There’s extra to look ahead to subsequent week: the ESPHome Starter Equipment is launching, and also you’re invited to the official launch celebration! 🚀 Be part of the ESPHome group and their companions at Apollo Automation on the ESPHome YouTube channel on August 12 at 21:00 CEST. Acquainted faces are dropping by to have fun lift-off, too: Reed from Sensible Residence Solver, Simon from Simon Says Residence Assistant, and Gavin from HomeTech.fm.
Residence Assistant 2026.8! 🎉
Hello, I’m Ashley, the Technical Program Supervisor on the Open Residence Basis. With Frenck taking a well-deserved break, Bram and I are teaming as much as deal with issues this time round.
We have now been engaged on loads over the previous few weeks, and I’m excited to share a few of what we have now achieved for this launch!
If there’s one thread tying this launch collectively, it’s a route we care about: making Residence Assistant one thing you don’t have to be technical to make use of. This launch is one other step alongside that path.
Benefit from the launch!
– Ashley
An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch potential! And a particular shout-out to @frenck and @bramkragten who helped write the discharge notes this launch. Additionally, @piitaya, @RaHehl, and @farmio for placing effort into tweaking its contents. Because of them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️
Making Residence Assistant extra approachable
One of many instructions we care about most for Residence Assistant is making it less complicated to choose up and use, with out compromising on functionality. It’s one thing we have now been working towards for a very long time, and it runs by means of our roadmap and targets for this yr. We can’t do it in a single day although, so we hold listening to your suggestions to verify we’re fixing the issues that truly get in your approach. If there’s something you want to see, we’d love so that you can weigh in. Each remark helps form what comes subsequent.
This launch brings collectively a few of that work. It could by no means be really completed, and that’s high quality, however it’s one thing we maintain shut: the extra individuals who can use Residence Assistant, no matter their technical capacity, the higher.
The identical Residence Assistant, minus the magic quantity
Ever puzzled why the deal with on your own residence has a random quantity caught on the top? So did we. For years, reaching Residence Assistant meant remembering so as to add :8123 to the deal with, a little bit piece of technical trivia that everybody merely needed to be taught. This launch begins to place that proper.
New installations of “Residence Assistant OS”Residence Assistant OS, the Residence Assistant Working System, is an embedded, minimalistic, working system designed to run the Residence Assistant ecosystem on single board computer systems (just like the Raspberry Pi) or Digital Machines. It contains Residence Assistant Core, the Residence Assistant Supervisor, and helps apps. Residence Assistant Supervisor retains it updated, eradicating the necessity so that you can handle an working system. Residence Assistant Working System is the advisable set up sort for many customers. now use a traditional net deal with by default, with no quantity so as to add on the top. You attain your house the identical approach you attain any web site. Nothing additional to recollect, nothing additional to sort.
Your present setup retains working
If you’re already operating Residence Assistant, nothing adjustments and there’s nothing you have to do. This solely impacts new installations of Residence Assistant OS. Your current set up is totally unchanged, retains the precise port it has at all times used, and retains working simply as earlier than. If every thing works as we speak, the best factor is to go away it precisely as it’s.
Need to change the port? We’ve bought you coated
You would not have to vary something, however if you want the cleaner deal with, or want to vary the port for one more purpose, now you can do it your self from the interface. The identical display screen additionally holds a number of extra choices, like selecting which community connection Residence Assistant listens on and setting trusted proxies, for the setups that want them.
Altering one thing as basic because the port your house lives on can really feel nerve-wracking, so we made it laborious to get caught. If you change the net server settings, Residence Assistant applies the brand new configuration after which waits so that you can affirm every thing nonetheless works. If you don’t affirm inside 5 minutes, it assumes one thing went unsuitable, places your earlier settings again, and restarts. And if the brand new settings can’t be utilized in any respect, it falls again straight away. So for those who ever lock your self out with the unsuitable setting, you would not have to do something: wait a couple of minutes, and Residence Assistant returns you to the place you have been.
One factor to remember: something that reaches Residence Assistant utilizing the previous deal with might have updating to match the brand new port, equivalent to your bookmarks or different companies and instruments you may have linked, together with the cell app. In case your setup works as we speak, that may be a good purpose to go away it as it’s.
