Home Assistant Daily: Bluetooth Proxy Startup and LLM Improvements
Two key startup reliability fixes landed for Bluetooth proxy devices, while conversation and LLM features received validation improvements and better numeric formatting. Multiple integration-specific enhancements round out the changes.
Duration: PT2M21S
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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: 2026-06-07T06:00:55Z
- Audio duration: PT2M21S
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Good morning. This is Home Assistant Daily for June 7th, 2026.
The biggest reliability improvement today centers on Bluetooth proxy startup timing. Both ESPHome and Shelly integrations now wait for proxy connections during Home Assistant restarts, fixing a race condition where proxies would miss early scan windows.
The core issue was that these devices register their Bluetooth scanners in background tasks after reconnection. Previously, setup would complete before scanners existed, making proxies late joiners that could miss active connections at startup. Pull requests 173164 and 173165 add startup waits of a few seconds when…
Conversation and LLM features saw meaningful improvements today. The conversation system now validates sentences and answers more rigorously through PR 173127, addressing issue 150244. LLM numeric state formatting now respects display precision settings via PR 173128, fixing issue 167176 where raw numeric values…
Several integration-specific fixes landed as well. The Duco integration better handles client errors in diagnostics and fixes device removal during partial node refreshes. Plugwise now properly handles unavailable temperature measurements. The remote…
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