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
If your Nest thermostat, doorbell or camera reaches Home Assistant through the official Nest integration, its real-time updates depend on a Google Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Many older setups use a topic that Google hosts for you, with an ID in the form projects/sdm-prod/topics/enterprise-<project-id>. Google's Device Access documentation now carries a w
Adding Somfy blinds and shutters to Home Assistant through the Overkiz integration has so far meant choosing the server your gateway is registered on. The hub list offered separate entries for Somfy (Europe), Somfy (Australia) and Somfy (North America), next to the other Overkiz brands. A pull request merged on 24 October 2026 adds a single "Somfy"
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.
Schneider Electric's planned takeover of Shelly Group has cleared its first review, with homework attached. On 23 October 2026 Shelly announced that Bulgaria's Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) had looked at the offer document and, in a decision dated 22 October, asked the bidder to add and clarify some information. According to Shelly, the re
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
If you connect Music Assistant to a Jellyfin server, the account token it uses could be read by every client that has access to the music library. A fix by Marvin Schenkel was merged into the Music Assistant server on 23 October 2026 and shipped the same day in 2.11.0 beta 7. The issue was reported on Discord.
Every state change in Home Assistant ends up in a database. A light turning on, a temperature reading, a phone's battery dropping by one percent, an ESP board reporting its Wi-Fi signal every few seconds. The recorder integration writes all of it, and with the defaults that is fine for a small setup. Add a few energy meters, a dozen ESPHome devices
Philips Hue started rolling out Bridge Pro software version 6.3.2071556020 on October 22, 2026. According to the official release notes, it prepares the Bridge Pro for Custom AI Behaviors, the natural-language automation feature Signify announced at IFA in early September. The feature itself is not on yet. The release notes say it "will be enabled
