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Prepare to be dazzled, because this month LEDVANCE join the Works with Home Assistant program as our newest partners 🎉 And what’s more, they bring a huge lineup of certified devices (116, to be exact!) to our community, which means plenty of new ways to light up your home 💡

A century of bright ideas

We love welcoming established brands as much as newer names to the Works with Home Assistant program, and LEDVANCE are… well… both! The company was created in 2016 when OSRAM, one of the lighting industry’s oldest and most respected names, spun off its general lighting business as an independent entity. Its name combines “LED” and “advance,” a nod to the shift toward modern LED lighting and the possibilities that came with it.

Since then, LEDVANCE have grown into a global name in their own right, with offices in more than 50 countries and customers in more than 140. They carry forward more than 100 years of lighting experience, and still sell products under the OSRAM brand through a licensing agreement.

But while their heritage is strong, their focus is firmly on the future. Their OSRAM SMART+ range brings that expertise into the modern smart home (and now our program 🎉), embracing Matter to give you more freedom to illuminate your environment around the way you live. With so many devices to choose from, whatever you’re picturing for your home, chances are there’s a LEDVANCE light that can help you make it happen.

Setting the standard

Every LEDVANCE device certified to the program uses Matter with a Wi-Fi connection, making the devices simple to integrate into your existing setup. For any newcomers, Matter is an open standard developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance. It lets devices from different brands work together locally, so you’re never locked into one company’s ecosystem and your data stays where it should be – in your home.

Since LEDVANCE’s Matter devices use Wi-Fi, you won’t need any extra gear to get started. Just add them to your network and they’ll talk to Home Assistant directly, ensuring an easy setup and the option to create automations with the devices you already have. It’s great to see our new partners prioritizing open standards, showing they care as much as we do about helping our community control their smart homes on their own terms.

Devices

LEDVANCE’s certified devices cover everything from filament-style bulbs, spotlights, and recessed and track downlights, to ceiling and wall lights, floor lamps, and flexible LED strips for adding a glow under kitchen cabinets or behind the TV. In fact, there are so many options that the list is too long to include in this blog, so head to the certified device list to check out all the details!

Set the scene for a comfy night in with LEDVANCE’s smart lights.

To give you a snapshot, most of the range is tunable white or full color, so your lights can go from a cozy evening glow to crisp morning brightness (or a full rainbow, if the mood strikes). There are also IP-rated options for bathrooms and the garden, including floodlights and outdoor spots, so you can automate your lights beyond the back door, for example to turn your security lights on when a sensor detects motion. And if you prefer to use what you already have, the SMART+ Plug can turn any ordinary lamp or appliance into something you can automate, while smart wall switches do the same for your ceiling lights: replace the switch on the wall, keep the bulbs you have.

As with every device certified to the program, LEDVANCE’s products have been rigorously tested by our in-house team to make sure they comply with our core requirements of local control and privacy. LEDVANCE have also committed to providing long-term support for our community, so you can be confident your setup will keep working for the long run.

Lighting that lasts

Sustainability is one of the core principles of the Open Home Foundation, the non-profit organization that runs Works with Home Assistant. A big part of that is making sure devices stay useful for as long as possible. Since LEDVANCE’s devices don’t need a cloud service to function, you don’t have to worry about a far-off server shutdown turning your lights into e-waste.

And because Matter works across platforms, you’ll still be able to use your tech if you ever change smart home systems. Lighting that keeps shining whatever happens to a platform: that’s the kind of partner we love to welcome, and it’s what this program is all about.

All systems glow

We’re thrilled to have LEDVANCE join our community, and can’t wait to see what you light up with their range of devices. Want to see more partners like them on board? A Home Assistant Link (formerly Home Assistant Cloud) subscription gives you secure, remote access to your smart home, and directly supports the Open Home Foundation to expand our program. Because the more brands that join, the more choice you have to design your space exactly the way you like. Here’s to plenty more switched-on homes 💡 Welcome, LEDVANCE!

FAQs

Q: If I have a device that is not listed under Works with Home Assistant does this mean it’s not supported?

A: No! It just means that it hasn’t gone through a testing schedule with our team or doesn’t fit the requirements of the program. It might function perfectly well but be added to the testing schedule later down the road, or it might work under a different connectivity type that we don’t currently test under the program.

Q: OK, so what’s the point of the Works with program?

A: It highlights the devices we know work well with Home Assistant and the brands that make a long-term commitment to keeping support for these devices going. The certification agreement specifies that the devices must have the functionality you would expect within Home Assistant, operate locally without the need for cloud and that they will continue to do so long-term.

Q: How were these devices tested?

A: All of LEDVANCE’s certified devices were tested using Home Assistant over a standard Wi-Fi connection with our certified Matter integration. If you have another setup or integration that’s not a problem, but we test this way as it’s the most effective method for our team to certify within our ecosystem.

