Home Assistant Daily: Device Support and Code Cleanup
Seventeen pull requests merged yesterday focused on expanding device support for Roborock, SmartThings, and Velux integrations, plus significant KNX code cleanup. Several dependency bumps improve Bluetooth and communication libraries.
Duration: PT2M11S
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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: 2026-03-22T10:13:08Z
- Audio duration: PT2M11S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for March 22nd, 2026.
Yesterday saw robust development activity with 17 merged pull requests and 18 additional commits.
Device support expanded significantly. Ludovic Boué merged support for the Roborock Q10's empty dustbin button entity, completing the automation capabilities for this vacuum model. Joost Lekkerkerker added stick cleaner fixtures and binary sensor status support to the SmartThings integration. Ingmar Stein…
Several integrations received new diagnostic and monitoring features. Tronikos added diagnostics support to Google Weather for better troubleshooting. The SMLIGHT integration gained PSRAM sensors for ESP32-S3 based devices, and Sean O'Keeffe expanded Miele oven program support with additional cooking modes.
Matthias Alphart completed substantial KNX code cleanup, refactoring entity naming and initialization across 19 files while maintaining backwards compatibility. This internal restructuring improves maintainability without affecting user functionality.
Infrastructure updates included multiple dependency bumps. J. Nick Koston updated habluetooth to version 5.11.1 and oralb-ble to 1.1.0, enhancing Bluetooth device…
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