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Home Assistant
Automation traces distinguish completed steps, errors and paths that never finished.
Reviewed by silamon
Home Assistant’s automation and script traces make it easier to find where a routine stopped. Their flow chart shows the actual trigger, condition and action icons, highlights the path taken in green and marks errors on the steps that contain them.
Home Assistant
Opower skips incomplete updates that could corrupt recorded consumption and export totals.
Reviewed by balloob
Home Assistant protects Opower energy history from updates that can make a day’s consumption or export suddenly plunge below zero. When the utility temporarily supplies no readings at the expected detail level, the integration skips that update instead of replacing finer records with daily or billing-period totals.
Home Assistant
An optional iPhone setting reveals the choices without requiring a press and hold.
Home Assistant’s iPhone app gains a “Show actions when tapped” setting for actionable notifications. With it enabled, tapping a notification presents its choices in an alert instead of requiring the press-and-hold gesture normally used to reveal them.
Home Assistant
A count of open doors and windows joins switches for excluding compatible contacts from the armed alarm.
Reviewed by silamon
Bosch Smart Home households gain a single Home Assistant reading for doors and windows left open, alongside controls for intentionally excluding a compatible contact from the intrusion alarm. The summary counts open doors, windows and other openings and includes their names.
Home Assistant
SwitchBot’s normal and silent modes can be selected for opening, closing or moving to a position.
Reviewed by silamon
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Unmaintained libraries prevent the two integrations from starting with updated Python packaging.
Reviewed by MartinHjelmare
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Keep the update password while installing 2026.9.0 before switching an existing device to encrypted updates.
Reviewed by clydebarrow
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Star counts, sky brightness, exposure and sensor temperature extend the recent camera integration.
Reviewed by NoRi2909, silamon, klaasnicolaas
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Tasks with a due time receive a 30-minute calendar slot; date-only tasks stay all-day events.
Reviewed by boralyl, Herbertmt978, MartinHjelmare
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A failed timezone calculation no longer starts an immediate, repeating refresh.
Reviewed by timmo001
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