Eve Systems' MotionBlinds have so far come in two forms: blinds made to measure, or an upgrade kit that motorises a blind someone already owns. On 19 October 2026 the German site appgefahren reported a third option. Eve now sells ready-made MotionBlinds roller blinds through Amazon and Otto, with prices starting at €179.95 including the Matter moto
IKEA will start selling its LILJEBAGGE smart radiator thermostat in Germany at the start of 2027. An IKEA spokesperson told heise online on 19 October 2026 that sales are planned to begin "right at the start of the new year". The German product page, so far reachable only through a direct link in the IKEA app, lists the price as €14.99. IKEA has no
Audio on ESPHome devices has mostly meant I2S: an amplifier or DAC board for output and a MEMS microphone for input, wired to the right pins. A new usb_audio component adds another route. An ESP32 with a USB OTG port can act as a USB host for USB Audio Class devices: sound cards, USB DACs, USB microphones and speakerphones. GitHub user ab-tools ope
Two small changes to Home Assistant's login code close timing gaps that let a burst of simultaneous requests get more tries than the limits allow. Both come from GitHub user zweckj, and Franck Nijhof (frenck) merged both into the development branch on 19 October 2026 at 09:33 Polish time. They are labelled as bug fixes, not security advisories, and
Brightix, a São Paulo company that designs and makes LED modules, drivers and controls, is preparing a Crowd Supply campaign for LoraReach: a carrier board for building your own LoRaWAN gateway around a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 or a pin-compatible module. Hackster.io wrote about it on 19 October 2026. The Crowd Supply page says the project is
Home Assistant has had an alert card since the September frontend release, but it was built for the home and security dashboards and there was no way to add it from the UI. That changes in 2026.11. Aidan Timson (timmo001) wrote two pull requests that give the card a visual editor, put it in the card picker and add a matching badge. The first was me
ESPHome is getting a display platform for reflective monochrome LCDs, screens that use room light instead of a backlight. The new st7305 component drives panels with Sitronix's ST7305 and ST7306 controllers over SPI. Clyde Stubbs (clydebarrow) wrote it and merged it into ESPHome's development branch on 19 October 2026 at 10:57 Polish time, right af
Home Assistant has started retiring limited templates, the restricted kind that cannot read entity states, the current time or the variables of a run. Franck Nijhof (frenck) is removing them field by field. The first two fields went into the development branch on 19 October 2026 at 03:45 Polish time, merged by Paulus Schoutsen (balloob): the enable
Supervisor 2026.10.3 changes the default of a feature many Home Assistant users only noticed last week: the check that compares app passwords with the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) breach database. It now stays off unless you turn it on. The release reached the beta channel on 19 October 2026 at 21:43 Polish time. When we checked later that evening, the
