2026.2: House, candy overview – House Assistant

House Assistant 2026.2! 💝

February is the month of affection, and this launch is right here to share it!

The brand new House Dashboard is now the official default for all new installations. When you’ve been utilizing House Assistant for some time and by no means personalized your default view, you’ll get a suggestion to modify; give it a strive!

I additionally want your assist! The Open House Basis gadget database is being constructed as a community-powered useful resource to assist everybody make knowledgeable selections about sensible house gadgets. Head to House Assistant Labs to decide in and contribute your anonymized gadget knowledge. 📈

Add-ons at the moment are referred to as Apps! After quite a lot of group dialogue, it was time to make use of terminology that everybody understands. Your TV has apps, your telephone has apps, and now House Assistant has apps too.

My private favourite this launch? The fully redesigned Fast search! When you’re like me and navigate House Assistant utilizing your keyboard, you’re going to like this one. Press ⌘ + Okay (or Ctrl + Okay on Home windows/Linux) and you’ve got instantaneous entry to all the pieces. 🤩

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 @laupalombi and @mkerstner who helped write the discharge notes this launch. Additionally, @wollew, @Diegorro98, and @MindFreeze for placing effort into tweaking its contents. Because of them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️

A brand new option to view your private home

The House Dashboard is now Overview because it turns into the official default normal, changing the outdated “Overview” for all new situations. When you’re a long-time consumer who by no means personalized your default view, we’ll counsel the swap to you; in any other case, yow will discover it in Settings > Dashboards to strive it out everytime you’re prepared.

Preferred the outdated Overview as a option to construct your customized dashboards? You possibly can nonetheless do it. Go to Settings > Dashboards, choose Create, and decide the Overview (legacy) template.

Found gadgets at a look

Try the brand new card within the For You part! It immediately shows any new gadgets your House Assistant has found, permitting you so as to add them on the spot or leap straight to gadget administration with out digging by way of menus.

Space assignments made simple

Within the final launch, we added a devoted Gadgets space throughout the House Dashboard to catch all the pieces at present unassigned. Now this part supplies fast prompts that can assist you categorize your gadgets into the suitable rooms, protecting your setup organized with minimal effort.

Sooner space edits

Must swap the realm temperature sensor? Space pages now function a shortcut within the Edit button. This allows you to leap straight to the realm’s configuration to replace main sensors like humidity or temperature in seconds.

We’ve additionally tidied up the interface by eradicating awkward empty areas and fixing points with some again arrows. Navigating by way of your sub-menus ought to now really feel as clean and predictable as you’d count on.

UX and visible upgrades

Fashionable look within the default theme: We’ve retired the outdated blue high bar in favor of a clear, constant theme that matches our Settings web page. This distraction-free design lets your playing cards and knowledge take heart stage.

Customized themes per consumer: Themes have moved! Now you can discover and toggle your favourite seems to be straight inside your Consumer profile, making it simpler to arrange a theme that works for you in any gadget you’re logged in.

Gadget database: We want your assist!

Discovering dependable details about sensible house gadgets before you purchase them could be difficult. That’s why we’re constructing the Open House Basis gadget database: a community-powered useful resource that helps you make knowledgeable selections primarily based on real-world knowledge.

We’ve been working with early contributors to put the groundwork, and the outcomes are already spectacular: over 10,000 distinctive gadgets throughout greater than 260 integrations have been submitted by House Assistant customers who opted in to share their anonymized knowledge.

Assist us out and share your gadgets

Since we’re nonetheless within the early levels, the gadget database lives in House Assistant Labs, the place you’ll be able to decide in to share anonymized details about the gadgets in your house.

We’ve additionally added a brand new part referred to as Gadget analytics to House Assistant Analytics, which exhibits up while you allow it in House Assistant Labs. When you decide in, you’re, in fact, capable of decide out at any time.

