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<time datetime="2017-04-22T01:04:05+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> April 22, 2017</time>
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<p>Oooh yeah. It’s time for 0.43 and this is going to be a killer release. For the people that have been following on social media, you might have noticed that <a href="/blog/2017/04/17/ikea-tradfri-internet-of-things-done-right/">we got pretty excited about the new IKEA Trådfri line up</a>. And so we are very happy to announce that thanks to the work by <a href="https://github.com/ggravlingen">@ggravlingen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare">@MartinHjelmare</a> and myself that this will be the first release to support the IKEA light bulbs. Home Assistant will automatically detect the gateway on your network and after following the instructions, allow you to control your lights.</p>
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<p>And in case you have missed the other big news: <a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a> released the <a href="/blog/2017/04/15/ios/">first version of our iOS app</a>! It took a little over a year but it offers some great ways to make your iDevice work with Home Assistant. Big congrats to Robbie for shipping! As with our other parts, the app is open-sourced under APACHE 2 and contributors are welcome. <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-ios">Check it out.</a></p>
<p>A big shout out this release to <a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc">@happyleavesaoc</a> for his constant stream of great contributions to Home Assistant. The first contribution was back in October 2015 and since then <a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc">@happyleavesaoc</a> has been responsible for many platforms and bug fixes including the Spotify platform this release. Thanks <a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc">@happyleavesaoc</a>, you’re a great example of what makes our community awesome.</p>
<p>The new Spotify integration is based on the new Spotify Connect Playback API. It supports playback, album art and switching which Spotify device you’re controlling.</p>
<p>Also note that you have till the end of the weekend to <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/c/contest-2017">submit an application</a> to our giveaway of low energy servers which we got when <a href="/blog/2017/04/01/thomas-krenn-award/">we won the Thomas Krenn award 2017</a>. <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/c/contest-2017">Go apply!</a></p>
<h2><a class="title-link" name="new-platforms" href="#new-platforms"></a> New Platforms</h2>
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<li>MaryTTS platform (<a href="https://github.com/johanpalmqvist">@johanpalmqvist</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6988">#6988</a>) (<a href="/components/tts.marytts/">tts.marytts docs</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Telegram bot component (incl. webhook and polling platform) (<a href="https://github.com/sander76">@sander76</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6913">#6913</a>) (<a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/telegram_bot/">telegram_bot docs</a>) (<a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/telegram_bot.polling/">telegram_bot.polling docs</a>) (<a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/telegram_bot.webhooks/">telegram_bot.webhooks docs</a>) (breaking change) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Support fo map data from Neato (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6939">#6939</a>) (<a href="/components/neato/">neato docs</a>) (<a href="/components/camera.neato/">camera.neato docs</a>) (<a href="/components/sensor.neato/">sensor.neato docs</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Support for IKEA Trådfri (<a href="https://github.com/ggravlingen">@ggravlingen</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/7074">#7074</a>) (<a href="/components/light.tradfri/">light.tradfri docs</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>MQTT camera (<a href="https://github.com/MrMep">@MrMep</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/7092">#7092</a>) (<a href="/components/camera.mqtt/">camera.mqtt docs</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>LIFX Cloud scene support (<a href="https://github.com/amelchio">@amelchio</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/7124">#7124</a>) (<a href="/components/scene.lifx_cloud/">scene.lifx_cloud docs</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Spotify media player (<a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc">@happyleavesaoc</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6980">#6980</a>) (<a href="/components/media_player.spotify/">media_player.spotify docs</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>JSON MQTT Device tracker (<a href="https://github.com/MrMep">@MrMep</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/7055">#7055</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Opensky sensor (<a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc">@happyleavesaoc</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/7061">#7061</a>) (<a href="/components/sensor.opensky/">sensor.opensky docs</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>Ping binary sensor (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/7052">#7052</a>) (<a href="/components/binary_sensor.ping/">binary_sensor.ping docs</a>) (new-platform)</li>
<li>myStrom Wifi Bulbs (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/7161">#7161</a>) (<a href="/components/light.mystrom/">light.mystrom docs</a>) (new-platform)</li>
