Home Assistant 2026.9 improves Modbus integrations, and a better activity history

Home Assistant 2026.9 is here. Maps suffer an unexpected turn of events and easier Modbus integrations arrive. Activity history gets some love. Nabu Casa subscribers can start testing a new and improved speech to text provider via Labs.

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Chapters 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:46 Home Assistant map outage 00:05:57 Community Day, Apollo and iOS 00:10:19 Mailbag: locks, pools and moving 00:18:13 AI assistants versus closed ecosystems 00:23:43 Proxmox upgrade compatibility warning 00:29:04 Home Assistant Cloud and Modbus 00:35:04 Dashboard updates 00:38:12 History, accessibility and Matter maps 00:43:39 New integrations and release wrap-up

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