diff --git a/atom.xml b/atom.xml index 62ee5ebe2a..4fbf778550 100644 --- a/atom.xml +++ b/atom.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <![CDATA[Home Assistant]]> - 2016-10-24T15:41:02+00:00 + 2016-10-25T04:38:50+00:00 https://home-assistant.io/ @@ -13,6 +13,56 @@ Octopress + + <![CDATA[Explaining the Updater]]> + + 2016-10-25T04:30:00+00:00 + https://home-assistant.io/blog/2016/10/25/explaining-the-updater + On Saturday, we released Home Assistant 0.31 which includes an improved updater component that checks for new versions using the Home Assistant servers. We wanted to update the community on its rollout and answer some questions that have come up. As part of the update check anonymous information about your operating system and Python version is submitted to Home Assistant servers unless you have opted out.

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Why we changed the updater

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This change was driven by two important factors.

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Improving the security of the users.

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As a user, you will be able to be notified if you are running a Home Assistant version that includes components that have known security flaws.

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Although we hope to not have to use this feature often, it is important for us to be able to reach out to impacted users. We had the need for such a feature once in the past. Due to a bug the forecast.io sensor was making a huge amount of API requests causing some of our users to get charged because they went over the free quota.

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Please note that this functionality is not done yet but will be available in a future release.

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Focusing our resources where it matters

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As developers of Home Assistant, we will be able to see in what kind of environments Home Assistant is running. Here’s a few data points we didn’t have until now:

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  • Total number of instances
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  • Which operating systems versions and flavors are in use
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  • Python version
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  • What option is more popular: Docker, Virtualenv or bare metal installs?
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  • How popular is our new Raspberry Pi image?
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Why we look up your IP address with GeoIP

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We store the city so that we can see where our users are from. This information will be used to give us a better insight in where our users are from. This will help us gather data to see if we should for example prioritize internationalization. In addition, we previously had a nasty bug with the sun component in which users above a certain latitude were having crashes multiple times a day. Had the updater component been in place we could have targeted a special priority update notification only to them.

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As stated in the release blog post, the location information is not provided by your local Home Assistant installation but is instead gathered by comparing your IP address against the GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind. From their documentation:

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IP geolocation is inherently imprecise. Locations are often near the center of the population. Any location provided by a GeoIP database should not be used to identify a particular address or household.

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Why is it enabled by default

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We decided to have it enabled by default because we consider the information that is gathered not harmful. We understand that not everyone will agree with us and so we have provided multiple ways to opt out.

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It is in our short-term planning to add an option to control this to our frontend.

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Source Code

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The source code of our updater AWS Lambda function is now available here.

+ +]]> + + <![CDATA[0.31: Reading you the news, some serious business, spooky hackery and a breaking Z-Wave change]]> @@ -2117,70 +2167,6 @@ Over a year ago I participated in the - - 2016-07-01T00:31:00+00:00 - https://home-assistant.io/blog/2016/07/01/envisalink-homematic-hdmi-cec-and-sony-bravia-tv - It’s time for Home Assistant 0.23 and it’s full of goodies. It’s also the release that bumps us over a 1000 tests and to 94% test coverage! Also our install issues on the Raspberry Pi and Synology have been resolved.

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This release brings support for two new ecosystems: Envisalink and Homematic. We can now also control your TV via HDMI using HDMI-CEC (which works on the Pi!) and another cool feature is the persistent notifications which allow you to add a notification to the frontend till dismissed.

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Wink support has been dramatically improved by migrating to the PubNub API. This allows Wink to push changes from their system to Home Assistant. This change came just in time as somehow our Wink integration was causing a lot of requests to their servers. Thanks to Wink for letting us know so we could solve it instead of blocking us.

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On the config side, you can now store your passwords in your OS keyring or just in a standalone file. We also got a new service to reload the core config so no reboots needed anymore after changing customize settings!

