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<a href="/blog/2016/06/01/community-highlights/">Community Highlights</a>
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<time datetime="2016-06-01T18:34:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> June 1, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p>Our community is amazingly helpful and creative. If you havent been there yet, make sure to stop by our <a href="https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant">chat room</a> and come hang out with us. In this blog post I want to highlight a few recent awesome projects and videos from the community.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="scenegen---cli-for-making-scenes" href="#scenegen---cli-for-making-scenes"></a> SceneGen - cli for making scenes</h3>
<p><a href="https://github.com/acockburn/scenegen">SceneGen</a> is a new command line utility developed by <a href="https://github.com/acockburn">Andrew Cockburn</a> that helps with creating scene configurations for Home Assistant. To use it, you put your house in the preferred state, run SceneGen and it will print the scene configuration for your current states.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="videos" href="#videos"></a> Videos</h3>
<p><a href="https://partofthething.com">Nick Touran</a> has been working on integrating IR remotes with Home Assistant. He made it into a component which should be available in the next release which should arrive in a couple of days. In the meanwhile, he wrote up <a href="https://partofthething.com/thoughts/?p=1010">a blog post</a> and has put out a video showing the new integration, very cool!</p>
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<p>Ben from <a href="http://www.bruhautomation.com/">BRUH Automation</a> has put out another great video how to get started tracking your location in Home Assistant using MQTT and OwnTracks.</p>
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<p>Muhammed Kilic has created a video how to make your Home Assistant instance accessible from the internet using the free dynamic DNS service DuckDNS.</p>
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<time datetime="2016-04-19T05:44:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> April 19, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p>After 2.5 years I think we can proudly say: Home Assistant is a success. I write <em>we</em> because Home Assistant is no longer a one-person side project. It has become the side project of many people who spend countless hours on making Home Assistant the best home automation software out there. To acknowledge this we migrated the repositories from being under my name to be under our own <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/">organisation on GitHub</a>.</p>
<p>On our journey weve reached many noteworthy milestones:</p>
<ul>
<li>#1 on HackerNews</li>
<li>Featured on ProductHunt</li>
<li>Trending repository on GitHub</li>
<li>3000 stars on GitHub</li>
<li>1.5 million page views on our website</li>
<li>Speaker at OpenIoT Summit 2016</li>
</ul>
<p>All these accomplishments are a nice pat on the back but our journey is far from over. There are a lot of challenges ahead if we want to become the go to solution for home automation <em>for everyone</em>.</p>
<p>Until now the focus has been on making a platform that developers love to use. A platform that is simple but customizable. A platform that is both powerful and reliable. But most important: a platform that is local and open. Home Assistant does a great job at all these things.</p>
<p>There will be some major challenges ahead of us to target groups other than developers. Easy installation and easy configuration being the #1. Im sure that well be able to eventually achieve these goals. I cant say yet how or when. As with everything Home Assistant, well take tiny steps, gathering feedback along the way to make sure were solving the right problems.</p>
<p>I am confident that we will get there because we are set up for success: we have a robust architecture, high test coverage and an active community of world class developers and users. On top of that, we use Python which allows us to move fast and tackle complex problems in elegant ways. It is so easy to learn that it allows any programmer, experienced or not, to contribute support for devices and services. Its as simple as <a href="/developers/platform_example_sensor/#code">filling in the blanks</a>.</p>
<p>I would like to put out a big thank you to all our contributors who make Home Assistant what it is today. It doesnt matter if it is form of code, documentation or giving support in our <a href="https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant">chat room</a> or <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/">forums</a>. You. all. rock.</p>
<p>Cheers to the future!</p>
<p>Paulus</p>
