Download Home Assistant 0.84

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.

0.84: Cloud webhooks, Wunderlist and USGS Earth Quakes

Time for the last release of the year. We were hoping to end the year with an enourmous bang and make Lovelace the default UI. However, in our final stretch we realized that to get to the experience that we wanted, we had to make more last minute changes than we felt comfortable making. If you are a Lovelace tester, please read the section for existing testers below.

We want to wish everybody happy holidays and want to thank all our contributors to the code, the documentation and all the ones in the chat for making up our amazing community. We had a great year with a lot of accomplishments and are looking forward to see all the great stuff you all come up with in 2019. We will skip our next release in our bi-weekly release cycle and plan to be back on January 9. see you then!

Cloud web hooks

This release introduces a new Home Assistant Cloud feature available: cloud webhooks. With cloud webhooks you can enable any webhook-enabled integration or automation in Home Assistant to be accessible via a unique URL in the cloud without having to open up a port on your router.

This means that you can send any data back to your instance for OwnTracks, IFTTT or an automation with a webhook-trigger. Check the cloud page in the configuration panel to get started or read more about the new functionality at the Nabu Casa website.

Improved service calling

We have improved how we call services with better validation checks. This means that if you have an automation or a script that sends invalid data, we will now stop the execution and be better able to point out where your incorrect calls are coming from.

For existing Lovelace testers

If you are currently testing Lovelace, please read the notes thoroughly as a lot has changed. First, we now have three different Lovelace modes: auto-generated, storage, and yaml (the old way of doing Lovelace). The UI editor will be limited to the storage mode, in which we control how the config is stored.

So if you were using Lovelace before 0.84, you now have two options. Option one is to use the new storage mode and import your existing file. You can do this by opening the Lovelace UI and click on Configure UI, this will prompt you to change to storage mode. This will unlock a new option in the menu called “raw config editor”. Open this and paste the content of your ui-lovelace.yaml file into it and click save. Note that YAML comments are not persisted.

If you want to continue managing a YAML file, check here how to enable the YAML mode. The file ui-lovelace.yaml will now follow the same options as configuration.yaml. This means that the Lovelace YAML config is now parsed with YAML 1.1 instead of YAML 1.2. Major change is that you need to make sure that you wrap on and off with quotes in your configs!

We have also aligned the configuration of all the cards, causing breaking changes. Changes are especially focused around how we define actions for short and long presses. see [the docs][/lovelace/] for more info.

Editor UI is now further processed. You can manage your Lovelace UI without leaving your browser! It is possible to add, edit and delete views. It is possible to add, edit, move and delete cards, including custom cards!

New Platforms

• Refactor ZHA (@dmulcahey – #18629) (zha docs) (binary_sensor.zha docs) (fan.zha docs) (light.zha docs) (sensor.zha docs) (switch.zha docs) (new platform)
• Add Awair sensor platform (@ahayworth – #18570) (sensor.awair docs) (new platform)
• Allow managing cloud webhook (@balloob – #18672) (cloud docs) (new platform)
• US Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program Feed platform (@exxamalte – #18207) (geo_location docs) (new platform)
• Mqtt light refactor (@emontnemery – #18227) (mqtt docs) (light.mqtt docs) (breaking change) (new platform)
• Added qbittorrent sensor platform (@eliseomartelli – #18618) (sensor.qbittorrent docs) (new platform)
• Add Entur departure information sensor (@hfurubotten – #17286) (sensor.entur_public_transport docs) (new platform)
• Add lightwave components for switches and lights (@GeoffAtHome – #18026) (lightwave docs) (light.lightwave docs) (switch.lightwave docs) (new platform)
• Initial hlk-sw16 relay switch support (@jameshilliard – #17855) (hlk_sw16 docs) (switch.hlk_sw16 docs) (new platform)
• Initial scene support for Fibaro hubs (@pbalogh77 – #18779) (fibaro docs) (scene.fibaro docs) (new platform)