ESPHome 2026.10.2 came out on 2 November 2026, six days after 2026.10.1. It is a short patch release with six fixes, and two of them matter to people running ESPHome devices day to day.
ESPectre, the component that turns an ESP32 and an ordinary Wi-Fi access point into a motion sensor, can now be tuned from Home Assistant while it runs. Francesco Pace's pull request was merged into the ESPHome dev branch on 2 November 2026 (just after midnight Warsaw time), with the documentation update merged alongside it. It is not in a stable r
Anyone who has built a dimmable LED strip or lamp on an ESP32 with ESPHome has probably seen it: a fade looks smooth until the last few percent, then the light drops in visible steps before it goes out. On 1 November 2026, just before 1:00 Warsaw time, ESPHome merged a change by Jakub Sztandera (Kubuxu) that targets exactly that. The ledc output ge
ESPHome has native support for the Hi-Link HLK-LD6004, a 60 GHz presence radar that reports the position of each person it sees, not just whether a room is occupied. The seven pull requests by Rick van Hattem (wolph), reviewed by J. Nick Koston (bdraco), were merged into the dev branch early on 31 October 2026, between 04:05 and 06:45 Warsaw time.
Music Assistant 2.10.9 came out on 30 October 2026. The headline change removes a chore that ESPHome 2026.10.0 introduced: since that release, Sendspin connections are encrypted, and each ESPHome speaker had to be paired with Music Assistant by pasting a pairing token. With 2.10.9 and Home Assistant 2026.11, Music Assistant can do the pairing itsel
The National Vulnerability Database published CVE-2026-59177 on October 28, 2026. It covers a flaw in ESPHome Device Builder, the dashboard behind the ESPHome add-on for Home Assistant, which let any device on the local network open the dashboard with no credentials. The bug is not new. ESPHome fixed it in June and published the advisory (GHSA-vv4j
When ESPHome merged its vnc component on 22 October, the first version had two clear gaps: it was view-only, and it could only connect to VNC servers with no password. Both are now closed in the development branch. Petar Petrov's pull request adding input actions and touchscreen forwarding was merged on 26 October 2026 (23:48 Polish time), and his
A pull request merged into ESPHome's development branch on 28 October 2026 (01:48 Polish time) lets esphome upload send a prebuilt firmware image to a device without a YAML configuration. The change is by Nate Clark and was reviewed by J. Nick Koston (bdraco). It targets a group ESPHome rarely served well from the command line: owners of finished p
ESPHome is usually paired with Home Assistant, but nothing in the firmware requires it. A device can serve its own web page, answer HTTP requests from scripts and recover from a lost Wi-Fi network by opening a hotspot of its own. That is useful for a workshop relay, a sensor in a holiday cottage or a test board that should work before any server ex
