If your ESPHome configuration for a Sensirion SCD4x CO2 sensor set ambient_pressure_compensation with a unit, for example 961mBar, the sensor never got that pressure and did not compensate for it. Pull request #19888 by zerafachris fixes the unit handling. bdraco merged it into the development branch on 19 October 2026 at 09:54 Polish time, which a
Four small fixes for Hi-Link mmWave radar modules landed in ESPHome's development branch on 19 October 2026. All four pull requests come from the same contributor, fallenmi, and bdraco merged them between 20:22 and 23:29 Polish time. Each covers a different module: the LD2410, the low-power LD2410S, the LD2420 and the multi-target LD2460. None of t
Learning a 433 MHz remote on a Broadlink RM4 Pro in Home Assistant could end with a success message and a code that did nothing when sent. Sometimes nothing was saved at all. Pull request #182652 by dustinreed-info fixes the Home Assistant side of the problem and stops several Broadlink actions from reporting success when they failed. Joost Lekkerk
Home Assistant is getting a KACO RS485 integration for KACO Powador solar inverters of the xi range, such as the Powador 6400xi and 8000xi. These inverters have no network port and no cloud service, so apart from their display, the only way to read them is the RS485 serial bus the integration polls. Joost Lekkerkerker merged pull request #182109 by
The activity panel in Home Assistant is getting a "Triggered by" filter. It answers the usual question when a light comes on or a cover moves at an odd time: who or what did that? Paul Bottein's frontend pull request #55064 was merged by maartenla on 19 October 2026 at 14:53 Polish time, so the filter should ship with Home Assistant 2026.11 in earl
Home Assistant is getting an HP Printer integration that reads HP printers straight over the local network, without an HP account or cloud service. Its author, chemelli74, merged pull request #184161 into the development branch on 19 October 2026 at 23:40 Polish time, 16 days after opening it. The documentation draft (home-assistant.io #48781, stil
TP-Link published two security advisories for Tapo cameras on 19 October 2026, and the three flaws they describe reached the National Vulnerability Database the same day. Two affect the Tapo C210 with hardware version 3.6, one affects the Tapo C320WS with hardware version 2. Each of them needs an attacker on the same local network as the camera, an
Matter cameras are still rare, and UGREEN wants to be among the first to ship one. On 19 October 2026 Matter Alpha reported that the SynCare Indoor Cam ID500 Pro has a Matter certification and can now be reserved together with UGREEN's new HomeAgent hub. The catch is in how it is sold: during the campaign the camera is not available on its own.
ESPHome's storage: rtc option keeps a value across restarts and OTA updates but forgets it after a power cut. It now works on three Beken chips, the BK7231T, BK7231N and BK7238, which ESPHome supports through LibreTiny. Pull request #21007 by porelli was merged into the development branch on 18 October 2026 at 00:59 UTC by bdraco, and the documenta
