Aqara's Outdoor Plug H2 EU no longer needs an external converter in Zigbee2MQTT. On 25 October 2026 Koen Kanters (Koenkk) merged change #13589 into zigbee-herdsman-converters, the device library behind Zigbee2MQTT, and released it the same day as version 26.124.0. A few minutes later Zigbee2MQTT's dev branch moved to that version, so anyone running
Two days after the delta_wallbox component landed in ESPHome, its biggest gap is closed. In the first version, merged on 23 October, the current limit of the Delta AC MAX charger could only be read, so an ESP32 could start and stop a session but not throttle it. A follow-up from the same author, epicRE, reviewed by bdraco and merged on 25 October 2
Shelly relays and plugs are among the easiest Wi-Fi devices to use with Home Assistant without a cloud. The official Shelly integration talks to each device directly over the local network, and the device pushes its state changes to Home Assistant instead of waiting to be asked. A light switched from the wall shows up in Home Assistant almost immed
evcc, the open-source energy manager that charges electric cars from solar surplus, released version 0.318.0 on 24 October 2026, followed by the bugfix release 0.318.1 on 25 October. The headline change is an automatic mode for the optimizer. There is also local support for Tuya-based wallboxes, a guided first-run setup and a few breaking changes w
Tesla's charge on solar mode keeps a car charging while the house has surplus solar power and pauses when the surplus runs out. Home Assistant's Teslemetry integration can now switch it on and off. The change by Brett Adams (Bre77), reviewed by silamon and frenck, was merged into the development branch on 24 October 2026 together with its documenta
Schneider Electric's planned takeover of Shelly Group has cleared its first review, with homework attached. On 23 October 2026 Shelly announced that Bulgaria's Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) had looked at the offer document and, in a decision dated 22 October, asked the bidder to add and clarify some information. According to Shelly, the re
Home Assistant Core 2026.10.3 was published on 23 October 2026 at 20:50 Warsaw time. The release notes list 32 pull requests. About a third are dependency bumps and build changes, and the rest fix single integrations. Nothing here changes how automations or the core work, but a few fixes matter if you use AVM FRITZ! thermostats, KNX, dynamic energy
Owners of a Delta AC MAX EV charger can now read it and start or stop charging from an ESP32, without the vendor app and without the cloud. The new delta_wallbox component was merged into ESPHome on 23 October 2026 and is set to ship with ESPHome 2026.11. It talks to the charger over Bluetooth Low Energy and exposes the data as ordinary ESPHome sen
tado° is rolling out a set of app updates for its heating system over the coming weeks. The Munich company announced them on 22 October 2026. The two most interesting ones, smarter open window detection and a mould risk index, are only for tado° X owners who pay for AI Assist.