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<time datetime="2016-04-19T05:44:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> April 19, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p>After 2.5 years I think we can proudly say: Home Assistant is a success. I write <em>we</em> because Home Assistant is no longer a one-person side project. It has become the side project of many people who spend countless hours on making Home Assistant the best home automation software out there. To acknowledge this we migrated the repositories from being under my name to be under our own <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/">organisation on GitHub</a>.</p>
<p>On our journey weve reached many noteworthy milestones:</p>
<ul>
<li>#1 on HackerNews</li>
<li>Featured on ProductHunt</li>
<li>Trending repository on GitHub</li>
<li>3000 stars on GitHub</li>
<li>1.5 million page views on our website</li>
<li>Speaker at OpenIoT Summit 2016</li>
</ul>
<p>All these accomplishments are a nice pat on the back but our journey is far from over. There are a lot of challenges ahead if we want to become the go to solution for home automation <em>for everyone</em>.</p>
<p>Until now the focus has been on making a platform that developers love to use. A platform that is simple but customizable. A platform that is both powerful and reliable. But most important: a platform that is local and open. Home Assistant does a great job at all these things.</p>
<p>There will be some major challenges ahead of us to target groups other than developers. Easy installation and easy configuration being the #1. Im sure that well be able to eventually achieve these goals. I cant say yet how or when. As with everything Home Assistant, well take tiny steps, gathering feedback along the way to make sure were solving the right problems.</p>
<p>I am confident that we will get there because we are set up for success: we have a robust architecture, high test coverage and an active community of world class developers and users. On top of that, we use Python which allows us to move fast and tackle complex problems in elegant ways. It is so easy to learn that it allows any programmer, experienced or not, to contribute support for devices and services. Its as simple as <a href="/developers/platform_example_sensor/#code">filling in the blanks</a>.</p>
<p>I would like to put out a big thank you to all our contributors who make Home Assistant what it is today. It doesnt matter if it is form of code, documentation or giving support in our <a href="https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant">chat room</a> or <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/">forums</a>. You. all. rock.</p>
<p>Cheers to the future!</p>
<p>Paulus</p>
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<time datetime="2016-02-13T06:15:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> February 13, 2016</time>
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<p>The focus of 0.13 was on test coverage, big cheers to <a href="https://github.com/rmkraus/">@rmkraus</a> for his hard work on this. Im proud to announce that weve hit the 90% test coverage of the core + important components. A big milestone for the project.</p>
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<img src="/images/blog/2016-02-release-13/input_select__input_boolean__weblink.png" />
Examples of the new <a href="/components/input_select/">input_select</a> and <a href="/components/weblink/">weblink</a> components.
</p>
<p>Not only did we gain a lot of test coverage, we also attracted a lot of new developers that contributed a variety of components and platforms:</p>
<p><img src="/images/supported_brands/speedtest.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="70" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/apcupsd.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/splunk.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/bloomsky.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/ubiquiti.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/networx.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/samsung.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /></p>
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<li>Core: Add service to restart Home Assistant (<a href="https://github.com/rmkraus/">@rmkraus</a>)</li>
<li>Core: Allow device to report as unavailable (<a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare/">@MartinHjelmare</a>)</li>
<li>Core: Allow overriding polling interval in platforms and <a href="/cookbook/customize_polling_interval/">via config</a> (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Frontend: support for a <a href="/components/group/">default view</a> have been added to replace the show all view (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/apcupsd/">apcupsd</a> component (<a href="https://github.com/flyte/">@flyte</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added component to log values to <a href="/components/splunk/">Splunk</a> (<a href="https://github.com/miniconfig/">@miniconfig</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/garage_door/">garage door</a> component including <a href="/components/garage_door.wink/">Wink</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/xrolfex/">@xrolfex</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/input_select/">input_select</a> component (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/proximity/">proximity</a> component to track people closest to a location (<a href="https://github.com/nickwaring/">@nickwaring</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Bart274/">@Bart274</a> )</li>
