ESPHome's MQTT component gets a transport option that lets an ESP32 connect to the broker over a WebSocket, plain or encrypted with TLS. The change by Ankur Kumar Pandey was opened in April and merged into the dev branch in the early hours of 21 October 2026, the day ESPHome 2026.10.0 came out. It is not part of 2026.10.0, so it should arrive with
The matter.js-based Matter Server, which Home Assistant's Matter integration talks to, got two quick follow-up releases on 21 October 2026, one day after version 1.5.0. Version 1.5.1 fixes a regression that broke the move from the old Python Matter Server: after the migration all devices showed as unavailable with empty attributes. Version 1.5.2 fo
Three fixes merged into Home Assistant Core on 21 October 2026 deal with the hour that happens twice when daylight saving time ends. They touch the schedule helper, time_pattern triggers and long-term statistics. All three came from Raman Gupta, were reviewed by Paulus Schoutsen, and were found with property-based testing.
Many Home Assistant blueprints ask for settings that only matter in one mode. Four pull requests by Paul Bottein, merged on 21 and 22 October 2026, add a visible condition that shows an input, or a whole section of inputs, only when another field has a given value. It works in blueprints and in the setup and options forms of integrations. The chang
Building a dashboard card for one device usually means picking its entities by hand, and the card goes stale as soon as an integration update adds a new sensor or drops an old one. A new device section strategy, written by Paul Bottein and merged into the Home Assistant frontend on 21 October 2026, fills a section with a single device's entities an
The Group integration in Home Assistant gets a new member type: calendars. Joakim Plate's change, merged on 21 October 2026, lets you combine several calendar entities, for example work, school and family, into a single calendar entity. It is in the development branch, so it should ship with Home Assistant 2026.11.
If an old iPad or a cheap Fire tablet hangs on the wall as a Home Assistant panel, check its browser before the November update. On 21 October 2026 the Home Assistant frontend raised its minimum browser versions to Chrome 67, Safari and iOS 15.4, and Firefox 98. Until now the floor was Chrome 59, iOS 12 and Firefox 94. The change is merged into the
Wyze launched the Solar Cam on 20 October 2026 as part of its "Wyze Week" announcements. It is a fixed outdoor camera with a 2K sensor, a 5,200 mAh battery and a 1.77 W solar panel in the box, sold in the US for $69.98. The same camera without the panel, which Wyze's forum announcement presents as the Wyze Battery Cam, costs $10 less. Both are also
Tuesday Labs, a robotics lab and design studio from New York City, opened reservations on 20 October 2026 for Voxel Series-1, a two-legged robot meant to tidy up and fetch things around the home. The Verge reported the news the same day. A reservation costs $200 and is fully refundable. The company estimates the final price at about $20,000 and say
