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Home Assistant
Each color point gets a control; brightness and power still apply to the whole light.
Reviewed by silamon
Home Assistant gives Hue gradient lights a separate color control for each segment. Owners of compatible lights such as Play gradient lightstrips, Signe and Festavia can choose different colors along the light instead of setting only one color for the whole device.
Music Assistant
Random and least-played-first choices stay consistent across pages, then reshuffle on refresh.
Reviewed by pierosavi, fmunkes
Music Assistant adds Random and Random (least played first) sorting to library and genre listings. Loading more items keeps the same randomized order; refreshing the listing creates a new one.
Music Assistant
Configured power controls can wake an offline speaker, then shut it down after a chosen idle period.
Music Assistant can start music on a speaker that is switched off through a configured power control, such as a Home Assistant smart plug. The player appears as powered off instead of unavailable; starting playback turns its power on and waits up to ninety seconds for it to reconnect.
Home Assistant
Newly enabled count sensors require an explicit choice to include notification contents; existing setups retain their setting.
Reviewed by jpelgrom
People who newly enable the Home Assistant Android app’s active-notification count sensor get the count without notification content attached. Including that content becomes an option the phone owner turns on rather than the starting setting.
Home Assistant
The retired Fitbit connection cannot transfer its old sign-in credentials automatically.
Reviewed by MartinHjelmare
Home Assistant retires its Fitbit connection following Google’s November 2 shutdown of the legacy Fitbit Web API and sign-in endpoints. Existing installations receive a repair notice directing them to set up the Google Health integration.
ESPHome
An old calibration can halve readings after the 2026.11 upgrade.
Reviewed by jesserockz
ESPHome’s 2026.11 upgrade guidance asks owners of Beken smart plugs using an HLW8012-family power meter with inverted pins to calibrate their readings again. Older firmware counted some short pulses twice; the correction counts each once, so calibration tuned to the old behavior can make the new readings half as large.
Home Assistant
New readings identify the highest fifteen-minute average and when it occurred.
Reviewed by silamon
Home Assistant’s ENGIE Belgium connection adds readings for capacity-tariff peaks. Households can see their highest fifteen-minute average power for the month, the energy used during that interval and its start and end times, alongside the most recent daily peak.
Music Assistant
Tests reverse October’s approach: renewing one session copy could sign out another.
Music Assistant removes the ten-minute YouTube Music session renewal introduced in October. Tests found that renewing one copy of a sign-in cookie could sign out another Music Assistant instance or a download script sharing that session about twenty minutes later.
ESPHome
Three external controller chips support longer messages and faster data transfers.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds support for Microchip’s MCP2517FD, MCP2518FD and MCP251863 controllers, giving makers a hardware connection for CAN FD, the extended version of the CAN device bus. Connected over SPI, they handle messages of up to 64 data bytes instead of classic CAN’s eight.
Home Assistant
Core and radio updates can select a version from the device’s firmware catalogue.
Reviewed by silamon, tl-sl
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Device counters can drive maintenance reminders without building a separate runtime counter.
Reviewed by bieniu, chemelli74
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System Bridge power, keyboard and open-file actions gain an explicit permission boundary.
Reviewed by silamon
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A stuck I²C controller can recover without taking down the whole board.
Reviewed by jesserockz
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Sendspin players get individual timing adjustments alongside their volume controls.
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A routing choice supports distance-based planning without requesting a traffic-aware route.
Reviewed by tronikos
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