2026.5: We’re on the identical frequency now 📡

Dwelling Assistant 2026.5! 🎉

What a number of weeks it has been! Earlier this month, we hosted State of the Open Dwelling 2026 dwell in Utrecht, the Netherlands. A giant chunk of that day was devoted to one thing we deeply care about: constructing within the open, and the way we’re going to take that even farther from right here on out. 💙

Constructing within the open isn’t nearly supply code on GitHub. It’s about doing the planning, the decision-making, and the prioritizing out the place everybody can see it, observe alongside, and take part. And “becoming a member of in” doesn’t imply it’s important to write a single line of code and even think about your self technical. Sharing how you utilize Dwelling Assistant, telling us what frustrates you, what you want existed, voting on concepts, serving to a fellow consumer on the boards or Discord, translating, writing documentation, or just leaving a considerate touch upon a roadmap merchandise: it all counts, and it all shapes the place this mission goes subsequent. 🤝

A terrific first step in that path additionally went dwell this month: our roadmap is now public. You possibly can go browse it, see what we’re engaged on, what’s subsequent, and (most significantly) touch upon it, share your ideas, and assist form it. We talked about all of this, and much more, on stage. So if you happen to weren’t in a position to be a part of us dwell, please go watch the recording. It’s genuinely value your time, and it’s one of the best invitation I may give you to come back construct the Open Dwelling with us. 🗺️

Now, on to this launch. My private favourite this month is perhaps a bit surprising, contemplating it sits all the way in which on the finish of this put up: the fully reworked templating documentation. I do know, I do know, “documentation” doesn’t precisely scream headline function. However hear me out: making Dwelling Assistant extra approachable is one among our greatest missions this 12 months, and darn good documentation is a giant a part of that. We’ve expanded our documentation workforce and are investing closely on this, and the brand new templating docs are the very first style of what’s to come back. I’m actually pleased with the place that is heading. 📚

That stated, I’d be mendacity if I stated I wasn’t additionally tremendous stoked about radio frequency (RF) help touchdown this launch. Identical to final month’s infrared (IR) launch, this brings a large class of gadgets into Dwelling Assistant natively: blinds, storage doorways, ceiling followers, RF shops, doorbells… you title it. Positive, there have all the time been intelligent workarounds and customized integrations to bridge a few of these, however having it constructed proper into the platform modifications the sport fully. There may be a lot cool stuff occurring round this, and we’re solely getting began. 📡

And there’s lots extra: a brand new Upkeep dashboard to your batteries, serial ports proxied over the community with ESPHome, new tile card options for media gamers, durations for purpose-specific automation triggers and circumstances, redesigned more-info dialogs for vacuums and garden mowers, autocomplete within the code editors, and 12 new integrations! 🚀

Benefit from the launch!

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An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch doable! And a particular shout-out to @piitaya who helped write the discharge notes this launch. Additionally, @RaHehl, @balloob, @Tommatheussen, and @mib1185 for placing effort into bettering its contents. Due to them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️

Radio frequency joins infrared as a first-class citizen

Final launch, we welcomed infrared as a first-class citizen of Dwelling Assistant, opening the door to all these TVs, air conditioners, and different home equipment nonetheless managed by their little IR distant. This launch continues that story with one other old-school protocol: radio frequency (RF). 📡

Take into consideration all of the RF-controlled gadgets already residing in your house: motorized blinds and curtains, storage door openers, ceiling followers, wi-fi wall switches, RF shops, doorbells, and sure, these vacation string lights. Most of them haven’t had a good way into your good residence, as a result of they don’t converse Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, or Matter. They converse RF, and solely RF. There have all the time been workarounds and customized integrations to bridge a few of them, however with this launch, Dwelling Assistant speaks RF natively.

Meet the Radio frequency platform

The brand new Radio frequency integration follows the very same sample as final launch’s infrared platform. It’s an entity sort that represents an RF transmitter, like an ESPHome-powered gadget with a sub-GHz transmitter hooked up. You don’t set it up straight. As an alternative, different integrations use it to ship RF instructions in your behalf, and also you merely choose which transmitter they need to use.

Two transmitter integrations help this from day one:

• ESPHome, so any ESPHome gadget with a suitable sub-GHz transmitter can act as your own home’s RF bridge. Most modules cowl all frequent sub-GHz bands (315, 433, 868, and 915 MHz), so a single transmitter can speak to a variety of gadgets. For DIY, we advocate the cheap CC1101 module (round $10), which you wire as much as an ESP32 your self. There’s a step-by-step information on learn how to construct one within the ESPHome documentation.
• Broadlink, so any Broadlink RM4 Professional it’s possible you’ll already personal could be reused as an RF transmitter for the brand new integrations. The RM4 Professional is the one mannequin within the RM4 line with RF help, and it’s restricted to the 433 MHz band.

