Read this article in French: Home Assistant 2026.10 refond la carte et ajoute une configuration IA en un clic.
Home Assistant 2026.10, named “You are here,” went stable on October 7, 2026. A patch, 2026.10.1, followed on October 10 with bug fixes. The biggest visible change is a rebuilt map, no more blurry tiles when you zoom in, but this home assistant update also adds a one-click way to hook Home Assistant up to AI tools, tidies up the profile page, and carries a few breaking changes that are worth five minutes of reading before you tap update.
A map that actually holds up at every zoom level
The old map leaned on pre-rendered image tiles, and that stopped working cleanly once the previous tile provider started requiring an API key. The new map pulls vector tiles from OpenStreetMap instead, through a Map tiles integration that fetches and caches those tiles through your own Home Assistant instance rather than a third party. In practice it stays sharp whether you’re looking at an entire city or just your driveway, and there’s a proper dark style now too. Older devices that can’t render vector tiles smoothly just fall back to the classic map on their own.
Markers got a rework too. People show up with their profile picture, and anyone sharing a zone now collapses into a single bubble instead of a pile of overlapping pins. The Map dashboard also gained an overview with separate People, Devices, and Zones tabs, and the zone editor runs on the new map as well.
Picking a trigger instead of guessing its ID
Automations get a new “Triggered by” condition that lets you select a trigger directly from a list instead of typing out its ID from memory. Home Assistant now numbers triggers and manages IDs for you, while automations still using hand-written YAML IDs keep working without changes. The editor also flags conditions pointing at a trigger ID that no longer exists, warns when two triggers share an ID, and offers a one-click fix for both.
A profile page that is finally organized
The Profile page is reorganized into four sections: Appearance, Localization, This browser (or This mobile app, depending on where you are), and Security. Every user can now hit an Edit profile button to change their own display name and picture, which used to require more digging than it should have.
Turning on AI access without copying tokens by hand
The AI page now includes a Model Context Protocol card that turns on the built-in MCP server in one click and lists the URLs you need to paste into an AI app. Apps already running their own MCP server get discovered automatically, and the KNX integration picks up its own set of AI tools in this release. For anyone pairing Home Assistant with a local assistant, that removes most of the manual setup that used to stand in the way.
Smaller changes worth knowing about
None of these are headline features on their own, but they’re the kind of thing you’ll notice the first time you go looking for them.
- Home Assistant Cloud is being renamed Home Assistant Link. It is the same Nabu Casa service with the same features; the full switch to the new name is planned for the December release.
- A new Modbus panel under Settings > Connectivity lists every Modbus connection on the system, plus the devices and integrations using each one.
- Dashboard card visibility now uses the same conditions as the automation editor, with a live preview showing whether a card would currently be visible.
- Tile cards gained action buttons and timer presets, and entities can now use their device’s name instead of a separate entity name.
15 new integrations, several quality upgrades
Fifteen new integrations landed in 2026.10. SolarEdge Modbus is the standout, launching straight at Platinum quality, and it’s joined by KACO Modbus, Sunsynk, Threema, Zonneplan, and a batch of infrared-device integrations. Matter, Tuya, Roborock, Z-Wave, and Bosch SHC all picked up upgrades in the same release, and Teslemetry owners get something genuinely useful: local control of a Powerwall and compatible vehicles, instead of routing everything through the cloud. On the quality scale, 11 integrations climbed to Platinum this cycle, 4 to Gold, 6 to Silver, and 4 to Bronze.
Integrations removed this release
Eight integrations were removed, mostly because the services behind them shut down: Dublin Bus, Etherscan, Melnor RainCloud, Orange and Rockland Utility, Sigfox, SolarEdge Local, Travis-CI, and Zestimate. If you were relying on one of these, the official release notes list the suggested replacement for each.
Breaking changes to check before you update
None of these are catastrophic, but several will quietly break a dashboard card or an automation if you skip straight to updating.
- The deprecated legacy authentication mode is gone, and usernames are now always normalized to lowercase with no leading or trailing spaces.
- The easyEnergy and EnergyZero sensors “Hours priced equal or lower/higher” are renamed to “Periods priced equal or lower/higher” and lose their hour unit.
- EnergyFlip moved to a new API that no longer provides some electricity measurements it used to report.
- An empty Google Sheets worksheet now returns
{"range": [[]]}instead of{"range": []}, which can break templates checking for an empty result. - The Google Wifi uptime sensor is deprecated in favor of a new last-restart sensor.
- IoTaWatt’s reactive power sensors switched units from
VARtovar; a repair flow helps migrate existing statistics. - Libre Hardware Monitor versions older than 0.9.5 are no longer supported.
- Linode and Tank Utility are disabled because their underlying libraries are unmaintained.
- Mealie now requires version 3.2 or newer; update Mealie first if your server is older.
- OpenEVSE’s charging status sensor switched to fixed snake_case states instead of raw charger values, so any automation checking the old text needs updating.
- Proxmox VE’s uptime sensors now report a start timestamp instead of seconds since boot.
For the full list of changes, screenshots, and every new integration, the official 2026.10 release announcement and the full core 2026.10 changelog are worth a direct read before you click update. If you are still deciding whether Home Assistant fits your homelab, our Home Assistant guide covers installation paths, hardware, and how it stacks up against Google Home and Apple HomeKit.