Home Assistant Daily: Window Triggers and Z-Wave Improvements
Home Assistant developers merged 20 pull requests on March 12th, 2026, introducing new window automation triggers and enhancing Z-Wave JS sensor capabilities. Key updates include backup system improvements and fixes for Tesla vehicle sensors.
Duration: PT2M3S
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-03-12T10:26:17Z
- Audio duration: PT2M3S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for March 12th, 2026.
Erik Montnemery merged the addition of window triggers, introducing window.opened and window.closed automation triggers with 793 lines of new code across 14 files. AlCalzone merged support for Z-Wave JS "Opening state" notification variables, addressing issues with window and door sensors by adding proper…
Josef Zweck merged two backup system improvements - buffering backup upload progress events and adding a "cleaning_up" stage to provide better user feedback during backup operations. Brett Adams merged a fix removing duplicate energy remaining sensors in the Tessie integration, cleaning up redundant Tesla vehicle…
Several other notable merges include: Andrew Steinberg's change to light.toggle service calls now properly invoking LightEntity.async_toggle, enabling custom toggle behavior in integrations; Christian Li's fix for FRITZ!SmartHome thermostat boost status display; and Erwin Douna's addition of Swarm stack support to…
Artur Pragacz merged a fix for proper logging of unavailable entities in service calls, while the team updated several dependencies including bumping hass-nabucasa to version 2.0.0 and aiowebdav2…
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