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<time datetime="2016-04-09T06:10:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> April 9, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p>Another awesome release ready to hit your homes. YAML can be hard for beginners and more experienced automators. So to help catch those pesky errors that sneak into your files we’ve been hard at work to introduce config validation! Especially huge thanks to <a href="https://github.com/jaharkes/">@jaharkes</a> for his hard work on this. Config validation is still in it’s early stages. More common platforms and components have been added but we didn’t do everything yet.</p>
<p>When we encounter an invalid config we will now write a warning to your logs. You can see those in the frontend by clicking on the last developer tool. We’re looking into options to make it more clear - it is a work in progress.</p>
<p>Another big thing is the addition of GTFS support. You probably don’t know it, but GTFS is the standard that public transit companies all over the world use to distribute their schedule. This means that you can now have the time of the next bus/train/etc right in your frontend.</p>
<p><img src="/images/supported_brands/onkyo.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/loop.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/panasonic.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>Config validation (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jaharkes/">@jaharkes</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.gtfs/">GTFS</a> support (public transit open standard) (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480/">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Camera: <a href="/components/camera.rpi_camera/">Raspberry PI</a> support added (<a href="https://github.com/LucaSoldi/">@LucaSoldi</a>)</li>
<li>Z-Wave: improved startup reliability (<a href="https://github.com/srcLurker/">@srcLurker</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: <a href="/components/media_player.onkyo/">Onkyo receiver</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/danieljkemp/">@danieljkemp</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.loop_energy/">Loop Energy</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/pavoni/">@pavoni</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat: <a href="/components/thermostat.zwave/">Z-Wave</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/coteyr/">@coteyr</a>, <a href="https://github.com/turbokongen/">@turbokongen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/luxus/">@luxus</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.nzbget/">NZBGet</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/justyns/">@justyns</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: <a href="/components/media_player.panasonic_viera/">Panasonic Viera TV</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/florianholzapfel/">@florianholzapfel</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostats: Use whole degrees if user uses Fahrenheit (<a href="https://github.com/JshWright/">@JshWright</a>)</li>
<li>Frontend: more material love (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
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<h3>Breaking changes</h3>
<p>As of now we are not aware of any breaking changes. However, it might be that Home Assistant will not start for you because of an invalid configuration. A common mistake that people are making is that they are still referring to <code>execute_service</code> in their script configs. This should be <code>service</code>.</p>
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<time datetime="2016-02-09T07:44:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> February 09, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Jeremiah Wuenschel and St. John Johnson</span>
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<p><em>This is a guest post by Home Assistant users <a href="https://github.com/jer">Jeremiah Wuenschel</a> and <a href="https://github.com/stjohnjohnson">St. John Johnson</a>.</em></p>
<p>So you own a <a href="http://smartthings.com">SmartThings</a> Hub. You probably bought it when you were looking to get into the whole Home Automation hobby because it worked with pretty much everything and offered you the ability to automate <strong>anything.</strong> After a week of ownership, you realized that building dashboards and automating required writing way more Groovy then you expected. Then one day you were browsing <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation">reddit</a> and discovered the amazingness that is Home Assistant! A solution that offered dashboards, graphs, working support for Nest, and REAL EASY automation!</p>
<p>You spent your weekend getting everything set up, showing it off to your significant other, but in the end you got stumped when it came to integrating with all your existing SmartThings toys. What do I do now? Should I buy another hub? Should I just buy a Z-Wave stick?</p>
<p>That’s where we came in. We wanted a solution that can bridge the awesomeness of Home Assistant with the SmartThings hub that works with almost everything.</p>
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<p><em>This is a guest post by Home Assistant users <a href="https://github.com/jer">Jeremiah Wuenschel</a> and <a href="https://github.com/stjohnjohnson">St. John Johnson</a>.</em></p>
<p>So you own a <a href="http://smartthings.com">SmartThings</a> Hub. You probably bought it when you were looking to get into the whole Home Automation hobby because it worked with pretty much everything and offered you the ability to automate <strong>anything.</strong> After a week of ownership, you realized that building dashboards and automating required writing way more Groovy then you expected. Then one day you were browsing <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation">reddit</a> and discovered the amazingness that is Home Assistant! A solution that offered dashboards, graphs, working support for Nest, and REAL EASY automation!</p>
<p>You spent your weekend getting everything set up, showing it off to your significant other, but in the end you got stumped when it came to integrating with all your existing SmartThings toys. What do I do now? Should I buy another hub? Should I just buy a Z-Wave stick?</p>
<p>That’s where we came in. We wanted a solution that can bridge the awesomeness of Home Assistant with the SmartThings hub that works with almost everything.</p>
<p class="img">
<img src="/images/blog/2016-02-smartthings/splash.png" />
</p>
<a class="btn pull-right" href="/blog/2016/02/09/smarter-smart-things-with-mqtt-and-home-assistant/#read-more">Read on &rarr;</a>
