GitHub Watched-Repo Recap Digest - 2026-03-27

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Joanna GitHub Scout Recap Digest

• Date: 2026-03-27
• Generated: 2026-03-27T07:43:55.559Z
• Reason: home_assistant_automation.github_watched_repo_scout_nightly
• Recap items: 14
• Watched notifications reviewed: 82

This digest keeps recap-only scout findings in one place for review. These are inspiration items, not bugfixes or regressions.

Recap Items

1. rtclauss/hass-config - Add soma.fm stations to the bedtime playlist

• Source: Add soma.fm stations to the bedtime playlist rtclauss/hass-config#161
• Area: automation
• Summary: Suggestion to expand the bedtime playlist by adding Soma.fm stations for more relaxing audio options.
• Suggested direction: Update the bedtime automation to pull in a curated list of Soma.fm streams (perhaps via media_player.play_media or playlist entity) and ensure fallback handling for stream availability.

2. jakubigla/home-assistant-config - ✨ feat(living-room): scene system with Aqara Cube control

• Source: ✨ feat(living-room): scene system with Aqara Cube control jakubigla/home-assistant-config#18
• Area: automation
• Summary: Adds a living-room scene system (input_select, reapply button, cube automation, script, TV playback guard) plus a new energy dashboard, giving the Aqara Cube sides explicit roles and protecting dining-mode lights from TV-driven dimming.
• Suggested direction: Keep the cube-driven scene architecture documented and modular so new scenes or controllers can be wired in by updating the input_select, script branches, and TV guard logic; surface the new dashboard via dashboards/energy.yaml in Lovelace.

3. jnewland/ha-config - chore(deps): update dependency peterager/lennoxs30 to v2026

• Source: chore(deps): update dependency peterager/lennoxs30 to v2026 jnewland/ha-config#1046
• Area: automation
• Summary: The renovated PeteRager/lennoxs30 integration now exposes active_alerts as real lists/sets (used to derive sensor state and diagnostics) and adds an “info” alert level, so downstream automations could treat severity-filtered alerts more reliably and be aware of multiple sibling systems.
• Suggested direction: Switch notification automations to read the new list-based alert data, filter out the new info severity if needed, and incorporate the sibling ids/ip arrays when routing alerts between systems.

4. jnewland/ha-config - chore(deps): update dependency lennoxs30api to v0.2.23

• Source: chore(deps): update dependency lennoxs30api to v0.2.23 - autoclosed jnewland/ha-config#1045
• Area: helper
• Summary: Renovate bumped lennoxs30api and the custom plant helper now sets threshold/derived sensors to disabled by default when their matching hardware isn’t configured (e.g., illuminance-based entities stay off unless an illuminance sensor is present).
• Suggested direction: Apply the upstream idea of default-disabling derived threshold sensors when their source sensors are absent so we expose only relevant entities (mirroring their sensor_groups/flow defaults and illuminance checks).

5. home-assistant/iOS - Adds iOS Live Activities support

• Source: Adds iOS Live Activities support home-assistant/iOS#4444
• Area: automation
• Summary: Home Assistant automations can now start/updatelock-screen Live Activities on iOS 17.2+ and Android 16+ by sending a notification payload where live_update: true plus shared fields like tag, title, progress, etc. Subsequent pushes with the same tag update the same activity, and clear_notification with that tag ends it.
• Suggested direction: Add automation/script helpers or blueprint that craft notification commands with data.live_update: true, include a stable tag, and optionally provide progress/chronometer/when fields so HA can manage starting, updating, and clearing the Live Activity via the companion app.

6. rtclauss/hass-config - The max range override and daily plan are linked

• Source: The max range override and daily plan are linked rtclauss/hass-config#160
• Area: automation
• Summary: UI suggestion: keep the “Use daily plan” button independent instead of coupling it to enabling Max Range Override so the daily plan can activate without touching the range override.
• Suggested direction: Allow the daily plan flag to operate on its own (or at least display independently) while keeping Max Range Override as a separate toggle.

