2026.7: Automations that talk your language

Dwelling Assistant 2026.7! 🎉

That is a kind of releases I’ve been trying ahead to for a very long time. My favourite by far is what we’ve achieved with automations. Function-specific triggers and situations graduate from Labs and turn into the brand new default for everybody. 🎉

It comes all the way down to one thing we’ve been chasing for years: extra energy, much less complexity. As a substitute of ranging from Dwelling Assistant’s internals, which entity, which state, which sort of set off, you begin from what you really need your house to do. When the bed room drops under 18°C, activate the heating. That’s it. No technical traps, no quirks to memorize. And since integrations can educate the automation engine their very own triggers and situations, it solely will get higher from right here. All of it proper there in our stunning consumer interface.

The good factor is, nothing breaks. All of your present automations preserve working, worry-free. We’ve additionally written tons of nice documentation explaining each single set off, situation, and motion, with examples to be taught from. And if you happen to’re a kind of individuals who prefers writing automations in YAML as an alternative of the UI, you’re in for an incredible expertise too. Person expertise isn’t a synonym for “the UI”. YAML customers deserve good consumer expertise too.

However actually? I’ve bought a second favourite this launch, and that stunned me a little bit. Exercise, what lots of you continue to know because the logbook, has been rebuilt right into a slick and clear timeline. 😍 It reads prime to backside like a feed, teams entries by day, and at last speaks the identical language as the remainder of Dwelling Assistant. I preserve opening it simply to have a look at it.

And that’s simply the beginning. There’s a brand new update-all button, devoted panels for infrared and radio frequency, an overhauled ZHA Zigbee machine administration, and 10 new integrations from our neighborhood.

Another factor earlier than you dive in: the Open Dwelling Basis is exhibiting at IFA Berlin for the primary time, from September 4 to eight, 2026. We’d love to satisfy you there, so come say hi there. There’s additionally a neighborhood meetup on Sunday, September 6, and everybody’s welcome. You’ll be able to learn all about it right here.

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, @sairon, and @agners who helped write the discharge notes this launch. Because of them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️

Creating automations simply grew to become simpler, pure and extra highly effective

That is, palms down, one of many largest and greatest modifications we’ve made to the automation editor in years. It has been roughly eight months within the making, constructed and refined launch after launch by lots of people, and formed by a mountain of your suggestions alongside the way in which. As of this launch, it’s right here for everybody, and we couldn’t be extra excited to lastly hand it over.

Why are we this excited? As a result of automations have all the time requested you to satisfy Dwelling Assistant midway. Some individuals nonetheless discuss it such as you want YAML, a coding background, and a free night simply to automate a light-weight. That hasn’t been true for some time, and this launch takes the largest step but towards closing that hole for good.

Again in Dwelling Assistant 2025.12, we launched purpose-specific triggers and situations in Settings > System > Labs. Each launch since has added extra of them and polished the expertise. This launch, they graduate: this new manner of constructing automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant assist you to mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more] is out of Labs and turns into the brand new default for everybody. 🎉

It’s tempting to learn this as a nicer set of menu choices. It’s way more than that. It’s a completely different start line: you describe what you need your house to react to, moderately than ranging from the technical constructing blocks beneath.

Begin with what you need, not the way it works

An automation engine thinks in primitives. Individuals don’t. You suppose “when the entrance door opens”, “when the final individual leaves”, or “when a battery runs low”.

The outdated path began some other place, with Dwelling Assistant’s internals. Which entity? Which state? Does it turn into on, detected, house, or not_home? Do I want a state set off, a numeric state set off, a tool set off, or a system occasion? If you already know Dwelling Assistant properly, these questions are second nature. In the event you don’t, they’re the wall you hit earlier than you even begin. 😤

The brand new triggers and situations communicate the language of the factor you care about. When the bed room drops under 18°C, activate the heating. You don’t take into consideration numeric state triggers, attributes, or models. You choose Temperature crossed threshold and say what issues. Or Battery low: no must know whether or not a tool studies its battery as a proportion sensor, or what counts as “low”. You construct across the second itself.

