Adding Somfy blinds and shutters to Home Assistant through the Overkiz integration has so far meant choosing the server your gateway is registered on. The hub list offered separate entries for Somfy (Europe), Somfy (Australia) and Somfy (North America), next to the other Overkiz brands. A pull request merged on 24 October 2026 adds a single "Somfy"
An ordinary HTTPS request from an ESPHome device has so far stopped everything else on it. The http_request.get, http_request.post and http_request.send actions ran the whole request in one go, and the main loop waited until it finished. On an ESP32-S3 that meant 2.5 to 3.6 seconds without reading sensors, refreshing a display or answering Home Ass
Companies selling products built on ESPHome will soon be able to produce a software bill of materials (SBOM) for its firmware without editing it by hand. Two pull requests merged on 24 October 2026 make ESPHome write the metadata that Espressif's esp-idf-sbom tool reads. The author names the reasons directly: EN 18031 and the EU Cyber Resilience Ac
ESPHome boards can already share sensor readings through packet_transport, over UDP or a UART. A new component, packet_interface, adds a level underneath: a common way to send packets over a link, with optional layers that resend lost packets, check whether the other side is still there and encrypt the traffic. The author, clydebarrow, split the wo
Tesla's charge on solar mode keeps a car charging while the house has surplus solar power and pauses when the surplus runs out. Home Assistant's Teslemetry integration can now switch it on and off. The change by Brett Adams (Bre77), reviewed by silamon and frenck, was merged into the development branch on 24 October 2026 together with its documenta
Since Home Assistant 2026.10, arming or disarming a Blink system from Home Assistant has worked, but the alarm panel entity kept showing the old state for up to five minutes. A fix by Sean Cardus, reviewed by frenck, was merged into the development branch on 24 October 2026. The pull request doesn't say which release will carry it.
The BleBox integration in Home Assistant now understands tankSensor, the tank level device from the Polish maker of Wi-Fi modules. The change, by contributor bkobus-bbx and reviewed by joostlek, was merged into the development branch on 24 October 2026, so it should arrive with Home Assistant 2026.11. Like the rest of the BleBox integration, it rea
Helty Flow Cloud is a new Home Assistant integration for Helty Flow decentralized heat-recovery ventilation units that use the recent control panel, the one set up through the Helty Home app. The integration was merged into the development branch on 19 October 2026, and its documentation names 2026.11 as the first release. On 24 October two more pu
Anyone with a Valve Index setup knows the sound of two base stations spinning in an empty room. Home Assistant 2026.11 gets a SteamVR Base Station integration that controls them over Bluetooth Low Energy. The first version, by g4bri3lDev, was merged into the development branch on 19 October 2026, and four more changes followed by 24 October: an ide
