Dwelling Assistant 2026.5! \ud83c\udf89<\/p>\n
What a number of weeks it has been! Earlier this month, we hosted State of the Open Dwelling 2026<\/a> dwell in Utrecht, the Netherlands. A giant chunk of that day was devoted to one thing we deeply care about: constructing within the open<\/strong>, and the way we\u2019re going to take that even farther from right here on out. \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n Constructing within the open isn\u2019t nearly supply code on GitHub. It\u2019s about doing the planning, the decision-making, and the prioritizing out the place everybody can see it, observe alongside, and take part. And \u201cbecoming a member of in\u201d doesn\u2019t imply it’s important to write a single line of code and even think about your self technical. Sharing how you utilize Dwelling Assistant, telling us what frustrates you, what you want existed, voting on concepts, serving to a fellow consumer on the boards or Discord, translating, writing documentation, or just leaving a considerate touch upon a roadmap merchandise: it all<\/em> counts, and it all<\/em> shapes the place this mission goes subsequent. \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n A terrific first step in that path additionally went dwell this month: our roadmap is now public<\/a><\/strong>. You possibly can go browse it, see what we\u2019re engaged on, what\u2019s subsequent, and (most significantly) touch upon it, share your ideas, and assist form it. We talked about all of this, and much more, on stage. So if you happen to weren\u2019t in a position to be a part of us dwell, please go watch the recording<\/a>. It’s genuinely value your time, and it\u2019s one of the best invitation I may give you to come back construct the Open Dwelling with us. \ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f<\/p>\n Now, on to this launch. My private favourite this month is perhaps a bit surprising, contemplating it sits all the way in which on the finish of this put up: the fully reworked templating documentation<\/a>. I do know, I do know, \u201cdocumentation\u201d doesn\u2019t precisely scream headline function. However hear me out: making Dwelling Assistant extra approachable is one among our greatest missions this 12 months, and darn good documentation is a giant a part of that. We\u2019ve expanded our documentation workforce and are investing closely on this, and the brand new templating docs are the very first style of what\u2019s to come back. I\u2019m actually pleased with the place that is heading. \ud83d\udcda<\/p>\n That stated, I\u2019d be mendacity if I stated I wasn\u2019t additionally tremendous<\/em> stoked about radio frequency (RF) help<\/a> touchdown this launch. Identical to final month\u2019s infrared (IR) launch<\/a>, this brings a large<\/em> class of gadgets into Dwelling Assistant natively: blinds, storage doorways, ceiling followers, RF shops, doorbells\u2026 you title it. Positive, there have all the time been intelligent workarounds and customized integrations to bridge a few of these, however having it constructed proper into the platform modifications the sport fully. There may be a lot cool stuff occurring round this, and we\u2019re solely getting began. \ud83d\udce1<\/p>\n And there\u2019s lots extra: a brand new Upkeep dashboard<\/a> to your batteries, serial ports proxied over the community<\/a> with ESPHome, new tile card options<\/a> for media gamers, durations for purpose-specific automation triggers and circumstances<\/a>, redesigned more-info dialogs for vacuums and garden mowers<\/a>, autocomplete within the code editors<\/a>, and 12 new integrations! \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n Benefit from the launch!<\/p>\n ..\/Frenck<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch doable! And a particular shout-out to @piitaya<\/a> who helped write the discharge notes this launch. Additionally, @RaHehl<\/a>, @balloob<\/a>, @Tommatheussen<\/a>, and @mib1185<\/a> for placing effort into bettering its contents. Due to them, these launch notes are in nice form. \u2764\ufe0f<\/em><\/p>\n Final launch, we welcomed infrared as a first-class citizen of Dwelling Assistant<\/a>, opening the door to all these TVs, air conditioners, and different home equipment nonetheless managed by their little IR distant. This launch continues that story with one other old-school protocol: radio frequency<\/strong> (RF). \ud83d\udce1<\/p>\n Take into consideration all of the RF-controlled gadgets already residing in your house: motorized blinds and curtains, storage door openers, ceiling followers, wi-fi wall switches, RF shops, doorbells, and sure, these vacation string lights. Most of them haven\u2019t had a good way into your good residence, as a result of they don\u2019t converse Wi-Fi, Bluetooth<\/a>, Zigbee<\/a>, Z-Wave<\/a>, or Matter<\/a>. They converse RF, and solely RF. There have all the time been workarounds and customized integrations to bridge a few of them, however with this launch, Dwelling Assistant speaks RF natively.<\/p>\n The brand new Radio frequency<\/a> integration follows the very same sample as final launch\u2019s infrared platform. It\u2019s an entity sort that represents an RF transmitter, like an ESPHome<\/a>-powered gadget with a sub-GHz transmitter hooked up. You don\u2019t set it up straight. As an alternative, different integrations use it to ship RF instructions in your behalf, and also you merely choose which transmitter they need to use.<\/p>\n Two transmitter integrations help this from day one:<\/p>\n On the opposite facet, device-specific integrations use the platform to really do one thing helpful. Two are delivery on this launch:<\/p>\n Like infrared, that is about greater than a single new function. A big chunk of completely good RF-controlled {hardware} on the market has no good residence story in any respect. By giving Dwelling Assistant a typical approach to speak to RF gadgets, each new shopper integration constructed on high immediately works with each transmitter integration. Add a brand new ESPHome RF proxy someplace in the home, and your blinds, your fan, and your string lights all simply work. \u2728<\/p>\n This can be a nice match with the values of the Open Dwelling Basis<\/a>, and particularly sustainability<\/em>. \ud83c\udf31 As an alternative of throwing out a working motorized blind as a result of it\u2019s \u201cdumb\u201d, you may combine it. As an alternative of changing your RF shops with new Wi-Fi ones, you may preserve utilizing them. It\u2019s one other approach to prolong the lifetime of gadgets you already personal, and to scale back digital waste. \u267b\ufe0f<\/p>\n You’ll have caught a glimpse of the place that is heading on the State of the Open Dwelling 2026<\/a>. Nabu Casa<\/a> is a industrial accomplice of the Open Dwelling Basis<\/a>, operating Dwelling Assistant Cloud<\/a> and producing gadgets just like the Dwelling Assistant Inexperienced<\/a> and the Dwelling Assistant Voice Preview Version<\/a>. They\u2019ve been engaged on a brand new gadget, presently going by the codename Venture Blast<\/em>, that brings infrared and radio frequency capabilities collectively in a single, polished package deal. The brand new Radio frequency platform on this launch is a part of the muse that makes merchandise like that doable. Keep tuned. \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n If this tickles your curiosity, watch Carl from Nabu Casa clarify what\u2019s coming on this phase of the State of the Open Dwelling 2026. \ud83d\udcfa<\/p>\n We\u2019re excited to see the place the neighborhood takes this. The Radio frequency platform is designed to develop: extra transmitter integrations, extra gadget integrations, and extra protocols over time.<\/p>\n This work is a part of an Open Dwelling Basis roadmap alternative<\/a> to make radio frequency a first-class citizen of Dwelling Assistant. Mission completed. \ud83c\udf89<\/p>\n We’ve got a little bit of a theme occurring. Final launch, infrared turned a first-class citizen of Dwelling Assistant<\/a>. This launch, radio frequency joined the social gathering<\/a>. And now, there\u2019s one other<\/em> approach you may put an ESPHome gadget someplace in your house and let Dwelling Assistant speak to issues by means of it: serial ports<\/strong>. \ud83d\udd0c<\/p>\n If you happen to\u2019ve ever arrange a Bluetooth proxy<\/a>, the concept will really feel acquainted. Loads of good residence gear talks over a serial connection, like vitality meters with a P1 port, or that basic Denon receiver with the new Denon RS232 integration<\/a> delivery on this launch. Till now, the gadget producing these serial indicators needed to be bodily plugged into the identical machine operating Dwelling Assistant, or wired up over an extended, unwieldy cable. Not anymore. \u2728<\/p>\n With the brand new serial proxy<\/a> help in ESPHome<\/a>, any serial port plugged into (or constructed into) an ESPHome gadget can now be uncovered over your community and utilized by Dwelling Assistant as if it have been sitting proper subsequent to it. Drop an ESP someplace handy, plug your serial gadget into it, and Dwelling Assistant takes care of the remainder. \ud83e\ude84<\/p>\n That is nice information if you happen to\u2019ve ever struggled to place a serial-connected gadget precisely the place you wished it. Just a few sensible examples:<\/p>\n Like our current Bluetooth, infrared, and radio frequency proxies, that is additionally a sustainability win. \u267b\ufe0f As an alternative of changing completely good serial-only tools with newer Wi-Fi variations, you may preserve utilizing what you have already got. That vitality meter, that older AV receiver, that industrial sensor: all of them simply work, over the community. \ud83c\udf31<\/p>\n Behind the scenes, this launch rewires Dwelling Assistant\u2019s serial-port dealing with high to backside to make serial proxies a pure a part of the system. Some highlights for the curious:<\/p>\n If you happen to\u2019re an integration developer (or keep a customized part) speaking over serial, head over to the migrating from pyserial to serialx<\/a> developer weblog put up to learn all about learn how to reap the benefits of this. \ud83d\udee0\ufe0f<\/p>\n Let\u2019s be upfront about one factor: getting a serial proxy up and operating as we speak is not<\/em> a one-tap expertise but. To make use of this in your house, you\u2019ll have to construct your personal ESPHome gadget with the We expect that\u2019s okay, as a result of this launch is the foundational milestone that makes all the pieces else<\/em> doable. The plumbing is now in place throughout Dwelling Assistant, ESPHome, and the integrations that want it. From right here, we (and the broader neighborhood) can construct on high of this with friendlier setup flows, ready-made {hardware}, and pre-built ESPHome configurations. Identical to Bluetooth and infrared proxies earlier than it, the expertise will get extra approachable launch after launch. \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n This work is a part of an Open Dwelling Basis roadmap alternative<\/a> to make serial proxying a first-class citizen of Dwelling Assistant. One other roadmap milestone, checked off the listing. \u2705<\/p>\n Over the previous few releases, Dwelling Assistant has been quietly rising a household of built-in dashboards<\/strong> that you just don\u2019t should construct your self. It began with the Dwelling dashboard again in 2025.9<\/a>, and grew with devoted Lights, Local weather, and Safety dashboards in 2025.11<\/a>. This launch provides a brand new one and upgrades an current one. \ud83c\udfe0<\/p>\n Retaining your good residence operating<\/em> easily is a facet of residence automation that doesn\u2019t all the time get the highlight. We\u2019ve all been there: that movement sensor within the hallway that all of a sudden stops triggering the lights one night, solely to find days later that its battery had died. \ud83e\udeab Wouldn\u2019t it’s good to identify that earlier than<\/em> it turns into an issue? The brand new built-in Upkeep<\/strong> dashboard provides questions like {that a} residence of their very own. \ud83e\uddf0<\/p>\n The dashboard focuses on what might be the most-requested view of all: your batteries<\/strong>. It robotically discovers each battery entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or operate in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to regulate different entities. An entity is normally a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more]<\/a><\/span><\/span> in your house and lays them out grouped by space, with low ones highlighted so you may spot those that want swapping at a look. No extra digging by means of entity lists or constructing your personal dashboard for it. \ud83d\udd0b<\/p>\n This can be a neighborhood contribution from @Brookke<\/a>, who constructed it from the bottom up. Huge thanks for including such a helpful new dashboard to Dwelling Assistant! \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n Are you a developer? Every one among these built-in dashboards is powered by a dashboard technique<\/strong>: a chunk of code that generates a whole dashboard on the fly, tailor-made to your own home. Beginning with this launch, you may register your personal customized dashboard methods<\/a> from a customized integration or frontend module, and share them with the neighborhood.<\/p>\n Think about a technique that builds the proper dashboard to your vegetation, your 3D printers, your own home lab, or your aquarium, robotically, for anybody who installs it. We will\u2019t wait to see what you create. \ud83c\udf31<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n The built-in Safety<\/strong> dashboard additionally will get a pleasant improve this launch: a brand new Exercise<\/strong> sidebar that exhibits you a dwell, 24-hour log of all the pieces taking place along with your security-related entities. Cameras, locks, alarm panels, motorized covers, door and window sensors, and the comings and goings of the individuals in your house, multi functional place. \ud83d\udd13<\/p>\n It\u2019s a quiet improve you\u2019ll really feel every single day: at a look, you may see if a door was opened, if somebody arrived residence, or if the entrance digicam noticed movement, with out having to dig by means of the logbook or construct a dashboard for it your self. The sidebar seems robotically on wider screens every time the Logbook<\/a> integration is enabled (it’s, by default).<\/p>\n Constructing your personal dashboard is likely one of the most rewarding components of Dwelling Assistant. The perfect half: you may construct all the factor proper within the UI, by dragging and dropping playing cards into place. You don\u2019t must be technical, you don\u2019t have to know YAML, and also you don\u2019t want to the touch a single line of code to make one thing that appears nice and works precisely the way in which you need.<\/p>\n In fact, the dashboards you craft your self get loads of love this launch too. A brand new card for one-tap shortcuts and contemporary tile card options to your media gamers. \ud83c\udfa8<\/p>\n Dashboards are the entrance door to your good residence, and typically probably the most helpful factor you may placed on them isn\u2019t an entity, however a fast approach to get someplace<\/em>. Bounce to your vitality dashboard. Open the digicam view. Launch Help<\/a>. Open the guide in a brand new tab. The brand new shortcut card<\/strong> makes constructing these one-tap launchers a breeze. \u26a1<\/p>\n It appears and seems like a tile card, however as an alternative of representing an entity, it triggers an motion when you choose it. You possibly can choose from:<\/p>\n The cardboard is sensible about defaults: choose a navigation goal and it picks up the title, icon, and colour of that vacation spot robotically. Choose Launch Help<\/strong> and it suggests a microphone icon. You possibly can override any of it, after all; set your personal label, description, icon, and colour, and choose between a horizontal or vertical structure.<\/p>\n The shortcut additionally comes as a badge<\/strong>, so you may drop the identical one-tap actions into the badge row on the high of any view. Identical choices, similar good defaults, simply in a extra compact type.<\/p>\n The tile card<\/a> is likely one of the most versatile constructing blocks in Dwelling Assistant dashboards, and this launch expands what it could possibly do for media gamers<\/strong>. Two new card options and a extra versatile playback function provide you with much more alternative in how your media participant tiles look and behave. \ud83c\udfb6<\/p>\n The primary new function is choose supply<\/strong>: a dropdown proper on the tile that allows you to swap the enter or supply in your media participant. HDMI 1, the Spotify enter in your receiver, that one obscure radio station you really like; it\u2019s all one faucet away. The second is choose sound mode<\/strong>, with the identical dropdown expertise for selecting modes like Film<\/em>, Music<\/em>, or Evening<\/em> on receivers and AV gear that help it.<\/p>\n And the prevailing playback<\/strong> card function acquired a long-requested improve: now you can choose precisely which<\/em> buttons seem and in what<\/em> order. Combine and match from on\/off, play, pause, play\/pause, cease, earlier monitor, and subsequent monitor to construct a distant that matches your media participant completely. No extra turn-on button on a TV that doesn\u2019t want one, no extra lacking the next-track button in your speaker. \ud83c\udf9a\ufe0f<\/p>\n The journey to make automationAutomations in Dwelling Assistant let you robotically reply to issues that occur in and round your own home. [Learn more]<\/a><\/span><\/span> constructing really feel pure<\/em> continues. Ever since Dwelling Assistant 2025.12<\/a> launched purpose-specific triggers and circumstances<\/strong>, each launch has chipped away on the hole between the way you describe your own home in your head (\u201cwhen a light-weight activates\u201d, \u201cif the local weather is heating\u201d) and what you really needed to sort into an automation. Final launch added a complete batch of cross-domain triggers and circumstances<\/a>. This launch provides one thing all the neighborhood has been asking for: time<\/strong>. \u23f1\ufe0f<\/p>\n Studying again the suggestions we\u2019ve obtained within the months this has been in Dwelling Assistant Labs<\/a>, one request stood out above all others: durations. Virtually each \u201cwhen movement is detected\u201d automation within the wild secretly needs it may say \u201cwhen movement has not<\/em> been detected for the final 5 minutes\u201d. And virtually each \u201cif a door is open\u201d situation actually needs to be \u201cif a door has been open for at the least 10 minutes\u201d. \ud83d\udeaa<\/p>\n Now they’ll. On the set off<\/strong> facet, a brand new for<\/strong> subject has landed throughout a variety of state-based purpose-specific triggers, from movement and occupancy to doorways, home windows, lights, switches, local weather, covers, and plenty of extra. Choose a set off, set how lengthy the state of affairs has to carry, and also you\u2019re accomplished. No extra wrestling with template helpers or YAML On the situation<\/strong> facet, length is now obtainable throughout the total household<\/strong> of entity circumstances in Labs. Whether or not you\u2019re checking on movement, a door, a light-weight, a swap, a local weather, a media participant, or the rest, now you can ask for the state to have held for a given period of time earlier than the situation is taken into account true. Identical story: no template helpers, no YAML detour.<\/p>\n Just a few examples of what this unlocks:<\/p>\n It\u2019s a small-looking addition with an outsized impression: an entire class of \u201cvirtually doable\u201d automations simply turned simple to place collectively.<\/p>\n Past the brand new sense of time, this launch sprinkles a number of extra helpful purpose-specific constructing blocks throughout your own home.<\/p>\n If you happen to regulate updates<\/strong> ready to be put in, two new circumstancesSituations are an non-compulsory a part of an automation that may stop an motion from firing if they don’t seem to be met. [Learn more]<\/a><\/span><\/span>, is on the market<\/em> and will not be obtainable<\/em>, let an automation department on whether or not one thing is pending, with out templating the reply your self.<\/p>\n Your media gamers<\/strong> acquired chatty: triggers fireplace when one thing begins taking part in<\/em>, pauses<\/em>, activates<\/em>, or turns off<\/em>, and now additionally when a participant is muted<\/em> or unmuted<\/em>, when its quantity modifications<\/em>, or when the amount crosses a threshold<\/em> you set. Situations observe the identical beat with is muted<\/em>, is unmuted<\/em>, and a numeric quantity<\/em> test. Good gasoline for \u201cdim the lights when the film begins\u201d, \u201cpause the music when the doorbell rings\u201d, or \u201csolely ship the loud TTSTTS (text-to-speech) permits Dwelling Assistant to speak to you. [Learn more]<\/a><\/span><\/span> announcement if the speaker is under 30%\u201d. \ud83c\udfac\ud83d\udd07<\/p>\n Your remotes<\/strong> picked up matching is on<\/em> and is off<\/em> circumstances, ending what final launch\u2019s triggers began. And your to-do lists<\/strong> can now reply two questions an automation might need: are all gadgets accomplished<\/em>, or are there nonetheless incomplete gadgets<\/em> on the listing? Nice for end-of-day check-ins or these \u201cdid I neglect to feed the cat\u201d moments. \ud83d\udc31<\/p>\n Your timers<\/strong> acquired an entire lifecycle of recent triggersA set off is a set of values or circumstances of a platform which can be outlined to trigger an automation to run. [Learn more]<\/a><\/span><\/span>: began<\/em>, paused<\/em>, restarted<\/em>, cancelled<\/em>, and completed<\/em>. In order that 20-minute \u201ctea is prepared\u201d timer can now really inform<\/em> your kitchen lights to flash, and your \u201cchildren display time\u201d timer can announce when it\u2019s operating, paused, or up. There\u2019s additionally a brand new time remaining<\/strong> set off that fires when a operating timer reaches a remaining length you choose: suppose a mild \u201c5 minutes left\u201d warning earlier than the display time timer runs out. \u23f2\ufe0f<\/p>\n And at last, a brand new doorbell rang<\/strong> set off. Doorbell occasion entities now converse a shared language, so a single set off lights up no matter which model sits at your entrance door. \ud83d\udd14<\/p>\n As a few of the very first, we\u2019ve added purpose-specific triggers and circumstances for Particular person entities and System Tracker entities individually. Extra lately, we\u2019ve determined we need to go for a extra ergonomic cross-domain strategy. These the triggers Function-specific triggers and circumstances are nonetheless a preview function in Dwelling Assistant Labs<\/strong><\/a>, however with every launch the tough edges get smoother, and we\u2019re closing in on having it function full. If you happen to haven\u2019t given it a spin but, head over to Settings<\/strong> > System<\/strong> > Labs<\/strong><\/a>, swap it on, and tell us what you suppose. Your suggestions is genuinely shaping the place this lands; constructing within the open at work. \ud83d\udc9a<\/p>\nRadio frequency joins infrared as a first-class citizen
\n<\/h2>\nMeet the Radio frequency platform
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<\/p>\nWhy this can be a large deal
\n<\/h3>\nA sneak peek at what\u2019s coming
\n<\/h3>\nSerial ports over the community with ESPHome
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<\/p>\nThe place this is useful
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Below the hood
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pyserial<\/code> library that Dwelling Assistant has used for years. It\u2019s designed for the way in which Dwelling Assistant works as we speak and provides help for brand spanking new connection varieties, together with ESPHome serial proxies, transparently.<\/li>\nA primary step, not the end line
\n<\/h3>\nserial_proxy<\/code><\/a> part configured for the UART your serial gadget is wired to. Which means writing an ESPHome YAML configuration, flashing the firmware, and connecting the {hardware}. It\u2019s very doable, but it surely is<\/em> on the technical facet. \ud83e\udd13<\/p>\nExtra out of your built-in dashboards
\n<\/h2>\nKeep on high of your batteries with the brand new Upkeep dashboard
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<\/p>\nExercise go browsing the Safety dashboard
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<\/p>\nExtra for the dashboards you construct your self
\n<\/h2>\nIntroducing the shortcut card
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<\/p>\nNew tile card options for media gamers
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<\/p>\nFunction-specific automation triggers & circumstances
\n<\/h2>\nAutomations that lastly perceive \u201cfor some time\u201d
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Just a few extra triggers and circumstances to play with
\n<\/h3>\nModifications to current triggers and circumstances
\n<\/h3>\nentered_home<\/code> and left_home<\/code> as additionally the circumstances is_home<\/code> and is_not_home<\/code> acquired faraway from the Particular person and System Tracker. They may get successor in one of many upcoming releases.<\/p>\nStrive it out!
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