Home Assistant Daily: BMW Integration Removal and Door Triggers
Home Assistant removed the broken BMW and Mini integrations entirely, while adding new door trigger automation features. The day also brought multiple diagnostic improvements and dependency updates across various integrations.
Duration: PT2M16S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-03-08T10:25:28Z
- Audio duration: PT2M16S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for March 8th, 2026.
The biggest change today comes from Richard Kroegel, who completely removed the BMW Connected Drive and Mini integrations. This breaking change eliminated over 20,000 lines of code across 51 files due to persistent functionality issues with these automotive integrations.
Erik Montnemery introduced a significant automation enhancement by adding door trigger support. Two merged pull requests established door.opened and door.closed triggers, creating a new door component that listens to state changes and enables more granular home automation workflows.
Dominik Kapner fixed a critical Z-Wave JS issue affecting legacy Multilevel Switch based covers, resolving state update problems that had broken cover functionality for older devices.
Several integrations received diagnostic improvements today. The Opower integration added diagnostics support for utility data troubleshooting, while Indevolt gained similar diagnostic capabilities for solar inverter monitoring. The Rehlko integration expanded with binary sensors for load shedding detection on…
Multiple dependency updates landed, including bumps to pyanglianwater 3.1.1,…
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