Home Assistant Core 2026.4.0 → 2026.5.0

Purpose-specific triggers and conditions

When we first introduced purpose-specific triggers and conditions, we added separate ones for Person entities and Device Tracker entities. Since then, we've decided to take a more ergonomic, cross-domain approach instead.

As a result, the entered home and left home triggers, and the is home and is not home conditions, have been removed from Person and Device Tracker. Replacements that work across both will land in an upcoming release.

If you have automations that use these triggers or conditions on a person or device tracker, switch them back to a regular state trigger or state condition (for example, state changed to home) until the cross-domain replacements arrive.

(@emontnemery - #168406)

Gardena Bluetooth

The "finish watering" value in the Gardena Bluetooth integration has been moved from a binary sensor to a regular sensor that exposes the timestamp of when watering is expected to finish. This makes the value far more useful in dashboards and automations.

If you have automations, scripts, or dashboards that reference the previous binary sensor entity, update them to use the new sensor entity instead.

(@elupus - #169476) (Gardena Bluetooth documentation)

pilight

The pilight integration has been disabled because the underlying pilight library relies on setuptools.pkg_resources, which is no longer available in setuptools 82.0.0 and later.

If the library is updated to remove the setuptools.pkg_resources dependency, or replaced with a maintained alternative that does so, the integration can be activated again. Community contributions to make this happen are very welcome.

(@epenet - #167760) (pilight documentation)

Ring

The Ring doorbell event entity now emits the standardized ring event type instead of the legacy ding. This change aligns Ring with the new doorbell event standard, so the entity can be used seamlessly with the new purpose-specific automation triggers and conditions.

If you have automations that listen for the ding event type from your Ring doorbell, update them to use ring instead.

(@abmantis - #167728) (Ring documentation)

Supervisor

Previously, all actions registered by the Supervisor integration (such as hassio.addon_start, hassio.backup_partial, and hassio.host_reboot) only logged an error on failure, and your script or automation would continue running regardless of whether the action succeeded.

These actions now properly raise on failure, which means your automation or script will stop unless continue_on_error is set to true. If you rely on the previous behavior, add continue_on_error: true to those action steps.

(@mdegat01 - #166558) (Supervisor documentation)

Webhook

The local_only option on webhooks must now be a proper boolean (true or false). Previously, other truthy values like 1 or "yes" were silently accepted. This brings the option in line with the rest of Home Assistant.

If you have webhooks configured in YAML with non-boolean local_only values, update them to use true or false.

(@edenhaus - #169296) (Webhook documentation)