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<p>Last month IKEA released a new home automation lineup called <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/lighting/36812/">Trådfri</a>. It consists of white bulbs, dimming remotes, color temperature remotes and motion sensors. After almost two weeks of research, we have come to the conclusion that this is going to be the perfect companion hardware to work with Home Assistant. Here is the gist of our breakdown:</p>
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<li><strong>Works out of the box.</strong> You can get started by just buying the already paired light and remote. You only need to buy the gateway if you want to set time-based rules for your lights or use your phone as a remote.</li>
<li><strong>Local only hub.</strong> No cloud that gathers data about how you live your life and it will keep working even if IKEA stops supporting it.</li>
<li><strong>Based on open standards.</strong> It uses Zigbee between devices and CoAP/dTLS to talk to the gateway. This means that you are not locked into a single vendor. You can pair it with Philips Hue bulbs and other compatible vendors.</li>
<li><strong>Affordable.</strong> Lights start at $12 standalone and $20 if bundled with a remote (USA prices).</li>
<li><strong>Useful design.</strong> The gateway has built-in space to hide excess cables and remotes come with magnetic holders for on the wall.</li>
<li><strong>Able to subscribe to changes (local push).</strong> Automations will be able to instantly respond to changes to device states by subscribing to the gateway for changes.</li>
<li><strong>Full integration in Home Assistant 0.43 (scheduled for release April 22).</strong> Our community built a standalone library <a href="https://github.com/ggravlingen/pytradfri">pytradfri</a> and we use it in Home Assistant. Home Assistant will automatically discover gateways on your network and guide the user to set them up.</li>
<li><strong>Downside: no integration with other systems yet.</strong> There are rumors that Homekit support will land in October and I expect both Google Home and Amazon Echo to eventually add support. Use Home Assistant to connect them all in the meanwhile.</li>
<li><strong>Semi-downside: you can’t control your lights remotely.</strong> Because it’s local only, you won’t be able to control your lights remotely unless via a third-party integration.</li>
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<p>Full breakdown available after clicking read more.</p>
<p><em>(Note: we are not affiliated with IKEA nor do we receive commission for sales. We are just big fans of their new line up!)</em></p>
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<p>1 year and 22 days ago, or 387 days ago, on March 25th, 2016, I started a project to bring Home Assistant to the iPhone.</p>
<p>I thought the existing notification and location solutions were lacking in one way or another and had wanted for <em>years</em> to have a project I could call my own which would allow me to learn iOS development. What better way then implementing an extremely complex application like Home Assistant?</p>
<p>I started with a lot of steam. I remember cranking out the initial work that night and showing Paulus who was astounded at how fast the UI was coming together.</p>
<p>Little would I know how many problems I would create and uncover throughout the process. Writing a mobile app for a project that moves as fast as Home Assistant is… tricky, to say the least. In the time since I started writing the app, Home Assistant had 90 releases. I started writing the day before 0.16 was released. Now we are at 0.42.3. Time flies…</p>
<p>I couldn’t have completed the app without help and input from the community. By the end I had 700 beta testers, of which about 500 were very active in testing the app.</p>
<p>I received emails and forum posts almost every day, even when the app would go without an update for weeks and sometimes months at a time as my life got busier and busier.</p>
<p>I wanted this app to be done 9 months ago, at least, but my drive to add more and more features killed that idea. This really taught me the value of the MVP over the kitchen sink.</p>
<p>It may not look the way that I wanted it to initially, with beautiful native UI components, but thats okay. What I really cared about is there. The notification and location engines are some of the most customizable and powerful available in an iOS app if I do say so myself. I made them this way to keep with the spirit of infinite flexibility that is enshrined in Home Assistant.</p>
<p>Just because the app is released doesn’t mean we are at the end of the road. It’s only the beginning. There’s plenty of bugs to fix still, improvements to make, features to add. Beta testing will continue, and if anything, be expanded. I do want to have a native UI someday, but that’s pretty hard with how fast the project moves.</p>
<p>The biggest request I have is for more developers on the project. As many of you know, I have my hands in many different parts of Home Assistant, from governance and organization to managing the forums to writing this app, managing the Homebridge plugin and even sometimes writing code for the actual core codebase! I can’t do it all, and I’m still a new iOS developer who doesn’t know all the best practices.</p>
<p>The app is <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-iOS">open source</a>, has been for the last few months when I first prepared to submit it to Apple for review. I invite Swift developers to come and join me in building it. Trust me, there’s tons to do.</p>
