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Adding another server requires explicit choices for location and sensor sharing before those readings are sent.
Home Assistant’s Apple app asks what a second or later server may receive before sharing the device’s location and sensors. Previously, adding another server silently selected precise location and all sensors, including readings enabled for a different home.
Home Assistant
The new integration sends text to configured recipients through Threema Gateway.
Reviewed by joostlek, NoRi2909
Home Assistant automations gain a route to send text messages through Threema Gateway. Each configured recipient gets a notification entity, giving households a dedicated destination for alerts.
Home Assistant
Cached speech could play once, then fail on ESPHome and other strict audio decoders.
Reviewed by balloob
A spoken Home Assistant message could work the first time and become silent when repeated later. The correction prevents duplicate audio metadata from making the saved copy unreadable to stricter players, including an ESPHome media player used to verify the problem.
Home Assistant
Long runs of tiny state changes are fitted to the chart’s visible width.
Reviewed by maartenla
Opening a Home Assistant history timeline with tens of thousands of state changes could freeze the interface for seconds. Petar Petrov limits the amount drawn to the chart’s device-pixel width instead of laying out a separate rectangle for every change.
Home Assistant
The new integration reads consumed and supplied energy from the smart-meter gateway.
Reviewed by joostlek
Households with a Theben Conexa smart-meter gateway gain local Home Assistant readings for cumulative energy consumed and supplied. The integration polls the gateway directly and creates sensors for the totals it provides.
Home Assistant
The watch-face addition reported on September 20 has been removed from the app’s development code.
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The controller’s away-from-home routine gains a control alongside its existing devices.
Reviewed by Herbertmt978, silamon
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Shared metadata remains visible even when a listener cannot access every music source.
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Its own dashboard can select areas, skip queued rooms and show cleaning progress when the device supports those controls.
Reviewed by Apollon77
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An expired login can be renewed while preserving existing devices and entities.
Reviewed by joostlek
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Device Builder filters incompatible choices before they become configuration errors.
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