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Residence Assistant 2025.11! 🎉

November is right here, and we’ve been exhausting at work refining a few of the most important experiences that you simply work together with each day, and I feel you’re going to like what we’ve constructed.

My private favourite this launch? The model new goal picker. 🎯

It’s a type of modifications that appears easy on the floor, however makes such an enormous distinction in the way you construct automations. You’ll be able to lastly see precisely what you’re concentrating on, with full context about which machine an entity belongs to and which space it’s in. No extra guessing whether or not you’re controlling the best ceiling mild when you will have three of them!

However that’s just the start. We’re persevering with with the automation editor enhancements, this time with a totally redesigned dialog for including triggers, circumstances, and actions. It’s cleaner, simpler to learn, and units the muse for some actually thrilling stuff coming in future releases. 🤫

And talking of creating issues clearer, now you can management precisely how entity names seem in your dashboard playing cards. Need to present simply the entity title? The machine title? The realm? Or mix them? Even when you rename issues, your dashboards will keep completely in sync. No extra guide updates wanted!

Oh, and power dashboard followers will admire the brand new pie chart view for machine power, full with totals displayed within the nook of each power card. 🥧

Benefit from the launch!

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PS: Oh, and pssst… Don’t inform anybody 🤫, however there may be one thing thrilling being launched on November nineteenth. Hit the bell on this introduced YouTube stream to not miss it. Keep tuned! 😀

An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch potential! And a particular shout-out to @bramkragten, @JLo, @MindFreeze, @agners, and @piitaya who helped write the discharge notes this launch. Additionally, @silamon and @GemPolisher for placing effort into tweaking its contents. Because of them, these launch notes are in nice form. ❤️

A model new goal picker

Have you ever ever been constructing an automation and puzzled, “Wait, which ceiling mild is that this?” whenever you see three entities all named “Ceiling mild”? Or tried to determine what number of lights you’re really controlling whenever you goal a complete ground or space?

We’ve all been there. Till now, the goal picker didn’t present you the complete image. You couldn’t see which machine an entity belonged to or which space it was assigned to. And whenever you chosen a ground or space as your goal, you had no thought what number of entities you have been really affecting. This uncertainty meant a lot of you caught with concentrating on particular person entities, though bigger targets (like areas and flooring) could make your automations way more versatile.

The brand new goal picker modifications all that. Now you get full context for all the pieces you’re concentrating on, and you may see precisely what number of entities can be affected by your motion.

Screenshot of a light action configuration with targets picked.

Need to dig deeper? You’ll be able to broaden any ground, space, or machine to see precisely which entities are included and the place they’re coming from.

Screenshot of the details of a target.

This makes it a lot simpler to construct automations that scale with your private home. If you goal an space or ground, your automation routinely adapts as you add or take away units. No extra updating your automations each time you add a brand new mild or sensor. Your automations simply work, which is precisely the way it must be.

A model new approach so as to add triggers, circumstances, and actions in your automations

It’s no secret that we’re at the moment working exhausting on making automations simpler to create. After the discharge of the automation sidebar two releases in the past, we are actually introducing a brand new dialog so as to add triggers, circumstances, and actions.

The modifications are purely beauty: the dialog is larger, so the outline of every block is less complicated to learn, with a two-pane format to ease each navigation and block choice.

Screenshot of the new dialog to add an action.

The constructing blocks (that are used to carry out extra complicated circumstances or sequences of actions, similar to repeating actions or branching out your sequence into a number of paths) have been moved into the primary dialog on a second tab. There’s now a single entry level so as to add one thing to an automation as an alternative of two, significantly lowering the variety of buttons in complicated automations.

Screenshot of the new dialog to add a building block to an action.

As talked about above, these modifications are purely beauty, for now! However this new dialog is the muse of what’s coming subsequent, and we can not wait to current that to you as soon as it lastly lands.

Naming entities in your dashboard

A number of releases in the past, we gave the entity picker a giant improve by including extra context so you may simply see the place every entity belongs (Could 2025 launch). On this launch, we’re bringing that very same flexibility to your dashboards.

Now you can select how names seem in your playing cards: present the entity, machine, space, ground, and even mix them. This provides you full management over how your dashboards feel and appear. For instance, in a devoted part for a selected machine, you would possibly select to show solely the entity title to keep away from repeating the machine title on each card.

In fact, you’ll be able to nonetheless set a customized title in order for you full management over the textual content proven.

And the most effective half? For those who rename an entity or machine, your dashboards will routinely keep in sync. No extra guide edits wanted; all the pieces simply updates itself.

