Home Assistant 2026.9.3 → 2026.11.0

Z-Wave

Z-Wave now needs zwave-js-server 3.11.0 or later, and multi-endpoint devices get a child device per endpoint.

For your setup The radiator valves, thermostat, and door and window sensors all run on Z-Wave, and the too-warm and door automations depend on them. Entity IDs stay the same, so the automations keep working once the server is current.

Do this Update the Z-Wave JS app to 1.9.0 or later before upgrading Home Assistant.

Turn off Tuya fans when the speed is set to 0%

Setting a Tuya fan's speed to 0% now turns it off.

For your setup The Bathroom extractor fan turns off when its speed slider goes to 0%, instead of staying on at the lowest speed.

Entity names

Entity names are now built from the entity name plus its device name.

For your setup Dashboard cards without their own name will show names like Hallway motion sensor Occupancy. The old name stays as a voice alias, and automations are not affected. Set a name on a card, or rename the device, where you want it shorter.

Cloud becomes Link

Home Assistant Cloud is being renamed Home Assistant Link in December, and remote access got faster with more servers and automatic server picking.

A whole new map

Maps now draw OpenStreetMap vector tiles on your device, fetched through Home Assistant, with redesigned markers and a dark style.

A tidier profile page

The user profile is split into short sections (appearance, localization, this browser, security), and people can now change their own name and picture.

The best automation feature you never used

Trigger IDs get a proper editor: in a Triggered by condition you tick the triggers to match, and Home Assistant manages the IDs.

For your setup Most rooms here have two or three motion-light automations, such as Garden motion lights 1 to 3. Each set could become one automation with a Triggered by condition.

Welcome to the Marketplace

HACS becomes the built-in Marketplace under Settings, for installing community integrations, cards, themes, and templates without a restart.

Exclude items from a target

Targets can now leave out entities, devices, areas, floors, or labels, and the exclusion keeps applying as things are added.

For your setup The sunset automations close every blind in an area; an exclusion could keep one open, such as the Office blinds on work days, without listing the others by hand.

Copy and paste dashboard sections

Dashboard sections can be copied or cut and pasted, also into another view or dashboard.

Sections that fill themselves

Automatic dashboard sections pick their own cards, such as every light on a floor or every entity of one device, and stay current as devices change.

New cards and badges

New Date card and Alert badge, a color option for the Sensor card, buttons or a slider for target temperatures, and a visual editor for the Alert card.

Color control on light tiles

Light tiles get a hue strip with an optional saturation slider.

Name it once, Home Assistant adds the context

Entities are named once and Home Assistant adds the device or area around them where it helps, so renaming a device renames its entities.

For your setup See Entity names under You'll notice for what changes on the dashboards.

Forms that ask only what they need

Setup forms and blueprints show a field only when an earlier answer makes it relevant.

From power to energy in one step

The Energy dashboard offers to derive an energy sensor from a power-only sensor, and the same for gas and water flow.

Why did that happen?

The Activity panel filters by what triggered a change, traces link to the script run they started, and integrations with debug logging show their own live log.

Cameras Matter

Matter 1.5 cameras are supported, and a Labs preview adds two-way audio to camera streams.

For your setup The Reolink doorbells in the Hallway and Garden can use two-way audio once it is turned on in Labs, as long as they stream over RTSP and the app is opened over HTTPS.

Store backups and media on local drives

Internal and USB drives can hold backups, media, and shared files, and restores no longer copy the whole backup first.

Reach the far corners with LoRaWAN

Home Assistant connects to LoRaWAN network servers such as ChirpStack and The Things Network, with a new LoRaWAN page under Connectivity.

Batteryless switches with Zigbee Green Power

ZHA now pairs Zigbee Green Power devices, such as batteryless wall switches that run on the press itself.

For your setup This home runs ZHA, so a batteryless switch (a Friends of Hue switch, for example) could join the Zigbee network and drive the motion-light rooms by hand.

Matter

Matter adds switches for leak sensor alarms and for one-touch locking, plus frequency and power factor for power meters.

For your setup The Hallway door lock is a Matter lock, so you can now decide whether one touch on its keypad locks the door.

Tuya

Tuya supports more devices: DIN rail meters, breakers, EV chargers, water valves, and more readings for three-phase meters.

ESPHome

ESPHome devices can open the connection to Home Assistant themselves, for networks where Home Assistant can't reach them.

Reolink

Reolink can pan and tilt the lenses of multi-lens cameras behind an NVR or Home Hub.

Roborock

Roborock wet and dry vacuums now update in real time.

Z-Wave

Z-Wave gets automation editor conditions and triggers for node status, configuration parameters, and other values.

UniFi Protect

UniFi Protect supports the key fob and relay inputs, and API-key-only mode covers more devices and settings.

Binary sensor

Binary sensors get a glass break device class, treated as a security sensor.

Z-Wave

The Z-Wave network map can show the real mesh between devices.

Climate

Climate fan modes can be set by voice.

ESPHome

ESPHome devices can share a serial port over the network, which ZHA can use for a Zigbee adapter plugged into one.

Shelly

Shelly adds support for the BLU TRV, a Last seen sensor for battery devices, and a combined cover position and tilt action.

Tuya

Tuya supports heated towel racks, irrigation valves, and the missing switches on multi-gang wall switches.

UniFi Protect

UniFi Protect supports the Alarm Hub, and API-key-only mode gains chimes, doorbell messages, and pan and tilt.

Zigbee Home Automation

Each ZHA group gets its own device, which can have its own area.

MQTT

MQTT devices can have child devices, and the MQTT entity editor gets a unit picker.

WLED

WLED adds an AudioReactive switch, a next-playlist-entry button, and temperature and humidity sensors for devices with those usermods.

Combine calendars into one.

The Group integration can combine several calendars into one.