M5Stack has a successor to the M5Paper it launched in 2020. The PaperDIY kits keep a 4.7-inch grayscale e-paper panel but move from the original ESP32 to an ESP32-S3, and they drop the touchscreen and the sensors the M5Paper had. M5Stack added both versions to its online store on 16 October 2026, and CNX Software reported the release on 18 October.
On a voice satellite that also plays music, wake word detection has to share the ESP32 with audio decoding and playback. If the detection task falls behind for a moment, the small buffer holding microphone audio fills up and ESPHome throws its contents away. A new option in ESPHome 2026.11 lets you make that buffer bigger. Contributor mbrudka opene
A long WS2812 strip showing full white can draw far more than the power supply behind it was sized for. ESPHome is getting a way to estimate that draw and, if you want, cap it. GitHub user mvoss96 opened the pull request in April, explaining that he wanted to keep his strips within what his power supply could deliver, the way WLED does. J. Nick Kos
ESPHome's globals component is getting the storage option that other components already use to choose where a restored value is saved. With storage: rtc, a global lives in RTC memory, which survives deep sleep, software restarts and crashes, and a value that changes every few minutes no longer means a flash write every few minutes. Pull request #13
An ESP32 with Wi-Fi switched on draws tens of milliamps, and short transmit bursts go much higher. Espressif's datasheet lists 240 mA for an 802.11b transmission at +19.5 dBm. A battery will not last long at that rate. In deep sleep the same chip needs about 10 µA (RTC timer and RTC memory running), so a sensor that wakes up, reports and goes strai
ESPHome's development branch now has a mics_5524 sensor platform for the MiCS-5524 MEMS multi-gas sensor: the small 5 V analog modules with VCC, GND, A0 and EN pads, and the DFRobot Fermion breakout they are cloned from. nliaudat split the work into two pull requests. The first merged on 16 October 2026, the second on 17 October, and bdraco reviewe
Two radio additions were merged into ESPHome's development branch eight minutes apart on the evening of 17 October 2026, at 19:44 and 19:52 UTC. Both extend remote_base, the shared code behind remote_receiver and remote_transmitter, and both are about motors for blinds and shutters. They are set for ESPHome 2026.11.
ESPHome's development branch has a new component for DFRobot's "Factory Calibrated Electrochemical Gas Sensor" series, models SEN0465 to SEN0476. Pull request #20880 by tzabbi was merged on 17 October 2026 after review by bdraco, and its documentation went into the next branch of esphome.io the same day. Both target ESPHome 2026.11, the version the
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
