Voice replies from Home Assistant should start sooner on satellites that need their audio converted. On 14 October 2026 Michael Hansen merged a change, reviewed by Paulus Schoutsen, that alters how Home Assistant passes streamed speech to ffmpeg. In Hansen's test the first converted audio arrived after 0.10 seconds instead of 2.90.
The Daikin AC integration in Home Assistant is getting a new action, daikin.set_demand_control. It limits a unit's maximum power to a percentage of its nominal power, for example while electricity is expensive. The change by Fredrik Erlandsson was merged on 14 October 2026, and the documentation, merged a day later, marks it as available from Home
ESPHome has a new climate platform, midea_portasplit, for the Midea PortaSplit split air conditioner. It was merged into the development branch on 14 October 2026, together with its documentation, and talks to the unit over the UART connector normally used by its Wi-Fi module. In practice that means an ESP board replaces the original module and the
TP-Link published a security advisory on 14 October 2026 for CVE-2026-109506, an authentication flaw in the web management of its RE-series Wi-Fi range extenders. Someone on the same local network who captures a legitimate administrator login can derive a credential that the extender accepts, and log in to its management page with administrator rig
Debugging an integration in Home Assistant has long followed the same routine: enable debug logging, reproduce the problem, disable debug logging and dig through the downloaded file. Changes merged on 14 October 2026 shorten that loop. While debug logging is on, an integration's page gets a "Show logs" button next to "Disable", and it opens a live
MQTT device discovery lets a device or application describe all its components in one retained message on a single topic, homeassistant/device/<device_id>/config. That convenience had a nasty side effect. In several situations, removing a single component made Home Assistant clear the retained device message, and every other entity of the device we
Exaviz released firmware 1.2.0 for the radio on its Cruiser boards on 14 October 2026. It adds a Zigbee mode: the ESP32-C6 module on the board can now be the Zigbee coordinator for Home Assistant, with no USB dongle.
ESPHome is getting a new access point mode for the ESP32. With ap_mode: wisp, the board joins your router as an ordinary Wi-Fi client and at the same time runs its own access point, routing that network's clients to the router through NAT. Pull request #13633 describes it as "a small WiFi repeater for guest or IoT networks". It was merged into the
Ubiquiti has published Security Advisory Bulletin 070 for the UniFi Protect AI Key, the add-on box that runs object, person and licence plate detection and footage search locally for UniFi Protect cameras. The bulletin covers six vulnerabilities. According to the records published in the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD) on 14 October 2026,
