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Home Assistant Green's SD-card reset broke after the DNS root key rollover, and a new installer fixes it

Since 11 October 2026, resetting a Home Assistant Green from an SD card has failed for anyone using the installer linked in Nabu Casa's support guide. According to the pull request that updated the guide, the old image, green-installer-20240410, stops at curl: (6) Could not resolve host: version.home-assistant.io whatever DNS server the network han
Oct 16, 2026
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How to set up the Home Assistant Energy dashboard

Home Assistant's Energy dashboard turns meter readings, solar production and individual devices into one view of what you import, export, produce and store. You can start with a single grid sensor and add solar, battery, gas, water and per-device tracking later. This guide focuses on getting entities into the right shape, wiring them into Settings
Oct 16, 2026
6
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Home Assistant 2026.11: Teslemetry will read Powerwall data over the local network every 5 seconds

Teslemetry users with a Tesla Powerwall get faster readings in Home Assistant 2026.11. Pull request #184808 by Brett Adams, merged on 15 October 2026, makes Home Assistant read a paired Powerwall's live values directly over the local network every 5 seconds, and its configuration every 30 seconds. The matching documentation change went into the nex
Oct 15, 2026
3
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Frigate 0.18.2 fixes two critical flaws that gave root in the container, one of them open to any viewer account

Frigate, the open-source NVR that many Home Assistant users run for local object detection on their cameras, released version 0.18.2 late on 15 October 2026 (UTC). It fixes three security flaws published the same evening, two of them rated critical. Both critical bugs affect only 0.18.0 and 0.18.1. The Frigate add-on for Home Assistant moved to 0.1
Oct 15, 2026
3
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