Home Assistant keeps your data local, not need for a cloud.
+
+
+ Home Assistant communicates with your devices locally, and will fallback
+ to pulling in data from the cloud if there is no other option. No data
+ is stored in the cloud, and everything is processed locally.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Companion Mobile Apps
+
+
+
+ Use the official Home Assistant apps, a convenient companion to quickly
+ control your devices and be notified when things happen in your home,
+ even on your wrist using the Apple Watch.
+
+
+
+ The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence
+ detection as part of your automations. Data is sent directly to your
+ home, no access by third-parties.
+
diff --git a/source/_integrations/blueprint.markdown b/source/_integrations/blueprint.markdown
index 28c2af32970..a895a5d25b7 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/blueprint.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/blueprint.markdown
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Blueprints
description: Instructions on how to use Automation Blueprints with Home Assistant.
ha_category:
- Automation
-ha_release: 1.0
+ha_release: 2020.12
ha_quality_scale: internal
ha_codeowners:
- '@home-assistant/core'
diff --git a/source/_integrations/fireservicerota.markdown b/source/_integrations/fireservicerota.markdown
index 5c704c75af6..7cf918c4df9 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/fireservicerota.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/fireservicerota.markdown
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ha_category:
- Sensor
- Switch
ha_iot_class: Cloud Polling
-ha_release: 1.0
+ha_release: 2020.12
ha_codeowners:
- '@cyberjunky'
ha_config_flow: true
diff --git a/source/_integrations/kulersky.markdown b/source/_integrations/kulersky.markdown
index b267669e1f7..d387a200aee 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/kulersky.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/kulersky.markdown
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: Instructions for integrating Brightech Kuler Sky Bluetooth floor la
ha_category:
- Light
ha_iot_class: Local Polling
-ha_release: '1.0'
+ha_release: 2020.12
ha_domain: kulersky
ha_codeowners:
- '@emlove'
diff --git a/source/_integrations/motion_blinds.markdown b/source/_integrations/motion_blinds.markdown
index 9d4219b7f3d..11a3b8b0965 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/motion_blinds.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/motion_blinds.markdown
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: Instructions on how to integrate Motion Blinds from Coulisse B.V. i
ha_category:
- Cover
ha_iot_class: Local Polling
-ha_release: 1.0
+ha_release: 2020.12
ha_domain: motion_blinds
ha_codeowners:
- '@starkillerOG'
diff --git a/source/_integrations/number.markdown b/source/_integrations/number.markdown
index d2fb245523f..3d76e187a9e 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/number.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/number.markdown
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Number
description: Instructions on how to manage your Number entities with Home Assistant.
ha_category:
- Number
-ha_release: 1.0
+ha_release: 2020.12
ha_quality_scale: internal
ha_domain: number
ha_iot_class: ~
diff --git a/source/_integrations/scene.mqtt.markdown b/source/_integrations/scene.mqtt.markdown
index 7a933f2ddb3..60a2fb8b768 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/scene.mqtt.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/scene.mqtt.markdown
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "MQTT Scene"
description: "Instructions on how to integrate MQTT scenes into Home Assistant."
ha_category:
- Scene
-ha_release: 1.0
+ha_release: 2020.12
ha_iot_class: Configurable
ha_domain: mqtt
---
diff --git a/source/_integrations/srp_energy.markdown b/source/_integrations/srp_energy.markdown
index 27801107dcb..32cb8d874c0 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/srp_energy.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/srp_energy.markdown
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "SRP Energy"
description: "How to integrate SRP Energy within Home Assistant."
ha_category:
- Energy
-ha_release: 1.0
+ha_release: 2020.12
ha_iot_class: Cloud Polling
---
diff --git a/source/_integrations/twinkly.markdown b/source/_integrations/twinkly.markdown
index 9763ad80c3c..049c6cd7d5f 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/twinkly.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/twinkly.markdown
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Twinkly
description: Instructions on how to integrate Twinkly LED string to Home Assistant.
ha_category:
- Light
-ha_release: 1.0
+ha_release: 2020.12
ha_config_flow: true
ha_domain: twinkly
ha_iot_class: Local pull
diff --git a/source/_posts/2020-12-13-home-assistant-os-release-5.markdown b/source/_posts/2020-12-13-home-assistant-os-release-5.markdown
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dea0f2d730e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/_posts/2020-12-13-home-assistant-os-release-5.markdown
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: "Home Assistant OS Release 5"
+description: "Improved name resolution, external data disk, more reliability and supporting 3 new devices!"
