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Open Home Foundation
Two days before the November 7 gathering, the event directory helps attendees find a local meetup and sign up.
Open Home Foundation Community Day is this Saturday, November 7. In the Home Assistant release notes, Franck Nijhof puts the worldwide programme at 97 meetups across more than 30 countries. He plans to join the gathering in Enschede.
Music Assistant
Music Assistant’s web player saves named bookmarks alongside chapters and lets each listener keep their own.
Reviewed by stvncode, OzGav, MarvinSchenkel
A listener can mark a moment in an audiobook or podcast episode in Music Assistant’s fullscreen player, then return to it from the book or episode page. A bookmark can have a name, and its marker on the timeline shows its position and chapter.
Home Assistant
HACS China users carry their community mirrors into the upgrade, and other installations can choose them in Settings.
Reviewed by balloob, edenhaus, silamon
The Marketplace can download its catalogue and community projects through mirrors run by the Home Assistant China community. Home Assistant recognizes existing HACS China installations during migration and keeps them on the mirrors, so their downloads can continue without a VPN.
ESPHome
Makers can opt to embed their project files in the firmware and retrieve them through an encrypted connection.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
An ESPHome device can hold a recovery copy of the configuration used to build it. Makers enable the option before flashing. The firmware stores the main YAML configuration together with included files and packages. A compatible client can then request the compressed files from the running device.
Home Assistant
A delayed request runs with the permissions of the person who gave it.
Reviewed by erwindouna, MartinHjelmare
Home Assistant gives AI conversation agents a way to schedule a request such as turning the lights off in five minutes. Previously, delayed commands were offered only on devices that supported timers. The agent supplies a self-contained instruction because Home Assistant starts a fresh conversation when the time comes.
Home Assistant
On a tested Bambu Lab printer camera, a restart with the stream open fell from 241 seconds to 33.
Reviewed by frenck
Home Assistant can stop a camera stream even when the camera keeps sending video frames with frozen timestamps. Previously the stream waited for a usable frame before checking whether it should stop. An idle camera connection could stay open indefinitely, and a Home Assistant restart could wait through several shutdown timeouts.
Z-Wave JS
An update waiting for one battery-powered device to wake up no longer blocks requests for the others.
Reviewed by AlCalzone
Z-Wave JS 15.32.1 lets applications request firmware updates from the update service for several devices in one pass. Previously, asking to update a sleeping device reserved the network-wide slot until that device woke up and finished. The next request could fail even when it targeted a different device.
Music Assistant
Supported playlists gain drag handles, keyboard moves and shortcuts to send a selection to either end.
Reviewed by pierosavi, MarvinSchenkel
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Separate accounts, addresses and servers keep their own warnings when another setup is removed.
Reviewed by frenck, joostlek, erwindouna, MartinHjelmare, zweckj, svasek, Shulyaka, lboue, tl-sl, jbouwh
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The EnOcean module used by several switch makers reports both presses and releases.
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An agent signals that it expects a reply, allowing compatible Assist satellites to listen again.
Reviewed by synesthesiam
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A slow or unreachable online firmware catalogue no longer holds up reachable devices after a restart.
Reviewed by frenck, joostlek, tl-sl
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A read-only dashboard on another website may need permission to receive live updates from an ESP32.
Reviewed by jesserockz
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A healthy E9 could show a problem with its sensor lifetime as soon as it was paired.
Reviewed by TheJulianJES
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An optional clock control shows when playback is due to stop and lets an automation choose the time.
Reviewed by frenck
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