<li>Component: Added support for <a href="/components/bloomsky/">Bloomsky Weather Station</a> (<a href="https://github.com/haraldnagel/">@haraldnagel</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added support for pushing stats to <a href="/components/graphite/">graphite</a> (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added support for <a href="/components/scsgate/">SCSGate</a> devices (<a href="https://github.com/flavio/">@flavio</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/weblink/">weblink</a> component to link to other pages (<a href="https://github.com/MagnusKnutas/">@MagnusKnutas</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Support for Ubiquiti mFI <a href="/components/sensor.mfi/">sensors</a> and <a href="/components/switch.mfi/">switchable devices</a> added (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Alarm control panel: Added <a href="/components/alarm_control_panel.nx584/">Caddx/GE/Interlogix NetworX</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Camera: <a href="/components/camera.mjpeg/">MJPEG</a> cameras will now show real stream instead of a 2fps stream (<a href="https://github.com/stjohnjohnson/">@stjohnjohnson</a>)</li>
<li>Camera: Added <a href="/components/camera.uvc/">Unifi video cameras</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Device Tracker: <a href="/components/device_tracker.aruba/">Aruba</a> platform now uses SSH instead of telnet (<a href="https://github.com/carlosmgr/">@carlosmgr</a>)</li>
<li>History: Show correct graphs for thermostats (<a href="https://github.com/sdague/">@sdague</a>)</li>
<li>Light: Added <a href="/components/light.mysensors/">MySensors</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare/">@MartinHjelmare</a>)</li>
<li>Lock: Added <a href="/components/lock.verisure/">Verisure</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen/">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: Added <a href="/components/media_player.samsungtv/">Samsung TV</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/stefan-jonasson/">@stefan-jonasson</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: Added <a href="/components/media_player.snapcast/">Snapcast</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc/">@happyleavesaoc</a>)</li>
<li>MQTT: Allow using templates in <a href="/components/mqtt/#publish-service">publish service</a> (<a href="https://github.com/flyte/">@flyte</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: Added <a href="/components/notify.rest/">REST</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/Theb-1/">@Theb-1</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: Added <a href="/components/sensor.speedtest/">Speedtest.net</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/nkgilley/">@nkgilley</a>)</li>
<li>Switch: Added <a href="/components/switch.template/">template</a> platform (<a href="https://github.com/pavoni/">@pavoni</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat: Support for <a href="/components/thermostat.honeywell/">Honeywell</a> in the US added (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Z-Wave: Allow <a href="/components/zwave/#configuration">configuring polling</a> and <a href="/components/zwave/#events">support scenes</a> (<a href="https://github.com/lukas-hetzenecker/">@lukas-hetzenecker</a>)</li>
<li>Bug fixes and improvements by <a href="https://github.com/persandstrom/">@persandstrom</a>, <a href="https://github.com/fabaff/">@fabaff</a>, <a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pavoni/">@pavoni</a>, <a href="https://github.com/philipbl/">@philipbl</a>, <a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare/">@MartinHjelmare</a>, <a href="https://github.com/rmkraus/">@rmkraus</a>, <a href="https://github.com/molobrakos/">@molobrakos</a>, <a href="https://github.com/lukas-hetzenecker/">@lukas-hetzenecker</a>, <a href="https://github.com/TangoAlpha/">@TangoAlpha</a>, <a href="https://github.com/deisi/">@deisi</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen/">@Danielhiversen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/roqeer/">@roqeer</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jaharkes/">@jaharkes</a></li>
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<time datetime="2016-02-13T06:15:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> February 13, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p>The focus of 0.13 was on test coverage, big cheers to <a href="https://github.com/rmkraus/">@rmkraus</a> for his hard work on this. Im proud to announce that weve hit the 90% test coverage of the core + important components. A big milestone for the project.</p>
<p class="img">
<img src="/images/blog/2016-02-release-13/input_select__input_boolean__weblink.png" />
Examples of the new <a href="/components/input_select/">input_select</a> and <a href="/components/weblink/">weblink</a> components.
