Summary
Breaking Changes:
- Updates mmWave sensors exposed in ESPHome and introduces a new Radar Tuner WebUI. Learn more
- Removes Snapcast in exchange for Sendspin music streaming protocol. Learn more
!! If your Sat1 was previously connected to Music Assistant via Snapcast please follow these steps:
1. !!BACKUP Music Assistant!!
2. Update Sat1 to this firmware
3. Delete Old Sat1 Snapcast Speakers from MA -> Settings -> Players (use the 3 dots menu)
4. Restart Music Assistant (possibly restart Sat1 if necessary)
This release adds support for Nabu Casa’s Sendspin music streaming protocol. As part of this transition, Snapcast has been removed from the firmware.
This release also introduces a new mmWave "Radar Tuner WebUI" for configuring zones and gates on LD2450 and LD2410 radar sensors.
For setup guidance and additional details, please visit docs.FutureProofHomes.ai.
Built on ESPHome 2026.4.5.
Features
Fixes
- Led-Ring: Reduced brightness for LEDs next to mics (#503)
- Removed resampler from external imports (#502)
- i2s-audio: fixes closing the wrong i2s channel (#505)
- fix: Sendspin for dashboard builds (#512)
- Debug-Cfg: remove flash embedded xmos button and customized version sensor (#515)
Breaking Changes / Migration Notes
Dashboard Builder
- Dashboard config: Make firmware repo url configurable as well (#483)
- components.external: set refresh rate to 300s (#510)
Build Info
- ESPHome Version: 2026.4.5
- Commit:
c2956e4f0e69b5a52c7a88f20b342a9a42187170
Internal
- ci: Move to tag-driven draft releases and improve changelog quality (#493)
- ci: with to tag-driven draft releases (#494)
- ci: dispatch docs update on published releases (#496)
- ci: trigger docs artifact sync only after release publish (#497)
- CI: Add changelog category for dashboard builder users (#498)
- ci: add dashboard import smoke compile on develop (#495)
- Update compatibility matrix in README to read requirement.txt (#499)
- Move assets to s3 buckets (#506)