Screenshot of the configuration dialog of a tile card.

Power pie

We’ve added a brand new format to the units power graph: “pie” 🥧. You’ll be able to toggle between the common bar chart and the brand new pie chart by clicking the icon within the top-right nook.

Screenshot showing the devices energy graph in pie layout.

Doing this made the top-right nook of the opposite power playing cards really feel empty, so we used that area to show the entire power for the chosen interval. For instance, if the date picker is ready to at present, the entire photo voltaic power for at present can be displayed within the nook of the photo voltaic manufacturing graph card.

Progress for Residence Assistant and Add-on updates

With this launch, now you can monitor the progress of updates to Residence Assistant and Add-ons (managed by the Supervisor)! The progress contains the levels of downloading and unpacking, so the time required will fluctuate based mostly in your web pace, CPU efficiency, and system load. In consequence, the progress shouldn’t be mirrored as completely linear, but it surely does nonetheless present a superb estimate of how far alongside the replace is.

Screen recording showing an add-on update with progress reporting.

Integrations

Because of our neighborhood for preserving tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your units, 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:

Noteworthy enhancements to present integrations

It’s not simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your units, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; present integrations are additionally being continuously improved. Listed below are a few of the noteworthy modifications:

  • The SwitchBot integration now helps storage door openers. Thanks @zerzhang!
  • @tr4nt0r added help for notifications to the Habitica integration. Good work!
  • The VegeHub integration now has help for switches to regulate actuators. Cool @Thulrus!
  • The Portainer integration gained help for switches, buttons, and sensors, so you’ll be able to management and monitor all of your containers! Effectively carried out @erwindouna!
  • The Volvo integration can now present the placement of your automobile and has buttons to regulate it. We acquired @thomasddn to thank for that!
  • ElevenLabs can now be used for speech-to-text. Thanks @ehendrix23!
  • Now you can management the LEDs of supported UniFi community units! Thanks @Sese-Schneider!
  • @barneyonline added binary sensors to the Yardian integration. Good!
  • Now you can set the temperature of your 3D printer’s instrument and mattress with the OctoPrint integration. Thanks @AmadeusW!
  • The Niko Residence Management integration now additionally provides your scenes into Residence Assistant! Thanks @VandeurenGlenn!
  • Your Control4 local weather units (for instance, thermostats) are actually supported in Residence Assistant. Thanks @davidrecordon!
  • Help for controlling Growatt MIN/TLX inverters was added, and now you can allow grid cost! Thanks @johanzander!
  • @hanwg added occasion entities to the Telegram bot integration. You should utilize these entities to extra simply automate whenever you get a message, for instance! Cool!
  • The Xbox integration now has help for photos! It exhibits a picture of the sport you might be at the moment enjoying, the avatar, and the Gamerpic for your self and your folks. Thanks @tr4nt0r!
  • @AndyTempel added help for photo voltaic manufacturing forecasting to Victron Distant Monitoring, so now you can use it within the power dashboard to see a forecast of how a lot photo voltaic power you’ll produce at present!
  • The Shelly integration now helps local weather and valve entities. Thanks @thecode!
  • @starkillerOG improved the Reolink integration; it could now report bicycles and the kind of particular person, car, and animal. So that you now know if a person or a lady is detected in your cameras. Nice work!

Now accessible to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your units, companies, and extra. [Learn more] will be arrange straight from the Residence Assistant consumer interface, some have been solely accessible utilizing a YAML configuration. We hold shifting extra integrations to the UI, making them extra accessible for everybody to arrange and use.

The next integration is now accessible by way of the Residence Assistant UI:

Integration high quality scale achievements

One factor we’re extremely happy 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 absolute best consumer expertise.

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

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 in depth testing, documentation, error dealing with, and sometimes full rewrites of elements of the mixing.

A giant thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏

Farewell to the next

The next integrationsIntegrations join and combine Residence Assistant together with your units, companies, and extra. [Learn more] are now not accessible as of this launch:

  • Vultr has been eliminated. The mixing has not been working for the reason that API v1 that it used was taken offline in September 2023.
  • IBM Watson IoT Platform has been eliminated. On September 8, 2020, IBM introduced the withdrawal of its help for the IBM Watson IoT Platform and successively discontinued all variations till September 30, 2022.
  • Plum Lightpad has been eliminated. Their servers have been shut down, which made the mixing non-functional.

Different noteworthy modifications

There are various extra enhancements on this launch; listed here are a few of the different noteworthy modifications:

  • @thecode added group help for valves, so you’ll be able to group a number of valves into one.
  • Looking in knowledge tables acquired quite a bit higher; now you can search over a number of columns without delay. Thanks @wendevlin!
  • Power graphs now present the entire of the interval within the top-right nook. Welcome addition, @MindFreeze!
  • Because of @karwosts, now you can use photos from any integration offering photos on your dashboard background.

Improved logging effectivity

For those who’re utilizing the Residence Assistant Working System, we now have some nice information for you! We’ve made our logging system far more environment friendly. 🚀

You won’t notice it, however all these Residence Assistant logs yow will discover in Settings > System > Logs have been really being saved in your disk twice. 🙈

Residence Assistant OS retains all logs for all the pieces, together with Residence Assistant itself, in a really environment friendly approach, even throughout restarts! However on prime of that, we have been additionally writing them to a log file in your Residence Assistant configuration folder.

That’s not perfect. It takes twice the disk area, however extra importantly, it causes pointless put on in your storage medium, which suggests it’ll fail sooner. That is particularly regarding when you’re utilizing an SD card in, for instance, a Raspberry Pi.

As of this launch, we’ve stopped writing logs to the configuration folder. You’ll be able to nonetheless view and obtain all logs from the Residence Assistant settings web page, similar to earlier than. We’ve tailored that web page to learn the logs from the OS straight as an alternative.

Tip

Are you extra into the command line? No worries, our Residence Assistant CLI has you lined. Test it out by working ha core logs --help for extra data.

The brand new Residence Dashboard retains getting smarter

Following the enhancements launched within the newest releases, this launch makes the expertise even smoother and extra intuitive.

We’ve simplified and reorganized issues:

  • Advised entities and favorites are actually mixed right into a single, sensible part, displaying you what’s most related in a single place.
  • Areas are actually grouped by ground, making it simpler to browse and perceive your private home’s format at a look.
  • The Lights, Local weather, and Safety views have been moved to their very own devoted dashboards, so you’ll be able to entry them straight underneath Settings > Dashboards. These dashboards now additionally embody units that aren’t assigned to any particular space, guaranteeing nothing is missed.

These enhancements convey all the pieces collectively extra naturally, serving to your Residence Dashboard really feel much less like a setup and extra like a real reflection of your private home.

New built-in dashboards in dashboards config panel

Patch releases

We can even launch patch releases for Residence Assistant 2025.11 in November.
These patch releases solely comprise bug fixes. Our purpose is to launch a patch
launch as soon as per week, aiming for Friday.

2025.11.1 – November 7

2025.11.2 – November 14

2025.11.3 – November 21

Need assistance? Be a part of the neighborhood

Residence Assistant has an incredible neighborhood of customers who’re all greater than keen to assist one another out. So, be part of us!

Our very lively 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 mounted! Or test our assist web page for steering on extra locations you’ll be able to go.

Are you extra into e mail? Join the Open Residence Basis Publication to get the newest on options, issues occurring in our neighborhood, and different initiatives that help the Open Residence straight into your inbox.

Backward-incompatible modifications

We do our greatest to keep away from making modifications to present performance that may unexpectedly influence your Residence Assistant set up. Sadly, generally, it’s inevitable.

We all the time be sure to doc these modifications to make the transition as simple as potential for you. This launch has the next backward-incompatible modifications:

Set assumed state to group if no less than one little one has assumed state

Beforehand, the group’s assumed state was all the time false, whatever the state of its little one entities.

This has now modified:

The group will now have an assumed state of true if no less than one little one entity has an assumed state.
This makes the group’s assumed state mirror the uncertainty of its kids extra precisely.
These domains have been added: swap, fan, mild, and canopy.

(@piitaya – #154163) (group docs)

Asuswrt

The last_time_reachable attribute has been faraway from the asuswrt machine tracker.
Use the last_changed attribute as an alternative in your automations.

(@ollo69 – #154219) (asuswrt docs)

LG webOS TV

The state of LG webOS TV media participant entities that shouldn’t have an automation set off to activate the machine can be set to unavailable as an alternative of off.

(@thecode – #155164) (webostv docs)

Mealie

The mealie integration now requires Mealie model 2 or later.

Mealie model 1 is now not supported. Model 2 was launched in October 2024, so over a yr in the past. Given the variations between variations 1 and a couple of, we’re now not capable of help or take a look at backward compatibility with model 1.

(@andrew-codechimp – #153203) (mealie docs)

Movement Blinds

The lean place of motion_blinds units has been corrected to align with the Residence Assistant requirements.
The brand new tilt place can be: 0 = closed/masking the window opening, 100 = open/letting mild by means of.
The earlier tilt place will be transformed to the brand new tilt place as follows:

  • new = 100 - previous
  • current_tilt_position = 100 -> 0
  • current_tilt_position = 75 -> 25
  • current_tilt_position = 50 -> 50
  • current_tilt_position = 25 -> 75
  • current_tilt_position = 0 -> 100
  • open_cover_tilt -> close_cover_tilt
  • close_cover_tilt -> open_cover_tilt

Any automations regarding Movement Blinds units that use the current_tilt_position attribute or use tilt open/shut will should be adjusted.

(@starkillerOG – #149777) (motion_blinds docs)

Cell app

The mobile_app integration, which helps the iPhone and Android companion apps, now handles zone-only updates higher. When your companion app sends simply the zone title (not the precise coordinates), the machine tracker will present the zone’s pleasant title.

The particular person entity now exhibits the zone’s pleasant title (not its object ID) for customized zones. This would possibly break present automations that set off on an individual’s state.

For instance, when you’ve got a zone named zone.kids_school with the pleasant title College:

  • Earlier than this transformation, the state of the corresponding particular person and device_tracker entities could be kids_school when the “Location Despatched” within the companion app was set to ship “Zone Identify Solely” and College when it was set to “Precise”.
  • After this transformation, the state of the corresponding particular person and device_tracker entities can be College for each the “Location Despatched” settings within the companion app.

(@Ashus – #149453) (mobile_app docs)

Nederlandse Spoorwegen

The Nederlandse Spoorwegen entity is now displayed as a timestamp entity, fairly than a string. Please adapt your automations and scripts.

(@joostlek – #154011) (nederlandse_spoorwegen docs)

ONVIF

The Pace parameter within the ONVIF GoToPreset motion is now elective.

The default of 0.5 is now not set. If you wish to restore the earlier conduct you must set pace to 0.5 in your motion.

(@carlos-sarmiento – #149636) (onvif docs)

OralB

Within the OralB integration, states and attributes have modified.

In a number of locations, areas have been changed with underscores:

  • Toothbrush state:

    • flight menu → flight_menu
    • choice menu → selection_menu
    • remaining take a look at → final_test
    • pcb take a look at → pcb_test

  • Brushing mode:

    • every day clear → daily_clean
    • gum care → gum_care
    • tongue cleansing → tongue_cleaning
    • tremendous delicate → super_sensitive
    • deep clear → deep_clean

  • Strain:

    • energy button pressed → power_button_pressed
    • button pressed → button_pressed

  • Sector:

    • no sector → no_sector
    • sector 1 → sector_1
    • sector 2 → sector_2
    • sector 3 → sector_3
    • sector 4 → sector_4

Automations must be up to date to make use of the brand new states and attributes.

(@tr4nt0r – #153605) (oralb docs)

Renault

The invention of Renault performance was beforehand based mostly on assumptions that will have created invalid and non-functional entities.
These will now not be created.

(@epenet – #154137) (renault docs)

Traccar Server

The Traccar integration has been up to date to make use of a safer API Token for authentication. This can be a required, one-time breaking change to align with Traccar’s safety suggestions and make sure the integration continues to work.

This launch migrates the mixing away from the older username/password methodology, guaranteeing continued stability and safety for all customers whereas additionally permitting customers with SSO-based setups to make use of the mixing.

If you replace Residence Assistant, the present Traccar integration will should be re-authenticated:

  1. Generate an API Token in your Traccar server (you’ll discover this selection in your Traccar server’s consumer settings).
  2. Go to Settings > Gadgets & companies > Traccar Server.
  3. Click on “Reconfigure” and enter your new API Token when prompted.

When you’ve carried out this, your Traccar units and entities will work precisely as they did earlier than.

(@pantherale0 – #155297) (traccar_server docs)

Xbox

The Account tier and Gold tenure sensors have been retired, as they now not obtain updates following the transition from Xbox Dwell Gold to Xbox Recreation Go. Moreover, the In social gathering and In multiplayer binary sensors have been eliminated, since they’ve been non-functional for fairly a while.

(@tr4nt0r – #154891) (xbox docs)

If you’re a customized integration developer and need to find out about modifications and new options accessible on your integration, make sure to comply with our developer weblog. The next modifications are essentially the most notable for this launch:

All modifications

In fact, there may be much more on this launch. You’ll find an inventory of all modifications right here: Full changelog for Residence Assistant Core 2025.11

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