Constructed round areas, not one machine or entity at a time

The brand new constructing blocks additionally help targets, and that may be a larger deal than it sounds.

You’ll be able to construct an automationAutomations in Dwelling Assistant assist you to mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more] round movement in the lounge, as an alternative of round one particular movement sensor. One sensor in that room, high quality. Ten, additionally high quality. Swap one out subsequent yr, add one other, or take away the one which saved seeing the cat, and the automation retains describing the identical intent: movement in the lounge.

When movement is detected exterior, activate the lights exterior. The set off factors on the exterior spaceAn space in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that are supposed to match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your house. For instance, the front room space teams gadgets and entities in your front room. [Learn more], the motion factors on the exterior lights. Change which sensors or lights reside there later, and the automation follows alongside. It reads like a sentence, and it’s one much less fragile checklist of entities to keep up eternally.

Greater than friendlier wording

Right here is the half that’s simple to overlook: this isn’t only a pleasant wrapper across the outdated triggers.

These triggers and situations may be prolonged by integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more], together with customized and neighborhood ones. Integrations have lengthy been ready so as to add their very own actions; now they will add their very own triggers and situations too. Image a washer integration providing a plain “laundry is completed” set off, without having to know which state worth or attribute really means completed. An integration is aware of stuff you would in any other case have to determine your self: which state modifications matter, which to disregard, which edge instances are regular, and what a helpful automation second seems to be like in its world.

A sensor can let you know the electrical energy value. The combination can let you know when the worth is lowest immediately. As a substitute of everybody rebuilding the identical template, or studying the quirks of 1 specific warmth pump, EV charger, or alarm panel, the mixing can supply the triggers, situations, and actions that make sense for it. That turns the automation engine into one thing integrations can educate. It’s the place “extra energy, much less complexity” stops being a slogan.

No technical traps

There’s a quieter profit too: No technical traps. 💪

With these new triggers, you don’t must care about unknown or unavailable states. The constructing block handles these in the way in which that is smart for its objective. The second it’s important to determine whether or not one particular automation ought to ignore unavailable, wait it out, or deal with it as false, we have now already made you consider the unsuitable factor.

Occasion entities are one other basic. Automate round one with a plain state set off and it’s possible you’ll uncover it doesn’t hearth the second time the identical occasion occurs, as a result of the state didn’t change the way in which you anticipated. A purpose-specific set off expresses the occasion immediately, in order that complete class of shock merely goes away.

Your automations are secure, and YAML isn’t going anyplace

Earlier than anybody opens a discussion board thread in gentle panic: no, you don’t must rewrite something.

Present automations preserve working. Generic triggers, situations, templates, and YAML all preserve working. The brand new triggers and situations are merely the higher start line for the following automation you construct, and a nicer choice once you determine to enhance an outdated one. It’s not a migration tax.

And this isn’t Dwelling Assistant strolling away from YAML. We put actual effort into making the brand new constructing blocks learn properly in YAML too, the identical manner we did when automations moved to triggers, situations, and actions and swapped service for motion. If textual content is your interface, it ought to really feel simply as pure. In the event you use YAML to write down automations, we’re positive you’ll love the brand new triggers and situations simply as a lot!

Documentation is a part of the function

We additionally did the much less flashy work, which on a mission like that is usually the work that issues most. Each set off, situation, and motion now has its personal documentation web page over at triggers, situations, and actions. Every one explains what the constructing block is, once you would attain for it, use it from the automation editor, the way it seems to be in YAML, and contains actual examples to be taught from.

There’s plenty of it, on objective. Approachability isn’t solely a couple of friendlier button within the UI. It’s also about serving to you perceive what that button does, and when to make use of it. Good documentation is product work, even when it doesn’t get its personal screenshot.

There’s an AI angle right here too, and it belongs in the proper place: that is for individuals first. However lots of you already use AI to assist construct automations, and clearer, well-described constructing blocks give these instruments a lot better materials to work with. Their options can turn into extra constant, as a result of there’s much less Dwelling Assistant-specific guesswork to invent. It won’t occur in a single day, since most fashions are educated on older examples and should preserve suggesting the outdated patterns for some time. The higher the documentation, the sooner each individuals and machines choose up the brand new manner.

