ViCare Integration Expansion and Dependency Updates
Home Assistant merged 20 pull requests on January 26th, 2026, with significant improvements to the ViCare integration including new inverter and WiFi sensors, plus multiple dependency bumps across integrations.
Duration: PT2M21S
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-01-26T11:14:22Z
- Audio duration: PT2M21S
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Good morning, this is Home Assistant Daily for January 26th, 2026.
The development team merged 20 pull requests with 30 additional commits yesterday, focusing heavily on integration improvements and dependency maintenance.
CFenner led activity on the ViCare integration with two major contributions. They merged PR 161608 adding inverter sensors for heat pumps, bringing over 4,000 lines of changes across test fixtures and sensor definitions. Earlier, they also added WiFi signal strength sensors for ViCare gateway devices in PR 161537.
Several dependency updates rolled in. Lash-L bumped Python-Roborock to version 4.7.2, while zerzhang updated PySwitchbot to its 1.0.0 release. CFenner also updated PyViCare to version 2.56.0 to support the new sensor features.
Bug fixes addressed real-world issues. The FRITZ!Box Tools integration saw improvements from mib1185 fixing internet access switch reliability, and torandreroland resolved SSID support for networks with spaces in the Adax integration.
Testing coverage expanded with chemelli74 achieving 100% test coverage for Fritz binary sensors, adding comprehensive snapshots and test cases.
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