Privateness is our basis. We gather zero private knowledge, interval. Solely aggregated, anonymized gadget data is shared if somebody chooses to decide in, offering worthwhile insights whereas protecting your privateness intact. You possibly can preview what’s being despatched utilizing the Preview gadget analytics choice accessible within the top-right nook on the Analytics web page. Learn our Information Use Assertion for full particulars.

See the information in motion

We’ve launched an preliminary public dashboard the place you’ll be able to discover aggregated statistics because it grows. That is simply our first step. We need to construct what comes subsequent along with you.

Be part of us in constructing one thing significant

Head to Settings > System > Labs to allow gadget analytics and begin contributing your real-world anonymized gadget knowledge to assist others make higher selections.

Learn our weblog put up for extra particulars and be part of the dialog in our Discord challenge channel; we’d love to listen to your concepts, suggestions, and questions as we form this useful resource collectively.

Add-ons at the moment are referred to as Apps

Beginning with this launch, add-ons at the moment are referred to as apps! 🎉

You is likely to be questioning: why change the identify? The reply comes down to creating House Assistant extra approachable for everybody, particularly newcomers.

While you first open House Assistant, you see two sections that sound very related: “Add-ons” and “Integrations.” Each names indicate one thing you add to increase House Assistant, however they serve basically completely different functions. For these of us who’ve been within the ecosystem for some time, this distinction is second nature. However we hold seeing new customers getting confused, making an attempt to put in add-ons once they want integrations, or vice versa.

That is the place the rename helps: use terminology that individuals already perceive. Most individuals know what an “app” is. You open your telephone’s app retailer, you decide an app, you put in it. Your TV has an app retailer. Your NAS has apps. Heck, even some fridges have apps lately. It’s an idea everybody understands. The identical psychological mannequin now applies to House Assistant:

Apps are standalone functions that run alongside House Assistant.
Integrations are connections that join House Assistant to your gadgets and providers.

Apps are separate software program managed by your House Assistant Working System, working subsequent to House Assistant itself. They are often issues like code editors, media servers, MQTT brokers, or database instruments. Some apps even pair with integrations: for instance, the Mosquitto MQTT dealer app supplies the service, whereas the MQTT integration connects House Assistant to it.

Current documentation, group posts, and tutorials will proceed to reference “add-ons” for a while. Serps and AI assistants can even want time to catch up. We’ve put redirects in place to make sure that looking for “add-ons” will nonetheless get you the place you have to go.

Thanks to everybody who participated within the group dialogue and structure proposal. Whether or not you supported the concept, pushed again, or landed someplace in between, your suggestions was invaluable.

A quicker, snappier Apps panel

In addition to the rename, we did a serious refactoring below the hood of the Apps panel (previously generally known as the Add-ons panel) on this launch. Beforehand, this panel was served by a separate course of (the Supervisor), however it has now been totally built-in into the House Assistant frontend.

You shouldn’t discover a lot of a distinction visually, however the panel is now a lot quicker and snappier to make use of. Extra importantly, this modification makes future improvement on Apps considerably simpler, paving the best way for extra enhancements down the street.

Function-specific triggers and situations progress

In House Assistant 2025.12, we launched purpose-specific triggers and situations. As an alternative of considering in technical state modifications, you’ll be able to merely decide issues like “When a light-weight activates” or “If the local weather is heating” when constructing your automations. In House Assistant 2026.1, we added extra triggers and laid the groundwork for situations.

This function continues to be being refined in House Assistant Labs, however we proceed to develop it with each launch. This launch brings a mixture of new triggers and, for the primary time, a complete set of purpose-specific situations!

New triggers

The next new triggers have been added on this launch:

Calendar triggers fireplace when a calendar occasion begins or ends.
Individual triggers now cowl when an individual arrives house or leaves house.
Vacuum triggers fireplace when a vacuum cleaner returns to its dock.

New situations

Function-specific situations are increasing! Within the earlier launch, we launched the primary purpose-specific situation for lights. This launch provides a complete set of latest situations throughout many extra entity varieties.

