2025.4 Time to proceed the dashboards!

Residence Assistant 2025.4! 🎉

It’s April 2nd, so that is undoubtedly not an April Idiot’s joke! 😃

However earlier than diving into this month’s launch, I wish to rapidly spotlight
one thing you may need missed—one thing I’m extraordinarily enthusiastic about:

The State of the Open Residence 2025!

Sure, you learn that proper! On Saturday, April twelfth, 2025, we’ll be
streaming an enormous reside occasion on YouTube,
sharing our imaginative and prescient for the Open Residence Basis,
together with the way forward for Residence Assistant. Don’t miss it!

Alright, again to the discharge! As I used to be saying, it’s April already, and we’ve got
one other incredible launch lined up for you.

The large information is the introduction of our new experimental Areas dashboard,
which could evolve to turn out to be the default dashboard sooner or later. Should you’re like
me—not likely a UI-oriented individual—you’re going to like this one! 🤩

My private absolute favourite characteristic this month is one thing I’ve dreamed of
ever since we began engaged on voice assistants: the flexibility in your
assistant to start out a dialog proactively! It is a recreation
changer—no different voice assistant available on the market can do that!
I’m going to have a lot enjoyable with this. 😃

Should you’re an influence person who loves templates, don’t fear—we’ve obtained you coated
too! This launch ships with a bunch of recent template features, making your
life loads simpler.

Benefit from the launch!

../Frenck

Dashboards

A brand new experimental Areas dashboard

Till now, our default dashboard has served as a easy start line—a listing
of entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Residence Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] grouped by spaceAn space in Residence Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that are supposed to match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your house. For instance, the front room space teams gadgets and entities in your front room. or machineA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that accommodates entities.
domainsEvery integration in Residence Assistant has a novel identifier: The area. It’s usually proven as the primary half (earlier than the dot) of entity IDs.. Whereas useful for inexperienced persons, it rapidly turns into restricted as
a sensible residence grows. We’ve discovered that whereas some customers take pleasure in constructing their
personal dashboards, many merely need one thing that works for his or her family.

The brand new experimental Areas Dashboard robotically generates a ready-to-use
dashboard based mostly on the areas you’ve arrange in your house. It makes use of sections and
tile playing cards for a contemporary, clear, and intuitive look—immediately. No extra beginning
from a clean slate!

Every space now has its personal devoted web page, providing you with a transparent and arranged view
of the gadgets in that area. Entities, corresponding to lights, covers, cameras,
and extra, are robotically grouped by area so you may simply find those
you want.

Wish to tweak it? Sure, you may! You may rearrange, present, or conceal entities to
fit your preferences. On the prime of every space web page, temperature and humidity
badges rapidly point out room consolation ranges, that are configurable within the
space’s settings.

On prime of all that, the Overview web page brings all of it collectively, exhibiting all of your
areas in a single place. Every part corresponds to a room in your house, and simply
like with the realm pages, you may rearrange, present, or conceal areas right here as effectively,
based mostly in your preferences.

Should you haven’t organized your gadgets into areas but, now’s the proper time to
begin—it’s key to unlocking this new dashboard expertise. To get
began with the Areas dashboard, go to
Settings > Dashboards, and choose
Add Dashboard within the backside proper, subsequent choose the Areas (experimental)
choice from the dialog:

The brand new experimental Areas Dashboard previews what’s to come back. We’ve discovered from
our customers that they arrange their properties in numerous methods—by rooms,
by perform, by machine, and extra. They usually mix all the above,
and due to this fact, our upcoming default dashboard will accommodate
all these strategies of group.

Over time, this basis will develop into a versatile system that adapts to
your priorities, whether or not that’s keeping track of safety, managing power use,
going via your loved ones calendar and chores, studying concerning the climate,
or just watching your pets.

Please be aware that that is experimental, which means it’s topic to vary and will
not at all times work as supposed. We’d love your suggestions should you discover some
points we are able to enhance. The group’s dashboards, shared over time,
have helped form this design, and we’d like to see the way it works
with all kinds of your properties. Even when you have already got the proper
dashboard constructed in your residence, strive it!

Use this suggestions type to tell us
your ideas!

Time for a brand new card!

It has been some time since we launched a brand new card, however this launch, we
thought it is likely to be time so as to add a brand new one! Due to @mrdarrengriffin,
Residence Assistant now includes a Clock card!

Yeah, the cardboard is “simply” exhibiting the present time, however it’s a very nice
addition to our card assortment. It is likely to be an amazing card for dashboards
you’re exhibiting on issues like a wall-mounted pill!

