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<time datetime="2016-04-07T06:28:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> April 7, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Fabian Affolter</span>
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<p>The frontend of Home Assistant is served with the help of a local web server. If you have <a href="/getting-started/devices/#customizing-devices-and-services">customized</a> your installation you already use this functionality. The content of your folder <code>www</code> in your Home Assistant configuration directory (<code>.homeassistant</code>) is available under <code>/local</code> (eg. <a href="https://localhost:8123/local">https://localhost:8123/local</a>).</p>
<p>But there is more you can do! You can not only host images for customization there but HTML files or even web applications including CSS and Javascript.</p>
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<time datetime="2016-01-30T08:22:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> January 30, 2016</time>
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<p>Another sprint has come to an end and it seems that we have not slowed down a single bit 🚀. 0.12 is full of new components, platforms and organizational additions.</p>
<p>I would like to give a shout out to <a href="https://github.com/pavoni">Greg Dowling (@pavoni)</a> as every release includes new work from him. He is constantly adding support for new platforms or improving the reliablity of existing components and platforms. Keep up the good work!</p>
<p>This release includes a very frequent requested feature: the ability to organize entities in different tabs in the frontend. See <a href="/demo/">the demo</a> to see this in action and read more in the <a href="/components/group/">group documentation</a> how to get started.</p>
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<a href="/demo/"><img src="/images/blog/2016-01-release-12/views.png" /></a>
Example of the new views in the frontend. <a href="/components/group/">Learn more.</a>
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<p><img src="/images/supported_brands/insteon.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/lifx.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/twitter.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/zigbee.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/google_voice.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /></p>
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<li>Binary sensor: <a href="/components/binary_sensor.command/">command sensor</a> added (<a href="https://github.com/Bart274">@Bart274</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/nest/">Nest</a> support extended to include sensors and binary sensors (<a href="https://github.com/joshughes">@joshughes</a>)</li>
<li>Light: <a href="/components/light.lifx/">LIFX</a> platform added (<a href="https://github.com/TangoAlpha">@TangoAlpha</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: <a href="/components/notify.twitter/">Twitter</a> platform added (<a href="https://github.com/HydrelioxGitHub">@HydrelioxGitHub</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.template/">Template</a> platform added (<a href="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a>)</li>
<li>Switch: <a href="/components/wink/">Wink</a> platform now supports sirens (<a href="https://github.com/w1ll1am23">@w1ll1am23</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/insteon_hub/">Insteon hub</a> support added (<a href="https://github.com/FreekingDean">@FreekingDean</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/statsd/">Statsd</a> component added (<a href="https://github.com/michaelkuty">@michaelkuty</a>)</li>
<li>Light: <a href="/components/light.rfxtrx/">Rfxtrx</a> platform now supports dimming (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Time scheduling (including <a href="/getting-started/automation-trigger/#time-trigger">time automation</a>) now works with intervals (ie. <code>/5</code>) (<a href="https://github.com/kennedyshead">@kennedyshead</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.onewire/">onewire</a> support added (<a href="https://github.com/deisi">@deisi</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/zigbee/">Zigbee</a> support added (<a href="https://github.com/flyte">@flyte</a>)</li>
<li>Device Tracker: <a href="/components/device_tracker.owntracks/">OwnTracks</a> can now track iBeacons (<a href="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: <a href="/components/notify.google_voice/">Google Voice SMS</a> platform added (<a href="https://github.com/w1ll1am23">@w1ll1am23</a>)</li>
<li>Toggle service added to <code>homeassistant</code>, <code>switch</code>, <code>light</code> and <code>media_player</code> (<a href="https://github.com/rmkraus">@rmkraus</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/thermostat/">Thermostat</a> services added to control fans (<a href="https://github.com/auchter">@auchter</a>)</li>
<li>Improved Python automation: Event helpers are now also available as decorators for custom components (<a href="https://github.com/rmkraus">@rmkraus</a>)</li>
<li>Frontend: support added for tabs to show <a href="/components/group/">different views</a> of your house (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Bugfixes by <a href="https://github.com/molobrakos">@molobrakos</a>, <a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare">@MartinHjelmare</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a>, <a href="https://github.com/trollkarlen">@trollkarlen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/zmrow">@zmrow</a>, <a href="https://github.com/maddox">@maddox</a>, <a href="https://github.com/persandstrom">@persandstrom</a>, <a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc">@happyleavesaoc</a>, <a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>, <a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>, <a href="https://github.com/stefan-jonasson">@stefan-jonasson</a>, <a href="https://github.com/haraldnagel">@haraldnagel</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Backwards incompatible changes</h3>