<p><strong>1 year and 22 days ago, on March 25th, 2016 I began work on Home Assistant for iOS.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Today, April 16th, 2017, I am <em>extremely</em> excited to announce that Home Assistant for iOS has been approved by Apple and is now available to download for <del>a monthly subscription starting at $9.99</del> free! (had to get a joke in here somewhere!) on the iOS App Store in every country.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/home-assistant-open-source-home-automation/id1099568401?mt=8" style="display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;background:url(//linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/assets/shared/badges/en-us/appstore-lrg.svg) no-repeat;width:135px;height:40px;background-size:contain;"></a></p>
<p><em>Please note, you must have Home Assistant 0.42.4 or later installed for the app to function properly.</em></p>
<p>Thanks for everything so far, I’m looking forward to the road that lies ahead for Home Assistant on iOS!</p>
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<p>It’s time for Home Assistant 0.42. This release has been focused on refining the system and fixing a lot of bugs. We have also upgraded to the latest version of our HTTP library which should give us a significant boost serving files and API.</p>
<p>On our social media front, we have crossed the 1000 likes on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/homeassistantio">our Facebook page</a>! Also on the social media front, the YouTube channel diyAutomate has been putting out a lot of great getting started videos about Home Assistant, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/diyautomate">go check them out!</a></p>
<p>Also want to take a moment to thank Austin Andrews aka <a href="https://github.com/templarian">Templarian</a> for his <a href="https://materialdesignicons.com/">Material Design Icons</a>. He is part of what makes Home Assistant so beautiful 🤗.</p>
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<li>Lockitron locks (<a href="https://github.com/aarya123">@aarya123</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6805">#6805</a>)</li>
<li>Met Office weather and sensor components (<a href="https://github.com/jacobtomlinson">@jacobtomlinson</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6742">#6742</a>)</li>
<li>Total Connect alarm systems (<a href="https://github.com/wardcraigj">@wardcraigj</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6887">#6887</a>)</li>
<li>Eddystone Beacon Temperature Sensor (<a href="https://github.com/citruz">@citruz</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6789">#6789</a>)</li>
<li>CrimeReports.com integration shows crimes around a location in the US (<a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc">@happyleavesaoc</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6966">#6966</a>)</li>
<li>The Ring doorbell has been integrated further with the inclusion of binary sensors (<a href="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6520">#6520</a>)</li>
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<p>You may already know from our social media channels and the release blog post for 0.41: We are now an award-winning Open source project. The jury of the <a href="https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/tkmag/allgemein/zammad-home-assistant-und-freifunk-das-sind-die-gewinner-des-thomas-krenn-awards-2017/">Thomas-Krenn-Award</a> put us on the 2nd place. This is an awesome achievment for an independent community project.</p>
<p>I would like to thanks all contributors. Your endless effort made this possible.</p>
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<p>The prize beside the very nice trophy contains hardware and we want to give that hardware partically away. We won four <a href="https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/products/low-energy-systems/les-v2.html">Low Energy Server v2 (LES)</a> units with an Intel Celeron N2930, 8 GB of RAM, and a mSATA of 128 GB (one unit with 64 GB). We were thinking about to keep one of those units in Europe and one in North America for testing and to use during workshops and events. But the other two will go to interested parties.</p>
<p>As a raffle would be to easy, we make a contest out of it. This means that we are looking for your application. Of course, we would like to see those systems goes to active or future developers who can justify their need for one of the systems to run CI, UI tests, public accessible Home Assistant demo instances, etc. At the other hand we would like to keep it open, to see with what people are coming up. Please participate as well if you are planning to automate the public school of your kids with 1000 switches or light, need a server to run it, and want to provide regular feedback about the user experience.</p>
<p>Create an entry in our <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/c/contest-2017">Forum</a>. Be creative and use your imagination.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="the-details" href="#the-details"></a> The details</h3>
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<li>Jury: The Home Assistant community</li>
<li>Dead line: April, 23 2017 - 23.59 UTC</li>
<li>Voting period: April, 24th till April, 30 2017 - 23.59 UTC</li>
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<p>The decision of the jury will be final. If there will be a dispute then the Top-5 commiter of the Home Assistant organisation on Github will decide. Also, we reserve us the right to ban applications if we suspect cheating or unfair methods. Updates will be available in the <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/c/contest-2017">Forum</a> and on <a href="https://twitter.com/home_assistant">Twitter</a>.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that you may have to pay the fee for customs handling and the import duty by yourself. The plan is to ship the hardware from Germany. If you are located in a country with import/export regulations, we may not be able to ship the hardware to you.</p>
