A long WS2812 strip showing full white can draw far more than the power supply behind it was sized for. ESPHome is getting a way to estimate that draw and, if you want, cap it. GitHub user mvoss96 opened the pull request in April, explaining that he wanted to keep his strips within what his power supply could deliver, the way WLED does. J. Nick Kos
ESPHome devices have long been able to mirror a Home Assistant switch and flip it from a button or a display. For lights that meant on and off only, unless you wrote your own homeassistant.action calls. A new homeassistant light platform fills the gap: it creates a light on the device that follows a light entity in Home Assistant and controls it ov
On 16 October 2026 ESPHome merged a haier_water_heater platform that talks to Haier hOn water heaters over UART in place of the factory Wi-Fi module. TheLexus opened the pull request, bdraco reviewed it, and the matching esphome.io documentation merged the same afternoon. The author tested the stack on a Haier VH3W.
The OpenTherm Gateway integration in Home Assistant 2026.11 gets two number entities, "Control setpoint 1 override" and "Control setpoint 2 override". Pull request #182856 by mvn23, the integration's code owner and author of the pyotgw library it uses, was merged on 16 October 2026 at 12:03 UTC by joostlek.
Firmware 1.0.5 for Sonoff's TP-WGZBA, the Zigbee wall thermostat sold as Thermostat Core, was added to zigpy-ota on 15 October 2026. zigpy-ota is the firmware collection used by zigpy, the library behind Home Assistant's ZHA integration, and the image shipped the same day in the collection's 2026.10.2 release on the stable channel.
Google's release notes for 14 October 2026 include a change that Philips Hue owners will notice: existing Hue bridges linked to Google Home are upgraded in the background to local Matter control through Google Home hubs. Google promises faster responses and better reliability, and you do not have to re-pair anything.
The Daikin AC integration in Home Assistant is getting a new action, daikin.set_demand_control. It limits a unit's maximum power to a percentage of its nominal power, for example while electricity is expensive. The change by Fredrik Erlandsson was merged on 14 October 2026, and the documentation, merged a day later, marks it as available from Home
ESPHome has a new climate platform, midea_portasplit, for the Midea PortaSplit split air conditioner. It was merged into the development branch on 14 October 2026, together with its documentation, and talks to the unit over the UART connector normally used by its Wi-Fi module. In practice that means an ESP board replaces the original module and the
On 13 October 2026 Apple announced Apple Home Collection: cameras, a video doorbell, a deadbolt, thermostats and room sensors designed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. Setup starts with an NFC tap from iPhone; control stays in the Apple Home app with no separate vendor account. Sales begin in December, with some accessories in early 2027
