Dwelling Assistant 2025.12! 🎄
Because the yr winds down and the vacations strategy, we’re closing out 2025 with a launch that’s all about providing you with extra management and slightly little bit of magic. ✨
This month, we’re unveiling Dwelling Assistant Labs, a brand-new area the place you’ll be able to preview options earlier than they go mainstream. And what higher solution 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 type of factor we like to construct. ❄️
However that’s only the start. We’ve been engaged on making automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant will let you robotically reply to issues that occur in and round your own home. [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 lightweight activates” or “If the local weather is heating”. It’s automation constructing the best way our thoughts works, accurately. 🧠
Oh, and for those who’re seeking to stage up your Zigbee or Thread community, take a look at the Dwelling Assistant Join ZBT-2 we launched final month. It’s 4 instances sooner and has a beautiful new antenna design that you just’ll truly wish to show in your desk. 📡
From all of us engaged on Dwelling Assistant:
Thanks for an incredible 2025! ❤️
Joyful holidays, and benefit from the launch!
../Frenck
Just a little vacation cheer 🎄🎶
Jingle Labs by Frenck and Darren
Dashing by the code,
With a brand-new Labs to point out,
Snowflakes begin to fall,
Watch the dashboard glow!
Triggers now make sense,
Situations really feel excellent,
What enjoyable it’s to automate,
Your sensible house each night time!
Refrain
Jingle Labs, jingle Labs,
Options on the best way!
Oh what enjoyable it’s to run,
Dwelling 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 reside,
Water meters too,
Dashboards you’ll be able to set,
For each person’s view!
Xbox bought some love,
Shelly’s platinum now,
Contributors got here by this yr,
Take a closing 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!
Joyful holidays from us,
Now go and automate stuff!
An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch potential! And a particular shout-out to @TimoPtr
Dwelling Assistant Labs 🧪
Once we develop new options for Dwelling Assistant, we frequently discover ourselves in a difficult spot. A function may be totally constructed and examined, however we’re not solely certain if it’s the appropriate match for everybody simply but. Perhaps we wish to collect some real-world suggestions first, or maybe we wish to see how the neighborhood makes use of it earlier than committing to conserving it round ceaselessly.
That’s the place Dwelling Assistant Labs is available in! 🧪
Labs is a brand-new place in Dwelling Assistant that offers you a sneak peek at options we’re engaged on. These usually are not unfinished experiments or unstable beta options. They’re totally useful and examined, however they could change and even disappear based mostly on suggestions. We’re dedicated to constructing within the open, and we wish to give extra individuals the selection to hop into the lab with us. By becoming a member of us, your suggestions will immediately assist refine these options for all the neighborhood.
The very first preview function accessible in Labs is Winter mode ❄️, impressed by a neighborhood submit on Reddit
While you allow a preview function, you may as well select to create a backup first, simply to be secure. And for those who 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 present setup. It’s utterly optionally available, so for those who favor to stay with the battle-proven expertise, that’s completely tremendous. However for those who’re curious and wish to discover what’s coming subsequent, Labs is the place to be.
However what was the primary Labs preview function we put in there? Effectively, it’s a giant one…
Goal-specific triggers and situations
Virtually two years in the past, we launched a brand new automationAutomations in Dwelling Assistant will let you robotically reply to issues that occur in and round your own home. [Learn more] editor that unwrapped all our actionsActions are utilized in a number of locations in Dwelling 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 situationsSituations are an optionally available a part of an automation that may stop an motion from firing if they aren’t met. [Learn more]? As an alternative of counting on technical, state-based choices, what if we might provide intuitive options that simply make sense? Choices like “When a lightweight activates” or “If a lightweight is on”.
That concept set a two-year plan in movement, and as we speak it’s lastly changing into a actuality.
Alongside the best way, we found one thing fascinating: lots of you’re taking a “target-first” strategy when constructing automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant will let you robotically reply to issues that occur in and round your own home. [Learn more]. You consider what you wish to automate (a systemA tool is a mannequin representing a bodily or logical unit that incorporates entities., an entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more], or an spaceAn space in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that should match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your own home. For instance, the lounge space teams gadgets and entities in your lounge. [Learn more]) earlier than fascinated about how to automate it (which motion to carry out or which set off to make use of). This launch embraces that mindset with a very new solution to construct automations.
