Home Assistant Daily: Public API Boundaries and Hydrawise Hardening
Core tightened integration standards with required categories and defined public names across seven foundational integrations, while Hydrawise gained diagnostics, reconfigure, and legacy reauth fixes. Cleanup removed deprecated HEOS actions and YAML imports alongside targeted Wi-Fi, reload, and test-stability fixes.
Duration: PT2M40S
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: 2026-10-19T06:01:21Z
- Audio duration: PT2M40S
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Good morning, it's Monday, October 19th, 2026.
The clearest pattern in the last day is standardization: Home Assistant is locking down what counts as public in core, while tightening quality gates for integrations.
First, seven pull requests from one effort define public names for foundational integrations like group, automation, script and timer. For example, PR 187245 for group and PR 187157 for automation. The impact is maintainability: custom integrations and core reviewers get a clear boundary between supported API and…
Second, account lifecycle hardening, led by Hydrawise. PR 187235 adds a reconfigure flow so credentials can change without starting over, PR 187239 fixes re-authentication for legacy entries that hold only an API key, and PR 187217 adds diagnostics dumps. Similar resilience shows in Electra Smart, with PR 187194…
Finally, cleanup and small reliability fixes: deprecated HEOS sign-in actions are gone in PR 187102, YAML imports are removed from Leviton and Orvibo, plus fixes for FRITZ!Box Wi-Fi switch creation and rest command reload when the key is removed. Test stability also improves, with a background-task wait for…
Separately, the OpenAI decision tasks commit…
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