2026.1: House is the place the dashboard is 🥂

Completely satisfied New Yr! 🥂

I hope you had a beautiful vacation, spending time along with your family members. We’re kicking off 2026 with a smaller launch, as our contributors and maintainers have been having fun with some well-deserved break day as effectively. However don’t fear, there’s nonetheless loads of good things on this launch!

Residence Assistant 2026.1 brings a refreshed Residence dashboard expertise on cell, with abstract playing cards proper at your fingertips with out additional faucets. We’ve additionally made it simpler than ever to navigate to the protocol connecting your gadgets, resembling Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and extra.

For automation lovers, we’re persevering with our work on our much more “human-friendly” triggers, which may be enabled by way of Residence Assistant Labs, so you may construct automations utilizing easy-to-understand language as an alternative of technical state modifications, like initiating automations if a button is pressed or somebody arrives residence.

On the integrations entrance, we welcome eight new integrations to the household, together with pet monitoring with Fressnapf, power monitoring with eGauge, and good heating management with Watts Imaginative and prescient+. Plus, enhancements to current integrations from our wonderful neighborhood contributors.

I want you a cheerful and wholesome 2026! Benefit from the launch!

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An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch potential! And a particular shout-out to @bramkragten, @piitaya, and @abmantis who helped write the discharge notes for this launch. ❤️

Residence dashboard enhancements

The Residence dashboard continues to evolve! In the earlier launch, we launched a brand-new sidebar format, climate tiles, and power distribution summaries. This launch takes it even additional with a streamlined cell expertise and higher machine administration.

Streamlined cell navigation

On cell gadgets, the Residence dashboard now shows abstract playing cards (like lights, local weather, safety, media gamers, climate, and power) straight on the high of the view, adopted by your favorites and areas. This replaces the earlier tab-based navigation, providing you with instantaneous entry to all the pieces that issues with none additional faucets.

The desktop expertise stays unchanged, with summaries displayed within the sidebar underneath the For you heading.

New gadgets web page

Ever questioned the place your gadgets went after you eliminated them from an space? A brand new Units web page now seems on the Residence dashboard, displaying all gadgets that aren’t at the moment assigned to a particular space. This makes it simple to seek out and management these “orphaned” gadgets with out searching by way of the settings.

The brand new Units web page reveals gadgets not assigned to any space.

Goal-specific triggers and circumstances progress

In the earlier launch, we launched purpose-specific triggers and circumstances. As an alternative of pondering in technical state modifications, now you can merely decide issues like “When a lightweight activates” or “If the local weather is heating” when constructing your automations.

This characteristic remains to be being refined in Residence Assistant Labs, however this launch provides a lot extra set off varieties, making this new method much more helpful. Right here is an summary of all the brand new triggers added on this launch:

Button triggers hearth when a button entity has been pressed.
Local weather triggers now cowl all widespread eventualities. You may set off on HVAC mode modifications, goal temperature modifications, or when the goal temperature crosses a threshold. There are additionally triggers for present temperature and humidity modifications, and even goal humidity modifications.
System tracker triggers allow you to automate based mostly on when a tool entered or left residence, with help for the primary machine arriving, final machine leaving, or any change. Don’t fear, person-specific triggers are coming quickly, the machine tracker ones have been merely accessible sooner.
Humidifier triggers will hearth when a humidifier activates or off, begins humidifying, or begins drying. You can too set off on humidity modifications or when humidity crosses a threshold.
Gentle triggers allow you to automate based mostly on brightness modifications or when brightness crosses a particular threshold.
Lock triggers can now hearth when a lock is locked, unlocked, opened, or jammed.
Scene triggers hearth when a scene is activated.
Siren triggers hearth when sirens are turned on or off.
Replace set off fires when an replace turns into accessible.

As the brand new purpose-specific triggers and circumstances all help concentrating on one thing larger than a easy entity (an space, a flooring, or perhaps a label), we additionally redesigned how the goal will get displayed on the automation stream.

The objective of this variation is to can help you rapidly look and your automation, and perceive its objective.

Head over to Settings > System > Labs to allow purpose-specific triggers and circumstances and provides them a attempt!

Simpler navigation to protocol dashboards

For a company that loves the open requirements that seamlessly join our gadgets, we positive didn’t promote them sufficient! Most individuals didn’t even know that Residence Assistant has devoted dashboards for protocols like Zigbee, Z-Wave, and extra.

This launch reorganizes the Settings web page to provide these open protocols a extra distinguished spot. The protocols part now seems proper after the core settings, making it a lot simpler to seek out all of the alternative ways you’re connecting your gadgets and rapidly entry some very helpful protocol-specific configurations.

The menu gadgets solely seem when you have got the corresponding integration arrange, so that you’ll solely see what’s related to your setup.

