Home Assistant Daily: Weekly Recap - Infrastructure & Reliability
This week brought 20 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits, focusing heavily on test reliability improvements and dependency updates. A new Marantz infrared integration was the standout feature addition.
Duration: PT2M49S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Home Assistant Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-05-17T10:01:43Z
- Audio duration: PT2M49S
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Welcome to Home Assistant Daily. This is your weekly recap for May 10th through 17th, 2026.
Twenty pull requests merged with 30 additional commits this week, dominated by infrastructure improvements and reliability fixes.
**New Features**
The major addition was a Marantz infrared integration from balloob, enabling control of Marantz amplifiers and receivers through existing IR transmitter entities like ESPHome blasters. The integration provides media player functionality with power, volume, mute, and source selection across supported models.
Indevolt users gained new monitoring capabilities with battery cycle count and transformer temperature sensors for Gen-2 devices. The Tuya integration expanded device support with a new Madimack Elite V3 pool heat pump fixture.
**Bug Fixes and Reliability**
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