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<li>Nest config has moved from thermostat to the <a href="/components/nest/">Nest component</a>.</li>
<li>Entity IDs for Z-Wave devices are now generated in a deterministic way causing all IDs to change starting this release. This is a one time change.</li>
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<time datetime="2016-01-30T08:22:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> January 30, 2016</time>
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<p>Another sprint has come to an end and it seems that we have not slowed down a single bit 🚀. 0.12 is full of new components, platforms and organizational additions.</p>
<p>I would like to give a shout out to <a href="https://github.com/pavoni">Greg Dowling (@pavoni)</a> as every release includes new work from him. He is constantly adding support for new platforms or improving the reliablity of existing components and platforms. Keep up the good work!</p>
<p>This release includes a very frequent requested feature: the ability to organize entities in different tabs in the frontend. See <a href="/demo/">the demo</a> to see this in action and read more in the <a href="/components/group/">group documentation</a> how to get started.</p>
<p class="img">
<a href="/demo/"><img src="/images/blog/2016-01-release-12/views.png" /></a>
Example of the new views in the frontend. <a href="/components/group/">Learn more.</a>
</p>
<p><img src="/images/supported_brands/insteon.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/lifx.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/twitter.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/zigbee.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/google_voice.png" style="clear: right; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="150" /></p>
<ul>
<li>Binary sensor: <a href="/components/binary_sensor.command/">command sensor</a> added (<a href="https://github.com/Bart274">@Bart274</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/nest/">Nest</a> support extended to include sensors and binary sensors (<a href="https://github.com/joshughes">@joshughes</a>)</li>
<li>Light: <a href="/components/light.lifx/">LIFX</a> platform added (<a href="https://github.com/TangoAlpha">@TangoAlpha</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: <a href="/components/notify.twitter/">Twitter</a> platform added (<a href="https://github.com/HydrelioxGitHub">@HydrelioxGitHub</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.template/">Template</a> platform added (<a href="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a>)</li>
<li>Switch: <a href="/components/wink/">Wink</a> platform now supports sirens (<a href="https://github.com/w1ll1am23">@w1ll1am23</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/insteon_hub/">Insteon hub</a> support added (<a href="https://github.com/FreekingDean">@FreekingDean</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/statsd/">Statsd</a> component added (<a href="https://github.com/michaelkuty">@michaelkuty</a>)</li>
<li>Light: <a href="/components/light.rfxtrx/">Rfxtrx</a> platform now supports dimming (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Time scheduling (including <a href="/getting-started/automation-trigger/#time-trigger">time automation</a>) now works with intervals (ie. <code>/5</code>) (<a href="https://github.com/kennedyshead">@kennedyshead</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.onewire/">onewire</a> support added (<a href="https://github.com/deisi">@deisi</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/zigbee/">Zigbee</a> support added (<a href="https://github.com/flyte">@flyte</a>)</li>
<li>Device Tracker: <a href="/components/device_tracker.owntracks/">OwnTracks</a> can now track iBeacons (<a href="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: <a href="/components/notify.google_voice/">Google Voice SMS</a> platform added (<a href="https://github.com/w1ll1am23">@w1ll1am23</a>)</li>
<li>Toggle service added to <code>homeassistant</code>, <code>switch</code>, <code>light</code> and <code>media_player</code> (<a href="https://github.com/rmkraus">@rmkraus</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/thermostat/">Thermostat</a> services added to control fans (<a href="https://github.com/auchter">@auchter</a>)</li>
<li>Improved Python automation: Event helpers are now also available as decorators for custom components (<a href="https://github.com/rmkraus">@rmkraus</a>)</li>
<li>Frontend: support added for tabs to show <a href="/components/group/">different views</a> of your house (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Bugfixes by <a href="https://github.com/molobrakos">@molobrakos</a>, <a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare">@MartinHjelmare</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a>, <a href="https://github.com/trollkarlen">@trollkarlen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/zmrow">@zmrow</a>, <a href="https://github.com/maddox">@maddox</a>, <a href="https://github.com/persandstrom">@persandstrom</a>, <a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc">@happyleavesaoc</a>, <a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>, <a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>, <a href="https://github.com/stefan-jonasson">@stefan-jonasson</a>, <a href="https://github.com/haraldnagel">@haraldnagel</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Backwards incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Nest config has moved from thermostat to the <a href="/components/nest/">Nest component</a>.</li>
<li>Entity IDs for Z-Wave devices are now generated in a deterministic way causing all IDs to change starting this release. This is a one time change.</li>
</ul>
