Home Assistant 2026.3! 🎉

After last month’s massive release, this one is a nice and relaxed one. We took a step back from the big headline features and fully focused on something equally important: getting the amazing contributions from our community reviewed, polished, and merged. 💚

And did our community deliver! This release is packed with tons of new integrationsIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more], lots of noteworthy improvements to the ones you already use, boatloads of bug fixes, and a really nice list of integrations that climbed up the integration quality scale. 📈

It’s releases like these that really show the strength of our open-source community. Every single contribution matters, and this month that shows more than ever. Thank you all! 🙏

My personal favorite this month? The automation editor change: Continue on error has finally landed in the UI. I actually wrote this feature years ago, but it was only available through YAML. Seeing it now land in the visual editor (making it accessible to everyone) is just awesome. It’s one of those small things that make a big difference in everyday use. 🤩

Oh, and before I forget: have you seen our brand new merch store? The Open Home Foundation store is live! I have to be honest: the quality is really great. The hoodie is so darn comfy it’s ridiculous. I’ve been wearing mine non-stop. Go check it out! 🏃

Also, mark your calendars: State of the Open Home 2026 is happening on April 8 in Utrecht, the Netherlands! Join us live in the audience for a celebration of everything we’ve built together, a look at what’s ahead, and your chance to help shape the future of the Open Home. Tickets are limited, so grab yours while you can! 🎟️

Enjoy the release!

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After an amazing 2025 that saw 12 new Works with Home Assistant partners join the program, it’s now time to say “Hei” to the first partner joining us this year: Heiman.

Founded back in 2005, Heiman specialize in smart home security devices, and are bringing an impressive selection of safety-focused sensors and alarms to the program: including the first Matter carbon monoxide alarms to be certified, along with smoke alarms designed for international markets.

Yes, the day has finally arrived: the Open Home Foundation merch store is up and running! 🥳 While some of you have tracked it down already (and are wearing the T-shirts to prove it!), we wanted to share it officially with the whole community so no one misses the chance to get involved.

Home Assistant 2026.2! 💝

February is the month of love, and this release is here to share it!

The new Home Dashboard is now the official default for all new installations. If you’ve been using Home Assistant for a while and never customized your default view, you’ll get a suggestion to switch; give it a try!

I also need your help! The Open Home Foundation device database is being built as a community-powered resource to help everyone make informed decisions about smart home devices. Head to Home Assistant Labs to opt in and contribute your anonymized device data. 📈

Add-ons are now called Apps! After a lot of community discussion, it was time to use terminology that everyone understands. Your TV has apps, your phone has apps, and now Home Assistant has apps too.

My personal favorite this release? The completely redesigned Quick search! If you’re like me and navigate Home Assistant using your keyboard, you’re going to love this one. Press ⌘ + K (or Ctrl + K on Windows/Linux) and you have instant access to everything. 🤩

Enjoy the release!

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Imagine knowing how a smart device will actually perform in your home before you buy it… not from a spec sheet, but from anonymized data that people running setups just like yours have opted to share. Having answers to questions like: will this sensor work without the cloud? Is that smart plug actually being reported by users as reliable? Does “local control” mean local always, or just sometimes? Will these devices work well across protocols? What this device looks like in other users’ homes?

It’s time to celebrate what we’ve built together, and get excited about what’s coming next – at State of the Open Home, our annual look at how we’re championing privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home. And this year, we’re doing something new: inviting you to be part of the action in our audience! 🎉

That’s right, you don’t have to watch from home – you can join us live in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on Wednesday, April 8.

Last month – and indeed last year! – we published a blog recapping the highlights from the Works with Home Assistant program in 2025. As with any certification program, our partnerships evolve: some start anew, some grow bigger and stronger, and some naturally run their course. In the interest of visibility for our community, we want to share an update about one such change. When a partner leaves the program, we believe it’s important to document this openly so you get the full picture.

Happy New Year! 🥂

I hope you had a wonderful holiday, spending time with your loved ones. We’re kicking off 2026 with a smaller release, as our contributors and maintainers have been enjoying some well-deserved time off as well. But don’t worry, there’s still plenty of good stuff in this release!

Home Assistant 2026.1 brings a refreshed Home dashboard experience on mobile, with summary cards right at your fingertips without extra taps. We’ve also made it easier than ever to navigate to the protocol connecting your devices, such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread and more.

For automation enthusiasts, we’re continuing our work on our even more “human-friendly” triggers, which can be enabled via Home Assistant Labs, so you can build automations using easy-to-understand language instead of technical state changes, like initiating automations if a button is pressed or someone arrives home.

On the integrations front, we welcome eight new integrations to the family, including pet tracking with Fressnapf, energy monitoring with eGauge, and smart heating control with Watts Vision +. Plus, improvements to existing integrations from our amazing community contributors.

I wish you a happy and healthy 2026! Enjoy the release!

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It’s been a busy few months composing behind the scenes, building up to a massive crescendo. Today, the beat finally drops on Music Assistant’s biggest update yet. With version 2.7, Music Assistant is getting all jazzed up with a visual overhaul, a chart-topping lineup of new features and providers, along with a brand-new streaming protocol we’re spinning up ourselves.

Of course, you can always update and experience all the great new stuff without reading the rest of this, but you might miss a deep cut. In fact, we can’t even cover everything in this blog (there really is that much), so go sing your praises for anything we missed in the comments!

If you’re ever in need of a device that works great with Home Assistant, well, I have just the program for you. Works with Home Assistant is our certification program that ensures devices work seamlessly and locally, all with brands that back them up.

Did you know that this year the Works with Home Assistant program has certified 12 partners across 12 months? That’s more than were certified in the two years since the program launched in 2022! The full list of devices is insanely long now (luckily, we made it searchable). To make all this happen over just one year, a lot of important things have been happening behind the scenes.