Identical to triggers, situations now help you categorical your intent in a extra pure manner. As an alternative of checking if the state of an entity equals a selected worth, now you can merely ask “If the local weather is heating” or “If the lock is locked”.

The next purpose-specific situations at the moment are accessible:

Alarm management panel situations test if the alarm is armed (house, away, night time, or trip), disarmed, or triggered.
Help satellite tv for pc situations test in case your voice assistant satellites are idle, listening, processing, or responding.
Local weather situations test if the local weather gadget is on, off, heating, cooling, or drying.
Gadget tracker situations test if a tool is house or not house.
Fan situations test if a fan is on or off.
Humidifier situations test if a humidifier is on, off, humidifying, or drying.
Garden mower situations test in case your garden mower is mowing, docked, paused, returning, or encountering an error.
Lock situations test if a lock is locked, unlocked, open, or jammed.
Media participant situations test if a media participant is on, off, taking part in, paused, or not taking part in.
Individual situations test if an individual is house or not house.
Siren situations test if a siren is on or off.
Swap situations test if a swap is on or off.
Vacuum situations test if a vacuum is cleansing, docked, paused, returning, or encountering an error.

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

A model new card: The distribution card

Meet the distribution card, a model new dashboard card that visualizes how values are distributed throughout a number of entities. It shows your knowledge as a proportional horizontal bar chart with an interactive legend, good for seeing at a look the place your energy, storage, or another measurable amount goes.

The cardboard is totally interactive: choose legend objects to cover or present entities (the odds recalculate dynamically), and choose bar segments to open the more-info dialog for that entity. When you could have many entities, the legend exhibits the primary objects with a Extra button to develop the remainder.

The distribution card is wise about what you’ll be able to mix. It validates that every one entities share the identical area and gadget class, so that you received’t unintentionally combine energy sensors with battery sensors. It even handles associated models gracefully: mixing watts and kilowatts works simply tremendous.

Some concepts for a way you would possibly use it:

Energy monitoring: See which circuits or home equipment are consuming essentially the most electrical energy proper now.
Storage utilization: Visualize how storage is distributed throughout drives or folders.
Any proportional knowledge: Examine any group of entities with the identical unit.

Because of @jlpouffier for constructing this card! 🎉

Fast search: The quickest option to something

We proceed to make it simpler to entry and discover issues in House Assistant. The short bar has been fully redesigned and is now merely referred to as Fast search. Consider it because the command heart to your complete House Assistant: navigate wherever, run instructions, discover entities, gadgets, or areas, all from a single, unified search.

Open Fast search from wherever by urgent ⌘ + Okay on macOS or Ctrl + Okay on Home windows and Linux. The brand new design options class filters on the high: Navigate, Instructions, Entities, Gadgets, and Areas. Choose a filter to immediately slim your outcomes, or simply begin typing to look throughout all the pieces.

Full keyboard navigation makes Fast search an influence consumer’s good friend. Use the arrow keys to maneuver by way of outcomes, Enter to pick, and Esc to shut. On cellular, you’ll be able to assign Fast search to a gesture for one-tap entry.

Your favourite shortcuts nonetheless work

When you’ve been utilizing the single-key shortcuts from the outdated fast bar, they nonetheless work! The distinction is that they now open Fast search with the corresponding filter already chosen:

e opens Fast search with the Entities filter
d opens Fast search with the Gadgets filter
c opens Fast search with the Instructions filter
a nonetheless opens Help straight
m nonetheless creates a My hyperlink for the present web page (unrelated however nonetheless helpful point out! 😉)

This implies your muscle reminiscence is preserved when you get entry to all the brand new capabilities.

