2026.8: Approachable by design

Read the full announcement here!

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Everything looks good here, though I’m still running the Beta.

Looking Good, thou im waiting for the Release to “Drop In”

And in regards to this Release note, good idea to “hide” i.e details like Backward-incompatible changes, behind “drop-downs”, Less Scrolling :slight_smile:
IF, it wasn’t for the Header of Each … “Details”, Maybe you can add the Name Of the Integration/Feature instead, So one can skip that whole “Section” … And not have to click on each “Details” .. it’s not like it’s Pandoras Box :grin:

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Great release with so many nice features. Thank You :star_struck:.

It’s just a small detail, but merged devices always confused me when working with devices. This small change will definitely make life easier for users who just started their HA journey.

Man I am so bummed, protect is still a poop show, not sure how it gets its platinum rating. I have 2 motion sensors, one shows up fine and works one has one entity adopt which is greyed out. My alarm panel doesn’t show up at all. My AQ Sensor shows no data at all.

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And where is the http/tls configuration stored now? And how can I change it when HA fails to start due to misconfiguration or whatever reason? These configuration values are fundamental to the operation of HA. Requiring a running HA to fix the startup of HA creates a chicken-egg problem at some point in the future.

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If you don’t confirm the changes within 5 minutes, it reverts to the original settings; and I have seen it happen on one of my systems during the Beta, so i know it works that way. As for where to make the changes, it’s under Settings → System → Network with all the other network related settings.

Quick, this is our chance! Rename apps back to addons before he comes back! :winking_face_with_tongue:

Seriously though, this release looks really cool. I think the way you’re handling the port change is exemplary.

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“any devices that were merged this way are separated automatically”

The heck? That’s the opposite of what I want. Having the same device show a merged view of relevant data from multiple integrations was super useful.

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Welcome. Unfortunately, there have been a lot of changes that make things easier for new users that annoy folks that have been around a while and like how they work.

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Does this now mean the Bitwarden Addon has now also been fixed?

Anyone else have a major CPU spike after the update? I’m running on an Intel i3 NUC with 16gb mem. I usually sit around 9%, but right after the update it spiked to 70-80% and stayed there. I fully rebooted the host.

I didn’t see any add-ons or anything obviously running. I reverted to 2026.7.4 and I’m back to normal now.

Could it have been the devices being “separated”?

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Indeed. Now some off my Tuya devices are on Tuya integration and some on Xtend Tuya. How can I set this so, all are on just one integration?

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Nothing on my end that did that.

With the new changes to the network configuration the “NGINX SSL Proxy” app is almost obsolete. Only a few features from that app are still missing, such as:

  • the ability to have both HTTP and HTTPS enabled and automatically redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS (several browsers still try HTTP first).
  • HTST
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you can rename an entity ID yourself, and control how it is ordered, so your entities follow whatever naming pattern makes sense to you.

Absolutely amazing! :heart:

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Hi, I’m getting this error message when playing media

Failed to perform the action script/radio_play. Admin access required

This is when also developer tools using play media with music assistant.

I’ve tried logging in as an admin and still getting this message. Is this an easy fix?

Thanks in advance

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What about the trusted proxies settings. I hav this in http: block, and now I got a warning as this to be removed from configuration.yaml. Where the trusted proxies will be configured?
use_x_forwarded_for: true
trusted_proxies:
IP of my reverse proxy

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Settings → System → Network → Reverse Proxy

If you had them in your config prior to updating, they are already in the new setting.

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The yaml-config is imported automaticaly, when you remove the http: block
Shows up in Settings → System → Network → Reverse Proxy
Remember to refresh page

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