Home Assistant Daily: SmartThings Testing and Automation Triggers
Today's development focused on SmartThings integration improvements, automation trigger updates, and backup system enhancements. Notable additions include a new Fresh-r integration and significant testing optimizations.
Duration: PT1M59S
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: 2026-03-09T15:31:34Z
- Audio duration: PT1M59S
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Good morning. This is Home Assistant Daily for March 9th, 2026.
Twenty pull requests were merged today with significant activity around SmartThings and automation triggers. Joost Lekkerkerker merged updates to rename SmartThings devices for better uniqueness and added air purifier fixture support for testing. Erik Montnemery made substantial changes to automation triggers,…
Josef Zweck's backup system enhancement now allows upload progress reporting across multiple cloud providers including AWS S3, Azure Storage, and Google Drive. Leon Grave contributed a new Fresh-r integration for heat recovery ventilation units, expanding Home Assistant's HVAC capabilities.
Testing improvements dominated the day's commits. Epenet optimized SmartThings tests, reducing execution time from over 8 minutes to under 3 minutes by combining device fixtures. Additional type hint improvements were applied to climate components as part of the ongoing type safety initiative.
Several dependency updates were processed, including py-opendisplay bumped to version 5.5.0, pyseventeentrack to 1.1.2 for better debug logging, and kaiterra-async-client to 1.1.0. Minor fixes included addressing SwitchBot Cloud light…
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