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Home Assistant
Owners opt in per camera and link a motion sensor; recording starts without footage from before the event.
Reviewed by bdraco
Home Assistant adds HomeKit Secure Video recording for cameras exposed to Apple Home in accessory mode. Owners opt in for each camera and link a motion sensor, giving the home hub the signal to request a recording.
Home Assistant
Live examples let contributors explore cards and whole dashboards without connecting a real home.
Reviewed by balloob, MindFreeze
Home Assistant’s contributor documentation adds interactive examples beside the controls and entity properties it explains. Readers can try a light, adjust a thermostat or explore a dashboard without setting up a Home Assistant server; the demonstrations use simulated devices in the browser.
Music Assistant
Both starting points retain every feature; the app-to-speaker path leaves library setup for later.
Music Assistant’s first-run setup explains that its two starting points guide setup rather than limiting features. The full experience combines services, local music and speakers, while the existing-app path concentrates on speakers and app connections.
Music Assistant
Artist playback favors your library and top tracks, while service waits no longer mark songs unavailable.
Music Assistant stops expanding a single artist selection into requests for an entire online catalog. Artist playback defaults to music in the listener’s library, falling back to top tracks. The previous all-tracks option becomes all tracks from that artist’s albums in the library, and whole Artists, Albums and Playlists folders can no longer be played with one tap.
Home Assistant
Labs installs the supporting app, while satellite wake-word verification still needs a separate enabling step.
Artur Pragacz@arturpragacz
Paulus Schoutsen@balloob
Michael Hansen@synesthesiam6 linked pull requestsReviewed by balloob, synesthesiam
Home Assistant brings its next-generation voice preview into Labs with an integration that installs and connects the supporting Voice app. It checks for app updates at startup and removes the managed app when the preview is disabled.
Music Assistant
The AirPlay sender handles newer HomePods and restores controls in Apple’s Home app.
Reviewed by marcelveldt
Music Assistant’s AirPlay sender corrects failures that left HomePod mini 2 speakers silent or prevented buffered playback from starting on HomePods running OS 27.2. Hardware checks cover standalone and stereo-pair HomePod minis.
Home Assistant
An expired access session no longer leaves embedded apps waiting for the next timer tick.
Reviewed by silamon
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Radio, Touch and Boom players use the volume curve their firmware expects.
Reviewed by marcelveldt
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A new CBC Listen connection brings live stations and on-demand programmes into the music server.
Reviewed by OzGav
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Compatible feeders expose the last feeding amount and two distinct problem signals.
Reviewed by epenet
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Conflicting saved device descriptions are rejected with instructions for clearing them.
Reviewed by silamon
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Fast polling no longer prevents cell voltages and temperatures from being read.
Reviewed by bdraco
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The automation editor offers the blueprint’s trigger IDs instead of incorrectly reporting them missing.
Reviewed by MindFreeze
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Controllers using the library avoid repeated offers of an unavailable image and wait after a failed update.
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Owners can name and assign the DSC11’s sockets separately while existing controls keep working.
Reviewed by AlCalzone
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