Home Assistant Daily: SmartThings Expansion and MQTT Breaking Changes

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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for March 1st, 2026.

Yesterday saw substantial activity with thirteen merged pull requests focused on integration improvements and cleanup. Joost Lekkerkerker led SmartThings development, merging four pull requests that add fan speed controls to vacuum devices, HEPA filter reset buttons, and sound detection switches. The Overseerr integration was also renamed to Seerr to better reflect support for both Overseerr and Jellyseerr projects.

Jan Bouwhuis merged a breaking change removing the deprecated MQTT object_id option after six months of deprecation warnings. This cleanup removed over 300 lines of code across seven files. Tom Matheussen improved security for the Satel Integra integration by requiring user codes when toggling switches.

Several bug fixes were deployed including Brett Owen's OAuth token type narrowing fix for Teslemetry and Allen Porter's enhanced error handling for Nest access tokens. Erik Montnemery reverted a frontier_silicon media player change that introduced regressions.

Additional commits brought notable enhancements. Abílio Costa added a merged pull request count sensor to the GitHub integration, providing better project visibility. Michael Davie updated the env-canada library to version 0.13.2, while Barry van den Heuvel and Khole updated the weheat and pyhive-integration libraries respectively.

Klaas Nicolaas improved error messaging for the Powerfox Local integration, and the Smarla integration achieved silver quality scale status. Testing improvements were made to the Evohome integration with additional assertions for service call validation.

What's next: Watch for continued SmartThings feature expansion and monitor any issues from the MQTT breaking change. Quality scale improvements across integrations remain ongoing.

That's your Home Assistant Daily briefing. I'm back tomorrow with the latest development updates.