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ESPHome
Makers can run a microphone and speaker together even when they share one digital audio port.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds simultaneous recording and playback for devices whose microphone and speaker share one I²S digital audio port. Previously, starting one side locked out the other, preventing a device with a single audio codec from recording while it played sound.
community
The new contributor website starts with small steps for translators, testers, writers and developers, while preserving old links.
Home Assistant opens contributors.home-assistant.io as a single starting point for people who want to help, whether they write code, translate, test betas, improve documentation, design or answer community questions. Each area begins with a concrete first contribution, and the getting-started guide puts paths that need no code first.
Home Assistant
Developers can inspect a running system in the Tools panel, with explicit setup and administrator access.
Reviewed by balloob, edenhaus
Home Assistant adds a Python console for inspecting and debugging a running installation from its Tools panel. Developers can run code against the live system, expand results as an object tree and use completion and signature hints without opening a separate Python session.
ESPHome
Direct addresses stop bypassing the choice to keep low-level entities internal.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome’s web server stops reading and controlling internal entities through a direct address unless the owner explicitly enables them. Those entities were already hidden from the web page, but their names could still be used to reach them through the API.
ESPHome
A wired replacement for the Wi-Fi module supplies temperatures, modes and hot-water status.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds local control for Haier hOn water heaters by connecting to the appliance’s serial interface in place of its original Wi-Fi module. The implementation was tested on a Haier VH3W and controls power, operating mode and target temperature.
music-assistant
An optional quality threshold finds a better copy across your music sources, even when an album or playlist prefers its original source.
Music Assistant adds an optional quality threshold for choosing which copy of a song plays. An old MP3 rip can give way to a higher-quality version from a connected music service, including inside an album, playlist or folder and when local files are preferred.
ESPHome
An ESP32-S3 test cuts peak redraw time from 193 to 125 milliseconds.
Reviewed by clydebarrow
ESPHome reduces the extra copying needed to draw rotated RGB displays, helping makers use screens in portrait orientation with less memory and shorter redraws. The change writes rotated pixels straight to the display buffer instead of creating a separate rotated copy.
Home Assistant
New triggers distinguish a changed version from an ordinary restart and expose pending maintenance.
Reviewed by epenet, joostlek, arturpragacz
Home Assistant gives automations direct triggers for a completed update and for requests to restart Home Assistant or reboot its host. A routine can react to these events without maintaining template sensors to compare versions or infer a pending restart.
ESPHome
Invalid Teleinfo values are skipped instead of looking like a meter reset.
Reviewed by bdraco
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A malformed test status previously triggered a full Home Assistant Z-Wave reload.
Reviewed by AlCalzone
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The older SD-card image cannot resolve the download address after a DNS trust-key change.
Reviewed by maxi1134
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Stable identities prevent duplicates and preserve light groups when the computer reassigns connection paths.
Reviewed by felipecrs, joostlek
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Buffered audio stops locally even when the server connection has failed.
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A start time and duration replace the immediate, unlimited session offered by the Charge switch.
Reviewed by epenet, silamon, klaasnicolaas
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An explicit acceptance step replaces unknown errors and repeated requests for an already valid code.
Reviewed by silamon
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The login flow recognizes the address used to reach the interface instead of rejecting its own client.
Reviewed by balloob
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Each installation keeps its own identity instead of sending a shared value the camera service rejects.
Reviewed by joostlek
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Compatible actuators can learn a scene directly from an automation.
Reviewed by balloob, c0ffeeca7
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The new connection starts with readings through Nature’s cloud service; remote controls remain outside this first step.
Reviewed by CoMPaTech, joostlek
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Preparing similarity indexes moves into the background instead of repeatedly blocking startup.
Reviewed by marcelveldt
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A tested 2017 television reports its selected input and accepts direct changes.
Reviewed by joostlek
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