com/thomasloven/homeassistant-lovelace-gen
- Marius has been killing it with some great custom cards for Lovelace
- Script for local ring video saving https://community.home-assistant.io/t/saving-the-latest-ring-door-bell-video-locally/30196/1
