Top story for Saturday, October 10, 2026

Music Assistant makes short backward skips in streamed podcasts and audiobooks faster by retaining up to the last minute of played audio. Contributor OzGav reports that a ten-second rewind previously usually took about five seconds because the server had to fetch that audio again.

The Open Home Foundation’s Device Database makes products easier to find and adds links to compare their prices. Searches tolerate misspellings and missing accents: “samsnug” finds Samsung, while “hue lighting” searches for Hue within the Lighting category.

Home Assistant changes backup restoration so it can read the archive’s contents in place instead of first unpacking the entire outer archive beside the backup. That removes a temporary disk-space requirement even when restoring only one app or folder, and avoids writing and rereading the whole backup through a network share.

Home Assistant corrects a timing error that could leave a generic thermostat’s heater running or idle past its configured waiting period. When a temperature reading arrived partway through a minimum cycle or cooldown, the next check waited the elapsed time plus the full period instead of just the time remaining.

ESPHome gives makers an option to keep an ESP32 output pin’s electrical state while the device sleeps or restarts. With the component configured to restore its state, an output can stay at the same level through deep sleep and waking instead of resetting.