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Home Assistant
Typing and command output become readable without changing the terminal’s appearance.
Reviewed by sairon
The Terminal & SSH app makes Home Assistant’s web terminal readable by screen readers. Previously, its canvas-based display left assistive software with an empty page instead of the commands being typed and the output they produced.
Music Assistant
Community badges and a Get help button direct questions to the people responsible.
Music Assistant marks community-maintained integrations and names their maintainers when someone adds or opens one. The labels distinguish those projects from integrations maintained by the Music Assistant team.
Music Assistant
A discoverable connection provides search, playback and queue tools without a separate community plugin.
Reviewed by balloob
Music Assistant adds a built-in connection for AI assistants to find music, choose players and manage playback. It uses the Model Context Protocol, the interface used by assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT, and provides fifteen tools covering searching, queues, favourites, playlists and speaker grouping.
OHF Device Database
The October research snapshot records priorities from 740 participants, with a strong European and technical skew.
The Open Home Foundation’s October device-database survey snapshot finds people looking for clearer answers before buying smart-home hardware. Of 740 respondents, 652 selected pre-purchase research as a use for the database. Local control was a critical device attribute for 631, close behind communication protocols at 657.
Home Assistant
The new integration reads household power flows and battery status over the home network.
Reviewed by joostlek
Home Assistant adds a local connection to E3/DC home power stations through Modbus TCP. The initial integration reports power flowing through solar panels, the battery, the house, the grid, additional feeders and wallboxes.
ESPHome
A new driver exposes charging settings, battery readings and faults for makers building with Texas Instruments’ controller.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds support for the Texas Instruments BQ25820 battery charger. Makers can configure charging limits and the controller’s solar power tracking over its wired connection, then read battery and input voltage, current, charging state and faults.
ESPHome
The pin picker stops treating every connection as occupied on hundreds of imported board definitions.
ESPHome Device Builder restores unused pins to board definitions imported from the device catalogue. Those definitions often listed only the pins already used by built-in parts, leaving the picker with nothing free to offer when a maker added another component.
Home Assistant
Room controls inspect their own entities instead of repeatedly scanning the whole installation.
Reviewed by MindFreeze
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An invalid text encoding can no longer interrupt readings for other MQTT devices.
Reviewed by erwindouna
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Routine CPU, memory and temperature changes slow down while larger jumps still appear immediately.
Reviewed by Kane610
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Pacing subscriptions prevents an ESP32’s startup burst from dropping switch commands and message triggers.
Reviewed by jesserockz
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The nRF54LM20 and nRF54L15 kits gain support alongside a J-Link flashing path.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Existing Cast accounts move to ordinary user access while retaining dashboard controls.
Reviewed by erwindouna
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Home Assistant marks an individual disconnected sensor unavailable instead of keeping its last state.
Reviewed by bachya
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The Python library bounds decoding work and releases unused audio encoders.
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DS248x bridge recovery also avoids sending commands to the wrong sensor channel.
Reviewed by bdraco
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New phrases select climate fan modes and extend a named or room-specific timer.
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The cloud service behind the integration has shut down.
Reviewed by zweckj, klaasnicolaas
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