7. rtclauss/hass-config - Charging

• Source: Charging rtclauss/hass-config#158
• Area: automation
• Summary: User reminded maintainers not to override the Tesla charging schedule when the car is at home, parents, SPCC, or OCC, and shared the only schedules that should be active in those locations.
• Suggested direction: Add location checks (home, parents, SPCC, OCC) before applying custom charging schedules so the default Tesla schedule runs in those places and only the listed schedules apply elsewhere.

8. rtclauss/hass-config - Precondition Schedule

• Source: Precondition Schedule rtclauss/hass-config#159
• Area: automation
• Summary: Suggest an automation that deletes the Tesla preconditioning schedule once the calendar event that triggered it has started or finished, avoiding stale precondition entries.
• Suggested direction: Add a cleanup step triggered when each calendar event begins or ends to remove the matching Tesla precondition schedule, preventing orphaned schedules.

9. shannonhochkins/ha-component-kit - Unable to install addon in HA (no package lock for npm ci)

• Source: Unable to install addon in HA (no package lock for npm ci) shannonhochkins/ha-component-kit#300
• Area: general
• Summary: The addon build for shannonhochkins/ha-component-kit fails because npm ci requires a package-lock.json that the repo no longer supplies, so adding or committing a lockfile (or switching the Docker build to npm install) would unblock installations.
• Suggested direction: Add a committed package-lock.json matching the current dependencies (or adjust the Dockerfile to run npm install so the addon build succeeds without a lockfile).

10. kylegordon/home-assistant-config - Use filters to smooth sensors

• Source: Use filters to smooth sensors kylegordon/home-assistant-config#255
• Area: helper
• Summary: Consider using the Filter integration (range or outlier) to smooth sensors that occasionally spike and produce spurious readings.
• Suggested direction: Add a helper/filter entity for noisy sensors and reference the built-in Filter integration or automation layers to clamp/outlier-detect values.

11. homeassistant-extras/pi-hole-card - Combine / average sensor values for multi pi setups

• Source: Combine / average sensor values for multi pi setups homeassistant-extras/pi-hole-card#103
• Area: dashboard
• Summary: The pi-hole card currently shows per-statistics (queries, clients, blocked, etc.) and action buttons only for the first configured Pi-hole, so multi-node setups don’t aggregate counts or target actions beyond the first host.
• Suggested direction: Combine or average the displayed statistics and ensure actions (pause, flush cache, etc.) operate across all configured Pi-holes instead of just the first entity.

12. homeassistant-extras/pi-hole-card - 0.25.0 - Combined Statistics for Multi-Pi-hole Setups + Version Update Info 🚦 🥼

• Source: https://github.com/homeassistant-extras/pi-hole-card/releases/tag/0.25.0
• Area: dashboard
• Summary: The pi-hole-card 0.25.0 release now automatically aggregates the four main Pi-hole stats across multiple instances and visually highlights components when updates are available.
• Suggested direction: Swap in/confirm pi-hole-card 0.25.0 and adjust the multi-card dashboard to rely on its combined statistics plus update-highlighted version info.

13. Pirate-Weather/pirate-weather-ha - Add rainIntensity, iceIntensity, and snowIntensity sensors to HA

• Source: Add rainIntensity, iceIntensity, and snowIntensity sensors to HA Pirate-Weather/pirate-weather-ha#512
• Area: helper
• Summary: Pirate Weather’s HA integration now exposes rainIntensity, iceIntensity, and snowIntensity sensors per the recent release note, which is handy context for dashboards focused on per-day precipitation detail.
• Suggested direction: Watch for the stable Pirate Weather update; then pull the new intensity sensors into any precipitation-focused dashboards or helpers.

14. stmrocket/Home-Assistant-Config - Add Additional Cameras

• Source: Add Additional Cameras stmrocket/Home-Assistant-Config#1074
• Area: dashboard
• Summary: Adds Junior and Spybox to the Lovelace view via new camera cards that mirror the existing Frigate-card + browser_mod popup pattern.
• Suggested direction: Insert cards for camera.junior and camera.spybox below the existing camera grid, each configured with a tap_action that fires a browser_mod popup showing the Frigate-card for that camera.