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Home Assistant
Community downloads move into Settings, with catalog installs that do not require a GitHub account.
Reviewed by balloob, bramkragten, NoRi2909, timmo001
Home Assistant brings HACS into a built-in Marketplace for community integrations, dashboard cards, themes and templates. Its Settings panel lets administrators browse, install and update catalog items without a GitHub account; custom repositories and alternative versions still use a GitHub connection.
Music Assistant
Episode pages, readable transcripts and chapter lists give listeners more ways to follow a show.
Reviewed by pierosavi, stvncode, MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant gives podcast episodes their own page, with the full description, publication date, length, played status and nearby episodes. Listeners can read an available transcript or choose to play from that episode through to the latest one.
Music Assistant
Disabling an account blocks both Home Assistant entry points, while signing out closes connections using that login.
Music Assistant enforces an administrator’s decision to disable an account when someone signs in through Home Assistant or opens it from the sidebar. Those routes could previously create a replacement account, issue a token for the disabled one or fail with a database error.
Sendspin
Device makers must adapt to new identities and pairing records as the audio client implements the release-candidate protocol.
Sendspin’s C++ client adopts the 1.0 release-candidate protocol with encrypted connections and pairing before a server can start playback. Applications can explicitly allow unpaired access, but that exception does not persist across a restart on its own.
Music Assistant
Guest listening works without an account; signing in synchronizes followed stations, artists and podcasts.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant adds iHeartRadio as a source for live radio, podcasts and artist-based stations in Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and the United States. People can listen as guests, browse stations by city or genre, and search for an artist to start a continuing mix.
Home Assistant
An automation can retrieve a still from an existing recording instead of relying on a live snapshot.
Reviewed by erwindouna
Reolink owners gain a Home Assistant action for saving an image from an earlier recording. A person-detection automation could include a still from a minute before the detection, giving a notification context that a live snapshot would miss.
Home Assistant
An iCloud proposal would spare repeated URL entry while keeping each device’s registration separate.
Home Assistant is considering sharing server settings between iPhones, iPads and Macs signed into the same Apple Account. Bruno Pantaleão Gonçalves proposes offering a known home on a new device instead of asking its owner to enter internal and external addresses again.
ESPHome
Abandoned connection attempts no longer fill the radio’s hidden slots while the proxy reports them free.
Reviewed by bdraco, swoboda1337
ESPHome corrects a Bluetooth proxy failure where repeatedly abandoned connection attempts could leave the radio unable to connect to any device, even though the proxy reported free connection slots. Cancelling an attempt also cancels the pending operation in the Bluetooth stack.
Home Assistant
Heating readings are gathered in the background, avoiding freezes that trigger automatic restarts.
Reviewed by zweckj
Read full articleHome Assistant
Boot recovery avoids a restart loop, while Argon ONE M.2 systems get a storage workaround.
Reviewed by agners
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Rooms, aliases and automations stay attached to the same speaker after a restart.
Reviewed by OzGav
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Anonymous searches stop background library work appearing as searches made by the listener.
Read full articleOHF Voice
Two languages gain the sentence sets needed to use their existing local speech models.
Reviewed by HepoH3
Read full articleESPHome
Cached components let firmware builds get past setup even when the component registry is unreachable.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
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