Goal-specific triggers and situations at the moment are supplied immediately by domainsEvery integration in Dwelling Assistant has a novel identifier: The area. It’s usually proven as the primary half (earlier than the dot) of entity IDs. like Gentle, Local weather, Fan, and others, masking the most typical automation use circumstances.
These new triggers and situations totally help focusing on. This implies you’ll be able to set off an automation when any gentle in your lounge activates, with out having to checklist them one after the other or create a gaggle beforehand. Concentrating on an space retains issues easy: it’s all the time aligned with how your own home is organized, and also you don’t should replace something once you add or take away gadgets.
LabelsLabels in Dwelling 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 may also be used to filter information. [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 solution to choose triggers, situations, and actions that matches this target-first strategy. You may navigate your own home by flooringA flooring in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of areas that should match the bodily flooring in your house. Gadgets & entities usually are 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 flooring once you go to mattress. [Learn more], then space, then system, and see precisely which choices can be found for every goal. It’s a way more intuitive solution to construct automationsAutomations in Dwelling Assistant will let you robotically reply to issues that occur in and round your own home. [Learn more].
This function continues to be being refined, so we’ve made it accessible 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 a whole lot of dashboard enhancements to share on this launch! From higher default dashboard administration to an improved Dwelling dashboard, now we have been busy making your Dwelling Assistant expertise even higher.
Set a system-wide default dashboard
Choosing a default dashboard is now a system-level setting that takes impact immediately for all customers in your Dwelling 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’ll be able to override the system default and set your personal most well-liked dashboard.
When 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 special dashboard than your different gadgets, we suggest giving it a separate person profile that you may customise nevertheless you need.
Reorder areas and flooring
When utilizing the built-in dashboard experiences (Dwelling, Lights, Safety, and others), one of many important ache factors was the strict ordering of areasAn space in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of gadgets and entities that should match areas (or rooms) within the bodily world: your own home. For instance, the lounge space teams gadgets and entities in your lounge. [Learn more] (alphabetically) and flooringA flooring in Dwelling Assistant is a logical grouping of areas that should match the bodily flooring in your house. Gadgets & entities usually are 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 flooring once you go to mattress. [Learn more] (numerically by stage). This usually didn’t make sense in an actual house, the place your visitor lavatory shouldn’t seem earlier than your lounge, and the attic isn’t extra related than the primary flooring.
Now you’ll be able to go to Settings > Areas, labels & zones and use the brand new Reorder flooring and areas menu to manually drag and drop any space or flooring to reorder them. Your adjustments 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 checklist. The Dwelling dashboard can now be discovered within the dashboard checklist (nonetheless not seen by default), and the Areas dashboard has advanced into Dwelling, so we’ve eliminated it for now. When you’re utilizing the Areas dashboard, it is going to proceed to work; you simply received’t be capable to create one other.
Dwelling dashboard enhancements
We added a brand new sidebar to the Dwelling dashboard that gathers fast entry hyperlinks we predict are helpful for you. There’s additionally a nicer space and flooring format that makes use of area extra effectively. On a extra technical stage, the Dwelling dashboard is now a correct built-in dashboard and reveals up within the dashboard checklist.
There’s a probability your present favorites would possibly disappear on this launch and have to 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 consists of the undo and redo function that we added in 2025.10 to the automationAutomations in Dwelling Assistant will let you robotically reply to issues that occur in and round your own home. [Learn more] and scriptScripts are elements that permit customers to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Dwelling Assistant when turned on. [Learn more] editor. This lets you experiment safely whereas enhancing your dashboards. You may undo as much as 75 adjustments or restore them with a single click on, making enhancing dashboards sooner and fewer nerve-racking.
Due to @jpbede
Energy and water within the Power dashboard
The Power dashboard has been serving to you monitor your power 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 Power dashboard was all about power: the cumulative kWh you’ve consumed or produced over time. However typically you wish to know what’s taking place proper now. How a lot energy is that equipment truly drawing? Is your photo voltaic system producing at this very second?
With this launch, now you can configure energy sensors alongside your power sensors. Observe your real-time grid consumption, see how a lot you’re exporting again to the grid, and watch these watts move in real-time. The facility configuration choices now seem alongside power settings for every supply or system, and new energy graphs allow you to see your energy consumption all through the day.