Haven’t tried constructing automations this fashion but? Open the automation editor and begin with what you wish to occur. We predict you’ll like the place it begins. 😎

Exercise logbook

Exercise, the function lots of you continue to know because the logbook, has all the time been there to reply a easy query: what occurred, and when? The best way it answered, although, was a flat checklist of full sentences. “Front room lamp turned on.” “Auto lights was triggered by movement.” Each row was an entire sentence, the machine title was repeated on each line, and it used its personal wording (“turned on”, “modified to”) that didn’t fairly match how states are written in every single place else in Dwelling Assistant. Studying again a busy day meant studying each single line.

This launch rebuilds it from the bottom up right into a timeline.

Every entry now sits on a vertical rail: the time on the left, a coloured dot with the entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more]’s icon, and the textual content beside it. You learn it prime to backside, like a feed. Entries are grouped by day, with At the moment, Yesterday, and dated headers, so that you by no means lose observe of the place you’re in time. The dot takes on the state shade too, so an on and an off are simple to inform aside at a look, with out studying a phrase.

It additionally reveals solely the context you really want. The timeline trims the title all the way down to the place you’re trying: on an entity web page you simply see the worth, on a tool web page the machine title is dropped, and on an space web page the realm is disregarded. No extra studying the identical machine title on each row.

Just a few extra touches make it really feel proper at house:

The identical phrases as the remainder of the app. State textual content now comes from the backend, the identical supply the remainder of Dwelling Assistant makes use of, so it reads identically in every single place and in each language. No extra logbook-only verbs.
It reveals the trigger. When one thing was set in movement by an individual, you see their avatar. An automation reveals what triggered it, and an integration reveals its model icon. The “why” sits proper subsequent to the “what”.
Time the way in which you need it. Within the compact views, just like the extra information dialog, machine and space pages, and on playing cards, choose the timestamp to flip between absolute time and a relative “2 hours in the past”. A fast look once you need it, actual precision once you want it.

The identical part powers all of this, so the timeline stays constant whether or not it’s filling the complete Exercise web page on a large display screen or tucked right into a card in your cellphone. Extensive screens get the complete timeline with the time column and icons; slim screens and playing cards get a compact model with the trigger icon and the time trailing the entry.

Replace all

We’ve all been there. You open Settings > Updates after being away for a bit, and there it’s: a wall of pending updates. A brand new Dwelling Assistant launch, a handful of apps, that one integration, and 7 ESPHome gadgets that each one determined to ship new firmware in the identical week. Maintaining used to imply working down that checklist one entry at a time, deciding on, ready, deciding on the following, and repeating till your finger bought drained.

Not anymore. This launch reorganizes the updates web page round the way you really take into consideration your system, and provides a single button that does the heavy lifting: Replace all.

As a substitute of 1 lengthy, flat checklist, your pending updates at the moment are grouped into clear playing cards, every masking part of your setup:

Dwelling Assistant sits proper on the prime, with Core, the Working System, and the Supervisor. These run the core of your system, so that they’re saved on their very own, with out an Replace all button. You apply them your self, on objective.
Integrations with a number of pending updates get a card of their very own. These seven ESPHome gadgets? Bundled collectively, so a single choice brings all of them updated. The identical goes for a stack of HACS integrations ready on a brand new model.
Integrations gathers the remaining one-off integration updates into one tidy card.
Apps does the identical in your apps (was known as add-ons).
Skipped updates present up in their very own card when you activate Present skipped updates. Holding them separate means they by no means get swept alongside by an Replace all you didn’t intend for them.

Choose Replace all on any card, and Dwelling Assistant takes it from there, updating every thing in that group in a single go. No ticking containers, no affirmation dialog to step by, simply achieved.

It’s a small change to a web page you solely go to at times, however it turns a recurring chore into a few faucets.

