Home Assistant Daily: Trigger System Expansion and Hardware Updates
Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests on May 6th, 2026, focusing on expanded automation triggers for media players and timers, plus hardware support updates for V2C LED lights and Matter fans.
Duration: PT2M16S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-05-06T10:02:05Z
- Audio duration: PT2M16S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for May 6th, 2026.
Erik Montnemery led development efforts with multiple automation system improvements. He merged expanded media player volume triggers, adding volume_changed events for automations. A new timer trigger for time_remaining was also added, giving users more granular control over timer-based automations. Montnemery also…
Diogo Gomes merged V2C LED light support, adding 435 lines of code across 8 files to integrate newer V2C device firmware capabilities. Ludovic Boué improved Matter fan integration by exposing SET_SPEED functionality through PercentSetting, making speed control mandatory for all Matter fans.
Several dependency updates were processed. Zoltán Farkasdi bumped pyatmo to version 9.4.0 for the Netatmo component. Puddly updated serialx to 1.7.0, affecting USB and serial device handling. The Satel Integra library was bumped to 1.3.1 with better command handling, and Tuya device handlers reached version 0.0.19.
Notable fixes included Joost Lek correcting Zinvolt select options, removing incorrect DEFAULT option meanings. Epenet cleaned up unused Tuya utility code and fixed a flaky entity platform test. A quick SwitchBot…
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