tado° is rolling out a set of app updates for its heating system over the coming weeks. The Munich company announced them on 22 October 2026. The two most interesting ones, smarter open window detection and a mould risk index, are only for tado° X owners who pay for AI Assist.
ESPHome has a new sensor filter, rh_correction, that recalculates relative humidity after you correct the temperature of the same sensor. It was written by damib and merged on 22 October 2026 after review by J. Nick Koston (bdraco) and Jesse Hills. The code went into the dev branch, one day after ESPHome 2026.10.0 came out, and the documentation si
Getting a CO2 reading out of a Sensirion SCD41 takes about ten lines of ESPHome YAML. Keeping that reading honest over months is the harder part. The sensor corrects its own drift with an algorithm that makes assumptions about your room, and if the room doesn't meet them, the numbers slowly move away from reality without any error in the logs. Wiri
ESPHome has had a driver for ST's VL53L0X time-of-flight sensor for years. Its bigger sibling, the VL53L1X, now gets one too. The vl53l1x sensor platform was merged on 21 October 2026, the same day ESPHome 2026.10.0 came out, so it will ship in 2026.11. The documentation page was merged the same day.
Brightix, a São Paulo company that designs and makes LED modules, drivers and controls, is preparing a Crowd Supply campaign for LoraReach: a carrier board for building your own LoRaWAN gateway around a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 or a pin-compatible module. Hackster.io wrote about it on 19 October 2026. The Crowd Supply page says the project is
If your ESPHome configuration for a Sensirion SCD4x CO2 sensor set ambient_pressure_compensation with a unit, for example 961mBar, the sensor never got that pressure and did not compensate for it. Pull request #19888 by zerafachris fixes the unit handling. bdraco merged it into the development branch on 19 October 2026 at 09:54 Polish time, which a
Four small fixes for Hi-Link mmWave radar modules landed in ESPHome's development branch on 19 October 2026. All four pull requests come from the same contributor, fallenmi, and bdraco merged them between 20:22 and 23:29 Polish time. Each covers a different module: the LD2410, the low-power LD2410S, the LD2420 and the multi-target LD2460. None of t
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
