The OpenTherm Gateway integration in Home Assistant 2026.11 gets two number entities, "Control setpoint 1 override" and "Control setpoint 2 override". Pull request #182856 by mvn23, the integration's code owner and author of the pyotgw library it uses, was merged on 16 October 2026 at 12:03 UTC by joostlek.
Portrait mode on the parallel RGB panels driven by ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 boards gets cheaper in ESPHome. Pull request #20905 by Hasan Khalil (gongloo), merged into the development branch on 16 October 2026 at 23:39 UTC by clydebarrow, changes how the mipi_rgb display driver handles rotation. It is due in ESPHome 2026.11, and existing YAML does not
Since 11 October 2026, resetting a Home Assistant Green from an SD card has failed for anyone using the installer linked in Nabu Casa's support guide. According to the pull request that updated the guide, the old image, green-installer-20240410, stops at curl: (6) Could not resolve host: version.home-assistant.io whatever DNS server the network han
Security researcher Quentin Kaiser presented a flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi software at the Hexacon conference in Paris on 16 October 2026 and published a full write-up the same day. The bug is in the code that reassembles fragmented WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) EAP messages in Broadcom's proprietary 802.11 stack. An attacker within radio range can trig
Shelly USA opened North American sales of the Shelly Presence Gen4 on 15 October 2026. The mmWave radar presence sensor is $84.99 at us.shelly.com and is due at Micro Center, Best Buy, Newegg and Amazon soon. In Europe the same model (S4SN-0U61X) already sells for €69.90 in Shelly's EU store, so this is a regional launch rather than a brand-new pro
Three features merged into ESPHome's development branch on 14 and 15 October 2026 tackle problems many makers know well: radar zones limited to rectangles, typing a Wi-Fi password into a fallback hotspot, and firmware updates that die on a weak link. ESPHome 2026.10 is still in beta (2026.10.0b4 came out this week), so these changes are headed for
Two fixes that landed this week tighten who can do what in Home Assistant. Neither needs a configuration change, but both matter if more than one person has an account on your server.
CISA published advisory ICSA-26-288-02 on 15 October 2026 about three vulnerabilities in EseeCloud, the app and camera firmware from Guangzhou Juan IoT Technology. According to CISA, exploiting them could let an attacker take control of affected IP cameras. The advisory covers the EseeCloud app up to version 4.9.6 and EseeCloud firmware up to 4.9.8
An ESP32 running ESPHome will be able to work as a Thread border router. Pull request #18104 by Pawel Puterla, his first contribution to ESPHome, was merged into the development branch on 15 October 2026, and the matching documentation landed in the next branch of esphome.io the same day. The development branch is now 2026.11.0-dev, so the feature
