Download Home Assistant 0.78

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 discovering devices such as Nest thermostats, Philips Hue, Belkin WeMo switches, Mr. Coffee makers and the mqtt protocol. In addition, it can control these devices and apply automation where possible. For more information, please refer to this page and our forum. The developers have released version 0.78 and the release notes for that release can be found below.

0.78: More auth, Switchmate, Yale Smart Alarm, OpenTherm

It’s time for a new release and oh boy, what a time to be alive! Today marks our 5th (!!!) anniversary. That’s 5 years we’ve been bringing privacy focused and locally controlled home automation to your home. Happy birthday to us.

This release includes two new features for the auth system. The first one is long-lived access tokens. These are tokens that don’t expire and can be used in your scripts instead of API password. Instructions on how to create and use them can be found on your profile.

Also on your profile page is a new list of existing refresh tokens. These are all the tokens that are currently active for your account. If you ran into issues that the remember login dialog didn’t show, you might have a lot. Don’t worry, you can delete them all.

New Platforms

• Add temperature sensors to the velbus component (@Cereal2nd † #16203†velbus docs†sensor.velbus docs) (new platform)
• Add Volkszaehler sensor (@fabaff † #16188†sensor.volkszaehler docs) (new platform)
• switchmate (@Danielhiversen † #15535†switch.switchmate docs) (new platform)
• Add support for Habitica (@ASMfreaK † #15744†habitica docs†sensor.habitica docs) (new platform)
• Geolocation component (@exxamalte † #15953†feed reader docs†geo_location docs) (new platform)
• Add Cover to the Insteon component (@teharris1 † #16215†insteon docs†cover.insteon docs) (new platform)
• switchbot (@Danielhiversen † #16396†switch.switchbot docs) (new platform)
• Add Yale Smart Alarm component (@domwillcode † #16377†alarm_control_panel.yale_smart_alarm docs) (new platform)
• Add OpenTherm Gateway climate platform (@mvn23 † #16299†climate.opentherm_gw docs) (new platform)