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Home Assistant
A voice assistant can act as a selected person and use their linked streaming account.
Reviewed by silamon, klaasnicolaas
Home Assistant lets an Assist voice assistant act as a chosen user. A request from a voice satellite previously carried no user identity, leaving integrations unable to choose that person’s linked account. Music Assistant can use the new setting to play from their own streaming account.
Music Assistant
Hearts belong to individual accounts, and disliked tracks, albums and artists stay out of automatically chosen music.
Music Assistant gives each household member their own favourites and dislikes. The heart shown in the interface reflects the signed-in listener’s choice, and an update from another person no longer replaces it. This extends the account protections reported on September 27, which left the app’s own hearts shared.
Home Assistant
An optional proof check ties a login code to the app that requested it, including during account linking.
Reviewed by balloob, silamon, zweckj
Home Assistant completes a sign-in protection for apps that request it: a captured authorization code cannot be exchanged without the secret held by the client that began the login. The browser login flow carries the client’s proof request through to Home Assistant’s authentication service.
Music Assistant
An experimental connection exposes rooms as players and controls the system’s own speaker groups.
Reviewed by OzGav
Music Assistant adds an experimental connection to Teufel Raumfeld multiroom systems. Each room appears as a player, and grouping those players creates or changes the corresponding zone on the Raumfeld host. Playback, volume and mute controls are included, along with line-in selection where a room’s device supports it.
esphome
Moving between YAML and the visual editor no longer restores deleted values or changes the wrong row.
ESPHome Device Builder protects changes made directly in YAML when someone returns to its visual forms. Editing a form within a second of changing the text could previously replace the new text with older values. The forms read the current configuration before writing, while automation editors briefly pause until their updated contents are ready.
Music Assistant
MusicBrainz links and recording identifiers improve matching without relying on title searches alone.
Music Assistant uses the open MusicBrainz catalogue to connect albums and tracks in a library with the same music on other configured services. Links already recorded by MusicBrainz come before a text search; recording identifiers and album barcodes provide another way to find a match.
Home Assistant
Motion, sound, smart detection and package events no longer require the additional local account.
Reviewed by erwindouna
Home Assistant adds UniFi Protect camera events to connections that use only an API key. Motion, sound detection, smart detection and package events become available where the camera exposes them, broadening the existing connection’s use in automations.
esphome
Device Builder and ESPHome Web add wireless updates for nRF52 devices already configured to receive them.
Reviewed by bdraco, swoboda1337
ESPHome Device Builder adds Bluetooth firmware updates for compatible nRF52 devices, alongside a serial update option. A device must already run firmware configured for the MCUboot update service. This extends the browser-based USB installation reported on September 25 with a wireless update path.
Home Assistant
Removing a running timer also cancels the completion event it had already scheduled.
Reviewed by epenet
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A silent connection gets a fresh attempt after ten seconds instead of waiting five minutes.
Reviewed by fmunkes
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Fetching only the tools a configuration needs reduces setup time and disk use; interrupted downloads can resume.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
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Makers can accumulate a total and restore its saved value after a restart.
Reviewed by bdraco
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