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installation
A fresh identity check helps prevent an installation from wiping a replacement drive.
Reviewed by wendevlin
Home Assistant’s installer checks that the selected drive is still connected and matches its recorded identity before erasing it. Previously, unplugging a selected USB drive and inserting another could give the replacement the same system address, causing the installer to erase the wrong disk.
dashboards
A sliding colour strip preserves fine control even in narrow cards.
Reviewed by MindFreeze, fdmarcin
Home Assistant adds a light-colour control directly to dashboard tiles. Moving the colour strip changes the light’s hue, while an optional second slider changes saturation, avoiding a separate light-control dialog for those adjustments.
music
Automations can show a party screen, music quiz or a chosen player’s now-playing view.
Reviewed by arturpragacz
Home Assistant gains controls for Music Assistant’s dashboard displays, including compatible Chromecasts and kiosk browsers. Automations can show a party dashboard, a music quiz or a selected player’s now-playing screen, then hide it again.
energy
Public event times help households prepare for winter demand peaks without sharing account credentials.
Reviewed by joostlek
Home Assistant adds Hydro-Québec’s peak-demand event times as inputs for automations. Households can use them to prepare before a winter peak, such as preheating a home before reducing consumption during an event.
Matter
Lock implementations using the library reject PIN requests outside their schedules and after temporary access expires.
Reviewed by Apollon77
Lock developers using Matter.js gain enforcement of PIN schedules and temporary-access deadlines. Its door-lock implementation previously accepted a valid enabled PIN without checking whether its allowed time window had ended, and temporary users never expired after their first successful use.
Music Assistant
A stalled connection no longer leaves Android Auto looking ready while playback stays unresponsive.
Reviewed by formatBCE
Music Assistant’s mobile player keeps trying after a connection attempt times out, instead of giving up until the app is restarted. The failure could appear after switching off a car or briefly losing the phone’s network connection: Android Auto looked connected but did not respond.
Music Assistant
Each client gets its own connection token, with policies limiting which commands it may use.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant’s connection for AI clients replaces a fixed set of twelve tools with discovery across its live command catalogue. Configurable access policies limit which Music Assistant commands a client may use, while a connection wizard issues a separate token for each client.
Sendspin
The C++ library gains audio capture support, with PCM and Opus paths and a desktop example.
Device makers using Sendspin’s C++ library gain the ability to send captured audio to a compatible server, extending the library beyond receiving playback. The new source role carries timestamped audio in uncompressed PCM or, when the server supports it, the low-delay Opus format.
networking
A Supervisor setting could leave some Home Assistant OS hosts unreachable.
Reviewed by agners
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Reverse power flow stops being mistaken for a meter reset in Home Assistant’s statistics.
Reviewed by bdraco, swoboda1337
Read full articleMusic Assistant
Dummy recording identifiers in older CD-ripping files no longer make different songs look identical.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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The minimal-thinking option stops being ignored for Gemma 4 models on Google’s API.
Reviewed by joostlek
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Repeated checks for unsupported controls could make a working inverter appear unavailable.
Reviewed by MartinHjelmare
Read full articleMusic Assistant
Searching a single service stops hiding library items, while global results avoid showing them twice.
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