Helty Flow Cloud is a new Home Assistant integration for Helty Flow decentralized heat-recovery ventilation units that use the recent control panel, the one set up through the Helty Home app. The integration was merged into the development branch on 19 October 2026, and its documentation names 2026.11 as the first release. On 24 October two more pu
Anyone with a Valve Index setup knows the sound of two base stations spinning in an empty room. Home Assistant 2026.11 gets a SteamVR Base Station integration that controls them over Bluetooth Low Energy. The first version, by g4bri3lDev, was merged into the development branch on 19 October 2026, and four more changes followed by 24 October: an ide
A leak sensor under the washing machine is cheap. On its own it only beeps or sends a notification, and if nobody is home the water keeps running. Pair it with a motorised valve on the main water line and Home Assistant can close the supply within seconds of the first drop reaching the sensor.
Most garage door and gate openers already have a wall button. Press it once and the door moves; press it again and it stops or reverses. An ESP32 with a relay can press that button for you, and two reed switches can tell Home Assistant whether the door is really open or closed. The parts cost little and the whole thing runs locally, with no cloud a
Tuya Local, the custom Home Assistant integration that controls Tuya Wi-Fi devices over the local network instead of through the Tuya cloud, released version 2026.10.0 on 23 October 2026. It adds four devices, improves 17 existing device configurations and fixes bugs that could make devices stop updating. It also has three breaking changes, so it i
Home Assistant Core 2026.10.3 was published on 23 October 2026 at 20:50 Warsaw time. The release notes list 32 pull requests. About a third are dependency bumps and build changes, and the rest fix single integrations. Nothing here changes how automations or the core work, but a few fixes matter if you use AVM FRITZ! thermostats, KNX, dynamic energy
The newer sun triggers in Home Assistant, such as sun.sunset, and the calendar triggers for an event start and end have so far stored the offset as two fields: a duration and an offset_type of before or after. Pull request #184855, merged into the development branch on 23 October 2026 and marked as a breaking change, replaces them with one signed o
Turning on a Matter air conditioner from Home Assistant could switch it to heating, even if it had been cooling before it was turned off. Pull request #181458, merged into the development branch on 23 October 2026 and marked as a breaking change, fixes that. It is due in Home Assistant 2026.11.
The new Home Assistant desktop installer got a second way to set up a generic x86-64 computer. Alpha 4, published on 23 October 2026 at 18:27 Polish time, includes a live USB route: the app prepares a stick on your everyday computer, you boot the mini PC from it, and the stick writes Home Assistant OS to the PC's internal disk. The target PC needs
