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.
Speech recognition on a microcontroller usually means a wake word or a fixed list of commands. esp32-pie-asr, an open-source project by Boumedine Billal, goes further: it transcribes open-vocabulary English speech live on Espressif's ESP32-P4, with no cloud service and no separate neural accelerator. Version 1.0 was released on GitHub on 25 October
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
evcc, the open-source energy manager that charges electric cars from solar surplus, released version 0.318.0 on 24 October 2026, followed by the bugfix release 0.318.1 on 25 October. The headline change is an automatic mode for the optimizer. There is also local support for Tuya-based wallboxes, a guided first-run setup and a few breaking changes w
The BleBox integration in Home Assistant now understands tankSensor, the tank level device from the Polish maker of Wi-Fi modules. The change, by contributor bkobus-bbx and reviewed by joostlek, was merged into the development branch on 24 October 2026, so it should arrive with Home Assistant 2026.11. Like the rest of the BleBox integration, it rea
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