Integrations

Because of our neighborhood for preserving tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] and enhancements to current ones! You’re all superior 🥰

New integrations

We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:

Airpatrol, added by @antondalgren
Management your air-con models by way of Airpatrol WiFi gadgets straight from Residence Assistant.
eGauge, added by @neggert
Combine eGauge power screens for residential and business functions, generally used with photo voltaic power installations.
Fluss+, added by @Marcello17
Join your Fluss+ Button to Residence Assistant for fast and simple management of your good residence.
Fish Audio, added by @noambav
Use Fish Audio’s text-to-speech service to generate natural-sounding speech in Residence Assistant.
Fressnapf Tracker, added by @eifinger
Observe the situation of your pets and monitor their exercise utilizing Fressnapf GPS Trackers.
HomeLink, added by @ryanjones-gentex
Combine your HomeLink gadgets to set off good residence routines from the consolation of your car.
Watts Imaginative and prescient +, added by @theobld-ww
Management your Watts Imaginative and prescient + good heating system, permitting distant management of particular person residence heating zones.
WebRTC, added by @balloob
An inner integration offering WebRTC performance for digital camera streaming in Residence Assistant.

This launch additionally has new digital integrations. Digital integrations are stubs which can be dealt with by different (current) integrations to assist with findability. These ones are new:

Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations

It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; current ones are additionally being consistently improved. Listed here are a few of the noteworthy modifications to current integrations:

The Matter integration gained three new diagnostic binary sensors for thermostat distant sensing standing from @lboue, serving to you control your local weather system.
@joostlek added a lot of new sensors to the SmartThings integration, together with air high quality sensors for PM1, PM2.5, and PM10, hood filter utilization monitoring, fridge temperature sensors for One Door fridges, and fan velocity management for vary hoods.
Roborock homeowners with Q7 gadgets can now combine them due to @Lash-L, who added fundamental read-only help with sensors for battery, standing, and cleansing knowledge.
@mib1185 improved the FRITZ!Field Good Residence integration by including change entities that allow you to allow or disable FRITZ! Smarthome routines (triggers) straight from Residence Assistant.
The Ping integration now tracks packet loss, due to @mib1185. The brand new sensor reveals packet loss as a proportion and is disabled by default.
@Shulyaka added help for GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-pro fashions to the OpenAI integration, together with a brand new “xhigh” reasoning effort stage.
The HomeWizard integration gained two new battery cost modes from @DCSBL: zero cost solely and nil discharge solely, providing you with extra management over your power storage.
@Abestanis expanded the KNX UI configuration to help time, date, and datetime entities, whereas @farmio added sensor, scene, textual content, and fan entities, making it simpler than ever to arrange your KNX set up.
The Squeezebox integration now affords alarm monitoring, due to @wollew: you get binary sensors to trace if an alarm is upcoming, energetic, or snoozed, plus a timestamp sensor displaying when the subsequent alarm is scheduled.
@andrew-codechimp added help for brand new meal plan varieties in Mealie 3.7, together with dessert, drink, and snack plans, providing you with extra flexibility in your meal planning.
The Hikvision integration gained NVR help from @ptarjan, together with prolonged occasion detection and automated discovery of video channels.
@FredericMa added a set_time motion to the Risco integration, permitting you to sync your native alarm panel’s clock and repair these pesky clock drift points.
The Nederlandse Spoorwegen integration acquired a serious overhaul from @heindrichpaul, splitting the monolithic sensor into over 15 particular person sensors, one for every prepare route, making it a lot simpler to trace particular journeys.
@zweckj added a stupendous entity image of your espresso machine to the La Marzocco integration’s most important change entity.
The Actron Air integration gained a brand new change platform from @kclif9, exposing Away Mode, Steady Fan, Quiet Mode, and Turbo Mode controls.
@Djelibeybi gave the Pooldose integration a large improve: you now get water meter sensors for monitoring ranges, quantity entities for configuring dosing targets, and choose entities for controlling your pool’s working mode.
The AirPatrol integration now helps you to monitor temperature and humidity, due to new sensor entities added by @antondalgren.
@mettolen added sensor and quantity platforms to the Airobot integration, letting you monitor air high quality knowledge and management hysteresis band settings.

An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who improved these integrations, and to everybody else who contributed enhancements that aren’t listed right here. Your work makes Residence Assistant higher for everybody! ❤️

Integration high quality scale achievements

One factor we’re extremely pleased with in Residence Assistant is our integration high quality scale. This scale helps us and our contributors to make sure integrations are of top of the range, maintainable, and supply the very best person expertise.

This launch, we have a good time a number of integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which have improved their high quality scale:

2 integrations reached platinum 🏆
4 integrations reached silver 🥈
2 integrations reached bronze 🥉

It is a large achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The trouble and dedication required to succeed in these high quality ranges is critical, because it entails intensive testing, documentation, error dealing with, and sometimes full rewrites of components of the combination.

An enormous thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏

Now accessible to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] may be arrange straight from the Residence Assistant person interface, some have been solely accessible utilizing YAML configuration. We preserve transferring extra integrations to the UI, making them extra accessible for everybody to arrange and use.