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Breaking changes

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Hotfix 0.23.1 - July 2

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FAQ

- - - ]]> diff --git a/blog/2014/12/18/website-launched/index.html b/blog/2014/12/18/website-launched/index.html index 5a324b3da4..087a1e2a3c 100644 --- a/blog/2014/12/18/website-launched/index.html +++ b/blog/2014/12/18/website-launched/index.html @@ -169,6 +169,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2014/12/26/home-control-home-automation-and-the-smart-home/index.html b/blog/2014/12/26/home-control-home-automation-and-the-smart-home/index.html index d353c509ff..2f8de922c3 100644 --- a/blog/2014/12/26/home-control-home-automation-and-the-smart-home/index.html +++ b/blog/2014/12/26/home-control-home-automation-and-the-smart-home/index.html @@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ This article will try to explain how they all relate.

diff --git a/blog/2015/01/04/hey-pushbullet-nice-talking-to-you/index.html b/blog/2015/01/04/hey-pushbullet-nice-talking-to-you/index.html index a6c9559959..10e33d3458 100644 --- a/blog/2015/01/04/hey-pushbullet-nice-talking-to-you/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/01/04/hey-pushbullet-nice-talking-to-you/index.html @@ -204,6 +204,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/01/11/bootstrapping-your-setup-with-discovery/index.html b/blog/2015/01/11/bootstrapping-your-setup-with-discovery/index.html index 34032701a1..04d59f9006 100644 --- a/blog/2015/01/11/bootstrapping-your-setup-with-discovery/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/01/11/bootstrapping-your-setup-with-discovery/index.html @@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/01/13/nest-in-da-house/index.html b/blog/2015/01/13/nest-in-da-house/index.html index 946a13cda9..0ec2215778 100644 --- a/blog/2015/01/13/nest-in-da-house/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/01/13/nest-in-da-house/index.html @@ -184,6 +184,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/01/24/release-notes/index.html b/blog/2015/01/24/release-notes/index.html index a51e215265..8c7a4e7dcc 100644 --- a/blog/2015/01/24/release-notes/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/01/24/release-notes/index.html @@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ Home Assistant now supports --open-ui and diff --git a/blog/2015/02/08/looking-at-the-past/index.html b/blog/2015/02/08/looking-at-the-past/index.html index 9f2f5b0f47..c60fe59ea9 100644 --- a/blog/2015/02/08/looking-at-the-past/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/02/08/looking-at-the-past/index.html @@ -200,6 +200,12 @@ Events are saved in a local database. Google Graphs is used to draw the graph. D diff --git a/blog/2015/02/24/streaming-updates/index.html b/blog/2015/02/24/streaming-updates/index.html index 7ff0d981e4..e85d78c662 100644 --- a/blog/2015/02/24/streaming-updates/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/02/24/streaming-updates/index.html @@ -185,6 +185,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/03/01/home-assistant-migrating-to-yaml/index.html b/blog/2015/03/01/home-assistant-migrating-to-yaml/index.html index 7ed7cb79d2..f583944579 100644 --- a/blog/2015/03/01/home-assistant-migrating-to-yaml/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/03/01/home-assistant-migrating-to-yaml/index.html @@ -175,6 +175,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/03/08/new-logo/index.html b/blog/2015/03/08/new-logo/index.html index c7f58fd26d..57e7e9940d 100644 --- a/blog/2015/03/08/new-logo/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/03/08/new-logo/index.html @@ -176,6 +176,12 @@ The old logo, the new detailed logo and the new simple logo. diff --git a/blog/2015/03/11/release-notes/index.html b/blog/2015/03/11/release-notes/index.html index a6e7c5ab34..2b77871048 100644 --- a/blog/2015/03/11/release-notes/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/03/11/release-notes/index.html @@ -209,6 +209,12 @@ An initial version of voice control for Home Assistant has landed. The current i diff --git a/blog/2015/03/22/release-notes/index.html b/blog/2015/03/22/release-notes/index.html index 7b54680b1b..5f9653d77c 100644 --- a/blog/2015/03/22/release-notes/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/03/22/release-notes/index.html @@ -244,6 +244,12 @@ I (Paulus) have contributed a scene component. A user can create scenes that cap diff --git a/blog/2015/04/25/release-notes/index.html b/blog/2015/04/25/release-notes/index.html index 40915ebcc3..e79a5447ae 100644 --- a/blog/2015/04/25/release-notes/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/04/25/release-notes/index.html @@ -255,6 +255,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/05/09/utc-time-zone-awareness/index.html b/blog/2015/05/09/utc-time-zone-awareness/index.html index 50b526c413..0fd27643c5 100644 --- a/blog/2015/05/09/utc-time-zone-awareness/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/05/09/utc-time-zone-awareness/index.html @@ -196,6 +196,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/05/14/release-notes/index.html b/blog/2015/05/14/release-notes/index.html index 477098a742..8bf5c86ba7 100644 --- a/blog/2015/05/14/release-notes/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/05/14/release-notes/index.html @@ -276,6 +276,12 @@ Before diving into the newly supported devices and services, I want to highlight diff --git a/blog/2015/06/10/release-notes/index.html b/blog/2015/06/10/release-notes/index.html index b9741a273b..7a066616f9 100644 --- a/blog/2015/06/10/release-notes/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/06/10/release-notes/index.html @@ -327,6 +327,12 @@ This switch platform allows you to control your motion detection setting on your diff --git a/blog/2015/07/11/ip-cameras-arduino-kodi-efergy-support/index.html b/blog/2015/07/11/ip-cameras-arduino-kodi-efergy-support/index.html index 4c3c7bd5e6..1421d17731 100644 --- a/blog/2015/07/11/ip-cameras-arduino-kodi-efergy-support/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/07/11/ip-cameras-arduino-kodi-efergy-support/index.html @@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ Fabian has added support for Forecast.io to g diff --git a/blog/2015/08/09/mqtt-raspberry-pi-squeezebox-asuswrt-support/index.html b/blog/2015/08/09/mqtt-raspberry-pi-squeezebox-asuswrt-support/index.html index b98d99b55a..47bb4c63ba 100644 --- a/blog/2015/08/09/mqtt-raspberry-pi-squeezebox-asuswrt-support/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/08/09/mqtt-raspberry-pi-squeezebox-asuswrt-support/index.html @@ -268,6 +268,12 @@ Support for Temper temperature sensors has been contributed by +