On the opposite facet, device-specific integrations use the platform to really do one thing helpful. Two are delivery on this launch:

• Honeywell String Lights, to show your RF remote-controlled Honeywell string lights on and off from Dwelling Assistant, with all of the automation magic that brings. 🎄
• Novy Cooker Hood, to regulate the sunshine and the extractor fan in your Novy cooker hood. These are sometimes ceiling-mounted, so an RF distant (and now Dwelling Assistant) is the one sensible approach to attain them. 💨

Why this can be a large deal

This can be a nice match with the values of the Open Dwelling Basis, and particularly sustainability. 🌱 As an alternative of throwing out a working motorized blind as a result of it’s “dumb”, you may combine it. As an alternative of changing your RF shops with new Wi-Fi ones, you may preserve utilizing them. It’s one other approach to prolong the lifetime of gadgets you already personal, and to scale back digital waste. ♻️

A sneak peek at what’s coming

You’ll have caught a glimpse of the place that is heading on the State of the Open Dwelling 2026. Nabu Casa is a industrial accomplice of the Open Dwelling Basis, operating Dwelling Assistant Cloud and producing gadgets just like the Dwelling Assistant Inexperienced and the Dwelling Assistant Voice Preview Version. They’ve been engaged on a brand new gadget, presently going by the codename Venture Blast, that brings infrared and radio frequency capabilities collectively in a single, polished package deal. The brand new Radio frequency platform on this launch is a part of the muse that makes merchandise like that doable. Keep tuned. 👀

If this tickles your curiosity, watch Carl from Nabu Casa clarify what’s coming on this phase of the State of the Open Dwelling 2026. 📺

We’re excited to see the place the neighborhood takes this. The Radio frequency platform is designed to develop: extra transmitter integrations, extra gadget integrations, and extra protocols over time.

This work is a part of an Open Dwelling Basis roadmap alternative to make radio frequency a first-class citizen of Dwelling Assistant. Mission completed. 🎉

Serial ports over the community with ESPHome

We’ve got a little bit of a theme occurring. Final launch, infrared turned a first-class citizen of Dwelling Assistant. This launch, radio frequency joined the social gathering. And now, there’s one other approach you may put an ESPHome gadget someplace in your house and let Dwelling Assistant speak to issues by means of it: serial ports. 🔌

If you happen to’ve ever arrange a Bluetooth proxy, the concept will really feel acquainted. Loads of good residence gear talks over a serial connection, like vitality meters with a P1 port, or that basic Denon receiver with the new Denon RS232 integration delivery on this launch. Till now, the gadget producing these serial indicators needed to be bodily plugged into the identical machine operating Dwelling Assistant, or wired up over an extended, unwieldy cable. Not anymore. ✨

With the brand new serial proxy help in ESPHome, any serial port plugged into (or constructed into) an ESPHome gadget can now be uncovered over your community and utilized by Dwelling Assistant as if it have been sitting proper subsequent to it. Drop an ESP someplace handy, plug your serial gadget into it, and Dwelling Assistant takes care of the remainder. 🪄

The place this is useful

Below the hood

• All of Dwelling Assistant has been migrated to a contemporary, async-first serial driver known as serialx, changing the older pyserial library that Dwelling Assistant has used for years. It’s designed for the way in which Dwelling Assistant works as we speak and provides help for brand spanking new connection varieties, together with ESPHome serial proxies, transparently.
• Integrations that want a serial port now get a brand new, polished serial port selector within the UI. It lists native USB serial ports and distant ESPHome serial proxies facet by facet, with pleasant names. The listing even updates dwell, so a USB gadget you plug in whereas the dropdown is open exhibits up straight away.
• Widespread integrations that speak over serial choose up serial proxies free of charge. The brand new Denon RS232 integration makes use of it from day one, and the prevailing Russound RIO integration has been migrated to serialx as effectively, so it could possibly now speak to your multi-room audio gear over an ESPHome serial proxy too.