</p>
<p>Not only did we gain a lot of test coverage, we also attracted a lot of new developers that contributed a variety of components and platforms:</p>
<p><img src="/images/supported_brands/speedtest.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="70" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/apcupsd.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/splunk.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/bloomsky.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/ubiquiti.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/networx.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/samsung.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /></p>
<ul>
<li>Core: Add service to restart Home Assistant (<a href="https://github.com/rmkraus/">@rmkraus</a>)</li>
<li>Core: Allow device to report as unavailable (<a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare/">@MartinHjelmare</a>)</li>
<li>Core: Allow overriding polling interval in platforms and <a href="/cookbook/customize_polling_interval/">via config</a> (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Frontend: support for a <a href="/components/group/">default view</a> have been added to replace the show all view (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/apcupsd/">apcupsd</a> component (<a href="https://github.com/flyte/">@flyte</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added component to log values to <a href="/components/splunk/">Splunk</a> (<a href="https://github.com/miniconfig/">@miniconfig</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/garage_door/">garage door</a> component including <a href="/components/garage_door.wink/">Wink</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/xrolfex/">@xrolfex</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/input_select/">input_select</a> component (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/proximity/">proximity</a> component to track people closest to a location (<a href="https://github.com/nickwaring/">@nickwaring</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Bart274/">@Bart274</a> )</li>
<li>Component: Added support for <a href="/components/bloomsky/">Bloomsky Weather Station</a> (<a href="https://github.com/haraldnagel/">@haraldnagel</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added support for pushing stats to <a href="/components/graphite/">graphite</a> (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added support for <a href="/components/scsgate/">SCSGate</a> devices (<a href="https://github.com/flavio/">@flavio</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Added <a href="/components/weblink/">weblink</a> component to link to other pages (<a href="https://github.com/MagnusKnutas/">@MagnusKnutas</a>)</li>
<li>Component: Support for Ubiquiti mFI <a href="/components/sensor.mfi/">sensors</a> and <a href="/components/switch.mfi/">switchable devices</a> added (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Alarm control panel: Added <a href="/components/alarm_control_panel.nx584/">Caddx/GE/Interlogix NetworX</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Camera: <a href="/components/camera.mjpeg/">MJPEG</a> cameras will now show real stream instead of a 2fps stream (<a href="https://github.com/stjohnjohnson/">@stjohnjohnson</a>)</li>
<li>Camera: Added <a href="/components/camera.uvc/">Unifi video cameras</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Device Tracker: <a href="/components/device_tracker.aruba/">Aruba</a> platform now uses SSH instead of telnet (<a href="https://github.com/carlosmgr/">@carlosmgr</a>)</li>
<li>History: Show correct graphs for thermostats (<a href="https://github.com/sdague/">@sdague</a>)</li>
<li>Light: Added <a href="/components/light.mysensors/">MySensors</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare/">@MartinHjelmare</a>)</li>
<li>Lock: Added <a href="/components/lock.verisure/">Verisure</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen/">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: Added <a href="/components/media_player.samsungtv/">Samsung TV</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/stefan-jonasson/">@stefan-jonasson</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: Added <a href="/components/media_player.snapcast/">Snapcast</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc/">@happyleavesaoc</a>)</li>
<li>MQTT: Allow using templates in <a href="/components/mqtt/#publish-service">publish service</a> (<a href="https://github.com/flyte/">@flyte</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: Added <a href="/components/notify.rest/">REST</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/Theb-1/">@Theb-1</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: Added <a href="/components/sensor.speedtest/">Speedtest.net</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/nkgilley/">@nkgilley</a>)</li>
<li>Switch: Added <a href="/components/switch.template/">template</a> platform (<a href="https://github.com/pavoni/">@pavoni</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat: Support for <a href="/components/thermostat.honeywell/">Honeywell</a> in the US added (<a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/">@kk7ds</a>)</li>
<li>Z-Wave: Allow <a href="/components/zwave/#configuration">configuring polling</a> and <a href="/components/zwave/#events">support scenes</a> (<a href="https://github.com/lukas-hetzenecker/">@lukas-hetzenecker</a>)</li>
