Home Assistant 2026.11 turns HACS into Marketplace, and adds target exclusions

Phil and Rohan unpack Home Assistant 2026.11, from HACS becoming the built-in Marketplace to target exclusions, entity and device naming changes, Matter cameras with two-way talk and LoRaWAN.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:39 4,858 merged pull requests and Community Day

00:04:30 HACS becomes Marketplace

00:11:01 Security, Plex and switching to Jellyfin

00:17:33 Month of “What the heck?!” and new partners

00:20:26 Mailbag: Echo wall clock hack and Echo Dot jailbreaks

00:28:09 Dan’s gas price automation

00:30:02 Zooz joins JASCO and Zooz sponsor

00:34:33 Mailbag: a new home and Zen35 switches

00:36:06 2026.11: target exclusions and automation editor

00:40:14 Date card, light colours and naming changes

00:44:45 Self-filling dashboard sections, activity filter and logs

00:48:06 Statistics fixes and action history

00:50:05 Matter cameras and two-way talk

00:53:42 LoRaWAN, local backups and Zigbee Green Power

00:57:38 Update start trigger and AI tools

00:59:28 Energy dashboard from power sensors

01:00:44 New integrations roundup

01:07:09 Breaking changes

01:09:37 Wiimote, DuckDuckGo donation and box of shame

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