Home Assistant's development branch now accepts sign-ins through a Tailscale address, a global IPv6 address or another public IP. The fix by Joakim Plate (elupus), reviewed by balloob, was merged on 17 October 2026. It went into the dev branch, so it should arrive with Home Assistant 2026.11 rather than in a 2026.10 patch release.
ESPHome's development branch now has a mics_5524 sensor platform for the MiCS-5524 MEMS multi-gas sensor: the small 5 V analog modules with VCC, GND, A0 and EN pads, and the DFRobot Fermion breakout they are cloned from. nliaudat split the work into two pull requests. The first merged on 16 October 2026, the second on 17 October, and bdraco reviewe
Home Assistant changed the way it groups integrations on 16 and 17 October 2026. A series of pull requests by Franck Nijhof added 28 categories with 64 subcategories to core and a categories key to the integration manifest, then filled that key in for every integration. On the evening of 17 October a new integrations page went live on home-assistan
Two radio additions were merged into ESPHome's development branch eight minutes apart on the evening of 17 October 2026, at 19:44 and 19:52 UTC. Both extend remote_base, the shared code behind remote_receiver and remote_transmitter, and both are about motors for blinds and shutters. They are set for ESPHome 2026.11.
ESPHome's development branch has a new component for DFRobot's "Factory Calibrated Electrochemical Gas Sensor" series, models SEN0465 to SEN0476. Pull request #20880 by tzabbi was merged on 17 October 2026 after review by bdraco, and its documentation went into the next branch of esphome.io the same day. Both target ESPHome 2026.11, the version the
A fix merged into ESPHome's development branch on 17 October 2026 at 00:55 UTC removes a source of bad energy statistics for anyone who reads a French electricity meter with the teleinfo component. Until now, a value that could not be parsed as a number was published as 0. It is now logged as a warning and skipped. The change is pull request #20960
ESPHome's pylontech component, which reads Pylontech home storage batteries over their console port, has so far reported each battery as a whole: voltage, current, state of charge, temperatures, and the voltages of its lowest and highest cell. From ESPHome 2026.11 it can also report the voltage and temperature of every cell. The pull request by fun
An ESP32 camera running ESPHome has so far streamed through the native API to Home Assistant, or through the esp32_camera_web_server component. The new rtsp_server component adds the protocol that video players and recorders already understand. Christian (max246) opened the pull request on 31 July 2026, building on an earlier one (#1905), and bdrac
HACS, the community store most people use to install custom integrations and dashboard cards, stops being a separate download. From Home Assistant 2026.11, due in November, it ships with Home Assistant as a built-in integration called the Marketplace, found under Settings > Marketplace. Franck Nijhof's core pull request was merged on 1 October 2026
