Home Assistant Daily: New Integrations and Device Support

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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for May 25th, 2026.

The development team merged 20 pull requests yesterday, with several notable additions to device support and integrations.

fdebrus merged the new Aquarite pool integration, bringing comprehensive pool monitoring capabilities to Home Assistant with over 1,300 lines of new code across 22 files.

rlrghb expanded Lichess integration support, adding 20 new sensors for chess variants including Chess960, Crazyhouse, and correspondence games. The update surfaces ratings and game counts for Ultra Bullet and specialty formats, all disabled by default.

Onero-testdev added SwitchBot Weather Station support to the existing SwitchBot integration, extending environmental monitoring capabilities for these popular smart home devices.

Several integrations received significant quality improvements. johanzander implemented dynamic device management for the Growatt server integration, meeting Home Assistant's Gold quality standards. iMicknl contributed comprehensive test coverage for the Overkiz switch platform, adding over 10,000 lines of test code covering pool pumps, security cameras, and hot water tanks.

On the infrastructure side, Xirt migrated Indevolt device discovery from DHCP to mDNS following a firmware update that changed how these devices advertise themselves on networks.

Multiple dependency updates were also merged, including bluetooth-auto-recovery, cached-ipaddress, and dbus-fast, improving underlying system reliability.

What's next: The team continues expanding device compatibility and improving integration quality standards. Watch for additional sensor platform enhancements in upcoming releases.

That's your Home Assistant Daily update. We'll be back tomorrow with the latest development activity.