Home Assistant Daily: Vizio Overhaul and the Public API Migration Trend
One developer pushed a six-part rebuild of the Vizio integration around a new library, while UniFi Protect and ESPHome both moved toward more secure, first-party API paths. Several smaller PRs added new trigger domains and restored broken state handling.
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-07-16T06:00:07Z
- Audio duration: PT2M45S
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It's July 16th, 2026, and this is Home Assistant Daily.
The headline today is one contributor systematically rebuilding an entire integration in public. Raman325 opened six connected pull requests against Vizio in a single day: swapping the underlying library from pyvizio to vizaio in PR 176555, then layering on Crave speaker support, a send-text service, diagnostics,…
A second theme is APIs getting safer and more official. UniFi Protect's FloodLight integration migrated to the public API in PR 174650, and a same-day follow-up, PR 176570, extends that same migration to light discovery — read and write now goes through supported endpoints instead of private ones. On the security…
A smaller but notable thread: KNX's PR 176413 restores state handling for date, time, number, text, and select entities — a direct follow-up to a previous switch-platform fix, a reminder that state-restoration bugs tend to ripple across related platforms. And Home Assistant's core trigger system grew two new domains…
What to watch next: the Vizio migration needs downstream verification once merged, and the Whirlpool oven select entity in PR 173412 deprecates an old sensor rather than removing it — check your…
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