Home Assistant Daily: Weekly Recap - Code Cleanup and Legacy Removal
This week brought significant code modernization with 20 merged pull requests focused on removing duplicate constants and legacy integrations. The team removed over 5,000 lines of legacy Konnected integration code while systematically consolidating constants across multiple components.
Duration: PT2M47S
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: 2026-05-24T10:01:54Z
- Audio duration: PT2M47S
Transcript excerpt
This excerpt keeps the crawler page concise. Listen to the episode or use the RSS feed for the full update.
Good morning, this is your Home Assistant Daily weekly recap for May 17th through 24th, 2026.
20 pull requests merged with 30 additional commits this week, marking a significant focus on code maintenance and modernization.
Starting with breaking changes - the legacy Konnected integration was removed this week, eliminating over 5,300 lines of outdated code across 19 files. This cleanup addresses issue #153193 and streamlines the codebase for future development.
The majority of this week's activity centered on infrastructure improvements. Max Michels led a systematic effort to replace duplicate constants across multiple integrations, consolidating imports to use homeassistant.const instead of local definitions. This affected elevenlabs, fujitsu_fglair, version, energyid,…
Bug fixes included a correction for tilt-only DynamicPergola covers in the Overkiz integration, restoring functionality for devices that only support tilt control. The google_photos integration received a fix for exception translation placeholder mismatches.
Feature additions were limited but notable. The Arcam integration gained a reconfigure flow, allowing users to update host settings without removing and re-adding…
Nearby episodes from Home Assistant Daily
- OPNsense Config Flow and Device Tracker Updates
- Device Registry Improvements and Config Flow Updates
- New Integrations and Device Support
- Constants Cleanup and Dependency Updates
- Release 2026.5.4 and Legacy Code Cleanup
- Code Quality and Translation Updates
- Bug Fixes and Code Quality
- Z-Wave Security & UI Simplification