Version 1.8.0
Today I have a new version of esphomelib with lots of new features and tons of time put in to present to you and I hope you’re as excited as I am to try these new things out :)
This release mainly focuses on these new features:
- Lots of Bug Fixes - Now that most of the hardware has arrived from china, I was able to fix a bunch of bugs with a lot of integrations. 
- Displays!
- New ESP32 BLE integrations like Xiaomi HHCCJCY01 
- Lots of new light effects and support for cold-white/warm-white lights. 
- A LOGO FOR THIS PROJECT!!! Thanks a lot to @messimore for this visual masterpiece. 
And if you find esphomelib great and have some of your projects using it, please do spread the word online (like Christoph Dahlen did) and/or create cookbook entries so that others can learn from your work. Of course the main objective of this website is to document esphomelib’s features, but my vision is that it also inspires others to start awesome projects ☀️
Special thanks to all the contributors for this release:
- esphomeyaml: Add - only-generateparameter to generate command to only generate the C++ code #84 by @apeeters
- esphomeyaml: Fix esphomeyaml logs for tls enabled mqtt brokers #118 by @johnerikhalse 
- esphomelib: Fix typo in dallas error message #125 by @janpieper 
- esphomelib: Fix panic in binary_sensor template #111 by @nunofgs 
- esphomelib: Add ESP8266 library dependency to Arduino IDE instructions #99 by @per1234 
- esphomelib: Fixing I2C readings #98 by @exxamalte 
- esphomedocs: Note added about resetting the ESP after serial upload before OTA upload #14 by @exxamalte 
- esphomedocs: Add cookbook for dual relay cover #10 by @aequitas 
And in some more personal news, you might have noticed that I was not very active in online communications (github, discord, …) and that’s partly been due to me concentrating on other stuff (university applications, work and this year’s international olympiad of informatics). But admittedly I must say being constantly active online is just very exhausting. As the next few weeks (or even months) will leave me with little time to due to the start of my studies, I plan on primarily focusing on GitHub communications. Plus I want to put an extra focus on reviewing PRs so that code submitters don’t have to wait for weeks.
Other notable changes
- Fixed certain occasions where esphomeyaml could run into recursive dependencies 
- Fixed i2c scans not showing up via MQTT 
- Improved build times by about 60%. Now, the build time should depend on the amount of components you’re using, not the total esphomelib code base size. 
- Fixed ESP32 Touch setup mode 
- Fixed template binary sensors 
- Added the option to specify - neverfor- update_intervalto never
- Added - deep_sleep.preventand- deep_sleep.enteractions
- Fixed ESP32BLETracker surpassing the maximum code size 
- Fixed ESP32BLETracker/Beacon throwing an exception when a warning occurs. 
- Fixed FastLED effects not taking into account the light brightness 
- Fixed compatibility with Arduino core versions below 2.0.4 
- Added - output.turn_on,- output.turn_offand- output.set_levelactions.
- Fixed the remote transmitter/receiver using the heap inefficiently on the ESP8266 (was causing reboots) 
- Fixed reliability with reading data from BME280s 
- Fixed gas resistance readings from BME680s 
- Fixed HTU21D readings only working in very verbose mode 
- Sometimes the ESP would create a WiFi hotspot even though it was not configured to do so. That should be fixed now. 
- You can now also have conditional actions. See - ifAction.
- The esphomeyaml dashboard and Hass.io add-on now can be configured with a password. 
- Fixed YAML anchors not working (you can now prefix keys with - .to make esphomeyaml ignore them)
- Made Dallas and DHT temperature sensor a bit more reliable by making the code a bit more efficient and thus resolving some timing issues. 
- A - heartbeatfilter has been added to binary sensors.
- The - on_looptrigger has been added.
- esphomeyaml now know about more ESP8266/ESP32 boards, so now you can use the board-specific pin names with even more board types. 
- The mqtt client has a new option - shutdown_messagewhich will be sent when the board shuts down safely.
- In actions, instead of 
    on_...:
      then:
        - switch.turn_on:
            id: my_switchYou can now write:
    on_...:
      then:
        - switch.turn_on: my_switchOr even shorter:
    on_...:
      - switch.turn_on: my_switchBreaking Changes
- The core configuration has been reworked a bit to a) make using different arduino framework version easier and b) make editing your local esphomelib copy easier. 
- Light Effects now need to be manually declared in the config and will no longer show up automatically. Please see Light Effects 
- MAX6675 has been migrated to use the new SPI bus (and fixed!). Please see the docs for how to use it now. 