  • + Explaining the Updater +
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  • 0.31: Reading you the news, some serious business, spooky hackery and a breaking Z-Wave change
    • @@ -291,12 +297,6 @@ Support for Temper temperature sensors has been contributed by - 0.29: 🎈 Async, SleepIQ, OpenALPR, EmonCMS, stocks, and plants - - - diff --git a/blog/2015/08/17/verisure-and-modern-tp-link-router-support/index.html b/blog/2015/08/17/verisure-and-modern-tp-link-router-support/index.html index 1eb4a69418..1adba780d9 100644 --- a/blog/2015/08/17/verisure-and-modern-tp-link-router-support/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/08/17/verisure-and-modern-tp-link-router-support/index.html @@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/08/26/laundry-automation-with-moteino-mqtt-and-home-assistant/index.html b/blog/2015/08/26/laundry-automation-with-moteino-mqtt-and-home-assistant/index.html index 34199888e1..798d8dc100 100644 --- a/blog/2015/08/26/laundry-automation-with-moteino-mqtt-and-home-assistant/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/08/26/laundry-automation-with-moteino-mqtt-and-home-assistant/index.html @@ -305,6 +305,12 @@ The automation and script syntax here is using a deprecated and no longer suppor diff --git a/blog/2015/08/31/version-7-revamped-ui-and-improved-distribution/index.html b/blog/2015/08/31/version-7-revamped-ui-and-improved-distribution/index.html index a3a008362d..18049bb59b 100644 --- a/blog/2015/08/31/version-7-revamped-ui-and-improved-distribution/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/08/31/version-7-revamped-ui-and-improved-distribution/index.html @@ -269,6 +269,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/09/11/different-ways-to-use-mqtt-with-home-assistant/index.html b/blog/2015/09/11/different-ways-to-use-mqtt-with-home-assistant/index.html index d75877947d..45ff021d80 100644 --- a/blog/2015/09/11/different-ways-to-use-mqtt-with-home-assistant/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/09/11/different-ways-to-use-mqtt-with-home-assistant/index.html @@ -360,6 +360,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/09/13/home-assistant-meets-ifttt/index.html b/blog/2015/09/13/home-assistant-meets-ifttt/index.html index 41a6d986d2..c6f37df8c5 100644 --- a/blog/2015/09/13/home-assistant-meets-ifttt/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/09/13/home-assistant-meets-ifttt/index.html @@ -341,6 +341,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/09/18/monitoring-with-glances-and-home-assistant/index.html b/blog/2015/09/18/monitoring-with-glances-and-home-assistant/index.html index 2366226298..0cd52fcfef 100644 --- a/blog/2015/09/18/monitoring-with-glances-and-home-assistant/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/09/18/monitoring-with-glances-and-home-assistant/index.html @@ -234,6 +234,12 @@ Glances web server started on http://0.0.0.0:61208/ diff --git a/blog/2015/09/19/alarm-sonos-and-itunes-support/index.html b/blog/2015/09/19/alarm-sonos-and-itunes-support/index.html index 4d49ea112d..7a94c00276 100644 --- a/blog/2015/09/19/alarm-sonos-and-itunes-support/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/09/19/alarm-sonos-and-itunes-support/index.html @@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ Automation has gotten a lot of love. It now supports conditions, multiple trigge diff --git a/blog/2015/10/05/home-assistant-goes-geo-with-owntracks/index.html b/blog/2015/10/05/home-assistant-goes-geo-with-owntracks/index.html index d65274012b..fe301c1877 100644 --- a/blog/2015/10/05/home-assistant-goes-geo-with-owntracks/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/10/05/home-assistant-goes-geo-with-owntracks/index.html @@ -199,6 +199,12 @@ Map in Home Assistant showing two people and three zones (home, school, work) diff --git a/blog/2015/10/11/measure-temperature-with-esp8266-and-report-to-mqtt/index.html b/blog/2015/10/11/measure-temperature-with-esp8266-and-report-to-mqtt/index.html index 2b5a13ee00..af989ff9c4 100644 --- a/blog/2015/10/11/measure-temperature-with-esp8266-and-report-to-mqtt/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/10/11/measure-temperature-with-esp8266-and-report-to-mqtt/index.html @@ -408,6 +408,12 @@ Home Assistant will keep track of historical values and allow you to integrate i diff --git a/blog/2015/10/11/rfxtrx-blinkstick-and-snmp-support/index.html b/blog/2015/10/11/rfxtrx-blinkstick-and-snmp-support/index.html index b3e7411a0b..4fe5258850 100644 --- a/blog/2015/10/11/rfxtrx-blinkstick-and-snmp-support/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/10/11/rfxtrx-blinkstick-and-snmp-support/index.html @@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/10/26/firetv-and-radiotherm-now-supported/index.html b/blog/2015/10/26/firetv-and-radiotherm-now-supported/index.html index dbc6a187ae..3d625df32b 100644 --- a/blog/2015/10/26/firetv-and-radiotherm-now-supported/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/10/26/firetv-and-radiotherm-now-supported/index.html @@ -210,6 +210,12 @@ This makes more sense as most people run Home Assistant as a daemon

