Home Assistant Daily: Weekly Recap - Component Updates & Infrastructure
This week brought 30 commits focused on dependency updates and component improvements, with notable additions including Broadlink infrared emitter support and enhanced calendar event subscription data.
Duration: PT2M32S
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: 2026-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M32S
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Welcome to Home Assistant Daily's weekly recap for April 13th through 20th, 2026.
This week we saw 0 pull requests merged with 30 additional commits focused on component updates and infrastructure improvements.
**New Features**
The most significant addition this week was Broadlink infrared emitter support for the native infrared platform. This enhancement adds new device support and testing coverage, expanding Home Assistant's infrared capabilities.
Calendar functionality received important updates with the inclusion of uid, recurrence_id, and rrule data in calendar event subscriptions, improving event tracking and recurring event handling.
The Duco integration gained zeroconf discovery support, making device setup more automated and user-friendly. This includes updated configuration flow and quality scale improvements.
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