Download Home Assistant 0.51.2

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. The developers have released version 0.51.2 with the following announcement:

Release 0.51.2

• Fix zwave power_consumption attribute
• Turn foscam verbose mode off
• fix stack trace in push bullet
• Harmoney remote: Fix call to ha_send_commands
• fix DeviceException handling when updating xiaomi vacuum
• Sabnzbd: do not assume discovery info is a dict
• Fix login button
• Add workaround for broken toggles in Safari
• Fix web link opening twice

Release 0.51.1

• Fixed a bug in the automation editor that would break if no conditions available in the config file.

Release 0.51: Massive history speed up, finished automation editor and official vacuum cleaner support

Database speed up
The first one is more amazing database updates #8748 by @OverloadUT. Every query that has been tested executes in well under 1 second, even on a RPi using MySQL with 6 million rows and around 300 entities. This is true even when you’re getting an unrealistically huge date range! Updating the database will take some time when you start Home Assistant. During that time, the Home Assistant frontend is not accessible. Please let it complete and do not turn Home Assistant off.

Frontend update
We have finished the migration of our frontend to be powered by Polymer 2. This has given us a big speed boost on Safari/iOS devices and has fixed a wide range of bugs. We have also finished the automation editor. All triggers and actions are now implemented and so are most conditions (missing are and, or). The automation editor is also no longer Chrome only, it can now also be used in Safari. Another change to the frontend is that we have reorganized the panels. The Z-Wave and automation configuration panels have been merged into the configuration panel.

vacuum cleaners
As we have seen more vacuum cleaners land in Home Assistant, it was time to create an official component for them. That’s why @azogue introduced the new vacuum cleaner component in #8623. This allows first class integration of vacuum cleaners in Home Assistant. Out of the box we will have Dyson, Xiamo and Roomba as supported platforms.

New Platforms

• Added Lutron Caseta Scene Support
• New media_player platform for Russound devices using the RIO protocol
• New component: bluesound
• Add mochad light component
• geizhals sensor component
• Xiaomi vacuum as platform of new vacuum component derived from ToggleEntity, and services
• Wi-Fi enabled Roomba support
• Add support to Dyson 360 Eye robot vacuum using new vacuum platform
• Add Initial Mailbox panel and sensor
• Add Leviton Decora Smart WiFi Device Platform
• Add RainMachine switch platform
• Add new device tracker for Huawei Routers.
• Add Shodan sensor