+date: 2020-12-13 00:00:00
+date_formatted: "December 13, 2020"
+author: Stefan Agner
+author_twitter: falstaff_ch
+comments: true
+categories: Release-Notes
+og_image: /images/blog/2020-12-13-os5/social.png
+---
+
+
+
+Today we also release Home Assistant OS 5.8, the first stable version of the 5.x
+release series.
+
+**Highlights**:
+
+- Improved Multicast Name Resolution on OS level
+- External Data Disk Feature
+- Improved Reliability against Container corruption
+
+- New support: Raspberry Pi 4 – 8GB
+- New support: ASUS Tinker Board S
+- New support: ODROID-C4
+- Improved: OVA Virtual image includes more drivers
+
+## Table of contents
+
+- [Table of contents](#table-of-contents)
+- [Operating System Changes](#operating-system-changes)
+ - [Multicast Name Resolution](#multicast-name-resolution)
+ - [External Data Disk](#external-data-disk)
+ - [Improved Reliability](#improved-reliability)
+ - [Under the Hood](#under-the-hood)
+- [Board Support](#board-support)
+ - [Raspberry Pi](#raspberry-pi)
+ - [ODROID](#odroid)
+ - [Open Virtualization Appliance/Intel NUC](#open-virtualization-appliance-intel-nuc)
+ - [New Board Support](#new-board-suport)
+- [Other Changes](#other-changes)
+
+## Operating System Changes
+
+### Multicast Name Resolution
+
+Release 5 uses systemd-resolved to provide DNS services on the operating system
+level and acts as a multicast name resolution responder. Besides, mDNS
+systemd-resolved also supports the LLMNR hostname resolution protocol. In
+practice, this makes discovering a new installation of Home Assistant OS working
+in most situations, either using `http://homeassistant.local:8123` or
+`http://homeassistant:8123`.
+
+### External Data Disk
+
+In release 4 we introduced external data disk support. The command `datactl`
+allows moving the main data partition to any disk connected to the system. The
+boot partition and main operating system partitions stay on the boot medium
+(typically the SD card). Using this approach is more reliable than booting the
+system from USB. Booting from USB requires several parts of the software stack
+to rediscover the external storage. In release 5 we made the external data disk
+feature more robust and the initial moving process much faster. We plan to
+improve that feature even more and are happy to get your feedback!
+
+### Improved Reliability
+
+The main system service to start Home Assistant Supervisor is now more reliable.
+Home Assistant OS is now able to detect a corrupted supervisor container in most
+situations and automatically downloads a new version of it. File system checks
+have also been expanded to the boot partition, which makes sure that all file
+systems are being checked now.
+
+### Under the Hood
+
+Under the hood, we updated to Buildroot 2020.11, which brings tons of new software
+versions along with bug and security fixes. Some key components which received
+an update were systemd 246 and AppArmor version 3.0.
+
+## Board Support
+
+### Raspberry Pi
+
+All Raspberry Pi versions now use Linux Kernel 5.4, just like Raspberry Pi OS.
+With the move to U-Boot 2020.10, we are now also supporting Raspberry Pi with 8GB
+of memory. With the new kernel and U-Boot Home Assistant OS can now also run on
+the Compute Module 4 as well as the Pi 400 (the keyboard). A keyboard is
+probably not the ideal form factor for a headless system such as Home Assistant
+OS, but it comes with good cooling, which makes it not the worst choice :-). We
+recently tested the 64-bit variant of Home Assistant OS much more and feel
+comfortable to recommend the 64-bit version for Raspberry Pi 4.
+
+### ODROID
+
+The ODROID platforms now use Linux 5.9, which brings improved support for all
+ODROID platforms such as the ODROID N2(+). For the N2(+) the Real-Time Clock is
+now supported as well.
+
+### Open Virtualization Appliance/Intel NUC
+
+The x86 platforms (Intel NUC, OVA - Open Virtualization Appliance) now use
+Linux 5.9. The kernel for OVA images has new drivers enabled for Intel Network
+devices with Virtual Function, PCIe passthrough for Hyper-V, or support for
+Audio (HDA audio devices).
+
+### New Board Support
+
+Besides the ASUS Tinker Board, we now also support the Tinker Board S, a variant
+with fast on-board eMMC storage. Thanks to [@ubergeek801] we now also have support
+for ODROID-C4, a cost-effective alternative to Raspberry Pi in a similar form
+factor.
+
+## Other Changes
+
+The build pipeline is now using GitHub Actions and we compress the images using
+the xz compression algorithm instead of gz. The flashing process will stay the
+same: Etcher supports flashing from gz as well as xz.