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<p><img src="/images/blog/2015-11-survey/releases.png" style="float: right; margin-left: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" height="120" />Around a week ago we started with the first survey. Now 30 people have participated. Thank you very much if you did. We think that’s enough time to have some “only partially representative” data. It’s hard to tell how many Home Assistant users are out there. Currently there are 215 members in our <a href="https://gitter.im/balloob/home-assistant">Gitter chat room</a> and last week <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/homeassistant/">PyPI</a> counted 5063 downloads.</p>
<p>The idea was to anonymously collect some details about the usage of the different parts of Home Assistant and a little bit about the environment its running in.</p>
<a class="btn pull-right" href="/blog/2015/11/22/survey-november-2015/#read-more">Read on &rarr;</a>
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<p><img src="/images/blog/2015-11-survey/releases.png" style="float: right; margin-left: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" height="120" />Around a week ago we started with the first survey. Now 30 people have participated. Thank you very much if you did. We think that’s enough time to have some “only partially representative” data. It’s hard to tell how many Home Assistant users are out there. Currently there are 215 members in our <a href="https://gitter.im/balloob/home-assistant">Gitter chat room</a> and last week <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/homeassistant/">PyPI</a> counted 5063 downloads.</p>
<p>The idea was to anonymously collect some details about the usage of the different parts of Home Assistant and a little bit about the environment its running in.</p>
<a class="btn pull-right" href="/blog/2015/11/22/survey-november-2015/#read-more">Read on &rarr;</a>
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<time datetime="2015-08-31T21:12:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> August 31, 2015</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p>As Home Assistant is gaining more and more users we started to feel the pain from not having a proper release mechanism. We had no version numbering and required users to checkout the source using Git to get started. On top of that, as the number of devices that we support keeps raising, so did the number of dependencies that are used. That’s why we decided to change the way we roll. From now on:</p>
<ul>
<li>Each release will have a version number, starting with version 0.7. This was chosen because it shows that we have been around for some time but are not considering ourselves to be fully stable.</li>
<li>Each release will be pushed to PyPi. This will be the only supported method of distribution.</li>
<li>Home Assistant is available after installation as a command-line utility <code>hass</code>.</li>
<li>The default configuration location has been moved from <code>config</code> in the current working directory to <code>~/.homeassistant</code> (<code>%APPDATA%/.homeassistant</code> on Windows).</li>
<li>Requirements for components and platforms are no longer installed into the current Python environment (being virtual or not) but will be installed in <code>&lt;config-dir&gt;/lib</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p>A huge shout out to <a href="https://github.com/rmkraus">Ryan Kraus</a> for making this all possible. Please make sure you read <a href="/blog/2015/08/31/version-7-revamped-ui-and-improved-distribution/#read-more">the full blog post</a> for details on how to migrate your existing setup.</p>
<p>And while Ryan was fixing distribution, I have been hard at work in giving Home Assistant a face lift. We already looked pretty good but lacked proper form of organization for users with many devices. The new UI moves away from a card per entity and has cards per group and domain instead. <a href="/demo/">The demo</a> has been updated so give it a spin.</p>
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<p>As Home Assistant is gaining more and more users we started to feel the pain from not having a proper release mechanism. We had no version numbering and required users to checkout the source using Git to get started. On top of that, as the number of devices that we support keeps raising, so did the number of dependencies that are used. That’s why we decided to change the way we roll. From now on:</p>
<ul>
<li>Each release will have a version number, starting with version 0.7. This was chosen because it shows that we have been around for some time but are not considering ourselves to be fully stable.</li>
<li>Each release will be pushed to PyPi. This will be the only supported method of distribution.</li>
<li>Home Assistant is available after installation as a command-line utility <code>hass</code>.</li>
<li>The default configuration location has been moved from <code>config</code> in the current working directory to <code>~/.homeassistant</code> (<code>%APPDATA%/.homeassistant</code> on Windows).</li>
<li>Requirements for components and platforms are no longer installed into the current Python environment (being virtual or not) but will be installed in <code>&lt;config-dir&gt;/lib</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p>A huge shout out to <a href="https://github.com/rmkraus">Ryan Kraus</a> for making this all possible. Please make sure you read <a href="/blog/2015/08/31/version-7-revamped-ui-and-improved-distribution/#read-more">the full blog post</a> for details on how to migrate your existing setup.</p>
<p>And while Ryan was fixing distribution, I have been hard at work in giving Home Assistant a face lift. We already looked pretty good but lacked proper form of organization for users with many devices. The new UI moves away from a card per entity and has cards per group and domain instead. <a href="/demo/">The demo</a> has been updated so give it a spin.</p>
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<p>It has only been a little over a week since Theodor introduced YAML support for Home Assistant but so much has already happened that it is time for a summary of recent changes. Before mentioning the highlights I want to thank <a href="https://github.com/andythigpen">andythigpen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jamespcole">jamespcole</a> and <a href="https://github.com/theolind">theolind</a> for numerous bug fixes, enhancements and new contributions. Thanks!</p>
