2026.9: There’s room on this bus

House Assistant 2026.9! 🎉

I’ll be trustworthy: Modbus has by no means been the flashiest a part of House Assistant. It quietly powers photo voltaic inverters, warmth pumps, and vitality meters, however provided that you’re snug hand-writing your individual register map in YAML, an actual wall that’s stored an enormous class of units out of attain. This launch lastly makes room on the bus: integrations that already know the way a tool talks over Modbus, sharing a single connection as a substitute of preventing over it, so that you merely choose your system within the UI like anything in House Assistant. It received’t present up in a screenshot, however modernizing Modbus is hands-down my favourite change this launch. 🔧

I’m additionally actually wanting ahead to leaping on the brand new Cloud voice processing myself and placing it by its paces. We’re a family with a non-English important language, and if you happen to’ve ever run a non-public voice assistant in a single, precisely how briskly accents and background noise journey issues up. This new speech-to-text engine particularly targets these ache factors, so I’m very curious to see the way it holds up in opposition to my very own accent. 😉

And there’s loads extra: lively alerts and favorites for the Safety dashboard, a shared Sources panel for Historical past and Exercise, Exercise that lastly explains why one thing modified, a model new community map for Matter, charts now you can navigate by keyboard and sound, and 13 new integrations! 🚀

Another factor earlier than you dive in: we’re at IFA Berlin this weekend! It’s one of many largest client electronics expos on the market, working September 4 to eight, 2026, and the Open House Basis has its personal sales space within the Sensible House corridor: Corridor 1.2, stand 1.2-153. When you’re round, come discover us and say hello. 👋

Benefit from the launch!

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An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch attainable! And a particular shout-out to @googanhiem and @piitaya who helped write these launch notes. Additionally, @Diegorro98, @jan-tdy, @RaHehl, and @farmio for placing effort into tweaking its contents. Due to them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️

House Assistant Cloud

House Assistant Cloud is a necessary a part of funding the Open House Basis. We’re so grateful for all of the help from our subscribers, and from the beginning we’ve at all times been clear: this isn’t only a donation to House Assistant, we wish it to offer actual advantages to subscribers. Along with Nabu Casa, we’ve been continuously working to make Cloud higher, and listed here are some helpful latest additions.

Seeing by the Cloud

A brand new addition that ought to assist security-conscious House Assistant Cloud subscribers is the power to raised see who’s making an attempt to log into your occasion. Up to now, all of them regarded like native requests, and you’ll have seen the 127.0.0.1 invalid login try message, which wasn’t that useful. Now the correct IP deal with will get handed by, so whether or not that’s you mixing up your passwords when logging in, or some bot making an attempt their luck, you’ll now know higher the place it’s coming from.

A aspect good thing about this variation is that it’s now attainable to make use of IP banning to make it more durable for these malicious actors, which was added to the UI within the earlier launch. At the side of establishing multi-factor authentication (2FA) in House Assistant, you possibly can add somewhat additional peace of thoughts to your house, however that’s not the one Cloud profit being improved this month.

Take a look at the brand new voice processing

Once we launched House Assistant Voice Preview Version, a superb quantity of the group jumped into working their very own non-public voice assistants of their properties. Constructing one thing to rival large tech continues to be a work-in-progress, however yearly we get nearer. In the present day, we’re once more asking for our Cloud subscribers to assist us take a look at one other superior step ahead.

Our mates at Nabu Casa are testing a brand new speech-to-text engine for House Assistant Cloud, and it considerably improves the three widespread locations voice processing will get tripped up: accents, background noise, and non-English languages. Many people across the Basis have been utilizing it and discovering it really works nice with our generally distinctive accents even in noisy environments.

There are a number of large modifications underneath the hood, together with switching to a brand new supplier Soniox, so it must be examined. You’ll nonetheless get the identical privateness assure of no logging, storing, or coaching in your audio. It’ll be out there to check through Labs, with the conventional caveat that it is probably not a everlasting addition, so present your suggestions on the Labs web page if it’s the precise step ahead.

When you’re a House Assistant Cloud subscriber, you possibly can toggle this on proper now by heading to Settings > System > Labs. When you’re not a subscriber, there’s a 31-day trial. Talking of which, there are some large enhancements on signing up coming as nicely.

Float in to be a Cloud subscriber

Signing up for House Assistant Cloud now begins on a clearer begin web page: one apparent button to Begin your free trial, and a hyperlink to Check in if you have already got an account. It additionally lastly reveals what you’ll truly be getting. The previous web page left you to guess what was behind that button, which, truthful sufficient, didn’t assist anybody. Now the options are listed proper there, earlier than you even begin the trial.

