2025.6: Getting choosy about Bluetooth

Dwelling Assistant 2025.6! 🎉

We’re already half method by means of 2025, are you able to consider it? I personally can’t, because it looks like we simply began the yr. Not simply that, there are such a lot of thrilling issues to nonetheless come this yr, and I can’t wait to share them with you!

Anyway, the June launch is right here! Per week later than common, however it additionally means we had an additional week to shine and beta take a look at this launch. Just like the earlier launch, this launch is full of quality-of-life enhancements!

Final launch my favourite characteristic was the brand new entity picker; this launch, we improved ALL different pickers! No shock that this, once more, makes it to my high favourite this launch. Though the power to group media gamers straight from the media participant card is an in depth second. It’s so good to see how Dwelling Assistant retains getting higher and higher, and the way our group retains contributing to it. 😍

In case you are leveraging Bluetooth in your Dwelling Assistant setup, additionally, you will love the brand new Bluetooth connection graph that reveals how your Bluetooth gadgets are linked, together with Bluetooth proxies. Troubleshooting Bluetooth has change into a lot simpler now!

Benefit from the launch!

../Frenck

PS: We’ll choose up the common launch schedule once more now, so count on the following launch on the primary Wednesday of July (July 2nd).

Bettering all of the “pickers”

Pickers are these dropdowns you utilize to pick entities, gadgets, areas, and extra. Pickers are all over the place in Dwelling Assistant, being utilized in automations, scripts, and configuration choices.

Final launch, we launched a brand new entity picker, which was an enormous hit! This launch takes issues additional by refining the search expertise based mostly in your suggestions.

Even higher, that very same improved search expertise now involves the world, class, flooring, label, person, and system pickers too! They’re constant, quick, and straightforward to make use of, it doesn’t matter what you’re deciding on.

And the system picker? It now has a recent look to match, full with producer logos and styling impressed by the entity picker.

Making sense of Bluetooth

Dwelling Assistant has highly effective Bluetooth capabilities, and with using one thing like ESPHome Bluetooth proxies, you may prolong your Bluetooth community to cowl your complete dwelling. This launch brings some enhancements to the Bluetooth integration that can allow you to perceive your Bluetooth community higher.

The Bluetooth integration now gives a visualization that reveals how your Bluetooth gadgets are linked to your Dwelling Assistant occasion, whether or not that’s on to your system or by means of a Bluetooth proxy.

It not solely reveals the actively linked gadgets, but additionally the gadgets which might be in vary, however not but recognized to Dwelling Assistant. It is a nice approach to see what gadgets are round you and the place they are often doubtlessly linked.

Oh! And now that the Bluetooth integration has a smooth new visualization, the Zigbee integration, which already has the same characteristic, has been given a visible replace. This makes visualizations constant throughout Dwelling Assistant.

Iterations of the experimental space dashboard

Within the April launch, we launched a new experimental Areas dashboard, which mechanically generates a ready-to-use dashboard based mostly on the areas you’ve arrange in your house. It makes use of sections and tile playing cards for a contemporary, clear, and intuitive look — all constructed for you in a few clicks.

As that is experimental, it’s being constantly iterated on. This launch brings some good adjustments, based mostly in your suggestions, to subtly refine the expertise.

We added a brand new “Actions” part that features scripts, automations, and scenes. We additionally added quantity entities (and quantity helpers), button entities (and button helpers), counters, and timer helpers to the “Others” part. This makes it simpler to search out and handle your automations and scenes within the context of your areas.

Lastly, we renamed the “Leisure” part to “Media gamers”. This makes it clearer that this part is particularly to your gamers, and will not embrace your DIY arcade machine 👾.

Deprecating set up strategies and 32-bit architectures

This launch introduces vital deprecation bulletins, and although they solely have an effect on a small proportion of customers, it can be crucial that they perceive the impacts. We’ve written an in depth weblog that explains the rationale, timeline, and recommendations on how one can migrate — which I extremely counsel studying for those who assume you’re affected.

Set up Strategies: The Core and Supervised set up strategies at the moment are formally deprecated. These are superior setups which might be solely utilized by a small portion of customers, as they contain working Dwelling Assistant in a Python setting or putting in the Supervisor on high of your individual working system. Transferring ahead, we’re focusing our assist on the extra streamlined and maintainable set up strategies: Dwelling Assistant OS and Dwelling Assistant Container.
32-bit Architectures: Help for legacy 32-bit CPU architectures (i386, armhf, and armv7) can be being deprecated. These architectures are more and more unusual and pose challenges for sustaining compatibility and efficiency.

