MQTT devices can now use the child device model that Home Assistant introduced for products made of several parts. A pull request by Jan Bouwhuis, merged into the development branch on 26 October 2026, adds a child_device option to MQTT entities. A follow-up fix merged the same evening is already tagged for the 2026.11 beta.
The TP-Link integration in Home Assistant now uses python-kasa 0.12.0, the library that talks to Kasa and Tapo devices on the local network. Teemu R. (rytilahti), who also wrote the library's HomeKit fix, opened the pull request, and Shay Levy (thecode) merged it into the development branch on 25 October 2026. The bump closes five Home Assistant is
The Xiaomi Mijia LYWSD03MMC is a small square thermometer and hygrometer with an LCD, powered by a CR2032 coin cell. Out of the box it talks to the Mi Home app and sends its readings encrypted. Home Assistant can read the stock firmware through the Xiaomi BLE integration, but only if you give it the device's encryption key.
The Teslemetry integration gets two new actions for Tesla Powerwall owners in Home Assistant 2026.11. Pull request #188303 by Brett Adams (Bre77), merged into the development branch on 25 October 2026, adds teslemetry.dispatch_battery_power and teslemetry.resume_battery_operation. Their documentation was merged into the next branch of the docs on 2
A Shelly device running firmware that Home Assistant no longer supports has so far been a dead end. Setup failed with ConfigEntryNotReady, Home Assistant kept retrying, and the device could not be updated from Home Assistant, because the update entity never loaded either. Pull request #188381 by Shay Levy (thecode), merged into the development bran
Shelly relays and plugs are among the easiest Wi-Fi devices to use with Home Assistant without a cloud. The official Shelly integration talks to each device directly over the local network, and the device pushes its state changes to Home Assistant instead of waiting to be asked. A light switched from the wall shows up in Home Assistant almost immed
A notification that says "the garage door has been open for 20 minutes" is useful. One with a Close button under it is better, because you can deal with the problem from the lock screen without opening a dashboard. The Home Assistant Companion app for iOS and Android supports exactly that: buttons on a notification that send an event back to Home A
Nanoleaf's Matter-over-Thread bulbs, downlights, GU10s and lightstrips have a new firmware, 5.1.45, and this week the company's app caught up with it. Version 12.0.0 of the Nanoleaf app, which its release notes say adds "support for firmware 5.x.x on Nanoleaf Matter over Thread devices", started rolling out on Android on 20 October and on iOS on 21
A four-gang wall switch or a six-outlet power strip is one product, but in Home Assistant it has always been hard to show that. Integrations either piled every channel onto one device or created a separate device per channel and linked it back with via_device, a field meant to say "reached through this hub". On 22 October the developer blog publish
