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
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 14 October 2026 ESPHome maintainers published a developer note for a breaking change that lands with 2026.10.0: remote_base protocol methods are no longer virtual, receiver listener and dumper lists are fixed-size vectors sized at code generation, and a protocol’s .cpp file is compiled only when the configuration actually uses it. Ordinary YAML
Espressif published esp-pqc on 14 October 2026, an ESP-IDF component that adds the two NIST post-quantum algorithms, ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204), to existing Espressif chips. It runs entirely in software, so you can try post-quantum TLS 1.3 and an extra firmware signature check at boot without waiting for new silicon. Espressif position
VIEWE, a Shenzhen display maker, has released the PLCM-UES31S043H800V480C-U, a 4.3-inch touch display module built on Espressif's new ESP32-S31. CNX Software, which wrote it up on 14 October 2026, says it appears to be the first third-party development board with that chip. VIEWE sells it for $38.99 in its own store and plans to list it on AliExpre
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.
If an ESPHome device of yours drives a screen through ili9xxx, st7735, st7789v, qspi_dbi or rpi_dpi_rgb, it now has an end date. On 14 October 2026 J. Nick Koston merged five small pull requests that set ESPHome 2027.5.0 as the version in which these display components will be removed.
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
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
