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Home Assistant
Built-in voice phrases run scripts, trigger automations and read device states through the iOS app, with spoken replies and result cards.
On iOS 17 and later, Home Assistant’s app gives Siri a direct way to run scripts, activate scenes and trigger automations without first building a shortcut. The built-in phrases also ask Assist questions, request camera snapshots and read the current state of a device or sensor.
ESPHome
The Device Builder stops creating thousands of invisible controls, while search makes actions easier to find by device entity name.
Editing a large ESPHome configuration could leave the Device Builder sluggish even after an automation finished opening. Its action picker was building complete lists while hidden, repeating that work for every action. The editor now creates the contents only when the picker opens and removes them when it closes.
Home Assistant
The iOS app reports sleep duration and stages, keeps the latest night visible, and avoids counting overlapping records twice.
Home Assistant’s iOS app adds six Apple Health measurements: total sleep, time in bed, awake time, and core, deep and REM sleep. Each reports minutes for the most recent night, placing sleep records alongside the app’s other health sensors.
ESPHome
A display-clock correction lets affected screens start instead of sending the device through repeated restarts and into safe mode.
Reviewed by clydebarrowApproved by clydebarrow
Makers using a display connected through MIPI DSI on newer ESP32-P4 boards could face a misleading failure: a black screen and repeated restarts, followed by a device that answered on the network but never started its normal control connection. ESPHome fixes the display initialization that caused the crash on revision 3.0 and later chips.
Home Assistant
Compatible devices, including IKEA’s KLIPPBOK leak sensor, gain separate settings for audible and visual alarms.
Reviewed by dvd76, lboueApproved by dvd76, lboue
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Home Assistant recognizes requests to complete a named task, building on Malayalam commands for adding items to a list.
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