What this implies for YAML
When you at present arrange the net server in YAMLYAML is a human-readable information serialization language. It’s used to retailer and transmit information in a structured format. In Residence Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for instance within the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml recordsdata. [Learn more], you do not want to vary something. The primary time you begin Residence Assistant after updating, your settings transfer into the interface for you, and also you handle them there from then on. You may also see a restore seem, simply to let your settings have been imported; it may level you to tidying up the previous YAML for those who like, however nothing breaks both approach.
Much less “superior”, extra approachable
A phrase comes up round Residence Assistant loads: superior. However what does it truly imply, and who will get to determine what counts as superior and what doesn’t? Too usually it’s a label that quietly tells individuals a function isn’t for them. We would like Residence Assistant to be approachable for everybody, so this launch removes a few of that language.
Describing the function, not the person
The clearest place to start out is the phrases themselves. Labels like superior and skilled have been dotted round Residence Assistant. Phrases like these could be discouraging: they counsel a function isn’t for you and steer you away from making an attempt it, even when it’s completely approachable. This launch removes that wording in round 43 locations, throughout the app, its documentation, and the companion apps. None of those options modified. As an alternative of score your talent, the wording now merely describes what every one does.
A giant thanks to everybody who helped comb by means of and clear this up! 👏
Simply Instruments, no developer required
In the identical spirit, Developer Instruments is now merely Instruments. It has at all times been a helpful spot for everybody, whether or not you might be checking the stateThe state holds the data of curiosity of an entity, for instance, if a lightweight is on or off. Every entity has precisely one state and the state solely holds one worth at a time. Nonetheless, entities can retailer attributes associated to that state equivalent to brightness, coloration, or a unit of measurement. [Learn more] of your “gadgets”A tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that comprises entities., testing a templateA template is an automation definition that may embody variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This enables automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more], or reloading a part of your setup, and also you by no means wanted to be a developer to make use of it. The shorter title matches how individuals truly use it, and feels a little bit friendlier to open.
Residence Assistant Cloud, now simpler to discover
Residence Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa is how many individuals add distant entry, quick and personal voice, encrypted backupsResidence Assistant has built-in performance to create recordsdata containing a replica of your configuration. This can be utilized to revive your Residence Assistant in addition to migrate to a brand new system. The backup function is on the market for all set up sorts. [Learn more], and extra to their house, all whereas supporting the mission on the similar time. Till now, every thing it affords lived on a single lengthy web page of switches and settings. This launch provides that web page a correct redesign.
The principle web page is now a clear overview. Every function (distant entry, backups, voice assistants, the companion app, and extra) has its personal area, so you’ll be able to see what you may have turned on at a look. The settings for every one transfer onto their very own web page, which retains the overview tidy and makes each function simpler to know by itself.
The larger change is for anybody simply getting began. There may be now a guided setup that walks you thru Residence Assistant Cloud step-by-step, as a substitute of leaving you to seek out your approach round a wall of choices. If it isn’t a great second, you’ll be able to put it off and choose it up once more later.
A giant thanks to @klejejs for this redesign!
Your entity IDs, your alternative
Behind each machineA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that comprises entities. and sensorSensors return details about a factor, as an example the extent of water in a tank. [Learn more] sits an entity ID, a brief title equivalent to gentle.kitchen_ceiling that your automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more], scriptsScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Residence Assistant when turned on. [Learn more], and dashboards use to seek advice from it. More often than not they give the impression of being after themselves. However whenever you do need them neat and constant, you ought to be the one deciding how they learn.
Some earlier work checked out constructing entity IDs routinely from the spaceAn space in Residence Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that represents a room or area in your house, equivalent to the lounge, kitchen, or storage. [Learn more] a tool belongs to. Your suggestions informed us this suited some individuals however not everybody. So this launch takes a extra versatile route and places you in cost: you’ll be able to rename an entity ID your self, and management how it’s ordered, so your entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Residence 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] observe no matter naming sample is sensible to you.
Because of @arturpragacz and @piitaya for this work.
A cleaner approach to deal with your gadgets
Residence Assistant is altering the way it retains monitor of your gadgets behind the scenes. Till now, if one bodily machineA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that comprises entities. was arrange by means of two totally different integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more], Residence Assistant merged them right into a single machine. Particulars that may solely maintain one worth, such because the mannequin or serial quantity, might then conflict. From this launch, every integration retains its personal machine entry, so nothing will get collapsed collectively.
