Home Assistant Daily: Bug Fixes and Code Quality

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Good morning. This is Home Assistant Daily for May 21st, 2026.

Yesterday brought twenty merged pull requests and thirty additional commits, with a strong focus on bug fixes and code quality improvements.

Frenck merged two critical bug fixes. The first resolves a crash in the SmartThings integration when timestamp attributes return None values, preventing sensor setup failures. The second fixes the Habitica integration ignoring zero values for interval and streak parameters due to improper falsy value handling.

Several contributors worked on exception handling improvements. Liudger fixed error translations in the BSB-LAN integration, while RaHehl addressed similar issues in UniFi Protect. Jan Bouwhuis tackled hardcoded exception strings in the Incomfort integration, and Martin Hjelmare fixed placeholder mismatches in Home Connect translations.

Markus Tuominen introduced a new pylint quality scale checker for entity naming, affecting twelve components including Fitbit, Fritz, and SmartThings. He also followed up with a specific fix for Fitbit battery sensors.

Erik Montnemery led efforts to streamline user interfaces by removing advanced mode requirements from MQTT and Music Assistant service actions, and eliminating advanced mode usage from the KNX integration entirely.

Infrastructure updates included Mick van Rootselaar bumping pyOverkiz to version 1.20.4 and Brandon Rothweiler updating py-aosmith to 1.0.18. The team also removed the National Grid US virtual integration.

Additional commits addressed timeout handling in CalDAV and exception strings in UniFi Access.

What's next: Continue monitoring integration stability following these exception handling improvements, and watch for any user feedback on the simplified service action interfaces.

That's your Home Assistant Daily update. Back tomorrow with more development news.