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Home Assistant
Third-party checks stop by default, including on installations whose owners never changed the setting.
Reviewed by agners
Home Assistant makes its check for compromised secrets a deliberate choice. Supervisor stops enabling the Have I Been Pwned check by default, including on existing installations whose owners never changed this security setting.
Music Assistant
A folder rule turns an existing file collection into a playlist that follows additions.
Reviewed by marcelveldt, MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant lets listeners build a smart playlist from selected music folders. Adding files to those folders updates the playlist, giving people who organize their collection on disk a way to keep that organization inside Music Assistant.
Home Assistant
ENGIE gains day-ahead prices, while ecosmart supplies spot prices and its forecast curve.
Reviewed by joostlek
Home Assistant adds more information for shifting electricity use into cheaper periods. ENGIE Belgium households with dynamic tariffs gain hourly and quarter-hourly day-ahead price readings, while a new ecosmart connection brings New Zealand wholesale prices and forecasts into Home Assistant.
Home Assistant
Separate household actions from automations, scripts and outside integrations.
Reviewed by maartenla
Home Assistant’s activity panel gains a Triggered by filter for tracing why something changed. It can show actions attributed to people, automations or scripts, or integrations such as HomeKit and Google Assistant.
Home Assistant
Items, completion states and descriptions stay synchronized in both directions.
Reviewed by iluvdata, joostlek, klaasnicolaas
Home Assistant connects AnyList shopping lists to its to-do lists, with changes to item names, completion and descriptions synchronized in both directions. Live updates from AnyList keep the lists current without waiting for a periodic refresh.
Home Assistant
Supervisor ensures apps receive only the identity of the signed-in household member.
Reviewed by mdegat01
Home Assistant closes a way for an authenticated user to pose as someone else inside apps that trust Supervisor’s sign-in information. Requests could supply differently capitalized identity headers that escaped the proxy’s filter and reached the app beside the genuine identity.
Home Assistant
A request filter stops spending minutes on specially shaped addresses.
Reviewed by mdegat01
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Measurements and battery readings extend the shared long-range wireless connection.
Reviewed by balloob, raman325
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An optional search setting includes video results alongside songs.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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Commands such as “press the doorbell button” work with button entities and helpers.
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Existing custom-credential or automatic-player setups need an explicit account and player selection.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel, OzGav
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A cloud connection serves panels that no longer accept the older local protocol.
Reviewed by joostlek
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RM4 Pro learning failures stop appearing successful, and correctly captured commands can be replayed.
Reviewed by joostlek
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