Residence Assistant 2025.12! 🎄
Because the yr winds down and the vacations method, we’re closing out 2025 with a launch that’s all about providing you with extra management and somewhat little bit of magic. ✨
This month, we’re unveiling Residence Assistant Labs, a brand-new house the place you possibly can preview options earlier than they go mainstream. And what higher option to kick it off than with Winter mode? ❄️ Allow it and watch snowflakes drift throughout your dashboard. It’s utterly pointless, completely pleasant, and precisely the form of factor we like to construct. ❄️
However that’s just the start. We’ve been engaged on making automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant assist you to mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] extra intuitive over the previous releases, and this launch lastly delivers purpose-specific triggers and situations. As an alternative of considering in (numeric) states, now you can merely say “When a light-weight activates” or “If the local weather is heating”. It’s automation constructing the way in which our thoughts works, correctly. 🧠
Oh, and in the event you’re trying to stage up your Zigbee or Thread community, try the Residence Assistant Join ZBT-2 we launched final month. It’s 4 instances sooner and has a stunning new antenna design that you just’ll really need to show in your desk. 📡
From all of us engaged on Residence Assistant:
Thanks for an incredible 2025! ❤️
Pleased holidays, and benefit from the launch!
../Frenck
A little bit vacation cheer 🎄🎶
Jingle Labs by Frenck and Darren
Dashing by means of the code,
With a brand-new Labs to point out,
Snowflakes begin to fall,
Watch the dashboard glow!
Triggers now make sense,
Circumstances really feel excellent,
What enjoyable it’s to automate,
Your sensible residence each evening!
Refrain
Jingle Labs, jingle Labs,
Options on the way in which!
Oh what enjoyable it’s to run,
Residence Assistant each day, hey!
Jingle Labs, jingle Labs,
Winter mode is right here!
Flip your lights on with a thought,
And unfold some vacation cheer!
Energy graphs are dwell,
Water meters too,
Dashboards you possibly can set,
For each consumer’s view!
Xbox obtained some love,
Shelly’s platinum now,
Contributors got here by means of this yr,
Take a ultimate bow!
Refrain
Jingle Labs, jingle Labs,
Triggers for the win!
Local weather, lights, and followers galore,
Let the automations spin!
Jingle Labs, jingle Labs,
Thanks all a lot!
Pleased holidays from us,
Now go and automate stuff!
An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch attainable! And a particular shout-out to @TimoPtr
Residence Assistant Labs 🧪
After we develop new options for Residence Assistant, we frequently discover ourselves in a difficult spot. A function is likely to be absolutely constructed and examined, however we’re not totally certain if it’s the fitting match for everybody simply but. Perhaps we need to collect some real-world suggestions first, or maybe we need to see how the neighborhood makes use of it earlier than committing to conserving it round without end.
That’s the place Residence Assistant Labs is available in! 🧪
Labs is a brand-new place in Residence Assistant that provides you a sneak peek at options we’re engaged on. These should not unfinished experiments or unstable beta options. They’re absolutely useful and examined, however they could change and even disappear primarily based on suggestions. We’re dedicated to constructing within the open, and we need to give extra folks the selection to hop into the lab with us. By becoming a member of us, your suggestions will straight assist refine these options for your complete neighborhood.
The very first preview function out there in Labs is Winter mode ❄️, impressed by a neighborhood submit on Reddit
If you allow a preview function, you may as well select to create a backup first, simply to be secure. And in the event you change your thoughts? Merely disable it once more. No restart required!
Preview options are off by default, and enabling them received’t have an effect on your current setup. It’s utterly optionally available, so in the event you favor to stay with the battle-proven expertise, that’s completely high-quality. However in the event you’re curious and need to discover what’s coming subsequent, Labs is the place to be.
However what was the primary Labs preview function we put in there? Nicely, it’s an enormous one…
Objective-specific triggers and situations
Virtually two years in the past, we launched a brand new automationAutomations in Residence Assistant assist you to mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] editor that unwrapped all our actionsActions are utilized in a number of locations in Residence Assistant. As a part of a script or automation, actions outline what’s going to occur as soon as a set off is activated. In scripts, an motion is known as sequence. [Learn more] and made them simpler to grasp. As an alternative of a single, obscure “Name service” motion, you now see clear choices like “Gentle: Activate” or “Media Participant: Set Quantity”.
