Software Update: Home Assistant Core 0.109.0

Version 0.109 of Home Assistant Core has been released. Home Assistant Core 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 discovering devices such as Nest thermostats, Philips Hue, Belkin WeMo switches, Mr. Coffee makers, the smart switches from IKEA and the mqtt protocol. In addition, it can control these devices and apply automation where possible. For more information, please refer to this page and our Forum. The announcement for this release can be found below.

0.109: New integrations page and weather card, frontend lost weight.

Last week we wrote about the future of YAML† It raised quite a bit of additional questions, so Philo and Rohan released a special edition of the Home Assistant Podcast. In this episode, they talk with Paul about the changes announced.

Click here to listen to the Podcast

This release ships a lot of work that is not directly visible to the eye. We have seen a lot of bug fixes, stability improvements and quality improvements, which is really awesome! There’s more to this than meets the eye.

A new integration configuration page

Let’s start with something visible to the eye. As part of our configuration layout overhaul, we started work on the integration page. The screen now shows cards for every configured integration, and links to a filtered device and entities pages instead of providing its own detail page with devices, options and entities.

All options are now on the same card. And, you can now also rename an already set up integration instance.

Don’t the new logos look beautiful? A big thanks to all the people, who have been working hard to complete our collection of logos and icons the past few weeks. Almost 700! contributions have been processed!

Thanks to everyone for contributing, that’s amazing! Special thanks to these champs who did most of the heavy lifting: @adrianmihalko† @BradleyFord† @Klumper† @nldroid† @samrdev†

As for the next steps in future releases; we will add search, group multiple entries of the same integration and add specific functions for integrations like ZHA.

New weather card

To accompany our new weather row design, @zsarnett redesigned the weather forecast card. It is cleaner and works better on smaller screens. It also allows you to hide the weather forecast.

Weight loss for the front end

The Home Assistant has a translations system, which is great since it allows one to use Home Assistant in the language one prefers.

However, it came with a performance penalty. All translations were downloaded each time. All of them. This is, of course, highly inefficient. With all the new frontend features added and the integrations that now comes to the UI, it slowly is becoming a bigger issue.

for this release, @balloob worked hard to make this more efficient and as of this release, the frontend will only fetch the translations it needs. This makes the frontend load less data, and thus lighter for the browser.

Did you know you can help out translating Home Assistant?

There is no need to learn git or anything. It can be done straight from your browser! Read more about helping out translating Home Assistant on our developer site†

Detection of blocking I/O in the event loop

This is a bit technical, but some things happening in Home Assistant, like fetching data from an API or website, can lock up Home Assistant for a small moment, if not done correctly. Until now, this has been hard to detect.

This release adds logic in the core of Home Assistant that is able to detect if an integration does one of those blocking calls and writes a messages to the logs.

If you see such a message in your logs, please report the issue on our GitHub so we can fix those cases. If a custom component causes the log, it should be reported with the author of that custom integration.

By addressing these issues, we are able to greatly improve the performance, responsiveness and stability of Home Assistant.

Other noteworthy changes

• @timmo001 Added the possibility to search in the Lovelace card picker.
• There is now MQTT debug information on the device page of an MQTT device, awesome work @emontnemery†
• @french reintroduced support for transitions in scenes. Both the scene.turn_on and scene.apply services now accept a transition option to make your scene transition on lights look smooth as butter. An example use is added to the documentation†
• HomeKit got love from @bdraco† He has been squashing bugs, improving the overall stability and added support for Vacuums. Also, pairing with HomeKit now shows the easy to scan QR code, which makes it easier to set up.
• @Kane610 really went out into making the UniFi integration perfect. A lot of adjustments and improvements. Thanks!
• The iRobot Roomba integration now supports Braava too! thanks @shenxn†

New Integrations

• Add OpenERZ API integration(@misialq † #30441†openerz docs) (new integration)
• Support for pi4ioe5v9xxxx I2C IO expanders (@antonverburg † #28847†pi4ioe5v9xxxx docs) (new integration)
• Add device tracking support for the Arris TG2492LG router (@vanbalken † #30972†arris_tg2492lg docs) (new integration)
• Add Atag One thermostat integration (@MatsNl † #32361†tag docs) (new integration)

New Platforms

• Add cover platform to Dynalite (@ziv1234 † #32594†dynalite docs) (new platform)
• Add notify function for BMW Connected Drive (@gerard33 † #33484†bmw_connected_drive docs) (new platform)
• Add Lightwave TRV (@ColinRobbins † #31665†lightwave docs) (new platform)

Integrations now available to set up from the UI

The following integrations are now available via the Home Assistant UI:

• Bravia TVdone by @bieniu
• Flu Near Youdone by @bachya
• flumedone by @bdraco
• FRITZ!Boxdone by @escoand
• Islamic Prayer Timesdone by @engrbm87
• National Weather Servicedone by @MatthewFlamm
• Panasonic Vieradone by @joogps
• roombadone by @Cyr-ius
• Synology DSMdone by @Quentame
• tadodone by @bdraco
• Totalconnectdone by @austinmroczek
• veradone by @vangorra