Home Assistant Daily: Weekly Recap - Integration Expansions & New Platforms
This week delivered 30 commits focused on expanding existing integrations with new platform support and enhanced functionality. Major additions include alarm control panels for UniFi Protect, radio frequency controls for Broadlink, and MQTT datetime platform support.
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: 2026-04-27T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M32S
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Good morning. This is your Home Assistant Daily weekly recap for April 20th through 27th, 2026.
Zero pull requests were merged this week, with 30 additional commits landing in the core repository.
Starting with new platform additions, the UniFi Protect integration gained alarm control panel functionality, allowing users to arm and disarm their security systems directly through Home Assistant. Broadlink devices now support a radio frequency platform for enhanced RF control capabilities. The MQTT integration…
Several integrations received significant functionality upgrades. Roborock users gained reset buttons for dock strainer and maintenance brush consumables, plus cleaning route options for Q7 vacuum models. The template vacuum platform now supports segment-based cleaning operations. The Airly air quality integration…
Infrastructure updates included the easyEnergy integration moving to version 3.0.0 with improved diagnostics and service handling. UniFi Protect bumped to uiprotect library version 10.4.1 for enhanced stability and feature support.
Development activity showed strong collaboration patterns, with multiple commits featuring co-authorship from both human developers and AI…
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