January 09, 2026

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Welcome to Home Assistant Daily for January 13th, 2026.

Three pull requests merged yesterday. Catsmanac merged changes to Enphase Envoy battery entities, updating device class to energy storage for better categorization. Pantherale0 merged a dependency bump for Nintendo Parental Controls, updating the pynintendoparental library to version 2.3.2. Tommatheussen merged missing segment speed icons for WLED entities.

Thirty additional commits brought significant platform expansions. Vasily G. made Spotify's Liked Songs collection playable through the media browser. LG ThinQ integration gained humidifier entity support for both humidifiers and dehumidifiers. Colin added device info and unique IDs to OpenEVSE sensors. James introduced better type handling in Yardian coordinator and added sensor entities to the platform. Dan Čermák fixed JSON serialization issues with time objects in Anthropic tool results. Sid expanded eheimdigital support for the professionel5e filter series. Glenn de Haan added a switch platform to HDFury integration. Mettolen contributed number entities to the Saunum integration.

What's next: The integration ecosystem continues expanding with new entity types across multiple platforms. Bug fixes for serialization and type handling show ongoing code quality improvements.

That's your Home Assistant Daily briefing.