2025.8: The summer season of AI ☀️

House Assistant 2025.8! 🎉

In most components of the world, summer season mode is in full impact! ☀️ Many on the Open House Basis and plenty of of our contributors are having fun with a well-deserved break from work and open supply. I hope that you’re possibly having fun with a well-deserved break as properly! 🏖️

Summer season breaks or not, we’re at present very busy with our subsequent product launch! In case you may have missed it, this upcoming Wednesday, August 13 (12:00 PM PT, 3:00 PM ET, 21:00 CEST), we could have an additional stay stream to announce the subsequent large factor within the House Assistant Join collection! Make sure to head over to YouTube to hit the reminder button so that you don’t miss it! Z-Wave just isn’t useless! 🌊

Alright, on to the discharge! We hold transferring throughout summer season and are excited to deliver you the August launch of House Assistant!

Let’s begin with my private favourite of this launch: The improved expertise when viewing a gaggle, for instance, a gaggle helper with lights. 💡 When viewing such a gaggle entity, now you can management the person members of that group instantly in that dialog. Tremendous helpful! I’m fairly positive that might be used loads in our home.

However as the discharge title suggests, this launch brings in an vital basis for brand spanking new AI alternatives in House Assistant: AI Duties.
Consider it as a strategy to delegate duties to AI and get again the results of that activity in a structured manner so it may be used. Sounds obscure?
Dive into the discharge notes under!

Benefit from the launch!

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AI in House Assistant in 2025

We launched our first AI integration in House Assistant 2023.2 the place customers might let OpenAI deal with their interactions with House Assistant Voice. Since that point, AI has seen a giant surge in reputation throughout the House Assistant neighborhood for every kind of use instances. Humorous notifications when the laundry is completed, analyzing what’s occurring on a digicam or skipping the track when AI determines it’s a rustic track 😅.

Although AI will get many individuals excited, there are nonetheless individuals who would like to not have this expertise of their sensible houses. We need to accommodate everybody’s decisions, whether or not that’s to make use of AI or not. These options gained’t seem except you arrange an AI integration and configure some particular settings.

Final yr, we sat down to find out how all these use instances, all sophisticated to realize, may very well be made accessible to everybody. The very first thing that got here out of this was integration sub-entries, which we shipped within the final launch. It permits customers to configure their Ollama server or API key for OpenAI as soon as, after which create many alternative brokers utilizing completely different fashions or configuration beneath. On this launch we’re constructing two new issues you possibly can optionally allow by way of these new sub-entries for AI integrations: AI duties and Counsel with AI. We’re additionally introducing a brand new integration, OpenRouter, which is a unified LLM interface giving entry to over 400 additional LLM fashions.

Massive because of our AI neighborhood contributors: @AllenPorter, @shulyaka, @tronikos, @IvanLH, and @joostlek!

Streaming Textual content-to-Speech for House Assistant Cloud

When a consumer waits for House Assistant Voice to reply, lengthy wait instances actually damage the expertise. We now have overhauled House Assistant so our Textual content-to-Speech system can begin producing the response audio earlier than the complete response is completed producing. Final launch we launched this for Piper, our native Textual content-to-Speech system. On this launch we’re making this out there to the voices included in House Assistant Cloud – one of the best ways of supporting the House Assistant mission.

This enchancment will particularly profit customers who use native AI (which could be sluggish in producing responses) or customers who play lengthy bulletins on their audio system.

Combine AI into your workflow utilizing AI Job

Beneath is an instance of a template entity that updates each 5 minutes and counts the variety of chickens within the coop. Instance impressed by this weblog submit.

template:
  - triggers:
      - set off: homeassistant
        occasion: begin
      - set off: time_pattern
        minutes: "/5"
    actions:
      - motion: ai_task.generate_data
        knowledge:
          task_name: Depend chickens
          directions: >-
            That is the within of my goose coop. What number of birds (chickens, geese, and
            geese) are contained in the coop?
          construction:
            birds:
              selector:
                quantity:
          attachments:
            media_content_id: media-source://digicam/digicam.chicken_coop
            media_content_type: picture/jpeg
        response_variable: consequence
    sensor:
      - identify: "Chickens"
        state: "{{ consequence.knowledge.birds }}"
        state_class: complete

To assist get began with AI activity, we’ve ready a blueprint to research digicam footage:

Work sooner with Counsel with AI buttons

The AI Job integration has one additional function underneath its belt: default entities. You may go to Settings > System > Basic and configure what AI Job entity you need to use because the default. With a default set, you now not should specify an entity when producing knowledge, making it simpler to share blueprints.

Setting a default additionally does extra: When a default is configured, and solely then, a brand new sort of button will begin exhibiting up somewhere else in House Assistant:

This button just isn’t seen by default and can solely seem should you allow it within the “AI solutions” settings. For this launch, the button has been added to the save dialog for automations and scripts. It helps customers give you a reputation, description, class, and label, whereas taking into consideration your present labels and different automation/script names. Remember the fact that producing this textual content sends the complete contents of the automation or script, together with the names of your different automations/scripts and labels, to the LLM. So, this can be a activity you’ll want to relegate to your shiny new native LLM.

