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Home Assistant 2026.8.3 – safe to update?

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Community reports

• Mention iOS Live Activities for appliances — how do you stop every update from alerting the phone and the Apple Watch? · Reddit · 2026-09-21

  I created Live Activities for my dishwasher, washer and dryer. However, I get every update alerts. to a point where the phone sound and watch haptic updates are starting to get super annoying. I changed the refresh to 5 min and even that is annoying. I then changed it to 15min b…

• Mention Problem to update · Reddit · 2026-09-19

  Are running version 2026.8.3 and can not update to 2036.9.3. It goes through the update restarts but end with the old version. The log says: s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started s6-rc: info: service legacy-ser…

• Mention Unable to upgrade to 2026.9.0 · Reddit · 2026-09-03

  I'm running HA 2026.8.3 on raspberry 4. When I try to upgrade to 2026.9.0 the upgrade starts, home assistants restarts but the upgrade doesn't go through. After the restart the system is stuck in 2026.8.3 Anyone having the same experience? EDIT: 2026.9.1 fixed it

• Mention Blind Control · Reddit · 2026-09-02

  Installation method Home Assistant OS Core 2026.8.3 Supervisor 2026.08.0 Operating System 18.2 Frontend 20260729.7 Companion app 2026.9.0 (2026.2874) I’ve had an issue with the four blinds I control through Home Assistant. In my Dashboard, only the first one reflects the positio…

• Mention iOS companion app - no locaton updates · Reddit · 2026-09-02

  Hi everyone, I am having an issue with background location updates on my dad's iPhone 13 Pro. Home Assistant stops receiving location updates for his device after a short time. When I check iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Home Assistant , I set the permis…

• Mention Ring Doorbell Live Pop Up on Home Assistant Dashboard Help · Reddit · 2026-09-02

  I'm after some help with my Home Assistant (HA) Dashboard if possible? I have a ring camera on my HA Dashboard but I can't get a live instant pop up to appear when the doorbell is pressed. Best I can manage is a a pop up but about 30 seconds to a minute later. Is there a fix or…

• Mention Kasa TP Link Smart Devices PSA · Reddit · 2026-09-02

  Home Assistant 2026.8.3 HAOS 18.2 Kasa firmware 1.1.1 Hey all, just putting this here since I ran into this issue and was able to resolve it There was an update to the TP-Link smart devices firmware and all my smart bulbs and plugs had an "authentication error" that I could fix…

• Mention Aqara W600 + Zigbee2MQTT + Home Assistant · Reddit · 2026-09-01

  I bought the Aqara W600 Thermostat but am running into problems with temperature control via Home Assistant Automations. I set up a schedule for daytime and during that time the climate gets set to 21 C. Now the temperature gets set at the top of every hour but after about 2-6 m…

• Mention I built an open-source MCP server and lightweight HA add-on for Claude and Cursor (Playwright dashboard screenshots, safe automations, auto-backups) · Reddit · 2026-08-31

  Hey everyone, I wanted to give Claude and Cursor the ability to help me design Lovelace dashboards, debug automations, and check system logs without risking broken YAML or security leaks. Most existing LLM setups for Home Assistant either need full shell access or try to run hea…

• Mention iOS - Live Activities - Standard Notification - Not Activity · Reddit · 2026-08-31

  As the title states - have been trying to walk through the live activity guide for a few things, but even the basic example just sends a Priority Notification with No live activity: action: - action: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here> data: title: "Washing Machine" message:…

• Mention Shelly BLU H&T ZB - Distance value ? · Reddit · 2026-08-31

  What type of black magic is this? A Shelly humidity and temperature sensor delivering a distance value ? https://preview.redd.it/8tq4kydjtomh1.png?width=1390&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee1d744932ed25c4d31fde47859bf6781d3686ac It started after I updated HA to 2026.8.3 yesterday. Befo…

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• 2026.9.4 2026-09-27
• 2026.9.3 2026-09-18
• 2026.9.2 2026-09-11
• 2026.9.1 2026-09-05
• 2026.9.0 2026-09-02