If you expose Home Assistant cameras to Alexa, you may have noticed that they show up in the Alexa app but do nothing on an Echo Show. "Alexa, show the porch camera" gets no picture, and there is no live view button. A change merged into Home Assistant Core on 26 October 2026 fixes that by speaking the protocol Amazon now expects. It is in the deve
The usual way to get a Zigbee adapter away from a metal server cupboard is a USB extension cable or a network coordinator. Home Assistant has been building a third option: plug the USB adapter into an ESP32 running ESPHome and let Home Assistant talk to it over the network. On 26 October 2026 that work gained a piece that makes moving an adapter pa
When a light turns on at 3 a.m., the logbook tells you that its state changed. It does not easily tell you which action was called, with what data and from where. Home Assistant now has a page for exactly that. Joost Lekkerkerker's "Action history" tab in the Tools panel was merged on 26 October 2026, followed the same day by two additions to its d
Sharing a Matter device from Home Assistant with Apple Home has always involved a small detour. Home Assistant opens a commissioning window and shows a QR code and a sharing code, and you then type the code into the Home app or scan the QR code with a second phone. Three pull requests merged on 26 October 2026 remove that step for people who use th
A dashboard card that lists "all the lights downstairs" goes out of date the day you add a new bulb. A new entities section strategy in the Home Assistant frontend fixes that: you describe what the section should contain, and Home Assistant builds the tiles itself and keeps them in step as matching entities appear or disappear. Paul Bottein's chang
Beken BK72xx chips running ESPHome could not talk to a single I2C sensor until now. Change #21586 by Korkuttum, merged into ESPHome's development branch on 26 October 2026, adds a software I2C bus for the bk72xx platform. It is set to ship in ESPHome 2026.11.
If the solar forecast line in Home Assistant's Energy dashboard always seemed to run an hour behind your panels, it was not your imagination. A fix by Tagliax, change #188790, was merged into Home Assistant's development branch on 26 October 2026, so it is lined up for the 2026.11 release. It moves every Forecast.Solar energy value to the start of
Conow, an energy brand built together with Tuya Smart, announced on 26 October 2026 that its Atlas 6000 AC home battery is now on sale in Germany through local distributors. It is aimed at households that already have rooftop solar and want to store surplus energy without replacing their inverter.
Owners of Ecovacs robot vacuums with a docking station get several new entities in Home Assistant 2026.11, and the Ecovacs lawn mower gets a stop command. Erwin Douna (erwindouna) opened five pull requests for the Ecovacs integration, and all of them were merged into the development branch on 26 October 2026. They rely on the deebot-client library,
