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<p>Ben from <a href="http://www.bruhautomation.com">BRUH Automation</a> authors a lot of great video’s about how he is using Home Assistant and how you can get started with it too. The video below will walk you through how to configure Home Assistant. Enjoy!</p>
<p>Make sure to subscribe to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLecVrux63S6aYiErxdiy4w">his YouTube channel</a> for more Home Assistant video’s.</p>
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<p>This release is big. Until now, our automations and scripts have been very static. Starting today it should all be a bit more dynamic.</p>
<p><strong>Scripts</strong> are now available in automations and when responding to Alexa/Amazon Echo. Both of these components will now expose data to be used in script templates (including <code class="highlighter-rouge">from_state</code> !). Passing data to script entities is available by passing the data to the script services.</p>
<div class="language-yaml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="s">automation</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">trigger</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">platform</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">mqtt</span>
<span class="s">topic</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">some/notify/topic</span>
<span class="s">action</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">service</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">notify.notify</span>
<span class="s">data_template</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">message</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">automation 2</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">trigger</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">platform</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">state</span>
<span class="s">entity_id</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">light.hue</span>
<span class="s">action</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">service</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">notify.notify</span>
<span class="s">data_template</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">message</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">is now</span>
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<p><strong>Entity Namespaces</strong> allow you to influence the entity ids for a specific platform. For example you can turn <code class="highlighter-rouge">light.living_room</code> into <code class="highlighter-rouge">light.holiday_home_living_room</code> with the following config:</p>
<div class="language-yaml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="s">light</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">platform</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">hue</span>
<span class="s">entity_namespace</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">holiday_home</span>
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<li>Automation: allow <a href="/getting-started/scripts/">script syntax</a> for action (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Automation: expose <a href="/getting-started/automation-templating/#available-trigger-data"><code class="highlighter-rouge">trigger</code> variable</a> to script templates (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Script: allow passing variables for script templates in the <a href="/components/script/#passing-parameters-in-service-calls">script service calls</a> (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Alexa/Amazon Echo: allow <a href="/getting-started/scripts/">script syntax</a> for action (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Alexa/Amazon Echo: <a href="/components/alexa/#configuring-home-assistant">expose intent variables</a> to script templates (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Script syntax: <a href="/getting-started/scripts-conditions/">conditions now supported</a> to interrupt execution (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Automation: use <a href="/getting-started/scripts-conditions/">new condition syntax</a> (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Script syntax: two new conditions <a href="/getting-started/scripts-conditions/#and-condition"><code class="highlighter-rouge">and</code></a> and <a href="/getting-started/scripts-conditions/#or-condition"><code class="highlighter-rouge">or</code></a> to combine conditions (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Any platform: Allow setting <a href="/topics/platform_options/#entity-namespace">entity namespace</a> to prefix entity_ids. (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Switch: <a href="/components/switch.rpi_rf/">Raspberry Pi generic 433 Mhz GPIO adapters</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/milaq/">@milaq</a>)</li>
<li>Z-Wave: use more sane defaults (<a href="https://github.com/danieljkemp/">@danieljkemp</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: <a href="/components/media_player.snapcast/">Snapcast</a> now supports picking a source (<a href="https://github.com/happyleavesaoc/">@happyleavesaoc</a>)</li>
<li>MySensors: major cleanup (<a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare/">@MartinHjelmare</a>)</li>