<p><strong>Monitor local resources.</strong><br /><br />
Theodor has contributed a new sensor platform to allow you to monitor disk usage, memory usage, CPU usage and running processes. This platform has superseded the process component which is now considered deprecated.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">sensor</span>:
- <span class="string"><span class="content">platform: systemmonitor</span></span>
<span class="key">resources</span>:
- <span class="string"><span class="content">type: disk_use_percent</span></span>
<span class="key">arg</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">/home</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">type: memory_free</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">type: process</span></span>
<span class="key">arg</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">kodi</span></span>
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<p><strong>Experimental Z-Wave support</strong><br /><br />
There is now experimental support for connecting Z-Wave networks using a Z-Wave USB stick. Right now it only integrates Z-Wave sensors into Home Assistant. Our goal is to get this tested by more people before adding support for other Z-Wave devices.</p>
<p>The new component is built on top of <a href="https://code.google.com/p/python-openzwave/">python-openzwave</a>. This package is currently not distributed on PyPi so we’ve added a script <code>scripts/build_python_openzwave</code> to install it on your machine. Alternatively you can use the Docker image which is ready to go.</p>
<p>The development was done using an AEON Z-Wave USB stick and an AEON Z-Wave MultiSensor.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">zwave</span>:
<span class="key">usb_path</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">/dev/ttyUSB0</span></span>
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<p><strong>Voice control</strong><br /><br />
An initial version of voice control for Home Assistant has landed. The current implementation consists of two parts.</p>
<p>The first part is a component called <code>conversation</code> that exposes the service <code>conversation/process</code>. This service is capable of processing text and translating them into commands for devices. For now it will only support commands in the format of <code>Turn &lt;Friendly Name&gt; &lt;on/off&gt;</code>.</p>
<p>The second part is an upgrade to the frontend to use the speech-to-text in Chrome to allow users to speak commands. If you’re using Chrome, you can test this out in <a href="/demo/">the demo</a>.</p>
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<span class="key">conversation</span>:
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<p>It has only been a little over a week since Theodor introduced YAML support for Home Assistant but so much has already happened that it is time for a summary of recent changes. Before mentioning the highlights I want to thank <a href="https://github.com/andythigpen">andythigpen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jamespcole">jamespcole</a> and <a href="https://github.com/theolind">theolind</a> for numerous bug fixes, enhancements and new contributions. Thanks!</p>
<p><strong>Monitor local resources.</strong><br /><br />
Theodor has contributed a new sensor platform to allow you to monitor disk usage, memory usage, CPU usage and running processes. This platform has superseded the process component which is now considered deprecated.</p>
<div class="highlighter-coderay"><div class="CodeRay">
<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">sensor</span>:
- <span class="string"><span class="content">platform: systemmonitor</span></span>
<span class="key">resources</span>:
- <span class="string"><span class="content">type: disk_use_percent</span></span>
<span class="key">arg</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">/home</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">type: memory_free</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">type: process</span></span>
<span class="key">arg</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">kodi</span></span>
</pre></div>
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<p><strong>Experimental Z-Wave support</strong><br /><br />
There is now experimental support for connecting Z-Wave networks using a Z-Wave USB stick. Right now it only integrates Z-Wave sensors into Home Assistant. Our goal is to get this tested by more people before adding support for other Z-Wave devices.</p>
<p>The new component is built on top of <a href="https://code.google.com/p/python-openzwave/">python-openzwave</a>. This package is currently not distributed on PyPi so we’ve added a script <code>scripts/build_python_openzwave</code> to install it on your machine. Alternatively you can use the Docker image which is ready to go.</p>
<p>The development was done using an AEON Z-Wave USB stick and an AEON Z-Wave MultiSensor.</p>
<div class="highlighter-coderay"><div class="CodeRay">
<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">zwave</span>:
<span class="key">usb_path</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">/dev/ttyUSB0</span></span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<p><strong>Voice control</strong><br /><br />
An initial version of voice control for Home Assistant has landed. The current implementation consists of two parts.</p>
<p>The first part is a component called <code>conversation</code> that exposes the service <code>conversation/process</code>. This service is capable of processing text and translating them into commands for devices. For now it will only support commands in the format of <code>Turn &lt;Friendly Name&gt; &lt;on/off&gt;</code>.</p>
<p>The second part is an upgrade to the frontend to use the speech-to-text in Chrome to allow users to speak commands. If you’re using Chrome, you can test this out in <a href="/demo/">the demo</a>.</p>
<div class="highlighter-coderay"><div class="CodeRay">
<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">conversation</span>:
</pre></div>
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