Ever since, we’ve been questioning: might we do the identical for triggersA set off is a set of values or situations of a platform which can be outlined to trigger an automation to run. [Learn more] and situationsCircumstances are an optionally available a part of an automation that may forestall an motion from firing if they don’t seem to be met. [Learn more]? As an alternative of counting on technical, state-based choices, what if we might supply intuitive alternate options that simply make sense? Choices like “When a light-weight activates” or “If a light-weight is on”.
That concept set a two-year plan in movement, and at this time it’s lastly turning into a actuality.
Alongside the way in which, we found one thing fascinating: lots of you’re taking a “target-first” method when constructing automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant assist you to mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more]. You concentrate on what you need to automate (a gadgetA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that accommodates entities., an entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Residence Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more], or an spaceAn space in Residence Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that should match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your property. For instance, the lounge space teams gadgets and entities in your lounge. [Learn more]) earlier than occupied with how to automate it (which motion to carry out or which set off to make use of). This launch embraces that mindset with a totally new option to construct automations.
Objective-specific triggers and situations at the moment are supplied straight by domainsEvery integration in Residence Assistant has a singular identifier: The area. It’s typically proven as the primary half (earlier than the dot) of entity IDs. like Gentle, Local weather, Fan, and others, masking the commonest automation use instances.
These new triggers and situations absolutely help focusing on. This implies you possibly can set off an automation when any mild in your lounge activates, with out having to listing them one after the other or create a gaggle beforehand. Focusing on an space retains issues easy: it’s all the time aligned with how your property is organized, and also you don’t must replace something whenever you add or take away gadgets.
LabelsLabels in Residence Assistant permit grouping components no matter their bodily location or sort. Labels could be assigned to areas, gadgets, entities, automations, scenes, scripts, and helpers. Labels can be utilized in automations and scripts as a goal for actions. Labels will also be used to filter knowledge. [Learn more] are supported too! Now you can verify if any of your Christmas lights are on. Good timing for the vacations! 🎄
We’ve additionally launched a brand new option to decide triggers, situations, and actions that matches this target-first method. You possibly can navigate your property by groundA ground in Residence Assistant is a logical grouping of areas that should match the bodily flooring in your house. Gadgets & entities should not 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 ground whenever you go to mattress. [Learn more], then space, then gadget, and see precisely which choices can be found for every goal. It’s a way more intuitive option to construct automationsAutomations in Residence Assistant assist you to mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more].
This function remains to be being refined, so we’ve made it out there as a preview function in Labs. Head over to Settings > System > Labs to allow it and assist us form the way forward for automation constructing!
Extra dashboard enhancements!
We’ve loads of dashboard enhancements to share on this launch! From higher default dashboard administration to an improved Residence dashboard, we have now been busy making your Residence Assistant expertise even higher.
Set a system-wide default dashboard
Selecting a default dashboard is now a system-level setting that takes impact immediately for all customers in your Residence Assistant set up. The dashboard you select will seem on the high of the sidebar, changing the present default.
However don’t fear, private preferences nonetheless matter! We added a brand new setting in your Consumer profile the place you possibly can override the system default and set your individual most well-liked dashboard.
Should you set your cellphone to at least one dashboard and your wall pill to a different, they’ll now each revert to the default dashboard. If you’d like your wall pill to make use of a distinct dashboard than your different gadgets, we suggest giving it a separate consumer profile which you could customise nonetheless you need.
Reorder areas and flooring
When utilizing the built-in dashboard experiences (Residence, Lights, Safety, and others), one of many principal ache factors was the strict ordering of areasAn space in Residence Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that should match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your property. For instance, the lounge space teams gadgets and entities in your lounge. [Learn more] (alphabetically) and flooringA ground in Residence Assistant is a logical grouping of areas that should match the bodily flooring in your house. Gadgets & entities should not 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 ground whenever you go to mattress. [Learn more] (numerically by stage). This typically didn’t make sense in an actual residence, the place your visitor lavatory shouldn’t seem earlier than your lounge, and the attic isn’t extra related than the principle ground.
Now you possibly can go to Settings > Areas, labels & zones and use the brand new Reorder flooring and areas menu to manually drag and drop any space or ground to reorder them. Your modifications will immediately apply to all built-in dashboards that present areas and flooring.
Experimental dashboards have graduated
With the launch of Labs, we retired the experimental flag from the dashboard creation listing. The Residence dashboard can now be discovered within the dashboard listing (nonetheless not seen by default), and the Areas dashboard has advanced into Residence, so we’ve eliminated it for now. Should you’re utilizing the Areas dashboard, it should proceed to work; you simply received’t have the ability to create one other.
