March 2026 delivered a new Dashie Kiosk Android Audio Playback provider for the music-assistant/server, enabling direct, low-latency audio on Android tablets via REST API. This feature bypasses the Home Assistant media player to reduce latency and provide real-time state updates, with auto-discovery from the HA entity registry, multi-device selection, and robust offline retry logic to ensure reliable startup. Added PLAY_MEDIA support and integrated device information from the HA registry (software_version) while offering an optional manual IP:port config for non-HA environments.

January 2026 monthly summary for home-assistant/brands. Key feature delivered: Branding and Visual Identity for the Dashie Custom Integration, implemented to enhance user experience and brand consistency within the Home Assistant platform. This work centers on applying Dashie-specific branding to improve recognition and onboarding of the integration, aligned with the project’s design system. Major bugs fixed: none reported for this repository in January 2026. Overall impact: improved visual identity for the Dashie integration, enabling more consistent UI presentation and a foundation for future branding iterations and asset reuse. Technologies and skills demonstrated: UI/UX branding within an embedded platform, design system alignment, asset creation and management, version control and focused commits, collaboration with integration maintainers.