To help you throughout this transition, Dwelling Assistant will now increase a restore concern after upgrading in case your system is affected by these deprecations. This notification will seem within the restore dashboard, offering details about the deprecation together with steerage on how one can migrate to a supported setup.

It’s vital to notice that whereas these strategies and architectures are deprecated, they may proceed to obtain assist for the following six months, till the discharge of Dwelling Assistant 2025.12. You possibly can proceed to make use of them after this level, however we might extremely suggest migrating. After this 6-month interval, they may change into unsupported, which means they may now not obtain updates or official help.

In case you don’t obtain this restore message, you’re not affected. Nevertheless, you may double-check utilizing our information for those who’d like. We even have particular info on what turning into deprecated and unsupported means to your set up. Lastly, we now have detailed info on how finest emigrate to a supported system.

Integrations

Because of our group for protecting tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more]
and enhancements to present ones! You’re all superior 🥰

New integrations

We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:

This launch additionally has new digital integrations. Digital integrations are stubs which might be dealt with by different (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 together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which were added; present
integrations are additionally being always improved. Listed here are a number of the noteworthy
adjustments to present integrations:

@bdraco added assist for updating ESPHome gadgets which might be in deep sleep.
A really welcome enchancment for battery-powered gadgets!
The Homee integration now helps followers and gives alarm management panels.
Thanks for increasing its capabilities, @Taraman17!
Teslemetry retains getting higher—@Bre77 added a hazard lights binary sensor,
a valet mode swap, and a credit score steadiness sensor. Good!
@bieniu improved the Shelly integration to make use of sub-devices for multi-channel gadgets.
A notable change for complicated setups!
The SmartThings integration noticed an enormous spherical of enhancements by @joostlek, together with:
assist for cooktops, hobs, water heaters, hood fan speeds, Steam closet modes,
freezer and cooler temperatures, washer spin and soil ranges, valve positions,
warmth pump zone climates, and atmospheric strain. Wonderful!
Miele retains on shining with new options from @astrandb, like vacuum assist,
drying step sensors, washer-dryer program phases, and hob plate sensors.
@generically-named added power and water forecasts too—very cool!
@agorecki added a Lux sensor to the Airthings Cloud integration—shiny thought!
The Squeezebox integration now consists of service replace entities, because of @pssc!
@tedvdb added a standing sensor to the Whois integration. Easy, however efficient.
@zerzhang added assist for SwitchBot
vacuums,
and new lock fashions: the Lock Extremely
and Lock Lite!
@danielvandenberg95 up to date the Sonos integration to point out playlists underneath favorites.
An important UX win!
The Kostal Plenticore integration now helps installer login.
Thanks for that enchancment, @Schlauer-Hax!
@Shulyaka added assist for Anthropic Claude 4. Welcome to the long run!
And at last, @chemelli74 added preset mode assist to the Comelit local weather integration.
One other good quality-of-life addition!

Integration high quality scale achievements

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

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

1 integration reached gold 🥇
1 integration reached silver 🥈

It is a enormous achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The
effort 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 combination.

An enormous thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏

Farewell to the next

The next integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] are additionally now not out there as
of this launch:

RTSPtoWebRTC has been eliminated because it has been changed by the go2rtc integration.

Different noteworthy adjustments

There are lots of extra enhancements on this launch; listed here are a number of the different noteworthy adjustments:

A small however neat one: @balloob made it so discoveries proven on an integration web page at the moment are sorted by title. Useful!
The Dwelling Assistant Cloud integration will now increase a restore concern when your subscription has expired, serving to be sure you’re conscious and never caught off guard. Good one, @ludeeus!
Extra backup enhancements! 🎉
- Dwelling Assistant will now increase a restore concern if not all add-ons or folders had been efficiently backed up. Thanks, @emontnemery!
- @agners made it in order that when an add-on is auto-updated, a backup is now accurately created as an “add-on”-backup. Nice!
- A brand new automated backup occasion entity has been added to trace automated backups made by the system. Welcome addition by @mib1185!
@lboue added assist for the Matter pump system sort. One other one
added to the checklist—superior!
The Template integration obtained an enormous enhance!
- @Petro31 added modern-style YAML assist for template followers, locks, alarm management panels, vacuums, and covers. So clear!
- Now you can create trigger-based template covers. Yep, additionally by @Petro31!
- The trigger_variables choice is now supported when utilizing for in a set off. A small however highly effective characteristic. Thanks, @Petro31!
- New template filters! Now you can use from_hex, and base64_encode now helps each bytes and strings. Helpful additions from @Petro31!
New sensor capabilities:
- @Passific added a brand new system class and items for reactive power. Good!
- A brand new unit for power distance (Wh/km) has been added. Thanks, @frenck!
- Sensors now assist mg/m³ as a focus unit—one other good addition by @frenck!
- @Arnie97 added assist for liters as a unit for fuel sensors. A lot appreciated!
The brand new recorder.get_statistics motion permits you to question statistics straight
from the recorder. Highly effective stuff, @Hypfer!