If you happen to’re an integration developer (or keep a customized part) speaking over serial, head over to the migrating from pyserial to serialx developer weblog put up to learn all about learn how to reap the benefits of this. 🛠️

A primary step, not the end line

Let’s be upfront about one factor: getting a serial proxy up and operating as we speak is not a one-tap expertise but. To make use of this in your house, you’ll have to construct your personal ESPHome gadget with the serial_proxy part configured for the UART your serial gadget is wired to. Which means writing an ESPHome YAML configuration, flashing the firmware, and connecting the {hardware}. It’s very doable, but it surely is on the technical facet. 🤓

We expect that’s okay, as a result of this launch is the foundational milestone that makes all the pieces else doable. The plumbing is now in place throughout Dwelling Assistant, ESPHome, and the integrations that want it. From right here, we (and the broader neighborhood) can construct on high of this with friendlier setup flows, ready-made {hardware}, and pre-built ESPHome configurations. Identical to Bluetooth and infrared proxies earlier than it, the expertise will get extra approachable launch after launch. 🚀

This work is a part of an Open Dwelling Basis roadmap alternative to make serial proxying a first-class citizen of Dwelling Assistant. One other roadmap milestone, checked off the listing. ✅

Extra out of your built-in dashboards

Over the previous few releases, Dwelling Assistant has been quietly rising a household of built-in dashboards that you just don’t should construct your self. It began with the Dwelling dashboard again in 2025.9, and grew with devoted Lights, Local weather, and Safety dashboards in 2025.11. This launch provides a brand new one and upgrades an current one. 🏠

Keep on high of your batteries with the brand new Upkeep dashboard

The dashboard focuses on what might be the most-requested view of all: your batteries. It robotically discovers each battery entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] in your house and lays them out grouped by space, with low ones highlighted so you may spot those that want swapping at a look. No extra digging by means of entity lists or constructing your personal dashboard for it. 🔋

This can be a neighborhood contribution from @Brookke, who constructed it from the bottom up. Huge thanks for including such a helpful new dashboard to Dwelling Assistant! 👏

Exercise go browsing the Safety dashboard

It’s a quiet improve you’ll really feel every single day: at a look, you may see if a door was opened, if somebody arrived residence, or if the entrance digicam noticed movement, with out having to dig by means of the logbook or construct a dashboard for it your self. The sidebar seems robotically on wider screens every time the Logbook integration is enabled (it’s, by default).

Extra for the dashboards you construct your self

Introducing the shortcut card

Dashboards are the entrance door to your good residence, and typically probably the most helpful factor you may placed on them isn’t an entity, however a fast approach to get someplace. Bounce to your vitality dashboard. Open the digicam view. Launch Help. Open the guide in a brand new tab. The brand new shortcut card makes constructing these one-tap launchers a breeze. ⚡

It appears and seems like a tile card, however as an alternative of representing an entity, it triggers an motion when you choose it. You possibly can choose from:

• Navigate to a different dashboard, view, space, or gadget web page.
• Open a URL in a brand new tab, excellent for linking out to your router, NAS, or documentation.
• Launch Help, so your voice assistant is all the time one faucet away.
• Carry out an motion, like turning off all of the lights once you head out the door. 🌙

The cardboard is sensible about defaults: choose a navigation goal and it picks up the title, icon, and colour of that vacation spot robotically. Choose Launch Help and it suggests a microphone icon. You possibly can override any of it, after all; set your personal label, description, icon, and colour, and choose between a horizontal or vertical structure.

The shortcut additionally comes as a badge, so you may drop the identical one-tap actions into the badge row on the high of any view. Identical choices, similar good defaults, simply in a extra compact type.

New tile card options for media gamers

The tile card is likely one of the most versatile constructing blocks in Dwelling Assistant dashboards, and this launch expands what it could possibly do for media gamers. Two new card options and a extra versatile playback function provide you with much more alternative in how your media participant tiles look and behave. 🎶

The primary new function is choose supply: a dropdown proper on the tile that allows you to swap the enter or supply in your media participant. HDMI 1, the Spotify enter in your receiver, that one obscure radio station you really like; it’s all one faucet away. The second is choose sound mode, with the identical dropdown expertise for selecting modes like Film, Music, or Evening on receivers and AV gear that help it.

