Home Assistant 2026.11 brings Marketplace, Matter cameras and LoRaWAN

Update, November 5: stable release available

Home Assistant released 2026.11 on November 4. The stable release brings HACS into Settings > Marketplace, adds Matter 1.5 cameras and LoRaWAN, and includes a change to entity naming that can alter dashboard labels. Existing HACS installations migrate on startup after the update.[1]

Two-way camera audio remains a Labs preview. It requires a supported camera and integration; the release names Matter and Reolink. Reolink needs RTSP, and browser microphone access requires HTTPS. Matter cameras also need a sufficiently recent connected Matter server.[1]

Original beta announcement

• Home Assistant published the 2026.11 beta release notes at a URL dated October 28, 2026. The notes carry a November 4, 2026 date and announce a release party live stream on that day.[2][3]
• The original announcement was a beta: Home Assistant called the notes a work in progress and said features might change before the final release.[3]

Marketplace and HACS

• HACS, the Home Assistant Community Store, becomes part of Home Assistant as the Marketplace. It lists community integrations, dashboard cards, themes and templates under Settings > Marketplace.[3]
• Everything in the Marketplace is free, and Home Assistant says that will not change. Administrators can install and update projects without a GitHub account.[3]
• Installing an integration opens its setup flow without a restart. Updates still need a restart.[3]
• Home Assistant states that Marketplace projects are community-made and are not tested, audited or supported by the project. A notice must be accepted before installing or updating.[3]
• Existing HACS installs migrate when Home Assistant starts after the update. Installed projects, custom repositories and update entities carry over.[3]
• The HACS installer stops with this release, so a separate HACS installation is no longer possible on it. The old HACS gets no new releases.[3]
• Projects missing from the catalog can be added from a repository link. Custom repositories need a GitHub connection through device sign-in.[3]

Matter cameras

• The Matter integration supports Matter 1.5 cameras. A Matter camera appears as a camera entity with live video and snapshots.[3]
• Live video uses WebRTC directly between the browser and the camera. The entity follows the camera's privacy mode.[3]
• Home Assistant only discovers Matter cameras when the connected Matter server is recent enough to support them.[3]

Two-way audio

• A Labs preview feature named Two-way audio adds a talk button to the live stream. It is switched on under Settings > System > Labs.[3]
• The button appears for cameras that support two-way audio and whose integration has added support. Those are Matter cameras and Reolink in this release. A Reolink camera needs RTSP, because RTMP and FLV cannot carry audio back to the camera.[3]
• Browsers allow microphone access only over a secure connection. For now, two-way audio works when Home Assistant is opened over HTTPS.[3]
• Home Assistant says it is working on bringing two-way audio to the Home Assistant apps over HTTP.[3]

LoRaWAN and Zigbee Green Power

• LoRaWAN is a long-range, low-power protocol for battery sensors. Home Assistant connects to a ChirpStack or The Things Network server and offers the matching device integration, such as SenseCAP, when a supported device appears.[3]
• A new LoRaWAN page under Settings > Connectivity lists connections and devices and maps which gateways receive which devices. A device page shows signal strength, last report and battery.[3]
• Zigbee Home Automation supports Zigbee Green Power, the batteryless devices powered by the press of a switch or by room light. Friends of Hue switches are named as the best-known example.[3]
• A Green Power device shows a Source ID in its network details. Options that do not apply to it, such as reconfiguring, are left out.[3]

Local-drive storage and backups

• Settings > System > Storage accepts an internal or USB drive as a Local disk, for backups, media or shared files. The disk must already be formatted.[3]
• Home Assistant identifies the disk by its file system identifier, so it keeps working after a restart or a device-name change. A repair appears if the disk is disconnected.[3]
• Restoring a backup no longer makes a temporary copy of the whole backup first. A new sensor reports the size of the last successful automatic backup.[3]