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<p>The idea of creating <a href="https://github.com/petkov/http_to_mqtt">HTTP to MQTT bridge</a> appeared when I was trying to integrate Google Assistant with my Home Assistant after watching <a href="https://youtu.be/087tQ7Ly7f4?t=265">BRUH Automation</a> video. Right now there is no MQTT service available in <a href="https://ifttt.com/about">IFTTT</a>. Existing integration solution uses <a href="https://ifttt.com/maker_webhooks">Maker Webhooks</a> which requires that your Home Assistant instance is publically accessible, which I think brings some security concerns or simply not always possible to set up.</p>
<p>The HTTP to MQTT bridge should fill that gap. The idea is to receive messages using HTTP requests and transfer them to your MQTT broker, which can be contacted by Home Assistant. The HTTP to MQTT bridge is written using Node.js with <a href="https://expressjs.com/">Express</a> for the server part and <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/mqtt">MQTT.js</a> for the client.</p>
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<p>Welcome to 0.41. There was a lot going on in the last two weeks. Not only from the code side but also from the social one of Home Assistant. <a href="https://github.com/balloob">Paulus</a> did an <a href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/03/23/opensourcecraft-interview-with-founder-paulus-schoutsen/">interview</a> with <a href="http://codepop.com/open-sourcecraft">OpenSourceCraft</a>, <a href="https://github.com/fabaff">Fabian</a> did a <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/tree/master/german/2017-clt-workshop">workshop</a> at the <a href="https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2017/en/">Chemnitzer Linux Tage</a>, and we are now an award-winning Open source project (I will cover that in a separate blog post).</p>
<h2>Plex</h2>
<p><a href="https://github.com/JesseWebDotCom">@JesseWebDotCom</a> made massive changes to the <a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/media_player.plex/">Plex</a> media player platform. From better metadata support over new configuration options to improved controls and non-controllable clients.</p>
<h2>Component overview</h2>
<p>The <a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/">Components</a> overview is now powered by search/filtering feature. This will make it faster to get the component/platform you are looking for more quickly. Thanks again, <a href="https://github.com/bdurrer">@bdurrer</a> for this.</p>
<h2>Changelog</h2>
<p>The new format of the changelog which was introduced with 0.40 will provide a link to the related pull request. We are not covering everything in our release notes but we think that this addition will make it easier to find details about the change.</p>
<h2>New platforms/components</h2>
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<li>Support for <a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/climate.tado/">Tado</a> climate devices (<a href="https://github.com/wmalgadey">@wmalgadey</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://home-assistant.io//components/media_player.volumio/">Volumio</a> media player added (<a href="https://github.com/jslove">@jslove</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/binary_sensor.workday/">Workday</a> sensor (<a href="https://github.com/BastianPoe">@BastianPoe</a>)</li>
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<h2>Breaking changes</h2>
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<li>The <a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/notify.kodi/">Kodi notifier</a> platform was migrated to async and the configuration synced with the Kodi media player platform (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6497">#6497</a>).</li>
<li>For the <a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/media_player.mpd/">Music Player Daemon</a> (MPD) platform was <code class="highlighter-rouge">location</code> replaced with <code class="highlighter-rouge">name</code> (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6553">#6553</a>).</li>
<li>Event decorators were removed (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6634">#6634</a>).</li>
<li>The <a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/media_player.emby/">Emby mediaplayer</a> platform was changed to avoid name clashes (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6664">#6664</a>).</li>
<li>In a lot of places were the power and energy units update. This change mostly affects the <code class="highlighter-rouge">switch</code> platforms (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6212">#6212</a>).</li>
<li>If set to <code class="highlighter-rouge">auto</code> then the <a href="https://home-assistant.io/docs/mqtt/">MQTT</a> implementation will use the bundled certificates automatically (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6707">#6707</a>).</li>
<li>Autodiscovery of <a href="https://home-assistant.io/components/android_ip_webcam/">Android IP Webcam</a> was removed (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6528">#6528</a>).</li>
<li>The frontend is now using <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/shadow-dom/">Shadow DOM</a> and this could break your custom panels (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/issues/228">#228</a>).</li>
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<h2>If you need help…</h2>
<p>…don’t hesitate to use our very active <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/">forums</a> or join us for a little <a href="https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant">chat</a>. The release notes have comments enabled but it’s preferred if you use the former communication channels. Thanks.</p>