Now confirming your e mail will routinely log you in to House Assistant Cloud, so you possibly can instantly arrange distant entry, voice, and backupsHouse Assistant has built-in performance to create information containing a replica of your configuration. This can be utilized to revive your House Assistant in addition to migrate to a brand new system. The backup function is out there for all set up varieties. [Learn more]. No extra logging in after signing up! And as at all times, the one-month trial requires no fee particulars.

House Assistant Cloud is constructed and run by Nabu Casa, a industrial companion of the Open House Basis. Each subscription funds the muse instantly, and with it, the full-time growth of House Assistant, this launch included. 😊

In return, you get safe distant entry with no port forwarding or VPN, encrypted off-site backupsHouse Assistant has built-in performance to create information containing a replica of your configuration. This can be utilized to revive your House Assistant in addition to migrate to a brand new system. The backup function is out there for all set up varieties. [Learn more] prepared to revive your entire system the second you want them, quicker and extra correct speech-to-text and text-to-speech to your personal voice assistant, native Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant help, and extra. It’s all constructed with the identical respect to your privateness as House Assistant itself: no adverts, no information harvesting, only a service that retains House Assistant unbiased.

When you’ve got been desirous about a subscription, there has by no means been a better second to attempt it.

Lively alerts and favorites for the Safety dashboard

The brand new Lively alerts part solely reveals up when one thing truly wants your consideration, like a door left open or a smoke detector going off. You select which entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in House Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] can set off it, and the way critical every one is, as an Alert or a Warning, so a window left open doesn’t get the identical purple therapy as an precise smoke alarm. Nothing happening? The part stays out of the way in which totally.

Proper alongside it, a brand new Favorites part permits you to pin the entities you verify most, so your most necessary doorways, locks, or sensorsSensors return details about a factor, for example the extent of water in a tank. [Learn more] sit on the high of the dashboard as a substitute of wherever they occur to fall.

This began as a community-designed idea from @ricardoantoniocm, proper right down to the severity colours and the pulsing animation for something that wants consideration. It’s a part of an Open House Basis roadmap alternative to deliver severity to the Safety dashboard, and there’s extra to return: surfacing these identical alerts on the House dashboard continues to be on the record for a future launch.

A brand new Sources pane for Historical past and Exercise

Looking and discovering what you’re in search of in Historical past and Exercise might be daunting, so… we made it higher! Each pages now share a single Sources panel on the left aspect that merges goal choosing (flooringA flooring in House Assistant is a logical grouping of areas that are supposed to match the bodily flooring in your house. Units & entities will not be assigned to flooring however to areas. Flooring can be utilized in automations and scripts as a goal for actions. For instance, to show off all of the lights on the downstairs flooring whenever you go to mattress. [Learn more], areasAn space in House Assistant is a logical grouping of units and entities that represents a room or area in your house, reminiscent of the lounge, kitchen, or storage. [Learn more], unitsA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that accommodates entities., and entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in House Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more]) with filtering by areaEvery integration in House Assistant has a novel identifier: The area. It’s typically proven as the primary half (earlier than the dot) of entity IDs., system class, and integrationIntegrations join and combine House Assistant along with your units, companies, and extra. [Learn more], so you possibly can slim a complete space right down to, say, simply its movement sensors. The panel docks to the aspect and opens routinely on wider screens, and tucks away as a pull-up sheet on narrower ones. No matter you filter on is remembered the subsequent time you come again.

The 2 pages nonetheless behave the way in which they at all times have, on function: Historical past waits so that you can choose one thing earlier than it attracts a chart, since displaying all the things directly wouldn’t be very helpful (or quick in that regard 😅). Exercise retains displaying all the things by default, and you’ll slim it down with filters alone, no goal required.

A few smaller enhancements come alongside for the experience: the date vary picker is now a single capsule with earlier and subsequent arrows, and lengthy entity names on the Historical past timeline draw above their bar and truncate to suit, as a substitute of being minimize off. At all times good to see the eye to element.

This follows an Open House Basis design dialogue on giving Historical past and Exercise a shared structure.

