2026.3: A clear sweep – House Assistant

House Assistant 2026.3! 🎉

After final month’s huge launch, this one is a pleasant and relaxed one. We took
a step again from the massive headline options and totally centered on one thing
equally necessary: getting the wonderful contributions from our neighborhood
reviewed, polished, and merged. 💚

And did our neighborhood ship! This launch is filled with tons of latest
integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more], plenty of noteworthy enhancements to those you
already use, boatloads of bug fixes, and a very nice record of integrations
that climbed up the integration high quality scale. 📈

It’s releases like these that actually present the power of our open-source
neighborhood. Each single contribution issues, and this month that exhibits extra
than ever. Thanks all! 🙏

My private favourite this month? The automation editor change:
Proceed on error has lastly
landed within the UI. I truly wrote this function years in the past, however it was solely
obtainable by YAML. Seeing it now land within the visible editor (making it
accessible to everybody) is simply superior. It’s a kind of small issues that
make a giant distinction in on a regular basis use. 🤩

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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 @TimoPtr, @arturpragacz, and @MindFreeze who helped write the discharge notes this launch. Additionally, @CoMPaTech, @balloob, @OnFreund, and @silamon for placing effort into tweaking its contents. Due to them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️

Ship your vacuum to wash particular areas

Acquired a robotic vacuum? Now you can inform it precisely which areas to wash! This launch introduces the clear space motion, which helps you to ship your vacuum to wash a number of particular areas on demand, proper from House Assistant. On this launch, it’s supported by Matter, Ecovacs, and Roborock.

One of the best half? The motion makes use of your present House Assistant areas, not some obscure vendor-specific identifiers. You merely map the segments your vacuum is aware of about to the areas you’ve already arrange in House Assistant, and that’s all there’s to it.

Getting began

When your vacuum helps space cleansing, you may arrange the mapping by the vacuum’s entity settings. Open the vacuum entity, choose the settings icon, and search for the Map vacuum segments to areas part. From there, you may match the segments your vacuum has detected to your House Assistant areas.

In case your vacuum’s inner phase format ever adjustments (for instance, after remapping within the producer’s app or the vacuum rediscovering its surroundings), House Assistant will discover. A restore challenge will provide you with a warning that the segments have modified, so you may replace your mapping and ensure the whole lot stays in sync.

Paving the best way for voice

As a result of the mapping makes use of native House Assistant areas, this function lays the groundwork for future voice assistant help. Think about merely saying “clear the kitchen” and having your vacuum head to the proper space. That’s not obtainable simply but, however the basis is now in place to make it occur.

Power dashboard enhancements

The Power dashboard acquired a pleasant batch of enhancements this launch.

The Now view gained badges that present real-time energy consumption, gasoline move charge, and water move charge at a look. Water additionally will get its personal Sankey chart within the Now view, providing you with a visible breakdown of water utilization throughout your property, identical to the present energy Sankey chart.

To cut back ambiguity, the second tab on the Power dashboard has been renamed from Power to Electrical energy, for the reason that dashboard covers electrical energy, gasoline, and water. On the configuration facet, the vitality settings web page is now break up into three tabs: Electrical energy, Fuel, and Water, making it simpler to seek out and handle your vitality sources.

Lastly, vitality bar chart tooltips now embrace the day of the week, serving to you rapidly spot utilization patterns.

Thanks, @MindFreeze, @NoRi2909, and @gpoitch! 🎉

Proceed on error within the automation editor

The automation editor now has a Proceed on error choice for actions, straight accessible from the visible editor. Beforehand, this setting was solely obtainable by YAML.

Yow will discover it within the three-dots menu of any motion. When enabled, a visible indicator seems on the motion row, so you may rapidly see which actions will proceed operating even when they encounter an error.

That is particularly useful for automations the place a single failing motion shouldn’t cease the remainder from operating. For instance, if one in every of a number of notification actions fails, the remaining ones will nonetheless be despatched.

Thanks, @wendevlin! 🎉

Wake phrase detection in your Android cellphone (experimental)

Your cellphone simply turned a voice satellite tv for pc! The House Assistant Companion app for Android now helps on-device wake phrase detection, permitting you to open Help from anyplace; even when your cellphone is locked.