Integrations

Because of 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 present ones! You’re all superior 🥰

New integrations

We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:

Aqvify, added by @astrandb, launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
Monitor your Aqvify water properly and tank sensors in Dwelling Assistant. The combination connects by Aqvify’s public cloud API and exposes sensors in your properly water degree, so you’ll be able to control your provide and construct automations round it.
Chef iQ, added by @Invader444
Learn the temperatures out of your Chef iQ wi-fi cooking probes immediately over Bluetooth. No cloud account, base station, or hub is required: the probe broadcasts its readings and Dwelling Assistant listens passively.
Dropbox, added by @bdr99
Retailer your Dwelling Assistant backups straight to your Dropbox account. Setup runs by the Dwelling Assistant Cloud Account Linking service, so you do not want a Dwelling Assistant Cloud subscription or your individual utility credentials to get began. As soon as linked, Dropbox reveals up as a backup location alongside the remaining.
Edifier Infrared, added by @abmantis
Management your Edifier speaker with any infrared transmitter you have already got arrange in Dwelling Assistant. Constructed on the Infrared entity platform, so you’ll be able to pair it with an ESPHome machine with an IR LED, or every other supported IR emitter. Communication is one-way, so the mixing makes use of assumed states.
energieleser, added by @AjinkyaGokhale
Deliver real-time power readings into Dwelling Assistant from energieleser gadgets, reminiscent of stromleser, gasleser, wasserleser, and wärmeleser. The combination reads consumption information over an area HTTP API, so all communication stays in your community.
Envertech EVT800, added by @daniel-bergmann-00
Monitor your Envertech EVT800 photo voltaic microinverter in Dwelling Assistant. The combination receives information domestically over your community, exposing power and energy readings you’ll be able to observe on dashboards and use in automations.
Greencell, added by @BrzezowskiGC
Join your Greencell EV charging gadgets to Dwelling Assistant over MQTT. It displays charger standing and electrical measurements like voltage, present, and energy, and exposes real-time telemetry and charging-session information for dashboards and automations.
Helty Circulation, added by @ebaschiera
Management your Helty Circulation decentralized heat-recovery air flow models with the sensible Wi-Fi interface. The combination talks to every unit immediately in your native community, so it retains working with out an web connection.
KlikAanKlikUit, added by @Phunkafizer
Management self-learning KlikAanKlikUit 433.92 MHz RF gadgets from Dwelling Assistant. As a result of the mixing sends instructions over RF with out a suggestions channel, it makes use of assumed states.
MELCloud Dwelling, added by @erwindouna
Deliver your Mitsubishi Electrical air-con and warmth pump merchandise into Dwelling Assistant by MELCloud Dwelling, Mitsubishi Electrical’s cloud service. Monitor and management your gadgets alongside the remainder of your house automations.

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’s not simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which were added; present ones preserve getting higher too. Listed below are among the noteworthy enhancements this launch:

