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Music Assistant
An experimental connection links compatible lamps on Home Assistant’s ZHA network to the music.
Music Assistant adds an experimental way to make Hue lights follow music without a Hue bridge. The Hue Lights Sync setup connects through Home Assistant’s ZHA Zigbee integration, provided ZHA uses Ziggurat and the Music Assistant Home Assistant plugin is connected.
Music Assistant
Music Assistant adds Up Next, audiobook chapter selection and a heart button to its car interface.
Reviewed by formatBCE
Music Assistant’s CarPlay interface adds an Up Next button to Now Playing. It opens the current queue and, for an audiobook, its chapter list. Selecting an item starts it or jumps to the chapter, then returns to Now Playing.
Home Assistant
The Home Assistant app removes an upload limit and separates personal voice models from replaceable downloads.
Reviewed by synesthesiam
Piper’s Home Assistant app removes a 16 MiB upload limit that rejected many custom voice models. A 60.6 MB model that failed before completed successfully in the contributor’s test.
Home Assistant
Further testing restores parallel video connections and limits retries when talkback cannot connect.
Reviewed by maartenla
Home Assistant starts a camera’s fallback video alongside the WebRTC connection used for talkback again. That reverses the strategy described in yesterday’s edition: remembering a successful WebRTC connection no longer makes the fallback wait twelve seconds, and the browser stops filtering the connection-server list.
Home Assistant
Some cover automations need updated device classes, and redundant slat entities can be removed.
Reviewed by MartinHjelmare
Home Assistant classifies supported Fibaro, Shelly, Aeotec and ZVIDAR motor controllers as shutters, blinds, gates or shades according to their device and operating mode. A gate can consequently appear as a garage door through HomeKit, Alexa or Google, instead of being classified as a window.
ESPHome
A new component brings compatible decorative strings into ESPHome, with colors and effects applied across repeating zones.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome adds control for BrizLabs light strings that carry color commands over the same two wires as their power. Makers building compatible ESP32 firmware can use ESPHome light effects, including rainbows, wipes and twinkles, with these strings.
Music Assistant
An optional alphabet rail shortens the journey through long artist, album and track libraries.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel, pierosavi
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The old top-level dashboard mode stops selecting a YAML dashboard.
Reviewed by MartinHjelmare
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Arrow keys and Enter replace letter-dependent choices in the live USB console.
Reviewed by edenhaus, frenck
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INA226 sensors can assert a hardware alert when voltage or power crosses a configured threshold.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Community-maintained integrations would have a separate distribution route controlled by an administrator.
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Supported devices report leakage current and individual problem states.
Reviewed by epenet
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Existing disk-space sensors are disabled too, and can be re-enabled if needed.
Reviewed by chemelli74, silamon
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A shared serial or radio connection can carry separate conversations between configured ESPHome devices.
Reviewed by bdraco
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The update stops being offered on the stable firmware channel.
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