From what modified to why it modified

Open Exercise and you’ll see precisely what modified: a light-weight turned on, a door unlocked, a blind closed. What you couldn’t see was why. Figuring that out meant guessing which automationAutomations in House Assistant help you routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more] was accountable, opening it, digging into its hint, and dealing backward to the entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in House Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] that truly triggered it. It acquired more durable nonetheless after a latest redesign of the log rows, which traded the sentence that used to elucidate the place an entry got here from for displaying an entity’s space and system as a substitute, so even that small trace disappeared.

Deciding on any row in Exercise now opens a particulars dialog that lays out the total story, learn high to backside: what began it (an individual, a state change, a schedule, an integrationIntegrations join and combine House Assistant along with your units, companies, and extra. [Learn more], or a restart), the automationsAutomations in House Assistant help you routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more] or scriptsScripts are elements that help you specify a sequence of actions to be executed by House Assistant when turned on. [Learn more] it handed by, and at last the entity’s personal change. Each step in that chain is clickable, opening the entity behind it or, for automations, its hint instantly. Timestamps go right down to the millisecond, so even occasions that landed in the identical second preserve their appropriate order.

Insights into your Matter world

Zigbee (by ZHA), Z-Wave, and Bluetooth have proven you a map of how their units join to one another for some time now. 🗺️ MatterMatter is an open-source customary that defines learn how to management good house units on a Wi-Fi or Thread community. [Learn more] by no means acquired the identical therapy in House Assistant, regardless that the info existed all alongside, simply not right here: the Matter Server has its personal working community map, tucked away in a separate net interface most individuals by no means open.

The Matter panel now has a Present map button that brings that very same image proper into House Assistant, utilizing the identical graph expertise you already know from the opposite protocols. It reveals the total image: which units speak over ThreadThread is a low-power mesh networking customary that’s particularly designed for good house purposes. It’s a protocol that defines how units talk. [Learn more] and which over Wi-Fi, which of them are routers or “border routers”A Thread border router forwards information packets between your native community and the Thread community. This allows good house units inside a Thread community to speak with IPv6-capable units in your native community. A Thread border router is linked to your community both through Wi-Fi or Ethernet and makes use of its radio frequency (RF) radio to speak with the Thread mesh community. In case of Matter, the info that’s forwarded is encrypted. Examples of Thread border routers are the Nest Hub (2nd gen), the HomePod mini, and the House Assistant Join ZBT-2 along with the OpenThread Border Router app. [Learn more] versus battery-powered finish units, and the trail from House Assistant to every one. Border routers and entry factors are named from belongings you’d truly acknowledge, like their community host title or Wi-Fi community title, as a substitute of a serial quantity. Hyperlink coloration tells you the transport, Thread or Wi-Fi, and the thickness and course replicate the sign power on both sides of the connection.

In case your Matter server is a bit older and doesn’t help this but, the web page tells you so as a substitute of simply failing, so to replace moderately than assume one thing’s damaged.

This closes out an Open House Basis roadmap alternative to deliver Matter’s community map according to the opposite protocols.

New tile card options

The tile card retains gaining extra methods to manage an entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in House Assistant. Entities are used to watch bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] with out opening its more-info dialog, and this launch provides three, all from the identical contributor.

Lights get a brand new Mild impact function, so you possibly can choose and preview an impact, like Rainbow, instantly from the tile.

Vacuums get a brand new Vacuum fan pace function, so you possibly can swap between fan speeds, like min, medium, excessive, or max, proper alongside the present begin, cease, and dock instructions.

And the present Goal humidity function, beforehand restricted to humidifiers, now additionally works with Local weatherThe Local weather entity means that you can management and monitor HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air-con) units and thermostats. [Learn more] entities that help humidity management, utilizing the step measurement your system studies as a substitute of a set one.

All three include matching tile card options, so House Assistant presents so as to add them routinely after they make sense for an entity.

Due to @pcan08 for all three!

Another tile card repair: with the Characteristic place set to Inline, solely the primary function used to point out up, and the remainder have been silently dropped. Now the primary one sits subsequent to the entity title as earlier than, and the others seem under it in two columns.

Due to @JulianHock for that one!

Modernizing Modbus

Modbus units, like photo voltaic inverters, vitality meters, and warmth pumps, have lengthy been supported in House Assistant by the YAMLYAML is a human-readable information serialization language. It’s used to retailer and transmit information in a structured format. In House Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for instance within the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml information. [Learn more]-based Modbus integration, the place you hand-write a register map to your system your self. That also works and isn’t going anyplace, but it surely places the burden of understanding a tool’s protocol on each consumer. This launch lays the groundwork for a special method: integrations that already know the way a tool talks over Modbus, so that you choose your system within the UI, the identical as every other integration.

