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<p>This week’s blog post could only be possibly described by exactly one hashtag:</p>
<h1>#Amazing</h1>
<p><sup>or <sup>maybe<sup>#supersized</sup></sup></sup></p>
<p>Keep reading to see what <strong>#Amazing</strong> things we have in store for you this week 😄! And make sure you read all the way to the end, because I left a present down there for those committed few among you :)</p>
<p>But first…</p>
<h2><a class="title-link" name="some-general-housekeeping" href="#some-general-housekeeping"></a> Some general housekeeping</h2>
<p>Paulus (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>) is on vacation in Europe this week, so you will all have to deal with me, Robbie (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>) for this release blog post. Don’t worry, Paulus will be back to tearing apart your pull requests in no time 😈.</p>
<p>Special thanks to my awesome helpers for this week’s release who are looking over my shoulder to make sure I’m crossing my t’s and dotting my i’s: <a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>, <a href="https://github.com/infamy">@infamy</a> and <a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>.</p>
<p>For my next trick, let’s hand out some…</p>
<h2><a class="title-link" name="trophies" href="#trophies"></a> Trophies</h2>
<p>I felt that I had to 1-up Paulus (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>) somehow with his 500,000 pageviews stat he shared in the <a href="/blog/2016/08/13/foursquare-fast-com-ffmpeg-gpsd/">0.26 blog post</a>, so I pushed myself and our development community as a whole super hard the last two weeks to put a lot of love into Home Assistant to bring you not just one, but six <strong>#Amazing</strong> stats for this release. As of 0.27, we have now surpassed the following milestones:</p>
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<li><a href="https://travis-ci.org/home-assistant/home-assistant/builds/154660811">10,000</a> builds on Travis (congrats to <a href="https://github.com/BluGeni">@BluGeni</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3000">3,000</a> issues and pull requests (thanks <a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a>!)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/2991">2,000</a> pull requests alone (awesome <a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>!!)</li>
<li>900 forks on Github!</li>
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<p>In addition,</p>
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<li>We are very close to 4,000 stars on Github!</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/graphs/contributors">I’m now #5 contributor by most commits!!!</a> Hey wait, how’d this get in here 😳…</li>
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<p>Now that we have that great news out of the way, onto this week’s release which is going to keep the <strong>#Amazing</strong> gravy train rolling right along and get to the stuff you all <em>really</em> are here for.</p>
<h2><a class="title-link" name="027" href="#027"></a> 0.27</h2>
<p>While this release is <strong>#Amazing</strong>, we had to break a few eggs (now you understand the title reference!) to make a beautiful omelette (using home automation obviously) so some platforms and components have needed to introduce breaking changes. Please make sure to read the <a href="#breaking-changes">Breaking Changes</a> section below.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="hue-bridge-emulation" href="#hue-bridge-emulation"></a> Hue Bridge Emulation</h3>
<p>Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/mgbowen">@mgbowen</a> we now have the functionality previously provided by <a href="https://github.com/blocke">@blocke</a>’s <a href="https://github.com/blocke/ha-local-echo">ha-local-echo</a> <a href="/components/emulated_hue/">built right into Home Assistant</a>! This means that for those of you with devices that either lack or have a subpar integration with Home Assistant (looking at you Amazon Echo) you can now have a better experience by having your Home Assistant pretend to be a Hue Bridge. Personally, I have used <a href="https://github.com/auchter">@auchter</a>’s <a href="https://github.com/auchter/haaska">Haaska</a> previously but found that it was slow to respond and sometimes failed entirely. With the new <a href="/components/emulated_hue/"><code class="highlighter-rouge">emulated_hue</code></a> component, you can have local control of entities through Amazon Echo.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="notification-improvements" href="#notification-improvements"></a> Notification improvements</h3>
<p>We have some excellent upgrades to the notification system coming to you in 0.27, courtesy of me, <a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>.</p>
<h4><a class="title-link" name="html5-push-notifications" href="#html5-push-notifications"></a> HTML5 Push Notifications</h4>
<p>This release adds support for <a href="/components/notify.html5/">HTML5</a> push notifications on Chrome/Firefox/Opera on both desktop and Android devices. This means that you can send a notification to your phone even when your Home Assistant is not open in your mobile browser. When using Chrome you can even include 2 action buttons so that you can control your Home Assistant from your phone’s lock screen, allowing you to do things like sound alarms or unlock your front door, all without leaving the notification. Thanks again to me (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>) and Paulus (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>) for all the hard work on this!</p>
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<h4><a class="title-link" name="notification-groups" href="#notification-groups"></a> Notification Groups</h4>
<p>Using the new notify <code class="highlighter-rouge">group</code> platform allows you to cut down a lot of duplicate automation logic by combining multiple notification platforms and <code class="highlighter-rouge">target</code>s into a single notify service. Check out the <a href="/components/notify.group/">docs</a> for more info.</p>
<h4><a class="title-link" name="target-is-no-longer-needed" href="#target-is-no-longer-needed"></a> <code class="highlighter-rouge">target</code> is no longer needed!</h4>
