Firmware 1.0.5 for Sonoff's TP-WGZBA, the Zigbee wall thermostat sold as Thermostat Core, was added to zigpy-ota on 15 October 2026. zigpy-ota is the firmware collection used by zigpy, the library behind Home Assistant's ZHA integration, and the image shipped the same day in the collection's 2026.10.2 release on the stable channel.
ESPHome has a new component for multi-channel spectral light sensors. Anton Viktorov's as734x drives the AS7341, the AS7343 and the TCS3448 from a single driver, and goes further than raw readings per colour band: it turns them into lux, colour temperature and the light measures used for growing plants. The three pull requests were merged into the
ESPHome is learning to ask a USB-C charger for more than 5 V. The new fusb302b component by Remco van Essen drives onsemi's FUSB302B USB-C controller from an ESP32 over I2C and negotiates a USB Power Delivery contract as a sink. It was merged into the development branch in three parts between 14 and 15 October 2026, with documentation on 15 October
Once a bad measurement lands in Home Assistant's long-term statistics, it stays in every graph built from them. For totals such as energy there has long been a way out, the "Adjust sum" tool. For mean statistics, such as temperature, there was none: the values cannot be adjusted, so the only fix was to delete the whole statistic, with its entire hi
On 15 October 2026 Arduino presented Zigbee support for the Nano Matter board. Until now, sketches for its Silicon Labs MGM240S module could use Matter over Thread or Bluetooth LE. Version 5.0.0 of the Arduino core for Silicon Labs, released on 15 September, adds a third option. In the Arduino IDE you pick Zigbee under Tools › Protocol stack, and t
Teslemetry users with a Tesla Powerwall get faster readings in Home Assistant 2026.11. Pull request #184808 by Brett Adams, merged on 15 October 2026, makes Home Assistant read a paired Powerwall's live values directly over the local network every 5 seconds, and its configuration every 30 seconds. The matching documentation change went into the nex
ESPHome now has a native hdmi_cec component. Pull request #9189 by Jos van Eijndhoven was merged into the development branch on 15 October 2026. That branch is already numbered 2026.11.0-dev, and the component is not in the 2026.10 betas, so 2026.11 is the first release that can include it. An ESPHome device wired to the CEC line of an HDMI port he
On 15 October 2026 NVD published CVE-2026-111281 against Jooan JA-A12 IP cameras on firmware builds 009_20171107 and 05.02.31.105. VulnCheck rates it 9.3 on CVSS v4.0. Anyone who can reach the camera's local HTTP interface can enable a vendor diagnosis mode with credentials baked into the Cam720 Android app, then feed shell commands to the jooandia
Frigate, the open-source NVR that many Home Assistant users run for local object detection on their cameras, released version 0.18.2 late on 15 October 2026 (UTC). It fixes three security flaws published the same evening, two of them rated critical. Both critical bugs affect only 0.18.0 and 0.18.1. The Frigate add-on for Home Assistant moved to 0.1