The Clock card presents a number of customization choices, together with the flexibility to
regulate the clock measurement, timezone, show the seconds alongside the hours
and minutes, and the flexibility to decide on between a 12-hour or 24-hour format.

For extra particulars, take a look at the Clock card documentation.

Voice

The “yr of the voice” is likely to be behind
us, however we hold enhancing the voice expertise in Residence Assistant! This launch
brings a number of enhancements to make interacting together with your good residence even higher.

Improved Voice Wizard

Should you arrange a Residence Assistant voice assistant appropriate machine,
just like the Residence Assistant Voice Preview Version,
you’ll be guided via establishing your voice assistant, and this expertise
has been significantly improved on this launch.

As our voice expertise is providing extra selections, together with native choices
like Speech-to-Phrase, we wished to verify you’ll be able to make the best
selections in your use case.

The wizard will now make it easier to make a extra knowledgeable choice based mostly in your
language, desired performance, and machine capabilities, making certain you get the
greatest expertise together with your voice assistant.

Continued dialog with LLMs

Beginning conversations

Throughout Voice chapter 9,
we added the flexibility for Residence Assistant to name analog telephones to start out a
dialog. As of this launch, this
characteristic is now out there for ESPHome-based voice assistants,
just like the Residence Assistant Voice Preview Version!

It is a incredible characteristic, because it means that you can construct your individual automations that
can ship out voice prompts out of your voice assistant and pay attention for a response,
as an alternative of you having to set off the dialog by saying the wake phrase.

Think about, for instance, you’ve got left the storage door open, and some minutes
later, your assistant says:

Hey, I seen you left the storage door open, would you like me to shut it for you?

You merely reply “sure” or “no,” and it handles the remaining… 🤯 Or maybe after a
lengthy day at work, you come residence, and your assistant greets you warmly:

Welcome residence, Frenck! Hope you had an amazing day. Wish to hear the information or perhaps take pleasure in some music?

JLo made an amazing demo video of this one, involving his oven and the assistant
asking if he needs to set a timer:

This opens up an entire new world of potentialities for voice-driven automations.
At the moment, this functionality is simply out there when utilizing LLM integrations,
however we’re exploring extra use circumstances the place it will be useful.

Should you pay attention intently to the demo above, you’ll discover a quick pre-announce
sound simply earlier than the dialog begins. This little notification prevents
your assistant from startling anybody by abruptly talking out of nowhere and
stopping a bounce scare! 🫣

You could possibly even use customized sounds based mostly on the situation—like a doorbell chime
for guests or a practice station-style jingle when your morning commute will get
delayed, providing you with additional time to seize that espresso earlier than heading out. ☕

Onboarding with a Residence Assistant Cloud backup

In case you are a person of Residence Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa, it means
you may safely retailer a backup of your Residence Assistant set up within the cloud
as a part of your subscription. A very handy service that ensures you at all times
have a safe and worry-free backup of your Residence Assistant set up, no
matter what occurs.

Now, let’s say one thing did occur, perhaps a {hardware} failure, or perhaps you
are migrating to a brand new Residence Assistant Inexperienced, as of this launch, you may
straight restore your backup from the Residence Assistant Cloud through the
onboarding strategy of your new Residence Assistant set up.

This implies you may rise up and operating together with your new Residence Assistant set up
very quickly, with all of your settings, automations, and integrations restored from
your backup.

Integrations

Due to our group for protecting tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more]
and enhancements to current ones! You’re all superior 🥰

New integrations

Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations

It’s not simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; current
integrations are additionally being always improved. Listed below are a number of the noteworthy
adjustments to current integrations:

• The OpenAI dialog integration has a brand new motion to generate content material,
  due to @timlaing, and it could possibly now search the net! Good @Shulyaka!
• The Google AI dialog integration additionally gained the flexibility to look the
  net, identical to the above OpenAI one. Thanks @tronikos!
• @joostlek has completely been rocking the SmartThings integration! The record
  of enhancements is extraordinarily lengthy, but it surely consists of assist for firmware
  updates via Residence Assistant, assist for occasion entities, PM0.1 sensors,
  washer rinse cycle settings, TV and media participant assist, and improved machine
  dealing with. Superior work there!
• Not solely SmartThings is receiving love, @Diegorro98 has been always at
  work enhancing and tuning the Residence Join integration. Thanks a lot!
• The Roborock integration has been prolonged to assist dryer controls and button
  entities to start out routines. Thanks @Lash-L and @regevbr!
• Reolink can’t be omitted of this record. This launch provides assist for his or her
  good AI sensors, and provides a day/evening state sensor. Good work @starkillerOG!
• @tr4nt0r prolonged the actions Habitica integration with a lot of new
  and improved actions to handle your habits, rewards, and dailies. Thanks!
• The Microsoft OneDrive integration has a brand new motion that means that you can
  add information to OneDrive. Good @zweckj!
• @andrewsayre prolonged HEOS with assist for shopping media, permitting
  you to browse issues like TuneIn and play them in your HEOS gadgets.