The primary integrations constructed this fashion are already right here: Fronius gained optionally available Modbus TCP (SunSpec) help, including per-string photo voltaic information — present, voltage, energy, and lifelong vitality for every MPP tracker — that its present native HTTP API doesn’t expose. It shares its reference to anything speaking to the identical inverter, which issues in apply: some Fronius fashions solely settle for a handful of simultaneous Modbus periods. Sofar Inverter Modbus and Flexit are constructed the identical method.

For the total story, together with the brand new standalone modbus-connection library and learn how to construct your individual integration on high of it, learn Modernizing Modbus in House Assistant on the developer weblog. Beneath, it talks to units by tmodbus, a contemporary, absolutely typed Modbus library.

Due to Paulus (@balloob) for pushing this ahead, @wlcrs for tmodbus, the library it’s constructed on, @farmio for Fronius, @darkrain-nl for Sofar Inverter Modbus, and @troelde for Flexit!

Integrations

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

New integrations

• Besen, added by @moryoav
  Join Besen EV chargers to House Assistant over Bluetooth Low Vitality, utilizing House Assistant’s built-in Bluetooth help or an ESPHome Bluetooth proxy. It really works with the Besen BS20 charging station and different Besen chargers that use the identical protocol.

• Assortment picture, added by @karwosts
  Flip a folder from a media supply right into a dynamic picture entity. House Assistant picks a random image from the folder, so you possibly can present a altering picture on a dashboard or use it as a view background.

• Move-it, added by @albertogeniola
  Monitor and management your Move-it air flow system from House Assistant. Alter the fan pace, swap between preset modes reminiscent of Auto and Increase, and produce it into your automations alongside your different good house units. The combination connects to the system in your native community and helps computerized discovery.

• Scorching Spring, added by @Moustachauve, launching at 🏆 platinum high quality
  Monitor and management a Scorching Spring spa geared up with the HotSpring Related Spa Package 2 module, instantly over your native community.

• ISEO Argo BLE, added by @FezVrasta
  Management an ISEO Argo Bluetooth good lock, widespread on armored doorways in Italy and Switzerland, syncing its entry log into the House Assistant logbook and managing its customers by actions. House Assistant seems to the lock as its personal gateway, polling it domestically over Bluetooth.

• LibreNMS, added by @mib1185
  Convey your LibreNMS community monitoring occasion into House Assistant. This preliminary launch provides a binary sensor for the net standing of every monitored system, with alerts and extra sensor information deliberate for later.

• NexBlue, added by @nexblue-maintainer
  Join a NexBlue EV charger account to House Assistant. It discovers the chargers in your account and offers read-only sensors for charging state, energy, session and lifelong vitality, and different electrical and diagnostic values. Charging controls are deliberate for a future launch.

• Ridder HortiMaX Professional, added by @wildekek
  Convey measurements from a Ridder HortiMaX Professional greenhouse controller into House Assistant, together with temperatures, humidity, vent and display screen positions, irrigation volumes, and vitality use. The combination is read-only, so your rising choices keep absolutely within the controller’s fingers. It’s the identical form of controller working the greenhouses at Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanicus, one of many oldest botanical gardens on this planet, which we visited earlier Learn the total story in our publication.

• Samsung TV through ExLink, added by @balloob, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Management Samsung TVs by their RS-232 serial port, which Samsung markets as ExLink, utilizing a serial cable, a USB-to-serial adapter, or an ESPHome-based serial proxy. Speaking on to the TV’s serial port makes management quick and dependable, and it additionally works with TVs that lack good options or a community connection.

• Silla Prism, added by @ebaschiera
  Monitor a Silla Prism EV wallbox over its native MQTT API, with sensors for charging standing, energy, present, voltage, and session and lifelong vitality. Setup solely wants the MQTT subject your Silla app already reveals you. Charging controls are deliberate for a future launch.

• Sofar Inverter Modbus, added by @darkrain-nl
  Join a Sofar Photo voltaic inverter to House Assistant over Modbus TCP, both instantly or by a Modbus TCP bridge. Setup routinely detects your inverter mannequin, and it really works with each PV-only and hybrid inverters with battery storage.

• Specialised Turbo, added by @JamieMagee
  Join a Specialised Turbo e-bike over Bluetooth Low Vitality, overlaying the TCU1 and TCX1 by TCX4 fashions, with detailed experience and battery telemetry. Encrypted bikes can check in by your Specialised account or use a manually entered key, and House Assistant manages the Bluetooth connection itself with out storing your password.

