We’re approaching the end of September and that means that it was our birthday! We are now officially 4 years old and are getting more amazing with every release. This release too will include some great new stuff and tons of bugfixes. Included is a bug fix by @fanthos that should fix the frontend in some browsers. If you had issues with your browser before, make sure to check out this release.
This release we’ve started the work to make our Xiaomi integrations more robust. This meant that we’ve had to rename the components to make it more clear which of the Xiaomi protocols are being used. We have some developers working on making this very affordable home automation solution a first class citizen in the Home Assistant ecosystem, stay tuned for more integrations!
Another cool thing in this release is the new mqtt_statestream component to export state changes to MQTT. Each entity will be exported on their own topic which makes it very easy to subscribe to individual entity updates.
New Platforms
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
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Breaking Changes
- Sensor - OneWire: This update changes the names of the sensors from
<sensor_name>to<sensor_name> <Sensor_type>(@tcastberg - #9404) (sensor.onewire docs) (breaking change) - Renamed Xiaomi platforms to include their protocol names. xiaomi -> xiaomi_aqara, xiaomi_aqara.switch, xiaomi_aqara.light, xiaomi_aqara.binary_sensor, … and vacuum.xiaomi, xiaomi_philipslight -> xiaomi_miio, vacuum.xiaomi_miio, light.xiaomi_miio (@danielhiversen - #9426) (breaking change)
- Swiss Public Transport sensor: All times handled by the Swiss Public Transport sensor are now in ISO 8601 format. Please update your templates sensors and automations. (@fabaff - #9129) (sensor.swiss_public_transport docs) (breaking change)
- iOS: All category identifiers need to be lowercase. If you do not update, it will break actionable notifications to IOS devices sent by scripts/automations. (@rbflurry - #9427) (breaking change)
- Fitbit: Put endpoints behind
/apilike the other oauth-using components (@happyleavesaoc - #9460) (sensor.fitbit docs) (breaking change) - Version 0.53 introduced a bug in the HomeMatic component which breaks the usage of system variables on the CCU / Homegear. This has not been fixed yet. If you are using these variables in your automations you should skip updates until the bug has been resolved. Upgrading is safe however if you only interact with devices.
All changes
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/09/23/release-54/