Home Assistant Daily: New Modbus Integration and a Wave of Bug-Fix Follow-Throughs
Frenck landed a brand-new SolarEdge Modbus integration in rapid iterative pieces, while several teams closed out correctness bugs in Matter, Peblar, and cover integrations that had been reported by users for months.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-08-29T06:00:48Z
- Audio duration: PT2M46S
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Good morning, it's August 29th, 2026, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The standout story today is the SolarEdge Modbus integration, built and shipped in real time by Frenck. It started with the core integration in PR 180508, then grew zeroconf discovery in 180569, and by the end of the day pull requests were open adding serial support and meter support. This is a good example of…
A second theme is correctness fixes surfacing from real user reports. On the Matter side, lboue fixed a unit conversion bug in the Thermostat Temperature Offset entity, where min and max values were off by a factor of ten from the actual storage range — PR 180172, followed immediately by a device class fix in…
A third thread is entities reporting state more honestly. SwitchBot Cloud locks now report every state instead of assuming, in PR 180448. Overkiz Uno awnings correctly report closed when retracted, PR 180478. And the hygrostat integration now respects minimum cycle duration on keep-alive calls, closing out a…
Worth noting separately: cloud auto-login state is now read directly from the Nabucasa controller, PR 180423, tightening how authentication status syncs.
What's next: expect the SolarEdge Modbus…
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