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Home Assistant
Home Assistant’s setup guide flags the change; Withings says accounts created before October 12 are unaffected.
Reviewed by c0ffeeca7
Withings says its free API plan introduces a Withings+ subscription requirement for new accounts sharing their data. Home Assistant’s setup guide adds the subscription as a prerequisite, changing the cost of connecting newly created Withings accounts through the existing setup process.
Week in review
October 5–11 connected individual improvements into more complete ways to troubleshoot, build and listen.
Chris@chrisuthe
Jesse Hills@jesserockz
Keith Burzinski@kbx81+5 more contributors19 linked pull requests5 reviewers
From Monday, October 5 through Sunday, October 11, Home Assistant connected more of the steps in troubleshooting an automation, ESPHome extended device setup, and Music Assistant paired richer playback with lower storage and processing costs.
Home Assistant
Compatible devices share their access key locally, without a LaMetric account.
Reviewed by balloob, zweckj, c0ffeeca7
Home Assistant adds a local setup route for LaMetric displays: confirm the device, then press its top button to authorize the connection. Compatible devices from 2022 onward provide their access key directly, avoiding a LaMetric account or manually copying the key.
ESPHome
An optional memory setting reduces recognition processing time in a measured ESP32 test.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome lets makers place active wake-word models in faster internal memory, reducing the processing time needed to listen for a wake word. The option starts off and falls back to the existing memory arrangement when there is not enough internal space.
Music Assistant
The picture loader stops carrying its Home Assistant access token to unrelated API paths.
Reviewed by OzGav
Music Assistant restricts its Home Assistant picture loader after finding that a client could use it to read other Home Assistant API responses. The loader previously fetched any path registered as an image with Music Assistant’s Home Assistant access token and returned the response.
Home Assistant
Configured inputs, tamper detection and backup-battery status join the existing alarm controls.
Reviewed by RaHehl, silamon
Home Assistant adds the UniFi Alarm Hub as a device and exposes its configured wired zones. Inputs can report motion, an opening, smoke, glass breakage or an emergency button according to their configured zone type, allowing the hub’s signals to participate in household automations.
Home Assistant
Rejected passwords and access keys prompt for replacements while keeping the existing integration.
Reviewed by balloob, grahamwetzler, joostlek
Home Assistant adds credential-replacement flows to nine integrations, letting people replace a rejected password or access key while preserving the existing connection. The additions cover Bond, Dexcom, Kodi, Kostal Plenticore, Nexia, Pushbullet, Rachio, Slack and Smart Meter Texas.
Home Assistant
The connection follows the camera server’s new sign-in method and preserves seeking through saved videos.
Reviewed by dermotduffy, Marijn0, silamon
Home Assistant adapts its motionEye connection to the session-based sign-in introduced in motionEye 0.44. Live camera views, current snapshots and saved images and movies use the authenticated connection instead of relying on the older signed addresses.
ESPHome
Slower serial connections stop blocking the Wi-Fi work needed to keep the device running.
Reviewed by jesserockz
ESPHome changes how ESP8266 boards receive software-driven serial data so the incoming bytes do not hold up Wi-Fi long enough to restart the device. The correction applies at 19,200 baud and below; faster connections keep the existing method.
Home Assistant
Speech generation no longer fails after Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS has already produced its answer.
Reviewed by tronikos
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Less frequent cloud checks also cut one diffuser’s requests from about 100 to 14 an hour.
Reviewed by balloob
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Infrared controls follow the remote’s comfort choices and its automatic end to boost mode.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Downloading several small metadata files together cuts a measured 30-backup wait from 23 seconds to 3.4.
Reviewed by zweckj
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A read action returns the requested value instead of only sending a request onto the control network.
Reviewed by silamon
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The Bluetooth fan gains speed, oscillation and preset controls alongside its two-level night light.
Reviewed by silamon, TheJulianJES
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A public device key no longer causes an unnecessary demand for a pairing secret.
Reviewed by marcelveldt
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