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Home Assistant
A new helper combines chosen sensor readings and scripted actions into a heating or cooling control.
Reviewed by silamon
Home Assistant adds a way to build a custom heating or cooling control around existing readings and actions. The template integration supplies its displayed state from templates and runs configured scripts when someone changes a mode or target temperature.
Home Assistant
Separate choices for each server control what Siri can access, and calendar queries refresh after changes.
Home Assistant’s Apple app gains separate choices for the calendars and to-do lists exposed to Siri. Each connected server has a configuration screen where people can switch individual lists on or off and choose their defaults.
Home Assistant
Four integrations stop recording router credentials, banking identifiers and tracked coordinates in specific log messages.
Reviewed by zweckj, silamon, cgarwood
Home Assistant removes sensitive values from several messages that can end up in troubleshooting logs. Xiaomi router login failures stop recording the supplied username and password, and a failed Start.ca setup stops repeating the configured API key.
Music Assistant
A recurring duplicate-track scan can block the whole library when thousands of tracks share a title.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant fixes an hourly library check that could leave the interface stuck on “Authenticating.” Comparing thousands of tracks with the same title held up the database, stopping other library requests—including the count needed to finish signing in.
ESPHome
Disabling the client closes its connection and removes it from discovery until it is turned back on.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome devices gain a configurable switch for turning their Sendspin audio client off and back on. Switching it off closes the server connection and removes the device from Sendspin discovery on the network.
Home Assistant
A correction delivers typed notification answers that watchOS had silently dropped.
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The saved backup configuration gains private file permissions, including a rewrite of existing stores.
Reviewed by emontnemery
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AppleScript can play, pause, skip and check the desktop app’s playback state.
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The Other Versions view can retrieve editions that YouTube Music leaves out of search.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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