Residence Assistant 2025.3! 🎉
However! Earlier than I dive into the discharge, let me shortly catch you up on belongings you
may need missed. There’s loads of cool stuff occurring recently!
We had a reside stream about Help: Voice chapter 9
Right here we introduced Speech-to-Phrase,
a voice recognition know-how that’s blazing quick and tremendous correct, even
on a Raspberry Pi! 🚀
I’m additionally tremendous stoked in regards to the announcement
that Apollo Automation
Works with Residence Assistant program 🥰
And our mates at Music Assistant
shipped their subsequent huge hit!
With superior new options like Spotify Join, Help optimization,
an equalizer, and podcast & audiobook assist. 🎶
Nice stuff, proper? However this launch right now can be filled with wonderful issues!
After a couple of releases specializing in backups,
we’re again with a launch packed with new options and enhancements,
largely specializing in dashboards! 🤩
The brand new talents, the tile card’s fine-tuning, and the dashboard view’s new
headers are actually cool; I can’t wait to see screenshots of your dashboards
with these new options! 📸
Benefit from the launch!
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Dashboard view headers
This launch brings an entire new look with the flexibility so as to add headers to your
dashboards. This lets you add a title and welcoming textual content to your dashboards
utilizing Markdown and even templates. Moreover, this provides you loads of area
for badges subsequent to the header.
As all the time, we’ve baked in loads of customization, with the flexibility to align the
header in a number of other ways. It comes with a responsive structure by default,
however you may as well set it to all the time be left-aligned or center-aligned.
The badges can be positioned beneath the textual content (default) or above the textual content. A
nice visible menu makes it simple to decide on the way you wish to manage your header.
Tile playing cards
This launch has made many enhancements and wonderful touches to the tile card. It
is among the most versatile playing cards in Residence Assistant,
and we’ve made it even higher!
Making tile card interactions clearer
There is no such thing as a doubt the tile card can do quite a bit, however ever since its creation,
it has had a bit of flaw that you simply may need run into your self…
How would you recognize if tapping the icon on the tile card would set off
an motion or whether or not it might simply show extra data? We’ve addressed
this with some delicate visible language on this launch!
When tapping the icon on the tile card immediately performs an motion,
like for instance, turning on a lightweight, the icon could have a round background
round it. In all different circumstances, the little circle won’t be displayed.
Now you recognize! 👍
Place tile card options
Since we added assist for resizing playing cards,
we gained the flexibility to make very large tile playing cards. These playing cards have loads of
empty area surrounding them, which may be useful at occasions.
However what for those who may do one thing helpful with that area? Now you may!
All options of a tile card can now be positioned inline within the tile card!
This brings a very new feel and look, which we’re certain you’ll love!
From the settings, you may add a function, like a brightness slider, and place
it both beneath (backside) or to the precise facet of the icon (inline).
Solely the primary function may be positioned inline; the remaining won’t be displayed.
New tile card options
This launch additionally ships with two new tile card options that may be
added to your entities to offer new controls. @jpbede
so a giant shout out to him!
Change toggle
The primary addition is one that’s simply stunning we didn’t have it earlier than:
A swap toggle! This lets you toggle a swap entity immediately from the
tile card.
Counter actions
The second addition is a counter toggle. This lets you add a button to
improve, lower, or reset a counter entity immediately from the tile card.
Tiny interplay enhancements
Extra tweaks to the tile card have been made to enhance their interplay
expertise. For instance, we now have good little animations if you hover over
the tile card, making it extra obvious that it’s interactive. Nonetheless, if you
faucet the tile card, it would present a bit of animation to point that the
faucet was registered.
One other good addition is that the tile card can now work together together with your keyboard!
Tab and shift + tab your approach throughout the display just like the keyboard warrior you’re.
Editor enhancements
Not simply the tile card itself has been improved, but additionally the editor for
the tile card has been improved. It’s now clearer and simpler to make use of.
The brand new management provides you a greater overview of what the choice will do for
the tile card.
Help chat now has streaming responses
In case you have connected an LLM, like ChatGPT, to your Help as
a dialog agent, it would now livestream the responses to you when
you’re textual content chatting with it!
When experimenting with bigger fashions, or on slower {hardware}, LLM’s can really feel
sluggish. They solely reply as soon as your entire reply is generated, which may take
frustratingly lengthy for prolonged responses (you’ll be ready some time for those who ask
it to inform you an epic fairy story).
We’ve added assist for LLMs to stream their response to the textual content chat, permitting you
to start out studying whereas the response is being generated. A bonus facet impact is
that instructions at the moment are additionally quicker: they are going to be executed as quickly as they arrive
in, with out ready for the remainder of the message to be full.
There was fairly much more to inform round Help and the brand new voice options;
in case you missed it, you may learn all about it on this weblog submit:
📰 Speech-to-Phrase brings voice residence – Voice chapter 9
Integrations
Due to our group for preserving tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your units, 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:
This launch additionally has new digital integrations. Digital integrations
are stubs which might be dealt with by different (current) integrations to assist with
findability. These ones are new:
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Burbank Water and Energy (BWP), supplied by Opower, added by @tronikos
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Heicko, supplied by Motionblinds, added by @starkillerOG
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LINAK, supplied by Idasen Desk, added by @abmantis
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Linx, supplied by Motionblinds, added by @starkillerOG
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Sensible Rollos, supplied by Motionblinds, added by @starkillerOG
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Ublockout, supplied by Motionblinds, added by @starkillerOG
Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations
It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your units, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which were added; current
integrations are additionally being always improved. Listed below are a few of the noteworthy
adjustments to current integrations:
SmartThings
The SmartThings integration has been fully rewritten! 🎉 In December,
SmartThings shut down the outdated authentication technique, however because of
SmartThings’ arduous work and shut collaboration with us, @joostlek
deliver again the combination—higher than ever.
No extra establishing routing, exposing ports, or creating developer accounts with
entry tokens—simply log in together with your Samsung account, and also you’re good to go!
And there’s extra! Push updates now work with out exposing your occasion to the
web, making the expertise quicker, seamless, and safer! 🚀
An enormous shoutout to our wonderful group, who performed a key function on this effort!
💙 When @joostlek
stepped up—sending in useful take a look at knowledge that helped fine-tune the combination.
This collaboration actually made a distinction!
Different noteworthy adjustments
There are various extra enhancements on this launch; listed here are a few of the different
noteworthy adjustments this launch:
- Ever upgraded Residence Assistant and wanted to do a tough refresh in your
browser to make it work once more? We’ve been in a position to scale back the circumstances in
which this occurs! Thanks, @bramkragten! -
@balloob
made a small change with a huge impact. Once you arrange a brand new
integration for a brand new gadget, Residence Assistant will now redirect you to the
gadget web page after setting it up. Good! - There’s now an choice so as to add an additional margin to the highest of a piece view.
Thanks, @piitaya! - The add/edit space dialog has been improved and compacted. They’re
way more nice to make use of now. Thanks, @jpbede! - We now have a tool class for the wind path sensors! Thanks, @edenhaus
! -
@jschlyter
has added the power distance gadget class for sensors,
which helps the next items:kWh/100mi,kWh/100km, andmi/kWh,
together with conversion between them. Superior! - Media participant entities that assist shopping media now have a brand new motion
out there to browse media as an motion with a response. Thanks, @PeteRager! -
@rikroe
has added an motion to retrieve the configuration of a schedule
helper. Thanks!
Iterating on the legends of graphs
Final launch, we made fairly a giant change to the charts
by changing the software program we use to make these graphs in Residence Assistant. Issues
modified behind the scenes, however our intention to start out was to make it look
and really feel related.
Nonetheless, we acquired loads of suggestions from the group that the legends proven
on the brand new graphs had been suboptimal. Our UX and frontend groups have been working
arduous to enhance this case and make the brand new graph legends extra related
to the outdated ones.
By default, we present the legend beneath the graph and present as many knowledge factors
as potential. If there are too many, they are going to be displayed on demand utilizing the
little ellipsis button.
When utilizing these playing cards in your dashboard, if you wish to all the time present the total
legend, a brand new choice will will let you hold it absolutely seen.
Now you can additionally zoom out and in, by double clicking on a graph. In order for you
extra management over the vary you wish to view in your graph, you may press the
ctrl/cmd key after which choose the vary on the graph you wish to zoom in on.
Grouping/clustering of trackables on the maps
The map card is ideal for visualizing your entities’ places, however when too
many cluster collectively in the identical spot, it could possibly get a bit cluttered.
To deal with this, we’ve launched marker clustering, which teams close by entities
collectively, making it simpler to see them at a look. When zooming in, the markers
‘spider’ out, displaying particular person entity places with a connecting line to
their unique positions. You may quickly disable clustering with a
easy toggle.
Thanks @jpbede
Patch releases
We can even launch patch releases for Residence Assistant 2025.3 in March.
