If an ESPHome device forwards its logs to a syslog server, that server may have been receiving the device's passwords. A fix by Jonathan Swoboda, merged into ESPHome's development branch on 23 October 2026, replaces those values with [redacted] before the log line leaves the device. It is not in the 2026.10.0 release from 21 October, so it should a
LILYGO is selling the T-Halow P4, a development board in the M.2 2280 format (80 x 22 mm) that puts three chips on one stick: an ESP32-P4 as the main chip, an ESP32-C6 for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth and 802.15.4, and a Taixin TX-AH module for Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah). CNX Software covered it on 23 October 2026.
ESPHome has a new duco component for Duco heat recovery ventilation units. It was merged into the development branch on 23 October 2026 together with its documentation, so it should ship in ESPHome 2026.11. Pieter Kokx opened the pull request in December 2024, and it took almost two years and a rewrite to current ESPHome conventions before it went
ESPHome's online_image component loads a picture from a URL and shows it on a display, for example a camera snapshot, album art or a weather map. On 22 and 23 October 2026 three related changes by Clyde Stubbs were merged into the development branch (2026.11.0-dev). Together they cut the memory a JPEG download needs and let a display show how far t
The ESP32-P4 has no radio of its own. Boards such as the M5Stack Tab5 pair it with an ESP32-C6 that handles Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and ESPHome talks to that co-processor through the esp32_hosted component and Espressif's esp_hosted library. On 22 October 2026 ESPHome merged a change (#21394) that moves the host side from esp_hosted 2.12.13 to 3.0.10
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
An ESPHome device no longer needs Wi-Fi or Ethernet to reach the network. A new modem component, merged on 23 October 2026 for ESPHome 2026.11, brings up an IP connection over PPP through a cellular modem wired to the ESP32's UART. The API, MQTT and OTA updates then work the same way they do over Wi-Fi. The pull request was opened in May 2024 and c
The DS18B20 is the sensor people reach for when they want to know the temperature of something rather than the air in a room: the flow and return pipes of a heating system, a hot water tank, a freezer, an aquarium, the space under the floor. It comes in waterproof probes on a cable, it talks over a single data line, and you can hang several of them
GUITION has a new version of its rotary knob with a built-in round touchscreen. The JC3636F118C-I-YR1 swaps the ESP32-S3 of the earlier JC3636K518C for Espressif's ESP32-S31, which brings Wi-Fi 6 and an 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee and Thread. CNX Software wrote it up on 22 October 2026 after a reader pointed it out, and the knob is already listed on