+
+This is all I can think of for now. The release 5.8 will be on the stable
+channel today, so watch out for the update notification in the Supervisor
+section. Images are available in the release section over on
+[GitHub](https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases).
diff --git a/source/_posts/2020-12-13-release-10.markdown b/source/_posts/2020-12-13-release-202012.markdown
similarity index 97%
rename from source/_posts/2020-12-13-release-10.markdown
rename to source/_posts/2020-12-13-release-202012.markdown
index f293b0fc83a..ad8e484bb86 100644
--- a/source/_posts/2020-12-13-release-10.markdown
+++ b/source/_posts/2020-12-13-release-202012.markdown
@@ -1,50 +1,45 @@
---
layout: post
-title: "1.0: Beta release notes"
-description: "Beta release notes for Home Assistant Core 1.0"
-date: 2020-12-2 00:00:00
+title: "2020.12: Automate with Blueprints!"
+description: "Sharable automations using blueprints, new neural voices for Nabu Casa TTS, disable devices and assign entities to areas!"
+date: 2020-12-13 00:00:00
date_formatted: "December 13, 2020"
author: Franck Nijhof
author_twitter: frenck
comments: true
categories: Release-Notes
-og_image: /images/blog/2020-12-1.0/social.png
+og_image: /images/blog/2020-12/social.png
---
-
+
-These are the beta release notes for Home Assistant Core 1.0 (and is thus a
-work in progress).
+Welcome to Home Assistant Core 2020.12!
-**Yes, Home Assistant Core 1.0! This major release is going to be announced at the [Home Assistant Conference](/conference) on 13 December**:
+You are looking at our new versioning schema. From now on, the Home Assistant
+Core will be using calendar versioning, consisting of the year, month and
+a patch number to indicate a bug-fix release. This also means our release
+schedule is changing. Home Assistant Core will now be released every first
+Wednesday of the month!
-Get your $1 ticket
+As most things are announced at the [Home Assistant Conference](/conference);
+more things will be added/tweak in these release notes the next couple of days.
-If you encounter any issues with the beta release, please report them on GitHub:
+For me, this has been an exiting year! And thanks everybody for contributing
+to this amazing project, not matter what and how you contributed. You are all
+amazing! ❤️
-- Issues with integrations, automations and such (Core related):
-
-- Issues with the frontend/Lovelace:
-
-- Issues with the Supervisor:
-
-- Issues with the documentation:
-
+With the Holiday season coming, it is time to slow down a bit, enjoy time with
+our family. And in a couple of weeks, a new year will start; Let's make it a
+good one!
-Please be sure to include the beta version you are running in the issue
-description (not title), so we can classify your issue correctly.
+Happy holidays, stay safe and for the last time this year: Enjoy the release!
-Issues introduced in the beta are processed with priority.
+../Frenck
-## Table of contents
-
-- [Table of contents](#table-of-contents)
-- [Lorem ipsum](#lorem-ipsum)
-- [Home Assistant Blueprints](#home-assistant-blueprints)
- [Blueprints](#blueprints)
- - [Creating blueprints](#creating-blueprints)
- [Sharing blueprints](#sharing-blueprints)
- [Using blueprints](#using-blueprints)
+ - [Creating blueprints](#creating-blueprints)
- [New neural voices for Nabu Casa Cloud TTS](#new-neural-voices-for-nabu-casa-cloud-tts)
- [Assign areas to entities and readable area IDs](#assign-areas-to-entities-and-readable-area-ids)
- [Temporarily disable devices](#temporarily-disable-devices)
@@ -59,10 +54,10 @@ Issues introduced in the beta are processed with priority.
## Blueprints
-Say hello; to the major new feature of Home Assistant 1.0.0: Blueprints!
+Say hello; to the major new feature of Home Assistant 2020.12: Blueprints!
-
+
Screenshot of the blueprints configuration panel.
@@ -104,7 +99,7 @@ into the UI. Then you can create automations from these blueprints by filling
out the required inputs.
-
+
Screenshot of a blueprint.
@@ -171,7 +166,7 @@ a device as well. For example, your in-wall mounted switch controls a light in
another room.
-
+
Screenshot of disabling a device.
@@ -204,7 +199,7 @@ next year, when you unpack all decorations, enable them again and you're
ready to go for another Holiday season!
+ We challenged ourselves: what would the perfect home automation hub look
+ like. Not just software, but also hardware and looks.