<h2>Reporting Issues</h2>
<p>Experiencing issues introduced by this release? Please report them in our <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues">issue tracker</a>. Make sure to fill in all fields of the issue template.</p>
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<p>Last month Gregg Pollack from <a href="http://codepop.com/open-sourcecraft">OpenSourceCraft</a> visited me in San Diego to talk about Home Assistant. We talked about the community and how all these awesome people make Home Assistant possible. The main interview is embedded below but make sure to check out the <a href="http://codepop.com/open-sourcecraft/episodes/paulus-schoutsen/">full article including extra video material</a>.</p>
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<p>TL; DR: We have just released version 0.40.2 that includes a fix related to the installation of dependencies.</p>
<p>Some users in the last few days have been reporting that their Home Assistant installation fails to start with an error in the http component:</p>
<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>ImportError: No module named 'aiohttp.file_sender'
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<p>The problem is that Home Assistant did not handle the case where a dependency would want to install a core dependency of Home Assistant that is newer than what Home Assistant works with. For now, we have identified the following two components that can cause this issue:</p>
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<li>AppleTV (0.38+)</li>
<li>Android IP Webcam (0.40+)</li>
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<p>This issue has been resolved by 0.40.2. If you are on an impacted version and cannot upgrade to the latest version just yet, a temporary workaround will be to remove the <code class="highlighter-rouge">&lt;config dir&gt;/deps</code> directory and stop using the above mentioned integrations. In the case of AppleTV, you will also have to disable the discovery component to prevent it from being auto-detected.</p>
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<time datetime="2017-03-11T08:04:05+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> March 11, 2017</time>
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<p>It’s time for version 0.40 already! For this version, the main focus was on performance and bug fixes. Big thanks to <a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a> for driving this effort. Startup is now super fast. We have also continued with adding warnings for components and platforms that are slowing down Home Assistant.</p>
<p>Some people have interpreted our recent added warnings as if 0.39 introduced the issues that caused the warning. This is not the case, the platforms and components have been misbehaving for a while but now we are adding warnings so we are able to track down the culprits.</p>
<p>Before we continue talking about all the improvements in this release I want to take a moment to thank a few people from the Home Assistant community that are fundamental to the success of Home Assistant. Big thanks to <a href="https://github.com/dale3h">@dale3h</a>, <a href="https://github.com/CCOSTAN">@CCOSTAN</a>, <a href="https://github.com/skalavala">@skalavala</a>, <a href="https://github.com/rrubin0">@rrubin0</a>, <a href="https://github.com/brahmafear">@brahmafear</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bassclarinetl2">@bassclarinetl2</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/torn8o">@torn8o</a>! These are all people that hang out in our <a href="https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant">main chat channel</a> and help new users get started and help existing users when running into trouble. Home Assistant would not be there without all the effort you put in! 🙇</p>
<p>And that our community kicks ass is also shown in the numbers. We have already raised together over $700 for the <a href="https://www.eff.org">EFF</a> via the sale of <a href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/02/22/home-assistant-tshirts-have-arrived/">our t-shirts</a>! All of you rock! Another number worth mentioning is that this release brings us passed 600 integrations for Home Assistant. All of you rock, again!</p>
<h2>Z-Wave is now threadsafe</h2>
<p><a href="https://github.com/andrey-git">@andrey-git</a> has spend a lot of time to make Z-Wave perform better. It should no longer cause Home Assistant to run slower or raise warnings about the timer getting out of sync.</p>
<h2>Update on the MQTT Out of Memory errors in 0.39</h2>
<p>MQTT started causing “Out of Memory” errors for some people on a Raspberry Pi. We have been able to track this down to Raspberry Pis that are using an older firmware. If you are experiencing this issue, please <a href="https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update#installing">upgrade your firmware using <code class="highlighter-rouge">rpi-update</code></a>.</p>
<h2>Turn any Android phone into an IP Camera</h2>
<p>With the new support for <a href="/components/android_ip_webcam/">IP Webcam</a> added by <a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a> and <a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a> you are now able to re-purpose any Android phone to become a multifunctional IP webcam. Some of the cool things that you can do:</p>
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<li>Integrate the Android device camera</li>
<li>Binary sensor when motion is detected</li>
<li>Sensors to expose the device sensors, including pressure, sound, battery, light</li>
<li>Control device features like the GPS, night vision and camera flash</li>
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Screenshot of all the different functionality the IP webcam integration offers.