• Tonewinner, added by @emma-sg, launching at 🥈 silver high quality
  Management Tonewinner AV processors, receivers, and amps over an RS-232 serial connection, utilizing a USB-to-serial adapter or an ESPHome-based serial proxy.

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

• Ariston, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Beverly, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Bugu, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Provider, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Colmo, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Comfee, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Inventor, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Little Swan, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Netsu, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Olimpia Splendid, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Professional Breeze, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Rotenso, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Toshiba Way of life, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Vandelo, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74
• Wahin, offered by Midea, added by @chemelli74

Noteworthy enhancements to present integrations

It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant along with your units, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; present ones preserve getting higher too. Listed here are a few of the noteworthy enhancements this launch:

• Tuya added help for the HCDD system class, overlaying chasing tape lights, so these RGB LED strips might be managed like every other mild. Thanks, @AnthonyZavala!
• Shelly cameras are actually absolutely supported, with a digicam platform, movement detection, and a privateness swap to disable the lens. The Wall Show XL additionally gained its personal movement sensor, and local weather entities now report the right heating and cooling standing when a thermostat’s relay output is wired inverted. Thanks, @bieniu!
• HomeKit Gadget gained period, fault, and low battery sensors for extra HomeKit equipment, so you possibly can see how lengthy a valve has been working, catch a failing accent, and get a heads-up earlier than a battery-powered sensor drops offline. Thanks, @nijel!
• LG webOS TV added a swap to show off simply the display screen whereas maintaining the sound working, helpful if you wish to preserve listening with out the image. Thanks, @darkrain-nl!
• Reolink gained floodlight on/off schedule occasions, a button to synchronize the digicam’s clock, a choose to decide on the anti-flicker frequency, and the power to allow or disable the tamper alarm. Thanks, @Lukkasss and @starkillerOG!
• Roborock introduced dock controls, reminiscent of beginning mop washing, drying, or emptying, to V1 vacuums. Thanks, @piitaya!
• Google Gemini added a pondering finances choice for Gemini 2.5 fashions and a pondering degree choice for Gemini 3 fashions, so you possibly can tune how a lot the mannequin causes earlier than it responds. Thanks, @mxwmnn!
• House Join gained new occasion sensors, together with quick and lengthy presses of the Favourite button on hobs and hoods, and a setpoint temperature choice for air conditioners. Thanks, @Diegorro98!
• Tado permits you to select which heating circuit serves a zone, helpful in properties with multiple circuit, like a mixture of underfloor heating and radiators. Thanks, @PeterLinuxOSS!
• SwitchBot Cloud now helps the Everlasting Outside Lights string lighting and the Curtain4 curtain motor, so you possibly can management them from House Assistant alongside the remainder of your SwitchBot units. Thanks, @XiaoLing-git!
• KNX climate and choose entities can now be created instantly from the KNX panel within the UI, and YAML-defined entities might be given an specific distinctive ID as a substitute of counting on the auto-generated one. YAML entities can now even be assigned to units. Thanks, @farmio and @martinhoefling!
• Proxmox VE added a button to pause a VM, helpful for releasing up sources for a second, for instance whereas one other job wants the additional headroom, with out absolutely shutting the VM down. Thanks, @erwindouna!
• HomematicIP Cloud added a carbon dioxide sensor for supported units, so you possibly can set off air flow or an air air purifier automation when CO2 ranges creep up in a room. Thanks, @lackas!
• VIZIO SmartCast now helps Crave moveable audio system, with a battery degree sensor and a charging binary sensor. Thanks, @raman325!
• Surroundings Canada radar photographs can now be smoothed for a much less blocky image and prolonged with a short-term forecast, so you possibly can see rain or snow coming earlier than it truly arrives. Thanks, @michaeldavie!
• MikroTik gained switches to show Ethernet and Wi-Fi interfaces on or off, a choose to set the PoE output mode, a binary sensor for interface connectivity, and extra sensors, together with a repair for incorrect voltage readings on the netPower 16P. Thanks, @chemelli74!
• Mealie added actions to replace and delete mealplan entries, so you possibly can handle subsequent week’s dinners from an automation or script as a substitute of opening the app. Thanks, @andrew-codechimp!
• Portainer added a Docker occasion entity, so container lifecycle modifications attain House Assistant instantly as a substitute of ready for the subsequent replace cycle. Thanks, @erwindouna!
