Mapping all the changes in Home Assistant 2026.10

Headlines

• Home Assistant Community DayNovember 7th
• Home Assistant Cloud is now Home Assistant Link
• LG TV’sGamers Nexus on YouTube has discovered some pretty shocking stuff from LG TV’s recording conversations.
• Shelly AcquisitionSchneider Electric and Shelly have made an agreement for Schneider to purchase Shelly for 1.2 billion euros.The purchase will require approvals, with everything going to plan – early 2027 for the sale to be completed. One of the co-founders of Shelly has been out on Facebook to answer some concerns from the community that local control and APIs will remain.

New Features

• Maps by Open Street Maps get an upgrade
• “Triggered by” becomes much easier to use in automationsThis is another example of something power users have done in YAML for years becoming understandable in the UI.This is potentially one of the most useful changes for people building larger automations.Home Assistant already lets you give triggers IDs and then branch depending on which trigger fired. In 2026.10, the automation editor makes this workflow much more approachable: you can select triggers directly from a Triggered by condition rather than manually managing trigger IDs.The editor can also detect missing trigger references and help repair shared IDs. YAML automations are being preserved rather than force-migrated.
• Dashboard Card VisibilityThe visibility tab of dashboard items now offers the same conditions as the automation editor, including Template, Sun, Zone, and Device, and the conditions integrations bring along. They sit right next to the ones that only make sense on a dashboard, like Screen and User, and you can mix them freely.
• Renovated AI Panel and FeaturesIts now easier to configure your local AI assistant with Home Assistant thanks the refreshed AI panel. The AI tasks page under Settings > System is now called AI, and it gained a Model Context Protocol card. Turn the server on in a single click, and the card lists the URLs to paste into your AI app, each with a button to copy it. It also works the other way around. Apps that run their own MCP server are now discovered automatically by the Model Context Protocol integration, so connecting Home Assistant to them only takes a confirmation.AI got a lot better at finding music. Ask it to play something, and instead of blindly playing the first search result, it now gets a list of results and picks the best matchIf your home runs on KNX, your AI can now dig into that too. The KNX integration brings its own set of AI tools, which you can hand to your conversation agent, or to your AI app through the Model Context Protocol server
• Z-wave Network Mapcan now show the real mesh. Turn on the new neighbors toggle, and it draws the connections between your devices, not just the routes they use. It’s off by default, because large networks get busy fast.
• YAML configuration errors now suggest what you probably meant. Mistype command_topci, and the error asks: did you mean command_topic? Error messages also show the path to the file relative to your configuration folder, so they are easier to read
• Battery ReportingThe Energy dashboard can now show the discharge of individual batteries separately, rather than only presenting the overall battery picture.This should be useful for homes with multiple batteries or more complicated storage setups.
• New Modbus PanelThe new Modbus panel under Settings > Connectivity lists every Modbus connection Home Assistant has, serial ports and network gateways alike, along with the devices on it and the integrations using them. Connections set up in YAML show up here too.
• ProfilesUsers of your Home Assistant server can now manage their own profiles. The profile page has also had some tidying up.
• [SKIP – Mentioned] Automation traces now better match the automation editorTraces have been visually updated so they more closely resemble how the automation appears in the automation editor. Home Assistant Community
• Timers become more useful on dashboardsThere are improvements around controlling timers from dashboards, including easier controls and timer presets.This could be particularly interesting for dashboard-heavy households where you want buttons such as 5 minutes / 10 minutes / 30 minutes rather than manually entering a duration.
• Binary sensors now gain glass break sensor support. Glass break sensors are treated as security sensors, so they show up on the Security dashboard and in your home security summary.
• Alerts are expanding to the Home DashboardThe alert functionality introduced into the Security dashboard is spreading: the Home dashboard now supports active alerts as well.
• MatterFor supported Matter leak sensors, Home Assistant can expose separate controls for things such as the audible alarm and visual alarm. IKEA’s KLIPPBOK is one example. Matter also gains further smart-lock and electrical-monitoring capabilities.
• TemplatesTemplate entities can now be climate entities, so you can build your own thermostat from other entities.Binary sensor template helpers now let you set a delay before they turn on or off, right from the UI. Until now, that was only possible in YAML.They also gained a timedelta_string function, which turns a duration into readable text like “1 hour 30 minutes”, the same way time_since and time_until do
• TuyaA lot more devices from Tuya are supported this release, including DIN rail energy meters, circuit breakers, EV chargers, water valves, and the keypad tone and alarm push settings of the Duosmart C30 alarm panel
• Philips Hueadded a switch to turn each MotionAware zone on or off, just like you can in the Hue app. Rooms and zones also gained a scene select, showing which scene (or smart scene) is currently active, and letting you pick another one
• Z-waveadded three new conditions to the automation editor, with proper fields to fill in: check a device’s node status, the value of a configuration parameter, or any other Z-Wave value. Z-Wave triggers got the same treatment.
• Unifi Protectnow supports the UniFi Protect key fob, with its battery, status, and an event entity for every button press, like arm, disarm, or panic, and each input of a UniFi Protect relay now shows up as its own binary sensor.
• OpenAIadded support for the GPT-6 Astra and GPT-Image-2.5 models.
• Lifxnow supports LIFX lights that connect over Thread,
• Proxmoxadded update entities for your Proxmox nodes, showing when updates are available and how many Proxmox and other packages are waiting
• Apple iCloudbrings your iCloud calendars and Reminders into Home Assistant. Each calendar shows up as a calendar entity, and each Reminders list as a to-do list, where you can add, complete, and remove items that sync right back to your Apple devices.
• Mideaadded water heaters, a lock switch, a pump switch for dehumidifiers, a sensor for when the water pump of an air conditioner is running, and salt, AI mode, time remaining, and door warning entities for the appliances that support them
• Teslemetrycan now control things locally: your Powerwall over your own network, and your vehicle over Bluetooth. Commands try the local route first and fall back to the cloud, so they are faster, and vehicle commands even work when the car has no connection

