Two ESPHome changes merged over the weekend deal with climate devices that do not work in Celsius. The first, by Johan Henkens (jhenkens), reviewed by bdraco and merged on 25 October 2026, adds a unit_of_measurement option to the template climate and the template water heater and fixes how visual temperatures are converted on platforms that report
The TP-Link integration in Home Assistant now uses python-kasa 0.12.0, the library that talks to Kasa and Tapo devices on the local network. Teemu R. (rytilahti), who also wrote the library's HomeKit fix, opened the pull request, and Shay Levy (thecode) merged it into the development branch on 25 October 2026. The bump closes five Home Assistant is
eQ-3, the German company behind Homematic IP, will add two plugins to its Home Control Unit hub with an update scheduled for 27 October 2026. One speaks Modbus, the other MQTT. Both let devices from other manufacturers appear in Homematic IP next to the system's own sensors and actuators, and both are switched on and configured in the hub's web int
HomeWizard, the Dutch maker of the P1 Meter and the Energy Socket, started a recall on 20 October 2026 for one production batch of its compact Energy Socket, model HWE-SKT-21. Additional safety tests showed that these plugs do not meet the company's own safety requirements and can cause an electric shock. HomeWizard says it has received no reports
Adafruit has started selling the Metro ESP32-P4 Hydra (product ID 6536), a board in the Arduino Uno shape that pairs Espressif's ESP32-P4 application processor with an ESP32-C6 for wireless. CNX Software covered it on 26 October 2026. The price is $34.95, with a limit of two per customer.
Speech recognition on a microcontroller usually means a wake word or a fixed list of commands. esp32-pie-asr, an open-source project by Boumedine Billal, goes further: it transcribes open-vocabulary English speech live on Espressif's ESP32-P4, with no cloud service and no separate neural accelerator. Version 1.0 was released on GitHub on 25 October
The Teslemetry integration gets two new actions for Tesla Powerwall owners in Home Assistant 2026.11. Pull request #188303 by Brett Adams (Bre77), merged into the development branch on 25 October 2026, adds teslemetry.dispatch_battery_power and teslemetry.resume_battery_operation. Their documentation was merged into the next branch of the docs on 2