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<time datetime="2015-12-05T23:39:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> December 5, 2015</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p>From time to time we come along things that are worth sharing with fellow Home Assisters. Here a list of some cool stuff from last week:</p>
<p>First is the public beta of <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/">Let’s Encrypt</a>. Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority that is free, automated and open. This means that it will now be very easy to secure your connection to Home Assistant while you are away from home. W1ll1am23 has written up <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/homeassistant-nginx-ssl-proxy-setup/53">a guide how to get started</a>.</p>
<p>The next thing is a show-off of some of the cool stuff people do with Home Assistant. This is miniconfig talking to Home Assistant using the Amazon Echo!</p>
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<p>And last but not least, Midwestern Mac did a <a href="http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-microsd-card">microSD card performance comparison</a> for the Raspberry Pi. If you’re using a Pi, make sure to check it out!</p>
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<p>From time to time we come along things that are worth sharing with fellow Home Assisters. Here a list of some cool stuff from last week:</p>
<p>First is the public beta of <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/">Let’s Encrypt</a>. Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority that is free, automated and open. This means that it will now be very easy to secure your connection to Home Assistant while you are away from home. W1ll1am23 has written up <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/homeassistant-nginx-ssl-proxy-setup/53">a guide how to get started</a>.</p>
<p>The next thing is a show-off of some of the cool stuff people do with Home Assistant. This is miniconfig talking to Home Assistant using the Amazon Echo!</p>
<div class="videoWrapper">
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9QQjklnSQKY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
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<p>And last but not least, Midwestern Mac did a <a href="http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-microsd-card">microSD card performance comparison</a> for the Raspberry Pi. If you’re using a Pi, make sure to check it out!</p>
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<time datetime="2015-09-11T09:19:38+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> September 11, 2015</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Fabian Affolter</span>
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<p><img src="/images/supported_brands/mqtt.png" style="border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right;" height="80" /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQTT">MQTT</a> support was added to Home Assistant recently. The <a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/mqtt/">MQTT component</a> will enable you to do all sort of things. Most likely you will use it to communicate with your devices. But Home Assistant doesn’t care where the data is coming from or is limited to real hardware as long as there is MQTT support. This means that it doesn’t matter if the data is coming from a human, a web service, or a device.</p>
<p>A great example is shown in a <a href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/2015/08/26/laundry-automation-with-moteino-mqtt-and-home-assistant/">Laundry Automation</a> post in this blog.</p>
<p>This post will give you a small overview of some other possibilities on how to use MQTT with Home Assistant.</p>
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<time datetime="2015-09-11T09:19:38+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> September 11, 2015</time>
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<p><img src="/images/supported_brands/mqtt.png" style="border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right;" height="80" /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQTT">MQTT</a> support was added to Home Assistant recently. The <a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/mqtt/">MQTT component</a> will enable you to do all sort of things. Most likely you will use it to communicate with your devices. But Home Assistant doesn’t care where the data is coming from or is limited to real hardware as long as there is MQTT support. This means that it doesn’t matter if the data is coming from a human, a web service, or a device.</p>
<p>A great example is shown in a <a href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/2015/08/26/laundry-automation-with-moteino-mqtt-and-home-assistant/">Laundry Automation</a> post in this blog.</p>
<p>This post will give you a small overview of some other possibilities on how to use MQTT with Home Assistant.</p>
<a class="btn pull-right" href="/blog/2015/09/11/different-ways-to-use-mqtt-with-home-assistant/#read-more">Read on &rarr;</a>
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<p>A new version of Home Assistant has just been pushed out. It contains bugfixes contributed by <a href="https://github.com/jamespcole">jamespcole</a>, <a href="https://github.com/andythigpen">andythigpen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/trainman419">trainman419</a> and <a href="https://github.com/balloob">me</a>. It also adds a bunch of great new features:</p>
<p><strong>Script</strong><br />
Andythigpen has contributed a script component. This allows users to create a sequence of service calls and delays. Scripts can be started using the service <code>script/turn_on</code> and interrupted using the service <code>script/turn_off</code>. A separate page has been added to the frontend to see the status of your scripts.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">script</span>:
<span class="comment"># Turns on the bedroom lights and then the living room lights 1 minute later</span>
<span class="key">wakeup</span>:
<span class="key">alias</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">Wake Up</span></span>
<span class="key">sequence</span>:
- <span class="string"><span class="content">alias: Bedroom lights on</span></span>
<span class="key">execute_service</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">light.turn_on</span></span>
<span class="key">service_data</span>:
<span class="key">entity_id</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">group.bedroom</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">delay:</span><span class="content">