Integrations

Because of our group for protecting tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together 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:

Cloudflare R2, added by @corrreia
Again up your House Assistant to Cloudflare R2. R2 presents beneficiant free tier storage with no egress charges, making it an inexpensive choice for protecting your backups protected within the cloud.
Inexperienced Planet Power, added by @petschni
Get real-time dynamic electrical energy pricing knowledge from German renewable power supplier Inexperienced Planet Power. Monitor hourly costs and optimize your power consumption by shifting it to cheaper hours.
HDFury, added by @glenndehaan
Management and monitor your HDFury HDMI video processing gadgets, just like the VRROOM and Diva. Handle HDMI port choice, operation modes, audio muting, and monitor enter/output sign standing.
NRGkick, added by @andijakl
Monitor your NRGkick Gen2 cellular EV charger domestically. Monitor charging standing, power consumption, energy movement throughout all phases, and gadget temperatures with out requiring a cloud connection.
Prana, added by @prana-dev-official
Combine your Prana warmth restoration air flow programs. Prana HRV models present balanced mechanical air flow with energy-efficient warmth alternate, and now you can management and monitor them straight from House Assistant.
uHoo, added by @getuhoo and @joshsmonta
Combine your uHoo indoor air high quality screens to trace temperature, humidity, CO2, PM2.5, and different air high quality metrics. Additionally contains proprietary well being indices for virus and mildew threat.

Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations

It’s not simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which were added; current ones are additionally being continually improved. Listed here are a few of the noteworthy modifications to current integrations:

ESPHome integration now helps water heater gadgets! Thanks, @dhoeben, for including this!
Music Assistant integration now helps pre-announce URLs, because of @arturpragacz. Use your customized announcement sounds earlier than your text-to-speech message performs!
@fr33mang made it potential to play your “Preferred Songs” assortment straight within the Spotify integration. No extra looking for that particular playlist. 😁
The Sonos integration now exhibits your podcast favorites within the media browser, because of @divers33. Could we advocate the House Assistant Podcast? 🎤
@starkillerOG added a brand new pet chime choice to the Reolink integration. Now you’ll be able to set off a particular chime when your furry pals are on the door! 🐶
The SmartThings integration now helps audio notifications, because of @vmonkey.
@Lash-L improved the Roborock integration by including sensors for the dock water field standing. Good!
The Tibber integration acquired a number of enhancements from @Danielhiversen: new binary sensors for EV charger standing, extra temperature and grid sensors, and extra EV settings to fine-tune your charging expertise. ⚡️
@LG-ThinQ-Integration added assist for controlling humidifiers and dehumidifiers within the LG ThinQ integration. Thanks!
Because of @ptarjan, the Hikvision integration now has digicam assist! You possibly can view snapshots and streams out of your Hikvision cameras and NVRs straight in House Assistant.
@cdnninja added PM1 and PM10 air high quality sensors to the VeSync integration. Good!
The Bang & Olufsen integration acquired battery assist from @mj23000. Now you can monitor battery ranges and charging standing to your moveable Beosound audio system and Beoremote One remotes.
@erwindouna enhanced the Portainer integration with a brand new prune photographs button and a state sensor. Superior!
Because of @klaasnicolaas, the Powerfox integration now helps fuel meters alongside electrical energy meters.
@terop added an Indoor Air High quality Rating (IAQS) sensor to the Ruuvi integration. Nice!
@pandanz added an ambient temperature sensor to the ToGrill integration. Regulate the temperature round your grill 🍗, not simply inside it!
@tr4nt0r added assist for sequence IDs to the ntfy integration, permitting notifications to be up to date, and added two new actions to dismiss and delete notifications.

Integration high quality scale achievements

One factor we’re extremely pleased with in House 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 consumer expertise.

