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Bose, JBL, Sony headphones gain hidden LE Audio features via firmware updates

Bose has joined JBL and Sony in bringing LE Audio support to its flagship headphones through an over-the-air firmware update, following JBL's Tour Pro 3 update and Sony's WF-1000XM6 earbuds shipping with LE Audio built in. LE Audio uses the LC3 codec and a unified audio profile to merge voice and media streams, and introduces native multi-stream audio so earbuds receive signals directly rather than one relaying to the other.

Developer bypasses Withings cloud, links Body+ scale directly to Home Assistant via ESP32

A Home Assistant user rerouted their Withings Body+ smart scale's data by pairing it with an original ESP32 board over Bluetooth Classic instead of relying on Withings' cloud servers. The ESP32 receives weigh-in data from the scale and forwards it to Home Assistant over Wi-Fi using ESPHome, with an AI coding assistant helping reverse-engineer the undocumented Bluetooth protocol from the Withings Android app.