Space dashboard enhancements

Integrations

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

New integrations

• OpenRouter, added by @joostlek
  Entry over 400 completely different massive language fashions via the OpenRouter API, offering a unified interface for AI integrations in your automations.
• Ubiquiti UISP airOS, added by @CoMPaTech
  Monitor and handle airOS gadgets via their native API, offering efficiency metrics and system standing data of your wi-fi point-to-point infrastructure.
• Uptime Kuma, added by @tr4nt0r
  Monitor the uptime and standing of your companies and web sites with Uptime Kuma, preserving observe of your infrastructure well being instantly in House Assistant.
• Volvo, added by @thomasddn
  Join your Volvo automobile to House Assistant for distant monitoring of battery standing, location, and different automobile data.

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

Noteworthy enhancements to current integrations

It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; current
integrations are additionally being continually improved. Listed here are among the noteworthy
modifications to current integrations:

• The PlayStation Community integration acquired main updates from @tr4nt0r and @JackJPowell, including sensors to trace your and your mates’ on-line standing, at present enjoying sport, and final on-line time. Additionally a binary sensor to your PS Plus subscription standing, and a notification platform. PS Vita is now supported as properly!
• Reolink cameras received a number of enhancements from @starkillerOG: WiFi sign sensors for IP cameras, post-recording time controls, and pre-recording entities.
• The AI Job and OpenAI Dialog integrations now assist digicam and file attachments, because of @balloob.
• YoLink system assist expanded with @matrixd2 including assist for the YS8009, YS7A12, and YS6614 gadgets.
• @ricohageman added dew level sensors to the Awair integration.
• @bieniu enhanced each GIOS and IMGW PIB integrations with new sensors, together with water stream monitoring for IMGW PIB.
• WiZ now helps followers, added by @arturpragacz.
• SwitchBot Cloud gained fan platform assist from @XiaoLing-git.
• Velux home windows with rain sensors can now detect precipitation, because of @wollew.
• SmartThings added vacuum assist, applied by @jennoian.
• AmberElectric now supplies forecast companies, added by @madpilot.
• OSO Power received vacation mode companies and customized away mode performance from @osohotwateriot.
• Nord Pool gained normalized worth indices service, because of @gjohansson-ST.
• Matter continues to increase with microwave oven and temperature management system assist from @lboue.
• @noahhusby added play media assist to Russound RIO.
• Pi-hole customers can now leverage API v6 performance, enabled by @HarvsG.
• Immich customers can now add recordsdata instantly via a brand new motion, applied by @mib1185.
• KNX now features a new group monitor with improved filtering and search choices, because of @philippwaller.

Integration high quality scale achievements

One factor we’re extremely pleased 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 together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have improved
their high quality scale:

• 5 integrations reached platinum 🏆

• 3 integrations reached silver 🥈

• 2 integrations reached bronze 🥉

This can be a large achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The
effort and dedication required to succeed in these high quality ranges is critical,
because it includes in depth testing, documentation, error dealing with, and infrequently
full rewrites of components of the mixing.

An enormous thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏

Now out there to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] could be arrange instantly from the House Assistant
consumer interface, some had been solely out there utilizing YAML configuration. We hold transferring
extra integrations to the UI, making them extra accessible for everybody
to arrange and use.

The next integration is now out there by way of the House Assistant UI:

Different noteworthy modifications

• @mib1185 added a brand new system class for absolute humidity with assist for each sensor and quantity entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in House Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more]. Good!
• Group administration was improved by @piitaya, who added the power to reorder members inside a gaggle, making it simpler to prepare your system teams precisely the way you need them. Thanks!
• System diagnostics was prolonged by @balloob with the addition of a tool analytics dump obtain function. Superior!
• The Historical past Stats integrationIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] now features a preview within the choices stream, because of @karwosts. This makes it simpler to configure your historical past statistics.
• The Template integrationIntegrations join and combine House Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] acquired a large replace from @Petro31! Right here’s what’s new:
  • Set off-based numeric sensors can now be set to unknown state
  • The duvet, fan, mild, lock, and vacuum platforms at the moment are supported within the UI
  • Availability templates at the moment are supported within the UI for all out there platforms
  • Preview entity has been added to the UI for alarm management panel and choose platforms
  • Template locks now assist the opening state
  • The alarm management panel, fan, mild, lock, change, and vacuum platforms now assist all optimistic YAML modes

Management particular person members of a gaggle

Teams are an effective way to manage a number of entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in House Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more]
directly, however generally you need to management particular person members of a gaggle.

So, for this launch, @piitaya and @MindFreeze improved the entity data dialog to point out the person members of a lightweight and canopy group, permitting you to manage them instantly from that dialog. Tremendous helpful!

Weekdays in time set off

The time set off is already very
helpful, however @hmmbob had a function request that would enhance it much more.

He steered including the power to specify weekdays within the time set off,
permitting customers to create automations that solely set off at a particular time
on particular days of the week.

This function has been applied on this launch, permitting you to specify
the weekdays within the time set off. That is particularly helpful for automations
that must run on particular days, akin to weekdays or weekends.

Power stream in your power dashboard

Based mostly on the Sankey Chart customized card, @MindFreeze added a brand new
power stream visualization for the power dashboard, which reveals precisely the place
your power is coming from and the place it’s going to.

Actually cool addition to the power dashboard @MindFreeze!

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Backward-incompatible modifications

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

All modifications

After all, there may be much more on this launch. You could find an inventory of all modifications made right here: Full changelog for House Assistant Core 2025.8