Paulus joins Phil and Rohan to break down the new authentication feature introduced with 0.77.
- 0.77
- New Features
- Google Hangouts
- Ability to send and receive messages from Google Hangouts.
- Allows intents to be setup based on who sent a message etc
- https://www.home-assistant.io/components/hangouts/
- Netatmo Public
- The netatmo_public sensor allows you to expose data from Netatmo to Home Assistant, even if you don’t have a Netatmo device yourself. Currently, only live rain data is supported.
- https://www.home-assistant.io/components/sensor.netatmo_public/
- Ecovacs Deebot Vacuum
- NOAA Tides
- The noaa_tides sensor platform uses details from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Tides and Currents to provide information about the prediction for the tides for any location in the United States.
- https://www.home-assistant.io/components/sensor.noaa_tides/
- Google Hangouts
- Breaking Changes
- Subset of breaking changes – more in the official release notes for 0.77
- Merge insteon_plm and insteon_local components to insteon component
- Existing components will be removed in a future release
- https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/16102
- The entity registry yaml file has been removed. It is now stored inside .storage and should only be managed via the UI
- Breaking change from Paulus
- https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/16018
- Noteworthy Changes
- Commands sent from Alexa will now show in the logbook
- Lovelace now has a notification drawer, which will hold all persistent notifications/cards!
- New Authentication System for Home Assistant
- In a response on Reddit in April, you said “will probably drop the 0 when users have been added”. Does this mean we can expect a Home Assistant release without the zero coming very soon?
- New Features
