2026.1: House is the place the dashboard is 🥂

Joyful New 12 months! 🥂

I hope you had an exquisite vacation, spending time together with your family members. We’re kicking off 2026 with a smaller launch, as our contributors and maintainers have been having fun with some well-deserved break day as properly. However don’t fear, there’s nonetheless loads of great things on this launch!

Dwelling Assistant 2026.1 brings a refreshed Dwelling dashboard expertise on cellular, with abstract playing cards proper at your fingertips with out further faucets. We’ve additionally made it simpler than ever to navigate to the protocol connecting your gadgets, corresponding to Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread and extra.

For automation fans, we’re persevering with our work on our much more “human-friendly” triggers, which might be enabled through Dwelling Assistant Labs, so you may construct automations utilizing easy-to-understand language as a substitute of technical state modifications, like initiating automations if a button is pressed or somebody arrives dwelling.

On the integrations entrance, we welcome eight new integrations to the household, together with pet monitoring with Fressnapf, power monitoring with eGauge, and sensible heating management with Watts Imaginative and prescient +. Plus, enhancements to current integrations from our superb neighborhood contributors.

I want you a contented and wholesome 2026! Benefit from the launch!

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An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who made this launch doable! And a particular shout-out to @bramkragten, @piitaya, and @abmantis who helped write the discharge notes for this launch. ❤️

Dwelling dashboard enhancements

The Dwelling dashboard continues to evolve! In the earlier launch, we launched a brand-new sidebar format, climate tiles, and power distribution summaries. This launch takes it even additional with a streamlined cellular expertise and higher gadget administration.

Streamlined cellular navigation

New gadgets web page

Function-specific triggers and situations progress

In the earlier launch, we launched purpose-specific triggers and situations. As an alternative of considering in technical state modifications, now you can merely decide issues like “When a light-weight activates” or “If the local weather is heating” when constructing your automations.

This function remains to be being refined in Dwelling Assistant Labs, however this launch provides a lot extra set off varieties, making this new strategy much more helpful. Right here is an summary of all the brand new triggers added on this launch:

• Button triggers fireplace when a button entity has been pressed.
• Local weather triggers now cowl all frequent eventualities. You’ll be able to set off on HVAC mode modifications, goal temperature modifications, or when the goal temperature crosses a threshold. There are additionally triggers for present temperature and humidity modifications, and even goal humidity modifications.
• System tracker triggers allow you to automate primarily based on when a tool entered or left dwelling, with assist for the primary gadget arriving, final gadget leaving, or any change. Don’t fear, person-specific triggers are coming quickly, the gadget tracker ones have been merely out there sooner.
• Humidifier triggers will fireplace when a humidifier activates or off, begins humidifying, or begins drying. You may as well set off on humidity modifications or when humidity crosses a threshold.
• Mild triggers allow you to automate primarily based on brightness modifications or when brightness crosses a selected threshold.
• Lock triggers can now fireplace when a lock is locked, unlocked, opened, or jammed.
• Scene triggers fireplace when a scene is activated.
• Siren triggers fireplace when sirens are turned on or off.
• Replace set off fires when an replace turns into out there.

As the brand new purpose-specific triggers and situations all assist focusing on one thing larger than a easy entity (an space, a flooring, or perhaps a label), we additionally redesigned how the goal will get displayed on the automation circulate.

The aim of this transformation is to will let you rapidly look at your automation, and perceive its objective.

Head over to Settings > System > Labs to allow purpose-specific triggers and situations and provides them a attempt!

