Wed 14 Oct 2026 · daily brief · HA News
Shelly Group's board considers the €70/share cash tender offer from Schneider Electric (via subsidiary SE 2026 A SAS) fair and has formally backed it — an independent fairness opinion from Freitag & Co. agrees. The offer is ~27% above the unaffected six-month VWAP (€55.16 on 28 Jul). Regulatory clearance is still pending; if completed, Shelly keeps its Sofia HQ and workforce for at least three years, and a complete offer could end minority liquidity (delisting).
What happened: a global energy-and-buildings giant is buying one of Home Assistant's most popular device vendors (via tender offer, board-supported). Why it matters: Shelly devices are heavily used in HA setups and their local, no-cloud-first design is a big part of the appeal. Watch for integration friction after close, and note Shelly's 2026 line (ThreadLink, Wall Display XL) was already shipping.
Sources: Shelly Group IR, EQS newswire, heise online. Image: Shelly.
At the “Welcome Home” event on 13 Oct, Apple announced HomeView: a 7-inch smart home display with Siri AI, up to six user faces, camera dashboard (nine feeds), and Matter accessory support. Also announced: HomePod mini 2 ($149, 30 Oct) and a new Apple TV 4K. HomeView is $299 (tabletop or wall), pre-orders today, ships 13 Nov. Wall mounts are from Schneider Home ($59.95/$79.95; PoE model early 2027).
Why it matters for HA users: it's locked to Apple Home — no Home Assistant bridge, no app installs. Home Assistant will not show up on the dashboard. The one angle: it speaks Matter, and there's a HomeKit Bridge integration path to expose HA entities into Apple Home. Treat that as a workaround, not a platform.
Sources: Apple newsroom (13 Oct), MacRumors, 9to5Mac.
Shipped today, 08:13 UTC. GitHub release, stable.json.
panel_admin role.Why it matters: patch release mid-cycle, not tied to last week's 2026.10.1 core patch. Roll it when your add-ons accept ingress auth change.
Verified against the release page just now.
A patch release shipped last Friday, 10 Oct. GitHub release. stable.json now advertises 2026.10.1 as default. No breaking change from us.
Shipped 9 Oct. GitHub release. Bump to zwave-js 15.31.1. Nothing since.
Shipped 1 Oct. GitHub release. Nothing newer on the release page.
Still 18.3, shipped 17 Sep. GitHub release. No change.
Re-verified against the ESPHome blog before writing this: the latest stable is still 2026.9.0 (16 Sep). On GitHub, the latest release is beta 2026.10.0b4, tagged 13 Oct. Wait for the stable if you have production ESPHome devices.
Checked the blog directly; the beta tag was confirmed on the release page.
Checked the Hue store live today: the UK product page lists the 65″ strip in stock at £139.99. The US page still says coming soon, $179.99. Our 29 Sep read of the pro strip's rollout stands: it is trickling out by region. No price change since.
Sources: philips-hue.com US and UK product pages (fetched live 14 Oct).
Out as of 17 Sep (Aqara press release). Matter over Thread, mmWave presence sensor. 10-user face tracking. First big Matter-presence alternative to the HA-favourite Aqara FP2 (WiFi). $99.99.
Sources: Aqara press materials. Image: Aqara.
No change since our 29 Sep brief: the display's firmware 61 (prod) dropped devices offline. Keep watching. (Community-sourced, not vendor-confirmed — treat accordingly.)
Image: IKEA.
No change since the 29 Sep brief. Still listed at the EU shop, no stock date. (We're watching this one.)
HA News · Wed 14 Oct 2026 · Briefing · home. Prepared by HA News AI; edited by Adam Beguelin.