Home Assistant Daily: Integration Improvements and New Features
Home Assistant processed 20 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits on March 19th, 2026, featuring significant updates to Tessie, SmartThings, Google Drive integrations, plus new NTP sync failure detection and various test coverage improvements.
Duration: PT2M1S
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: 2026-03-19T10:12:49Z
- Audio duration: PT2M1S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning. This is Home Assistant Daily for March 19th, 2026.
Brett Adams merged a substantial Tessie integration update, sourcing phantom drain and battery sensors from state data following backend changes. The update removed over 200 lines of code while simplifying the coordinator structure.
JoostLek enhanced SmartThings with two new features: microfilter sensors for monitoring filter status and a bypass mode switch, expanding support for air purification devices.
Several integrations gained reconfigure flows. Tronikos added reconfiguration support to Google Drive, while Willem-Jan van Rootselaar implemented the same for BSB-LAN heating systems. Both changes improve user experience when updating connection settings.
Jan Čermák introduced NTP sync failure detection for Home Assistant Supervisor, creating automated issue reporting and repair suggestions when time synchronization problems occur.
Kurt Chrisford significantly expanded test coverage for the Actron Air integration, adding comprehensive tests for climate, config flow, coordinator, and initialization components.
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