Simpler navigation to protocol dashboards

Integrations

Because of our neighborhood for retaining tempo with the brand new integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] and enhancements to current ones! You’re all superior 🥰

New integrations

• AirPatrol, added by @antondalgren
  Management your air con items by means of AirPatrol Wi-Fi gadgets immediately from Dwelling Assistant.
• eGauge, added by @neggert
  Combine eGauge power screens for residential and industrial functions, generally used with photo voltaic power installations.
• Fluss+, added by @Marcello17
  Join your Fluss+ Button to Dwelling Assistant for fast and simple management of your sensible dwelling.
• Fish Audio, added by @noambav
  Use Fish Audio’s text-to-speech service to generate natural-sounding speech in Dwelling Assistant.
• Fressnapf Tracker, added by @eifinger
  Monitor the placement of your pets and monitor their exercise utilizing Fressnapf GPS Trackers.
• HomeLink, added by @ryanjones-gentex
  Combine your HomeLink gadgets to set off sensible dwelling routines from the consolation of your automobile.
• Watts Imaginative and prescient +, added by @theobld-ww
  Management your Watts Imaginative and prescient + sensible heating system, permitting distant management of particular person dwelling heating zones.
• WebRTC, added by @balloob
  An inner integration offering WebRTC performance for digicam streaming in Dwelling Assistant.

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 Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which were added; current ones are additionally being consistently improved. Listed below are among the noteworthy modifications to current integrations:

• The Matter integration gained three new diagnostic binary sensors for thermostat distant sensing standing from @lboue, serving to you regulate your local weather system.
• @joostlek added plenty of new sensors to the SmartThings integration, together with air high quality sensors for PM1, PM2.5, and PM10, hood filter utilization monitoring, fridge temperature sensors for One Door fridges, and fan pace management for vary hoods.
• Roborock house owners with Q7 gadgets can now combine them due to @Lash-L, who added fundamental read-only assist with sensors for battery, standing, and cleansing knowledge.
• @mib1185 improved the FRITZ!SmartHome integration by including change entities that allow you to allow or disable FRITZ! Sensible Dwelling routines (triggers) immediately from Dwelling Assistant.
• The Ping integration now tracks packet loss, due to @mib1185. The brand new sensor exhibits packet loss as a proportion and is disabled by default.
• @Shulyaka added assist for GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-pro fashions to the OpenAI integration, together with a brand new “xhigh” reasoning effort degree.
• The HomeWizard integration gained two new battery cost modes from @DCSBL: zero cost solely and 0 discharge solely, providing you with extra management over your power storage.
• @Abestanis expanded the KNX UI configuration to assist time, date, and datetime entities, whereas @farmio added sensor, scene, textual content, and fan entities, making it simpler than ever to arrange your KNX set up.
• The Squeezebox integration now presents alarm monitoring, due to @wollew: you get binary sensors to trace if an alarm is upcoming, lively, or snoozed, plus a timestamp sensor displaying when the following alarm is scheduled.
• @andrew-codechimp added assist for brand new meal plan varieties in Mealie 3.7, together with dessert, drink, and snack plans, providing you with extra flexibility in your meal planning.
• The Hikvision integration gained NVR assist from @ptarjan, together with prolonged occasion detection and automated discovery of video channels.
• @FredericMa added a set_time motion to the Risco integration, permitting you to sync your native alarm panel’s clock and repair these pesky clock drift points.
• The Nederlandse Spoorwegen integration acquired a significant overhaul from @heindrichpaul, splitting the monolithic sensor into over 15 particular person sensors, one for every practice route, making it a lot simpler to trace particular journeys.
• @zweckj added a fantastic entity image of your espresso machine to the La Marzocco integration’s most important change entity.
• The Actron Air integration gained a brand new change platform from @kclif9, exposing Away Mode, Steady Fan, Quiet Mode, and Turbo Mode controls.
• @Djelibeybi gave the Pooldose integration a large improve: you now get water meter sensors for monitoring ranges, quantity entities for configuring dosing targets, and choose entities for controlling your pool’s working mode.
• The AirPatrol integration now helps you to monitor temperature and humidity, due to new sensor entities added by @antondalgren.
• @mettolen added sensor and quantity platforms to the Airobot integration, letting you monitor air high quality knowledge and management hysteresis band settings.

