Home Assistant Daily: Startup Stalls and Slow Setups Under the Microscope
Today's activity centers on integrations that hang or stall during setup and connection, plus a cluster of UniFi Protect reliability fixes, as maintainers push through the 2026.9.3 patch release.
Duration: PT2M49S
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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: 2026-09-19T06:00:47Z
- Audio duration: PT2M49S
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Good morning, it's September 19th, 2026, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The clearest signal today: several integrations were quietly making Home Assistant wait too long, and Frenck spent the day hunting them down. Modbus entities, in PR 182621, were blocking startup entirely while waiting on unreachable devices. Harmony, in PR 182622, stalled during setup because its client library…
Second theme: UniFi Protect got real attention this week. RaHehl's PR 181169 pulled Protect entities from the public API and added switches for API-key-only setups, PR 182635 marks disconnected sirens and relays unavailable instead of leaving stale state, and a same-day commit, 47f9262, retyped Protect entities…
Third, ongoing cleanup: config flow and reconfigure support keeps expanding, with Mikrotik in PR 181763, UniFi in 182201, and a new config flow proposed for ADS in 182627. And Paulus Schoutsen's ToolResult work, PRs 182538 and 182551, continues migrating the LLM helper away from the old plain-dict tool return, with…
Also notable: 2026.9.3 itself, PR 182582, bundled nearly thirty fixes, including EnergyZero pricing, Matter cover and dividing-by-zero bugs, and Yeelight ambilight — a reminder to…
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