<li>Bug fixes and improvements by <a href="https://github.com/persandstrom/">@persandstrom</a>, <a href="https://github.com/fabaff/">@fabaff</a>, <a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pavoni/">@pavoni</a>, <a href="https://github.com/philipbl/">@philipbl</a>, <a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare/">@MartinHjelmare</a>, <a href="https://github.com/rmkraus/">@rmkraus</a>, <a href="https://github.com/molobrakos/">@molobrakos</a>, <a href="https://github.com/lukas-hetzenecker/">@lukas-hetzenecker</a>, <a href="https://github.com/TangoAlpha/">@TangoAlpha</a>, <a href="https://github.com/deisi/">@deisi</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen/">@Danielhiversen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/roqeer/">@roqeer</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jaharkes/">@jaharkes</a></li>
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The <a href="https://influxdb.com/">InfluxDB</a> database is a so-called time series database primarly designed to store sensor data and real-time analytics.</p>
<p>The <code>influxdb</code> component makes it possible to transfer all state changes from Home Assistant to an external <a href="https://influxdb.com/">InfluxDB</a> database.</p>
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The <a href="https://influxdb.com/">InfluxDB</a> database is a so-called time series database primarly designed to store sensor data and real-time analytics.</p>
<p>The <code>influxdb</code> component makes it possible to transfer all state changes from Home Assistant to an external <a href="https://influxdb.com/">InfluxDB</a> database.</p>
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Inspried by a <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/310">feature requests</a> I started looking into the available options to do monitoring of remote hosts. The feature request is about displaying system information in a similar way than the <a href="/components/sensor.systemmonitor/">systemmonitor</a> sensor does it for the local system. After a while I started to think that it would be a nice addition for a small home network where no full-blown system monitoring setup is present.</p>
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Inspried by a <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/310">feature requests</a> I started looking into the available options to do monitoring of remote hosts. The feature request is about displaying system information in a similar way than the <a href="/components/sensor.systemmonitor/">systemmonitor</a> sensor does it for the local system. After a while I started to think that it would be a nice addition for a small home network where no full-blown system monitoring setup is present.</p>
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<p>I have recently merged code to refactor Home Assistant to use only UTC times internally. A much needed refactor. Ive added some extra test coverage to time sensitive parts to ensure stability. The code has been live in the dev branch for the last 9 days and will be soon released to the master branch.</p>
<p>From now on all internal communication will be done in UTC: time changed events, datetime attributes of states, etc. To get the current time in UTC you can call <code>homeassistant.util.dt.utcnow()</code>. This is a timezone aware UTC datetime object. <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/dev/homeassistant/util/dt.py"><code>homeassistant.util.dt</code></a> is a new util package with date helpers.</p>
<p>There is also such a thing as local time. Local time is based on the time zone that you have setup in your <code>configuration.yaml</code>. Local times should only be used for user facing information: logs, frontend and automation settings in <code>configuration.yaml</code>.</p>
<h3>Setting up your time zone</h3>
<p>Setting up a time zone happens in <code>configuration.yaml</code>. If you have no time zone setup, it will be auto detected using the existing detection code using <a href="https://freegeoip.net">freegeoip.net</a>. You can find a list of compatible time zones on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones">Wikipedia</a>.</p>
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<span class="key">time_zone</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">America/Los_Angeles</span></span>
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<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>The changes to the code are mostly backwards compatible. The old <code>hass.track_time_change</code> and <code>hass.track_point_in_time</code> use now internally two new methods: <code>hass.track_utc_time_change</code> and <code>hass.track_point_in_utc_time</code>. The usage of the old methods have not changed and should be backwards compatible.</p>
<p>This refactor adds a new migration for the database adding a <code>utc_offset</code> column to events and states. This information is currently not used but can prove useful in the future when we start analyzing the historical data.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="backwards-incompatible-stuff" href="#backwards-incompatible-stuff"></a> Backwards incompatible stuff</h3>
<p>All built-in components have been upgraded. The following list is only for people that run custom components:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>hass.track_time_change</code> and <code>hass.track_point_in_time</code> will now return a time zone aware datetime object. Python does not allow comparing a naive with an aware datetime object.</li>
<li>the sun attributes for rising and setting are now in UTC. The methods <code>sun.next_rising(hass)</code> and <code>sun.next_setting(hass)</code> are backwards compatible, just be careful if you used to read the raw attributes.</li>
<li>the API sends all times in UTC. If you use anything else besides the frontend to talk to HA, make sure it handles it differently.</li>
