5000 stars on GitHub, 2000 people in out Gitter chatroom and over a million monthly pageviews. I don't think we could wish for a better place to be at the end of 2016. Feels like an early Christmas present! Our early one for you is 0.35. It's not a single thing inside a nice wrapping, more like several little gifts inside the 0.35 box.
This will be the last release of 2016 as our developers are taking a well deserved break. We will be back in 2017!
Text to Speech
With the addition of a [text-to-speech](https://home-assistant.io/components/tts/) component by [pvizeli](https://github.com/pvizeli) we have been able to bring Home Assistant to a whole new level. The text-to-speech component will take in any text and will play it on a media player that supports to play media. We have tested this on Sonos, Chromecast, and Google Home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke0QuoJ4tRM
Call for help with HASSbian (our Raspberry Pi image)
In an effort to make Home Assistant, we're planning to extend the things that people can do out of the box with HASSbian, our Raspberry Pi image. As you might know, the image is currently maintained by [Landrash](https://github.com/Landrash). However he also spends a lot of time on improving the docs and helping out with a ton of other things.
So if you know your Linux-foo and would love to contribute to open source, join the [Hassbian developer chat](https://gitter.im/home-assistant/hassbian) and take a stab at one of [our open issues](https://github.com/home-assistant/pi-gen/issues).
VLC media player, Broadlink, and GPSLogger
Let you control [VLC media player](https://home-assistant.io/components/media_player.vlc/) and play sound on connected speakers.
This Broadlink [switch](https://home-assistant.io/components/switch.broadlink/) platform allow to you control Broadlink RM2 Pro and RM mini IR+RF devices. This Broadlink [sensor](https://home-assistant.io/components/sensor.broadlink/) platform adds support for Broadlink RM2 and A1 Devices.
The [GPSLogger](https://home-assistant.io/components/device_tracker.gpslogger/) now also supports attributes as the speed, direction, altitude, provider and activity.
All changes
- Media player: Support for Sharp [AquaosTV](https://home-assistant.io/components/media_player.aquostv/) ([titilambert](https://github.com/titilambert))
- Media player: [VLC](https://home-assistant.io/components/media_player.vlc/) support ([Danielhiversen](https://github.com/Danielhiversen))
- Switch: Digital Loggers relay([dethpickle](https://github.com/dethpickle))
- Sensor: Support for [Netdata](https://home-assistant.io/components/switch.digitalloggers/) ([fabaff](https://github.com/fabaff), [ezar](https://github.com/ezar))
- Sensor: Support weather conditions from Austrian [ZAMG](https://home-assistant.io/components/sensor.zamg/) ([mjl](https://github.com/mjl))
- Verisure: Add Verisure smartcam capture service ([turbokongen](https://github.com/turbokongen))
- Binary sensor: [Flic](https://home-assistant.io/components/binary_sensor.flic/) button support added ([soldag](https://github.com/soldag))
- Sensor: Support for [SenseHat](https://home-assistant.io/components/sensor.sensehat/) ([farminf](https://github.com/farminf))
- Binary sensor: [Hikvision](https://home-assistant.io/components/binary_sensor.hikvision/) binary sensor support ([mezz64](https://github.com/mezz64))
- [Text-to-speech](https://home-assistant.io/components/tts/) support ([pvizeli](https://github.com/pvizeli))
- Sensor: Support for Broadlink [sensors](https://home-assistant.io/components/sensor.broadlink/) ([Danielhiversen](https://github.com/Danielhiversen))
- Switch: Broadlink [switches](https://home-assistant.io/components/switch.broadlink/) supported now ([Danielhiversen](https://github.com/Danielhiversen))
- Media player: Add `source_list` to universal media player ([danieljkemp](https://github.com/danieljkemp))
- Binary Sensor: Support improvement for Wink ([w1ll1am23](https://github.com/w1ll1am23))
- Sensor: More features for DSMR ([aequitas](https://github.com/aequitas))
- Automation: Parse payload as JSON ([balloob](https://github.com/balloob))
- Mediap player - Cast: New progress indicator ([balloob](https://github.com/balloob))
- Device tracker: New attributes ([balloob](https://github.com/balloob), [Danielhiversen](https://github.com/Danielhiversen))
- Binary sensor - netatmo: Add support for tags ([jabesq](https://github.com/jabesq))
- Climate: Add `away_mode` for RadioThermostat ([trisk](https://github.com/trisk))
- Device tracker - nmap: Make scan option configurable ([Danielhiversen](https://github.com/Danielhiversen))
- Climate - Ecobee: Add SmartAway option ([devdelay](https://github.com/devdelay))
- Light - Hue: Add support for Hue LightGroups ([michaelarnauts](https://github.com/michaelarnauts))
- Media player - Emby: New support for trailer and media position ([mezz64](https://github.com/mezz64))
- Camera - Amcrest: Support for resolution ([tchellomello](https://github.com/tchellomello))
- Media player - Kodi: Authentification fixed and fan art ([balloob](https://github.com/balloob), [joopert](https://github.com/joopert))
- Minor and not so minor features and bug fixes by [pvizeli](https://github.com/pvizeli), [jminn](https://github.com/jminn), [magicus](https://github.com/magicus), [teodoc](https://github.com/teodoc), [fabaff](https://github.com/fabaff), [technicalpickles](https://github.com/technicalpickles), [balloob](https://github.com/balloob), [lukas-hetzenecker](https://github.com/lukas-hetzenecker), [rubund](https://github.com/rubund), [dasos](https://github.com/dasos), [trisk](https://github.com/trisk), [armills](https://github.com/armills), [auduny](https://github.com/auduny), [lwis](https://github.com/lwis), [nkgilley](https://github.com/nkgilley), [janLo](https://github.com/janLo), [keatontaylor](https://github.com/keatontaylor), [stefan-jonasson](https://github.com/stefan-jonasson), [Jypy](https://github.com/Jypy), [jawilson](https://github.com/jawilson), [DavidLP](https://github.com/DavidLP), [molobrakos](https://github.com/molobrakos), [jabesq](https://github.com/jabesq), [joerocklin](https://github.com/joerocklin), [kellerza](https://github.com/kellerza), [kirichkov](https://github.com/kirichkov), r-jordan and [danielperna84](https://github.com/danielperna84).
If you need help...
...don't hesitate to use our [Forum](https://community.home-assistant.io/) or join us for a little [chat](https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant). The release notes have comments enabled but it's preferred if you use the former communication channels. Thanks.
Reporting Issues
Experiencing issues introduced by this release? Please report them in our [issue tracker](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues). Make sure to fill in all fields of the issue template.