Impressed from the good work from @brownard in Ava.

This function makes use of microWakeWord, the identical light-weight wake phrase engine that powers the House Assistant Voice Preview Version. All processing occurs regionally in your gadget, no audio is shipped to the cloud, and no server-side processing is required. Your voice stays in your cellphone.

You may select between three wake phrases:

Okay Nabu
Hey Jarvis
Hey Mycroft

To allow wake phrase detection, open your Android gadget’s Settings > Companion App > Help for Android, and allow the Allow wake phrase detection toggle. As soon as enabled, merely say your chosen wake phrase and the Help pipeline will open, able to take your command.

Watch the video to see wake phrase detection in motion on an Android gadget.

It already integrates together with your voice tools at house, and if one other satellite tv for pc is close by, solely the quickest one will reply. This additionally applies to a number of Android gadgets.

Battery utilization

As a result of wake phrase detection requires steady microphone entry and CPU utilization, this function does have a noticeable influence on battery life. To assist handle this, you should use automations to begin and cease wake phrase detection based mostly in your context, for instance, solely enabling it if you’re related to your property Wi-Fi or inside a selected zone. This fashion, you get hands-free voice management when it issues most, with out draining your battery all day.

Notice

Battery utilization could possibly be drastically decreased if Google opened their API for {hardware} hotword detection. Sadly, that is hidden behind a system API that solely cellphone producers have entry to. Perhaps sooner or later they may open it as much as enhance the expertise.

Thanks, @TimoPtr! 🎉

Integrations

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

New integrations

We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:

Ghost, added by @JohnONolan
Monitor your Ghost publication metrics, together with member counts, income, submit statistics, and e mail publication efficiency, proper out of your House Assistant dashboard.
Hegel Amplifier, added by @boazca – launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Management your Hegel Music Methods amplifiers regionally over your community. Handle energy, quantity, enter choice, and mute with real-time push updates for fast suggestions.
Homevolt, added by @Danielhiversen – launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Learn native knowledge out of your Homevolt battery over your community, no cloud required. Monitor energy, vitality, voltage, temperature, and battery standing.
Hypontech Cloud, added by @jcisio
Monitor your Hypontech photo voltaic inverter system by the Hypontech Cloud platform. Observe energy manufacturing, vitality yields, and system standing.
IDrive e2, added by @patrickvorgers
Again up your House Assistant to an IDrive e2 bucket. IDrive e2 provides reasonably priced S3-compatible cloud storage with versatile entry controls for conserving your backups secure.
Indevolt, added by @Xirt
Talk straight together with your Indevolt vitality storage gadgets over the native community. Monitor vitality manufacturing, consumption, and battery standing.
IntelliClima, added by @dvdinth
Combine your Fantini Cosmi Ecocomfort 2.0 air flow gadgets. Management fan modes and speeds of your mechanical air flow with warmth restoration system.
Liebherr, added by @mettolen – launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Management and monitor your Liebherr SmartDevice fridges and freezers by way of the cloud. Monitor temperatures, alter cooling settings, and automate meals security alerts.
MTA New York Metropolis Transit, added by @OnFreund – launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Get real-time arrival predictions for all NYC subway and bus traces utilizing knowledge from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
MyNeomitis, added by @l-pr
Join your Axenco MyNeomitis heating and vitality administration gadgets, corresponding to electrical radiators, towel rails, and underfloor heating, to House Assistant.
OneDrive for Enterprise, added by @zweckj – launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
Use OneDrive for Enterprise as a backup location to your House Assistant backups. Nice for customers with a Microsoft 365 enterprise subscription.
Powerfox Native, added by @klaasnicolaas – launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
Collect knowledge out of your Powerfox Poweropti gadget straight over your native community, providing sooner updates with no cloud dependency.
Redgtech, added by @Jonhsady
Join your Redgtech good switches to House Assistant. Management and monitor your cloud-connected switches and relays from this Brazilian good house model.
System Nexa 2, added by @konsulten – launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Combine your System Nexa 2 good house gadgets regionally. Management lights, switches, and good plugs with help for dimmers and out of doors plugs.
Teltonika, added by @karlbeecken – launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Monitor your Teltonika Networks routers operating RutOS. Observe mobile sign high quality, modem temperature, and community connectivity.
Trane Native, added by @bdraco
Regionally management Trane and American Normal thermostats over your community utilizing a direct mTLS connection. No cloud required.
Zinvolt, added by @joostlek
Monitor your Zinvolt batteries in House Assistant, together with state of cost and different battery metrics.