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<h2>Other Highlights</h2>
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<li>Support added for Austrian weather using Zamg weather data (<a href="https://github.com/Zac-HD">@Zac-HD</a>)</li>
<li>Ring.com video doorbell integration added (<a href="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a>)</li>
<li>Blink Home Security Camera support added (<a href="https://github.com/fronzbot">@fronzbot</a>)</li>
<li>AppleTV has been converted to push data to Home Assistant instead of us having to poll (<a href="https://github.com/postlund">@postlund</a>)</li>
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<h2>Breaking changes</h2>
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<li>Vera entity ids have changed. This is a one time change to migrate to a model that will prevent future conflicts.</li>
<li>The Twilio notify platforms now have to be configured via the twilio component.</li>
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<div class="language-yaml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="s">twilio</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">account_sid</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s2">"</span><span class="s">abc"</span>
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<h3>If you need help…</h3>
<p>…don’t hesitate to use our very active <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/">forums</a> or join us for a little <a href="https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant">chat</a>. The release notes have comments enabled but it’s preferred if you use the former communication channels. Thanks.</p>
<h3>Reporting Issues</h3>
<p>Experiencing issues introduced by this release? Please report them in our <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues">issue tracker</a>. Make sure to fill in all fields of the issue template.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="release-0401---march-16" href="#release-0401---march-16"></a> Release 0.40.1 - March 16</h3>
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<li>Fix wake_on_lan ping with None as host (<a href="https://github.com/iamtpage">@iamtpage</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6532">#6532</a>)</li>
<li>Don’t start the push updater if the Apple TV is ‘off’ (<a href="https://github.com/jnewland">@jnewland</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6552">#6552</a>)</li>
<li>Fix for the case of zwave value used in several devices. (<a href="https://github.com/andrey-git">@andrey-git</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6577">#6577</a>)</li>
<li>Fix hydroquebec (<a href="https://github.com/titilambert">@titilambert</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6574">#6574</a>)</li>
<li>Update pyecobee version to 0.0.7 (<a href="https://github.com/dale3h">@dale3h</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6593">#6593</a>)</li>
<li>Update SMA solar sensor to work with the new add_devices callback (<a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6602">#6602</a>)</li>
<li>since knx_2_float can’t handle 0, bypass converting 0 value from knx to float (<a href="https://github.com/goofz">@goofz</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6626">#6626</a>)</li>
<li>Fix Osram Lightify colors (<a href="https://github.com/deisi">@deisi</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6598">#6598</a>)</li>
<li>Bugfix RFLINK remove group (<a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6580">#6580</a>)</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="release-0402---march-22" href="#release-0402---march-22"></a> Release 0.40.2 - March 22</h3>
<p>Hot fix release to fix dependency issues. More detailed information about the issue in <a href="/blog/2017/03/22/broken-dependencies/">this blog post</a>.</p>
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<li>Prevent dependencies that are installed on demand from installing different versions of core dependencies (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6738">#6738</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade PyChromecast to silent some benign errors (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> - <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/6702">#6702</a>)</li>
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