Q: Will you be adding more LEDVANCE devices to the program?

A: Why not! We’re thrilled to foster a close relationship with the team at LEDVANCE to work together on any upcoming releases or add in further products that are not yet listed here.

New

• You can now fill in forms faster in Smart Window. When clicking into a form field or selecting Fill from sources, Smart Window will now suggest data to use based on your relevant open tabs and saved autofill data.

• Firefox now creates more accessible PDFs when saving a page as PDF, and when printing on Linux and macOS. This also fixes a variety of PDF rendering issues, such as missing math symbols.

• Firefox now supports the JPEG XL image format, which generally has better compression than WebP, JPEG, PNG, and GIF.

• New Tab now keeps a library of custom wallpapers under Your images, rather than only the most recent one.

• Firefox's translations feature now supports the following languages:

  • Albanian
  • Belarusian
  • Filipino

Fixed

• Fixed website icons (favicons) in address bar results blending into the highlight color when selecting a result with the keyboard on Ubuntu's default theme.

• Fixed a crash that could occur while Firefox loaded website icons (favicons).

• Fixed the first letter of each search engine's name being underlined in the Unified Search Button menu in the address bar on Windows and Linux, which could cause conflicting keyboard shortcuts.

• Fixed menus such as List all tabs, Settings, and Unified Search being hard to read with a Windows High Contrast theme. Menu background and text colors now follow the Background and Text colors chosen for a custom contrast theme in Windows Settings.

• Various security fixes.

Changed

• Firefox no longer rounds scroll positions to whole screen pixels. Scrolling is now smoother and more precise, especially on high-resolution displays or when a page is zoomed.

Enterprise

• For Firefox Enterprise updates and fixes, see the Firefox Enterprise Release Notes. For policy changes, see the Firefox admin docs changelog.

Developer

• Developer Information

• Fixed an issue where the Network Monitor could miss WebSocket messages if they arrived immediately after a connection was established.

Web Platform

• Firefox now supports typed arithmetic in CSS calc(), allowing units to be multiplied and divided within math functions.

• Added support for the navigate option for the Notification constructor and ServiceWorkerRegistration.showNotification(), which specifies a URL to navigate to when the notification is clicked.

• The WebAuthn conditional UI is now shown on input elements with an autocomplete="webauthn" attribute. Previously, it was only shown when the attribute included another autofill field value, such as autocomplete="username webauthn". (Learn more)

• Firefox now supports the cache value for PerformanceResourceTiming.deliveryType, allowing websites to identify resources served from the HTTP cache.

• The WebGL extension EXT_polygon_offset_clamp is now available on compatible devices.

Unresolved

• Web apps launched with the third-party PWAsForFirefox tool may fail to start in Firefox 158 and show the error "The installation seems to be incomplete." Updating PWAsForFirefox to version 2.20.1 or later fixes the issue. If the error persists, select "Reinstall runtime" and then "Patch profiles and runtime" in the PWAsForFirefox extension settings.

Community Contributions

• With the release of Firefox 158, we are pleased to welcome the developers who contributed their first code change to Firefox in this release, 20 of whom were brand new volunteers! Please join us in thanking each of these diligent and enthusiastic individuals, and take a look at their contributions:

  • :cat: 2071142
  • Adham: 1985986
  • Anand Balaji: 2072754
  • Calvin Lei-Cramer: 1975584
  • Collins Kubu: 2069323
  • Daniel mungai chege: 2072565
  • f3tch [:f3tchcodes]: 1492357, 1917288, 1957843, 2068045, 2070577
  • foued: 2070398
  • harry75369: 2000420, 2006226, 2071759
  • HojunCho: 2066829
  • ianlewisuk1: 2072737
  • Jakub Stasiak [:jstasiak]: 1719394
  • Lavindeep: 2069768
  • Ole Baumann [:darkintaqt]: 2070873
  • Rehan: 1688932
  • Ruslan Semchenko: 105707, 2041999, 2071549
  • Sho Sakuma: 2072520
  • Thomas Nibler [:tnibler]: 2071644, 2072008, 2072750
  • Vir Patel: 1865119, 2073619
  • Yeet: 1973441

release: v2.0.28

Part-DB 2.20.1

Improvements

• Prefetch tree view links on hover (instantclick similar to normal links). that should make feel the UI more responsive
• Removed redundant render call for empty datatables
• Make IC logo tool images lazy loading

Bug fixes

• Fix Generic Web imports of offers without a price by @00200200 in #1596
• Fixed generic web provider compatibility with websites that return incorrect data (#1595)

Other changes

• Update KiCad symbols and footprints lists by @jbtronics in #1597
• Updated translations

New Contributors

• @00200200 made their first contribution in #1596

Full Changelog: v2.20.0...v2.20.1