Home Assistant Daily: New Marantz IR Integration and Code Quality Improvements
Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests on May 16th, featuring a new Marantz infrared remote integration and extensive code formatting improvements. Several bug fixes addressed flaky tests and integration-specific issues.
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-05-17T10:03:55Z
- Audio duration: PT1M59S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for May 17th, 2026.
Yesterday saw significant activity with 20 merged pull requests and 26 additional commits to the core repository.
The major addition is a new Marantz infrared remote integration by Paulus Schoutsen. This integration allows users to control Marantz amplifiers and receivers through existing infrared transmitter entities like ESPHome IR blasters. It provides a media player entity with power, volume, mute, and source selection…
Franck Nijhof merged a substantial code quality improvement, fixing 293 line length violations across 117 test files for integrations starting with D through F. This enforces the 88-character line limit with no functional changes.
Several integration-specific fixes were merged. Mick Vleeshouwer resolved a cover state issue in the Overkiz integration for sliding gates with pedestrian positions. The teleinfo integration had its USB discovery disabled due to overly broad device matching that was causing conflicts.
Bug fixes included Tom Filsell correcting the cert_expiry sensor's error attribute, which was returning the string "None" instead of a proper null value for healthy certificates. This represents…
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