Top story for Thursday, October 29, 2026

ESPHome adds a Sendspin audio source for devices with a microphone or line input. A compatible server starts and stops capture, and the device sends the audio with its capture time so the server can align it with other audio.

Home Assistant lets owners add power-only devices, solar production and home meters to Energy by offering to create the missing energy sensor during setup. It can also reuse a sensor that already calculates the total from the same reading. A newly created sensor starts counting then; it does not reconstruct earlier usage.

Home Assistant adds Seafile as a backup destination for people running their own file-sync server. Each library has a Store backups option and a configurable backup folder, letting an owner choose which libraries receive backups.

Music Assistant adds BookOrbit as a source for self-hosted audiobooks. Listeners can browse their libraries by author, narrator or series, search for a book and play it through Music Assistant while keeping their listening position synchronized in both directions.

Home Assistant adds voice-assistant exposure controls to the entities table’s selection menu. An owner can filter by room, label or integration, select the matching entities, and expose them to an assistant without picking each entity separately in the voice settings.

Home Assistant represents Matter blinds that only tilt, such as the Aqara C100, as tilt controls instead of lift controls. Their state can follow the tilt position instead of remaining unknown, and the interface shows the matching buttons.

Home Assistant’s picture-elements editor lets owners click a control in the preview to edit it, then drag it into position. Dropping it writes the new position, instead of requiring repeated edits to percentage coordinates.