Alexa Units gained switches to toggle bulletins and communications in your Amazon Echo gadgets, due to @chemelli74. It additionally added a to-do checklist platform, so you’ll be able to handle your Alexa purchasing and to-do lists from Dwelling Assistant, due to @lonlazer.
SwitchBot added a button occasion entity for the Contact Sensor, plus swap controls for the Standing Fan. Thanks, @prmx and @Onero-testdev!
Overkiz now helps Rexel Energeasy Join, by each its cloud and native API. Thanks, @iMicknl!
SwitchBot Cloud can now add photos to the SwitchBot AI Artwork Body. Thanks, @XiaoLing-git!
SMTP gained notify entities, the fashionable strategy to ship e mail notifications. Thanks, @tr4nt0r!
GitHub added entities that observe GitHub consumer accounts. Thanks, @joostlek!
Setting Canada gained a get_alerts motion to fetch lively climate alerts on demand. Thanks, @gwww!
Wallbox added a button to renew the charging schedule, useful alongside EcoSmart photo voltaic charging. Thanks, @Rayman223!
Tesla Powerwall now helps the Powerwall 3, and gained sensors for the operation mode and the utmost cost and discharge energy. Thanks, @Bre77 and @BrettLynch123!
Tedee added a connectivity binary sensor, so you’ll be able to inform when a lock drops off the community. Thanks, @zweckj!
BleBox added help for openSensor and drutexSmart gadgets, together with CO2 sensors. Thanks, @bkobus-bbx!
Droplet now studies leak alerts. Thanks, @sarahseidman!
Whirlpool Home equipment added a button to cease the oven. Thanks, @bdlcalvin!
Yoto bought plenty of consideration this launch: a media browser, plus new sensors, binary sensors, a time entity, and quantity controls for show brightness and most quantity. Thanks, @piitaya!
Samsung Infrared added buttons for particular person distant instructions. Thanks, @lmaertin!
openSenseMap now exposes its environmental measurements as sensors. Thanks, @AlCalzone!
OpenEVSE added binary sensors in your charger’s standing. Thanks, @firstof9!
Rabbit Air added an air high quality sensor. Thanks, @MagikalUnicorn!
Inexperienced Planet Vitality gained actions to seek out the most affordable stretch of power costs. Thanks, @petschni!
Duco added a choose to set the air flow state in your Duco field nodes. Thanks, @ronaldvdmeer!
Hypontech Cloud added load, grid, and battery sensors. Thanks, @jcisio!
Xthings Cloud added a swap platform. Thanks, @zhangluofeng!
Kiosker added a button to clear the blackout, plus binary sensors and sensors with blackout particulars. Thanks, @Claeysson!
PAJ GPS added battery sensors in your trackers. Thanks, @skipperro!
Vistapool grew lots, with new button, quantity, mild, and binary sensor entities in your pool controller. Thanks, @fdebrus!
Fluss+ now helps covers, like gates and storage doorways. Thanks, @Marcello17!
Imou added reside digicam streaming. Thanks, @Imou-OpenPlatform!

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 very best consumer expertise.

This launch, we have a good time 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:

1 integration reached platinum 🏆
2 integrations reached gold 🥇
3 integrations reached silver 🥈
1 integration 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 in depth testing, documentation, error dealing with, and infrequently full rewrites of components of the mixing.

A giant thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏

Now out there to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] may be arrange immediately from the Dwelling Assistant consumer interface, some have been solely out there 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 out there by way of the Dwelling Assistant UI:

Farewell to the next

Time for a little bit cleansing, and no, we didn’t await spring. The next integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant along with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] are not out there as of this launch. Most had been damaged for some time, leaning on libraries or providers that went unmaintained or offline years in the past:

Acer projector has been eliminated. It had been damaged since 2019.
Ampio Smog has been eliminated. The air high quality service it polled is offline and its library has been unmaintained since 2019, so it not works.
ATEN Rack PDU has been eliminated. It had been damaged since 2024 over a dependency battle, and its maintainer stepped down with nobody to take over.
Avi-on has been eliminated. It trusted the bluepy library, which Dwelling Assistant dropped again in 2022.7, and which has been unmaintained since 2018.
BeeWi SmartClim has been eliminated for a similar motive: it relied on the long-unmaintained bluepy library that Dwelling Assistant dropped in 2022.7.
BlinkStick has been eliminated. It was disabled in 2024 as a result of it relied on a non-open-source library that has been unmaintained since 2020.
Clementine has been eliminated. It had been damaged since 2023, and its library has been unmaintained since 2018.
Dovado has been eliminated. It was disabled in 2024.7 as a result of it relied on a non-open-source library that has been unmaintained since 2017.
ELIQ On-line has been eliminated. Its API endpoint not exists, and the underlying library has been unmaintained for years.
Gitter has been eliminated. Gitter migrated to Matrix again in 2023 and its outdated API not works, so it’s now a digital integration dealt with by the Matrix integration, which you should utilize to attach as an alternative.
Greenwave Actuality has been eliminated. It had been damaged since round 2022, as a result of the gadgets use an outdated encryption key that fashionable techniques reject, and its library has been unmaintained since 2018.
Logentries has been eliminated. The service was rebranded to InsightOps years in the past and is not provided, and its API endpoint not responds.
Microsoft Face has been eliminated, along with the Microsoft Face Detect and Microsoft Face Determine integrations that constructed on it. That they had been damaged since 2022 after a change to Microsoft’s Azure face API.
MS Groups has been eliminated. The combination relied on Workplace 365 Connectors, which Microsoft discontinued on Could 22, 2026, so it not works.
Mycroft has been eliminated. It was disabled in 2023.6 over an unresolvable dependency battle, and its library has not been up to date since.
SCSGate has been eliminated. It required obscure DIY {hardware} that’s not out there, its library has been unmaintained for a decade, and it had successfully no customers left.
ThermoWorks Smoke has been eliminated. It was disabled in 2024.10 over a dependency battle, and its library has been unmaintained since 2019.
Tikteck has been eliminated.
UniFi LED has been eliminated. The {hardware} is discontinued and the mixing had no remaining customers.
Watson TTS has been eliminated. It was disabled in 2023 over a dependency battle, and nobody stepped as much as replace it since.

