Smart home news you can read in five minutes.

Home Assistant now has two built-in AI APIs: Assist for your exposed devices, and an admin-only one for managing Home Assistant itself. The admin one just learned to read your full logs and list broken integrations. Useful, with a real privacy cost.

Home Assistant 2026.11 turns HACS into a built-in Marketplace, reworks how entities are named on your dashboards, and adds Matter cameras. Here's what changes, what doesn't, and the five things I'd check before pressing update.

Home Assistant 2026.11 gives AI assistants the ability to call actions and reload integrations, and adds a read-only switch for its MCP server. The community ha-mcp server shipped an access switch and locked-down defaults the same week. Here's how I'd set up agent access now.

Google stops sending Nest events to Google-hosted Pub/Sub topics after November 30, 2026. If your Home Assistant Nest setup is old enough, doorbell presses and motion events will quietly stop. Here's how to check in two minutes and what the fix looks like.

OX Security looked at 15,465 public MCP servers: no vetting, some running through home tunnels, some on expired domains anyone can buy. What that means for Home Assistant, Hubitat and openHAB users, and my checklist.

Home Assistant merged native support for Matter 1.5 cameras: live WebRTC video and snapshots, straight from camera to browser. Here's what it depends on, what testers ran into, and what to wait for.