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Home Assistant
A preview lets people select a time range to delete while keeping the rest of a statistic.
Reviewed by wendevlin, erwindouna
Home Assistant adds a way to remove a bad stretch of recorded measurements while keeping the rest of the history. A new dialog in the statistics table previews the selected time range before deleting its statistics.
Music Assistant
Devices with an input ask for a fresh setup choice, with pairing and input permission kept separate.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant lets an unpaired Sendspin device send audio after its owner explicitly approves the input. Previously, connecting without pairing disabled the input entirely, so a device’s line-in appeared only after pairing.
Home Assistant
Dropbox and Azure gain percentages, and the overall bar follows the slowest destination.
Reviewed by timmo001, balloob, zweckj, piitaya
Home Assistant’s backup progress bar fills as uploads advance instead of only pulsing. With several destinations, it follows the slowest upload so a copy already written locally does not make the whole backup look further along.
ESPHome
Makers gain an experimental Wi-Fi bridge for Thread devices, with built-in or separate radios.
Reviewed by bdraco, swoboda1337
ESPHome adds an experimental way to use an ESP32 as a Thread border router, connecting a Thread network through Wi-Fi. ESP32-C5 and C6 boards use their built-in radio; other Wi-Fi ESP32 variants can use a separate radio connected by serial wiring.
Sendspin
The command-line player captures system audio, with safeguards against sending its own playback back to the server.
Sendspin’s command-line player adds a way to send the sound a Mac or Linux computer is already playing to a compatible server. People can capture the default audio output or choose one output device, extending the earlier microphone and line-in support to audio from applications.
Music Assistant
The provider accepts SoundCloud’s newer audio streams instead of rejecting songs or settling for previews.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant restores playback for SoundCloud tracks that no longer offer an MP3 stream. SoundCloud’s newer streams use AAC audio; the connection previously rejected them, leaving tracks unplayable or offering only a thirty-second preview.
Home Assistant
Health Connect supplies sleep timing and individual stages without treating missing data as zero.
Reviewed by jpelgrom, TimoPtr
Home Assistant’s Android app adds sleep start and end times alongside the duration of light, deep and REM sleep and the other stages recorded in Health Connect. The existing sleep-duration sensor also carries the ordered stage timeline, including each stage’s start and end.
ESPHome
Calibrated spectral sensors add useful light measurements beyond raw colour-band readings.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds a shared driver for AS7341, AS7343 and TCS3448 spectral sensors, giving makers measurements of brightness, colour temperature and the light useful to plants. It also reports individual colour bands, an RGB colour value and how close a reading is to saturation.
Home Assistant
Teslemetry refreshes live values every five seconds, while cloud connectivity still governs availability.
Reviewed by silamon, c0ffeeca7
Home Assistant’s Teslemetry connection reads live Powerwall values directly from a paired gateway every five seconds and configuration settings every thirty seconds. If the gateway cannot be reached, the connection falls back to cloud values.
Home Assistant
A two-factor prompt replaces failed setup and repeated retries when the car service requires verification.
Reviewed by erwindouna
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Firmware in Zigpy’s update collection also corrects temperature jumps when heating switches.
Reviewed by TheJulianJES
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Drive writes can be cancelled, and virtual-machine setup can stop before creation begins.
Reviewed by balloob
Read full articleESPHome
Compatible sliding and swing openers report their actual position as well as accepting commands.
Reviewed by bdraco
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An ESP32 with an FUSB302B chip can negotiate voltage and react when its supply is ready.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Requests can check which lights are on or whether windows and doors are closed in a chosen part of the home.
Reviewed by HepoH3
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Android 9 through 12 show the song and working buttons instead of an empty notification.
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Makers can receive and send control messages, with higher-level device behaviour still to follow.
Reviewed by bdraco, trvrnrth
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A search tool covers devices, areas, automations and scenes as well as entities.
Reviewed by Shulyaka
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Automations can pass an ordered list of stops, ending with the final destination.
Reviewed by Bre77, silamon
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