A Shelly device running firmware that Home Assistant no longer supports has so far been a dead end. Setup failed with ConfigEntryNotReady, Home Assistant kept retrying, and the device could not be updated from Home Assistant, because the update entity never loaded either. Pull request #188381 by Shay Levy (thecode), merged into the development bran
Aqara's Outdoor Plug H2 EU no longer needs an external converter in Zigbee2MQTT. On 25 October 2026 Koen Kanters (Koenkk) merged change #13589 into zigbee-herdsman-converters, the device library behind Zigbee2MQTT, and released it the same day as version 26.124.0. A few minutes later Zigbee2MQTT's dev branch moved to that version, so anyone running
ESPHome can already build firmware for nRF52840 boards, but updating them over Bluetooth required the MCUboot bootloader and the zephyr_mcumgr component. Many popular boards, such as the nice!nano, the Adafruit ItsyBitsy nRF52840 and the Feather nRF52840, come with the Adafruit bootloader instead, so they still had to be flashed over USB. A pull re
Two ESP32 features merged earlier this month for ESPHome 2026.11 came with limits. The WISP mode turns a board into a small Wi-Fi repeater with NAT, but it rejected captive_portal. The modem component connects an ESP32 to the internet through a cellular modem, but its first version left out signal-strength sensors. Three pull requests merged into t
ESPHome's MQTT client can publish a shutdown_message when a device restarts, shuts down or goes into deep sleep, so anything subscribed to the topic knows the device left on purpose. In practice that message often never arrived. A fix by bdraco, merged into the development branch on 25 October 2026, makes the client wait until the broker confirms i
A Bluetooth MIDI keyboard or pad controller has a row of keys, knobs and pads that could just as well switch lights or start scenes. A new ble_midi component in ESPHome makes that possible without a computer in between. The ESP32 connects to the MIDI device as a BLE client, turns incoming notes and control changes into automation triggers, and can
WLED's audio-reactive effects usually need a microphone on the controller or another device that listens to the room and sends the data over the network. Music Assistant can now be that sender. On 25 October 2026 the Music Assistant server merged a new WLED Audio Sync plugin that analyses the music it is playing and sends it to WLED using WLED's ow
Two days after the delta_wallbox component landed in ESPHome, its biggest gap is closed. In the first version, merged on 23 October, the current limit of the Delta AC MAX charger could only be read, so an ESP32 could start and stop a session but not throttle it. A follow-up from the same author, epicRE, reviewed by bdraco and merged on 25 October 2
An ESPHome device that wakes from deep sleep and reconnects to an MQTT broker sends a SUBSCRIBE for every command topic it listens to, even when the broker still remembers them from the last session. A change by Rapsssito, reviewed by bdraco and merged on 25 October 2026 after more than ten months in review, adds an opt-in way to skip that step. Th