Residence dashboard enhancements
We added a brand new sidebar to the Residence dashboard that gathers fast entry hyperlinks we expect are helpful for you. There’s additionally a nicer space and ground format that makes use of house extra effectively. On a extra technical stage, the Residence dashboard is now a correct built-in dashboard and reveals up within the dashboard listing.
The sidebar will also be added to your guide dashboards by way of YAML.
There’s a probability your present favorites would possibly disappear on this launch and should be re-added. That is because of the migration of this dashboard from a method to a built-in dashboard.
Undo and redo within the dashboard editor
The dashboard editor now contains the undo and redo function that we added in 2025.10 to the automationAutomations in Residence Assistant assist you to mechanically reply to issues that occur in and round your property. [Learn more] and scriptScripts are elements that permit customers to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Residence Assistant when turned on. [Learn more] editor. This lets you experiment safely whereas modifying your dashboards. You possibly can undo as much as 75 modifications or restore them with a single click on, making modifying dashboards sooner and fewer anxious.
Because of @jpbede
Energy and water within the Vitality dashboard
The Vitality dashboard has been serving to you observe your vitality and gasoline utilization for years now, and this launch brings two nice additions: real-time energy monitoring and downstream water monitoring.
Actual-time energy monitoring
Till now, the Vitality dashboard was all about vitality: the cumulative kWh you’ve consumed or produced over time. However typically you need to know what’s occurring proper now. How a lot energy is that equipment really drawing? Is your photo voltaic system producing at this very second?
With this launch, now you can configure energy sensors alongside your vitality sensors. Monitor your real-time grid consumption, see how a lot you’re exporting again to the grid, and watch these watts stream in real-time. The ability configuration choices now seem alongside vitality settings for every supply or gadget, and new energy graphs allow you to see your energy consumption all through the day.
Downstream water meters
The Vitality dashboard has been monitoring your water consumption for some time now, nevertheless it was lacking one thing: the flexibility to see the place all that water is definitely going. Similar to you possibly can observe particular person gadgets for vitality consumption, now you can add downstream water meters to interrupt down your water utilization.
Received a sensible irrigation controller? A water softener with a stream meter? A separate meter to your pool? Now you possibly can observe all of them and see precisely how your water consumption is distributed throughout totally different makes use of.
There’s additionally a brand-new water sankey card that visualizes your water stream, similar to the vitality sankey diagram you already know. It’s an effective way to see the place your water goes at a look.
The brand new water sankey card reveals the place your water goes at a look.
New vitality format
To make room for this new performance, the Vitality dashboard has been reorganized. Don’t fear: in the event you solely have vitality configured, you’ll nonetheless see the identical dashboard. However in the event you add water, gasoline, or energy, the dashboard will probably be cut up into a number of tabs.
Integrations
Because of our neighborhood for conserving tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] and enhancements to current ones! You’re all superior 🥰
New integrations
We welcome the next new integrations on this launch:
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Airobot, added by @mettolen
Management and monitor your Airobot sensible thermostats for clever ground heating management by way of the native REST API. -
Anglian Water, added by @pantherale0
Combine your Anglian Water sensible water meter to trace water utilization and consumption prices. -
Backblaze B2, added by @ElCruncharino
Use a Backblaze B2 cloud storage bucket as a backup location to your Residence Assistant backups. -
Essent, added by @jaapp
Monitor dynamic electrical energy and gasoline costs for Essent prospects within the Netherlands with variable pricing contracts. -
Google Air High quality, added by @Thomas55555
Get real-time air high quality knowledge to your location utilizing Google’s Air High quality API. -
Google Climate, added by @tronikos
Use Google Climate as a supply for climate knowledge, offering present situations, hourly forecasts for the subsequent 24 hours, and every day forecasts for the subsequent 10 days. -
Hanna, added by @bestycame
Fetch pool water high quality knowledge out of your Hanna Pool Controller gadget, together with pH, chlorine ranges, ORP values, and water temperature. -
Residence Assistant Labs, added by @frenck
A devoted panel the place you possibly can preview and check new options earlier than they grow to be customary in Residence Assistant. -
Philips Hue BLE, added by @flip-dots
Management your Philips Hue Bluetooth lights straight with Residence Assistant, with out the necessity for a Hue Bridge. -
Saunum, added by @mettolen
Combine your Saunum Leil sauna management unit to exactly management temperature and monitor your sauna’s operation. -
Victron BLE, added by @rajlaud
Combine Victron Vitality gadgets that help the Bluetooth Low Vitality protocol for real-time monitoring.
This launch additionally has new digital integrations. Digital integrations are stubs which can be 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 Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which were added; current ones are additionally being always improved. Listed below are among the noteworthy modifications to current integrations:
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@piitaya
up to date the ESPHome integration to let Residence Assistant generate entity IDs utilizing its customary guidelines, aligning it with how different integrations work. - Because of @bdraco
, you possibly can configure Wi-Fi on Shelly technology 2+ gadgets straight from Residence Assistant by way of Bluetooth. -
Shelly now helps management modes for upcoming Shelly Cury gadgets. Good work, @bieniu
! - Because of @gjohansson-ST
, System Monitor now exposes fan sensors and battery sensors to your system. - The Tuya integration acquired loads of love! Cat litter bins now expose switches, buttons, lights, and sensors for controlling your pet’s automated litter field. On high of that, doorbell occasions at the moment are supported too. Thanks, @heindrichpaul
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@starkillerOG
expanded the Reolink integration with an publicity mode choose and audio noise discount controls for supported cameras. - The OpenAI Dialog integration now helps GPT-5.1 fashions. Nice work, @Shulyaka
! - Air conditioner and microwave help has landed within the Residence Join integration, increasing the vary of supported BSH home equipment. Thanks, @Diegorro98
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@zerzhang
added help for the SwitchBot sensible thermostat radiator to the SwitchBot integration. Good! - The Xbox integration obtained some love from @tr4nt0r
! Now you can hyperlink a number of Xbox accounts, observe what number of mates you (and your mates) have, see in the event that they’re in a celebration, and management extra distant features. The media browser additionally gained a brand new class showcasing official recreation artwork and screenshots. - Received an Ecovacs robotic? The Ecovacs integration now has a border spin change (to achieve these difficult edges whereas mopping) and an auto-empty choose entity. Thanks, @aronnebrivio
! - The VeSync integration gained a baby lock change, providing you with management over this security function to your gadgets. Thanks, @cdnninja
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@XiaoLing-git
added help for the SwitchBot sensible radiator thermostat to the SwitchBot Cloud integration. - The SQL integration now helps utilizing templates in your queries, providing you with extra flexibility when querying your databases. Welcome addition, @gjohansson-ST
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@tomwilkie
expanded the Prometheus integration to export metrics for the water_heaterarea. - The Anthropic integration now helps AI activity entities. Thanks, @Shulyaka
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Portainer can now present you useful resource utilization of your containers. Good work, @erwindouna
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@thomasddn
added a button to allow diminished guard mode for appropriate automobiles to the Volvo integration. - The Plugwise integration now helps the brand new Anna P1 gadget and gained a choose entity for zone profiles on Adam gadgets. Thanks, @bouwew
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Bang & Olufsen customers can now use their Beoremote One with Residence Assistant. The distant’s buttons are uncovered as occasion entities. Superior, @mj23000
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@VandeurenGlenn
added the local weather platform to Niko Residence Management, letting you management your Niko heating zones. - The Saunum integration now helps fan management, providing you with management over your sauna air flow. Thanks, @mettolen
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@nasWebio
added alarm management panel help to the NASweb integration, permitting you to arm and disarm your safety system. - The Nederlandse Spoorwegen integration acquired a refactor to enhance reliability and maintainability. Thanks, @heindrichpaul
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Integration high quality scale achievements
One factor we’re extremely pleased with in Residence 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 very best consumer expertise.
This launch, we have a good time a number of integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have improved their high quality scale:
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2 integrations reached platinum 🏆
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1 integration reached gold 🥇
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2 integrations reached silver 🥈
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2 integrations reached bronze 🥉
This can be a enormous achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The trouble and dedication required to achieve these high quality ranges is critical, 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 Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] could be arrange straight from the Residence Assistant consumer interface, some have been solely out there utilizing YAML configuration. We maintain 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 Residence Assistant UI:
Farewell to the next
The next integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant along with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] are now not out there as of this launch:
- Dominos Pizza: The Dominos Pizza integration has been eliminated. The mixing now not features and its underlying supply has been unmaintained since 2019.
- Flick Electrical: The Flick Electrical integration has been eliminated. All prospects of the Flick Electrical firm have already been moved to Meridian Vitality. The service this integration used is already non-functional.
- The next integrations have been eliminated as they’re incompatible with the at the moment supported set up strategies:
- Bluetooth Tracker
- CUPS
- Decora
- dlib Face Detect
- dlib Face Establish
- Eddystone Temperature
- GStreamer
- Keyboard
- LIRC
- Pandora
- Raspberry Pi Digital camera
- SMS
- Snips
- TensorFlow
Different noteworthy modifications
There are numerous extra enhancements on this launch; listed below are among the different noteworthy modifications:
- New template math features! @akx
added clamp,wrap, andremapto control numbers in your templates. Superior! - The exercise card now helps filtering by state, making it simpler to see particular occasions. Good one, @karwosts
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@MindFreeze
added minandmaxchoices to the bar gauge function for tile playing cards, providing you with extra management over the gauge vary. - Now you can delete helpers straight from the helpers panel, with out having to open them first. Thanks, @frenck
! - The blueprints panel now reveals what number of automations and scripts use every blueprint. Nice for conserving observe, @EarMaster
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@timmo001
added a helpful trick: double-click the automation editor sidebar to reset its width. - Labels now present up on the gadget info card, making it simpler to see how your gadgets are organized. Thanks once more, @timmo001
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Get perception into your AI conversations
Ever performed round with AI in Residence Assistant and questioned what knowledge is definitely being despatched?
@balloob
This makes it a lot simpler to determine why the AI determined to skip over that one entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Residence Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more], or why it referred to as a particular software. Yow will discover the debug interface within the voice assistant configuration panel.
Add entities to Android widgets and favorites
Should you’re utilizing the Residence Assistant Companion app for Android, there’s a helpful new function ready for you! Beginning with app model 2025.11, now you can add entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Residence Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] to widgets and Android Auto favorites straight from the entity’s extra data dialog.
With only a few faucets, you possibly can:
- Add widgets for fast management of entities proper from your property display screen
- Set entities as Android Auto favorites, making them rapidly accessible in your automotive
No extra deep-diving into app settings! The Add to possibility seems within the extra data dialog with choices tailor-made to the entity you’re viewing. For instance, including a media participant widget is barely out there for media gamers.
This can be a first step in integrating native cell options straight into the Residence Assistant interface. Future releases will develop this with help for creating shortcuts, tiles, and watch favorites.
Thanks for this welcome boost, @TimoPtr
Need assistance? Be a part of the neighborhood
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Backward-incompatible modifications
We do our greatest to keep away from making modifications to current performance which may unexpectedly affect your Residence Assistant set up. Sadly, typically it’s inevitable.
We all the time make certain to doc these modifications to make the transition as simple as attainable for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible modifications:
Core and Supervised set up strategies, and 32-bit programs
After a 6-month deprecation interval, help for the Residence Assistant Core and Residence Assistant Supervised set up strategies, in addition to all 32-bit system architectures (i386, armhf, and armv7), has now been absolutely eliminated.
These set up strategies and architectures will now not obtain updates, together with safety updates. If you’re nonetheless utilizing certainly one of these set up strategies or architectures, please migrate to a supported set up methodology and structure as quickly as attainable to proceed receiving updates and help.
For extra info on this transformation, learn the Deprecating Core and Supervised set up strategies, and 32-bit programs weblog submit.
UniFi Shield
The legacy license plate occasion sensor has been faraway from the UniFi Shield integration, because it now not features with Shield 6 and newer. The UniFi Shield integration has not been appropriate with Shield variations older than 6 for fairly a while.
This sensor has been changed with a brand new Car Detection Occasion entity that gives considerably extra performance, together with license plate recognition, car sort detection, shade detection, and confidence scores. The brand new occasion entity fires with a 3-second delay to make sure optimum thumbnail and LPR knowledge high quality.
For extra info and automation examples, see the Car Detection Occasion documentation.
Xbox
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The Xbox media browser has been utterly overhauled to help a number of accounts and introduce a variety of different enhancements. As a part of this replace, the format of the media-source identifiers has been modified as effectively.
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The following and followers sensors launched within the final launch beforehand included mates of their counts. After a current API replace, mates are now not included.
If you’re a customized integration developer and need to find out about modifications and new options out there to your integration: Remember to comply with our developer weblog. The next modifications are probably the most notable for this launch:
All modifications
In fact, there’s much more on this launch. Yow will discover a listing of all modifications made right here: Full changelog for Residence Assistant Core 2025.12.
