January 08, 2026

Good morning, this is your Home Assistant Daily briefing for January 13th, 2026. LG-ThinQ-Integration merged a pull request adding target humidity step attributes to humidifier entities. This change allows…

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  • Show: Home Assistant Daily
  • Published: 2026-01-08T00:00:00Z
  • Audio duration: PT1M52S

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Good morning, this is your Home Assistant Daily briefing for January 13th, 2026.

LG-ThinQ-Integration merged a pull request adding target humidity step attributes to humidifier entities. This change allows customizable humidity adjustment steps in the frontend, specifically designed to support LG-based humidifiers. The modification adds 24 lines across five files in the humidifier component.

Several significant updates landed in the codebase. Erwin Douna enhanced the Portainer integration with a new button to prune unused Docker images. Klaas Schoute expanded the Powerfox integration to support gas meters alongside existing power monitoring. Glenn de Haan introduced a complete new HDFury integration for…

The development team processed multiple dependency updates. Michael Hansen bumped pysilero-vad to version 3.1.0 for the assist pipeline component, then reverted earlier voluptuous library updates. Puddly updated serialx to version 0.6.2 for ZHA and hardware components. Erik Montnemery upgraded python-otbr-api to…

Brett Adams added missing translation strings to the Tessie integration for better localization support.

What's next: The HDFury integration adds another device category to…

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