If you replace, any gadgets that have been merged this manner are separated routinely, and their entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Residence 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] transfer to the suitable machine for you. Most individuals won’t discover a factor. Within the rarer circumstances the place a tool was arrange by means of a couple of integration, you may see it seem twice, as soon as per integration, and Residence Assistant could increase a restore to let .
There may be nothing you have to do. Your automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more] and scriptsScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Residence Assistant when turned on. [Learn more] hold working, as a result of Residence Assistant nonetheless sends actions to the suitable gadgets after the break up. The one issues that may want a re-assessment are automations that time to a tool by its ID straight, or the occasional uncommon setup. If a restore seems, simply observe it.
That is groundwork for extra versatile machine dealing with we’re constructing towards over the approaching months, so consider it as a step alongside the best way fairly than the completed image.
When you construct a customized integrationA customized integration is an integration that has been created by somebody from the Residence Assistant neighborhood and has been revealed for others to make use of at their very own danger. Customized integrations should not supported by the Residence Assistant mission. They don’t seem to be reviewed or examined by the Residence Assistant improvement group and thus could negatively impression the steadiness of your Residence Assistant occasion. An instance of a customized integration is the Spook integration., most want no adjustments in any respect. If yours works with machine particulars straight, the developer weblog walks by means of what modified. There isn’t a rush: the earlier method retains working for now, so you may have loads of time.
Because of @emontnemery for this work.
We will’t cease including triggers and situations
Final launch, purpose-specific triggers and situations turned the friendlier approach to construct automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more]: you describe the second you care about, like when the entrance door opens, as a substitute of piecing it collectively from the technical elements beneath. This launch provides two extra of them.
Vibration now has situations to match its triggers. On prime of reacting the second vibration begins or stops, you’ll be able to verify whether or not one thing is vibrating (or not) as a part of a much bigger automation, for instance, solely sending a “laundry is finished” message as soon as the washer has truly stopped shaking.
Moon beneficial properties a set off and matching situations. You can begin an automation the second the moon enters a brand new part, or verify the present part as a part of a much bigger automation. Level it on the full moon, the brand new moon, or any change of part, and let your house take it from there, whether or not that’s temper lighting, a reminder, or only a little bit of enjoyable. 🌙
Thanks, @nielsrowinbik!
Integrations
Because of our neighborhood for holding tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] and enhancements to current ones! You’re all superior 🥰
New integrations
We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:
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Dyson Infrared, added by @elax46
Management your Dyson followers by means of any infrared transmitter you have already got arrange in Residence Assistant. As a result of the connection solely goes a method, Residence Assistant reveals the final command you despatched fairly than the fan’s dwell state. -
Fuelprices.dk, added by @MTrab
Observe present gasoline costs from Danish gasoline firms in Residence Assistant. The mixing pulls costs from the Fuelprices.dk service and creates a sensor for every product you choose at a station, so you’ll be able to watch costs and construct automations round them. -
Gatus, added by @TN-1, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Carry the well being of your companies into Residence Assistant out of your Gatus monitoring occasion. Every monitored endpoint reveals up as a binary sensorA binary sensor is an entity that stories considered one of two mutually unique states, on or off. The machine class determines how these states are labeled within the UI. For instance, open/closed for a door or detected/clear for movement. [Learn more], so you’ll be able to put service standing on a dashboard or set off automations when one thing goes down or comes again up. -
GeoSphere Austria Warnings, added by @tklecka
Carry official climate warnings for Austria into Residence Assistant from GeoSphere Austria (previously ZAMG), the nationwide climate service. Warnings are issued per municipality and canopy occasions like storms, heavy rain, snow, black ice, thunderstorms, warmth, and chilly, so you will get notified or set off automations when the warning degree rises. -
Google Well being, added by @allenporter
Carry your well being and health information into Residence Assistant from Google Well being and the Fitbit Internet API. After you join your Google account, you get sensors equivalent to steps, distance, weight, and resting coronary heart price, and it may run alongside the prevailing Fitbit integration. -
