Home Assistant Daily: New Automation Features and Bug Fixes

Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests including new battery and text conditions, event entity triggers, and version 2026.3.4 with dependency updates and bug fixes.

Duration: PT2M13S

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  • Show: Home Assistant Daily
  • Published: 2026-03-24T10:40:48Z
  • Audio duration: PT2M13S

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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for March 24th, 2026.

The team released version 2026.3.4, a maintenance update from Frenck addressing validation issues in template entities and updating multiple dependencies including Starlink, Google Weather, and Xiaomi BLE components. The release also adds new Miele oven programs and improves Fritz integration constants.

Erik Montnemery merged several automation enhancements. New battery conditions allow automations to trigger based on battery charge levels and states. Text conditions enable automations to check if text entities match specific values. Event entity triggers provide a new "event.received" trigger type for automation…

Brett Adams fixed Tesla Fleet token refresh handling for expired tokens, ensuring better OAuth error mapping and preventing forced reauthentication. The Tessie integration received exception translations for improved error localization.

Infrastructure improvements include a new entity name template function from Artur Pragacz and RFC9728 OAuth2 Protected Resource metadata endpoint support from Allen Porter. The ESPHome integration now avoids unnecessary host updates when devices are already connected.

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