Home Assistant Daily: Automation Triggers and Device Updates
Home Assistant saw significant automation trigger enhancements with new humidity and cover triggers, plus backup upload progress reporting. Twenty pull requests merged with improvements across multiple integrations.
Duration: PT2M7S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-03-10T10:23:48Z
- Audio duration: PT2M7S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for March 10th, 2026.
Erik Montnemery merged two major automation improvements. First, new humidity triggers were added, including humidity changed and crossed threshold events. Second, cover triggers now support specific actions like awning opened, awning closed, and other cover-specific automation events. These changes expand Home…
Josef Zweck merged backup upload progress reporting, allowing backup agents to report upload status across multiple cloud providers including AWS S3, Azure Storage, and Google Drive. This addresses a long-standing user request for backup visibility.
Leon Grave merged a new Fresh-r integration for heat recovery ventilation units, based on the pyfreshr library. The integration includes comprehensive sensor support and follows Home Assistant's strict typing requirements.
David Bishop merged unique ID support for Litter-Robot config entries, enabling proper duplicate prevention and identity verification during reauth flows. Existing entries will be automatically migrated during setup.
Panda-NZ added ambient temperature range controls to the ToGrill integration, providing minimum and maximum temperature settings for…
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