<p>For platforms that support it, starting with the new HTML5 platform, any <code class="highlighter-rouge">target</code>s that are available will be exposed as individual services, so no more having to remember which <code class="highlighter-rouge">target</code>s to use. Please note that the existing services also still exist so you can keep using <code class="highlighter-rouge">target</code> if you wish.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="validate-configuration-before-restarting-home-assistant" href="#validate-configuration-before-restarting-home-assistant"></a> Validate configuration before restarting Home Assistant</h3>
<p>Ever restarted Home Assistant to test a configuration change just to find out there is a validation error? Well, not anymore! <a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a> has added a command line script that will validate your configuration as if you started Home Assistant.</p>
<div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="gp">$ </span>hass --script check_config
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="configuration-validation" href="#configuration-validation"></a> Configuration validation</h3>
<p>This release includes a big push on making sure all platforms contain proper configuration validation. This should help in getting your configuration right. Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>, <a href="https://github.com/nkgilley">@nkgilley</a> for all the hard work on this, you all rock!</p>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="ffmpeg-motionnoise-sensing" href="#ffmpeg-motionnoise-sensing"></a> FFMpeg motion/noise sensing</h3>
<p>It’s now possible to use <a href="/components/binary_sensor.ffmpeg/">FFMpeg</a> to monitor a video stream and detect motion thanks to a new binary sensor platform by <a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="component-clean-up---thermostat--hvac---climate-rollershutter--garage-door---cover" href="#component-clean-up---thermostat--hvac---climate-rollershutter--garage-door---cover"></a> Component clean up - Thermostat &amp; HVAC -&gt; Climate. Rollershutter &amp; Garage Door -&gt; Cover.</h3>
<p>Due to our wild growth we ended up with a few components that had a lot of overlapping functionality. <a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a> took on the hard job on merging them. Thermostat and HVAC platforms are now combined under the new Climate component. Rollershutter and Garage Door platforms are now combined under the new Cover component. You can easily upgrade by just swapping out the name. For example replace <code class="highlighter-rouge">thermostat</code> with <code class="highlighter-rouge">climate</code>. The old components have been deprecated and will be removed in the near future.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="a-new-fan-component" href="#a-new-fan-component"></a> A new <code class="highlighter-rouge">fan</code> component</h3>
<p>Along with the new <code class="highlighter-rouge">climate</code> component, <a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a> and I (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>) decided we needed something simpler to just control a fan. Currently it has support for controlling Insteon fans. MQTT support will appear in 0.28.0. I tried to get it implemented before 0.27.0 but spent too long writing this blog post 😢.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="all-changes" href="#all-changes"></a> All changes</h3>
<p><img src="/images/supported_brands/html5.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="100" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/mqtt.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="100" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/hewlett_packard_enterprise.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="100" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/wunderground.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="100" /></p>
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<li>Merge thermostat and HVAC components into new <a href="/components/climate/">climate</a> component (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Merge rollershutter and garage door components into new <a href="/components/cover/">cover</a> component (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Alarm Control Panel - Manual: Allow returning to previous state after <a href="/components/alarm_control_panel.manual/">trigger</a> (<a href="https://github.com/tobiebooth">@tobiebooth</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor - DHT: Allow range <a href="/components/sensor.dht/">checking</a> (<a href="https://github.com/open-homeautomation">@open-homeautomation</a>)</li>
<li>Light entities will now <a href="/components/light/">expose</a> their features (<a href="https://github.com/shmuelzon">@shmuelzon</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: Monitor HP ILO sensors on <a href="/components/sensor.hp_ilo/">HP</a> servers (<a href="https://github.com/Juggels">@Juggels</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: Monitor <a href="/components/sensor.fritzbox_callmonitor/">Fritzbox</a> Calls (<a href="https://github.com/DavidMStraub">@DavidMStraub</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: LlamaLab <a href="/components/notify.llamalab_automate/">Automate</a> is now supported (<a href="https://github.com/danielperna84">@danielperna84</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: Serial <a href="/components/sensor.mhz19/">CO2</a> sensors now supported (<a href="https://github.com/open-homeautomation">@open-homeautomation</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: MQTT room <a href="/components/sensor.mqtt_room">presence</a> detection (<a href="https://github.com/mKerix">@mKerix</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: New group platform allows <a href="/components/notify.group/">grouping</a> notify targets across platforms (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/notify.html5/">HTML5</a> push notifications (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>, <a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Weather: <a href="/components/sensor.wunderground/">Wunderground</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/arsaboo">@arsaboo</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>)</li>
<li>New check config script to test validity before restarting HA (<a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a>)</li>