Integration high quality scale achievements

One factor we’re extremely happy 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 absolute best
person expertise.

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

• 4 integrations reached platinum 🏆

• 2 integrations reached silver 🥈

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

A giant thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏

Different noteworthy adjustments

• The Residence Assistant Yellow Zigbee/Thread chip and Residence Assistant ZBT-1
  can now be up to date straight via Residence Assistant replace entities.
  Good @puddly!
• When viewing the small print of an entity within the entity dialog, we now present
  extra context about the place the entity originates. Like its machine and the realm
  it’s in. It is a first step in sprinkling extra context all through our UI.
  Thanks, @piitaya!
• We now present sensors about your backups! Offering you data
  on issues like when your final backup ran. Thanks @mib1185!
• This one is fascinating should you make Blueprints. The machine selector now
  helps filtering by mannequin ID. Thanks for this one @karwosts!
• We now assist turning on/off TVs in HomeKit, good one @bdraco!
• Due to @piitaya, we now assist garden mower gadgets in Google Assistant
  and HomeKit!
• Variables in automations & scripts have been significantly simplified and stuck by
  @arturpragacz. All variables are actually accessible wherever within the script or
  automation, significantly simplifying the usage of variables. Superb!
• We now assist including further interactions to playing cards! The maintain and
  double faucet actions are actually out there via the UI. Thanks @piitaya!

Templates

In case you are an influence person, you most likely use templatesA template is an automation definition that may embody variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This enables automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more] in your
automations, scripts, or perhaps even your dashboard. This launch has just a few
additions to our template engine that you simply would possibly discover helpful.

To begin with, within the template integration the sunshine and swap templates have
been migrated to assist the brand new and fashionable YAML fashion. Thanks @Petro31 for
this one!

Extra noteworthy is the addition of a sequence of recent template features to make
working with information loads simpler:

• mix – Mix a number of dictionaries.
• distinction – Discover components current in a single record however not one other.
• flatten – Flatten a listing of lists right into a single record.
• floor_entities – Retrieve entities related to a particular flooring.
• intersect – Determine widespread components between lists.
• md5, sha1, sha256, sha512 – Carry out widespread hashing operations.
• shuffle – Randomly shuffle gadgets in a listing.
• symmetric_difference – Discover gadgets in both record however not in each.
• typeof – Decide the kind of a variable or object for debugging.
• union – Merge distinctive components from two lists.

Gadget hierarchy for power administration

This launch, @karwosts has launched an enchancment to Residence Assistant’s
power administration system—one which’s been extremely requested by the group.

This implies now you can create a machine hierarchy inside your power
configuration, establishing parent-child relationships between gadgets.

For instance, think about having a breaker monitoring the overall power consumption
of a circuit, but in addition individually monitoring particular person gadgets linked to that
circuit. Beforehand, Residence Assistant would possibly double-count this utilization. Now, it
understands these relationships and precisely exhibits the person machine
utilization with out duplication.

On this screenshot, the water heater is a toddler of the warmth pump. Each report
power utilization individually, however the water heater’s consumption can be included in
the overall reported by the warmth pump. With machine hierarchy enabled,
Residence Assistant accurately exhibits the utilization of every machine.

Superior addition there @karwosts!

Patch releases

2025.4.1 – April 4

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Backward-incompatible adjustments

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      x: 1
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  - sequence:
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        y: 2  # Updates y, which exists within the outer scope
        z: 2  # Since z just isn't outlined but, it's assigned within the top-level scope
  - motion: persistent_notification.create
    information:
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      # Word: beforehand, it will be: x=1, y=1, z undefined

In case you are a customized integration developer and wish to find out about adjustments and
new options out there in your integration: Make sure you observe our
developer weblog. The next adjustments are probably the most notable for this launch:

All adjustments

In fact there may be much more on this launch. You could find a listing of
all adjustments made right here: Full changelog for Residence Assistant Core 2025.4