Sidebar enhancements

In case you didn’t know but, you may really alter the contents of your Dwelling Assistant sidebar. You possibly can change the order and present/cover objects by urgent and holding the “Dwelling Assistant” textual content on the high of the sidebar, or by going to your person profile web page and deciding on “Change the order and conceal objects from the sidebar”.

This launch brings a few much-needed enhancements to this characteristic. Whenever you customise the sidebar, it can now deliver up a pleasant and clear dialog that lets you drag and drop objects to alter their order, or cover them by clicking the attention icon subsequent to them.

The largest enchancment is definitely discovered someplace else! Beforehand, the customization of the sidebar was solely utilized to the system you made the adjustments on; and much more annoying, typically it could lose the adjustments, or it could magically neglect your settings on our [mobile companion apps] once you switched between your house community (and thus the interior URL). 🥲

On this launch, this annoyance has been mounted! The sidebar customization is now saved in your person profile, so your customized format follows you throughout all gadgets you utilize with Dwelling Assistant!

Be a part of/unjoin teams of media gamers

Media gamers in Dwelling Assistant can present actions for media gamers to affix or unjoin a gaggle of media gamers. It is a nice approach to dynamically management your media gamers and the teams they’re in. Nevertheless, this characteristic was considerably restricted, because it might solely be used as actions inside issues like automations or scripts.

Now, @AlexGustafsson modified that! 🎉

Now you can use the media participant card to affix or unjoin teams of media gamers. It is a nice approach to management your media gamers and their teams straight from the UI.

Please word that, you may solely be a part of or unjoin teams of media gamers that assist this characteristic. Sadly, not all media gamers assist this, so it may not be out there for all of your media gamers.

Anyhow, wonderful contribution Alex! 👏

Reset/restore entity IDs

Now you can restore the ID of an entity to its authentic worth. That is helpful you probably have renamed an entity and need to revert it again to its authentic entity ID.

This characteristic is on the market within the entity configuration dialog, the place now you can discover a “Reset” icon on the entity ID subject. When clicked, it can restore the entity ID to its authentic worth. Moreover, there may be the choice referred to as “Recreate entity IDs” within the high proper three-dotted menu on the system web page, to reset all entity IDs of a tool to their authentic values.

Patch releases

We may also launch patch releases for Dwelling Assistant 2025.6 in June.
These patch releases solely comprise bug fixes. Our objective is to launch a patch
launch each Friday.

2025.6.1 – June 13

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Backward-incompatible adjustments

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

We at all times make sure that to doc these adjustments to make the transition as simple as
doable for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible adjustments:

Met Workplace

Met Workplace deprecated the Datapoint API utilized by this integration, inflicting it to cease working. To deal with this, it’s now migrated to DataHub API.

To maintain utilizing this integration, you’ll need to supply a brand new API key, which may be obtained by signing up for DataHub and subscribing to International spot dataset. The free subscription gives 360 calls per day, which is sufficient for this integration to work.

Some sensors have modified as a result of new knowledge supply:

Hourly forecast offered by the climate entity now has precise hourly entries versus 3-hourly within the outdated model
As an alternative of visibility and visibility_distance sensors exhibiting a spread and qualitative description (reminiscent of “1-4 km” and “Poor”), the combination now exposes a single visibility sensor with exact visibility distance in meters
The combination now not exposes “day by day” and “3-hourly” sensors; there’s a single set of them now
The combination sensors now not expose Web site ID, Web site title and Sensor ID attributes as these don’t present any further worth

(@avee87 – #131425) (documentation)

In case you are a customized integration developer and need to study adjustments and
new options out there to your integration: You’ll want to comply with our
developer weblog. The next adjustments are essentially the most notable for this launch: