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Home Assistant
Power limits and trading thresholds respect the battery’s selected operating mode.
Reviewed by silamon
Home Assistant adds controls for a Zonneplan home battery’s maximum charging and discharging power, backup energy reserve and minimum price difference for day-ahead trading. Each setting follows the battery’s reported capabilities, and the backup-reserve control is disabled by default.
Music Assistant
Elapsed and remaining time advance instead of leaving the player’s screen at the start of a song.
Reviewed by illright, MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant’s Squeezebox connection library corrects the status messages that left JiveLite screens showing a stationary progress bar with no elapsed or remaining time. The player had interpreted a field containing zero as a signal that playback was still waiting to begin.
Matter.js
Controllers reject untrusted certification signatures and malformed device certificates under the default policy.
Matter.js strengthens the checks a controller uses to decide whether a device’s identity and certification evidence can be trusted during pairing. Its default policy refuses certification declarations from unknown signers and certificates that violate the required device profile.
Sendspin
The command-line player removes a missing-runtime obstacle and gives new installations an output menu.
Sendspin’s C++ command-line player bundles the runtime needed to start on a Windows computer without a separate Visual C++ installation. Its setup script also asks for a player name and offers a short list of audio outputs, with the system default as the initial choice.
ESPHome
An optional ESP32 setting adds finer brightness levels without lowering the light’s switching frequency.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds finer low-brightness control for lights driven by an ESP32’s LED controller. Optional hardware dithering spreads fractional brightness levels across pulses, reducing the visible jumps that gamma correction can leave near the bottom of a fade.
Music Assistant
Stored loudness information helps keep a self-hosted music collection at a consistent listening level.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel, OzGav
Music Assistant reads Jellyfin’s stored loudness information to keep music from a self-hosted library at a consistent listening level. Track measurements are supported, with album measurements available from Jellyfin 12.1.
Home Assistant
The explicit override leaves the blocking windows or unreachable devices unmonitored.
Reviewed by silamon
Home Assistant adds an Arm anyway action for Homematic IP Cloud alarms after an ordinary arm command is refused. It allows arming with the known blocking devices excluded, such as an open window or an unreachable sensor; those entry points remain unmonitored.
Home Assistant
Vehicle status adds doors, windows, lights and openings alongside the parking location.
Reviewed by DavidMagyarics, erwindouna
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Area selection, height limits and an apply button turn the radar’s position readings into configurable zones.
Reviewed by bdraco
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A fresh device announcement can end the wait on a connection left stale by a brief outage.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Dimmable Device Controls keep responding after a light is switched off.
Reviewed by jpelgrom
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Makers can set a target speed, reverse direction and read the motor’s actual rotation rate.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Compatible models gain climate settings and frost protection while optionally following their original remote.
Reviewed by bdraco
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ATM90E32 setups can choose voltage, current and frequency thresholds and avoid a false overvoltage warning.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Long-term statistics count each dosing cycle, with a repair for existing sensor histories.
Reviewed by silamon
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