It’s been a month since the latest update and a lot has happened again. Here a quick overview of the new things.
Line Charts James has upgraded the history in the frontend to support line graphs. Line graphs will be shown for any entity that has a unit of measurement. The line graphs will also be shown in the more info card of an entity. See the demo for a live example.
ISY994 hub support  Ryan has contributed support to integrate the ISY994 hub by Universal Devices. This allows you to integrate your X10/Insteon sensors, switches and lights.
He has created an extensive getting started guide which can be found on the ISY994 component page.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
isy994:
Logbook  I (Paulus) have added a logbook component. The logbook component provides a different perspective on the history of your house by showing all the changes that happened to your house in chronological order. See the demo for a live example.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
logbook:
Transmission support  James has also contributed support for integrating Transmission into Home Assistant.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
platform: transmission
name: Transmission
host: 192.168.1.26
port: 9091
username: YOUR_USERNAME
password: YOUR_PASSWORD
monitored_variables:
- type: 'current_status'
- type: 'download_speed'
- type: 'upload_speed'
Modbus support Kixam has contributed support for modbus, a serial communication protocol to control PLCs. It currently supports sensors and switches which can be controlled over serial, TCP and UDP connections.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
modbus:
type: serial
method: rtu
port: /dev/ttyUSB0
baudrate: 9600
stopbits: 1
bytesize: 8
parity: N
sensor:
platform: modbus
slave: 1
registers:
16:
name: My integer sensor
unit: C
24:
bits:
0:
name: My boolean sensor
2:
name: My other boolean sensor
switch:
platform: modbus
slave: 1
registers:
24:
bits:
0:
name: My switch
2:
name: My other switch
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://home-assistant.io/blog/2015/04/25/release-notes/