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ESPHome
A new sensor preserves a smoothed reading instead of starting again with the next measurement.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds a sensor that preserves a running average across device restarts. Makers smoothing a reading over hours, such as outdoor temperature, can keep that accumulated picture instead of rebuilding it from the first measurement after a reboot.
Sendspin
Separate client and server guides explain pairing, playback and the experience people should expect.
Reviewed by balloob
Device makers and application developers gain a step-by-step handbook for building Sendspin products. It expands the former single-page guide into separate paths for clients that receive audio and servers that coordinate playback, with worked examples and an ESPHome starting point.
Home Assistant
Speech recognition can end the recording automatically, with tap and hold controls still available.
Home Assistant’s Apple Watch assistant sends audio to the iPhone while the wearer is speaking, instead of waiting for a finished recording. The recording can stop when Home Assistant’s speech pipeline or the iPhone’s local recognition detects the end of speech.
ESPHome
An M5Stack voice device’s audio-chip clock setting could prevent Home Assistant from recognizing the end of speech.
Reviewed by kahrendt
ESPHome corrects an audio-chip clock setting linked to high microphone noise on the M5Stack Atom EchoS3R. That noise could keep Home Assistant from recognizing when someone had finished speaking. The change makes the ES8311 chip’s clock multiplier match its configured value.
Music Assistant
Multi-part shows no longer stop at their first segment, and seeking reaches the requested point promptly.
Reviewed by OzGav
Music Assistant plays all the audio segments in ORF Radiothek catch-up broadcasts instead of stopping after the first. In contributor DButter’s test, an Ö3 show containing five and a half hours of audio had previously stopped after 23 minutes; the corrected connection played all 13 segments.
Home Assistant
A wired RS485 link or an ESPHome serial proxy joins the existing network connection.
Reviewed by silamon
Sofar inverter owners gain a serial connection option in Home Assistant, including local serial ports and ports shared over the network by an ESPHome proxy. Setup detects the inverter model from its serial number, extending the existing Modbus network connection to inverters reached through their RS485 terminals.
ESPHome
Makers gain a USB serial installation path for another chip family.
Reviewed by jesserockz
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Music lowers its volume for directions while podcasts and audiobooks pause and resume.
Reviewed by formatBCE
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Two corrections prevent a failed scan or a restarted fallback network from resetting the chip.
Reviewed by jesserockz
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Firmware updates could leave obsolete values visible through repeated restarts.
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Commands that silently did nothing use the helper’s correct action.
Reviewed by bdraco
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A configuration check rejected Kamstrup connections even when their serial settings were correct.
Reviewed by clydebarrow
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A dedicated trigger works even with the pellet stove’s alert sensor disabled.
Reviewed by silamon
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Soundless devices stop rejecting messages; a companion guide explains kiosk-mode restrictions.
Reviewed by zweckj, c0ffeeca7
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