Home Assistant Daily: Weekly Recap - Config Flow Cleanup and Solar Integration Growth
Home Assistant core saw a large-scale config flow refactor spanning roughly thirty integrations this week, alongside expanded solar and energy monitoring support and a new test-fixture standard. Fifty pull request activity items and thirty additional commits landed, most merged August 30th.
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-08-31T09:24:16Z
- Audio duration: PT3M8S
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Welcome to Home Assistant Daily, covering August 24th through 31st. Fifty pull request activity items and thirty additional commits this week.
The dominant story is structural: maintainer Frenck pushed through roughly thirty near-identical pull requests splitting config flow "user step" initialization from its data handling, across integrations from Daikin and Discord to Pi-hole, Honeywell, and Android TV. All reference tracking issue 119, and each was a…
The second theme is testing infrastructure. Joost Lek's six-part series, PRs 180832 through 180840, converted dozens of test files to use dedicated JSON fixture helpers instead of manually wrapping loaded fixtures in JSON parsing calls. This was paired with PR 180829, which adds a pylint check to enforce the new…
On the product side, solar and energy integrations got real attention. SolarEdge Modbus picked up switch entities in PR 180826 and now handles meters and batteries that get wired in or out after setup, in PR 180830. A new KACO Modbus integration for inverters landed via PR 180812. And the Sofar integration, from…
Elgato device support also expanded, with a new firmware update entity in PR 180786 and Wi-Fi signal strength…
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