Home Assistant Daily: Hardening Push With Tests and Reconnect Fixes
Thirty merges on November 11th focused on hardening rather than features. The dominant pattern was test backfills and quality-rating upgrades, paired with library bumps to fix camera and device regressions.
Duration: PT2M56S
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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: 2026-11-12T06:02:14Z
- Audio duration: PT2M56S
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Good morning, it's November 12th, 2026.
Yesterday's activity in Home Assistant Core was about hardening the tree, not new features. The bulk of thirty pull requests focused on backfilling tests, tightening quality ratings, and bumping libraries to undo regressions.
First, a quality and coverage sweep. Multiple integrations added missing tests to meet bronze and silver requirements. MeteoAlarm gained its first binary sensor tests in PR 192079 alongside a library bump, Gree added config flow coverage and declared single config entry use in PR 192104 and 192102, and Samsung TV…
Second, dependency fixes for real regressions. The most urgent was PR 191967, bumping the MotionEye client to version 0.4.2 to restore legacy authentication for older 0.42 and 0.43 servers broken by the November session-auth change. Related bumps include Bosch S H C to 0.6.27 in PR 192112 so entities sharing an…
Finally, targeted user-facing fixes. PR 191946 repairs Reolink playback for N V Rs and hubs, HP Printer adds both a binary sensor platform and zero-conf discovery in PR 191047 and 191064, and Growatt now surfaces the A P I error code when a setting write fails in PR 191938. Bosch Smart Camera switched to…
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