    diff --git a/blog/2015/11/16/zwave-switches-lights-and-honeywell-thermostats-now-supported/index.html b/blog/2015/11/16/zwave-switches-lights-and-honeywell-thermostats-now-supported/index.html index a395c97dff..02fdfca279 100644 --- a/blog/2015/11/16/zwave-switches-lights-and-honeywell-thermostats-now-supported/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/11/16/zwave-switches-lights-and-honeywell-thermostats-now-supported/index.html @@ -204,6 +204,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/11/22/survey-november-2015/index.html b/blog/2015/11/22/survey-november-2015/index.html index b8d57da817..f453f49b15 100644 --- a/blog/2015/11/22/survey-november-2015/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/11/22/survey-november-2015/index.html @@ -246,6 +246,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/12/05/community-highlights/index.html b/blog/2015/12/05/community-highlights/index.html index 3c24f812ee..cbb2ddc3d3 100644 --- a/blog/2015/12/05/community-highlights/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/12/05/community-highlights/index.html @@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/12/06/locks-rollershutters-binary-sensors-and-influxdb-support/index.html b/blog/2015/12/06/locks-rollershutters-binary-sensors-and-influxdb-support/index.html index bf9b6177cf..62fc8b271e 100644 --- a/blog/2015/12/06/locks-rollershutters-binary-sensors-and-influxdb-support/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/12/06/locks-rollershutters-binary-sensors-and-influxdb-support/index.html @@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2015/12/07/influxdb-and-grafana/index.html b/blog/2015/12/07/influxdb-and-grafana/index.html index 67b4ba5480..4636ed906e 100644 --- a/blog/2015/12/07/influxdb-and-grafana/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/12/07/influxdb-and-grafana/index.html @@ -263,6 +263,12 @@ name: binary_sensor diff --git a/blog/2015/12/10/activating-tasker-tasks-from-home-assistant-using-command-line-switches/index.html b/blog/2015/12/10/activating-tasker-tasks-from-home-assistant-using-command-line-switches/index.html index 8805445806..25675946e4 100644 --- a/blog/2015/12/10/activating-tasker-tasks-from-home-assistant-using-command-line-switches/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/12/10/activating-tasker-tasks-from-home-assistant-using-command-line-switches/index.html @@ -225,6 +225,12 @@ This is where we’ll configure our task, so select the plus icon to select an a diff --git a/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-blocks-3rd-party-bulbs/index.html b/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-blocks-3rd-party-bulbs/index.html index 7f6821d61b..c0ce9f4721 100644 --- a/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-blocks-3rd-party-bulbs/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-blocks-3rd-party-bulbs/index.html @@ -201,6 +201,12 @@ Philips Hue FAQ entries regarding 3rd party light bulbs. diff --git a/blog/2015/12/13/setup-encryption-using-lets-encrypt/index.html b/blog/2015/12/13/setup-encryption-using-lets-encrypt/index.html index b47dc3f8fd..60b95ae927 100644 --- a/blog/2015/12/13/setup-encryption-using-lets-encrypt/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/12/13/setup-encryption-using-lets-encrypt/index.html @@ -260,6 +260,12 @@ sudo docker run -it --rm -p 80:80 --name certbot \ diff --git a/blog/2015/12/22/amazon-echo-icloud-and-templates/index.html b/blog/2015/12/22/amazon-echo-icloud-and-templates/index.html index ac1702e3db..f191df66c9 100644 --- a/blog/2015/12/22/amazon-echo-icloud-and-templates/index.html +++ b/blog/2015/12/22/amazon-echo-icloud-and-templates/index.html @@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2016/01/17/extended-support-for-diy-solutions/index.html b/blog/2016/01/17/extended-support-for-diy-solutions/index.html index 6b911746c2..147790eef5 100644 --- a/blog/2016/01/17/extended-support-for-diy-solutions/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/01/17/extended-support-for-diy-solutions/index.html @@ -202,6 +202,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-automation/index.html b/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-automation/index.html index b700c977e8..58c2561e49 100644 --- a/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-automation/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-automation/index.html @@ -206,6 +206,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2016/01/30/insteon-lifx-twitter-and-zigbee/index.html b/blog/2016/01/30/insteon-lifx-twitter-and-zigbee/index.html index 211432b224..6026e4421f 100644 --- a/blog/2016/01/30/insteon-lifx-twitter-and-zigbee/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/01/30/insteon-lifx-twitter-and-zigbee/index.html @@ -208,6 +208,12 @@ Example of the new views in the frontend. Learn mor diff --git a/blog/2016/02/09/Smarter-Smart-Things-with-MQTT-and-Home-Assistant/index.html b/blog/2016/02/09/Smarter-Smart-Things-with-MQTT-and-Home-Assistant/index.html index 03558edcb6..ddbf662554 100644 --- a/blog/2016/02/09/Smarter-Smart-Things-with-MQTT-and-Home-Assistant/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/02/09/Smarter-Smart-Things-with-MQTT-and-Home-Assistant/index.html @@ -379,6 +379,12 @@ Z-Wave light bulb | diff --git a/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-the-internet-of-things/index.html b/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-the-internet-of-things/index.html index 939d6e2244..61af8fa8ce 100644 --- a/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-the-internet-of-things/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-the-internet-of-things/index.html @@ -345,6 +345,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2016/02/13/speedtest-bloomsky-splunk-and-garage-doors/index.html b/blog/2016/02/13/speedtest-bloomsky-splunk-and-garage-doors/index.html index 55f4ffd6fc..6f04dfe546 100644 --- a/blog/2016/02/13/speedtest-bloomsky-splunk-and-garage-doors/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/02/13/speedtest-bloomsky-splunk-and-garage-doors/index.html @@ -211,6 +211,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2016/02/18/multi-room-audio-with-snapcast/index.html b/blog/2016/02/18/multi-room-audio-with-snapcast/index.html index 891d82e413..3f3d41bc95 100644 --- a/blog/2016/02/18/multi-room-audio-with-snapcast/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/02/18/multi-room-audio-with-snapcast/index.html @@ -295,6 +295,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2016/02/20/community-highlights/index.html b/blog/2016/02/20/community-highlights/index.html index 1f9eed1116..ea2a64d7ea 100644 --- a/blog/2016/02/20/community-highlights/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/02/20/community-highlights/index.html @@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ Hold your NFC tag against the belly of Garfield to unlock the alarm. diff --git a/blog/2016/02/27/steam-d-link-smart-plugs-and-neurio-energy-sensors/index.html b/blog/2016/02/27/steam-d-link-smart-plugs-and-neurio-energy-sensors/index.html index 4806746310..b1d4e6183f 100644 --- a/blog/2016/02/27/steam-d-link-smart-plugs-and-neurio-energy-sensors/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/02/27/steam-d-link-smart-plugs-and-neurio-energy-sensors/index.html @@ -210,6 +210,12 @@ diff --git a/blog/2016/03/12/z-wave-pep257-templated-service-calls/index.html b/blog/2016/03/12/z-wave-pep257-templated-service-calls/index.html index a8707ef248..087c4b4187 100644 --- a/blog/2016/03/12/z-wave-pep257-templated-service-calls/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/03/12/z-wave-pep257-templated-service-calls/index.html @@ -214,6 +214,12 @@ player state attributes. 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    Although we hope to not have to use this feature often, it is important for us to be able to reach out to impacted users. We had the need for such a feature once in the past. Due to a bug the forecast.io sensor was making a huge amount of API requests causing some of our users to get charged because they went over the free quota.

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We had the need for such a feature once in the past. Due to a bug the forecast.io sensor was making a huge amount of API requests causing some of our users to get charged because they went over the free quota. + +Please note that this functionality is not done yet but will be available in a future release. + +### Focusing our resources where it matters + +As developers of Home Assistant, we will be able to see in what kind of environments Home Assistant is running. Here’s a few data points we didn’t have until now: + +* Total number of instances +* Which operating systems versions and flavors are in use +* Python version +* What option is more popular: Docker, Virtualenv or bare metal installs? +* How popular is our new [Raspberry Pi image][rpi-image]? + + +## Why we look up your IP address with GeoIP +We store the city so that we can see where our users are from. This information will be used to give us a better insight in where our users are from. This will help us gather data to see if we should for example prioritize internationalization. In addition, we previously had a nasty bug with the `sun` component in which users above a certain latitude were having crashes multiple times a day. Had the updater component been in place we could have targeted a special priority update notification only to them. + +As stated in the release blog post, the location information is _not_ provided by your local Home Assistant installation but is instead gathered by comparing your IP address against the [GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind][geolite]. From their documentation: + +> IP geolocation is inherently imprecise. Locations are often near the center of the population. Any location provided by a GeoIP database should not be used to identify a particular address or household. + +## Why is it enabled by default +We decided to have it enabled by default because we consider the information that is gathered not harmful. We understand that not everyone will agree with us and so we have provided [multiple ways to opt out][opt-out]. + +It is in our short-term planning to add an option to control this to our frontend. + +## Source Code +The source code of our updater AWS Lambda function is now available [here][source]. + + +[0.31]: /blog/2016/10/22/flash-briefing-updater-hacktoberfest/#comment-2965607849 +[geolite]: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ +[opt-out]: /components/updater/ +[rpi-image]: /blog/2016/10/01/we-have-raspberry-image-now/ +[source]: https://github.com/home-assistant/Analytics-Receiver +]]> + + <![CDATA[To Infinity and Beyond 🚀]]> diff --git a/blog/categories/organisation/index.html b/blog/categories/organisation/index.html index 406162a535..98a0c505c5 100644 --- a/blog/categories/organisation/index.html +++ b/blog/categories/organisation/index.html @@ -98,6 +98,38 @@

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    On Saturday, we released Home Assistant 0.31 which includes an improved updater component that checks for new versions using the Home Assistant servers. We wanted to update the community on its rollout and answer some questions that have come up. As part of the update check anonymous information about your operating system and Python version is submitted to Home Assistant servers unless you have opted out.

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