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Home Assistant
A measured household total gets its own place in Energy, instead of appearing again as an appliance.
Reviewed by MindFreeze, SmilingSweetSwede
Home Assistant’s Energy dashboard adds a Home source for meters that measure the entire household’s electricity consumption. Owners can supply energy and power readings directly, instead of configuring the whole house as an individual device and duplicating it in the flow diagram.
Open Home Foundation
The Lite, One and Pro join the programme with local control and a commitment to continued support.
Reviewed by dan-long-dev, mrdarrengriffin
Everything Smart Home joins Works with Home Assistant with its Everything Presence Lite, One and Pro sensors. In the announcement, Jacqueline Ajayi says all three passed the programme’s tests for local control, privacy and sustainability, with the company committing to long-term support and firmware updates.
Home Assistant
The administrator connection expands beyond dedicated inspection and recovery tools.
Reviewed by frenck, balloob
AI assistants connected to Home Assistant’s system-management interface gain a tool for calling any Home Assistant action. It returns action response data and accepts templates in the target and data, allowing a connected assistant to compose a call and use its result.
Home Assistant
Playback controls and state can be assembled into one player, with a visual setup for common controls.
Reviewed by joostlek
Home Assistant adds media players to its Template integration. Makers can connect existing actions and state readings to a single player with playback, volume, source selection and media information, rather than exposing each operation as a separate control.
Music Assistant
Compatible devices connect without copying a pairing token between the two systems.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel, balloob
Music Assistant uses Home Assistant to pair compatible ESPHome Sendspin devices without asking the owner to paste a pairing token. Its Home Assistant connection follows the devices Home Assistant announces and requests a token when an encrypted, unpaired player connects.
Home Assistant
Errors and actions already taken stay in the history, while overlapping messages no longer overwrite each other.
Reviewed by synesthesiam, frenck
Home Assistant keeps a failed message in its conversation history together with the error and any actions the assistant already took. A person can then continue the conversation instead of losing the turn when an AI service stops responding.
Home Assistant
Temporary PINs work only between a chosen start and end time.
Reviewed by MartinHjelmare, epenet, iluvdata, joostlek
Home Assistant’s Schlage connection adds scheduled access codes for guests or people visiting to carry out work. The add-code action accepts a start and end time, so the code only works during that window without an automation having to delete it afterwards.
Home Assistant
Systems with less than 1.5 GB of memory show the discovery instead of starting Matter Server automatically.
Reviewed by lboue
Home Assistant OS stops automatically installing and starting Matter Server during onboarding when the host reports less than 1.5 GB of memory. A discovered Matter service is shown for the owner to select instead, with installation progress visible.
ESPHome
A supplied firmware image and the device’s address are enough for a command-line network update.
Reviewed by bdraco
Owners of finished ESPHome products can send a manufacturer’s firmware image over the network without obtaining or recreating its YAML configuration. The upload command accepts the file and the device’s address directly, removing the need to build a dummy configuration just to pass validation.
Home Assistant
The new connection brings source, volume and playback controls to compatible WiSA stereo hubs.
Reviewed by joostlek, frenck
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Changing from the home address to the external address keeps the dashboard connection intact.
Reviewed by jpelgrom, TimoPtr
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The connection tracks totals and flow, and handles corrected readings separately from a replaced meter.
Reviewed by joostlek, frenck, c0ffeeca7
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EnOcean’s four-button rocker and Philips Hue Tap gain device-specific event handling.
Reviewed by TheJulianJES
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Separate valve, water-alarm and flow readings show what the unit is doing.
Reviewed by joostlek, Laufmaschine
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Sleeping devices get time to hear that an ESP32-C3 or ESP32-S3 connection has ended.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Music Assistant waits for short messages to play and resumes seekable music where the interruption began.
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The earlier blanket Cast change helped the new Google Home Speaker but interrupted older receivers.
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Existing passwords written with the old encoding need to be set again.
Reviewed by AlCalzone
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