Home Assistant Daily: Test Hygiene and Calendar Fixes
Core saw a coordinated eight-part cleanup enforcing registry fixture standards across test files, alongside three parallel PRs fixing cancelled-event handling in calendar integrations, plus new integrations for Zonneplan and LG Infrared switches.
Duration: PT2M32S
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: 2026-09-01T06:01:20Z
- Audio duration: PT2M32S
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Good morning, it's September 1st, 2026, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The dominant story today isn't a single feature, it's cleanup at scale. Joost Lekkerkerker landed all eight parts of a series moving tests off direct registry calls and onto standard fixtures like device registry and entity registry. PRs 180919 through 180931 touched test files spanning climate, vacuum, sensor,…
Second theme: calendar correctness. Contributor 1358 opened three near-identical PRs, 180947, 180948, and 180949, filtering out cancelled events from CalDAV, local calendar, and remote calendar respectively. All three trace back to issue 179312. The fix is straightforward, events marked cancelled in the source feed…
On the feature side, two LG Infrared PRs from Dr-Blank rounded out that integration, adding switch support for ion generator and auto clean, plus swing mode control for the climate entity. Both PRs share the same cluster of linked issues, suggesting a coordinated push to complete LG Infrared's feature set in one push.
Elsewhere, Zonneplan joins as a new integration from Erwin Douna, bramkragten opened a map tiles integration to support the frontend's move from raster to vector OpenStreetMap…
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