ESPHome 2026.5.0 Brings the New Device Builder Dashboard to All
The ESPHome project, which provides a firmware designed to easily turn a range of microcontrollers into devices compatible with the Home Assistant ecosystem, has announced a major new release — bringing with it beta access to the in-browser ESPHome Device Builder.
"The headline change in ESPHome 2026.5.0 is the public beta of the new ESPHome Device Builder," the project maintainers explain in the ESPHome 2026.5.0 release notes, "a from-scratch web app that replaces the legacy in-tree dashboard with a real configuration editor, a firmware job queue, multi-select bulk actions, labels and areas, out-of-sync detection, cross-config search, distributed builds, and a proper settings UI [User Interface]."
ESPHome 2026.5.0 brings the beta of a whole new user interface: the ESPHome Device Builder. (📷: ESPHome)
Announced during the Open Home Foundation's State of the Open Home 2026 conference earlier this year, the ESPHome Device Builder is designed to entirely replace ESPHome's native dashboard....
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