<li>Binary Sensor: Allow <a href="/components/binary_sensor.ffmpeg/">monitoring</a> a camera feed using FFMpeg (<a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>)</li>
<li>Cover: Z-Wave platform now supports <a href="/components/cover.zwave/">positions</a> (<a href="https://github.com/nunofgs">@nunofgs</a>)</li>
<li>Device tracker: allow using <a href="/components/device_tracker/">Gravatar</a> for entity picture (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: platforms with known targets will expose them as standalone services (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Camera: <a href="/components/camera.mjpeg/">MJPEG</a> and <a href="/components/camera.generic/">Generic</a> camera’s can now authenticate using digest auth (<a href="https://github.com/meatz">@meatz</a>)</li>
<li>Weather: Forecast.io now can show daily temp/precip <a href="/components/sensor.forecast/">forecast</a> values (<a href="https://github.com/DavidMStraub">@DavidMStraub</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: WebOS TV now allows <a href="/components/media_player.webostv/">customizing</a> the sources (<a href="ttps://github.com/roidayan">@roidayan</a>)</li>
<li>Device tracker: Allow tracking devices using <a href="/components/device_tracker.bluetooth_le_tracker/">Bluetooth</a> Low-Energy (<a href="https://github.com/open-homeautomation">@open-homeautomation</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: Ensure <a href="/components/notify.slack/">Slack</a> messages appear as correct user (<a href="https://github.com/technicalpickles">@technicalpickles</a>)</li>
<li>YAML: <a href="/topics/secrets/">Secrets</a> will look for values in all parents folders up to the config root folder (<a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>)</li>
<li>Camera: Generic camera now supports <a href="/components/camera.generic/">template</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Slack: Allow sending <a href="/components/notify.slack/">attachments</a> (<a href="https://github.com/technicalpickles">@technicalpickles</a>)</li>
<li>Device Tracking: TP-Link Archer C7 5 GHz devices will now also be <a href="/components/device_tracker.tplink/">found</a> (<a href="https://github.com/dpford">@dpford</a>)</li>
<li>Z-Wave: New rename <a href="/components/zwave/">node</a> service added (<a href="https://github.com/jnewland">@jnewland</a>)</li>
<li>Wink: <a href="/components/wink/">Bug</a> fixes (<a href="https://github.com/w1ll1am23">@w1ll1am23</a>)</li>
<li>Homematic: new device and controller variable <a href="/components/homematic/">support</a> (<a href="https://github.com/danielperna84">@danielperna84</a>, <a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>, <a href="https://github.com/mcdeck">@mcdeck</a>)</li>
<li>Allow emulating a <a href="/components/emulated_hue/">Hue</a> bridge to control entities (<a href="https://github.com/mgbowen">@mgbowen</a>)</li>
<li>New <a href="/components/fan/">Fan</a> component (<a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>, <a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="breaking-changes" href="#breaking-changes"></a> Breaking changes</h3>
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<li>Ecobee3 occupancy sensors have moved from sensor platform to binary sensor platform.</li>
<li>Forecast.io entity IDs are now like <code class="highlighter-rouge">sensor.forecastio_temperature</code>. Previously they were like <code class="highlighter-rouge">sensor.weather_temperature</code>. Apologies for this change, but we needed to make Forecast.io more generic now that we have many weather platforms.</li>
<li>The <a href="/components/sensor.loop_energy/">Loop Energy</a> sensor configuration format changed slightly, please reformat based on the revised documentation.</li>
<li>The configuration for the <a href="/components/sensor.sabnzbd/">SABnzbd</a> sensor has slightly changed. The prefix <code class="highlighter-rouge">type:</code> is no longer required for monitored variables.</li>
<li>The <a href="/components/sensor.imap/">IMAP</a> sensor now uses <code class="highlighter-rouge">username</code> instead of <code class="highlighter-rouge">user</code>.</li>
<li>The <a href="/components/sensor.nzbget/">NZBGet</a> sensor has had so many changes I can’t list them all. Please refer to the documentation for more info.</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="deprecations" href="#deprecations"></a> Deprecations</h3>
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<li>Using the <code class="highlighter-rouge">thermostat</code> and <code class="highlighter-rouge">hvac</code> components has been deprecated. Please migrate to the new <code class="highlighter-rouge">climate</code> component. (just change the component name, the configurations are compatible)</li>
<li>Using the <code class="highlighter-rouge">rollershutter</code> and <code class="highlighter-rouge">garage_door</code> components have also been deprecated. Please migrate to the new <code class="highlighter-rouge">cover</code> component. (just change the component name, the configurations are compatible)</li>
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<h2><a class="title-link" name="finishing-up" href="#finishing-up"></a> Finishing up</h2>
<p>Thanks all for sticking with me to the end. I’ll be taking over a lot of Paulus’s (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>) work while he is gone, but as I said, don’t worry because he’ll be back well before 0.28.0 comes out. Hopefully you didn’t find this jovial blog post too jarring from our standard style, I just wrote a lot of this at 2am after being awake for almost 20 hours, so I’m a little loopy hahaha 😴.</p>
<p>Also, thanks as always to our developer contributors, documentation contributors, but most of all our users! This would’ve just been a script that Paulus (@balloob) used to control his lights at home if we didn’t have your enthusiasm.</p>
<p>Feel free to let me know what you thought of this blog post and release on Gitter or my <a href="https://twitter.com/robbie">Twitter</a>, or even the <a href="https://twitter.com/home_assistant">Home Assistant Twitter</a>. Did I mention we have a brand new <a href="https://www.facebook.com/homeassistantio">Facebook page</a> that you should absolutely Like? There’s a convenient Facebook Like and Twitter follow button right on the sidebar.</p>
