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Home Assistant teases a "No device left behind" launch for 11 November: what we know and what we don't

Home Assistant has put up a teaser page for a product launch on Wednesday 11 November at 20:00 UK time. The project has not said what it is, so here is what is confirmed and what is only a guess.

By Andrew Ingleton · Published

Home Assistant teaser graphic reading "No device left behind"
Home Assistant's teaser for the 11 November launch © Home Assistant

Home Assistant has put up a teaser page for a launch on Wednesday 11 November, under the slogan "No device left behind". The page says only that "something new from Home Assistant is coming" and gives a time: 12:00 Pacific, 15:00 Eastern, 21:00 Central European, which is 20:00 in the UK. A livestream will carry it. Nothing about the product itself has been published, so this article separates what the project has said from what others have guessed.

What Home Assistant has actually said

  • A "Coming soon" page on home-assistant.io titled "No device left behind", stating that something new arrives on 11 November.
  • The time of the event, and a link to subscribe on the project's YouTube channel.
  • The page is marked noindex and carries no description of a product, a price or a release date for shipping.

The home-assistant.io blog, checked on 8 November, has no post about it yet. Its most recent entries are the 2026.11 release notes (4 November) and a follow-up on entity naming (3 November).

What is speculation

The title suggests something about devices that Home Assistant cannot talk to today. That is an inference from the slogan, not a statement from the project. The German site SmarthomeAssistent also reports a US FCC filing dated 2 September 2026 for a "Home Assistant Connect AUX-2", and links the slogan to an Open Home Foundation post about proxies for older devices. The site itself says it is unconfirmed whether either has anything to do with the launch, and we have not been able to verify the filing independently. Treat both as clues, not facts.

What to do before Wednesday

  • Do not pre-order or buy anything on the strength of rumours: there is no price, no UK availability and no compatibility list.
  • If you already run a Home Assistant install, check you are on 2026.11, so you can try anything that arrives as software the same day.
  • Watch the official YouTube channel and the home-assistant.io blog rather than reposts, which at this stage will repeat the same guesses.

We will cover the announcement once the details are public, including whether it needs new hardware, a subscription or neither.

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