The next integrations at the moment are accessible by way of the Residence Assistant UI:

Different noteworthy modifications

There are numerous extra enhancements on this launch; listed here are a few of the different noteworthy modifications:

Should you monitor your property’s oil tank or different sluggish stream charges, you would possibly admire the brand new gallons per day unit of quantity stream charge added by @StaleLoafOfBread. This unit is especially helpful for monitoring every day consumption charges of heating oil or related sources.
Bought a Matter speaker? @lboue added quantity management help to the Matter integration, exposing a quantity slider entity for Matter audio system utilizing the LevelControl cluster.
The statistics graph card now features a hyperlink to the historical past panel in its header, identical to the historical past graph card already had. Choosing the hyperlink takes you on to the historical past with the identical entities and time vary pre-selected, due to @joepio.
When utilizing the state badge component in your image parts card, now you can set a customized title choice, providing you with extra flexibility in your dashboard designs, due to @ildar170975.
In 2025.11 we improved the logging effectivity by disabling the duplicated log file. This launch provides a new configuration choice to re-enable it if wanted. In case you are utilizing the official Terminal & SSH add-on, ensure that it’s up to date to 9.22.0 or greater to have the ability to use that choice. The Superior SSH & Net Terminal add-on has not been up to date but, however will likely be quickly.
For integration builders: @bramkragten added a brand new select selector, permitting customers to pick between totally different enter varieties within the UI. You’ll begin seeing this pop up in varied locations the place versatile enter is required.

Power dashboard date picker

In the earlier launch, the Power dashboard acquired an enormous replace with real-time energy monitoring and downstream water monitoring. Nonetheless, a few of you seen that navigating between durations required scrolling again up, making it tougher to match knowledge whereas graphs additional down the web page.

This launch fixes that! The date picker is now sticky on the backside of the display screen, so you may simply change between days, weeks, or months with out shedding sight of the graph you’re viewing. This additionally makes it a lot simpler to entry on cell gadgets.

ESPHome motion responses

ESPHome 2025.12 launched a robust new characteristic referred to as API motion responses, enabling true bidirectional communication between your ESPHome gadgets and Residence Assistant. With this launch, Residence Assistant now absolutely helps receiving these responses!

Beforehand, when calling an motion on an ESPHome machine, communication was one-way: you could possibly ship a command, however the machine couldn’t ship structured knowledge again. Now, your ESPHome gadgets can return JSON knowledge in response to actions, unlocking new prospects like querying machine configuration, studying sensor values on demand, or retrieving diagnostic data.

That is significantly helpful for actions that reply questions quite than carry out duties. For instance, you could possibly create an motion that returns your machine’s present Wi-Fi sign power, firmware model, or any customized sensor readings, all as structured knowledge you should utilize in your automations.

To get began, take a look at the ESPHome documentation on motion responses for configuration examples.

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Backward-incompatible modifications

We do our greatest to keep away from making modifications to current performance that may unexpectedly influence your Residence Assistant set up. Sadly, generally it’s inevitable.

We all the time ensure that to doc these modifications to make the transition as simple as potential for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible modifications:

Coolmaster

The local weather entities supplied by the Coolmaster integration now use medium for the medium fan mode; earlier than this variation, it was med. In case your automations are utilizing med when setting or querying the fan velocity, you’ll have to alter it to medium.

(@tan-lawrence – #157253) (coolmaster docs)

Tailscale

The “Helps hairpinning” binary sensor has been faraway from the Tailscale integration. In keeping with the official Tailscale API documentation, this data is now not tracked and can all the time return null.

(@CraigCallender – #156728) (tailscale docs)

UniFi Shield

Choose entity state values have been modified from their unique mixed-case format to snake_case format with correct translations. This improves consistency and allows correct localization help.

Affected choose entities embody: chime sort, recording mode, infrared mode, standing mild mode, HDR mode, doorbell textual content, LCD message, and others.

Instance modifications:

Chime sort: Mechanical → mechanical, Digital → digital
Recording mode: All the time → all the time, Detections → detections, By no means → by no means
Infrared mode: Auto → auto, On → on, AutoNoLEDsOn → auto_no_leds_on
Standing mild mode: On → on, Off → off, OnWhenDark → on_when_dark
HDR mode: Auto → auto, On → on, Off → off

In case you have automations, scripts, or templates that test or set the state of UniFi Shield choose entities, it is advisable to replace them to make use of the brand new snake_case values. The UI will proceed to show correctly translated, human-readable textual content.

(@RaHehl – #159284) (unifiprotect docs)

Telegram bot

Permitting additional/unused parameters has been faraway from the motion for Telegram bot. Solely customers who’ve used undefined parameters for Telegram bot actions are affected. In case you are affected, take away such parameters out of your automations and scripts. Supported parameters may be discovered within the Telegram bot notification actions documentation.

(@hanwg – #158886) (telegram_bot docs)

VeSync

The advancedSleep fan mode has been modified to advanced_sleep. In case you have automations or scripts utilizing this fan mode, please replace them accordingly.

(@cdnninja – #158956) (vesync docs)

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