<p>I almost forgot about your 🎁 for reading all the way to here: a 🍪! Hope you enjoy it in good health 😄.</p>
<p>Talk to you soon on Gitter and in your pull request comments!</p>
<p>– Robbie</p>
<p>(p.s. To those of you that scrolled directly to the bottom to get your present, just know that you didn’t earn it like the others did. 😄)</p>
<h2><a class="title-link" name="hotfix-0271---august-30" href="#hotfix-0271---august-30"></a> Hotfix 0.27.1 - August 30</h2>
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<li>Migrate APCUPSd to voluptuous (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>)</li>
<li>Ecobee operation mode fix (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>update ha-ffmpeg version to 0.9 (<a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>)</li>
<li>Device tracker component &amp; platform validation. No more home_range. (<a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a>)</li>
<li>Added option to use effect:random for Flux Led light bulbs (<a href="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a>)</li>
<li>Use voluptuous for smtp (<a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade sendgrid to 3.2.10 (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrade TwitterAPI to 2.4.2 (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>)</li>
<li>Fix bug in wemo discovery caused by voluptuous addition. (<a href="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a>)</li>
<li>Bug fix for asuswrt device_tracker. (<a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen">@Danielhiversen</a>)</li>
<li>Remove units for humidity in Wundeground sensor (<a href="https://github.com/arsaboo">@arsaboo</a>)</li>
<li>Fix media_player descriptions and select_source (<a href="https://github.com/MartinHjelmare">@MartinHjelmare</a>)</li>
<li>Allow user to configure server id to perform speed test against (<a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>)</li>
<li>Bug fix for asuswrt device_tracker. (<a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen">@Danielhiversen</a>)</li>
<li>More Ecobee operation mode fixes (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Map Modes to setpoint indexes (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>fix voluptuous and cover autodiscovery (<a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>)</li>
<li>Fixes wrong statevalue and problem with zwave setpoint (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
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<h2><a class="title-link" name="hotfix-0272---september-3" href="#hotfix-0272---september-3"></a> Hotfix 0.27.2 - September 3</h2>
<h3>home-assistant</h3>
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<li>Ble fix (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3019">#3019</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/open-homeautomation">@open-homeautomation</a>)</li>
<li>Reset insteon hub (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3062">#3062</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>)</li>
<li>Host should be optional for apcupsd component (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3072">#3072</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen">@Danielhiversen</a>)</li>
<li>Zwave climate Bugfix: if some setpoints have different units, we should fetch the o… (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3078">#3078</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Bugfix unit fix (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3083">#3083</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Ecobee humidity slider (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3088">#3088</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Zwave Climate Bugfix: If device was off target temp was null. Default to Heating setpoint (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3091">#3091</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Climate and cover bugfix (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3097">#3097</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Add missing docstrings (fix PEP257 issues) (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3098">#3098</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>)</li>
<li>Allow None MAC to be loaded from known_devices (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3102">#3102</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a>)</li>
<li>fix homematic climate implementation (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3114">#3114</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>)</li>
<li>Fixed Homematic cover (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3116">#3116</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/danielperna84">@danielperna84</a>)</li>
<li>Bugfix. climate and covermqt (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/3130">#3130</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>home-assistant-polymer</h3>
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<li>Fix missing attributes on the climate and HVAC more info cards (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/commit/7e455e2be1cb7cc4f55628b063019bea548a3182">7e455e2</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Add a default icon for the fan component (<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/pull/101">#101</a>) - (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
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<time datetime="2016-08-19T06:00:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> August 19, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Fabian Affolter</span>
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<p>Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/kireyeu">Anton Kireyeu</a> we are able to present another awesome <a href="https://jupyter.org/">Jupyter notebook</a>. I guess that you all know the graph which Github is using to visualize your commits per day over a time-line. It’s a so-called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_map">heatmap</a>. If there are more commits, it’s getting hotter. The latest <a href="http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/home-assistant/home-assistant-notebooks/blob/master/DataExploration-2/DataExploration-2.ipynb">notebook</a> is capable to do the same thing for your devices. To be more precise, for the hours your devices are home.</p>
