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Home Assistant
Viewing a home from another timezone no longer adds a neighbouring day to the energy calculation.
Reviewed by wendevlin
Home Assistant stops counting an extra day in multi-day energy totals when the browser and home server use different timezones. A browser ahead of the server could include the day before the selected range; one behind could include the day after it.
Home Assistant
The setting reported yesterday is removed from development work because its design was not approved.
Reviewed by arturpragacz, synesthesiam, silamon
Home Assistant withdraws the Assist account choice reported in the September 28 edition. The work under development allowed a voice assistant to act as a selected household member, so integrations could choose that person’s linked account.
Home Assistant
An unreachable device could hold up the final startup phase for more than five minutes.
Reviewed by balloob
Home Assistant stops waiting for an offline Modbus device before finishing startup. An unplugged or unreachable meter, inverter or other device could keep the final startup phase waiting until its timeout; four reports measured about 318 seconds.
Home Assistant
Watch requests can use iPhone transcription and spoken replies generated on the watch.
Home Assistant’s Apple Watch assistant follows the local speech and mute choices set for Assist on the iPhone. With local speech recognition enabled, the paired iPhone transcribes the watch recording instead of sending it for server transcription.
Voice
New commands reach shopping lists, heating, robot cleaners and delayed actions.
Basque speakers gain a much wider set of Assist commands, from starting and adjusting timers to controlling music, heating and robot cleaners. Shopping-list commands add items or mark them complete, while delayed commands can ask for the lights to turn off after a chosen interval.
Home Assistant
An existing infrared emitter can send power, preset colour and effect commands.
Reviewed by abmantis, balloob, joostlek, c0ffeeca7
Home Assistant adds infrared control for compatible OSRAM and LEDVANCE colour lights using the supported 24-button remote command set. An infrared emitter already configured in Home Assistant supplies on-and-off control, preset colours and Flash, Strobe or Smooth effects.
Music Assistant
Pocket Casts folders play their episodes and preserve saved positions as the queue advances.
Reviewed by fmunkes, MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant can play podcast episodes from a browse folder, including Pocket Casts’ Up Next and In Progress lists. Those folders previously discarded episodes and could report that there was nothing to play, blocking an automation that continued a mobile listening queue on a home speaker.
Music Assistant
An artist’s MusicBrainz discography can lead to an album on a connected music service.
Music Assistant’s artist page gains a Discography row showing albums, EPs and singles catalogued by MusicBrainz, including releases absent from the listener’s library. Opening one of those albums looks for it on the listener’s connected music services, with an option to add it to the library.
Home Assistant
Troubleshooting exports omit stored authentication data whose encryption can be broken.
Reviewed by bdraco
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A fallback reading helps Home Hub systems that do not expose a separate battery device.
Reviewed by bdraco, elupus, klaasnicolaas
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Device Builder stops showing reachable devices as offline when their discovery messages use IPv6.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Boards configured for both Wi-Fi and Ethernet move received network data into their larger external memory.
Reviewed by jesserockz
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Resuming a saved run no longer silently restores the original voice model.
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