Home Assistant Daily: Secrets Redaction and Validation Cleanup
A broad validation push marks passwords, tokens and API keys as secrets so error messages redact them, alongside a migration to shared Probatio validators. ZHA gains infrared and valve support, while Tuya, command line, and several integrations get reliability fixes.
Duration: PT2M42S
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: 2026-10-01T06:00:59Z
- Audio duration: PT2M42S
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Good morning, it's Thursday, October 1st, 2026.
The lead story is security hygiene: validation errors will no longer echo credentials back to users and logs.
That's the throughline across six linked pull requests from Franck Nijhof. The base change, PR 183760, keeps secret values out of configuration error messages using Probatio's secret marker. Follow-ups apply it to passwords, API keys, tokens and remaining credential fields — for example PR 183811 and PR 183809. For…
Related to that is a maintainability cleanup, also moving to shared validators instead of hand-rolled logic. PR 183741 switches integrations to Probatio's port validator directly, PR 183753 moves helper functions to key-group validators, and commit 4070812 replaces custom ranges with named validators. That should…
Second theme: infrared and ZHA expansion. PR 183749 adds the infrared platform to ZHA, and PR 183740 adds the valve platform, both exposed internally for now. Supporting that, PR 183784 fixes availability for consumer entities that act as both receiver and emitter, so they're only available when both sides are…
Finally, a set of release-risk reducers. PR 183734 holds Tuya channel entities back on the main…
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