Home Assistant Daily: Matter Sensor Fixes and Device Support

Twenty pull requests were merged on February 23rd, 2026, focusing primarily on Matter sensor improvements and dependency updates. Key fixes addressed null value handling in Matter energy sensors and added support for new IKEA and Litter-Robot devices.

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  • Show: Home Assistant Daily
  • Published: 2026-02-23T11:14:43Z
  • Audio duration: PT1M56S

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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for February 23rd, 2026.

The development team merged twenty pull requests yesterday, with significant activity around Matter protocol improvements. Ludovic Boué merged two critical Matter sensor fixes - one addressing energy sensor discovery when values are null, and another adding proper null value handling for electrical power attributes.…

Hardware support expanded with several notable additions. Boué also merged support for the IKEA Bilresa dual button fixture, adding complete test fixtures and snapshots. Nate Spencer contributed three pull requests updating Litter-Robot integration components - sensors, buttons, and selects - to support the…

Several dependency bumps enhanced existing integrations. Sab44 updated the Libre Hardware Monitor API to version 1.10.1, removing deprecation warnings. Other notable updates included UniFi Protect bumped to 10.2.1, Ecovacs Deebot client to 18.0.0, and Fritz Home to 0.6.20.

Code quality improvements included hanwg's refactoring of the Telegram bot component to improve naming conventions, and bieniu's fix preventing event loop blocking in the Fitbit integration. The team also added regression tests…

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