Home Assistant Daily: Smart Lock Services and Integration Updates
Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests on February 27th, 2026, featuring new Schlage door code management services, Orvibo config flow support, and entity initialization improvements across multiple integrations.
Duration: PT2M23S
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-02-27T11:15:23Z
- Audio duration: PT2M23S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for February 27th, 2026.
Andrew Grimberg merged comprehensive Schlage door code management services, adding three new services for setting, clearing, and retrieving door codes with full test coverage across 681 lines of changes. David Bonnes migrated evohome's zone services to entity-level services in preparation for upcoming config flow…
PeteS-UK added config flow support to the legacy Orvibo integration, moving it away from YAML configuration with custom discovery and migration support for existing entries. Kamil Breguła added a diagnostics platform to AWS S3, improving troubleshooting capabilities.
Several developers focused on code quality improvements. Epenet simplified entity initialization in both Portainer and Proxmox integrations, reducing code duplication. Erwin Douna expanded data descriptions for Proxmox entities to improve user experience.
Bug fixes included James handling missing Daikin zone temperature keys that could cause setup failures, and yzlnew fixing UTF-8 file writing issues on systems without locale configuration. Denis Shulyaka improved AI conversation features by adding reauth flow for Anthropic authentication…
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