A community developer has published Zendure RestAPI, a custom Home Assistant integration that controls Zendure SolarFlow home batteries entirely over the local network. It talks to the battery's own HTTP server through Zendure's zenSDK API, with no Zendure cloud account and no MQTT broker. The author announced it on the Home Assistant forum on 16 O
Home Assistant's Energy dashboard turns meter readings, solar production and individual devices into one view of what you import, export, produce and store. You can start with a single grid sensor and add solar, battery, gas, water and per-device tracking later. This guide focuses on getting entities into the right shape, wiring them into Settings
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
Two separate fixes landed on 14 October 2026 for Sonoff's S60 smart plugs, and both deal with the same weak spot: small loads. If you track a phone charger, a router or an LED lamp on one of these plugs, the readings have probably looked wrong.
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
The first thing the Home Assistant Energy dashboard needs is how much electricity you take from the grid, and the most direct place to read that is the meter. Some meters make it easy with a standardized local port, like P1 in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Many others, older ones especially, have no data port at all. What most of them do
Home Assistant Core 2026.10.1 landed on 10 October 2026, three days after 2026.10.0. It is a bug-fix patch in the usual weekly cadence: no new headline features, but several fixes that matter if you updated early to the October release.
Home Assistant 2026.10 shipped on 7 October 2026 under the title "You are here". A first patch, 2026.10.1, followed on 10 October. The release rebuilds the map, exposes more Matter device settings, and finally gives trigger IDs a proper place in the automation editor.
