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Home Assistant 2026.8.2 – safe to update?

Newer release in this line: Home Assistant 2026.8.3 (2026-08-21). If you're updating now, check that one instead — it may already fix the issues reported here.

What's in this release

CVEs fixed

No CVEs mapped to this release.

Community reports

• Problem Remote Home-Assistant integration fails since update · Reddit · 2026-08-21

  I'm using the Remote Home-Assistant integration to monitor a second home assistant instance at a summer cottage. It was working well for months, but since the latest Home assistant update, I am getting errors and very sporadic device info. I am using zerotier one to access the r…

• Problem After the latest updates, Andoid app cannot connect to port 8123 · Reddit · 2026-08-21

  Hi, The last HA kind of crashed my sistem right as I'm going tomorrow on a holiday, which is "great". Can anyone help me sort this out? First of all the Android App can no longer connect to HA: ✅DNS Resolution ⚠️Port not reachable. Most of my automations were related to Dirigera…

• Problem 2026.8.2 BTHome integrations broken? · Reddit · 2026-08-20

  Updated to 2026.8.2, chased new BTHome problems for way too long. Rolled back to 2026.8.1 and everything is fixed now.

• Fine Home Assistant 2026.9 out of memory error fix · Reddit · 2026-09-03

  Anybody needing to get their system working again after updating to 2026.9 that is experiencing out of memory errors can downgrade by issuing the command: core update --version 2026.8.2

• Mention Unstable Zigbee Network due to NWK address conflicts · Reddit · 2026-09-08

  I have a large ZHA network where devices in different rooms intermittently become unavailable, reconnect by themselves, and sometimes cannot be controlled individually. The important observation is that Zigbee group commands still work reliably. For example, two IKEA TRÅDFRI dri…

• Mention Music Assistant and Chromecast Support recent issue · Reddit · 2026-08-25

  HAOS 2026.8.2 What I expected, Expected to see Chromecast support not greyed out and be able to select Sendspin for Output. Selecting Sendspin in it's current state is reporting that these aren't compatible with Sendspin. Speakers in question are 2 Google Nest points and 2 minis…

• Mention Ecovacs integration stopped working (only me?) · Reddit · 2026-08-20

  Right now I am on Core 2026.8.2 and Supervisor 2026.07.5. The integration keeps saying that authentication is due and asks for password and code sent by email, but once entered it starts asking all again (and says that the authentication is due). Anyone else on the same boat? 🤔

• Mention Third Reality plugs failing - anyone else had the relay actually cut out? · Reddit · 2026-08-20

  I’ve got four of the Third Reality energy monitoring plugs on ZHA. Three have failed now. One was powering my server. The server kept hard crashing with nothing in the logs. Took me forever to suspect the plug. Moved the server straight to the wall and it’s been fine for weeks s…

• Mention Adguard Home on HAOS Pi 5. Filters and service blocks not applying to wireguard tunnel but fine for everything else · Reddit · 2026-08-19

  Hi all. Had some issues getting Adguard on HAOS (Pi 5 & version 18.2 - 2026.8.2) to play nice with my gl-mt6000 router in regards to DNS leaks and domain name based VPN exclusions. Finally have it all working properly now but have run into an issue with devices remotely connecte…

• Mention Have you tried running an AirBnb using HA? · Reddit · 2026-08-18

  First off I'm new to HA and Airbnb Hosting, but I love automating things and figured my new Airbnb listing would be a great place to put in the time to make things easier. Since we recently moved 800+ miles, having a smarter home and systems setup for guests arriving, making che…

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