And the prevailing playback card function acquired a long-requested improve: now you can choose precisely which buttons seem and in what order. Combine and match from on/off, play, pause, play/pause, cease, earlier monitor, and subsequent monitor to construct a distant that matches your media participant completely. No extra turn-on button on a TV that doesn’t want one, no extra lacking the next-track button in your speaker. 🎚️

Function-specific automation triggers & circumstances

The journey to make automationAutomations in Dwelling Assistant let you robotically reply to issues that occur in and round your own home. [Learn more] constructing really feel pure continues. Ever since Dwelling Assistant 2025.12 launched purpose-specific triggers and circumstances, each launch has chipped away on the hole between the way you describe your own home in your head (“when a light-weight activates”, “if the local weather is heating”) and what you really needed to sort into an automation. Final launch added a complete batch of cross-domain triggers and circumstances. This launch provides one thing all the neighborhood has been asking for: time. ⏱️

Automations that lastly perceive “for some time”

Studying again the suggestions we’ve obtained within the months this has been in Dwelling Assistant Labs, one request stood out above all others: durations. Virtually each “when movement is detected” automation within the wild secretly needs it may say “when movement has not been detected for the final 5 minutes”. And virtually each “if a door is open” situation actually needs to be “if a door has been open for at the least 10 minutes”. 🚪

Now they’ll. On the set off facet, a brand new for subject has landed throughout a variety of state-based purpose-specific triggers, from movement and occupancy to doorways, home windows, lights, switches, local weather, covers, and plenty of extra. Choose a set off, set how lengthy the state of affairs has to carry, and also you’re accomplished. No extra wrestling with template helpers or YAML for: keys hidden in code views to specific one thing this elementary.

On the situation facet, length is now obtainable throughout the total household of entity circumstances in Labs. Whether or not you’re checking on movement, a door, a light-weight, a swap, a local weather, a media participant, or the rest, now you can ask for the state to have held for a given period of time earlier than the situation is taken into account true. Identical story: no template helpers, no YAML detour.

Just a few examples of what this unlocks:

• “When the entrance door has been open for greater than 2 minutes” → close-the-door reminder. 🔔
• “When movement has not been detected within the workplace for quarter-hour” → flip off the lights. 💡
• “If the bed room window has been closed for at the least an hour” → solely then begin the air air purifier. 🌬️
• “When a storage door has been open for greater than half-hour after sundown” → ship a notification. 🌙

It’s a small-looking addition with an outsized impression: an entire class of “virtually doable” automations simply turned simple to place collectively.

Just a few extra triggers and circumstances to play with

If you happen to regulate updates ready to be put in, two new circumstancesSituations are an non-compulsory a part of an automation that may stop an motion from firing if they don’t seem to be met. [Learn more], is on the market and will not be obtainable, let an automation department on whether or not one thing is pending, with out templating the reply your self.

Your media gamers acquired chatty: triggers fireplace when one thing begins taking part in, pauses, activates, or turns off, and now additionally when a participant is muted or unmuted, when its quantity modifications, or when the amount crosses a threshold you set. Situations observe the identical beat with is muted, is unmuted, and a numeric quantity test. Good gasoline for “dim the lights when the film begins”, “pause the music when the doorbell rings”, or “solely ship the loud TTSTTS (text-to-speech) permits Dwelling Assistant to speak to you. [Learn more] announcement if the speaker is under 30%”. 🎬🔇

Your remotes picked up matching is on and is off circumstances, ending what final launch’s triggers began. And your to-do lists can now reply two questions an automation might need: are all gadgets accomplished, or are there nonetheless incomplete gadgets on the listing? Nice for end-of-day check-ins or these “did I neglect to feed the cat” moments. 🐱

Your timers acquired an entire lifecycle of recent triggersA set off is a set of values or circumstances of a platform which can be outlined to trigger an automation to run. [Learn more]: began, paused, restarted, cancelled, and completed. In order that 20-minute “tea is prepared” timer can now really inform your kitchen lights to flash, and your “children display time” timer can announce when it’s operating, paused, or up. There’s additionally a brand new time remaining set off that fires when a operating timer reaches a remaining length you choose: suppose a mild “5 minutes left” warning earlier than the display time timer runs out. ⏲️

And at last, a brand new doorbell rang set off. Doorbell occasion entities now converse a shared language, so a single set off lights up no matter which model sits at your entrance door. 🔔

Modifications to current triggers and circumstances

Strive it out!

Function-specific triggers and circumstances are nonetheless a preview function in Dwelling Assistant Labs, however with every launch the tough edges get smoother, and we’re closing in on having it function full. If you happen to haven’t given it a spin but, head over to Settings > System > Labs, swap it on, and tell us what you suppose. Your suggestions is genuinely shaping the place this lands; constructing within the open at work. 💚

Integrations

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

New integrations

• Denon RS232, added by @balloob
  Management your Denon receiver domestically over its RS232 serial port. Join your receiver utilizing a serial cable or a USB-to-serial adapter for push-based state updates, with out relying on the community or the cloud.

• Duco, added by @ronaldvdmeer — launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
  Monitor and management your Duco demand-controlled air flow system domestically from Dwelling Assistant. Monitor CO₂, humidity, and different sensor information, and modify air flow, throughout your native community.

• EARN-E P1 Meter, added by @Miggets7
  Join your EARN-E vitality monitor to Dwelling Assistant for real-time insights into your good meter’s vitality and fuel information. The gadget pushes its readings over your native community, so no cloud or polling is concerned.

• Eurotronic Comet Blue, added by @rikroe
  Combine your Eurotronic Comet Blue (and related) Bluetooth radiator thermostats with Dwelling Assistant. Learn thermostat standing and modify temperatures domestically, with no hub or cloud connection. Suitable thermostats embrace Sygonix HT100 BT, Xavax Hama, and Lidl Silvercrest RT2000BT.

• Fumis, added by @frenck — launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
  Carry your Fumis-based pellet range into Dwelling Assistant by means of the Fumis on-line service. Monitor your room temperature, set a cushty goal temperature, and switch your range on or off. Pellet stoves, pellet boilers, and hybrid wooden and pellet stoves outfitted with a Fumis WiRCU Wi-Fi module are bought underneath many alternative manufacturers, together with Austroflamm, Eco Spar, HAAS+SOHN, and Heta.

• Honeywell String Lights, added by @balloob
  Management your Honeywell radio frequency (RF) remote-controlled string lights from Dwelling Assistant. Makes use of the brand new Radio frequency entity platform, so that you’ll want a suitable sub-GHz RF transmitter (for instance, an ESPHome gadget) to ship instructions.

• Kiosker, added by @Claeysson
  Monitor your Kiosker internet kiosks operating on iPad or iPhone from Dwelling Assistant. Kiosker turns your iOS gadget into a strong, easy-to-use internet kiosk, excellent for dashboards on the wall.

• Novy Cooker Hood, added by @piitaya
  Management the sunshine and the extractor fan in your Novy cooker hood from Dwelling Assistant. Novy hoods are sometimes ceiling-mounted, with no buttons inside attain, so an RF distant (and now Dwelling Assistant) is the one sensible approach to management them. Makes use of the brand new Radio frequency entity platform, so that you’ll want a suitable sub-GHz RF transmitter (for instance, a Broadlink RM4 Professional or an ESPHome gadget) to ship instructions.

• OMIE, added by @luuuis — launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Carry Iberian Peninsula day-ahead electrical energy spot costs from OMIE into Dwelling Assistant. Sensors expose the present and next-hour costs for each Spain and Portugal, excellent for smarter automations round when to run your dishwasher, cost your EV, or warmth your water.

• Radio frequency, added by @balloob
  A brand new entity sort that represents a sub-GHz radio frequency (RF) transmitter, like an ESPHome gadget with a CC1101 module hooked up. You don’t set this integration up straight; as an alternative, different integrations use it to ship RF instructions to gadgets equivalent to distant shops, storage doorways, and string lights. The brand new Honeywell String Lights and Novy Cooker Hood integrations are the primary to utilize it. Learn extra about it within the Radio frequency joins infrared as a first-class citizen part above.

• Teleinfo, added by @esciara — launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Learn electrical energy consumption information from French Linky good meters and older digital meters utilizing the Télé-Info Shopper (TIC) protocol. Join a Teleinfo USB adapter to your meter’s TIC output to observe real-time vitality indexes, obvious energy, instantaneous present, and tariff data, all domestically.

• Victron GX, added by @tomer-w — launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
  Join your Victron Vitality GX gadgets, just like the Cerbo GX, Venus GX, and Colour Management GX, to Dwelling Assistant over MQTT. Get real-time monitoring and management of your Victron system, together with inverters, photo voltaic chargers, battery techniques, grid meters, and EV chargers.

Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations

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

• MQTT picked up three new platforms this launch: time, datetime, and date entities, supplying you with much more constructing blocks to your MQTT-based gadgets and automations. Thanks, @jbouwh!
• Matter added help for Matter radon sensors, so radon-monitoring gadgets that talk Matter now present up natively in Dwelling Assistant. Thanks, @dnicoara!
• ESPHome water heater entities now help away mode, matching what bodily and good water heaters in your house supply. Thanks, @tronikos!
• Shelly added tilt and rotation binary sensors for the Shelly Cury, and the Shelly Wall Show now exposes a media participant entity for built-in audio playback. Thanks, @bieniu!
• Sonos acquired two new switches for TV Autoplay and Ungroup on Autoplay, supplying you with fine-grained management over how residence theater audio system behave when the TV activates. Thanks, @arsenicks!
• Apple TV now helps keyboard textual content enter providers, so you may ship textual content to your Apple TV proper from Dwelling Assistant. No extra attempting to find letters on the on-screen keyboard. Thanks, @kroehre!
• Music Assistant obtained a giant batch of participant choices: quantity, textual content, swap, and choose entities at the moment are uncovered for all the pieces Music Assistant gamers make configurable. On high of that, sound mode help has landed too. Thanks, @fmunkes!
• Roborock homeowners with a Q10 S5+ now get devoted sensor and choose entities for his or her vacuum, and Q7 vacuums gained cleansing route management. Thanks, @lboue and @Lash-L!
• WLED now helps per-segment freezing, letting you pause results on particular person LED segments. Thanks, @tgechev!
• Broadlink can now act as an infrared emitter on the brand new infrared platform that landed final launch, so your Broadlink RM-series gadgets could be reused as native IR transmitters for different integrations. Thanks, @YuvalWS!
• Dwelling Join added microwaves to the associated equipment varieties for a number of sensors, increasing protection of supported gadgets. Thanks, @Diegorro98!
• OpenAI Dialog added help for OpenAI’s new GPT-5.5 dialog mannequin and the gpt-image-2 picture technology mannequin, which is now the really helpful default for picture technology. Thanks, @Shulyaka!
• SMLIGHT SLZB gadgets now expose an infrared platform, to allow them to be used as IR transmitters with the brand new infrared entity platform. Thanks, @tl-sl!
• SwitchBot Air Air purifier gadgets gained fan velocity share management and a button to toggle the built-in mild sensor. Thanks, @zerzhang!
• Tado now makes use of a dynamic replace interval, robotically adjusting how usually it polls based mostly on exercise to present you brisker information when one thing is going on. Thanks, @erwindouna!
• SolarEdge acquired an entire set of recent battery storage sensors. There are combination sensors for the overall every day cost and discharge vitality throughout your batteries, and per-battery sensors for every day cost and discharge vitality, state of cost, and present energy. All new sensors are disabled by default, so you may allow simply those you want. Thanks, @it-rec!
• HTML5 Push Notifications acquired a significant improve: a brand new occasion platform, a brand new html5.send_message entity motion, and the combination is now appropriately labeled as a notification service. Thanks, @tr4nt0r!
• Anthropic added help for Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.7 mannequin. Thanks, @Shulyaka!
• Immich media supply now exposes your favourite assortment, making it simple to tug starred images straight into your dashboards. Thanks, @mib1185!
• Transmission gained an occasion entity for torrent occasions, excellent for triggering automations when downloads end. Thanks, @andrew-codechimp!
• Portainer continues its speedy growth: new buttons for pruning volumes, killing containers, recreating containers, and full quantity administration. Thanks, @erwindouna!
• LG Netcast acquired a brand new motion to ship distant management instructions, letting you script TV navigation and enter. Thanks, @mithomas!
• Subaru autos that help distant begin now have a devoted begin/cease button entity. Thanks, @masterkoppa!
• London Underground expanded past the tube: it now studies standing for the Trams and the IFS Cloud Cable Automotive as effectively. Thanks, @prpr19xx!
• UniFi Entry picked up a number of enhancements: a choose entity for momentary door lock guidelines, UA-HUB-Door help, entry/exit path on entry occasions, computerized console discovery through UniFi Discovery, and a warning when a UniFi Defend API key’s used throughout setup. Thanks, @imhotep and @RaHehl!
• UniFi Defend is popping into your alarm hub: it beneficial properties an alarm management panel, UniFi PoE Siren / UniFi SuperLink Siren sirens, and switches for the brand new UniFi SuperLink Relay — a tool that reaches as much as 2 km over LoRa. All of those new options require UniFi Defend 7.1 or later. Due to Ubiquiti for the general public API enhancements, and to @RaHehl for bringing all of it to Dwelling Assistant!
• WaterFurnace geothermal techniques now expose a local weather entity, alongside new vitality statistics so you may monitor your system’s vitality use over time. Thanks, @masterkoppa!
• OpenDisplay Flex e-paper gadgets now expose new diagnostic sensors pushed by passive Bluetooth Low Vitality commercials: a battery share and battery voltage sensor for battery- and solar-powered gadgets, and a chip temperature sensor. Thanks, @g4bri3lDev!
• Satel Integra now helps encrypted connections, holding your alarm panel communications safe over the community. Thanks, @Tommatheussen!

Integration high quality scale achievements

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

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

• 6 integrations reached platinum 🏆

• 2 integrations reached gold 🥇

• 3 integrations reached silver 🥈

• 2 integrations reached bronze 🥉

This can be a enormous achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The trouble and dedication required to succeed in these high quality ranges is important, because it entails intensive testing, documentation, error dealing with, and sometimes 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 Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] could be arrange straight from the Dwelling Assistant consumer interface, some have been solely obtainable 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 obtainable through the Dwelling Assistant UI:

Farewell to the next

The next integrationIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] can be not obtainable as of this launch:

• LANnouncer has been eliminated. The companion Android app is not obtainable, which made the combination unattainable to put in or use. It was deprecated in Dwelling Assistant 2025.10 and is now eliminated. If you happen to have been nonetheless utilizing it, you’ll have to search for an alternate notification integration.

Different noteworthy modifications

• Cell app notifications at the moment are entities. The Cell app integration now exposes a notificationYou need to use notifications to ship messages, photos, and extra, to gadgets. [Learn more] entity for every of your gadgets, on high of the prevailing notify actions. Which means you may group your telephones and tablets collectively utilizing the common group helper proper from the consumer interface, and ship a single notification to all of them without delay. No YAML, no scripting, no scrolling by means of a listing of targets. Thanks, @tr4nt0r! 📱
• A search bar on the combination element web page. Integrations with loads of gadgets and entries (suppose Z-Wave, Zigbee, or your sprawling pile of ESPHome gadgets) now have a search bar on the high, matching throughout entry titles, gadget names, producers, fashions, and areas. 🔍
• Dashboard visibility circumstances can now check with the cardboard’s personal entity. State and numeric state visibility circumstances get a brand new Present entity possibility that robotically follows whichever entity the cardboard is sure to. No extra re-typing entity IDs, and your card stays reusable.
• Dashboard visibility circumstances now help attributes. State and numeric state visibility circumstances on playing cards can now test an entity attribute as an alternative of simply the state, catching up with their automation counterparts.
• Reload your shell instructions with out restarting. A brand new reload motion permits you to re-read your Shell command YAML configuration on the fly. One much less cause to restart Dwelling Assistant. Thanks, @potelux!
• Template vacuums discovered about rooms. Vacuums you construct with the Template integration can now expose their segments (rooms) and a clean_segment motion, plugging straight into the brand new Clear by space view. 🧹 Thanks, @gustavakerstrom!
• Extra unit love for sensors. Frequency sensors now help millihertz (mHz) by means of gigahertz (GHz) with computerized conversion between them, and electrical present sensors gained microamperes (µA). Thanks, @32u-nd, @Lamarqe, and @Phunkafizer!

A contemporary more-info dialog for vacuums and garden mowers

The largest purposeful addition is a model new Clear by space view. Many fashionable robotic vacuums allow you to ask them to scrub a particular room, however till now, there was no built-in approach to do this from the dialog. Now you can map your Dwelling Assistant areasAn space in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that should match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your own home. For instance, the front room space teams gadgets and entities in your front room. [Learn more] to the rooms your vacuum is aware of about, and begin a cleansing job for a number of areas proper from the dialog. If you happen to haven’t arrange a mapping but, the dialog walks you thru it with a pleasant empty state.

Garden mowers acquired the identical love. The redesigned garden mower dialog brings the identical contemporary illustration with state-driven animations (mowing, returning, docked, error), the identical battery-in-the-header structure, and the identical unified motion button row. Whether or not your robotic is busy on the carpet or busy on the garden, the expertise now feels the identical.

This work delivers on two Open Dwelling Basis roadmap alternatives: refined extra information display for vacuum cleaners and refining the extra information display for garden mowers. Two roadmap gadgets, one redesign. ✅

New styling for toggles

The templating documentation you’ve all the time wished

First, an important factor to say up entrance: you do not want to write down code or contact a single template to make use of Dwelling Assistant. All the things from establishing your gadgets, to constructing automations and crafting stunning dashboards, could be accomplished solely by means of the consumer interface, and it will get higher each launch. If the interface does what you want, you’re accomplished. 💚

That stated, templating is one of the crucial highly effective corners of Dwelling Assistant for the individuals who do need to go a step additional: dynamic notifications that learn the precise temperature, automations that resolve based mostly on a calculation throughout a number of entities, template entities whose worth is computed from different entities. And it has lengthy been one of the crucial intimidating corners too. So we shipped a top-to-bottom rework of the templating documentation, with one objective: if in case you have ever felt that templates have been “not for you”, we need to change that. 📚✨

If you happen to resolve to study templating, we at the moment are assured now we have all the pieces in place to take you all the way in which:

• 14 model new studying pages stroll you thru templating step-by-step, from what’s a template? and the place to make use of templates, by means of syntax, loops and circumstances, working with states, varieties and conversion, dates and instances, frequent patterns, and debugging, all the way in which to writing your personal customized templates and macros.
• Two full tutorials construct one thing actual you should utilize: a every day low-battery notification, and an common residence temperature sensor you may drop straight onto your dashboard.
• Each one of many 200+ “template capabilities”A template operate known as by title with parentheses, like states(“sensor.temperature”) or now(). It takes enter values as arguments and returns a consequence. [Learn more], “filters”A template filter transforms a worth utilizing the pipe (|) operator. It takes the worth on the left and returns a modified consequence. For instance, states(“sensor.temperature”) | float converts the state to a quantity. [Learn more], and “exams”A template check checks a situation utilizing the “is” key phrase and returns true or false. For instance, worth is quantity checks if a worth is a quantity. [Learn more] has its personal web page, with a plain-language intro, parameters, examples that present the precise output they produce, frequent gotchas, and hyperlinks to associated capabilities. All searchable by means of a single template capabilities reference that lists all of them.
• A devoted error messages web page lists frequent template errors verbatim, so when one thing breaks late at night time you may paste the error right into a search engine and land someplace that really helps.

There’s a quality-of-life improve throughout all the web site too: templates in code blocks at the moment are interactive. Hover over a operate title to see its description, choose it to leap to the reference web page, hover over a parameter for a fast reminder of what it does. Examples render with the enter on high and the precise output proper under, so that you by no means should guess what a template will produce.

Skip it, skim it, or grasp it. Both approach, we’ve acquired your again. And that is only the start: we’ve expanded our documentation workforce and are investing closely in making all of our documentation extra approachable. So anticipate extra reworks, extra tutorials, and extra friendly-but-thorough guides in releases to come back. 💪

Smarter code editors with autocomplete

The rework didn’t cease on the documentation. Whereas constructing it, it turned painfully clear that even with nice docs, writing a template nonetheless meant flipping forwards and backwards between tabs. So the code editors you discover all through Dwelling Assistant, those you utilize to write down a template or fine-tune an automation, acquired a severe improve this launch too. They now supply wealthy, context-aware autocomplete for each YAML and Jinja2 templates. ✨

Begin typing inside a {{ ... }} or {% ... %} block, and the editor now suggests Dwelling Assistant’s template capabilities, filters, exams, and globals. Every suggestion comes with a brief signature, an outline, and tab-stops for the arguments, so you may fly by means of writing a template with out holding the template documentation open in one other tab.

It will get even higher contained in the string arguments of these capabilities. The editor is aware of what sort of ID a operate expects and gives matching options:

• Entity IDs for capabilities like states(), is_state(), and state_attr(), together with the states["..."] shorthand.
• System IDs for device_entities(), device_name(), and device_attr(), displaying the gadget’s pleasant title with the uncooked ID because the inserted worth.
• Space IDs for area_entities(), area_devices(), and area_name().
• Ground IDs for floor_areas(), floor_entities(), and floor_name().
• Label IDs for label_areas(), label_devices(), and label_entities().

No extra copy-pasting entity IDs from the developer instruments, and no extra typos sneaking into your templates. Much less friction, fewer errors. 🎯

And it’s not simply autocomplete. Hover over something in your template and the editor has one thing helpful to say. Features, filters, and exams get a small tooltip with their signature, what they do, and a direct hyperlink to the complete documentation web page. Entity IDs and attributes present their present worth proper the place you’re typing, so that you immediately see whether or not your template is studying what you suppose it’s. 🔍

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Backward-incompatible modifications

In case you are a customized integration developer and need to study modifications and new options obtainable to your integration: You’ll want to observe our developer weblog. The next modifications are probably the most notable for this launch:

All modifications

In fact, there may be much more on this launch. Yow will discover a listing of all modifications made right here: Full changelog for Dwelling Assistant Core 2026.5.