Harbor Sleep, added by @Lash-L
Regulate your Harbor Sleep child monitor from Residence Assistant. The mixing connects to the machine in your native community and exposes sensors like temperature, Wi-Fi power, and stream high quality. -
Harman Luxurious Audio, added by @sbesh91
Management community streamers constructed on the Harman Luxurious Audio platform, such because the Arcam Radia ST5 and ST60, and equal JBL and Mark Levinson streamers. The mixing talks to the machine straight in your native community, so no cloud account is required. -
Karakeep, added by @sli-cka
Join your self-hosted Karakeep bookmarking service to Residence Assistant and hold monitor of your bookmark statistics. Karakeep helps you save, arrange, and tag hyperlinks, notes, and pictures, and this integration surfaces these numbers as sensors. -
LED Infrared, added by @tr4nt0r
Management LED lights by means of any infrared emitter you have already got arrange in Residence Assistant. It helps many branded and unbranded bulbs and strip controllers that use generic infrared remotes. Communication is one-way, so the combination makes use of assumed states. -
LiteLLM, added by @luismalves
Use a LiteLLM proxy as a dialog agent in Residence Assistant. LiteLLM places a single OpenAI-compatible API in entrance of many mannequin suppliers, so you’ll be able to attain nearly any mannequin by means of one endpoint, hosted or self-hosted. Residence Assistant creates a dialog agent for every mannequin you configure. -
llama.cpp, added by @allenporter
Use a neighborhood llama.cpp server, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, as a dialog agent in Residence Assistant. You’ll be able to arrange a number of brokers, every with its personal mannequin and directions, and hold every thing operating by yourself {hardware}. -
Lyngdorf, added by @fishloa, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Management Lyngdorf audio processors and amplifiers from Residence Assistant, together with energy, quantity, supply choice, and sound modes. The mixing retains in sync with the machine over your native community. -
Midea, added by @chemelli74
Carry gadgets that use the Midea protocol, equivalent to air conditioners and air purifiers, into Residence Assistant. The mixing gives data on the linked gadgets and allows you to management their principal options. -
NeoPool, added by @svasek, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Monitor and handle pool controllers constructed on the NeoPool system, initially from Sugar Valley and bought underneath many manufacturers like Hidrolife, Aquarite, and Oxilife. It talks to your controller regionally over Modbus TCP, exposing water chemistry, filtration, and hydrolysis information with no cloud wanted. -
ScorpionTrack, added by @Herbertmt978, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
Observe automobiles shared by means of a public ScorpionTrack location-share hyperlink in your Residence Assistant map. The mixing reads the shared automobile feed and creates a machine trackerMachine trackers are used to trace the presence, or location, of a tool. [Learn more] for every automobile, while not having your non-public account credentials.
Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations
It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which were added; current ones hold getting higher too. Listed here are among the noteworthy enhancements this launch:
- Shelly now helps Enhanced Safety, the HTTPS-only mode on firmware 2.0 for gen2 and newer gadgets, and added help for Shelly circuit breakers, with on/off management plus output-state and safety-switch sensors. Thanks, @bieniu and @thecode!
- Reolink gained pre-siren entities and a movement machine class on its AI-detection binary sensors. Thanks, @starkillerOG and @abmantis!
- Overkiz added window and tilt binary sensors for contact sensors, enhance and drying-duration numbers for the Atlantic electrical towel dryer, and help for the Somfy Thermostat PRO. Thanks, @iMicknl!
- SwitchBot added help for the Candle Hotter Lamp and the RGBIC Neon Rope Gentle, plus fan and choose controls for the Standing Fan. Thanks, @Onero-testdev!
- Roborock bought loads of love for the Q10, with a do-not-disturb swap, swap entities, a map picture, and a quantity management. Thanks, @lboue and @tubededentifrice!
- Whirlpool added an oven gentle, an oven cook-mode choose, and an oven target-temperature quantity. Thanks, @matthewdias and @bdlcalvin!
- MQTT gained an infrared platform, so you’ll be able to ship infrared instructions over MQTT. Thanks, @jbouwh!
- KNX bought an entire set of enhancements. Button and notify entities can now be configured from the interface, the KNX panel gained a Ship telegram dialog (keyboard shortcut s), plus a datapoint sort (DPT) reference and a tool view on your mission information. On prime of that, all KNX entities now restore their state after a reload or restart. Thanks, @farmio!
- Enphase Envoy added ACB battery sensors, together with sleep and wake controls. Thanks, @genestealer!
- MELCloud gained on/off management, an operation-mode choose, and a flow-temperature quantity for air-to-water warmth pump zones. Thanks, @imilchev!
- MELCloud Residence added energy-consumption reporting and a quantity platform. Thanks, @erwindouna!
- Portainer added an replace platform and container well being standing. Thanks, @erwindouna!
- Mikrotik gained sensor, button, and replace platforms. Thanks, @chemelli74!
