Home Assistant Daily: Matter Entity Fixes and Energy Management Updates

Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests on February 16th, 2026, with key fixes for Matter device naming, energy grid connection management, and several integration improvements. The update also includes dependency bumps and workflow security enhancements.

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  • Show: Home Assistant Daily
  • Published: 2026-02-16T11:13:29Z
  • Audio duration: PT2M19S

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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for February 16th, 2026.

TheJulianJES merged a fix for Matter translation keys not being properly set for primary entities. This resolves naming issues where devices like thermostats weren't displaying correctly numbered labels when multiple endpoints existed.

MindFreeze merged a significant refactor of grid energy configuration, migrating from separate flow and power arrays to unified grid connection objects. This change includes automatic storage migration from version 1.2 to 1.3 and will improve frontend display linking.

Erwin Douna merged support for handling orphaned ignored config entries, adding repair functionality to clean up configuration issues that could accumulate over time.

Several integration fixes landed today. tr4nt0r removed deprecated YAML import functionality from the HTML5 integration and fixed a blocking call in the Xbox config flow. arturpragacz fixed Z-Wave fan speed calculations by switching from custom logic to standard utilities.

Dependencies received updates across multiple components. Allen Porter bumped the ical library to version 13.2.0 affecting calendar integrations. The team updated xknx to 3.15.0 for KNX…

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