Download Home Assistant 0.70

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 0.70. The main improvements made to it can be found below.

0.70: Facebox, SpaceAPI, Connected Alarm System

It’s time for release 0.70. It’s a little later than expected because of a major overhaul of how our frontend is build. It should not have any impact on how the frontend looks or behaves. Thanks to all the people running the beta who helped test this. Right now it looks like Firefox is still having some issues running the Hass.io panel. We’re working on releasing a fix for that soon.

If you’re using custom UI or Panels, some changes have been made. Make sure you run the latest version. More info on our developer blog.

Talking about our developer blog, this is a new blog with accompanying Twitter account. This is part of our ongoing effort of splitting content and interaction for users and developers of Home Assistant.

One cool new component in this release is connected (product page). It allows you to connect your existing wired alarm systen and plug it … straight into Home Assistant!

Another cool one this release is face box. It will allow you to do local face detection on your camera feeds. Can’t wait to hear the cool things people will do with this.

New Platforms

• Converted SABnzbd to a component (@jeradM – #12915) (sabnzbd docs) (sensor.sabnzbd docs) (breaking change) (new platform)
• Add more homematicip cloud components (@mxworm – #14084) (homematicip_cloud docs) (binary_sensor.homematicip_cloud docs) (light.homematicip_cloud docs) (switch.homematicip_cloud docs) (new platform)
• Adds face box (@robmarkcole – #14356) (image_processing.facebox docs) (new platform)
• Add SpaceAPI support (@fabaff – #14204) (spaceapi docs) (new platform)
• Samsung Family hub camera component (@Klathmon – #14458) (camera.familyhub docs) (new platform)
• Add Connected component with support for discovery, binary sensor and switch (@heythisisnate – #13670) (connected docs) (binary_sensor.connected docs) (switch.connected docs) (new platform)
• New Sensor FinTS (@ChristianKuehnel – #14334) (sensor.fints docs) (new platform)

New Features

• Allow HomeKit name to be customized (@schmittx – #14159) (home kit docs) (new feature)
• Add HomeKit support for fans (@schmittx – #14351) (home kit docs) (new feature)