- Imou added swap and sensor platforms. Thanks, @Imou-OpenPlatform!
- Fronius added a binary sensor for backup mode. Thanks, @farmio!
- OpenAI Dialog now helps GPT-5.6. Thanks, @Shulyaka!
- WiiM added multi-room grouping and metadata synchronization. Thanks, @Linkplay2020!
- SMLIGHT added Bluetooth proxy help and an infrared receiver for SMLIGHT Ultima gadgets. Thanks, @tl-sl!
- Vizio added command aliases for its distant. Thanks, @raman325!
- Tesla Wall Connector added automobile present and Wi-Fi sign sensors. Thanks, @sarabveer!
- Teslemetry added management for seat coolers. Thanks, @Bre77!
- Tessie added a navigation-destination textual content entity. Thanks, @Mattheinrichs!
- Gardena Bluetooth added tank strain and water temperature sensors. Thanks, @icereed!
- Duco added air flow temperature sensors. Thanks, @ronaldvdmeer!
- Victron BLE added help for Orion XS and inverter gadgets. Thanks, @rajlaud!
- OMIE added an motion to get costs for a selected date. Thanks, @abmantis!
- Ecowitt added soil conductivity sensor help. Thanks, @GSzabados!
- Steam added a picture platform, plus new Final on-line, Degree, and Now enjoying sensors. Thanks, @tr4nt0r!
- LG Infrared added help for LG air conditioners. Thanks, @Dr-Clean!
- UniFi Defend now helps the USL sensible sensors (USL Entry, USL Environmental, and USL GlassBreak) on UniFi Defend 7.2 and newer, and cameras gained Movement detection, Sensible detection, and Sound detection occasion entities that fireplace for any detection the digital camera stories, equivalent to an individual, a package deal, or barking, with the detected sort as an attribute. Thanks, @RaHehl!
Integration high quality scale achievements
One factor we’re extremely happy with in Residence 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 person expertise.
This launch, we have fun a number of integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have improved their high quality scale:
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2 integrations reached platinum 🏆
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1 integration reached gold 🥇
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5 integrations reached silver 🥈
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2 integrations reached bronze 🥉
It is a large achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The trouble and dedication required to achieve these high quality ranges is important, because it includes intensive testing, documentation, error dealing with, and sometimes full rewrites of elements 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 Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] could be arrange straight from the Residence Assistant person interface, some have been solely obtainable utilizing YAML configuration. We hold 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 Residence Assistant UI:
Farewell to the next
Time for a little bit cleansing, and no, we didn’t look ahead to spring! The next “integrations”Integrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] are now not obtainable as of this launch:
- Permobil has been eliminated. Permobil deprecated the API it relied on, so the combination might now not retrieve any information, and there’s no alternative obtainable.
- Volvo On Name has been eliminated. If in case you have a supported Volvo, arrange the newer Volvo integration as a substitute.
Different noteworthy adjustments
There are lots of extra enhancements on this launch; listed below are among the different noteworthy adjustments:
Inform us how setup went
If in case you have arrange Residence Assistant just lately, you may discover a brief, elective survey asking how your first expertise went. It’s fully as much as you, and each response helps us make getting began smoother for the following individual. Thanks to everybody who shares their ideas! 💛
A roomier template editor
The template instrument in Instruments is the place you check out “templates”A template is an automation definition that may embody variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This enables automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more] and watch the end result replace as you sort. This launch provides it a extra snug structure: the editor and the end result now sit in a break up view you’ll be able to drag to resize, and you may swap between facet by facet and stacked, whichever fits what you might be engaged on. Your alternative is remembered for subsequent time.
Thanks, @maartenla!
Faucets that land the place you imply them
On the image parts card, a faucet might set off the ingredient subsequent to the one you meant, or hit nothing in any respect, and a few parts couldn’t be tapped. Faucets now go to the closest icon or label, so each ingredient could be reached, and tapping a label’s textual content at all times triggers that label. Thanks, @RaHehl!
A mixed battery degree you’ll be able to belief
When you monitor a couple of battery within the vitality dashboard, now you can give every one a capability. The mixed state of cost is then weighted by dimension, so a small full battery and a big empty one now not common out to a deceptive quantity. Batteries and not using a capability set hold utilizing the plain common, so nothing adjustments except you need it to. Thanks, @MindFreeze!
