0.49: Themes 🎨, kiosk mode and Prometheus.io July 15, 2017 12 minutes reading time

WE HAVE THEMES 🎨👩‍🎨

Our already amazing frontend just got even more amazing thanks to @andrey-git. With the new theme support you can be in control of the primary color, accent color and a whole bunch more.

You can specify themes using new configuration options under frontend.

frontend: themes: green: primary-color: "#6CA518"

Once a theme is defined, use the new frontend service frontend.set_theme to activate it. More information in the docs.

Screenshot of a green dashboard

Not all parts of the user interface are themable yet. Expect improvements in future releases.

Kiosk mode

Another great new improvement for the frontend is the addition of a kiosk mode. When the frontend is viewed in kiosk mode, the tab bar will be hidden.

To activate kiosk mode, navigate to https://hass.example.com:8123/kiosk/group.living_room_view . Note that for default_view the url is just https://hass.example.com:8123/kiosk

This feature has also been brought to you by @Andrey-git! Big shout out to him for his continuous efforts to bring Home Assistant to the next level.

New Platforms

Release 0.49.1 - July 24

If you need help…

…don’t hesitate to use our very active forums or join us for a little chat. The release notes have comments enabled but it’s preferred if you use the former communication channels. Thanks.

Reporting Issues

Experiencing issues introduced by this release? Please report them in our issue tracker. Make sure to fill in all fields of the issue template.

Breaking Changes

UPC Connect component no longer needs a password passed into the configuration. (@Flavien - #8335) (device_tracker.upc_connect docs) (breaking change)

The Apple TV platform has been upgraded to a component and a remote platform has been added. This requires your Apple TV configuration to be moved to the new apple_tv component. (@postlund - #8122) (media_player.apple_tv docs) (breaking change)

apple_tv: - name: Apple TV host: 10.0.10.20 login_id: 00000000-1234-5678-9012-345678901234 start_off: true credentials: 8660DEA5154FB46B:20B94847926112B3F46F85DB3A7311830463BF65570C22C3786E27F38C3326CF

Refactored Amcrest to use central hub component to prepare for future integrations. This requires your Amcrest configuration to be moved to the new amcrest component. (@tchellomello - #8184) (amcrest docs) (camera.amcrest docs) (sensor.amcrest docs) (breaking change) (new-platform)

amcrest: - host: !secret amcrest_living name: "Living Room" username: !secret amcrest_living_username password: !secret amcrest_living_password resolution: low stream_source: snapshot sensors: - motion_detector - ptz_preset

All changes