Home Assistant Daily: Code Quality Sprint and New Features
The development team merged 20 pull requests focused heavily on code quality improvements, including new linting rules and entity class reorganization. Notable feature additions include button controls for Victron GX and LG Infrared integrations.
Duration: PT2M11S
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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: 2026-05-14T10:01:40Z
- Audio duration: PT2M11S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for May 14th, 2026.
The development team had a busy day with 20 merged pull requests, primarily focused on code quality and infrastructure improvements.
Frenck led a significant code quality sprint, merging multiple PRs to clean up the codebase. He fixed line length violations across 92 files in components starting with A through B, enabled new ruff linting rules to remove unnecessary integer casts and setattr calls, and added a new pylint checker for unused test…
Paulus Schoutsen continued the entity class reorganization effort, moving valve, infrared, and radio frequency entity classes to dedicated entity modules to satisfy new lint rules while maintaining backward compatibility.
On the feature side, Tomer added button integration support to Victron GX, currently providing a system reboot button. Abílio Costa added a power toggle button to LG Infrared integration, restoring functionality that was previously available through the media player entity.
Several integrations received updates: Dan Raper added a solar boost switch to Ohme charging integration and bumped the library to version 1.9.1. The Comelit integration got a fix for…
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