Search your media
Shopping for the suitable music, photograph, or movie used to imply clicking by means of folder after folder. Now, integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] that present media can provide search proper within the media browser, so that you sort what you might be in search of and leap straight to it.
What you’ll be able to search relies on the media supply. Immich, for instance, gained a wise search that finds pictures by what is definitely in them fairly than by their filename, and Overseerr enables you to seek for and request films and reveals with out leaving Residence Assistant.
Thanks, @zweckj, @mib1185, and @felixschndr!
Discover your favourite playing cards quicker
Your most-used playing cards at the moment are simpler to seek out. Within the card picker’s “By Card” tab, now you can mark the playing cards you employ most as favorites utilizing the icon within the nook of every card. Favorited playing cards float to the highest of the part, so for those who attain for a similar card time and again whereas constructing comparable dashboards, it’s at all times proper there ready for you. Faucet the icon once more to take away a card out of your favorites.
Thanks, @piitaya, @laupalombi, and everybody who steered this at a Launch Celebration!
Z-Wave lock credentials, correctly managed
Managing who can unlock your Z-Wave lock simply bought much more succesful. Powered by Z-Wave JS’s new Entry Management API, the Z-Wave JS app 1.6.0 brings a closely revised interface: each supported lock now will get a devoted Entry Management tab. For now, this lives in Z-Wave JS UI fairly than within the Z-Wave panel in Residence Assistant.
Customers, their credentials, and a full audit path, multi functional place.
Relying on what your lock helps, now you can give every person a number of credentials of a couple of sort, so the identical individual can have a PIN and a fingerprint, or a number of of each. New credentials could be realized on the lock itself: begin the enrollment from the interface, then current the finger or sort the PIN. There may be additionally an audit log of each change, admin code administration for locks that use one, and the flexibility to maneuver credentials between customers or delete them in bulk.
Replace the Z-Wave JS app to 1.6.0 or later, then open Z-Wave JS UI to seek out the brand new tab. Thanks, @AlCalzone!
And some extra
There may be much more packed into this launch. Listed here are among the different adjustments value a point out:
- Templates hold getting quicker. One other spherical of “templates”A template is an automation definition that may embody variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This enables automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more] efficiency work landed: templates with a numeric end result are as much as 40% quicker, and templates used on dashboards can now be cached. Thanks, @frenck!
- Template entities keep in mind their state. Fan, cowlCovers are gadgets equivalent to blinds, storage doorways, and so forth that may be opened and closed and optionally set to a selected place. [Learn more], and machine trackerMachine trackers are used to trace the presence, or location, of a tool. [Learn more] template entities now restore their earlier state after a restart, in order that they choose up proper the place they left off. Thanks, @Petro31!
- Search finds extra of what’s linked. If you search or open a tool or entity, Residence Assistant now digs deeper into what is said, so scenes, scripts, teams, the individuals behind an individual entity, and something sharing a label or space all present up the place you’ll anticipate them. It’s a small change that makes it a lot simpler to see how your setup matches collectively. Thanks, @frenck!
- A reboot heads-up on Residence Assistant OS. The system replaceAn replace entity is an entity that signifies if an replace is on the market for a tool or service. [Learn more] entity now lets when an replace wants a reboot to complete. Thanks, @mdegat01!
- A brand new radon machine class. Sensors and numbers can now be labeled as radon, so radon measurements get the suitable items and show. Thanks, @abmantis!
- Filter entities by producer and mannequin. The entity filter can now slender entities by producer, mannequin, and mannequin ID. Thanks, @Skaronator!
- Ask Help from fast search. Now you can begin an Help command straight from fast search. Thanks, @timmo001!
- A date on the clock card. The clock card can now present the date alongside the time. Thanks, @timmo001!
- Extra from the Exercise panel. The Exercise panel gained a CSV obtain and a clear-and-reset motion. Thanks, @karwosts and @timmo001!
Patch releases
We can even launch patch releases for Residence Assistant 2026.8 in August. These patch releases solely include bug fixes. Our objective is to launch a patch launch as soon as per week, aiming for Friday.
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Backward-incompatible adjustments
We do our greatest to keep away from making adjustments to current performance that may unexpectedly impression your Residence Assistant set up. Sadly, typically it’s inevitable.
We at all times ensure that to doc these adjustments to make the transition as straightforward as potential for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible adjustments:
AirNow
The station radius possibility has been eliminated. The 2026 AirNow API now not makes use of a distance parameter, so the radius had no impact on which reporting station was used. Present entries are up to date routinely, and any radius you had set is discarded. No motion is required.
