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Home Assistant
Choose lights, batteries or other controls to include, and the section follows later additions and removals.
Reviewed by MindFreeze
Home Assistant adds dashboard sections that fill themselves with matching controls and readings, updating as devices are added or removed. An owner can choose lights on a floor, batteries in selected rooms or other combinations, then group the tiles by room, floor or type.
Home Assistant
A direct handoff replaces copying a pairing code or reaching for a second device.
Reviewed by bgoncal, MindFreeze, NoRi2909, c0ffeeca7, frenck
Home Assistant adds an Add to Apple Home button to the Matter device-sharing dialog in its iPhone app. The button opens Apple’s setup flow on the same phone and preserves the device’s Home Assistant name, avoiding a copied code or a QR scan with another device.
Home Assistant
Open an earlier action, run it again or copy its YAML for an automation.
Reviewed by maartenla, piitaya, silamon, timmo001
Home Assistant adds an action-history page to Tools, giving owners a place to inspect earlier actions. Its detail dialog includes a Perform again button for repeating the action.
ESPHome
Taps and drags turn a panel showing a remote dashboard into a way to operate it.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds interaction to its remote-screen display. A connected touchscreen sends taps and drags to the computer running the dashboard, while automation actions send pointer movements, keyboard keys or text.
Home Assistant
Choose a new device identity or deliberately replace the old phone’s registration.
A restored iPhone can carry another phone’s Home Assistant registration and sign-in, causing both phones to report as one device and letting a sign-out on one break the other. The Companion app detects that copied registration and asks whether the restored phone should become a new device or replace the old one.
Music Assistant
A source picker, shared recent searches and a genre filter bring the phone’s search closer to the web player.
Music Assistant’s phone app lets listeners choose which music services to search, alongside their own library. The choice replaces the library-only switch and is shared with the web player, so moving between the two keeps the same search sources.
ESPHome
Existing I²C sensor components gain the connection they need on BK72xx hardware.
Reviewed by bdraco, swoboda1337
ESPHome adds the two-wire I²C sensor connection to Beken BK72xx boards, letting existing sensor components work on hardware that previously lacked that support. Makers choose two pins for the connection. Testing on a BK7231N board read temperature and humidity from a CHT8305 sensor using the HDC1080 component.
Home Assistant
MQTT outlets and supported Z-Wave components can appear beneath their parent device.
Jan Bouwhuis@jbouwh
Martin Hjelmare@MartinHjelmare
Artur Pragacz@arturpragacz3 linked pull requestsReviewed by emontnemery, arturpragacz, TheJulianJES
Home Assistant expands child-device support to MQTT and supported multi-part Z-Wave devices, so a power strip’s outlets or an energy meter’s clamps can appear as distinct parts of the physical device. MQTT publishers can describe those parts in discovery messages or YAML, while Z-Wave uses explicit labels and groups in its device database.
Home Assistant
Moving the same radio between a local USB port and a network proxy updates its connection automatically.
Reviewed by balloob
Home Assistant adds automatic connection updates when a ZHA USB adapter moves from a local port to an ESPHome USB serial proxy. ZHA recognizes the adapter’s new path instead of continuing to use its old location.
Voice
A lost audio stream no longer leaves the assistant looking online while it cannot hear anything.
Linux Voice Assistant tries to reopen its microphone after a failed audio stream, such as one caused by a computer waking from sleep, a USB interruption or an audio-server restart. Previously, the recording thread stopped while the rest of the process stayed online in Home Assistant, leaving an apparently working assistant unable to hear requests.
Home Assistant
Compatible cameras exposed through Home Assistant Cloud gain the live-view connection Alexa expects.
Reviewed by balloob, jbouwh
Home Assistant adds the camera interface Echo Show expects for live viewing through Home Assistant Cloud. Cameras could appear in Alexa while a request such as “show the porch camera” did nothing, because the older streaming interface no longer supplied the live-view path.
ESPHome
An optional buffer preserves messages written before Wi-Fi is ready.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
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Regional streams and song details replace a New South Wales-only selection.
Reviewed by OzGav
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Automatic certificate replacement prevents an upgrade from trapping older installations in a restart loop.
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Compatible thermostats can expose low, medium and high settings instead of only Auto and On.
Reviewed by puddly, TheJulianJES
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Switching to television or another app releases the old music session instead of leaving Music Assistant in control.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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Batched statistics work cuts the time spent importing readings and changing their units.
Reviewed by frenck, darkrain-nl
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New companion-player setups control music volume without changing the computer’s system level.
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Tiles stop speaking twice, and buttons name the action and room they affect.
Reviewed by karwosts, timmo001
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