Home Assistant Daily: Calendars, Backups, and Config Flow Cleanup
Today's activity centers on calendar event correctness, a data-loss bug in backup uploads, and a wave of config flow standardization across integrations like Zonneplan and WeatherKit.
Duration: PT3M3S
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: 2026-09-02T06:01:53Z
- Audio duration: PT3M3S
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Good morning. It's September 2nd, 2026, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The top story today is calendar reliability. PR 179312 adds a formal event status field, pulling in the RFC 5545 STATUS property from CalDAV, local calendar, and Google Calendar. That groundwork immediately paid off: a same-day follow-up, PR 180949, uses that status to filter out cancelled events in remote calendar,…
Second theme: backup integrity. PR 181021 fixes a hard failure where uploading or restoring backups over 16 megabytes threw an HTTP 413 error, because requests were hitting AIOHTTP's default body size limit. A related PR, 181012, addresses a receive-streaming bug in the backup manager tied to the same underlying…
Third theme: config flow standardization. Zonneplan picked up reauth, reconfigure, and diagnostics support in three separate PRs from erwindouna. WeatherKit is getting the same reconfigure treatment in PRs 181026 and 181019, letting users update Apple Developer credentials without deleting and re-adding the…
A few other fixes worth flagging: Mysensors got a device ID tracking fix, PR 180959, and gained config entry runtime data support, 180993. Roomba's fan speed handlers were silently…
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