• Transmission added a sensor for out there disk area, so you will get a warning earlier than your obtain folder fills up. Thanks, @Eniot666!
• Honeywell Lyric added a schedule standing sensor, so you possibly can inform at a look whether or not your thermostat is following its schedule or somebody put it on a short lived maintain. Thanks, @clutch2sft!
• Teslemetry added a rear defroster binary sensor, so you possibly can automate it on a chilly morning, and a canopy entity for the Cybertruck’s tonneau, so you possibly can open and shut the mattress cowl from House Assistant. Thanks, @Bre77!
• IOmeter added entities for three-phase electrical energy meters, so properties with a three-phase connection get correct readings for each section as a substitute of simply the full. Thanks, @torben-iometer!
• Trendy Types added help for breeze mode, which varies the fan pace to imitate a pure breeze. Thanks, @wonderslug!
• Midea grew considerably this launch, with new fan, humidifier, mild, and swap controls, choose and quantity entities to configure your equipment, buttons for widespread actions, and a full mud filter alert binary sensor. Thanks, @chemelli74!
• Subaru added binary sensors for doorways, home windows, and the hood or tailgate, per-door lock standing, EV plug and charging state, and automobile well being warning lights. Thanks, @jpettitt!
• Anova cook dinner time sensors now counsel hours because the displayed unit, making lengthy cook dinner occasions simpler to learn. Thanks, @goetzc!
• iZone now reveals the provision and return air temperatures of your ducted system, so you possibly can spot a struggling compressor or a clogged filter earlier than it turns into an even bigger downside. Thanks, @Swamp-Ig!
• Imou added a choose entity to alter evening imaginative and prescient mode and quantity, and a binary sensor for door and window contacts. Thanks, @Imou-OpenPlatform!
• OpenEVSE added switches for photo voltaic PV divert, so you possibly can cost from surplus solar energy, the present shaper, which limits charging to guard your house’s electrical service, and a guide override to drive charging on or off. Thanks, @firstof9!
• Inexperienced Planet Vitality added a get_prices motion to fetch electrical energy costs for a given interval, helpful for constructing your individual value charts or automations that react to tomorrow’s charges. Thanks, @petschni!
• Vistapool added time entities for the three filtration schedule intervals, so you possibly can alter when your pool pump runs instantly from House Assistant as a substitute of the Vistapool app. Thanks, @fdebrus!
• ToGrill added a button to silence the alarm, helpful when your meals has reached temperature and also you’d moderately not stroll over to the grill to quiet the beeping. Thanks, @thumbnail!
• Watergate added a swap to show the Sonic system’s computerized leak shut-off on or off. Thanks, @adam-the-hero!
• IntelliClima added a binary sensor that studies when the filter wants cleansing. Thanks, @dvdinth!
• Lyngdorf rounded out its debut with quantity entities for lip sync and channel trims, a distant entity to drive the processor’s on-screen menus, selects for RoomPerfect place and voicing, sensors for the lively enter and streaming supply, and now-playing info with transport controls for fashions with a streaming module. Thanks, @fishloa!
• Harbor Sleep added a choose entity to set the digicam’s evening mode to Auto, On, or Off, so you possibly can management it from House Assistant as a substitute of the Harbor app. Thanks, @Lash-L!
• NeoPool added a pool mild entity, plus an choices movement to choose in to it, because the controller can’t detect whether or not a light-weight is definitely wired to the relay. Thanks, @svasek!
• UniFi Defend can now be arrange with simply an API key out of your UniFi OS Console, no native consumer account required. Choose API key solely (restricted function set) when including the combination, or swap an present entry over at any time. This primary usable piece of the general public API migration covers the alarm panel, cameras with their streams and snapshots, and lights. Sensors, switches, occasions, and media searching will not be out there on this mode but, and extra platforms observe as they transfer over. Thanks, @RaHehl!

Integration high quality scale achievements

One factor we’re extremely happy with in House Assistant is our integration high quality scale. This scale helps us and our contributors to make sure integrations are of top of the range, maintainable, and supply the very best consumer expertise.

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

• 3 integrations reached platinum 🏆

• 1 integration reached gold 🥇

• 1 integration reached silver 🥈

This can be a large achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The hassle 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 out there to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant along with your units, companies, and extra. [Learn more] might be arrange instantly from the House Assistant consumer interface, some have been solely out there utilizing YAML configuration. We preserve shifting extra integrations to the UI, making them extra accessible for everybody to arrange and use.

