Home Assistant is een opensourceplatform voor home-automation dat draait onder Python 3. Het draait via Hassbian op een Raspberry Pi 3 of een Linux-, macOS- of Windows-computer. Het ondersteunt het detecteren van apparaten zoals Nest-thermostaten, Philips Hue, Belkin WeMo-schakelaars, Mr. Coffee-koffiezetapparaten en het mqtt-protocol. Daarnaast kan het waar mogelijk deze apparaten aansturen en automatisering toepassen. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we naar deze pagina en ons forum. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 0.63 uitgebracht en de release notes daarvan zijn hieronder te vinden.
Date set for dropping Python 3.4 supportAs announced in October, we’re going to drop Python 3.4 support in 2018. We’ve now decided that in two releases, 0.65, the minimum Python version that will be supported is bumped to 3.5.3. This won’t impact most users. You are already fine if you’re using Hass.io, the latest Debian stable (Stretch) or a derivative of that (Raspbian, Ubuntu).
Entity RegistryThis release introduces the entity registry. The entity registry allows integrations to reserve entity IDs. This means that we’ll automatically grant an entity ID to a device. It’s reserved so that no other device will ever get that entity ID. It also means that as a user, you will be able to customize the entity IDs for these devices.
For an integration to leverage the entity registry, it needs to define a unique ID for each of their entities. A unique ID is something that we can uniquely identify the device and that is not configurable. So a serial number and mac address are ok, IP addresses or names are not.
Examples of integrations that have unique IDs defined in this release are Z-Wave, Hue, Nest, LIFX, Sonos, Apple TV.
To update the entity ID that will be assigned to your device, update
<config>/entity_registry.yaml
and restart Home Assistant (reloading on the fly is planned for a future release).The entity registry will assign an entity ID the first time that a device is seen. This should be the same entity ID as it always was before. If this is not the case, update the registration entity to change it back to the old entity ID.
We’re planning a lot of cool stuff around the entity registry. Stay tuned!
New Platforms
- Adds allergy/disease sensor platform from Pollen.com (@bachya - #11573) (sensor.pollen docs) (new-platform)
- Add Goalfeed platform (@wardcraigj - #11098) (goalfeed docs) (new-platform)
- Add Melissa (HVAC/climate) component (@kennedyshead - #11503) (melissa docs) (sensor.melissa docs) (new-platform)
- Mediaroom (@dgomes - #11864) (media_player.mediaroom docs) (new-platform)
- Add Xiaomi Universal IR Remote (Chuangmi IR) (@cnrd - #11891) (remote.xiaomi_miio docs) (new-platform)
- SQL sensor (@dgomes - #12142) (sensor.sql docs) (new-platform)
- Add Mercedes me component (@ReneNulschDE - #11743) (new-platform)