Home Assistant 2026.11 turns HACS into Marketplace, and adds target exclusions

Phil and Rohan unpack Home Assistant 2026.11, from HACS becoming the built-in Marketplace to target exclusions, entity and device naming changes, Matter cameras with two-way talk and LoRaWAN.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:39 4,858 merged pull requests and Community Day

00:04:30 HACS becomes Marketplace