The next integrations are actually out there through the House Assistant UI:

Farewell to the next

Time for somewhat cleansing, and no, we didn’t watch for spring! The next “integrations”Integrations join and combine House Assistant along with your units, companies, and extra. [Learn more] are not out there as of this launch:

• VLC has been eliminated. It required direct entry to your system’s audio {hardware}, which solely labored on the deprecated House Assistant CoreHouse Assistant Core is the Python program on the coronary heart of House Assistant. It’s a part of all set up varieties. It may be put in standalone (with out House Assistant Supervisor) as a container utilizing Docker (that is usually known as the House Assistant Container set up kind). For growth, Core may also be run utilizing a Digital Surroundings (beforehand referred because the House Assistant Core set up kind). For manufacturing setup, the House Assistant Core set up kind is deprecated. set up methodology. This doesn’t have an effect on the separate VLC through Telnet integration, which stays out there on any set up methodology.

Different noteworthy modifications

• Settings gained a brand new Connectivity web page that teams Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave, KNX, MQTT, Thread, Bluetooth, Serial, Infrared, Radio frequency, Insteon, and Tags behind a single entry, as a substitute of itemizing every one instantly within the settings menu. Each present hyperlink retains working, and Voice assistants moved down to affix it because the settings root’s quick second group. Thanks, @balloob!
• Template acquired some extra love this launch. Thanks, @Petro31!
  • Customized attribute templates have been added to alarm management panel, button, cowl, system tracker, fan, picture, mild, lock, quantity, choose, swap, replace, and climate entities, alongside the binary sensor, occasion, sensor, and vacuum platforms that already supported them.
  • The attributes choice is now absolutely templatable, reducing down on repeated Jinja2 templates.
  • Set off-based template entities now help a per-entity situations choice. When set, the situations block all updates to the entity it’s connected to.
• Button triggers can now additionally fireplace from button helpers, alongside bodily system buttons. Thanks, @abmantis!
• Automation traces now present which entities, units, and areas every step focused, the identical method the automation editor already does, as a substitute of baking that info into the step’s personal description. Thanks, @piitaya!
• Cowl open, shut, and set place actions gained an optionally available pace parameter, so covers that help a number of speeds might be informed how briskly to maneuver, not simply the place to. Thanks, @wollew!
• The restart affirmation dialog now lists the automations and scripts at the moment working, as a substitute of a imprecise warning that some is perhaps interrupted. The record updates dwell as they begin and cease. Thanks, @karwosts, @MindFreeze, and @NoRi2909!
• The Vitality dashboard now labels particular person units with their system title, not simply the naked entity title, so units that share a generic sensor title like Vitality are simple to inform aside throughout the graphs, sankeys, and configuration record. Thanks, @MindFreeze and @silamon!
• Dashboards gained a Background tab of their element editor, so you possibly can set a dashboard’s background straight from the UI as a substitute of needing YAML. Thanks, @timmo001!
• Looking out the media browser now additionally reaches media gamers with their very own library, reminiscent of Music Assistant, Sonos, Squeezebox, and Jellyfin, as a substitute of solely looking media sources. Thanks, @marcelveldt, @bramkragten, and @silamon!

Golden hour, blue hour, and polar solar automations

Rebuilding automationsAutomations in House Assistant help you routinely reply to issues that occur in and round your house. [Learn more] across the solar has been a slow-burn venture, and this launch wraps it up. 2026.7 changed the previous, offset-heavy solar set offA set off is a set of values or situations of a platform which might be outlined to trigger an automation to run. [Learn more] with devoted ones for dawn, sundown, photo voltaic midday, photo voltaic midnight, daybreak, nightfall, and elevation modifications, plus matching situationsSituations are an optionally available a part of an automation that may stop an motion from firing if they aren’t met. [Learn more] like is up, is evening, and twilight. 2026.8 then added a time-based offset choice to these triggers, the identical method the calendar set off already works, so you possibly can fireplace an automation a set period of time earlier than or after a solar occasion.

This launch provides the final of it to the Solar integration: 4 new situations and eight matching triggers for golden hour, blue hour, midnight solar, and polar evening. Golden hour and blue hour are the nice and cozy and funky mild both aspect of dawn and sundown, helpful for automations that match your lighting to the temper exterior, or shut the blinds earlier than direct solar hits a room. Each might be restricted to morning, night, or both.

