Today we’re releasing Home Assistant 0.73. First, let’s talk security. Home Assistant has a lot of power. It can control all devices in your house and know what you’re up to. That’s why securing it is very important. It’s not good enough to connect your instance unsecured to the internet and hope no one will find it. All ports on all computers are regularly scanned by bad actors. Please read our guidelines thoroughly and follow them.
In the meanwhile, we’re also working hard on the new authentication system. A preview version is included in this release, more info on our developer blog.
This release also includes a TON of love for the new Lovelace UI. Yes, it’s still experimental but daaang, it’s already so awesome that you should probably just go ahead and try it out. Thanks to all the devs who have jumped on this: @c727, @ciotlosm and @jeradM.
The new picture elements card.
And last but not least, @Klikini has upgraded Rachio support from cloud polling to cloud push! Now you’ll be able to get instantly notified of changes to your sprinklers. NICE!
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.
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Keep up the GREAT WORK!!! I love Home Assistant and where it is headed. Going to try user authentication next. One question, I don’t think the docs accurately represent what happened to the Pollen.com sensor. Mine all stayed the same they were just appended with a _2.
We wouldn’t have this statement below if there aren’t any “security concerns/I’ve been hacked” threads, right?
The new additions to component lists seem very quiet for 0.73. No new additions that get me excited. Well, just Rachio and HomeKit and that’s about it… I will wait for 0.74 as I only have two Insteon dimmers and a receiver hooked up.
The correct assumption is I did read the real blog post and clicked “Continue Discussion.” All the changes are a lot more detailed compared to see if there are any new components for 0.73. I read the changes again and there’s not that much that is exciting.
Lovelace does seem interesting, but my home automation setup is barely minimal unless I have money for more products that I can make use of, such as Konnected.
Enabled username/password authentication and getting prompted for a username and passoword which works, but password is not masked as ***. Is it supposed to be so?
posting this only to show that even a total novice can begin to figure this out. I use a tablet in kiosk so I have to keep the panels uncluttered. this is just the first layout. will learn to customize more.
I didn’t change anything, just restarted and it works…just now all my zones have an entity id with a 2 added to them…for example switch.back_yard is now switch.back_yard_2.
yea the old integration added the switches to the entity_registry.yaml for now you can remove those entries from that file and restart home assistant to remove the _2
Another change not mentioned in the release notes above that may catch people by surprise (it did me) is that the behavior of the lock toggle in the UI has changed. As of 0.73 the behavior is now reversed:
Rachio is failing for me on all 3 components: hub, binary_sensor, and switch. There isn’t a lot to get wrong on syntax here. It was working before the update.
Holy mother of home automations… 
