Home Assistant Daily: Platform Expansion and Cleanup Day
One integration, Midea, gained four new platforms in a single batch, while several older PRs closed out breaking changes and translation fixes across the codebase. The pattern across today's activity is maturation: expanding device coverage on established integrations and paying down small correctness debts.
Duration: PT2M39S
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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: 2026-08-16T06:00:56Z
- Audio duration: PT2M39S
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Good morning, it's August 16th, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The standout pattern today is platform expansion on existing integrations rather than new ones. Developer chemelli74 pushed four separate pull requests adding number, lock, select, and light platforms to the Midea integration, numbers 179247, 179246, 179245, and 179243. That's a coordinated buildout, not scattered…
A second theme is cleanup and correctness. Gjohansson-ST merged a fix for a missing translation string in scrape, PR 179232, right alongside a similar fix from ammmze in srp_energy, PR 179204. Small, but these lint-level translation gaps block config flow forms from rendering properly, so clearing them matters for…
Breaking-change work also landed today. Gjohansson-ST's PR 175682 removed deprecated battery properties from the vacuum component entirely — a cleanup that's been signaled for a while and now takes effect. Sensor additions were common too: carbon dioxide support for homematicip cloud from lackas, PR 179187, and new…
Dependency bumps quietly enabled some of this. The Vallox websocket API bump to 6.1.0 and the Tesla fleet API bump to 1.10.0 each unlocked new features — AUTO profile support for…
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