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Home Assistant
Streaming speech bypasses a conversion delay, helping Wyoming and Home Assistant Cloud replies start sooner.
Reviewed by balloob
Home Assistant changes how it converts streaming speech for voice satellites, letting replies begin without waiting for most of the message to arrive. The change applies to streaming speech from Wyoming and Home Assistant Cloud when the audio needs conversion.
ESPHome
LD2450 sensors detect occupied areas at radar speed, without sending every position update to Home Assistant.
Reviewed by bdraco, jesserockz
ESPHome lets an LD2450 presence sensor follow an irregularly shaped part of a room, such as a seating or desk area, instead of limiting each zone to a rectangle. The device evaluates the polygon itself and sends a presence change to Home Assistant when it happens.
ESPHome
Automatic retries take a different route when packet loss defeats the ordinary upload, with no new setting to configure.
Reviewed by jesserockz
ESPHome gives devices on unreliable Wi-Fi a better chance of completing a wireless firmware update without being carried closer to the router. The uploader switches its data transfer automatically when the connection shows packet loss, while clean connections keep the existing path.
Home Assistant
A focused live view lets people reproduce an issue without searching the whole system log.
Reviewed by MindFreeze, wendevlin, SeoFood
Home Assistant adds a live log view to each integration’s page while debug logging is enabled. It includes that integration and the libraries it uses, showing captured lines from the current Home Assistant session and new ones as they arrive.
ESPHome
A dedicated wired connection supplies climate controls that the existing Midea component cannot provide.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds a dedicated connection for the Midea PortaSplit air conditioner, using a serial link in place of its original Wi-Fi module. It controls the operating mode, target temperature, five fan speeds and vertical swing, together with sleep, boost, eco and frost-protection presets.
Home Assistant
Deleting an administrator account stops its existing connection from continuing to send commands.
Reviewed by balloob
Home Assistant closes an access gap when an account is deleted. Previously, the account’s existing live connections could keep working; a removed administrator could continue sending administrator commands for as long as the connection stayed open.
Music Assistant
Unchanged libraries skip full scans, while background retries stop holding up browsing.
Music Assistant cuts unnecessary Apple Music requests so background library work puts less pressure on listening and browsing. Apple limits requests across the developer account used by Music Assistant installations, making avoidable traffic a shared problem.
Music Assistant
Existing saved artwork addresses are cleaned, with a compatibility cost for older servers.
Reviewed by OzGav
Music Assistant keeps the Audiobookshelf access token on the server instead of handing it out in audio and artwork links. Audio passes through Music Assistant, and a library migration removes tokens from image addresses already saved in the library, listening log and play history.
ESPHome
Compatible phones can supply network credentials to an ESP32 using Wi-Fi Easy Connect.
Reviewed by bdraco, egormanga
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A Zigbee firmware update repairs readings below 110 watts, while ESPHome stops a separate metering chip repeatedly reporting false zeroes.
Reviewed by bdraco, TheJulianJES
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Repeated taps stop piling up, and leaving the page no longer cancels the request.
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Automations can lower the demand limit during expensive electricity periods.
Reviewed by GhislainC, joostlek, silamon
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Deleting a single discovered entity stops clearing the rest of its device.
Reviewed by emontnemery, c0ffeeca7
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New server paging reaches the rest of artist collections and service folders; clients must adopt it.
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The app switcher stops exposing the last dashboard behind the Companion app’s lock.
Reviewed by jpelgrom
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Manual numbers can convert units, while calculated totals can identify water, gas and money.
Reviewed by emontnemery, MindFreeze, CoMPaTech, dgomes, Markus98, c0ffeeca7
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Shopping-list commands stop mistaking part of the instruction for the item name.
Reviewed by staticdev
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