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Home Assistant
New installations change in Supervisor 2026.12; the reduced defaults reach existing installations no later than 2027.05.
Reviewed by mdegat01
Home Assistant is reducing the permissions apps receive automatically, limiting what a compromised app could do. Stefan Agner’s new contributor guide asks maintainers to test their apps and explicitly declare any of the four affected Linux permissions they still need.
Home Assistant
Separate consumption and flow readings feed a gas flow diagram.
Reviewed by MindFreeze
Home Assistant’s Energy dashboard adds individual gas devices, so a household with separate readings can see where gas is being used rather than only its total consumption. Each device can have a gas-consumption sensor and a flow-rate sensor.
Home Assistant
Category filters and searchable descriptions make timers, inputs and calculations easier to find.
Reviewed by maartenla
Home Assistant’s helper picker explains what the available helpers do and groups them into Inputs, Time, Calculations and Other. That gives people a more useful starting point than a long list of names when adding a timer, a calculation or an input to an automation.
Home Assistant
Two changes address missed wake words when returning to the background listener.
Reviewed by TimoPtr
Home Assistant’s Android app ends an Assist conversation when someone leaves it, allowing the background wake-word listener to resume. Previously, pressing Home, switching apps or locking the screen could leave the conversation running in the background and prevent the listener from taking over.
Music Assistant
A single choice turns a laptop, tablet or television browser into the quiz speaker, including through Home Assistant’s sidebar.
Music Assistant’s Music Quiz can use the speakers of the device showing the game. A new “Play on this device” button enables that browser’s web player and selects it, replacing a trip through settings and a search for the browser’s generic player name.
ESPHome
Makers can configure compatible serial messages in YAML instead of writing a custom message engine.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds a configurable message engine for makers connecting equipment through framed serial buses. It handles the framing family used by Hayward AquaLogic, Jandy AquaLink RS and similar RS485 controllers, moving message assembly, checking and transmission rules from custom C++ into YAML.
Assist
Timers, music, weather and household status questions join a much wider set of Malay commands.
Assist’s Malay sentences expand across everyday household tasks. Zubir Jamal adds timer creation and control, date and time questions, weather, music playback, and commands aimed at a room or floor.
Home Assistant
The visual foundations are marked complete, and a plan to apply them across Home Assistant awaits approval.
A proposal from Matthias de Baat would give Home Assistant a more consistent appearance through HomeCore, a shared set of colors, spacing and controls. The aim is to make the interface feel more approachable for the less technical people in a household.
Home Assistant
An Update and restart option checks the download before replacing the running installer.
Reviewed by MindFreeze
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Teslemetry’s dispatch and resume actions no longer require local pairing.
Reviewed by silamon
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FreshWater IQ supplies pH, chlorine and sensor-life readings.
Reviewed by joostlek, Moustachauve
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An optional radio setting helps compatible receivers lock onto wireless meter signals.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
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BMP388 and BMP390 sensors can measure continuously while reporting less often.
Reviewed by bdraco
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An explicit update replaces outdated descriptions and release information while automatic refresh remains conservative.
Reviewed by fmunkes
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