Air Quality Improvements and Automation Enhancements
Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests focused on expanding air quality sensor support and improving automation triggers. Key updates include new ozone and NO2 measurement units, enhanced light brightness triggers, and several integration classification updates.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-01-21T11:47:46Z
- Audio duration: PT2M2S
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Good morning, I'm your host with the Home Assistant Daily for January 21st, 2026.
Yesterday's development activity centered on air quality monitoring improvements and automation enhancements. Thomas55555 led efforts to expand sensor capabilities, merging pull requests to add parts-per-billion units for both ozone and NO2 sensors. This was followed by updates to the Google Air Quality integration,…
Erik Montnemery improved the automation system with two significant changes: adding new siren conditions for "is on" and "is off" states, and enhancing light brightness triggers to compare percentages rather than raw brightness values. These changes provide more intuitive automation controls for users.
Several integration maintainers updated their dependencies. Raphael Hehl bumped the UniFi Protect library to version 10.0.0, while Josef Zweck updated the OneDrive Personal SDK and added missing translation strings. Stefan bumped the Kostal Plenticore library to version 1.5.0.
Joost Lek continued the ongoing effort to properly classify integrations by type, adding device classifications to RadioTherm, RAPT BLE, and Renson integrations, and hub classifications to RFXtrx, Refoss, Rehlko, and…
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