Farther from the equator, midnight solar and polar evening cowl the extra excessive stretches of the yr: the solar staying above the horizon for a full day round midsummer, or under it for a full day round midwinter. Each now have their very own situation and begin and finish triggers too, so automations that solely make sense at excessive latitudes lastly have one thing to hook into. Documentation for the total set continues to be catching up.

Thanks, @emontnemery!

Accessibility for charts!

Making House Assistant work for everybody isn’t a one-off venture for us, it reveals up launch after launch. Higher coloration distinction and clearer buttons landed in 2025.8, clearer standing indicators for individuals who can’t depend on coloration alone arrived in 2026.7, and this launch, it’s charts’ flip.

Charts render straight to a single picture, which implies each information level on them has been invisible to display screen readers and unreachable by keyboard. When you depend on both, a chart in House Assistant may as nicely not have been there in any respect.

That modifications this launch. Tab right into a chart and it turns into an actual focus cease: the arrow keys stroll you thru it level by level, and a dwell area publicizes the time and worth of every one to your display screen reader. Press H at any level to deliver up a listing of each shortcut, styled to match your individual theme.

Right here’s the very best half: as you progress by a chart, House Assistant additionally performs a brief tone for every level, rising and falling with the info. You don’t simply hear the person numbers, you hear the form of the entire development, like somewhat melody. 🎵 It performs for anybody navigating a chart by keyboard, not solely folks utilizing a display screen reader, since there isn’t a dependable technique to know who wants it, so it’s on for everybody.

This works in your line and bar charts, together with the system breakdown on the Vitality dashboard. Just a few extra specialised ones, like timelines, sankey diagrams, and community graphs, aren’t coated but.

Due to @MindFreeze for bringing this to charts!

Serial and MQTT panels

Serial joins the opposite protocol panels underneath Settings > Connectivity, the identical recognition infrared and radio frequency acquired over the past two releases. As soon as something is utilizing a serial port, whether or not that’s a USB dongle like a Zigbee or ThreadThread is a low-power mesh networking customary that’s particularly designed for good house purposes. It’s a protocol that defines how units talk. [Learn more] radio, or an appApps are further standalone third-party software program packages that may be put in on House Assistant OS. [Learn more] speaking to at least one, the brand new Serial web page lists it.

It splits what it finds into three teams: ports truly in use by an integration or app, ports which might be linked however not utilized by something, and ports one thing expects however that aren’t at the moment plugged in. A standing banner on the high provides you the numbers at a look, so if a stick has come free or an app misplaced its connection, you see it the second you open the web page as a substitute of looking by logs.

This rounds out the trio deliberate in an Open House Basis roadmap alternative: serial, infrared, and radio frequency all have their very own place in Settings now. Documentation for all three continues to be on its method.

Due to @puddly, who constructed this finish to finish, panel and all!

MQTT acquired a settings web page of its personal this launch too, sitting proper alongside Serial and Bluetooth in Connectivity as a substitute of hiding its instruments behind the combination’s choices. A standing banner on the high reveals whether or not the dealer is on-line and what number of units it’s discovered, with fast hyperlinks to the units and entities in your community. Discovery choices and the dealer connection settings every get their very own row as a substitute of sharing one choices movement, and a brand new Publish a packet device permits you to ship a take a look at message, subject, QoS, and retain flag included, straight from the web page, with a code editor for the payload. The subject subscribe view additionally now codecs incoming messages as code, with a replica button. Thanks, @jbouwh!

How full is your community storage?

The Storage web page in Settings has at all times proven which community shares you’ve linked, like a NAS for backupsHouse Assistant has built-in performance to create information containing a replica of your configuration. This can be utilized to revive your House Assistant in addition to migrate to a brand new system. The backup function is out there for all set up varieties. [Learn more] or media, however not how full every one truly was, so there was no early warning earlier than one quietly ran out of room.

Every lively mount now will get a small utilization bar and a “{used} of {whole} used” line. Rows seem instantly, and every bar fills in as quickly as its personal request comes again, so one sluggish or unreachable share by no means holds up the remainder of the record. The bar additionally modifications coloration because it fills, amber previous 85% used and purple previous 95%, so that you get a heads-up earlier than you truly run out of area. A mount that’s at the moment unreachable simply reveals no utilization bar; it already will get its personal warning therapy.

Due to @MindFreeze and @silamon for keeping track of this!

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Backward-incompatible modifications

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

All modifications

In fact, there’s much more on this launch. You will discover a listing of all modifications made right here: Full changelog for House Assistant Core 2026.9.