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Heatmap
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<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Andrew Cockburn</span>
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<p>I have been working on a new subsystem to complement Home Assistant’s Automation and Scripting components. <code class="highlighter-rouge">AppDaemon</code> is a python daemon that consumes events from Home Assistant and feeds them to snippets of python code called “Apps”. An App is a Python class that is instantiated possibly multiple times from <code class="highlighter-rouge">AppDaemon</code> and registers callbacks for various system events. It is also able to inspect and set state and call services. The API provides a rich environment suited to home automation tasks that can also leverage all the power of Python.</p>
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<a href="/blog/2016/08/13/foursquare-fast-com-ffmpeg-gpsd/">0.26: Foursquare, Fast.com, FFMPEG and GPSD</a>
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<time datetime="2016-08-13T19:00:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> August 13, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p>It’s time for 0.26 and it’s again full of new features and fixes. First I want to highlight that we are now having 500 000 monthly pageviews on the website. A big milestone for us! It’s been an amazing journey. Big thanks to the Home Assistant community for being such a delightful bunch.</p>
<p>This release includes code contributed by 31 different people. The biggest change in this release is a new unit system. Instead of picking Celsius or Fahrenheit you’ll have to pick imperial or metric now. This influences the units for your temperature, distance, and weight. This will simplify any platform or component that needs to know this information. Big thanks to <a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a> for her hard work on this!</p>
<p><img src="/images/supported_brands/foursquare.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="100" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/ohmconnect.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="100" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/fastdotcom.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="100" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/gpsd.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="100" /><img src="/images/supported_brands/ffmpeg.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: 5px; border:none; box-shadow: none; float: right; margin-bottom: 16px;" width="100" /></p>
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<li>Core: Introduce notion of unit system (deprecates temperature unit option) (<a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>)</li>
<li>Front end: Speed improvements (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Front end: Improve layout of state dev tool (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/proximity/">Proximity</a>: Allow definition of unit of measurement (<a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/switch.flux/">Flux</a>: Add mired and kelvin mode (<a href="https://github.com/HBDK">@HBDK</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat - <a href="/components/thermostat.proliphix/">Proliphix</a>: Support for cooling (<a href="https://github.com/sdague">@sdague</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player - <a href="/components/media_player.lg_netcast/">LG Netcast TV</a>: Show screenshot of what is currently playing (<a href="https://github.com/shmuelzon">@shmuelzon</a>)</li>
<li>Z-Wave improvements (<a href="https://github.com/jnewland">@jnewland</a>, <a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat - <a href="/components/thermostat.heat_control/">heat control</a>: now also able to control an AC (<a href="https://github.com/mtreinish">@mtreinish</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat - <a href="/components/thermostat.heat_control/">heat control</a>: allow specifying a minimum duration before switching (<a href="https://github.com/mtreinish">@mtreinish</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/influxdb/">InfluxDB</a>: Whitelist entities option added (<a href="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: Serial <a href="/components/sensor.serial_pm/">particulate matters</a> sensors now supported (<a href="https://github.com/open-homeautomation">@open-homeautomation</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor - <a href="/components/sensor.fitbit/">Fitbit</a>: Fix unit system (<a href="https://github.com/tchellomello">@tchellomello</a>)</li>
<li>Light - <a href="/components/light.flux_led/">Flux LED</a>: Add support for [color and brightness][color] (<a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen">@Danielhiversen</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player - <a href="/components/media_player.plex/">Plex</a>: Now able to report on music (<a href="https://github.com/abcminiuser">@abcminiuser</a>)</li>
<li>Alarm Control Panel - <a href="/components/alarm_control_panel.verisure/">Verisure</a>: Now able to see who changed the alarm (<a href="https://github.com/persandtrom">@persandtrom</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat - <a href="/components/thermostat.honeywell/">Honeywell</a>: Add option to read and control HVAC mode (<a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/foursquare/">Foursquare</a> component to receive instant notifications of checkins (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li>Camera: New <a href="/components/camera.ffmpeg/">FFMPEG</a> platform allows to stream anything through front end (<a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>)</li>
<li>Manage <a href="/topics/secrets/">secrets</a> with new command line script (<a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a>)</li>
<li>Notify - <a href="/components/notify.smtp/">SMTP</a>: Allow embedding of images (<a href="https://github.com/partofthething">@partofthething</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.ohmconnect/">OhmConnect</a> is now supported (<a href="https://github.com/robbiet480">@robbiet480</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/components/panel_custom/">panel_custom</a> component allows the registering of new panels (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Light: New <a href="/components/light.mqtt_json/">mqtt_json</a> platform for working with JSON payload (<a href="https://github.com/corbanmailloux">@corbanmailloux</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: New <a href="/components/sensor.fastdotcom/">Fast.com</a> platform to measure network bandwidth performance (<a href="https://github.com/nkgilley">@nkgilley</a>)</li>
<li>New <a href="/components/pilight/">pilight</a> component to control 433 Mz devices (<a href="https://github.com/DavidLP">@DavidLP</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: <a href="/components/sensor.gpsd/">GPSD</a> now supported (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>)</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="hotfix-0261---august-14" href="#hotfix-0261---august-14"></a> Hotfix 0.26.1 - August 14</h3>
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<li>Fix serial_pm config validation (<a href="https://github.com/open-homeautomation">@open-homeautomation</a>)</li>
<li>Check for existence of system mode on Honeywell thermostats (<a href="https://github.com/mKeRix">@mKeRix</a>)</li>
<li>Fix unknown unit of measurement for hvac and thermostat component (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="hotfix-0262---august-15" href="#hotfix-0262---august-15"></a> Hotfix 0.26.2 - August 15</h3>
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<li>Fix Wemo: have PyWemo play nicely with the latest Requests (<a href="https://github.com/pavoni">@pavoni</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="hotfix-0263---august-19" href="#hotfix-0263---august-19"></a> Hotfix 0.26.3 - August 19</h3>
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<li>Media Player cover art would not work when an API password was set. Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/maddox">@maddox</a> for reporting it and <a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a> for the fix.</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="breaking-changes" href="#breaking-changes"></a> Breaking changes</h3>
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<li>A new unit system has superseded the temperature unit option in the core configuration. For now it is backwards compatible, but you should update soon:</li>
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<div class="language-yaml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="c1"># Configuration.yaml example</span>
<span class="s">homeassistant</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="c1"># 'metric' for the metric system, 'imperial' for the imperial system</span>
<span class="s">unit_system</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">metric</span>
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<time datetime="2016-08-07T19:36:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> August 7, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p><em>This blog post will go into detail about the recent performance optimizations that went into the Home Assistant front end. For people not familiar with the app, check out <a href="https://home-assistant.io/demo">the demo</a> and <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer">the source</a>.</em></p>
<p>TL; DR: Don’t hack the framework, separate responsibilities, ship less, use service workers, use (future) web standards.</p>
<p>This year at Google I/O I saw Monica from the Polymer team talk about web components and performance. In her talk <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQoleQEa4w&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=1380">she mentions a mantra</a> that they use in the Polymer team to make things fast: <strong>Do less and be lazy</strong>.</p>
<p>Do less and be lazy. It sounds so obvious and it took a while before it started to dawn on me. I think most of the code I write is pretty fast, but I don’t often stop to take a harder look at how and when it runs in practice. When do we need the result, can it be postponed?</p>
<p>And thus started my journey to take a critical look at how the Home Assistant app was working and how to make things faster. Below is the list of the different things that I did to make it fast.</p>
<p>I hope this list can be useful to other people, as a guide for optimizing their own apps or for avoiding pitfalls when building a new one.</p>
<p>The first thing to do is to measure. The Home Assistant front end is a mobile web app, so we shouldn’t measure this on a machine with 8 cores and gigabytes of ram but instead measure on devices you expect a mobile web app to run: phones. Below are two timelines recorded with Home Assistant 0.18.2 (pre-optimizations) and Google Chrome 53. <strong>On my Mac the app starts in 1400 miliseconds and on my Nexus 5x in ~6500 miliseconds (~4.5 times slower!).</strong></p>
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<p>Although the app takes 6500 milliseconds to load on my phone, it would perform well afterwards. Still, that initial load is unacceptable. You expect to open an app on your phone and be able to use it, quickly. After I applied all the changes described below, I managed to reduce startup time to 900 miliseconds (-35%) on my Mac and 2400 miliseconds (-63%) on my Nexus 5x. <a href="https://home-assistant.io/demo">Check out the demo here.</a></p>
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<img src="/images/blog/2016-08-optimizing-web-app/performance-diagram.png" alt="diagram showing old and new loading times next to one another" />
<img src="/images/blog/2016-08-optimizing-web-app/performance-timeline-0.26.png" alt="Timeline of loading the front end in Home Assistant 0.26" />
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<a href="/blog/2016/08/03/laundry-automation-update/">Laundry Sensors with NodeMCU and Home Assistant</a>
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<time datetime="2016-08-03T17:22:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> August 2, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Nolan Gilley</span>
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<p><em>This is a guest post by Home Assistant user and contributor <a href="https://github.com/nkgilley">Nolan Gilley</a>.</em></p>
