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        FireAvert joins Works with Home Assistant

          Miranda Bishop July 28, 2026
            * Works-with-Home-Assistant

          Sound the alarm, because Works with Home Assistant just welcomed our newest partner to the program: FireAvert! 🎉 Specialists in fire safety, FireAvert are on a mission to keep you and your home out of harm’s way. They bring the very first gas and electric appliance shutoff devices to the program, and with them, a whole lot of peace of mind.

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        Building the device database together: Public preview now live

          Matthias Kerstner July 23, 2026
            * Announcements
        This article is shared from the Open Home Foundation

          Ever since we introduced the idea of a community-powered device database at State of the Open Home 2025, our goal has been clear: create a “Wikipedia of smart home devices” based on real-world usage. In February, we took the first step by inviting Home Assistant users to voluntarily share anonymized device data to help us build it.

          Read on Open Home Foundation →

        2026.8 Beta: A betta title

          Ashley Abbott August 5, 2026
            * Core
            * Release-Notes

            Note

              Welcome to the beta release notes for Home Assistant 2026.8 🎉


              Please note that these release notes are a work in progress. 👷‍♀️ We will be completing them over the next couple of days. Not all features might be final yet, and some features may not make it into the final release.


              Want to help test the beta? Awesome! ❤️ We have documented how you can join our beta channel and install the beta here.


              While running the beta, we highly recommend joining our #beta channel on the Home Assistant Discord chat! 💬 Most developers and beta testers are in this channel during the beta period to share experiences, ideas, and iterate over new features, fine-tuning them before the final release. It’s a really fun place to hang out. 😎


              Reporting issues: As this is a beta test, you might encounter unexpected behavior or issues. 🐞 We use the GitHub issue tracker to track beta issues. You can find our issue trackers and the reported issues during beta here:


                * Report(ed) beta dashboards/UI/frontend issues
                * Report(ed) beta integrations/automations/backend/core issues
                * Report(ed) beta documentation issues

              🙏 When reporting issues, make sure to mention the exact beta version you are running in the issue description. This will help us identify and track the issue correctly. Read more about reporting issues here.


              Issues introduced in the beta are processed with priority. 🔝

            Tip

              Don’t forget to join our release party live stream on YouTube on August 5, 2026, at 20:00 GMT / 12:00 PT / 21:00 CET!

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              There’s more to look forward to next week: the ESPHome Starter Kit is launching, and you’re invited to the official launch party! 🚀 Join the ESPHome team and their partners at Apollo Automation on the ESPHome YouTube channel on August 12 at 21:00 CEST. Familiar faces are dropping by to celebrate lift-off, too: Reed from Smart Home Solver, Simon from Simon Says Home Assistant, and Gavin from HomeTech.fm.

          Home Assistant 2026.8! 🎉

          Hi, I’m Ashley, the Technical Program Manager at the Open Home Foundation. With Frenck taking a well-deserved break, Bram and I are teaming up to handle things this time around.

          We have been working on a lot over the past few weeks, and I’m excited to share some of what we have done for this release!

          If there’s one thread tying this release together, it’s a direction we care about: making Home Assistant something you don’t need to be technical to use. This release is another step along that path.

          Enjoy the (beta) release!

          - Ashley

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        IoTorero joins Works with Home Assistant

          Miranda Bishop July 9, 2026
            * Works-with-Home-Assistant

          The Works with Home Assistant program powers up this month as we welcome our new partner, IoTorero! 🎉 Experts in pre-flashed smart home hardware, IoTorero bring the very first ESPHome-ready smart plugs and relays to the program (and that’s not all).

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        Companion app: Changing support for Apple platforms

          Bruno Pantaleão July 7, 2026
            * Announcements

          We’re updating which Apple platforms the Home Assistant Companion app supports, and because transparency is core to how we work, we want to be upfront about what’s changing.

          Starting with version 2026.8.0 of the Companion app, we will no longer support iOS 15, watchOS 8, or macOS 11. The last supported version for these platforms will be 2026.7.1.

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        2026.7: Automations that speak your language

          Franck Nijhof July 1, 2026
            * Core
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              Don’t forget to join our release party live stream on YouTube on July 1, 2026, at 20:00 GMT / 12:00 PT / 21:00 CET!

          Home Assistant 2026.7! 🎉

          This is one of those releases I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. My favorite by far is what we’ve done with automations. Purpose-specific triggers and conditions graduate from Labs and become the new default for everyone. 🎉

          It comes down to something we’ve been chasing for years: more power, less complexity. Instead of starting from Home Assistant’s internals, which entity, which state, which kind of trigger, you start from what you actually want your home to do. When the bedroom drops below 18°C, turn on the heating. That’s it. No technical traps, no quirks to memorize. And because integrations can teach the automation engine their own triggers and conditions, it only gets better from here. All of it right there in our beautiful user interface.

