Download Home Assistant 0.83

Version 0.83 Home Assistant has been released and a small update has already appeared. Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform that runs under Python 3. It runs via Hassbian on a Raspberry Pi 3 or a Linux, macOS or Windows computer. It supports detecting devices, such as Nest thermostats, Philips Hue, Belkin WeMo switches, Mr. Coffee makers, the smart switches from Ikea and the mqtt protocol. In addition, where possible, it can control these devices and apply automation. For more information, please refer to this page and our forum. The release notes for this release can be found below.

0.83: Fibaro Home Center Hubs, locks via voice, Traccar

It’s release day! Today we’re happy to release Home Assistant 0.83. If you might have noticed, this is using our new release schedule which evolves around releases on Wednesdays instead of Fridays (this one is one day late). It’s the same 2-week release schedule as before, except that it has moved 5 days later.

So what’s new? A LOT. First, a contributor milestone. This release the backend has 99 contributors. That means that in the last 2,5 weeks since the last release, 99 people have written code that is now part of Home Assistant. The frontend has another 15 contributors. It’s amazing to see how as a community we can rally around building the best piece of home automation software out there and get it done.

I want to give a shout out to @MartinHjelmare who is doing an amazing job going through PRs and helping out where possible. good job!

Alright, time for some highlights. First is that thanks to @pbalogh77, Fibaro Home Center hubs are now supported. If you had already invested in a Z-Wave network with Fibaro, you can now seamlessly integrate that into Home Assistant and combine it with all the other integrations out there.

The second cool thing is that Google Assistant now supports locks. Locking is enabled by default, but if you want to support unlocking, you will need to go to the Home Assistant Cloud settings to enable unlocking, or, if you’re using the manual config, add allow_unlock: true to your config.

The frontend team hasn’t sit still either. The extended release notes are here but the main highlight is the new shopping list card. @iantrich took the shopping list panel and shrunk it to the size of a Lovelace card.

Oh and if you’re into GPS tracking: OwnTracks is a lot easier to get started with in this release. But if you really like all the data in the world: @ludeeus has added support for Traccar, including accompanying Hass.io add-on by @french†

Note, this release includes a migration to add an index to speed up the logbook queries. It might take a bit on first boot, please be patient.

New Platforms

• Add Tautulli sensor platform (@ludeeus † #17835†sensor.tautulli docs) (new platform)
• Implemented tplink_lte components and notify service via SMS (@andtos90 † #17111†notify docs†tplink_lte docs) (new platform)
• Add Traccar device tracker (@ludeeus † #18200†device_tracker docs) (new platform)
• Add support for Google Home device tracking (@ludeeus † #18190†device_tracker docs) (new platform)
• Add Norwegian Public Transportation sensor (Ruter). †@ludeeus † #18237†sensor.ruter docs) (new platform)
• Split out geofency with a component and platform. The geofency device_tracker platform no longer takes any configuration. The configuration needs to be applied to the component geofency instead. The platform will be automatically loaded with the component. †@rohankapoorcom † #17933†device_tracker docs†geofency docs) (breaking change) (new platform)
• Add support for Lupusec alarm control panel (@majuss † #17691†lupusec docs†alarm_control_panel.lupusec docs†binary_sensor.lupusec docs†switch.lupusec docs) (new platform)
• Add upload and download sensors and component for asuswrt (@kennedyshead † #17757†asuswrt docs†device_tracker docs†sensor.asuswrt docs) (breaking change) (new platform)
• Add support for 17track.net package sensors (@bachya † #18038†sensor.seventeentrack docs) (new platform)
• Add new launch sensor to keep track of space launches. †@ludeeus † #18274†sensor.launch_library docs) (new platform)
• W800rf32 (@horga83 † #17920†w800rf32 docs†binary_sensor.w800rf32 docs) (new platform)
• Srpenergy (@brglx † #18036†sensor.srp_energy docs) (new platform)
• Add support for sensors from Flu Near You (@bachya † #18136†sensor.flunearyou docs) (new platform)
• Add niko-home-control support (@legovaer † #18019†light.niko_home_control docs) (new platform)
• Readded climate.velbus (@Cereal2nd † #18434†velbus docs†climate.velbus docs) (new platform)
• Support for Fibaro HomeCenter hubs (@pbalogh77 † #17891 † #18487†fibaro docs†binary_sensor.fibaro docs) (new platform)
• Support for Point component (@fredrike † #17466†point docs†binary_sensor.point docs†sensor.point docs) (new platform)
• Adds light switch platform (@french † #18562†light.switch docs) (new platform)
• Add cloud pref for Google unlock (@balloob † #18600†cloud docs) (new platform)
• Add support for Panasonic Blu-Ray players (@u1f35c † #18541†media_player.panasonic_bluray docs) (new platform)

Release 0.83.1

• Add websocket call for adding item to shopping-list (@iantrich † #18623†shopping_list docs†
• Convert shopping list update to WebSockets (@iantrich † #18713†shopping_list docs†
• Legacy API Fix (@balloob † #18733†http docs†
• Fix logbook domain filter – alexa, homekit (@cdce8p † #18790†logbook docs†
• Make auth backwards compat again (@balloob † #18792†
• render the secret (@balloob † #18793†own tracks docs†
• Fix race condition in group.set(@balloob † #18796†group docs†
• BUGFIX: handle extra fan speeds. †@marchingphoenix † #18799†google_assistant docs†
• Bumped py17track to 2.1.0 (@bachya † #18804†sensor.seventeentrack docs†
• Remove self from update function in rainmachine (@Danielhiversen † #18807†binary_sensor.rainmachine docs†
• Remove additional self from update function in RainMachine (@bachya † #18810†sensor.rainmachine docs†
• Hotfix for crash with virtual devices (@pbalogh77 † #18808†fibaro docs†
• Use proper signals (@balloob † #18613†emulated_hue docs†http docs†