<p>Today I’ll show you how I used Home Assistant, a NodeMCU (ESP8266), and a couple of accelerometers to automate our laundry room. This is a rewrite of an <a href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/2015/08/26/laundry-automation-with-moteino-mqtt-and-home-assistant/">old post</a> where I did the same thing using a Moteino &amp; Raspberry Pi. This version only requires a NodeMCU.</p>
<p>We have an older washer and dryer which doesn’t have any form of notification when cycles complete. Home Assistant was the obvious solution, I just needed to create sensors for the washer and dryer. I tried using sound sensors but found them unreliable. I ended up using an accelerometer attached to the back of each appliance. I also added magnetic reed switches on the doors of the washer and dryer to detect whether they’re open or closed. I connected the accelerometers and reed switches to an NodeMCU which will relay the data to my MQTT broker.</p>
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<a href="/blog/2016/07/30/custom-frontend-panels-jupyter-notebooks-directv/">0.25: Custom frontend panels, Jupyter notebooks, DirecTV.</a>
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<time datetime="2016-07-30T12:00:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> July 30, 2016</time>
<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Fabian Affolter & Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<p>When Home Assistant started the focus has always been on making a great developer experience. Allowing anyone to add support for their favorite devices to Home Assistant easily. This focus has been a great success since we now have 339 components and platforms!</p>
<p>Starting with this release, we are extending our extensability to the frontend. Starting this release, any component can <a href="/developers/frontend_creating_custom_panels/">add it’s own page to the frontend</a>. Examples of this today are the map, logbook and history. We are looking forward to all the crazy panels you’ll come up with!</p>
<p>We have also seen an exciting trend of people starting to visualize their Internet of Things data using <a href="http://jupyter.org/">Jupyter</a> Notebooks, which are a great way to create and share documents that contain code, visualizations, and explanatory text. In case you missed it, the <a href="/blog/2016/07/23/internet-of-things-data-exploration-with-jupyter-notebooks/">blog</a> post by <a href="https://github.com/kireyeu">@kireyeu</a> shows an advanced usecase while our <a href="/cookbook/#jupyter-notebooks">Notebooks</a> in the <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-notebooks">Home Assistant Notebooks repository</a> cover the basics.</p>
<p>This release also includes a bunch of new integrations, among others three new media player platforms. This means that today Home Assistant can talk to 26 different media players!</p>
<p>The brand-new <a href="/components/panel_iframe/">iFrame panel component</a> allows you to add other websites as pages in the Home Assistant frontend. They will show up in the sidebar and can be used the same way as you open the frontend in your browser but all within one view.</p>
<p>I would like to do a shoutout to <a href="https://github.com/fabianhjr">@fabianhjr</a>. He has started adding <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html">typing</a> data (<a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/">PEP484</a>) to the Home Assistant core. This will help us identify issues before they are released.</p>
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<li>Frontend: Support for <a href="/components/panel_iframe/">iFrame panels</a> to adding other sites to sidebar (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Allow components to register <a href="/developers/frontend_creating_custom_panels/">custom frontend panels</a> (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Add example custom_component <a href="/cookbook/custom_panel_using_react/">react_panel</a> showing custom panels (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
<li>Light: <a href="/components/light.flux_led/">MagicLight/Flux WiFi Color LED Light</a> support (<a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen">@Danielhiversen</a>)</li>
<li>Script: Specify a delay <a href="/getting-started/scripts/#delay">using templates</a> (<a href="https://github.com/Teagan42">@Teagan42</a>)</li>
<li>Media player: <a href="/components/media_player.russound_rnet/">Russound RNET</a> integration (<a href="https://github.com/laf">@laf</a>)</li>
<li>Remote: Option specifying custom timeout when calling Home Assistant API (<a href="https://github.com/n8henrie">@n8henrie</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat: Integration of <a href="/components/thermostat.knx/">KNX</a> thermostats (<a href="https://github.com/open-homeautomation">@open-homeautomation</a>)</li>
<li>Thermostat: Support for HVAC mode of <a href="/components/thermostat.nest/">Nest</a> devices (<a href="https://github.com/vladonemo">@vladonemo</a>)</li>
<li>InfluxDB: Option to specify additional <a href="/components/influxdb/">tags</a> (<a href="https://github.com/open-homeautomation">@open-homeautomation</a>)</li>
<li>Input slider: Support for float value (<a href="https://github.com/ngraziano">@ngraziano</a>)</li>
<li>Template: New <a href="/topics/templating/#home-assistant-template-extensions">filters</a> (<code class="highlighter-rouge">timestamp_local</code> and <code class="highlighter-rouge">timestamp_utc</code>) (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>)</li>
<li>Binary sensor - Wink: Water leak sensor support added (<a href="https://github.com/w1ll1am23">@w1ll1am23</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor - Tellduslive: Support for luminance of Fibaro Motion Sensor (<a href="https://github.com/PetitCircuitLab">@PetitCircuitLab</a>)</li>
<li>Switch - RPi GPIO: Fix when inverted logic (<a href="https://github.com/zeroDenial">@zeroDenial</a>)</li>
<li>Z-Wave: Rollershutter update (<a href="https://github.com/turbokongen">@turbokongen</a>)</li>
<li>RFXtrx: Fire events when receiving signals from sensors and tests added (<a href="https://github.com/Danielhiversen">@Danielhiversen</a>)</li>
<li>Core: Add <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html">type</a> checking using mypy to the core (<a href="https://github.com/fabianhjr">@fabianhjr</a>)</li>
<li>Remote: Support for getting the <a href="/developers/python_api/#get-configuration">Configuration</a> through the Python API (<a href="https://github.com/fabaff">@fabaff</a>)</li>
