Home Assistant 2026.10 Overhauls the Map and Adds One-Click AI Setup
Home Assistant 2026.10, “You are here,” is now stable with a rebuilt vector-tile map, a one-click Model Context Protocol connection…
Category: Home Automation
Self-hosted home automation: Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT, MQTT brokers and openHAB, running locally without a cloud subscription.
Home Assistant 2026.9 Adds Security Alerts and Removes the VLC Integration
Home Assistant 2026.9, “There’s room on this bus,” is now the stable release. The Security dashboard gains an Active alerts…
ESPHome 2026.8 Takes BLE Beyond the ESP32 and Turns the Pico W Into a Bluetooth Proxy
ESPHome 2026.8.0 moves BLE support out of the ESP32-only world: 39 BLE sensor platforms now run on the Raspberry Pi…
Home Assistant 2026.8 Makes Port 80 the Default for New Installs
Home Assistant 2026.8 switches new Home Assistant OS installations to port 80, adds a web server settings screen to the…
Home Assistant Alternatives and the Self-Hosted Home Automation Stack
Home Assistant gets all the attention, but a real self-hosted smart home is usually a stack: a hub, protocol bridges…
