Home Assistant Daily: Mass Integration Removals and Startup Reliability Fixes
Seven legacy integrations were removed in breaking changes, while core services code was reorganized and startup-blocking bugs in Modbus and ONVIF were fixed.
Duration: PT2M45S
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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: 2026-09-29T06:01:13Z
- Audio duration: PT2M45S
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Good morning, it's Tuesday, September 29th, 2026, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The lead story is consolidation. Seven integrations were removed in breaking changes, alongside fixes for startup stalls and a sweep to standardize core architecture.
First, the removals. PR 18-34-46 drops SolarEdge Local, PR 18-35-07 drops Zestimate, PR 18-35-05 drops Melnor RainCloud, PR 18-34-77 drops Sigfox, PR 18-34-81 drops Dublin Bus, PR 18-34-74 drops Travis C-I, and PR 18-34-83 drops Orange and Rockland Utility. If you still have one configured, it will stop loading…
Second, core hygiene. Contributor epenet moved service registration out of setup files into a dedicated services module for camera, vacuum, climate, to-do, and media player — see PRs 18-34-38, 18-34-17, 18-34-10, 18-34-41 and 18-34-16. The to-do platform also gets its entity and item model extracted in PR 18-34-32.…
Third, reliability where it hurts startup. PR 18-26-21 fixes Modbus entities waiting on first connection and polling on a stale scan interval, which held up Home Assistant when a device was unreachable — linked to eight prior reports. PR 18-26-28 fixes Onvif setup being cancelled by a snapshot probe that never…
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