<li>Media player: Support for <a href="/components/media_player.directv/">DirecTV</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cbulock">@cbulock</a>)</li>
<li>Use browser timezone for frontend logbook and history dates (<a href="https://github.com/armills">@armills</a>)</li>
<li>Light: New support for <a href="/components/light.x10/">X10</a> lights (<a href="https://github.com/fotoetienne">@fotoetienne</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: Support for observing <a href="/components/sensor.imap/">IMAP</a> accounts (<a href="https://github.com/danieljkemp">@danieljkemp</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: Integration for <a href="/components/media_player.mpchc/">MPC-HC</a> (Media Player Classic - Home Cinema) mediaplayer (<a href="https://github.com/abcminiuser">@abcminiuser</a>)</li>
<li>Notify: <code class="highlighter-rouge">location</code> extension for <a href="/components/notify.telegram/">Telegram</a> and photo bug fixed (<a href="https://github.com/keatontaylor">@keatontaylor</a> and <a href="https://github.com/pvizeli">@pvizeli</a>)</li>
<li>Groups: Lock states will now be properly grouped (<a href="https://github.com/jwl17330536">@jwl17330536</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player: Added tests for Sonos to improve code quality (<a href="https://github.com/americanwookie">@americanwookie</a>)</li>
<li>Device Tracker: iCloud stability fixes (<a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a>)</li>
<li>Sensor: Speedtest with improved error handling and state restoring (<a href="https://github.com/nkgilley">@nkgilley</a>)</li>
<li>Recorder: Stability fixes (<a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a>)</li>
<li>Qwikswitch: Stability fixes (<a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a>)</li>
<li>Light: <a href="/components/light.hyperion/">Hyperion</a> keeps now track of active color (<a href="https://github.com/schneefux">@schneefux</a>)</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="hotfix-0251---august-1" href="#hotfix-0251---august-1"></a> Hotfix 0.25.1 - August 1</h3>
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<li>Light - Z-Wave: Bring back delayed value update behavior (<a href="https://github.com/jnewland">@jnewland</a>)</li>
<li>Recorder: Properly close session after execute (<a href="https://github.com/kellerza">@kellerza</a>)</li>
<li>Media Player - Kodi: No longer block startup if connecting to wrong port (<a href="https://github.com/shoekstra">@shoekstra</a>)</li>
<li>Downgrade voluptuous to 0.8.9 as it blocked the upgrade for some (<a href="https://github.com/balloob">@balloob</a>)</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="hotfix-0252---august-2" href="#hotfix-0252---august-2"></a> Hotfix 0.25.2 - August 2</h3>
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<li>Hotfix to make sure Z-Wave locks work again. Thanks to @tobiebooth for the quick fix.</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="breaking-changes" href="#breaking-changes"></a> Breaking changes</h3>
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<li>Google Voice SMS notification support was removed.</li>
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The first release of Micropython for ESP8266 was delivered a couple of weeks ago. The <a href="http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp8266/esp8266_contents.html">documentation</a> covers a lot of ground. This post is providing only a little summary which should get you started.</p>
<p>Until a couple of weeks ago, the pre-built MicroPython binary for the ESP8266 was only available to backers of the Kickstarter campaign. This has changed now and it is available to the public for <a href="https://micropython.org/download/#esp8266">download</a>.</p>
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<p><em>This is the first blog post by Anton Kireyeu. A new contributor to Home Assistant who will focus on exploring and visualizing Home Assistant data.</em></p>
<p>As we learned in the recent <a href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/2016/07/19/visualizing-your-iot-data/">blog post by Fabian</a>, all operational data of your Home Assistant application is stored locally and is available for exploration. Our first steps were querying data with the <a href="http://sqlitebrowser.org/">DB Browser for SQLite</a>, exporting the data extract as a CSV file and graphing in LibreOffice. But what else can be done with this data and what tools are there available?</p>
<p>This post will help you get set up using a few popular data scientist tools to allow you to locally process your data:</p>
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<li> <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/">Pandas</a>: an open source tool for data analysis for Python</li>
<li> <a href="http://matplotlib.org/">matplotlib</a>: a Python plotting library</li>
<li> <a href="https://jupyter.org/">Jupyter notebook</a>: application for creation and sharing of documents containing live code, visualizations and explanatory text</li>
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One of the graphs created with this tutorial.
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<p><em>TL; DR: Use <a href="http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/home-assistant/home-assistant-notebooks/blob/master/DataExploration-1/DataExploration-1.ipynb">this Jupyter Notebook</a> to visualize of your data</em></p>
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<time datetime="2016-07-19T16:00:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> July 19, 2016</time>
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<p>The <a href="/components/history/">history component</a> is tracking everything that is going on within Home Assistant. This means that you have access to all stored information about your home. Our history is not a full-fledged graphical processing and visualization component as you may know from systems and network monitoring tools. The current limitation is that you only can select a day for a visual output of your information and not a period. Also, there is no possibility to drill down on a specific entity.</p>
<p>This blog post will show you ways to export data for reporting, visualization, or further analysis of automation rules.</p>
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