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Home Assistant
Google will stop sending events through its legacy service; affected Home Assistant setups need a replacement.
Reviewed by c0ffeeca7
Home Assistant owners using Nest’s older event connection need to move it into their own Google Cloud project by November 30. Google will stop publishing events to the legacy Google-hosted topics after that date, leaving affected connections without those updates.
Music Assistant
A Discover row brings the newest episode of each library podcast into one place.
Reviewed by fmunkes
Music Assistant adds a Latest podcast episodes row to Discover, bringing together the newest episode from each podcast in the library. Listeners can see what has arrived without opening every show separately; the row lists the most recent releases first.
Assist
New phrases cover hours, minutes and seconds, including half-hour and half-minute requests.
Turkish speakers gain Assist commands for starting a timer in hours, minutes or seconds. The new language rules recognize requests such as “10 dakikalık zamanlayıcı kur” for a ten-minute timer, as well as half an hour or half a minute.
Home Assistant
A selected transcription model turns voice recordings into text, with optional hints for names and phrases.
Reviewed by joostlek
For people using LiteLLM, Home Assistant adds a route for turning spoken Assist requests into text. Setup selects a transcription model and offers optional hints to help it recognize particular names or terms.
Music Assistant
A withdrawn track or album stops drawing repeated failed attempts when another source is linked.
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Unknown usernames receive the same password-checking work as known accounts.
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A configuration switch lets compatible dishes locate themselves using Starlink satellites alone.
Reviewed by joostlek
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Compatible devices expose a target temperature, current temperature and child lock.
Reviewed by epenet
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The iOS settings for the app can override the phone’s system language.
Reviewed by formatBCE
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Compatible espresso machines supply brewing status and timing through a more responsive local connection.
Reviewed by joostlek
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Checking the Sun entity after a sunset trigger can block the action; dedicated Sun conditions avoid the timing gap.
Reviewed by c0ffeeca7
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