Home Assistant Daily: Trust Fixes and Polling Discipline
Core tightened HTTP authentication and request filtering while multiple integrations fixed over-polling, stale data, and incorrect statistics. Bosch Smart Home expanded sharply, and two unmaintained integrations were disabled to unlock packaging.
Duration: PT2M48S
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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: 2026-09-22T06:01:46Z
- Audio duration: PT2M48S
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Good morning, it's September 22nd, 2026, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The throughline today is trust and freshness: core is tightening how it authenticates requests, while a cluster of fixes stops integrations from over-polling or holding onto bad data.
First, security at the edge. Merged PR 182302 switches Unix socket authentication to use the Supervisor-provided user, replacing local inference about who is calling over that socket. In parallel, open proposals PR 182858 and 182859 would resolve forwarded client addresses before security filtering runs. For…
Second, polling discipline. Open PR 182839 tackles Overkiz rate limits by debouncing post-command refreshes, so firing a scene or group doesn't trigger one full API fetch per command. Merged PR 182795 stops the Belgian weather integration from serving stale data indefinitely after API errors. And merged PR 182831…
Finally, device models are maturing and dead weight is being cut. Bosch Smart Home added a thermostat valve entity in PR 182249, alarm bypass switches in PR 182246, and a whole-home open doors and windows summary in PR 182869. Tuya is modeling multi-channel valves as child devices in PR 182835. And merged PR…
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