Home Assistant Daily: Automation Conditions Expansion
Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests on March 27th, 2026, primarily focusing on expanding automation conditions across multiple device types and fixing OAuth2 error handling in several integrations.
Duration: PT2M8S
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-03-27T10:25:17Z
- Audio duration: PT2M8S
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Good morning. This is Home Assistant Daily for March 27th, 2026.
Yesterday saw significant expansion of automation conditions across the platform. Erik Montnemery merged multiple PRs adding new condition types: select conditions with "is_option_selected", valve conditions including "is_open" and "is_closed", and climate conditions with "is_hvac_mode". The humidifier integration…
Several integrations received improved OAuth2 error handling. Will Moss updated the Fitbit, Google Photos, MCP, and Aladdin Connect integrations to properly handle implementation unavailable errors, providing clearer user feedback when OAuth2 configurations are missing.
The development team addressed multiple state management issues. Erik Montnemery fixed state write overrides in calendar and camera base entities, as well as in the Fritzbox, DLNA DMR, and Radarr integrations. These changes ensure proper entity state handling across all code paths.
Artur Pragacz resolved a bootstrap race condition by making entity registry loading wait for device registry initialization, preventing crashes during startup.
Jamie Magee removed the TP-Link LTE integration, marking it as a breaking change for users currently…
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