Dwelling Assistant 2025.9! 🎉
However earlier than we dive into this launch: Did you see we launched a brand new product? 👀
We’ve launched the Dwelling Assistant Join ZWA-2, the final word solution to join Z-Wave units to Dwelling Assistant. You’ll be able to learn all about it in our announcement weblog 📰 or re-watch the product launch dwell stream on YouTube 📺
It was a busy month, as we additionally had two new Works with Dwelling Assistant
Whereas the above was taking place this month, as if the venture wasn’t already busy sufficient, we stored on pushing to organize for this launch; and it’s an absolute large one! 🤯
This month introduces a brand new experimental Dwelling dashboard, which goals to change into the brand new default dashboard for Dwelling Assistant in a future launch. A primary iteration, of which we like to see your suggestions and enter on. As , we develop and iterate within the open. Give it a shot and tell us what you suppose!
Speaking about dashboards, my private favourite card is certainly the tile card; it’s simply so versatile. And this launch brings in a staggering quantity of latest options for it! Most notably, the flexibility so as to add a development graph to the tile card! 📈
I’m essentially the most excited concerning the visible adjustments to the automation editor this launch brings: a sidebar. It’s a enormous and really seen change, that simply makes a lot sense. This launch denotes the beginning of a complete sequence of enhancements to the automation editor on this, and upcoming releases. As automations make a sensible residence really feel magical, I personally can’t wait to see how this evolves. 🤖
Benefit from the launch!
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Automation editor sidebar
On this yr’s Dwelling Assistant roadmap, we have now set the objective of creating automations simpler to create. We’ve massive plans, all based mostly on tons of analysis, and with this launch… we’re transport the primary a part of all this work, with the intent to step by step add extra enhancements over a number of releases!
This launch tweaks the automation editor consumer interface expertise by introducing a sidebar! If you choose an merchandise in your automation, as a substitute of that merchandise increasing, it would open a brand new sidebar to the suitable with the settings for that chosen merchandise.
This lets you preserve an outline of your automation on the left facet of your display screen, when you can tweak its conduct on the suitable. In fact, we have now considered smaller screens as properly. On cell, as a substitute of the sidebar, a sheet will pop up on the backside of the display screen. This pop-up can be resizable, making it simpler than ever to edit an motion whereas reviewing your triggers.
Apart from the sidebar, we have now made tons of different little enhancements as properly. Tiny format and styling adjustments that you’ll positively discover as they actually assist with the general readability. For instance, small traces and borders round grouped parts have been added, making it simpler to tell apart between totally different elements of your automation. Oh! And drag-and-drop assist is now obtainable on cell! 🎉
One in every of Dwelling Assistant’s best strengths is our group. We’re constructing the adjustments to our automations collectively, and your enter will form the place it goes subsequent. There are two methods to get entangled:
Introducing the Dwelling dashboard
Over the previous yr, we have now centered on dashboards and their capabilities lots. We’ve checked out numerous your dashboards you’ve shared on socials, and talked to lots of you about the way you set up all of your good residence units and providers. The objective? Making dashboards sooner and simpler to create, whereas nonetheless making them very customizable.
With this launch, we’re introducing a brand-new Dwelling dashboard. The aim is straightforward: to present you quick access to the suitable info on the proper time.
The dashboard adapts to your Dwelling Assistant expertise degree: highly effective sufficient for superior customers, but approachable for newcomers. We’re working to have it earn its identify, and hope it would finally change into your new Dwelling web page. As all the time, it’s non-compulsory; you possibly can all the time decide your personal dashboard. That is the primary iteration, and we’ll proceed growing it within the open.
While you first open the Dwelling dashboard, it provides you a fast solution to navigate to helpful summaries on your mild, local weather, safety, and media units. It’s also possible to browse by areas, getting an outline of all of the units and providers related to that a part of your own home.
We’re additionally introducing Favorites. You’ll be able to pin any entity to the highest, whether or not it’s a light-weight, local weather, or an individual. We’d like to see what you select (extra on this sooner or later).
The Dwelling dashboard isn’t just about fast management. It additionally brings insights and details about your own home. This primary launch contains climate and vitality playing cards. It’s a easy begin, and we have now numerous concepts to discover with you. For instance, serving to you create your first automation, or present found units.
For now, the Dwelling dashboard is taken into account experimental. Configuration choices are restricted, and it’s assured to evolve. It received’t seem mechanically, and if you wish to strive it you’ll want so as to add it manually within the dashboard settings, by including a brand new “Dwelling” dashboard.
One in every of Dwelling Assistant’s best strengths is our group. We’re constructing this dashboard collectively, and your enter will form the place it goes subsequent. There are two methods to get entangled:
New tile card options
The tile card is essentially the most versatile card we have now in our arsenal
of playing cards for our dashboards.
One superpower of the tile card is its “options”, that are small additions the place you possibly can add fast interactions to those playing cards. For instance, a slider to regulate the brightness of a light-weight or buttons for the velocity presets of a fan. Options have been prolonged fairly a bit on this launch by a devoted group of group members.
Pattern chart
This launch, an absolute banger is the addition of the development chart options for tile playing cards created by @MindFreeze
This function provides a helpful fast graph to the tile card, exhibiting the historical past of a selected entity over time. For this preliminary model, the time window proven is 24 hours.
Media participant controls
@timmo001
Bar gauge
A brand new tile card function, made by @MindFreeze
For this preliminary model, it really works with sensors that use a share (%) for his or her unit of measurement.
This makes the cardboard nice, for instance, for a battery overview dashboard. Good work!
Fan route and oscillation controls
Due to @pcan08
Buttons
Due to @dhoeben
Valve open/shut and place controls
Due to @timmo001
Setting the date
@timmo001
Integrations
Due to our group for preserving tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your units, providers, and extra. [Learn more]
and enhancements to present ones! You’re all superior 🥰
New integrations
We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:
Noteworthy enhancements to present integrations
It’s not simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your units, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; present
integrations are additionally being always improved. Listed here are a few of the noteworthy
adjustments to present integrations:
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Husqvarna Automower obtained some good additions from @Thomas55555
! Now you can reset chopping blade utilization time and monitor error occasions with a brand new occasion entity. Excellent for preserving monitor of your garden mowing robotic! - The Reolink integration now contains communicate and doorbell quantity controls, plus a chime silent time quantity entity! Good @starkillerOG
! - Now you can ship notifications with the PlayStation Community integration! Ship direct messages to your pals! Thanks, @tr4nt0r
! - Community admins will love @Tomeroeni
bringing particular person (allow/disable) swap port management to UniFi switches! - The OpenWeatherMap integration now features a wind gust sensor, because of @gjohansson-ST
! -
@kizovinh
added assist for battery standing and on-line standing sensors to the EZVIZ integration, making it simpler to watch your EZVIZ cameras. Good! - When you personal a Russound RIO system, now you can browse your system’s saved presets immediately from the media browser! Thanks, @noahhusby
! -
@mbo18
added an absolute humidity sensor to the Awair integration. Good! - The Teslemetry integration added charging and preconditioning actions on your Tesla automobile. Thanks, @Bre77
! -
@catsmanac
added IQ Meter Collar and C6 Combiner assist to the Enphase Envoy integration. Good work!
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 of the range, maintainable, and supply the very best
consumer expertise.
This launch, we have a good time a number of integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your units, providers, 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 bronze 🥉
It is a enormous achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The
effort and dedication required to succeed in these high quality ranges is important,
because it entails in depth testing, documentation, error dealing with, and infrequently
full rewrites of elements of the mixing.
An enormous thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏
Now obtainable to arrange from the UI
Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your units, providers, and extra. [Learn more] will be arrange immediately from the Dwelling Assistant
consumer interface, some had been solely obtainable utilizing YAML configuration. We preserve shifting
extra integrations to the UI, making them extra accessible for everybody
to arrange and use.
The next integration is now obtainable through the Dwelling Assistant UI:
Farewell to the next
The next integrationIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your units, providers, and extra. [Learn more] is not obtainable as
of this launch:
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Uonet+ Vulcan has been eliminated. Vulcan has modified their API and their
insurance policies forbid utilizing the API from unofficial software program.
Different noteworthy adjustments
There are a lot of extra enhancements on this launch; listed here are a few of the different noteworthy adjustments:
- Based mostly on function requests from the group, all fashionable template entity syntax now helps setting a default entity ID immediately in YAML. Thanks @Petro31
for implementing that! -
@Petro31
additionally added assist for 2 new entity varieties to the template integration. Now you can create your personal templated occasion entities and replace entities. Superior! - Dwelling Assistant now helps
m³/minas a quantity circulate charge unit. Good addition @fetzerch! - Our voice man @synesthesiam
has been busy with some nice QoL enhancements this launch as properly. - The intent dealing with for the default agent (non-LLM) now helps fuzzy matching. The approach ensures voice pipelines acknowledge many extra sentences. This enchancment is on the market for English solely, whereas we’re in search of methods to increase this to different languages.
- We now have built-in intents to regulate the amount of (energetic) media gamers! Just like the tune? Simply ask Dwelling Assistant to show it up a notch!
- In any case that dancing, you may need gotten a little bit heat. Therefore on this launch, we now even have intents to regulate fan speeds. Good!
Analog clock
In Dwelling Assistant 2025.4, we launched the clock card, which offers a digital clock show on your dashboards.
For this launch, @timmo001
Storage insights
Disk nearly full? You may surprise the place your cupboard space has gone…
This launch provides disk metrics to the storage configuration panel, letting you see utilization at a look, serving to you establish what’s taking on area.
You will discover these metrics by navigating to Settings > System > Storage, or by deciding on the My Dwelling Assistant button down under.
Patch releases
We will even launch patch releases for Dwelling Assistant 2025.9 in September.
These patch releases solely comprise bug fixes. Our objective is to launch a patch
launch as soon as every week, aiming for Friday.
2025.9.1 – September 5
Need assistance? Be part of the group!
Dwelling Assistant has an awesome group of customers who’re all greater than keen
to assist one another out. So, be a part of us!
Our very energetic Discord chat server is a wonderful place to be,
and don’t neglect to hitch our wonderful boards.
Discovered a bug or concern? Please report it in our concern tracker
to get it fastened! Or verify our assist web page for steering on extra
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Backward-incompatible adjustments
We do our greatest to keep away from making adjustments to present performance that may unexpectedly impression your Dwelling Assistant set up. Sadly, generally, it’s inevitable.
We all the time be sure to doc these adjustments to make the transition as simple as
potential for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible adjustments:
Encoding items containing the μ character
The encoding for some items that comprise the μ character has been modified. Customers that devour state knowledge from sensors which have modified items shall be impacted (equivalent to exported state knowledge to InfluxDB). The items with a modified encoding are:
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μSv/hfor thearanetintegration as a unit for radiation charge -
μS/cmforUnitOfConductivity.MICROSIEMENS_PER_CM -
μVforUnitOfElectricPotential.MICROVOLT -
μg/ft³for focus in micrograms per cubic foot -
μg/m³for focus in micrograms per cubic meter -
μmol/s⋅m²for thefytaintegration as a unit for mild -
μgforUnitOfMass.MICROGRAMS -
μsforUnitOfTime.MICROSECONDS
Alexa Units
The sound checklist has been up to date to match the one utilized by the Alexa Cellular app.
The variant parameter is not required.
Examine your automations to make sure the chosen sound continues to be current.
(@chemelli74
Husqvarna Automower BLE
The combination now requires the Automower PIN when being arrange. This ensures Dwelling Assistant can talk with extra fashions of mowers and with greater safety ranges.
(@alistair23
KNX
KNX scene entities now additionally change their state when a scene was activated externally (from bus). Beforehand they solely up to date when activated from inside Dwelling Assistant.
(@farmio
SIA Alarm Techniques
SIA alarm standing code CF (armed with malfunctions) is now mapped to armed_away as a substitute of to armed_custom_bypass.
(@etnoy
SwitchBot Bluetooth
The battery property on vacuum entities is being eliminated in Dwelling Assistant. Subsequently, this property is now faraway from this integration and is changed by a battery degree sensor.
Please assessment your automations, scripts, and dashboards utilizing the battery property and replace the code to make use of the battery sensor as a substitute.
Yale August
The August integration now makes use of OAuth authentication with Yale August’s official API. It is a required one-time breaking change because the unofficial authentication methodology will cease working quickly. This migration helps scale back pointless load on Yale August’s servers whereas making certain continued entry for all customers.
While you replace Dwelling Assistant, you’ll be prompted to re-authenticate your August account:
- Choose the notification or go to Settings → Units & Providers → August
- Choose “Reconfigure” and comply with the OAuth circulate to sign up
- As soon as authenticated, your units will work precisely as earlier than
We’re grateful to Yale August for formally supporting Dwelling Assistant with devoted API entry!
(@bdraco
If you’re a customized integration developer and need to find out about adjustments and
new options obtainable on your integration: Remember to comply with our
developer weblog. The next adjustments are essentially the most notable for this
launch:
All adjustments
In fact, there’s much more on this launch. You will discover a listing of all adjustments made right here: Full changelog for Dwelling Assistant Core 2025.9