# supports seconds, milliseconds, minutes, hours, etc.
minutes: 1</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">alias: Living room lights on</span></span>
<span class="key">execute_service</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">light.turn_on</span></span>
<span class="key">service_data</span>:
<span class="key">entity_id</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">group.living_room</span></span>
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<p>A new version of Home Assistant has just been pushed out. It contains bugfixes contributed by <a href="https://github.com/jamespcole">jamespcole</a>, <a href="https://github.com/andythigpen">andythigpen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/trainman419">trainman419</a> and <a href="https://github.com/balloob">me</a>. It also adds a bunch of great new features:</p>
<p><strong>Script</strong><br />
Andythigpen has contributed a script component. This allows users to create a sequence of service calls and delays. Scripts can be started using the service <code>script/turn_on</code> and interrupted using the service <code>script/turn_off</code>. A separate page has been added to the frontend to see the status of your scripts.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">script</span>:
<span class="comment"># Turns on the bedroom lights and then the living room lights 1 minute later</span>
<span class="key">wakeup</span>:
<span class="key">alias</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">Wake Up</span></span>
<span class="key">sequence</span>:
- <span class="string"><span class="content">alias: Bedroom lights on</span></span>
<span class="key">execute_service</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">light.turn_on</span></span>
<span class="key">service_data</span>:
<span class="key">entity_id</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">group.bedroom</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">delay:</span><span class="content">
# supports seconds, milliseconds, minutes, hours, etc.
minutes: 1</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">alias: Living room lights on</span></span>
<span class="key">execute_service</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">light.turn_on</span></span>
<span class="key">service_data</span>:
<span class="key">entity_id</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">group.living_room</span></span>
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<time datetime="2014-12-26T18:23:13+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> December 26, 2014</time>
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<p>The internet has been buzzing over the last year about home automation. A lot of different terms fly around like the internet of things, home automation and the smart home.<br />
This article will try to explain how they all relate.</p>
<p>The first thing to introduce is the <strong>Internet of Things</strong> (IoT). This refers to a new generation of devices that cannot only be controlled by humans via buttons or remotes but also provide an interface to communicate with other devices and applications. For example, an IoT-capable coffee machine could receive commands to create different types of coffee and be able to broadcast the amount of water left in its resevoir.</p>
<p>There is no widely adopted open standard for smart device communication. This prevents a lot of devices to communicate with one another. And even if they could, most devices are not designed to manage other devices. To solve this we need a device to be able to communicate with and manage all these connected devices. This device is called a <strong>hub</strong>.</p>
<p>As a bare minimum a hub has to keep track of the state of each device and should be able to control them if possible. For example, it has to know which lights are on or off and offer a way to control the lights. For a sensor it only has to know the value. A hub with these capabilities offers <strong>home control</strong>.</p>
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Example of a hub’s dashboard. Showing the state of 2 persons, 4 lights and the sun.
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<p>The internet has been buzzing over the last year about home automation. A lot of different terms fly around like the internet of things, home automation and the smart home.<br />
This article will try to explain how they all relate.</p>
<p>The first thing to introduce is the <strong>Internet of Things</strong> (IoT). This refers to a new generation of devices that cannot only be controlled by humans via buttons or remotes but also provide an interface to communicate with other devices and applications. For example, an IoT-capable coffee machine could receive commands to create different types of coffee and be able to broadcast the amount of water left in its resevoir.</p>
<p>There is no widely adopted open standard for smart device communication. This prevents a lot of devices to communicate with one another. And even if they could, most devices are not designed to manage other devices. To solve this we need a device to be able to communicate with and manage all these connected devices. This device is called a <strong>hub</strong>.</p>
<p>As a bare minimum a hub has to keep track of the state of each device and should be able to control them if possible. For example, it has to know which lights are on or off and offer a way to control the lights. For a sensor it only has to know the value. A hub with these capabilities offers <strong>home control</strong>.</p>
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<img alt="Hub dashboard example" src="/images/screenshots/nexus_7_dashboard.png" />
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Example of a hub’s dashboard. Showing the state of 2 persons, 4 lights and the sun.
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