2026.1: Home is where the dashboard is 🥂

[system]

Read the full announcement here!

[KNXBroker]

Happy new year home Assistent!

[lasseno (Lasse F Olsen)]

WELL DONE! WHAT A UPDATE!!! All enityes some was hide or not come automatic in, after the update its come all the hidden future, some i was missing. Big Hugs also becouse my BMW electric car is coming back throw my zaptec, thanks a lot for big and importont update! Its better text and icon its more easy to see and, big cheers to you guys for this update! Thanks a lot

[quizzical]

Hurray!
I have been hoping for years the hikvision integration would be made available via the UI.
This has a major benefit: several times per week the embedded PIR sensors in my hikvision cameras stop reporting their status to home assistant.
Up until now the only solution was to restart home assistant.
Now it will only require restarting the hikvision integration (something that is only possible with UI based integrations).

[Rufinus (Ludwig Ruderstaller)]

an option to have either the old energy dashboard back, or allowing to set a tab as default would be highly apprecated. ( /energy/overview , /energy/electricity , /energy/water )

[NathanCu (Nathan Curtis)]

LLM Voice issue (Assist, not local first)

Error talking to OpenAI on Android companion (prod)

Logger: homeassistant.components.openai_conversation
Source: components/openai_conversation/entity.py:670
integration: OpenAI (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 2:24:40 PM (3 occurrences)
Last logged: 2:27:24 PM

Error talking to OpenAI: Error code: 400 - {‘error’: {‘message’: “Invalid schema for function ‘HassStartTimer’: schema must have type ‘object’ and not have ‘oneOf’/‘anyOf’/‘allOf’/‘enum’/‘not’ at the top level.”, ‘type’: ‘invalid_request_error’, ‘param’: ‘tools[4].parameters’, ‘code’: ‘invalid_function_parameters’}}

Going to rollback to see if it clears. Edit. Rollback fixes it. Gotta chase.

After upgrading to 2026.1.0 my voice assistant responds “Error talking to OpenAI”

[Merc]

After installing 2026.1 the Homematic IP local integration stopped working. It could not be loaded. Currently trying to reinstall a backup.
Since I am restoring the backup I do not have all the error messages anymore but this was one of them:

“Error occurred loading flow for integration homematicip_local: Exception importing custom_components.homematicip_local.config_flow”

[fcj57 (Frans Kuipers)]

After installing 2026.1 the XtendTuya integration stopped working and could not be loaded. I had to do a full restore of HA to make it work again.
I could not load the integration or even remove the hub to be able to reïnstall this hub.
Some motion sensors will not work with Tuya, only with Extend.

[fireplex]

Trying to access Add-ons via HA app on Android results in a white screen…

Edit: fixed

[flyoffacliff (Ben)]

The link in this article about the home dashboard is broken. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be.

[HACS-bank (Jay Tee)]

A fix for Xtend_tuya is about to be released

[space_cowboy (Will)]

FYI ha-dialog-surface-backdrop-filter doesn’t seem to work in 2026.1.0 anymore (dialog blur gone). Worked fine in 2025.12.5 (rollback restores it)

[Hedda]

Easier navigation to protocol dashboards

For an organization that loves the open standards that seamlessly connect our devices, we sure didn’t promote them enough! Most people didn’t even know that Home Assistant has dedicated dashboards for protocols like Zigbee, Z-Wave, and more.

This release reorganizes the Settings page to give these open protocols a more prominent spot. The protocols section now appears right after the core settings, making it much easier to find all the different ways you’re connecting your devices and quickly access some very useful protocol-specific configurations.

Insteon is not an open standard but instead a closed source propriatory technology owned by a single company so why was that choosen to be be listed among open standards?

Suggest you just remove Insteon from that list or else you will also need to add many additional propriatory technologies or risk being seen as favouring a specific company.

Regardless how you definite, Insteon is not an open standard (and Instead probably will never be made into an open standard either realisticly).

Open standard

Either promote only open standards or add all propriatory protocols to follow the same
principles and be fair to all companies.

Insteon

[amthonie]

I don’t understand why all is a sudden the minimum width of a vertical grid is 3 instead of 2, and why the number of rows can’t be set anymore for horizontal grids. You’re messing up my dashboards…

[badnetmask (Mauricio Teixeira)]

I just upgraded, and I don’t see the protocol dashboards. Does that need to be enabled somewhere? I’m running the Docker version.

[Xornop]

Lets see if we can drag and drop (multiple) devices onto an area, that would make the device dashboard useful for someone like me with over 280 devices

[dcapslock (Darryn Capes-Davis)]

@space_cowboy

FYI ha-dialog-surface-backdrop-filter doesn’t seem to work in 2026.1.0 anymore

Which dialog? Dialogs are progressively being migrated to ha-wa-dialog.

[petro]

Guys, this isn’t feature request thread or a demand feature thread. @Hurleyy @CSirolli

Stay on topic please. The topic is the 2026.1 release.

[mcattle (Mike Cattle)]

The Fish Audio integration is neat. They’ve got a pretty good GlaDOS voice.

It’s not obvious on their website at first, but their API has a pay-as-you-go option so you don’t need to subscribe monthly or annually (but of course it always depends on your usage as to which is the better deal).

[JTP335d]

Did you select dashboards on that page? Should be under “built in”