The activity panel in Home Assistant is getting a "Triggered by" filter. It answers the usual question when a light comes on or a cover moves at an odd time: who or what did that? Paul Bottein's frontend pull request #55064 was merged by maartenla on 19 October 2026 at 14:53 Polish time, so the filter should ship with Home Assistant 2026.11 in earl
Home Assistant is getting an HP Printer integration that reads HP printers straight over the local network, without an HP account or cloud service. Its author, chemelli74, merged pull request #184161 into the development branch on 19 October 2026 at 23:40 Polish time, 16 days after opening it. The documentation draft (home-assistant.io #48781, stil
An automation that works when you test it and then misses one evening in three is rarely a bug in Home Assistant. Most of these failures come from a handful of rules about how automations start, what counts as a change, what happens when an automation is triggered while it is still running, and what a restart does to a run in progress. Once you kno
Out of the box, Home Assistant only listens on your local network. That is the safest state it will ever be in, and every way of reaching it from outside changes that. The official documentation lists four routes: Home Assistant Cloud, a VPN, a reverse proxy and plain port forwarding. They differ in what ends up visible on the internet, what you ha
Home Assistant is getting a native integration for HAVEN IAQ, a maker of indoor air quality monitors from Burnaby, British Columbia, that sells to homeowners as well as to HVAC professionals. Joost Lekkerkerker merged it into the development branch at 22:31 UTC on 18 October (00:31 Polish time on the 19th), almost three months after GitHub user krh
Until now, an AI agent connected to Home Assistant could only work with the entities you exposed to Assist. Home Assistant 2026.11, due in early November, adds a second LLM API aimed at the system itself. It is called "Home Assistant", it only works for administrator accounts, and it is not limited to exposed entities. On 18 October Paulus Schoutse
ESPHome devices have long been able to mirror a Home Assistant switch and flip it from a button or a display. For lights that meant on and off only, unless you wrote your own homeassistant.action calls. A new homeassistant light platform fills the gap: it creates a light on the device that follows a light entity in Home Assistant and controls it ov
Selection mode, the checkbox view you already know from the entities and devices pages, is coming to four more places in Home Assistant: dashboards, blueprints, labels and the Installed tab of the Marketplace, the built-in successor to HACS. Until now each of these had to be deleted one at a time. Daan Vervacke (DaanVervacke) wrote all four changes
A cheap Wi-Fi plug runs firmware you cannot audit, and many of them talk to a cloud you do not control. On a flat home network that plug sits next to your laptop, your NAS and your phone. Moving smart devices to their own VLAN means a compromised gadget can reach Home Assistant and nothing else.