Changes in 1.8.1
- esphomeyaml: Limit upload speed to 115200 #122
- esphomeyaml: Fix docker installs using old platformio version #125
- esphomedocs: Waveshare E-Paper: 1.54in display works #22 by @fabaff
Changes in 1.8.2
- esphomedocs: Update custom sensor docs #25 
- esphomedocs: Fix typo in warning message #18 by @janpieper 
- esphomedocs: Add alternative SPI pin names #24 
- esphomelib: Add toggle payload to MQTT switch component #152 
- esphomelib: Update custom sensor example #154 
- esphomelib: Optimize MQTT client memory consumption a bit #155 
- esphomelib: Fix binary sensor initial value reporting #156 
- esphomeyaml: Fix binary sensor heartbeat not working #130 
- esphomeyaml: Fix MQTT discovery enabled when discovery_retain in config #131 
- esphomelib: Fix binary sensor heartbeat filter #157 
- esphomelib: Fix SSD1306 reset order for i2c #159 
- esphomeyaml: Fix SSD1306 lambda #132 
- esphomeyaml: Enable Travis Tests #133 
- esphomeyaml: Auto-Update esphomelib dev version #134 
- esphomeyaml: Add SSD1306 64x48 display #136 
- esphomedocs: Typo fix. #33 by @corbanmailloux 
- esphomelib: Fix typo “noting” #172 by @TheJulianJES 
- esphomedocs: Added docker local USB port mapping #31 by @ladefoged81 
- esphomedocs: Fixed typo #30 by @ladefoged81 
- esphomedocs: Add missing (required) name to example. #29 by @corbanmailloux 
- esphomedocs: Add ESP32 BLE workaround docs #34 
- esphomelib: Apply effect after changing colors #169 by @TheJulianJES 
- esphomelib: Add 64x48 SSD1306 Display #161 
- esphomedocs: Fix output link #35 
- esphomedocs: Fix pulse counter API typo #36 
- esphomedocs: Fix display docs format typo #37 
- esphomeyaml: Fix serial monitor opening when logger disabled #138 
- esphomeyaml: Add clean MQTT button to dashboard #139 
- esphomeyaml: Fix using unicode in lambdas #141 
- esphomeyaml: Bump platformio-espressif32 to 1.4.0 #142 
- esphomeyaml: Docker default to starting dashboard #143 
- esphomedocs: Improve WiFi&Manual IP docs #38 
- esphomedocs: Fix PN532 update_interval typo #39 
- esphomedocs: Fix Sonoff S20/4CH example configurations #40 
- esphomelib: Split FastLED header from source #175 
- esphomelib: Fix WiFi AP-only mode #177 
- esphomelib: Fix RC Switch Transmitters #178 
- esphomelib: Use dynamic JSON buffer #179 
- esphomelib: Web Server Print incoming requests #180 
- esphomelib: Add option to have different log level over MQTT #176 
- esphomelib: Fix MQTT login with anonymous credentials #182 
- esphomelib: WiFi: Add power save mode option #181 
- esphomeyaml: Fix component loader value error #149 
- esphomelib: Fix VectorJsonBuffer for ESP8266 (unaligned address) #183 
- esphomedocs: WiFi: Add power save mode option #41 
- esphomedocs: Add SSD1306 64x48 Display #27 
- esphomeyaml: WiFi: Add power save mode option #150 
All Changelogs
- ESPHome 2025.10.0 - 15th October 2025
- ESPHome 2025.9.0 - 17th September 2025
- ESPHome 2025.8.0 - 20th August 2025
- ESPHome 2025.7.0 - 16th July 2025
- ESPHome 2025.6.0 - 18th June 2025
- ESPHome 2025.5.0 - 21st May 2025
- ESPHome 2025.4.0 - 16th April 2025
- ESPHome 2025.3.0 - 19th March 2025
- ESPHome 2025.2.0 - 19th February 2025
- ESPHome 2024.12.0 - 18th December 2024
- ESPHome 2024.11.0 - 20th November 2024
- ESPHome 2024.10.0 - 16th October 2024
- ESPHome 2024.9.0 - 18th September 2024
- ESPHome 2024.8.0 - 21st August 2024
- ESPHome 2024.7.0 - 17th July 2024
- ESPHome 2024.6.0 - 19th June 2024
- ESPHome 2024.5.0 - 15th May 2024
- ESPHome 2024.4.0 - 17th April 2024
- ESPHome 2024.3.0 - 20th March 2024
- ESPHome 2024.2.0 - 21st February 2024
- ESPHome 2023.12.0 - 20th December 2023
- ESPHome 2023.11.0 - 15th November 2023
- ESPHome 2023.10.0 - 18th October 2023
- ESPHome 2023.9.0 - 27th September 2023
- ESPHome 2023.8.0 - 16th August 2023
- ESPHome 2023.7.0 - 19th July 2023
- ESPHome 2023.6.0 - 21st June 2023
- ESPHome 2023.5.0 - 17th May 2023
- ESPHome 2023.4.0 - 19th April 2023
- ESPHome 2023.3.0 - 15th March 2023
- ESPHome 2023.2.0 - 15th February 2023
- ESPHome 2022.12.0 - 14th December 2022
- ESPHome 2022.11.0 - 16th November 2022
- ESPHome 2022.10.0 - 19th October 2022
- ESPHome 2022.9.0 - 21st September 2022
- ESPHome 2022.8.0 - 17th August 2022
- ESPHome 2022.6.0 - 15th June 2022
- ESPHome 2022.5.0 - 18th May 2022
- ESPHome 2022.4.0 - 20th April 2022
- ESPHome 2022.3.0 - 16th March 2022
- ESPHome 2022.2.0 - 16th February 2022
- ESPHome 2022.1.0 - 19th January 2022
- ESPHome 2021.12.0 - 11th December 2021
- ESPHome 2021.11.0 - 17th November 2021
- ESPHome 2021.10.0 - 20th October 2021
- ESPHome 2021.9.0 - 15th September 2021
- ESPHome 2021.8.0 - 18th August 2021
- Changelog - Version 1.20.0 - 21st July 2021
- Changelog - Version 1.19.0 - 16th June 2021
- Changelog - Version 1.18.0 - 19th May 2021
- Changelog - Version 1.17.0 - 4th May 2021
- Changelog - Version 1.16.0 - February 3, 2021
- Changelog - Version 1.15.0 - September 13, 2020
- Changelog - Version 1.14.0 - November 1
- Changelog - Version 1.13.0 - May 30th 2019
- Changelog - Version 1.12.0
- Changelog - Version 1.11.0
- Changelog - Version 1.10.0
- Changelog - Version 1.9.0
- Version 1.8.0 (current page)
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