Home Assistant 2026.3: deep clean, smart vacuums and your Android as a voice assistant

Home Assistant released version 2026.3, nicknamed “A Clean Sweep”. It's an update focused on refinement and community contributions: new integrations, improvements to existing features, bug fixes and quality-scale progress. Here's what's most useful for your smart home.

Send your vacuum to clean specific areas

You can now tell your robot vacuum to clean specific zones of your home. The new “clean area” action uses the areas you already have configured in Home Assistant, without relying on the manufacturer's internal IDs. It's compatible with Matter, Ecovacs and Roborock devices.

Setup means mapping the segments of the robot's map to Home Assistant areas, with repair alerts if the layout changes. In the future, voice control will let you say things like “clean the kitchen”.

Your Android phone as a voice satellite (experimental)

Android phones can act as voice satellites with on-device wake-word detection thanks to microWakeWord technology. Processing is local: the audio never leaves the phone. You can pick from three activation phrases: “Okay Nabu”, “Hey Jarvis” or “Hey Mycroft”.

Battery use is kept in check with automations that limit activation to your home WiFi or specific zones.

Energy dashboard improvements

The energy dashboard adds real-time consumption badges, a new water-flow visualization with Sankey graphs, and reorganized sections for electricity, gas and water. The interface now shows electricity separately for clarity.

Continue on error in the automation editor

The automation editor brings the “continue on error” feature directly into visual mode, with indicators that flag the actions that continue despite failing. Handy when one failed action shouldn't stop the following ones.

Notable new integrations

More than 18 new integrations were added, including Ghost, Hegel Amplifier, Homevolt, IDrive e2, Liebherr, MTA NYC Transit, OneDrive Business, Powerfox Local and Teltonika.

Notable improvements to existing integrations

Matter now supports carbon monoxide alarms and TVOC air-quality sensors. Reolink added diagonal PTZ rotation buttons. SmartThings supports dual-cavity Samsung ovens. UniFi Protect adds PTZ preset actions. Roborock supports Zeo washers/dryers.

Running on Python 3.14

Version 2026.3 runs on Python 3.14, with performance gains: a faster interpreter, better startup times and lower memory usage across official installations.

Quality-scale progress

In this release, 9 integrations reached Platinum (WLED, Xbox, Portainer, Immich), 1 reached Gold (UptimeRobot), 6 reached Silver (BSB-Lan, Teslemetry) and 7 reached Bronze (Anthropic, OpenAI).