An enormous thanks to all of the contributors who improved these integrations, and to everybody else who contributed enhancements that aren’t listed right here. Your work makes Dwelling Assistant higher for everybody! ❤️

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 absolute best person expertise.

This launch, we rejoice a number of integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] which have improved their high quality scale:

• 2 integrations reached platinum 🏆

• 4 integrations reached silver 🥈

• 2 integrations reached bronze 🥉

It is a large achievement for these integrations and their maintainers. The trouble and dedication required to succeed in these high quality ranges is critical, because it includes intensive testing, documentation, error dealing with, and sometimes full rewrites of elements of the combination.

An enormous thanks to all of the contributors concerned! 👏

Now out there to arrange from the UI

Whereas most integrationsIntegrations join and combine Dwelling Assistant together with your gadgets, providers, and extra. [Learn more] might be arrange immediately from the Dwelling Assistant person 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 integrations at the moment are out there through the Dwelling Assistant UI:

Different noteworthy modifications

• When you monitor your own home’s oil tank or different sluggish circulate charges, you would possibly recognize the brand new gallons per day unit of quantity circulate price added by @StaleLoafOfBread. This unit is especially helpful for monitoring each day consumption charges of heating oil or related sources.
• Received a Matter speaker? @lboue added quantity management assist to the Matter integration, exposing a quantity slider entity for Matter audio system utilizing the LevelControl cluster.
• The statistics graph card now features a hyperlink to the historical past panel in its header, similar to the historical past graph card already had. Deciding on the hyperlink takes you on to the historical past with the identical entities and time vary pre-selected, due to @joepio.
• When utilizing the state badge aspect in your image parts card, now you can set a customized title choice, providing you with extra flexibility in your dashboard designs, due to @ildar170975.
• In 2025.11 we improved the logging effectivity by disabling the duplicated log file. This launch provides a new configuration choice to re-enable it if wanted. In case you are utilizing the official Terminal & SSH add-on, ensure that it’s up to date to 9.22.0 or larger to have the ability to use that choice. The Superior SSH & Internet Terminal add-on has not been up to date but, however shall be quickly.
• For integration builders: @bramkragten added a brand new select selector, permitting customers to pick out between completely different enter varieties within the UI. You’ll begin seeing this pop up in varied locations the place versatile enter is required.

Vitality dashboard date picker

In the earlier launch, the Vitality dashboard acquired a giant replace with real-time energy monitoring and downstream water monitoring. Nevertheless, a few of you seen that navigating between intervals required scrolling again up, making it more durable to check knowledge whereas graphs additional down the web page.

This launch fixes that! The date picker is now sticky on the backside of the display, so you may simply change between days, weeks, or months with out dropping sight of the graph you’re viewing. This additionally makes it a lot simpler to entry on cellular gadgets.

ESPHome motion responses

ESPHome 2025.12 launched a robust new function referred to as API motion responses, enabling true bidirectional communication between your ESPHome gadgets and Dwelling Assistant. With this launch, Dwelling Assistant now absolutely helps receiving these responses!

Beforehand, when calling an motion on an ESPHome gadget, communication was one-way: you may ship a command, however the gadget couldn’t ship structured knowledge again. Now, your ESPHome gadgets can return JSON knowledge in response to actions, unlocking new potentialities like querying gadget configuration, studying sensor values on demand, or retrieving diagnostic info.

That is notably helpful for actions that reply questions somewhat than carry out duties. For instance, you may create an motion that returns your gadget’s present Wi-Fi sign power, firmware model, or any customized sensor readings, all as structured knowledge you need to use in your automations.

To get began, take a look at the ESPHome documentation on motion responses for configuration examples.

Patch releases

2026.1.1 – January 12

2026.1.2 – January 16

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Backward-incompatible modifications

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All modifications

In fact, there may be much more on this launch. You will discover an inventory of all modifications made right here: Full changelog for Dwelling Assistant Core 2026.1.