Downstream water meters
The Power dashboard has been monitoring your water consumption for some time now, nevertheless it was lacking one thing: the power to see the place all that water is definitely going. Identical to you’ll be able to monitor particular person gadgets for power consumption, now you can add downstream water meters to interrupt down your water utilization.
Received a wise irrigation controller? A water softener with a move meter? A separate meter on your pool? Now you’ll be able to monitor all of them and see precisely how your water consumption is distributed throughout completely different makes use of.
There’s additionally a brand-new water sankey card that visualizes your water move, identical to the power sankey diagram you already know. It’s a good 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 power format
To make room for this new performance, the Power dashboard has been reorganized. Don’t fear: for those who solely have power configured, you’ll nonetheless see the identical dashboard. However for those who add water, gasoline, or energy, the dashboard will likely be break up into a number of tabs.
Integrations
Due to our neighborhood for conserving tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, 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:
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Airobot, added by @mettolen
Management and monitor your Airobot sensible thermostats for clever flooring 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 on your Dwelling Assistant backups. -
EnergyID, added by @Molier
Sync something from your own home on to EnergyID for superior analytics, efficiency monitoring and benchmarking. -
Essent, added by @jaapp
Monitor dynamic electrical energy and gasoline costs for Essent clients within the Netherlands with variable pricing contracts. -
Google Air High quality, added by @Thomas55555
Get real-time air high quality information on your location utilizing Google’s Air High quality API. -
Google Climate, added by @tronikos
Use Google Climate as a supply for climate information, offering present situations, hourly forecasts for the following 24 hours, and every day forecasts for the following 10 days. -
Hanna, added by @bestycame
Fetch pool water high quality information out of your Hanna Pool Controller system, together with pH, chlorine ranges, ORP values, and water temperature. -
Dwelling Assistant Labs, added by @frenck
A devoted panel the place you’ll be able to preview and take a look at new options earlier than they develop into customary in Dwelling Assistant. -
Philips Hue BLE, added by @flip-dots
Management your Philips Hue Bluetooth lights immediately with Dwelling 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 Power gadgets that help the Bluetooth Low Power protocol for real-time monitoring.
This launch additionally has new digital integrations. Digital integrations are stubs which can be dealt with by different (present) integrations to assist with findability. These ones are new:
Noteworthy enhancements to present integrations
It isn’t simply new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] which have been added; present ones are additionally being continually improved. Listed here are a few of the noteworthy adjustments to present integrations:
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@piitaya
up to date the ESPHome integration to let Dwelling Assistant generate entity IDs utilizing its customary guidelines, aligning it with how different integrations work. - Due to @bdraco
, you’ll be able to configure Wi-Fi on Shelly technology 2+ gadgets immediately from Dwelling Assistant by way of Bluetooth. -
Shelly now helps management modes for upcoming Shelly Cury gadgets. Good work, @bieniu
! - Due to @gjohansson-ST
, System Monitor now exposes fan sensors and battery sensors on your system. - The Tuya integration obtained a whole lot of love! Cat litter containers 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 Dwelling 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 bought some love from @tr4nt0r
! Now you can hyperlink a number of Xbox accounts, monitor what number of associates you (and your pals) have, see in the event that they’re in a celebration, and management extra distant capabilities. The media browser additionally gained a brand new class showcasing official sport artwork and screenshots. - Received an Ecovacs robotic? The Ecovacs integration now has a border spin change (to achieve these tough 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 on 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 boost, @gjohansson-ST
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@tomwilkie
expanded the Prometheus integration to export metrics for the water_heaterarea. - The Anthropic integration now helps AI process 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 decreased guard mode for appropriate automobiles to the Volvo integration. - The Plugwise integration now helps the brand new Anna P1 system 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 Dwelling Assistant. The distant’s buttons are uncovered as occasion entities. Superior, @mj23000
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@VandeurenGlenn
added the local weather platform to Niko Dwelling 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 obtained 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 Dwelling 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 person expertise.
This launch, we have a good time a number of integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together 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 🥉
It is a big achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The hassle and dedication required to achieve these high quality ranges is critical, because it includes in depth testing, documentation, error dealing with, and sometimes full rewrites of elements of the combination.
