Home Assistant Daily: Cloud URL Fixes and Softer Failures
A bump-heavy day with two focused correctness themes: cloud and remote URL handling, and graceful handling of edge cases from HomeKit alarms to entity IDs. The highest-impact change is preferring cloud custom domains when building URLs.
Duration: PT2M23S
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: 2026-10-30T06:01:40Z
- Audio duration: PT2M23S
Transcript excerpt
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It's October 30th, 2026, and welcome to Home Assistant Daily.
The lead pattern today isn't volume, it's correctness. Beneath a long list of routine library bumps, the meaningful changes fix how Home Assistant builds URLs for remote access, and how it handles states vendors don't fully support.
First, getting the URL right. Change 189471 prefers cloud custom domains when building the get URL function, so links, callbacks and smart home responses use the domain users actually configured instead of falling back to the generic cloud address. Related work in 189460 uses the request origin for M-C-P server icon…
Second, fail softer, not harder. Change 172752 stops the HomeKit security system accessory from raising on unsupported alarm states, and instead skips values the accessory didn't advertise at build time. That prevents one unusual panel mode from breaking the whole accessory. The same instinct shows up elsewhere:…
Finally, hardware reality checks. Change 189414 adds a privacy policy acceptance step to La Marzocco setup and re-authentication, because cloud requests are now rejected until users accept. Change 189450 surfaces ZBT-1 and ZBT-2 connections made through E-S-P-Home serial…
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