Home Assistant is getting a KACO RS485 integration for KACO Powador solar inverters of the xi range, such as the Powador 6400xi and 8000xi. These inverters have no network port and no cloud service, so apart from their display, the only way to read them is the RS485 serial bus the integration polls. Joost Lekkerkerker merged pull request #182109 by
Home Assistant is getting an HP Printer integration that reads HP printers straight over the local network, without an HP account or cloud service. Its author, chemelli74, merged pull request #184161 into the development branch on 19 October 2026 at 23:40 Polish time, 16 days after opening it. The documentation draft (home-assistant.io #48781, stil
Matter cameras are still rare, and UGREEN wants to be among the first to ship one. On 19 October 2026 Matter Alpha reported that the SynCare Indoor Cam ID500 Pro has a Matter certification and can now be reserved together with UGREEN's new HomeAgent hub. The catch is in how it is sold: during the campaign the camera is not available on its own.
ESPHome's storage: rtc option keeps a value across restarts and OTA updates but forgets it after a power cut. It now works on three Beken chips, the BK7231T, BK7231N and BK7238, which ESPHome supports through LibreTiny. Pull request #21007 by porelli was merged into the development branch on 18 October 2026 at 00:59 UTC by bdraco, and the documenta
Vevor's 7-in-1 weather station measures temperature, humidity, wind, rain, UV and light outdoors and shows them on an indoor display. A new ESPHome component, vevor_dtx, gets those readings into Home Assistant over the local network. The pull request by Bofr5555, opened on 26 June 2026, was merged by bdraco into the development branch on 18 October
Home Assistant is getting a native integration for HAVEN IAQ, a maker of indoor air quality monitors from Burnaby, British Columbia, that sells to homeowners as well as to HVAC professionals. Joost Lekkerkerker merged it into the development branch at 22:31 UTC on 18 October (00:31 Polish time on the 19th), almost three months after GitHub user krh
A cheap Wi-Fi plug runs firmware you cannot audit, and many of them talk to a cloud you do not control. On a flat home network that plug sits next to your laptop, your NAS and your phone. Moving smart devices to their own VLAN means a compromised gadget can reach Home Assistant and nothing else.
Two radio additions were merged into ESPHome's development branch eight minutes apart on the evening of 17 October 2026, at 19:44 and 19:52 UTC. Both extend remote_base, the shared code behind remote_receiver and remote_transmitter, and both are about motors for blinds and shutters. They are set for ESPHome 2026.11.
An ESP32 camera running ESPHome has so far streamed through the native API to Home Assistant, or through the esp32_camera_web_server component. The new rtsp_server component adds the protocol that video players and recorders already understand. Christian (max246) opened the pull request on 31 July 2026, building on an earlier one (#1905), and bdrac