Different noteworthy modifications

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

Edit a operating timer’s period. Change a timer’s period straight from its dialog, no must cancel and begin over. Thanks, @chli1!
A sooner frontend. A giant batch of efficiency work landed this launch, most noticeably throughout the power, historical past, and statistics graphs, so that they draw faster and really feel snappier. Thanks, @MindFreeze!
System and space pages adapt to your display screen. They now use a responsive column structure, and the machine web page lists its predominant entities first, so the vital controls sit proper on the prime.
Extra context within the scene editor. Entity rows now present their kind and the mixing they belong to, making massive scenes simpler to learn. Thanks, @pszypowicz!
Tags within the Apps retailer. The Apps retailer now reveals tags and marks which apps you have already got put in. Thanks, @bramkragten!
A sub-editor for the statistics graph card. Tune every entity proper from the cardboard’s visible editor. Thanks, @ildar170975!
Reside situation testing retains bettering. Circumstances now present clearer standing icons (addressing the crimson and inexperienced solely accessibility concern from final launch), the indicator works on cell within the visibility editor, and reside testing now covers situations inside actions too. Thanks, @silamon and @marcinbauer-ohf!
Cover columns in Developer instruments. The States tab can now disguise the System and Space columns. Thanks, @vingerha!
Matter soil moisture sensors. Matter-certified soil moisture sensors now present up in Dwelling Assistant. Thanks, @lboue!
A projector machine class for media gamers. Projectors at the moment are a correct media participant machine class, surfaced by Google Assistant, HomeKit, and SmartThings too. Thanks, @jtjart!
Template lights acquire xy shade. Construct template lights with full xy shade help. Thanks, @Petro31!
Clear a selected room from Google Assistant. Ask Google to ship your robotic vacuum to a selected room. Thanks, @joostlek!
Snappier templates. Below the hood, a template engine optimization makes templates render as much as 40% sooner. Thanks, @frenck!
Clearer automation traces. Whenever you debug an automation or script, its hint now all the time contains template errors, making it simpler to identify what went unsuitable. Thanks, @emontnemery!

Time format choice

Some entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] inform time. A sensor with the following dawn, the timestamp of your final backup, a countdown to the following calendar occasion. How that second ought to be proven is a matter of style: generally you need the precise date and time, and generally a pleasant “in 3 hours” or “2 days in the past” is much extra helpful at a look.

Till now, selecting how a timestamp was displayed meant modifying YAML. This launch brings that selection into the UI. Whenever you add a timestamp entity to a tile card, the entities card, or as an entity badge, a Time format choice reveals up within the editor, so you’ll be able to select how the time is introduced, together with a brand new brief or lengthy fashion for the relative format.

Thanks, @karwosts!

Devoted panels for infrared and radio frequency

Earlier this yr, Dwelling Assistant gained devoted entity platforms for infrared and radio frequency gadgets, the constructing blocks behind integrations that attain your gear by an IR blaster or a 433 MHz transmitter. This launch offers them a correct house.

Two new panels present up within the Settings menu, one for infrared and one for radio frequency. Every lists the proxies and transmitters you’ve arrange, so you’ll be able to see your IR blasters and RF bridges at a look and bounce straight to the one you’re searching for, as an alternative of looking for them amongst every thing else. The panels solely seem once you even have such gadgets, so that they keep out of the way in which if you happen to don’t.