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<p>I have recently merged code to refactor Home Assistant to use only UTC times internally. A much needed refactor. Ive added some extra test coverage to time sensitive parts to ensure stability. The code has been live in the dev branch for the last 9 days and will be soon released to the master branch.</p>
<p>From now on all internal communication will be done in UTC: time changed events, datetime attributes of states, etc. To get the current time in UTC you can call <code>homeassistant.util.dt.utcnow()</code>. This is a timezone aware UTC datetime object. <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/dev/homeassistant/util/dt.py"><code>homeassistant.util.dt</code></a> is a new util package with date helpers.</p>
<p>There is also such a thing as local time. Local time is based on the time zone that you have setup in your <code>configuration.yaml</code>. Local times should only be used for user facing information: logs, frontend and automation settings in <code>configuration.yaml</code>.</p>
<h3>Setting up your time zone</h3>
<p>Setting up a time zone happens in <code>configuration.yaml</code>. If you have no time zone setup, it will be auto detected using the existing detection code using <a href="https://freegeoip.net">freegeoip.net</a>. You can find a list of compatible time zones on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones">Wikipedia</a>.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre><span class="key">homeassistant</span>:
<span class="key">time_zone</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">America/Los_Angeles</span></span>
</pre></div>
</div>
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<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>The changes to the code are mostly backwards compatible. The old <code>hass.track_time_change</code> and <code>hass.track_point_in_time</code> use now internally two new methods: <code>hass.track_utc_time_change</code> and <code>hass.track_point_in_utc_time</code>. The usage of the old methods have not changed and should be backwards compatible.</p>
<p>This refactor adds a new migration for the database adding a <code>utc_offset</code> column to events and states. This information is currently not used but can prove useful in the future when we start analyzing the historical data.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="backwards-incompatible-stuff" href="#backwards-incompatible-stuff"></a> Backwards incompatible stuff</h3>
<p>All built-in components have been upgraded. The following list is only for people that run custom components:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>hass.track_time_change</code> and <code>hass.track_point_in_time</code> will now return a time zone aware datetime object. Python does not allow comparing a naive with an aware datetime object.</li>
<li>the sun attributes for rising and setting are now in UTC. The methods <code>sun.next_rising(hass)</code> and <code>sun.next_setting(hass)</code> are backwards compatible, just be careful if you used to read the raw attributes.</li>
<li>the API sends all times in UTC. If you use anything else besides the frontend to talk to HA, make sure it handles it differently.</li>
</ul>
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<p>Most people do not like configuring things. Things just have to work, out of the box. Reaching this scenario is the goal of what we are about to introduce: our new discovery component.</p>
<p>The discovery component will scan the WiFi network from time to time for connected zeroconf/mDNS and uPnP devices. The intial introduction is mainly focussed on getting the right architecture in place and discovers Belkin WeMo switches and Google Chromecasts connected to your network. When found, it will load and notify the appropritate component and it will be ready to use within seconds.</p>
<p>Most devices still require some sort of interaction from the user after being discovered - be it a button being pressed or some sort of authentication. This is a challenge that will be solved in the future.</p>
<p>To enable the discovery component, add the following to your <code>home-assistant.conf</code>:</p>
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<p>A new <a href="/developers/add_new_platform/#discovery">discovery section</a> has been added to the Adding a new platform page with instructions how to make your platform discoverable.</p>
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<p>Most people do not like configuring things. Things just have to work, out of the box. Reaching this scenario is the goal of what we are about to introduce: our new discovery component.</p>
<p>The discovery component will scan the WiFi network from time to time for connected zeroconf/mDNS and uPnP devices. The intial introduction is mainly focussed on getting the right architecture in place and discovers Belkin WeMo switches and Google Chromecasts connected to your network. When found, it will load and notify the appropritate component and it will be ready to use within seconds.</p>
<p>Most devices still require some sort of interaction from the user after being discovered - be it a button being pressed or some sort of authentication. This is a challenge that will be solved in the future.</p>
<p>To enable the discovery component, add the following to your <code>home-assistant.conf</code>:</p>
<div class="highlighter-coderay"><div class="CodeRay">
<div class="code"><pre>[discovery]
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<p>A new <a href="/developers/add_new_platform/#discovery">discovery section</a> has been added to the Adding a new platform page with instructions how to make your platform discoverable.</p>
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