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OHF Voice
The English-only experiment lets households define commands and give the same words different meanings by room.
Voice Labs experiments with voice commands shaped around the people and rooms in a home. Households can define phrases that run a script, activate a scene, carry out an action or speak a response. Commands can apply throughout the home or only in one room, so the same words can do something different depending on which satellite hears them.
Music Assistant
Connected image engines provide six styles or a custom prompt, with generation limits and a collage fallback.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel, OzGav
Music Assistant’s Playlist Metadata provider adds an AI-generated cover option for playlists that do not already have their own artwork. Ryan Macdonald connects it to an image engine supplied through a Home Assistant AI Task entity or the OpenAI Compatible plugin, with six built-in styles and a custom prompt option.
Home Assistant
Cameras, speakers and other connected services gain a way to update an existing setup.
Reviewed by zweckj, jterrace, MartinHjelmare, frenck, sarabveer
Changing a device address or an account setting does not have to mean deleting its Home Assistant integration and starting again. A broad set of integrations gains reconfiguration, covering connections such as ONVIF cameras, Harmony hubs, Roomba vacuums and Tesla Wall Connectors.
ESPHome
A safer first upgrade avoids a compression fault that could leave an RTL8710B device unable to start.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
ESPHome 2026.10.2 fixes a wireless-update fault that could leave devices using the RTL8710B chip unable to start. Introduced in 2026.10.0, the problem could corrupt a compressed upload and still select the damaged firmware at restart, requiring a serial cable to recover the device.
Home Assistant
Compensation turns pairs of measured and reference values into a corrected sensor.
Reviewed by emontnemery, NoRi2909, Petro31, piitaya
Home Assistant’s Compensation integration gains a visual setup for creating a corrected sensor from an existing reading. Pick the source sensor, then enter pairs of measured values and the values they should represent, instead of defining the calibration in YAML.
Home Assistant
A voice-audio change keeps older phones from accumulating speech while the screen is busy.
Reviewed by jpelgrom
A busy dashboard can leave an older Android device sending speech to Assist long after it was recorded. The Companion app moves that audio work away from the screen’s main thread and sends queued audio together, preventing a slow interface from steadily pushing the conversation behind.
Music Assistant
A new Autoplay mode follows the chosen artist playback order instead of adding loose tracks.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
Music Assistant adds a Similar artists Autoplay mode. When the queue runs low, it chooses an artist related to the last track’s artist and adds music using the listener’s configured way of playing an artist.
Music Assistant
Queue commands and shared-account requests follow the listener’s own source and player permissions.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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Stricter checks prevent an ordinary node from triggering a replacement that strips another device’s security permissions.
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Android 6 devices fall outside the supported range for future app builds.
Reviewed by jpelgrom
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A dedicated price sensor matches 15-minute billing while hourly prices remain available.
Reviewed by erwindouna, silamon
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Existing VPN connections gain switches that dashboards and automations can use.
Reviewed by MarkGodwin, Markus98, Laufmaschine
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A model-specific connection setting restores cameras that otherwise reject their streams.
Reviewed by frenck, Kane610
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Two firmware catalogue additions address specific alarm-reporting faults.
Reviewed by AlCalzone
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An optional refresh-token setting avoids repeatedly pasting a new token after it expires.
Reviewed by OzGav
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