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Top story for Wednesday, November 4, 2026

The Marketplace page for Spook shows its installed version, setup button, community-project notice and compatibility information.
The Marketplace brings community projects into Home Assistant’s settings.

Home Assistant

Home Assistant 2026.11 brings community projects into the Marketplace

Today’s release brings HACS into Home Assistant, adds exclusions to automation targets, and opens camera talkback through Matter and Reolink.

With work byFranck Nijhof@frenck1 linked source

Home Assistant 2026.11 arrives today with the Marketplace built in. The successor to HACS lets administrators browse and install community integrations, dashboard cards, themes and templates from Settings, including on Container installations. Catalogue downloads need no GitHub account, and a newly installed integration opens its setup flow without restarting Home Assistant. Existing HACS installations migrate automatically, keeping installed projects, custom repositories and update entities.

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Reported stories

15 original articles
Daikin Madoka wall controller showing 21°C.

ESPHome

ESPHome controls Daikin Madoka systems over Bluetooth

A nearby ESP32 can change the wall controller’s mode, temperatures and fan speed.

With work byPetapton2 linked pull requests

Reviewed by bdraco, jesserockz

ESPHome adds Bluetooth control for Daikin’s BRC1H Madoka wall controller. A nearby ESP32 can read the room temperature and change operating mode, heating and cooling targets, and fan speed through the same Bluetooth service used by Daikin’s smartphone app.

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The tile-card bar gauge editor shows controls for its colored segments.

Home Assistant

Build colored gauge ranges in Home Assistant’s visual editor

Gauge cards and tile-bar gauges gain editable ranges, while named colors follow the theme.

With work bykarwosts2 linked pull requests

Reviewed by wendevlin, maartenla

Home Assistant makes colored gauge ranges editable without YAML. Gauge cards gain a color-mode selector for a single color, the existing severity thresholds or individual segments with a starting value, color and label. Tile-card bar gauges gain a segment editor too.

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Home Assistant

Home Assistant shows which access tokens are still being used

The profile lists each token’s latest use and connecting address, helping owners identify forgotten credentials.

With work byJosef Zweck@zweckj2 linked pull requests

Reviewed by MartinHjelmare, wendevlin

Home Assistant shows when a long-lived access token was last used and the address it connected from. The information appears beside the token in the user’s profile, helping an owner distinguish an active script or integration from a credential they may no longer need.

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Music Assistant

Music Assistant broadcasts to Auracast receivers

An experimental player connection sends audio through a compatible Bluetooth LE Audio controller.

With work byYago Fontoura do Rosário@Yagoor1 linked pull request

Reviewed by OzGav

Music Assistant adds an experimental Auracast player connection for broadcasting audio to compatible Bluetooth LE Audio receivers. The connection needs a supported serial-connected Bluetooth controller with broadcasting capability; it is not a general connection to ordinary Bluetooth speakers.

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ESPHome

ESPHome stops voice satellites answering their own replies

The microphone waits for a delayed response to finish before listening for the next turn.

With work bypsewarJ. Nick Koston@bdraco2 linked pull requests

Reviewed by bdraco, swoboda1337

ESPHome corrects a conversation loop in which a voice satellite starts listening before its own spoken reply has begun. The satellite could transcribe that reply as a new request and answer itself, rather than waiting for the person to speak.

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Home Assistant

Home Assistant combines matching energy sources in its charts

Multiple tariffs, batteries or solar sources can appear together or separately.

With work byPetar Petrov@MindFreeze2 linked pull requests

Reviewed by maartenla, frenck

Home Assistant adds a Combine sources option to Energy, letting households with several tariffs, batteries or other sources choose a simpler combined view or inspect each source separately. The choice applies across the charts and source table for the selected Energy view.

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