The "Home Assistant" LLM API, the admin-only toolset for AI agents that arrives in Home Assistant 2026.11, is no longer read-only. On 27 October at 20:45 Polish time, Franck Nijhof merged a pull request by Paulus Schoutsen that adds a tool for calling any action. A day earlier a second tool landed that lets the agent search for actions first.
On 27 October 2026 Home Assistant merged a change that gives the Energy dashboard a separate place for a whole-home consumption meter. Until now, people with a main-panel monitor that measured everything the house used had to add it as an "individual device". The total then sat in the Sankey diagram next to the real devices it already contained, so
Linux Voice Assistant 1.1.17 was released on 27 October 2026. The project, maintained under the Open Home Foundation's OHF-Voice organization, turns a Linux computer such as a Raspberry Pi into a voice satellite for Home Assistant. It talks to Home Assistant over the ESPHome protocol, so Home Assistant sees it as an ESPHome device. Version 1.1.16 c
A fresh Home Assistant OS install on a small board will no longer pull in the Matter Server app on its own. Pull request #188890 by RaHehl was merged into the development branch on 27 October 2026 at 17:00 Polish time. That branch is numbered 2026.11.0.dev0, so the change is headed for Home Assistant 2026.11.
Home Assistant OS 18.4 was published on 27 October 2026 at 13:42 Polish time, and by the evening the stable update channel was offering it to every board, from generic x86-64 to Raspberry Pi 4. The release notes call it a bugfix and security release and end the summary with "All users are encouraged to upgrade."
Battery-free Zigbee Green Power switches moved one step closer to Home Assistant on 27 October 2026. Change #868 by puddly was merged into zigpy/zha, the Python library behind Home Assistant's ZHA integration. It is the ZHA side of the Green Power runtime that zigpy shipped in version 2.4.0 last week. No ZHA release contains it yet; the latest one
Scenes, scripts and automations that still turn off a Hue light effect with effect: "None" will break in Home Assistant 2026.11. Change #188867 by Martin Hjelmare, merged into the development branch on 27 October 2026 and marked as a breaking change, removes the compatibility mapping that kept that value working.
Automations like "turn the heating down when everyone leaves" or "turn on the porch light when I get home" stand or fall on one thing: Home Assistant has to know who is at home. A single phone app or router check gets it wrong surprisingly often. GPS drifts, phones put Wi-Fi to sleep, and a restart can leave a tracker in an old state for a while.
If you expose Home Assistant cameras to Alexa, you may have noticed that they show up in the Alexa app but do nothing on an Echo Show. "Alexa, show the porch camera" gets no picture, and there is no live view button. A change merged into Home Assistant Core on 26 October 2026 fixes that by speaking the protocol Amazon now expects. It is in the deve