<li>Binary Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.command_line/">Command line sensor</a> now supports classes (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff/">@fabaff</a>)</li>
<li>MQTT: <a href="/components/mqtt/">allow client key authentication</a> (<a href="https://github.com/timharton/">@timharton</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.forecast/">Forecast.io</a> now supports minutely, hourly and daily summaries (<a href="https://github.com/aceat64/">@aceat64</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: <a href="/components/media_player.pioneer/">Pioneer AVR</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/kylehendricks/">@kylehendricks</a>)</li>
<li>Switch: <a href="/components/switch.acer_projector/">Acer Projectors</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/deisi/">@deisi</a>)</li>
<li>New <a href="/components/hvac/">HVAC component</a> added with Z-Wave support (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen/">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Support added for <a href="/components/octoprint/">OctoPrint</a> (<a href="https://github.com/w1ll1am23/">@w1ll1am23</a>)</li>
<li>Configuration.yaml can now refer to environment variables using <code class="highlighter-rouge">!env_var</code> (<a href="https://github.com/bah2830/">@bah2830</a>)</li>
<li>Lock: <a href="/components/lock.zwave/">Z-Wave</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/devdelay/">@devdelay</a>)</li>
<li>New <a href="/components/dweet/">Dweet component</a> to export data (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff/">@fabaff</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player now supports stop command + initial kodi support (<a href="https://github.com/hmronline/">@hmronline</a>)</li>
<li>Zigbee: push updates now supported (<a href="https://github.com/flyte/">@flyte</a>)</li>
<li>Wink devices with battery level will now show these (<a href="https://github.com/w1ll1am23/">@w1ll1am23</a>)</li>
<li>Templates: new <a href="/topics/templating/#home-assistant-template-extensions"><code class="highlighter-rouge">as_timestamp</code></a> method now available (<a href="https://github.com/srcLurker/">@srcLurker</a>)</li>
<li>API: Add [<code class="highlighter-rouge">/api/discovery_info</code>] with basic instance info (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480/">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.google_travel_time/">Google Maps travel time</a> added (<a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen/">@Danielhiversen</a>)</li>
<li>HTTP: Allow adding <a href="/components/http/">CORS headers</a> (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480/">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.fitbit/">Fitbit</a> support added (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480/">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Bug fixes and tweaks by <a href="https://github.com/turbokongen/">@turbokongen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/danieljkemp/">@danieljkemp</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen/">@Danielhiversen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/TheRealLink/">@TheRealLink</a>, <a href="https://github.com/persandstrom/">@persandstrom</a>, <a href="https://github.com/sander76/">@sander76</a>, <a href="https://github.com/fabaff/">@fabaff</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ishults/">@ishults</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Bart274/">@Bart274</a>, <a href="https://github.com/robbiet480/">@robbiet480</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Cinntax/">@Cinntax</a>, <a href="https://github.com/blackdog70/">@blackdog70</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gwendalg/">@gwendalg</a>, <a href="https://github.com/JshWright/">@JshWright</a>, <a href="https://github.com/kylehendricks/">@kylehendricks</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bradsk88/">@bradsk88</a>, <a href="https://github.com/shaftoe/">@shaftoe</a>, <a href="https://github.com/molobrakos/">@molobrakos</a>, <a href="https://github.com/bah2830/">@bah2830</a>, <a href="https://github.com/nkgilley/">@nkgilley</a></li>
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<li>Conditions in automations should now specify which condition to use with <code class="highlighter-rouge">condition:</code> instead of <code class="highlighter-rouge">platform:</code>. For example <code class="highlighter-rouge">condition: state</code>.</li>
<li>RFXtrx has a new config format.</li>
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<p>Old RFXtrx config format:</p>
<div class="language-yaml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code> <span class="s">devices</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">123efab1</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">name</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">My DI.0 light device</span>
<span class="s">packetid</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">1b2200000890efab1213f60</span>
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<p>New RFXtrx config format:</p>
<div class="language-yaml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code> <span class="s">devices</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">1b2200000890efab1213f60</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">name</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">My DI.0 light device</span>
