Home Assistant Daily: New WiiM Integration and Energy Config Fixes
Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests today, headlined by a new WiiM media player integration and important energy dashboard configuration fixes. Additional updates include authentication improvements across multiple integrations and various bug fixes.
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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: 2026-03-20T10:12:09Z
- Audio duration: PT2M1S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for March 20th, 2026.
The biggest addition today is the new WiiM media player integration from Linkplay2020, adding comprehensive support for WiiM devices with over 2,500 lines of code across 20 files. This brings full media player functionality including playback control, volume management, and device discovery.
Logan Rosen merged a breaking change to the energy dashboard configuration that now properly rejects invalid price settings for external statistics like Opower. Previously, these configurations were silently accepted but didn't work - now users get clear validation errors directing them to use the correct stat_cost…
Several integrations received authentication improvements today. Raj Laud added reauth flows to the Victron BLE integration with auto-triggering capabilities, while Tom Matheussen implemented reconfigure flows for Satel Integra allowing users to update IP addresses and ports. The Huum integration also gained reauth…
Notable fixes include Hai-Nam Nguyen correcting power unit calculations in the Hypontech integration when plant power exceeds 1000 watts, and Paul Tarjan filtering out problematic event types in Hikvision…
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