New Integrations

• More Modbus integrationsSolarEdge Modbus and KACO Modbus
• More Infrared integrations
• Axle EnergyBring the grid event schedule of your Axle Energy account into Home Assistant. It tells you whether an upcoming event asks you to import from or export to the grid, and exactly when it starts and ends, so your automations can get your home ready in time.
• Bitvis Power HubRead real-time electricity data from your smart meter using a Bitvis Power Hub, which plugs into the meter’s HAN port. The Power Hub pushes its measurements, like power, voltage, and current per phase, straight to Home Assistant over your local network. No cloud, no polling.
• Indi AllskyConnect your INDI Allsky camera server, for astrophotography and keeping an eye on cloud cover. You get the latest capture as a camera, plus sensors for sky quality, the number of stars detected, exposure time, and whether it’s night.
• my-PVControl my-PV devices which turn your surplus solar power into hot water. Home Assistant talks to them locally and discovers them on your network automatically.
• SunsynkBring your Sunsynk hybrid solar inverter and battery into Home Assistant using your Sunsynk Connect account. You get sensors for solar production, grid import and export, and your battery. Home Assistant can even discover the Sunsynk data logger on your network
• Theben Conexa Smart Meter Gateway
  Read your meter data locally from a Theben Conexa 3.0 smart meter gateway, using its built-in Home Area Network (HAN) interface. No cloud needed.
• Threema
  Send end-to-end encrypted messages from your automations to people on Threema, the privacy-focused messenger that doesn’t need a phone number. It uses the Threema Gateway service, and each person you add as a recipient gets their own notify entity.
• VitesyConnect the Vitesy Shelfy, an air purifier that lives in your refrigerator. See the air quality and temperature inside your fridge, how often the door was opened, and when the filter needs cleaning or replacing. You can even switch the purifier mode, for example to boost it after a grocery run.
• WillowKeep an eye on the health of your indoor plants with Willow sensors. Temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and light levels come from the Willow cloud into Home Assistant, ready for your dashboards and automations
• Zonneplan
  Get the electricity and gas prices of your Zonneplan contract, a Dutch provider of dynamic energy contracts.

Breaking Changes

• Removed Integrations

Links

https://github.com/rocketraman/open-green-button

https://gist.github.com/sle118/a7a9307185b7f923876fe8975c965aa9