ESPHome's pylontech component, which reads Pylontech home storage batteries over their console port, has so far reported each battery as a whole: voltage, current, state of charge, temperatures, and the voltages of its lowest and highest cell. From ESPHome 2026.11 it can also report the voltage and temperature of every cell. The pull request by fun
An ESP32 camera running ESPHome has so far streamed through the native API to Home Assistant, or through the esp32_camera_web_server component. The new rtsp_server component adds the protocol that video players and recorders already understand. Christian (max246) opened the pull request on 31 July 2026, building on an earlier one (#1905), and bdrac
The Xteink X4 Pro is a pocket e-reader with a 4.3-inch screen and an ESP32-S3 inside. Xteink sells it on its own site for $99 (regular price $129) and advertises "unlocked firmware". On 17 October 2026 at 20:51 UTC, ESPHome merged pull request #20545 by Bonne Eggleston (exciton). It adds a driver for the UltraChip UC8279 e-paper controller to the e
Sensirion's SEN6x modules measure particulate matter, humidity and temperature, and depending on the variant also VOC, NOx, CO2 and formaldehyde. ESPHome's sen6x component already reads those values. Four pull requests by Brandon Harvey (bharvey88), merged between 20:41 and 23:34 UTC on 17 October 2026, add most of the settings the modules offer. T
ESPHome automations are getting the kind of branching Home Assistant users already know. Pull request #20547 by Clyde Stubbs, merged into the development branch on 17 October 2026 at 10:23 UTC, makes four changes to scripts and actions. The documentation (esphome.io #7648) was merged later the same day. The code is in the dev tree, version 2026.11.
Seeed Studio has a new family of small display boards built around its XIAO modules: six models that pair one of three IPS colour screens with either a XIAO ESP32-S3 Plus or a XIAO nRF52840 Plus. CNX Software covered the series on 17 October 2026. According to CNX, the Seeed Studio store sells them for $15.90 to $19.90 and AliExpress for $11.99 to
A PIR motion sensor notices you walk in and then loses you as soon as you sit still with a book, so the light goes off at the worst possible moment. A 24 GHz radar module such as the Hi-Link LD2410 also picks up a person who is not moving, which is what an office, bathroom or living room actually needs. ESPHome supports the module directly, so an E
ESPHome can now build firmware for Nordic's nRF52840 Dongle (PCA10059), the small USB stick built around the nRF52840 chip. Pull request #19009, merged into the development branch on 15 October 2026, adds it as board: nrf52840dongle. On 16 October ESPHome Device Builder 1.24.0 followed with a browser flasher that talks to the dongle's factory bootl
Espressif released ESP-IDF v5.5.6 on 16 October 2026. It is a bugfix release for the 5.5 branch, the one ESPHome and the Arduino core currently build on: ESPHome's development branch recommends ESP-IDF 5.5.5, and Arduino core 3.3.12 for ESP32 is based on 5.5.5 too. Besides three security fixes, the release has two breaking changes, and one of them
