Home Assistant Daily: Tesla Energy Push and Config Flow Cleanup
Thursday's activity centers on Teslemetry's expanding local Powerwall control and a cluster of config flow fixes that address state loss and bad device discovery across several integrations.
Duration: PT2M51S
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-09-05T06:01:01Z
- Audio duration: PT2M51S
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Good morning. It's September 5th, 2026, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The clearest pattern today is the Tesla energy build-out. Brett Adams' PR 176969 added local Powerwall control for Teslemetry energy sites, pairing Home Assistant's own key with the gateway so charge and discharge commands go over the LAN first, falling back to cloud only when needed. That merged today, and it…
The second theme is config flow reliability. Frenck's PR 181271 fixes Synology DSM losing your backup share selection mid-setup — a state bug that could strand users. PR 181261 is a hotfix rejecting Hot Spring Spa's second network adapter, which was overwriting valid config entries because both adapters share the…
A few sensor and hardware additions round out the day: Tuya two-channel energy meters landed in PR 178415, WeHeat picked up outlet and indoor unit sensors in PR 181265, and CoolMasterNet users got expanded fan speed support in PR 181289, though that one's still collecting change requests around unit compatibility.…
What to watch: the Teslemetry local-control stack is still growing, so anyone touching Powerwall entities should track PRs 181338 and 181335 together with the original 176969. And…
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