Home Assistant has started retiring limited templates, the restricted kind that cannot read entity states, the current time or the variables of a run. Franck Nijhof (frenck) is removing them field by field. The first two fields went into the development branch on 19 October 2026 at 03:45 Polish time, merged by Paulus Schoutsen (balloob): the enable
Learning a 433 MHz remote on a Broadlink RM4 Pro in Home Assistant could end with a success message and a code that did nothing when sent. Sometimes nothing was saved at all. Pull request #182652 by dustinreed-info fixes the Home Assistant side of the problem and stops several Broadlink actions from reporting success when they failed. Joost Lekkerk
The activity panel in Home Assistant is getting a "Triggered by" filter. It answers the usual question when a light comes on or a cover moves at an odd time: who or what did that? Paul Bottein's frontend pull request #55064 was merged by maartenla on 19 October 2026 at 14:53 Polish time, so the filter should ship with Home Assistant 2026.11 in earl
An automation that works when you test it and then misses one evening in three is rarely a bug in Home Assistant. Most of these failures come from a handful of rules about how automations start, what counts as a change, what happens when an automation is triggered while it is still running, and what a restart does to a run in progress. Once you kno
ESPHome automations are getting the kind of branching Home Assistant users already know. Pull request #20547 by Clyde Stubbs, merged into the development branch on 17 October 2026 at 10:23 UTC, makes four changes to scripts and actions. The documentation (esphome.io #7648) was merged later the same day. The code is in the dev tree, version 2026.11.
A PIR motion sensor notices you walk in and then loses you as soon as you sit still with a book, so the light goes off at the worst possible moment. A 24 GHz radar module such as the Hi-Link LD2410 also picks up a person who is not moving, which is what an office, bathroom or living room actually needs. ESPHome supports the module directly, so an E
On 16 October 2026 Home Assistant gained three new Core triggers so automations no longer need template sensors to notice a version change or a pending restart. The work lands in the 2026.11 development tree. Franck Nijhof merged homeassistant.updated in the afternoon and, a few hours later, homeassistant.restart_required and homeassistant.host_reb
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
Shelly USA opened North American sales of the Shelly Presence Gen4 on 15 October 2026. The mmWave radar presence sensor is $84.99 at us.shelly.com and is due at Micro Center, Best Buy, Newegg and Amazon soon. In Europe the same model (S4SN-0U61X) already sells for €69.90 in Shelly's EU store, so this is a regional launch rather than a brand-new pro