+
+
+ The result is the limited edition Home Assistant Blue bundle. Hardware
+ that is affordable and fast, packed in a gorgeous case and powered by
+ the most powerful home automation software on the planet: Home
+ Assistant.
+
+
+
+
LIMITED EDITION
+
+ $140
+
*
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
BUY NOW
+
+
+
+
+ * Price does not include taxes and import fees
+
+
+
+
+ Powerful
+ ODROID-N2+
+ 4GB DDR4
+
+
+ Reliable
+ eMMC
+ FAST 128GB
+
+
+ Complete
+ All-in-one
+ Core, Case and Power
+
+
+ Ready
+ Zero Setup
+ Comes with Home Assistant
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Our Blue vision
+
+ The perfect platform to run Home Assistant
+
+
+
+
Easy to use
+
+ Powered by our Home Assistant Operating System, getting started is
+ as easy as plugging in the network and power cables and opening up
+ the Home Assistant mobile app to get started.
+
+
+
+
Reliable
+
+ Home Assistant Blue comes with 128GB of eMMC storage. That’s the
+ same type of storage your phone uses. A sudden loss of power won’t
+ fry it.
+
+
+
+
Beautiful
+
+ Home Assistant Blue looks as good as the software that runs it:
+ eye-catching. Together with
+ Hahn Werke
+ we have designed a beautiful aluminium case.
+
+
+
+
Open source
+
+ All software that runs on Home Assistant Blue is open source.
+ Including all the hardware drivers. We’ve worked with
+ BayLibre to fix
+ bugs and get it merged upstream in the Linux kernel!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Change of mood?
+
+
+
+ ZEN
+
MODE
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
►
+ Rotate the cover
+ in 2 mins
+
◄
+
+
+
+ DEV
+
MODE
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Home Assistant Features
+
+ {% include custom/features.html %}
+
+
Specifications
+
+
+
Components
+
+
Processor
+
+ 6-Core Amlogic S922X Processor (ARMv8-A)
+
+
+
Quad-core Cortex-A73 @ 2.2Ghz
+
Dual-core Cortex-A53 @ 1.8GhZ
+
+
+
+
+
Memory
+
4GB DDR4
+
+
Storage
+
128GB eMMC Flash included
+
+
Networking
+
+ 1x RJ45 LAN Port
+
10/100/1000 Mbps
+
+
+
Audio
+
+ 1x 3.5mm Jack
+
+ High quality 384Khz/32bit stereo line-out
+
+
+
+
Connectivity
+
+ 4x USB Type-A Ports
+
USB 3.0
+
+
+ 1x HDMI Output
+
HDMI 2.0
+
+
+ No Wi-Fi or Bluetooth
+
+ Support for Z-Wave and Zigbee by external USB adaptor
+ (not included)
+
+
+
+
Power
+
+ DC 12V/2A
+
+ Power consumption
+
+
Idle: ≃2.2W
+
Load: ≃6.2W
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Form Factor
+
+
+ Width
+ 10.4 cm/4.1 inch
+
+
+
+ Height
+ 3.6 cm/1.4 inch
+
+
+
+
+ Depth
+ 9.4 cm/3.7 inch
+
+
+
+
+ Weight
+ 292 g/0.64 lb
+
+
+
+
+
+
FAQs
+
+{% details %}
+ - title: I already run Home Assistant. Is this for me?
+ content: |
+ If your Home Assistant installation has outgrown your Raspberry
+ Pi or if you want a well supported, dedicated system, Home Assistant Blue is
+ for you.
+
+ Or if you are still looking for a present for friends and family.
+
+ - title: What is limited about the bundle?
+ content: |
+ We have only created a limited amount of cases. Once they are sold out,
+ we don't currently have plans to make more.
+ All other parts of the bundle will remain available for purchase.
+
+ - title: I already own an ODROID-N2+. Do I run the same software?
+ content: |
+ Yes! Home Assistant Blue runs the exact same software as that you're
+ currently using and you're benefitting from all the improvements.
+
+ - title: Will Home Assistant drop support for the Raspberry Pi?
+ content: |
+ Nope! We are committed to keep supporting all platforms that are currently available.
+{% enddetails %}
+
+ The Home Assistant Blue is distributed by Hardkernel. The resellers in
+ the various regions will handle the import so you can get your Blue
+ fast and worry free.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ BUY BLUE
+
+
+
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index a41d2cb8424..f9c571a0ea4 100644
--- a/source/index.html
+++ b/source/index.html
@@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ description:
Release notes
+
+