The usual way to get a Zigbee adapter away from a metal server cupboard is a USB extension cable or a network coordinator. Home Assistant has been building a third option: plug the USB adapter into an ESP32 running ESPHome and let Home Assistant talk to it over the network. On 26 October 2026 that work gained a piece that makes moving an adapter pa
When a light turns on at 3 a.m., the logbook tells you that its state changed. It does not easily tell you which action was called, with what data and from where. Home Assistant now has a page for exactly that. Joost Lekkerkerker's "Action history" tab in the Tools panel was merged on 26 October 2026, followed the same day by two additions to its d
Sharing a Matter device from Home Assistant with Apple Home has always involved a small detour. Home Assistant opens a commissioning window and shows a QR code and a sharing code, and you then type the code into the Home app or scan the QR code with a second phone. Three pull requests merged on 26 October 2026 remove that step for people who use th
A dashboard card that lists "all the lights downstairs" goes out of date the day you add a new bulb. A new entities section strategy in the Home Assistant frontend fixes that: you describe what the section should contain, and Home Assistant builds the tiles itself and keeps them in step as matching entities appear or disappear. Paul Bottein's chang
If the solar forecast line in Home Assistant's Energy dashboard always seemed to run an hour behind your panels, it was not your imagination. A fix by Tagliax, change #188790, was merged into Home Assistant's development branch on 26 October 2026, so it is lined up for the 2026.11 release. It moves every Forecast.Solar energy value to the start of
Owners of Ecovacs robot vacuums with a docking station get several new entities in Home Assistant 2026.11, and the Ecovacs lawn mower gets a stop command. Erwin Douna (erwindouna) opened five pull requests for the Ecovacs integration, and all of them were merged into the development branch on 26 October 2026. They rely on the deebot-client library,
Automations that react to a tap or swipe on Nanoleaf touch panels through a device trigger will stop working in Home Assistant 2026.11. Change #188656, merged into the development branch on 26 October 2026, deletes the Nanoleaf device trigger platform and is marked as a breaking change.
Home Assistant now limits how much data a client can send to the parts of its API that work without a login. A pull request merged into the development branch late on 26 October 2026 caps those requests at 64 KiB. Until now they inherited limits meant for something else entirely: 16 MiB for HTTP requests and 4 MiB for the first WebSocket message.
Ten days after integration categories, Home Assistant core got the next piece of the same effort. A pull request merged on the evening of 26 October 2026 adds an optional connectivity key to the integration manifest. With it, an integration lists the protocols Home Assistant uses to reach its devices or service. The epic behind both changes also li
