Once a bad measurement lands in Home Assistant's long-term statistics, it stays in every graph built from them. For totals such as energy there has long been a way out, the "Adjust sum" tool. For mean statistics, such as temperature, there was none: the values cannot be adjusted, so the only fix was to delete the whole statistic, with its entire hi
A new lorawan integration was merged into Home Assistant's development branch on 14 October 2026, and its documentation went into the next branch of the website the same day. It is the base layer for native LoRaWAN support. A follow-up merged on 17 October exposes LoRaWAN devices, connections and gateway receptions through admin WebSocket APIs. The
Theengs Gateway 1.8.0 was released on 13 October 2026. Theengs Gateway is a Python program that listens for Bluetooth Low Energy advertisements from sensors such as Xiaomi thermometers, SwitchBot meters, scales and Victron battery monitors, decodes them and publishes the readings to an MQTT broker. It runs on a Raspberry Pi or any other Linux, macO
Withings has changed the terms of its public API, and Home Assistant's Withings integration runs on that API. Since 12 October 2026, an account created after the cutoff needs an active Withings+ membership to share health data with any app on the free "Start for Free" plan, according to Withings' API plans page. That includes apps that are already
Shelly released two door and window sensors on 8 October 2026 after previewing them at IFA 2026. Both speak Zigbee 3.0 and Bluetooth 5 LE at once, report open/close plus tilt angle, and are sold now on Shelly.com and through authorised resellers. The compact Mini is €15.90; the outdoor model is €18.90.
