Software Update: Home Assistant 0.89.1

Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform that runs under Python 3. It runs via Hassbian on a Raspberry Pi 3 or a Linux, macOS or Windows computer. It supports detecting devices, such as Nest thermostats, Philips Hue, Belkin WeMo switches, Mr. Coffee makers, the smart switches from Ikea and the mqtt protocol. In addition, where possible, it can control these devices and apply automation. For more information, please refer to this page and our Forum. The developers have released version 0.89.1 with the following changes.

Release 0.89.1

• Upgrade blinkpy==0.13.1 (Fixes #21559)
• Fix Name of Homematic IP access point in devices, if name is configured
• Fix group-switch availability for Homematic IP
• automated commit 07/03/2019 10:47:38
• Fix botvac connected maps call as it is not a supported model
• Fix colorlog import error
• Fix script load module issue
• Bump PyXiaomiGateway version to 0.12.2 (Closes: #21731)
• adds missing SUPPORT_VOLUME_SET flag to webos media_player
• Updated to newest pyeconet

0.89: Nissan Leaf, PlayStation 4, Point alarm control, Owlet baby monitor

It’s time for release 0.89. It’s another great new release with some cool new features, bug fixes and improvements. The first cool new feature is that yet another car is integrated into Home Assistant: the Nissan Leaf. Both deConz and SmartThings integrations keep expanding to cover more devices.

This release introduces a new mobile app component. @robbiet480, who also works on the iOS app, has taken the best parts of the Home Assistant iOS app component and turned it into a standardized API that any mobile app can build upon. This will allow any mobile apps to integrate with Home Assistant with a great user experience. If you are a mobile app developer, please check the updated app integration docs. We will be fine tuning the API in upcoming releases. Feedback is welcome.

Noteworthy Breaking Changes
Custom Components file structure change: A significant change in how the “under the hood” of Home Assistant works has led to forcing platforms to be resolved based off the component path, if it exists. Today, if you want, you can override the Hue light platform, but not the other parts of the Hue integration. If a future update evolves the Hue component, removing or changing internal methods that the custom platform relied upon, the custom platform will start failing. To avoid this, we’re going to no longer allow custom components to be partial overlays (just a platform). Instead, if you want to override a built-in platform, you will need to override the whole component. This is enforced by first resolving the platform as a component, and if it exists, limiting the lookup path to the component path. Example: if I look up the hue component, and it is provided by a custom component, then all platform lookups will also be looked up in the custom component dir. The same works the other way around, if a user would only try to override hue/light.py but not hue/__init__.py, the custom platform will be ignored. Paulus has written some detailed information about this change on the developers’ blog, if you’d like more information. The Great Migration by Paulus

Existing SmartThings configuration entries will be removed, including the SmartApp/Automation from the SmartThings app. Home Assistant will prompt you to configure the integration again or it can be invoked from the integrations page. The configuration process is the same as before. To prepare, have your personal access token and a mobile device with the SmartThings Classic App handy. This will not affect the naming of devices or entities and is a one-time inconvenience. The implementation switches over to the SmartApp access token to synchronize subscriptions during setup of the config entry, which cannot be done using the personal access token.

New Platforms

• Météo-France platform for the weather component
• Point alarm control
• Nissan Leaf Integration (Carwings / NissanConnect EV)
• Rewrite or Show component
• Times of The Day Binary Sensor
• Add switch platform for Danfoss Air and additional sensors.
• Owlet baby monitor component
• deCONZ thermostat support
• Added device tracker support for Ubee Router
• Add LCN cover platform
• Add initial support for Sony SDCP projector control
• Add SmartThings Cover platform and add cover device classes
• Add SmartThings Scene platform
• Reddit Sensor
• mobile_app component
• Add component media player.ps4