Home Assistant Daily: Major Integration Expansions and Library Migrations
March 16th saw 20 pull requests merged with significant feature additions including Home Connect air conditioner support, Victron BLE parser updates, and extensive Tuya library migrations. Several integrations received enhanced device support and improved user experience features.
Duration: PT2M17S
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: 2026-03-16T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M17S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for March 16th, 2026.
Today's development activity included 20 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits, focusing heavily on integration expansions and library modernization.
Diegorro98 merged a major addition to Home Connect, introducing climate entity support for air conditioner appliances. This comprehensive change spans over 1,300 lines and adds full climate control functionality for connected AC units.
Raj Laud updated the Victron BLE parser to version 0.6.1, adding support for AC chargers including Blue Smart IP22 and IP65 models, BatterySense device support, and enhanced SolarCharger error reporting capabilities.
Denis Shulyaka enhanced the OpenAI integration by adding service tier support, specifically implementing OpenAI's Flex tier functionality for more flexible API usage and billing options.
Nathan Spencer improved the Litter-Robot integration with dynamic device support for Whisker functionality, while also removing deprecated entity creation code for Litter-Robot 4 devices in a separate breaking change.
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