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Home Assistant
The revised default preserves access for Voice Preview Edition, Sonos and older Android clients.
Reviewed by edenhaus, Markus98, agners
Home Assistant changes its recommended HTTPS encryption profile to Intermediate v6, keeping connections from devices that cannot use TLS 1.3. These include current Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition firmware, the companion app on Android 6–9 and Sonos speakers fetching speech or music. New installations use the same revised default.
Music Assistant
A new Statistics page brings favourite artists, listening patterns and play counts together.
Reviewed by stvncode, dmoo500, MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant adds a Statistics page showing which music fills a listener’s days. A period picker moves from today to the past week, month, year or all recorded history, with play counts, favourite artists, genres and a chart of listening over time.
ESPHome
Operating history and horizontal airflow controls give owners a clearer view of a mini-split’s work.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome reads whether a compatible Mitsubishi mini-split is actively heating or cooling, rather than showing only its selected mode. Home Assistant can display that activity and keep it in the climate history. The status normally updates with the temperature readings, once a minute by default.
Home Assistant
The revised proposal puts AI access, Nord Pool prices and solar forecasts in its first scope; visual automation controls may follow later.
Home Assistant is shaping a forecast system that would let AI conversation agents answer questions about future sensor values, alongside charts extending beyond the present. The revised proposal includes Nord Pool day-ahead electricity prices and existing solar-forecast integrations in its minimum scope.
Home Assistant
Version 2026.10.5 also repairs network settings and storage failures on affected installations.
Reviewed by MartinHjelmare
Home Assistant Supervisor 2026.10.5 reaches the stable channel with a security correction involving app repositories. Stefan Agner’s release announcement identifies it as the update’s most notable change.
ESPHome
LD2410 modules gain a calibration button and an explicit result without HiLink’s PC tool.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome exposes the LD2410 radar’s built-in background-noise calibration, allowing makers to set its detection thresholds for a room without using HiLink’s PC tool. The routine needs module firmware 2.44 or newer and an empty detection area, with fans and ventilation running as usual.
Home Assistant
Automatically discovered plugs send their updates over the home network without a cloud dependency.
Reviewed by daylanKifky, emontnemery, jasaw, jmattsson, joostlek, MartinHjelmare
Australian households using Powersensor energy monitors gain a local connection to Home Assistant. The new integration discovers its plugs automatically and receives pushed readings across the home network, without depending on the manufacturer’s cloud.
Z-Wave JS
Messages from another node cannot satisfy the exchange that establishes its security keys.
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Search first, describe one problem per topic and invite the rest of the household to contribute.
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Fresh addresses replace stale ones, while ending one advertisement stops hiding another.
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Episode pages and the expanded player can display text supplied by the podcast source.
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Finishing the last pulse avoids the unintended movement seen after automatic detachment.
Reviewed by bdraco, kbx81
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A separate opt-in command can send requests to Alice and reach the linked Yandex account.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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Matching a complete album’s order and timings helps when streaming services use different titles.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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Compatible screens gain brightness and power controls, with separate readings for each connected display.
Reviewed by silamon, Laufmaschine
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Setup and sign-in recovery show the manufacturer’s privacy-policy step when cloud access is blocked.
Reviewed by silamon
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A failed icon lookup no longer prevents the Model Context Protocol connection from starting.
Reviewed by silamon, jbouwh
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A dedicated status lets dashboards and automations respond to a rejected alarm command.
Reviewed by erwindouna
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