These patch releases solely include bug fixes. Our purpose is to launch a patch
launch each Friday.
2025.3.1 – March 7
2025.3.2 – March 11
2025.3.3 – March 14
2025.3.4 – March 21
Need assistance? Be a part of the group!
Residence Assistant has an important group of customers who’re all greater than prepared
to assist one another out. So, be part of us!
Our very lively Discord chat server is a superb place to be
at, and don’t neglect to affix our wonderful boards.
Discovered a bug or concern? Please report it in our concern tracker
to get it mounted! Or, test our assist web page for steering for extra
locations you may go.
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Backward-incompatible adjustments
We do our greatest to keep away from making adjustments to current performance which may
unexpectedly impression your Residence Assistant set up. Sadly, generally,
it’s inevitable.
We all the time be certain to doc these adjustments to make the transition as simple as
potential for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible adjustments:
Automations & scripts
The wait variable and variables outlined by a response_variable set in an
interior scope of a script or automation now propagate to outer scopes additionally if
a variables motion is current within the interior scope.
Moreover, variables outlined by a response_variable now additionally propagate
out from parallel sequences. Scripts and automations which relied on the
older (buggy) habits would possibly must be adjusted.
(@arturpragacz
GPSD
All state attributes of the primary sensor had been changed with a devoted sensor
Residence Assistant in 2024.9. The deprecated attributes have now been eliminated.
(@jrieger
Residence Join
Some applications and program switches (that are being deprecated) and program
choose entities is probably not uncovered anymore by the combination as they’re
lacking an aiohomeconnect program key enumeration (file
You may get the diagnostics from the configuration entry or the gadget and open
a difficulty or submit a PR with the generated diagnostics file on the
aiohomeconnect repository
to counsel the lacking program(s).
(@Diegorro98
Utilizing program and choice keys that aren’t within the API documentation in Residence
Join actions will not work. To have the ability to use undocumented program or
choice keys, open a difficulty or submit a pull request with the required keys at
MartinHjelmare/aiohomeconnect
(@Diegorro98
A number of Residence Join config entries won’t be allowed to be configured. For
common customers the place all home equipment within the residence are related to the identical Residence
Join account, there shouldn’t be any purpose to have multiple config
entry since all home equipment within the residence shall be related to the identical account
and config entry.
(@Diegorro98
MQTT
Legacy color_mode assist for MQTT JSON lights has been eliminated. The assist
was deprecated in HA Core 2024.4.
Customers with a YAML setup have been instructed to replace their configuration in
configuration.yaml by way of restore concern move. Deprecation points with MQTT JSON
lights arrange by discovery had been communicated by way of warnings within the logs.
Utilizing the eliminated parameters in discovery won’t break the configuration however
will nonetheless log a warning.
(@jbouwh
Proximity
The space is now measured to the sting of the monitored zones (it takes the
radius into consideration), as an alternative of to the middle of the zone as earlier than. This leads
to barely totally different anticipated distance values, which you might have to regulate
accordingly in your current automations.
(@Spcemarine
SmartThings
The power and energy sensors have been eliminated for each gadget that has a
swap. They hardly ever labored as a result of there have been no power or energy
capabilities out there to get knowledge from. In case you do have the capabilities,
it would nonetheless give you the results you want.
(@joostlek
There are loads of states which were renamed; this would possibly want an replace in
your automations or different configurations.
- Set choices for dishwasher job state sensor in SmartThings (#139349
) - Add translatable states to SmartThings media supply enter (#139353
) - Add translatable states to SmartThings media playback (#139354
) - Add translatable states to oven mode in SmartThings (#139356
) - Add translatable states to oven job state in SmartThings (#139361
) - Add translatable states to robotic cleaner motion in SmartThings (#139363
) - Add translatable states to robotic cleaner turbo mode in SmartThings (#139364
) - Add translatable states to washer job state in SmartThings (#139368
) - Add translatable states to dryer job state in SmartThings (#139370
)
Synology DSM
The scan interval choice has been eliminated, and the default of quarter-hour is
used. If wanted, there’s an integration-independent and
frequent approach
to set a customized polling interval.
(@mib1185
If you’re a customized integration developer and wish to study adjustments and
new options out there in your integration: Make sure to comply with our
developer weblog. The next adjustments are probably the most notable for this launch:
All adjustments
In fact there’s much more on this launch. Yow will discover a listing of
all adjustments made right here: Full changelog for Residence Assistant Core 2025.3