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<p>At the beginning of April I gave a talk about Home Assistant at the OpenIoT summit in San Diego. I talk about the Home Assistant architecture and explain how to get started integrating your devices. Big thanks to my employer AppFolio (<a href="http://www.appfolioinc.com/jobs-openings">we’re hiring!</a>) for letting me attend. <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P2WsmwGSSni4gAriY5IA0-m-FUGO1kno3gIkRYz20Kw/edit#slide=id.p">Slides.</a></p>
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<p><em>This post is by Home Assistant contributor <a href="https://github.com/pavoni">Greg Dowling</a>.</em></p>
<p>In 2013 Apple introduced iBeacons: a class of Bluetooth low energy (LE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby devices, including most smartphones. At first glance it’s hard to imagine why they might be useful. In this two part blog I’ll try and explain why they are useful and how you can use them with Home Assistant.</p>
<p>The reason I started using iBeacons was to improve presence detection (and I think that’s the case with most people) so that’s what I’ll discuss in <em>part 1</em>. In <em>part 2</em> I’ll talk about using iBeacons to track devices that can’t track themselves.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="using-beacons-to-improve-owntracks-location-data" href="#using-beacons-to-improve-owntracks-location-data"></a> Using beacons to improve OwnTracks location data</h3>
<p>When you use OwnTracks in standard <em>major move</em> mode (which is kind to your phone battery) it sometimes fails to update when you’d like it to. In my case I found that it would often send a location update as I was on my way home, but then not update when I got home. The result would be that Home Assistant would think I was 500M away from home, and take quite a while to notice I was home. It would also mean that the automation that should turn on my lights when I got home didn’t work very well! There were a few times when my phone location updated at 2am and turned the lights on for me. Fortunately my wife is very patient!</p>
<p>Luckily, OwnTracks supports iBeacons so I could use them to make presence detection more reliable. When OwnTracks sees a beacon it recognises, it will send an update. This means that if you put a beacon at your front door - OwnTracks will see it within a few seconds of you arriving home - and send an update saying it has seen this iBeacon.</p>
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<time datetime="2016-04-20T06:10:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> April 21, 2016</time>
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<p>It’s time for 0.18. This release cycle is 2 days shorter than usual as I’ll be travelling to Europe. This also means that it can take some more time before you get feedback on PRs.</p>
<p>Since the last release we have moved all Home Assistant source code etc into it’s own <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant">organisation on GitHub</a>. We’re growing up! This sadly did cause us to have to move all Docker images. Check the breaking changes section for more info.</p>
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<li>Media Player: redesign in the UI! (<a href="https://github.com/DesignFirst/">@DesignFirst</a>, <a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>New component: <a href="/components/zeroconf/">Zeroconf</a> for Home Assistant discovery (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480/">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Garage door: <a href="/components/garage_door.mqtt/">MQTT</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/joelash/">@joelash</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat: <a href="/components/thermostat.homematic/">Homematic platform</a> now supports Max! devices (<a href="https://github.com/bimbar/">@bimbar</a>)</li>
<li>New component Thinkingcleaner (<a href="/components/switch.thinkingcleaner/">switch</a>/<a href="/components/sensor.thinkingcleaner/">sensor</a>) to integrate your Roomba into Home Assistant (<a href="https://github.com/TheRealLink/">@TheRealLink</a>)</li>
<li>New component: <a href="/components/upnp/">upnp</a> to automatically open a upnp port on your router for Home Assistant (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480/">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat: <a href="/components/thermostat.eq3btsmart/">EQ3 Bluetooth Smart Thermostats</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/bimbar/">@bimbar</a>)</li>
<li>New component <a href="/components/feedreader/">Feedreader</a> will track RSS feeds (<a href="https://github.com/shaftoe/">@shaftoe</a>)</li>
<li>Device Tracker: <a href="/components/device_tracker.bluetooth_tracker/">Bluetooth tracking platform</a> added (<a href="https://github.com/vmulpuru/">@vmulpuru</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: <a href="/components/media_player.webostv/">LG WebOS TVs</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/TheRealLink/">@TheRealLink</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: <a href="/components/notify.webostv/">LG WebOS TVs</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/TheRealLink/">@TheRealLink</a>)</li>
<li>HTTP: Use constant time comparison for auth (<a href="https://github.com/JshWright/">@JshWright</a>)</li>
<li>Config and service validations (<a href="https://github.com/jaharkes/">@jaharkes</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen/">@Danielhiversen</a>)</li>
<li>MySensors: Entity IDs will more clearly differentiate between node ID and child ID (<a href="https://github.com/oeysteinhansen/">@oeysteinhansen</a>)</li>
<li>MySensors: Add support for <a href="/components/mysensors/">ethernet gateway</a> (<a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare/">@MartinHjelmare</a>)</li>
<li>Media player: <a href="/components/media_player.plex/">Plex</a> will now monitor the server and add clients as they pop up (<a href="https://github.com/infamy/">@infamy</a>)</li>
<li>Core: We now use iso8601 for datetimes (<a href="https://github.com/balloob/">@balloob</a>).</li>
<li>Media Player: <a href="/components/media_player.mpd/">MPD</a> now supports service to play playlists (<a href="https://github.com/Cinntax/">@Cinntax</a>)</li>
<li>Z-Wave should be a little bit more stable (<a href="https://github.com/Turbokongen/">@Turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: <a href="/components/media_player.sonos/">Sonos</a> will now only add visible devices (<a href="https://github.com/jpmossin/">@jpmossin</a>)</li>
<li>Light: <a href="/components/light.wink/">Wink</a> will now allow controlling the colors (<a href="https://github.com/bradsk88/">@bradsk88</a>)</li>
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<h3>Breaking changes</h3>
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<li>We have migrated our datetime format to be iso8601. This will only impact you if you are consuming the date times from the API directly. You can ignore this if you are just using Home Assistant via configuration and the frontend.</li>
<li>The constant <code class="highlighter-rouge">TEMP_CELCIUS</code> is now correctly called <code class="highlighter-rouge">TEMP_CELSIUS</code>. Old one is deprecated and will eventually be removed.</li>
<li>The location of the Docker image has changed. There was no possibility for us to keep maintaining the old image (as it was bound to the GitHub repo under my name) or to make a redirect. So if you are using the Home Assistant Docker image, change it to run <code class="highlighter-rouge">homeassistant/home-assistant:latest</code> for the latest release and <code class="highlighter-rouge">homeassistant/home-assistant:dev</code> for the latest dev version.</li>
<li>MySensors received two big changes that will cause you to update your configs. See <a href="/components/mysensors/">component page</a> for new example config.
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<li>All MySensors entity IDs are different! There was an error in the naming that caused MySensors to append node ID and child ID instead of separating them with an underscore. This has been fixed but will cause all your MySensors entity IDs to change. This is a one time breaking change.</li>
<li>The second change is that we now support the TCP ethernet gateway. This is causing a slight change to the config format: you have to change <code class="highlighter-rouge">port:</code> under <code class="highlighter-rouge">gateways</code> to <code class="highlighter-rouge">device:</code>.</li>
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<p>After 2.5 years I think we can proudly say: Home Assistant is a success. I write <em>we</em> because Home Assistant is no longer a one-person side project. It has become the side project of many people who spend countless hours on making Home Assistant the best home automation software out there. To acknowledge this we migrated the repositories from being under my name to be under our own <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/">organisation on GitHub</a>.</p>
<p>On our journey we’ve reached many noteworthy milestones:</p>
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<li>#1 on HackerNews</li>
<li>Featured on ProductHunt</li>
<li>Trending repository on GitHub</li>
<li>3000 stars on GitHub</li>
<li>1.5 million page views on our website</li>
<li>Speaker at OpenIoT Summit 2016</li>
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<p>All these accomplishments are a nice pat on the back but our journey is far from over. There are a lot of challenges ahead if we want to become the go to solution for home automation <em>for everyone</em>.</p>
<p>Until now the focus has been on making a platform that developers love to use. A platform that is simple but customizable. A platform that is both powerful and reliable. But most important: a platform that is local and open. Home Assistant does a great job at all these things.</p>
<p>There will be some major challenges ahead of us to target groups other than developers. Easy installation and easy configuration being the #1. I’m sure that we’ll be able to eventually achieve these goals. I can’t say yet how or when. As with everything Home Assistant, we’ll take tiny steps, gathering feedback along the way to make sure we’re solving the right problems.</p>
<p>I am confident that we will get there because we are set up for success: we have a robust architecture, high test coverage and an active community of world class developers and users. On top of that, we use Python which allows us to move fast and tackle complex problems in elegant ways. It is so easy to learn that it allows any programmer, experienced or not, to contribute support for devices and services. It’s as simple as <a href="/developers/platform_example_sensor/#code">filling in the blanks</a>.</p>
<p>I would like to put out a big thank you to all our contributors who make Home Assistant what it is today. It doesn’t matter if it is form of code, documentation or giving support in our <a href="https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant">chat room</a> or <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/">forums</a>. You. all. rock.</p>
<p>Cheers to the future!</p>
<p>Paulus</p>
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<p>One of the main complaints that we receive is something along the lines “I read that X is possible yet I am unable to find it on the website.”. This post is to announce that we have taken the first steps to improve it by revamping the <a href="/getting-started/">getting started</a> and <a href="/developers/">developers</a> sections. It’s still a work in progress but we now have a solid foundation to build on for the future 👍.</p>
<p>Our documentation has been going through various phases. Initially it was just the README in our GitHub repository. I discovered Jekyll and GitHub pages in December 2014 and created home-assistant.io. I more or less broke the README in 5 pages and <a href="/blog/2014/12/18/website-launched/">called it a website</a>. Back then we had a whopping <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/blob/86bb2df430ce267ab2123d51592d3f068ae509b5/source/components/index.markdown">11 components</a>.</p>
<p>As Home Assistant grew, so did our documentation. <a href="https://github.com/fabaff">Fabian Affolter</a> does an amazing job in making sure there is at least a documentation stub for each new feature that lands. And that’s quite a feat given our <a href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/categories/release-notes/">frequent releases</a>! But despite all the efforts, the documentation outgrew our existing documentation organisation.</p>
<p>Today it has been almost 1.5 years since we started the website. We now have <a href="/components/">264 components and platforms</a> under our belt and have been honored with 1.5 million page views ✨. And hopefully we now also have documentation that our community deserves.</p>
<p>Finally, if you see some content that could use more clarifcation or is outdated, don’t hesitate to use the ‘Edit in GitHub’ link that is present on each page.</p>
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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 class="highlighter-rouge">execute_service</code> in their script configs. This should be <code class="highlighter-rouge">service</code>.</p>
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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 class="highlighter-rouge">www</code> in your Home Assistant configuration directory (<code class="highlighter-rouge">.homeassistant</code>) is available under <code class="highlighter-rouge">/local</code> (eg. <a href="https://localhost:8123/local/index.html">http://localhost:8123/local</a> for an <code class="highlighter-rouge">index.html</code> file).</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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<p>Today the news spread that Google will be <a href="https://medium.com/@arlogilbert/the-time-that-tony-fadell-sold-me-a-container-of-hummus-cb0941c762c1#.rmppks86a">shutting down the Revolv hubs</a>. And shutting down here doesn’t mean they stop selling or supporting them - no, they are sending an update to each hub to turn your perfectly fine home automation hub into a useless piece of plastic. The fact that this seemed like a good idea by Google astonishes me. If anything, they should have gone the same route as <a href="https://discuss.ninjablocks.com/t/ninja-blocks-whats-been-happening-whats-happening-next/3608">ninjasphere</a>: open it all up and let people decide on the fate of their <em>own</em> hub.</p>
<p>I’ve said it <a href="/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-automation/#your-system-should-run-at-home-not-in-the-cloud">before</a> but I’ll repeat it again:</p>
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<p>The cloud should be treated as an extension to your smart home instead of running it.</p>
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<p>Your hub should not be affected when your internet breaks down or the company that sold you your hub goes out of business. It should work locally so that it can continue to work even long after the vendor goes out of business or decides to kill it. Preferably, your hub should also be open so that the community can take over development after the vendor stops caring.</p>
<p>Unless you can afford losing a product here and there, be cautious when buying IoT products that depend on the cloud from companies that are not well established. The chances are high that they go bankrupt or get acquired and closed. This however is easier said than done as <a href="http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2869521">Gartner</a> predicts that by 2017, 50 percent of IoT solutions will originate in startups that are less than three years old.</p>
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