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ESPHome
A direct connection lets assistants create configurations, check them and run firmware builds and installations.
ESPHome Device Builder gives AI assistants a direct way to create and configure devices, then build and install their firmware. Its twenty tools include finding components and documentation, reading and changing configurations, checking the result and managing device automations.
Open Home Foundation
The foundation looks forward to several days of unconference sessions and team building.
The first attendees have arrived in Lisbon for the OHF Summit, the Open Home Foundation says. People are beginning to gather ahead of the summit’s September 22–24 dates.
Home Assistant
A repeated-media fetch consumed about 230 GB in one reported week with 14 cameras.
Reviewed by frenck
Home Assistant stops repeatedly downloading Blink motion clips it already has. One household with 14 cameras reported about 230 GB of downstream traffic in a week because the same video files were fetched again at every five-minute update.
Home Assistant
A watch-face panel combines daily figures with a compact chart for each connected home.
Home Assistant adds a rectangular Apple Watch complication showing the home’s daily energy figures and a compact stacked chart. The app offers one panel for each connected server, using the energy dashboard configuration already in place.
Home Assistant
Trackers could stay frozen for hours while battery readings continued to update.
Reviewed by frenck, Mithul
Home Assistant restores location updates for iCloud devices whose coordinates could remain frozen long after they moved. The integration explicitly asks Apple to locate the devices before reading their status, using its existing polling schedule.
Music Assistant
Its AirPlay sender follows the speaker’s clock when a HomePod accepts playback but stays silent.
Vincent (Chin-Chen) Lin@vincent861223
Marcel van der Veldt@marcelveldt2 linked pull requestsReviewed by marcelveldt
Music Assistant’s AirPlay sender corrects a failure that left standalone HomePods running OS 27 silent while the interface showed music playing. Those speakers insist on supplying the timing clock themselves; following it restores sound. HomePods in stereo pairs or Apple TV groups already worked.
Music Assistant
Groups use a synchronized stream when their speakers cannot coordinate native announcement playback.
An announcement sent to a group of Home Assistant Voice speakers could reach each room at a different moment, making the message hard to understand. Music Assistant routes the clip through the group’s synchronized stream when the speakers cannot arrange a shared start themselves.
Home Assistant
Invalid fan-speed and light-brightness ranges fall back to usable defaults instead of restarting the integration.
Reviewed by lboue
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A shortcut shared through iCloud can use the sole configured server when its saved identity is unfamiliar.
Reviewed by frenck
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A new action returns radar-based precipitation estimates and hourly forecasts for custom cards and automations.
Reviewed by silamon, c0ffeeca7
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A startup log message could crash the device repeatedly and leave it in safe mode.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Device Builder recognizes secrets.yml as well as secrets.yaml when starting a configuration repository.
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Quarter, half and three-quarter durations join more natural ways to ask for a timer.
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Blueprint and action authors gain an image field that opens the phone’s photo picker.
Reviewed by karwosts, silamon
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