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

Noteworthy enhancements to present integrations

It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which were added; present ones are additionally being always improved. Listed here are among the noteworthy adjustments to present integrations:

Matter now helps carbon monoxide alarm states and TVOC air high quality degree sensors. When you have Matter-certified CO sensors or air high quality gadgets, they now present up in House Assistant. Thanks, @Leo2442926161 and @lboue!
HomeKit Controller now exposes water degree sensors, so gadgets just like the Smartmi Humidifier Rainforest will present their present water degree in House Assistant. Thanks, @romanlytvyn!
Reolink cameras gained 5 new diagonal and steady rotation PTZ buttons, plus the PTZ patrol change now accurately experiences its real-time standing. Thanks, @starkillerOG!
SmartThings now helps dual-cavity Samsung ovens, with separate entities for every chamber. It additionally gained change and choose controls for Samsung dishwasher washing choices like sanitize, heated dry, and pace booster. Thanks, @mik-laj and @edu-tsen!
Roborock now totally helps Zeo washing and drying machines with program choice, temperature management, drying modes, and detergent standing sensors. Thanks, @yangqian!
OpenAI Dialog now helps the gpt-image-1.5 picture technology mannequin for AI Duties, providing cheaper and sooner picture technology. Thanks, @Shulyaka!
UniFi Defend cameras now have PTZ help with a ptz_goto_preset motion for triggering presets and a PTZ patrol choose entity with stay state updates. Thanks, @RaHehl!
SwitchBot now allows you to add passwords to Keypad Imaginative and prescient gadgets programmatically. It additionally gained a sluggish mode setting for curtain gadgets, which might scale back noise and enhance reliability with heavier curtains. Thanks, @zerzhang and @ljmerza!
Alexa Gadgets now helps Amazon Air High quality Monitor gadgets, exposing sensors for air high quality index, VOC index, humidity, temperature, and particulate matter. Thanks, @jamesonuk!
VeSync humidifiers now have a change to allow or disable auto-drying mode for humidifier pads. Thanks, @cdnninja!
SwitchBot Cloud now helps the SwitchBot AI Artwork Body with battery degree, subsequent/earlier image buttons, and a show picture entity exhibiting the present image. Thanks, @XiaoLing-git!
KNX now permits configuring quantity entities and sending the present time straight from the UI. Moreover, expose gained a brand new periodic ship choice to periodically re-send entity states to the bus. Thanks, @farmio!
MELCloud air-to-water gadgets now have further sensors for RSSI sign power, condensing temperature, fan frequency, and estimated vitality produced. Thanks, @ffourcot!
Nanoleaf changed its underlying library with aionanoleaf2, fixing authorization errors that prevented newer Nanoleaf Necessities gadgets from connecting. Thanks, @loebi-ch!
Uptime Kuma displays now have uptime ratio and common response time sensors for 1-day, 30-day, and 365-day durations. Thanks, @tr4nt0r!
Radarr gained two new actions: radarr.get_movies and radarr.get_queue, returning detailed details about motion pictures in your library and the present obtain queue. Thanks, @Liquidmasl!
Renault automobiles now have buttons to remotely sound the horn or flash the lights. Thanks, @sebastiaanspeck!
Proxmox VE gained a sensor platform with CPU utilization, reminiscence utilization, disk utilization, and standing sensors for nodes, digital machines, and containers. Thanks, @erwindouna!
Mealie now has a get_shopping_list_items motion that returns structured buying record knowledge, helpful for automations that want extra element than the to-do entity gives. Thanks, @andrew-codechimp!
Ambient Climate Station now exposes sensors for the AQIN indoor air high quality monitor, together with PM2.5, PM10, CO2, temperature, humidity, and AQI measurements. Thanks, @n-6!
WeatherFlow Tempest stations now present battery degree as a share for consistency with different integrations. Thanks, @pkolbus!
SleepIQ now gives 5 new sleep well being sensors per sleeper: sleep rating, sleep length, coronary heart charge common, respiratory charge common, and coronary heart charge variability. Thanks, @rhcp011235!
Anthropic now helps the Claude Opus 4.6 mannequin with adaptive considering effort ranges, and gained native structured outputs for extra correct instrument calls on fashions 4.5 and newer. Thanks, @Shulyaka!
Tessie acquired a number of enhancements: an vitality remaining sensor for automobiles, battery well being diagnostics, island and grid standing sensors for vitality websites, and full vitality historical past help for the House Assistant Power Dashboard. Thanks, @jrhillery and @Bre77!
Portainer now helps Docker stack monitoring and management with standing sensors, container counts, and begin/cease switches. It additionally gained a prune_images motion to wash up unused Docker photos. Thanks, @erwindouna!
Nintendo Parental Controls now has a bedtime finish time entity, complementing the present bedtime begin time for a whole bedtime schedule. Thanks, @pantherale0!
LG Soundbar now helps play/pause media management, exhibits monitor title, artist, and album artwork, and experiences taking part in/paused state. Thanks, @alexmerkel!
Velux now helps on/off switches related to the KLF 200 gateway. Thanks, @wollew!
Switcher now helps Switcher heater gadgets for monitoring and management. Thanks, @YogevBokobza!
Cambridge Audio gadgets now have a room correction change for suitable fashions. Thanks, @noahhusby!
Vera metered switches now expose energy and vitality sensors, bringing vitality monitoring to your Vera gadgets. Thanks, @jronnols!
Control4 thermostats now help fan mode management with Auto, Flow into, and On modes. Thanks, @davidrecordon!
BSB-Lan now exhibits the present HVAC motion (heating, cooling, idle) on the local weather entity and gained a button to synchronize your heating system’s clock. Thanks, @liudger!
JVC Projector gained a variety of latest sensors and controls: supply, coloration depth, HDR standing, image mode, set up mode, mild energy, and switches for E-Shift and Low Latency Mode. Thanks, @SteveEasley!
NRGkick EV chargers now have a change to allow or pause automobile charging straight from House Assistant. Thanks, @andijakl!
Inexperienced Planet Power now exhibits timestamp sensors for the very best and lowest vitality value instances of the day, serving to you time your vitality utilization. Thanks, @petschni!
Compit expanded considerably with new water heater, quantity, and binary sensor platforms for controlling sizzling water, adjusting temperature settings, and monitoring gadget states throughout their HVAC product vary. Thanks, @Przemko92!
Saunum now has a start_session motion, letting you begin a sauna session with customized length, goal temperature, and fan length in a single name. Thanks, @mettolen!
Watts Imaginative and prescient + now helps controlling good switches alongside the present thermostat help. Thanks, @theobld-ww!
Sunricher DALI now tracks vitality consumption for DALI mild gadgets related by a Sunricher gateway. Thanks, @niracler!

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 absolute best person expertise.

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

9 integrations reached platinum 🏆
1 integration reached gold 🥇
6 integrations reached silver 🥈
7 integrations reached bronze 🥉

It is a enormous achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The hassle and dedication required to achieve these high quality ranges is critical, because it entails 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 obtainable to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] will be arrange straight from the House Assistant person interface, some had been solely obtainable 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 obtainable by way of the House Assistant UI:

Different noteworthy adjustments

There are lots of extra enhancements on this launch; listed here are among the different noteworthy adjustments:

The settings pages for Matter, Z-Wave, Zigbee, and Bluetooth have been reorganized for higher readability and discoverability. Thanks, @matthiasdebaat!
Now you can ask your Help to take away gadgets from a to-do record! The brand new take away merchandise intent enhances the present full merchandise intent, so managing your lists by voice simply bought even simpler. Thanks, @mistic100!
The statistics graph card editor now provides “Yr” as a selectable interval, making it straightforward to view annual developments proper from the UI. Thanks, @karwosts!
The Safety dashboard now additionally exhibits window-type covers (automated home windows), so they seem alongside your different window and door sensors. Thanks, @jhenkens!
The sections view now helps footer playing cards, providing you with a sticky card on the backside of the viewport, just like the present view header. Thanks, @MindFreeze!

