Home Assistant Podcast 56 – 0.99, Home Assistant turns 6 and mining crypto with Eric 00:00 / 1X

New Hire for Nabu Casa

Bram has joined the team at Nabu Casa bringing three dedicated people working on Home Assistant. Bram will be focussing on the front-end development of Home Assistant.

If you’re paying for a Nabu Casa subscription, you’re directly helping expand Home Assistant and keeping it independent from corporates that would want to monetize it. So thank you to everyone who is helping Home Assistant grow!

Andrew’s Commercial Brewery – Powered by Home Assistant

Andrew emailed in to feedback@hasspodcast.io to mention how he is using Home Assistant:

I am a partner and brewer at a brewpub here in Singapore and I thought I’d let u know about our set up in the brewery using Hassio, esphome and nabucasa to control and automate all of our tanks and fermenters (24000L of beer)

I have started a blog of the HA journey however it’s still a work in progress.

http://habrewery.home.blog

0.99

HASS.IO Secret Support

HASS.IO Now supports secrets for add-on options!

Device Automations

Using the automation editor, it is now possible to select a device to create automations. This will make it easier to create automations and conditions for things like Zigbee buttons, as Home Assistant will be able to expose those as device automations that can be used as triggers or conditions.

New Features

Withings Support

Users of Withings products like the smart body scale can now have sensors exposed to Home Assistant.

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/25154

Users of Withings products like the smart body scale can now have sensors exposed to Home Assistant. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/25154 National Weather Service Integration

You’ll just need a API key from the National Weather Service and then Home Assistant can read your local weather!

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/23647

You’ll just need a API key from the National Weather Service and then Home Assistant can read your local weather! https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/23647 iAqualink Pool Controllers

Control things including lights and temperature of your Pool from Home Assistant!Includes a light platform and climate platform.

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26034

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26484

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26544

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26545



Breaking Changes

Standardizing Plex Server Connections

Logins using a username/password/servername are no longer supported on the Plex sensor platform. In the future this will be replaced by a UI configuration which will allow you to login to Plex to authenticate without storing passwords in your config.

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26444Additionally for Plex, media_player and sensor configurations against Plex will need to be moved to the Plex component.

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26488

Logins using a username/password/servername are no longer supported on the Plex sensor platform. In the future this will be replaced by a UI configuration which will allow you to login to Plex to authenticate without storing passwords in your config. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26444Additionally for Plex, media_player and sensor configurations against Plex will need to be moved to the Plex component. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26488 PiHole Integration

Requires existing configurations for the pi_hole integration to be moved from sensor platform key to a pi_hole top level key.

monitored_conditions is removed

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/25837

Requires existing configurations for the pi_hole integration to be moved from sensor platform key to a pi_hole top level key. monitored_conditions is removed https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/25837 Jewish Calendar Sensor is now a Platform

If you’re using this sensor, you’ll need to update your config

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26200

Other Noteworthy Updates

Webhooks now support HEAD and PUT

If you use a service (like Trello) which validates a webhook is valid by sending a HEAD request, Home Assistant webhooks now support them!

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26299

If you use a service (like Trello) which validates a webhook is valid by sending a HEAD request, Home Assistant webhooks now support them! https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26299 Ability for template sensors to now have custom attributes from a template

If you use template sensors to extract data from other places in Home Assistant, you can now setup attributes for those sensors using templates as well!

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26127

If you use template sensors to extract data from other places in Home Assistant, you can now setup attributes for those sensors using templates as well! https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/26127 Geolocation services will now display an applicable icon on the map

For example fire services will have a flame icon, whereas earthquake events will use the pulse icon from material design icons.

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