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Open Home Foundation
An expanded contribution plan keeps reported facts separate from community additions; a launch proposal targets early 2027.
The Open Home Foundation plans to let people correct model information and add images to existing Device Database entries. Its expanded roadmap brings community contributions and richer pages into one effort, while exploring a public launch beyond Preview in early 2027.
Home Assistant
Each connected home can receive an exact location, a zone alone or no location at all.
Home Assistant’s Apple Watch app reports the watch’s own location instead of leaving its device tracker unknown. A setting for each connected server offers Exact, Zone only or Never, with sharing off by default.
ESPHome
Rapid commands stop a moving garage door instead of reversing it or restarting it after a stop.
Reviewed by bdraco, burmistrzak, zweckj
ESPHome changes how it controls Hörmann garage doors: a command to change direction, position or ventilation while the door moves only stops it. Commands in quick succession therefore cannot reverse the door at speed, and a repeated stop no longer starts it again.
Home Assistant
An ordinary playback action replaces an administrator-token workaround and can also start playlists at a chosen track.
Reviewed by marcelveldt
Home Assistant automations gain a way to start a Music Assistant podcast at its newest episode instead of queuing from the oldest one. The playback action accepts latest or newest as a starting item, bringing a Music Assistant capability into the normal Home Assistant action.
Home Assistant
A failed automatic update stops leaving Core and installed apps permanently unstarted.
Reviewed by agners
Home Assistant continues starting when Supervisor’s automatic startup update fails. Previously, a failed image download could leave Supervisor indefinitely in its startup state, with Home Assistant Core and apps never started.
Sendspin
Linux and macOS capture bring the earlier C++ library work into a configurable desktop tool.
Sendspin’s command-line player gains an audio input option for sending a microphone or line-in to a compatible server. Linux supports ALSA, PipeWire and PulseAudio inputs, while macOS uses CoreAudio. The input is optional and can run alongside the player’s existing audio output.
ESPHome
Firmware can describe setup pages and household entity choices for Home Assistant 2026.11.
Reviewed by bdraco
ESPHome lets device makers describe a guided setup for Home Assistant, highlighting the settings that matter and asking the owner to choose the household entities the device needs. A device can define several pages instead of leaving someone to work through a long list of controls.
Music Assistant
A new connection browses and streams music, audiobooks and podcasts with read-only access.
Reviewed by OzGav
Music Assistant adds Yandex Disk as a source for personal music, audiobooks and podcasts. The connection browses and synchronizes the cloud-stored collection and streams its files through Music Assistant.
ESPHome
The 2027.6.0 release is the latest planned cutoff, and dependency changes could bring it forward.
Reviewed by jesserockz
ESPHome warns people building firmware on Intel Macs that support will end with version 2027.6.0 or earlier. The notice appears on every run and in the Intel option on the installation page, giving those users a deadline for moving their build environment.
Music Assistant
The playlist resource now checks who is allowed to read it.
Reviewed by MarvinSchenkel
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Device Builder explains when a USB cable is needed instead of offering a wireless update the device will reject.
Reviewed by bdraco
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Supervisor checks every command before forwarding a batch with Home Assistant’s privileged access.
Reviewed by agners
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Starting a stopped Z-Wave JS app no longer resets options such as its radio region and logging choices.
Reviewed by MartinHjelmare
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The additions cover a dimmer, high-power relay, power strip and Matter-over-Thread lock.
Reviewed by dan-long-dev
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Music Assistant keeps control when the television changes which speaker leads a Sonos group.
Reviewed by marcelveldt
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