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

3 integrations reached platinum 🏆
4 integrations reached silver 🥈
1 integration reached bronze 🥉

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

A giant thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏

Now accessible to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] could be arrange straight from the House Assistant consumer interface, some had been solely accessible utilizing YAML configuration. We hold shifting 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 House Assistant UI:

Different noteworthy modifications

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

The Developer instruments have been moved to the Settings space. This transformation retains all administrative and system instruments in a single central location, making the interface cleaner and extra constant. We perceive this would possibly take some getting used to, and we hear you! We’re actively exploring including full sidebar menu customization capabilities sooner or later, providing you with the flexibleness to prepare your navigation precisely the best way you need it.
Dashboards now assist calendar colours! Decide a colour for every calendar, and it’ll present up in your calendar playing cards. The Google Calendar integration already helps this function, because of @Misiu.
@karwosts added reside inline template previews to the template editor. As you kind, you’ll be able to immediately see the results of your template while not having to manually refresh.
The sidebar now includes a delicate scroll fade impact and retains Settings at all times seen on the backside, so that you by no means should scroll to search out it. Thanks, @ildar170975!
@MindFreeze added faucet motion and picture faucet motion choices to the realm card, providing you with extra management over what occurs while you work together together with your areas.
The entity card now helps actions, because of @ildar170975. Configure faucet, maintain, or double-tap actions to set off something you need straight from the cardboard.
@Thomas55555 added components per billion (ppb) as a sound unit of measurement for sulfur dioxide sensors and quantity entities.
The Power dashboard now helps energy sensors in different codecs with out the necessity for a template sensor because of @MindFreeze. Now you can use a single sensor with an inverted polarity for grid or battery. You too can configure two separte optimistic sensors for cost and discharge (or import/export).

Add buttons to your heading card

The heading card now helps button badges, providing you with a brand new manner so as to add fast actions proper alongside your part headings. Show an icon, textual content, or each, decide a customized colour, and configure faucet, maintain, or double-tap actions to set off something you need.

You too can set visibility situations to point out or conceal buttons primarily based on entity states. Mixed with the present entity badges, this makes the heading card a flexible anchor to your dashboard sections, whether or not you need to show standing data, present fast controls, or each.

Because of @piitaya for this addition! 🎉

Decide particular entities in your space card

The realm card now lets you choose particular person entities as management buttons, not simply complete kinds of entities like all lights or all switches within the space. Beforehand, including a light-weight management meant displaying all lights within the space. Now you’ll be able to decide precisely which entities seem.

Nice job, @MindFreeze! 🎉

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Backward-incompatible modifications

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

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

Group

The conduct of sensor teams has modified:

A sensor group is now unavailable if all group members are both unavailable or lacking (which means they aren’t within the state machine).
When the group is just not thought of unavailable and the configuration variable ignore_non_numeric is about to False (the default), the group state is calculated in response to the configured kind provided that all group members are within the state machine and have a numeric state. If not, the group state shall be unknown.

(@emontnemery – #152167) (group documentation)

Sentry

Self-hosted Sentry customers solely: This improve requires Sentry server model 20.6.0 or later (launched June 2020) as a result of SDK’s use of the /envelope API endpoint. Customers working older self-hosted Sentry situations should improve their server earlier than updating House Assistant.

House Assistant customers utilizing sentry.io should not affected.

(@vaind – #159415) (sentry documentation)

Tractive

The next sensors have been eliminated as a result of they’re now not supported by the Tractive API:

exercise
energy burned
sleep

When you use these entities in your automations or scripts, it’s essential to replace them.

(@bieniu – #160089) (tractive documentation)

Tuya

Duplicate HVACMode have been transformed to presets. Chances are you’ll want to regulate service calls from set_hvac_mode to set_preset_mode in your automations or scripts.

(@epenet – #160918) (tuya documentation)

VeSync

The advanced_sleep preset mode is now changed by sleep. When you’ve got been utilizing advanced_sleep, in your automations or scripts, it’s essential to replace them to make use of sleep as a substitute.

(@cdnninja – #160573) (vesync documentation)

In case you are a customized integration developer and need to study modifications and new options accessible to your integration: Make sure you comply with our developer weblog. The next modifications are essentially the most notable for this launch: