Download Home Assistant 0.65

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 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 developers have released version 0.65 and already two minor updates, and the release notes can be found below.

Naming entities

With the introduction of the entity registry in 0.63, Home Assistant is making sure that the same devices always receive the same entity IDs. This release is taking it a step further by allowing users to change the name of a device from the frontend. Changing the name will be instantly applied and overrides whatever name the device is given by the integration. If you want to switch back to the name from the integration, set the name to blank.

This feature is, just like the entity registry, only available for integrations that provide unique IDs for their entities. Adding this to each integration is still a work in progress.

Filter sensor

the filter sensor is a new 2nd order sensor by @dgomes: it will consume data from a sensor entity and apply filters to it. For the initial implementation it comes with Low-pass, Outlier and Throttle filters. Expect more to be added in the future.

sensor: – platform: filter name: “filtered realistic humidity” entity_id: sensor.realistic_humidity filters: – filter: outlier window_size: 4 radius: 4.0 – filter: lowpass time_constant: 10 precision: 2

Light Group

We have had some discussion lately and realized that our current group component is very limiting. Extending it would probably lead to more confusion so we’ve decided to take a new approach: groups that are designed to be part of a specific component. The first one in this series comes at the hand of @OttoWinter: the group light (docs).

The group light creates a single light inside Home Assistant that is representing a group of lights. All commands will be forwarded and the state is a combination of all the lights.

light: – platform: group name: Cool Light Group entities: – light.amazing_light – light.foobar – light.sun

HomeKit

HomeKit got some more upgrades. We’ve added support for temperature sensors in Fahrenheit, alarm systems, switches and thermostats. Just a few releases more and we should be able to cover it all.

Optional words for the Conversation component

the conversation component has always been a great introduction to controlling your house by voice. There is no hotword detection or powerful language engine behind it, but it gives a great intro to what is possible. Starting with this release, it will get a little bit more powerful with the introduction of optional words. To mark a word optional, wrap it in square brackets: Change the light to [the color] {color}.

# Example configuration.yaml entry conversation: intents: LivingRoomTemperature: – What is the temperature in the living room – What is [the] living room temperature intent_script: LivingRoomTemperature: speech: text: It is currently degrees in the living room.

New Platforms

• Synology Chat as a notification platform (@cmsimike – #12596) (notify.synology_chat docs) (new platform)
• KNX Component: Scene support and expose sensor values ​​(@Julius2342 – #11978) (knx docs) (scene docs) (binary_sensor.knx docs) (new platform)
• Adds simulated sensor (@robmarkcole – #12539) (sensor.simulated docs) (new platform)
• Add Songpal (“Sony Audio Control API”) platform (@rytilahti – #12143) (media_player.songpal docs) (new platform)
• Add UpCloud platform (@scop – #12011) (upcloud docs) (binary_sensor.upcloud docs) (switch.upcloud docs) (new platform)
• Added Sense energy monitor sensor (@kbickar – #11580) (sensor.sense docs) (new platform)
• Filter Sensor (@dgomes – #12650) (sensor.filter docs) (new platform)
• Add light.group platform (@OttoWinter – #12229) (light.group docs) (new platform)
• Egardia redesign – generic component and sensor support (@jeroenterheerdt – #11994) (egardia docs) (alarm_control_panel.egardia docs) (binary_sensor.egardia docs) (breaking change) (new platform)
• Add support for Zillow Zestimate sensor (@jcconnell – #12597) (sensor.zestimate docs) (new platform)
• Add a Media Player Component for Channels (@maddox – #12937) (media_player.channels docs) (new platform)
• Add support for alarm system, switch and thermostat to homekit (@maxclaey – #12819) (home kit docs) (new platform)
• Add camera proxy (@PhracturedBlue – #12006) (camera.proxy docs) (new platform)

Release 0.65.1 – March 10

• allow ios device tracker see calls to go through (@balloob – #13020) (device_tracker docs)
• Fix config component loading YAML (@kellerza – #13024)
• Make Throttle async aware (@balloob – #13027)
• Add support for input boolean to Google Assistant (@balloob – #13030) (google_assistant docs)
• HomeKit Bug Fix: names (@cdce8p – #13031) (home kit docs)

Release 0.65.2 – March 11

• Fix translations sometimes not loading in the frontend (@armills)
• Fix sensibo’s min/max_temp properties (@jra3 – #12996) (climate.sensibo docs)
• Userequest.query(@ptarjan – #13037) (wink docs)
• Ensure we have valid config AFTER merging packages #13015 (@kellerza – #13038)
• Bump pysabnzbd version (@jeradM – #13042) (sensor.sabnzbd docs)
• Fix async lifx_set_state(@amelchio – #13045) (light.lifx docs)
• Yeelight version bumped. (@syssi – #13056) (light.yeelight docs)
• Don’t call async from sync (@balloob – #13057) (xiaomi_aqara docs)
• Convert decimals from SQL results (@balloob – #13059) (sensor.sql docs)