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Music Assistant
Choose to stop the current player and start the music on the speaker you selected.
Music Assistant offers a choice when a Spotify account is already playing on another speaker: stop there and play here, or leave the existing music alone. The new dialog replaces a message that told the listener to stop the other player themselves.
Home Assistant
Optional inward swipes can open the sidebar or run an existing gesture action, while Android navigation keeps priority.
Reviewed by jpelgrom, TimoPtr
Home Assistant’s Android app adds configurable one-finger swipes from the left and right edges of its page. Each can use an existing gesture action, including opening the sidebar, giving people another way to reach controls without using multiple fingers.
Home Assistant
Reusable command formats cover more air conditioners, fans and other equipment; integrations still need to adopt them.
Reviewed by abmantis
Home Assistant’s infrared library adds command formats for a much wider range of household equipment. The work covers air-conditioner families from manufacturers including Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Toshiba, Midea and Panasonic, alongside television and audio formats, Dyson fans and Hob2Hood extractors.
Music Assistant
The direct connection uses higher-quality streams without requiring an account.
Reviewed by OzGav
Music Assistant adds a direct connection to Sunshine Live, the German electronic-music station and its 35 channels. It uses the station’s own 192 kbit/s MP3 streams rather than the 64 kbit/s main programme available through TuneIn, and needs no account.
Music Assistant
An optional setting carries the queue and position back to Deezer when its app opens.
Reviewed by OzGav
Music Assistant updates Deezer’s listening history as music starts, including albums, artists and playlists in the Deezer app’s recently played list. A new “Continue in the Deezer app” setting lets that app resume where Music Assistant stopped; it starts switched off.
OHF Voice
A sound-mapping error turned a tested voice into noise and could affect other voice configurations.
Reviewed by synesthesiam
Applications using Piper’s native C++ speech library avoid a pronunciation-map error that turned a tested Tagalog voice into noise. The library treated some two-part vowel sounds as their first character, attaching extra sound identifiers to ordinary vowels.
Music Assistant
A large-library test shows severe recommendation requests no longer holding up the server for seconds.
Music Assistant reduces pauses caused by finding similar tracks in a large library. The affected searches could freeze the whole server, including music streams, while choosing a varied set of recommendations.
ESPHome
The Realtek chip keeps reporting signal changes instead of stopping after the first one.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
ESPHome repairs pulse counting and interrupt-driven inputs on devices using the RTL8720C chip. Reading an input could disable the mechanism that reports its changes, leaving pulse counters at zero and binary sensors stuck after their first change.
Home Assistant
Alerts are grouped by transit line and retain their start and end dates.
Reviewed by silamon
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Heating schedules and temporary overrides no longer leave the climate card showing the comfort setting throughout.
Reviewed by liudger, silamon
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Setup waits out the cloud service’s cooldown instead of repeatedly requesting the whole home.
Reviewed by thecode
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Current-hour and next-hour calculations were each reading the preceding period.
Reviewed by klaasnicolaas
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One wired module supplies illuminance, temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude.
Reviewed by bdraco
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High-resolution FLAC tracks avoid being reduced to CD quality inside the playback buffer.
Reviewed by OzGav
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