A giant thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏
Now accessible to arrange from the UI
Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] could be arrange immediately from the Dwelling Assistant person interface, some have been solely accessible 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 accessible by way of the Dwelling Assistant UI:
Farewell to the next
The next integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, companies, and extra. [Learn more] are now not accessible as of this launch:
- Dominos Pizza: The Dominos Pizza integration has been eliminated. The mixing now not capabilities and its underlying supply has been unmaintained since 2019.
- Flick Electrical: The Flick Electrical integration has been eliminated. All clients of the Flick Electrical firm have already been moved to Meridian Power. 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 Determine
- Eddystone Temperature
- GStreamer
- Keyboard
- LIRC
- Pandora
- Raspberry Pi Digicam
- SMS
- Snips
- TensorFlow
Different noteworthy adjustments
There are numerous extra enhancements on this launch; listed below are a few of the different noteworthy adjustments:
- New template math capabilities! @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 immediately 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 monitor, @EarMaster
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@timmo001
added a useful trick: double-click the automation editor sidebar to reset its width. - Labels now present up on the system data 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 Dwelling Assistant and puzzled what information 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 Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more], or why it referred to as a selected instrument. You’ll find the debug interface within the voice assistant configuration panel.
Add entities to Android widgets and favorites
When you’re utilizing the Dwelling Assistant Companion app for Android, there’s a useful new function ready for you! Beginning with app model 2025.11, now you can add entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or perform in Dwelling Assistant. Entities are used to observe bodily properties or to manage different entities. An entity is often a part of a tool or a service. [Learn more] to widgets and Android Auto favorites immediately from the entity’s extra information dialog.
With just some faucets, you’ll be able to:
- Add widgets for fast management of entities proper from your own home display
- 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 information dialog with choices tailor-made to the entity you’re viewing. For instance, including a media participant widget is barely accessible for media gamers.
It is a first step in integrating native cellular options immediately into the Dwelling Assistant interface. Future releases will broaden this with help for creating shortcuts, tiles, and watch favorites.
Thanks for this welcome addition, @TimoPtr
Patch releases
We can even launch patch releases for Dwelling Assistant 2025.12 in December. 🎄
These patch releases solely include bug fixes. Our purpose is to launch a patch
launch as soon as per week, aiming for Friday.
2025.12.1 – December 5
2025.12.2 – December 8
2025.12.3 – December 12
2025.12.4 – December 19
2025.12.5 – December 29
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Backward-incompatible adjustments
We do our greatest to keep away from making adjustments to present performance which may unexpectedly influence your Dwelling Assistant set up. Sadly, typically 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:
Core and Supervised set up strategies, and 32-bit techniques
After a 6-month deprecation interval, help for the Dwelling Assistant Core and Dwelling Assistant Supervised set up strategies, in addition to all 32-bit system architectures (i386, armhf, and armv7), has now been totally eliminated.
These set up strategies and architectures will now not obtain updates, together with safety updates. In case you are nonetheless utilizing one among these set up strategies or architectures, please migrate to a supported set up technique and structure as quickly as potential to proceed receiving updates and help.
For extra data on this transformation, learn the Deprecating Core and Supervised set up strategies, and 32-bit techniques weblog submit.
UniFi Shield
The legacy license plate occasion sensor has been faraway from the UniFi Shield integration, because it now not capabilities 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 Automobile Detection Occasion entity that gives considerably extra performance, together with license plate recognition, automobile sort detection, colour detection, and confidence scores. The brand new occasion entity fires with a 3-second delay to make sure optimum thumbnail and LPR information high quality.
For extra data and automation examples, see the Automobile 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 spread of different enhancements. As a part of this replace, the format of the media-source identifiers has been modified as properly.
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The following and followers sensors launched within the final launch beforehand included associates of their counts. After a current API replace, associates are now not included.
In case you are a customized integration developer and wish to study adjustments and new options accessible on your integration: You should definitely comply with our developer weblog. The next adjustments are essentially the most notable for this launch:
All adjustments
In fact, there may be much more on this launch. You’ll find a listing of all adjustments made right here: Full changelog for Dwelling Assistant Core 2025.12.
