There is a lot to unpack in this release. Many highly requested features have been added.
Breaking change
Users who are using text-based config, please see note in the Light widget section.
OpenHAB 1.x support
Thanks to everyone for voting on OpenHAB usage poll. OpenHAB 1.x is now supported!
It is still an experimental integration, but give it a try. We are excited for all OH1 users to play around with it.
Details
To mitigate sync issues with OpenHAB 1.x backend, the client will do a periodic pull of all items in addition to listening to update events, just in case of any missing sync updates.
Text-based configuration
If you ever battled the “unable to import configuration” message, you will definitely appreciate improvements done to the error reporting in this release.
All errors related to dashboard, dashboard page, widget positioning, icons, and more, will now be specifically reported in UI.
There are still some situations when generic error will pop up (e.g. broken item binding) - we are going to fix those soon as well.
Light widget
New light widget supports color, dimmer, and switch states from light devices.
Breaking change for text-based configurations
Dimmer and switch widget configurations that are bound to lights need to be switched to new light widget.
Switch example
Config similar to:
{
"type": "switch",
"position": "0-0,1-1",
"properties": {
"label": "Light Switch",
"state": {
"binding": "Item_Color_Light"
}
}
}
Replace with:
{
"type": "light",
"position": "0-0,1-1",
"properties": {
"label": "Light Switch",
"type": "switch",
"state": {
"binding": "Item_Color_Light"
}
}
}
Dimmer example
Config similar to:
{
"type": "dimmer",
"position": "0-0,2-1",
"properties": {
"label": "Light Dimmer",
"state": {
"binding": "Item_Color_Light"
}
}
}
Replace with:
{
"type": "light",
"position": "0-0,2-1",
"properties": {
"label": "Light Dimmer",
"type": "dimmer",
"state": {
"binding": "Item_Color_Light"
}
}
}
Calendar widget (experimental)
Item picker
For easier item selection, the item picker will not show raw item names and values.
New countries
The app is now available in an overwhelming majority of the countries.
Platform updates
Home Assistant
- Scene component support
- Several fixes for weather related components
Wink
- Light groups support
- Scenes support
- Fix for broken Wink integration setup on Android 4.4