Companies selling products built on ESPHome will soon be able to produce a software bill of materials (SBOM) for its firmware without editing it by hand. Two pull requests merged on 24 October 2026 make ESPHome write the metadata that Espressif's esp-idf-sbom tool reads. The author names the reasons directly: EN 18031 and the EU Cyber Resilience Ac
ESPHome boards can already share sensor readings through packet_transport, over UDP or a UART. A new component, packet_interface, adds a level underneath: a common way to send packets over a link, with optional layers that resend lost packets, check whether the other side is still there and encrypt the traffic. The author, clydebarrow, split the wo
Most garage door and gate openers already have a wall button. Press it once and the door moves; press it again and it stops or reverses. An ESP32 with a relay can press that button for you, and two reed switches can tell Home Assistant whether the door is really open or closed. The parts cost little and the whole thing runs locally, with no cloud 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'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
