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Nabu Casa launches a $69 / €59 box for audio, serial control, Bluetooth and network-connected Z-Wave, with power over Ethernet.
Nabu Casa launches Home Assistant Connect AUX-2 worldwide for $69 / €59. The small box connects existing audio equipment, compatible serial devices and Bluetooth devices to the open home. One Ethernet cable can supply both its network connection and power; USB power and Wi-Fi are alternatives.
Home Assistant
A duplicate includes every view and redirects its internal links to the new copy.
Reviewed by MindFreeze, maartenla
Home Assistant adds Duplicate to the menu for user-created dashboards in Settings. The new-dashboard dialog lets someone choose a name and settings before copying every view, replacing the manual configuration copying that was particularly awkward on a phone.
Home Assistant
Home Assistant asks for the verification code instead of requiring weaker account protection.
Reviewed by joostlek
Home Assistant lets an EZVIZ account complete setup with two-step verification still enabled. Previously, a request for a code stopped setup and told the owner to disable that protection in the EZVIZ app.
Home Assistant
The camera viewer spends less time waiting for the connection that supports two-way audio.
Reviewed by maartenla
Home Assistant shortens the wait for the WebRTC connection used by camera talkback. Cameras could spend ten to twenty-five seconds on an alternative video stream, or remain there without two-way audio becoming available.
Music Assistant
A community-built DR LYD connection brings live stations, programme browsing and podcast search into one player.
Reviewed by OzGav
Music Assistant adds a connection to DR LYD, the audio service of Danish public broadcaster DR. Listeners can browse its live radio channels, search podcasts, and find programmes alphabetically or by their latest episode.
Devices
A built-in recovery command turns an embedded backup into a folder ready to repair and reuse.
Reviewed by swoboda1337
ESPHome adds a recovery command that downloads a device’s saved configuration and writes it to a new folder. It retrieves the main YAML file and its included files, keeping their relative paths, without requiring the lost original configuration to connect.
Home Assistant
Zone-edit buttons and integration-device menus become separate accessible controls.
Reviewed by MindFreeze
Home Assistant makes action buttons inside settings list rows visible to screen readers. Controls such as the edit button beside a zone and the menu beside an integration device were nested inside the row’s own button, leaving assistive software unable to expose them.
Music Assistant
A newer rewind or reset in another app can take precedence over the furthest point played.
Reviewed by OzGav, jdaberkow
Music Assistant uses one rule to reconcile its saved listening position with a podcast or audiobook provider’s progress. Where the provider supplies an update time, the newer position wins—including a deliberate rewind or reset made in another app. Without that timestamp, the furthest position still wins.
Home Assistant
Supported models can use less reasoning to reduce the wait for an answer.
Reviewed by ab3lson, joostlek, frenck
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Owners may need to enable Sync to China in the Home Connect developer portal.
Reviewed by thecode
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End devices wait for repeated failures before leaving and rejoining their network.
Reviewed by jesserockz, luar123
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An optional timeout releases the Bluetooth connection that otherwise prevents the scale’s own auto-off timer.
Reviewed by zweckj
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Automatic limiting catches peaks when volume normalization turns a track up.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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Two Sensirion families gain controls for correcting readings against a known concentration.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Home Assistant changes the playback path for network recorders and hubs; Safari remains outside the fix.
Reviewed by frenck
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Controllers using the library replace some failed state subscriptions sooner.
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The experimental broadcast provider is being moved to a separate app to keep hardware dependencies out of the server.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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An optional setting sends button presses to the selected Music Assistant player while the app is in focus.
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The firmware update requires existing remote temperature and humidity sources to be configured again.
Reviewed by TheJulianJES
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