Working on Python 3.14 🚀

This launch ships operating on Python 3.14! In case you’re questioning what which means: Python is the programming language House Assistant is constructed with.

So, why does it matter to you? Python 3.14 brings efficiency enhancements to the inspiration that House Assistant is constructed on. The brand new model features a sooner interpreter, improved startup instances, and higher reminiscence utilization, all of which contribute to a snappier House Assistant expertise. 🚀

Don’t fear! We deal with the improve to Python 3.14 routinely for you on all formally supported set up strategies. Simply improve House Assistant as you usually would, and you’re good to go! 😎

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Backward-incompatible adjustments

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

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

BSB-Lan

The water heater operation mode state on has been modified to efficiency for the BSB-Lan water heater. When you use this state in your automations or scripts, you’ll need to replace them to make use of the brand new state worth.

(@liudger – #160256) (BSB-Lan documentation)

Container picture

House Assistant container photos at the moment are compressed with zstd as a substitute of gzip. Since containerd has supported zstd since 2021, this isn’t anticipated to interrupt present installations. If you’re operating a really previous container runtime, ensure it helps zstd earlier than updating.

(@duhow – #160665)

LIFX

Passing the color_temp parameter (in mireds) to the lifx.effect_pulse motion is now not allowed. Use the color_temp_kelvin parameter as a substitute.

(@Djelibeybi – #161848) (LIFX documentation)

Lights

Utilizing color_temp (in mireds) to set a lightweight’s coloration temperature is now not supported. Use color_temp_kelvin as a substitute.

Moreover, the color_temp, kelvin, min_mireds, and max_mireds mild entity state attributes have been eliminated. Use color_temp_kelvin, min_color_temp_kelvin, and max_color_temp_kelvin as a substitute.

(@emontnemery – #161777) (mild documentation)

Satel Integra

Binary sensors and switches now have an preliminary state of unknown whereas the alarm panel remains to be reporting all states throughout startup. Beforehand, the default state was off, which was incorrect, as no knowledge had been acquired from the panel but.

The prospect that you’re impacted is low, as most states are reported earlier than House Assistant totally finishes setup; however this may happen on bigger installations and slower connections.

(@Tommatheussen – #158533) (Satel Integra documentation)

Snapcast

Media participant entities for Snapcast teams have been eliminated. Moreover, the Snapcast-specific grouping actions have been eliminated. When you use these entities or actions in your automations or scripts, you’ll need to replace them.

(@luar123 – #160945) (Snapcast documentation)

StarLine

The ignition and autostart state attributes of the engine change have been eliminated. Two new binary sensors have been launched to interchange them. When you reference these attributes in your automations or scripts, replace them to make use of the brand new binary sensor entities as a substitute.

(@epenet – #163289) (StarLine documentation)

Tado

Cellular gadget monitoring has been faraway from the Tado integration. Cellular gadgets and their related gadget tracker entities are now not obtainable. This transformation resolves re-authentication points and reduces pointless load on the Tado API.

(@erwindouna – #160881) (Tado documentation)

Template

The habits of template followers has modified:

A template fan’s state shall be unavailable if the state template encounters a syntax error. Beforehand, a template error would present the fan’s state as off.
The share attribute shall be None if the share template encounters a syntax error. Beforehand, it could be 0.
Template followers can now have the unknown state. A state template that returns None will render the entity as unknown as a substitute of off.

(@Petro31 – #162328) (Template documentation)

Z-Wave

Share speeds reported by Z-Wave followers have been corrected to align with different integrations. Consequently, values could differ barely. For instance, a worth beforehand reported as 67% could now seem as 66%. When you have automations that set off on actual share values, you might want to regulate them.

(@arturpragacz – #163093) (Z-Wave documentation)

If you’re a customized integration developer and need to study adjustments and new options obtainable to your integration: Make sure you observe our developer weblog. The next adjustments are probably the most notable for this launch: