Home Assistant Daily: OPNsense Config Flow and Device Tracker Updates
Major development activity with 20 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits, highlighted by a new OPNsense config flow implementation and significant device tracker platform improvements. Google services received air quality forecast capabilities and AI conversation model updates.
Duration: PT2M3S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-05-27T10:01:51Z
- Audio duration: PT2M3S
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Good morning. This is Home Assistant Daily for May 27th, 2026.
HarlemSquirrel merged the OPNsense config flow implementation after extensive review - 1,400 lines of code added across 15 files, introducing a proper configuration flow for OPNsense firewall integration that replaces the previous YAML-only setup.
Erik Montnemery contributed multiple device tracker improvements, adding a new device tracker platform to kitchen_sink and updating TrackerEntity to prioritize zone information over latitude and longitude coordinates. He also enhanced numerical trigger and condition tests with more comprehensive assertions.
Thomas55555 added Google Air Quality forecast service capabilities, expanding the integration with a new service for retrieving air quality predictions. The update includes proper testing fixtures and service definitions.
Taraman17 implemented Homeegrams support for the homee integration, adding automation capabilities with 535 lines of new code. This enables users to manage homee's native automation features directly through Home Assistant.
Several maintenance updates were completed: thomasddn cleaned up redundant async_on_unload calls in the Qbus integration and implemented…
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