Integration Updates and Quality Improvements

Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests on January 17th, focusing on library updates, quality scale improvements, and new platform support across multiple integrations.

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  • Show: Home Assistant Daily
  • Published: 2026-01-18T11:44:44Z
  • Audio duration: PT2M14S

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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for January 18th, 2026.

Yesterday saw significant activity with 20 merged pull requests across the Home Assistant core repository. Steve Easley merged a major update bumping the pyjvcprojector library to version 2.0.0, requiring changes across 22 files in the JVC projector integration. Zach Deibert added support for older Minecraft Server…

Several integrations received quality improvements. Mettolen upgraded the Saunum integration to platinum quality scale, implementing proper error handling and strict typing. The same contributor also added switch entities to the Airobot integration. Glenn de Haan improved the HDFury integration to silver quality…

Platform expansions included Niracler adding sensor platform support to the sunricher_dali integration, and Josef Zweck implementing reauthentication capabilities for the OpenAI conversation integration.

Multiple library updates were processed, including bumps to xiaomi-ble version 1.4.3, Gemini SDK updates, Tibber library 0.35.0, and opower 0.16.4. DeerMaximum made significant changes to the NINA integration, patching the library directly instead of HTTP requests and improving test configuration.

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