0.19

This release is big. Until now, our automations and scripts have been very static. Starting today it should all be way more dynamic.

Scripts are now available in automations and when responding to Alexa/Amazon Echo. Both of these components will now expose data to be used in script templates (including from_state !). Passing data to script entities is available by passing the data to the script services.

automation:
  trigger:
    platform: mqtt
    topic: some/notify/topic
  action:
    service: notify.notify
    data_template:
      message: {{ trigger.payload }}

automation 2:
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: light.hue
  action:
    service: notify.notify
    data_template:
      message: {{ trigger.to_state.name }} is now {{ trigger.to_state.state }}

Entity Namespaces allow you to influence the entity ids for a specific platform. For example you can turn light.living_room into light.holiday_home_living_room with the following config:

light:
  platform: hue
  entity_namespace: holiday_home

• Automation: allow script syntax for action (@balloob)
• Automation: expose trigger variable to script templates (@balloob)
• Script: allow passing variables for script templates in the script service calls (@balloob)
• Alexa/Amazon Echo: allow script syntax for action (@balloob)
• Alexa/Amazon Echo: expose intent variables to script templates (@balloob)
• Script syntax: conditions now supported to interrupt execution (@balloob)
• Automation: use new condition syntax (@balloob)
• Script syntax: two new conditions and and or to combine conditions (@balloob)
• Any platform: Allow setting entity namespace to prefix entity_ids. (@balloob)
• Switch: Raspberry Pi generic 433 Mhz GPIO adapters now supported (@milaq)
• Z-Wave: use more sane defaults (@danieljkemp)
• Media Player: Snapcast now supports picking a source (@happyleavesaoc)
• MySensors major cleanup (@MartinHjelmare)
• Binary Sensor: Command line sensor now supports classes (@fabaff)
• MQTT: allow client key authentication (@timharton)
• Sensor: Forecast.io now supports minutely, hourly and daily summaries (@aceat64)
• Media Player: Pioneer AVR now supported (@kylehendricks)
• Switch: Acer Projectors now supported (@deisi)
• HVAC component added with Z-Wave support (@turbokongen)
• OctoPrint now supported (@w1ll1am23)
• Configuration.yaml can now refer to environment variables using !env_var (@bah2830)
• Lock: Z-Wave now supported (@devdelay)
• Dweet component added to export data (@fabaff)
• Media Player now supports stop command + initial kodi support (@hmronline)
• Zigbee: push updates now supported (@flyte)
• Wink devices with battery level will now show these (@w1ll1am23)
• Templates: new as_timestamp method now available (@srcLurker)
• API: Add /api/discovery_info with basic instance info (@robbiet480)
• Sensor: Google Maps travel time added (@Danielhiversen)
• Allow settings CORS headers (@robbiet480)
• Sensor: Fitbit support added (@robbiet480)
• Bug fixes and tweaks by @turbokongen, @danieljkemp, @Danielhiversen, @TheRealLink, @persandstrom, @sander76, @fabaff, @ishults, @Bart274, @robbiet480, @Cinntax, @blackdog70, @gwendalg, @JshWright, @kylehendricks, @bradsk88, @shaftoe, @molobrakos, @bah2830, @nkgilley

Deprecations

• Conditions in automations should now specify which condition to use with condition: instead of platform:. For example condition: state.
• RFXtrx has a new config format.

Old RFXtrx config format:

  devices:
    123efab1:
      name: My DI.0 light device
      packetid: 1b2200000890efab1213f60

New RFXtrx config format:

  devices:
    1b2200000890efab1213f60:
      name: My DI.0 light device