Thanks, @balloob!

The ZHA Zigbee machine administration bought an overhaul

Managing a Zigbee machine by ZHA used to imply squinting at a cramped dialog. The clusters, bindings, signature, and neighbors instruments have been all there, however crammed right into a small popup that left little room to breathe.

This launch strikes all of that onto a devoted, full-page machine view. The identical instruments at the moment are laid out throughout tabbed navigation, with a tool abstract card up prime, and the loading, empty, and error states have been cleaned up all through. It’s the identical highly effective Zigbee administration, simply far simpler to work with.

Thanks, @jpbede!

Holding your Raspberry Pi firmware updated

Working Dwelling Assistant Working System on a Raspberry Pi? You might be in good firm: per our public, opt-in analytics, the Raspberry Pi platform at the moment powers a couple of third of all installations. As of this launch, there’s an “replace entity”An replace entity is an entity that signifies if an replace is accessible for a tool or service. [Learn more] for the Pi’s bootloader firmware, additionally sometimes called the EEPROM replace. You’ll be able to preserve it present proper from Settings > Updates, the identical place you deal with each different replace.

That is greater than a nice-to-have. Particularly on the Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Module 5, the firmware comprises bug fixes, compatibility enhancements for NVMe drives, thermal enhancements, and way more. Till now, updating that firmware was cumbersome: you needed to flash one other SD card with a particular picture, or join a keyboard and a show and run the rpi-eeprom-update command by hand. Now it takes a single step.

Just a few issues to remember:

This wants Dwelling Assistant Working System 18 or newer, which gives the help the replace entity builds on. On older variations, the entity merely isn’t there.
On a Raspberry Pi 4, the firmware can solely be up to date when the board boots from an SD card. In case your Pi 4 boots from USB storage, the replace isn’t out there. It is a limitation of the replace system, and another reason we suggest utilizing USB solely as an information disk whereas holding an SD card as the primary boot machine.
Not each board can replace its firmware this fashion. Apart from a Raspberry Pi 4 booting from USB storage, the Dwelling Assistant Yellow with a Compute Module 4 isn’t supported both. The place an replace can’t be utilized, the entity doesn’t seem in any respect, so that you don’t see an replace that wouldn’t work.
After the replace is utilized, Dwelling Assistant prompts you to reboot to finish it.

Thanks, @sairon!

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Backward-incompatible modifications

We do our greatest to keep away from making modifications to present performance which may unexpectedly impression your Dwelling Assistant set up. Sadly, generally it’s inevitable.

We all the time be sure to doc these modifications to make the transition as simple as doable for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible modifications:

Function-specific triggers and situations

A number of entity triggers and situations, a part of the brand new purpose-specific triggers and situations, have been renamed so their keys are constant throughout all domains. The outdated keys not work.

The next triggers modified:

battery.low is now battery.became_low
battery.not_low is now battery.no_longer_low
lawn_mower.docked is now lawn_mower.returned_to_dock
schedule.turned_off is now schedule.block_ended
schedule.turned_on is now schedule.block_started
timer.time_remaining is now timer.remaining_time_reached
replace.update_became_available is now replace.became_available
vacuum.docked is now vacuum.returned_to_dock

The next situations modified:

local weather.target_humidity is now local weather.is_target_humidity
local weather.target_temperature is now local weather.is_target_temperature

If an automation or script makes use of one in every of these, it can cease working till up to date. To repair it, open the affected automation or script, re-select the set off or situation (it now seems beneath its new title), and save. In the event you edit in YAML, change the outdated key with the brand new one from the checklist above.

(@frenck – #174463)

BSB-LAN

The BSB-LAN integration has lowered its help for the older model 1 JSON API. In case your BSB-LAN machine runs very outdated firmware that solely speaks the model 1 API, replace it to firmware that helps the model 2 API to maintain every thing working.

A restore notification will let you already know in case your machine is affected.