Gardena Bluetooth
The valve’s activation_reason sensor now stories a set set of values as a substitute of free-form textual content. If in case you have automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more], scriptsScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Residence Assistant when turned on. [Learn more], or “templates”A template is an automation definition that may embody variables for the motion or information from the set off values. This enables automations to generate dynamic actions. [Learn more] that match on the previous textual content values, replace them to match the brand new ones.
Edifier Infrared
When you arrange the Edifier Infrared integration for the R2000DB or R2730DB audio system, some buttons have been mapped to the unsuitable infrared codes (on the R2730DB, energy and mute have been swapped). The mappings at the moment are corrected and migrated routinely. When you constructed automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more] or scriptsScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Residence Assistant when turned on. [Learn more] across the previous, incorrect buttons, replace them to match.
Ohme
The Ohme vitality sensor has been eliminated. It reported an estimate of the vitality saved within the automobile’s battery fairly than the vitality delivered by the charger, which precipitated complicated jumps within the vitality dashboard, and the seller’s API now not gives a helpful worth.
When you tracked this sensor, use an Integration – Riemann sum helperA helper is a digital entity you create inside Residence Assistant. It isn’t backed by a bodily machine. Helpers retailer values, monitor state, or do calculations that your automations and dashboards want. [Learn more] on an influence sensor to estimate the vitality as a substitute.
(@dan-r – #174664) (Ohme documentation)
Paperless-ngx
Paperless-ngx now requires a more recent model of your Paperless-ngx server. The minimal supported server model is raised to 2.19, which additionally restores compatibility with Paperless-ngx 3.0. In case your Paperless-ngx server is on model 2.18 or older, replace it earlier than you replace Residence Assistant.
Robotic vacuums
The deprecated battery_level property has been faraway from the vacuum entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Residence 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] of a number of integrations. When you use a robotic vacuum’s battery degree in an automationAutomations in Residence Assistant permit you to routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more], scriptScripts are parts that permit you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Residence Assistant when turned on. [Learn more], or on a dashboard, use the vacuum’s battery sensor as a substitute.
This impacts the next integrations:
(@gjohansson-ST – #175681, #175684, #175685, #175686, #175687, #175688, #175691, #175764)
ScreenLogic
The choice to configure the pollingKnowledge polling is the method of querying a tool or service at common intervals to verify for updates or retrieve information. By defining a customized polling interval, you’ll be able to management how ceaselessly your system checks for brand new information, which may also help optimize efficiency and scale back pointless community visitors. [Learn more] interval has been faraway from ScreenLogic. Residence Assistant now polls the combination at a set interval. When you want a distinct replace frequency, you’ll be able to set your personal polling interval or set off an replace with the homeassistant.update_entity motion.
UniFi Defend
Assist for UniFi Defend AI Port gadgets has been eliminated. These gadgets solely ever uncovered diagnostic sensors, all disabled by default, and should not a part of the UniFi Defend public API the combination is transferring to. The AI Port machine and its sensors are eliminated routinely whenever you replace. You’ll be able to nonetheless configure the AI Port straight in UniFi Defend.
(@RaHehl – #174378) (UniFi Defend documentation)
Detection scores are now not obtainable. The detection binary sensors (movement, individual, automobile, animal, and the smart-audio alarm sensors) now take their state from the UniFi Defend public API, which carries no per-event rating, so their event_score attribute is gone and automations that filter on it want one other situation. The occasion id and the detected sorts moved to the brand new Movement detection, Sensible detection, and Sound detection occasion entities.
(@RaHehl – #174948) (UniFi Defend documentation)
UniFi Defend 7.1 or newer is now required. On an older console the combination stories that the model is simply too previous as a substitute of establishing. Replace UniFi Defend to 7.1 or newer to maintain utilizing it.
Volvo On Name
The Volvo On Name integration has been eliminated. If in case you have a supported Volvo, arrange the newer Volvo integration as a substitute.
If you’re a customized integration developer and wish to find out about adjustments and new options obtainable on your integration: Remember to observe our developer weblog. The next adjustments are essentially the most notable for this launch:
All adjustments
After all, there’s much more on this launch. You’ll find an inventory of all adjustments made right here: Full changelog for Residence Assistant Core 2026.8.