          The nice thing is, nothing breaks. All your existing automations keep working, worry-free. We’ve also written tons of great documentation explaining every single trigger, condition, and action, with examples to learn from. And if you’re one of those people who prefers writing automations in YAML instead of the UI, you’re in for an amazing experience too. User experience is not a synonym for “the UI”. YAML users deserve good user experience too.

          But honestly? I’ve got a second favorite this release, and that surprised me a little. Activity, what many of you still know as the logbook, has been rebuilt into a slick and clean timeline. 😍 It reads top to bottom like a feed, groups entries by day, and finally speaks the same language as the rest of Home Assistant. I keep opening it just to look at it.

          And that’s just the start. There’s a new update-all button, dedicated panels for infrared and radio frequency, an overhauled ZHA Zigbee device management, and 10 new integrations from our community.

          One more thing before you dive in: the Open Home Foundation is exhibiting at IFA Berlin for the first time, from September 4 to 8, 2026. We’d love to meet you there, so come say hello. There’s also a community meetup on Sunday, September 6, and everyone’s welcome. You can read all about it here.

          Enjoy the release!

          ../Frenck

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        The Matter upgrade you’ve been waiting for

          Ingo Fischer June 23, 2026
            * Announcements

          It started as a passion project. Yet in a few years matter.js has grown beyond my wildest expectations, becoming the backbone of the open source Matter ecosystem, and powering everything from Homebridge to openHAB, and even some commercial products.

          Ten months ago, I joined forces with the Open Home Foundation to work full time as Lead Developer of Matter. Shortly after, I donated matter.js to the foundation – giving it a new home where it would be safeguarded for the future. Together we announced our plans to take Matter support in Home Assistant in a completely new direction: we set out to rebuild the Open Home Foundation Matter Server – the engine that powers Matter in Home Assistant – on matter.js.

          After four months of beta testing, with our community fixing bugs and contributing new features along the way, today we’re thrilled to present the newest version of Matter for Home Assistant! 🎉

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        Proxy all the things: no device left behind

          Paulus Schoutsen June 18, 2026
            * Technology
        This article is shared from the Open Home Foundation

          Every smart home has them: the older devices that still work perfectly well but no longer fit neatly into a modern setup. Instead of letting them gather dust in a drawer, the Open Home Foundation’s projects can help you bring them back into the fold. Here’s how a little proxying can give your beloved old gear a new lease of life, and keep your smart home that bit more sustainable.

          Read on Open Home Foundation →

        2026.6: Pick a card, any card

          Franck Nijhof June 3, 2026
            * Core
            * Release-Notes

          Home Assistant 2026.6! 🎉

          I’m going to put my hand up right away: ✋ I am not a dashboard person. Not because I don’t like them; I love seeing what you all build. But designing a beautiful one is a kind of visual creativity I just don’t have. That’s a big part of why I love the built-in Home dashboard so much, it does the designing for me. But when I do build a custom dashboard, I usually stare at that “add a card” dialog for way too long, picking cards almost at random just to see if they look good with the data I have.

          So you can imagine my excitement for my personal favorite of this release: the new card picker. Instead of asking “which card type do I want?”, it now asks “which thing in your home do you want to show?”, and then suggests cards that actually make sense for it, with live previews using your own data. For someone like me, that’s not just easier; it’s genuinely inspiring. It nudges me towards combinations I would not have thought of on my own. 💡

          This fits into a bigger direction I keep getting more excited about: Home Assistant getting better at starting from the thing you want to do, instead of asking you to first learn the building blocks. The same idea is what makes purpose-specific triggers and conditions in Home Assistant Labs feel so right, and this release brings them a big step closer to graduating out of Labs with brand new zone triggers and conditions. 📍

          A close second favorite for me this release is everything happening around that in the automation editor: live test indicators on your conditions, target counts on every device, area, floor, and label, and proper notes you can attach to any step. Individually they are small quality-of-life touches; together, they make building automations feel a whole lot more transparent. ✨

          And there is plenty more to love in this release: new tile card features, Z-Wave smart locks catching up with their Matter siblings, a friendlier Apps page, and another big batch of new integrations from our community. 🚀

          Enjoy the release!

          ../Frenck

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        Sensereo joins Works with Home Assistant

          Miranda Bishop May 28, 2026
            * Works-with-Home-Assistant

          We’re sensing a change in the air this month as we welcome Sensereo to the Works with Home Assistant program 🎉. Specialists in environmental sensing, Sensereo brings Matter smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms into the Home Assistant ecosystem – meaning more ways to keep your home open, safe, and sound.

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