(@liudger – #172843) (BSB-LAN documentation)

Individual

Individual entities not report the latitude and longitude of the house zone when their location comes from a presence scanner related to the house zone.

When you have automations or scripts that examine the coordinates of an individual, regulate them. To examine whether or not an individual is in a selected zone, use the brand new in_zones state attribute as an alternative.

(@emontnemery – #173042) (Individual documentation)

Rabbit Air

The Rabbit Air fan preset mode values modified from title case to lowercase to match Dwelling Assistant’s state conference: Auto is now auto, Guide is now guide, and Pollen is now pollen. The user-facing labels keep the identical by translations.

Replace any automations, scripts, templates, or motion calls that reference the outdated title-case preset values.

(@MagikalUnicorn – #172931) (Rabbit Air documentation)

Reolink

Reolink Duo PoE and Duo WiFi dual-lens cameras now expose a sub-device per lens. The digicam and movement/AI sensor entities that beforehand had a “lens 0” or “lens 1” suffix of their title are moved to the brand new lens sub-devices and lose that suffix. Entity IDs and customized names keep the identical, so most automations preserve working.

In the event you goal these entities by the digicam machine, replace them to make use of the brand new lens sub-devices.

(@Markus98 – #173037) (Reolink documentation)

Tesla Fleet

The route machine tracker (device_tracker._route) not studies the lively route’s vacation spot title as its state. Its state is now derived out of your zones like a standard machine tracker (house, not_home, or a zone title), based mostly on the route’s coordinates.

The vacation spot title remains to be out there by the brand new vacation spot sensor (sensor._destination), which is disabled by default. Allow it from the entity settings in case you have automations that relied on the vacation spot title, and replace any automations that matched the outdated route tracker state.

(@Bre77 – #172513) (Tesla Fleet documentation)

Teslemetry

The route machine tracker not studies the lively route’s vacation spot as its state or by a location_name attribute. Its state is now derived purely from the route’s coordinates (zone-aware, like house or not_home).

In the event you relied on the vacation spot title, allow the brand new Vacation spot sensor (sensor.*_destination), which is disabled by default and studies the vacation spot title as Tesla gives it.

(@Bre77 – #172514) (Teslemetry documentation)

Tractive

The battery_level attribute has been faraway from Tractive machine tracker entities. Use the devoted battery sensor in your automations and scripts as an alternative.

(@bieniu – #172756) (Tractive documentation)

Zeroconf

The legacy requires_api_password discipline has been faraway from the Dwelling Assistant zeroconf/mDNS discovery announcement (_home-assistant._tcp). It had been hardcoded to true because the http.api_password authentication mechanism was eliminated in Dwelling Assistant 2024.7, so it not carried any that means. The official companion apps already ignore it.

Third-party discovery shoppers that also learn this discipline must tolerate its absence.

(@agners – #173090) (Zeroconf documentation) (API documentation)

Zone

The state (individual rely) and individuals attribute of zone entities at the moment are calculated from the in_zones attribute of individual entities. Because of this, an individual can now be counted in multiple zone on the similar time. For instance, an individual who’s house with in_zones: ["home", "near_home"] now counts towards each zone.house and zone.near_home, the place beforehand they solely counted towards zone.house.

As well as, the state of position-aware machine trackers is now the smallest zone the machine is in, as an alternative of the zone whose middle it’s closest to.

Automations, scripts, or templates that rely upon zone individual counts or on machine tracker zone states might have to be adjusted.

(@emontnemery – #172942, #173106) (Zone documentation)

Z-Wave JS

This launch requires an up to date Z-Wave JS server. You want zwave-js-server 3.9.0 or newer (schema 49):

In the event you use the Z-Wave JS app, replace it to no less than model 1.4.0.
In the event you use the Z-Wave JS UI Docker container, replace it to no less than model 11.19.1.
In the event you run your individual zwave-js-server, replace it to no less than model 3.9.0.

(@AlCalzone – #173309) (Z-Wave JS documentation)

If you’re a customized integration developer and wish to find out about modifications and new options out there in your integration: Be sure you comply with our developer weblog. The next modifications are essentially the most notable for this launch: